Hey, I don't know about you, but here in the United States I'd say poetry, literature, and sculpture are all underappreciated art forms. Art is an underappreciated form, period.
This is where a lot of my project ideas fall apart before they get started.
I'm never sure how to interact with my PC.
Maybe you have some links to Parallel / Serial / USB devices that plug into the PC and possibly also some links to tutorials for coding for these devices?
We probably cannot continue to be the strongest country in the world forever.
Likewise, Microsoft probably can't retain its monopoly until the end of human existance.
Those groups in power should act justly for the simple reason that power is a transitive thing, for both corporations and governments. Or maybe they should just try to make as much profit as possible in the meantime, and say, "to hell with the consequences." There are really two ways to interpret this truth.
Government isn't exactly some sort of monetary black hole, out of which no funds may escape. The government hires resources, pay's its worker's salaries, and then taxes those very same salaries. Still recursive, though.
Well, getting the source from the publishers certainly seems like a more feasible solution than copying the text out of books.
Now that I think about it, I imagagine publishers face this very same problem when publishing a new edition of an old work, and I'd wager they have developed a few tricks to make the process easier.
If all else fails, I suggest we direct some time, effort, and old PCs into monastaries. Monks dig that tedious shit, hard style. Only one question remains, though... VI or Emacs?
Ads are a viable source for revenue, to be sure, but how can they continue to profit in the face of substitutes like Kazaa Lite which contain no Ads or spyware?
I'm amazed by their resolve, though. Nikki Hemming is my hero.
I think the first step to allowing works in the public domain to be actually availible to the public is the establishment of some sort of cross-platform, cross-network method to identify works that are free to the public. Filesharing services have been tryin to demonstate leigtimate uses for their networks; they usually cite unsigned artists volunteering their content for distribution or incorporate pay-per-legal-download schemes into their products. Distributing older works in the public domain could provide them with another legitimate reason to exitst, I doubt the previous content owners will volunteer their bandwidth to the distribution of works they previously owned, so the peer to peer networks seem like a natural solution for free ownerless content. It is worth noting, of course, that very little of the work in the public domain exists in digital format. The sort of leigislation suggested here in the economist provides some hope, though. One day, even though content owners have abandoned work from which they can no longer profit, each user's computer may be like a small piece of a distributed digital cultual museum.
Thanks for the stats, but have noticed how turnout seems to ocillate between low and high turnout each year, seperated by a margin of about 20%? Something to do with incumbancy, perhaps?
I think one would almost be required to be fancy, because this is all UDP. That is, because the connection is stateless, a response might also be spoofed.
Even now windows uses the same default sans-serif font they've been using since windows95, text doesn't read any smoother or easier than it did 8 years ago.
Actually, the default fonts for the Windows XP user interface are Trebuchet MS and Tahoma, complete with anti-aliasing and shadow effects.
That is true for the two pay phones at the gazebo-style bus stop at Potomac Place Shopping Center. Those still ring in $120 to $130 every several weeks, mostly because that is the route the hired help take on the way to their clients' palatial houses nearby.
Is the hired a thinly veiled euphemism for prostitutes?
That's a choice demographic for payphone operators, I guess.
Anyone know if the companies will make any attempt to sell these thousands of phones before throwning them out? I think it would be great to clean one up, install it as a home phone. If they are to be discarded, I think they should be really inexpensive.
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Imagine if we had to pay a royalty every time we sing "Happy Birthday to You."
Hey, I don't know about you, but here in the United States I'd say poetry, literature, and sculpture are all underappreciated art forms. Art is an underappreciated form, period.
Said the blind man upon his first sighted visit to SlashDot, "Oh, so that's why they make such a big fuss over goatse.cx!"
This is where a lot of my project ideas fall apart before they get started.
I'm never sure how to interact with my PC.
Maybe you have some links to Parallel / Serial / USB devices that plug into the PC and possibly also some links to tutorials for coding for these devices?
In KGB's Soviet Russia, space probes you!
Yes, but will this always be the case?
We probably cannot continue to be the strongest country in the world forever.
Likewise, Microsoft probably can't retain its monopoly until the end of human existance.
Those groups in power should act justly for the simple reason that power is a transitive thing, for both corporations and governments.
Or maybe they should just try to make as much profit as possible in the meantime, and say, "to hell with the consequences." There are really two ways to interpret this truth.
No Comeuppins!
Yes, but many moons have passed since that day.
It's time for Cerulean Studios to release Killian.
Could this be a stepping-stone to one day being able to create simple life forms from scratch?
Additionally, if a DNA computer gets a virus, could it spread to humans?
Government isn't exactly some sort of monetary black hole, out of which no funds may escape. The government hires resources, pay's its worker's salaries, and then taxes those very same salaries. Still recursive, though.
Well, getting the source from the publishers certainly seems like a more feasible solution than copying the text out of books.
Now that I think about it, I imagagine publishers face this very same problem when publishing a new edition of an old work, and I'd wager they have developed a few tricks to make the process easier.
If all else fails, I suggest we direct some time, effort, and old PCs into monastaries. Monks dig that tedious shit, hard style. Only one question remains, though... VI or Emacs?
Ads are a viable source for revenue, to be sure, but how can they continue to profit in the face of substitutes like Kazaa Lite which contain no Ads or spyware?
I'm amazed by their resolve, though. Nikki Hemming is my hero.
I think the first step to allowing works in the public domain to be actually availible to the public is the establishment of some sort of cross-platform, cross-network method to identify works that are free to the public. Filesharing services have been tryin to demonstate leigtimate uses for their networks; they usually cite unsigned artists volunteering their content for distribution or incorporate pay-per-legal-download schemes into their products. Distributing older works in the public domain could provide them with another legitimate reason to exitst, I doubt the previous content owners will volunteer their bandwidth to the distribution of works they previously owned, so the peer to peer networks seem like a natural solution for free ownerless content.
It is worth noting, of course, that very little of the work in the public domain exists in digital format. The sort of leigislation suggested here in the economist provides some hope, though. One day, even though content owners have abandoned work from which they can no longer profit, each user's computer may be like a small piece of a distributed digital cultual museum.
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Thanks for the stats, but have noticed how turnout seems to ocillate between low and high turnout each year, seperated by a margin of about 20%? Something to do with incumbancy, perhaps?
1996 49.08%
1994 38.78%
1992 55.09%
1990 36.52%
1988 50.11%
1986 40%
1984 53.11%
1982 39.79%
1980 52.56%
1978 37.21%
1976 53.55%
1974 38.23%
1972 55.21%
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It's important to keep in mind that voter turnout is usually well uneder 50%, though.
I think one would almost be required to be fancy, because this is all UDP. That is, because the connection is stateless, a response might also be spoofed.
An editor generally only uses [sic] to make the original author look stupid.
Great idea, now I need two.
Is the hired a thinly veiled euphemism for prostitutes?
That's a choice demographic for payphone operators, I guess.
Anyone know if the companies will make any attempt to sell these thousands of phones before throwning them out? I think it would be great to clean one up, install it as a home phone. If they are to be discarded, I think they should be really inexpensive.
Another solution is to install firewall proucts like ZoneAlam which will actually prompt you before giving applications access to the internet.