On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 10:38 -0500, Scott Granneman wrote: > In those limited cases, sure. > > But c'mon, that's the way the world is headed. Sure, it's slower in > some places than others. But digital distribution over the Net is the > eventual goal for everything that can be digitally distributed over > the Net. > > If you don't believe me, ask someone who works at a newspaper or > magazine.
That may be the way the world is headed, but it is far from being there. Look at it this way: EARTH STATUS REPORT - 2006 If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town with 100 people, it would look something like this: 57% Asians 21% Europeans 14% Americans (Northern AND Southern) 8% Africans 52% women 48% men 70% colored-skins 30% Caucasians 89% heterosexuals 11% homosexuals 6 people would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of them will be from the USA. 80% would have bad living conditions. 70% would be uneducated. 50% would be underfed. 1 would die ... 2 would be born. 1 would have a computer. 1 (only one) will have higher education. If there is food in your refrigerator, you have shoes and clothes, you have a bed and a roof, then you are richer than 75% of the people in the world. If you have a bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the money-box, you belong to the 8% of the people in the world who are well-to-do. So ......... for 99 out of 100 people worldwide, "digital distribution" is when you use all your fingers to hand something out. Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
