There are at least a hundred people in our university in Ireland alone who would run Xen on their laptops. You're massively underestimating the popularity of Linux and Xen worldwide, especially outside the Corporate Reich of Americosoft.
and the total number of laptops on campus would be----?
Why does it matter? What is the business reason for developing more female engineers?
You might begin by asking why 93% of Linux users poll as male.
Unscientific, sure, but still very disquieting. This is not what I want to hear if I am employing women, this is not want to hear if I am selling to women.
It suggests problems with the user interface. It suggests problems with applications.
It suggests that on some elemental level that Linux may not be the right choice for 51% of the population.
Also, isn't the telephone service a public utility, which means its not OWNED by anyone, its merely managed by certain companies?
There have been exceptions, of course.
But, broadly speaking, telephone companies in the states have been privately owned since the introduction of the service in the late 1870's. As was the telegraph before them.
Profit is supposed to be a carrot to "promote the progress of science and useful arts", not the purpose
If there is a practical distinction to be made here, I am not sure I can see it.
The inventive "Connecticut Yankee" of the 1790's wasn't playing with wooden gears and cogs as an intellectual exercise. He was in the business of making an affordable mantle clock.
Some of the best pieces of art are composites of other pieces of art (Shakespeare being the classic example)
Shakespeare was alert to stories and genres that were growing in appeal and significance to his audience: a vacant throne, a disputed succession that ends in civil war. But his version of the tale tended to submerge all that had come before.
Shakespeare's plays were also his livelihood and the prime assets of his theatrical company. You do not go to law to settle performance rights when the throne and those close to the throne are your financial backers.
This system would contradict one of the basic realities of this universe: ideas are infinitely duplicable at no cost other than the medium to store them.
The key word here is "duplication."
You can not copy what does not exist. The $100 million dollar production budget of a Pixar film isn't summoned out of the air.
The storage or distribution media may be cheap. That doesn't guarantee the production or distribution of a reader or recorder that can be purchased without taking on a second mortgage.That doesn't guarantee the production of a reader or recorder that is anything but a sealed black box.
I've made a copy. I can then repost it if I feel so inclined.
Only if someone is willing to provide the postal service at a price you can afford and under the terms and conditions you are willing to accept. Uploads can be capped. Traffic can be monitored.
Efficient economic transactions mean that the transactions maximise the net benefit to everyone - an example of an inefficient transaction is where I see that bananas are mispriced at the supermarket so that if I buy 100 it's cheaper than buying the single banana I want to eat.
your example is efficient for the wholesale buyer and the wholesale seller. the fruit is likely to be of better quality because it receives less handling.
Since an MP4 at 51 Gig really provides little quality improvement over a 30G movie, the only real reason for this change is to Add more DRM.
The first reason is that content sells. The "Collector's Edition." The second reason is that one pressing can do the work of many. Dialog and captioning for every language in your target market. Content edited for use with parental controls.
Do you really want to live in a concrete house in the English climate?... And, as the formet Soviet Union showed us, it does not make for a particularly attractive architecture.
Dolores Chumsky's house leaks. There's no way to fix it. "Just try and get someone to come and make repairs," laments the Union, N.J., resident. "They may come in once, but they never come back."
That's because Chumsky's innocent-looking suburban residence is a handyman's nightmare. It also stands as a monument to one of the most colossal flops in the history of scientific innovation. It is one of a dozen surviving examples of Thomas Edison's worst invention ever: the single-piece cast-concrete home.
Concrete homes, he said, would revolutionize American life. They would be fireproof, insect-proof, easy to clean. The walls could be pre-tinted in attractive colors and would never need to be repainted. Everything from shingles to bathtubs to picture frames would be cast as a single monolith of concrete, in a process that took just a few hours. Extra stories could be added with a simple adjustment of the molding forms. Best of all, the $1,200-dollar houses would be cheap enough for even the poorest slum-dwellers to afford.
A builder had to buy at least $175,000 in equipment before pouring a single house. Furthermore, nobody wanted to live in a residence that had been dubbed "the salvation of the slum dweller." Although Edison optimistically described an early model as "in the style of Francois I," it was more in the style of an oversized outhouse.Why Dolores Chumsky Hates Thomas Edison
*Ahem*, so this isn't enough for you: Quake III Arena source code is free software
Quake III Arena was released in 1999. The game engine licensed under the GPL in 2005. It is now 2007. The question isn't where Carmack has been, the question is where he is going.
The bigger challenge the iPhone faces is that, according to Steve Jobs, 3rd party developers won't be able to write programs for the iPhone without Apple's blessing and distribution channels. That's a product killer
because customers in every market are shying away from trusted distribution channels like iTunes?
they don't know you, the anonymous third party developer, but they sure as hell know Apple, and Apple's endorsement of your product is what they need to see.
You pull the car next to the battery charger and a mechanical jack automatically exchanges batteries for you.
How long will it take to make the exchange?
How much power will the station need to keep a adequate supply of charged cells on hand? If there is a storm, a blackout, how long will it be before every electric car is immobilized?
Of all the problems in the US, and around the world, they decide that this is something they should work on.
The politician multitasks. Taking a stand on one issue does not mean that others are ignored.
The politician never loses sight of the economic interests of his home districts. The Kansan keeps an eye on the market in beef and grain. The Texan does not ignore the Oil Patch.
The geek wastes his energies in talk of grandiose conspiracies.
The politician in L.A., New Tork or Nashville tracks employment in the entertainment industry, the investment in draws, the revenue it generates, its impact on the balance of trade.
Blunting a knife so that you can't cut yourself is morally equivalent to how the interest groups want to solve the issues you brought up.
There are table saws which can stop in an instant before amputating your fingers. The technological solution protects the user. The saw still does its job of cutting wood.
We are technologists. The effect of these laws is to either blunt our tools into uselessness or turn them into convoluted black boxes that only a privileged few are allowed to completely understand and manipulate
You are the elite, both economically and technically. To everyone else, a computer program or a piece of hardware is a black box only the privileged few can understand and manipulate to their advantage.
The Geek is wholly blind to the impression he makes outside his own community. There is a price to be paid for this, and I think the bill may be coming due.
The free-as-in-beer music and movies on the P2P nets can be most simply described as a middle class entitlement.
You need a computer, broadband service, a burner, gigabytes or terabytes of storage to get that far. The spindle of disks you buy without thinking represents three hours work at minimum wage.
It is the paying customer, the clerk at Walmart who buys a Disney movie for her kids, who subsidizes your P2P habit.
When will US politicians realise that giving an act a really silly name just to create an acronym makes them look like lightweights?
The politician needs a simple, memorable, word or phrase. Calling his new bill The Patriot Act and half the battle is won.
Microsoft promotes its new OS as Windows Vista. In a market dominated by Photoshop, FOSS limps along with The GIMP.
Then comes the tricky part: legislation. The resistance from the lazy public and business will be incredible - it'll be seen as one extra unnecessary expense - but it has to be done.
Because you say so.
Because to the Geek's way of thinking it has to be one or the other, all or nothing, my way or the highway.
The perfect formula for failure in American politics.
With that kind of money they can probably buy an old cruise liner or cargo ship and then have a mobile platform that truly lives outside of territorial waters.
Whose flag do you fly?
The pirate fantasy is for the Geek on dry land.
Naval veseels and coastal patrols ---whatever flag they bear-- will not want you around.
You are not depriving the owner of the thing you are taking, hence it is not a theft. Just at taking a picture of your house isn't stealing your house.
The theftt in copyright infringement is that of the intangible property right of exclusive distribution. The idea that intangible property can be stolen is not a exactly a new idea in any capitalist society.
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the first thing they teach you is to keep your big mouth shut.
and the total number of laptops on campus would be----?
Why?
You might begin by asking why 93% of Linux users poll as male.
Unscientific, sure, but still very disquieting. This is not what I want to hear if I am employing women, this is not want to hear if I am selling to women.
It suggests problems with the user interface. It suggests problems with applications.
It suggests that on some elemental level that Linux may not be the right choice for 51% of the population.
"The road to hell" and all that.
No can be compelled to believe in your good intentions.
Your actions were disruptive, possibly hostile, and that is all anyone will ever need or want to know.
There have been exceptions, of course.
But, broadly speaking, telephone companies in the states have been privately owned since the introduction of the service in the late 1870's. As was the telegraph before them.
If there is a practical distinction to be made here, I am not sure I can see it.
The inventive "Connecticut Yankee" of the 1790's wasn't playing with wooden gears and cogs as an intellectual exercise. He was in the business of making an affordable mantle clock.
Shakespeare was alert to stories and genres that were growing in appeal and significance to his audience: a vacant throne, a disputed succession that ends in civil war. But his version of the tale tended to submerge all that had come before.
Shakespeare's plays were also his livelihood and the prime assets of his theatrical company. You do not go to law to settle performance rights when the throne and those close to the throne are your financial backers.
This system would contradict one of the basic realities of this universe: ideas are infinitely duplicable at no cost other than the medium to store them.
The key word here is "duplication."
You can not copy what does not exist. The $100 million dollar production budget of a Pixar film isn't summoned out of the air. The storage or distribution media may be cheap. That doesn't guarantee the production or distribution of a reader or recorder that can be purchased without taking on a second mortgage.That doesn't guarantee the production of a reader or recorder that is anything but a sealed black box.
I've made a copy. I can then repost it if I feel so inclined.
Only if someone is willing to provide the postal service at a price you can afford and under the terms and conditions you are willing to accept. Uploads can be capped. Traffic can be monitored.
your example is efficient for the wholesale buyer and the wholesale seller. the fruit is likely to be of better quality because it receives less handling.
The first reason is that content sells. The "Collector's Edition." The second reason is that one pressing can do the work of many. Dialog and captioning for every language in your target market. Content edited for use with parental controls.
Dolores Chumsky's house leaks. There's no way to fix it. "Just try and get someone to come and make repairs," laments the Union, N.J., resident. "They may come in once, but they never come back." That's because Chumsky's innocent-looking suburban residence is a handyman's nightmare. It also stands as a monument to one of the most colossal flops in the history of scientific innovation. It is one of a dozen surviving examples of Thomas Edison's worst invention ever: the single-piece cast-concrete home.
Concrete homes, he said, would revolutionize American life. They would be fireproof, insect-proof, easy to clean. The walls could be pre-tinted in attractive colors and would never need to be repainted. Everything from shingles to bathtubs to picture frames would be cast as a single monolith of concrete, in a process that took just a few hours. Extra stories could be added with a simple adjustment of the molding forms. Best of all, the $1,200-dollar houses would be cheap enough for even the poorest slum-dwellers to afford.
A builder had to buy at least $175,000 in equipment before pouring a single house. Furthermore, nobody wanted to live in a residence that had been dubbed "the salvation of the slum dweller." Although Edison optimistically described an early model as "in the style of Francois I," it was more in the style of an oversized outhouse.Why Dolores Chumsky Hates Thomas Edison
Quake III Arena was released in 1999. The game engine licensed under the GPL in 2005. It is now 2007. The question isn't where Carmack has been, the question is where he is going.
because customers in every market are shying away from trusted distribution channels like iTunes?
they don't know you, the anonymous third party developer, but they sure as hell know Apple, and Apple's endorsement of your product is what they need to see.
The key word here is "average."
American cities -- the metropolitan area -- tends to be far larger and less densely populated than anything an Asian or European would recognize.
San Fracisco is not pool-table flat. Minneapolis in January is not Palm Beach.
How long will it take to make the exchange?
How much power will the station need to keep a adequate supply of charged cells on hand? If there is a storm, a blackout, how long will it be before every electric car is immobilized?
The politician multitasks. Taking a stand on one issue does not mean that others are ignored.
The politician never loses sight of the economic interests of his home districts. The Kansan keeps an eye on the market in beef and grain. The Texan does not ignore the Oil Patch.
The geek wastes his energies in talk of grandiose conspiracies.
The politician in L.A., New Tork or Nashville tracks employment in the entertainment industry, the investment in draws, the revenue it generates, its impact on the balance of trade.
There are table saws which can stop in an instant before amputating your fingers. The technological solution protects the user. The saw still does its job of cutting wood.
We are technologists. The effect of these laws is to either blunt our tools into uselessness or turn them into convoluted black boxes that only a privileged few are allowed to completely understand and manipulate
You are the elite, both economically and technically. To everyone else, a computer program or a piece of hardware is a black box only the privileged few can understand and manipulate to their advantage.
The Geek is wholly blind to the impression he makes outside his own community. There is a price to be paid for this, and I think the bill may be coming due.
The free-as-in-beer music and movies on the P2P nets can be most simply described as a middle class entitlement.
You need a computer, broadband service, a burner, gigabytes or terabytes of storage to get that far. The spindle of disks you buy without thinking represents three hours work at minimum wage.
It is the paying customer, the clerk at Walmart who buys a Disney movie for her kids, who subsidizes your P2P habit.
How many American radio listeners have ever regularly tuned in foreign broadcasters?
Shortwave, satellite, or streaming media.
Which would mean something if the Geek was a significant presence in the domestic consumer market.
The politician needs a simple, memorable, word or phrase. Calling his new bill The Patriot Act and half the battle is won. Microsoft promotes its new OS as Windows Vista. In a market dominated by Photoshop, FOSS limps along with The GIMP.
Because you say so.
Because to the Geek's way of thinking it has to be one or the other, all or nothing, my way or the highway.
The perfect formula for failure in American politics.
Whose flag do you fly?
The pirate fantasy is for the Geek on dry land.
Naval veseels and coastal patrols ---whatever flag they bear-- will not want you around.
"The sea is a harsh mistress." Expensive, too.
The theftt in copyright infringement is that of the intangible property right of exclusive distribution. The idea that intangible property can be stolen is not a exactly a new idea in any capitalist society.
Then you are an adult in need of supervision.
After all, you generally need a credit card to get internet service, and you generally need to be 18 to get a CC
Somewhat behind the times, aren't we?
Won't makes no difference to your new bunk mates at Club Fed.