What about maintainance. The plane may be able to power itsself indefinatly, but things will break down. Bearings fail, components come loose, thermal cycling cracks PCB tracks. How long can it be made to run between servicings?
There is a form for everything. In some states in the US, it's illegal for you to collect and use rainwater for anything. States grant exclusive right to water catchment to various water companies, so for anyone else to capture that water before it reaches the reservoir is effectively stealing.
(C) Nobody. I'm not sure of the exact procedure for doing this, but in this hopefully legally binding post I give up all claim to copyright on that short 'happy birthday' protest song.
I consider the introduction of slopey quote marks to be one of the low points in the history of computing. We don't need them to be angled to know if they are opening or closing.
I like to use the *old* for emphesis. Not because it's any better, but because it's a throwback to a time when we didn't need any of these fancy typesetting things to convey tone. ASCII was good enough then, and (with the addition of a bit of unicode for non-english text and math) it's good enough now.
Slight correction: The *tune* is actually past copyright. They can use the tune if they want. The words were written some time later, to fit the pre-existing tune, and remain copyrighted. So they could sing something else to the tune of happy birthday.
"Happy song-day to you,
We wrote this for you.
We'd sing you the real one,
But it's copyright too."
I think at this point it isn't about the number of bits, it's about luck, implimentation issues and the search for user error. Doesn't matter how many bits you use if they can sneak a copy of your laptop hard drive and find the key somewhere in swap space, or if your 8192-bit key is derived from a passphrase that's only ten alphanumeric characters, or if they can pull off an effective MITM attack on an SSL by threatening/bribing/asking a trusted certification authority to sign their cert.
Easy to abuse. There'd be a lot of arguing over what 'completed' means. Plenty of employers would assign a task, get back a perfectly good result, then declare it substandard and unuseable anyway just to avoid paying. What is the employee going to so, spend more than they'd have earned in legal fees to sue for breach of contract? If they quit, plenty more to hire.
A combination of many cities granting monopoly access to one company (Company hands over money, city gives permission to bury cables) and a natural monopoly situation: Once one company has gotten entrenched in an area, it isn't viable for another to invest in the substantial cost of laying cables and building up the infrastructure. All the customers are already taken.
It worked, though. HideMyAss needs to CoverTheirAss by kicking repeat sharers off, but the worst you'd get is your VPN account suspended. They still protected you from a complaint to your ISP or threat of lawsuit.
But how much is dilligent? Somehow I doubt a fre google queries will count. Large companies may be able to hire a historian to go and trawl through old newspapers of the period looking for advertisments or reading actor biographies in hope of finding a passing reference, but that effectively excludes amateurs who don't have the time or money for that level of checking.
I'm guessing a lot of those works could be identified by someone skilled in searching historical records (And I mean pre-internet here, going through old microfilms) and paid to put in enough hours. So it's only if they become popular again that there will be any reason even for potential copyright holders to invest the time in figuring out if they own it.
I can see two crucial differences. Firstly, technology has improved. The tablets now are lighter, slimmer and have higher resolution screens than any before. The batteries last longer, and they pack the processing power to easily stream video. Plus we have wireless everywhere, which makes them more useful still, and they even cost less (Yes, even the iPad cost less than my old tablet of a previous generation!). Secondly, Apple... they are masters of marketting. They took the tablet, a tool for geeks, and made it cool. Their brand alone sold the iPad - had exactly the same product been made by HP or Dell, it'd never have caught on so well.It's possible that just the power of their marketing could get tablets established long enough to stick.
It had another unexpected side effect too. A lot of the really old games from the very first in the 70s to the early nineties, which had been assumed to have no further commercial value, suddenly took on new life as casual games on the new platforms.
That, and the desktop market has reached the dreaded point of maturity: Everyone who might want a desktop has one, and the upgrade cycle isn't what it used to be. There is minimal prospect of growth. Portables, on the other hand... that's a booming industry, and everyone wants in.
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LBA-48 should be good up to 128PiB.
Once size is sufficient, you can solve reliability through redundency.
Potential liability, perhaps. Who could she sue if it doesn't work right?
"2 27" Thunderbolt displays"
I'm guessing work is paying for them.
Easier plan would be to put the radios on a boat-drone.
Might need a few airborns for use as wireless relays, but I agree: A drone boat is much easier for the server end.
What about maintainance. The plane may be able to power itsself indefinatly, but things will break down. Bearings fail, components come loose, thermal cycling cracks PCB tracks. How long can it be made to run between servicings?
I think that's error 002.
There is a form for everything. In some states in the US, it's illegal for you to collect and use rainwater for anything. States grant exclusive right to water catchment to various water companies, so for anyone else to capture that water before it reaches the reservoir is effectively stealing.
I could have, but it seems pointless when the song is of so little value it isn't worth the effort of enforcing any licencing conditions.
I think the " mark is perfectly acceptable for printing. Sloped marks are just a cosmetic feature.
(C) Nobody. I'm not sure of the exact procedure for doing this, but in this hopefully legally binding post I give up all claim to copyright on that short 'happy birthday' protest song.
I consider the introduction of slopey quote marks to be one of the low points in the history of computing. We don't need them to be angled to know if they are opening or closing.
I like to use the *old* for emphesis. Not because it's any better, but because it's a throwback to a time when we didn't need any of these fancy typesetting things to convey tone. ASCII was good enough then, and (with the addition of a bit of unicode for non-english text and math) it's good enough now.
Slight correction: The *tune* is actually past copyright. They can use the tune if they want. The words were written some time later, to fit the pre-existing tune, and remain copyrighted. So they could sing something else to the tune of happy birthday.
"Happy song-day to you,
We wrote this for you.
We'd sing you the real one,
But it's copyright too."
I think at this point it isn't about the number of bits, it's about luck, implimentation issues and the search for user error. Doesn't matter how many bits you use if they can sneak a copy of your laptop hard drive and find the key somewhere in swap space, or if your 8192-bit key is derived from a passphrase that's only ten alphanumeric characters, or if they can pull off an effective MITM attack on an SSL by threatening/bribing/asking a trusted certification authority to sign their cert.
Easy to abuse. There'd be a lot of arguing over what 'completed' means. Plenty of employers would assign a task, get back a perfectly good result, then declare it substandard and unuseable anyway just to avoid paying. What is the employee going to so, spend more than they'd have earned in legal fees to sue for breach of contract? If they quit, plenty more to hire.
A combination of many cities granting monopoly access to one company (Company hands over money, city gives permission to bury cables) and a natural monopoly situation: Once one company has gotten entrenched in an area, it isn't viable for another to invest in the substantial cost of laying cables and building up the infrastructure. All the customers are already taken.
It worked, though. HideMyAss needs to CoverTheirAss by kicking repeat sharers off, but the worst you'd get is your VPN account suspended. They still protected you from a complaint to your ISP or threat of lawsuit.
But how much is dilligent? Somehow I doubt a fre google queries will count. Large companies may be able to hire a historian to go and trawl through old newspapers of the period looking for advertisments or reading actor biographies in hope of finding a passing reference, but that effectively excludes amateurs who don't have the time or money for that level of checking.
I'm guessing a lot of those works could be identified by someone skilled in searching historical records (And I mean pre-internet here, going through old microfilms) and paid to put in enough hours. So it's only if they become popular again that there will be any reason even for potential copyright holders to invest the time in figuring out if they own it.
There's only one hope left: The All Purpose Emergency Plan. Fake a seizure.
I can see two crucial differences. Firstly, technology has improved. The tablets now are lighter, slimmer and have higher resolution screens than any before. The batteries last longer, and they pack the processing power to easily stream video. Plus we have wireless everywhere, which makes them more useful still, and they even cost less (Yes, even the iPad cost less than my old tablet of a previous generation!). Secondly, Apple... they are masters of marketting. They took the tablet, a tool for geeks, and made it cool. Their brand alone sold the iPad - had exactly the same product been made by HP or Dell, it'd never have caught on so well.It's possible that just the power of their marketing could get tablets established long enough to stick.
It had another unexpected side effect too. A lot of the really old games from the very first in the 70s to the early nineties, which had been assumed to have no further commercial value, suddenly took on new life as casual games on the new platforms.
That, and the desktop market has reached the dreaded point of maturity: Everyone who might want a desktop has one, and the upgrade cycle isn't what it used to be. There is minimal prospect of growth. Portables, on the other hand... that's a booming industry, and everyone wants in.