Bzzzt wrong, you are receiving value (entertainment) without compensating the entertainer. You can claim that the artist doesn't receive squat for a CD sold. But if you consider the songwriter an artist, then there is a $.10/track sold payment to the songwriter before the track recoups recording/promotion costs. Once it recoups the rest of the musicians on the recording get paid their points.
If you don't want to pay for music, then don't, but at the same time don't trample on an artists right by ignoring their copyright. You'd hate it if at the end of the work week your boss only paid you $.25 on the dollar.
Their directions still tend to suck. What's worse is that they suck for routes that people at Google would take and get directions for. Look at where they send you if you go from 19th Ave San Francisco to Big Basin CA. They send you more than 10 miles up a 1.5 lane road filled with switchbacks (old La Honda) instead of putting you onto Skyline at 92 or at Sand Hill Road both of which are relatively straight and have at least 2 lanes (with passing lanes). You may save a mile or two but its much slower, and far more dangerous, also I'm sure the people who live on old La Honda love the fact that google is sending at least 20 cars a day who have no clue where they are up their tiny road.
Actually this pipe dream is ultimately extremely dangerous to us, our children and our children's children. By having this fantasy and imagining it's imminent possibility it makes many in our society forget that we, the people of earth, need to take better care of our resources and be better shepherds of the only home that we have. It has been said by many that it would be 1000's times cheaper and easier to live in the Gobi Dessert or in Antarctica than it would to live on the Moon or Mars. Yet here on earth there is nobody clamoring to live in the dessert or tundra. Global warming and conservation have been repeatedly called "anti business" because to deal with them effectively is thought of as too expensive. Yet sending a man to the moon or mars would cost as much a effectively dealing with the environment and making this rock a place we can live on for millennia.
uh, do you instantly put 6 gigs on? Do you need to pay up front for future growth? It seems like you have some poor assumptions of real world use. Also since thie Google service only interoperates with google apps, you should instead consider the use of S3 with EC2, which does not induce bandwidth charges.
It may be cheaper than S3, however S3 only charges you for the things you actually store and bandwidth, there is no need to pay today for space you may need in the future.
When Safari crashed it would simply close, the rest of the phone worked fine. Rebooting (Power+Home) the device did fix this. My guess is that there was some other leaking memory. Since the update, I haven't had one Safari crash.
This isn't a problem with the Expert Mouse (Kensington trackball), as it rolls on three round bushings. If it gets too loaded with crap, I suppose the laser can get obscured, but it hasn't happened to me. I clean mine once a year by lifting out the ball, holding the base upside down over my dustbin and tapping the base, then I wipe out the socket with a paper towel.
You can get a used G4 mac mini on ebay for $200 if that is all you care about. You could also get something that would fulfill all those requirements off the sidewalk most any saturday. The bottom line is that the "brand name" vendors are all around the same price for the performance. Maybe apple doesn't build something low enough end for you, but you can find that low end in the used market. (Actually apple's tend to have high resale values, so you can easily sell your used machine at a decent price to fund a new purchase)
The 85 CRX-HF was rated at 52/57 MPG highway. As for the mileage standard changing, that happened just this year, the 2006 Prius had been rated at 52 MPG. 50MPG is 50MPG.
as it is there are NO Priuses sold that plug in. People have modified theirs, and Toyota seems to think making a prototype is somehow newsworthy. This is not commercially available and wont be for years!
Considering there used to be a waiting list to buy a Prius (All models are hybrid, 50MPG), and used cars were selling for the same price as new, but you could walk to your local Honda dealership and buy a Civic Hybrid (48MPG) off the lot, they made the right decision. It is about the type of people who want a Hybrid, they want it to be clear they are driving a Hybrid, the Prius does that while the Civic does not.
And where do the batteries get the electricity to go those 2.5 miles?
Oh yeah, you put gas in the tank, and the engine will charge the battery, or you could put gas in the tank and drive it up a hill and brake all the way down. Either way it is powered by gasoline.
Not only that, according to one of my server's/var/log/messages, they were power cycled at least 4 times in that 50 minutes. You would think they would have killed the breakers for the rooms that were dark until they got their generators running to reduce the surges.
Sadly 365 Main has been better than United Layer at 7th and Mission was.
UPS's themselves may be cheap, but they eat rack space. So when you sign a contract with a provider, you take into account all of these costs and perceived benefits.
No it's actually to highlight alexa to those who read slashdot, thus drive up toolbar installs. The "rant" was conveniently timed to a week after the release of Alexa's firefox extension. I wonder how much Taco's bonus relies on their alexa ranking.
The Open Library is a Brewster Kahle project. Brewster envision, built, and funded the Internet Archive. He has been scanning books for a decade (with Raj Reddy of CMU) this project predates Google's by several years. He approached Google when he started expanding the Text Archive beyond the Gutenberg collection (which the Internet Archive was hosting), but Google wanted to do their own thing, one that would be more profitable to them, so he got funding from other sources. He invented WAIS, which was one of the first internet searches (it indexed FTP, Gopher, and early HTTP sites). In 95 he donated a relatively huge and expensive hard drive to the project which saved the only copies of the earliest usenet postings which were on rapidly deteriorating tapes. He has repeatedly challenged the DMCA and Sonny Bono copyright extension in partnership with Lawrence Lessig. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Unlike Google, there are no ads on any archive.org hosts other than the ones that were originally in the pages that are archived. As for what is wrong with Google's approach, they make gobs of money and never once offered any of it to the people who pay (either in money or time) to create the content. Brewster's goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge", he doesn't need to say "do no evil", as he believes that goes without saying. He has done all of this while asking for nothing in return. So trust google if you want, I know Brewster and trust him.
As for searching, the text of the books is indexed and searchable, if you want to do a general search inside the book, you can use google, who usurps the rights of the authors, or you could use Amazon who only surfaces the texts that the rights owners have allowed to be indexed.
BTW A major coder for google while it was google.stanford.edu, was writing much of that code while working for Brewster at Alexa. There are rumors about the cleanliness of that code, but Brewster was never concerned about any of this, nor the fact that egroups, which started on another machine on the Alexa network, sold to Yahoo for $500 Million.
This is so telling, a whole lot of free information, classic books, many of the best ever written, are made available completely free, in an easy form and comment #2 is bitching about not having access to recent text. You could also write to your favorite authors and ask them to donate their texts. Instead you demand that artists and authors provide you with free entertainment. Maybe you should spend a year of your life writing a book, and providing it to the world for free. Or do as Rick Prellinger (Moving Picture Archive) did, and buy the copyrights and provide them for free.
Brewster (IA) and Raj Reddy (CMU) and others have been working on this for almost a decade now, the Internet Archive bookmobile has been printing/binding books on demand at schools across the world for more than 5 years. They actually approached google about joining them before google launched their own project. While Brewster has made attempts to overturn the Sonny Bono copyright extension law (a couple made it to the supreme court, but ultimately failed), he generally doesn't like to push the envelope when it comes to copyright infringement, so much so that he has been accused of being a patsy. Which is really sad, as he has spent a whole lot of his own money and hours making more data freely available than probably anyone in the history of man!
I know you like the idea of being Quebecois, but you aren't and never will be Leonard Cohen, your just a dude that is really tall and stole some guy's basketball in Berkeley. BTW you should have claimed you are a Mainer, that is so much cooler.
Last time I check Wayne Gretzky lived in Arizona and is married to an American woman.
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Bzzzt wrong, you are receiving value (entertainment) without compensating the entertainer. You can claim that the artist doesn't receive squat for a CD sold. But if you consider the songwriter an artist, then there is a $.10/track sold payment to the songwriter before the track recoups recording/promotion costs. Once it recoups the rest of the musicians on the recording get paid their points.
If you don't want to pay for music, then don't, but at the same time don't trample on an artists right by ignoring their copyright. You'd hate it if at the end of the work week your boss only paid you $.25 on the dollar.
One copy, this is covered by the same law that covers the reselling of used books/cds/software. Its very different.
Their directions still tend to suck. What's worse is that they suck for routes that people at Google would take and get directions for. Look at where they send you if you go from 19th Ave San Francisco to Big Basin CA. They send you more than 10 miles up a 1.5 lane road filled with switchbacks (old La Honda) instead of putting you onto Skyline at 92 or at Sand Hill Road both of which are relatively straight and have at least 2 lanes (with passing lanes). You may save a mile or two but its much slower, and far more dangerous, also I'm sure the people who live on old La Honda love the fact that google is sending at least 20 cars a day who have no clue where they are up their tiny road.
Actually this pipe dream is ultimately extremely dangerous to us, our children and our children's children. By having this fantasy and imagining it's imminent possibility it makes many in our society forget that we, the people of earth, need to take better care of our resources and be better shepherds of the only home that we have. It has been said by many that it would be 1000's times cheaper and easier to live in the Gobi Dessert or in Antarctica than it would to live on the Moon or Mars. Yet here on earth there is nobody clamoring to live in the dessert or tundra. Global warming and conservation have been repeatedly called "anti business" because to deal with them effectively is thought of as too expensive. Yet sending a man to the moon or mars would cost as much a effectively dealing with the environment and making this rock a place we can live on for millennia.
Mob rule! Tell that to the families of people lynched in the south.
uh, do you instantly put 6 gigs on? Do you need to pay up front for future growth? It seems like you have some poor assumptions of real world use. Also since thie Google service only interoperates with google apps, you should instead consider the use of S3 with EC2, which does not induce bandwidth charges.
It may be cheaper than S3, however S3 only charges you for the things you actually store and bandwidth, there is no need to pay today for space you may need in the future.
When Safari crashed it would simply close, the rest of the phone worked fine. Rebooting (Power+Home) the device did fix this. My guess is that there was some other leaking memory. Since the update, I haven't had one Safari crash.
This isn't a problem with the Expert Mouse (Kensington trackball), as it rolls on three round bushings. If it gets too loaded with crap, I suppose the laser can get obscured, but it hasn't happened to me. I clean mine once a year by lifting out the ball, holding the base upside down over my dustbin and tapping the base, then I wipe out the socket with a paper towel.
You can get a used G4 mac mini on ebay for $200 if that is all you care about. You could also get something that would fulfill all those requirements off the sidewalk most any saturday. The bottom line is that the "brand name" vendors are all around the same price for the performance. Maybe apple doesn't build something low enough end for you, but you can find that low end in the used market. (Actually apple's tend to have high resale values, so you can easily sell your used machine at a decent price to fund a new purchase)
The 85 CRX-HF was rated at 52/57 MPG highway. As for the mileage standard changing, that happened just this year, the 2006 Prius had been rated at 52 MPG. 50MPG is 50MPG.
Didn't you learn in E&M "High Voltage is Your Friend"?
An 80's Honda CRX got the better milage than the Prius does. Yet one can drive in the diamond lane the other can't.
I guess you missed the parent post!
as it is there are NO Priuses sold that plug in. People have modified theirs, and Toyota seems to think making a prototype is somehow newsworthy. This is not commercially available and wont be for years!
Considering there used to be a waiting list to buy a Prius (All models are hybrid, 50MPG), and used cars were selling for the same price as new, but you could walk to your local Honda dealership and buy a Civic Hybrid (48MPG) off the lot, they made the right decision. It is about the type of people who want a Hybrid, they want it to be clear they are driving a Hybrid, the Prius does that while the Civic does not.
And where do the batteries get the electricity to go those 2.5 miles?
Oh yeah, you put gas in the tank, and the engine will charge the battery, or you could put gas in the tank and drive it up a hill and brake all the way down. Either way it is powered by gasoline.
Not only that, according to one of my server's /var/log/messages, they were power cycled at least 4 times in that 50 minutes. You would think they would have killed the breakers for the rooms that were dark until they got their generators running to reduce the surges.
Sadly 365 Main has been better than United Layer at 7th and Mission was.
UPS's themselves may be cheap, but they eat rack space. So when you sign a contract with a provider, you take into account all of these costs and perceived benefits.
No it's actually to highlight alexa to those who read slashdot, thus drive up toolbar installs. The "rant" was conveniently timed to a week after the release of Alexa's firefox extension. I wonder how much Taco's bonus relies on their alexa ranking.
the url is (from the firefox toolbar's plain text javascript)
http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=ns&url=$url
The Open Library is a Brewster Kahle project. Brewster envision, built, and funded the Internet Archive. He has been scanning books for a decade (with Raj Reddy of CMU) this project predates Google's by several years. He approached Google when he started expanding the Text Archive beyond the Gutenberg collection (which the Internet Archive was hosting), but Google wanted to do their own thing, one that would be more profitable to them, so he got funding from other sources. He invented WAIS, which was one of the first internet searches (it indexed FTP, Gopher, and early HTTP sites). In 95 he donated a relatively huge and expensive hard drive to the project which saved the only copies of the earliest usenet postings which were on rapidly deteriorating tapes. He has repeatedly challenged the DMCA and Sonny Bono copyright extension in partnership with Lawrence Lessig. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Unlike Google, there are no ads on any archive.org hosts other than the ones that were originally in the pages that are archived. As for what is wrong with Google's approach, they make gobs of money and never once offered any of it to the people who pay (either in money or time) to create the content. Brewster's goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge", he doesn't need to say "do no evil", as he believes that goes without saying. He has done all of this while asking for nothing in return. So trust google if you want, I know Brewster and trust him.
As for searching, the text of the books is indexed and searchable, if you want to do a general search inside the book, you can use google, who usurps the rights of the authors, or you could use Amazon who only surfaces the texts that the rights owners have allowed to be indexed.
BTW A major coder for google while it was google.stanford.edu, was writing much of that code while working for Brewster at Alexa. There are rumors about the cleanliness of that code, but Brewster was never concerned about any of this, nor the fact that egroups, which started on another machine on the Alexa network, sold to Yahoo for $500 Million.
This is so telling, a whole lot of free information, classic books, many of the best ever written, are made available completely free, in an easy form and comment #2 is bitching about not having access to recent text. You could also write to your favorite authors and ask them to donate their texts. Instead you demand that artists and authors provide you with free entertainment. Maybe you should spend a year of your life writing a book, and providing it to the world for free. Or do as Rick Prellinger (Moving Picture Archive) did, and buy the copyrights and provide them for free.
Brewster (IA) and Raj Reddy (CMU) and others have been working on this for almost a decade now, the Internet Archive bookmobile has been printing/binding books on demand at schools across the world for more than 5 years. They actually approached google about joining them before google launched their own project. While Brewster has made attempts to overturn the Sonny Bono copyright extension law (a couple made it to the supreme court, but ultimately failed), he generally doesn't like to push the envelope when it comes to copyright infringement, so much so that he has been accused of being a patsy. Which is really sad, as he has spent a whole lot of his own money and hours making more data freely available than probably anyone in the history of man!
Brewster Kahle (Mr Internet Archive/Alexa) was (and probably still is) a big supporter of project Gutenberg, this is an expansion.
Is that you Winn?
I know you like the idea of being Quebecois, but you aren't and never will be Leonard Cohen, your just a dude that is really tall and stole some guy's basketball in Berkeley. BTW you should have claimed you are a Mainer, that is so much cooler.
Last time I check Wayne Gretzky lived in Arizona and is married to an American woman.