From the article: "I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about this guy."
I don't think the All Mighty is going to be to pleased with this comparison.
I see publishing houses as offering you three things:
1. Marketing
2. Distribution
3. Editorial Direction
Along with that comes loss of full rights.
If you want to keep full rights then you're going to have to find some way to fill in the other three items.
1. Marketing: you're going to have to do that yourself. A web page can be a very popular place as long as you do the work to make it known. Get on a newslist or forum to market your book.
2. Distribution: taken care of as long as you stay on the web. If you want secure distribution you're probably going to have to pay someone who's developed a secure distro method (if that even exists).
3. Editorial Direction: I'd imagine that you'd have to pay someone to give you direction (and lose some rights in the process). You can probably get around that by asking for feedback while you promote the book.
There has to be some sort of free writers guild somewhere. Good luck finding it.
A few months ago I saw this article. It concerns making water run up hill so that micro coolers such as these can work in low gravity and zero gravity environments without the need of pumps.
It has nothing to do with the cost.
It has everything to do with purchasing something I don't want.
It has everything to do with giving someone else a free ride (the filter company) without them actually having to work for it (Hey! It's mandatory. They'll take whatever we give them).
And why exactly does a microwave need a clock to operate properly?
Beats the hell out of me. I thought the argument here was "I can't learn or be bothered to learn how to set the time."
These are *secondary* features.
If they're so secondary in nature, then just what is all the fuss about? If it isn't important enough to you to spend your time setting or using the feature then why on earth are you demanding that company X fix the feature?
Ha! Government regulation. That's nothing but a pile of passive paper documents buried deep within some government library that people only obey when forced to (instead of for their own good). If government regulation is the be all/end all of running a civilization then why on earth do we still have murder? rape? theft? drunk driving? poverty? high school dropouts? food poisoning?
99% of people are still alive out of pure luck - they didn't eat at the resturant serving e. coli, they weren't at that intersection when the drunk came barreling through, etc. Nearly everyone bumbles their way through life with narry an understanding of how anything works. And when something they rely on stops working they fly off at the handle, raising hell, looking for someone to blame other than themselves.
It's always easier to cry and whine and blame than it is to research, review and educate.
Good point - and I agree. But the problem here seems to be folks that buy a product for some main purpose but then get all bent out of shape when some secondary purpose is hard to use/broken/of low quality.
It's almost as if their need to own something makes them buy anything without regard for quality, and when that high of owning something new fades away they decide to whine to the heavens about the flaws of technology until they can buy some new item.
It reminds of a little baby crying it's eyes out, receiving a toy that quiets them for a while, then decides it's boring and cries aloud until a new toy is placed in front of them.
So buy a VCR that does save the time. And don't say it can't be done - mine stores the date/time for up to 30 days with no power.
If you don't want crappy products (VCRs that don't save the time) then don't buy them. Every time you buy a crappy product you send the company the message "Hey, produce crap. I don't care."
You know, this is pathetic. We are going to spend the next few decades arguing with these morons over rights, money, good vs. bad, consumer wishes, markets forces, etc. The one thing that strikes me funny is that us, the consumer, have had to defend and explain our reasons for copyright infringement. We've had to justify to the RIAA why we pirate music - we own the music, the artists make enough, the market demands it, etc.
And then I read the RIAA's reason for wanting to 'pirate' the same music - doing it the right way (the lawful way) would cost to much.
Well folks, that about raps it up for me. I'm going to continue to pirate music for one simple reason - it costs less. And that's all I'm gonna say.
For those of you who feel I'm stomping on the rights of artists - tough. If they're dumb enough to sign up with this two faced laughing pile of dogshit called the RIAA then they deserve it.
Why would Compaq support UCITA? Don't they owe their existence to reverse engineering?
The answer to your question is that the lawyers are running the company.
Anyone who's ever taken some business-centric classes in college will tell you that a company is initially run by the techies (startup size), passes to sales and marketing (medium to large size) and eventually lands in the laps of the laywers (international size). Compaq, despite their cool servers, is run by the lawyers for the lawyers.
Kripes! We spend all our time griping at the government for not grasping the concepts of Open Source and to protect us from the evil Microsoft. Then, when a governmental agency DOES grasp the idea of Open Source, we cry "Foul! What are they DOING? Don't they know their enemies will use this against us? Have the NSA no brains?"
So you want to see a comparison of SE Linux vs whatever. Well fine, we'll get right on it sir. You just sit there and spew out an endless stream of consiparcy theories and the rest of us will go read the code.
Didn't we just get done reading a story about a year long cracking spree? And now a government agency, who has the brains and the dough to make an OS SECURE beyond beleif, releases something to help out, and for free, and you want us to shun it because you *think* there's something wrong with it?
Man, you sound like a confused 6 year old who demands cookies and when given some doesn't want them.
I can't believe you were modded up. All you did was cry WOLF! and run away.
Yes, television brought home those images and showed us what was going. Yes, people were outraged. However, most people tune into a television for their nightly entertainment, not to make informed decisions on what our government is doing. They have become desensitized to just about everything on TV. See a murder on TV - big deal. Read about it in the paper - get angry.
My fear is that this will be used too much. A television image of some people running away from an invisable beam? Thats not going to capture the true severity of the fact that force IS being used.
I do see you logic, and you are right. However this had already happened with out most of us knowing. I spent the last 9 years in the Air Force. During that time the number of deployments per year has quadrupled. Members of the military that have deployment centric jobs use to be away for 120-180 days. Now they are gone for 180-360 days with a 10-20 day return to the States in between. The government is already desensitized to sending troops around. Clinton sent them everywhere at the drop of a hat. Most of America doesn't care because they've become so desensitized to it.
These new weapons won't have any impact in the grand scheme of things. But they will do one simple thing - give those on the front lines the weapons needed to defend themselves without resorting to lethal force every time.
This is excellent - mod this up. Why is it excellent? Because this comment is well thought out: it gives a reason for the additional weaponry and doesn't resort to paranoid spewing about governmental abuse.
In the Air Force we (or rather I at that certain base) were taught to shoot to wound. Of course, I wasn't Combat Control, nor Security Police - I was a wrench turner on a jet. Their reasoning was to prevent the target from continuing the attack or being able to retreat, and distracting the target's comrades into dragging that person to safety instead of continuing the attack. But as I said, I was just a wrench turner, ordered to protect the equipment until Security Police arrived.
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"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about this guy."
I don't think the All Mighty is going to be to pleased with this comparison.
1. Marketing
2. Distribution
3. Editorial Direction
Along with that comes loss of full rights.
If you want to keep full rights then you're going to have to find some way to fill in the other three items.
1. Marketing: you're going to have to do that yourself. A web page can be a very popular place as long as you do the work to make it known. Get on a newslist or forum to market your book.
2. Distribution: taken care of as long as you stay on the web. If you want secure distribution you're probably going to have to pay someone who's developed a secure distro method (if that even exists).
3. Editorial Direction: I'd imagine that you'd have to pay someone to give you direction (and lose some rights in the process). You can probably get around that by asking for feedback while you promote the book.
There has to be some sort of free writers guild somewhere. Good luck finding it.
Yes, I'm joking.
See also the article at Discovery Channel News.
Oops. This nature article refers to non-liquid coolers. Oh well, the link I supplied is still cool.
A few months ago I saw this article. It concerns making water run up hill so that micro coolers such as these can work in low gravity and zero gravity environments without the need of pumps.
It has nothing to do with the cost.
It has everything to do with purchasing something I don't want.
It has everything to do with giving someone else a free ride (the filter company) without them actually having to work for it (Hey! It's mandatory. They'll take whatever we give them).
No, nobody said that. But it sure was implied that us peons are only alive and kicking because we have the Great Big Loving Government protecting us.
Beats the hell out of me. I thought the argument here was "I can't learn or be bothered to learn how to set the time."
These are *secondary* features.
If they're so secondary in nature, then just what is all the fuss about? If it isn't important enough to you to spend your time setting or using the feature then why on earth are you demanding that company X fix the feature?
Just like you shouldn't judge the USA based on what Bangor, ME has to offer.
hehe
Imagine the noise he'll make when he receives his fully body cavity search....
99% of people are still alive out of pure luck - they didn't eat at the resturant serving e. coli, they weren't at that intersection when the drunk came barreling through, etc. Nearly everyone bumbles their way through life with narry an understanding of how anything works. And when something they rely on stops working they fly off at the handle, raising hell, looking for someone to blame other than themselves.
It's always easier to cry and whine and blame than it is to research, review and educate.
It's almost as if their need to own something makes them buy anything without regard for quality, and when that high of owning something new fades away they decide to whine to the heavens about the flaws of technology until they can buy some new item.
It reminds of a little baby crying it's eyes out, receiving a toy that quiets them for a while, then decides it's boring and cries aloud until a new toy is placed in front of them.
Sounds like you're buying to many gadgets. If you don't have the time to make them work properly then where do you find the time to use them at all???
No, it's because they are to stupid. Trust me - 99% of society is alive out of pure luck - not because they are smart.
If you don't want crappy products (VCRs that don't save the time) then don't buy them. Every time you buy a crappy product you send the company the message "Hey, produce crap. I don't care."
And then I read the RIAA's reason for wanting to 'pirate' the same music - doing it the right way (the lawful way) would cost to much.
Well folks, that about raps it up for me. I'm going to continue to pirate music for one simple reason - it costs less. And that's all I'm gonna say.
For those of you who feel I'm stomping on the rights of artists - tough. If they're dumb enough to sign up with this two faced laughing pile of dogshit called the RIAA then they deserve it.
Another anti-marriage game. I wonder how I'll be able to justify this one.
Heh.
The answer to your question is that the lawyers are running the company.
Anyone who's ever taken some business-centric classes in college will tell you that a company is initially run by the techies (startup size), passes to sales and marketing (medium to large size) and eventually lands in the laps of the laywers (international size). Compaq, despite their cool servers, is run by the lawyers for the lawyers.
So you want to see a comparison of SE Linux vs whatever. Well fine, we'll get right on it sir. You just sit there and spew out an endless stream of consiparcy theories and the rest of us will go read the code.
Didn't we just get done reading a story about a year long cracking spree? And now a government agency, who has the brains and the dough to make an OS SECURE beyond beleif, releases something to help out, and for free, and you want us to shun it because you *think* there's something wrong with it?
Man, you sound like a confused 6 year old who demands cookies and when given some doesn't want them.
I can't believe you were modded up. All you did was cry WOLF! and run away.
Ha Ha Ha! That was funny!
My fear is that this will be used too much. A television image of some people running away from an invisable beam? Thats not going to capture the true severity of the fact that force IS being used.
I do see you logic, and you are right. However this had already happened with out most of us knowing. I spent the last 9 years in the Air Force. During that time the number of deployments per year has quadrupled. Members of the military that have deployment centric jobs use to be away for 120-180 days. Now they are gone for 180-360 days with a 10-20 day return to the States in between. The government is already desensitized to sending troops around. Clinton sent them everywhere at the drop of a hat. Most of America doesn't care because they've become so desensitized to it.
These new weapons won't have any impact in the grand scheme of things. But they will do one simple thing - give those on the front lines the weapons needed to defend themselves without resorting to lethal force every time.
This is excellent - mod this up. Why is it excellent? Because this comment is well thought out: it gives a reason for the additional weaponry and doesn't resort to paranoid spewing about governmental abuse.
In the Air Force we (or rather I at that certain base) were taught to shoot to wound. Of course, I wasn't Combat Control, nor Security Police - I was a wrench turner on a jet. Their reasoning was to prevent the target from continuing the attack or being able to retreat, and distracting the target's comrades into dragging that person to safety instead of continuing the attack. But as I said, I was just a wrench turner, ordered to protect the equipment until Security Police arrived.