...and a bunch of other good articles listed after it.
Does the DOD think they not have the Internet in China and Iran?
Just by reading this article, you can get a good sense of the concept, which has to do with creating high-speed, non-mechanical aircraft control surfaces via boundary layer manipulation. Is this really that big of a secret?
I'll post more on this after I investigate the thump on the roof and see who's at the front door.
I find it amusing that everyone is so fired up about Cap and Trade when they ignore the fact that it will only work if EVERY emitter buys into it.
That's simply not going to be the case.
What's going to happen is that more heavy, energy-intensive industry will move to India, China, and other less industrialized countries and C02 emission will stay the same (if not actually increasing due to lower levels of efficiency).
The only true solution is mitigation or sequestration.
You don't have to be an actual climate scientist, or more than just a friend of Rush, to know that Algore is using every trick in the information design bag of tricks to make his argument stronger. I also find it interesting, and telling, that your only option is to attack me and not my point.
...that there are problems with the theory of anthropogenic global warming and at least how it is presented. A while back I put together a document that points out some serious problems with how Algore has gone about making his points...
IMO the idea of the domain name is so ten years ago. The explosion of TLDs makes it more so, as it's no longer possible to get true exclusivity on a term. In the age of Google and SEO, what matters is the number of inbound links, the naming of file names, and such. Not the domain name. I say this as someone who once made $10,000 by cyber-squatting on entegris.com back in the day (thank you Network Solutions and the ability to reserve a name 30 days before you paid for it or it just lapsed) .
No, because the point of writing a book isn't just to sell books. It's to establish yourself as an expert, which leads to other work.
E-mail me and I'll send you a copy.
People find it hard to read columns that are wider than 400 pixels. Below that limit, they can read one line per glance. Above that limit, scanning and eyestrain goes up and readability decreases. That's why most magazines use multi-column layouts.
As I have mentioned before, I have written and am selling a book for entrepreneurs, salespeople, project champions, and others called Elevator Pitch Essentials (http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com). After much debate, and with the encouragement of multiple/. folks, I decided to release an eBook version without any security. It's a plain old unsecured PDF. I had to create an eBook because many people overseas wanted to buy the book but it's a pain to sell through Amazon.co.uk. Since I don't have to pay for printing or shipping costs, I priced the eBook at $10, which is $5 off of the retail price
Since I released the eBook, my hardcopy sales have continued to hold up. In fact, sales through Amazon.com have been doubling every month and I just got a volume order for 50 books. I have also sold 53 eBooks.
I think this has been a successful experiment in part because of the relatively low price. It seems that people think that's a reasonable amount to charge. From my own experience, I know that I have absolutely no problem paying $1 for a song.
P.S. Please don't crush my buzz by telling me it's all over the torrents (although that really may not matter).
Isn't an EHR just a file format? That goes for both the files and the interfaces.
The only thing that would really be open source would be the underlying system, but that could be implemented using either open or closed source systems.
I absolutely believe that the file formats and interfaces for EHR systems should be open standards, but that's not open source.
I'm all for open source, but sometimes people take this a bit too far.
This is a terrible idea from a usability standpoint. Most regular people already don't understand the difference between.com and.net anyway, which is why we should be moving to one TLD, not an infinite number.
Also, the whole topic is becoming moot with the increasing use of search engines. Who cares what the URL is? All that matters is where you rank on Google.
"But the dumb and pointless infatuation with 'DRM' and 'protecting' works will basically hand the market over to Amazon for many years, and get many folks locked into to Amazon's Kindle platform, even when more open solutions finally start to become popular."
...in the referenced article was a bit off the mark.
As I have said before, one of the things I am is a small publisher. I publish a business book called "Elevator Pitch Essentials" and a couple of DVDs on baseball instruction (rotational hitting and pitching mechanics). As a result, issues like DRM are highly relevant to me.
I am selling my business book in a pretty much naked PDF "eBook" format, and it's selling pretty well at $9.95, but I've got to tell you that I'm nervous as &*@$ that someone's going to rip it off. I've tried to deal with this a bit by limiting the printing resolution to 150 DPI, but I have heard that some apps don't honor the PDF security settings (WTF?).
I know that most people make money off of speaking rather than the book, so even if the book gets out into the wild it's not that big of a deal.
Right?
Oh, and tell that to my wife.
I also know that in most cases I'm perfectly willing to pay $1 for a song from iTunes or Amazon. About the only time I go to LimeWire is when a song isn't available in a for-pay catalog.
I am thinking about porting my business book the to Kindle format, but that's a bit of a PITA because I would have to strip it down to basically.txt format and I don't know if it's worth my time to do that.
If anyone has any suggestions for how to balance out making things easy for end users to buy and use what I'm selling but also allowing myself to make a reasonable return on my investment, I'm all ears.
As an IP rights holder and someone who's trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the world of the web (see my book at http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/), I do find this story interesting and perhaps heartening.
Alright. Y'all have convinced me. I'm going to take your advice, take a chance, and GIVE away up to 100 free PDF copies of my book to Slashdot readers who e-mail me. You can get my e-mail address through my web site (see the root post for the URL). Just put SLASHDOT somewhere in the subject line.
I have actually tried quite hard to buy songs that I like but have been forced to get them from Limewire because they aren't available via any pay download sites (e.g. Jewel's "Under The Water"). I also get it that getting the word out, and selling consulting and speaking, is the real goal. But my wife doesn't totally get that...
I'm actually moving in that direction in my thinking. I'm trying to decide whether I need to worry about unauthorized duplication or not. I'm also trying to figure out if I can embed user information in each copy, so if a copy gets in the wild I know who to get mad at. My current thinking is to sell a PDF version with degraded printing capabilities.
Interesting feedback.
I give speeches like those every month or so, so I guess I need to tape my next one.
I have thought about doing a podcast before, and have done so for my other stuff.
Thanks.
As an IP rights holder and someone who's trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the world of the web (see my book at http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/), I do find this story interesting and perhaps heartening.
However, isn't the advantage in this case due to the fact that YouTube shows clips of either degraded quality or at least reduced size? If you want to view the skits in their original quality and size, and on a TV, you have to buy the DVDs.
I'm not sure how this applies to all rights holders other than maybe music holders. I do find that Limewire plays much the same role for me when it comes to music. When it comes to the songs I like, I tend to find the typical compression artifacting annoying and end up buying the MP3 somewhere.
How does this apply to authors and others whose work is a bit harder to degrade without blowing the secret?
I have found that Word worked just fine for my book...
http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/...which is more of a business book (but I was forced to deal with the same issues).
The biggest thing to keep in mind is that the publisher is going to define everything using styles, so you really just need to worry about content and not formatting. You could almost use a very simple text editor.
I would ask your publisher, if you have one, what format they prefer and what makes their life easier from a layout standpoint. Do they want you to define code samples using a different style or font?
I can also give you some information on self-publishing if you want, as that's the route I chose.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a good starting point for learning about plasma actuators...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/AFRL_Proves_Feasibility_Of_Plasma_Actuators.html
Then just Google "plasma actuator". There's lots of good information in the public domain.
...until I Googled "plamsa actuator" and found a relevant article ranked number one...
http://www.engr.uky.edu/~jdjacob/fml/research/plasma/index.html
...and a bunch of other good articles listed after it.
Does the DOD think they not have the Internet in China and Iran?
Just by reading this article, you can get a good sense of the concept, which has to do with creating high-speed, non-mechanical aircraft control surfaces via boundary layer manipulation. Is this really that big of a secret?
I'll post more on this after I investigate the thump on the roof and see who's at the front door.
To whomever flagged me as a troll...
Again, I find it curious that all you can do is attack me, but you have nothing to say about the points I make in the attached article.
Your silence speaks volumes.
It won't result in the stated required reduction in greenhouse gas emissions because emissions will be shifted to non-complying countries.
I find it amusing that everyone is so fired up about Cap and Trade when they ignore the fact that it will only work if EVERY emitter buys into it.
That's simply not going to be the case.
What's going to happen is that more heavy, energy-intensive industry will move to India, China, and other less industrialized countries and C02 emission will stay the same (if not actually increasing due to lower levels of efficiency).
The only true solution is mitigation or sequestration.
You don't have to be an actual climate scientist, or more than just a friend of Rush, to know that Algore is using every trick in the information design bag of tricks to make his argument stronger. I also find it interesting, and telling, that your only option is to attack me and not my point.
...that there are problems with the theory of anthropogenic global warming and at least how it is presented. A while back I put together a document that points out some serious problems with how Algore has gone about making his points...
http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/NeitherThisNorThat/Documents/AnInconvenientTruth_Analysis.pdf
IMO the idea of the domain name is so ten years ago. The explosion of TLDs makes it more so, as it's no longer possible to get true exclusivity on a term. In the age of Google and SEO, what matters is the number of inbound links, the naming of file names, and such. Not the domain name. I say this as someone who once made $10,000 by cyber-squatting on entegris.com back in the day (thank you Network Solutions and the ability to reserve a name 30 days before you paid for it or it just lapsed) .
No, because the point of writing a book isn't just to sell books. It's to establish yourself as an expert, which leads to other work. E-mail me and I'll send you a copy.
People find it hard to read columns that are wider than 400 pixels. Below that limit, they can read one line per glance. Above that limit, scanning and eyestrain goes up and readability decreases. That's why most magazines use multi-column layouts.
Great Album! OMG, she's so talented. ;-)
Generally, the only songs I get off of Limewire are ones I can't buy legally.
Here's a report from the real world of DRM.
/. folks, I decided to release an eBook version without any security. It's a plain old unsecured PDF. I had to create an eBook because many people overseas wanted to buy the book but it's a pain to sell through Amazon.co.uk. Since I don't have to pay for printing or shipping costs, I priced the eBook at $10, which is $5 off of the retail price
As I have mentioned before, I have written and am selling a book for entrepreneurs, salespeople, project champions, and others called Elevator Pitch Essentials (http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com). After much debate, and with the encouragement of multiple
Since I released the eBook, my hardcopy sales have continued to hold up. In fact, sales through Amazon.com have been doubling every month and I just got a volume order for 50 books. I have also sold 53 eBooks.
I think this has been a successful experiment in part because of the relatively low price. It seems that people think that's a reasonable amount to charge. From my own experience, I know that I have absolutely no problem paying $1 for a song.
P.S. Please don't crush my buzz by telling me it's all over the torrents (although that really may not matter).
I don't belong to an organized religion. I'm a Catholic.
"We all know that xenu's followers will simply do their edits from home, from now on."
I thought Xenu was the bad guy, not the good guy.
This whole thing reminds me of this absolutely classic Dilbert...
http://tijil.org/gallery/v/dilbert-eunuch-c.jpg.html
Isn't an EHR just a file format? That goes for both the files and the interfaces.
The only thing that would really be open source would be the underlying system, but that could be implemented using either open or closed source systems.
I absolutely believe that the file formats and interfaces for EHR systems should be open standards, but that's not open source.
I'm all for open source, but sometimes people take this a bit too far.
This is a terrible idea from a usability standpoint. Most regular people already don't understand the difference between .com and .net anyway, which is why we should be moving to one TLD, not an infinite number.
Also, the whole topic is becoming moot with the increasing use of search engines. Who cares what the URL is? All that matters is where you rank on Google.
I thought this quote...
"But the dumb and pointless infatuation with 'DRM' and 'protecting' works will basically hand the market over to Amazon for many years, and get many folks locked into to Amazon's Kindle platform, even when more open solutions finally start to become popular."
...in the referenced article was a bit off the mark.
As I have said before, one of the things I am is a small publisher. I publish a business book called "Elevator Pitch Essentials" and a couple of DVDs on baseball instruction (rotational hitting and pitching mechanics). As a result, issues like DRM are highly relevant to me.
I am selling my business book in a pretty much naked PDF "eBook" format, and it's selling pretty well at $9.95, but I've got to tell you that I'm nervous as &*@$ that someone's going to rip it off. I've tried to deal with this a bit by limiting the printing resolution to 150 DPI, but I have heard that some apps don't honor the PDF security settings (WTF?).
I know that most people make money off of speaking rather than the book, so even if the book gets out into the wild it's not that big of a deal.
Right?
Oh, and tell that to my wife.
I also know that in most cases I'm perfectly willing to pay $1 for a song from iTunes or Amazon. About the only time I go to LimeWire is when a song isn't available in a for-pay catalog.
I am thinking about porting my business book the to Kindle format, but that's a bit of a PITA because I would have to strip it down to basically .txt format and I don't know if it's worth my time to do that.
If anyone has any suggestions for how to balance out making things easy for end users to buy and use what I'm selling but also allowing myself to make a reasonable return on my investment, I'm all ears.
As an IP rights holder and someone who's trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the world of the web (see my book at http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/), I do find this story interesting and perhaps heartening.
Alright. Y'all have convinced me. I'm going to take your advice, take a chance, and GIVE away up to 100 free PDF copies of my book to Slashdot readers who e-mail me. You can get my e-mail address through my web site (see the root post for the URL). Just put SLASHDOT somewhere in the subject line.
Thanks to all for the comments and feedback.
I have actually tried quite hard to buy songs that I like but have been forced to get them from Limewire because they aren't available via any pay download sites (e.g. Jewel's "Under The Water"). I also get it that getting the word out, and selling consulting and speaking, is the real goal. But my wife doesn't totally get that...
I'm actually moving in that direction in my thinking. I'm trying to decide whether I need to worry about unauthorized duplication or not. I'm also trying to figure out if I can embed user information in each copy, so if a copy gets in the wild I know who to get mad at. My current thinking is to sell a PDF version with degraded printing capabilities.
Interesting feedback. I give speeches like those every month or so, so I guess I need to tape my next one. I have thought about doing a podcast before, and have done so for my other stuff. Thanks.
As an IP rights holder and someone who's trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the world of the web (see my book at http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/), I do find this story interesting and perhaps heartening. However, isn't the advantage in this case due to the fact that YouTube shows clips of either degraded quality or at least reduced size? If you want to view the skits in their original quality and size, and on a TV, you have to buy the DVDs. I'm not sure how this applies to all rights holders other than maybe music holders. I do find that Limewire plays much the same role for me when it comes to music. When it comes to the songs I like, I tend to find the typical compression artifacting annoying and end up buying the MP3 somewhere. How does this apply to authors and others whose work is a bit harder to degrade without blowing the secret?
I have found that Word worked just fine for my book... http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/ ...which is more of a business book (but I was forced to deal with the same issues).
The biggest thing to keep in mind is that the publisher is going to define everything using styles, so you really just need to worry about content and not formatting. You could almost use a very simple text editor.
I would ask your publisher, if you have one, what format they prefer and what makes their life easier from a layout standpoint. Do they want you to define code samples using a different style or font?
I can also give you some information on self-publishing if you want, as that's the route I chose.