Comment Re:Hi, Kettle? It's me, black! (Score 1) 256
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machinegun. It is the finest available"
Wernstrom, Futurama.
The wisdom of Futurama never ceases to amaze
Comment Re:Copyright time should be reduced, not increased (Score 1) 591
Actually, if you apply economics you can see that the product will then become a part of the free market and thus it's price will reduce to the marginal cost of production; because anyone can copy it, the price will reach the cost of this copying. Less money will be made, but more copies will be sold.
Thus a substantial reduction in price occurs, allowing more people to enjoy the copyrighted work, or people to enjoy more copyrighted works.
The "more money in the publisher's pocket or more money in the creator's pocket" is only one point of view; the opposing is "more content in more people's pockets".
Thus a substantial reduction in price occurs, allowing more people to enjoy the copyrighted work, or people to enjoy more copyrighted works.
The "more money in the publisher's pocket or more money in the creator's pocket" is only one point of view; the opposing is "more content in more people's pockets".
Journal Journal: LedgerSMB 1.2 released, SQL-Ledger changes licenses
SQL-Ledger changed its license away from the GPL to a license that many of us feel meets neither the FSF's definition of Free Software nor the OSI's definition of Open Source. Perhaps the reason is that DWS is afraid of the competition.
Slow Light = Fast Computing 134
yohaas writes "The Washington Post is reporting that scientists have been able to slow the speed of light while still maintaining its ability to transmit information. The researchers have even developed a way to 'tune' the process, modulating how fast or slow the light goes within controlled circumstances. From the article: 'Scientists said yesterday that they had achieved a long-sought goal of slowing waves of light to a relatively leisurely pace and using those harnessed pulses to store an image. Physicists said the new approach to taming light could hasten the arrival of a futuristic era in which computers and other devices will process information on optical beams instead of with electricity, which for all its spark is still cumbersome compared with light.'"
Windows Home Server Details 234
phorest writes "Perhaps Microsoft read the comments from the Slashdot community on Windows Home Server? In any event Microsoft is opening up WHS for users to construct their own system after all; though I'd like to see the price of this OS release before making the jump. From the review: "At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week... Microsoft previewed its long-awaited Windows Home Server product, a Windows Server 2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with the complexities of most Windows Server versions and provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access functionality that digital media and home networking enthusiasts require... Microsoft will make WHS available in two ways: Bundled with new WHS hardware and software-only, the latter so that enthusiasts can install the system on the hardware of their choice... If you're building your own home server, Microsoft requires a 1 GHz processor or better, 512 MB of RAM or more, and as many disks as you think you need. The company will support multiple home servers on the same network, but it's still murky how that will work."
