Given the life length of copyright in the US (thanks, Mickey Mouse!), the kind of book you describe is likely to be found at the Project Gutenberg archives.
They're advancing technology in ways nobody else would because there's no economic incentive. Take the water purification systems that are being deployed in African villages. It might not be a scientific leapfrog, but it sure makes the name of the US look better abroad.
You can combine it with public transportation. Ride your bike 2 miles to the lightrail/caltrain station, hop on, hop off, bike another 2 miles. I'm moving to the bay area this January, and the main constraint I'm applying to my home search is being within 10 miles ("biking distance" in my book) from work and about 1-2 from a train station. I think most of the bay area qualifies for most people. Especially the short distance to train station part.
There were several competing toolkits at the time. 3DFX, PHIGS, IrisGL (SGI property, evolved to OpenGL)... SGI couldn't compete in all the fronts they were facing at the time. Irix was being beaten by Linux, their processors (did they develop this themselves?) by Intel, and the myriad low end video cards was getting so good that no CTO could justify the purchase of a pricey SGI system. Standardization was what killed 3DFX, perhaps the most dangerous low end competitor at the time. However, NVidia (who hired most good SGI employees) had a much faster growing customer base. My guess is that, if SGI hadn't sponsored OpenGL, we would now have a few independent proprietary toolkits, but SGI would still be dead, and 3DFX perhaps still in the market. At least we got OpenGL in the process.
I like your ideas. I had thought similar solutions to the problem. However, your approach would allow exploits like having a successful 80-something year old writer freeze his sperm and have his wife or mistress inseminate herself on his deathbed just to prolong the goldmine another 18 years. It's creepy. Man, I should get back to work...
Well, I was joking. I'm from Spain, and there it's fairly common to give kids a spoon of liquor in a cup with warm water, honey and lemon when they've got a sore throat. About Listerine, if you're swallowing it, you're doing something wrong:).
It was silent and lively. Now it's silent _and_ deadly. The system was planted by Google to enable this bad joke in due time. Now it's got no purpose, so they're closing it anyways.
Tax-exempt status should be used to further the efforts of organizations that provide a public service that benefits us all. Mozilla does exactly that. Religions, on the other hand, can just work towards increasing membership and the IRS wouldn't dare remove their tax-exempt status even when they openly enter the turf of politics (see California prop 8 and the Church of the Latter Day Saints). I see a double standard there.
Funny thing, my girlfriend works at a small Hollywood producer, and she repeats the same story about their editors, only changing "compiling!" for "rendering!".
Then those people didn't really work in a startup, but in a fairly established company. If you work 40 hours and get only a small part of your salary in stock, it's not a startup in spirit.
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If you have a good phone and don't need an upgrade, you might want to keep it and save the $10 per month. I know I would.
Given the life length of copyright in the US (thanks, Mickey Mouse!), the kind of book you describe is likely to be found at the Project Gutenberg archives.
They're advancing technology in ways nobody else would because there's no economic incentive. Take the water purification systems that are being deployed in African villages. It might not be a scientific leapfrog, but it sure makes the name of the US look better abroad.
College wasn't free in California when I came in 2001.
The interesting thing would be doing this inside the video driver, since it'd be the exact same feature for every program.
It seems to be in various places over the interwebs
True, but it's much more efficient and easy to control/improve to have a centralized static burning facility than millions moving around.
You can combine it with public transportation. Ride your bike 2 miles to the lightrail/caltrain station, hop on, hop off, bike another 2 miles. I'm moving to the bay area this January, and the main constraint I'm applying to my home search is being within 10 miles ("biking distance" in my book) from work and about 1-2 from a train station. I think most of the bay area qualifies for most people. Especially the short distance to train station part.
There were several competing toolkits at the time. 3DFX, PHIGS, IrisGL (SGI property, evolved to OpenGL)... SGI couldn't compete in all the fronts they were facing at the time. Irix was being beaten by Linux, their processors (did they develop this themselves?) by Intel, and the myriad low end video cards was getting so good that no CTO could justify the purchase of a pricey SGI system. Standardization was what killed 3DFX, perhaps the most dangerous low end competitor at the time. However, NVidia (who hired most good SGI employees) had a much faster growing customer base. My guess is that, if SGI hadn't sponsored OpenGL, we would now have a few independent proprietary toolkits, but SGI would still be dead, and 3DFX perhaps still in the market. At least we got OpenGL in the process.
I have thought this exact thing so many times. Even their books are not that great... And I love (the idea of) Blender, don't get me wrong.
I like your ideas. I had thought similar solutions to the problem. However, your approach would allow exploits like having a successful 80-something year old writer freeze his sperm and have his wife or mistress inseminate herself on his deathbed just to prolong the goldmine another 18 years. It's creepy. Man, I should get back to work...
Well, I was joking. I'm from Spain, and there it's fairly common to give kids a spoon of liquor in a cup with warm water, honey and lemon when they've got a sore throat. About Listerine, if you're swallowing it, you're doing something wrong :).
Ok, now it's just getting worse, you're advocating alcohol consumption by 10 year olds :).
Cheney and Gonzales got indicted, don't forget that.
How's that for a name choice?
In fact, I'm surprised the GP ignored JS. You should have labeled it 0).
One fewer 't' and I'm in that flight!
It was silent and lively. Now it's silent _and_ deadly. The system was planted by Google to enable this bad joke in due time. Now it's got no purpose, so they're closing it anyways.
Tax-exempt status should be used to further the efforts of organizations that provide a public service that benefits us all. Mozilla does exactly that. Religions, on the other hand, can just work towards increasing membership and the IRS wouldn't dare remove their tax-exempt status even when they openly enter the turf of politics (see California prop 8 and the Church of the Latter Day Saints). I see a double standard there.
Can you imagine a Beowu... *gasp*, *ducks*
Now wouldn't it be awesome if they wiped Windows and install Linux after all the PR people leave?
Funny thing, my girlfriend works at a small Hollywood producer, and she repeats the same story about their editors, only changing "compiling!" for "rendering!".
Then those people didn't really work in a startup, but in a fairly established company. If you work 40 hours and get only a small part of your salary in stock, it's not a startup in spirit.
You can't lab-test a star, but just smaller related phenomena. Does that make physics a non-science?
so easy, a Windows user could do it
If only Ubuntu had money for TV ads...