Nintendo's Japanese office received a telex from MCA Universal stating that the company had 48 hours to hand all profits earned from Donkey Kong over to MCA and destroy all unsold Donkey Kong inventory. The reason? MCA alleged that Donkey Kong infringed on Universal Studios' "King Kong" copyright.
Unfortunately for MCA, Nintendo had a very good reason for refraining from a settlement: It had discovered that MCA did not own the "King Kong" copyright! Even more shockingly, in a previous lawsuit MCA Universal had actually gone to pains to prove that the "King Kong" property was public domain!
I've barely written more then a few scribbles on the back of an envelope all year, but I frequently type arround 100,000 chars per week. I had major problems yesterday when it came to sitting down for two hours and writing an exam. I cant believe we still dont have the opportunity to use a computer in exams.
I'm graduating in a few weeks, here in the good old United Kingdom. My life savings....
-£12,000 student loan -£2,500 credit card and bank overdraft -£6,000 borrowed from parents. £32.56 - investment account from about 20 years ago £1.52 - current account from about 8 years ago PIII-600, cant liquidate it cause its a tool of a trade.
come on RIAA, I've got 8,000 mp3's and a copy of "find", sue my ass so I can become bankrupt, lose all my debts, and be free with a degree!
1) Did the code indeed come from UNIX to Linux and not from some other common source such as BSD - or from Linux to UNIX. Given the lack of version control in early versions of UNIX, it's going to be hard to show *where* it came from.
What if it went from UNIX to BSD to Linux. Obviously the first jump is copyright infringment, but if it goes BSD -> Linux, thats fine according to the BSD license. Would it be the same as buying stolen property? Would you just have to give it back (remove the offending lines)?
Thank you, you just made my friends list. Have an orange.
Seriously though, government regulations and abusive monopolys are not capitalism. Well, perhaps abusive monopolys are, but anything that stays in place because of regulations (you need a license from the city to run a bus service - and they let one company have a 5 year monopoly on it), or unnatural laws (patents etc) isnt capitalism.
The cost of entry in some markets is horrendous, but the added costs from all the red tape that the government makes is, in most cases, much worse.
What if someone wants to extend a road through Percy's Auto Sales? They'd have to demolish Earth. Oh I'm sure the plans will be made available, but at this scale Alpha Centauri is 280,000 miles away - just on the other side of the moon. But if we cant be bothered going there and lodging a complaint I'm sure that the highway will be built without much complaint.
Hmm, what about coverage though? Regulations in the EU are a lot stricter (max 100mW EIRP for example, the 'A' zone - america etc, can do 4W EIRP, so you can legally stick a 13dB antenna on a 100mW access point. In the EU, you cant. Theres also issues with deliberatly broadcasting outside. I want to push wireless 6 miles from town to my (future) home, but as
1) Thats in Greece. I speak 27 words of greek, and I dont want to try and explain the technicalities of it if the greek radio agency come round 2) I'm only 40 degrees off some massive radar military dishes. I dont want to explain the technicalities of it if the greek radio agency come round in a tank with machine guns
No, it wouldnt be racist. Do you have any idea what racist means? I'm not saying that a company shouldnt outsource, I'm saying that it should say it is outsourcing. If people want to pay more to talk to someone in the same country, thats their decision. When you buy some lamb, it might say "New Zealand Lamb", or "Welsh Lamb". Thats not racist, its informing people of the origin of the lamb.
I wish they'd enforce something where you can demand to know where your call is being routed. I'm sure that some papers would love to print lists of "Full blooded British companies" that employ British workers.
He didnt know how to spell his own name, why the hell should I
Besides, I'm waiting for a patch that I can right-click in mozilla and as well as google-search, search wikipedia and dictionary.com. And open it in a new tab, not new window.
1) The libary might be destroyed 2) The libary might lose the decryption program 3) Thats 1 copy, wow. 1 copy will eventually disintergrate. CD's will last what, 50 years? 100?
We could probably whittle it down to ignore the first couple billion years of an earth-type planet's formation - there wouldnt be much support for life (as we know it) in those conditions.
Say I owned the last edition of the complete works of Shakespere, no one else in the world had it (say there had been a nuclear war or something). I could make copy of it, and the world wouldnt lose Shakespere. (replace Shakespere with anything that has been created, 1984, the bible, Temptation Island episode 4)
The ability not to be able to copy something could, and eventually will (how many original copies of the bible are left?), lead to the loss of that work. That is a shame. When its a large scale loss, human knowlege could go back 2000 years. When the libary of alexandria was burnt down, that was a crime of horrific proportions, centuries of human work lost because the only copy was lost.
Had they made copies, it would have been ok. Copy prevention stops everyone except the copyright holder making copies. Forever. The copyright holder goes bust, or loses interest, and we lose part of human culture.
Our planet has been arround for 4.6 billion years, about 1/3 the time of the universe. That could mean that for every 3 earth-sized planets that has been alive at some point in the last 15bn years, that we see, one of them should be in a "living" form, whether thats a 20th century civilisation, dinosaurs, or volcanic eruptions.
But time is money. Say it takes 1 second to identify and eliminate spam, and you get 10 per day, or 3650 per year, it takes an hour per year to exterminate the stuff. If you work in an office, your time is usually arround 2*wage. Say you get paid $15 an hour, that means that spam costs you $30 a year. If you wwork in a company with 100 employees, thats $3,000 a year in time wasted deleting spam, not much really, but enough for a new water cooler in the office.
Remember, all those figures are deliberatly low.
Also it costs bandwidth, negligable in many cases, but assuming those 10 spams a day add up to 600k, and you connect over a modem paying per minute (like small firms here in the UK), it takes 2 minutes, or 10p (15 cents)/day, thats about $50/year/person.
Obviously most firms have some form of unmetered connection, however it can still cause a blip when the entire company gets a picutre of "Betsie's big boobs".
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Nintendo's Japanese office received a telex from MCA Universal stating that the company had 48 hours to hand all profits earned from Donkey Kong over to MCA and destroy all unsold Donkey Kong inventory. The reason? MCA alleged that Donkey Kong infringed on Universal Studios' "King Kong" copyright.
Unfortunately for MCA, Nintendo had a very good reason for refraining from a settlement: It had discovered that MCA did not own the "King Kong" copyright! Even more shockingly, in a previous lawsuit MCA Universal had actually gone to pains to prove that the "King Kong" property was public domain!
I've barely written more then a few scribbles on the back of an envelope all year, but I frequently type arround 100,000 chars per week. I had major problems yesterday when it came to sitting down for two hours and writing an exam. I cant believe we still dont have the opportunity to use a computer in exams.
Hmm, what scares me most - people that thought you were serious or moderaters that modded you up "Informative". Funny, perhaps.
Fine, I'll sell my remaining assets to someone I trust for £1, then I'll declare bankruptcy.
Perhaps a name change too...
Hmm, lets see, life savings....
I'm graduating in a few weeks, here in the good old United Kingdom. My life savings....
-£12,000 student loan
-£2,500 credit card and bank overdraft
-£6,000 borrowed from parents.
£32.56 - investment account from about 20 years ago
£1.52 - current account from about 8 years ago
PIII-600, cant liquidate it cause its a tool of a trade.
come on RIAA, I've got 8,000 mp3's and a copy of "find", sue my ass so I can become bankrupt, lose all my debts, and be free with a degree!
or is that page black text on a dark brown background? Some people...
1) Did the code indeed come from UNIX to Linux and not from some other common source such as BSD - or from Linux to UNIX. Given the lack of version control in early versions of UNIX, it's going to be hard to show *where* it came from.
What if it went from UNIX to BSD to Linux. Obviously the first jump is copyright infringment, but if it goes BSD -> Linux, thats fine according to the BSD license. Would it be the same as buying stolen property? Would you just have to give it back (remove the offending lines)?
Thank you, you just made my friends list. Have an orange.
Seriously though, government regulations and abusive monopolys are not capitalism. Well, perhaps abusive monopolys are, but anything that stays in place because of regulations (you need a license from the city to run a bus service - and they let one company have a 5 year monopoly on it), or unnatural laws (patents etc) isnt capitalism.
The cost of entry in some markets is horrendous, but the added costs from all the red tape that the government makes is, in most cases, much worse.
What if someone wants to extend a road through Percy's Auto Sales? They'd have to demolish Earth. Oh I'm sure the plans will be made available, but at this scale Alpha Centauri is 280,000 miles away - just on the other side of the moon. But if we cant be bothered going there and lodging a complaint I'm sure that the highway will be built without much complaint.
Hmm, what about coverage though? Regulations in the EU are a lot stricter (max 100mW EIRP for example, the 'A' zone - america etc, can do 4W EIRP, so you can legally stick a 13dB antenna on a 100mW access point. In the EU, you cant. Theres also issues with deliberatly broadcasting outside. I want to push wireless 6 miles from town to my (future) home, but as
1) Thats in Greece. I speak 27 words of greek, and I dont want to try and explain the technicalities of it if the greek radio agency come round
2) I'm only 40 degrees off some massive radar military dishes. I dont want to explain the technicalities of it if the greek radio agency come round in a tank with machine guns
(Maximum legal power / gain)
Any links that are more specific on the legalities across Europe (which I would assume are the same) would be appreciated.
Or puts a goatse picture on the back of your pants
Anyone webcasting it?
No, it wouldnt be racist. Do you have any idea what racist means? I'm not saying that a company shouldnt outsource, I'm saying that it should say it is outsourcing. If people want to pay more to talk to someone in the same country, thats their decision. When you buy some lamb, it might say "New Zealand Lamb", or "Welsh Lamb". Thats not racist, its informing people of the origin of the lamb.
I wish they'd enforce something where you can demand to know where your call is being routed. I'm sure that some papers would love to print lists of "Full blooded British companies" that employ British workers.
This may be a situation where property rights dont take precedent over the fate of humanities culture, it's an interesting point.
He didnt know how to spell his own name, why the hell should I
Besides, I'm waiting for a patch that I can right-click in mozilla and as well as google-search, search wikipedia and dictionary.com. And open it in a new tab, not new window.
They could have one copy, however
1) The libary might be destroyed
2) The libary might lose the decryption program
3) Thats 1 copy, wow. 1 copy will eventually disintergrate. CD's will last what, 50 years? 100?
We could probably whittle it down to ignore the first couple billion years of an earth-type planet's formation - there wouldnt be much support for life (as we know it) in those conditions.
Say I owned the last edition of the complete works of Shakespere, no one else in the world had it (say there had been a nuclear war or something). I could make copy of it, and the world wouldnt lose Shakespere. (replace Shakespere with anything that has been created, 1984, the bible, Temptation Island episode 4)
The ability not to be able to copy something could, and eventually will (how many original copies of the bible are left?), lead to the loss of that work. That is a shame. When its a large scale loss, human knowlege could go back 2000 years. When the libary of alexandria was burnt down, that was a crime of horrific proportions, centuries of human work lost because the only copy was lost.
Had they made copies, it would have been ok. Copy prevention stops everyone except the copyright holder making copies. Forever. The copyright holder goes bust, or loses interest, and we lose part of human culture.
This virus will attack other mail clients as well, so don't feel too superior.
kmail?
dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking
Sounds like a slashdot editor
Sigh... I imagine these same people will claim that it's all a big illusion when we discover an earth-like planet.
I want to see what they say if a massive flying saucer comes down and sits on top of a few dozen of the largest cities on Earth.
Our planet has been arround for 4.6 billion years, about 1/3 the time of the universe. That could mean that for every 3 earth-sized planets that has been alive at some point in the last 15bn years, that we see, one of them should be in a "living" form, whether thats a 20th century civilisation, dinosaurs, or volcanic eruptions.
But then our sample size isnt exactly enourmous.
But time is money. Say it takes 1 second to identify and eliminate spam, and you get 10 per day, or 3650 per year, it takes an hour per year to exterminate the stuff. If you work in an office, your time is usually arround 2*wage. Say you get paid $15 an hour, that means that spam costs you $30 a year. If you wwork in a company with 100 employees, thats $3,000 a year in time wasted deleting spam, not much really, but enough for a new water cooler in the office.
Remember, all those figures are deliberatly low.
Also it costs bandwidth, negligable in many cases, but assuming those 10 spams a day add up to 600k, and you connect over a modem paying per minute (like small firms here in the UK), it takes 2 minutes, or 10p (15 cents)/day, thats about $50/year/person.
Obviously most firms have some form of unmetered connection, however it can still cause a blip when the entire company gets a picutre of "Betsie's big boobs".
Ahh yes, forgot about specific heat capacity, its been many years.