Their plan isn't to profit from the sale of software - selling a conveniently packaged CD is still the easiest form of software distribution around especially to modem users. I'm sure they'll still sell them as a distribution channel but at or just above cost since their business focus isn't the little plastic disk.
He didn't agree with some of the theories because they didn't fit into theology; their description of the universe wasn't orderly enough for him to see the fingerprints of God within it which went against his belief that a being of order was at the helm. Could be that not enough of the mechanics behind the theories was/has yet revealed to satisfy his beliefs.
Doesn't mean he thought it was bunk, he just couldn't reconcile physics as described by others to his beliefs.
Bunch of slashdotters shootin' off their keyboards before reading things.
The post has been amended, it now reads a buck a piece. No, you can't submit Windows source code.
The guy buys overstock for a living - he's not a nut or eccentric collector. His profession drives the "All a Dollar" (or your local equivalent) chain of stores.
The story actually says they're $2 a piece, raning to $0.80 for bulk orders.
A company that is able to provide a product AND service on that product is a much stronger company than the sum of two companies providing those things separately, generally.
...and if you have lots of money, you get nifty legal muscles to flex.
More seriously - isn't it weird that this is the bulk of Microsoft's argument in the antitrust trial? Interesting that when you read it in a different context all the M$ bashers love it, but if this were said in conjunction with a Microsoft story, especially intended positively, it'd be regarded as flamebait from a loser.
This'll probably count as flamebait too... Just an observation on our geek culture.
Digital, by it's nature, can be perfectly reproduced on every account only varying where analogue turns it into something for humans to play with. There will never be a way to completely protect a method of copying files - how will this prevent someone from using say ZipMagic to treat contents of regular zip files as programs and executing them from there, where the copy protection won't be able to check? Or any other form of sub encryption to get around the device. As for reproducability, I will *always* be able to get my data on and off a hard drive. What will this device really accomplish other than satisfy some intellectual property rights advocates (and abusers) ?
Why is there such a rush to patent what should be natural innovation?
There are many good ideas that are evolved from other good ideas and occur to many making the point of intellectual property moot - this is one of those things (along with hyperlinking).
Most sectors of business realize this and only patent something that came about through their hard work and research, not just anything that hasn't yet been patented in the field (especially if it's common practice!). Why are they trying to do this, and why is the patent office letting them?
Perhaps the best way to simplify the interface is finally making good use of virtual space - would take a heckuva lot of horsepower to do it and need a lot of serious research and design to get it usable, but 2D just can't get it done for much longer.
The plastic ring is probably just the center hold - note the abnormally large central hole in the picture. This would give the CD/DVD player the ability to grip and spin the CD but note necessarily stabalize anything.
Not necessarily - remember that the tetrachromacy relies on X chromosome inactivation. Only if those 2 X chromosomes recombined exactly to pass on the trait would it be present in the daughter. The likeliness of this occurance drops steeply. With the colorblind father you're more likely to produce another tetrachromat, if at all. Too much unpredictability in the recombinance of the DNA to make statistics, though.
had an article on these a while ago. One of the coolest things about them was that since the lazer's got to read through several layers, the whole thing is clear.
Most of the posts about this are denouncing the article as fake, with several replies confirming it by pointing out the tagline at the bottom.
More importantly - move on, look at the points that were made. The satire here was used as a creative and effective vehicle to communicate an insightful perspective of the current Linux phenomena. I'm not qualified enough to start soap boxing here about solutions - but I would like to learn from the discussions of others.
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Worse yet, only one person in the posts has pointed out that this is old, and not even from
Their plan isn't to profit from the sale of software - selling a conveniently packaged CD is still the easiest form of software distribution around especially to modem users. I'm sure they'll still sell them as a distribution channel but at or just above cost since their business focus isn't the little plastic disk.
If nothing else, this is great sci-fi material. I'm already getting story material which this would help facilitate.
He didn't agree with some of the theories because they didn't fit into theology; their description of the universe wasn't orderly enough for him to see the fingerprints of God within it which went against his belief that a being of order was at the helm. Could be that not enough of the mechanics behind the theories was/has yet revealed to satisfy his beliefs.
Doesn't mean he thought it was bunk, he just couldn't reconcile physics as described by others to his beliefs.
s/raning/ranging Apologies to the grammar/spelling cops.
Bunch of slashdotters shootin' off their keyboards before reading things.
The post has been amended, it now reads a buck a piece. No, you can't submit Windows source code.
The guy buys overstock for a living - he's not a nut or eccentric collector. His profession drives the "All a Dollar" (or your local equivalent) chain of stores.
The story actually says they're $2 a piece, raning to $0.80 for bulk orders.
READ the whole thing, please?
...and if you have lots of money, you get nifty legal muscles to flex.
More seriously - isn't it weird that this is the bulk of Microsoft's argument in the antitrust trial? Interesting that when you read it in a different context all the M$ bashers love it, but if this were said in conjunction with a Microsoft story, especially intended positively, it'd be regarded as flamebait from a loser.
This'll probably count as flamebait too... Just an observation on our geek culture.
Digital, by it's nature, can be perfectly reproduced on every account only varying where analogue turns it into something for humans to play with. There will never be a way to completely protect a method of copying files - how will this prevent someone from using say ZipMagic to treat contents of regular zip files as programs and executing them from there, where the copy protection won't be able to check? Or any other form of sub encryption to get around the device. As for reproducability, I will *always* be able to get my data on and off a hard drive. What will this device really accomplish other than satisfy some intellectual property rights advocates (and abusers) ?
There are many good ideas that are evolved from other good ideas and occur to many making the point of intellectual property moot - this is one of those things (along with hyperlinking).
Most sectors of business realize this and only patent something that came about through their hard work and research, not just anything that hasn't yet been patented in the field (especially if it's common practice!). Why are they trying to do this, and why is the patent office letting them?
Perhaps the best way to simplify the interface is finally making good use of virtual space - would take a heckuva lot of horsepower to do it and need a lot of serious research and design to get it usable, but 2D just can't get it done for much longer.
The plastic ring is probably just the center hold - note the abnormally large central hole in the picture. This would give the CD/DVD player the ability to grip and spin the CD but note necessarily stabalize anything.
Try www.thindisc.com, or a search on Google which turned up the name of the company in connection with several venture capital firms.
Do you have any links to this information?
Not necessarily - remember that the tetrachromacy relies on X chromosome inactivation. Only if those 2 X chromosomes recombined exactly to pass on the trait would it be present in the daughter. The likeliness of this occurance drops steeply. With the colorblind father you're more likely to produce another tetrachromat, if at all. Too much unpredictability in the recombinance of the DNA to make statistics, though.
had an article on these a while ago. One of the coolest things about them was that since the lazer's got to read through several layers, the whole thing is clear.
Most of the posts about this are denouncing the article as fake, with several replies confirming it by pointing out the tagline at the bottom.
More importantly - move on, look at the points that were made. The satire here was used as a creative and effective vehicle to communicate an insightful perspective of the current Linux phenomena. I'm not qualified enough to start soap boxing here about solutions - but I would like to learn from the discussions of others.
If only there were any.
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