I'm planning to make printed copies of a manual available for some software I've developed, so I've been looking at various POD options. Lulu looks like one of the best. CafePress also have a POD offering with no upfront charges.
It's worth noting that Booksurge does not have a free option; their minimum upfront charge is $299, and they're quite keen on pushing their more expensive packages.
As J. B. S. Haldane, himself a communist, noted in his 1928 essay On Being the Right Size, you can't do that. It simply doesn't scale. It's the bubble sort of economic theories.
I've seen some rankings that put Australia ahead of the U.S. in terms of broadband conenctivity, purely because of advertised speeds. As an Australian, I find this highly amusing.
For example, you can readily get a 30mbit cable connection here. Telstra Bigpond's cheapest full-speed cable offering is $39.95 a month... And includes 200 megabytes of data. After which you pay 15 cents for each additional megabyte. (And they charge for uploads as well as downloads.)
Yes, you can get fast, reasonably-priced internet access here. And if you use it, you'll hit your monthly quota in one minute.
The smaller ISPs mostly don't engage in such blatant theft, but all of them have download limits, often quite small. Which would you prefer: 6mbit speed with no limit, or 24mbit and 5GB a month?
No, but 50 billion SMS messages is, let's say, 2TB of data (40 characters each, which is pretty generous). I pay 10c per GB for bandwidth at my hosting provider, so that would cost me $200 to send over the internet. Tweak the numbers a little and you can get closer to the $98 figure.
At present, every blog post, every comment on Slashdot, every image I use in my site design, receives copyright protection automatically. You've just destroyed that. Oh, and Creative Commons with it.
2. An actual person must be named (just like with patents)
Just destroyed any right to privacy.
3. Death of the registered person means death of the copyright (you can't encourage dead people to make new works no matter how hard you try)
So if I work hard building - let's say - boats, and one day I drop dead of a heart attack, my children inherit the boats and can sell them. But if I work hard designing boats, my kids starve?
4. At time of registration a term can be chosen, and an appropriate fee paid.
Since copyright is currently extended to millions of creations every single day, this is completely untenable.
5. A reasonable number of extensions (say, three) are permitted, provided a new fee is paid.
And this too.
6. A set of standard royalties for a common class of work (say, songs) should be decided, and made available to anyone who cares to pay the standard rate.
And let's do the same for cars! Okay, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Mercedes: All your cars now cost $20,000.
7. Willful royalty evasion justifies reasonable punitive damages (say, 3 times the standard royalty), nothing else does.
Levied by whom, and payable to whom? Currently, copyright infringement is in miost cases a civil matter, requiring the rights holder to bring suit. If you are legislating penalties, are you saying that this is now a criminal offense? Who will police it, and how?
8. Indoctrinated fair use should be ratified by international treaty and be recognized as a means to end a complaint pre-trial.
I'm not sure what "indoctrinated fair use" is even supposed to mean.
As far as I can see, your proposal is worse than the status quo in every way imaginable.
I just want my web page to work. I don't give a damn about which standard I'm following, as long as it works. Not XML compliant? So? It's not XML, it's HTML.
As a web framework developer I think HTML 5 is the best thing since sliced bread. It brings the HTML spec into line with what people want to do. In fact, I'd argue very strongly for the retention of <u> and <s>/<strike>, particularly the latter, which has clear semantic value.
XHTML & CSS have been largely a disaster. They failed to properly separate content from design, failed to provide semantic markup, failed to provide or promote browser compatibility, failed to provide for multimedia content. (I'm not saying I want to give up CSS for styling, but for layout it's terrible.) Yes, you can do (whatever) with XHTML and CSS; I know, I've done it. But the fact that it's not actually impossible to get stuff done in no way makes these standards good, or even acceptable.
If I pay for a 3mbps connection, or a 6mbps connection...then dammit that's what I should get! If the infrastructure of cable is a limiting factor then they need to RE-INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE instead of putting out another dividend to their pigs-rolling-in-telecom-monopoly-shit stockholders.
If you are paying $150 per month - which is about what a dedicated 6mbit link would cost in a major urban center - then yes, dammit, that's what you should get.
If you're not paying that much, though, you're talking crap. You should get what you pay for, but don't whine about not getting what you didn't pay for.
I looked at the headline, and I thought Telescript! Well, actually I thought, Hey, that's that thingy language that whosis invented, I still have a reference manual for it around here somewhere...
It was a bad idea in 1996, and it's still a pretty bad idea today.
This is an update to the existing law regarding access to phone chat services. Realising that the wording of the law only covered traditional telephony, the ACMA seems to have simply stuck "and teh internets" into the wording wherever they deemed it appropriate, rendering a total hash of the regulations. Defining "content" when you're talking about fixed-line phones is easy. When it comes to the internet, it's effectively impossible.
In the US, this would get stomped by the Supreme Court as unconstitutionally broad in five minutes flat. Here in Australia that may take longer, but I expect it to be largely ignored in the meantime.
Which reminds me: When the hell is Firefox going to get an updated Options panel? about:config is a bad joke. It's a useful bad joke, but it's still a bad joke.
You mean awful bar. Anyone know if there's a way to go back to the old behaviour and appearance? I hate this thing. I type in "c" and it matches instapundit.com. Yeah, that's useful.
As far as I can see, the war in Iraq is thoroughly justified, well-executed, and cheap in both material and human terms. Compared to pretty much any war of comparable scale, any way. Compared to a family picnic perhaps not so much, but you'd have to be insane to make that comparison.
A true socialist believes in universal healthcare, a minimum wage that you can support a family on, maximum working week, state funded education for everyone, unions (not US style unions), equality, taxing the rich to support the poor.
A human language is a complete and self-contained system consisting of very large numbers of models of various concepts.
Not even remotely true.
Living languages are not complete, self-contained, or even strictly defined. Not only do no two people speak the exact same language, but languages are changing all he time.
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Coffee and donuts for the topologists.
So, let me get this straight. What you are saying is that if we ignore what evolutionary theory actually says, it can't be falsified?
True, I suppose, but rather beside the point.
I'm planning to make printed copies of a manual available for some software I've developed, so I've been looking at various POD options. Lulu looks like one of the best. CafePress also have a POD offering with no upfront charges.
It's worth noting that Booksurge does not have a free option; their minimum upfront charge is $299, and they're quite keen on pushing their more expensive packages.
Bad, bad PR move by Amazon.
As J. B. S. Haldane, himself a communist, noted in his 1928 essay On Being the Right Size, you can't do that. It simply doesn't scale. It's the bubble sort of economic theories.
I've seen some rankings that put Australia ahead of the U.S. in terms of broadband conenctivity, purely because of advertised speeds. As an Australian, I find this highly amusing.
For example, you can readily get a 30mbit cable connection here. Telstra Bigpond's cheapest full-speed cable offering is $39.95 a month... And includes 200 megabytes of data. After which you pay 15 cents for each additional megabyte. (And they charge for uploads as well as downloads.)
Yes, you can get fast, reasonably-priced internet access here. And if you use it, you'll hit your monthly quota in one minute.
The smaller ISPs mostly don't engage in such blatant theft, but all of them have download limits, often quite small. Which would you prefer: 6mbit speed with no limit, or 24mbit and 5GB a month?
No, but 50 billion SMS messages is, let's say, 2TB of data (40 characters each, which is pretty generous). I pay 10c per GB for bandwidth at my hosting provider, so that would cost me $200 to send over the internet. Tweak the numbers a little and you can get closer to the $98 figure.
As far as I can see, your proposal is worse than the status quo in every way imaginable.
The alternative to trial and error when creating a spec is just error.
I couldn't disagree more.
I just want my web page to work. I don't give a damn about which standard I'm following, as long as it works. Not XML compliant? So? It's not XML, it's HTML.
As a web framework developer I think HTML 5 is the best thing since sliced bread. It brings the HTML spec into line with what people want to do. In fact, I'd argue very strongly for the retention of <u> and <s>/<strike>, particularly the latter, which has clear semantic value.
XHTML & CSS have been largely a disaster. They failed to properly separate content from design, failed to provide semantic markup, failed to provide or promote browser compatibility, failed to provide for multimedia content. (I'm not saying I want to give up CSS for styling, but for layout it's terrible.) Yes, you can do (whatever) with XHTML and CSS; I know, I've done it. But the fact that it's not actually impossible to get stuff done in no way makes these standards good, or even acceptable.
HTML 5 all the way!
If you're not paying that much, though, you're talking crap. You should get what you pay for, but don't whine about not getting what you didn't pay for.
I have mod points, but there seems to be neither a -1 Truly Awful Pun nor a +1 Truly Awful Pun.
Aha. Press release with details of the SpursEngine chip here.
Considering that it's a different chip, and manufactured by Toshiba, I'd guess that IBM's yields don't have much to do with it.
I looked at the headline, and I thought Telescript! Well, actually I thought, Hey, that's that thingy language that whosis invented, I still have a reference manual for it around here somewhere...
It was a bad idea in 1996, and it's still a pretty bad idea today.
This is an update to the existing law regarding access to phone chat services. Realising that the wording of the law only covered traditional telephony, the ACMA seems to have simply stuck "and teh internets" into the wording wherever they deemed it appropriate, rendering a total hash of the regulations. Defining "content" when you're talking about fixed-line phones is easy. When it comes to the internet, it's effectively impossible.
In the US, this would get stomped by the Supreme Court as unconstitutionally broad in five minutes flat. Here in Australia that may take longer, but I expect it to be largely ignored in the meantime.
Which reminds me: When the hell is Firefox going to get an updated Options panel? about:config is a bad joke. It's a useful bad joke, but it's still a bad joke.
You mean awful bar. Anyone know if there's a way to go back to the old behaviour and appearance? I hate this thing. I type in "c" and it matches instapundit.com. Yeah, that's useful.
As far as I can see, the war in Iraq is thoroughly justified, well-executed, and cheap in both material and human terms. Compared to pretty much any war of comparable scale, any way. Compared to a family picnic perhaps not so much, but you'd have to be insane to make that comparison.
China has launched a lunar orbiter, something the US achieved decades ago.
Meanwhile, the US launched another Mars lander in August and a mission to the asteroids Ceres and Vesta in September.
"These days?"
None of which matters at all if you can't tell the difference.
Living languages are not complete, self-contained, or even strictly defined. Not only do no two people speak the exact same language, but languages are changing all he time.