My main tip is to make sure he never confuses the "plasma" with the "dog plasma". I saw that happen to a guy on tv once, and boy, did he get fucked up.
Doesn't work that way, in my experience (and I worked on sites for Fox, Sony, Disney and a few other media power-houses). The lead designer is going to have their vision of the way they want it to work, and the coders have to make it work any way they can. Yes, this leads to ugly code, but the client is interested in the shiny, pretty page, not what's under the hood.
You say "semi-slow network connection." I can only assume you mean 56k dial-up, because that's the only remaining speed that might choke on just about any amount of HTML and optimized graphics you could throw on one page.
The primary job of me and my fellow coders was to bend just about every rule of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash, etc. to give the client what the designer had promised. I'm not saying it was easy, but your talk of real world limitations isn't necessarily on the mark.
I'd be curious to know how much RF is used in slot machines... You know, they've got those networked slots that share a common jackpot... Are they hardwired?
Ok... the chip interacts "somehow with something"... so if whatever frequencies are being screwed up happen to include those that allow that communication, you can't start your car, even with your key?
No, doesn't seem like a big deal to me either. Anywhere is within walking distance if you've got the time and proper shoes...
I don't necessarily see it as a monthly fee... I'm a casual gamer... I'll get into a game for a week or two and then often lose interest. I'd feel better about paying for the levels I actually play rather than paying 8 to 12 times as much for a game I'll forget in a month.
More to the point, last time I registered a new domain at Network Solutions, they wanted to charge me extra for them NOT to sell my personal info to spammers...
It's interesting that parody falls under fair use rather than derivative work, actually. But if "Gone With the Wind", first published in 1936, had it's copyright expire, any sequel or derivative work, parody or otherwise, would be allowed.
Why would you learn how to use something that you can't actually use? Would that not be a waste of time?
No more so than half of the time you spend in school, some might argue.
And what if you did create something truly remarkable, and didn't patent it, would then the next guy to come along patent it and block YOU from using it?
Prior art.
So if you had to patent everything that you wanted to use, would you not spend quite a bit of time and energy patenting instead of researching?
Nope, you'd draw up the schematic and hand it to your patent attorney.
In the end, patents stifle innovation, since you have to spend energy patenting, energy taken away from researching. And innovation comes from researching, not patenting.
Actually, innovation comes from playing, not researching.
Now, the counter-argument is that you will have an incentive to research because the patent will grant you an exclusivity and you will be able to "corner the market" and make a lot of money.
All good.
Of course, if everyone did that, it would indeed be very difficult for anyone to invent anything patentable that actually makes good money. So only large corporations would do research, file patents, and rake in the profits.
But corporations aren't creative and don't play, so they're really not going to innovate anything.
But that leaves out Mr Tinkerer, who, instead of tinkering with his compiler/gadget, just sits and watches TV, wallowing in his inability to create anything that can pay the rent, being depressed.
There are drugs for that.
And the big companies only innovate to maintain/gain market share. So when they are the only players in the market, they slow the rate of innovation to a crawl, because research is expensive, and the less research they do, the more net profits they get, and that's ALL the shareholders (owners) care about.
My main concern is the scope of those rewards. I'm actually all for IP rights within reason. What I don't get is how essentially unending rights "promote the progress of science and useful arts".
So if copyright were, say, only 20 years from publication, is the author hurt? The author's not the best in the world. He's no King or Rowling. If it's not great, there's a good chance it will be forgotten in 20 years, or at least not bringing in the income the author got when it was first released.
For the moment, let's assume you're a brilliant writer who's just released the best selling book ever written. Because you've got copyright on it until 70 years after you die, you're set for life... hell, your kids will never have to work a day. I hardly see that as encouraging you to create more works, and if you're that good, maybe society would benefit from more than a one-shot.
When's the last time you had to pay for MP3 software??? Either for encoding or decoding? I really don't buy the idea that an MP3 tax is a deterrent. Hell, we all bitched and moaned when the GIF tax came around, but did it REALLY have any effect on ANYONE???
I wonder how much alteration has to be made for a likeness to be legal. I live in Hollywood and know that I can rent stacks of prop money from the movie studio prop-houses, and some of them have the more recent Franklin portraits...
Why should we be up in arms? Besides the other more than half of slashdot that uses some form of linux, and then there's a more than half of slashdot that uses Macs.
Personally, I bought and installed Photoshop CS on my Mac yesterday, with no worries.
It's a matter of taste. Personally, I feel the Powaqqatsi score is more mature than Koyannisqatsi. In particular, I appreciate the development of the "Anthem" throughout the course of the film, and how its complexity grows with the technologies shown.
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My main tip is to make sure he never confuses the "plasma" with the "dog plasma". I saw that happen to a guy on tv once, and boy, did he get fucked up.
Doesn't work that way, in my experience (and I worked on sites for Fox, Sony, Disney and a few other media power-houses). The lead designer is going to have their vision of the way they want it to work, and the coders have to make it work any way they can. Yes, this leads to ugly code, but the client is interested in the shiny, pretty page, not what's under the hood.
You say "semi-slow network connection." I can only assume you mean 56k dial-up, because that's the only remaining speed that might choke on just about any amount of HTML and optimized graphics you could throw on one page.
The primary job of me and my fellow coders was to bend just about every rule of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Flash, etc. to give the client what the designer had promised. I'm not saying it was easy, but your talk of real world limitations isn't necessarily on the mark.
Actually, it was a guy from England named Steve Jackson, who was no relation to Steve Jackson Games.
Too many Jacksons, too little media coverage.
Sure, but this computer gathering isn't until April. Where's the spontaneity or "flash" with this project?
This time we only know about it 6 weeks in advance... oh wait. Why is that "flash"???
I'd be curious to know how much RF is used in slot machines... You know, they've got those networked slots that share a common jackpot... Are they hardwired?
Ok... the chip interacts "somehow with something"... so if whatever frequencies are being screwed up happen to include those that allow that communication, you can't start your car, even with your key?
No, doesn't seem like a big deal to me either. Anywhere is within walking distance if you've got the time and proper shoes...
I don't necessarily see it as a monthly fee... I'm a casual gamer... I'll get into a game for a week or two and then often lose interest. I'd feel better about paying for the levels I actually play rather than paying 8 to 12 times as much for a game I'll forget in a month.
Sure, iSync, part of recent versions of OS X, syncs my Nokia 3650 with iCal and Apple's Address Book via Bluetooth.
More to the point, last time I registered a new domain at Network Solutions, they wanted to charge me extra for them NOT to sell my personal info to spammers...
No, but I'm looking for the command-line Tic-Tac-Toe game that came in the distro with a Workgroup Server 95 if anyone has any leads...
It's interesting that parody falls under fair use rather than derivative work, actually. But if "Gone With the Wind", first published in 1936, had it's copyright expire, any sequel or derivative work, parody or otherwise, would be allowed.
Why would you learn how to use something that you can't actually use? Would that not be a waste of time?
No more so than half of the time you spend in school, some might argue.
And what if you did create something truly remarkable, and didn't patent it, would then the next guy to come along patent it and block YOU from using it?
Prior art.
So if you had to patent everything that you wanted to use, would you not spend quite a bit of time and energy patenting instead of researching?
Nope, you'd draw up the schematic and hand it to your patent attorney.
In the end, patents stifle innovation, since you have to spend energy patenting, energy taken away from researching. And innovation comes from researching, not patenting.
Actually, innovation comes from playing, not researching.
Now, the counter-argument is that you will have an incentive to research because the patent will grant you an exclusivity and you will be able to "corner the market" and make a lot of money.
All good.
Of course, if everyone did that, it would indeed be very difficult for anyone to invent anything patentable that actually makes good money. So only large corporations would do research, file patents, and rake in the profits.
But corporations aren't creative and don't play, so they're really not going to innovate anything.
But that leaves out Mr Tinkerer, who, instead of tinkering with his compiler/gadget, just sits and watches TV, wallowing in his inability to create anything that can pay the rent, being depressed.
There are drugs for that.
And the big companies only innovate to maintain/gain market share. So when they are the only players in the market, they slow the rate of innovation to a crawl, because research is expensive, and the less research they do, the more net profits they get, and that's ALL the shareholders (owners) care about.
Not just shareholders.
Author of "The Wind Done Gone" would say otherwise...
Would paraphrasing be creating a derivative work?
My main concern is the scope of those rewards. I'm actually all for IP rights within reason. What I don't get is how essentially unending rights "promote the progress of science and useful arts".
So if copyright were, say, only 20 years from publication, is the author hurt? The author's not the best in the world. He's no King or Rowling. If it's not great, there's a good chance it will be forgotten in 20 years, or at least not bringing in the income the author got when it was first released.
For the moment, let's assume you're a brilliant writer who's just released the best selling book ever written. Because you've got copyright on it until 70 years after you die, you're set for life... hell, your kids will never have to work a day. I hardly see that as encouraging you to create more works, and if you're that good, maybe society would benefit from more than a one-shot.
And the license was probably, what, a couple dollars of your purchase price at most? Is a $5 price difference a deal-breaker?
When's the last time you had to pay for MP3 software??? Either for encoding or decoding? I really don't buy the idea that an MP3 tax is a deterrent. Hell, we all bitched and moaned when the GIF tax came around, but did it REALLY have any effect on ANYONE???
It is a stock, you can short it. Hollywood Stock Exchange
I wonder how much alteration has to be made for a likeness to be legal. I live in Hollywood and know that I can rent stacks of prop money from the movie studio prop-houses, and some of them have the more recent Franklin portraits...
Why should we be up in arms? Besides the other more than half of slashdot that uses some form of linux, and then there's a more than half of slashdot that uses Macs.
Personally, I bought and installed Photoshop CS on my Mac yesterday, with no worries.
It's a matter of taste. Personally, I feel the Powaqqatsi score is more mature than Koyannisqatsi. In particular, I appreciate the development of the "Anthem" throughout the course of the film, and how its complexity grows with the technologies shown.