I occasionally have the experience of realising at 10pm that I've spent about an hour of billable time that day -- the rest was running errands, procrastinating, websurfing, reading news, socializing, etc.
I had assumed that a red cross (it's not even a cross, it's a +) was the universal symbol for hospital or medical care, and the Red Cross used it as its logo because of that. Maybe it's the other way around.
As was brought up many times in the Google print articles here, very few people will sit and read a book on their computer screen. I suppose there are a few, the same people who drive 10 miles out of their way to save.02/gallon on gas or to redeem a.25 coupon, but horay for them. You'd have to pay me a pretty good price to sit here and read a book online.
The bookstore is missing what i'm looking for more often than the library is. There aren't many bookstores that are bigger than the typical big city public library.
Considering that writers are the least paid of all professions, this would pretty much put an end to writing professionally if what you say comes to pass. Remember that few authors make more than 20 grand a year, and that includes the majority of best selling authors as well.
Authors that make less than $20k/year simply don't write good books. I can't see many people jumping at the chance to read a bad book just because they can get it for free.
This is why publishers are against google, as well as all the authors. They already make only pennies an hour when you figure out the time it takes to write a book versus the money paid. To have to give everything away for free? That would drive the entire publishing business under.
I doubt it would have any measurable effect on the publishing business. For one, the type of people who frequent the p2p networks generally aren't the type to sit down and read a novel. For two, who wants to read a book on their computer screen or printed out on a stack of copy paper? Wow e-books are really popular aren't they? I'll pay $5.95 for a paperback, or not read the book at all, before reading it on my computer for free. Hell you'd have to pay me to read a book on my computer, and I doubt I'm the exception.
Yup, all the preaching around here is retarded, especially when it comes to MySQL or and *gasp* PHP (OMG BUT IT HAS VARIABLE VARIABLES!!!!). If you really like Lisp or Ruby then you use it, what's to gain by trying to convert me? Do you get referral bonuses or something?
maybe, maybe not. but oscommerce really does suck. Unfortunately, through references i've become the "Go To" man for any and all OsCommerce projects for way too many clients, for hacks, fixes, modifications and shit like that. I don't like this, I don't want it, and i'm sorry I know the code so well. Yeah, the scripts may work, but the code is such a jumbled cluster fuck that you can't tell heads from tails. To add to the enjoyment, nearly all of the code is duplicated in the/admin/ folder so you get to double up all of your edits. Apparently, there wasn't any reasonable way available to share code between directories. So yeah, neener neener.
Or keep them out of the document root. Create a script that will allow you to select images, zip them up, and move them to a temporary directory within document root (and additionally create a.htaccess and.htpasswd file to protect the directory). Give the client the url and login, and have a cron script clean up the temporary files every day or two, or do it manually.
Well they did say the average punter, not the average NFL punter. Even though NFL punters make a lot of money, all other punters (college, high school, little league) make nothing. There are hundreds of thousands of non-NFL punters vs. a couple hundred NFL punters at the most, so that would effectively bring the average very low, well below poverty levels.
You also generally don't buy several or dozens of cars every year, nor do you have dozens of cars laying around the house. Also, people don't tend to rent a new car every weekend. Cars also don't cost $20.00 . Oh, and we're not talking about cars, we're talking about DVD's.
Tell me what right do you, or a mega-corporation such as Google, Inc, have to provide the full content of a copyrighted book available on the web
Where the hell did you get that? Nowhere does it even hint that the full content of the book is available online. Have you tried it? You get the page your search terms are found on, and then the next and previous pages for context.
Even if they did provide the full content, or if someone tried to assemble a full book by repeatedly searching until they got every page, who in their right mind would want to read it on their computer screen? Or printed out on a stack of copy paper?
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handy for conversions too: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&saf e=off&q=99+miles+in+fathoms&btnG=Search
I occasionally have the experience of realising at 10pm that I've spent about an hour of billable time that day -- the rest was running errands, procrastinating, websurfing, reading news, socializing, etc.
OMG are you me?
Yep same problem, my lunch break will usually entail gourging myself, a nap and a couple TNG re-runs, and maybe Dr. Phil.
Yeah because i'm sure they'd be happy to invite all of the shareholders in to discuss their illegal price fixing.
i've ordered around a dozen RapidSSL certs and the entire process never takes more than 15 minutes.
No it's not, quit karma whoring
i am now dumber for having read that.
I had assumed that a red cross (it's not even a cross, it's a +) was the universal symbol for hospital or medical care, and the Red Cross used it as its logo because of that. Maybe it's the other way around.
the LAPD may have been the bad guys, but i'd hardly call Rodney King the good guy.
apparently you were more interested in getting first post than reading tfa.
No shit, if anyone can afford it it's Google. Christ, they could afford to pay for billions of downloads.
As was brought up many times in the Google print articles here, very few people will sit and read a book on their computer screen. I suppose there are a few, the same people who drive 10 miles out of their way to save .02/gallon on gas or to redeem a .25 coupon, but horay for them. You'd have to pay me a pretty good price to sit here and read a book online.
I love the alternating caps, I wish I would've thought of that...
Organized Religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people. - Jesse Ventura
The bookstore is missing what i'm looking for more often than the library is. There aren't many bookstores that are bigger than the typical big city public library.
Considering that writers are the least paid of all professions, this would pretty much put an end to writing professionally if what you say comes to pass. Remember that few authors make more than 20 grand a year, and that includes the majority of best selling authors as well.
Authors that make less than $20k/year simply don't write good books. I can't see many people jumping at the chance to read a bad book just because they can get it for free.
This is why publishers are against google, as well as all the authors. They already make only pennies an hour when you figure out the time it takes to write a book versus the money paid. To have to give everything away for free? That would drive the entire publishing business under.
I doubt it would have any measurable effect on the publishing business. For one, the type of people who frequent the p2p networks generally aren't the type to sit down and read a novel. For two, who wants to read a book on their computer screen or printed out on a stack of copy paper? Wow e-books are really popular aren't they? I'll pay $5.95 for a paperback, or not read the book at all, before reading it on my computer for free. Hell you'd have to pay me to read a book on my computer, and I doubt I'm the exception.
Yeah I know what you mean, why buy CD's or MP3's when we have radios...
I don't know why but i'm sensing an anti-american vibe from you.
Yup, all the preaching around here is retarded, especially when it comes to MySQL or and *gasp* PHP (OMG BUT IT HAS VARIABLE VARIABLES!!!!). If you really like Lisp or Ruby then you use it, what's to gain by trying to convert me? Do you get referral bonuses or something?
maybe, maybe not. but oscommerce really does suck. Unfortunately, through references i've become the "Go To" man for any and all OsCommerce projects for way too many clients, for hacks, fixes, modifications and shit like that. I don't like this, I don't want it, and i'm sorry I know the code so well. Yeah, the scripts may work, but the code is such a jumbled cluster fuck that you can't tell heads from tails. To add to the enjoyment, nearly all of the code is duplicated in the /admin/ folder so you get to double up all of your edits. Apparently, there wasn't any reasonable way available to share code between directories. So yeah, neener neener.
Except OsCommerce really sucks balls.
Or keep them out of the document root. Create a script that will allow you to select images, zip them up, and move them to a temporary directory within document root (and additionally create a .htaccess and .htpasswd file to protect the directory). Give the client the url and login, and have a cron script clean up the temporary files every day or two, or do it manually.
Well they did say the average punter, not the average NFL punter. Even though NFL punters make a lot of money, all other punters (college, high school, little league) make nothing. There are hundreds of thousands of non-NFL punters vs. a couple hundred NFL punters at the most, so that would effectively bring the average very low, well below poverty levels.
You also generally don't buy several or dozens of cars every year, nor do you have dozens of cars laying around the house. Also, people don't tend to rent a new car every weekend. Cars also don't cost $20.00 . Oh, and we're not talking about cars, we're talking about DVD's.
Tell me what right do you, or a mega-corporation such as Google, Inc, have to provide the full content of a copyrighted book available on the web
Where the hell did you get that? Nowhere does it even hint that the full content of the book is available online. Have you tried it? You get the page your search terms are found on, and then the next and previous pages for context.
Even if they did provide the full content, or if someone tried to assemble a full book by repeatedly searching until they got every page, who in their right mind would want to read it on their computer screen? Or printed out on a stack of copy paper?