I agree, there is a serious problem when knowledge is being restricted for monetary reasons. The journals though, do provide a valuable function. They elevate the level of science via their requirements.
The only solution I can think of that will allow journals to continue enhancing the level of science and that would allow free access to online journals is 'illegal' file sharing. Businesses and universities would still need to pay to avoid being sued. But ordinary people would be able to get them for free.
It seems that China is giving a fairly realistic estimate of what they can actually do. Unlike certain other space faring nations who think that they can get to Mars just by saying so.
I'm no economist of any sort, but isn't a cheap cost of living one of the major factors that allows poorer countries to provide cheap labour. Shifting the tax burden to consumables will just make it more expensive. Even if the income tax breaks do account for the increased consumption taxes, you create a situation where people outside the country must pay both income at home taxes and a U.S. consumable tax if they wish to purchase U.S. goods.
In a related study, people in the 60 - 100 age group play golf about 1.36 times more often than the average rate. The study also discovered that this age group was far more likely to die than any other agegroup.
It is insane that we are talking about music and profits when there are millions of people right now out there golfing themselves to death.
The downside (for O'Reilly) is that having an electronic book service makes every single book easily available for transfer over p2p. And the small relative file size means that you can download all of the O'Reilly books in less time than it takes to download a movie.
How thoughtful of the game industry to support the individual's right to raise their own children. Except that it is blatantly obvious that their only reason for doing this is so that they can take advantage of people who don't take an interest in what their kids are doing. The fact that the game industry is against it is fairly strong evidence that the problem exists to be taken advantage of.
I'm as against this kind of government regulation as the next guy, but that doesn't make the game industry in any way right.
I assume online games will be a big target for ads. Not only can they charge the advertisers for each viewing, they can charge extra for the names and credit card numbers of people who watched it.
Story is constricting. One of the key attractions to MMO games is the freedom you have as a citizen of the game world. Personally, playing a story driven rpg drives me crazy. All you're really doing is following the script written by the game designer. For me its much more entertaining being able to chose my own fate.
Well a 30 percent increase in the size of the game but only 10 new monster types. Sounds like a lot of things are going to be looking similar. Yeah i know that a monster's appearance isn't all that important to gameplay but still.
One problem with intelectual property is that more often than not, more than one person will have the same idea. Not only do you get a monopoly on your ideas and work, you also have a monopoly on MY ideas and work.
Part of the fun of online games is doing things for the first time. If you wait a year, yes you may avoid a few bugs but you will be missing out on the most interesting time of the game when everything is new and exciting.
It comes down to one thing. Downloaders are potential customers, but anyone sharing music is a competitor.
As to what is 'legal' consider for example a library. If the library has a photocopier and I take a book and photocopy it. It is quite obvious that I and not the library has violated the copyright.
The industry will keep going after people sharing and ignore the more criminal act of downloading inorder to reduce the supply and increase the demand. Once the demand is greater than the supply, it would be premium conditions for any of their own 'for profit' music downloading schemes.
The problem probably isn't the polls, its the president. Since the general consensus is that one of the candidates is in fact a moron, some people would be ashamed to admit they voted for him. This could skew the results towards the better candidate.
The law of exponential returns is an establised fact. Exponential return was the driving force behind the recent.com boom. And most companies will tell you how they expect to experience exponential groth in the near future.
The problem with democracy in today's world is that nearly everyone is uninformed. Since anyone's public comments, if they are the least bit contraversial (or even sound slightly contraversial when taken out of context), will no doubt be seen by a large portion of the population.
The result is that most polititions do their best to avoid revealing any information to the public about what they are doing. With polititions doing their best to hide what is really going on, from the public aswell as from opposing parties, how can anyone be expected to make an informed decision?
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So each IP will only cost 0.00000000000000000000000002 cents. Sounds like a good deal to me.
I agree, there is a serious problem when knowledge is being restricted for monetary reasons. The journals though, do provide a valuable function. They elevate the level of science via their requirements. The only solution I can think of that will allow journals to continue enhancing the level of science and that would allow free access to online journals is 'illegal' file sharing. Businesses and universities would still need to pay to avoid being sued. But ordinary people would be able to get them for free.
It seems that China is giving a fairly realistic estimate of what they can actually do. Unlike certain other space faring nations who think that they can get to Mars just by saying so.
I'm no economist of any sort, but isn't a cheap cost of living one of the major factors that allows poorer countries to provide cheap labour. Shifting the tax burden to consumables will just make it more expensive. Even if the income tax breaks do account for the increased consumption taxes, you create a situation where people outside the country must pay both income at home taxes and a U.S. consumable tax if they wish to purchase U.S. goods.
In a related study, people in the 60 - 100 age group play golf about 1.36 times more often than the average rate. The study also discovered that this age group was far more likely to die than any other agegroup.
It is insane that we are talking about music and profits when there are millions of people right now out there golfing themselves to death.
You have a fence around your yard?
What exactly are you trying to hide?
The downside (for O'Reilly) is that having an electronic book service makes every single book easily available for transfer over p2p. And the small relative file size means that you can download all of the O'Reilly books in less time than it takes to download a movie.
How thoughtful of the game industry to support the individual's right to raise their own children. Except that it is blatantly obvious that their only reason for doing this is so that they can take advantage of people who don't take an interest in what their kids are doing. The fact that the game industry is against it is fairly strong evidence that the problem exists to be taken advantage of. I'm as against this kind of government regulation as the next guy, but that doesn't make the game industry in any way right.
Where is the FCC? Maybe its time for the FCC to stop fucking around with morality and politics and spend some time actually doing their job.
I assume online games will be a big target for ads. Not only can they charge the advertisers for each viewing, they can charge extra for the names and credit card numbers of people who watched it.
Story is constricting. One of the key attractions to MMO games is the freedom you have as a citizen of the game world. Personally, playing a story driven rpg drives me crazy. All you're really doing is following the script written by the game designer. For me its much more entertaining being able to chose my own fate.
Didn't you hear? In preparation for the Xbox 360's release, Microsoft has submitted 360 slashdot articles.
Are you crazy? The gas prices on Mars are astronomical.
Well a 30 percent increase in the size of the game but only 10 new monster types. Sounds like a lot of things are going to be looking similar. Yeah i know that a monster's appearance isn't all that important to gameplay but still.
One problem with intelectual property is that more often than not, more than one person will have the same idea. Not only do you get a monopoly on your ideas and work, you also have a monopoly on MY ideas and work.
Part of the fun of online games is doing things for the first time. If you wait a year, yes you may avoid a few bugs but you will be missing out on the most interesting time of the game when everything is new and exciting.
It comes down to one thing. Downloaders are potential customers, but anyone sharing music is a competitor.
As to what is 'legal' consider for example a library. If the library has a photocopier and I take a book and photocopy it. It is quite obvious that I and not the library has violated the copyright.
The industry will keep going after people sharing and ignore the more criminal act of downloading inorder to reduce the supply and increase the demand. Once the demand is greater than the supply, it would be premium conditions for any of their own 'for profit' music downloading schemes.
The problem probably isn't the polls, its the president. Since the general consensus is that one of the candidates is in fact a moron, some people would be ashamed to admit they voted for him. This could skew the results towards the better candidate.
Its not perfect, last election I panicked and couldn't remember if I was supposed to mark an X or if it was a check mark.
Isn't that what they said about Iraq?
I'm hoping that it's possible to implement P2P web content.
Bandwidth would be paid for by the consumer rather than the web page in question. Unfortunately pages would no longer be vulnerable to slashdotting.
Private companies running the space industry? Am I the only one picturing bright yellow space ships with a spoiler on the back?
It would be easier for the government just to install spyware on everyone's computer.
The law of exponential returns is an establised fact. Exponential return was the driving force behind the recent .com boom. And most companies will tell you how they expect to experience exponential groth in the near future.
The problem with democracy in today's world is that nearly everyone is uninformed. Since anyone's public comments, if they are the least bit contraversial (or even sound slightly contraversial when taken out of context), will no doubt be seen by a large portion of the population.
The result is that most polititions do their best to avoid revealing any information to the public about what they are doing. With polititions doing their best to hide what is really going on, from the public aswell as from opposing parties, how can anyone be expected to make an informed decision?