You won't be able to challenge the constitutionality of the DMCA while the sitting Supreme Court is in an "upholding" mood with respect to copyright laws.
It's that simple. With 1201(a) gone, all you have left is subsection (b), which seems only to codify the Betamax doctrine established by the Supreme Court of the U.S. in Sony v. Universal.
introduce the Sonny Bono Memorial Let's Extend It Even Further Bill, pushing the date back another 30 years.
Such an act would have the potential to break this precedent.
The Supreme Court's decision relies on its observation of no apparent pattern of behavior to simulate a perpetual copyright.
If Congress does pass another extension, a court may find it to complete such a pattern of behavior.
Thus, the precedent set by the Supreme Court may not apply, and we'll get another chance to appeal.
This was in the United States Supreme Court - the final point of appeal.
This was the final point of appeal in the judicial branch. The actual final appeal is to the United States Congress. If we can present to the Congress a round of overwhelming evidence that the Bono Act is unjust, Congress may reconsider. This begins with civil disobedience.
They've been given 20 more years, but after that they will still expire.
Provided Congress doesn't pass another extension before then. The copyrights on works first published in 1923-1975 have already been extended twice (1976 Act and 1998 Bono Act).
So explain to me how your old laptop can do more than a DRM enabled laptop
Some of the proposed DRM schemes effectively turn a computer into something that can do nothing but play DRM files. In essence, it becomes a glorified Xbox.
OOPS! Shouldn't post with my bonus while half asleep.
Take 2:
Now that a company called "Beonix" is working together with established powerhouse Sun Microsystems, does anybody see a danger of a name conflict with "Beonex Communicator"?
Ten seconds after I clicked submit, I remembered x (overcurve to undercurve, crossed), but then I realized that there exists an alternate way of writing x: overcurve, up-right stroke, undercurve.
I'm sure you all know what Dance Dance Revolution is
Yeah. It's that knockoff of Nintendo's own Dance Aerobics for the NES.
All Nintendo needs to do to compete with Konami's DDR for Sony's hardware is re-introduce the Power Pad, adapt it to the GCN's joybus, rotate it 90 degrees anticlockwise, and publish "Mario Dance Party".
Several of my friends have downloaded big stuff for me.
If the toll charge for local telephone calls is high and uniform all over your home country, then your "friend with... a decent ISP" has to live in a foreign country. Overseas shipping of a CD is still expensive.
The simple, rounded letter forms of Tengwar may lend themselves to Jot better than the angular forms of Anglo-Saxon runes. While I can't see any way to write Anglo-Saxon runic 'y' with any fewer than 4 strokes, and I'd see a lot of slowdown on a form likke 'st', most Tengwar letters require only one or two strokes.
Quite a few printed letters we write every day require multiple strokes to write them cleanly and properly.
That may be true for printed letters, but among Latin lowercase cursive letters, the only ones that need more than one stroke are i (need the dot to distinguish ii from u) and t (crossed).
The PC world may dominate 1. first-person shooters, 2. real-time tactical simulations, and 3. massively multiplayer online games, but everywhere else, the Sony PlayStation 2 console and Game Boy Advance handheld system dominate.
In some places, "cat" is slang for the female external genitalia, the same as the "pussy", and to "eat" such genitalia means to stimulate the clitoris orally. Thus, "eating" one's own "cat" refers to autocunnilingus. Are you really flexible enough to perform this act?
But hold on, what's to stop you using a powerful shell on a PC/Linux or PC/Windows?
The fact that users of your scripts have to download the shell, which may be many megabytes. Downloading a 10 MB Cygwin environment on 56K dial-up at 9 cents per minute (e.g. Irish phone system) is not fun.
Does Mac OS X let you change the system-wide virtual screen resolution? Windows does (Display Properties > Settings > Advanced... > General > Font Size). Or is Mac OS X fixed at 1 point == 1 pixel (72 virtual dpi) like Mac OS 1 through 9?
The actual clock speed is 2000/3 MHz, or 666.6 repeating
The actual clock speed of the PII 266 was 266+2/3 MHz, but Intel still rounded down to satisfy truth in advertising laws that state that you can't overstate the speed of a product.
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You won't be able to challenge the constitutionality of the DMCA while the sitting Supreme Court is in an "upholding" mood with respect to copyright laws.
That should have been:
There's a reason Congress takes place slower than Slashdot.
Here's the text of a minor revision to the DMCA that I would support:
It's that simple. With 1201(a) gone, all you have left is subsection (b), which seems only to codify the Betamax doctrine established by the Supreme Court of the U.S. in Sony v. Universal.
introduce the Sonny Bono Memorial Let's Extend It Even Further Bill, pushing the date back another 30 years.
Such an act would have the potential to break this precedent. The Supreme Court's decision relies on its observation of no apparent pattern of behavior to simulate a perpetual copyright. If Congress does pass another extension, a court may find it to complete such a pattern of behavior. Thus, the precedent set by the Supreme Court may not apply, and we'll get another chance to appeal.
This was in the United States Supreme Court - the final point of appeal.
This was the final point of appeal in the judicial branch. The actual final appeal is to the United States Congress. If we can present to the Congress a round of overwhelming evidence that the Bono Act is unjust, Congress may reconsider. This begins with civil disobedience.
They've been given 20 more years, but after that they will still expire.
Provided Congress doesn't pass another extension before then. The copyrights on works first published in 1923-1975 have already been extended twice (1976 Act and 1998 Bono Act).
windows machines ... The year: 1989.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were in essence pretty shells around DOS. Windows 3.0, the first "Mac killer", wasn't released until May 1990.
The cause: Tetris.
If you're still addicted to falling tetraminoes, if Tetris is still your drug, then by all means shoot up!
As is DDR, unless you're doing the equivalent of sprinting, which I have yet to see.
Try playing DDR Max's "Max 300" by Omega on Maniac. You're doing a solid ten steps a second.
So explain to me how your old laptop can do more than a DRM enabled laptop
Some of the proposed DRM schemes effectively turn a computer into something that can do nothing but play DRM files. In essence, it becomes a glorified Xbox.
when the old one can't play DRM files at all.
Who even needs to play DRM files?
Dell is going to have a real hard time selling me a new laptop in a couple of years if my old one can do more.
What if your laptop's hard drive dies, and none of the hard drives available at your local computer store are compatible with your laptop?
OOPS! Shouldn't post with my bonus while half asleep.
Take 2:
Now that a company called "Beonix" is working together with established powerhouse Sun Microsystems, does anybody see a danger of a name conflict with "Beonex Communicator"?
So Sun is calling this venture "Beonix"?
Isn't that name taken by a vendor of a Mozilla browser distribution?
I guess now the shoe's on the other foot...
Ten seconds after I clicked submit, I remembered x (overcurve to undercurve, crossed), but then I realized that there exists an alternate way of writing x: overcurve, up-right stroke, undercurve.
I'm sure you all know what Dance Dance Revolution is
Yeah. It's that knockoff of Nintendo's own Dance Aerobics for the NES.
All Nintendo needs to do to compete with Konami's DDR for Sony's hardware is re-introduce the Power Pad, adapt it to the GCN's joybus, rotate it 90 degrees anticlockwise, and publish "Mario Dance Party".
Does anyone remember those mats that you could use on Nintendo with games like Track and Field?
Called the Power Pad.
I really ought to figure out how to work with NES hardware and the Power Pad so I can port DDR to the NES.
Several of my friends have downloaded big stuff for me.
If the toll charge for local telephone calls is high and uniform all over your home country, then your "friend with ... a decent ISP" has to live in a foreign country. Overseas shipping of a CD is still expensive.
The simple, rounded letter forms of Tengwar may lend themselves to Jot better than the angular forms of Anglo-Saxon runes. While I can't see any way to write Anglo-Saxon runic 'y' with any fewer than 4 strokes, and I'd see a lot of slowdown on a form likke 'st', most Tengwar letters require only one or two strokes.
Quite a few printed letters we write every day require multiple strokes to write them cleanly and properly.
That may be true for printed letters, but among Latin lowercase cursive letters, the only ones that need more than one stroke are i (need the dot to distinguish ii from u) and t (crossed).
The PC world dominates games
The PC world may dominate 1. first-person shooters, 2. real-time tactical simulations, and 3. massively multiplayer online games, but everywhere else, the Sony PlayStation 2 console and Game Boy Advance handheld system dominate.
I will be the first to eat my cat
In some places, "cat" is slang for the female external genitalia, the same as the "pussy", and to "eat" such genitalia means to stimulate the clitoris orally. Thus, "eating" one's own "cat" refers to autocunnilingus. Are you really flexible enough to perform this act?
But hold on, what's to stop you using a powerful shell on a PC/Linux or PC/Windows?
The fact that users of your scripts have to download the shell, which may be many megabytes. Downloading a 10 MB Cygwin environment on 56K dial-up at 9 cents per minute (e.g. Irish phone system) is not fun.
a crispy 100dpi screen, OSX
Does Mac OS X let you change the system-wide virtual screen resolution? Windows does (Display Properties > Settings > Advanced... > General > Font Size). Or is Mac OS X fixed at 1 point == 1 pixel (72 virtual dpi) like Mac OS 1 through 9?
The crippled DDR support of modern PowerMacs
Apparently, according to the StepMania Forums FAQ, work is in progress to port a DDR implementation to the Mac.
Does Apple sell a lot of Macs in Berlin and the surrounding areas (the former DDR)?
The sequal to C should've been P.
If you don't believe that P stands for "Plus Plus", then how about swallowing up both of the next letters in .pl?
The actual clock speed is 2000/3 MHz, or 666.6 repeating
The actual clock speed of the PII 266 was 266+2/3 MHz, but Intel still rounded down to satisfy truth in advertising laws that state that you can't overstate the speed of a product.