But you read it (or rather, bought it) in English. Russians prefer Lord of the Rings. Master and Margarita's only notoriety was a brief flirtation with the western leftist intellgentia's brief infatuation with post-Communist anti-communism, and is already 10 years out of vogue. Most salons don't even have it on the shelf anymore, much less the end-table.
Ulysses was considered a masterpiece by many authors and critics long before it was even completed. And most of it's reputation rests on those initial reviews. The remainder of it relies heavily on the notoriety achieved by the "ban."
but notice how JK Rowling won instant critical acclaim and mainstream popularity. Gossip about the off-screen exploits of the post-teenage former child actor that portrayed Potter in the movies will long outlive the books, while the Lord of the Rings will make new actors and directors famous for generations to come.
Osama bin Laden's family hates him, they disowned him years before anyone in America ever heard of him. Oh yeah, and he has like 59 siblings, and heaps more cousins and grand-nieces, etc. Nnot all of them share his beliefs. Those that do, keep quiet about it for fear of being disowned and inprisoned themselves.
It's because if ignorant racists like yourself that the government was willing to evacuate honorable people whose only crime is that they happen to share his last name.
If I could get a telecommute job, I'd be perfectly happy to move to a remote area and pay $500/month for a T1. But of course, in most small towns you will have cable or DSL available for $50/month anyway.
Everyone in Korea uses cyber-cafes. Consider that the population is like 75 urban as well. And the country is "slightly larger than Indiana"
http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcsouthkor ea.htm
And by the way there are only 11 ISPs in South Korea. Do you want that?
Saltwater in your laptop is a problem (but solved, for a price.) Battery life is more problematic. But bookmarks exist for computers. Check out the new browsers.
They need to charge a real price. 99.99% of the cost of a book is in publication, distribution, etc. With e-books, 99.99% of those costs completely disappear, so the only costs left are the author & editor's time, and marketing.
The author isn't getting paid for his time, he's getting paid based on whether people like his book or not and want to buy it. That's called entrepenuership (why are so many writers communists?) Marketing is usually misguided, and thanks to the internet, research and targeting is almost infinitely better. Something good will out itself with very little encouragement. (The internet has also shown that often, no amount of money at all can hide the suck of something.)
So now we're down to the cost of editing. I think editors are valuable and should get paid. And I realize it will take time and money to get eBooks up and running. But guess what? Most of the editing work has already been done. And we're not likely to see much to supass it in skill or demand for a long, long time.
There are 81 years of copyright monopoly available to fund eBook publishers to seed their project for virtually zero cost. If they charged a penny for each one and sold everyone in America 1 book, that'd be close to 2 million dollars profit.
And there are hundreds of years of non-copyright material for entrepenuers to draw on.
I'd pay a penny a book for something written before 1923. I'd pay a dime for tons of stuff between 1923 and 1976. And there's probly even some stuff published since then that I'd pay a quarter for. At the drop on a hat. And I wouldn't even demand micropayments. I'd pay $20 up front (or even $20 a month) for access to a good publishing library. And that is pure profit. Pure. (I'll even provide the storage for 1000 volumes with 1000 downloads a month for free, just so I can have a tiny banner ad (no flash or animation) on the catalog page.
Yes you can. It may not be profitable for you to do so, but Real Networks has figured out how to do it with IPods. Honda doesn't (and wouldn't) have a problem with it. As a matter of fact, the auto industry is full of small (and large) companies who have found a way to use cars outside the scope of the manufacturer's intentions. You can even take your Honda to a NON-FACTORY-AUTHORIZED mechanic to fix it if you want, or even do it yourself.
Reagan came along to be at the right place at the right time for the economic recovery, but Gorbachev singlehandedly dismantled communism? (Not that that's necessarily a good thing, right?)
They were both products of their time, which is why they both ended up in the positions they were in. Ford and Carter sank the economy because the economy was sinking, that's why they got put in place. Brezhnev stagnated the soviet economy because it was a stagnant economy. What's cause and what's effect?
It doesn't matter. The US was stagnant in the 1970s and recovered in the 1980s. The soviet economic system was unsustainable.
While individuals were not responsible, they were indicative of the overall trends.
Who's not living in Reality? Are you just joking about the choice?
If we realize the government is nasty, then we can turn back the clock on progress and live in happy little neolithic villages with cell phones and penicillin. The other option is to believe in the pseudo-considerateness of the government, which you admit is not really considerate.
But I live in reality. Everyone is blind and my eyesight is going. Ba-a-a-a-a!
Your not an expert in finance, but believe you me, the real experts in finance who want you to believe that your money sitting in the bank is doing some good know that it isn't doing you or the economy any good.
If there wasn't enough money in the banks to meet the actual wealth being created (in the form of loans), the government would print more of it and sell it cheaper to the banks. Putting money in the bank doesn't increase circulation, it gives the banks the ability to charge interest, and leverage your own money against you if you try to compete with them.
A cheap private school will run you $10,000 if you live very far away from the smell of money. Nobody spends that much on lottery. $2 a week comes to approximately $100 a year. Not bad, considering you spend that much in two weeks on frivolous things they can't afford, but are just as stupid as lottery tickets. That $4 a day pack of cigarettes only comes to half of your 'spending money', athough if they quit, they could afford cable.
Bill Gates pays income tax on $350,000 a year. But every one of his 10,000 $60,000 a year programmers, got a tax cut too. So Bill can now afford to hire an additional 250 testers (at $40,000 a year), making Windows that much more secure (saving businesses $4.3 billion dollars by avoiding 2 internet worms), give his programmers a slight raise (on top of their $1000 extra pocket money from lower taxes), which means they can now afford a higher new car payment, which means more jobs in Detriot, I mean Dresden, I mean Veracruz.) and push a fraction of a cent more dividend to his shareholders, which, by the way includes him, which, by the way, are taxed less too, starting the cycle over again.
A game of chess is just a game of chess. Except when it's a multi-million dollar fund raiser for a 'rogue nation' under UN sanctions. You can disagree about the rogue nation bit or about the right of the UN to impose sanctions. But you can't call it just a game of chess.
No, you fucking morons. Listen to the tape. If you're on a jury, you can't say "I don't believe he has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because I wasn't paying attention when the evidence was shown."
Concerning the parent poster's forays into "logic", while it is technically true that denying the holocaust is not causatory evidence that he is anti-semite, it is strong corralary evidence. No one has ever denied the holocaust who wasn't anti-semite. Many anti-semites deny the holocaust.
Claiming Arabs are semitic means a priori accepting the 19th century Christian belief that the Jews and Arabs are both descended from Abraham, thus accepting the veracity of the Bible. Are you willing to do that?
I don't know that many Jews or Arabs subscribe to that particular dogma, and I doubt that there is any genetic evidence of it.
Anyway, "anti-semitic" means anti-jewish, and only in a racist sense. I apologise if your first language isn't English.
Are you such a Euro-centric bigot that unless something is endorsed by the European
Computer Manufacturers Association that it doesn't exist? Or are you just ignorant?
It would be, if there were any existing windows.forms based applications, which there aren't. There are a few.net apps which use windows.forms to wrap calls to standard win32 com objects. But mostly its still straight win32 programming, and doesn't look to change before longhorn, except for the form entry type custom one-off apps that people used vb for in the past, and use HTML for nowadays.
unless they learn how to deploy their apps on linux. It's just not good enough to target one or two point release for a couple of distros and (somehow) make it impossible to run or compile on all others.
Your local police are already Federal soldiers. Who do you think pays their salary? When it comes down to it, you're friendly neighborhood state patrol is going to draw on you before he resigns. And he's looking for someone to draw on anyway.
No, say you have a meeting where a couple of your speakers go too far and make openly seditious statements, or maybe fingers your organization to have ties with criminal or terrorist organizations, and it get's caught on tape.
Now, you wouldn't want to give it to someone who claimed to be an FBI agent or an MP, but if they said they were from the NEA, you might be more willing to give them a copy.
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But you read it (or rather, bought it) in English. Russians prefer Lord of the Rings. Master and Margarita's only notoriety was a brief flirtation with the western leftist intellgentia's brief infatuation with post-Communist anti-communism, and is already 10 years out of vogue. Most salons don't even have it on the shelf anymore, much less the end-table.
Ulysses was considered a masterpiece by many authors and critics long before it was even completed. And most of it's reputation rests on those initial reviews. The remainder of it relies heavily on the notoriety achieved by the "ban."
but notice how JK Rowling won instant critical acclaim and mainstream popularity. Gossip about the off-screen exploits of the post-teenage former child actor that portrayed Potter in the movies will long outlive the books, while the Lord of the Rings will make new actors and directors famous for generations to come.
Osama bin Laden's family hates him, they disowned him years before anyone in America ever heard of him. Oh yeah, and he has like 59 siblings, and heaps more cousins and grand-nieces, etc. Nnot all of them share his beliefs. Those that do, keep quiet about it for fear of being disowned and inprisoned themselves. It's because if ignorant racists like yourself that the government was willing to evacuate honorable people whose only crime is that they happen to share his last name.
Eight years ago, you'd never even heard of the internet. DSL wasn't available in most cities until 2000.
If I could get a telecommute job, I'd be perfectly happy to move to a remote area and pay $500/month for a T1. But of course, in most small towns you will have cable or DSL available for $50/month anyway.
Everyone in Korea uses cyber-cafes. Consider that the population is like 75 urban as well. And the country is "slightly larger than Indiana" http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcsouthkor ea.htm
And by the way there are only 11 ISPs in South Korea. Do you want that?
Saltwater in your laptop is a problem (but solved, for a price.) Battery life is more problematic. But bookmarks exist for computers. Check out the new browsers.
They need to charge a real price. 99.99% of the cost of a book is in publication, distribution, etc. With e-books, 99.99% of those costs completely disappear, so the only costs left are the author & editor's time, and marketing. The author isn't getting paid for his time, he's getting paid based on whether people like his book or not and want to buy it. That's called entrepenuership (why are so many writers communists?) Marketing is usually misguided, and thanks to the internet, research and targeting is almost infinitely better. Something good will out itself with very little encouragement. (The internet has also shown that often, no amount of money at all can hide the suck of something.) So now we're down to the cost of editing. I think editors are valuable and should get paid. And I realize it will take time and money to get eBooks up and running. But guess what? Most of the editing work has already been done. And we're not likely to see much to supass it in skill or demand for a long, long time. There are 81 years of copyright monopoly available to fund eBook publishers to seed their project for virtually zero cost. If they charged a penny for each one and sold everyone in America 1 book, that'd be close to 2 million dollars profit. And there are hundreds of years of non-copyright material for entrepenuers to draw on. I'd pay a penny a book for something written before 1923. I'd pay a dime for tons of stuff between 1923 and 1976. And there's probly even some stuff published since then that I'd pay a quarter for. At the drop on a hat. And I wouldn't even demand micropayments. I'd pay $20 up front (or even $20 a month) for access to a good publishing library. And that is pure profit. Pure. (I'll even provide the storage for 1000 volumes with 1000 downloads a month for free, just so I can have a tiny banner ad (no flash or animation) on the catalog page.
Yes you can. It may not be profitable for you to do so, but Real Networks has figured out how to do it with IPods. Honda doesn't (and wouldn't) have a problem with it. As a matter of fact, the auto industry is full of small (and large) companies who have found a way to use cars outside the scope of the manufacturer's intentions. You can even take your Honda to a NON-FACTORY-AUTHORIZED mechanic to fix it if you want, or even do it yourself.
Reagan came along to be at the right place at the right time for the economic recovery, but Gorbachev singlehandedly dismantled communism? (Not that that's necessarily a good thing, right?) They were both products of their time, which is why they both ended up in the positions they were in. Ford and Carter sank the economy because the economy was sinking, that's why they got put in place. Brezhnev stagnated the soviet economy because it was a stagnant economy. What's cause and what's effect? It doesn't matter. The US was stagnant in the 1970s and recovered in the 1980s. The soviet economic system was unsustainable. While individuals were not responsible, they were indicative of the overall trends.
Who's not living in Reality? Are you just joking about the choice? If we realize the government is nasty, then we can turn back the clock on progress and live in happy little neolithic villages with cell phones and penicillin. The other option is to believe in the pseudo-considerateness of the government, which you admit is not really considerate. But I live in reality. Everyone is blind and my eyesight is going. Ba-a-a-a-a!
Your not an expert in finance, but believe you me, the real experts in finance who want you to believe that your money sitting in the bank is doing some good know that it isn't doing you or the economy any good. If there wasn't enough money in the banks to meet the actual wealth being created (in the form of loans), the government would print more of it and sell it cheaper to the banks. Putting money in the bank doesn't increase circulation, it gives the banks the ability to charge interest, and leverage your own money against you if you try to compete with them.
A cheap private school will run you $10,000 if you live very far away from the smell of money. Nobody spends that much on lottery. $2 a week comes to approximately $100 a year. Not bad, considering you spend that much in two weeks on frivolous things they can't afford, but are just as stupid as lottery tickets. That $4 a day pack of cigarettes only comes to half of your 'spending money', athough if they quit, they could afford cable.
Bill Gates pays income tax on $350,000 a year. But every one of his 10,000 $60,000 a year programmers, got a tax cut too. So Bill can now afford to hire an additional 250 testers (at $40,000 a year), making Windows that much more secure (saving businesses $4.3 billion dollars by avoiding 2 internet worms), give his programmers a slight raise (on top of their $1000 extra pocket money from lower taxes), which means they can now afford a higher new car payment, which means more jobs in Detriot, I mean Dresden, I mean Veracruz.) and push a fraction of a cent more dividend to his shareholders, which, by the way includes him, which, by the way, are taxed less too, starting the cycle over again.
A game of chess is just a game of chess. Except when it's a multi-million dollar fund raiser for a 'rogue nation' under UN sanctions. You can disagree about the rogue nation bit or about the right of the UN to impose sanctions. But you can't call it just a game of chess.
He's only 3. Most people that age seem slightly retarded, and not particularly good at 'complex actions.' Give him the benefit of the doubt.
No, you fucking morons. Listen to the tape. If you're on a jury, you can't say "I don't believe he has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because I wasn't paying attention when the evidence was shown." Concerning the parent poster's forays into "logic", while it is technically true that denying the holocaust is not causatory evidence that he is anti-semite, it is strong corralary evidence. No one has ever denied the holocaust who wasn't anti-semite. Many anti-semites deny the holocaust.
Claiming Arabs are semitic means a priori accepting the 19th century Christian belief that the Jews and Arabs are both descended from Abraham, thus accepting the veracity of the Bible. Are you willing to do that?
I don't know that many Jews or Arabs subscribe to that particular dogma, and I doubt that there is any genetic evidence of it.
Anyway, "anti-semitic" means anti-jewish, and only in a racist sense. I apologise if your first language isn't English.
Are you such a Euro-centric bigot that unless something is endorsed by the European Computer Manufacturers Association that it doesn't exist? Or are you just ignorant?
It would be, if there were any existing windows.forms based applications, which there aren't. There are a few .net apps which use windows.forms to wrap calls to standard win32 com objects. But mostly its still straight win32 programming, and doesn't look to change before longhorn, except for the form entry type custom one-off apps that people used vb for in the past, and use HTML for nowadays.
unless they learn how to deploy their apps on linux. It's just not good enough to target one or two point release for a couple of distros and (somehow) make it impossible to run or compile on all others.
Your local police are already Federal soldiers. Who do you think pays their salary? When it comes down to it, you're friendly neighborhood state patrol is going to draw on you before he resigns. And he's looking for someone to draw on anyway.
No, say you have a meeting where a couple of your speakers go too far and make openly seditious statements, or maybe fingers your organization to have ties with criminal or terrorist organizations, and it get's caught on tape. Now, you wouldn't want to give it to someone who claimed to be an FBI agent or an MP, but if they said they were from the NEA, you might be more willing to give them a copy.
I'll bet there weren't any real muslim women there, and I'll guarantee that there was seditious activity there.