Actual the original law was 14 years (based upon typical author lifespan), plus the opossibility of ONE reneweal of the license if the author was still alive. So 28 years max. I'd be willing to extend that a bit for high-cost items like movies... maybe 25+25 years, but that's it.
Remember "It's A Wonderful Life"? That was a public domain movie in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, which is why it was played to death. On one hand we got sick of it, but on the other hand it became a part of our collective culture. For some it's a family tradition.
NOW that movie has been re-copyrighted and rarely seen (once a year on NBC). That should not be allowed. All of the original creators, actors, and crew are dead. They can no longer profit from their labor. The movie should no longer be copyrighted. Eternal copyright damages our culture.
Well just as we had an "approved reading list" in school there ought to be an approved gaming list to earn this merit pin. I couldn't do a book report on "The Collected Anthology of Snoopy Comics" and neither should someone get a pin because they played Dead or Alive Bikini Volleyball nonstop. I'd limit the list to games that require reading skills, like RPGs.
I steal. Rather than go out and buy the DVDs, I steal the content. And no I don't care. Movie companies steal from their workers all the time ("Sorry Mr. Cameron, actors, and crew... Titanic made no profit, so your profit share check will be zero."). If the movie is any good (like Star Trek) then I will buy it.
As long as they don't go too far, and try to impose the old Radio/TV Fairness Doctrine to the net. If I type-in msnbc.com I don't want to have foxnews.com pulled-up at the same time.
And what of those ISPs that operate wholly-and-completely within a state (like Mom&Pop Internet of Fargo)? The U.S. government's power does not extend to them. I guess that job will be left to the state.
Some parents they it's their job to parent OUR children too, and they use government to make it happen:
i.e. banning our free choice to get happy meals with toys. I find these parents annoying, because they are basically insulting my intelligence, by presuming they know better than I do, how to be a parent.
And the European Union. If you think intrusive legislation is bad in the US, you ought to see what the central Parliament's been doing this past year. They regulate all kinds of crap.
Well this is what happens when you revive Feudalism. The commoners are too stupid to run their own lives, so we need the Lords to decide what they can and can not have.
It was a generalized response to the ~10 Church of Apple respondents above you. I grow tired of hearing their "Apple invented near-everything" philosophy. It's like dealing with a lovesick teenage girl. So anytime I have a chance to remind them how backwards Apple was during the 90s, I take it.
And of course they mod me downward. Gotta silence those who are not "of the faith". (Star Trek reference.)
Poland is part of the EU, and they too have a constitution (Treaty of Lisbon). You mean to tell me you think Poland has to just sit on its hands, even as Russian militias are streaming over its eastern border? It has to sit their and do nothing while the EU Parliament gives pretty speeches???
Hell no. And neither does Arizona. BOTH are sovereign states and BOTH have the right to protect their borders. .
>>>this type of action (arresting/detaining people without probable cause) is illegal and a violation of civil rights.
(1) Looks Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian (2) Has Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian accent (3) Can not prove he is a U.S. citizen because he doesn't even have a drivers license. (Who doesn't carry a drivers license, or non-driver ID card???)
QED probable cause to believe he is an intruder has been established, and the arrest may occur, just the same as you would arrest someone found inside a house where he does not belong. NEXT the courts will determine whether or not he actually is a legal citizen or an illegal invader. YES sometimes innocents get arrested, but they will get their fair day in court to prove they are not guilty, as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Or:
Would you prefer that we just let people like Bin Laden or Mao Tse Spy cross our borders, and have free rein to wander anywhere he feels like wandering, causing destruction along the way? These invaders are KILLING American citizens along the border, and you don't even want to TRY to stop them. You just want to turn the other cheek. ----- If I was in Arizona I'd certainly expect my government to act to protect me. Today is NOT a good day to die.
Let the Obama Bin Ladens enter this country. Let the Chinese send spies to blow up our homes and memorials. Let the Mexican drug lords roll over the Arizona border with their machine guns, destroying property and killing citizen in Phoenix (as they are ALREADY doing).
I hope one of those targets is YOU, not because I wish you harm, but because some people simple don't learn until they get a little bit bloodied. It's one thing to talk about racism, and quite another to have a Mexican, Arab, or Chinese illegal pointing a machine gun at your head. I bet you'll change your mind on immigration policy right quick.
Damnit to hell -
- how can people be so dumb??? "Yeah people are killing citizens in Phoenix. But we can't do anything about it. Let the Phoenix citizens die at the hand of the invaders."
And yet those cute little 1998 iMacs couldn't even do preemptive multitasking - a skill my Commodore Amiga had been doing for 13 years already! Even Windows machines had the capability with 95/NT4.
I'll give Apple credit where credit is due, but I will also deny them credit when they really did nothing innovative.
That AND because Microsoft had mandated back in 1996 that Firewire/USB/PCI was the future, and eliminate the old legacy busses. In a strange twist, it wasn't Apple that was innovating. It was Bill Gates. (Of course being Gates would could say he was actually "ordering" compliance.....)
Yes but the floppy had already been obsolete at that point (1998) due to its small size... the floppy would have eventually disappeared of its own accord due to lack of use by users. So no great advancement there.
As for eliminating the parallel port, we technical folks usually call that "lack of usability". It really just meant you had to junk your printer and buy a new USB or Firewire-capable one. Wasteful. And finally this iMac couldn't even do preemptive multitasking. It could not do what my 1985 Amiga could do, or what Windows 95/NT4 could do. Talk about behind in the times!
I would argue that the Commodore/Amiga company cared. They produced one of the most user-friendly OSes of the 1980s which allowed users to do virtually anything... including preemptive multitasking, which Mac could not do until 2000 and MS not until 98.
I'd even argue Microsoft cared about appearance. It's why they bent-over backwards to copy the Mac OS when they released Windows 95 (trashcan, shutdown procedure, and start/apple menu). It was their first usable OS (windows 1,2,3 being crap).
That's because we no longer educate, or encourage independent thought. We merely stuff information into brains and train them to be well-behaved workers.
>>>it would be useful to just release to the public domain, but in the world we live now, your works could be repackaged against users.
Why does that matter? The original code you released is still public domain. Users may choose the repackaged product, or choose your public domain product, however they desire. The novel Tom Sawyer is in the public domain, and while someone might choose to rework it and copyright it, that doesn't stop Sawyer from still being public domain.
If it makes you happier, I don't own any of those phones. So you won't be hearing any "Nokia is better than Apple" bashing from me because I just don't care. A phone is a phone is a phone.
Um..... please explain how Apple is responsible for the progression from floppies to hard drives, or from parallel ports to USB ports. The former seems a natural event since programs/OSes could no longer fit on floppies. The second is a result of the USB Consortium. To give Apple credit for this seems disingenuous, (especially since Apple would have preferred to kill USB in favor of Firewire).
I'll give Apple credit for bringing GUIs to the home user in 1984, and a user-friendly alternative to the MS-DOS/windows from 1984 to 95, plus making MP3 players "cool" with the iPod, but that's about it. They don't deserve credit for killing floppies or parallel ports.
Well you're still wrong. State governments have the same power to regulate an Internet Monopoly as they do to regulate the Electric Monopoly or Natural Gas Monopoly. Your local government could very easily put the squeeze on Comcast and require them to fall into line.
As for this article:
I don't understand how the ISP hijacks the request. If I type "slashdot" doesn't Firefox automatically convert that to "google.com/search?q=slashdot" and produce results? I don't see how the ISP can interrupt a valid URL request.
Anybody still using 5 and a quarter inch disks? I see they are still being sold even though I haven't seen one in a modern PC since 1990..... http://www.floppydisk.com/buy.htm
Slashdot Mirror
Actual the original law was 14 years (based upon typical author lifespan), plus the opossibility of ONE reneweal of the license if the author was still alive. So 28 years max. I'd be willing to extend that a bit for high-cost items like movies... maybe 25+25 years, but that's it.
Remember "It's A Wonderful Life"? That was a public domain movie in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, which is why it was played to death. On one hand we got sick of it, but on the other hand it became a part of our collective culture. For some it's a family tradition.
NOW that movie has been re-copyrighted and rarely seen (once a year on NBC). That should not be allowed. All of the original creators, actors, and crew are dead. They can no longer profit from their labor. The movie should no longer be copyrighted. Eternal copyright damages our culture.
Well just as we had an "approved reading list" in school there ought to be an approved gaming list to earn this merit pin. I couldn't do a book report on "The Collected Anthology of Snoopy Comics" and neither should someone get a pin because they played Dead or Alive Bikini Volleyball nonstop. I'd limit the list to games that require reading skills, like RPGs.
IMHO
I agree that the corporations should be fined as well, when they are caught with illegal workers in their midst.
I don't lie to myself.
I steal. Rather than go out and buy the DVDs, I steal the content. And no I don't care. Movie companies steal from their workers all the time ("Sorry Mr. Cameron, actors, and crew... Titanic made no profit, so your profit share check will be zero."). If the movie is any good (like Star Trek) then I will buy it.
As long as they don't go too far, and try to impose the old Radio/TV Fairness Doctrine to the net. If I type-in msnbc.com I don't want to have foxnews.com pulled-up at the same time.
And what of those ISPs that operate wholly-and-completely within a state (like Mom&Pop Internet of Fargo)? The U.S. government's power does not extend to them. I guess that job will be left to the state.
Can I trade it for a pair of breasts and a vagina? I hear this equipment is much more fun.
Some parents they it's their job to parent OUR children too, and they use government to make it happen:
i.e. banning our free choice to get happy meals with toys. I find these parents annoying, because they are basically insulting my intelligence, by presuming they know better than I do, how to be a parent.
And the European Union. If you think intrusive legislation is bad in the US, you ought to see what the central Parliament's been doing this past year. They regulate all kinds of crap.
Well this is what happens when you revive Feudalism. The commoners are too stupid to run their own lives, so we need the Lords to decide what they can and can not have.
My message wasn't specifically aimed at you.
It was a generalized response to the ~10 Church of Apple respondents above you. I grow tired of hearing their "Apple invented near-everything" philosophy. It's like dealing with a lovesick teenage girl. So anytime I have a chance to remind them how backwards Apple was during the 90s, I take it.
And of course they mod me downward. Gotta silence those who are not "of the faith". (Star Trek reference.)
Poland is part of the EU, and they too have a constitution (Treaty of Lisbon). You mean to tell me you think Poland has to just sit on its hands, even as Russian militias are streaming over its eastern border? It has to sit their and do nothing while the EU Parliament gives pretty speeches???
Hell no. And neither does Arizona. BOTH are sovereign states and BOTH have the right to protect their borders.
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>>>this type of action (arresting/detaining people without probable cause) is illegal and a violation of civil rights.
(1) Looks Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian
(2) Has Mexican or Arab or Chinese or Russian accent
(3) Can not prove he is a U.S. citizen because he doesn't even have a drivers license. (Who doesn't carry a drivers license, or non-driver ID card???)
QED probable cause to believe he is an intruder has been established, and the arrest may occur, just the same as you would arrest someone found inside a house where he does not belong. NEXT the courts will determine whether or not he actually is a legal citizen or an illegal invader. YES sometimes innocents get arrested, but they will get their fair day in court to prove they are not guilty, as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Or:
Would you prefer that we just let people like Bin Laden or Mao Tse Spy cross our borders, and have free rein to wander anywhere he feels like wandering, causing destruction along the way? These invaders are KILLING American citizens along the border, and you don't even want to TRY to stop them. You just want to turn the other cheek. ----- If I was in Arizona I'd certainly expect my government to act to protect me. Today is NOT a good day to die.
Fine .
Let the Obama Bin Ladens enter this country. Let the Chinese send spies to blow up our homes and memorials. Let the Mexican drug lords roll over the Arizona border with their machine guns, destroying property and killing citizen in Phoenix (as they are ALREADY doing).
I hope one of those targets is YOU, not because I wish you harm, but because some people simple don't learn until they get a little bit bloodied. It's one thing to talk about racism, and quite another to have a Mexican, Arab, or Chinese illegal pointing a machine gun at your head. I bet you'll change your mind on immigration policy right quick.
Damnit to hell -
- how can people be so dumb??? "Yeah people are killing citizens in Phoenix. But we can't do anything about it. Let the Phoenix citizens die at the hand of the invaders."
And yet those cute little 1998 iMacs couldn't even do preemptive multitasking - a skill my Commodore Amiga had been doing for 13 years already! Even Windows machines had the capability with 95/NT4.
I'll give Apple credit where credit is due, but I will also deny them credit when they really did nothing innovative.
That AND because Microsoft had mandated back in 1996 that Firewire/USB/PCI was the future, and eliminate the old legacy busses. In a strange twist, it wasn't Apple that was innovating. It was Bill Gates. (Of course being Gates would could say he was actually "ordering" compliance.....)
>>>Simple. The iMac shipped with USB everything
Yes but the floppy had already been obsolete at that point (1998) due to its small size... the floppy would have eventually disappeared of its own accord due to lack of use by users. So no great advancement there.
As for eliminating the parallel port, we technical folks usually call that "lack of usability". It really just meant you had to junk your printer and buy a new USB or Firewire-capable one. Wasteful. And finally this iMac couldn't even do preemptive multitasking. It could not do what my 1985 Amiga could do, or what Windows 95/NT4 could do. Talk about behind in the times!
>>>Microsoft certainly didn't care up until Vista
I would argue that the Commodore/Amiga company cared. They produced one of the most user-friendly OSes of the 1980s which allowed users to do virtually anything... including preemptive multitasking, which Mac could not do until 2000 and MS not until 98.
I'd even argue Microsoft cared about appearance. It's why they bent-over backwards to copy the Mac OS when they released Windows 95 (trashcan, shutdown procedure, and start/apple menu). It was their first usable OS (windows 1,2,3 being crap).
That's because we no longer educate, or encourage independent thought.
We merely stuff information into brains and train them to be well-behaved workers.
>>>it would be useful to just release to the public domain, but in the world we live now, your works could be repackaged against users.
Why does that matter? The original code you released is still public domain. Users may choose the repackaged product, or choose your public domain product, however they desire. The novel Tom Sawyer is in the public domain, and while someone might choose to rework it and copyright it, that doesn't stop Sawyer from still being public domain.
If it makes you happier, I don't own any of those phones. So you won't be hearing any "Nokia is better than Apple" bashing from me because I just don't care. A phone is a phone is a phone.
Um..... please explain how Apple is responsible for the progression from floppies to hard drives, or from parallel ports to USB ports. The former seems a natural event since programs/OSes could no longer fit on floppies. The second is a result of the USB Consortium. To give Apple credit for this seems disingenuous, (especially since Apple would have preferred to kill USB in favor of Firewire).
I'll give Apple credit for bringing GUIs to the home user in 1984, and a user-friendly alternative to the MS-DOS/windows from 1984 to 95, plus making MP3 players "cool" with the iPod, but that's about it. They don't deserve credit for killing floppies or parallel ports.
Well you're still wrong. State governments have the same power to regulate an Internet Monopoly as they do to regulate the Electric Monopoly or Natural Gas Monopoly. Your local government could very easily put the squeeze on Comcast and require them to fall into line.
As for this article:
I don't understand how the ISP hijacks the request. If I type "slashdot" doesn't Firefox automatically convert that to "google.com/search?q=slashdot" and produce results? I don't see how the ISP can interrupt a valid URL request.
Anybody still using 5 and a quarter inch disks? I see they are still being sold even though I haven't seen one in a modern PC since 1990..... http://www.floppydisk.com/buy.htm
Floppy History - http://oldcomputers.net/floppydisks.html
2.88 MB 3.5 inch floppy divided by 15 == ~190 kilobytes. About the same size as my C=64's five-and-a-quarter disks.
My Amiga 500 didn't come with a hard drive. And yes it is strictly used for gaming, so everything's booted off floppy.