Buy them, lots of them. Try to listen to them on your computer, then when they don't work, try to return them. Tell them you don't own a CD player except for the one on your computer and that you cannot play it.
If you have a PlayStation game console (original, PSOne, or PS2), you can make this even more convincing: "I have a Sony CD player, model SCPH yadda yadda yadda" where you substitute the model number on the bottom of the PlayStation unit. You're telling the truth. Sony sells the PlayStation console as a device to play CD-DA discs and PSX games, so technically, a PlayStation console is a "CD player made by Sony," but employees of Worst Buy and Circuit Shitty are more likely to take you seriously if you mention "Sony" (electronics brand) rather than "PlayStation" (video games).
My nightmare is that I would buy one, and that it would *work* -- and then I'd be stuck with it.
So buy only albums by artists in genres that you like. For example, if you don't like gangsta rap, don't serially buy the latest release by the late 2Pac.
However, the oil companies will make a killing off this strategy, as you haul the CDs back and forth from Worst Buy to your test site. So buy ten or so discs and make trips to the store after testing about five of them.
Run vim without a file and it says the same stuff as Emacs (how to get help).
*vi* has modes: insert, movement, and colon (command line editing). I see no reason why insert should be separated from movement. I also see no reason why the command to enter movement mode should be any different if you start in colon or insert mode. Many versions of *vi* still in use don't give much on-screen indication as to what mode is active (vim has solved this).
Emacs also has modes: buffer (editing), minibuffer (M-x commands, and additional info that other commands require, with clear prompts), C-x (shortcut commands), and C-c. To get back to the editing mode from any of the other three modes, press C-g. Emacs puts extensive mode information on the bottom two lines of the display, at users' fingertips (literally in the case of users behind Braille terminals).
Can vim open multiple Win32 or X11 windows into one process, allowing the user to apply one command to all buffers? Emacs can (C-x 5). Can vim navigate directories? Emacs can (Dired buffers, C-x C-f . RET). Can vim come up with cute neologisms (like "buggestions")? Emacs can (M-x dissociated-press). Can vim replace Pico? Yes, but Emacs can also replace the rest of the Pine package (M-x gnus). Can vim play Eliza or Tetris? Emacs can (M-x doctor and M-x tetris). Can vim load extra features without recompilation? Emacs can (Emacs Lisp up to version 20; version 21 adds the Guile scheme system).
Emacs can emulate *vi* keybindings. Can vim emulate Emacs's?
Dude, it's out there. Look at systems like IBM's OS/400. In fact, since VM is part of the disk, there is no difference between objects in memory or on disk. It's called a "single level storage" model and it rocks.
On the other hand, the storage paradigm used in the PC architecture provides several levels of backup: 1. backup in volatile memory of the state of the document the most recent command performed, 2. backup on nonvolatile memory (flash or magnetic) of each last "approved" set of edits, and 3. further backups elsewhere on disk, on removable media, or on a network.
The problem with single-level storage is that applications that use it tend to edit documents in place, doing away with 2 above. This makes for frustrating work when you want to revert to the last saved version, especially if the app has only a small number of undo levels. This bit me in the @$$ several times in NewtonWorks's word processor. Users can, and will, forget to do number 3, and they will lose data.
If I were to ever design a desktop environment, no user would ever, EVER, see a file system. They would log in and get desktop that had all their applications with nothing else. To access something, they would have to run the application that created the object (by clicking on it on the desktop, or selecting it from a menu like the "Start" button), and then use the application open and save dialoges to access their saved documents.
So how do you copy files to removable media to give to somebody else? Do you have to load up the big, bloated app and then load and save each file manually?
And how do you group files together by subject, project, etc? As ShavenYak points out, your system allows only grouping by program.
And what if there is more than one app that can understand a file (e.g. Notepad or Emacs to edit HTML and Mozilla to display it; Movie Maker to edit home movies and WiMP to play them)?
A specification for a usable system must cover all your base, including all your corner case.
The mouse is an adequate way of selecting items in 2D, but cannot easily be extended to 3D.
Bull. The mouse ball controls up and down, left and right; the mouse wheel controls in and out; holding the middle button maps the mouse ball's Y axis to in and out. I might use that trick in my modeler.
Like, who would think of making the program's logo the icon?
The logo for e.tvdoes look a bit like the IE logo, with a black 'e' in front of a rotated ellipse. (Black in this case refers to weight not color.) I'm not sure what to think.
You mean the 'L' inside the 'O'? As in OutLook? Yeah, you're right...that doesn't make ANY sense.
If the first thing that comes to an average user's mind is "clock" rather than "e-mail client and scheduling program", it doesn't make any sense. Yes, you could argue that the clock represents scheduling, but the icon says nothing about e-mail, leaving the user to think that Outlook Express is for e-mail and Outlook is for scheduling. WTF? The Outlook icon also doesn't make any sense in writing systems that use , , or for O or , Л, or for L.
Another problem with the MS Office icons is that they all look the same (ooh, a W... ooh, an X... ooh, a clock...) , so it's hard to tell them apart at a glance.
I think his alternative will fail the moment the user needs to move an item from one desktop to another.
Easy. Drag an item off one side of the screen, and it appears on the opposite side of the next screenful of desktop space. After four screens of desktop space, the desktop wraps around.
Okay, totally valid point. It _is_ of course non-obvious how to use vi for text editing
Unlike vi, Emacs is highly self-documenting. For instance, the opening splash screen of GNU Emacs 20.7 reads:
Get help: C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Undo changes: C-x u
Exit Emacs: C-x C-c
Get a tutorial: C-h t
Use Info to read docs: C-h i
Ordering manuals: C-h RET
Activate menubar: F10 or ESC ` or M-`
Emacs includes a helpful tutorial that explains how to open and save files, cut and paste text, and find more help. If you really like your Windows keybindings (C-z, C-x, C-c, C-v, for undo, cut, copy, paste), you can probably find a.emacs file on the Internet that remaps the keys.
The only difference is that [commercial GNU/Linux system software vendors] must offer their OS for free by download.
The GPL doesn't require that. It only requires that if a licensee commercially distributes binaries, the licensee must distribute the source code used to generate those binaries either in the same box or on the same server as the binaries or by mail order to any third party. Sony's PS2 Linux kit uses the first option: tarballs on the DVD. However, whether you can use the GNU tools to hex-edit commercial games remains an open question.
For starters, bugs appear in Netscape/mozilla just as frequently as in IE.
But Mozilla bugs usually cause (at best) rendering flaws or (at worse) crashes of the app that don't affect the rest of the system even on Windows 9x, not like IE's bugs that range from (at best) refusing entirely to render XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml to (in the middle) crashing and bringing your whole system with it to (at worst) rooting your box. (Unless and until Microsoft can lower both WinXP's price and its system requirements, home users will keep using Win9x, where everything runs as root.) There's also a larger chance that script kiddies can start a widespread catastrophe with a widespread browser; diversity aids immunity.
Second the idea of using MSHTML is actually smart. Why would I re-invent the wheel each time I write an app that loads HTML pages to the screen?
I agree: that would be silly, but developers should at least give users a choice of which HTML library to use, just as Windows gives a choice of whether to open *.html with IE or Mozilla. I'd at least include hooks for MSHTML and Gecko.
The trick is to keep updating your windows install.
So how do I easily update Windows without using Windows Update, which requires me to use the very vulnerable app (namely IE) that I'm trying to fix?
Netscape on Linux SUCKS. Can you imagine having to look at that interface all day every day just to do your books? Sheesh.
Bullcrap. I'm using a nightly build of Mozilla (same codebase as the Netscape Communicator 6.x series), and its interface does not suck. Granted, it defaults to a Netscape 4 lookalike skin, but that's quite easily changed.
You quoted the words "shipping every unit", but somehow you managed to miss reading them.
Every unit of what? You didn't specify what constituted a "unit." I stated that every unit of the product called "PS2 Linux Kit" contains a copy of GNU tools such as strings. I recognize that my original wording was a bit misleading.
Try to explain how to install and use DJGPP to a teen.
I have. Twice. Once to my friend Josh Kearney (who was 16 at the time) and once to somebody else on AIM (who was 19 at the time). It's easy: unzip all zipfiles, set up the environment variables in autoexec.bat or msconfig (depending on Windows version), restart the computer, and then from any command prompt type rhide to enter the IDE. RHIDE can manage project files (.gpr), has a text editor with overlapping windows, and can trace your code with the GDB engine.
It took me [when I was 15] about a week or two of work to figure out how GCC works.
I told them gcc -Wall foo.c bar.c baz.c -o foo.exe and that was it.
Now, yes, I know GCC is not a complete suite of tools. I'm saying the tools bundled with GCC [like the cygwin or mingw packages] don't include useful guis or anything.
RHIDE is an IDE for GCC, and it looks like the GUI of the old text-mode Borland IDE. So what if it runs in text mode rather than pixel mode? Or are you talking integrated resource editors?
Personally I am a fan of simple edit boxes. I like the color highlighting and the API popups. Anything else [macros for example] are just not features I would use to enter text into a box
RHIDE has relatively simple, relatively Windows-like edit boxes with syntax keyword highlighting. To get help on a function of a library whose Info docs are installed, place the cursor on the function and press Ctrl+F1.
Both [MSVC and free(beer) lcc-win32] include clean and simple gui editors that make project management simple.
So does RHIDE.
Packages like mingw or cygwin [which are the types of OSS packages most zealots here support] are complete from a compiler point of view but they lack editors and other useful integrated tools [resource editors for example].
RHIDE doesn't include a Win32 resource editor, but it doesn't include ResEdit (Mac OS Classic resource editor), whatever Mac OS X uses, or Glade (GTK+ resource editor) either. You can get resource editors separately. Both MinGW and Cygwin include windres, a Windows resource compiler.
If you object primarily to the separate download locations of the various components (compiler, ide, and resource editor), feel free to package your own distro of Cygwin software and recommend it to other developers.
Again new programs can choose not to use mshtml.dll
Emphasis on the "new." I understand that I can use Gecko when I write an app. But legacy proprietary programs are still vulnerable to the MSHTML bug-of-the-month, and you have no way of avoiding this but to quit using them.
I think I would rather have programs like MS IE and WMP packed with [my expensive copy of Windows] thank you very much.
However, the inclusion of IE prompts developers to create apps that depend on IE and are affected by its security holes.
I've discovered a cheat code myself. While poring over the Super Mario Bros. hex code, I found the sequence "04 03 02 00 24 05 24 00 08 07 06". My previous experiments had confirmed "24" to be the game's code for a space character, and that world -1 was actually world (SPACE)-1, that is, 36-1. I realized that these codes matched the codes for the game's warp zones. After changing the 02 to 24, I was able to make the pipe at the top right of World 1-2 that normally takes the player to 2-1 to take the player to -1. The code is (in BASIC) POKE $87F4, $24 or (in Game Genie) GXNAGY.
Sorry. I guess I was confused. By "these stories" I referred to the original novels, available on Project Gutenberg. I originally meant only to point out that the very year after each original novel entered PD, Disney brought out the perpetually copyrighted animated version and thus could in theory assert control of any other work derived from the PD novels by bringing frivolous lawsuits.
However, all this has little to do with Abandonware.
In that case, let's just drop it and work on faxing letters to our representatives in what ever republic we live in, asking them to repeal copyright term extensions and restrictions on circumventing access control on legitimately purchased copies of material for purposes of fair use. (I said "fax" because e-mail -> "spam" and paper mail -> "anthrax.")
And when exactly did the Sony Playstation start shipping every unit with a copy of strings and a hex editor?
When the GNU/Linux kit was released. On the PlayStation 2 Linux kit DVD-ROM, you find binaries and sources for many GNU packages. I'm not sure if strings is in there or not, but it would be straightforward to put it there.
there is no relationship between the symbolic glyphs C, A and T and the sound one physically makes when saying 'cat'
That's because the Latin alphabet, frankly, sucks. The Hangul alphabet, used to write the Korean language, and the Tengwar alphabet, used to write the Quenya and Sindarin languages, were designed to have much more correlation between the phonetics of a sound (voiced/voiceless, stop/fricative/nasal, front/back, etc.) and the shape of the associated glyph.
Disney, as the creator of [Pinocchio and the Jungle Book], gave us them to begin with. They gave that much back.
No. DisneyCo gave us derivative works of those stories. Collodi gave us Pinocchio, and Kipling gave us The Jungle Book. And there's no way to fix the bugs I find in the plot lines of most movies (especially many action movies and teen flicks) because they're proprietary.
corporate greed creates issues and Congress's buyability compounds them.
So solving this buyability will solve the problems of patents on obvious inventions, patents on inventions that have clear prior art, effectively perpetual copyright, DMCA, and SSSCA. Where do we start in reducing this buyability?
your attitude re copyright (or what I could get of it from your message) was analogous to the attitude of those people that take open source software and disparage the hobbyists that maintain it
In that case, you could have used the "GPL violation" example.
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Buy them, lots of them. Try to listen to them on your computer, then when they don't work, try to return them. Tell them you don't own a CD player except for the one on your computer and that you cannot play it.
If you have a PlayStation game console (original, PSOne, or PS2), you can make this even more convincing: "I have a Sony CD player, model SCPH yadda yadda yadda" where you substitute the model number on the bottom of the PlayStation unit. You're telling the truth. Sony sells the PlayStation console as a device to play CD-DA discs and PSX games, so technically, a PlayStation console is a "CD player made by Sony," but employees of Worst Buy and Circuit Shitty are more likely to take you seriously if you mention "Sony" (electronics brand) rather than "PlayStation" (video games).
My nightmare is that I would buy one, and that it would *work* -- and then I'd be stuck with it.
So buy only albums by artists in genres that you like. For example, if you don't like gangsta rap, don't serially buy the latest release by the late 2Pac.
However, the oil companies will make a killing off this strategy, as you haul the CDs back and forth from Worst Buy to your test site. So buy ten or so discs and make trips to the store after testing about five of them.
Run vim without a file and it says the same stuff as Emacs (how to get help).
*vi* has modes: insert, movement, and colon (command line editing). I see no reason why insert should be separated from movement. I also see no reason why the command to enter movement mode should be any different if you start in colon or insert mode. Many versions of *vi* still in use don't give much on-screen indication as to what mode is active (vim has solved this).
Emacs also has modes: buffer (editing), minibuffer (M-x commands, and additional info that other commands require, with clear prompts), C-x (shortcut commands), and C-c. To get back to the editing mode from any of the other three modes, press C-g. Emacs puts extensive mode information on the bottom two lines of the display, at users' fingertips (literally in the case of users behind Braille terminals).
Can vim open multiple Win32 or X11 windows into one process, allowing the user to apply one command to all buffers? Emacs can (C-x 5). Can vim navigate directories? Emacs can (Dired buffers, C-x C-f . RET). Can vim come up with cute neologisms (like "buggestions")? Emacs can (M-x dissociated-press). Can vim replace Pico? Yes, but Emacs can also replace the rest of the Pine package (M-x gnus). Can vim play Eliza or Tetris? Emacs can (M-x doctor and M-x tetris). Can vim load extra features without recompilation? Emacs can (Emacs Lisp up to version 20; version 21 adds the Guile scheme system).
Emacs can emulate *vi* keybindings. Can vim emulate Emacs's?
Dude, it's out there. Look at systems like IBM's OS/400. In fact, since VM is part of the disk, there is no difference between objects in memory or on disk. It's called a "single level storage" model and it rocks.
On the other hand, the storage paradigm used in the PC architecture provides several levels of backup: 1. backup in volatile memory of the state of the document the most recent command performed, 2. backup on nonvolatile memory (flash or magnetic) of each last "approved" set of edits, and 3. further backups elsewhere on disk, on removable media, or on a network.
The problem with single-level storage is that applications that use it tend to edit documents in place, doing away with 2 above. This makes for frustrating work when you want to revert to the last saved version, especially if the app has only a small number of undo levels. This bit me in the @$$ several times in NewtonWorks's word processor. Users can, and will, forget to do number 3, and they will lose data.
If I were to ever design a desktop environment, no user would ever, EVER, see a file system. They would log in and get desktop that had all their applications with nothing else. To access something, they would have to run the application that created the object (by clicking on it on the desktop, or selecting it from a menu like the "Start" button), and then use the application open and save dialoges to access their saved documents.
So how do you copy files to removable media to give to somebody else? Do you have to load up the big, bloated app and then load and save each file manually?
And how do you group files together by subject, project, etc? As ShavenYak points out, your system allows only grouping by program.
And what if there is more than one app that can understand a file (e.g. Notepad or Emacs to edit HTML and Mozilla to display it; Movie Maker to edit home movies and WiMP to play them)?
A specification for a usable system must cover all your base, including all your corner case.
The mouse is an adequate way of selecting items in 2D, but cannot easily be extended to 3D.
Bull. The mouse ball controls up and down, left and right; the mouse wheel controls in and out; holding the middle button maps the mouse ball's Y axis to in and out. I might use that trick in my modeler.
Like, who would think of making the program's logo the icon?
The logo for e.tv does look a bit like the IE logo, with a black 'e' in front of a rotated ellipse. (Black in this case refers to weight not color.) I'm not sure what to think.
You mean the 'L' inside the 'O'? As in OutLook? Yeah, you're right...that doesn't make ANY sense.
If the first thing that comes to an average user's mind is "clock" rather than "e-mail client and scheduling program", it doesn't make any sense. Yes, you could argue that the clock represents scheduling, but the icon says nothing about e-mail, leaving the user to think that Outlook Express is for e-mail and Outlook is for scheduling. WTF? The Outlook icon also doesn't make any sense in writing systems that use , , or for O or , Л, or for L.
Another problem with the MS Office icons is that they all look the same (ooh, a W... ooh, an X... ooh, a clock...) , so it's hard to tell them apart at a glance.
I think his alternative will fail the moment the user needs to move an item from one desktop to another.
Easy. Drag an item off one side of the screen, and it appears on the opposite side of the next screenful of desktop space. After four screens of desktop space, the desktop wraps around.
if there isn't an info node you will be shown a man page, without the viewing power of less.
I thought Info used something like the Less engine to display pages.
Okay, totally valid point. It _is_ of course non-obvious how to use vi for text editing
Unlike vi, Emacs is highly self-documenting. For instance, the opening splash screen of GNU Emacs 20.7 reads:
Emacs includes a helpful tutorial that explains how to open and save files, cut and paste text, and find more help. If you really like your Windows keybindings (C-z, C-x, C-c, C-v, for undo, cut, copy, paste), you can probably find a .emacs file on the Internet that remaps the keys.
The only difference is that [commercial GNU/Linux system software vendors] must offer their OS for free by download.
The GPL doesn't require that. It only requires that if a licensee commercially distributes binaries, the licensee must distribute the source code used to generate those binaries either in the same box or on the same server as the binaries or by mail order to any third party. Sony's PS2 Linux kit uses the first option: tarballs on the DVD. However, whether you can use the GNU tools to hex-edit commercial games remains an open question.
For starters, bugs appear in Netscape/mozilla just as frequently as in IE.
But Mozilla bugs usually cause (at best) rendering flaws or (at worse) crashes of the app that don't affect the rest of the system even on Windows 9x, not like IE's bugs that range from (at best) refusing entirely to render XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml to (in the middle) crashing and bringing your whole system with it to (at worst) rooting your box. (Unless and until Microsoft can lower both WinXP's price and its system requirements, home users will keep using Win9x, where everything runs as root.) There's also a larger chance that script kiddies can start a widespread catastrophe with a widespread browser; diversity aids immunity.
Second the idea of using MSHTML is actually smart. Why would I re-invent the wheel each time I write an app that loads HTML pages to the screen?
I agree: that would be silly, but developers should at least give users a choice of which HTML library to use, just as Windows gives a choice of whether to open *.html with IE or Mozilla. I'd at least include hooks for MSHTML and Gecko.
The trick is to keep updating your windows install.
So how do I easily update Windows without using Windows Update, which requires me to use the very vulnerable app (namely IE) that I'm trying to fix?
I've been wating for years for a better Windows Entertainment Pack! I hope they've improved tetris!
Want an improved tetrisclone? Try Tetanus On Drugs. So improved it'll make your head spin.
Netscape on Linux SUCKS. Can you imagine having to look at that interface all day every day just to do your books? Sheesh.
Bullcrap. I'm using a nightly build of Mozilla (same codebase as the Netscape Communicator 6.x series), and its interface does not suck. Granted, it defaults to a Netscape 4 lookalike skin, but that's quite easily changed.
You quoted the words "shipping every unit", but somehow you managed to miss reading them.
Every unit of what? You didn't specify what constituted a "unit." I stated that every unit of the product called "PS2 Linux Kit" contains a copy of GNU tools such as strings. I recognize that my original wording was a bit misleading.
Try to explain how to install and use DJGPP to a teen.
I have. Twice. Once to my friend Josh Kearney (who was 16 at the time) and once to somebody else on AIM (who was 19 at the time). It's easy: unzip all zipfiles, set up the environment variables in autoexec.bat or msconfig (depending on Windows version), restart the computer, and then from any command prompt type rhide to enter the IDE. RHIDE can manage project files (.gpr), has a text editor with overlapping windows, and can trace your code with the GDB engine.
It took me [when I was 15] about a week or two of work to figure out how GCC works.
I told them gcc -Wall foo.c bar.c baz.c -o foo.exe and that was it.
Now, yes, I know GCC is not a complete suite of tools. I'm saying the tools bundled with GCC [like the cygwin or mingw packages] don't include useful guis or anything.
RHIDE is an IDE for GCC, and it looks like the GUI of the old text-mode Borland IDE. So what if it runs in text mode rather than pixel mode? Or are you talking integrated resource editors?
Personally I am a fan of simple edit boxes. I like the color highlighting and the API popups. Anything else [macros for example] are just not features I would use to enter text into a box
RHIDE has relatively simple, relatively Windows-like edit boxes with syntax keyword highlighting. To get help on a function of a library whose Info docs are installed, place the cursor on the function and press Ctrl+F1.
Both [MSVC and free(beer) lcc-win32] include clean and simple gui editors that make project management simple.
So does RHIDE.
Packages like mingw or cygwin [which are the types of OSS packages most zealots here support] are complete from a compiler point of view but they lack editors and other useful integrated tools [resource editors for example].
RHIDE doesn't include a Win32 resource editor, but it doesn't include ResEdit (Mac OS Classic resource editor), whatever Mac OS X uses, or Glade (GTK+ resource editor) either. You can get resource editors separately. Both MinGW and Cygwin include windres, a Windows resource compiler.
If you object primarily to the separate download locations of the various components (compiler, ide, and resource editor), feel free to package your own distro of Cygwin software and recommend it to other developers.
Again new programs can choose not to use mshtml.dll
Emphasis on the "new." I understand that I can use Gecko when I write an app. But legacy proprietary programs are still vulnerable to the MSHTML bug-of-the-month, and you have no way of avoiding this but to quit using them.
I think I would rather have programs like MS IE and WMP packed with [my expensive copy of Windows] thank you very much.
However, the inclusion of IE prompts developers to create apps that depend on IE and are affected by its security holes.
I'm just jealous of that name.. are you sure thats not a psuedonym?
My father's name is Thomas D. Hacker.
I know from experience with X10
You mean you actually clicked those pop-up ads?
I've discovered a cheat code myself. While poring over the Super Mario Bros. hex code, I found the sequence "04 03 02 00 24 05 24 00 08 07 06". My previous experiments had confirmed "24" to be the game's code for a space character, and that world -1 was actually world (SPACE)-1, that is, 36-1. I realized that these codes matched the codes for the game's warp zones. After changing the 02 to 24, I was able to make the pipe at the top right of World 1-2 that normally takes the player to 2-1 to take the player to -1. The code is (in BASIC) POKE $87F4, $24 or (in Game Genie) GXNAGY.
Details on how I accomplished the hack
Now you've confused me even more
Sorry. I guess I was confused. By "these stories" I referred to the original novels, available on Project Gutenberg. I originally meant only to point out that the very year after each original novel entered PD, Disney brought out the perpetually copyrighted animated version and thus could in theory assert control of any other work derived from the PD novels by bringing frivolous lawsuits.
However, all this has little to do with Abandonware.
In that case, let's just drop it and work on faxing letters to our representatives in what ever republic we live in, asking them to repeal copyright term extensions and restrictions on circumventing access control on legitimately purchased copies of material for purposes of fair use. (I said "fax" because e-mail -> "spam" and paper mail -> "anthrax.")
And when exactly did the Sony Playstation start shipping every unit with a copy of strings and a hex editor?
When the GNU/Linux kit was released. On the PlayStation 2 Linux kit DVD-ROM, you find binaries and sources for many GNU packages. I'm not sure if strings is in there or not, but it would be straightforward to put it there.
there is no relationship between the symbolic glyphs C, A and T and the sound one physically makes when saying 'cat'
That's because the Latin alphabet, frankly, sucks. The Hangul alphabet, used to write the Korean language, and the Tengwar alphabet, used to write the Quenya and Sindarin languages, were designed to have much more correlation between the phonetics of a sound (voiced/voiceless, stop/fricative/nasal, front/back, etc.) and the shape of the associated glyph.
You can bet that with the marketing behind the LotR movie, there will be a movement to change English over to Tengwar letters. It's already happening with the Lojban language.
--I am autistic.
I am artistic.
Disney, as the creator of [Pinocchio and the Jungle Book], gave us them to begin with. They gave that much back.
No. DisneyCo gave us derivative works of those stories. Collodi gave us Pinocchio, and Kipling gave us The Jungle Book. And there's no way to fix the bugs I find in the plot lines of most movies (especially many action movies and teen flicks) because they're proprietary.
corporate greed creates issues and Congress's buyability compounds them.
So solving this buyability will solve the problems of patents on obvious inventions, patents on inventions that have clear prior art, effectively perpetual copyright, DMCA, and SSSCA. Where do we start in reducing this buyability?
your attitude re copyright (or what I could get of it from your message) was analogous to the attitude of those people that take open source software and disparage the hobbyists that maintain it
In that case, you could have used the "GPL violation" example.
Pinocchio and The Jungle Book are about 25 years separated
But for each year n in which the copyright on each of those works expired, Disney released the film version in the year n + 1.