Well, if you *could* figure out a way to turn off gravity, I'm sure the Nobel Prize committee, NASA, and a whole bunch of science fiction fans would be listening eagerly.
ideally the print versions should have included one free e-Version each.
I can agree with simultaneous print-and-eBook releases. Baen's done it for over 10 years. These books should have been electronic the day they were published, instead of the publisher's snotty "I should thank they would understand that if we don't provide it, they can't have it."
DRM-free? Heck YES! DRM is a slap-in-the-face insult to every customer.
But the above statement is ridiculous. If I buy the hardcover, I still have to buy the paperback, which is NOT the same book. eBooks are no different. I still cheerfully pay for the paper copies from Baen *and* make a separate purchase for the electronic editions. Of course, Baen's the only publisher I do that for. Everybody else it's eBooks or nothing.
Whether YOUR data is of concern to the CopyrightStaatsPolezei doesn't matter. The moment Hollywood sees some site as infringing, their allies in "our" government and elsewhere will bring it down. You may note that the many innocent users of Megaupload, including, if some reports are correct, some government agencies, STILL don't have their data back and may never get it back.
Because it would be a small portable heater in a confined space with every wall a rack of dresses, gowns, costume, etc. It would be very easy for our costumer, coming through laden with dresses, sewing, some costume, to miss and either trip over or, distracted by work, to shove under a rack of dresses where the heat might end up setting clothes on fire.
The light bulb hangs from the ceiling, where nobody can trip over it, provides just enough heat to keep condensation away,and it lights up the "costume shed" VERY nicely.
When the ban on incandescents was announced, my wife went out and picked up a case of bulbs.
I hate CFLs, but if she was unable to get a 60-watt incandescent she could just substitute a 70-watt CFL (200 equivalent) and get about the same level of heat.
Or a small portable heater (they make them in small 60 watt sizes).
If 70-watt CFL a: too bright and b: a toxic-waste-dump in a bottle which, if dropped in the will lead to endless consequences. Remember the woman who phoned her local government to find out how to clean up a dropped CFL and was told she had to spend several thousand dollars on hazmat cleanup/
Small portable heater in small space with flammable clothes? You are kidding, I hope.
Neither lightbulbs nor space heaters are particularly ideal as dehumidifiers, which is really what you want to prevent condensation and mildew.
Not particularly ideal, conceded, but they are adequate in this case. Add in the fact that most of the wear and tear on incandescent bulbs is starting them up, and a bulb will last a long time if it's just left running. As a result, the bulb needs infrequent replacement, and my wife doesn't need me or a specialist to do the repairs on some expensive dehumidifier.
There are still good uses for incandescents, particularly in environments where the heat is a major benefit.
As an example, my wife's theater group has a detached wooden shed which is used to store costumes, wigs, etc. She keeps a 60-watt light bulb burning in that shed to keep the place warm enough that condensation and mildew aren't a problem. Since the bulb hangs in open space from the ceiling, it's a lot safer and much more efficient than any space heater, and it's also cost effective, since, as noted, it keeps mildew down.
Whether you call it Regulatory Capture, Crony Capitalism, or "The Golden Rule" (Whoever has the gold makes the rules.), it still comes down to people with decision-making authority seeing and hearing what they want to see and hear rather than paying attention to reality.
That was even before the so-called "agency" model. There were ebooks available at Fictionwise for $20 years after the paperback had been released at $6.99.
Then they opened up on their feet with a fully automatic weapon, "agency," which attempted to raise eBook prices, banned things like discounts and rebates, and generally attempted to kill eBooks by overpricing them.
They also canceled existing pre-orders at the lower prices. I had a book on order at Fictionwise I had pre-ordered at $8. They forced FW to cancel the deal and refund my money, removed the book and a lot of other ones from fictionwise, and "generously" offered me the book at $12 at either Amazon or Barnes and Noble. My eBook buying, which included buying books at ridiculous prices but getting store credit as a rebate, dropped from over $2000/year to less than $200.
When publishers start acting sane (I'm NOT counting on it) I may go back to them. In the meantime, I've never stopped buying everything Baen brings out, and loving it and them.
Javascript is a baby language for unskilled and sloppy programmers, so it'll fit right in. Javascript fagets need to learn a grown-up language. They only write in Javascript because there faget asses can't hack it in something better.
Cue trolls and linguistic snobbery. If you can get the kids et. al. interested in learning, 90% of the battle is won. The other 10% is debugging.:)
Slashdot Mirror
"transporting large amounts of video across rough terrain"
they're going to have to rename "sneakernet" to "18-wheeler equivalent net"
Well, if you *could* figure out a way to turn off gravity, I'm sure the Nobel Prize committee, NASA, and a whole bunch of science fiction fans would be listening eagerly.
But if you burn hydrogen, it creates dihydrogen monoxide, a known greenhouse gas!
This is terrible!
ideally the print versions should have included one free e-Version each.
I can agree with simultaneous print-and-eBook releases. Baen's done it for over 10 years. These books should have been electronic the day they were published, instead of the publisher's snotty "I should thank they would understand that if we don't provide it, they can't have it."
DRM-free? Heck YES! DRM is a slap-in-the-face insult to every customer.
But the above statement is ridiculous. If I buy the hardcover, I still have to buy the paperback, which is NOT the same book. eBooks are no different. I still cheerfully pay for the paper copies from Baen *and* make a separate purchase for the electronic editions. Of course, Baen's the only publisher I do that for. Everybody else it's eBooks or nothing.
Unless the fuel tanks get used for that purpose.
Megaupload
Whether YOUR data is of concern to the CopyrightStaatsPolezei doesn't matter. The moment Hollywood sees some site as infringing, their allies in "our" government and elsewhere will bring it down. You may note that the many innocent users of Megaupload, including, if some reports are correct, some government agencies, STILL don't have their data back and may never get it back.
What you don't own, you don't control.
So THAT's what "pièce de résistance" means!
Unfortunately, this is news at least two thousand years old..
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." Publius Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117)
So why doesn't anybody ask about "inability to afford a copy of the law" as an excuse.
Among many others.
Because it would be a small portable heater in a confined space with every wall a rack of dresses, gowns, costume, etc. It would be very easy for our costumer, coming through laden with dresses, sewing, some costume, to miss and either trip over or, distracted by work, to shove under a rack of dresses where the heat might end up setting clothes on fire.
The light bulb hangs from the ceiling, where nobody can trip over it, provides just enough heat to keep condensation away,and it lights up the "costume shed" VERY nicely.
When the ban on incandescents was announced, my wife went out and picked up a case of bulbs.
I hate CFLs, but if she was unable to get a 60-watt incandescent she could just substitute a 70-watt CFL (200 equivalent) and get about the same level of heat.
Or a small portable heater (they make them in small 60 watt sizes).
If 70-watt CFL a: too bright and b: a toxic-waste-dump in a bottle which, if dropped in the will lead to endless consequences. Remember the woman who phoned her local government to find out how to clean up a dropped CFL and was told she had to spend several thousand dollars on hazmat cleanup/
Small portable heater in small space with flammable clothes? You are kidding, I hope.
Somehow I have the feeling that Dr. Liao sees himself as an Alpha, with lots of vegetarian Epsilons to do drudge work.
Not particularly ideal, conceded, but they are adequate in this case. Add in the fact that most of the wear and tear on incandescent bulbs is starting them up, and a bulb will last a long time if it's just left running. As a result, the bulb needs infrequent replacement, and my wife doesn't need me or a specialist to do the repairs on some expensive dehumidifier.
Remember one thing about the bulb, it also produces light, which is a very-much-desired side effect of the heating. :)
There are still good uses for incandescents, particularly in environments where the heat is a major benefit.
As an example, my wife's theater group has a detached wooden shed which is used to store costumes, wigs, etc. She keeps a 60-watt light bulb burning in that shed to keep the place warm enough that condensation and mildew aren't a problem. Since the bulb hangs in open space from the ceiling, it's a lot safer and much more efficient than any space heater, and it's also cost effective, since, as noted, it keeps mildew down.
Whether you call it Regulatory Capture, Crony Capitalism, or "The Golden Rule" (Whoever has the gold makes the rules.), it still comes down to people with decision-making authority seeing and hearing what they want to see and hear rather than paying attention to reality.
That was even before the so-called "agency" model. There were ebooks available at Fictionwise for $20 years after the paperback had been released at $6.99.
Then they opened up on their feet with a fully automatic weapon, "agency," which attempted to raise eBook prices, banned things like discounts and rebates, and generally attempted to kill eBooks by overpricing them.
They also canceled existing pre-orders at the lower prices. I had a book on order at Fictionwise I had pre-ordered at $8. They forced FW to cancel the deal and refund my money, removed the book and a lot of other ones from fictionwise, and "generously" offered me the book at $12 at either Amazon or Barnes and Noble. My eBook buying, which included buying books at ridiculous prices but getting store credit as a rebate, dropped from over $2000/year to less than $200.
When publishers start acting sane (I'm NOT counting on it) I may go back to them. In the meantime, I've never stopped buying everything Baen brings out, and loving it and them.
J. F. Bone: The Lani People (available at Project Gutenberg)
Jerry Sohl: Point Ultimate, The Transcendant Man, Costigan's Needle
Eric Frank Russell: anything he wrote
Jack Williamson: Seetee Ship, Seetee Shock
Alexis A. Gilliland: The Revolution from Rosinante, Long Shot for Rosinante, The Pirates of Rosinante
Randall Garrett: Brain Twister, The Impossibles, Supermind, Anything You Can Do, Unwise Child (all available at Project Gutenberg)
This sounds like a great tool for predicting the abilities of new recruits.
Just like the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Civil War...
No problem. I'm honored.
Javascript is a baby language for unskilled and sloppy programmers, so it'll fit right in. Javascript fagets need to learn a grown-up language. They only write in Javascript because there faget asses can't hack it in something better.
Cue trolls and linguistic snobbery. If you can get the kids et. al. interested in learning, 90% of the battle is won. The other 10% is debugging. :)
Because closer to home, like within 100,000 miles of Washington, the odds are VERY low.
Along with the claims that physical objects are copyrighted?