Libraries pay for books. And Amazon gets advertisement just from having their products used, but doesn't necessarily have to say "Go buy our book!"
Although it does not seem inconsistent with library policies not to endorse, at least no more so than selling a regular book is, because regular books have advertisements by other books by the author, etc...--some older books [and magazines] even have order forms in them.
I tried to untangle that double negative phrase.. but anyway.. consider this: You own a bookstore. Your local library, which you fund through taxes, has advertisements for Amazon popping up all over. Pissed, yet?
Libraries, as public entities, should show no favoritism or grant preferential placement/access to resources influenced by a directly related private business.
If the local painter wants to give the library a reduced rate on redecorating for the placement of a placard indicating the fine (or shoddy) work was performed by Local Painter, that's one thing, as it does not directly affect access to books/periodicals.
If you have to have an Amazon account to checkout ebooks on a kindle, that's a barrier. If the books include advertising for Amazon and their offerings of books, that is also a barrier.
Fisherman were bringing up amphorae in their nets off the coast of Brazil - remains of a mediterranean trading ship, from hundreds of years before discovery of the New World were found, but before an archaelogical expedition could get underway the Brazilian Navy encircled the site and covered it with dredgings. Allegedly to protect the site before an official study could be made of the site, but another reason appears to be behind the move - Brazil was discovered by Cabral, not somebody earlier and the government won't hear of any of it - so it's dead and buried.
I get old, cheap hardware. Lots of it available. Install Linux on it and do what I want with it. If it breaks I can get replacements for next to nothing.
I'm not exactly the Department of Energy.
You can also find some really neat stuff to work with old hardware in salvage sales - Data Acquisition stuff, cameras, etc.
Don't write off the old stuff, not unless you actually need a super computer for something.
Yep, he's the only guy that makes any sense. The two entrenched parties can only shoot holes in his ideas, but NEVER can come up with plans or their own. Of course, he won't get elected.
Ironically, the last president to reduce the size of the federal government was Clinton (he really was a fiscal conservative) -- don't slash entire departments, pare them back, look for redundancy or those pesky things which were created but have now taken on a life of their own because their original directive has passed or become moot.
Robots have done great with Mars. The cost to any space program of an astronaut being supported all the way out and back is staggering - let alone if something should happen to him/her.
Besides, we can send dozens of robots for the cost of development and embarking on a single manned mission.
No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
Yeah, with the Chinese or Indians or someone else who cares taking a lead in all these fields.
Either that, or the unshown card on the table says , "Let Private Industry Do It All"
Google are loading the search results with service, news, merchandising, amazon, etc, where I'd like to find information. Becoming increasingly annoying as I'm not finding what I want but a lot of junk I don't want to wade through.
I think Hammer's a little slow on the uptake if he hasn't seen this trend.
Another opportunity for Microsoft to sit on their hands, like they did with Yahoo? Do nothing and watch Google throttle themselves and drive users away with crappy search results.
Considering the way the Australian government casually seems to strip people of their rights, they'll probably still find a lot of support in Canberra.
I don't try to understand the government in Australia.. so strange.
I get the impression Ballmer hasn't even used an Android phone. Exactly what part of the OS is complicated to use? Really, that's just an absurd, out-there statement.
Factoid: A statement, which isn't necessarily true, repeated often enough becomes accepted as fact.
I think this is what Ballmer has been coasting along on for the past few years. Microsoft has become the less fashionable technology company, plodding along while Google came out of nowhere to dominate Web Searches and Apple rose from the dead to set the present style of Smart-phones. All this while Microsoft did what, carve out a valued chuck of the video console market?
Imagine being able to legally work on producing the software to do this. Not just legally- but with the backing of the government.... no, I do not condone it...... but it would be fascinating to work on.:)
Imagine a world where a government employs such devious means...
Then imagine a world where the government kicks down your door because your detected their worm and quarantined it - which makes you a person of interest.
And who knows, while Samsung work to avoid IP pitfalls they may have (and likely have done) developed their own technology and patents which could trip up Apple in the long run.
Not only "said". Many felt the entire action of acquiring Yahoo wasn't a good idea and if Ballmer got his way MS would have been poorer and worse off. I think the deal would have been 50:50 cash and stock so MS would have put in $22B.
They could have still made something of it. Yahoo has been a mess for years and simply bringing some sense of order to the site wouldn't hurt.
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Libraries pay for books. And Amazon gets advertisement just from having their products used, but doesn't necessarily have to say "Go buy our book!"
Although it does not seem inconsistent with library policies not to endorse, at least no more so than selling a regular book is, because regular books have advertisements by other books by the author, etc...--some older books [and magazines] even have order forms in them.
I tried to untangle that double negative phrase .. but anyway .. consider this: You own a bookstore. Your local library, which you fund through taxes, has advertisements for Amazon popping up all over. Pissed, yet?
Libraries, as public entities, should show no favoritism or grant preferential placement/access to resources influenced by a directly related private business.
If the local painter wants to give the library a reduced rate on redecorating for the placement of a placard indicating the fine (or shoddy) work was performed by Local Painter, that's one thing, as it does not directly affect access to books/periodicals.
If you have to have an Amazon account to checkout ebooks on a kindle, that's a barrier. If the books include advertising for Amazon and their offerings of books, that is also a barrier.
Fisherman were bringing up amphorae in their nets off the coast of Brazil - remains of a mediterranean trading ship, from hundreds of years before discovery of the New World were found, but before an archaelogical expedition could get underway the Brazilian Navy encircled the site and covered it with dredgings. Allegedly to protect the site before an official study could be made of the site, but another reason appears to be behind the move - Brazil was discovered by Cabral, not somebody earlier and the government won't hear of any of it - so it's dead and buried.
Politics. :-\
I get old, cheap hardware. Lots of it available. Install Linux on it and do what I want with it. If it breaks I can get replacements for next to nothing.
I'm not exactly the Department of Energy.
You can also find some really neat stuff to work with old hardware in salvage sales - Data Acquisition stuff, cameras, etc.
Don't write off the old stuff, not unless you actually need a super computer for something.
Yep, he's the only guy that makes any sense. The two entrenched parties can only shoot holes in his ideas, but NEVER can come up with plans or their own. Of course, he won't get elected.
Ironically, the last president to reduce the size of the federal government was Clinton (he really was a fiscal conservative) -- don't slash entire departments, pare them back, look for redundancy or those pesky things which were created but have now taken on a life of their own because their original directive has passed or become moot.
And should we spend it in the first place?
To ensure space is safe for democracy. :P
Robots have done great with Mars. The cost to any space program of an astronaut being supported all the way out and back is staggering - let alone if something should happen to him/her.
Besides, we can send dozens of robots for the cost of development and embarking on a single manned mission.
No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
Yeah, with the Chinese or Indians or someone else who cares taking a lead in all these fields.
Either that, or the unshown card on the table says , "Let Private Industry Do It All"
Google are loading the search results with service, news, merchandising, amazon, etc, where I'd like to find information. Becoming increasingly annoying as I'm not finding what I want but a lot of junk I don't want to wade through.
I think Hammer's a little slow on the uptake if he hasn't seen this trend.
Another opportunity for Microsoft to sit on their hands, like they did with Yahoo? Do nothing and watch Google throttle themselves and drive users away with crappy search results.
Considering the way the Australian government casually seems to strip people of their rights, they'll probably still find a lot of support in Canberra.
I don't try to understand the government in Australia .. so strange.
You've let your government destroy lives and waste money sponsoring another pointless war to serve the interests of a powerful few.
Mission accomplished. Let the pillaging begin!
Their first headache is going to be disarming all the little militias which are armed to the teeth and accountable to nobody.
Can't say that's a pretty picture.
I get the impression Ballmer hasn't even used an Android phone. Exactly what part of the OS is complicated to use? Really, that's just an absurd, out-there statement.
Factoid: A statement, which isn't necessarily true, repeated often enough becomes accepted as fact.
I think this is what Ballmer has been coasting along on for the past few years. Microsoft has become the less fashionable technology company, plodding along while Google came out of nowhere to dominate Web Searches and Apple rose from the dead to set the present style of Smart-phones. All this while Microsoft did what, carve out a valued chuck of the video console market?
If Siri gets connected to your gps navigation app... well, just don't do anything to piss Siri off.
"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning."
oh, the beauty of closed technology... decades of software development and we still have to beg permission for the big guys to let us use the toys...
Only in Apple's and Microsoft's worlds.
Nobody is forcing you to use their tools, are they?
Sent from my iBrain Implant
"Siri, turn off microphone". "Siri. Siri? SIRI?!"
Okay, maybe put in a fail-safe.
Ah, the fun the medi-uh could have with people careless enough to leave it on...
"And then I told him, the guy can _____ his own ____ and the ____ horse he rode in on!"
Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect?
Did anybody stop to ask what Siri wants?
Pending outcome of lawsuits, Siri doesn't get what Siri wants.
Sorry.
If I swear at it then it can actually damn itself?
The possibilities...are imaginable.
Not to run Windows.
Or to allow someone to install "updates" to your computer who goes by the name S. Tazi or Gus Tappo.
They released a picture of it. Looks pretty sweet.
But it may still infringe on Apple's "Physical object with an ability to dial a number" patent.
IANAL, but I think trying to avoid a legal battle with Apple, also violates one of their patents.
And making fun of Apple is also a violation of some patent...
Vee haf vays of monitoring yur messages!
In Soviet Germany ... wait, what?!?
Imagine being able to legally work on producing the software to do this. Not just legally- but with the backing of the government. ... no, I do not condone it... ... but it would be fascinating to work on. :)
Imagine a world where a government employs such devious means...
Then imagine a world where the government kicks down your door because your detected their worm and quarantined it - which makes you a person of interest.
Not innovation, just needless small alterations to an over all design.
Ah, but there's been great legal innovations as a result - behold The iSuit!
Samsung is ramping up their hires of lawyers .. Honestly, this is the sort of junk between companies which killed Ashton Tate and dBase
And who knows, while Samsung work to avoid IP pitfalls they may have (and likely have done) developed their own technology and patents which could trip up Apple in the long run.
Not only "said". Many felt the entire action of acquiring Yahoo wasn't a good idea and if Ballmer got his way MS would have been poorer and worse off. I think the deal would have been 50:50 cash and stock so MS would have put in $22B.
They could have still made something of it. Yahoo has been a mess for years and simply bringing some sense of order to the site wouldn't hurt.
Then I wished for some kind of ".nocrap.com" site that only allowed pre-checked websites that were guaranteed not to contain crap
Just do a "ask /." question like everyone else..
"Dear slashdot I'm looking for a ..."
Dear Slashdot, neighbor has released wild animals - lions and tigers and bears, oh my - how do I protect myself?
Yeah, I'll get a reply just as the vultures have moved in to pick my bones clean. Not quite timely enough, I'm afraid, though /. does have its uses.
This is what you call a Hack
Is anyone in the medi-uh listening?