Software licences often forbid their transfer to other parties. Perhaps the book people would need to come up with a licensing agreement that you were forced to read and agree to each time you opened the book.
IMO, a book is just as good whether new or old. One of my favorites is a book of Asimov short stories, entitled "Nine Tomorrows". Published in the 50s, I bought it at a used bookstore on Cape Cod one summer for $0.25 and I think I've read it end to end a hundred times.
Anything that Amazon does to give me opportunities like this to buy quality books for cheap, I am 100% in support of.
BTW, from what I understand, the authors of the book really don't stand to lose a whole lot in these used book sales. It is the publishing houses that lose the bulk of the extra profits, since for 99.9% of all book titles, the authors won't see much more than the initial payout they receive.
Here you go repeating the same lies every other right-winger keeps repeating about gore "inventing" the internet. Regardless, with the NSF no longer funding most of the internet and with the government an insignificant part of its current structure, I don't think gore's minions, even if they existed, could have any impact on what is currently out there and evolving.
Yes, I too have worked for/with Japanese companies, and in general their higher-level-management pressures are stifling at best. But consider Japan's regulators have been MUCH more involved in the last 5 years than ours have. Once it took off in the US, it was unstoppable but the Japanese regulators are doing their best to make sure that that doesn't happen. Once the people in Japan break free of their 3-hour commutes to work and start using the net more, I am sure there will be similar effects in Japan as in the United States. It is probably the most ripe country in the world for telecommuting due to the population distribution, but from my understanding has some of the worst infrastructure outside of the larger cities.
if nothing else, should put a link to their homepage in the main story so we can/. their website. Maybe the 6 million hits to the/linux tree would show enough interest for them to get the product out sooner.
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I work for maxtor and if this guy thinks we waste 40% of our space on error correction, he's on crack.
I doubt I am supposed to say actual hard numbers, but its definitely 5%
Software licences often forbid their transfer to other parties. Perhaps the book people would need to come up with a licensing agreement that you were forced to read and agree to each time you opened the book. IMO, a book is just as good whether new or old. One of my favorites is a book of Asimov short stories, entitled "Nine Tomorrows". Published in the 50s, I bought it at a used bookstore on Cape Cod one summer for $0.25 and I think I've read it end to end a hundred times. Anything that Amazon does to give me opportunities like this to buy quality books for cheap, I am 100% in support of. BTW, from what I understand, the authors of the book really don't stand to lose a whole lot in these used book sales. It is the publishing houses that lose the bulk of the extra profits, since for 99.9% of all book titles, the authors won't see much more than the initial payout they receive.
Here you go repeating the same lies every other right-winger keeps repeating about gore "inventing" the internet. Regardless, with the NSF no longer funding most of the internet and with the government an insignificant part of its current structure, I don't think gore's minions, even if they existed, could have any impact on what is currently out there and evolving.
Yes, I too have worked for/with Japanese companies, and in general their higher-level-management pressures are stifling at best. But consider Japan's regulators have been MUCH more involved in the last 5 years than ours have. Once it took off in the US, it was unstoppable but the Japanese regulators are doing their best to make sure that that doesn't happen. Once the people in Japan break free of their 3-hour commutes to work and start using the net more, I am sure there will be similar effects in Japan as in the United States. It is probably the most ripe country in the world for telecommuting due to the population distribution, but from my understanding has some of the worst infrastructure outside of the larger cities.
--mud
if nothing else, should put a link to their homepage in the main story so we can /. their website. Maybe the 6 million hits to the /linux tree would show enough interest for them to get the product out sooner.
--mud