you can't take away any of the rights and freedoms agreed to by the UN nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... and really, neither should you... read it over... some of those are actually kind of nice.
I'll assume that the "some of those" rights you mention do not include article 27(2), which doesn't seem to limit the duration of such "material interests," opening up the possibility for a country to enact perpetual copyright and for Disney to lobby for a "harmonization" with that country's copyright term, just like the EU and USA "harmonized" with Germany's life-plus-70 term.
Some people claim that World War III was the Cold War, which became hot war in Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. Others claim that the terrorist demolition of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, began World War III. Particularly, strategist Eliot Cohen calls the Cold War "World War III" and the War on Terror "World War IV".
OK, Shrek was a whole story. It ended, and did so in the classic fairy tale manner! Making a sequel to a finished story is usually a terrible idea.
You mentioned Mike Myers, who stars in a series of comedy films parallel to the James Bond 007 films. So here's counterexample of sequels to a "finished" story not working: Doesn't each Bond movie tell a story in and of itself?
Monsters Inc. is a classic. I'll be showing it to my grandkids 15 years from now.
As an example of a movie distributed exclusively by the foremost staunch opponent of the public domain? For artistic freedom's sake, I'd rather show them the piece of crap that is Monster's Ball than Monsters Inc. Shrek, on the other hand, shows the other side of the story by making fun of Disney.
at least two of those three exceptions you mentioned, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and James Bond, were definitively not made by Hollywood
Here on Slashdot, "Hollywood" often refers to the seven major first publishers of motion pictures in the United States. Just because a film is shot on location doesn't make it any less of a movie produced by a Hollywood studio. The film adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Rowling's Harry Potter are published by Warner Bros. (New Line has been part of Warner Bros. since Warner bought Turner), and the film adaptations of Fleming's James Bond 007 series are published by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Both Warner and MGM are MPAA members.
The unix command will scale to any obvious need (especially when coupled with xargs, grep, sed, etc.), but you have to get comfortable with a lot of syntax. The Windows GUI optimizes the most common operations, but it can't scale to other needs.
Then why not have the GUI display the command used to perform a given search, so that the user can gently become acquainted with the syntax?
the more control you want to have, the smarter you have to be
Then why not make apps that gradually teach the user?
If sales and food service jobs are ever taken by robots, the robots will probably need to have much more powerful speech and vision recognition than what is commercially available in late 2003.
I've installed Linux as a double-boot because unix-y text munging functions open up *huge* worlds on this when you know how to use them.
You might want to introduce *n?x text processing to your Windows-using colleagues, but if so, you should do it gently. Start them with Cygwin so that they don't have to troubleshoot X11 issues just to get started.
I predict that in 100 years, programs will look a lot like today's pseudo-code.
Programs already look like the pseudocode of six years ago. Look at Haskell. When a programmer submitted the source code for an application written in Haskell, the boss became confused and commented: "Nice specification, but where's the code?" However, there will always be jobs for assembly language programmers as long as there's a need to get a computer started or to embed really inexpensive computers in really inexpensive devices.
I'll talk out of my ass. I haven't even seen Reloaded, let alone Revolutions, but here's what I can tell based on watching the first movie and reading the published spoilers of the second and third:
Neo can pick up the machines' communication by using his "data jack" as an antenna. Because he is The One, he can understand the Japanese-designed protocol that the machines speak to each other and can jam their control programs.
I will not pay you in Japan, I will not pay you in Thailand. I will not pay in Spain or France, I will not pay you, not one chance! I will not pay you, S-C-O, I need not pay you, no, no, no!
but some software products support RH only (like Maya)
In that case, if Alias continues to provide Maya only for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, watch CG production companies not upgrade to new Maya because they can't afford to pay Red Hat to upgrade from the free pre-Fedora Core OS they currently run to a per-CPU license of RHEL. Should SCO win, watch Alias port Maya to FreeBSD.
Hollywood only writes the copyright laws, they don't actually obey them themselves!
Darn right. Had the copyright terms established by the Bono Act been in effect when Disney was making its classic films, we definitely wouldn't have Disney's Pinocchio or Disney's The Jungle Book in the form that we know them. The original authors' estates would have demanded artistic control over the works (as seen in Disney's licensed films such as The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Tarzan) and a hefty cut of the gross box office income.
I still own one share of SCO stock and am holding on to it for no other purpose than to help bring suit to them
You probably won't be able to sue SCO executives unless and until they cause you to lose at least twenty U.S. dollars (Amendment VII). What is SCOX worth again? Have you held SCOX stock since late 2000, the last time it was worth $20 per share more than it's worth now?
The $150,000 figure is "statutory damages." Such damages are available only to a copyright owner who registered his copyright either before the infringement happened or within three months after the work was first published.
Actual damages are not capped, but they're also much harder to get than statutory damages.
Given that DreamWorks made an award-winning film called Shrek that allegorically attacked The Walt Disney Company, is there honor among thieves? Will those studios that SCO does not attack make SCO out to be the "good guys"?
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you can't take away any of the rights and freedoms agreed to by the UN nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... and really, neither should you... read it over... some of those are actually kind of nice.
I'll assume that the "some of those" rights you mention do not include article 27(2), which doesn't seem to limit the duration of such "material interests," opening up the possibility for a country to enact perpetual copyright and for Disney to lobby for a "harmonization" with that country's copyright term, just like the EU and USA "harmonized" with Germany's life-plus-70 term.
If the UN can't tell the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy
Easy. The United States is certainly not a democratic republic in practice; if it's not a dictatorship, it's definitely a plutocracy.
Has Slashdot turned into K5?
what kept world peace for those years was the nuclear bomb and the balance of power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Peace? Peace? "Cold War" is a misnomer, as it became a hot war in at least Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam.
No world wars in 50+ years
Some people claim that World War III was the Cold War, which became hot war in Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. Others claim that the terrorist demolition of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, began World War III. Particularly, strategist Eliot Cohen calls the Cold War "World War III" and the War on Terror "World War IV".
Secondly, that's how you are supposed to specify the padding for cells in an HTML table.
Were. Apparently, new tools that output HTML aren't supposed to output presentational attributes; they're supposed to output equivalent CSS instead.
I don't see any NVIDIA influence in XGI's logo, but would you deny that the XGI logo resembles the Cingular logo, except pixelized and painted green?
OK, Shrek was a whole story. It ended, and did so in the classic fairy tale manner! Making a sequel to a finished story is usually a terrible idea.
You mentioned Mike Myers, who stars in a series of comedy films parallel to the James Bond 007 films. So here's counterexample of sequels to a "finished" story not working: Doesn't each Bond movie tell a story in and of itself?
Halloween, on the other hand...
Monsters Inc. is a classic. I'll be showing it to my grandkids 15 years from now.
As an example of a movie distributed exclusively by the foremost staunch opponent of the public domain? For artistic freedom's sake, I'd rather show them the piece of crap that is Monster's Ball than Monsters Inc. Shrek, on the other hand, shows the other side of the story by making fun of Disney.
But Lithgow's character is back? How, pray tell, do you come back after being swallowed whole by a whopping-great-dragon?
If Jonah could survive being swallowed whole by a sea monster, and if Geppetto could replicate the stunt, then why not F-wad?
I'm not buying anything from Disney until one of the following happens: 1. the Bono Act is repealed, or 2. Disney produces an animated Pinocchio 2.
at least two of those three exceptions you mentioned, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and James Bond, were definitively not made by Hollywood
Here on Slashdot, "Hollywood" often refers to the seven major first publishers of motion pictures in the United States. Just because a film is shot on location doesn't make it any less of a movie produced by a Hollywood studio. The film adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Rowling's Harry Potter are published by Warner Bros. (New Line has been part of Warner Bros. since Warner bought Turner), and the film adaptations of Fleming's James Bond 007 series are published by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Both Warner and MGM are MPAA members.
The unix command will scale to any obvious need (especially when coupled with xargs, grep, sed, etc.), but you have to get comfortable with a lot of syntax. The Windows GUI optimizes the most common operations, but it can't scale to other needs.
Then why not have the GUI display the command used to perform a given search, so that the user can gently become acquainted with the syntax?
the more control you want to have, the smarter you have to be
Then why not make apps that gradually teach the user?
So why exactly should (non-power) users need to learn how to make new tools?
To maintain their human potential. According to the mythology of evolution, apes became man once they learned to make tools.
Or to understand what goes into making a tool, so that they don't ask far-fetched "Why can't a tool do $impossible_task?" questions.
If sales and food service jobs are ever taken by robots, the robots will probably need to have much more powerful speech and vision recognition than what is commercially available in late 2003.
I've installed Linux as a double-boot because unix-y text munging functions open up *huge* worlds on this when you know how to use them.
You might want to introduce *n?x text processing to your Windows-using colleagues, but if so, you should do it gently. Start them with Cygwin so that they don't have to troubleshoot X11 issues just to get started.
I predict that in 100 years, programs will look a lot like today's pseudo-code.
Programs already look like the pseudocode of six years ago. Look at Haskell. When a programmer submitted the source code for an application written in Haskell, the boss became confused and commented: "Nice specification, but where's the code?" However, there will always be jobs for assembly language programmers as long as there's a need to get a computer started or to embed really inexpensive computers in really inexpensive devices.
In that case, will there be "The Source", "The Source Reloaded", and "Source Source Revolution"?
I'll talk out of my ass. I haven't even seen Reloaded, let alone Revolutions, but here's what I can tell based on watching the first movie and reading the published spoilers of the second and third:
Neo can pick up the machines' communication by using his "data jack" as an antenna. Because he is The One, he can understand the Japanese-designed protocol that the machines speak to each other and can jam their control programs.
I will not pay you in Japan,
I will not pay you in Thailand.
I will not pay in Spain or France,
I will not pay you, not one chance!
I will not pay you, S-C-O,
I need not pay you, no, no, no!
but some software products support RH only (like Maya)
In that case, if Alias continues to provide Maya only for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, watch CG production companies not upgrade to new Maya because they can't afford to pay Red Hat to upgrade from the free pre-Fedora Core OS they currently run to a per-CPU license of RHEL. Should SCO win, watch Alias port Maya to FreeBSD.
For a SCO section on Slashdot, bookmark the SCO topic page.
Hollywood only writes the copyright laws, they don't actually obey them themselves!
Darn right. Had the copyright terms established by the Bono Act been in effect when Disney was making its classic films, we definitely wouldn't have Disney's Pinocchio or Disney's The Jungle Book in the form that we know them. The original authors' estates would have demanded artistic control over the works (as seen in Disney's licensed films such as The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Tarzan) and a hefty cut of the gross box office income.
I still own one share of SCO stock and am holding on to it for no other purpose than to help bring suit to them
You probably won't be able to sue SCO executives unless and until they cause you to lose at least twenty U.S. dollars (Amendment VII). What is SCOX worth again? Have you held SCOX stock since late 2000, the last time it was worth $20 per share more than it's worth now?
The $150,000 figure is "statutory damages." Such damages are available only to a copyright owner who registered his copyright either before the infringement happened or within three months after the work was first published.
Actual damages are not capped, but they're also much harder to get than statutory damages.
Given that DreamWorks made an award-winning film called Shrek that allegorically attacked The Walt Disney Company, is there honor among thieves? Will those studios that SCO does not attack make SCO out to be the "good guys"?