Does this mean it’s easier for someone to violate my copyright? It does. But most people don’t want to violate my copyright. Most people just want to own their damn books. Now they will. I support that. And I believe that most readers who like my work will support me. They get that if I don’t get paid, they won’t get books — and more than that I really do believe most people who can support the artists whose work they like will support them. So personally I don’t think ditching DRM will mean people will stop buying what I and Tor have to sell.
When Tor first got their site going a few years ago, they put all these eBooks for free. I downloaded a bunch of them, got introduced to some cool authors and got back into buying books, both e and hardcopy.
Same goes for movies and films. Sure, I can easily find any film or song out there but I purchase my stuff from Amazon and iTunes. All my friends (40-60 year olds) are the same way. Maybe I'm too old to be cool and scrape the web?
It's all about style over substance. Why do you think Apple's doing so ell, selling half-assed stuff for twice what real tech costs, to clueless losers who can't even be bothered to check their slash dot posts for iPad fark before posting?
Exactly! Someone on the internets has said this won't work so these stupid billionaire guys should go back to buying big houses and throwing fancy parties. Unless something is 100% guaranteed to succeed and all potential losses are covered by the government, youre a mental defective to even consider trying to do something new. The world belongs to the timid and craven man who never takes chances.
Exactly? Want to be remembered for something cool? Fund new space stuff. If the WG III carries the first people to Mars, people may finally forget about Clippy.
At my work, we use CS majors to design and provide Tier 4 support for distributed computing systems on our multi-node clusters as well as code new software apps to run simulations and visualizing of data. With several 10k+ core systems and thousands of users, we keep these guys busy. But still, if the University system backs away from CS and engineering type of degrees, I'm sure we'll be able to offshore this kind of work and keep America competitive. At least, by the time that happens, those currently in charge will have grabbed their golden parachutes and will be drinking mai-tais on the beaches of Dubai.
Yup, computers for business majors. Just enough theory so that they can be put in charge of an IT shop and require weekly status updates and ways to capture employee progress for their yearly reviews.
If they stop offering a CS degree, think how much easier it'll be to administer the school. Besides, how many people with CS degrees do you really ever run into, if you're on the admin/money side of things at a university. Come to think of it, most of those weird math/science/research guys are not cool to hang with and they're mostly lib'ruls as well. Can't spell lib'rul with out soocialist in there somewhere. Might be best to get rid of all those weird departments, along with the screechy Lit/history/sociologists people as well. They're always looking down at us MBA'ers and Coaches. If only they could have a school that taught business, sports, and construction trades, man, that'd be just grate!
Yup, and this is where ITSM is heading; IT needs to view their plans and activities in light of business needs and objectives. And they need to know how to talk the talk of the business strategists. With the right analysis of things, IT can show how it's generating/saving income for the company but too often, this isn't done. Business people want numbers so give 'me numbers.
Slashdot Mirror
Pitman or.. that weird English stuff?
--John Scalzi,
Tor/Forge To Go DRM Free by July
When Tor first got their site going a few years ago, they put all these eBooks for free. I downloaded a bunch of them, got introduced to some cool authors and got back into buying books, both e and hardcopy.
Same goes for movies and films. Sure, I can easily find any film or song out there but I purchase my stuff from Amazon and iTunes. All my friends (40-60 year olds) are the same way. Maybe I'm too old to be cool and scrape the web?
It's all about style over substance. Why do you think Apple's doing so ell, selling half-assed stuff for twice what real tech costs, to clueless losers who can't even be bothered to check their slash dot posts for iPad fark before posting?
They might send up the Space Cops.
Look what the did to Europe!
Yup, never try anything new, it'll most likely fail and anonymous people on teh internets will point and laugh. /Eeyore the Donkey voice
Exactly! Someone on the internets has said this won't work so these stupid billionaire guys should go back to buying big houses and throwing fancy parties. Unless something is 100% guaranteed to succeed and all potential losses are covered by the government, youre a mental defective to even consider trying to do something new. The world belongs to the timid and craven man who never takes chances.
Set up your own govt out there, run things, ensure your decedents are the ones off planet, etc. lots of stuff to achieve other than 12% ROI.
Yeah, but for some people, it's more fun to play the casino on Wall St. or in Londontown.
Exactly? Want to be remembered for something cool? Fund new space stuff. If the WG III carries the first people to Mars, people may finally forget about Clippy.
"a" not "i".
You forgot Hyper-Monkee. And are rogue 'roiders led by Christopher Walken, still pissed that the Rock messed up his gold mine on Earth?
*golf clap*
They'll be needed on the B-Ark.
Ahm too old to remember stuff but the green bars on the subject lines look the same.
At my work, we use CS majors to design and provide Tier 4 support for distributed computing systems on our multi-node clusters as well as code new software apps to run simulations and visualizing of data. With several 10k+ core systems and thousands of users, we keep these guys busy. But still, if the University system backs away from CS and engineering type of degrees, I'm sure we'll be able to offshore this kind of work and keep America competitive. At least, by the time that happens, those currently in charge will have grabbed their golden parachutes and will be drinking mai-tais on the beaches of Dubai.
Yup, computers for business majors. Just enough theory so that they can be put in charge of an IT shop and require weekly status updates and ways to capture employee progress for their yearly reviews.
If they stop offering a CS degree, think how much easier it'll be to administer the school. Besides, how many people with CS degrees do you really ever run into, if you're on the admin/money side of things at a university. Come to think of it, most of those weird math/science/research guys are not cool to hang with and they're mostly lib'ruls as well. Can't spell lib'rul with out soocialist in there somewhere. Might be best to get rid of all those weird departments, along with the screechy Lit/history/sociologists people as well. They're always looking down at us MBA'ers and Coaches. If only they could have a school that taught business, sports, and construction trades, man, that'd be just grate!
Publix is the FOSS advocate group equivalent in France?
Yeah but soon you have hemi-demi-semi-quiver neutral ++good archers and such.
Yup, and this is where ITSM is heading; IT needs to view their plans and activities in light of business needs and objectives. And they need to know how to talk the talk of the business strategists. With the right analysis of things, IT can show how it's generating/saving income for the company but too often, this isn't done. Business people want numbers so give 'me numbers.
*golf clap*
Wet co-eds who like science!
Sure.
Older cars had a mechanical fuel pump. If you were smart, you upgraded the distributor and got a rev-limiter on there.