A penny per page? I'm wondering how many dollars I would spend in the average day. Especially, if as some have already commented, sites start splitting up information into multiple pages as a way to increase revenue.
And hey, is the front page of any site going to be free, with a warning that clicking on any links will lead to that charge, or am I just flat-out charged for any access? What happens if I hit the wrong bookmark?
There's a reason this is still vaporous. There are so many unanswered questions, and so many unpalatable pieces of the scheme that it's not anywhere close to where the masses will accept it. A penny per page is pretty damned high, seeing as how the cost to produce and serve a single page is so low, and the page, once produced, can be served an infinite number of times.
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Nice. Sums up many of my feelings about NASA and humans and space, and I'm old enough to remember lunar landings.
Fund NASA, let them continue to do research and exploration, both robotically, and with humans. Funding is not near the issue people^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians make it out to be. The few billion NASA gets each year is a miniscule portion of our national budget. Vastly more gets squandered in pork projects. More gets sent overseas in the form of 'aid' and 'loans' to countries that hate us anyway. How about giving ourselves that 'aid' in the form of larger NASA budgets?
However, I think it's high time we stripped NASA of total jurisdiction over our access to space! While NASA explores and researches, let's let commercial groups start getting some return on the investments. A commercial space station to foster tourism, and act as a staging platform. Robotic lunar or asteroid mining. Hell, why not a hotel on Luna? I hope they find someone more open and forward thinking to manage NASA as Goldin steps down. The way NASA is going, I'll never make it into space.:-(
Sounds good in theory. What about the EULA in most software? Have you ever signed a EULA? Me either. In fact, now that UCITA is here, you don't even have to click, you just have to open the package, which you usually have to do before you get to the EULA to even know what it says.
Can you imagine spending 9 hours in one of those suits?! They can't be all that comfortable.
So they spent the last two hours in the airlock, they were still in the suits and unable to deal with such niceties as food or potty breaks.
About halfway through, I'd get really hungry for some nice solid food and a beverage or two. And the sanitary facilities.... Sheesh! Better go before you get dressed!
They will pull out their unarguable trump: It appears that way because God created it that way. God also created the fossils and everything else that makes it appear that evolution happened.
Me, I'm wondering if maybe David Brin was writing SF, or maybe he's on to the real story, Uplift!:-)
In a home user world, sure, you can pick your OS and then install whatever software yu want/can get to work.
The business world is a different matter. The rule of thumb in business is that you specify and purchase your software that you need to do your job FIRST, and then install the OS you need to run the software.
If Linux is to survive in the business world, there needs to be a shift in thinking away from the 'OS first' model. On the other hand, verndors need to be absolutely specific as to what target they built their applications, so you have some idea what you need before purchasing.
As a GroupWise admin, I say it's about time Linux got a groupware solution. It's not about Outlook or Exchange or even more basically the integration of those components within Linux, as many have discussed before.
If Linux is to ve a viable business platform, then Linux needs the tools to allow users to communicate and collaborate. This is the purpose of groupware. If Linux is to survive as other than a niche product (albeit a large niche), then it needs to survive in business. Hence the need for a groupware solution.
Frankly, it'd be nice if the Linux solution worked and played well with others (GroupWise, please?), but there is a need for this application. The only part I would want it to NOT work well with others (Exchange/Outlook) is in propagation of viruses!
This new nuclear space fuel is rare. Therefore, expensive. Will the cost be lower than current fuels? Can we develop a method of obtaining/creating AM-242m that is less expensive? In addition to the cost of the fuel, you might also figure in the cost to get it into Earth orbit, as I doubt you'd want to launch this thing from within the atmosphere.
Here's another kicker: Can we find/make AM-242m at our destination(s), or must we carry along enough for the round trip? If we can make it out there, we can make the trip even cheaper by not carrying as much fuel. Asteroid mining, anyone?
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A penny per page? I'm wondering how many dollars I would spend in the average day. Especially, if as some have already commented, sites start splitting up information into multiple pages as a way to increase revenue.
And hey, is the front page of any site going to be free, with a warning that clicking on any links will lead to that charge, or am I just flat-out charged for any access? What happens if I hit the wrong bookmark?
There's a reason this is still vaporous. There are so many unanswered questions, and so many unpalatable pieces of the scheme that it's not anywhere close to where the masses will accept it. A penny per page is pretty damned high, seeing as how the cost to produce and serve a single page is so low, and the page, once produced, can be served an infinite number of times.
Nice. Sums up many of my feelings about NASA and humans and space, and I'm old enough to remember lunar landings.
:-(
Fund NASA, let them continue to do research and exploration, both robotically, and with humans. Funding is not near the issue people^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians make it out to be. The few billion NASA gets each year is a miniscule portion of our national budget. Vastly more gets squandered in pork projects. More gets sent overseas in the form of 'aid' and 'loans' to countries that hate us anyway. How about giving ourselves that 'aid' in the form of larger NASA budgets?
However, I think it's high time we stripped NASA of total jurisdiction over our access to space! While NASA explores and researches, let's let commercial groups start getting some return on the investments. A commercial space station to foster tourism, and act as a staging platform. Robotic lunar or asteroid mining. Hell, why not a hotel on Luna? I hope they find someone more open and forward thinking to manage NASA as Goldin steps down. The way NASA is going, I'll never make it into space.
Sounds good in theory. What about the EULA in most software? Have you ever signed a EULA? Me either. In fact, now that UCITA is here, you don't even have to click, you just have to open the package, which you usually have to do before you get to the EULA to even know what it says.
The one thing I haven't seen answered here is whether holey fiber is better for the digestive tract than regular fiber...
Can you imagine spending 9 hours in one of those suits?! They can't be all that comfortable.
So they spent the last two hours in the airlock, they were still in the suits and unable to deal with such niceties as food or potty breaks. About halfway through, I'd get really hungry for some nice solid food and a beverage or two. And the sanitary facilities.... Sheesh! Better go before you get dressed!
Now, not only will I have to wear my tinfoil hat, but I gotta start wearing the tinfoil longjohns as well...
They will pull out their unarguable trump: It appears that way because God created it that way. God also created the fossils and everything else that makes it appear that evolution happened.
:-)
Me, I'm wondering if maybe David Brin was writing SF, or maybe he's on to the real story, Uplift!
In a home user world, sure, you can pick your OS and then install whatever software yu want/can get to work.
The business world is a different matter. The rule of thumb in business is that you specify and purchase your software that you need to do your job FIRST, and then install the OS you need to run the software.
If Linux is to survive in the business world, there needs to be a shift in thinking away from the 'OS first' model. On the other hand, verndors need to be absolutely specific as to what target they built their applications, so you have some idea what you need before purchasing.
As a GroupWise admin, I say it's about time Linux got a groupware solution. It's not about Outlook or Exchange or even more basically the integration of those components within Linux, as many have discussed before.
If Linux is to ve a viable business platform, then Linux needs the tools to allow users to communicate and collaborate. This is the purpose of groupware. If Linux is to survive as other than a niche product (albeit a large niche), then it needs to survive in business. Hence the need for a groupware solution.
Frankly, it'd be nice if the Linux solution worked and played well with others (GroupWise, please?), but there is a need for this application. The only part I would want it to NOT work well with others (Exchange/Outlook) is in propagation of viruses!
This new nuclear space fuel is rare. Therefore, expensive. Will the cost be lower than current fuels? Can we develop a method of obtaining/creating AM-242m that is less expensive? In addition to the cost of the fuel, you might also figure in the cost to get it into Earth orbit, as I doubt you'd want to launch this thing from within the atmosphere.
Here's another kicker: Can we find/make AM-242m at our destination(s), or must we carry along enough for the round trip? If we can make it out there, we can make the trip even cheaper by not carrying as much fuel. Asteroid mining, anyone?