Part of the problem of the copyright laws, specially if last very long, is that you can't do anything even barely similar for very long, at least without paying potentially high fees if enabled at all. Low term copyright laws if well not ensures, at least opens the door for innovation and evolution of works. How can be improved something that someone else did? How far you could reach?
And if well teachers were a problem too (both for the ones that didnt worked with computers, as for the ones did, as the interface is not the usual desktop) that , would not put the experience as something dissapointing, heck, in a good amount of cases were the children that showed their teachers how to use it. At least here Is evaluated as something very possitive, not just for the children, but also for their families. Is not perfect, but is making possitive changes that probably will be more visible in 5-10 years.
A culture is not a single nor a simple thing. Is a whole deal
For us killing is wrong, but of course, that depends on the country because in parts of US is right to kill what are considered criminals. Or that every clueless or potentially instable person should own a lethal weapon. And what about euthanasia? Or invade other countries and kill thousands just because some particular from other country killed some of your citizens? When is "right" to kill?
But there are more things. What about sex in general? For islam there are some extremes, but in western countries there are some extremes reached related with minors of 18 years (even if is 17 years and 11 months), or the scandals related to public men caught cheating their wifes.
What about companies that knowing the harm they cause push in every media consuming tobacco, or whisky? What about the culture of everyone should have a car? What about democracy, or at least how it really is despite how people want to see it? Honestly, i prefer a country with unfair for me laws with citizens that accept it, than a country that push their own unfair laws to other countries.
Is easy to assume that your own culture is right just because it should be, and judge others from outside.
They should link to that product the ideas behind SixthSense, at least for display, gestures as user interfaces, and what kind of information you can pick and expand from environment.
Why does the leadership of the US and UK keep changing, then?
Same bosses with different public faces. How much things changed from Bush with Obama, someone different from a different party? The trends just got bigger and worser.
is launching to space from earth/moon surface. Traveling once there, and landing (at least in earth) could be relatively inexpensive. But once the space elevator, space fountain or other approaches are built and gives us relatively cheap ways to reach space, this kind of approachs could make a difference.
Is somewhat a need, a lot of people could be already creating alternate profiles to not "pollute" their main ones.
The main problem i have with it is... well, a lot are already doing it (manually, without any ties to their main profile), so doesnt it count as prior art? Even slashdot's anonymous coward (and posting at it even if logged) could count as that. Well, that, and that you even having one of such ghost profiles, you are more easily traceable that having an alternate fake account.
"When"? As in "in some future"? Other countries may restrict what their citizens do in internet, when they are their are there. U.S. is actually restricting, censoring, and inspecting what everyone, no matter where, no matter citizen of which country is, does in internet. And no, is not funny.
Could end being the official anthem for that country, If i remember right that movie (First Olympics? ok, was a movie, not sure how much real was it) would not be so different to the way that was picked the "official" US Anthem for the olympics,
Surely will convince public opinion that the new measures of surveillance on all internet connections have a good reason and they should give up on privacy forever.
Its still all in your head, even for physical sports. Oh, you can say "if all those people gets fun because the the game in their head and i join them, i must get fun too". But that would could happen with board games (ok, chess audience is not the same as ping pong ones, nor tennis ones, nor football ones, nor soccer ones, to put it in orders of magnitude, but stilll... is all in your head).
But to put another example of all in your head where are very few players with not a lot of visuals nor special effects, that could get a good community behind, fanbase, meetings and so on, even see some famous person playing them, check books.
If well good part of the richness of a language is because there were isolated regions with no fluid communication with the others speaking the same language in the past, internet pushing a common culture is adopting a lot of words and concepts from other languages into any language by now.
If that process could be controlled or directed (i.e. mass media, main internet sites, etc) could be used to push concepts and word meanings useful to improve a culture, like with this example. Not sure if we could do intelligent design over an existing language, but at least we could direct its evolution with a goal.
... is that there are so many of them. Is not just that "there are an app for them", that app, or standard, or whatever, should be everywhere to really remove the need of bussiness cards, in every phone, even dumb ones. Everyone can pick a paper, and while not everyone have that app (or an alternative one that just send your an URL, like for your linkedin profile) they business cards could remain.
The government think that violating other persons privacy (us citizens or not) is right and noone seem to object that. Seems that they are doing a good work teaching the new society rules.
Changed like in previous election? Jumping from the frying pan to the fire? The bad trends on Bush administration continued and improved under Obama, from the other party. Checked how similar are the backers of both parties candidates? You are electing the same boss, just with a different public face.
And if well you can argue that Iran people could deserve the government they elected, what about the rest of the world regarding the government US elected? Because a lot of their latest laws are meant more for the rest of the world than for US (heck, the NDAA enables to kill or kidnap kidnap and send to guantanamo or similars those that put in danger "national security" with not even a trial, like the childrens tortured there for years, and the most that Obama did was a statement regarding rights of some us citizens). And a lot other of the other countries are straight pushes from US (i.e. Sinde law in Spain)
You are saying that Americans deserve to suffer? Because your government is doing definately evil things after all, in all fronts, and in a scale several orders above Iran.
At least now the slavery they are pushing aren't based specifically on skin color.
Even in child or xkcd style. After all they claim ownership even for whistled songs. It could even count for as difference in quality between a cd version and a low quality mp3.
Maybe even better, you get sued by hundreds of dollars for copying songs, and you just draw that amount of money (in big enough currency) as payment. If copies worth even more than original drawing an one dollar bill should be enough.
If you follow this link then you should be breaking the law... oh, and google and wikipedia too. In fact, considering how the law is lately being shaped, slashdot owners houses should be raided by swat teams soon for this very link.
If for you killing is specifically shooting in the heart with a 9mm and not all the other possible ways, yes, the enemies of internet could be just the ones that restrict net access. But restricting net access to the citizens of one of your own cities or even your own country looks less severe than restricting somewhat internet (and free expression, and a lot more) to all the world.
Don't know what does Iran, Belarus, or Bahrain to you if you do in your own country (provided that is not one of them) something that is illegail in them, but we know what US do.
The country that promoted SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, taken hostile control of the root dns, made raids overseas for Megaupload and others, have laws that force big companies like google/facebook/etc to give them their customers information and a "few" more is somewhat absent there. We need the Archenemy of the Internet list for it?
If the net profit in investing in a lot of projects where some are hit is positive, then they are winning. What if the clasical roulette paid 100 times the original bet, between 37-38 alternatives? what if paid 1000 times? You bet in all the alternatives and get for sure profits.
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Part of the problem of the copyright laws, specially if last very long, is that you can't do anything even barely similar for very long, at least without paying potentially high fees if enabled at all. Low term copyright laws if well not ensures, at least opens the door for innovation and evolution of works. How can be improved something that someone else did? How far you could reach?
And if well teachers were a problem too (both for the ones that didnt worked with computers, as for the ones did, as the interface is not the usual desktop) that , would not put the experience as something dissapointing, heck, in a good amount of cases were the children that showed their teachers how to use it. At least here Is evaluated as something very possitive, not just for the children, but also for their families. Is not perfect, but is making possitive changes that probably will be more visible in 5-10 years.
A culture is not a single nor a simple thing. Is a whole deal
For us killing is wrong, but of course, that depends on the country because in parts of US is right to kill what are considered criminals. Or that every clueless or potentially instable person should own a lethal weapon. And what about euthanasia? Or invade other countries and kill thousands just because some particular from other country killed some of your citizens? When is "right" to kill?
But there are more things. What about sex in general? For islam there are some extremes, but in western countries there are some extremes reached related with minors of 18 years (even if is 17 years and 11 months), or the scandals related to public men caught cheating their wifes.
What about companies that knowing the harm they cause push in every media consuming tobacco, or whisky? What about the culture of everyone should have a car? What about democracy, or at least how it really is despite how people want to see it? Honestly, i prefer a country with unfair for me laws with citizens that accept it, than a country that push their own unfair laws to other countries.
Is easy to assume that your own culture is right just because it should be, and judge others from outside.
Money, what else? With great power comes great greed.
Is a bit different what egyptians want for Egypt that what americans want for Egypt. At least egyptians put their laws in their own country.
They should link to that product the ideas behind SixthSense, at least for display, gestures as user interfaces, and what kind of information you can pick and expand from environment.
Why does the leadership of the US and UK keep changing, then?
Same bosses with different public faces. How much things changed from Bush with Obama, someone different from a different party? The trends just got bigger and worser.
is launching to space from earth/moon surface. Traveling once there, and landing (at least in earth) could be relatively inexpensive. But once the space elevator, space fountain or other approaches are built and gives us relatively cheap ways to reach space, this kind of approachs could make a difference.
Is somewhat a need, a lot of people could be already creating alternate profiles to not "pollute" their main ones.
The main problem i have with it is... well, a lot are already doing it (manually, without any ties to their main profile), so doesnt it count as prior art? Even slashdot's anonymous coward (and posting at it even if logged) could count as that. Well, that, and that you even having one of such ghost profiles, you are more easily traceable that having an alternate fake account.
"When"? As in "in some future"? Other countries may restrict what their citizens do in internet, when they are their are there. U.S. is actually restricting, censoring, and inspecting what everyone, no matter where, no matter citizen of which country is, does in internet. And no, is not funny.
Could end being the official anthem for that country, If i remember right that movie (First Olympics? ok, was a movie, not sure how much real was it) would not be so different to the way that was picked the "official" US Anthem for the olympics,
Surely will convince public opinion that the new measures of surveillance on all internet connections have a good reason and they should give up on privacy forever.
Its still all in your head, even for physical sports. Oh, you can say "if all those people gets fun because the the game in their head and i join them, i must get fun too". But that would could happen with board games (ok, chess audience is not the same as ping pong ones, nor tennis ones, nor football ones, nor soccer ones, to put it in orders of magnitude, but stilll... is all in your head).
But to put another example of all in your head where are very few players with not a lot of visuals nor special effects, that could get a good community behind, fanbase, meetings and so on, even see some famous person playing them, check books.
If well good part of the richness of a language is because there were isolated regions with no fluid communication with the others speaking the same language in the past, internet pushing a common culture is adopting a lot of words and concepts from other languages into any language by now. If that process could be controlled or directed (i.e. mass media, main internet sites, etc) could be used to push concepts and word meanings useful to improve a culture, like with this example. Not sure if we could do intelligent design over an existing language, but at least we could direct its evolution with a goal.
... is that there are so many of them. Is not just that "there are an app for them", that app, or standard, or whatever, should be everywhere to really remove the need of bussiness cards, in every phone, even dumb ones. Everyone can pick a paper, and while not everyone have that app (or an alternative one that just send your an URL, like for your linkedin profile) they business cards could remain.
The government think that violating other persons privacy (us citizens or not) is right and noone seem to object that. Seems that they are doing a good work teaching the new society rules.
Changed like in previous election? Jumping from the frying pan to the fire? The bad trends on Bush administration continued and improved under Obama, from the other party. Checked how similar are the backers of both parties candidates? You are electing the same boss, just with a different public face.
And if well you can argue that Iran people could deserve the government they elected, what about the rest of the world regarding the government US elected? Because a lot of their latest laws are meant more for the rest of the world than for US (heck, the NDAA enables to kill or kidnap kidnap and send to guantanamo or similars those that put in danger "national security" with not even a trial, like the childrens tortured there for years, and the most that Obama did was a statement regarding rights of some us citizens). And a lot other of the other countries are straight pushes from US (i.e. Sinde law in Spain)
You are saying that Americans deserve to suffer? Because your government is doing definately evil things after all, in all fronts, and in a scale several orders above Iran.
At least now the slavery they are pushing aren't based specifically on skin color.
See? Slavers have rights too! Why don't you care about them?
Even in child or xkcd style. After all they claim ownership even for whistled songs. It could even count for as difference in quality between a cd version and a low quality mp3.
Maybe even better, you get sued by hundreds of dollars for copying songs, and you just draw that amount of money (in big enough currency) as payment. If copies worth even more than original drawing an one dollar bill should be enough.
If you follow this link then you should be breaking the law... oh, and google and wikipedia too. In fact, considering how the law is lately being shaped, slashdot owners houses should be raided by swat teams soon for this very link.
What happened with the classic "Its full of stars!"? A pyramid full of stars this year would have a lot more sense than a boxy monolith.
If for you killing is specifically shooting in the heart with a 9mm and not all the other possible ways, yes, the enemies of internet could be just the ones that restrict net access. But restricting net access to the citizens of one of your own cities or even your own country looks less severe than restricting somewhat internet (and free expression, and a lot more) to all the world.
Don't know what does Iran, Belarus, or Bahrain to you if you do in your own country (provided that is not one of them) something that is illegail in them, but we know what US do.
The country that promoted SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, taken hostile control of the root dns, made raids overseas for Megaupload and others, have laws that force big companies like google/facebook/etc to give them their customers information and a "few" more is somewhat absent there. We need the Archenemy of the Internet list for it?
If the net profit in investing in a lot of projects where some are hit is positive, then they are winning. What if the clasical roulette paid 100 times the original bet, between 37-38 alternatives? what if paid 1000 times? You bet in all the alternatives and get for sure profits.