The NYT's problem is that there are not enough people who want to pay for what they are selling to cover thier costs.
I read the NYT everyday on my iPhone - I live in Europe, and as far as I am aware of, I cannot easily obtain a printed copy. I love the NYT and would be very willing to pay a fair price so I can continue reading this quality newspaper. By shifting their revenue from the printed to the online medium, I believe they are not reducing the amount of people who would pay for it but rather enlarge their range of potential customers.
I once took a picture of a celtic cemetery in ireland. It was full of tourists, hundreds of ugly people were about to ruin the pictures I wanted to take. So I found a position where almost all people were hidden by gravestones, thus being able to capture a picture which suggests that the cemetery was empty.
A picture never reflects reality, even without being photoshopped.
Yes, I agree - I do not question the value of life! I enjoy mine, and I certainly do not wish to shorten it. All I question is the rationality behind arguments brought forward by proponents of life prolonging, who claim that it "makes sense"
Under the assumption that there is _nothing_ after death, why would one want to extend life? Given that memories are organically manifested, death removes all traces of what we were. Thus, it makes no difference if we live 10, 50, 100, or even 1000 years. After we died, the duration of that very life that came into nonexistence seems rather meaningless.
no, actually i really believed it. maybe i really have a defunctioning sarcasm-gene. (someone pointed that out in a previous/.-discussion.) :/ anyway, i just thought so because i lived for 2 months in australia, and even though i always handled my mother language perfectly (german), i had difficulties to readabt when i returned to austria. i thought this would be similar.
hmm, nice idea, but what if you spend hours and hours of walking but are not walking. just remember those cases of people losing the ability to write because they used this strange input mechanism of the PDAs. the brain is very sensitive and fragile. i am not sure if i would do such a thing.
yea, its not how the computer industry works, thats the point. and its good so. A "release" in the industry means, giving out the product for the first time, selling it, whereas in the open source movement it means stating it as usable, stable, good, perfect, whatsoever, but the product is always available, even before it is actually released, but it is not "released" for general use.
Why are some people soo frightened of new, interesting and obviously better things? I mean, to create better technology than MS is not reinventing the weel, but a very important step into the right direction.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah.. tell me about it..
The NYT's problem is that there are not enough people who want to pay for what they are selling to cover thier costs.
I read the NYT everyday on my iPhone - I live in Europe, and as far as I am aware of, I cannot easily obtain a printed copy. I love the NYT and would be very willing to pay a fair price so I can continue reading this quality newspaper.
By shifting their revenue from the printed to the online medium, I believe they are not reducing the amount of people who would pay for it but rather enlarge their range of potential customers.
just my 0.02€
I once took a picture of a celtic cemetery in ireland. It was full of tourists, hundreds of ugly people were about to ruin the pictures I wanted to take. So I found a position where almost all people were hidden by gravestones, thus being able to capture a picture which suggests that the cemetery was empty.
A picture never reflects reality, even without being photoshopped.
Yes, I agree - I do not question the value of life! I enjoy mine, and I certainly do not wish to shorten it. All I question is the rationality behind arguments brought forward by proponents of life prolonging, who claim that it "makes sense"
The question rather should be:
Under the assumption that there is _nothing_ after death, why would one want to extend life? Given that memories are organically manifested, death removes all traces of what we were. Thus, it makes no difference if we live 10, 50, 100, or even 1000 years. After we died, the duration of that very life that came into nonexistence seems rather meaningless.
you might want to read this: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
a huge invisibility shield!
when will GT ship UT in Europe? is there a possibility that they sell the european version with linux binaries? that'd be cool.
alex
no, actually i really believed it. maybe i really have a defunctioning sarcasm-gene. (someone pointed that out in a previous /.-discussion.)
:)
:/
anyway, i just thought so because i lived for 2 months in australia, and even though i always handled my mother language perfectly (german), i had difficulties to readabt when i returned to austria. i thought this would be similar.
anyway
bye
alex
hmm, nice idea, but what if you spend hours and hours of walking but are not walking. just remember those cases of people losing the ability to write because they used this strange input mechanism of the PDAs. the brain is very sensitive and fragile. i am not sure if i would do such a thing.
alex
yea, its not how the computer industry works, thats the point. and its good so.
A "release" in the industry means, giving out the product for the first time, selling it, whereas in the open source movement it means stating it as usable, stable, good, perfect, whatsoever, but the product is always available, even before it is actually released, but it is not "released" for general use.
so thats absolutely NOT silly!
misanthrop
Why are some people soo frightened of new, interesting and obviously better things?
I mean, to create better technology than MS is not reinventing the weel, but a very important step into the right direction.
misanthrop
if i knew that alan cox would come i would have staid a bit longer than just 2 hours...
i was very disappointed about the expo itself, but if i only knew... arg!
whatever
-misanthrop