I wouldn't mind buying a limited book-reading license. But I'm not so keen on paying the same price as an actual book. Also, it should be advertised as such. "License to read with unlimited re-download access. Expires three months." or "tied to device, one download only" or whatever.
But those things are less valuable to most readers than a perpetual, transferrable license would be. The price should therefore be correspondingly lower.
Gah. Looks like I'll be switching to kindle or sony when I get tired of my current reader. Hopefully I'm wrong about the jump to the backlit bandwagon, but it sure looks like they're trying to be an iPad, only less useful.
Advertising.. sure, why not. no-money books will be good for everyone. But why does the choice have to be between way-overpriced in terms of money, and overpriced in terms of time - advertisements. Why not just price the books at what they're really worth, and make it up in volume. Especially as the marginal cost of an eBook is almost entirely licensing. If eBooks couldn't be shared or copied, but were all between $1 to $3...
There's nothing illegal with adding straight pipes to your car or bike. The illegal part comes later, when you attempt to drive your new yard sculpture on the public highways. But that yard sculpture would've been illegal to drive on public roads even if the manufacturers had built it with straight pipes. Also, you're a douche for even wanting them.
Of course, if you install them on a rental car, or on someone else's vehicle without their permission, then you might be talking about the actual installation being illegal.
I'd assume, though, that there's something in Symbian or in the way Nokia uses symbian. which makes this impractical.
Indeed there is: cell companies adopted a strategy early on of "never, never, never deliver software updates to old phones" where "old" is "already purchased." If your phone didn't have annoying bugs in it, what would encourage you to get a new one after the 18-24 month financing deal was up, and lock in a new plan?
In a sense, their "software update" plan has always been, "buy a new phone"
If you're talking about psychics, the reason more of them don't win the lottery is that they can also take a peek at what happens after they win the lottery. Which they might not like.
Erm.. they're claiming to be able to predict tsunamis in the aftermath of earthquakes, not the earthquakes themselves.
Although earthquakes, too, should be predictable if you can get the right measuring equipment in the right places: "just" measure the strain, and when it gets close to the slip point, earthquake is likely.
Anyway, the software IBM is talking about doesn't do that. It takes the earthquake as data input, and spits out the likely damage resulting as information output. Something that is both useful, and not impossible.
Furthermore, newer cars aren't "safer". They handle better and are more controllable due to innovations in suspension and steering, and have a safer compartment resulting in better safety, but the vehicles themselves are less likely to survive even a 'mild' fender bender without thousands of dollars in a rebuild.
In other words they are safer in every way, but they sacrifice durability to obtain it.
Indeed. I'll take an accident I can walk away from, over one where my heirs can still sell the car. I fail to see how the latter could in any way be called "safer."
But they scale down, so you don't actually have to get as much storage in the SSD if you don't need it. Hard drives have a minimum capacity before you don't get any savings by going smaller.
It makes perfect sense if you think, well, maybe they don't really want to ban Google TV. More likely, they want to make a deal with Google, whereby Google pays them for the privilege of using their content.
And google's action makes perfect sense, too. If "everyone knows it's the wave of the future" then they can just wait for the networks to come around.. and pay Google for the privilege....
Yes, that works if the addresses don't encode any geographic or routing information. If you can just lamely assign any old address to any old device no matter where it connects on, then yeah, you could spread over the whole earth like that.
But the real reason it needs to be much bigger than it would appear is that if it's big enough, you can let unfathomably huge blocks sit forever unused in order to allow the address itself to hint at the routing, so that you can have dumb routes that only have to look at part of the address to know where where to send it next.. you know.. every thing that starts with 3 goes left, 2 goes right, etc.
Simply assigning unique information to every thing on the network is necessary, but not sufficient.
It's easy to see why McCain was chosen to be Obama's runner-up, then. At the top, both parties are the same, and they have a narrative that they want to get out there in order to control you.
It's a subtle enslavement, but it's quite clear: they control the questions, and tell you what the choices are, If you accept that those are the choices, they've already got you before you even make a decision.
On that chart, only the recounts that didn't actually take place seem to have gone for Gore. All of the real recounts, in which Gore's people were somehow allowed to cherry pick the counties recounted, had Bush winning.
Why if only they'd done the constitutionally mandated full recount instead of the gore-friendly cherry-picked recount, maybe gore would've won....
Not really. Although the sun does emit in the microwave band, the fraction of the total power there is very low. You can do the math yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law
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I wouldn't mind buying a limited book-reading license. But I'm not so keen on paying the same price as an actual book. Also, it should be advertised as such. "License to read with unlimited re-download access. Expires three months." or "tied to device, one download only" or whatever.
But those things are less valuable to most readers than a perpetual, transferrable license would be. The price should therefore be correspondingly lower.
Gah. Looks like I'll be switching to kindle or sony when I get tired of my current reader. Hopefully I'm wrong about the jump to the backlit bandwagon, but it sure looks like they're trying to be an iPad, only less useful.
Advertising.. sure, why not. no-money books will be good for everyone. But why does the choice have to be between way-overpriced in terms of money, and overpriced in terms of time - advertisements. Why not just price the books at what they're really worth, and make it up in volume. Especially as the marginal cost of an eBook is almost entirely licensing. If eBooks couldn't be shared or copied, but were all between $1 to $3...
Yea but it only goes off every 50,000 years or so, and the last time was at least that long ago...
There's nothing illegal with adding straight pipes to your car or bike. The illegal part comes later, when you attempt to drive your new yard sculpture on the public highways. But that yard sculpture would've been illegal to drive on public roads even if the manufacturers had built it with straight pipes. Also, you're a douche for even wanting them.
Of course, if you install them on a rental car, or on someone else's vehicle without their permission, then you might be talking about the actual installation being illegal.
And a drug-sniffing robot is significantly different from a drug-scanning, wang-revealing, danger beam mobile.
Where have I heard this story before...
My library HAS eBooks....
Bad example. Copyright on Tolstoy expired long ago.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
Book 2600, even....
I'd assume, though, that there's something in Symbian or in the way Nokia uses symbian. which makes this impractical.
Indeed there is: cell companies adopted a strategy early on of "never, never, never deliver software updates to old phones" where "old" is "already purchased." If your phone didn't have annoying bugs in it, what would encourage you to get a new one after the 18-24 month financing deal was up, and lock in a new plan?
In a sense, their "software update" plan has always been, "buy a new phone"
If you're talking about psychics, the reason more of them don't win the lottery is that they can also take a peek at what happens after they win the lottery. Which they might not like.
Erm.. they're claiming to be able to predict tsunamis in the aftermath of earthquakes, not the earthquakes themselves.
Although earthquakes, too, should be predictable if you can get the right measuring equipment in the right places: "just" measure the strain, and when it gets close to the slip point, earthquake is likely.
Anyway, the software IBM is talking about doesn't do that. It takes the earthquake as data input, and spits out the likely damage resulting as information output. Something that is both useful, and not impossible.
The part where you want to start moving again when the light turns green...
Furthermore, newer cars aren't "safer". They handle better and are more controllable due to innovations in suspension and steering, and have a safer compartment resulting in better safety, but the vehicles themselves are less likely to survive even a 'mild' fender bender without thousands of dollars in a rebuild.
In other words they are safer in every way, but they sacrifice durability to obtain it.
Indeed. I'll take an accident I can walk away from, over one where my heirs can still sell the car. I fail to see how the latter could in any way be called "safer."
Eh.. where are testing them, on a ski slope?
That's news to me; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
Just like with Flash...
But they scale down, so you don't actually have to get as much storage in the SSD if you don't need it. Hard drives have a minimum capacity before you don't get any savings by going smaller.
It makes perfect sense if you think, well, maybe they don't really want to ban Google TV. More likely, they want to make a deal with Google, whereby Google pays them for the privilege of using their content.
And google's action makes perfect sense, too. If "everyone knows it's the wave of the future" then they can just wait for the networks to come around.. and pay Google for the privilege....
Well it makes a lot more sense when you realize the high desert is actually covered in swampland.
Uh... The ad was for a nursing school....
Yes, that works if the addresses don't encode any geographic or routing information. If you can just lamely assign any old address to any old device no matter where it connects on, then yeah, you could spread over the whole earth like that.
But the real reason it needs to be much bigger than it would appear is that if it's big enough, you can let unfathomably huge blocks sit forever unused in order to allow the address itself to hint at the routing, so that you can have dumb routes that only have to look at part of the address to know where where to send it next.. you know.. every thing that starts with 3 goes left, 2 goes right, etc.
Simply assigning unique information to every thing on the network is necessary, but not sufficient.
Why can they auto-tune the vocals, but can't do a damn thing about the "smoker's rasp"?
It's easy to see why McCain was chosen to be Obama's runner-up, then. At the top, both parties are the same, and they have a narrative that they want to get out there in order to control you.
It's a subtle enslavement, but it's quite clear: they control the questions, and tell you what the choices are, If you accept that those are the choices, they've already got you before you even make a decision.
On that chart, only the recounts that didn't actually take place seem to have gone for Gore. All of the real recounts, in which Gore's people were somehow allowed to cherry pick the counties recounted, had Bush winning.
Why if only they'd done the constitutionally mandated full recount instead of the gore-friendly cherry-picked recount, maybe gore would've won....
Not really. Although the sun does emit in the microwave band, the fraction of the total power there is very low. You can do the math yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law