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by nirvana 15y ago
>What he's talking about is if you produce a thing, no matter how you produce it, you have the right to determine what you want to do with that product. The thing produced here is a derivative work that contains Apple created code and c
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by nirvana 15y ago
>They are not in it for the eduction, they are in it for themselves. These are not mutually exclusive. They're in it for the education, and they are in it for themselves. You're in it for yourself too. I think that's the problem tha
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by nirvana 15y ago
>It is intended to keep authors/editors artificially locked into Apple's products and distribution system. There is no artificial lock in. They are providing a tool to produce content for their distribution system. That's its point. T
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by nirvana 15y ago
Its been interesting to watch the score jump up and down as I respond to comments. I agree with you about the down votes. I've up voted several responses today from people who disagreed with me (particularly where they made a good point or
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by nirvana 15y ago
I was actually arguing the moral point. There's nothing immoral about setting the terms upon which you will trade your labor. Its the same as an employee deciding they want a higher salary or a lower one. The people who made this software
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by nirvana 15y ago
I checked into Canada's immigration laws, specifically regarding the question of what kind of residency they'd give us if we located there and did our startup. (some of us are US citizens, but one of us is from a commonwealth country, so ca
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by nirvana 15y ago
You're correct. The iBooks Author app embeds Apple code, both HTML, and Javascript, in the form of easy to use Widgets that enable the functions that make the book more than just text, such as photo galleries, embedded movies, etc. Thus an
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by nirvana 15y ago
>We may be not entitled to demand people to produce things for our benefit, but we're certainly entitled to demand the freedom to do what we want with already produced things. The only difference between those two example is temporal.
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by nirvana 15y ago
>you were careful to avoid Don't attribute to others derogatory actions as an argument technique. >This is where your analogy breaks down because this is explicitly not the case. The existence of software that does not fit my analog
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by nirvana 15y ago
Over the years I've seen a large volume of creative software, often free, that is used to produce output, that requires, as part of its license, that you give the creator of the software a cut if you sell any of the things you make with it.
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by nirvana 15y ago
I believed the $15 price was like the $0.99 per track price they set. Interestingly, this means that if the publisher publishes elsewhere the most they can charge is $15 on iBooks. But if they only publish on iBooks they can charge more...
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by nirvana 15y ago
Before posting this comment, I went and checked the Tarsnap site, including the Security section, the design section and the FAQ and didn't find an answer to this question. My memory, from a past reading of your site, was that you kept key
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm assuming the students take the textbooks home from school and would do the same with the iPad. I don't believe textbooks would last longer than an iPad, I believe they wouldn't last nearly as long. Textbooks fall apart, this is how th
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by nirvana 15y ago
No, I'm not. In both cases I'm assuming they are owned by the school and giving the costs to provide them for one child through the four years of school.
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by nirvana 15y ago
I believe that they go 6 years between changing the edition or textbook they are using. I don't believe the actual text books last that long. Surely some last longer and some don't last nearly as long. The 3 years I chose was based on the
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by nirvana 15y ago
I didn't see anywhere an indication that Apple wouldn't support open, non-DRM ebooks. They do now. If you want to build a publishing business making textbooks without DRM, Apple will be happy to support you. Distribute however you want.
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by nirvana 15y ago
That would be the case if we were talking about college, where, 20 years ago textbooks were easily $100, and you had more of them per class. I think the economics work even better there... But I'm using High School as the example and assu
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by nirvana 15y ago
People have been talking about the economics of the iPad seemingly implying that it is more expensive. For schools right now textbooks are really expensive and textbook management is expensive as well (a lot of bulk to move around and acco
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by nirvana 15y ago
There is no magical legal context. What you're referring to is people being dishonest and trying to cheat and get away with violating the constitution by pretending words mean different things. For instance, the power to "regulate" is not
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by nirvana 15y ago
The constitution does not give the federal government the power to limit interstate commerce, only the power to prevent states from imposing tariffs on it. The regulations in question allow the government to censor websites, something that
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by nirvana 15y ago
>DynamoDB does have at least one significant feature not provided by Riak -- range scans. Riak has the ability to select keys for processing via various queries, including range of the key. Riak also has secondary indexes and full text
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by nirvana 15y ago
The fundamental problem is the US government has essentially unlimited power (despite the legal basis for its existence, the constitution) and has manipulated the courts and the elections process such that there's little anyone can do about
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by nirvana 15y ago
Trying to read thru all the hype, this looks like Riak hosted on machines with SSDs, with less features, and a nice billing system in front of it. Of course for people who want a hosted solution, the fact that it is hosted, is what gives it
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by nirvana 15y ago
We're basically, Engineer, Designer, Writer. The Writer is the newest person and a recent college grad, what her role eventually becomes isn't clear (marketing? design?) For some reason this makes me think of the TV show Castle with him sh
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by nirvana 15y ago
Good luck. Berlin is one of the greatest cities. If you get homesick, the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz, shows american movies in english. Be sure to check the times of the Fernsehturm in Alexander platz- we were there 3 months and beca
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by nirvana 15y ago
When I was in Deadhorse Alaska (near Prudhoe Bay) ran into a couple of argentinians who had driven up. About as far north as one can drive... and they went south to patagonia to start their trip, too. Always wanted to do that. Great thing
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by nirvana 15y ago
>just passing through, seeing the sites, and meeting some people. Is what most people do because they are very short of time, due to the fact that the time they have is vacation time from their full time job. This forces them into a pa
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by nirvana 15y ago
We were accepted to Startup Chile and there are two benefits to being in that incubator as I see it. First, the money is a significant one. It adds 6 months to our runway before we need to take outside money, possibly allowing us to never
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by nirvana 15y ago
We've been full-time nomads for 4 years, and are in the middle of our second year of travel outside the USA. This article is a good overview for a particular type of travel, which I tend to perceive as vacation travel. Its great to take a
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by nirvana 15y ago
(We're not YC funded, but we did get into Startup Chile. Just wanted to share some options for people.) Here's the choices our startup has made: EMAIL: After much investigation, we decided to host our email in Iceland. This is due to the

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