There is a simple reason for this. Once you buy the book, you own the book and the only cost you then have is the housing of the book.
A large number of the books a university would need a digital copy of, you need to license said copy. This incurs a yearly fee and ends up costing a small fortune.
Came on to say this. Details can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_University_Library
Video footage of it in action can be found on youtube eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thKAS3CPz_c
Zimbra. To a large extent, it's a drop in Exchange replacement which will plug straight into an existing AD environment if you so wish.
Does it come with a free frogurt?
Don't worry. The US is not alone with not using the metric system. You get to share the honor of not officially using the metric system with Burma and Liberia. Both of which are classified as third world countries.
The musicians don't want to be in control of getting their songs sold or booking performances. They want the "industry".
Where do you get these "data"? How many musicians do you know personally? I know quite a few, and none of them would touch an RIAA contract with a ten foot pole, despite labels courting them.
Face it, music is full of people who would be homeless and broke despite their talent
It's also full of people who are multimillionaires despite their lack of talent. If you're good, you'll get gigs.
The only one's that don't
You should have paid more attention in class, son.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head.
At a previous job of mine, I was having a conversation with the office manager (looks after office affairs like stationary etc the exciting stuff). Turns out he was a drummer in a band which had 'made it'. They had top 40 hits, toured internationally etc. He admitted that they made very little from each CD sale and that most of it went to the label and other entities. To offset this and make enough money to survive, you have to go on tours.
In the end, he gave up the band and took up his current job at the time since he made just as much money if not more as an office manager and he got to spend time with his family instead of spending 6+ months a year on tour. He said the whole inducstry was quite soul destroying since the ones making the money (the musicians) rarely got to see much of it.
I am typing up this comment on an Amiga.
While Workbench 1.x was decent for its time, it was help back by the fact that the colour combinations in use were designed for use on a TV since the idea was most users would not be using a monitoring but a regular TV. I personally feel the Amiga GUI became a lot more usable and serious with the release of Workbench 2.x and onwards.
...like a Guy Fawkes effigy on bonfire night.
I was thinking Andre Norton myself. She is not an author people tend to mention very often but I feel she should be.
The first book of hers I read was 'The Iron Cage' and it really captured my imagination and touched on a number of points which are still relevant in today's world. As you state, yes she did do some pulpy SciFi but she also did a number of great books which were also thought provoking and of a number of different styles.
The other point I feel which needs to be mentioned is the fact that she released her books under the pseudonym of Andre Norton, due to the difficulty of women writers of SciFi being taken seriously by both the publishing houses and the audience of the times.
It was Commodore mismanagement which killed the Amiga. In the end days, not improving their hardware was just a symptom of that mismanagement.
An examples that quickly comes to mind is the A3000+ with the AGA chipset http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/prototypes/a3000plus.html where they had the technology ready but put off releasing it for 2-3 years.
.. Futurama where they keep collecting huge blocks of ice from Halley's comet and dump it into the ocean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVyRa1iuMc
The only form of motorised personal transport I own is a motorcycle. Even when raining and it being winter I ride it. Thanfully it does not snow where I live so I don't have to worry about that particular problem.
I think I actually get more annoyed by everyone constantly asking me how I can ride in the rain/winter etc rather than riding in the rain/winter etc
Agreed.
If your company has WiFi for you to connect to there is a good chance this is already happening to you without you even knowing it. The WiFi monitoring system my company uses also has a location tracking solution built into it. If you sign into your works WiFi then chances are you are being tracked.
The common excuse for this solution is if the employee is hurt, security can find them. http://www.arubanetworks.com/solutions/by-application/location-and-tracking/ I came across this friendly feature after upgrading the WiFi monitoring server for the networking team, I was surprised to see it and that you can also see where the person has been over a specified time period.
Worried about this technology being brought into your work place? Chances are it is already there.
But your missing the point. Departments like sales are revenue producing whereas all the IT based departments cost the company money to run with no return in investment so what you are asking for is just not practical. You also need to show more loyalty to the company in these difficult times.
And I worked for a company that thought they could move the South East Asian data centre to the UK based on your assumption. Guess what, that extra 200-300ms latency caused job queues to blow out by a good 1-2 hours during peak times since the system wasn't able to get and process the jobs in a reasonable manner since all the timings were based on a LAN environment.
Management decided that all we needed to do was buy fatter pipes which took a number of network engineers some time to explain to them that fatter pipes does not equal faster speeds since the system slow down was latency and not band width based.
It's all about horses for courses. Just because latency doesn't affect you, you can not assume it does not affect other people or complex systems.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
