One problem is this means either corporations and individuals will be forced to pay licensing fees of some sort if any of the technology covered by various other corporations IP is needed to meet any form of emissions or "green" requirements. It's either that, or there will be a limit on how much "green" can be required, and it would be stopped at the point where there is any licensing fee for the technology.
It means more profit for companies at the cost of the environment or the individual. So it's pretty much par for the course, but that's not a good thing.
Give that this is speaking of the UK, you want fair dealing, not fair use (similar concept, but there is legally no such thing as "fair use" in most Commonwealth countries). Also, transferring copyrighted music on the internet is not fair use or fair dealing. It's illegal and copyright infringement in many countries, except if the music is provided under a copyright licence that allows it (i.e. Creative Commons), or there's some other law that allows it for another reason (such as Canada's tax on recording media).
While you may not agree with how copyright holders are licensing the use of their music or with how broken the copyright system in many countries is (I certainly don't agree with either for the vast majority of cases), it still is illegal in both the UK and USA (among other countries), and not a generic "right" of internet users.
Why wouldn't they? If someone reports it as incorrectly rated, I would think Apple would either take it down or (hopefully) correct the inconsistency - and in either case, contact the developer.
If you have the XiphQT component installed it should work...Oh hey, they finally released a new version after almost two years. Maybe someone realized that they should actually provide a maintained component for the system-wide media service in OSX.
How long is the copyright term? Yeah, there's your problem - it's not always disagreeing with copyright in it's entirety, it's sometimes disagreeing with how it's been terribly mishandled.
I'm also assuming you mean criminalizing as in "treated like a murderer" for any copyright infringement at all - since it's already something you can be taken to court over with relative ease. I'll leave it up to you to see if you really believe "murder" = "copyright infringement", in terms of punishment.
And if you're not using Windows, both OSX and many Linux desktop environments integrate something similar....Though I suppose I'd have to guess your references to "dual booting Ubuntu" means with Windows, and not alongside another Linux distro or on a Macbook.
More than one language actually. Objective-C is the most common, but I believe you can use a wide variety of other languages too, if you wish. There are also alternate ways to develop, aside from Xcode, but it is the most common.
That said, Apple does have a unified set of UI guidelines - meaning Chrome on OSX would probably look and act very similarly to Safari... Considering it's based on WebKit, I'm not entirely sure what the point would be.
I've also found that some of the best value-for-money you can get is from older games - either discounted new copies, or used copies. I think I bought the entire NWN+expansions for about $20 a few years ago. I still play it, and I played it for, probably, hundreds and hundreds of hours overall - between the OCs and user-created modules. In the past year, I've also picked up NWN2+expansions, and while I have less time to play games now than I used to, I've still had a good 30+ hours out of those games, and I'm only most of the way through the main game, and not into any expansions or user created modules.
I also have Baldur's Gate II+expansion lying around from a few months ago, waiting to be played, when I picked it up for $10, new.
I don't recall seeing a single app that's rated with higher than an average of 3 stars. I think one issue is that, upon uninstalling, the iPod/iPhone requests you to rate an app - but it doesn't request you to rate an app if you keep it installed. There is an opt-out "No Thanks" button when the rating screen pops up, but I'm not sure that would be most people's first reaction - I doubt it, in fact.
That, however, doesn't explain rude reviews left - though I find most reviews are actually more complimentary and have a higher rating average compared to the non-review ratings.
That's the hole I can't figure out... Why was this woman's DNA on eight years worth of cotton swabs? Do they seriously buy them in that large bulk that they only need a purchase every 8 years? If there was so much widespread contamination, why wasn't this showing up in even more crimes? Why didn't they figure out that there were two different pieces of DNA on these swabs?
But, unfortunately, a lot of the time these other opportunities aren't given to home-schooled children.
As the parent of home-schooled children, I think you are too close to the situation to make a rational assessment.
As someone who has nothing to do with homeschooling, I think you're too far from the situation to make a rational assessment.
And that you're an idiot for saying this to a parent who, probably from experience, was just talking about the homeschooling groups and such that exist - for the purpose of socialization.
Isolate her, have someone watch her, contact the parents or the police immediately (depending on the level of the potential "threat"). Threat removed.
If she makes a move to hurt herself, whomever is watching her can stop her then and there. If she doesn't, then the parents or police will be there to deal with it shortly.
I'm guessing they're defining "excessively intrusive" as a cavity search.
This is one of those nice little stories that makes me never want to have children. If I ever did, I'd be telling them what their rights are, and what to do if someone ever tries something they're not comfortable with - which, at 13, would be "find an adult, if it's another child", or "contact myself (or other parent) immediately, if it's an adult". If they were prevented from doing so, whomever prevented them would likely be forfeiting their life.
Staying out of jail is probably a good reason for me to never become a parent, if this sort of incident is common.
...Uh. So your reasoning is that anything that isn't stand-alone is automatically crap, even if it was planned out as a trilogy in the beginning? That sounds very flawed to me.
Personally, I'm looking forward to it. Perhaps the combat wasn't amazing in Mass Effect, but the story and overall *fun* made up for it, to me.
Or the mark of a bad one because you have no clue what it's even talking about until you RTFA.
I was wondering what the hell a "Warner Music Choruss licensing scheme" is at first. I thought the word "chorus" was misspelt at first, but even that wouldn't make any sense without more context.
Slashdot Mirror
One problem is this means either corporations and individuals will be forced to pay licensing fees of some sort if any of the technology covered by various other corporations IP is needed to meet any form of emissions or "green" requirements. It's either that, or there will be a limit on how much "green" can be required, and it would be stopped at the point where there is any licensing fee for the technology.
It means more profit for companies at the cost of the environment or the individual. So it's pretty much par for the course, but that's not a good thing.
Give that this is speaking of the UK, you want fair dealing, not fair use (similar concept, but there is legally no such thing as "fair use" in most Commonwealth countries). Also, transferring copyrighted music on the internet is not fair use or fair dealing. It's illegal and copyright infringement in many countries, except if the music is provided under a copyright licence that allows it (i.e. Creative Commons), or there's some other law that allows it for another reason (such as Canada's tax on recording media).
While you may not agree with how copyright holders are licensing the use of their music or with how broken the copyright system in many countries is (I certainly don't agree with either for the vast majority of cases), it still is illegal in both the UK and USA (among other countries), and not a generic "right" of internet users.
Why wouldn't they? If someone reports it as incorrectly rated, I would think Apple would either take it down or (hopefully) correct the inconsistency - and in either case, contact the developer.
If you have the XiphQT component installed it should work. ..Oh hey, they finally released a new version after almost two years. Maybe someone realized that they should actually provide a maintained component for the system-wide media service in OSX.
How long is the copyright term? Yeah, there's your problem - it's not always disagreeing with copyright in it's entirety, it's sometimes disagreeing with how it's been terribly mishandled.
I'm also assuming you mean criminalizing as in "treated like a murderer" for any copyright infringement at all - since it's already something you can be taken to court over with relative ease. I'll leave it up to you to see if you really believe "murder" = "copyright infringement", in terms of punishment.
And if you're not using Windows, both OSX and many Linux desktop environments integrate something similar. ...Though I suppose I'd have to guess your references to "dual booting Ubuntu" means with Windows, and not alongside another Linux distro or on a Macbook.
You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
Advertising revenue. Look up how Mozilla Corporation makes money from partnerships with, possibly among others, Google.
More than one language actually. Objective-C is the most common, but I believe you can use a wide variety of other languages too, if you wish. There are also alternate ways to develop, aside from Xcode, but it is the most common.
That said, Apple does have a unified set of UI guidelines - meaning Chrome on OSX would probably look and act very similarly to Safari... Considering it's based on WebKit, I'm not entirely sure what the point would be.
I've also found that some of the best value-for-money you can get is from older games - either discounted new copies, or used copies. I think I bought the entire NWN+expansions for about $20 a few years ago. I still play it, and I played it for, probably, hundreds and hundreds of hours overall - between the OCs and user-created modules. In the past year, I've also picked up NWN2+expansions, and while I have less time to play games now than I used to, I've still had a good 30+ hours out of those games, and I'm only most of the way through the main game, and not into any expansions or user created modules.
I also have Baldur's Gate II+expansion lying around from a few months ago, waiting to be played, when I picked it up for $10, new.
I don't recall seeing a single app that's rated with higher than an average of 3 stars. I think one issue is that, upon uninstalling, the iPod/iPhone requests you to rate an app - but it doesn't request you to rate an app if you keep it installed. There is an opt-out "No Thanks" button when the rating screen pops up, but I'm not sure that would be most people's first reaction - I doubt it, in fact.
That, however, doesn't explain rude reviews left - though I find most reviews are actually more complimentary and have a higher rating average compared to the non-review ratings.
Relative to, as others have noted before, the ten years since this book was apparently released.
Someone seems to be methodically modding down any comments that disagree with the submitter.
Are you joking? The archeologist must have copyright then.
100K pirated because it was not legitimately available at the time to most people. You can't draw any other conclusions from this.
This is GameStop's fault for breaking the street date by such a large margin, and it's invalid as a measure of the effect of piracy.
But didn't you read? It's not re-licensing. Nope, nope, it's not.
The following is how they did it:
1. Write a new version of the current licence.
2. *handwavey-magic*
3. The work is now under a different licence!
See? No re-licensing at all. Nope, not at all!
Geeze, in the time it took me to post that, there were four replies suggesting the same thing. I'm guessing you may have found your solution.
I find Handbrake works excellently under OSX, and, seeing as it has a Linux/GUI version, it may be worth trying out.
http://handbrake.fr
Or the dictionaries and "Learn to Speak..." books......
That's the hole I can't figure out... Why was this woman's DNA on eight years worth of cotton swabs? Do they seriously buy them in that large bulk that they only need a purchase every 8 years? If there was so much widespread contamination, why wasn't this showing up in even more crimes? Why didn't they figure out that there were two different pieces of DNA on these swabs?
But, unfortunately, a lot of the time these other opportunities aren't given to home-schooled children.
As the parent of home-schooled children, I think you are too close to the situation to make a rational assessment.
As someone who has nothing to do with homeschooling, I think you're too far from the situation to make a rational assessment.
And that you're an idiot for saying this to a parent who, probably from experience, was just talking about the homeschooling groups and such that exist - for the purpose of socialization.
Isolate her, have someone watch her, contact the parents or the police immediately (depending on the level of the potential "threat"). Threat removed.
If she makes a move to hurt herself, whomever is watching her can stop her then and there. If she doesn't, then the parents or police will be there to deal with it shortly.
I'm guessing they're defining "excessively intrusive" as a cavity search.
This is one of those nice little stories that makes me never want to have children. If I ever did, I'd be telling them what their rights are, and what to do if someone ever tries something they're not comfortable with - which, at 13, would be "find an adult, if it's another child", or "contact myself (or other parent) immediately, if it's an adult". If they were prevented from doing so, whomever prevented them would likely be forfeiting their life.
Staying out of jail is probably a good reason for me to never become a parent, if this sort of incident is common.
...Uh. So your reasoning is that anything that isn't stand-alone is automatically crap, even if it was planned out as a trilogy in the beginning? That sounds very flawed to me.
Personally, I'm looking forward to it. Perhaps the combat wasn't amazing in Mass Effect, but the story and overall *fun* made up for it, to me.
Or the mark of a bad one because you have no clue what it's even talking about until you RTFA.
I was wondering what the hell a "Warner Music Choruss licensing scheme" is at first. I thought the word "chorus" was misspelt at first, but even that wouldn't make any sense without more context.