of course having people work specifically on wikipedia requires money
It will require money to have editors but I don't think it will require payment for expert content. I believe that most academic writing is done for "free" (that is, after all, the "job" of academics) and you may not realize that most experts gain and maintain their status as "experts" by writing (free) articles. The world of scholarship has an inherent bias towards "information wants to be free" in spite of the current academic publishers taking the capitalist IP lockup route.
Overall, it should not require much in the way of funding for editors to round up experts and organize them.
It's easy to blame the record companies for DRM but why does the iTunes store apply DRM to ALL of their music?... Even music where the record company/publisher does not request or require DRM?
Could their be an advantage to Apple by locking ALL the music to their iPod?
Actually, the power has shifted to the health insurance companies today. The latest survey of physician payments (the amounts that physicians actually receive) shows a 34% decline in the past two years. Pharmaceutical companies are also doing very well.
They have lots of money and are always looking for new markets. Their usual strategy is to look for markets that others have developed and copy the leaders there. Unfortunately, their technical execution is often compromised by marketing. They do have very deep pockets and will throw good money after bad to make something stick.
I wouldn't worry, though. They have failed to achieve leadership in every market they have entered where they couldn't leverage the Windows desktop monopoly.
I live in California. Just yesterday I dropped off a bunch of dead fluorescent tubes at my local recycling center. They had a special bin for them. No charge. Easy.
I still have a stash of 8" floppies. (At 256KB data capacity, the bit domains are so big you can actually see the data with suitable preparation.)
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Water content of air at 70F is about 1 pound per 1,000 cubic feet (sorry for the odd English units). 1,000 cubic feet is a cube 10 ft on a side (or about 3meters on a side). One pound of water is about 450grams.
The atmosphere above one square mile of earth (556 billion sq. ft. up to cloud tops at 20,000 ft.) therefore contains about 556 million pounds of water (252 million liters) depending on temperature, relative humidity. This is enough to cover the entire surface to a depth of about 10cm (4 inches).
This is a lot of water and is unlikely to be depleted but even a large concentration of windmills. Especially when you consider that when the wind blows, it replenishes the air and moisture... not likely to cause any drought.
(Disclaimer: This is fast and dirty math. It contains gross approximations and possibly a few errors. )
OK, so the hacker can "plant malware" and files...
Just how does the hacker get the malware file to run on your computer... it seems there must be another step here... TFA was vague on this point. I'm not an expert.
Actually, GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil went around to various cities and bought up the trolley lines, ripped out the tracks and replaced them with GM buses.
Since all of the wireless adapters I have used with Ubuntu (including versions several years old, laptops, etc.) have "just worked" when I plugged them in, I'll take your $500.00 (and raise you some duct tape to cut the FUD).
My TaxCut box for 2006 taxes sitting here on my desk says it works on the Mac and my friend installed it on his Mac so I don't think they've ditched the Mac.
Most of the tax software will compute your taxes both ways (filing jointly or filing separately) if you're married and tell you which is the least expensive.
I've been using OO.org for about three years and I'm constantly collaborating on MSO documents using changes, etc. Never any problems and most people don't even know I'm using OO.org. In fact, I frequently can help out my colleagues who have trouble translating among different MSO versions.
XM radio does indeed use publicly owned and regulated bands. (All radio frequencies are considered publicly owned and all are regulated by the FCC). In fact, XM radio is is trouble with the FCC for operating 221 of its terrestrial stations out of spec with their license from the FCC... and another 19 are not in authorized locations.
Bush declared the UN irrelevant when he couldn't bully it into doing what he wanted on Iraq. He's perfectly happy to keep bullying the UN on other fronts and support it when it does what he wants.
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer hardware and software for providing integrated telephone communication with computerized global information networks. FIRST USE: 19970606. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19970606
Sounds like the Apple phone to me... except that Cisco owns the trademark.
There is a lot of wishful thinking among Apple and its fanbois that nobody could possibly have invented this phone before Apple and God gave it to us.
It's hypocritical to ignore legal niceties when they offer an inconvenient truth and then come down hard (some would argue excessively hard) when it suits your market control purposes.
Well, the USPTO clearly has Cisco on record as owning the iPhone trademark (Trademark registration number 2293011 uspto.gov) so I don't think there is any confusion about who owns the trademark.
Apple (and all of the fanbois) hope that they can invalidate Cisco's trademark or pay them or bully them into relinquishing it. This could be a long SCO type litigation.
I won't speculate on the outcome of this battle but I do find it very ironic that Apple on the one hand is trespassing on someone else's trademark and at the same time getting their shorts all in a knot about people "stealing" their icons. To me, it's just mud wrestling... fun to watch.
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Overall, it should not require much in the way of funding for editors to round up experts and organize them.
Could their be an advantage to Apple by locking ALL the music to their iPod?
Actually, the power has shifted to the health insurance companies today. The latest survey of physician payments (the amounts that physicians actually receive) shows a 34% decline in the past two years. Pharmaceutical companies are also doing very well.
I wouldn't worry, though. They have failed to achieve leadership in every market they have entered where they couldn't leverage the Windows desktop monopoly.
Long interview with Steve Balmer in last Sunday's NYT where he says that they "hope" to start making money on XBox later this year... but not now.
I live in California. Just yesterday I dropped off a bunch of dead fluorescent tubes at my local recycling center. They had a special bin for them. No charge. Easy.
I still have a stash of 8" floppies. (At 256KB data capacity, the bit domains are so big you can actually see the data with suitable preparation.)
The atmosphere above one square mile of earth (556 billion sq. ft. up to cloud tops at 20,000 ft.) therefore contains about 556 million pounds of water (252 million liters) depending on temperature, relative humidity. This is enough to cover the entire surface to a depth of about 10cm (4 inches).
This is a lot of water and is unlikely to be depleted but even a large concentration of windmills. Especially when you consider that when the wind blows, it replenishes the air and moisture... not likely to cause any drought.
(Disclaimer: This is fast and dirty math. It contains gross approximations and possibly a few errors. )
Just how does the hacker get the malware file to run on your computer... it seems there must be another step here... TFA was vague on this point. I'm not an expert.
I believe they called it a "triumph of the free market". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_street car_conspiracy
Since all of the wireless adapters I have used with Ubuntu (including versions several years old, laptops, etc.) have "just worked" when I plugged them in, I'll take your $500.00 (and raise you some duct tape to cut the FUD).
Amazing that they don't see the irony in developing a patented proprietary process for "immortal" computing.... I guess they think they are immortal.
I think the number of fanbois with more money than brains is somewhat limited. This might not be a good business model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL89GmwWj-M
Actually, the LG Prada phone will be shipping long before the Apple phone does and it looks very much like the Applephone.
Heisenberg might have been here.
My TaxCut box for 2006 taxes sitting here on my desk says it works on the Mac and my friend installed it on his Mac so I don't think they've ditched the Mac.
Most of the tax software will compute your taxes both ways (filing jointly or filing separately) if you're married and tell you which is the least expensive.
You have an accountant that charges $29.00 ?!!
I've been using OO.org for about three years and I'm constantly collaborating on MSO documents using changes, etc. Never any problems and most people don't even know I'm using OO.org. In fact, I frequently can help out my colleagues who have trouble translating among different MSO versions.
XM radio does indeed use publicly owned and regulated bands. (All radio frequencies are considered publicly owned and all are regulated by the FCC). In fact, XM radio is is trouble with the FCC for operating 221 of its terrestrial stations out of spec with their license from the FCC... and another 19 are not in authorized locations.
There is a lot of wishful thinking among Apple and its fanbois that nobody could possibly have invented this phone before Apple and God gave it to us.
It's hypocritical to ignore legal niceties when they offer an inconvenient truth and then come down hard (some would argue excessively hard) when it suits your market control purposes.
Apple (and all of the fanbois) hope that they can invalidate Cisco's trademark or pay them or bully them into relinquishing it. This could be a long SCO type litigation.
I won't speculate on the outcome of this battle but I do find it very ironic that Apple on the one hand is trespassing on someone else's trademark and at the same time getting their shorts all in a knot about people "stealing" their icons. To me, it's just mud wrestling... fun to watch.
That's easy. We all know FOX is "fair and balanced"... we'll just let them decide.