" (a staggering 20% of the top-selling books are under a buck apiece)."
And not one of them looks like it could become a classic. Even on the high paying side, perhaps the Hunger Games.The amount of money you can make on something is the difference between cost and price. E-books, even at 99 cents have a large difference between price and cost. If your work is so poor that you can't get 2500 people to buy your book a month when it's priced at a dollar, you really ought to think about a different profession. Besides there is a cost to popular culture and consumers generally when holding copyrights for a long term, and are a few more authors or questionable talent worth that? Writing is a competitive trade, and a reduced cost of entry will make it more competitive. Yes this means more authors will fail numerically speaking, but not necessarily proportionally speaking (and there is nothing wrong with that), but it also means that it is easier for authors of great talent to make a go of it. But seriously even without copyright you can make money, look up the studies for yourself, the reference I gave is a good place to start.
Damn, I already feel sorry for that jury. You have to come back in three separate chunks, any of which may last a week, and to top it all off listen to some inane technical and legal mumbo jumbo (either of which is bad enough on it's own). In fact I'm sure there are some liberals who would classify it as torture, and I'm not prone to disagree.
"There are monetary units and there are measurable physical units of various economic goods and of many--but not of all-services bought and sold. But the exchange ratios which we have to deal with are permanently fluctuating. There is nothing constant and invariable in them. They defy any attempt to measure them. They are not facts in the sense in which a physicist calls the establishment of the weight of a quantity of copper a fact. They are historical events, expressive of what happened once at a definite instant and under definite circumstances. The same numerical exchange ratio may appear again, but it is by no means certain whether this will really happen and, if it happens, the question is open whether this identical result was the outcome of preservation of the same circumstances or of a return to them rather than the outcome of the interplay of a very different constellation of price-determining factors. Numbers applied by acting man in economic calculation do not refer to quantities measured but the exchange ratios as they are expected--on the basis of understanding--to be realized on the markets of the future to which alone all acting is directed and which alone counts for acting man.
We are not dealing at this point of our investigation with the problem of a "quantitative science of economics," but with the analysis of the mental processes performed by acting man in applying quantitative distinctions when planning conduct. As action is always directed toward influencing a future state of affairs, economic calculation always deals with the future. As far as it takes past events and exchange ratios of the past into consideration, it does so only for the sake of an arrangement of future action."
" we moved to copyright because it did a much better job at encouraging writers" That's entirely false. Such was the hope, but there never was any through cost-benefit analysis given to copyright, and it originated as a method of censorship. Less than 1% of titles published ever become popular. 99% get one production run and that's it. Yes, there are a few books with a long tail, but it's very unusual on a per-title basis, though not on a per-sale basis (a large chunk (> 1/4 of book-sales are for books without copyright). Don't you think copyright should be adjusted for the norm, rather than the exception?
BTW cheap publishing + distribution is an argument against long copyright. If the cost of publishing is lower, you need less of a reward to get someone to risk publishing a work.
Windows is already dependent on explorer to run, especially for file-system functionality. And why would you want to load code that does the same thing twice. If you already have something closely tied into the API that renders HTML 5, why not just use it? Seriously I don't think it's that big of deal, especially since hard drives are cheap and alternative browsers everywhere you look.
No the claims made are even worse than the title. For instance twist to unlock is also covered.
"If you slide to unlock without requiring the user terminate the gesture in a specific region on the display, you don't infringe"
Computers only operate specifically. "Any place on screen" is still a specific location
Lastly the patent is bogus anyways like all software patents. The computer doesn't use location in it's operation, it manipulates symbols which just so happen to relate to location, but such a feature is irrelevant to the method the symbols are processed.
95% of rents for 95% of the works are extracted within the first 5 years. Also the vast majority of authors don't see a penny for their work unless sponsored by the publisher (and only the mega-authors are). Royalties are first applied to cover production setup costs. Most publishers require authors to transfer copyright to them, which prevents the authors from making derivatives of their own works without permission. In addition there are alternative models for such authors. If anyone can copy the work the value of the first goes up considerably and the main competition comes from being able to publish first. In addition there are alternative publishing and revenue models that have been successfully used. One such alternative is the maker endorsed mark
Lastly the historical examples do not show that literature languished without copyrights. At the very least copyright should be reduced to a term less than ten years.
You has mistaken a specific case for the general. A licence is permission to do what would otherwise be illegal (and it may or may not arise out of contract).
Somalia, the 8 tribal clans own most the land, and you can only get leases on most of it.
Title - not a piece of paper, it's a legal interest or set of legal rights. For my car I have both the certificate of title (tangible piece of paper) and the title (a specific set of legal rights or claims that I may ask the courts to enforce).
Of course they impose certain requirements on you for the privledge.
Dude it's and HID driver. Linux has more device drivers than any other OS and the standard kernel ships with all of them. If you need a really secure sever you should compile a custom kernel with only the needed drivers built in and disable module loading, and setup some sort of TPM or secureboot to load only that kernel. Plus putting it in the kernel makes sure it the controller has a fast response time.
The middle number stopped meaning anything a while ago. The only way to get rid of it was to increment the first number up while dropping the middle number.
Except that all of a sudden each user needs to upload at least 3x what they download to make the system work instead of at least one times. And its still susceptible to timing attacks and supernodes.
As data streams flow across the network, the sniffer captures each packet and, if needed, decodes the packet's raw data, showing the values of various fields in the packet, and analyzes its content according to the appropriate RFC or other specifications.
The actually verify the packet is a Skype one you have to pull it apart more that if you were merely going to route it.
So the U.S. navy is a bunch of child molesters? Tor is just a tool to increase privacy and security online. What people use it for is their own responsibility. Abusus non tollit usum. (Abuse is no argument against proper use)
Mass migration will probably never happen. Colonization probably will, and is a given should fusion tech come to fruition, especially considering that you can send robots ahead of you to prepare shelters and gather resources.
And Xerox started messing with the paradigm in the early 70's. The truth is you really don't want a lot of diversity in interfaces. There are only a handful of good metaphors and layouts for an OS or program, and countless bad ones.
Yes at the moment there are not a lot of transaction denominated in bitcoin but there are a few, and yes this is what needs to happen to stability to occur for bitcoin. However no currency has ever just come into the world fully formed, they are either based on a specific measure of a physical good or pegged to another currency. The U.S. dollar was originally based on the Spanish milled dollar, also known as pieces of eight.
Legal Status... helpful but not neccessary.
You can't measure value. (It's ordinal, not cardinal) The best you can do is establish ratios at any given moment.The trick of money is that it lets you do it indirectly. If people suddenly forgot the history of prices in dollars, it would be a very hard process to re-establish it's value. The reason people value the dollar is what they expect to buy in the future with it, and they base this estimation on what they could buy just a day ago. They then act to adjust their cash holding accordingly
Also no reason you couldn't calculate a GDP figure for bitcoin.
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Yep, you've got to inject some fairly invasive stuff into the kernel in order to watch what other processes are doing. R
" (a staggering 20% of the top-selling books are under a buck apiece)."
And not one of them looks like it could become a classic. Even on the high paying side, perhaps the Hunger Games.The amount of money you can make on something is the difference between cost and price. E-books, even at 99 cents have a large difference between price and cost. If your work is so poor that you can't get 2500 people to buy your book a month when it's priced at a dollar, you really ought to think about a different profession. Besides there is a cost to popular culture and consumers generally when holding copyrights for a long term, and are a few more authors or questionable talent worth that? Writing is a competitive trade, and a reduced cost of entry will make it more competitive. Yes this means more authors will fail numerically speaking, but not necessarily proportionally speaking (and there is nothing wrong with that), but it also means that it is easier for authors of great talent to make a go of it. But seriously even without copyright you can make money, look up the studies for yourself, the reference I gave is a good place to start.
"Wouldn't using the word 'wilfulness' suggest he already thinks Google did something wrong?"
If the trial gets to stage 3 it means the jury found some liability in stage 1 or 2. If they didn't you could just skip stage three and go home.
Damn, I already feel sorry for that jury. You have to come back in three separate chunks, any of which may last a week, and to top it all off listen to some inane technical and legal mumbo jumbo (either of which is bad enough on it's own). In fact I'm sure there are some liberals who would classify it as torture, and I'm not prone to disagree.
"There are monetary units and there are measurable physical units of various economic goods and of many--but not of all-services bought and sold. But the exchange ratios which we have to deal with are permanently fluctuating. There is nothing constant and invariable in them. They defy any attempt to measure them. They are not facts in the sense in which a physicist calls the establishment of the weight of a quantity of copper a fact. They are historical events, expressive of what happened once at a definite instant and under definite circumstances. The same numerical exchange ratio may appear again, but it is by no means certain whether this will really happen and, if it happens, the question is open whether this identical result was the outcome of preservation of the same circumstances or of a return to them rather than the outcome of the interplay of a very different constellation of price-determining factors. Numbers applied by acting man in economic calculation do not refer to quantities measured but the exchange ratios as they are expected--on the basis of understanding--to be realized on the markets of the future to which alone all acting is directed and which alone counts for acting man.
We are not dealing at this point of our investigation with the problem of a "quantitative science of economics," but with the analysis of the mental processes performed by acting man in applying quantitative distinctions when planning conduct. As action is always directed toward influencing a future state of affairs, economic calculation always deals with the future. As far as it takes past events and exchange ratios of the past into consideration, it does so only for the sake of an arrangement of future action."
BTW cheap publishing + distribution is an argument against long copyright. If the cost of publishing is lower, you need less of a reward to get someone to risk publishing a work.
Windows is already dependent on explorer to run, especially for file-system functionality. And why would you want to load code that does the same thing twice. If you already have something closely tied into the API that renders HTML 5, why not just use it? Seriously I don't think it's that big of deal, especially since hard drives are cheap and alternative browsers everywhere you look.
No the claims made are even worse than the title. For instance twist to unlock is also covered.
"If you slide to unlock without requiring the user terminate the gesture in a specific region on the display, you don't infringe"
Computers only operate specifically. "Any place on screen" is still a specific location
Lastly the patent is bogus anyways like all software patents. The computer doesn't use location in it's operation, it manipulates symbols which just so happen to relate to location, but such a feature is irrelevant to the method the symbols are processed.
There are very though and well supported analysises that contradict your assertion if you care to look for them (Against Intellectual Monopoly) http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm is one
95% of rents for 95% of the works are extracted within the first 5 years. Also the vast majority of authors don't see a penny for their work unless sponsored by the publisher (and only the mega-authors are). Royalties are first applied to cover production setup costs. Most publishers require authors to transfer copyright to them, which prevents the authors from making derivatives of their own works without permission. In addition there are alternative models for such authors. If anyone can copy the work the value of the first goes up considerably and the main competition comes from being able to publish first. In addition there are alternative publishing and revenue models that have been successfully used. One such alternative is the maker endorsed mark
Lastly the historical examples do not show that literature languished without copyrights. At the very least copyright should be reduced to a term less than ten years.
You has mistaken a specific case for the general. A licence is permission to do what would otherwise be illegal (and it may or may not arise out of contract).
Title - not a piece of paper, it's a legal interest or set of legal rights. For my car I have both the certificate of title (tangible piece of paper) and the title (a specific set of legal rights or claims that I may ask the courts to enforce).
Of course they impose certain requirements on you for the privledge.
Dude it's and HID driver. Linux has more device drivers than any other OS and the standard kernel ships with all of them. If you need a really secure sever you should compile a custom kernel with only the needed drivers built in and disable module loading, and setup some sort of TPM or secureboot to load only that kernel. Plus putting it in the kernel makes sure it the controller has a fast response time.
The middle number stopped meaning anything a while ago. The only way to get rid of it was to increment the first number up while dropping the middle number.
Secure has potential to be a really useful tech, if the OEM's let the users manage the keys.
Except that all of a sudden each user needs to upload at least 3x what they download to make the system work instead of at least one times. And its still susceptible to timing attacks and supernodes.
As data streams flow across the network, the sniffer captures each packet and, if needed, decodes the packet's raw data, showing the values of various fields in the packet, and analyzes its content according to the appropriate RFC or other specifications.
The actually verify the packet is a Skype one you have to pull it apart more that if you were merely going to route it.
So the U.S. navy is a bunch of child molesters? Tor is just a tool to increase privacy and security online. What people use it for is their own responsibility. Abusus non tollit usum. (Abuse is no argument against proper use)
Really they just jump a long ways.
Mass migration will probably never happen. Colonization probably will, and is a given should fusion tech come to fruition, especially considering that you can send robots ahead of you to prepare shelters and gather resources.
Yep, Jobs true invention seems to be his reality distortion field.
And Xerox started messing with the paradigm in the early 70's. The truth is you really don't want a lot of diversity in interfaces. There are only a handful of good metaphors and layouts for an OS or program, and countless bad ones.
Flight has actually originated in three seperate events. Birds, bats, and insects.
With a single local base station you can go from a 3ft error to a 3 in error.
I'm betting if you pull signal from both networks you can get an even more accurate signal.
Yes at the moment there are not a lot of transaction denominated in bitcoin but there are a few, and yes this is what needs to happen to stability to occur for bitcoin. However no currency has ever just come into the world fully formed, they are either based on a specific measure of a physical good or pegged to another currency. The U.S. dollar was originally based on the Spanish milled dollar, also known as pieces of eight.
Legal Status... helpful but not neccessary.
You can't measure value. (It's ordinal, not cardinal) The best you can do is establish ratios at any given moment.The trick of money is that it lets you do it indirectly. If people suddenly forgot the history of prices in dollars, it would be a very hard process to re-establish it's value. The reason people value the dollar is what they expect to buy in the future with it, and they base this estimation on what they could buy just a day ago. They then act to adjust their cash holding accordingly
Also no reason you couldn't calculate a GDP figure for bitcoin.