Why not give people the choice of loading it onto a thousand 3.5" floppy disks? Even if you have a dying optical drive and for whatever reason you can't boot from USB, a new optical drive is $15. Those very few use cases where someone legitimately does need a CD boot option aren't worth the effort.
If you disagree, then there's nothing stopping you from rolling up your sleeves and doing it. Put up or shut up.
First off, marketing is never a cost item. Either it's bringing in profit you wouldn't otherwise get, or you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. More importantly, there are inefficiencies other than just printing that ebooks bring. Distributors take a 50% cut, ergo an ebook should be, at minimum, half the cost of the lowest priced print edition.
FYI, someone fleeced you on the ISBN. Even if you live in a failed state like the US, the most one will cost is $125. If you live in a developed nation your government will provide one without cost. If you are American, you may want to strike a deal with someone north of your border to publish in Canada for you so you can take advantage of their infrastructure.
What purpose does locking your copy have? Either you buy into the whole copyright nonsense, in which case you'll refrain from reading your copy voluntarily, or you don't, in which case you'll ignore the restrictions anyway.
He asks how far into space we've been since 1980 or so. For people of a general student generation, the last Apollo mission in 1972 will fall well into that "or so".
It's impossible for a reasonable person to go through the list and verify whether any individual one is really necessary or not. Conversely, it's far too difficult for most people to add a CA they need, but which shouldn't be globally trusted. One which primarily serves Dutch users definitely belongs in the latter category. There's no reason for a Californian to automatically trust them.
As for any CA which has any breach whatsoever, the only responsible thing for anyone who maintains a list of trusted CAs is to immediately and permanently remove them. They are expendable.
Canada is a wonderful country, but even it has it's flaws. Why give it the temptation of running a CA when there's no need for it to do so? Further, imagine how much damage a rogue nation like Iran, North Korea or the United States could do with one.
Of course some jobs are best left to governments. This just isn't one of them.
Governments are in the business of spying on people. Sometimes legitimately, sometimes not, but regardless it's not in the interest of the person being spied upon for it to happen, and so governments have no business in the chain of trust. They're near the top of the list of actors we specifically don't trust.
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I still have a permanently free Pro account.
That's pretty classy in my books.
I gave them $10 (or something) way back when and it seems I have an indefinitely paid account.
That's pretty classy in my book.
Then it's a public service.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Iranians are Persian, not Arab.
Palm will be back. They get bought out by some huge, doomed megacorporation every decade or so. Remember US Robotics? HP actually owns them now, too.
RIM will be the next Nortel.
Hey look! We still make a phone OS! SOMEONE PLEASE BUY ONE.
We'll throw in a Zune!
Why not give people the choice of loading it onto a thousand 3.5" floppy disks? Even if you have a dying optical drive and for whatever reason you can't boot from USB, a new optical drive is $15. Those very few use cases where someone legitimately does need a CD boot option aren't worth the effort.
If you disagree, then there's nothing stopping you from rolling up your sleeves and doing it. Put up or shut up.
First off, marketing is never a cost item. Either it's bringing in profit you wouldn't otherwise get, or you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. More importantly, there are inefficiencies other than just printing that ebooks bring. Distributors take a 50% cut, ergo an ebook should be, at minimum, half the cost of the lowest priced print edition.
FYI, someone fleeced you on the ISBN. Even if you live in a failed state like the US, the most one will cost is $125. If you live in a developed nation your government will provide one without cost. If you are American, you may want to strike a deal with someone north of your border to publish in Canada for you so you can take advantage of their infrastructure.
What purpose does locking your copy have? Either you buy into the whole copyright nonsense, in which case you'll refrain from reading your copy voluntarily, or you don't, in which case you'll ignore the restrictions anyway.
Amazon's lending system is pretty much the same as B&N.
In both cases you're better off just stripping the DRM and "lending" them an unencumbered file.
How would you sell bits? You don't relinquish them by giving them to someone else.
From supporting Mobi. It's an open standard, and it predates ePub. They're just being petulant over the DRM.
He asks how far into space we've been since 1980 or so. For people of a general student generation, the last Apollo mission in 1972 will fall well into that "or so".
Leave my tabs where they are, please. If you want to use Firefox then use Firefox.
It looks to me like it's still hidden in the overview, not visible on the primary view.
It really was lame.
If I wanted a GUI with hidden/broken workspaces, I'd use windows or OS X.
Like a working desktop pager?
It's impossible for a reasonable person to go through the list and verify whether any individual one is really necessary or not. Conversely, it's far too difficult for most people to add a CA they need, but which shouldn't be globally trusted. One which primarily serves Dutch users definitely belongs in the latter category. There's no reason for a Californian to automatically trust them.
As for any CA which has any breach whatsoever, the only responsible thing for anyone who maintains a list of trusted CAs is to immediately and permanently remove them. They are expendable.
If you take out the mail in rebate (which they probably won't honour, and even if they do it will be six months later), it clocks in just over $200.
Canada is a wonderful country, but even it has it's flaws. Why give it the temptation of running a CA when there's no need for it to do so? Further, imagine how much damage a rogue nation like Iran, North Korea or the United States could do with one.
Those should not be permitted to run CAs.
Of course some jobs are best left to governments. This just isn't one of them.
Governments are in the business of spying on people. Sometimes legitimately, sometimes not, but regardless it's not in the interest of the person being spied upon for it to happen, and so governments have no business in the chain of trust. They're near the top of the list of actors we specifically don't trust.
If you're vetting people for the goal of finding narcs, what are you going to think of someone who has no social media footprint at all?