For instance the famous book "Thinking in Java". by Bruce Eckel. According to him making it freely available online has lead to increased sales. Because *much* more people get to read the book and so more people recognize it as a good book and buy it. Two more book examples are "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Theory" by David MacKay And "Convex Optimization" by Boyd and Lieven. All these are excellent books.
Same might be true with music, although, I agree that it is yet to be tested.
Get it from http://toolbar.google.com. Autolink and spell check are there along with others. Useful tip is Alt+s takes you to the search box in the bar.
You can use Proxomitron personal proxy to remove ads, works better than adblock. You can buy a copy of opera to remove its banner. Atleast, you don't have to realign slashdot everyday, among all other things.
Almost every one is notified of the availability of new minor releases, right? and those who are savy enough to install firefox are savy enough to update too. So, You can pretty much divide 50 mil by 4.
Your statement has more validity than you realize. It's not only internet, everywhere one sees this again and again. e.g. Nuke was supposed to be a good thing too.
I am not sure who, in US, distributes trial version of MS Office. No one distributes full version for sure. Almost everyone offers to install it before shipping for a fee that is close to the retail cost of the MS Office. The PC makers get a good deal for the windows XP, but, not for the MS Office. Even if they installed trial one, people will have to buy the office suit paying a hefty fee after the trial period is over.
So, I think in this case OO.o has a fat chance of starting a movement. May be a marketing burst like firefox did, but targeting the OEMs, would work. Preinstalled OO.o can do wonders.
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For instance the famous book "Thinking in Java". by Bruce Eckel. According to him making it freely available online has lead to increased sales. Because *much* more people get to read the book and so more people recognize it as a good book and buy it. Two more book examples are "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Theory" by David MacKay And "Convex Optimization" by Boyd and Lieven. All these are excellent books.
Same might be true with music, although, I agree that it is yet to be tested.
that is why building a country takes more intelligence than playing civilization.
He did not say he was surprised, he said it was *unfortunate* that it was used. Makes sense to me.
Get it from http://toolbar.google.com. Autolink and spell check are there along with others. Useful tip is Alt+s takes you to the search box in the bar.
What is the point of protecting the freedom of organisation, if you are giving up individual freedom? Isn't it "penny wise and pound fool"?
All that is golden is not gold.
I am shocked! Is that for real? i.e. google approached your company and requested you to upload your content ?
I believe they would accept only paypal and that to non cc payment type.
I am sure I have a Netflix dc nearer to my home in Pittsburgh than a Wallmart store.
I am with you on this one. Open source softwares are sacred, as believed here. But, a good software is more so. Hats off to 'em.
You can use Proxomitron personal proxy to remove ads, works better than adblock. You can buy a copy of opera to remove its banner. Atleast, you don't have to realign slashdot everyday, among all other things.
RTFA. They are not trying to reduce the number of existing licenses.
These are the times I miss my mod points.
The One thing I hope NASA people not doing now is reading slashdot.
I don't think there will be a KDE 3.5. They will straight go to kde 4, which is supposed to make use of qt 4.
Hats off my friend. If I had mod points and if I could, I'd mod you +5 insightful.
Almost every one is notified of the availability of new minor releases, right? and those who are savy enough to install firefox are savy enough to update too. So, You can pretty much divide 50 mil by 4.
we could GPL huge softwares by petitions, like we did for Java, MS Office and Windows would be open source long time back.
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is the summary this?
.. indeed. Try and compare. let us know the results. Until then .. slashdot frontpage? I am confused.
Google might be getting complacent. Why not try something else ?
Umm.. why not
Your statement has more validity than you realize. It's not only internet, everywhere one sees this again and again. e.g. Nuke was supposed to be a good thing too.
All good guys die young :( aint it sad. I know I am going to live for 100 years. :(
I miss my mod points so much. When there is a good post I am outta points. :(
I am not sure who, in US, distributes trial version of MS Office. No one distributes full version for sure. Almost everyone offers to install it before shipping for a fee that is close to the retail cost of the MS Office. The PC makers get a good deal for the windows XP, but, not for the MS Office. Even if they installed trial one, people will have to buy the office suit paying a hefty fee after the trial period is over.
So, I think in this case OO.o has a fat chance of starting a movement. May be a marketing burst like firefox did, but targeting the OEMs, would work. Preinstalled OO.o can do wonders.
"But ya, neat though it is, not sure it's front page /. news worthy. However, I'm not one that makes those kind of decisions."
Gotta agree. Why is it news worthy? some cool javascript dhtml hack was removed from google site after one day and bravo! The hottest news of the day.