The Dymaxion car was a concept car designed by U.S. inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller in 1933.] The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more general project to improve humanity's living conditions. The car had a fuel efficiency of 30 miles per US gallon. It could transport 11 passengers. While Fuller claimed it could reach speeds of 120 miles per hour, the fastest documented speed was 90 miles per hour.
Then there is this:
In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained that the real reason why Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling that the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in the distribution channels and second-hand cars.
Most writers could learn a thing or two from him [Hemingway]. Don't put in descriptions where you can get away with just using the right word. And don't put more description than is necessary for the reader to fill in the blanks.
That's what I liked about listening to radio programs back in the day--my imagination was actively envisioning the scene. By contrast, video has all but destroyed this, reducing it to "chewing gum for the mind" (as someone once described it).
Me, personally, if I have the choice between a printed copy and an e-book, I'm going with the e-book. When I shop for books, I start with e-books.
Doesn't that depend on the type of e-book and the e-reader? For instance, a book about programming, when read on the Kindle (or any other e-reader lacking copy/paste/edit) seems practically useless. Or a book on Renaissance art -- again, practically useless with a monochrome e-reader. (Not just for its lack of color but its small screen.)
As someone already posted, "Youtube is heavily annotated, from both manual annotations to automatic speech parsing algorithms, language translation getting better all the time, and even some basic structure recognition for content in video."
It's only a matter of time until this is common place everywhere there's a video posted on-line. (Perhaps as simple as a browser plug-in.)
Meanwhile, may I suggest you stop "hating it" and do something about it--such as contacting the author of the video, asking for a written "how-to" to accompany his videos in the future?
"Will he make more money than he would releasing a printed book?"
That is only one source for revenue, the others being: the extended copyright length; audio book sales; and movie rights.
There are other factors too. For example, even though the book sales may be lackluster (whether ebook or traditional), they could still make money from movie rights. And since they own the all the rights, they'd get all the revenue.
Didn't some trade organization advocate the same argument about $0.99 music downloads?
Anyway if you do take the time to read TFA you will discover something interesting about their net profit. (It would appear they chose the price based on what their net profit would have been had they used the traditional paradigm, then factored out the costs of the third party.)
This is genuinely fair pricing to my way of thinking.
Of course if you want to pay more, you are free to send it to the authors.
I get your meaning and agree with you. However I want to point out that MS has a great number (thousands?) of patents and they have MS Research. And yet with all this they are still encumbered with maintaining the status quo in every s/w and h/w product they make. I'm inclined to guess they use 98% of their resources for perpetuating/maintaining their existing products and 2% on innovation while Google is probably 50/50.
I for one am not aware of a far right party playing any noteworthy role in French politics.
As for here in the USA, must I remind you which party wants total control over our lives? From how much water I can have in my toilet, which light bulbs I can use, which foods I may eat, how much energy I can use, and soon, which health care I may receive, along with higher taxes.
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The Dymaxion car was a concept car designed by U.S. inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller in 1933.] The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more general project to improve humanity's living conditions. The car had a fuel efficiency of 30 miles per US gallon. It could transport 11 passengers. While Fuller claimed it could reach speeds of 120 miles per hour, the fastest documented speed was 90 miles per hour.
Then there is this:
In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained that the real reason why Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling that the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in the distribution channels and second-hand cars.
In Soviet Russia, JavaScript FUCKS YOU!
Most writers could learn a thing or two from him [Hemingway]. Don't put in descriptions where you can get away with just using the right word. And don't put more description than is necessary for the reader to fill in the blanks.
That's what I liked about listening to radio programs back in the day--my imagination was actively envisioning the scene. By contrast, video has all but destroyed this, reducing it to "chewing gum for the mind" (as someone once described it).
As was previously report on Slashdot, e-books are only 6 percent of book sales
Firefox 3.6 scales best across cores
Me, personally, if I have the choice between a printed copy and an e-book, I'm going with the e-book. When I shop for books, I start with e-books.
Doesn't that depend on the type of e-book and the e-reader? For instance, a book about programming, when read on the Kindle (or any other e-reader lacking copy/paste/edit) seems practically useless. Or a book on Renaissance art -- again, practically useless with a monochrome e-reader. (Not just for its lack of color but its small screen.)
As someone already posted, "Youtube is heavily annotated, from both manual annotations to automatic speech parsing algorithms, language translation getting better all the time, and even some basic structure recognition for content in video."
It's only a matter of time until this is common place everywhere there's a video posted on-line. (Perhaps as simple as a browser plug-in.)
Meanwhile, may I suggest you stop "hating it" and do something about it--such as contacting the author of the video, asking for a written "how-to" to accompany his videos in the future?
"Will he make more money than he would releasing a printed book?"
That is only one source for revenue, the others being: the extended copyright length; audio book sales; and movie rights.
There are other factors too. For example, even though the book sales may be lackluster (whether ebook or traditional), they could still make money from movie rights. And since they own the all the rights, they'd get all the revenue.
Didn't some trade organization advocate the same argument about $0.99 music downloads?
Anyway if you do take the time to read TFA you will discover something interesting about their net profit. (It would appear they chose the price based on what their net profit would have been had they used the traditional paradigm, then factored out the costs of the third party.)
This is genuinely fair pricing to my way of thinking.
Of course if you want to pay more, you are free to send it to the authors.
+1 for unintended irony.
I wonder what the read/write rating is vs. a hard disk?
Wikipedia puts flash at 1,000,000 program-erase cycles
I get your meaning and agree with you. However I want to point out that MS has a great number (thousands?) of patents and they have MS Research. And yet with all this they are still encumbered with maintaining the status quo in every s/w and h/w product they make. I'm inclined to guess they use 98% of their resources for perpetuating/maintaining their existing products and 2% on innovation while Google is probably 50/50.
Somewhere in China, a general is pleading, "Mr. President, we must not allow a silkworm spider silk gap! "
Google gets paid by the RIAA and the IFPI to put people on a list.
Then Google gets paid by those on the list to be taken off the list.
Note to self: buy more Google stock
Citation needed.
Anyway Christian Estrosi was a member of the French Parliament (National Assembly of France) which is made of these parties (577 total members):
Which, pray tell, is the far right party?
I for one am not aware of a far right party playing any noteworthy role in French politics.
As for here in the USA, must I remind you which party wants total control over our lives? From how much water I can have in my toilet, which light bulbs I can use, which foods I may eat, how much energy I can use, and soon, which health care I may receive, along with higher taxes.
Why stop with the OS? I.e., what about the microcode in the CPU and etc.? Is India also going to write their own microcode?
I hope they name it CURRY
I wish scientists would study something important, such as: What causes rings around the toilet?
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) is a programmer's dream come true.
I'm sick of techno-faggots redefining and misapplying terms such as "realtime."
A great day for liberty!
While everyone else is searching the Internet, I simply asked an expert on The Great White North--
Mr. McKenzie, what does this mean?
Ahhh! Take off, you hoser!
Yup; it's located next to the Ministry of Silly Walks
It's Gallant Macmillan, not Gallant Macmillian.
Now get off my lawn.
Where's my flying car?