...is good—but only if the Internet and PC can remain sufficiently central in the digital ecosystem to compete with locked-down appliances and facilitate t... ... that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of the future digital ecosystem, rather than at its periph- ery: “It is a general purpo... ...uch of what we find useful about the Internet. But along with the rise of in- formation appliances that package those useful activities without readily... ... a type- writer that could store what was typed by making holes in a roll of tape. The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net 12 Rethreading the tape t... ...operating a player piano. Cutting and pasting different pieces of Flexowriter tape together allowed the user to do mail merges about as easily as one c... ...e’s hardware perform that specific task. This embedding process occurs in the digital watch, the calculator, and the firmware within Mr. Coffee that allo... ...retype into their ma- chines, but increasingly affordable media like cassette tapes, diskettes, and car- tridges became a more cost-effective way to ins... ...at substantial expense. The simpler, inexpensive in- Battle of the Boxes 17 formation appliances intended for individual use diffused technology beyon... ...ample, a free operating system such as GNU/Linux can be locked within an in- formation appliance like the TiVo, and classical, profit-maximizing firms l...

...readers have been kept in mind:-(l) the college student, looking forward to career formation, who is concerned with the apparent dilemma of reconcili... ...stomed to research jargon, or may be omitted completely (again, it so was from the digital edition). Ben Enis {1973) pointed out that the marketi... ...used by change agents. The adoption of innovative ideas is closely related to the formation of values, attitudes, beliefs, interests, opinions and ... ...ngs vying for the consumer's attention. A high school graduate in quest of career formation strategy, can choose between two universities, or decide... ...with government manpower programs, experienced in the past by industry: 1. Red tape and overregulation. 2. Adverse publicity. 3. Bias against... ...ed above) the following: 1. An official to be designated as an ombudsman or "red tape cutter" for participating firms, with a "Hot-Line" phone num... ...P be associated with a better-prepared recruit, but in addition, the amount.of red tape expected of employees is to be demonstrably reduced and simi...

...and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blen... ...newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime liv... ...e my experiences could straddle working in print shops and in the current digital eBook era.. My degree in human-computer interfaces in 1973 led to... ...ld write and edit copy on this setup. One key click punched holes in paper tapes that—when run through apparatus in the back shop—set type twice as f... ...to cut out her tongue and leave her in the cabin. There, Philomela wove a tapestry that told her story and had it sent to Procne. Her sister’s so... ...pic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita... ...ight be without such improvements, here‘s a sentence in a pre-Carolingian format, though in Latin and without the helpful ascenders (on b, d, etc.) ... ...ianminuscule Here‘s the same sentence converted to Alcuin‘s Carolingian format—with spaces, capital letters, ascenders and descenders: This ... ...rs in the newsroom. It let reporters compose text that editors could edit, format, and send to photocomposition machines that turned out printed copy...

...ng material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientis...

...PEC in reducing the time taken by exporters and importers in completing government ‘red tape’. The time taken in Customs clearance and technical con... ... moving merchandise across international borders. Or to put it another way, cutting red tape at the border for importers and exporters so that goods... ...a & technologically neutral, Adopt standardized & simplified common data elements & formats Percentage of import declarations lodged and pr... ...rading across Borders database includes a set of indicators that are focused on the red tape encountered in exporting or importing a TEU of standardi... ... 6: Paperless and/or Automation of Trade-related Procedures 45 these economies in their digital transition, the objective should shift towards seekin... ...ase studies should focus on changes made to official procedures, rather than the use of digital technologies to transmit and/or assess information th...

... Perspectives of village communities ......... II. 50 11. Basic wedding format .............................. II. 58 12. Strata of world views... ...kind is about to move into the era of hydrogen power, to a superculture of digital, automation or genetic technology, development moves to the start o... ...s - universal know-how and education Transnational production structures - digital technology, space technology - automation, robotics, biotechnology ... ...ple altogether in all three villages, accumulating about 70 hours of field tapes. During 1997-1999, , an undergraduate, joined us, starting interviewi... ...f Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are in the local dialect ( ). The interviews from the years 1984-85 w... ... and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, using a digital camera. The corpus of fieldwork material is archived in the collect... ... collections of the in Helsinki, and archive copies of the field interview tapes are deposited in the recordings archive of the . In this book, we hea... ...lso invited to housewarming parties, and they follow the same celebratory format as other occasions where monks are present. The celebration begins i... ...e international techno-system, within which cultural elements - production formats, consciousness technology and fashion trends - converge in all comm...

...loc în crea ţia celor doi, care desigur, sunt poe ţi geniali – dar nu ei au format acest curent, deci s ă-mi arate m ăcar un singur loc în crea ţia l... ... din vânt, ci trebuie formulat, analizat de fondator. Dac ă Nichita ar fi format un atare sistem paradoxist, ar fi men ţionat acest lucru m ăcar în... ...he thing quit. 46 9. IT IS IN THE PROCESS – It is so wrapped up in red tape than the situation is about hopeless. 10. WE WILL LOOK INTO IT – F... ...i! AVORTAT Mort Înainte de-a se na şte. 2) Distihul tautologic este format din versuri aparent redundante, îns ă împreun ă dau un caracter ma... ... astfel de lucr ări paradoxiste pentru Cea de a patra Antologie (la adresa digital ă: smarandache@unm.edu). Şi în prezent, asist ăm la felurite exp...

...this process after one half of Infinite Time split was a balance- point in the formation of our Universe. At this mid-point: there was no Mass or Im... ... dynamically balanced by the act of its own splitting. This is why the first formation of sub-atomic particles were at first only slightly differen... ...tle, interrelations of subatomic, atomic, and molecular bonding. Examine the formation of Hydrogen and Helium. Examine the earliest formation of at... ...lly because this is how the entire Universe is organized and structured. The digital machine knowledge of 1 and 0 cannot explain a damned thing bec... ...But there remains that faint un-measurable energy imprint leftover, the memory-tape imprint of reflective, abstractive human life-energy. If human... ...he more we are attracted to it and fascinated by it.. Similarly: the memory-tape-pattern of human awareness, psyche-soul does not fade after a pers... ...abstractive life-energy which stays separate-frozen, as an accumulated memory-tape. No feedback, no change, isolation: complete separateness; the co... ... of the one-sided splitting of tool-use in our technology is the trend towards digitalization. As everything becomes more modular-segmented, we are ... ...opper atoms are absolutely identical to each other. The visual illusions of Digitalization only works when you reduce things down to a size so smal...

...nsiders legislative proposals that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of... ...ium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases it effectively re... ...ust my pond, your forest, his canal. We need to do the same thing in the in- formation environment. We have to “invent” the public domain before we ca... ... the idea that there might be constitutional challenges to the regulation of digital speech by copyright law may wallow in those arguments to their he... ... receives instruction him- self without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ideas should f... ...o. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage a single unauthorized showing of... ...ot have thought that a search engine that catalogued and displayed in framed format the digital graphics found on the Internet would be sued for infri... ...two respondents in this case, the exclusive right to distribute VTR’s [Video Tape Recorders] simply because they may be used to infringe copyrights. T... ...ere is the fact that the iPod does not restrict itself solely to proprietary formats protected by digital rights management. It also allows uncontroll...

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...ce. Plummeting production costs also translate to enhanced productivity and wealth formation. It looked like a virtuous cycle. But the abolition of... ...l lead inexorably to the congealing of industries into a few suppliers. Such market formations are known as oligopolies. Oligopolies encourage custo... ...000 worth of equipment - can publish a Webzine, author software, write music, shoot digital films, design products, or communicate with millions and... ...eit glacially. The Internet is essentially a free marketing and - in the case of digital goods - distribution channel. It directly reaches 200 mi... ...wledge driven economies. The over-riding set of values is consumer oriented. Wealth formation and accumulation are secondary. The primary activities... ... are required. e. Liberalization and deregulation of the economy. Abolition of red tape, licensing, protectionism, capital controls, monopolies, di... ...hange of goods, services, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation treaties and free trade agreements with ot... ...e infrastructure, reform the court system, pass growth-promoting laws, cut down red tape, support monetary stability, resolve conflicts with the int... ...applied in such a fast tempo? There are great problems with official documents and digital formats. Some good analysis of a space with fast changi...

...usually, unable to express anger and direct it at "forbidden" targets in his early, formative years (his parents, in most cases). The anger, however... ...o be corrupt should be minimized by liberalizing and deregulating the economy. Red tape should be minimized, licensing abolished, international tra... ...ion of trade secrets and the criminalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These... ...gulation, structured socialization, peer loyalty, belonging, homogeneity, identity formation through allegiance to a group. These cultures employ n... ...covered. This revolution and counter-revolution has a devastating effect on wealth formation. The use of force does ensure that the distribution of... ...ts early philosophy of communal cross-pollination and exuberant exchange of ideas, digital goods, information, and opinion will dwindle and vanish.... ...second function - leisure activities - fell prey to the advance of the internet and digital and wireless telecommunications. Whereas the hallmark ... ... are so..."). They mourn the autochthonous inability to act decisively, to cut red tape, to manufacture quality, to open to the world, to be less ... ...print for a computing device with one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memory (the tape is infinite). Despite its hardware appearance (a read/write...