Clinton still could not have prevented the DMCA from becoming law because it passed both houses by "unanimous consent", that is, a voice vote. A voice vote implies at least 80.1 percent support for a bill (20 percent of a house can force a full roll-call vote in that house); only 66.7 percent is needed to override the President's veto.
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a "theoretical maximum" doesn't increase over time.
The theoretical maximum of USB 1.x has not increased; it remains at 12 Mbps. However, the theoretical maximum of USB LATEST has increased from 12 Mbps in USB 1.x to 480 Mbps in USB 2.0.
And, the author needs to RTFM.... there are plenty of good resources to use for Linux help, www.justlinux.com being one I frequently used when I needed help.
Having the URL for a web site helps zero when you can't get your computer to boot, let alone to access the Internet.
A 1-line description would have saved me searching through the man page
Most GNU programs do have such 1-line descriptions. I just tried ls --help and got this:
$ ls --help
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. [snip]
For example, some of the more common consistent switches in GNU are:
If someone has a mostly happy, generally successfull Linux installation on a machine with a few tens of gigs of hard drive space, can Windows be nicely (non-destructively) installed as a novelty or... for what Windows users use it for?
Here we go:
Make sure that either you have multiple hard disks or that your hard disk isn't just one big Linux partition. Use a disk partitioning tool to create a FAT partition for Windows to occupy.
Make a boot disk so that you can boot back into GNU/Linux after Windows trashes your MBR.
Flip burgers for 60 hours to earn enough money after income and sales taxes for a Windows license.
Install Windows by booting from the CD. Win2k and WinXP will offer to convert your FAT partition to NTFS, which Linux can read (not write); take this into account when making your selection.
Go to Windows Update five times and install each of the updates that requires a reboot.
Virtually any classic Nintendo game can run in FCE Ultra (NES), Snes9x (Super NES), or VisualBoyAdvance (GB, GBC, GBA), all of which are ported to Linux. MAME runs thousands of coin-op games. You can even dance the night away with Linux and pyDDR.
After reading the headline, my first thought was of a copyright infringement sting operation. But then I realized it said "Protoplanetary" and not "Proprietary".
Have you written your legislature in support of legislation like the Eldred Act? The Eldred Act seeks to apply only the bare Berne minimum copyright term (life + 50) to works whose copyright has not been registered, as a starting point for future reductions.
In some cases the testing period eats up almost the entire patent period. Rather than a global extention on patent durations they should "stop the clock" during any government mandated testing procedures.
They already do in the USA. A patent holder can apply for a term extension of up to five years to account for time spent waiting for regulatory approval.
AIDS victims often advocate that AIDS drugs should be free or have their patents nationalized or invalidated so that all of those who suffer from AIDS could afford medication. The big problem with this is that if the profit motive is remove from creating AIDS drugs, companies won't risk hundreds of millions required to develop the drugs.
I don't see any conflict here, at least under U.S. law. When the U.S. federal government nationalizes a patent, it uses its Fifth Amendment power of eminent domain, which guarantees the patent holder "just compensation" for the patent (James v. Campbell, 1882).
"Scrounge around for breadcrumbs"? Only if "breadcrumbs" is your code word for advertiser dollars. Movies already prominently feature products. Remember The Wizard, a feature-length commercial for Nintendo video games? And imagine how much LFO could have got for "Summer Girls". If you remember, the song sounds like a f*ng commercial for Abercrombie. Apparently, Chinese songwriters and recording artists are funding their albums through such advertiser patronage.
I believe the best way to maximize the public benefit (creation times ditribution) is with "classic" copyright protection.
I agree that restoring fair use would help bring copyright back into balance, but what are your thoughts on an appropriate term of monopoly? Twenty years, to match patents? Life plus 70, as under the Bono Act? Or something in between?
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do what i do, bring a cd with dwi to school
The application "dwi2.exe" could not be opened, because it has not been approved by the system administrator.
And since Microsoft/BSA are very unlikely to go after consumers who have no money
Except to make an example of them to the tune of nearly 100 billion dollars, like the RIAA is doing?
the DMCA passed under Clinton's watch
Clinton still could not have prevented the DMCA from becoming law because it passed both houses by "unanimous consent", that is, a voice vote. A voice vote implies at least 80.1 percent support for a bill (20 percent of a house can force a full roll-call vote in that house); only 66.7 percent is needed to override the President's veto.
At the price, I'm not sure what there's not to like :-)
How about the dearth of native commercial games?
BBC ... writing `Nasa' for NASA
They're crazy.
In fact, the word for "crazy" in the Toki Pona language is nasa.
So if he made no profit; and his liability is zero
If he made no profit, his liability is $150,000 under 17 USC 504(c)(2).
It would be much easier to just change ISPs.
Even with a six-figure setup fee to relocate the family to an area serviced by the other ISP?
You can just find a different ISP
Yeah, and pay the six-figure setup fee including relocation of subscriber's family.
I got a few results from Google: usb serial adapter mac
a "theoretical maximum" doesn't increase over time.
The theoretical maximum of USB 1.x has not increased; it remains at 12 Mbps. However, the theoretical maximum of USB LATEST has increased from 12 Mbps in USB 1.x to 480 Mbps in USB 2.0.
Replace with firewire or usb dildo.
Your USB dildo.
just as much as I find using javascript for configuration files quite stupid
Would you rather have Mozilla's prefs file use XML of some sort instead of JavaScript?
I hope they are not spending all this time trying to come up with a new name.
The new name was decided some time ago, but a search through multiple countries' trademark databases takes time.
And how is that gaining anything from just right clicking on the picture?
"Sorry, you're not allowed to right-click."
drag to a save-as is rather backwards.
Microsoft Internet Explorer can handle dragging an image from a web page to a folder and creating a .jpg file.
RISC OS always used drag for save-as.
people complaining because beta/alpha software is buggy.
Possible rationale being that people had no technical trouble with their Beta VCRs[1], so why should they have trouble with Beta software?
[1] An industrywide switch from Betamax to JVC's VHS format does not count as technical trouble and is thus beside the point.
And, the author needs to RTFM.... there are plenty of good resources to use for Linux help, www.justlinux.com being one I frequently used when I needed help.
Having the URL for a web site helps zero when you can't get your computer to boot, let alone to access the Internet.
A 1-line description would have saved me searching through the man page
Most GNU programs do have such 1-line descriptions. I just tried ls --help and got this:
For example, some of the more common consistent switches in GNU are:
If someone has a mostly happy, generally successfull Linux installation on a machine with a few tens of gigs of hard drive space, can Windows be nicely (non-destructively) installed as a novelty or ... for what Windows users use it for?
Here we go:
but what about video games?
Virtually any classic Nintendo game can run in FCE Ultra (NES), Snes9x (Super NES), or VisualBoyAdvance (GB, GBC, GBA), all of which are ported to Linux. MAME runs thousands of coin-op games. You can even dance the night away with Linux and pyDDR.
BattleField 1942 etc
The game '1942' can run in MAME or in FCE Ultra.
They require a separate volume licensing key to use.
From the blurb: "the freebie didn't contain any license document." So where was this key?
After reading the headline, my first thought was of a copyright infringement sting operation. But then I realized it said "Protoplanetary" and not "Proprietary".
I'm "anti-bono"
Have you written your legislature in support of legislation like the Eldred Act? The Eldred Act seeks to apply only the bare Berne minimum copyright term (life + 50) to works whose copyright has not been registered, as a starting point for future reductions.
In some cases the testing period eats up almost the entire patent period. Rather than a global extention on patent durations they should "stop the clock" during any government mandated testing procedures.
They already do in the USA. A patent holder can apply for a term extension of up to five years to account for time spent waiting for regulatory approval.
AIDS victims often advocate that AIDS drugs should be free or have their patents nationalized or invalidated so that all of those who suffer from AIDS could afford medication. The big problem with this is that if the profit motive is remove from creating AIDS drugs, companies won't risk hundreds of millions required to develop the drugs.
I don't see any conflict here, at least under U.S. law. When the U.S. federal government nationalizes a patent, it uses its Fifth Amendment power of eminent domain, which guarantees the patent holder "just compensation" for the patent (James v. Campbell, 1882).
"Scrounge around for breadcrumbs"? Only if "breadcrumbs" is your code word for advertiser dollars. Movies already prominently feature products. Remember The Wizard, a feature-length commercial for Nintendo video games? And imagine how much LFO could have got for "Summer Girls". If you remember, the song sounds like a f*ng commercial for Abercrombie. Apparently, Chinese songwriters and recording artists are funding their albums through such advertiser patronage.
I believe the best way to maximize the public benefit (creation times ditribution) is with "classic" copyright protection.
I agree that restoring fair use would help bring copyright back into balance, but what are your thoughts on an appropriate term of monopoly? Twenty years, to match patents? Life plus 70, as under the Bono Act? Or something in between?