And must have failed math...
if the cost is 30% to print.. you can charge 30% less for the book in e-book form that seems like a rather simple conversion however that logic escaped your whole rant that should have summed it all up.
It costs us $2 to print a book so we can charge $2 less not probably, but most definitely, However, we want to increase our margin and reduce our cost just like any company looking for a profit. Furthermore your message fails to take into account the charge backs (what happens when amazon can't sell all their books?), shipping costs, storage and other costs in keeping around a book, amazon needs a huge climate controlled warehouse, there are tucks and trains that have to be paid to move everything from you to them to the customer all these costs add up even if it is a small amount per book cost here and then it can add $1 - $2 quickly. Just the number of hands it has to pass through.
In short.. almost %50 savings right off the bat and wow look at that an e-book that is significantly cheaper then the paper version
As for formats, if you didn't put DRM on it and used an open format... well guess what the format would be readable for a long long time and you saved the cost of not buying DRM. (Last I checked PDF is still very readable by most devices, ASCII even more so).
Yes and they should go down with a heavy hand against those darn Canadians with their NEXUS system that lets them just skip to the head of the line at customs and border control.
Yeah that is a point... and assumes he didn't have DHCP because that is the default for the interface in XP, so I went with an educated guess that he wanted to set the IP to something other then what the DHCP would hand out as most networks (including home ones) use DHCP these days... In addition being a long time linux user would have another machine he could have done the search on (or even dual booted his machine) and that he did not have a handy livecd linux boot disk laying around if that was his one and only machine.
And obviously if it was not on any network wouldn't really need any changes to TCP/IP
You can not compare a GUI to a CLI... to change the IP
right click on My Network (either on the desktop or in the start menu) and choose properties
Select the Interface and choose Properties then select TCP/IP... (3 steps)
Ubuntu System --> Administration --> Network
Select Network
Log in
Change values... uuuh hey look also 3 steps...
If you are a CLI snob then use the freeking cli...
oh wait... that's because you spent 2 hours to moan about it rather then 5 seconds on google to find out the CLI command on XP (or after 10 min of not finding it 5 seconds on google with... how to change IP in windows XP)
btw for those lazy people.. the cli in XP is:
netsh int ip address "".... various commands like static to set static and so on
set completely overwrites the interface
add adds the new IP/mask/whatever to the interface
Unless you are in law enforcement the Judge can't say what you did is entrapment even if it was. A private citizen is allowed to both obtain information illegally that will help a case or entrap another party to build their case. I think the judge might have tossed the case because you are not a lawyer, judges do that too.
For those who don't want to actually read the article I will summarize the key parts.
1) The bandwidth is 1 -3 Mbps, so depending on what you have it will be from ok quality to DVD quality.
2) Its included with the monthly subscription, but restricted to 18 hours/ month to start
3) They are working on making it available to people with less bandwidth so it might soon support less then 1 Mbps
My personal take on this, this is so far the best of any offering out there, compared to the strict movie download sites that are charging almost $4/ movie to RENT for the quality you get above (hope this will force those sites to drop the price to less then $1), this is a very nice add on service and if you want higher quality you can order the DVD, you can preview a TV show and see if you really want to get the whole season on DVD.
The question of when it will be available on the TV is quite simple. I think in about 5 years we will have flash drives or disks that are capable of storing 30 gig or more, when that is done there will be a special player format that can be copied to this drive with DRM and time limits (ie the movie will be there for 24 - 48 hours) but most people will not care because it will be a RENTAL you will be paying $1 a movie to rent or a subscription like netflix with 2 - 7 movies "out" at a time, you will download the movie with the computer place it on the flash drive and then pop the drive into your HD-Flash player to watch on the TV.
The current format of read only disks is too expensive and time consuming over all it would take hours to make a DVD (5 hours to download and an additional 2 hours to burn 15 gig and thats being very liberal with bandwidth and speeds). This just doesn't scale well when the disks costs $2 each or more, and all you want to do is rent.
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And must have failed math ...
if the cost is 30% to print .. you can charge 30% less for the book in e-book form that seems like a rather simple conversion however that logic escaped your whole rant that should have summed it all up.
It costs us $2 to print a book so we can charge $2 less not probably, but most definitely, However, we want to increase our margin and reduce our cost just like any company looking for a profit. Furthermore your message fails to take into account the charge backs (what happens when amazon can't sell all their books?), shipping costs, storage and other costs in keeping around a book, amazon needs a huge climate controlled warehouse, there are tucks and trains that have to be paid to move everything from you to them to the customer all these costs add up even if it is a small amount per book cost here and then it can add $1 - $2 quickly. Just the number of hands it has to pass through.
In short .. almost %50 savings right off the bat and wow look at that an e-book that is significantly cheaper then the paper version
As for formats, if you didn't put DRM on it and used an open format ... well guess what the format would be readable for a long long time and you saved the cost of not buying DRM. (Last I checked PDF is still very readable by most devices, ASCII even more so).
Yes and they should go down with a heavy hand against those darn Canadians with their NEXUS system that lets them just skip to the head of the line at customs and border control.
Yeah that is a point ... and assumes he didn't have DHCP because that is the default for the interface in XP, so I went with an educated guess that he wanted to set the IP to something other then what the DHCP would hand out as most networks (including home ones) use DHCP these days ... In addition being a long time linux user would have another machine he could have done the search on (or even dual booted his machine) and that he did not have a handy livecd linux boot disk laying around if that was his one and only machine.
And obviously if it was not on any network wouldn't really need any changes to TCP/IP
You can not compare a GUI to a CLI ... to change the IP
right click on My Network (either on the desktop or in the start menu) and choose properties
Select the Interface and choose Properties then select TCP/IP ... (3 steps)
Ubuntu System --> Administration --> Network
Select Network
Log in
Change values ... uuuh hey look also 3 steps ...
If you are a CLI snob then use the freeking cli ...
oh wait ... that's because you spent 2 hours to moan about it rather then 5 seconds on google to find out the CLI command on XP (or after 10 min of not finding it 5 seconds on google with ... how to change IP in windows XP)
btw for those lazy people .. the cli in XP is:
netsh int ip address "" .... various commands like static to set static and so on
set completely overwrites the interface
add adds the new IP/mask/whatever to the interface
Unless you are in law enforcement the Judge can't say what you did is entrapment even if it was. A private citizen is allowed to both obtain information illegally that will help a case or entrap another party to build their case. I think the judge might have tossed the case because you are not a lawyer, judges do that too.
For those who don't want to actually read the article I will summarize the key parts. 1) The bandwidth is 1 -3 Mbps, so depending on what you have it will be from ok quality to DVD quality. 2) Its included with the monthly subscription, but restricted to 18 hours/ month to start 3) They are working on making it available to people with less bandwidth so it might soon support less then 1 Mbps My personal take on this, this is so far the best of any offering out there, compared to the strict movie download sites that are charging almost $4/ movie to RENT for the quality you get above (hope this will force those sites to drop the price to less then $1), this is a very nice add on service and if you want higher quality you can order the DVD, you can preview a TV show and see if you really want to get the whole season on DVD. The question of when it will be available on the TV is quite simple. I think in about 5 years we will have flash drives or disks that are capable of storing 30 gig or more, when that is done there will be a special player format that can be copied to this drive with DRM and time limits (ie the movie will be there for 24 - 48 hours) but most people will not care because it will be a RENTAL you will be paying $1 a movie to rent or a subscription like netflix with 2 - 7 movies "out" at a time, you will download the movie with the computer place it on the flash drive and then pop the drive into your HD-Flash player to watch on the TV. The current format of read only disks is too expensive and time consuming over all it would take hours to make a DVD (5 hours to download and an additional 2 hours to burn 15 gig and thats being very liberal with bandwidth and speeds). This just doesn't scale well when the disks costs $2 each or more, and all you want to do is rent.