The current (before today) tech could do it from one single fat source, ie one of apples server for example, with a scaled down video source.
This can be getting the bits from 100 different sources, achieving the same effect, for potentially larger (height/width, such as HD content) video clips.
(a) In General. -- Whoever, for the purpose of deceiving the public, marks upon, applies to, or uses in advertising in connection with an article made, used, distributed, or sold, a design which is not protected under this chapter, a design notice specified in section 1306, or any other words or symbols importing that the design is protected under this chapter, knowing that the design is not so protected, shall pay a civil fine of not more than $500 for each such offense.
(b) Suit by Private Persons. -- Any person may sue for the penalty established by subsection (a), in which event one-half of the penalty shall be awarded to the person suing and the remainder shall be awarded to the United States.
1327. Penalty for false representation
Whoever knowingly makes a false representation materially affecting the rights obtainable under this chapter for the purpose of obtaining registration of a design under this chapter shall pay a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000, and any rights or privileges that individual may have in the design under this chapter shall be forfeited.
Mormons were originally so communal it was damn near communist.
Two fundamental differences between the Mormon's United Order and communism are (1) Mormons who wanted to join the United Order voluntarily gave their means/property/output to the Order, whereas in communism, it is taken from him by force, as others on the list have pointed out, usually with an AK47 to his head.
And (2) if a person was lazy, in the United Order they were put on probation and then kicked out if they didn't work. No so with communism.
Force vs choice. Work vs indolence.
Rather fundamental and critical differences, if you ask me.
For another practical example, study up on the first colonies settled in the New World. They started out as a communal society (crops, etc), and after the first winter, switched to a private-property-driven capitalist society. The Governer had some interesting words to describe the difference from the first year to the second!
The original question was if anyone had seen a newer version of Windows break a version of WP.
I was simply stating that I had.
If you had just built a new computer and put XP on it, and then installed WP9 Family edition that you had been using on your old computer, you would see the same problem.
my aunt's computer just happened to be a Dell and come with XP on it. Same result
Small fans, because of their size, push very little air. In order to push any appreciable amount of air volume, they usually run 5-7,000 RPM. A fan, no matter it's size, makes a lot of noise at anything higher than 2-3,000 RPM. (Think of a car that can do 120mph. Driving it at 50mph will be much quieter than driving it at 125mph.)
Bigger fans can push much more air volume, and can run anywhere from 500 to 5,000 rpm. Once again, anything over 2-3,000rpm make a lot of noise, and the lower you go, the less.
A 120mm fan spinning at 500 RPM will push a lot more air than a 40mm fan running at 7,000 RPM, while at the same time being a lot quieter!
My aunt bought a new Dell with WinXP and WP9. WP would start, but crash after 10 seconds or the first button push. According to WP, you had to get a patch before it could run, but the patch was only for full copies of WP9, not the "lite" edition (or family edition, whatever) that Dell gave my aunt.
I found a cheap copy of the full WP on the net and told my aunt to buy it and use that instead. It's been great for her ever since.
I use it with my HTPC to cache a few files that my LCD driver wants to read 30 times a second, so instead of hitting the physical disk, I just set up a 32MB drive 'L', and have a perl script dump data to that.
So, basically you are saying that proprietary software is viral in nature? Kinda sounds like Microsoft's arguments about "free" software, doesn't it???
Natural rights are such things as life, liberty, and property ownership (land and/or items). Everyone should agree on these.
"Granted rights" are such things as copyright, patent, etc. They are "granted" by governments for the betterment of society (or at least passed off as that).
"Artificial rights" are such things as medical care since my "right" to care makes a demand upon a hospital and/or doctor to provide that care. Welfare makes a demand of taxpayers to "give" to the poor. etc.
Once a government starts to ignore natural rights and occupies itself with granted and artificial rights more and more, the balance is tipped from defending man to taking from one man to give to another. Once that happens, all kinds of things contrary to good intent happens to both the government and the people.
Your example of a "right to a single national language" is not a right. It is simply a business decision that any government can choose to operate within. It is not a "right" in the sense of a right to life.
Your other example of a "natural right to have other people hire us" is another case of "artificial rights" (labor unions are the results of this) where it is making a demand upon businesses to hire (or not) specific people.
One person can live while another also can live totally independant. One person can own land totally independant of another. One person cannot have a "right" to medical care without placing demands on the doctor to provide that care. I hope you can see the difference.
[After having a tight tie on for 3 minutes,] 60% of the glaucoma patients, and 70% of the healthy men were found to have significant rises in pressure. As soon as the ties were removed, the pressure fell again.
The way I read that is 10% more healthy men had "significant rises in pressure" than the glaucoma patients did.
How is this linked then? to me it says since fewer glaucoma patients had the "significant rise," then there wouldn't be any correlation between the condition and the pressure.
Failed or discontinued projects in the private sector are a dime a dozen, as are pet projects that get funded on the basis of which manager is the best suck-up rather than on the basis of which best satisfies some other requirement (even if that requirement has no higher social goals than raking more gold into corporate coffers). Waste and "dumbsizing" of good projects seem to be the rule in the private sector as much as in the public sector; you're just less likely to see them in the news or hear them harped on for political exploitation by radio talkjox.
In the private sector, failure of a commercial project is the way that the consumer decides that it either is too expensive, isn't desireable--or something similar--and doesn't support it by not buying it.
In the government sector, failure is caused by not spending enough on the project to date, if you really look at any proposed "remedy". Since there isn't a method for the average person to have any effect on this, the First Ammendment guarentees that at least we can talk about it, publicize it, rail against it, and maybe even be harped on by the press.
This unnatural lack of true failure is the root of most government problems.
Usually, failed government programs are also associated with forced adoption/participation (public education == mandatory attendance laws).
Prime examples of this are public education, medicare/medicaid and even NASA to a great extent.
Private sector: More productivity with less money input over time (higher efficiency, higher ROI), government sector: less productivity with more money input over time.
This is the tradeoff. Disney has had their control of Mickey for 75 years. They have had their exclusive control over him.
As a member of the "public" (as in the "public domain") it is now our turn to do with it as we please.
Copyright was originally this tradeoff. Now, the balance has tipped completely to the copyright owner's side and the "public" can't use it as they wish.
As the parent said, Disney can continue to use it, but now we get to as well.
That's the whole point of "limited times".
BTW, before this balancing act was envisioned, the system in vogue was patronage, where a work was commissioned by someone (like a king or a duke) and they paid the composer/artist/etc while they did it. At that point, the kind owned all the copies of the work and never had to "release them to the public" if they didn't want to. I think the copyright in its original 14/14 balance was both good in concept and in length.
I think more than anything else, people are cheering it on because of the ingenuity displayed by these amatuers in writing this OS. Low budget software like that are far more impressive than stale Microsoft remakes precisely because they are low budget - people have to improvise. Surely you would not see the remake for the interface or anything new - it's a remake, you've seen it before. It's just something that makes me step back and marvel at what can be accomplished if you are dedicated enough.
Here are some other problems that this doesn't even begin to address:
o Lack of having to register the work in the first place o Lack of hard limits on the final length of time it's valid o Removal of having to declare that a work is copyrighted (like in the front of a book or movie) o Extremely long duration, preventing the Public Domain from having access to the work in a timely manner
These are just a few.
I propose that we repeal all copyright changes since the first 1790 act that provided 14 years, renewable once for a total of 28 years. I think that it is a fair duration for the author to profit from the work.
I also propose that any electronic work (either program code, etext of a book, etc) needs to be archived with the copyright office so that when the copyright expires, a copy of the source/text can be acquired for the duplication/shipping fee.
My daughter is almost 4. She is a great artist. She loves to draw, color, paint, etc.
My wife and I decided that we would use the computer as a tool for her growth and development, but not as a time-waster/babysitter. And, I didn't want her to have to "learn the computer," a complex interface in and of itself.
I have it set up so that she can bring the computer out of suspend with the power button, run her drawing program with one hotkey on the keyboard, and she's into her drawing program. She loves her Disney's Magic Artist Studio.
The best thing we have done though is buy her a drawing pad. She doesn't know how to use a mouse or the keyboard, but she can make some very impressive pictures with this setup!
I don't want to hear her say "I want to play on the computer." I want to hear "Can I draw colors?" The difference is between the computer as a complex device requiring a difficult interface with a learning curve, the other a specific tool that accomplishes a definite purpose, that is easy to use and enjoy.
I don't think kids should be learning touch-typing at the age of 5. I also don't believe that kids should be just mindlessly clicking on pre-defined hot spots on the screen as part of a game or a time-wasting "activity" program.
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There wouldn't have been a problem if [those pesky Egyption kids] hadn't [gotten a flat tire and stopped by our "haunted castle" last night]!
Those meddling kids!
The current (before today) tech could do it from one single fat source, ie one of apples server for example, with a scaled down video source.
This can be getting the bits from 100 different sources, achieving the same effect, for potentially larger (height/width, such as HD content) video clips.
Now, how does this "already exist"?
Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors...
Personal info is not covered by copyright, just as a phone book is not covered (ie an ordered list of information without any "arts" to it).
The DMCA added some protections for information stored in databases, so in this case, the credit agencies could claim copyright for the data.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap13.html#1 325
1326. Penalty for false marking
(a) In General. -- Whoever, for the purpose of deceiving the public, marks upon, applies to, or uses in advertising in connection with an article made, used, distributed, or sold, a design which is not protected under this chapter, a design notice specified in section 1306, or any other words or symbols importing that the design is protected under this chapter, knowing that the design is not so protected, shall pay a civil fine of not more than $500 for each such offense.
(b) Suit by Private Persons. -- Any person may sue for the penalty established by subsection (a), in which event one-half of the penalty shall be awarded to the person suing and the remainder shall be awarded to the United States.
1327. Penalty for false representation
Whoever knowingly makes a false representation materially affecting the rights obtainable under this chapter for the purpose of obtaining registration of a design under this chapter shall pay a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000, and any rights or privileges that individual may have in the design under this chapter shall be forfeited.
Mormons were originally so communal it was damn near communist.
Two fundamental differences between the Mormon's United Order and communism are (1) Mormons who wanted to join the United Order voluntarily gave their means/property/output to the Order, whereas in communism, it is taken from him by force, as others on the list have pointed out, usually with an AK47 to his head. And (2) if a person was lazy, in the United Order they were put on probation and then kicked out if they didn't work. No so with communism.
Force vs choice. Work vs indolence.
Rather fundamental and critical differences, if you ask me.
For another practical example, study up on the first colonies settled in the New World. They started out as a communal society (crops, etc), and after the first winter, switched to a private-property-driven capitalist society. The Governer had some interesting words to describe the difference from the first year to the second!
From the article:
Geothermal heat, seeping through the rocks below the lake, keeps it above the melting point of ice.
I thought the Mac wasn't about bloat?
;)
That simple script took up 349MB (masquerading as Office, right?), which was a key factor in this kid's trust of the source!
$90 is for the Deluxe edition, with Crossover office and a 350 page user guide
The standard is $40, but doesn't come with Crossover.
How much was a different boxed distro again?
The original question was if anyone had seen a newer version of Windows break a version of WP.
I was simply stating that I had.
If you had just built a new computer and put XP on it, and then installed WP9 Family edition that you had been using on your old computer, you would see the same problem.
my aunt's computer just happened to be a Dell and come with XP on it. Same result
Smaller fans = less noise.
Riiiggghhhtt.
Small fans, because of their size, push very little air. In order to push any appreciable amount of air volume, they usually run 5-7,000 RPM. A fan, no matter it's size, makes a lot of noise at anything higher than 2-3,000 RPM. (Think of a car that can do 120mph. Driving it at 50mph will be much quieter than driving it at 125mph.)
Bigger fans can push much more air volume, and can run anywhere from 500 to 5,000 rpm. Once again, anything over 2-3,000rpm make a lot of noise, and the lower you go, the less.
A 120mm fan spinning at 500 RPM will push a lot more air than a 40mm fan running at 7,000 RPM, while at the same time being a lot quieter!
My aunt bought a new Dell with WinXP and WP9. WP would start, but crash after 10 seconds or the first button push. According to WP, you had to get a patch before it could run, but the patch was only for full copies of WP9, not the "lite" edition (or family edition, whatever) that Dell gave my aunt.
I found a cheap copy of the full WP on the net and told my aunt to buy it and use that instead. It's been great for her ever since.
Yep. I've seen it.
Here is one I use.
I use it with my HTPC to cache a few files that my LCD driver wants to read 30 times a second, so instead of hitting the physical disk, I just set up a 32MB drive 'L', and have a perl script dump data to that.
It works great!
So, basically you are saying that proprietary software is viral in nature? Kinda sounds like Microsoft's arguments about "free" software, doesn't it???
It has always annoyed me that DVDs are not the same top resolutions as High Definition TV. Maybe this will fix it.
DVDs can hold video streams with resolutions that HD uses. They just can't hold 2 hours of it.
This new format of disk could still hold an mpg-2 file, but have enough capacity to hold 2-hours worth of video at HD resolutions.
It's capacity, not format.
For any windows pre-XP, look for Button Boogie. It's a freeware app that PC Magazine released a while ago.
(XP changed it's taskbar code breaking button boogie, and PC Magazine won't update button boogie to adapt.)
Just google for it.
Natural rights are such things as life, liberty, and property ownership (land and/or items). Everyone should agree on these.
"Granted rights" are such things as copyright, patent, etc. They are "granted" by governments for the betterment of society (or at least passed off as that).
"Artificial rights" are such things as medical care since my "right" to care makes a demand upon a hospital and/or doctor to provide that care. Welfare makes a demand of taxpayers to "give" to the poor. etc.
Once a government starts to ignore natural rights and occupies itself with granted and artificial rights more and more, the balance is tipped from defending man to taking from one man to give to another. Once that happens, all kinds of things contrary to good intent happens to both the government and the people.
Your example of a "right to a single national language" is not a right. It is simply a business decision that any government can choose to operate within. It is not a "right" in the sense of a right to life.
Your other example of a "natural right to have other people hire us" is another case of "artificial rights" (labor unions are the results of this) where it is making a demand upon businesses to hire (or not) specific people.
One person can live while another also can live totally independant. One person can own land totally independant of another. One person cannot have a "right" to medical care without placing demands on the doctor to provide that care. I hope you can see the difference.
If I remember correctly, isn't it a federal crime to misrepresent the copyright status of a work?
Maybe we could get the authors of that code to go after them for trying to claim ownership of the copyright for that specific code.
The way I read that is 10% more healthy men had "significant rises in pressure" than the glaucoma patients did.
How is this linked then? to me it says since fewer glaucoma patients had the "significant rise," then there wouldn't be any correlation between the condition and the pressure.
Failed or discontinued projects in the private sector are a dime a dozen, as are pet projects that get funded on the basis of which manager is the best suck-up rather than on the basis of which best satisfies some other requirement (even if that requirement has no higher social goals than raking more gold into corporate coffers). Waste and "dumbsizing" of good projects seem to be the rule in the private sector as much as in the public sector; you're just less likely to see them in the news or hear them harped on for political exploitation by radio talkjox.
In the private sector, failure of a commercial project is the way that the consumer decides that it either is too expensive, isn't desireable--or something similar--and doesn't support it by not buying it.
In the government sector, failure is caused by not spending enough on the project to date, if you really look at any proposed "remedy". Since there isn't a method for the average person to have any effect on this, the First Ammendment guarentees that at least we can talk about it, publicize it, rail against it, and maybe even be harped on by the press.
This unnatural lack of true failure is the root of most government problems.
Usually, failed government programs are also associated with forced adoption/participation (public education == mandatory attendance laws).
Prime examples of this are public education, medicare/medicaid and even NASA to a great extent.
Private sector: More productivity with less money input over time (higher efficiency, higher ROI), government sector: less productivity with more money input over time.
This is the tradeoff. Disney has had their control of Mickey for 75 years. They have had their exclusive control over him.
As a member of the "public" (as in the "public domain") it is now our turn to do with it as we please.
Copyright was originally this tradeoff. Now, the balance has tipped completely to the copyright owner's side and the "public" can't use it as they wish.
As the parent said, Disney can continue to use it, but now we get to as well.
That's the whole point of "limited times".
BTW, before this balancing act was envisioned, the system in vogue was patronage, where a work was commissioned by someone (like a king or a duke) and they paid the composer/artist/etc while they did it. At that point, the kind owned all the copies of the work and never had to "release them to the public" if they didn't want to. I think the copyright in its original 14/14 balance was both good in concept and in length.
I think more than anything else, people are cheering it on because of the ingenuity displayed by these amatuers in writing this OS. Low budget software like that are far more impressive than stale Microsoft remakes precisely because they are low budget - people have to improvise. Surely you would not see the remake for the interface or anything new - it's a remake, you've seen it before. It's just something that makes me step back and marvel at what can be accomplished if you are dedicated enough.
Cheers ;)
Here are some other problems that this doesn't even begin to address:
o Lack of having to register the work in the first place
o Lack of hard limits on the final length of time it's valid
o Removal of having to declare that a work is copyrighted (like in the front of a book or movie)
o Extremely long duration, preventing the Public Domain from having access to the work in a timely manner
These are just a few.
I propose that we repeal all copyright changes since the first 1790 act that provided 14 years, renewable once for a total of 28 years. I think that it is a fair duration for the author to profit from the work.
I also propose that any electronic work (either program code, etext of a book, etc) needs to be archived with the copyright office so that when the copyright expires, a copy of the source/text can be acquired for the duplication/shipping fee.
Ryan
Shouldn't that be the Jeffries tube in a few centuries, following a logorithmic scale? ;)
My daughter is almost 4. She is a great artist. She loves to draw, color, paint, etc.
My wife and I decided that we would use the computer as a tool for her growth and development, but not as a time-waster/babysitter. And, I didn't want her to have to "learn the computer," a complex interface in and of itself.
I have it set up so that she can bring the computer out of suspend with the power button, run her drawing program with one hotkey on the keyboard, and she's into her drawing program. She loves her Disney's Magic Artist Studio.
The best thing we have done though is buy her a drawing pad. She doesn't know how to use a mouse or the keyboard, but she can make some very impressive pictures with this setup!
I don't want to hear her say "I want to play on the computer." I want to hear "Can I draw colors?" The difference is between the computer as a complex device requiring a difficult interface with a learning curve, the other a specific tool that accomplishes a definite purpose, that is easy to use and enjoy.
I don't think kids should be learning touch-typing at the age of 5. I also don't believe that kids should be just mindlessly clicking on pre-defined hot spots on the screen as part of a game or a time-wasting "activity" program.