How does GNUMed compare to all this?
http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed

Without advertising you often have to either charge for access to your website, or rake in donations. You are being very naive with your assumptions.

Exactly. Where are my mod points when I need them.

Yes, because people can really push through some massive amounts of bandwidth. Like 2 bytes/second tops (typing rate)? That's totally expensive. And I don't know about your SMS, but low latency is hardly what I think of when I think of SMS.

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The <a> tag is also used for internal document references (anchors) and javascript calls. So, your measurement is not completely valid. Also, this is slashdot. Where every single comment has like 8 links on it.

Professor Falcon?

Why would they? URL size is miniscule compared to the page size.

Is this order of maginitude 33% bigger?

Haha, I have heard Foxfire a couple million times. Man, Thunderbird was really fun.

Right... the masses... Lets perform a psychology "experiment" here. Ask any non-geek what version number of any piece of software they are running. Hell, ask them for the name of that software. Most cannot answer either. Generally, "the masses" only know a couple things "this is my internet", "this is how I type stuff", "this is how I email", etc.

Release early, release often, release statements of current functionality. Seriously, no non-geek is going to be installing software that isn't test by some bff geek anyway. So release early and often so the geeks can help guide its direction and give feedback.

I agree.

Although, it sure didn't get in the way of the crazy guy yelling "You're going to hell!" over and over again to Dawkins at the end of today's talk. I yelled at him to wait in line for the microphone like everyone else, but I doubt he heard me.

He was sitting right by me. He was muttering under his breath the whole time. And when he starting yelling at him, he reached for his pocket and pulled out a camera. I'm just glad it wasn't a gun. Freakin' Oklahoma.

There is no reason why hard work *should* be compensated. The market *will* reward you if you deliver a good product from your idea. You shouldn't be able to punish others for having that same good idea. And for your question would GIF be profitable? Fuck no, because people only used GIF because they thought it was a free standard anyway. Short of that, a better alternative would have been developed anyway. There is little reason for this development today (although MNG works) because the patent has essentially expired in most places. The only thing that came out of GIF was lawsuits. And I hate giving money to lawyers for stupid shit like that.