It has to do with the 'no reverse engineering' clause in the DMCA
Actually, there exists a clause in the DMCA (17 USC 1201(f)) that specifically exempts reverse engineering, to the extent that it is required for interoperability, from the circumvention ban. (The DeCSS ruling turned out the way it did because Johansen put the cart before the horse and published a DeCSS program before a UDF filesystem for Linux or BSD was finished, making copying DVDs the "most apparent use" for DeCSS.)
H. G. Wells once predicted in The Time Machine that the human and orc races will be present in some form in 800,698 years, except humans will look more like Precious Moments figurines. And unlike in the recent movie, they won't speak English.
Window managers with all the options, and X with all the 3D accelerated features, do use a good chunk of memory, even compared to WinXP or OSX.
But much of the memory reported in 'top' allocated to X actually is video card RAM (framebuffer, z-buffer, textures), not mainboard RAM. The Windows 2000 task manager, on the other hand, doesn't include video card RAM in its measure of a process's memory allocation.
The distribution method is different, but in the end, you are still buying that PC from Walmart and not Dell dude, right?
The telephone has much greater penetration in households in the United States of America than the Web does. Dell sells computers over the telephone to people who do not have a computer to access Dell.com. Walmart.com does not to my knowledge sell computers over the telephone.
[Possession of small amounts of drugs] is not a crime; it may be illegal, but it shouldn't be, and as far as I'm concerned there's nothing criminal about it.
If a fellow can go to jail for committing an act, then by definition, the act is a crime. The "illegal but not criminal" acts are those acts that can get a fellow sued in civil court but can't put him behind bars, such as patent infringement and trademark infringement.
you have no right to perform something created by another without the permission of the creator.
Do you have the right to perform "The Lord's Prayer", first published by Jesus of Nazareth in the first century A.D.?
Do you have the right to perform works created by J. S. Bach?
There does exist a public domain. My question as to the criminality of performing a 1925 work was a crime was an attack directed at the questionably-constitutional Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
But do jaywalking, possession of small amounts of drugs that the pharma companies are probably paying the FDA to ban, and infringing questionably-valid copyrights, even though they are crimes, merit a death penalty? I don't think so. I believe that giving the death penalty or even life imprisonment to a mere jaywalker constitutes cruel and unusual punishment as defined by the Bill of Rights. Of course, the RIAA and the MPAA would love to lock up copyright infringers until the copyrights expire, but that's not how the United States judicial system works.
OK, so how do I satisfy section 8 of the TOS, which requires artists to guarantee that all musical works embodied in submitted recordings must be original? It's a pretty standard requirement in the mp3.com clones' artist agreements, but how can I prevent what happened to George Harrison from happening to me as well?
Microsoft is doing their level best to make sure that all of these folks buy an XBox
Actually, Microsoft is doing their level worst and driving half the potential Xbox buyers away from the Xbox and toward the Sony PlayStation 2 or the Nintendo GameCube. The PS2 has a much larger selection overall, and it plays PS1 games and DVD movies out of the box. The GameCube has more E-rated games and a larger percentage of well-designed exclusive games (Smash Bros., Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, etc. vs. Halo), and it plays Game Boy and GBA games with an attachment coming in May. In addition, the PS2 and the GameCube allow dial-up users to access the online games, whereas Xbox requires broadband service that isn't even available to probably half the USA population. (Dial-up, ISDN, and satellite don't work with Xbox Live. You need Internet access through cable or DSL, and many local cable monopolies and local phone monopolies have been slow to set up such access before, say, 2007.)
And, don't forget (search their site, http://www.microsoft.com)
Last time I checked, Microsoft Corporation's web presence was a horror to navigate. Would you please help those who are new to understanding Microsoft research this issue by giving URLs of the relevant EULAs?
How do you think Disney makes all their money? The don't own classic greats such as "Pinochio"
Disney owns Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940). Every other direct[1] film adaptation of the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (read an English translation here) has failed at the box office because the differences from the familiar Disney version are too jarring. Just look at how bad Disney's Pinocchio 2.0 (2002) is doing, even though it is more faithful to the novel, chapter by chapter, than any previous feature film adaptation of the novel. The obvious conclusion is that Disney has co-opted the common knowledge of Pinocchio so as to create a false impression in the average American's mind that "if it's not Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940), it's not the real Pinocchio."
[1] I don't consider Short Circuit or A.I. a direct adaptation.
Copying or using another's work does not foster creativity.
In some cases, it does. Had Victor Hugo's Les Misérables not fallen into the public domain, we probably wouldn't have a stage adaptation today.
And in some fields, inadvertent copying is unavoidable, leading to bad decisions such as the "Yes! We have no bananas!" case, where the publisher of Handel's Messiah successfully sued the songwriter of "Bananas" for copying a mere four notes from "Hallelujah Chorus".
using common themes from literature
But where does "reusing common themes" become "copying"? Where is the line between "idea" and "expression"?
Copyright beyond the author's death gives protection to an author's dependants if he dies suddenly.
So did the copyright for a fixed period of 28 years that the 1790 act provided. So do modern-day patents, which last 20 years after filing.
Copyright generally lasts for the life of the author because author's prefer to retain control over their works.
Then why don't patents last life-plus as well?
Whether or not [a life-plus copyright term] actually encourages the production of creative work is in doubt.
If it's in doubt, it shouldn't be in law.
I favor much shorter periods for corporate owned copyrights
Pretty much every Berne member other than the United States provides this already, by taking the "life" of a corporation as 0 years instead of USA 25 years in the formula to determine the copyright term.
Corporations are structured much better to reap economic benefits from the work.
So if an author wants to use the structure of a corporation to reap the reward that drives the progress of science and useful arts, then let an author provide a short-term exclusive license to a corporation.
If true, that's a huge relief since any game coming out now using the original Unreal (or UT) engine will look _very_ dated.
*GWOE (Games With Older Engines) is not dying
Pac-Man is dated. Pac-Man is still fun. Therefore, in some cases, dated is still fun. Namco still sells copies of Pac-Man on Game Boy Advance. Therefore, in some cases, dated sells. This correlates with the fact that games that remain fun continue to sell.
However, notice that in auto racing, "DNF" stands for "Did Not Finish".
Actually, Walt Disney would argue that Mickey Mouse is a trademark, so no, not anyone could use Mickey Mouse to market their product.
Several years ago, I bought a VHS tape with "Bugs Bunny" and the likeness of Bugs on the front and language to the effect of "This videotape contains public domain audiovisual works and is not endorsed by Warner Communications" on the back. Less than a week ago, I saw several similar tapes for sale at my local Walgreens store. If what you're saying is true, that trademark law gives Disney a monopoly on the early Mickey Mouse cartoons even after their copyrights have expired, then I'd expect Time Warner to have prevailed in legal action against these sellers of "Bugs Bunny" tapes years ago.
Or you could just follow the example of the maintainers of the GPL version of Star Control 2, who call their product "The Ur-Quan Masters" instead of "Star Control 2".
If there was anything actually redeeming about the so-called "intellectual property" released in the US, a person might be pushed to civil disobedience.
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It has to do with the 'no reverse engineering' clause in the DMCA
Actually, there exists a clause in the DMCA (17 USC 1201(f)) that specifically exempts reverse engineering, to the extent that it is required for interoperability, from the circumvention ban. (The DeCSS ruling turned out the way it did because Johansen put the cart before the horse and published a DeCSS program before a UDF filesystem for Linux or BSD was finished, making copying DVDs the "most apparent use" for DeCSS.)
And another thing: don't use Internet Explorer even if it is built into Windows.
No other web browser supports the ActiveX controls required to download security patches from Windows Update.
will humanity survive another 10,000 years?
H. G. Wells once predicted in The Time Machine that the human and orc races will be present in some form in 800,698 years, except humans will look more like Precious Moments figurines. And unlike in the recent movie, they won't speak English.
> Over indulgence in low-performance programming languages
Do you mean C? Fortran?
No. This refers to apps written in languages not typically compiled directly to machine code. Such languages include Perl, Python, Java, and Scheme.
Window managers with all the options, and X with all the 3D accelerated features, do use a good chunk of memory, even compared to WinXP or OSX.
But much of the memory reported in 'top' allocated to X actually is video card RAM (framebuffer, z-buffer, textures), not mainboard RAM. The Windows 2000 task manager, on the other hand, doesn't include video card RAM in its measure of a process's memory allocation.
5 out of 6 isn't bad...
Make that 5 out of 7. Sure, the following item wasn't stated in the original list, but I think it was implied:
There's Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and everybody else. Name the #3 cola. Anybody?
(yerricde raises his mouse hand while his other hand holds a can of Diet Number 3)
We Drink RC. Ritalin Cola. Heck even the "Diet Rite" logo would be easy to GIMP into "Diet Ritalin".
The distribution method is different, but in the end, you are still buying that PC from Walmart and not Dell dude, right?
The telephone has much greater penetration in households in the United States of America than the Web does. Dell sells computers over the telephone to people who do not have a computer to access Dell.com. Walmart.com does not to my knowledge sell computers over the telephone.
post their words without the "translations" and they'll hang themselves
No, post the copyrighted words of Microsoft without criticism or comment and the Feds hang YOU!
[Possession of small amounts of drugs] is not a crime; it may be illegal, but it shouldn't be, and as far as I'm concerned there's nothing criminal about it.
If a fellow can go to jail for committing an act, then by definition, the act is a crime. The "illegal but not criminal" acts are those acts that can get a fellow sued in civil court but can't put him behind bars, such as patent infringement and trademark infringement.
you have no right to perform something created by another without the permission of the creator.
Do you have the right to perform "The Lord's Prayer", first published by Jesus of Nazareth in the first century A.D.?
Do you have the right to perform works created by J. S. Bach?
There does exist a public domain. My question as to the criminality of performing a 1925 work was a crime was an attack directed at the questionably-constitutional Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
But do jaywalking, possession of small amounts of drugs that the pharma companies are probably paying the FDA to ban, and infringing questionably-valid copyrights, even though they are crimes, merit a death penalty? I don't think so. I believe that giving the death penalty or even life imprisonment to a mere jaywalker constitutes cruel and unusual punishment as defined by the Bill of Rights. Of course, the RIAA and the MPAA would love to lock up copyright infringers until the copyrights expire, but that's not how the United States judicial system works.
I like this program called Napster
Napster is dead.
Long live WinMX.
I wonder if he's heard of AmpCast
OK, so how do I satisfy section 8 of the TOS, which requires artists to guarantee that all musical works embodied in submitted recordings must be original? It's a pretty standard requirement in the mp3.com clones' artist agreements, but how can I prevent what happened to George Harrison from happening to me as well?
Maybe you've just picked a backward bank.
In some towns such as Terre Haute, Indiana, "pick" and "bank" contradict one another because only one bank has branches and ATMs within reasonable driving distance. And it works with recent IE for Windows and with Netscape 4.7x and 4.8x, but not with any Gecko based browser . I have reported the issue to Mozilla Tech Evangelism.
Microsoft is doing their level best to make sure that all of these folks buy an XBox
Actually, Microsoft is doing their level worst and driving half the potential Xbox buyers away from the Xbox and toward the Sony PlayStation 2 or the Nintendo GameCube. The PS2 has a much larger selection overall, and it plays PS1 games and DVD movies out of the box. The GameCube has more E-rated games and a larger percentage of well-designed exclusive games (Smash Bros., Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, etc. vs. Halo), and it plays Game Boy and GBA games with an attachment coming in May. In addition, the PS2 and the GameCube allow dial-up users to access the online games, whereas Xbox requires broadband service that isn't even available to probably half the USA population. (Dial-up, ISDN, and satellite don't work with Xbox Live. You need Internet access through cable or DSL, and many local cable monopolies and local phone monopolies have been slow to set up such access before, say, 2007.)
And, don't forget (search their site, http://www.microsoft.com)
Last time I checked, Microsoft Corporation's web presence was a horror to navigate. Would you please help those who are new to understanding Microsoft research this issue by giving URLs of the relevant EULAs?
How do you think Disney makes all their money? The don't own classic greats such as "Pinochio"
Disney owns Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940). Every other direct[1] film adaptation of the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (read an English translation here) has failed at the box office because the differences from the familiar Disney version are too jarring. Just look at how bad Disney's Pinocchio 2.0 (2002) is doing, even though it is more faithful to the novel, chapter by chapter, than any previous feature film adaptation of the novel. The obvious conclusion is that Disney has co-opted the common knowledge of Pinocchio so as to create a false impression in the average American's mind that "if it's not Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940), it's not the real Pinocchio."
[1] I don't consider Short Circuit or A.I. a direct adaptation.
Copyright only protects the expression of an idea, not the idea itself.
Where does one become the other?
If you want to write original pieces for the cello you are more than welcome to.
When writing an original musical work, how do I make sure that I don't unconsciously copy an existing work? And what happens when humanity runs into the theoretical limit of the number of distinct original works?
He's really a pathetic excuse for a human being
Bad troll. But you bring up a point:
Copying or using another's work does not foster creativity.
In some cases, it does. Had Victor Hugo's Les Misérables not fallen into the public domain, we probably wouldn't have a stage adaptation today.
And in some fields, inadvertent copying is unavoidable, leading to bad decisions such as the "Yes! We have no bananas!" case, where the publisher of Handel's Messiah successfully sued the songwriter of "Bananas" for copying a mere four notes from "Hallelujah Chorus".
using common themes from literature
But where does "reusing common themes" become "copying"? Where is the line between "idea" and "expression"?
Copyright beyond the author's death gives protection to an author's dependants if he dies suddenly.
So did the copyright for a fixed period of 28 years that the 1790 act provided. So do modern-day patents, which last 20 years after filing.
Copyright generally lasts for the life of the author because author's prefer to retain control over their works.
Then why don't patents last life-plus as well?
Whether or not [a life-plus copyright term] actually encourages the production of creative work is in doubt.
If it's in doubt, it shouldn't be in law.
I favor much shorter periods for corporate owned copyrights
Pretty much every Berne member other than the United States provides this already, by taking the "life" of a corporation as 0 years instead of USA 25 years in the formula to determine the copyright term.
Corporations are structured much better to reap economic benefits from the work.
So if an author wants to use the structure of a corporation to reap the reward that drives the progress of science and useful arts, then let an author provide a short-term exclusive license to a corporation.
I mean, it's never really been legal to take your record player out on the street and play tunes for everyone to hear.
Tell that to the man who drives down the street everyday blaring Eminem out of his car.
It is the editors job to write wrong notes so it may not be copied although the composer died more than 100 years ago.
I don't know about European copyright, but according to the United States Copyright Office, publishing a spell-checked edition of a novel does not create a sufficiently original work of authorship worthy of its own copyright. Likewise, neither would inserting deliberate errors as a sort of "watermark".
If true, that's a huge relief since any game coming out now using the original Unreal (or UT) engine will look _very_ dated.
*GWOE (Games With Older Engines) is not dying
Pac-Man is dated. Pac-Man is still fun. Therefore, in some cases, dated is still fun. Namco still sells copies of Pac-Man on Game Boy Advance. Therefore, in some cases, dated sells. This correlates with the fact that games that remain fun continue to sell.
However, notice that in auto racing, "DNF" stands for "Did Not Finish".
The nominations were posted, these are the results of the votes.
Some ACs are of the opinion that if a follow-up article is not in topic "Slashback", then it's a dupe.
Actually, Walt Disney would argue that Mickey Mouse is a trademark, so no, not anyone could use Mickey Mouse to market their product.
Several years ago, I bought a VHS tape with "Bugs Bunny" and the likeness of Bugs on the front and language to the effect of "This videotape contains public domain audiovisual works and is not endorsed by Warner Communications" on the back. Less than a week ago, I saw several similar tapes for sale at my local Walgreens store. If what you're saying is true, that trademark law gives Disney a monopoly on the early Mickey Mouse cartoons even after their copyrights have expired, then I'd expect Time Warner to have prevailed in legal action against these sellers of "Bugs Bunny" tapes years ago.
Or you could just follow the example of the maintainers of the GPL version of Star Control 2, who call their product "The Ur-Quan Masters" instead of "Star Control 2".
If there was anything actually redeeming about the so-called "intellectual property" released in the US, a person might be pushed to civil disobedience.
Like civil disobedience? Come break the law with me.