I make slip cast ceramics (and sell them on eBay)when I buy a mold i have the right to use it for as long as I want, but they wear out and eventually, usually less than a year, they have to be replaced. And the more finely detailed it is the faster it becomes unusable.
and at least with music you do have the right to make another copy for your own use, I can't (legally, hehehe) make a copy of my molds.
Paganish people tend to seek knowledge in hidden places.The internet or fidonet or whatever you were using used to be an unexplored frontier, and was in its own way a 'secret society', an electronic "secret garden" in a way.
Now it keeps asking me to punch a monkey.
Why couldnt somebody out there outsource computer time to all us folks with cycles to spare for cracking the genetic code. Seems a lot more usefull than seti@home.
Actually the Gubbament just recently made some sort of antitrust type ruling limiting patenting of human genome info. It's a two edged sword. If you don't give companies rights to protect information they are less motivated to innovate. I still say.... BREAK OUT THE OPEN SOURCE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT BABY WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Hmm... I wonder if the write layer could be separated from the data layer alowing the read/write transisters to stay in the device while you insert and remove just plain film layer. That could get really cheap! Also if a media could be developed that could be made semiconducting you could make erasable processors. That could have some interesting aplications.
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Who needs SETI@home when you can just smoke a big fat bowl and talk to aliens anyway(s)?
I make slip cast ceramics (and sell them on eBay)when I buy a mold i have the right to use it for as long as I want, but they wear out and eventually, usually less than a year, they have to be replaced. And the more finely detailed it is the faster it becomes unusable.
and at least with music you do have the right to make another copy for your own use, I can't (legally, hehehe) make a copy of my molds.
DANG! I still havent filled up my first CDR after having my cdrw drive for 18 months.
stop saying hella!!!!!!
Paganish people tend to seek knowledge in hidden places.The internet or fidonet or whatever you were using used to be an unexplored frontier, and was in its own way a 'secret society', an electronic "secret garden" in a way. Now it keeps asking me to punch a monkey.
Why couldnt somebody out there outsource computer time to all us folks with cycles to spare for cracking the genetic code. Seems a lot more usefull than seti@home.
Actually the Gubbament just recently made some sort of antitrust type ruling limiting patenting of human genome info. It's a two edged sword. If you don't give companies rights to protect information they are less motivated to innovate. I still say.... BREAK OUT THE OPEN SOURCE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT BABY WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Hmm... I wonder if the write layer could be separated from the data layer alowing the read/write transisters to stay in the device while you insert and remove just plain film layer. That could get really cheap!
Also if a media could be developed that could be made semiconducting you could make erasable processors. That could have some interesting aplications.