A business can only survive if it sells its products for more money than they cost to produce. wrong. A business can only survive if it makes more money than their products cost to produce. It is not necessary to make the money selling the products.
The point is that it isn't even feasible to sell products if they can be made extremely cheap, because people don't like using their credit card for 1 cent. But since you can reach a huge public with a product that cheap, you can find other way to make money, based on reputation/ mindshare / attention or however you want to call it.
Is this new? Maybe not, but many people -including you- don't really seem to grasp it.
Also, because of the extremely cheap distribution, volunteer work can have a much bigger impact. You can't make free soup for the whole world, but you can make free software/ music/whatever available for the whole world. This isn't limited to volunteers either; anyone with money to spare can pay someone to develop a program and publish it for free. There are enough people and organizations around who may be motivated to do just that, in many cases to great personal benefit.
This holiday is actually the anniversary of the end of WWI. It is celebrated in several countries as armistice day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day. The Google logo was quite appropriate for this. If the USA want to celebrate their veterans that day, fine, but that's no reason to forget the origin of the holiday. To us in Belgium it's a holiday about peace, not about war (or those who wage it).
At the university of Antwerp (UA),the profs are obliged to release course materials to the "print shop" of the university, where it can be bought by the students for the price of the paper.
This is considered a part of the job of the profs, which they are payed for with tax money, so it's only fair. They have high wages so they don't need to make more money by selling their books, and by printing in-house there is no publishing company that needs to make a profit either.
anyhoo, dutch refers to the old word that was used for the dutch language, 'duits'. Which is in effect now used for the german language...
It's a small difference, but still... it's 'diets', not 'duits'.
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noscript block flash too, no need for flashblock. I do recommend noscript to everyone I know, but most people just don't care.
Is this new? Maybe not, but many people -including you- don't really seem to grasp it.
Also, because of the extremely cheap distribution, volunteer work can have a much bigger impact. You can't make free soup for the whole world, but you can make free software/ music
This holiday is actually the anniversary of the end of WWI. It is celebrated in several countries as armistice day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day. The Google logo was quite appropriate for this. If the USA want to celebrate their veterans that day, fine, but that's no reason to forget the origin of the holiday. To us in Belgium it's a holiday about peace, not about war (or those who wage it).
I'm not falling for it! You have read xkcd! http://xkcd.com/326/
I don't think it would be easy to get these to work from a distance though. (Imagine what a politician could do with it then... scary)
At the university of Antwerp (UA),the profs are obliged to release course materials to the "print shop" of the university, where it can be bought by the students for the price of the paper. This is considered a part of the job of the profs, which they are payed for with tax money, so it's only fair. They have high wages so they don't need to make more money by selling their books, and by printing in-house there is no publishing company that needs to make a profit either.
anyhoo, dutch refers to the old word that was used for the dutch language, 'duits'. Which is in effect now used for the german language...
It's a small difference, but still... it's 'diets', not 'duits'.