Topics on my particular interests.
Interesting article. It makes a good point, and one that I (and apparently most other people too) hadn’t consciously considered before: [C]onsumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended …
Here’s some more on one of my favorite groups of people.
This might be the original “rule of thumb.” I can see how it would work in theory, but I’m not sure I’d trust it in practice.
I only know enough about climate science to know that there’s a whole lot we don’t yet know about it. This article just confirms that view.
As I’m writing this, I just got off the phone with a customer service representative at a high-tech company. To anyone with experience in the matter, that sentence probably provokes a sympathetic wince, at the very least. But this was a very different experience. Let me ‘splain… no, there is too much, let me sum …
Hm… so, at least in South Africa, carrier pigeons are faster than broadband data connections. And 4GB in two hours is a very respectable bandwidth, too. I wonder if this was RFC 1149-compatible? 😉 (More on it here. I’m not surprised that someone else made the same connection, though I am surprised that no one …
Nuts and bolts? How twentieth-century! These days we just Velcro bridges together!
Um… isn’t that kind of assumed? 😉
Lots of interesting stuff here.
I’ve long suspected something like this too. Depression just didn’t make sense unless it offers some kind of survival benefit.