NYT has given content away on the web for free pretty much since the inception of the web. The number of on-line subscribers surpasses the dead-tree subscribers and they can't come up with a profit model for this. They know the on-line base will leave in droves if they go to a fee-based or premium content model (or at least live in fear of this) as long as there are other options for news.
Solution to this no-win scenario: political. Maybe an "anti-dumping" of news law....You know: "you're dumping news on the web for free and it's undermining our venerable (lap-dog) news industry cuz we know it costs $ to provide news and you can't be giving it away as that's commie-nism (or even worse socialism) and that ain't how capitolosem works you free-loading, IP stealing, P2P supporting, commie bastids"
With a 10x longer lifespan, we'd be able to at least make modest efforts to visit the nearest stars and comment on the "inter-stellar bypass" that the Vorlons(?)'s have planned for the local neighborhood (ref: Hitchhiker's Guide...).
Seriously, has anyone ever considered that maybe we ain't such great Darwinian examples as our lifespans are far to short to do anything meaningful in terms of stellar exploration. Assuming, of course, no new physics...
this distortion effect went under the name of "transient intermodulation distortion" and had to do with the "hard clipping" of transistor tech vs. tube tech. I remember reading about/seeing this in the early 80's....
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NYT has given content away on the web for free pretty much since the inception of the web. The number of on-line subscribers surpasses the dead-tree subscribers and they can't come up with a profit model for this. They know the on-line base will leave in droves if they go to a fee-based or premium content model (or at least live in fear of this) as long as there are other options for news. Solution to this no-win scenario: political. Maybe an "anti-dumping" of news law....You know: "you're dumping news on the web for free and it's undermining our venerable (lap-dog) news industry cuz we know it costs $ to provide news and you can't be giving it away as that's commie-nism (or even worse socialism) and that ain't how capitolosem works you free-loading, IP stealing, P2P supporting, commie bastids"
With a 10x longer lifespan, we'd be able to at least make modest efforts to visit the nearest stars and comment on the "inter-stellar bypass" that the Vorlons(?)'s have planned for the local neighborhood (ref: Hitchhiker's Guide...). Seriously, has anyone ever considered that maybe we ain't such great Darwinian examples as our lifespans are far to short to do anything meaningful in terms of stellar exploration. Assuming, of course, no new physics...
this distortion effect went under the name of "transient intermodulation distortion" and had to do with the "hard clipping" of transistor tech vs. tube tech. I remember reading about/seeing this in the early 80's....