The social potential embodied in Slashcode was available when Naomi Klein's January 2000 book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies became a sudden international best-seller. .. A book is a highly hierarchical and centralized form of communication - t
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Wall Stret Journal , June 20, 2010. Underrubrik: Lenders Join Forces to Let Patrons Check Out Digital Scans of Shelved Book Collections Overdrive. Quote: "We're trying to build an integrated digital lending library of anything that is available anywhere, where you can go and find not just information about books, but also find the books themselves and borrow them," said Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive. With its latest project, the organization is making inroads into the idea of loaning in-copyright books to the masses. Only one person at a time will be allowed to check out a digital copy of an in-copyright book for two weeks. While on loan, the physical copy of the book won't be loaned, due to copyright restrictions. "
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I understand that FlexBooks are free, or open source. Is the software that supports the FlexBooks open source, too? Our mission is to provide all our materials for free under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC-SA) License. For more information on the CC-BY-NC-SA license, see the selection of this FAQ about the content of FlexBooks, or visit the following URL, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Our CK-12 system for FlexBooks is not yet geared to be a separate open source project.
Netflix has consistently shown reluctance to support customers using Linux and other open-source operating systems.[162] The company continues to support only Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX, relying on Microsoft Silverlight technology. On August 9, 2011, Netflix released a Google Chrome web store item for Chrome OS, PC and MAC, but it does not enable Netflix streaming on Linux machines. On Linux Machines running Chrome Browser, the extension sends users to Netflix.com
April 3, 2012 - 9:33pm By Joshua Kim Have you noticed that books are looking more and more like apps? Do you find yourself buying books from the Kindle Single store? Browsing the nonfiction selections at nowandthenreader.com? Checking out the original stories at atavist.net? Getting excited about the newest release from the TED Books?
HTML 5 is part of the future of the Web. Its new elements enable clearer, simpler markup that makes pages more obvious. Div and span still have their places, but those places are much more restricted than they used to be. Many pages will no longer need to use them.