Nah, I don't have the numbers you want. Most analysis goes towards words. For instance, I would recognized that Dvorak generally isn't optimal for coding c and c style langages either although I use lisp mostly and in that, Qwerty & Dvorak are identical, as it would be for the space, a, enter, and keypad keys.
The point of dvorak is not typing speed, but keeping your hands on the home row as much as possible. I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
Also, with the ease of changing it in most OSes, I don't think it's anything but personal choice anymore.
I would think, in the future, typing becomes less important anyway. Sorry about the neo links, there used to be good mathematical analysis in english, but it seems the entire site it was on is away. However, it seems to have gained a lot of traction in the German speaking world considering it had next to nothing on the web about it just several years back and was invented in the 2000s.
Try a good sized Lowes. My HD has no variety, while at a good sized Lowes they do. Found some excellent bright candelabra lights there by Sylvania at 13w each (usually 3w-9w, so this was unusual) and their supplied 150watt equivalent (40w) CFL by sylvania was the nearly half the size of similiar rated ones by Walmart and Home Depot.
Then there is something seriously wrong with your wiring or the bulbs you buy. The claims are sometimes overdone on the packaging, but it was much worse back in 2001 than now. Also, some manufacturers are more reliable than others (feit electric at Costco and Sylvania at lowes, other places, seem to be good for certain models). The Walmart brand Great Value seems to be horrible, at least in my experience.
I've had enclosed Par 38 CFLs (23w) die on me with some regularity although it has gotten a little better the last year. OTOH the enclosed Par 20 (13w CFL) have been absolutely solid since 2004, after a bad first run.
My longest lasting lights about 10 regular 13 watters --60w equivalent-- enclosed exterior ones. They started in all temps from (-5F to 100F). They used to be dusk to dawn for the first 3 years, so I guess 12 hours a day on average through the year, then the solar cell went bad on several 2 3-lamp posts and so 6 lights were running continuously for about a year (busy year). When I fixed that, put a timer in to start at dusk and turn off rougly midnight.
Through those 6 years, about 5 lights went bad. Keep in mind, they were running around probably 4,380 hrs a year. One year it was the max 8,760 with no breaks. And now, it's down to 2,190. This is probably due to them being on for extended periods and not constantly switched on and off which wears on a ballast and kills the shoddy ballasts fast.
CFLs are a type of fluorescents, and if the ballast is shoddy, you can forget it. Also had to replace every fluorescent ballast in a section of newly constructed office space once as one in an entire row (same manufacturer) went bad one at a time in a short period. Doesn't meant fluorescent tech is bad, means it was either a bad manufacturer or bad run. BTW, there can be bad fluorescent tubes as well, Philips seems to be good while the much cheaper Sylvania contractor packs are shit.
Just how it goes. Go to some CFL forums and learn. Have no experience with dimmers though. Don't have a one.
an directionality. It's hard to beat CFLs and moreso some good quality fluorescent tubes get slightly more lumens per watt (although I saved 100 watts per hour in the kitchen - 200 instead of 300- by going with directed CFLs that shine line exactly where needed vs previous central flourescent tubes that were lighting from the center trying to sloppily spill light everywhere).
Since every Home Depot now takes any CFLs, the disposal is actually better than fluorescent tubes. Considering most electricity comes from coal, you prevent mercury release in the air vs incandescents. And no, you don't need a specialized clean up crew if a CFL breaks: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
Except for the oven, fridge, and flashing lights - CFLs are appropriate for most applications.
I would love to have LEDs. But they need to raise their efficiency. They don't generate heat as such, but AC->DC conversion does, index of refraction of the casing material presents a problem, as well that leds don't generate white light by themselves (they use phosphor?) and all that reduces the light given off.
It would be cool if those were solved one day, where they got near 90% theoretical max lumens/wax (683 lm/wt), where a 3 watt LED would give off the same light as a ~100 watt incandescent or ~23 watt CFL. Even 150 or 200 lm/wt would be a revolution. But it will take 5-10 years I suppose.
If you watch the video all the way through, it makes a good point. Besides the wii, one of the best selling platforms of all time is the gameboy of the various generations, all the way back to the original.
It's hasn't ever really gotten more complicated (two more buttons added just this generation with the DS and no changes in the previous gens since the original) and I would argue the stylus actually makes it easier. Contrast this or the Wii controller with the ever more complicated Playstation controllers. I suppose they are nice for the hard core types that love their Xbox/PS3 and argue about graphics, but I just don't feel like I've been competent at wielding those things since 3d shooter became popular, perhaps why I went to flash games with a keyboard lately.
The point about the punishment is good as well, although not novel. Perhaps just resurrected. I remember games that just start you in the same room again if you died and save points many games have just seem to be a manual version of what he is talking about. Flash Games like Robokill have short punitive strokes, taking you back 2 rooms or so usually with every death, having to reconquer them that actually acts as a strategic challenge to the whole thing since you have limited resources.
I know what you mean, everything is frustratingly easy these days. Back in the days of Tron, if your character died, YOU DIED*. Just squeaking by was a real adrenaline rush! Not like the pampered kids these days, with their save points and what not. Could at least build a tazer into the controller or something as punishment.
*At least, that's how it was in the 80s documentary of the same name I saw.
If it's not counterfeiting, the Federal Reserve will sick you with a Copy Infringement suit (but oh, but isn't this public domain?), but in any case, their monopoly on printing fiat money is their exclusive right and they'll only bail out who they want to bail out. Which means big businesses.
was that its manufacture directly hurt children (the ones portrayed in it, not some abstract concept). While distasteful, virtual "child" porn, no matter how realistic, seems to be a freedom of speech which is protected under the Constitution. Otherwise, you are creating a thoughtcrime.
Also is the matter of arguing "age". Some are undeniably children, but we live in a country where 18 years old prosecuted for statutory rape of 16 years old isn't unheard of in our recent histroy. Do we really want to relegate to the prosecutors this power?
Also consider the common cartoon/anime characteristic of having an adult in mind in an essentially child like body. What then?
In summary: -lack of victim -Freedom of Speech, if only popular speech were to be protected, we wouln't need 1st amendment -age ambiguities
Well, yes, I know that. I should have said OS (Open Source) in general. But considering it said Linux had also recently had a slump, that was specifically on my mind as I was wondering if the economic conditions affected this by way of corporate sponsorship withdrawing manpower to cut costs or because hobbyist developers are withdrawing due to their financial state. I assume, either way, it's due to the state of the economy.
On the upside, if less work is being done on open source, I also think it will be a good indicator on how well Windows 7 will be recieved initially (and Vista will continue to be recieved), no matter how good it is, if companies are unwilling to spend money. That's assuming they'll ship as soon (2010?) as promised....
I wouldn't know about this case. It was an acer with only with only a recovery partition that had few options (even reinstalls all of Acer's bloatware without choice). Perhaps the recovery CD would be better, but that costs $30 extra (doesn't come with the computer).
I second this. I commented twice on this story based on the summary alone. This looks like they are cutting off integrated access to Verizon's portal based on them splitting from Verizon.
The summary is a troll to elicit reactions such as mine or the author just really misunderstood.
I wouldn't even call it net neutrality, it makes it an internet issue while this is just plain old common carrier (this was a previous article recently somewhere). I, as a telephone customer, call whoever I want. AT&T can't stop a call and say "Sorry, that's not a customer of ours or an approved partner, sorry. Call someone else."
It is not the googles and amazons of the world "calling" various internet surfers and demanding attention. It's the internet surfers who go out and "call"/retrieve the web pages they want. As soon as an ISP blocks that, they are not providing the internet they promised and lose common carrier status and the legal benefits it occurs by staying neutral and not checking what web pages are retrieved.
I hope Fairpoint goes through with this and gets their ass handed to them.
Also, with such tactics, doesn't an ISP lose "common carrier" status and be susceptible under the DMCA to lawsuits for copyright infringements they suddenly help deliver? (If I were a customer, I would consider a class action against them simply because I signed up for the internet, not fairpoint's approved subset.)
I had a Vista desktop break itself through Automatic update. No fixing, had to reinstall the entire thing. Had the same happen to an early Ubuntu release, in 2005 actually. It's not that uncommon at all, by my experience. Rather aggravating for those who haven't learned to keep the home partition (data) and the binaries/other_OS_files completely seperate through partitions or even other harddrives.
I suppose you don't hear about it so often, because I assume the Windows or Linux universe of machines is so diverse that it will always break a few computers here and there, while the OS X universe is more homogenous - which means things should be easier to test and break less, but when they do, they'll affect a biggr % of machines (which doesn't necessarily mean more than a Windows update).
on Patent and Copyright Reform is going into his presidency. He seems to be smart, but otoh, the Democratic Party is major friends with hollywood/media types.
Germany has 357k km^2 land and 82M population. It has one of the best train systems in the world.
Pennsylvania has 119k km^2 AND 13M population. New York has 140k km^2 and 20M population. New Jersey has 22K km^2 and 9M population. Maryland has 32k km^2 and 6M population. Delaware has 7k km^2 and 1M population. Connecticut has 14k km^2 and 3.5M population. Massachusetts has 27k km^2 and 6.5M population. Total area is 361 km^2 and 59M.
Keep in mind that probably 90%+ of Germany's rail system was in place by the 1930-1950s, when the population was 50-60M. I know that these are the densest population states, yet they are continuous and still have overall lousy rail service.
Customers define the market, not the business. First rule of business isn't starting with a good idea, it's doing market research and seeing what people will buy (how's that world-changing Segway selling?).
Steve Jobs would disagree with you and he has the sucess to prove it.
I would as well. When making a breakthrough product, don't rely on too much market research. People tend to limit themselves to what they already know. Lots of people who crapped on the iPhone when it first appeared now own one. Market research is great for refining an existing product, but not for breakthrough product DESIGN.
By it's nature, breakthrough products are a gamble and not a science.
As an OS X and Ubuntu fan - I like Vista. I don't do the hardest core computing on it, but coming from XP Home (I know, I know, XP Pro is better) it has UAC in every version AFAIK. This makes it much nicer security wise. Also, file browsing is nicer - no more.db files in directories but a centralized database where it should be. The ability to rotate pictures with a right click (to really rotate, not just in the thumbnail preview) is also nice. This may be a rather superficial overview, but those are the features I use and like.
That said: I had one computer inexplicably crash completely with Vista and the OS never start up again (not the harddrive, it reinstalled flawlessly). And Microsoft underplayed it's hardware requirements, Aero is turned on to max on too many systems that can't handle it, and the bloatware many OEMs tend to install on it suck the rest of the life out of it.
I would like to see MS lose marketshare for the simple reason of getting binary compatibility from developers with several major platforms instead of being forced into windows - but Vista isn't the biggest no-value flop, that would have been Windows Me. Instead, Vista is just a mediocre update when MS promised the world.
Hire your own investigator. Don't make me pay for it in taxes.
Yes, you tell that to murder victims as well? Extreme people like you give libertarianism a bad rap. One of the tenets of libertarianism is that the government protects individual and property rights - in this case a stolen car is definitely a violation of property rights and a rightful duty of the government.
The other aspects of this idea aren't even worth to try discussing, a complete nonstarter.
I see your point - I wonder about software patents though - is anyone aware of a case where a software patent has advanced software design methodology?
Not likely. The original intent of patents was to abolish secretive guilds, and open up knowledge to advance society further and faster in exchange for a protected and guaranteed temporary monopoly.
From everyone I heard in corporate, they are all disuaded from looking into patents by the corporate lawyers for various reasons. This defeats the purpose in the first place. Also, 17 years (with potential renewal of another 17 years) is too long in many areas these days. It's not the 19th Century anymore.
FTFA: "The definition of personality," she said, "is having repetition in your responses, for example, being consistently bold, or consistently shy, or consistently aggressive."
She went on to say that any individual octopus had random, inconsistent, reactions to the same stimuli on any random day.
I do not want to support what you support. I'm perfectly happy without TV and getting my news on the internet without any level of burden to tax payers save the.gov sites.
Go ahead and tax people for it and give the papers away.
Why? Everytime I go see a free paper on one of typical newspaper vending machines, most of them are still there. People don't value them because they see it's free and figure it translates to cheap or not worthwhile. Also, many people take those free papers and not read one word, but only because newspaper is good for cleaning glass, starting fires in stoves, packing material, etc.
Also, editorial content will be compromised soon enough. Parts of the audience will say it's a great paper, but then demand sports coverage. Then tax dollars go toward reporting, to me, something worthless, games and whatnot. One man's trash...
Your solution - a free paper - is going to a problem that is not there. If a person wants to be, he can be well-informed rather freely online. But many people don't want to be well-informed, they want their cartoons and sports and that's it. You are trying a solve a human tendency in the wrong way.
It will also be obsolete within 10 years. Cheap wifi-capable ereaders will be available and print newspaper market will be like the buggy whip industry in the 1890s. Days numbered and going down fast.
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Nah, I don't have the numbers you want. Most analysis goes towards words. For instance, I would recognized that Dvorak generally isn't optimal for coding c and c style langages either although I use lisp mostly and in that, Qwerty & Dvorak are identical, as it would be for the space, a, enter, and keypad keys.
I found the English Neo layout site, it has more numbers scrolling down, but it's generally considering words, as well:
http://pebbles.schattenlauf.de/layout/index_us.html
The point of dvorak is not typing speed, but keeping your hands on the home row as much as possible. I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
Also, with the ease of changing it in most OSes, I don't think it's anything but personal choice anymore.
If you want something that may be better, try the Neo layout though. It's for the german language, but it may be good for english as well:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO-Tastaturbelegung
http://www.neo-layout.org/
I would think, in the future, typing becomes less important anyway. Sorry about the neo links, there used to be good mathematical analysis in english, but it seems the entire site it was on is away. However, it seems to have gained a lot of traction in the German speaking world considering it had next to nothing on the web about it just several years back and was invented in the 2000s.
Try a good sized Lowes. My HD has no variety, while at a good sized Lowes they do. Found some excellent bright candelabra lights there by Sylvania at 13w each (usually 3w-9w, so this was unusual) and their supplied 150watt equivalent (40w) CFL by sylvania was the nearly half the size of similiar rated ones by Walmart and Home Depot.
Then there is something seriously wrong with your wiring or the bulbs you buy. The claims are sometimes overdone on the packaging, but it was much worse back in 2001 than now. Also, some manufacturers are more reliable than others (feit electric at Costco and Sylvania at lowes, other places, seem to be good for certain models). The Walmart brand Great Value seems to be horrible, at least in my experience.
I've had enclosed Par 38 CFLs (23w) die on me with some regularity although it has gotten a little better the last year. OTOH the enclosed Par 20 (13w CFL) have been absolutely solid since 2004, after a bad first run.
My longest lasting lights about 10 regular 13 watters --60w equivalent-- enclosed exterior ones. They started in all temps from (-5F to 100F). They used to be dusk to dawn for the first 3 years, so I guess 12 hours a day on average through the year, then the solar cell went bad on several 2 3-lamp posts and so 6 lights were running continuously for about a year (busy year). When I fixed that, put a timer in to start at dusk and turn off rougly midnight.
Through those 6 years, about 5 lights went bad. Keep in mind, they were running around probably 4,380 hrs a year. One year it was the max 8,760 with no breaks. And now, it's down to 2,190. This is probably due to them being on for extended periods and not constantly switched on and off which wears on a ballast and kills the shoddy ballasts fast.
CFLs are a type of fluorescents, and if the ballast is shoddy, you can forget it. Also had to replace every fluorescent ballast in a section of newly constructed office space once as one in an entire row (same manufacturer) went bad one at a time in a short period. Doesn't meant fluorescent tech is bad, means it was either a bad manufacturer or bad run. BTW, there can be bad fluorescent tubes as well, Philips seems to be good while the much cheaper Sylvania contractor packs are shit.
Just how it goes. Go to some CFL forums and learn. Have no experience with dimmers though. Don't have a one.
But what if you had to ship 6 lights for every one due to lifespan differences?
an directionality. It's hard to beat CFLs and moreso some good quality fluorescent tubes get slightly more lumens per watt (although I saved 100 watts per hour in the kitchen - 200 instead of 300- by going with directed CFLs that shine line exactly where needed vs previous central flourescent tubes that were lighting from the center trying to sloppily spill light everywhere).
Since every Home Depot now takes any CFLs, the disposal is actually better than fluorescent tubes. Considering most electricity comes from coal, you prevent mercury release in the air vs incandescents. And no, you don't need a specialized clean up crew if a CFL breaks: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
Except for the oven, fridge, and flashing lights - CFLs are appropriate for most applications.
I would love to have LEDs. But they need to raise their efficiency. They don't generate heat as such, but AC->DC conversion does, index of refraction of the casing material presents a problem, as well that leds don't generate white light by themselves (they use phosphor?) and all that reduces the light given off.
It would be cool if those were solved one day, where they got near 90% theoretical max lumens/wax (683 lm/wt), where a 3 watt LED would give off the same light as a ~100 watt incandescent or ~23 watt CFL. Even 150 or 200 lm/wt would be a revolution. But it will take 5-10 years I suppose.
If you watch the video all the way through, it makes a good point. Besides the wii, one of the best selling platforms of all time is the gameboy of the various generations, all the way back to the original.
It's hasn't ever really gotten more complicated (two more buttons added just this generation with the DS and no changes in the previous gens since the original) and I would argue the stylus actually makes it easier. Contrast this or the Wii controller with the ever more complicated Playstation controllers. I suppose they are nice for the hard core types that love their Xbox/PS3 and argue about graphics, but I just don't feel like I've been competent at wielding those things since 3d shooter became popular, perhaps why I went to flash games with a keyboard lately.
The point about the punishment is good as well, although not novel. Perhaps just resurrected. I remember games that just start you in the same room again if you died and save points many games have just seem to be a manual version of what he is talking about. Flash Games like Robokill have short punitive strokes, taking you back 2 rooms or so usually with every death, having to reconquer them that actually acts as a strategic challenge to the whole thing since you have limited resources.
I know what you mean, everything is frustratingly easy these days. Back in the days of Tron, if your character died, YOU DIED*. Just squeaking by was a real adrenaline rush! Not like the pampered kids these days, with their save points and what not. Could at least build a tazer into the controller or something as punishment.
*At least, that's how it was in the 80s documentary of the same name I saw.
If it's not counterfeiting, the Federal Reserve will sick you with a Copy Infringement suit (but oh, but isn't this public domain?), but in any case, their monopoly on printing fiat money is their exclusive right and they'll only bail out who they want to bail out. Which means big businesses.
was that its manufacture directly hurt children (the ones portrayed in it, not some abstract concept). While distasteful, virtual "child" porn, no matter how realistic, seems to be a freedom of speech which is protected under the Constitution. Otherwise, you are creating a thoughtcrime.
Also is the matter of arguing "age". Some are undeniably children, but we live in a country where 18 years old prosecuted for statutory rape of 16 years old isn't unheard of in our recent histroy. Do we really want to relegate to the prosecutors this power?
Also consider the common cartoon/anime characteristic of having an adult in mind in an essentially child like body. What then?
In summary:
-lack of victim
-Freedom of Speech, if only popular speech were to be protected, we wouln't need 1st amendment
-age ambiguities
Well, yes, I know that. I should have said OS (Open Source) in general. But considering it said Linux had also recently had a slump, that was specifically on my mind as I was wondering if the economic conditions affected this by way of corporate sponsorship withdrawing manpower to cut costs or because hobbyist developers are withdrawing due to their financial state. I assume, either way, it's due to the state of the economy.
On the upside, if less work is being done on open source, I also think it will be a good indicator on how well Windows 7 will be recieved initially (and Vista will continue to be recieved), no matter how good it is, if companies are unwilling to spend money. That's assuming they'll ship as soon (2010?) as promised....
manpower working on Linux? That's what I always assumed kept the serious development going, companies with a stake in it, one way or other.
I wouldn't know about this case. It was an acer with only with only a recovery partition that had few options (even reinstalls all of Acer's bloatware without choice). Perhaps the recovery CD would be better, but that costs $30 extra (doesn't come with the computer).
I second this. I commented twice on this story based on the summary alone. This looks like they are cutting off integrated access to Verizon's portal based on them splitting from Verizon.
The summary is a troll to elicit reactions such as mine or the author just really misunderstood.
I wouldn't even call it net neutrality, it makes it an internet issue while this is just plain old common carrier (this was a previous article recently somewhere). I, as a telephone customer, call whoever I want. AT&T can't stop a call and say "Sorry, that's not a customer of ours or an approved partner, sorry. Call someone else."
It is not the googles and amazons of the world "calling" various internet surfers and demanding attention. It's the internet surfers who go out and "call"/retrieve the web pages they want. As soon as an ISP blocks that, they are not providing the internet they promised and lose common carrier status and the legal benefits it occurs by staying neutral and not checking what web pages are retrieved.
I hope Fairpoint goes through with this and gets their ass handed to them.
Also, with such tactics, doesn't an ISP lose "common carrier" status and be susceptible under the DMCA to lawsuits for copyright infringements they suddenly help deliver? (If I were a customer, I would consider a class action against them simply because I signed up for the internet, not fairpoint's approved subset.)
I had a Vista desktop break itself through Automatic update. No fixing, had to reinstall the entire thing. Had the same happen to an early Ubuntu release, in 2005 actually. It's not that uncommon at all, by my experience. Rather aggravating for those who haven't learned to keep the home partition (data) and the binaries/other_OS_files completely seperate through partitions or even other harddrives.
I suppose you don't hear about it so often, because I assume the Windows or Linux universe of machines is so diverse that it will always break a few computers here and there, while the OS X universe is more homogenous - which means things should be easier to test and break less, but when they do, they'll affect a biggr % of machines (which doesn't necessarily mean more than a Windows update).
on Patent and Copyright Reform is going into his presidency. He seems to be smart, but otoh, the Democratic Party is major friends with hollywood/media types.
Germany has 357k km^2 land and 82M population. It has one of the best train systems in the world.
Pennsylvania has 119k km^2 AND 13M population. New York has 140k km^2 and 20M population. New Jersey has 22K km^2 and 9M population. Maryland has 32k km^2 and 6M population. Delaware has 7k km^2 and 1M population. Connecticut has 14k km^2 and 3.5M population. Massachusetts has 27k km^2 and 6.5M population. Total area is 361 km^2 and 59M.
Keep in mind that probably 90%+ of Germany's rail system was in place by the 1930-1950s, when the population was 50-60M. I know that these are the densest population states, yet they are continuous and still have overall lousy rail service.
Steve Jobs would disagree with you and he has the sucess to prove it.
I would as well. When making a breakthrough product, don't rely on too much market research. People tend to limit themselves to what they already know. Lots of people who crapped on the iPhone when it first appeared now own one. Market research is great for refining an existing product, but not for breakthrough product DESIGN.
By it's nature, breakthrough products are a gamble and not a science.
As an OS X and Ubuntu fan - I like Vista. I don't do the hardest core computing on it, but coming from XP Home (I know, I know, XP Pro is better) it has UAC in every version AFAIK. This makes it much nicer security wise. Also, file browsing is nicer - no more .db files in directories but a centralized database where it should be. The ability to rotate pictures with a right click (to really rotate, not just in the thumbnail preview) is also nice. This may be a rather superficial overview, but those are the features I use and like.
That said: I had one computer inexplicably crash completely with Vista and the OS never start up again (not the harddrive, it reinstalled flawlessly). And Microsoft underplayed it's hardware requirements, Aero is turned on to max on too many systems that can't handle it, and the bloatware many OEMs tend to install on it suck the rest of the life out of it.
I would like to see MS lose marketshare for the simple reason of getting binary compatibility from developers with several major platforms instead of being forced into windows - but Vista isn't the biggest no-value flop, that would have been Windows Me. Instead, Vista is just a mediocre update when MS promised the world.
Yes, you tell that to murder victims as well? Extreme people like you give libertarianism a bad rap. One of the tenets of libertarianism is that the government protects individual and property rights - in this case a stolen car is definitely a violation of property rights and a rightful duty of the government.
The other aspects of this idea aren't even worth to try discussing, a complete nonstarter.
Not likely. The original intent of patents was to abolish secretive guilds, and open up knowledge to advance society further and faster in exchange for a protected and guaranteed temporary monopoly.
From everyone I heard in corporate, they are all disuaded from looking into patents by the corporate lawyers for various reasons. This defeats the purpose in the first place. Also, 17 years (with potential renewal of another 17 years) is too long in many areas these days. It's not the 19th Century anymore.
FTFA:
"The definition of personality," she said, "is having repetition in your responses, for example, being consistently bold, or consistently shy, or consistently aggressive."
She went on to say that any individual octopus had random, inconsistent, reactions to the same stimuli on any random day.
I do not want to support what you support. I'm perfectly happy without TV and getting my news on the internet without any level of burden to tax payers save the .gov sites.
Why? Everytime I go see a free paper on one of typical newspaper vending machines, most of them are still there. People don't value them because they see it's free and figure it translates to cheap or not worthwhile. Also, many people take those free papers and not read one word, but only because newspaper is good for cleaning glass, starting fires in stoves, packing material, etc.
Also, editorial content will be compromised soon enough. Parts of the audience will say it's a great paper, but then demand sports coverage. Then tax dollars go toward reporting, to me, something worthless, games and whatnot. One man's trash...
Your solution - a free paper - is going to a problem that is not there. If a person wants to be, he can be well-informed rather freely online. But many people don't want to be well-informed, they want their cartoons and sports and that's it. You are trying a solve a human tendency in the wrong way.
It will also be obsolete within 10 years. Cheap wifi-capable ereaders will be available and print newspaper market will be like the buggy whip industry in the 1890s. Days numbered and going down fast.