Wrong argument.

First of all you are not part of the target audience. You won't pay, the sheep will.

Information must originate from somewhere and somebody has to pay for it.

Murdochs media imperium is big enough that it will not fall in 5 years. He can suffer from 2-3 years of lower income, his treasure chest holds enough cash. He will get ROI on this scheme and other media outlets will follow suit. ACTA and DMCA will of course help with this.
You may not be happy with this course of events, but unless you are Bill Gates and have enough cash to burn on providing the information and the opinions wanted by your target audience, what will you do, if all links to the information you need and want are behind this paywalls?

Lets iterate this hypothesis a bit.

It's 350$ a year if you wish to pay avery day anew, but it's 104$ if you pay every week.

The next step I would implement, will be 50$ if you pay once per month, followed up with 35$ if you pay once per year.
So if you subscribe for a year you get a rebate of 90%. Suddenly this scheme does not look so bad at all.

Both? Try all of them. Finally a modern space opera with thought provoking ideas. Warning: literal doorstopers.
Hey, Mr. Stross is also worth a read.

Don't forget the advantages of:
- annotations in digital form
- linking per hypertext
- easy copy&paste
- possibility to include video clips

All this can and will be hindered by DRM, especially if you can't share your copy. The worth of a fact does not lie in the fact itself, but in its connection to other facts.

Yes Dude, I hear you. I recently watched a porn named "Logjammin" and was disrupted before the end. Since then, I started to wonder what had happend next: Did he fix the cable or didn't he?

Everbody says the same about these newly fangled "touch"screens and their inputschemes: Give me back my haptic feedback.

As long as the screen does not press back I will suck at the input. I need some input from my fingertips to show me that I am over "the" or at least "a" button. If it's on a screen I have to look at the screen to see if my fingers are positioned correctly.

DO NOT WANT!

Don't get me started on Sony last "new" input scheme, the Sixxaxis. In theory it's great, in reality the missing "weight" feedback destroys every immersion and fun in using the controller like e.g. a valve or a steering wheel.

It's not plain wrong, it's not specific enough.

He should have said something like "No cube can be solved in fewer moves, than it took to set it up. By this, I mean, that for solving the 'shortest path problem' in the graph for moves to set up the cube in its current state, there should be no recursions and after optimizing the graphs visualization for the series of moves, maybe morphing it into a tree, there can be no shorter path found."

You can reach different states of cube in more than one way. Always remember TIMTOWTDI.

The way you have set up the cube may be not "optimal" way to have set it up.

Hey, don't diss the porn man. I learned english at the gymnasium*. I couldn't read or write a simple news paper article. But thanks to

a) the Internet
b) alt.sex.stories.moderated
c) Tim "Fucking" Berners Lee

I now can read english faster than german. Also i have a strong right wrist , mostly from moving my mouse ...

I started studying computer scienes in 1989. CLIts were something that was found in the wild, man fsck had me taught about abstruse formatings, and alt. had more text than any sane man can possibly have read. As I returned to college at spring break 93, a coed had acces to a SUN? Workstation running Mosaic. And the rest ist history.

*
I know, that a gymnasium is the same as a Turnhalle in german, but alas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(Germany)

too late.

This has been online for what, 12 hours? It was posted on /.. Good luck in getting all copies back.

It's 30$ now. Invest ca. 5 million $ to start MASS producing. Another 5 million $ to start OSS programming for driver, UI etc. And finally 5 million $ for USB port and the rest of the needed hardware.

3 years later you will have sold ca. 500 million units at 10 - 14$ a piece.

5 years from now the price will have fallen to 5$ and thy will be found everywhere.

In 10 years they will be given away for free.