Whatever the outcome of this forum is, the decision should greatly affect the future of the Gutenburg etext project. Spending hours looking at a white notepad file isn't the most exciting thing in the world...there's got to be something better.
Basically, a group of college students have discovered the short life of IPOD's battery(approx. 200 hrs.) Washington Post has done a follow-up to the story, dismissing their false claims & stating (correctly) it is only ~150 hours.
This is pretty much the only thing stopping online music vendors from huge success. $11.99 for a CD sounds great on paper, but your credit card rate raises it to that same price of around $13. However, the vendor making a sort of 'locked rate' deal with MasterCard, Visa, etc. should easily solve this problem...
Site's slow, so here is a website about the origins of Murphy's Laws: Origin of Murphy's Law
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British Petroleum (the BP gas stations) has apparenlty dedicated very much to solar energy: bpsolar
A testimonial on that site claims that their system had a 5-year payback; in other words, it cost the same as 60 months' worth of electric bills (anywhere from $6,000 to $18,000). Just like space tourism, more people will use it once it becomes practical.
Remember when *everything* on the internet was free, except internet acceess itself? The terrible thing about the U.S. dominating the internet is that just like every other otherwise-useful form of media here, it will become insanely commercialized and money driven. I can't even check the e-mail inbox I paid for without having to pay for another program to keep out messages trying to get me to pay for even another product.
Trust me, the interntet is here to stay, and commercialization can only make it less useful. The internet is the information superhighway, and charging people to access content will cause a major and irreversible traffic jam.
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http://www.metaspy.com/info.metac.spy/metaspy/unfi ltered.htm
See what people are searching for on MetaCrawler...
..Is using the letter "K" in every program made for the KDE Environment overKill?
Whatever the outcome of this forum is, the decision should greatly affect the future of the Gutenburg etext project. Spending hours looking at a white notepad file isn't the most exciting thing in the world...there's got to be something better.
Basically, a group of college students have discovered the short life of IPOD's battery(approx. 200 hrs.) Washington Post has done a follow-up to the story, dismissing their false claims & stating (correctly) it is only ~150 hours.
This is pretty much the only thing stopping online music vendors from huge success. $11.99 for a CD sounds great on paper, but your credit card rate raises it to that same price of around $13. However, the vendor making a sort of 'locked rate' deal with MasterCard, Visa, etc. should easily solve this problem...
Site's slow, so here is a website about the origins of Murphy's Laws:
Origin of Murphy's Law
British Petroleum (the BP gas stations) has apparenlty dedicated very much to solar energy: bpsolar
A testimonial on that site claims that their system had a 5-year payback; in other words, it cost the same as 60 months' worth of electric bills (anywhere from $6,000 to $18,000).
Just like space tourism, more people will use it once it becomes practical.
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Step 1> Convert computer glare into useful electricity. Step 2> ??? Step 3> PROFIT!
Trust me, the interntet is here to stay, and commercialization can only make it less useful. The internet is the information superhighway, and charging people to access content will cause a major and irreversible traffic jam.
Even George Bush took a ride on one, although any White House endorsement was somewhat undermined when he was catapulted over the handlebars.
That's what he would call bad driving strategery.