What if the book came out as an e-book first, and the dead tree version could come out a few weeks later. This would get a lot of people talking about e-books. It would also encourage readers to buy the e-book version (since it is released earlier) thus exposing more people to e-books. Consequently, it would result in double sales to hardcore fans since they'll buy both versions of the book.
This would be a win-win situation for both e-books and the author (who would profit from the double sales and the higher profit margins of e-books). Popular music artists (like Pearl Jam) have been doing this for years by releasing an album on vinyl before releasing on CD.
. . . well, not really. But, isn't building your own kernel part of what makes Linux so usable and unique? I've only recenlty become familiar with building a kernel. I was really surprised to find out how easy it was and how safe it was. I think that if you give users a tool that will make them more comfortable with recompiling the kernel, than more people will realize how easy it is to customize their OS. My sister uses Linux every day at her job (network engineer), but she's scared to death of compiling a new kernel.
Any utility that makes the non-coder linux-user more comfortable with building their own kernel is a good thing! It won't bring more users to linux, but will make linux more usable to the casual user.
You need to get 2 tivos. A tivo doesn't have the capability to encode 2 streams at once into mpeg2. DirecTivo's don't have to encode the signal, it's already in mpeg2 format. So you would need 2 mpeg2 encoders, more processing power, and a second tuner. That's a lot of extra hardware for added functionality that a few people would rarely use.
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What if the book came out as an e-book first, and the dead tree version could come out a few weeks later. This would get a lot of people talking about e-books. It would also encourage readers to buy the e-book version (since it is released earlier) thus exposing more people to e-books. Consequently, it would result in double sales to hardcore fans since they'll buy both versions of the book.
This would be a win-win situation for both e-books and the author (who would profit from the double sales and the higher profit margins of e-books). Popular music artists (like Pearl Jam) have been doing this for years by releasing an album on vinyl before releasing on CD.
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. . . well, not really. But, isn't building your own kernel part of what makes Linux so usable and unique? I've only recenlty become familiar with building a kernel. I was really surprised to find out how easy it was and how safe it was. I think that if you give users a tool that will make them more comfortable with recompiling the kernel, than more people will realize how easy it is to customize their OS. My sister uses Linux every day at her job (network engineer), but she's scared to death of compiling a new kernel.
Any utility that makes the non-coder linux-user more comfortable with building their own kernel is a good thing! It won't bring more users to linux, but will make linux more usable to the casual user.
You need to get 2 tivos. A tivo doesn't have the capability to encode 2 streams at once into mpeg2. DirecTivo's don't have to encode the signal, it's already in mpeg2 format. So you would need 2 mpeg2 encoders, more processing power, and a second tuner. That's a lot of extra hardware for added functionality that a few people would rarely use.