The thing is, any one of these groups has the ability to strike a deal with the author's guild. Google doesn't have an exclusive license. All they have to do is get up in a business Google's adopted and out-compete them in quality of service.
I can see why they'd rather fight it out in court, but that doesn't mean I favor their cause.
And get some offshore services called "remailers" to send the packages to. They rebundle your purchases and forward them to your real address. If you're really paranoid use several in a chain in different non extradition countries and pay extra for notification of warrant service.
Over the years, the novel has been subject to various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship; he states that Fahrenheit 451 is a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of "factoids", partial information devoid of context, e.g., Napoleon's birth date alone, without an indication of who he was.[6][7]
The two works do have a lot in common in this regard, but I think there's a subtle distinction between manufactured truth and just disassociating the populace from the culture that gives them reference to make them apathetic.
You do know what those loyalty cards from Borders are about, right? The ones where you get charged extra if you refuse to let them link your purchases to some personally identifying information? Sure, you can pay cash and pay extra, but if you put that "The Catcher in the Rye" on your visa, do you know they're not linking it anyway? What makes you think Amazon doesn't market your preference data?
If you want anonymity for your purchases online buy a prepaid credit card and buy from Firefox in privacy mode, from a remote desktop hosting account in a foreign country you pay for in eGold. If you want privacy from a bookstore pay more, in cash. You won't have as good a selection though.
None of these issues bear on the matter at hand. It's getting harder to manage your privacy. That's not Google's fault.
If these vendors want to scan a million books and put them online at a bookstore that takes eGold, doesn't use cookies and doesn't ask your name, you're a target market. Great. But somewhere in here there's a compromise that doesn't lose us the wealthy heritage of knowledge that are out of print books unavailable from any other source. Those books make up the majority of books ever printed after all.
I happened to be on a plane recently with the unspeakable pundit of SCO fame. The one who's adored throughout slashdot and groklaw for his insightful commentary. Starts with the "End" and ends early, phonetically.
The guy had a Kindle. You couldn't pay me to take the damned thing now. I don't care if it comes with the Library of Alexandria in html with illustrations in PNG and audio books of the great greek philosophers read by the authors themselves. If someone brings one in my house I'm smashing it.
No, they're not trying to prevent Google from having the sole right. They're trying to prevent Google from having any right. That's evil.
I have concerns about the risk of Google having too much power too. A motto only goes so far. But from where I sit they didn't get the market dynamic they have from buying up ideas and forcing people out of business with dirty tricks like some of these. They get their markets by competing and giving better service - doing what they do very well. That might be an advantage, but I have trouble coloring it an unfair advantage. Others have the chance after all to step up their game if they're able.
Their wealth abandoned and forgotten until the last copy is lost. Each was once a treasure, each contains something unique that once lost is gone forever. Who knows what nuggets of wisdom once enshrined in print might enlighten, inform, inspire or entertain a new generation? Nobody knows. We do know from dangling references in works of historical importance that a great deal has always been lost. Amazon knows that if people continue to have access to old books, they won't buy as many new ones. Microsoft knows that they must fight the Google on every front from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Yahoo, well, we all know why they're following Microsoft in this. And so this vile crew set their goal not to do it better but to prevent this service to mankind.
Google's effort fights the loss. It struggles to retain as much as possible against the inevitable creep of time. It's great, in my mind, that this goal even occurred to them. If some others want to compete in this worthy cause they should do so. But to fight against it is evil: not potential evil, but actual and active evil.
Count me with the people who don't see the Internet Archive's angle in this. It's basically taking their "archive everything" web idea and applying it to dead tree based data. If preserving the drunken mumblings of every blogger is important, surely preventing the loss of the writings of Arnold J. Toynbee and the host of others like him must be more so. Not everything worth preserving has been published on the Internet. Yet.
I knew that if I posted that line enough times, eventually somebody would dredge the referent back up for me. Thanks for digging out a lost archive from 1992! Great stuff. Now to find the original...
I was going to include a price comparison, but a few of the units tested (like the Corsair P64) don't seem to be carried anywhere as of yet. That said, prices generally do not sway far from the cost/GB of ~$2.75 set by Intel when they released their G2 drives at record low prices. The exception here is the SLC-based PhotoFast V4S, which will retail for a whopping $499 (that's $15/GB in case you ran out of fingers and toes).
I'm going to have to find a way to get one of these. Decent video, open formats, always on cellular wireless. A gorgeous interface. And I can add applications with apt.
I think a lot of projects are going to start putting more priority on compiling to the ARM platform.
Cool. Because we wouldn't want your measurements to be out of range of variance for a microwave or retail 60 Watt bulb. That would be bad.
It has probably occurred to you that people using that "supercomputer on your desk thing" might have different use cases than yourself. You've probably also considered that since this is slashdot, you might be talking to someone with NIST certified test equipment rather than a Kill-A-Watt purchased from Newegg.
It's cool that you're interested enough to buy your own test equipment. I wish more people were interested in the power consumption of their electronics. If they were, the requirements would come down faster than they are. As it is, they're coming down not because we here demand it, but because the emerging markets flat don't have it.
It's cute for a little while. But your body's not evolved to stare at your hands for eight hours, or touch the object of your gaze for the same.
If the screen is at a good viewing height, it's strain on your arms and shoulders. If it's at desk height, it's strain on your neck. In between it doesn't fit the work environment.
So... it's an interesting interface for special purposes or brief interactions, but not a good platform for evolution of an interface because if the news guy that makes it look cool had to use it all day he'd morph into a troglodyte in short order.
Stop by the Chinese embassy first and get a tourist visa. You need to purchase round trip tickets and environment staples in advance. Emigrants from outside PRC are forbidden.
Holy cow, that's what I was looking for, thanks! The Magma ExpressBox7. $2800 for 7 x4 electical, x16 physical slots and a x4 host adapter with cable, rackmount. That's why I like Slashdot.
This enables some interesting configurations of those 1TB PCIe attached SSDs.
Infiniband is nice of course, and I'm aware of it. I was looking for something with consumer grade pricing. The kind of Infiniband I would use to attach my motherboard x32 PCIe 2.0 to an external chassis with 8 x4 PCIe 2.0 cards costs more than my house - I think. I would be sure but apparently if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
The only problem with it that I see is the assumption that it's the duty of individuals to pursue the benefits of long life and accumulate property.
These may be good values to pursue as a society but one of the nice things about living in a free society is the freedom to choose different goals. If some choose to abandon the burden of education and the discipline of health maintenance in preference to short term gratification, who are we to say as individuals that they're stupid?
Some people don't want to die old, rich and well educated. They want to live fat dumb and happy.
Twice as fast again. x16 is 32GB/s. They're looking to support 3 graphics cards per PC, which is cool if you're into that whole supercomputer on your desk thing, but it's going to burn at least a kilowatt.
I'm sad we haven't seen external PCIe implemented. It was in the v2 specification. The idea of an external interconnect with that much bandwidth probably made some heavy players nervous.
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Prohibition II may soon be over.
The thing is, any one of these groups has the ability to strike a deal with the author's guild. Google doesn't have an exclusive license. All they have to do is get up in a business Google's adopted and out-compete them in quality of service.
I can see why they'd rather fight it out in court, but that doesn't mean I favor their cause.
And get some offshore services called "remailers" to send the packages to. They rebundle your purchases and forward them to your real address. If you're really paranoid use several in a chain in different non extradition countries and pay extra for notification of warrant service.
If your tinfoil hat is on that tight, that is.
I like Bradbury's Farenheit 451 better.
Over the years, the novel has been subject to various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship; he states that Fahrenheit 451 is a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of "factoids", partial information devoid of context, e.g., Napoleon's birth date alone, without an indication of who he was.[6][7]
The two works do have a lot in common in this regard, but I think there's a subtle distinction between manufactured truth and just disassociating the populace from the culture that gives them reference to make them apathetic.
How you doing, you scoundrel! I thought we'd lost you forever. It's good to see you back.
You do know what those loyalty cards from Borders are about, right? The ones where you get charged extra if you refuse to let them link your purchases to some personally identifying information? Sure, you can pay cash and pay extra, but if you put that "The Catcher in the Rye" on your visa, do you know they're not linking it anyway? What makes you think Amazon doesn't market your preference data?
If you want anonymity for your purchases online buy a prepaid credit card and buy from Firefox in privacy mode, from a remote desktop hosting account in a foreign country you pay for in eGold. If you want privacy from a bookstore pay more, in cash. You won't have as good a selection though.
None of these issues bear on the matter at hand. It's getting harder to manage your privacy. That's not Google's fault.
If these vendors want to scan a million books and put them online at a bookstore that takes eGold, doesn't use cookies and doesn't ask your name, you're a target market. Great. But somewhere in here there's a compromise that doesn't lose us the wealthy heritage of knowledge that are out of print books unavailable from any other source. Those books make up the majority of books ever printed after all.
I happened to be on a plane recently with the unspeakable pundit of SCO fame. The one who's adored throughout slashdot and groklaw for his insightful commentary. Starts with the "End" and ends early, phonetically.
The guy had a Kindle. You couldn't pay me to take the damned thing now. I don't care if it comes with the Library of Alexandria in html with illustrations in PNG and audio books of the great greek philosophers read by the authors themselves. If someone brings one in my house I'm smashing it.
Ah, bitterness. Sometimes it's a warm blanket.
The cause.
The effect.
Is our children learning?
No, they're not trying to prevent Google from having the sole right. They're trying to prevent Google from having any right. That's evil.
I have concerns about the risk of Google having too much power too. A motto only goes so far. But from where I sit they didn't get the market dynamic they have from buying up ideas and forcing people out of business with dirty tricks like some of these. They get their markets by competing and giving better service - doing what they do very well. That might be an advantage, but I have trouble coloring it an unfair advantage. Others have the chance after all to step up their game if they're able.
Their wealth abandoned and forgotten until the last copy is lost. Each was once a treasure, each contains something unique that once lost is gone forever. Who knows what nuggets of wisdom once enshrined in print might enlighten, inform, inspire or entertain a new generation? Nobody knows. We do know from dangling references in works of historical importance that a great deal has always been lost. Amazon knows that if people continue to have access to old books, they won't buy as many new ones. Microsoft knows that they must fight the Google on every front from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Yahoo, well, we all know why they're following Microsoft in this. And so this vile crew set their goal not to do it better but to prevent this service to mankind.
Google's effort fights the loss. It struggles to retain as much as possible against the inevitable creep of time. It's great, in my mind, that this goal even occurred to them. If some others want to compete in this worthy cause they should do so. But to fight against it is evil: not potential evil, but actual and active evil.
Count me with the people who don't see the Internet Archive's angle in this. It's basically taking their "archive everything" web idea and applying it to dead tree based data. If preserving the drunken mumblings of every blogger is important, surely preventing the loss of the writings of Arnold J. Toynbee and the host of others like him must be more so. Not everything worth preserving has been published on the Internet. Yet.
It's about depriving us of access to out of print books. That is all.
Is claimed to be a work of Steve Friedl et. al. link
Purported to be derived from "DEC Customer Service Memorandum", which appears to be lost.
I knew that if I posted that line enough times, eventually somebody would dredge the referent back up for me. Thanks for digging out a lost archive from 1992! Great stuff. Now to find the original...
We're the phone company.
From the article:
I was going to include a price comparison, but a few of the units tested (like the Corsair P64) don't seem to be carried anywhere as of yet. That said, prices generally do not sway far from the cost/GB of ~$2.75 set by Intel when they released their G2 drives at record low prices. The exception here is the SLC-based PhotoFast V4S, which will retail for a whopping $499 (that's $15/GB in case you ran out of fingers and toes).
Intel X25-M 160GB totally dominates in IOPS and doesn't suffer in the other categories. A clean win.
I'm going to have to find a way to get one of these. Decent video, open formats, always on cellular wireless. A gorgeous interface. And I can add applications with apt.
I think a lot of projects are going to start putting more priority on compiling to the ARM platform.
Cool. Because we wouldn't want your measurements to be out of range of variance for a microwave or retail 60 Watt bulb. That would be bad.
It has probably occurred to you that people using that "supercomputer on your desk thing" might have different use cases than yourself. You've probably also considered that since this is slashdot, you might be talking to someone with NIST certified test equipment rather than a Kill-A-Watt purchased from Newegg.
It's cool that you're interested enough to buy your own test equipment. I wish more people were interested in the power consumption of their electronics. If they were, the requirements would come down faster than they are. As it is, they're coming down not because we here demand it, but because the emerging markets flat don't have it.
Drive on!
It's cute for a little while. But your body's not evolved to stare at your hands for eight hours, or touch the object of your gaze for the same.
If the screen is at a good viewing height, it's strain on your arms and shoulders. If it's at desk height, it's strain on your neck. In between it doesn't fit the work environment.
So... it's an interesting interface for special purposes or brief interactions, but not a good platform for evolution of an interface because if the news guy that makes it look cool had to use it all day he'd morph into a troglodyte in short order.
Stop by the Chinese embassy first and get a tourist visa. You need to purchase round trip tickets and environment staples in advance. Emigrants from outside PRC are forbidden.
Holy cow, that's what I was looking for, thanks! The Magma ExpressBox7. $2800 for 7 x4 electical, x16 physical slots and a x4 host adapter with cable, rackmount. That's why I like Slashdot.
This enables some interesting configurations of those 1TB PCIe attached SSDs.
Infiniband is nice of course, and I'm aware of it. I was looking for something with consumer grade pricing. The kind of Infiniband I would use to attach my motherboard x32 PCIe 2.0 to an external chassis with 8 x4 PCIe 2.0 cards costs more than my house - I think. I would be sure but apparently if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
The only problem with it that I see is the assumption that it's the duty of individuals to pursue the benefits of long life and accumulate property.
These may be good values to pursue as a society but one of the nice things about living in a free society is the freedom to choose different goals. If some choose to abandon the burden of education and the discipline of health maintenance in preference to short term gratification, who are we to say as individuals that they're stupid?
Some people don't want to die old, rich and well educated. They want to live fat dumb and happy.
I was kind of hoping for a cable, so we could use expansion chassis like in the olden days. Also, for laptop docking.
Twice as fast again. x16 is 32GB/s. They're looking to support 3 graphics cards per PC, which is cool if you're into that whole supercomputer on your desk thing, but it's going to burn at least a kilowatt.
I'm sad we haven't seen external PCIe implemented. It was in the v2 specification. The idea of an external interconnect with that much bandwidth probably made some heavy players nervous.