There are actually Creative Commons projects focused on providing free textbook materials on lots of subjects. If you contributed to such a project, the project coordinators would take on the role of the publisher, without gouging their clients.
Apple could do that because they were much smaller than Microsoft, and had a small but relatively loyal customer base, and their rewrite did pay off, as people are generally very happy with OS X and don't care about the incompatibility with OS 9 and older anymore.
Microsoft has a huge userbase with much less loyalty, and generally a huge existing investment in software.
We don't need a MS Windows rewrite, we've already got Ubuntu, because that's essentially what the article author wants: an operating system that Just Works[tm], even at the expense of compatibility. That's a pretty good description of any popular Linux distribution.
But will every pirated copy magically transforms into a sale,
No, it won't, but it might get them more sales by slowing down the pirates.
or will this scheme just annoy legitimate users and be cracked anyway?
Yes, there's that, too. But at least the legitimate users won't need to carry the CD as a dongle all the time. No whining about not being able to play on the plane, you willingly went through airport security!
I think the harddrive would not know about file systems, and would actually swap the data between those sectors, but keep the old sector numbering, so it would be invisible to the higher layers, just like virtual memory works.
The situation is a little less clear for flash memory devices, though, since they're directly addressed by CPUs, just like DRAM, and are therefore usually constructed in power-of-two sizes. Choosing to construct a device sized in powers of 10, against industry norms, so that you can advertise it as 1 GB while saving a few bucks is arguably underhanded.
Actually, my 1GB SD-card has about 963MiB of space on it. And no, they are not directly addressed like DRAM.
Unfortunately, there are tons of sites whose developers did not understand the part about GET being for looking up stuff, and POST being for making changes on the server.
But that's just it. The website owners are paying for their bandwidth, the ISP subscribers are paying for their bandwidth, and now the ISPs want the website owners to pay again for their bandwidth?
Well, spammers/squatters generally need a lot of domain names to build the fake referencing networks to game Google, so the costs would add up. A few bucks here, a few bucks there, soon, you are talking about real money.
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There are actually Creative Commons projects focused on providing free textbook materials on lots of subjects. If you contributed to such a project, the project coordinators would take on the role of the publisher, without gouging their clients.
Then why don't you write the chapter, and publish it in PDF on (your|a) website?
So we're going to get the bad-ass hyperpigs from Revelation Space now, huh?
Apple could do that because they were much smaller than Microsoft, and had a small but relatively loyal customer base, and their rewrite did pay off, as people are generally very happy with OS X and don't care about the incompatibility with OS 9 and older anymore.
Microsoft has a huge userbase with much less loyalty, and generally a huge existing investment in software.
We don't need a MS Windows rewrite, we've already got Ubuntu, because that's essentially what the article author wants: an operating system that Just Works[tm], even at the expense of compatibility. That's a pretty good description of any popular Linux distribution.
It certainly addresses the Fermi Paradox :-)
No, it won't, but it might get them more sales by slowing down the pirates.
Yes, there's that, too. But at least the legitimate users won't need to carry the CD as a dongle all the time. No whining about not being able to play on the plane, you willingly went through airport security!
This seems to be the obligatory XKCD.com link.
I think the harddrive would not know about file systems, and would actually swap the data between those sectors, but keep the old sector numbering, so it would be invisible to the higher layers, just like virtual memory works.
I haven't really visited their new Amsterdam location often, but it comes across as quite confusing. I'll have to check it out better some time.
The Imperium of Mankind, of course.
Actually, my 1GB SD-card has about 963MiB of space on it. And no, they are not directly addressed like DRAM.
Do they come with bolters and a great variety of helmets and shoulder pads?
You've never been to the Head Museum? It's free on Tuesdays!
Thanks for the typical Slashdot nitpick :-P
Nobody is using PUT, and I doubt whether the popular browsers even support it.
I was taught seven bits to the byte, GET and POST, and that's the way I likes it!
Unfortunately, there are tons of sites whose developers did not understand the part about GET being for looking up stuff, and POST being for making changes on the server.
But that's just it. The website owners are paying for their bandwidth, the ISP subscribers are paying for their bandwidth, and now the ISPs want the website owners to pay again for their bandwidth?
It's an adequate solution to GIFT. I don't read Slashdot for the racist ACs, and if it were up to me, I'd make it much harder to see those posts.
It was discovered in the year 2000, and estimated to be 2000 years old, so now it is estimated to be 2008 years old?
Well, spammers/squatters generally need a lot of domain names to build the fake referencing networks to game Google, so the costs would add up. A few bucks here, a few bucks there, soon, you are talking about real money.
I wonder if this will decrease the amount of spam sites that clutter up so many Google search results...
What, did you sell his address to the spammers, or add him as friend? It's a rather big ambiguity, you know...
Especially because it uses an internal combustion engine to power itself...
Woosh!
Sounds like his filesystem got broken, initrd got corrupted, and thus could not be loaded, which is rather fatal.