The Cato Institute is as right-wing of a think tank as you can find. REAL research? This is even worse than relying on Michael Moore. With Michael Moore you know you are getting an agenda. When you use REAL, it implies that Cato is objective - which is a bit dishonest.
Research - by definition - means using a multplicity of sources and forming your own opinion. It's good when you can get someone to help summarize a plurality of viewpoints. However, the simple fact is that most research organizations have an agenda. The beauty is that when you look at all the different agendas and get research/opinion from a wide variety of sources - including Michael Moore, Cato and others - you ultimately can develop an informed opinion.
I've seen the first few negative comments about the movie not being truthful. The movie *is* truthful, and if you think otherwise, please state specific claims.
I haven't seen the movie. Could you let us know what specific claims are truthful?
From your description, you are talking about different expectations. Most of the other posts already addressed the issue of needing good graphic design (which is a different skill from coding), client needs (which you address in the project specification including delivery time), etc.
Have you meet your agreements? Has the client? Are you doing something the client doesn't need because you think it would be neat to do X regardless of whether the client needs it? Perhaps the client is pointing it out to renegotiate price or for some other reason besides the quality of your work.
My suggestion is that you need to work on the relationship and get better communications going with the client. The fact that you are having this kind of conversation in email is a tip-off. Criticism should be brought face to face. Perhaps it is just a question and not even criticism - if so, you have the opportunity to sit down and sell what you are doing and explain all the neat things it can do that the other site can't.
Once you have talked about what the client is expecting, made clear the agreements you have made and made an honest effort to figure out what the issues are and address them, then you have done all you can do. If you still have this going on - then you fire the client. No one has to work for a jackass.
One option would be to use Xerox's Flowport. You would have to check what is available to you locally - but I can tell you that making a PDF with a Xerox copier and Flowport of 100 pages is a few minutes of work.
Yes. Let's not forget about what radical politics has brought to this world. Things like the 8 hour work day, women's right to vote, the Civil Rights movement, etc. That's just last century.
Take it back two or three and you have radicals taking on the Britsh Empire to found their own country, the birth of the labor movement, abolitionism of slavery, etc.
The funny thing is that so much of radical history has taken place in the United States, yet we try so hard to forget it. Example: Why don't we celebrate Labor Day in May like the rest of the world?
Another question: Why is anyone that challenges the status quo labeled as a "leftist" that is unable to critically think? Why is it that officially sanctioned "propaganda" that supports that status quo is viewed as balanced - and other views are not?
Your comments also just go to show "leftist" is relative. Frankly, I don't find Michael Moore all that radical or even "leftist". He's just getting some discussion going on regarding the current travesty that goes by the name of "War on Terror" and which I would bet - is funneling cash into the pockets of Bush's handlers and their cronies. I think its a pretty important dialogue we should all be having - irrespective of our political views.
You may not like what Michael Moore has to say - I haven't seen it so don't even know what he is saying - but at least see the movie for yourself and talk about it with people rather than trivializing it through a few select quotes from movie critics. Based on your selection, should I also label you as a right-winger that is outrageously manipulative in your quote selection?
I do research and buy databases of content for a living. I use "online libraries" every day more times than I can count. For many of the databases I use, I have monthly charges in the thousands. A database that is only $400/year is cheap and I woudn't think twice in most circumstnaces about buying it. I have something I buy in print that costs that much - just so I can answer one question that is asked once or twice a year.
Try going to something like MarketResearch.com. Most of the reports in there are at least $400. However, those reports are syndicated research studies and not tech books - so you expect them to cost a lot.
The question isn't whether electronic "online libraries" are better than paper books. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't - and how you determine whether they are or not is based on the value of the content, your needs, availability of alteratives, convenience, usability, etc. The question is really about value - is the content worth it given the audience and the factors listed above?
I wouldn't pay $400 dollars a seat per year for a database of technical books to help programmers. Even though I would be the one to do so if anyone would in my company. From my perspective, the value just isn't there.
I might think about it if the content were good and it were offered on a site license basis, say to all of my IT department of a couple hundred for $5000 a year and if my IT people thought it was worth it after a trial. I'd then get it for a year, market the resource and make sure I could get usage statistics to see how it is being used. Then, I'd negotiate the price or cut the resource based on the response.
Per seat licensing models are almost always either people with a new product that haven't figured out how to sell it or people that know that have something you can't get anywhere else so they charge a premium. I'd have to check to see what the content looks like, but I'd bet that this guy is going to change his business model or go out of business - fast.
...dysfunctional, unproductive, and the focus is not as cool as what I'm working on now...
You don't want to jump onto the Titanic. So, you want to start getting information about that group. Why are they dysfunctional and unproductive? Do they have the resources they need? What is the current leadership like? Who are the people in the group and how do they work together? What are their roles and skills? Can they get the job done? How could you change things for the better? Is the work not as cool, but essential to the organization?
It is easy to imagine that management might be giving you this hard nut to crack to see exactly what you are made of. Are you a leader that can step into a mess and clean it up or are you someone that is opportunistic and climbs up the ladder on the coat tails of others?
Bad assignments that need to get done and that you can step up to the plate and get done well - well, you can't get much better of a definition of opportunity.
On the other hand, you don't want to take some meaningless or unachievable task that leads nowhere.
Assess the situation, take your best guess and then get to work.
To put this in perspective, digital camera sales are not expected to out-sell cameras that use film until 2006 when you look at the worldwide camera market.
It's inevitable that this is going to happen in the consumer marketplace. Of course, there are always going to be niche applications for film - its just doesn't have much time left in the family photo album, especially in developed countries.
Mighty skeptical aren't we? I don't think there is much I can do to prove to you that libraries exist. Perhaps you should try and visit one? For starters, google for "public library locations" and include the name of your favorite town.
Who do you think knows more about libraries, you or I?
No, it is simply a canard that income has anything to do with internet access.
The U.S. Census says otherwise:
More affluent and more highly educated adults are more likely to have computers or use the Internet.
It is also false that an Internet connection is in every library or that a library is in every town. Once again, check your facts. If the facts don't correspond to your personal beliefs - perhaps it is time to reevaluate them?
Did you bother to check the links? Besides your assurances, can you point to studies that support your claims - and something a little more methodologically sound than what your mother is up to? If access is near a hundred percent, you think there would be a news story that would have told the rest of us about it. Find one - preferably from a reputable source.
It is simply a fact that there is a correlation between income and Internet use. It is also a fact that income level is correlated with race and gender. You may not like it, but it is true. Now, do some research before you start ranting about things so you have an informed opinion about them.
Better yet, ask a librarian about how Internet access works in a library. Ever tried it? Sign up times and time limits make for a decidedly different experience than surfing at home - and surely if you were accessing it via the library you'd want to spend your limited time on the 'net answering some pollster's questions. Right?
If you really want to get polling information about political stuff, use the internet....Now, of course the results will be skewed because only people who are informed and interested in the issue at hand will vote.
More likely, the data will be skewed due to the fact that only 2 in 5 households have internet access and most of that is concentrated in higher-income, white and Asian households. If you want go with more current estimates of around 149 million of the 291 million people that live in the U.S. - 51 percent of the population - have Internet access. According to a fairly recent Pew Study as much as 24% of the U.S. population is completely disconnected from the Internet - and this research suggests that's the way they want it.
Now, if you contrast this with the fact that in the 1990's the number of people without a landline telephone was around 5%, you start to see that there is a methodological problem with both approaches that gets worse as the number of people without landline phones climbs. Even if you want to argue that Internet use is probably strongly correlated to voting - due to the fact that the Census says this about people that vote:
The characteristics of people who are most likely to go to the polls are a reflection of both the racial/ethnic composition of the citizen population and the attributes of people with the biggest stakes in society: older individuals, homeowners, married couples, and people with more schooling, higher incomes, and good jobs.
If you factor that Internet use skews to younger demographics such as college students that do not necessarily fit the profile of voters, you still can get the sense that this isn't a good research methodology that can be extrapolated to the general U.S. population.
Of course, there are problems even with the data I cite here, just look at the number of refused answers for the Pew Study to see one example. At present, pretty much any survey company worth its salt such as MRI, Simmons and others do at home personal interviews. The approach of the Census also provides a notable example and which is why I relied so much on their data here.
Good data simply requires more effort - and political pollsters are either going to have to live with some ambiguity or they are going to have to spend more money and time to get good results.
You really haven't provided enough information for anyone to thoughtfully respond to your question. There are thousands of ways one might notify people of changes. Before offering suggestions, one would need to know what information is changing, how important it is for your users to know of these changes, frequency of the changes, technologies that dominate your work culture, etc.
Example: You user base might be interested in real time stock ticker feeds and news about their company. Real time stock feeds are well, real time. They really don't lend themselves to an email or IM solution. News feeds, on the other hand, could be used in both - or posted to a custom page on an intranet site, flashed as a network message, added to a text logfile on the user desktop or a thousand other things.
From what you have said, it seems like email and the intranet dominate your work culture. It also sounds like people are mailing multiple version of files around. Maybe the answer to your question is more fundamental, perhaps something like CVS that would be relevant for your work environment?
In any event, you need to clarify more before you are going to get any useful information fronm the slashdot community.
Or, you are covering up for the fact that you are a closet homo.
Thank you for providing such an excellent illustration of my point.
Playing female characters doesn't make one a closet homosexual. Nor is it an indicator that one is sexually confused or one likes to manipulate other people by taking advantage of the anonymity and the fantasy that is part of role-playing a game.
Of course, there are people that play female characters in online games that are these things. The argument is that it is more likely that men playing women (and vice versa) are just more interested in playing the role in the game and selecting the opposite gender just makes the role more complex and different from real life. It also gives you a break from these kind of attitudes in the game - which is no small thing.
Parting shot, next time you are flirting with a female character online and she tells you to fuck off, you might think it's because it's some homo guy. However, the other possible explanation is that you are coming across like an asshole and are trying to use the game to hook up.
It's a game after all. No one has a conniption or thinks twice about it when I play Ms. Scarlet in Clue. Why should it be different online?
I'm male, over 25 and have almost always choosen to play female characters in every video game I have played. Why?
Female characters in many games typically focus on attributes I prefer - such as dexterity, quickness and so forth. Example: Look at the Soul Caliber characters. Almost all are in the 100 pound range - they cannot compete with the male characters on strength. So, they are given other attributes to compensate, which, frankly I find to be more interesting in terms of game play.
I don't play online games - but would probably choose female characters in that forum too. Although, I think the advantages are different - namely, if it is more of a social game, you don't have to conform to male stereotypes and can actually get into playing the character more - and possibly more likely to avoid conversation, like who's in the World Series, that I'd rather not have anyway.
It sounds like the standard answers such as restricted access rights to the server, files and so forth are not an option in your circumstance. One possible solution - depending on your workflow requirements - might be to look at some digital rights management software.
In this forum, digital rights brings up Microsoft, RIAA and so forth - which I'm sure will get me pilloried. However, it sounds like you are in an environment that would be a good candidate for this kind of software.
IBM, Microsoft and other big vendors are working on solutions - but you may want to look on smaller providers like Sealed Media, Authentica or Liquid Machines.
Frankly, the technology has a way to go and the weakness of many of these companies is the encryption and the protocols for passing keys. For how badly this is implemented in many systems, you only have to look to Dmitry Sklyarov's presentation on the security of eBook readers to have some ready questions on hand to determine whether these solutions are secure enough for you.
With that said, there are vendors using this software on the 'net, Harvard Business Online being one good example. For your needs, these applications are probably secure enough and will accomplish what you want. The question is whether they can be integrated well enough in your workflow.
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Then tell people what you're doing right from the very first. The person "to market" isn't the first person who gets out the product. It's the first person to start selling the product. As this gentleman points out it's likely that your business plan/idea isn't unique at all and that there are likely dozens of different people working on it even before you get started. Start selling before they do.
Yes. They call it brochureware. Take it from someone who works in advertising - don't advertise products you don't have. The practice pisses off potential customers and earns you nothing but ill will.
While IANAL, I don't suspect you are either. Copyright is not something that applies to ideas - it applies to expressions of ideas. I'll quote the Apple vs Microsoft case note by Joseph Meyers:
Typically, copyright protection is awarded to literary work, and Congress has included the code that makes up a computer program in this category.[7] Additionally, some non-literal expression is protected. For example, not only are the actual words in an author's copyrighted novel protected, but the structure and plot may be protected as well.[8] The debate[9] in the area of computer science is whether, by analogy, this means that the result, output, organization or display (the "look and feel") of a computer program might be protected as well, even if the source code is different.[10] This is to be distinguished from the idea underlying the program, which is not subject to copyright protection.[11]
In other words, the question on the table is whether portions of the Linux kernel are a derivative work of SCO's code - not whether it uses SCO's ideas.
It does a crappy job of supplying an argument that is sound and valid. Causality, on the other hand, is not something a sane person has wanted has wanted to tackle since Hume. Have you read Kant? Good for doorstops and for curing insomnia. Demonstrating causality? That'd make the article even more boring than it actually is.
If you want to know more about it, try MIT's Auto-ID Center. There is a lot of good applications of this technolgy. For instance, there is something cool about flipping a switch and having your entire inventory done - or better yet, having an up-to-the-second inventory. Problem at this point is that they aren't cheap enugh. I think the price point needs to get down to 5 cents - and right now it is at fifty or something.
One of the things I found odd is that not only is Wal-Mart pushing it - but it seems the garbage dump folks are interested too. Might make the Junkyard Wars of the future a little less fun to watch I suppose.
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The Cato Institute is as right-wing of a think tank as you can find. REAL research? This is even worse than relying on Michael Moore. With Michael Moore you know you are getting an agenda. When you use REAL, it implies that Cato is objective - which is a bit dishonest.
Perhaps to balance out all the insights you get from Cato, why not look into other reputable sources such as the Middle East Research and Information Project and reports providing background on the Iraq war. It is worth noting that even this source has some people criticizing it because it allegedly has ties to Israel.
Research - by definition - means using a multplicity of sources and forming your own opinion. It's good when you can get someone to help summarize a plurality of viewpoints. However, the simple fact is that most research organizations have an agenda. The beauty is that when you look at all the different agendas and get research/opinion from a wide variety of sources - including Michael Moore, Cato and others - you ultimately can develop an informed opinion.
Extremist? Maybe you should acquaint yourself with a wider range of political opinion beyond what is available in the U.S.
I haven't seen the movie. Could you let us know what specific claims are truthful?
From your description, you are talking about different expectations. Most of the other posts already addressed the issue of needing good graphic design (which is a different skill from coding), client needs (which you address in the project specification including delivery time), etc.
Have you meet your agreements? Has the client? Are you doing something the client doesn't need because you think it would be neat to do X regardless of whether the client needs it? Perhaps the client is pointing it out to renegotiate price or for some other reason besides the quality of your work.
My suggestion is that you need to work on the relationship and get better communications going with the client. The fact that you are having this kind of conversation in email is a tip-off. Criticism should be brought face to face. Perhaps it is just a question and not even criticism - if so, you have the opportunity to sit down and sell what you are doing and explain all the neat things it can do that the other site can't.
Once you have talked about what the client is expecting, made clear the agreements you have made and made an honest effort to figure out what the issues are and address them, then you have done all you can do. If you still have this going on - then you fire the client. No one has to work for a jackass.
One option would be to use Xerox's Flowport. You would have to check what is available to you locally - but I can tell you that making a PDF with a Xerox copier and Flowport of 100 pages is a few minutes of work.
Also, try look for others are doing in the university setting.Yes. Let's not forget about what radical politics has brought to this world. Things like the 8 hour work day, women's right to vote, the Civil Rights movement, etc. That's just last century.
Take it back two or three and you have radicals taking on the Britsh Empire to found their own country, the birth of the labor movement, abolitionism of slavery, etc.
The funny thing is that so much of radical history has taken place in the United States, yet we try so hard to forget it. Example: Why don't we celebrate Labor Day in May like the rest of the world?
Another question: Why is anyone that challenges the status quo labeled as a "leftist" that is unable to critically think? Why is it that officially sanctioned "propaganda" that supports that status quo is viewed as balanced - and other views are not?
Your comments also just go to show "leftist" is relative. Frankly, I don't find Michael Moore all that radical or even "leftist". He's just getting some discussion going on regarding the current travesty that goes by the name of "War on Terror" and which I would bet - is funneling cash into the pockets of Bush's handlers and their cronies. I think its a pretty important dialogue we should all be having - irrespective of our political views.
You may not like what Michael Moore has to say - I haven't seen it so don't even know what he is saying - but at least see the movie for yourself and talk about it with people rather than trivializing it through a few select quotes from movie critics. Based on your selection, should I also label you as a right-winger that is outrageously manipulative in your quote selection?
I do research and buy databases of content for a living. I use "online libraries" every day more times than I can count. For many of the databases I use, I have monthly charges in the thousands. A database that is only $400/year is cheap and I woudn't think twice in most circumstnaces about buying it. I have something I buy in print that costs that much - just so I can answer one question that is asked once or twice a year.
Try going to something like MarketResearch.com. Most of the reports in there are at least $400. However, those reports are syndicated research studies and not tech books - so you expect them to cost a lot.
The question isn't whether electronic "online libraries" are better than paper books. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't - and how you determine whether they are or not is based on the value of the content, your needs, availability of alteratives, convenience, usability, etc. The question is really about value - is the content worth it given the audience and the factors listed above?
I wouldn't pay $400 dollars a seat per year for a database of technical books to help programmers. Even though I would be the one to do so if anyone would in my company. From my perspective, the value just isn't there.
I might think about it if the content were good and it were offered on a site license basis, say to all of my IT department of a couple hundred for $5000 a year and if my IT people thought it was worth it after a trial. I'd then get it for a year, market the resource and make sure I could get usage statistics to see how it is being used. Then, I'd negotiate the price or cut the resource based on the response.
Per seat licensing models are almost always either people with a new product that haven't figured out how to sell it or people that know that have something you can't get anywhere else so they charge a premium. I'd have to check to see what the content looks like, but I'd bet that this guy is going to change his business model or go out of business - fast.
If you want to try the life on for size, take some modafinil. Miltary is looking into it for soldiers. It probably needs further testing though.
Let us know how it goes. Personally, I like my naps.
You don't want to jump onto the Titanic. So, you want to start getting information about that group. Why are they dysfunctional and unproductive? Do they have the resources they need? What is the current leadership like? Who are the people in the group and how do they work together? What are their roles and skills? Can they get the job done? How could you change things for the better? Is the work not as cool, but essential to the organization?
It is easy to imagine that management might be giving you this hard nut to crack to see exactly what you are made of. Are you a leader that can step into a mess and clean it up or are you someone that is opportunistic and climbs up the ladder on the coat tails of others?
Bad assignments that need to get done and that you can step up to the plate and get done well - well, you can't get much better of a definition of opportunity.
On the other hand, you don't want to take some meaningless or unachievable task that leads nowhere.
Assess the situation, take your best guess and then get to work.
To put this in perspective, digital camera sales are not expected to out-sell cameras that use film until 2006 when you look at the worldwide camera market.
It's inevitable that this is going to happen in the consumer marketplace. Of course, there are always going to be niche applications for film - its just doesn't have much time left in the family photo album, especially in developed countries.
The U.S. Census says otherwise:
It's on page six, on this document, among others.
It is also false that an Internet connection is in every library or that a library is in every town. Once again, check your facts. If the facts don't correspond to your personal beliefs - perhaps it is time to reevaluate them?
Did you bother to check the links? Besides your assurances, can you point to studies that support your claims - and something a little more methodologically sound than what your mother is up to? If access is near a hundred percent, you think there would be a news story that would have told the rest of us about it. Find one - preferably from a reputable source.
It is simply a fact that there is a correlation between income and Internet use. It is also a fact that income level is correlated with race and gender. You may not like it, but it is true. Now, do some research before you start ranting about things so you have an informed opinion about them.
Better yet, ask a librarian about how Internet access works in a library. Ever tried it? Sign up times and time limits make for a decidedly different experience than surfing at home - and surely if you were accessing it via the library you'd want to spend your limited time on the 'net answering some pollster's questions. Right?
I'm having a hard time understanding the difficulty. Libraries around the country can do it, why can't yours?
More likely, the data will be skewed due to the fact that only 2 in 5 households have internet access and most of that is concentrated in higher-income, white and Asian households. If you want go with more current estimates of around 149 million of the 291 million people that live in the U.S. - 51 percent of the population - have Internet access. According to a fairly recent Pew Study as much as 24% of the U.S. population is completely disconnected from the Internet - and this research suggests that's the way they want it.
Now, if you contrast this with the fact that in the 1990's the number of people without a landline telephone was around 5%, you start to see that there is a methodological problem with both approaches that gets worse as the number of people without landline phones climbs. Even if you want to argue that Internet use is probably strongly correlated to voting - due to the fact that the Census says this about people that vote:
If you factor that Internet use skews to younger demographics such as college students that do not necessarily fit the profile of voters, you still can get the sense that this isn't a good research methodology that can be extrapolated to the general U.S. population.
Of course, there are problems even with the data I cite here, just look at the number of refused answers for the Pew Study to see one example. At present, pretty much any survey company worth its salt such as MRI, Simmons and others do at home personal interviews. The approach of the Census also provides a notable example and which is why I relied so much on their data here.
Good data simply requires more effort - and political pollsters are either going to have to live with some ambiguity or they are going to have to spend more money and time to get good results.
You really haven't provided enough information for anyone to thoughtfully respond to your question. There are thousands of ways one might notify people of changes. Before offering suggestions, one would need to know what information is changing, how important it is for your users to know of these changes, frequency of the changes, technologies that dominate your work culture, etc.
Example: You user base might be interested in real time stock ticker feeds and news about their company. Real time stock feeds are well, real time. They really don't lend themselves to an email or IM solution. News feeds, on the other hand, could be used in both - or posted to a custom page on an intranet site, flashed as a network message, added to a text logfile on the user desktop or a thousand other things.
From what you have said, it seems like email and the intranet dominate your work culture. It also sounds like people are mailing multiple version of files around. Maybe the answer to your question is more fundamental, perhaps something like CVS that would be relevant for your work environment?
In any event, you need to clarify more before you are going to get any useful information fronm the slashdot community.
It's a bit dated, but this bibliography has some of the more interesting works in the field.
You may want to ask how it might impact your health. Google it to find articles like this one in Wired.
Thank you for providing such an excellent illustration of my point.
Playing female characters doesn't make one a closet homosexual. Nor is it an indicator that one is sexually confused or one likes to manipulate other people by taking advantage of the anonymity and the fantasy that is part of role-playing a game.
Of course, there are people that play female characters in online games that are these things. The argument is that it is more likely that men playing women (and vice versa) are just more interested in playing the role in the game and selecting the opposite gender just makes the role more complex and different from real life. It also gives you a break from these kind of attitudes in the game - which is no small thing.
Parting shot, next time you are flirting with a female character online and she tells you to fuck off, you might think it's because it's some homo guy. However, the other possible explanation is that you are coming across like an asshole and are trying to use the game to hook up.
It's a game after all. No one has a conniption or thinks twice about it when I play Ms. Scarlet in Clue. Why should it be different online?
I'm male, over 25 and have almost always choosen to play female characters in every video game I have played. Why?
Female characters in many games typically focus on attributes I prefer - such as dexterity, quickness and so forth. Example: Look at the Soul Caliber characters. Almost all are in the 100 pound range - they cannot compete with the male characters on strength. So, they are given other attributes to compensate, which, frankly I find to be more interesting in terms of game play.
I don't play online games - but would probably choose female characters in that forum too. Although, I think the advantages are different - namely, if it is more of a social game, you don't have to conform to male stereotypes and can actually get into playing the character more - and possibly more likely to avoid conversation, like who's in the World Series, that I'd rather not have anyway.
It sounds like the standard answers such as restricted access rights to the server, files and so forth are not an option in your circumstance. One possible solution - depending on your workflow requirements - might be to look at some digital rights management software.
In this forum, digital rights brings up Microsoft, RIAA and so forth - which I'm sure will get me pilloried. However, it sounds like you are in an environment that would be a good candidate for this kind of software.
IBM, Microsoft and other big vendors are working on solutions - but you may want to look on smaller providers like Sealed Media, Authentica or Liquid Machines.Frankly, the technology has a way to go and the weakness of many of these companies is the encryption and the protocols for passing keys. For how badly this is implemented in many systems, you only have to look to Dmitry Sklyarov's presentation on the security of eBook readers to have some ready questions on hand to determine whether these solutions are secure enough for you.
With that said, there are vendors using this software on the 'net, Harvard Business Online being one good example. For your needs, these applications are probably secure enough and will accomplish what you want. The question is whether they can be integrated well enough in your workflow.
Yes. They call it brochureware. Take it from someone who works in advertising - don't advertise products you don't have. The practice pisses off potential customers and earns you nothing but ill will.
While IANAL, I don't suspect you are either. Copyright is not something that applies to ideas - it applies to expressions of ideas. I'll quote the Apple vs Microsoft case note by Joseph Meyers:
In other words, the question on the table is whether portions of the Linux kernel are a derivative work of SCO's code - not whether it uses SCO's ideas.It does a crappy job of supplying an argument that is sound and valid. Causality, on the other hand, is not something a sane person has wanted has wanted to tackle since Hume. Have you read Kant? Good for doorstops and for curing insomnia. Demonstrating causality? That'd make the article even more boring than it actually is.
One of the things I found odd is that not only is Wal-Mart pushing it - but it seems the garbage dump folks are interested too. Might make the Junkyard Wars of the future a little less fun to watch I suppose.
I bet you can fit 10 bags of groceries in a bike cart. Granted, you won't be hauling logs, but how often do you need to?