"Ping latency may make you loose some times but not all times."
Eating half a pound of prunes every morning is pretty much guaranteed to make you loose at all times. To make sure, you could also eat a quarter pound of Ex-lax. Mass Debate
The Register has an interesting take on the ICANN situation. They cover the possible breaking away of the country TLDs as well as some of the rejected gTLDs from ICANN to alternative root servers. You can find the article here Mass Debate
Most of these porn companies rely on the embarrassment factor to be able to get away with this.
In other words, most of their customer are too embarrassed to complain either to the company in question, or to the their own card company.
The dialogue might go something like this:-
Card company: What is the nature of your complaint, sir?
Customer: I was billed without my authorisation by a company called "Wank-o-matic"
Card company: [stifles giggle] I see. Do you know how they obtained your card details.
Customer: Yes. I gave my card details to them to get a free preview of their "Jugs-o-rama" web site, but I cancelled my membership before the deadline.
Card company: [explodes into laughter] but did you have a good wank, sir? Mass Debate
It's probably a pipe dream to envision Office for Linux anyway.
If you think about it, once Microsoft is split into an OS and an Apps division, the Apps division will have less incentive to produce applications solely for Windows. It will go for the greatest market share, and with the rising number of Linux installations, it will be very profitable to produce Office for Linux.
Having said that, if MS get their way, with the lengthy appeals process ahead, MS may stay as one organism for a lot longer. Even so, the conduct remedies (if the Supreme Court uphold them), will open up the Windows APIs and source code, so that Wine will be able to make much greater progress.
It is interesting that mainframes, whilst having less CPU power than a Pentium, could still outperform them on IO-intensive tasks.
Nowadays, we have ultra-fast x86 CPUs, but chipsets that hold them back. I used to have a 486 motherboard that did memory interleaving to speed up memory accesses. I suppose when we had 70ns SIMMS it was more important, as well as cheaper to implement extra memory busses due to the lower pin count on a SIMM compared to a DIMM.
Anyway, it would make sense for the current x86 chipsets to have interleaving, although with SDRAM burst reads, it might be difficult to get the timing right. Maybe that's what has prevented it in commodity chipsets? Otherwise, I suppose you could have 4 byte interleaving thus:
DIMM0:hell DIMM1:o wo DIMM2:rld! DIMM3:!!!!
You would still need some really low-latency memory in-between the main memory and the processor, and I guess the cost is another barrier to use in commodity chipsets.
It's interesting to note that the Alpha architecture has up to 8 times the memory bandwidth at 5.2GB/s than Athlon at 600MB/s or 12 times the Pentium at 400MB/s (although, an Alpha machine of such can cost $13,000) - check out http://www.microway.com/products/ws/alpha_21264.html for more in-depth information.
What is interesting is that GUIs have until now been limited by their input devices, having been tied to the mouse for over a decade. In all the years it has been around, the mouse has hardly changed. Okay, scroll wheels and context sensitive buttons have been a big improvement, but it is still faster to type in a wordprocessor and access menus using the keyboard. Some combination keyboard/trackball devices are available and these reduce the distance the hand has to travel compared to the keyboard compared to using keyboard and mouse. However, I feel that the real breakthrough in GUIs will come when voice recognition kicks off. Already, ViaVoice can open a program and move it around the screen.
Having said that, a scroll mouse is ideal for browsing the web, so I guess it's a case of horses for courses.
Every time they bring out a new standard, they said that it was the limitation of analogue carrier modulation over the copper medium that would prevent any advance in speed. When V34 came in, they said we'd never get higher than 28.8Kbit/s. With the V90 standard, they said it was absolutely impossible to get more than 33.6Kbit/s upstream out of the copper, and now they're saying we'll get 48Kbit/s!! Next thing, in two years time, we'll have 64Kbit/s from one phone line!
Well, I'm not complaining. I get free internet access via modem, and it can only be a good thing. My area will some time this year get ADSL, but the spec keeps getting worse. Originally it was going to be 128K upstream, 512K downstream. Now it may be limited to 256K downstream. It looks like it's gonna cost $75/month. I'm quite happy getting free modem access at V90 speeds for now. My cable TV is good enough for watching movies on, and V90 is good enough for VOIP if I want to use that.
In an interesting parallel, earlier eye-tracking research has shown that experienced web surfers automatically distract themselves from graphics that are advert-sized, or have annoying animation (and are therefore likely to be adverts). One method people used was to wiggle the mouse and watch the cursor move about.
The early eye-tracking research is mentioned in this article. I used to have an url for the study, but I can no longer find it. The article just referenced berates user registration forms, or at least it says you should delay registration, says that most web advertising is a waste of money, and the best (most cost-effective) way of attracting users is through affiliate programs.
Probably most interesting and useful is this 1997 article on how users read on the web. It gives great advice on laying out content in a way that users will be comfortable with.
Why not release it as open source, but as shareware, so that if people want to use it they can and it is up to their conscience to register and send you the $50 or whatever you feel is appropriate. Remember, though, the more you ask for, the less registrations you'll get.
You could offer rebates for people who have registered and then send in bugfixes.
Alternatively, release as open source, but only charge for commercial use (like MySQL - http://www.mysql.com), so again, it is up to the company's conscience to send you $100 or whatever you think a company will think it is worth. Non-commercial users don't have to pay, but will quite likely contribute bug fixes and improvements.
You could have a stable, bug-free version, and a development version that the contributors will help iron the bugs out of.
Combining these approaches further, you could charge for the stable version (maybe release as binary only?), but allow free use of the development version to encourage bugfixes.
Well, you may agree with some or all of the above, or even none of it. I am interested in what others think.
"Fresh from their Pepsi promotion, and in direct competition with the Simpsons alcopops (okay, there's no alcohol but you can feel the e-numbers, man), the Spice Girls have are endorsing Spiced Guiness, which they say just goes to show that girls these days have the power to drink anything."
It comes as no surprise that Guinness Brewery want the nicey nicey Spice Girls to endorse their drink:
In the UK it was first marketed as an eccentrics drink with their "Friends of the Guinnless" ad campaign.
Then they had some wonderful special effects ad campaign with the whole world being encapsulated in a drop of Guinness.
They had the fertile soil campaign, which subtly suggested that Guinness makes you more potent.
Then they had the "thinking man's drink" with some interesting black and white pictures, and most recently the "Good things come to those who wait" which is variously some chiselled looking surfers, or an old Italian bloke who can still swim out to see and back in the time it takes for his Guinness to settle.
Finally it has come to Spiced Guinness, to appeal to the ladies, who they have so far failed to appeal to with their mostly male-oriented campaigns. Up until now, you would get the occasional girl drinking "Guinness and black[currant]" (the blackcurrant to take away the sour stout taste), or perhaps the odd pregnant woman who has been told by her doctor that the extra iron will do her and the baby good.
Now, however, this new drink looks set to appeal to a whole new segment of the market and heralds a paradigm shift into a new era of sexual equality in Guinness drinking.
Yeah! The coolest thing is to inhale the nitrogen as it comes out - it makes you talk all squeaky!!
The other alternative use for Guinness widgets is freezing stuff with the liquid nitrogen contained inside. Of course, you have to turn your fridge all the way up to 11 to get it cold enough.
Does anyone else have any novel uses for the widget?
I agree that in the case of people who are used to exercise and who are injury free, high intensity exercise is better than low intensity exercise. However, you state:
Because if you burn glycogen during exercise (which is what happens at higher intensities, and what causes the percentage of energy from fat to drop), then next time you eat, some or all of the carbohydrate you consume will go to replenishing that glycogen burned during exercise.
That only works well if you eat within 1/2 hour of exercising, as the insulin level drops back towards normal after this point.
There is, however, an effect where after high intensity training the metabolism stays at a higher level for several hours. This has led to a belief that instead of one long aerobic workout, athletes should include two workouts of half the duration each during the day. That way the same calories are expended from exercise, but more are burned due to a longer aggregate period of higher metabolic rate.
You also missed the point that the original poster had trouble with high intensity exercise. How would he possibly eat straight after high intensity exercise if it makes him ill? Just because a power-lifter lifts a 4x4 in his workout, and weight-training (using good technique) is a good form of high-intensity exercise, does that mean everyone should start an exercise program by lifting 4x4s? An exercise program has to be tailored to the person. That leaves low intensity exercise as the only option for some people, and walking is a good way of burning fat and raising the metabolic rate. In fact, brisk walking can burn as many calories as jogging without the attendant risk of injury.
If the guy hadn't said he finds weights boring, I would have recomended a weights workout, because as well as burning calories it builds muscle, which as you know raises the metabolic rate and helps to burn fat.
Some people recommend low intensity exercise, like walking, because as a percentage of energy consumed, it uses more fat than any other form of exercise.
Alternatively, you could try cycling.
I suffer from asthma, yet manage to teach jujitsu in two universities with the help of a preventer inhaler. I find jujitsu keeps me fit and is interesting as well as being a valuable self-defence skill. However, during school holidays I tend to put on weight because of not training and, like you, I don't find weights much fun. My final advice is to go on brisk walks.
I was so pleased when I registered 100yards-.com for my website about arcane imperial sprinting races, but recently learned that the registration had been cancelled. I don't see how 100yards- is going to infringe on anyone's trademark? J.
I saw a similar specced eyepiece over 10 years ago and wanted to interface it to my Agenda PDA.
The Agenda overcame the small keyboard problem that most PDAs had (and still do) by using "Chord keys", a set of 5 input keys that the user used in different combinations to make each character. With some practice you could achieve 30 wpm easily. (There was a keyboard for those who couldn't be bothered with the chord keys.)
The eyepiece device back then used a 1-dimensional array of red LEDs and a mirror that swept the reflection across your eye. With switching circuitry to switch the LED array it created the illusion of a 2D image.
Unfortunately, because the Agenda had a non-standard resolution it was not possible to interface the two without additional circuitry.
I think the Agenda was legendary in PDAs (it had its own programming language and cool input system) and with a decent eyepiece could have been an excellent truly portable computer.
RedHat seem to be growing bigger and bigger every day, and good on them (not "gob on them" as 70s punk fans might remember). We've seen stories trying to scare us about RedHat becoming the next Microsoft, but the GPL is there to prevent this from happening. Under the GPL, RedHat will always have to provide source code for free.
One way RedHat makes its money is through retail cd-rom sets which include installation manuals and installation support, a little money comes in through web advertising, but most of it until recently was from support packages.
The recent acquisition of Cygnus, however, has enabled RedHat to diversify into developer tools, and both help itself and the Linux community as a whole, by combining the expertise of the two companies.
So, I say hooray for RedHat. Anyone who says otherwise can "talk to the hand, coz the face ain't listenin'.":-)
A very similar case has happened in England, where the Lord Chancellor's department shut down a web site, which has now been mirrored all over the place.
The basic drift is that this chap has been allegedly conspired against by the Judiciary, who initially falsified evidence with aid of a shorthand writer, and then conspired to pervert the course of justice and perpetrated unlawful actions.
With all this overt abuse of power, I'm not surprised the conspiracy theorists get so worked up. I mean... if *they* openly work outside the law, how much worse must their covert actions be?
From their old export policy, one might infer the insular attitude "Our encryption is American, therefore it's the best".
The effect of the policy was that other, more effective, forms of encryption were developed outside the United States, and they're now wising up to the fact that if an Iranian terrorist wants to send military grade encrypted attack plans, he can.
The insistance of government authorities around the world on key escrow / backdoors is destined to fail, as independent software authors will always be willing to write commercial/military grade encryption products which do not provide key escrow / backdoors.
Government authorities worldwide now realise that it is expedient to allow encryption for the growth of e-commerce.
From these points, it can be concluded that the US restriction on export of encryption products has only harmed US business, as similar/better products are available outside the US.
VA Linux isn't the only Linux company about to IPO. The thing is, there are good Linux companies and shall we say "not so good" Linux companies. I think VA Linux will be an excellent buy, and I've laid out a few reasons for VA Linux and against another Linux company below
Good reasons to buy VA Linux:
VA Linux are an established brand name in selling Linux-ready machines, in their own words "The Leader in Linux Servers and Workstations".
They are effectively number one in selling a niche product.
They have excellent products (They won Best New Hardware in the Linux Journal Editor's Choice Awards).
The functionality of their product LinuxLite which runs Linux off a Windows hard drive, is already within most Linux distributions just by using UMSDOS.
The good thing about putting the essays into printed form, is that they will reach an audience which wouldn't normally have access to them, or be interested in searching for them. I mean those people who aren't hackers / techies / web heads, or whatever we want to call ourselves.
With the recent publicity and interest in Open Source, people are starting to wonder what it's all about, so if they see a book about the origins of Open Source and the Internet written by one of the original hackers in the creation of the internet, they are quite likely to be interested in buying and reading it.
It will be good to set the record straight that the Web and Internet were created with Open Source software, and were not invented by Microsoft (as Bill Gates keeps trying to assert).
Most non-hackers will be amazed that something as cool as the Internet is based on Open Source software, that cost nothing but the programmers' time and is free to all who want to use it. Okay, we could argue that internet access is not entirely free as there is the ISP subscription and some also have to pay metered connection charges, but that's another debate.
The good thing about putting the essays into printed form, is that they will reach an audience which wouldn't normally have access to them, or be interested in searching for them. I mean those people who aren't hackers / techies / web heads, or whatever we want to call ourselves. With the recent publicity and interest in Open Source, people are starting to wonder what it's all about, so if they see a book about the origins of Open Source and the Internet written by one of the original hackers in the creation of the internet, they are quite likely to be interested in buying and reading it. It will be good to set the record straight that the Web and Internet were created with Open Source software, and were not invented by Microsoft (as Bill Gates keeps trying to assert). Most non-hackers will be amazed that something as cool as the Internet is based on Open Source software, that cost nothing but the programmers' time and is free to all who want to use it. Okay, we could argue that internet access is not entirely free as there is the ISP subscription and some also have to pay metered connection charges, but that's another debate. J.
I use Netscape 4.61, and tried Mozilla M10 in the hope that I'd have something that wouldn't crash as often (with the ubiquitous 'Bus Error') as Netscape.
I liked the feel of Mozilla, but was disappointed with the stability (lack of).
I propose Mozilla should find and destroy all the bugs in the code they have so far before introducing any more functionality.
That way, they could release a 1.0 with limited functionality, and introduce more functionality as they write the code.
This model would also have the secondary effect of improving their credibility compared to Microsoft, as they would release (99.99%) bug-free code, and would only release features after they have done a beta for that feature.
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Eating half a pound of prunes every morning is pretty much guaranteed to make you loose at all times. To make sure, you could also eat a quarter pound of Ex-lax.
Mass Debate
The Register has an interesting take on the ICANN situation. They cover the possible breaking away of the country TLDs as well as some of the rejected gTLDs from ICANN to alternative root servers. You can find the article here
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Most of these porn companies rely on the embarrassment factor to be able to get away with this.
In other words, most of their customer are too embarrassed to complain either to the company in question, or to the their own card company.
The dialogue might go something like this:-
Card company: What is the nature of your complaint, sir?
Customer: I was billed without my authorisation by a company called "Wank-o-matic"
Card company: [stifles giggle] I see. Do you know how they obtained your card details.
Customer: Yes. I gave my card details to them to get a free preview of their "Jugs-o-rama" web site, but I cancelled my membership before the deadline.
Card company: [explodes into laughter] but did you have a good wank, sir?
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If you think about it, once Microsoft is split into an OS and an Apps division, the Apps division will have less incentive to produce applications solely for Windows. It will go for the greatest market share, and with the rising number of Linux installations, it will be very profitable to produce Office for Linux.
Having said that, if MS get their way, with the lengthy appeals process ahead, MS may stay as one organism for a lot longer. Even so, the conduct remedies (if the Supreme Court uphold them), will open up the Windows APIs and source code, so that Wine will be able to make much greater progress.
For recent coverage of MS on Trial click here.
For archived coverage of MS on Trial, click here
Nowadays, we have ultra-fast x86 CPUs, but chipsets that hold them back. I used to have a 486 motherboard that did memory interleaving to speed up memory accesses. I suppose when we had 70ns SIMMS it was more important, as well as cheaper to implement extra memory busses due to the lower pin count on a SIMM compared to a DIMM.
Anyway, it would make sense for the current x86 chipsets to have interleaving, although with SDRAM burst reads, it might be difficult to get the timing right. Maybe that's what has prevented it in commodity chipsets? Otherwise, I suppose you could have 4 byte interleaving thus:
DIMM0:hell
DIMM1:o wo
DIMM2:rld!
DIMM3:!!!!
You would still need some really low-latency memory in-between the main memory and the processor, and I guess the cost is another barrier to use in commodity chipsets.
It's interesting to note that the Alpha architecture has up to 8 times the memory bandwidth at 5.2GB/s than Athlon at 600MB/s or 12 times the Pentium at 400MB/s (although, an Alpha machine of such can cost $13,000) - check out http://www.microway.com/products /ws/alpha_21264.html for more in-depth information.
Enjoy,
J
What is interesting is that GUIs have until now been limited by their input devices, having been tied to the mouse for over a decade. In all the years it has been around, the mouse has hardly changed. Okay, scroll wheels and context sensitive buttons have been a big improvement, but it is still faster to type in a wordprocessor and access menus using the keyboard. Some combination keyboard/trackball devices are available and these reduce the distance the hand has to travel compared to the keyboard compared to using keyboard and mouse. However, I feel that the real breakthrough in GUIs will come when voice recognition kicks off. Already, ViaVoice can open a program and move it around the screen.
Having said that, a scroll mouse is ideal for browsing the web, so I guess it's a case of horses for courses.
Every time they bring out a new standard, they said that it was the limitation of analogue carrier modulation over the copper medium that would prevent any advance in speed. When V34 came in, they said we'd never get higher than 28.8Kbit/s. With the V90 standard, they said it was absolutely impossible to get more than 33.6Kbit/s upstream out of the copper, and now they're saying we'll get 48Kbit/s!! Next thing, in two years time, we'll have 64Kbit/s from one phone line!
Well, I'm not complaining. I get free internet access via modem, and it can only be a good thing. My area will some time this year get ADSL, but the spec keeps getting worse. Originally it was going to be 128K upstream, 512K downstream. Now it may be limited to 256K downstream. It looks like it's gonna cost $75/month. I'm quite happy getting free modem access at V90 speeds for now. My cable TV is good enough for watching movies on, and V90 is good enough for VOIP if I want to use that.
Cheers,
J
The early eye-tracking research is mentioned in this article. I used to have an url for the study, but I can no longer find it. The article just referenced berates user registration forms, or at least it says you should delay registration, says that most web advertising is a waste of money, and the best (most cost-effective) way of attracting users is through affiliate programs.
Probably most interesting and useful is this 1997 article on how users read on the web. It gives great advice on laying out content in a way that users will be comfortable with.
Enjoy!
J
- Why not release it as open source, but as shareware, so that if people want to use it they can and it is up to their conscience to register and send you the $50 or whatever you feel is appropriate. Remember, though, the more you ask for, the less registrations you'll get.
- You could offer rebates for people who have registered and then send in bugfixes.
- Alternatively, release as open source, but only charge for commercial use (like MySQL - http://www.mysql.com), so again, it is up to the company's conscience to send you $100 or whatever you think a company will think it is worth. Non-commercial users don't have to pay, but will quite likely contribute bug fixes and improvements.
- You could have a stable, bug-free version, and a development version that the contributors will help iron the bugs out of.
- Combining these approaches further, you could charge for the stable version (maybe release as binary only?), but allow free use of the development version to encourage bugfixes.
Well, you may agree with some or all of the above, or even none of it. I am interested in what others think.J
And the film's ending was pretty abstract. Do you think that's where they got the acronym HAL from?
It comes as no surprise that Guinness Brewery want the nicey nicey Spice Girls to endorse their drink:
Now, however, this new drink looks set to appeal to a whole new segment of the market and heralds a paradigm shift into a new era of sexual equality in Guinness drinking.
The other alternative use for Guinness widgets is freezing stuff with the liquid nitrogen contained inside. Of course, you have to turn your fridge all the way up to 11 to get it cold enough.
Does anyone else have any novel uses for the widget?
Because if you burn glycogen during exercise (which is what happens at higher intensities, and what causes the percentage of energy from fat to drop), then next time you eat, some or all of the carbohydrate you consume will go to replenishing that glycogen burned during exercise.
That only works well if you eat within 1/2 hour of exercising, as the insulin level drops back towards normal after this point.
There is, however, an effect where after high intensity training the metabolism stays at a higher level for several hours. This has led to a belief that instead of one long aerobic workout, athletes should include two workouts of half the duration each during the day. That way the same calories are expended from exercise, but more are burned due to a longer aggregate period of higher metabolic rate.
You also missed the point that the original poster had trouble with high intensity exercise. How would he possibly eat straight after high intensity exercise if it makes him ill? Just because a power-lifter lifts a 4x4 in his workout, and weight-training (using good technique) is a good form of high-intensity exercise, does that mean everyone should start an exercise program by lifting 4x4s? An exercise program has to be tailored to the person. That leaves low intensity exercise as the only option for some people, and walking is a good way of burning fat and raising the metabolic rate. In fact, brisk walking can burn as many calories as jogging without the attendant risk of injury.
If the guy hadn't said he finds weights boring, I would have recomended a weights workout, because as well as burning calories it builds muscle, which as you know raises the metabolic rate and helps to burn fat.
Some people recommend low intensity exercise, like walking, because as a percentage of energy consumed, it uses more fat than any other form of exercise.
Alternatively, you could try cycling.
I suffer from asthma, yet manage to teach jujitsu in two universities with the help of a preventer inhaler. I find jujitsu keeps me fit and is interesting as well as being a valuable self-defence skill. However, during school holidays I tend to put on weight because of not training and, like you, I don't find weights much fun. My final advice is to go on brisk walks.
I was so pleased when I registered 100yards-.com for my website about arcane imperial sprinting races, but recently learned that the registration had been cancelled. I don't see how 100yards- is going to infringe on anyone's trademark? J.
One way RedHat makes its money is through retail cd-rom sets which include installation manuals and installation support, a little money comes in through web advertising, but most of it until recently was from support packages.
The recent acquisition of Cygnus, however, has enabled RedHat to diversify into developer tools, and both help itself and the Linux community as a whole, by combining the expertise of the two companies.
So, I say hooray for RedHat. Anyone who says otherwise can "talk to the hand, coz the face ain't listenin'." :-)
A very similar case has happened in England, where the Lord Chancellor's department shut down a web site, which has now been mirrored all over the place.
The basic drift is that this chap has been allegedly conspired against by the Judiciary, who initially falsified evidence with aid of a shorthand writer, and then conspired to pervert the course of justice and perpetrated unlawful actions.
With all this overt abuse of power, I'm not surprised the conspiracy theorists get so worked up. I mean... if *they* openly work outside the law, how much worse must their covert actions be?
Food for thought...
- From their old export policy, one might infer the insular attitude "Our encryption is American, therefore it's the best".
- The effect of the policy was that other, more effective, forms of encryption were developed outside the United States, and they're now wising up to the fact that if an Iranian terrorist wants to send military grade encrypted attack plans, he can.
- The insistance of government authorities around the world on key escrow / backdoors is destined to fail, as independent software authors will always be willing to write commercial/military grade encryption products which do not provide key escrow / backdoors.
- Government authorities worldwide now realise that it is expedient to allow encryption for the growth of e-commerce.
From these points, it can be concluded that the US restriction on export of encryption products has only harmed US business, as similar/better products are available outside the US.Good reasons to buy VA Linux:
- VA Linux are an established brand name in selling Linux-ready machines, in their own words "The Leader in Linux Servers and Workstations".
- They are effectively number one in selling a niche product.
- They have excellent products (They won Best New Hardware in the Linux Journal Editor's Choice Awards).
Compare this with the LinuxOne IPO:- Vapourware product. Only a beta available.
- Not original - based on RedHat 6.0 for Intel
- The functionality of their product LinuxLite which runs Linux off a Windows hard drive, is already within most Linux distributions just by using UMSDOS.
I know which one I'll be backing!J.
The good thing about putting the essays into printed form, is that they will reach an audience which wouldn't normally have access to them, or be interested in searching for them. I mean those people who aren't hackers / techies / web heads, or whatever we want to call ourselves.
With the recent publicity and interest in Open Source, people are starting to wonder what it's all about, so if they see a book about the origins of Open Source and the Internet written by one of the original hackers in the creation of the internet, they are quite likely to be interested in buying and reading it.
It will be good to set the record straight that the Web and Internet were created with Open Source software, and were not invented by Microsoft (as Bill Gates keeps trying to assert).
Most non-hackers will be amazed that something as cool as the Internet is based on Open Source software, that cost nothing but the programmers' time and is free to all who want to use it. Okay, we could argue that internet access is not entirely free as there is the ISP subscription and some also have to pay metered connection charges, but that's another debate.
J.
The good thing about putting the essays into printed form, is that they will reach an audience which wouldn't normally have access to them, or be interested in searching for them. I mean those people who aren't hackers / techies / web heads, or whatever we want to call ourselves. With the recent publicity and interest in Open Source, people are starting to wonder what it's all about, so if they see a book about the origins of Open Source and the Internet written by one of the original hackers in the creation of the internet, they are quite likely to be interested in buying and reading it. It will be good to set the record straight that the Web and Internet were created with Open Source software, and were not invented by Microsoft (as Bill Gates keeps trying to assert). Most non-hackers will be amazed that something as cool as the Internet is based on Open Source software, that cost nothing but the programmers' time and is free to all who want to use it. Okay, we could argue that internet access is not entirely free as there is the ISP subscription and some also have to pay metered connection charges, but that's another debate. J.
Cheers, J.
J