This Author's Guild is just like arguing that librarys are bad for business because people will not buy books if they van get them from a public library, so "close all librarys!".
The used book shops and p.lib. are a way for: (1) people who don't have the money to be able to read books, (2) Get access to books already sold out, (3) To know unknown writers and make good pub to them if the book is good and probably get future (new) books from them.
So I don't see how they don't "profit" from this. I believe in the long run good authors will only profit from this.
I'm a big fan of kde and i8n contributor but I would like to have a kmail more pro, just like the evolution. I use kde with evolution, even paid the guys, because the evolution is so simple and powerfull to the lazy but demanding user like me.
My cell phone is already on my 'coins' pocket, it is really small. The only think big is the antenna and the battery. If you could also put the battaery small enough and still with a lot of power, we could have a real tiny cell phone.
I have a old Compaq with pentium II with 1 Gb hard disk. I tried to install Mandrake 8.1 there and it never run. It installed ik, but start was other story. It never started. I finally installer the rh 5 but it lacks a proper drivers so it was a poor graphic display.
We can see TV as an interactive medium also. When you see TV with more than 1 person, it will eventually turns on a conversation about what you are watching. And when you are with kids its very important to discuss the scenes they watch, see what they get from this. I don't agree with mindless TV or mindless web surfing, we are always getting something, even if it isn't "filtered" by our mind.
This is a very interesting article, not only of TV addiction theme but also because it can take us to think about a subject far more familiar to us: computer/internet addiction.
Personally I don't see much TV, I work +12 hours a day, with a computer and internet.
When I go home normally I connect to see email, journals, etc. Can we see when this as an addiction or have we changed our TV/newspapers habbits to internet habbits? In this
article
(Scientific American-"The Network in Every Room") and in this ("Setting up an All-Linux Wireless LAN
") we can see the future of computer connection in every room of our house.
Will this bring a new generation of Computer addiction, people connected 24 hours, to work, play, to socialize, etc?
Not so off-topic: I submitted this story a couple of days, and it was rejected a few monutes later, why? There is a editorial position of slashdot or it is the personal taste of the "editor du jour"?
Why do you say "only standard Office apps"? A mid--corporate bussiness nowadays has a backoffice software apps for Linux, Desktop publishing for Linux, Data-mining apps for Linux, etc. maybe you don't find it on all Linux package distributions. But it is a "easy task" to get it.
Here you've a story that is a sample of Sci.Am. coverege:
"Purdue University physicist Albert Chang and colleagues have successfully linked two so-called quantum dots such that the tiny structures could conceivably serve as qubits-switches for quantum computers that can be on, off or in a combination of states."
It's nice to know that a good team of inventive and resourcefull guys can do a test sattelitte. But the $50,000 seems to be a minus figure: minus the cost of putting it in orbit, minus the human resources, minus the grant money, minus...
br Thought, nice going folks!
It should be fair if if both processors were to use their optimum RAM types,the one they were initially designed for? The Pentium 4 was designed for RDRAM. Now they are designed for DDR rather than RDRAM.
The Athlon as a fist advantage because it is more high IPC than the P4. Memory access is certainly a factor in this.
The P4 wins ordinary benchmarks because it can use the higher bandwidth RDRAM. Other benchmarks show otherwise. See tomshardware.com.
It should be more of more interest a price/performance ratio, for the consumer point of view.
Thinking that this kind of processors will be of more use for clusters, the price/performance ratio is an issue.
They should get a grant to study this serious
problem and maybe get a solution for that. Surely it would get them a lot of funds if they get them a solution.
Seriously:
The Media Lab should probably change their focus for more "grant awarded" concerns. They had gone with the hip and money of dotcoms and know should refocus.
Being offtopic: It happend to me, and probably to a lot of peole too! Be proud, you have been rejected by slashdot!
Long life slashdot
This can be a good idea for Yahoo! if the payment include the document you are searching for. Even if Google if what I use nowadays, and don't even remember of using others, sometimes the paper I'm looking for don't exist online and have to pay to someone. So if Yahoo, guarantees the paper, great!
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I think now you will begin to see a better VC++, on the limit they will open it and converge to ANSI and ISO standards.
For MS he now is a C# expert and evangelist. Why get the good guys from C++ unless they wanted them to switch to C#?
Yes, you are right, thank you very much for your help.
Ser educado faz bem!!,/b>
Anyone knows any free-profit org to whom we can send books so they are send to people who need them? Everywhere in the world?
This Author's Guild is just like arguing that librarys are bad for business because people will not buy books if they van get them from a public library, so "close all librarys!".
The used book shops and p.lib. are a way for: (1) people who don't have the money to be able to read books, (2) Get access to books already sold out, (3) To know unknown writers and make good pub to them if the book is good and probably get future (new) books from them.
So I don't see how they don't "profit" from this. I believe in the long run good authors will only profit from this.
Do you have coded for this? What is your experience with that?
Should I switch to that now?
I'm a big fan of kde and i8n contributor but I would like to have a kmail more pro, just like the evolution. I use kde with evolution, even paid the guys, because the evolution is so simple and powerfull to the lazy but demanding user like me.
''But this is science. We're not like politicians. If we make mistakes, we admit them. That's how science works.''
:-))
This is brillant (sorry beige...
My cell phone is already on my 'coins' pocket, it is really small. The only think big is the antenna and the battery. If you could also put the battaery small enough and still with a lot of power, we could have a real tiny cell phone.
that could prevent the increase of radiation on cell phones? A major problem with them.
Does anyone knows if this bug is out?
I have the IHT frontpage as my homepage. Most of the times, 70-80%, mozilla will crash.
THe Mozilla ID:
Mozilla 0.9.7
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
I tried and had the same result than Mandrake 8.1, (RH 7.2 has the same behaviour than Mandrake 8.1).
I have a old Compaq with pentium II with 1 Gb hard disk. I tried to install Mandrake 8.1 there and it never run. It installed ik, but start was other story. It never started. I finally installer the rh 5 but it lacks a proper drivers so it was a poor graphic display.
We can see TV as an interactive medium also. When you see TV with more than 1 person, it will eventually turns on a conversation about what you are watching. And when you are with kids its very important to discuss the scenes they watch, see what they get from this. I don't agree with mindless TV or mindless web surfing, we are always getting something, even if it isn't "filtered" by our mind.
Personally I don't see much TV, I work +12 hours a day, with a computer and internet.
When I go home normally I connect to see email, journals, etc. Can we see when this as an addiction or have we changed our TV/newspapers habbits to internet habbits? In this
article
(Scientific American-"The Network in Every Room") and in this ("Setting up an All-Linux Wireless LAN
") we can see the future of computer connection in every room of our house.
Will this bring a new generation of Computer addiction, people connected 24 hours, to work, play, to socialize, etc?
Not so off-topic: I submitted this story a couple of days, and it was rejected a few monutes later, why? There is a editorial position of slashdot or it is the personal taste of the "editor du jour"?
Why do you say "only standard Office apps"? A mid--corporate bussiness nowadays has a backoffice software apps for Linux, Desktop publishing for Linux, Data-mining apps for Linux, etc. maybe you don't find it on all Linux package distributions. But it is a "easy task" to get it.
An Scientific American article sthat is valued lecture by K. Eric Drexler on "Machine-Phase Nanotechnology: A molecular nanotechnology pioneer predicts that the tiniest robots will revolutionize manufacturing and transform society".
Here you've a story that is a sample of Sci.Am. coverege:
"Purdue University physicist Albert Chang and colleagues have successfully linked two so-called quantum dots such that the tiny structures could conceivably serve as qubits-switches for quantum computers that can be on, off or in a combination of states."
Also you can see more about nanotech here
Here you can see a report on what we can learn from nature when building small.
(When I proposed a similar story...in November it was rejected, because(??) it was basead on a Scientific American)
It's nice to know that a good team of inventive and resourcefull guys can do a test sattelitte. But the $50,000 seems to be a minus figure: minus the cost of putting it in orbit, minus the human resources, minus the grant money, minus ...
br Thought, nice going folks!
It should be fair if if both processors were to use their optimum RAM types,the one they were initially designed for? The Pentium 4 was designed for RDRAM. Now they are designed for DDR rather than RDRAM.
The Athlon as a fist advantage because it is more high IPC than the P4. Memory access is certainly a factor in this.
The P4 wins ordinary benchmarks because it can use the higher bandwidth RDRAM. Other benchmarks show otherwise. See tomshardware.com.
It should be more of more interest a price/performance ratio, for the consumer point of view.
Thinking that this kind of processors will be of more use for clusters, the price/performance ratio is an issue.
Athlon XP? Xp from Windows XP - the 1st chip sponsored by Microsoft!!! Brilhant!!!
:-))
Intel should be changing is chip's name to Redmond.
Now MS can buy Microsoft.tv to sell its XBox.
They should get a grant to study this serious
problem and maybe get a solution for that. Surely it would get them a lot of funds if they get them a solution.
Seriously:
The Media Lab should probably change their focus for more "grant awarded" concerns. They had gone with the hip and money of dotcoms and know should refocus.
Being offtopic: It happend to me, and probably to a lot of peole too! Be proud, you have been rejected by slashdot!
Long life slashdot
This can be a good idea for Yahoo! if the payment include the document you are searching for. Even if Google if what I use nowadays, and don't even remember of using others, sometimes the paper I'm looking for don't exist online and have to pay to someone. So if Yahoo, guarantees the paper, great!
Remember the same bad talk about the videogames rooms a couple of years ago. Probably it was the same with the pool rooms before, and....
People don't learn with the past, dont't they?
So, they are not gov they are only a corporation with huge privelegies, and still losing market.