I'm only semi-joking here.

That said, I, as I know many people that maintain servers do, strongly hate printers and print servers.
That said, I'm grateful for those poor souls that do have to deal with them so that I do not.

also..

USE="-cups" emerge world
kthx.

If you're releasing a fairly specialized toolset, which I imagine you are for $10k, you might want to look at how people like AutoDesk handle things like that. They USED to provide semi-feature-limited versions for the self starter.. otherwise they worked great. (GMax and Maya's Personal Learning Edition).

Alternatively, you could go the UDK (and Crysis, and whomever else now) route of just saying 'have it.. merry xmas.. free for personal use.. but if we catch you using it commercially (or for a certain value of commercial), we'll find you.. you need to license it'..

The advantage of both is you're creating a brand-name awareness and educated user base, which is good for the long-term outlook of your product.. but it might be hard to justify or pay the bills in the short-term to your business people.. As others have said, you might be able to shift into a Support-for-dollars-only model as well.

"Given our current technology and potential near-future technology, what would a future space battlefield look like?"
Not very interesting. It'd be a few sat's with nukes or other orbital based weaponry.. some taking on each other, and some ground-based anti-sat weapons... alot of disruption of space-based communications systems.

The problem with a 'space battlefield' is you need to be sufficiently spread out to have a middle to meet in with a 'fleet'. Mars.. perhaps.. but not the moon.. to easy to just direct fire weapons to/from the moon.. and it'll be probably 100+ years, sadly, before we have a large enough perm. settlement on Mars that they would have to worry about independence, and thus, the need for a space war.

I think realistically the only war that will happen in space in the near Human Future would be if some people get into a scuffle on the ISS.. :[

As for general 'future' sci-fi wars, I really like the Honor Harrington version of things.

So you're arguing that the parent is correct, and users should DEFINITELY keep under 1500ml of sodium?

ALL systems need to remain flexible over time.. developing something and saying 'NO, the world must freeze in place for how I like it' is simply retarded.. we all know what happens to the vast majority of companies that do that.. they become obsolete, irrelevant, and die out... or get heavy handed laws passed to ensure they stay alive in some grotesque crippled state.

It's not my job to make web content profitable, and I'm not saying ads will 100% go away.. there were non-tracking ads in the past, and there are tons of them now (most of them not on the Internet though.. they don't really track individual cars that pass a billboard on the highway, do they? yet that billboard owner still derives ad revenue). Perhaps you can still be profitable based on ad revenue alone even in a world with diminished $/ad value, more power to you good sir or ma'am!

The 'Internet', like everything, is not a set system.. it 'evolves'.. This is like saying 'will DHTML kill the internet'? 'Will the end of Flash(tm) kill the internet'?

No. none of that will kill the internet.. It might cause some people to rethink their revenue models for their websites, etc.. but the internet will go on.

WA doesn't have very useful results for a lame example of what I might want to search for (although that's just a quick example...)

Until you find out it had kiddie porn, and simple possession is pretty felonous these days.

Wait.. you already know DPReview exists, which is a community full of dedicated photography people.. yet you come to /., which is full of self-ascribed 'geeks' of all walks (read: not dedicated to photography) to ask what camera you should get?

Seriously.. you already know of a better resource.. why do you need to ask here?

Vote OP: -1 Redundant.

Well.. the cost of replication is not zero.. but it's a number very close to zero... your point is still valid though. :]

Stop with your 3050 era stuff already.. I want low-tech Battle Tech (3025).. ..oh and LAMs.. definable need LAMs..

Auditor is correct that md5 probably isn't as good as many people think it is (** for certain ways it's used)
Auditor is incorrect in that crypt is not really a good alternative either.

Many IT works are ALREADY classified as Professional emps, by the existing 2004 definitions:

Current Law:
1) The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications;
2) The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications;:

Proposed Law:
‘(A) the application of systems, network or database analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine or modify hardware, software, network, database, or system functional specifications;

‘(B) the design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, securing, configuration, integration, debugging, modification of computer or information technology, or enabling continuity of systems and applications;

Not like we didn't go through this before guys.. remember most dialup used to be like this.. then a company came around and said 'oh look.. UNLIMITED'.. then everyone went unlimited because they had to if they wanted to keep marketshare.
Of course the problem is it was alot easier, and alot more choice, in Dialup.. basically, from my limited understanding, what Google in theory wants to do with Fiber (you have the pipe, who/what internet service you pick is up to you?).

Let the companies charge for usage I say. But also let people become infuriated by it! Maybe enough of them will standup, cause someone to notice and create Unlimited plans again, and the people that care can get back to 'Unlimited' access again for another 10 years before the circle comes back around.

They have: https://www.google.com/search?q=composter