Archive for July, 2009

Cory Doctorow on Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise

Monday, July 6th, 2009

From an essay by Cory Doctorow: “…the market for facts has crashed. The Web has reduced the marginal cost of discovering a fact to $0.00. And that means that the two literatures — how-to and fiction — have effectively merged into one master story, the “plausible premise.”

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VirtualBox on Core Duo 2 Vista 64 Host, Ubuntu Guest: Very good performance.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

This surprised me: My laptop is an HP DV4, with 4 GB of RAM. I am watching a DVD (Foyle’s War: The German Woman”) playing on Windows Media Player, running on Vista 64. At the same time VirtualBox 3 is running, and on VBox Ubunto 9.04 is running.

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