Its not the writing that's an issue. It's the publishing.
Taking someone's writing and turning that into a book requires work and funding.
When price controls and discount bans are enforced on book publishers and book stores, publishers are much less willing to take risks on unknown authors.
Sure, a new JK Rowling or Danielle Steele book will always find someone willing to publish them, but would a young aspiring author be able too?
The good news is that publishing costs and risks have dropped thanks to e-books and crowd sourcing for books. But most books still need a publisher willing to take a financial risk in order to see the light of day.
In a perfect world, publishers would do what they did in the past, i.e. contribute to giving feedback on the contents and the title, proof-reading and copy-editing, making the cover, taking some financial risk by printing the book, distributing it to a pre-existing network of bookstores, sending it to book reviewers prior to releasing it, and promoting it.
In today's world, they kind of still do that, but spend so little time, energy and money on it that it's impossible for them to even remotely justify the huge cut they take with a straight face. Innate talent left aside, whether an author wannabe's book sells well or not entirely depends on his willingness to promote it by showing up at events and bookstores.
As such, you're just as well off -- and more often than not, better off -- relying on friends for feedback and copy-editing, self-publishing an ebook, and reaching out to your audience directly through mostly online channels.
(I worked in a brick and mortar bookstore, and have been watching the situation degrade over the years ever since. Methinks that, much like the press at large, publishers only have themselves to blame.)
You don't die without them, Books are not essential for Live.
They are not really essential for learning development either, but an essential factor in the development of culture since the invention of the book-press.
Consider the intrinsic value to be much higher than the production cost of books, so much that free information can be guarantied by law, where books should be equal to internet access, a telephone and if you will a TV; or the socially direct communication through people. Books as medium are inseparable from the speech and should therefore remain free speech and not seizable, whether essential or merely sufficient. This is partly guaranteed through public libraries, but the capacity is limited, compared to a distributed model.
Definitely not the alarm for the next morning that took me half the night learning bash and fixing the alarm script. It looked awesome, though if I say so myself.
While I don't like Windows much and dual boot it mainly out of necessity, it was pretty easy to whip up a trigger (in the GUI task scheduler) for a script to trigger alarm music even when the computer was sleeping.
The procedure goes something along the lines of "RTC trigger wakes up sleeping computer, computer waits to connect to network, opens spotify url of playlist." It lets me turn off the LED and fan nightmare that is my desktop and still use it as an alarm.
>public utilities and common carriers are not the censors of public or private morals
Well of course they are, to a limited degree. They are not the sole carrier - I sometimes find it hard to express or notice the plural distinction - of moral, but neither is the justice system, although it likes to paint itself that way. As can be shown:
lt. moralis: proper behavior of a person in society
They have to decide a proper course of action for themselves. It would just be nice if it was in accordance with the censorship of the law. OTOH, i find the result proper.
>nor are they authorized or required to investigate or regulate the public or private conduct of those who seek service at their hands
Clearly not authorized, but morally, they might be required to regulate, therefore to investigate, if possible without violating privacy rights, which with automation can be ensured to a degree. Even if warranted by a judge, or done by the police, it meant massive overhead for the providers, too. So it would be nice if we can go on without all that hassle. Maybe it would require relaxing some laws, that require those investigations; Or moving on as society, as calling on moral draws in a bag of huge implications.
What if crack junkies buying crack on silkroad steal copper cables from the grid? The Telcos are indirectly affected by that, when the users get unsatisfied and directly they have to pay for replacement.
The users are directly affected and responsible, so in first degree it's their responsibility. (not as implied, the court's or w/e).
Probably, the whole paper is written in that terse tone. If the title doesn't appeal to the reader, reading on wouldn't make sense anyway. I.e., I can tell from the title that I'd be better of returning to the other book on data structures.
data and information is synonymous, isn't it? Of course, DRM data is not the information in which we are interested in the end.
DRM is a format, if you will. DRM data is what's formated in the format, retreival of data in a format is information. Information, like they say about security, is a process.
