it doesn't really matter unless you were planning on getting the server edition, anyway.
Which I, for one, was. BTW, they'd also confirmed (before they pulled it) that ZFS would be supported in Client at the CLI level -- just no GUI sugar. Oh well. Easy come, easy go.
Did you RTFA? The point that O'Reilly (and others like Cory Doctorow) is making is essentially that according to his data (and he does have data), people who publish on closed platforms using DRM make less profit than people who publish on open platforms.
Yes, it's counter-intuitive. But so far, the people who use actual evidence in making their arguments seem to be showing that's how it is.
If you resent unpaid use of your work so much that you are willing to make less profit in exchange for preventing it, that's your call. But if you really do create for profit, you might want to read the article, and others like it, and think hard about it.
I can't quite believe I'm feeding the trolls, but...
i am not like them and i am glad of it. if they want to have the same "freedom" we have and the same "prosperity" we have.
Riiight, those are the only motivations. Or maybe that's a strawman that was set up by the Bush administration.
then they can move here and quit their whining and jihad bullshit. nobody is forcing them to live in a giant catlitter box. they are choosing to live there and complain about their "plight" seriously they are just bitching for the sake of bitching because they are too fucking dumb or assholish or small minded to do something different. i may sound racist
Yes, you do. But at least you balance it out by sounding ignorant as well.
but at least i am being honest.
Though not well-informed.
and like i said before. they want out of the cat box all they have to do is move somewhere else... i hear Hawaii is rather nice...
Here's a cartoon flow-chart based on actual research and facts explaining a few of the things you clearly don't understand about how difficult it is to immigrate to the USA. I expect other Western countries have similar, or worse, flowcharts of their own.
(One thing I would add to the flow chart is an initial box for "do you have enough money to travel from your home country to the USA?". You may find this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita>chart of GDP per capita for various countries to be illuminating. Sorry, not a cartoon. Remember that the chart is overoptimistic because it only gives you the mean, not the median. The median is likely to fall below the mean.)
Pancreatic Cancer has a 6% 5-year survival rate.
Again, this is pretty misleading unless you consider the specific cancer rather than "pancreatic cancer" as a generic. The statistic you cite is for "Estimated Five-year Relative Survival Ratio (%) (and 95% Confidence Interval) for the Most Common Cancers", and you read off the "pancreas" line. The specific case in question is not one of "the most common cancers" but (AFAICT) a different disease of the same organ.
Pancreatica.org has this to say about islet cell tumors:
Neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas (islet cell tumors) are much less common than tumors arising from the exocrine pancreas. Reports often indicate that there are about two to three thousand cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year
and
The natural history of islet cell and carcinoic tumors tends to be favorable as compared with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. For example, the median survival duration from the time of diagnosis for patients with non-functioning metastatic islet cell tumors approaches five years.
(Johns Hopkins agrees.)
The Pancreatica article says this compares to a median survival time of 15.5 months for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas ("pancreatic cancer") treated with the same surgery Jobs had.
I haven't heard of anyone getting better from pancreatic cancer.
Now you have. A few minutes with Wikipedia reveals that "Jobs was lucky; he had an extremely rare form called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor that can be treated surgically, without radiation or chemotherapy." (From the Fortune article the Steve Jobs Wikipedia article links to.)
It's really dicey for non-experts (or, probably even experts) to make generalizations based on the common name of a cancer, without knowing exactly what variety of the disease it is, what stage it's at, and so on. Jobs has been (apparently) cancer-free since his surgery in July 2004.
Recall the the Air Force also places several types of sensors so they know when folks are trying to take a photo from afar
Can you provide evidence of this? Or evidence that any such sensor technology exists at all?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
