Interestingly there are very creative industries who don't have any copyright at all, namely cookery and fashion. You can't neither copyright a recipe nor a fashion design, and I never heard of a crisis of either industries. And no, Coca Cola's recipe is not copyrighted, you have every right to take it and brew your own soda.
State attorneys with a zeal to actually sue the people for misusing the state provided funds looked at the emails and had to retract, because there was nothing in there. A single out of context quote doesn't make for a good case. So as long as no suit is brought forward and gone to court, you can be sure that there actually is nothing relevant discovered in the emails (except you are adhering to the church of the global "global warming" conspiration which even counts state attorneys elected on a "we will show the climate alarmists" ticket as being part of the conspiration).
So whoever is still quoting the climategate emails and how damning and revealing they are has a lot of explaining to do how it comes that nothing judgeable came out of them, before someone else has an incentive to even listening to his other arguments.
I actually had a clone of the Hercules card, with lots lof L*74-circuits on it. I once tried to draw down the logic schema of the card just to understand how it works.
If you buy a supposedly blank computer without an operating system, it often has DOS 6.22 installed. My <omitted trade mark> for instance came with one.
Which makes me wonder, as in Europe no big car get good sales until there is a decent diesel offering. Even the likes of the Porsche Panamera offer a diesel option.
When I was a child, our kitchens tended to be small rooms not large enough for any community life. The current kitchen my parents have is so small that only one person can work there and two persons can barely move. And yes, they wanted it that way, as the house they are living in was custom built for them.
That's a remnant from the british houses, where the kitchen was close to the garden to use the herbs und fruits growing there. Now with most food being bought at the supermarket, the kitchen moves to the front door, so you don't have to carry your purchases through the whole house.
On the other hand it means: There is an infight between the media industry and their best customers, and the collateral are people who are neither interesting in pirating nor big media consumers anyway, but are enduring the fallout of this infight. So both sides should be aware of the possibility that those innocent bystanders could at one point team up against the fighters and push for some solutions at least one side might not like at all.
Patents are valid for twenty or twenty-five years, depending on where you live. And I don't see a problem with copying someone else's idea per se. That's called learning from others, and it's one of the most important aspects of culture. Every child starts learning by copying their parents. Every apes and even dogs and birds do. Copying others is a natural thing to do. The waters get muddy when people start to get in each others way by copying ideas, when the profits (real or ideational ones) from using an idea start to get distributed in a way that feels unfair compared with the amount of creativity and effort each person had put into the idea. But that's a completely different kettle of fish.
Thats as silly as it gets. If you were right, it would be immoral to build a house for shelter, just because someone else already had the idea to build a house. It would be illegal to make a cheese&bacon-sandwich just because someone else already made one. It's completely ok to build the umpteenth clone of Crush the Castle or Galaga, even if someone else already made one. You just shouldn't claim to be a creative game designer. And so I will my enjoy cheese&bacon-sandwich and continue to live in my house, well aware to be not the first one to ever do so.
It's already illegal to publish child pornography... on the internet and on paper. So what is, what Australia is exactly doing? Basicly Australia plans to filter out child pornography that got posted illegally anyway to people not aware of the child pornography. The message to the people is: "We can't do anything about child pornography, so we will hide it from people who don't want to see it." If you actually know where the child pornography was posted (otherwise you couldn't filter it), why not find out who owns the domain name, who owns the IP of the server the child pornography appears on and forcing them to a) erase it immediately and b) reveal how it got there in the first place? Why making the effort of hiding something you can actually get rid of?
That's why the oriental bazaar is either roofed or full of little stands with shade-cloth. And that's why oriental plazas often have small artificial creeks and lots of fountains - it's all for the cooling.
We were talking about populations. Most U.S. states are large, because they have large deserts and steppes (hey, even the Prairie was called "Great American Desert" before the big settlement trecks started). How pointing out large swats thinly or not inhabited land does refute an argument about low reproduction rates in mainly catholic countries, will remain a mystery.
No single U.S. state has the size of Italy, Spain or Poland. The largest population has California, which comes pretty close to Poland (36 mio inhabitants vs. 38 mio), Spain (47 mio) and Italy (60 mio) are much larger. And even if small Hungary was an U.S. state it came in at number 9 overall, with 10 mio inhabitants larger than Georgia and North Carolina.
So your point was, that you don't have any good estimation of european population sizes, right?
In Germany the plaintiff has to name the whole value for the case (it's called "Streitwert", amount in dispute), and all the lawyer's fees are set according to a fixed table in relation to that number. The percentage of the "amount in dispute" that gets finally awarded is taken as a measure for how successful the plaintiff was, and the lawyer's fees are then awareded according to that percentage. So if you are suing for 1 million and get 10 thousands in the end, you are considered 99% unsuccessful, and you have to pay 99% of the lawyer's fee for both sides.
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Interestingly there are very creative industries who don't have any copyright at all, namely cookery and fashion. You can't neither copyright a recipe nor a fashion design, and I never heard of a crisis of either industries. And no, Coca Cola's recipe is not copyrighted, you have every right to take it and brew your own soda.
State attorneys with a zeal to actually sue the people for misusing the state provided funds looked at the emails and had to retract, because there was nothing in there. A single out of context quote doesn't make for a good case. So as long as no suit is brought forward and gone to court, you can be sure that there actually is nothing relevant discovered in the emails (except you are adhering to the church of the global "global warming" conspiration which even counts state attorneys elected on a "we will show the climate alarmists" ticket as being part of the conspiration).
So whoever is still quoting the climategate emails and how damning and revealing they are has a lot of explaining to do how it comes that nothing judgeable came out of them, before someone else has an incentive to even listening to his other arguments.
They still could have gone down the path HFS (Apple) and VMS were going and using : as the path separator.
Windows NT kernel is strongly designed with VMS in mind, from the people that learned from VMS how to design an operating system.
I actually had a clone of the Hercules card, with lots lof L*74-circuits on it. I once tried to draw down the logic schema of the card just to understand how it works.
Can't be. I am about 10 years older than vi.
If you buy a supposedly blank computer without an operating system, it often has DOS 6.22 installed. My <omitted trade mark> for instance came with one.
If a program is called "Disk Operating System", you would actually expect the disk read/write access hardwired into it.
About 50% of the applications I use at work are java based. So MMMV (My Mileage May Vary).
- Lack of small cars in USA (safety/crash laws)
Which makes me wonder, as in Europe no big car get good sales until there is a decent diesel offering. Even the likes of the Porsche Panamera offer a diesel option.
When I was a child, our kitchens tended to be small rooms not large enough for any community life. The current kitchen my parents have is so small that only one person can work there and two persons can barely move. And yes, they wanted it that way, as the house they are living in was custom built for them.
That's a remnant from the british houses, where the kitchen was close to the garden to use the herbs und fruits growing there. Now with most food being bought at the supermarket, the kitchen moves to the front door, so you don't have to carry your purchases through the whole house.
On the other hand it means: There is an infight between the media industry and their best customers, and the collateral are people who are neither interesting in pirating nor big media consumers anyway, but are enduring the fallout of this infight. So both sides should be aware of the possibility that those innocent bystanders could at one point team up against the fighters and push for some solutions at least one side might not like at all.
Flying cars are no exeption, the technology is there, it's just that people really aren't willing to pay for it.
Quoting Linus Torvalds:
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Patents are valid for twenty or twenty-five years, depending on where you live. And I don't see a problem with copying someone else's idea per se. That's called learning from others, and it's one of the most important aspects of culture. Every child starts learning by copying their parents. Every apes and even dogs and birds do. Copying others is a natural thing to do.
The waters get muddy when people start to get in each others way by copying ideas, when the profits (real or ideational ones) from using an idea start to get distributed in a way that feels unfair compared with the amount of creativity and effort each person had put into the idea. But that's a completely different kettle of fish.
Thats as silly as it gets. If you were right, it would be immoral to build a house for shelter, just because someone else already had the idea to build a house. It would be illegal to make a cheese&bacon-sandwich just because someone else already made one. It's completely ok to build the umpteenth clone of Crush the Castle or Galaga, even if someone else already made one. You just shouldn't claim to be a creative game designer. And so I will my enjoy cheese&bacon-sandwich and continue to live in my house, well aware to be not the first one to ever do so.
Actually, it's Flak, from german Fliegerabwehrkanone (anti-aircraft gun).
It's already illegal to publish child pornography... on the internet and on paper. So what is, what Australia is exactly doing?
Basicly Australia plans to filter out child pornography that got posted illegally anyway to people not aware of the child pornography.
The message to the people is: "We can't do anything about child pornography, so we will hide it from people who don't want to see it."
If you actually know where the child pornography was posted (otherwise you couldn't filter it), why not find out who owns the domain name, who owns the IP of the server the child pornography appears on and forcing them to a) erase it immediately and b) reveal how it got there in the first place? Why making the effort of hiding something you can actually get rid of?
That's why the oriental bazaar is either roofed or full of little stands with shade-cloth. And that's why oriental plazas often have small artificial creeks and lots of fountains - it's all for the cooling.
We were talking about populations. Most U.S. states are large, because they have large deserts and steppes (hey, even the Prairie was called "Great American Desert" before the big settlement trecks started).
How pointing out large swats thinly or not inhabited land does refute an argument about low reproduction rates in mainly catholic countries, will remain a mystery.
No single U.S. state has the size of Italy, Spain or Poland. The largest population has California, which comes pretty close to Poland (36 mio inhabitants vs. 38 mio), Spain (47 mio) and Italy (60 mio) are much larger. And even if small Hungary was an U.S. state it came in at number 9 overall, with 10 mio inhabitants larger than Georgia and North Carolina.
So your point was, that you don't have any good estimation of european population sizes, right?
The "two days ago" is correct, as a WHOIS query tells you.
AKM just means "AK-47 modernizirovanniy", so the AKM is an AK-47, updated version.
In Germany the plaintiff has to name the whole value for the case (it's called "Streitwert", amount in dispute), and all the lawyer's fees are set according to a fixed table in relation to that number. The percentage of the "amount in dispute" that gets finally awarded is taken as a measure for how successful the plaintiff was, and the lawyer's fees are then awareded according to that percentage. So if you are suing for 1 million and get 10 thousands in the end, you are considered 99% unsuccessful, and you have to pay 99% of the lawyer's fee for both sides.