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As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer or an electronic reader like those made by Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Inc.
 Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
The machines sell for $100K, so there will probably be one in every college bookstore by 2015. The breakdown was that the sample 300 pg book should retail for $8, with $1 each going to the retailer and $1 going to Google.
The Gutenberg press was revolutionary because it made it affordable to to print a million copies of any 1 document. The Gootenberg press Google instant press can print any public domain book, probably in less than 10 minutes.
For the record, this was already fully possible with a simple laser printer and access to Gutenberg.org.
DISCLAIMER (12/2/2011): It has been brought to my attention, that there has in fact been a company (founded in the 1970′s) called “Gootenberg Press,” the family of this company has requested that I be mindful of that fact. Please be aware that this article has nothing to do with the writings of anyone with the last name of ‘Gootenberg’ and that the actual device created by Google is not been named the ‘Gootenberg Press’ by Google. This post is not to be in any way associated with anything related to the Gootenberg family. I have renamed the post, and made a few modifications to the content.
Test Freaks Blog ran benchmarks on one machine for each of the 3 recent versions of Windows.
Based on these tests, it would seem that if you are trying to maximize system performance, you’d have to investigate further to see if you want to XP or 7. But if you are trying to maximize user productivity, the tests support my experience using Windows 7 that it is awesome.
 Time required to calculate Pi, (lower is better)
I’m posting this because 3 of my friends have lost ‘The Game‘ in the past 2 days. This makes me realize that I have not posted on this infernal meme.
Add in ‘Restart your computer, return to box #1′ at the bottom and you’ve fixed a lot of tech support problems.
Republished without the express permission of Adam Pash @ LifeHacker. I’m hoping he doesn’t mind.
 For you reference if you don’t understand the above…
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said Friday.
Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.
 Reuters is reporting that Cuba is running low on toilet paper.
So, in case you didn’t catch that, the government ‘decided’ that toilet paper ‘should’ cost less because people ‘need’ it right now. Now that it costs less, people bought it, and there isn’t much left.
Lets be generous and assume that the government is being honest with its people and telling them that it will be hard to get more. That would let them plan on how to use that toilet paper sparingly enough to last.
If they had simply let the price of toilet paper float, world companies would be falling over each other trying to get more TP to the island. As it is, their red rears may be getting even redder as they resort to old school newspaper.
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