In a demonstration of technology that could REALLY revolutionize the publishing industry and help KILL-OFF the nascent eBook market, I am today announcing that Project Guttenburg is offering Agatha Christie's classic mystery "Mysterious Affair At Styles: Poirot's First Case" in a special untime-based no permit necessary edition.
Read it HERE for free and keep it as long as you want.
> A year ago, Katz was prattling on about how 15 year olds were going to take over the world and change everything, upend the media, and so on. Now he's refuting this guy who is saying the same thing
>Actually, of all those, the mobile phone is the only one that's really "here". I can't point to any sci-fi novel and say "They have better mobile phones than us".
Yeah, right...
"Spock! Beam us up! We are trapped in the tunnel, dying from the Xenite Gas down here"
"Captain? *Phzzzt* I'm losing you? *chchchchch* Bee must what? Captain? Hello? Hello?"
"Spock, can you hear me? I said 'BEAM US UP!'"
"Captain, call me back when you are out of the tunnel..."
>i feel outdated that my chip is.18 micron.
Don't feel bad... my "chip" is only 4"
Oh God... you're all talking about microprocessors... I thought you were talking about... I'm so embarrassed...
Tim Burton is planning on releasing a new "imagining" of SpaceWar. He has revealed that it will not be the same game, but will retain the spirit of the original. The original SpaceWar vector graphics will have a small cameo in the new game. Insiders say the new game has several alternate endings, none of which make any sense whatsoever.
The difference is you didn't want to fork over $50 to EACH vendor not knowing if you would ever use that much of that SINGLE vendor's services.
The arrangement I described has a network of THOUSANDS of vendors you can spend your $10 on in tiny increments.
It would be much more palatable if you forked over $10 and then could go to ANY asian video rental store OR Blockbuster OR a bookstore OR a music store OR a video game arcade... etc...
Your whole argument assumes that micropayments are just very small credit card transactions. Of course that wouldn't work. Micropayments have to be a NEW method of handling a transaction. Here's an example. Feel free to make this into a revolutionary new industry, just buy me a motorcycle if you get rich off it:
Users sign up and put $10 on deposit in their debit account. They can send check or use a credit card, or send cash, or trade $10 worth of chickens.
Users go to any of thousands of 'content providers' who debit a microamount from one hundredth of a penny to one dollar for viewing the content. This debit occurs unobtrusively, with just a little icon showing the scale of the payment (ie: hundredths, tenths, pennies, or dimes). Eventually when the users account drops too low, they are automatically billed for another $10, or an email is sent asking for more according to their preferences.
The MicroPayment company is dealing in $10 transactions, which work with credit card companies and checks. The transaction charge is a large percentage like 5% of very small transactions like 5% of $.001 - so en masse the Micropayment company makes money. The content provider makes money. The user spends very little money - just enough to keep the content coming.
Well, I just checked and they do give credit in the very first paragraph. Either you didn't read carefully or they read your comment and revised their web site in the FOUR MINUTES since you posted. Wow! That's on the ball!:-)
When we got sick of being online, it was late night games of assassin. The whole spine was in-bounds from Knox to Slee.
(just how many UBers are here?!)
The aliens used radio communication for a very brief period, then found too many security holes. They all use cable modems now.
Seriously, it's not inconceivable that all of our communication (voice, video, etc) will be carried over global fiber or some even better undiscovered method in 50 years, leaving only a very brief window that we were transmitting to the universe.
-Move 'zig' for great justice!
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> Steel doesn't want to be free... people want steel to be free.
No... no... I think it's "People want to steal things that aren't free"
Read it HERE for free and keep it as long as you want.
It's simple. Kats turned 16.
Yeah, right...
"Spock! Beam us up! We are trapped in the tunnel, dying from the Xenite Gas down here"
"Captain? *Phzzzt* I'm losing you? *chchchchch* Bee must what? Captain? Hello? Hello?"
"Spock, can you hear me? I said 'BEAM US UP!'"
"Captain, call me back when you are out of the tunnel..."
Don't feel bad... my "chip" is only 4"
Oh God... you're all talking about microprocessors... I thought you were talking about... I'm so embarrassed...
Insiders say the new game has several alternate endings, none of which make any sense whatsoever.
Your whole argument assumes that micropayments are just very small credit card transactions. Of course that wouldn't work. Micropayments have to be a NEW method of handling a transaction. Here's an example. Feel free to make this into a revolutionary new industry, just buy me a motorcycle if you get rich off it:
Users sign up and put $10 on deposit in their debit account. They can send check or use a credit card, or send cash, or trade $10 worth of chickens.
Users go to any of thousands of 'content providers' who debit a microamount from one hundredth of a penny to one dollar for viewing the content. This debit occurs unobtrusively, with just a little icon showing the scale of the payment (ie: hundredths, tenths, pennies, or dimes). Eventually when the users account drops too low, they are automatically billed for another $10, or an email is sent asking for more according to their preferences.
The MicroPayment company is dealing in $10 transactions, which work with credit card companies and checks. The transaction charge is a large percentage like 5% of very small transactions like 5% of $.001 - so en masse the Micropayment company makes money. The content provider makes money. The user spends very little money - just enough to keep the content coming.
Well, I just checked and they do give credit in the very first paragraph. Either you didn't read carefully or they read your comment and revised their web site in the FOUR MINUTES since you posted. Wow! That's on the ball! :-)
http://dmoz.org/socialcontract.html first paragraph: [...] inspired by, derived from, the Debian Social Contract [...]
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When we got sick of being online, it was late night games of assassin. The whole spine was in-bounds from Knox to Slee. (just how many UBers are here?!)
I tried watercooling my PC, but I got all kinds of sparks and fried the motherboard.
I think I used too much water.
Next time I'll just pour a little bit at a time.
I can just see it now... when I feel like playing a few games with my Japanese freinds I'll just ask them to "Set up us the 'place t Shaun 2'"!
The aliens used radio communication for a very brief period, then found too many security holes. They all use cable modems now. Seriously, it's not inconceivable that all of our communication (voice, video, etc) will be carried over global fiber or some even better undiscovered method in 50 years, leaving only a very brief window that we were transmitting to the universe. -Move 'zig' for great justice!