Regular publishing might have worked well for you but it won't for everyone. Sometimes a book's contents are more important than the presentation and that's where POD is good. The inconvenience of it all is why print is dying.
This ruthless genius of yours is making Amazon suck. I could almost forgive them for the one-click-patent fiasco because they had a real range of goods to chose from. Yes, I'm still angry at them for making shopping everywhere else suck. Then they opted for that second rate search service two years ago. The one that immediately locked out smaller vendors in favor of bigger ones. Not being able to find specialty items drove me right back to ebay and Google itself. The trend continues and Amazon continues down the tube.
If I want a limited choice of goods I'll go to the local brick and mortar store. Amazon used to offer better than that.
The main reason for Microsoft's imploding cash reserves and flat stock price is an abundance of zero cost alternatives to their flagship money makers. Only a fool would pay Microsoft sized money for an Office suit anymore and vendors like Asus have discovered the joy of free software.
Google's rise is just the wedge end of the rise of Linux, so you can say that we have had The Decade of Linux already.
I won't make a dime off these electrons but preservation and promotion of software freedom is priceless. While you are apparently infatuated with karma, and might consider it an expensive commodity purchased by gaming Slashdot, it means nothing to me.
Be sure to use Vista, which indexes everything and eliminates all stovepipes that soot up the tubes to central services. If you use older versions of XP or Free Software, the terrorists will win!
That ass is what broadcasters and the people attacking net neutrality would like to shovel on everyone. The issue is free speech and the broadcaster goal is to eliminate competition so we are all forced to keep watching their usual shit.
I don't know why anyone would listen to Ou but his core arguments are easy to dismantle. This is the same ass who savagely attacked researcher Peter Gutmann only to whine later when Vista crapped out for him. The core argument so insultingly put forth is that selective blocking of P2P is not, "violating someone's right to free speech and impinging on their civil rights." Duh! most of the same ISPs have blanket statements prohibit subscribers from operating "servers". They turn a blind eye for the most part, but the language blatantly says "we have the right to chose how you communicate." This is indeed a restriction on your free speech that puts you at the mercy of other ISPs who may also decide to kick you out. The net result of successful censorship is imploding civil rights.
People are angry about domestic spying abuses, torture, arrest without warrant and paranoid airport security that are increasingly being used to punish political opposition. The Republican party is about to get voted out of office under a cloud not seen since the Nixon administration. Those who replace them will feel little compulsion to fix those problems if they can silence mainstream discussion of civil rights abuses and continue abusing real dissidents. They will only be able to do this if they continue the Republican assault on the internet.
Mr. Ou, you need to STFU. Your incumbent favoring rants are not only politically clueless, they are technically flawed. The better answer to congestion is to build out US networks before they sink out of the top 50th in the world. At 26th and falling, it won't be long before places like Cuba have better networks than the US. Censoring equipment steals bandwith because every decision takes time that adds pointless delays. Everything that delays build out and encourages companies to buy censorship equipment is harmful and little better reasoned that Goatse Ass.
That sounds like a great way to do things and I'm sure there are many, many others.
What I'm interested in is preserving our rights. Publishers can think of ways to make money without robbing us of the ability to help our neighbor and without assuming draconian control of information. For them to violate our rights, we must agree to be threatened and prosecuted for doing things that are not crimes. It is better to keep them from making laws that threaten us than it is to try to do their job for them.
Publishers already know how things will work in a free society. They are not stupid and this is why they fight so hard. They understand that the broadcast era is over and with it their ability to control opinion and profit from every aspect of popular culture. There will be profits but they will be distributed and much closer to the artist than they are now. The big record companies, movie companies and paper publishers are out of luck and the damage done to public institutions will follow. With freedom comes truth and from truth we can expect justice. Without freedom, expect great injustice.
I think I'll stick with Lessig's opinions and the surprisingly readable US Constitution.
How to sell your copy of Hary Potter only touches on the madness of paper based copyright applied to digital files. If these books are no longer mine, they are no longer the library's either. Do we really want a future where anyone and everyone can be cut off of knowledge at the flip of a switch? Where "owners" must be trusted with the raw material of history? No.
The answer to all this is very simple. The lower cost of publishing should bring lower protections and fewer created rights because fewer incentives are required. Advertising costs have not declined, so it is easier to recoup publishing investments now than ever. Worse for high cost, established publishers technology makes old laws contradictory and insane. Publishers want to make "unwet water" and outlaw the normal stuff by dominating the channels of distribution - the no real library future. We should allow people to make exact copies of almost all works and distribute them freely. It's really that easy and companies that can't live with that kind of freedom should look for a new line of honest work.
This is one of the few comments that makes sense of the issue. Microsoft and Apple are not equals and this is only trick for people who are lazy. Most Windows users are going to think it's kind of cool to get a browser choice from a trusted source.
This is why it's a good idea to avoid brand new hardware from unfriendly companies like Sony. If it won't work with PCLinuxOS, Mepis or one of the Ubuntu live CDs, you don't want it. XP won't work either, which leaves you with Vista and hunting for the dozens of programs needed to make Windows useful. You might as well give up. Hardware that's just a year or two older or that's "low power" will perform better under free software than new hardware under Vista and software that does not break XP is going to get harder and harder to find.
Why stop at removing "Works" when you could use Ubuntu? Wouldn't Sony then have to give you a rebate for the OS you did not use?
You would be better off even if you wasted $149 on XP and used your old software. This option does not rule out a nice free software partition. I can't believe anyone will use the "fresh start" service.
A real job is one where you can apply your training. An unreal job is one you could have gotten out of high school or before that you have to take to make ends meet. It happens.
Wikipedia and the Programmer's Guild both explaining how the H1B program is nothing like you think but that's beside the point. My point was to take advantage of family money if you have it. Bill Gates never had to work for anyone else in his life, which proves that you don't have to work for others if you have a good enough idea and can hire the expertise to make it happen. If you crash and burn, you will have experience and the cube will still be waiting.
Sheesh! Have things gotten so bad around here that you can't even say something good about Bill Gates without some fanboy jumping to Microsoft's defense and calling you a racist?
And what a pathetic and contradictory slander that is. The Programmer's Guild is looking out for everyone's interest. They point out that Microsoft no longer hires US workers for entry level positions, so you can stick Microsoft's starting rate up your ass. Companies abuse the H1B program to treat people like slaves. Anyone defending it is either a fraud who does not believe in real, rights respecting immigration, or someone who needs to read and think more.
Ask Bill Gates if there's anything wrong with having lots of backing when you need it. Getting time on computers in high school, going to college and having a backing were all very good for Microsoft. The same lessons and more apply today because there are far fewer "real" jobs to go around thanks to H1B stuff. Ignoring resources is harmful.
The US can't get the FBI, CIA and NSA to play nice with each other or the hundreds of state and local athorities. I'm supposed to believe that there will be real international cooperation? Yet another UN police force, what a joke.
I'd like to see bot hearders busted but I don't have any faith in this new super team to get it done. What we will probably see is this team putting pressure on other governments to support imaginary property. At it's worst, it will be used to track dissidents and limit free speech world wide, while criminals continue to do what they always have.
Spectrum liberation is possible and it would put Comcast and their greasy counterparts in other areas out of business overnight. The FCC and FTC made these bitches and can break them because the public owns the air and public servitude. A sea change in administration is coming. Comcast should shut up before they find themselves replaced. The whole point of creating Comcast and friends was control. It would be better to have a government that was interested in freedom but that too would screw Comcast.
Don't be confused by the bluster. The government is in control.
The stove pipes have been torn down. There is no division between government and private networks and data. Comcast's defiance of the FCC is an illusion because other elements in the government want Comcast to censor the net. It's the next logical step: awareness, control, dominance. Independent minded bloggers and a free internet threatened the Manufactured Consent model of US policy making.
The US is moving to a censored and controlled network faster than you think.
No, I mean what I say. Another portion of my rant, is that much of what's good in Apple comes from free software as people on this thread are pointing out. The author is ignorant and wrong. Tyranny leads to failure in any company but more so in software than elsewhere.
Just when you think US network freedom could not get any worse. If Comcast gets it's way in this they will be free to block anything and everything at the network level and the US internet will look like Communist China's.
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Regular publishing might have worked well for you but it won't for everyone. Sometimes a book's contents are more important than the presentation and that's where POD is good. The inconvenience of it all is why print is dying.
This ruthless genius of yours is making Amazon suck. I could almost forgive them for the one-click-patent fiasco because they had a real range of goods to chose from. Yes, I'm still angry at them for making shopping everywhere else suck. Then they opted for that second rate search service two years ago. The one that immediately locked out smaller vendors in favor of bigger ones. Not being able to find specialty items drove me right back to ebay and Google itself. The trend continues and Amazon continues down the tube.
If I want a limited choice of goods I'll go to the local brick and mortar store. Amazon used to offer better than that.
You are only interested in harassing people, go away.
The main reason for Microsoft's imploding cash reserves and flat stock price is an abundance of zero cost alternatives to their flagship money makers. Only a fool would pay Microsoft sized money for an Office suit anymore and vendors like Asus have discovered the joy of free software.
Google's rise is just the wedge end of the rise of Linux, so you can say that we have had The Decade of Linux already.
I won't make a dime off these electrons but preservation and promotion of software freedom is priceless. While you are apparently infatuated with karma, and might consider it an expensive commodity purchased by gaming Slashdot, it means nothing to me.
Sure, and you can be my friend too.
Thanks, but I spilled my drink when I read that.
That about nails it. The restricted input sounds more like an encyclopedia, so it's more regressive than most people would first imagine.
Why would they bother to list "actively avoid" articles and who would trust a tiny third party to censor their news like that?
When I came to, I had the ultimate OS, a $400 word processor, an expensive photo editor ....
Mac does not do Tkl/Tc? If it does, the GP post should work on OSX as well.
Neither of these programs look as nice as KDE's Editor, and that too should work on Mac and Windows soon enough.
KRegExpEditor gives you a nice GUI.
Be sure to use Vista, which indexes everything and eliminates all stovepipes that soot up the tubes to central services. If you use older versions of XP or Free Software, the terrorists will win!
That ass is what broadcasters and the people attacking net neutrality would like to shovel on everyone. The issue is free speech and the broadcaster goal is to eliminate competition so we are all forced to keep watching their usual shit.
I don't know why anyone would listen to Ou but his core arguments are easy to dismantle. This is the same ass who savagely attacked researcher Peter Gutmann only to whine later when Vista crapped out for him. The core argument so insultingly put forth is that selective blocking of P2P is not, "violating someone's right to free speech and impinging on their civil rights." Duh! most of the same ISPs have blanket statements prohibit subscribers from operating "servers". They turn a blind eye for the most part, but the language blatantly says "we have the right to chose how you communicate." This is indeed a restriction on your free speech that puts you at the mercy of other ISPs who may also decide to kick you out. The net result of successful censorship is imploding civil rights.
People are angry about domestic spying abuses, torture, arrest without warrant and paranoid airport security that are increasingly being used to punish political opposition. The Republican party is about to get voted out of office under a cloud not seen since the Nixon administration. Those who replace them will feel little compulsion to fix those problems if they can silence mainstream discussion of civil rights abuses and continue abusing real dissidents. They will only be able to do this if they continue the Republican assault on the internet.
Mr. Ou, you need to STFU. Your incumbent favoring rants are not only politically clueless, they are technically flawed. The better answer to congestion is to build out US networks before they sink out of the top 50th in the world. At 26th and falling, it won't be long before places like Cuba have better networks than the US. Censoring equipment steals bandwith because every decision takes time that adds pointless delays. Everything that delays build out and encourages companies to buy censorship equipment is harmful and little better reasoned that Goatse Ass.
That sounds like a great way to do things and I'm sure there are many, many others.
What I'm interested in is preserving our rights. Publishers can think of ways to make money without robbing us of the ability to help our neighbor and without assuming draconian control of information. For them to violate our rights, we must agree to be threatened and prosecuted for doing things that are not crimes. It is better to keep them from making laws that threaten us than it is to try to do their job for them.
Publishers already know how things will work in a free society. They are not stupid and this is why they fight so hard. They understand that the broadcast era is over and with it their ability to control opinion and profit from every aspect of popular culture. There will be profits but they will be distributed and much closer to the artist than they are now. The big record companies, movie companies and paper publishers are out of luck and the damage done to public institutions will follow. With freedom comes truth and from truth we can expect justice. Without freedom, expect great injustice.
I think I'll stick with Lessig's opinions and the surprisingly readable US Constitution.
How to sell your copy of Hary Potter only touches on the madness of paper based copyright applied to digital files. If these books are no longer mine, they are no longer the library's either. Do we really want a future where anyone and everyone can be cut off of knowledge at the flip of a switch? Where "owners" must be trusted with the raw material of history? No.
The answer to all this is very simple. The lower cost of publishing should bring lower protections and fewer created rights because fewer incentives are required. Advertising costs have not declined, so it is easier to recoup publishing investments now than ever. Worse for high cost, established publishers technology makes old laws contradictory and insane. Publishers want to make "unwet water" and outlaw the normal stuff by dominating the channels of distribution - the no real library future. We should allow people to make exact copies of almost all works and distribute them freely. It's really that easy and companies that can't live with that kind of freedom should look for a new line of honest work.
This is one of the few comments that makes sense of the issue. Microsoft and Apple are not equals and this is only trick for people who are lazy. Most Windows users are going to think it's kind of cool to get a browser choice from a trusted source.
This is why it's a good idea to avoid brand new hardware from unfriendly companies like Sony. If it won't work with PCLinuxOS, Mepis or one of the Ubuntu live CDs, you don't want it. XP won't work either, which leaves you with Vista and hunting for the dozens of programs needed to make Windows useful. You might as well give up. Hardware that's just a year or two older or that's "low power" will perform better under free software than new hardware under Vista and software that does not break XP is going to get harder and harder to find.
Why stop at removing "Works" when you could use Ubuntu? Wouldn't Sony then have to give you a rebate for the OS you did not use?
You would be better off even if you wasted $149 on XP and used your old software. This option does not rule out a nice free software partition. I can't believe anyone will use the "fresh start" service.
A real job is one where you can apply your training. An unreal job is one you could have gotten out of high school or before that you have to take to make ends meet. It happens.
Wikipedia and the Programmer's Guild both explaining how the H1B program is nothing like you think but that's beside the point. My point was to take advantage of family money if you have it. Bill Gates never had to work for anyone else in his life, which proves that you don't have to work for others if you have a good enough idea and can hire the expertise to make it happen. If you crash and burn, you will have experience and the cube will still be waiting.
Sheesh! Have things gotten so bad around here that you can't even say something good about Bill Gates without some fanboy jumping to Microsoft's defense and calling you a racist?
And what a pathetic and contradictory slander that is. The Programmer's Guild is looking out for everyone's interest. They point out that Microsoft no longer hires US workers for entry level positions, so you can stick Microsoft's starting rate up your ass. Companies abuse the H1B program to treat people like slaves. Anyone defending it is either a fraud who does not believe in real, rights respecting immigration, or someone who needs to read and think more.
Ask Bill Gates if there's anything wrong with having lots of backing when you need it. Getting time on computers in high school, going to college and having a backing were all very good for Microsoft. The same lessons and more apply today because there are far fewer "real" jobs to go around thanks to H1B stuff. Ignoring resources is harmful.
The US can't get the FBI, CIA and NSA to play nice with each other or the hundreds of state and local athorities. I'm supposed to believe that there will be real international cooperation? Yet another UN police force, what a joke.
I'd like to see bot hearders busted but I don't have any faith in this new super team to get it done. What we will probably see is this team putting pressure on other governments to support imaginary property. At it's worst, it will be used to track dissidents and limit free speech world wide, while criminals continue to do what they always have.
Spectrum liberation is possible and it would put Comcast and their greasy counterparts in other areas out of business overnight. The FCC and FTC made these bitches and can break them because the public owns the air and public servitude. A sea change in administration is coming. Comcast should shut up before they find themselves replaced. The whole point of creating Comcast and friends was control. It would be better to have a government that was interested in freedom but that too would screw Comcast.
Don't be confused by the bluster. The government is in control.
The stove pipes have been torn down. There is no division between government and private networks and data. Comcast's defiance of the FCC is an illusion because other elements in the government want Comcast to censor the net. It's the next logical step: awareness, control, dominance. Independent minded bloggers and a free internet threatened the Manufactured Consent model of US policy making.
The US is moving to a censored and controlled network faster than you think.
No, I mean what I say. Another portion of my rant, is that much of what's good in Apple comes from free software as people on this thread are pointing out. The author is ignorant and wrong. Tyranny leads to failure in any company but more so in software than elsewhere.
Just when you think US network freedom could not get any worse. If Comcast gets it's way in this they will be free to block anything and everything at the network level and the US internet will look like Communist China's.
The author seems blissfully unaware of Apple's free software use. GCC, Darwin, Khtml and what not punch a few large holes in their central thesis.