... Since there are no numbers in the article, it makes me wonder if this "wonderful" new medium isn't slower than molassas in seibera.
A terabyte is nice.. but not if I can only read it out of a book faster...
I recently finished a project for school where i had to use a large collection of the gutttenburg e-texts, and i'm wondering if adobe can acctully place these restrictions... the guttenberg project has one of the longest disclaimers i've ever read, it's often longer then the document they're publishing....
but more to the point, two things strike me as off, they're selling the work of a non-profit organization. What gives them a right to make a profit off this? And since we all know that it's a guttenburg etext, we can and will simply give public readings of the original guttenburg text instead of thiers....
Personally, adobe let some lawyer in on the project that hasn't the brains to write anything that could possibly stand up..
If adobe wants in on the etext "raquet" their goning to have to add some original content to the feild, merely making some-one pay for somthing they can get for free won't last long..
Icars
to get your own copy of the guttenburg e-texts go to the ftp site and you'll find the e-text directory tree
while all of this speculation about storage in sugar is nice it has very little to do with the atricle in question. The atricle is about TRANSISTORS, which are effectively switches in a micro-processor..
the huge advantage that this discovery will bring is devices that because they operate using the the state of a single atom are soo small, and draw sooo little power that will wil be able to surpass everything currently being deigned by intel and amd
I think it's important to remember that if a cd is boot able, it's not ONLY bootable, it can also be read by the cd-rom while linux is up and running and or wind0se.
At this point you can see the benifit, now it can be run on any system, regardless of os, OR run from the cd from the os in question. And think about it, how many things to you multi-task while playing TFC, SPACECRAFT, or Q3?...
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... Since there are no numbers in the article, it makes me wonder if this "wonderful" new medium isn't slower than molassas in seibera.
A terabyte is nice.. but not if I can only read it out of a book faster...
Icars
I recently finished a project for school where i had to use a large collection of the gutttenburg e-texts, and i'm wondering if adobe can acctully place these restrictions... the guttenberg project has one of the longest disclaimers i've ever read, it's often longer then the document they're publishing....
but more to the point, two things strike me as off, they're selling the work of a non-profit organization. What gives them a right to make a profit off this? And since we all know that it's a guttenburg etext, we can and will simply give public readings of the original guttenburg text instead of thiers....
Personally, adobe let some lawyer in on the project that hasn't the brains to write anything that could possibly stand up..
If adobe wants in on the etext "raquet" their goning to have to add some original content to the feild, merely making some-one pay for somthing they can get for free won't last long..
Icars
to get your own copy of the guttenburg e-texts go to the ftp site and you'll find the e-text directory tree
while all of this speculation about storage in sugar is nice it has very little to do with the atricle in question. The atricle is about TRANSISTORS, which are effectively switches in a micro-processor..
the huge advantage that this discovery will bring is devices that because they operate using the the state of a single atom are soo small, and draw sooo little power that will wil be able to surpass everything currently being deigned by intel and amd
Icars
I think it's important to remember that if a cd is boot able, it's not ONLY bootable, it can also be read by the cd-rom while linux is up and running and or wind0se.
At this point you can see the benifit, now it can be run on any system, regardless of os, OR run from the cd from the os in question. And think about it, how many things to you multi-task while playing TFC, SPACECRAFT, or Q3?...
Icars