Apple would easily sell the Woz the rights to his Apple II. He could then open the OS and open lots of prototyping bussing, cabling, and networking hacks.
At least to the extent that the work is completely creative and does not rely on prior art.
So, we must exempt the use of previously used words or phrases. Or, the use of characters or glyphs previously invented. Using those borrowed ideas, which are in the public domain, should place any derivative works also into the public domain.
'If Monks Had Macs' was a wonderful mixed bag of surprises.
People here mention Excel or FileMaker as simple programming environs, but I am hard pressed to think of any popular game written in either of them.
Hypercard could implement many simple office workflow solutions and was a fun toy, too.
Industrial strength solutions are written by teams to solve big problems, but tools like Hypercard offered personal computing one's own personal solutions. Personally useful stacks could be created in a few minutes to implement games, databases, workflows, or most anything you could think of.
Sure I hate it. It is the engine of all the blinking, spinning, annoying bits of noise on web pages everywhere. If you kill Flash, then these bubbly bits of crap will be implemented by the intrinsic features of every browser. I use ClickToFlash to keep these naughty bits of the web in their place. How will I suppress the noise?
Please continue to support Flash so I have an easy way of turning the crap off.
By increasing taxes on those high earners, who are the most productive people in our society, they will be forced to be even more productive to recoup the lost earnings. We will have a productivity boom that will blow away all past statistics. Maybe.
But then, look at how hard those 40% work who pay 'no' taxes (If you don't count sales tax, SS tax, and all the other junk taxes.) People who pay 'no' taxes pay a higher percentage of total tax on their earnings than America's largest corporations paying 'no' tax (at the highest corporate tax rate in the world.)
Some changes make sense to contribute, and others don't.
Bug fixes and general improvements that you don't want to maintain need to be contributed. It's in your own, selfish best interest. You would be an idiot to try to maintain them forever.
Enhancements, extensions and additional layers which provide distinctive features to give you competitive advantage need to be architected so that they exist in your separately linked, proprietary code. You would have to be an idiot to give everything away, unless you are Stallman. But, maybe he is an idiot anyway.
Everyone should work during the same 9 to 5 times, so that everyone would work at the same time and sleep at the same time. It might be a bit dark for some, but it would synchronize everyone's day (or night (or whatever))
There is absolutely no doubt that the US will always pay whatever and whenever due. They will make the payments in exactly as many dollars as they need to print.
Bond holders don't need to worry about how many dollars they will get, they need to worry about how many loaves of bread, barrels of oil or ounces of gold those dollars will buy.
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Dropping a rock would do more damage than a light weight plastic drone
It bogs badly with 326,000 songs on an external 3TB drive using 2.5 TB for tracks on my modern MacBook Pro.
iTunes likes to update its database with every little nit.
I use one iTunes db to add albums and update metadata, then copy to the big iTunes with minimal metadata updating.
Apple would easily sell the Woz the rights to his Apple II. He could then open the OS and open lots of prototyping bussing, cabling, and networking hacks.
iTunes peaks out at 100% of a single CPU usage in its single threaded mode.
So I'm better off with 1/2 of two processors at 10,500 than 1/4 of 4 processors at 12,252
5,250 crushes 3,083
Any single threaded app wins huge on old gear.
Apple dreams of the day they could sell 10000 units of a new product in single morning.
And the amount of buzz, if only they could get the press interested...
Interpol seems a bit like Anonymous, that "organization for information exchange" between hackers.
At least to the extent that the work is completely creative and does not rely on prior art.
So, we must exempt the use of previously used words or phrases. Or, the use of characters or glyphs previously invented. Using those borrowed ideas, which are in the public domain, should place any derivative works also into the public domain.
'If Monks Had Macs' was a wonderful mixed bag of surprises.
People here mention Excel or FileMaker as simple programming environs, but I am hard pressed to think of any popular game written in either of them.
Hypercard could implement many simple office workflow solutions and was a fun toy, too.
Industrial strength solutions are written by teams to solve big problems, but tools like Hypercard offered personal computing one's own personal solutions. Personally useful stacks could be created in a few minutes to implement games, databases, workflows, or most anything you could think of.
Disallow concave redistricting shapes
Please Please Please Adobe, Do No Kill Flash
Sure I hate it. It is the engine of all the blinking, spinning, annoying bits of noise on web pages everywhere. If you kill Flash, then these bubbly bits of crap will be implemented by the intrinsic features of every browser. I use ClickToFlash to keep these naughty bits of the web in their place. How will I suppress the noise?
Please continue to support Flash so I have an easy way of turning the crap off.
I'd be for a 'Fair Tax' just so long as it only applied to money you didn't really earn.
Don't tax earned income (wages of the working poor & middle class), just tax unearned income (the rest of the fat ass freeloaders).
WWIII
Or if your libertarian views are welling up, substitute everyone for anyone.
It's a game of musical chairs these days, and those few seats come pretty cheap.
The days where anyone can make a living off their work is relic of the 20th century.
Was that done with a Windows or a Linux calculator?
I found a MIMO UM-720S Touch Screen USB Powered 7 Inch Swivel LCD Screen Mini Display for $174.99 rather than the $87 quoted in the investigative journalism research article.
http://www.amazon.com/MIMO-UM-720S-Screen-Powered-Display/dp/B002QFP4Z8
So if they get those then they will lose more like $98 per Kindle.
And, I could sell them enclosures for $113, not the $11 they quoted.
Then Amazon could lose $200 per Kindle. Now that's a really big scoop.
By increasing taxes on those high earners, who are the most productive people in our society, they will be forced to be even more productive to recoup the lost earnings. We will have a productivity boom that will blow away all past statistics. Maybe.
But then, look at how hard those 40% work who pay 'no' taxes (If you don't count sales tax, SS tax, and all the other junk taxes.) People who pay 'no' taxes pay a higher percentage of total tax on their earnings than America's largest corporations paying 'no' tax (at the highest corporate tax rate in the world.)
When the length of EU copyrights increases by 40%, the respect for those copyrights drops by 40%
"The fences are down. It's a free concert, now." - A Woodstock attendee
Some changes make sense to contribute, and others don't.
Bug fixes and general improvements that you don't want to maintain need to be contributed. It's in your own, selfish best interest. You would be an idiot to try to maintain them forever.
Enhancements, extensions and additional layers which provide distinctive features to give you competitive advantage need to be architected so that they exist in your separately linked, proprietary code. You would have to be an idiot to give everything away, unless you are Stallman. But, maybe he is an idiot anyway.
Everyone should work during the same 9 to 5 times, so that everyone would work at the same time and sleep at the same time. It might be a bit dark for some, but it would synchronize everyone's day (or night (or whatever))
a few thousand others.
So, by the same logic, if rocks are found in space rocks, then rocks found on earth were created in outer space by meteorites.
There is absolutely no doubt that the US will always pay whatever and whenever due. They will make the payments in exactly as many dollars as they need to print.
Bond holders don't need to worry about how many dollars they will get, they need to worry about how many loaves of bread, barrels of oil or ounces of gold those dollars will buy.
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