The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it.
LOL, if only someone had a streamlined operation to sell books online. Wait, someone does, for more than 30 years now, it's called AMAZON !!!
They aren't selling them just because that would be illegal, for whatever much they care about it at this point.
... for other people."
This is the core concept by which the copyright works, BECAUSE it would be trivial (even before you could store and transmit books digitally for approximately nothing) to have plenty of copies the society decided this is somehow bad. You take one, there are less remaining ones, their value rises. If there are none left, tough. This is not a fluke, an unfortunate accident, some nasty people doing something you don't like, IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY HOW THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED.
You may not be, but what about someone who owns said toaster trying to figure something out?
He'll be just the same NOT helped at all by GP's commenter GP having it in his attic.
Ubuntu TOUCH is disqualifying. You want to install packages?! Why, you perv, this is a PHONE! This is how things go.
I mean Google Maps it's a sh*show for literally going 15 minutes from the car in the "woods" in Western Europe (quotes there because it's more like someone's backyard in other places less populated, and I don't mean a king or anything). OpenStreetMaps are way better but it has to be a somehow popular region/destination.
Yes, I understand, "smart" TVs, wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
But nearly half the apps are backdoors to your network?! Isn't this federal pound me in the *&s prison level stuff (or whatever the equivalent would be in the relevant jurisdiction)?
Cheaper than a free USB stick? I realize that went haywire a lot with the AIpocalypse but I used to set the size for that at under 128GBs.
Download it off a torrent site, wait to get threatened by the copyright owner, show them proof that you purchased the product.
Sorry but this is not only wrong, it's terribly embarrassing given your really low Slashdot ID. You don't download "off a torrent site" but using the bittorrent network, a p2p file-sharing thing. As such, you are also DISTRIBUTING the work and you certainly have no rights to do so, this is how they get you, and it's really risky, as they can claim really high damages.
Not "sold" but allocated, based on stuff like this famous (but surely not unique) NONBINDING letter of intent for "40 percent of global DRAM output": https://medium.com/@mastinbail...
These will become instantly available if there's nobody to buy them, never mind if OpenAI and similar stumble a little after people do the math on how many customers paying how much each you need to even break even after sinking trillions and trillions every year into this - but even if their financing falters a little bit and they can't expand as much as they hoped next quarter. Freakin' Google is printing bonds by tens and tens of tens of billions, using debt to keep up in this race.
... not that you'd want that with the way they're entrenched in all the financial everything going around us but it's possible for this to pop way faster than it built up.
Yea, they've been crying and moaning that the RAM is getting more expensive so their phone business hurts and might for the first time be losing money because the RAM is so expensive! The RAM they make, and actually costs them LESS to make (because it's more efficient per item to just make them and ship them as fast as you can as opposed to throttling your production, having all kinds of yo-yo effects with production being too much or too little all the time) !!!
Oh, but they'd rather sell the RAM to someone else for a $50 or even $100 profit instead of selling you a phone for $300 (profit, for something over $1000)
Title says "by default unless you're in the EU", subtitle says "Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device" but then the content says "Windows Backup for Organizations" (whatever that is) and "Administrators" and "organizations" and so on. Which is it?
So, why DO people buy Apple? They know it is more expensive. Clearly, they believe they are getting something that is worth that price.
In case you missed it Apple became the budget option lately. Microsoft increased the prices for their 2024 launched devices (with SoCs from 2023, and comparable with the M3s at most) to be like $500 more than the just launched M5s. https://www.windowscentral.com... . When we get to the point where it's "why should I pay 50% more for a Microsoft device that's 2.5 generations behind" you know things are weird. BTW even the "Pro" Microsoft devices come with Windows Home...
... so some hardware stuff that needs Java now I've got working with honest Windows 7 Internet Explorer in a VM. Even better, it works with Windows 98 !!! And of course it's blazing fast, and it takes under 100 MBs in total.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surfa...
"Our checks with PC brands at this yearâ(TM)s Computex suggest AI PCs with N1X will need to price at US$2,899, while N1 models will be priced at US$1,799."
Yes, you read that right, US$2,899 for 16GBs and US$1,799 for 8GBs. That's total, not GPU RAM. Sure, it has a splash of RTX graphics but what to do with it? AI is out of the question (unless it's some model you'd run on a regular machine anyway). Gaming also unlikely with the GPU being married to some third class Mediatek CPU Cores and running Windows ARM, and for the same reason not the best choice for just general purpose computing - literally everything else being faster and considerably cheaper (yes, even Apple, actually Apple more than most, but anything else would be better: Intel, AMD, Qualcomm Snapdragon).
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
