How long will it be until a single person can create a full-length animated movie?
Given what people are doing on animation sites such as Newgrounds, the answer is now. Right now, most of the Flash movies available there are two-minute shorts, but somebody with the dedication could certainly write a 90 minute script and animate it.
Anything that can be typed on a standard American typewriter can be reproduced in ASCII.
Still, ignoring the possibility that Windows may change the meaning of the seldom-used U+0080 to U+009F section of Unicode to remain bug-compatible with poorly-written apps that confuse Unicode with ISO 8859-1 with Windows-1252, which popular desktop computing platform doesn't support Unicode well?
The Japanese have far too much pride in their product to allow mistakes out the door.
If you claim that Japanese companies consider exporting Engrish to be an embarrassment, then please explain the quality of text in the opening cut scene of the Sega Genesis version of Zero Wing.
I've read that story, which describes the problem of counterproductive copyright term extensions, but either I missed something or it didn't offer any technological solutions.
OK, given your comment about Windows's twisted kinda-sorta superset of ISO 8859-1 (called codepage 1252), I'll make the question more precise: Which desktop computer popular in 2003 cannot read or write 7-bit ASCII text documents?
The power to lay and collect taxes is limited in that it only applies to the funding of government powers to execute responsibilities specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
The Congress shall have power... To regulate commerce... among the several states, and... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
All DMCA powers spring from Congress's power under the commerce clause and the copyright clause.
It would be more effective to work at designing technological work-arounds to nullify bad laws
Except the DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201) prohibits exactly that.
And what technological work-arounds were you expecting? How does one "work around" the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act? How does one "work around" the precedents that make it impossible to write original music?
I guess that is because there are different text code standard exists on different machines, the text (ascii) file might be all right if everyone use IBM PC.
Please name a desktop computer popular in 2003 that does not use ASCII, one of the ISO 8859 supersets of ASCII, or Unicode as its native character encoding.
As Rogerborg pointed out, 39 percent of U.S. federal legislators have been admitted to some state's bar association at one point. If that's not enough, remember that legislators have little free will nowadays. The biggest lobbying organization in the U.S. Congress is the American Trial Lawyers Association, whose members' job security depends on having laws that are too long and too complex for the layman to follow.
If you download the.m3u and rename it to text, you'll usually see an HTTP URI pointing to a.mp3 file. Wget that URI and then click stop after you've downloaded enough. Rumor has it that those few.ram files that include an HTTP stream (in addition to the proprietary PNM and Real's embraced-and-extended version of RTSP) can be downloaded in much the same way.
OpenPGP based products such as GNU Privacy Guard disguise only the content of the message. As far as I know, they don't help much when you can't send any message to the destination address. In addition, I've read things that imply that the OpenPGP "web of trust" is useful only for those who communicate primarily within a town or who often fly on airplanes.
M3U is a text file containing a newline-delimited list of resource identifiers from which to stream audio or video. They can be URIs or local paths. XMMS, Winamp, and many other popular media players can handle M3U files; some save their playlists in this format.
What if it doesn't let you go into BIOS configuration but instead goes through an uninterruptible "fast POST" and then shows the "all your base are belong to us" screen?
Wasn't "TRIPS" the name of the "trade-related intellectual property" treaty that set up WIPO, which in turn created the model legislation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
How are they going to plug in and test an incomplete CPU core designed to work exclusively in tandom?
In each testing station, have three known-good cores. Connect them to each sample to be tested. If the processor works, move a known-good core to packaging; otherwise, reject the new core. I am not an electrical engineer; is it hard to make cores that can be attached and removed like this?
I rather like this idea, and so would Perrigo and the other generic drug manufacturers, but the major R&D-producing drug companies would lobby heavily against such socialism, withdrawing re-election campaign contributions from the "pinko commies" who voted to increase government spending on drug R&D.
Ten failures get balanced by one success (using your numbers). That sounds more like gambling... a crap shoot... than science.
Biochemists still don't have a complete understanding of every little detail that goes on in the human body. A "crap shoot" is the best that science can provide as of A.D. 2003.
The patent system gives drug companies a temporary monopoly during which to charge for both developing a drug and manufacturing it in volume. After the patent expires, generic drug companies can just manufacture it in volume, paying nothing to those who did the research.
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So what's left that can't be done by machines? Art.
Not after everything's copyrighted.
How long will it be until a single person can create a full-length animated movie?
Given what people are doing on animation sites such as Newgrounds, the answer is now. Right now, most of the Flash movies available there are two-minute shorts, but somebody with the dedication could certainly write a 90 minute script and animate it.
Anything that can be typed on a standard American typewriter can be reproduced in ASCII.
Still, ignoring the possibility that Windows may change the meaning of the seldom-used U+0080 to U+009F section of Unicode to remain bug-compatible with poorly-written apps that confuse Unicode with ISO 8859-1 with Windows-1252, which popular desktop computing platform doesn't support Unicode well?
The Japanese have far too much pride in their product to allow mistakes out the door.
If you claim that Japanese companies consider exporting Engrish to be an embarrassment, then please explain the quality of text in the opening cut scene of the Sega Genesis version of Zero Wing.
I too was under the impression that the Lindows distribution contained a customized version of the WINE compatibility layer.
I've read that story, which describes the problem of counterproductive copyright term extensions, but either I missed something or it didn't offer any technological solutions.
Their native standard doesn't follow any of these
OK, given your comment about Windows's twisted kinda-sorta superset of ISO 8859-1 (called codepage 1252), I'll make the question more precise: Which desktop computer popular in 2003 cannot read or write 7-bit ASCII text documents?
The power to lay and collect taxes is limited in that it only applies to the funding of government powers to execute responsibilities specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Article I, section 8:
All DMCA powers spring from Congress's power under the commerce clause and the copyright clause.
It would be more effective to work at designing technological work-arounds to nullify bad laws
Except the DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201) prohibits exactly that.
And what technological work-arounds were you expecting? How does one "work around" the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act? How does one "work around" the precedents that make it impossible to write original music?
I guess that is because there are different text code standard exists on different machines, the text (ascii) file might be all right if everyone use IBM PC.
Please name a desktop computer popular in 2003 that does not use ASCII, one of the ISO 8859 supersets of ASCII, or Unicode as its native character encoding.
First, lawyers don't create laws; Legislators/Congress(wo)men do (and judges interpret them).
As Rogerborg pointed out, 39 percent of U.S. federal legislators have been admitted to some state's bar association at one point. If that's not enough, remember that legislators have little free will nowadays. The biggest lobbying organization in the U.S. Congress is the American Trial Lawyers Association, whose members' job security depends on having laws that are too long and too complex for the layman to follow.
If you download the .m3u and rename it to text, you'll usually see an HTTP URI pointing to a .mp3 file. Wget that URI and then click stop after you've downloaded enough. Rumor has it that those few .ram files that include an HTTP stream (in addition to the proprietary PNM and Real's embraced-and-extended version of RTSP) can be downloaded in much the same way.
OpenPGP based products such as GNU Privacy Guard disguise only the content of the message. As far as I know, they don't help much when you can't send any message to the destination address. In addition, I've read things that imply that the OpenPGP "web of trust" is useful only for those who communicate primarily within a town or who often fly on airplanes.
M3U is a text file containing a newline-delimited list of resource identifiers from which to stream audio or video. They can be URIs or local paths. XMMS, Winamp, and many other popular media players can handle M3U files; some save their playlists in this format.
I also first go into the BIOS
What if it doesn't let you go into BIOS configuration but instead goes through an uninterruptible "fast POST" and then shows the "all your base are belong to us" screen?
shutdown and boot from something else.
What if the computer won't let you "boot from something else" without agreeing?
The first time I turn on a new machine, there's a bootable install CD in the drive.
How do you do that if the computer is set to check the hard drive for a boot sector before it checks the CD for a boot sector?
A related Jew joke by Jon Stewart
Wasn't "TRIPS" the name of the "trade-related intellectual property" treaty that set up WIPO, which in turn created the model legislation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
Imagine what the film editing and production companies could do with this.
They could make more films to sell more tickets to buy more bad laws.
How are they going to plug in and test an incomplete CPU core designed to work exclusively in tandom?
In each testing station, have three known-good cores. Connect them to each sample to be tested. If the processor works, move a known-good core to packaging; otherwise, reject the new core. I am not an electrical engineer; is it hard to make cores that can be attached and removed like this?
Perhaps the goverment should sponsor R&D in drugs
I rather like this idea, and so would Perrigo and the other generic drug manufacturers, but the major R&D-producing drug companies would lobby heavily against such socialism, withdrawing re-election campaign contributions from the "pinko commies" who voted to increase government spending on drug R&D.
Ten failures get balanced by one success (using your numbers). That sounds more like gambling... a crap shoot... than science.
Biochemists still don't have a complete understanding of every little detail that goes on in the human body. A "crap shoot" is the best that science can provide as of A.D. 2003.
The patent system gives drug companies a temporary monopoly during which to charge for both developing a drug and manufacturing it in volume. After the patent expires, generic drug companies can just manufacture it in volume, paying nothing to those who did the research.
It's completely conceivable that we could have "GPL" bands and movie studios releasing GOOD STUFF onto P2P network.
Really? What steps can a band that uses a copyleft license take to make sure that the songs its members write are in fact original?