On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:17:48 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Costolo wrote:
But why exactly would they do that? Same size, weight, etc. of a
book, but needs batteries, has a screen that can break, and costs far
more than a common $10 or $15 paperback.
Have you
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:48:55 -0400, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a large time scale, I agree with Ben and maddog that paper will
likely go the way of papyrus,
Don't forget that papyrus was only replaced with the dried pulp of a
different plant and some more refined processing. Aside
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:51:34 -0400
Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're almost describing the handheld platform. For which there
exists ebook reader software. Which, to the best of my understanding,
hasn't been all that impressive sales-wise (ebooks on handhelds, that
is).
Yes,
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And electronics, computers in particular, have changed
dramatically in just the last decade. A book can be picked
up and read by
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:06:26 -0400
Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snips
How about the so-called tablet pc:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/tabletpc/
I'm not sure if this tablet pc thing fits the bill. To get the weight
down, you'll probably have to wait until the flexible screen
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ted Roche wrote:
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We live in interesting times!
Isn't that a Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times.
--
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one
whom we love. -Madame De Stael, writer
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:58, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:39:44 -0400
Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will have to agree with Ben. Despite the fact that I too love the
feeling of pages turning between my hands, and I love taking that book
out under the tree, or
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:21:55 -0400
Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't ever see myself curling up in bed with my laptop. And the
paperless office has yet to be realized. Methinks if there is a way
to make a buck with dead tree versions, someone will be doing it.
I think there
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:19 -0400, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:21:55 -0400
Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't ever see myself curling up in bed with my laptop. And the
paperless office has yet to be realized. Methinks if there is a way
Michael Costolo wrote:
But why exactly would they do that? Same size, weight, etc. of a
book, but needs batteries, has a screen that can break, and costs far
more than a common $10 or $15 paperback.
Have you seen the price of low-cost notebooks these days? Imagine one
with almost no CPU, a
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:17:48 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Michael Costolo wrote:
If the only costs I were paying were some marketing, royalties and
trivial distribution fees, I HAVE to imagine that lifetime savings (for
me, at least) would be in the thousands.
Yet if there was a
The savings aren't that easy to capture. Witness Safari and other
publisher's efforts at ebook publishing. There's still author's
royalties, maybe a buck a book or so, and the labor expense of
technical editing, copy editing and layout. Then, there's marketing,
advertising and promotion. Web
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, at 8:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From a big brother perspective I'd be unhappy about the enhanced privacy
...
The VoIP providers have already been told by The Powers That Be that they
must make their services available for monitoring for legal reasons.
Ironic that
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:38:09 -0400
Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incidentally, I routinely check SoftPro's website when
browsing online as an alternative to the Amazon/Borders
megamerchants. It's good to support the
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:10:32 -0400
Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used Borders for several years; it's worth the trip down
to a brick-and-mortar store to actually leaf through the latest
candidate for addition to my library. Other local bookstores
are equally good. I'd never
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:08, Michael ODonnell wrote:
If I were one of the entrenched players in the telecoms
space, or if I were a big-brother type, I think I'd be
angry about VoIP. From a business angle, I'd see stuff
like VoIP as a threat to my legislated monopoly.
Well, there are two
On Wednesday, Aug 25th 2004 at 22:51 -0400, quoth Jon maddog Hall:
=and the I will browse your books but buy online syndrome. The store is
=not as large as it used to be. They do not have the coffee area that they
=had, but the rent is $10,000. per month cheaper. As the manager said,
=you have
Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Also off-topic, but how is SoftPro doing? Since they've
moved I've been there maybe once.
[...snip...]
I read an article by Tim O'Reilly on SoftPRO's web site
that talked about going to a bookstore for use as a
library, then
Interesting.
Would this possibly be a worthwhile project? I mean the FOSS
development of a good POS package, not upgrading SoftPro?
Sorry, guess I've been doing product development too long, my
first instinct is to generalize the problem and invent a
solution for the entire class. Is there a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Would this possibly be a worthwhile project? I mean the FOSS development of
a good POS package, not upgrading SoftPro?
apparently someone thinks it would be worthwhile:
http://www.linux-pos.org/
There seem to be 11 applications (excluding 3 just for barcode reading)
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incidentally, I routinely check SoftPro's website when
browsing online as an alternative to the Amazon/Borders
megamerchants. It's good to support the local
service-oriented merchants as much as possible so I'd rather
use them if the
On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
I really wish that
SoftPro would have excersized a bit more entrepeneurial spirit and
thought
to augment their business by also running an online operation. If they
had
done that they might still be in their lost locations
Try
Hi,
For the past eight years I have been predicting that it would only be a matter
of time before we started replacing the really expensive proprietary hardware
and software that goes into making a telephony system. I have been watching
while VoIP became better and better, and Gnomemeeting
Jon maddog Hall wrote:
This is going to be HUGE. It will be HUGE in emerging economies, but also
HUGE in our own economy. I show you website http://www.asterisk.org/
I'm with you there just last week I picked up their new lite dev kit
and am starting to play with this at home... I
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
Yesterday in the SoftPRO bookstore I saw a book on Asterisk, and for those of
you who are not familiar with it, it is an Open Source project to replace
the PBX (think Centrex) services for a company.
Maddog's presentation
There is also GNU Bayonne:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/
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GNU Bayonne, the telecommunications application server of the GNU project,
offers free, scalable, media independent software environment for development
and deployment of telephony solutions for use with current and next
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 13:40, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
Hi,
For the past eight years I have been predicting that it would only be a matter
of time before we started replacing the really expensive proprietary hardware
and software that goes into making a telephony system. I have been watching
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:38:18 -0400, Mark Komarinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
When I was last at the SoftPro in Waltham (last fall maybe?)
Also off-topic, but how is SoftPro doing? Since they've moved I've
been there maybe once.
Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not sure... after all, you need the Internet infrastructure -- with a
fair bit of bandwidth -- in place to take advantage of it. I believe
calls are ~80kb/s, including TCP overhead, which is a fair bit more
than analog can cope with.
RTP nearly
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:43, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
klussier said:
I agree that VoIP will be huge in emerging economies...
Not sure... after all, you need the Internet infrastructure -- with a
fair bit of bandwidth -- in place to take advantage of it.
This is sort of true. VoIP can
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:54, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:38:18 -0400, Mark Komarinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
When I was last at the SoftPro in Waltham (last fall maybe?)
Also off-topic, but how is SoftPro
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:43, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
klussier said:
I agree that VoIP will be huge in emerging economies...
Not sure... after all, you need the Internet infrastructure -- with a
fair bit of bandwidth -- in place to take advantage of it.
This is
Jon maddog Hall wrote:
Hi,
For the past eight years I have been predicting that it would only be a matter
of time before we started replacing the really expensive proprietary hardware
and software that goes into making a telephony system. I have been watching
while VoIP became better and better,
If I were one of the entrenched players in the telecoms
space, or if I were a big-brother type, I think I'd be
angry about VoIP. From a business angle, I'd see stuff
like VoIP as a threat to my legislated monopoly. From a
big brother perspective I'd be unhappy about the enhanced
privacy as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Also off-topic, but how is SoftPro doing? Since they've moved I've been there
maybe once.
They used to have four stores:
o Burlington, MA
o Marlboro, MA
o Boulder, Co
o Denver Tech Center, Co
They now have two stores:
o
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