"Fall to public domain" makes it seem like some kind of failure. Wouldn't they really be "released to public domain", more like getting out of copyright prison?
If you are in an office setting, reams of paper make excellent monitor stands and are in plentiful supply. That having been said. I'd also recommend a real keyboard and mouse with the laptop off to the side.
L1 visas are worse. H1B is great compared to L1. When companies play the shell game they can get L1 workers over here on "internal company transfer" for a fraction of going local rates. (I'm looking at you AT&T)
I'm fine with this. I'm in a law class right now that has a printed text and a free PDF copy. I bought the printed text because I figured I'd like reading it better. I haven't even cracked the binding.
I won't live in a free house that's "almost as good" as on I've paid for. When I load up an OS I want it to do what I want with little to no tweaking at all. No source files... I don't need a wood shop, forge and raw materials to put up shelves in my house. Someone else does that and I put up the finished good. If I spend a day tweaking an OS I want it to be because I want to, not because I have to.
My entire car isn't "the engine", why do people insist on calling the case "the CPU"? If you don't know what it is, call it what you know it is... "the computer".
Are the water, electric, or sewer company responsible for someone who uses their products to do something illegal? no Even closer... Is the phone company responsible for someone conducting illegal business over their lines? Time and again this has been ruled a big NO.
Why then, should the provider of my data pipe be responsible for what I, or my neighbor, do with said bits?
Once this bacteria get going and turning sand to sandstone, how do you stop it? Are we then going to have to worry about all the world's sand getting turned to stone from rogue bacterial infections?
Honestly, who needs wireless on an eBook reader? As long as it's got a memory card slot and/or a USB port that's really all it needs. A keyboard is also another thing that's pretty much useless on a book reader. With a touch screen, the thing should pretty much just have a power button and no more.
If the screen is ok, the DRM isn't there, and I can get one for way less than $299, I'm there. Once something like this can go for $100, or even $150, I'm all over it.
The last thing a business needs is some pack of rain man coders directing where projects go. Deep coders are too hyper-focused to understand business needs and the people running the business are too focused on that to understand the code. In the real world where jobs depend on money and deadlines there need to be abstraction layers between the people writing the code and the people running the project.
Wouldn't it make more sense to base something on a volume particle system? You could start with only a few elemental particles... say, three (you could get smaller but we're trying to get simple)... and make up some rules about how they combine. make them up into, oh, say, 117 or so "elements" which you can then compound according to other rules. Each step in the chain can increase complexity.
The Romulans power their ships with "artificial" black holes. Could we magnetically contain one of these little guys and see what can be done with it if they last that long?
I'll switch to Blu-Ray when the price comes down to about double a cheap DVD player and a Blu-Ray disc costs the same as a DVD. Until then I'll simply download DRM free 1080p files to the PC hooked up to my 1080p tv.
Who still gets a pension? Everyone I know has to save on their own because nobody gets a pension. I fully expect to have to work until I can't get hired any more simply because there is no such thing as a pension any more. Pensions require working in the same place for a very long time with retirement benefits. The only retirement benefits I've ever seen are "you better save up or you're screwed" and "you'd better have kids, raise them right, and not alienate them because someone's going to have to support you at 70 when you can't get hired for anything but Wal-Mart greeter"
Caps are good news for hard copy media. Instead of looking for an NZB or torrent for some shows, I'm sure people will turn to renting and ripping. Caps are going to kill online distribution systems like Steam or Gametap.
naw, it would be more like Native Americans who can trace their lineage to the east coast getting together and moving to New Jersy, then declaring independence from the U.S. while kicking all the locals out of their houses.
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"Fall to public domain" makes it seem like some kind of failure. Wouldn't they really be "released to public domain", more like getting out of copyright prison?
If you are in an office setting, reams of paper make excellent monitor stands and are in plentiful supply.
That having been said. I'd also recommend a real keyboard and mouse with the laptop off to the side.
How about none of our e-waste leaves the country so we can reclaim as many of the rare earth elements as we can before handing things back to Asia.
L1 visas are worse. H1B is great compared to L1. When companies play the shell game they can get L1 workers over here on "internal company transfer" for a fraction of going local rates. (I'm looking at you AT&T)
I'm fine with this. I'm in a law class right now that has a printed text and a free PDF copy. I bought the printed text because I figured I'd like reading it better. I haven't even cracked the binding.
Too bad it's got a command line interface and the documentation only describes the theory behind flight, not how to actually fly the plane.
Does this great race come with a Natalie Wood ride-along and a pie fight in eastern Europe?
why they are going bankrupt.
Who wants to pay to put up with garbage like this?
Since it looks like they already have a pacifier in the mouth they must be great for clubbing.
I won't live in a free house that's "almost as good" as on I've paid for. ... I don't need a wood shop, forge and raw materials to put up shelves in my house. Someone else does that and I put up the finished good.
When I load up an OS I want it to do what I want with little to no tweaking at all.
No source files
If I spend a day tweaking an OS I want it to be because I want to, not because I have to.
My entire car isn't "the engine", why do people insist on calling the case "the CPU"? ... "the computer".
If you don't know what it is, call it what you know it is
Are the water, electric, or sewer company responsible for someone who uses their products to do something illegal? no ... Is the phone company responsible for someone conducting illegal business over their lines? Time and again this has been ruled a big NO.
Even closer
Why then, should the provider of my data pipe be responsible for what I, or my neighbor, do with said bits?
Once this bacteria get going and turning sand to sandstone, how do you stop it? Are we then going to have to worry about all the world's sand getting turned to stone from rogue bacterial infections?
Honestly, who needs wireless on an eBook reader?
As long as it's got a memory card slot and/or a USB port that's really all it needs. A keyboard is also another thing that's pretty much useless on a book reader. With a touch screen, the thing should pretty much just have a power button and no more.
If the screen is ok, the DRM isn't there, and I can get one for way less than $299, I'm there. Once something like this can go for $100, or even $150, I'm all over it.
The last thing a business needs is some pack of rain man coders directing where projects go.
Deep coders are too hyper-focused to understand business needs and the people running the business are too focused on that to understand the code.
In the real world where jobs depend on money and deadlines there need to be abstraction layers between the people writing the code and the people running the project.
Wouldn't it make more sense to base something on a volume particle system? You could start with only a few elemental particles ... say, three (you could get smaller but we're trying to get simple) ... and make up some rules about how they combine. make them up into, oh, say, 117 or so "elements" which you can then compound according to other rules. Each step in the chain can increase complexity.
Naw, it would never work.
This guy is as nutty as a squirrel.
The Romulans power their ships with "artificial" black holes. Could we magnetically contain one of these little guys and see what can be done with it if they last that long?
I haven't been to trippyMUSH in years.
In a way I miss it ... but not that much.
They can use this to power the remote control cows from the other story.
Who wants to change the batteries on a herd of cattle?
New Brawndo brand cows ... now with even more electrolytes.
I'll switch to Blu-Ray when the price comes down to about double a cheap DVD player and a Blu-Ray disc costs the same as a DVD.
Until then I'll simply download DRM free 1080p files to the PC hooked up to my 1080p tv.
Who still gets a pension?
Everyone I know has to save on their own because nobody gets a pension.
I fully expect to have to work until I can't get hired any more simply because there is no such thing as a pension any more.
Pensions require working in the same place for a very long time with retirement benefits.
The only retirement benefits I've ever seen are "you better save up or you're screwed" and "you'd better have kids, raise them right, and not alienate them because someone's going to have to support you at 70 when you can't get hired for anything but Wal-Mart greeter"
Caps are good news for hard copy media.
Instead of looking for an NZB or torrent for some shows, I'm sure people will turn to renting and ripping.
Caps are going to kill online distribution systems like Steam or Gametap.
naw, it would be more like Native Americans who can trace their lineage to the east coast getting together and moving to New Jersy, then declaring independence from the U.S. while kicking all the locals out of their houses.