Jun. 23rd, 2015

birdwatcher: (belgium fries)
philg -- People who had ARPAnet connectivity to their desktops in the 1970s and early 1980s envisioned a fully distributed business environment to go with the fully distributed network. You’d be able to buy any book, newspaper, or movie but you’d get it from the publisher’s server or perhaps the author’s. You’d be able to buy products direct from manufacturers, with retailers disintermediated. Certainly nobody predicted that a company such as Apple would be able to take 30 percent of the recording industry’s revenue because the record companies were incapable of setting up their own servers.
birdwatcher: (Dore: Ogre)
Christian Science Monitor -- Hugh Ryan is considered single, as well, even though he lives with two other men in New York, and the three consider themselves a family. (They recently bought a house in Brooklyn together.)
birdwatcher: (Mr. Twister)
Удивлён, что не получил десятки тысяч благодарственных каментов по случаю белорусского альбома "Гарлзон". Неужели никому не понравился???