The copyright clock starts ticking down from the the initial publication date. This work has never yet been published, therefore the clock has not yet started ticking.
First of all, the law isn't made in heaven. It's an ugly, ugly process (remember the Bismark quote about those who love sauseges and the law should not watch how either is made?), which typically today involves monied interets getting an unfair advantage.
Second, copyright law was never meant to apply to the individual. It was aimed squarely at buisnesses to prevent them from making a profit by blatantly copying someone else's work and selling it themselves. The founding fathers never intended for the RIAA police to be breaking down grandma's door to see if she owns all of her MP3s (ok, so that hasn't happened... yet)
Third of all, the law *isn't* precise. In fact, every single decision made by a judge that isn't on-point means the law needs clarification.
Thunderbird, Firebird, Phoenix - the common naming scheme might sound cool, but it gets confusing really quick and I think the dev team would do well pick more differentiable names.
Lindon, Utah has now been designated as a Class 1 nuclear whipping boy. At the outside of nuclear war, the United States and all of our allies will use Lindow as a testing area to calibrate all of our nukes.
You are correct in stating that we lack the energy to test string theory -- According to Hawking, one estimate of the (theoritcal) grand unification energy would be a thousand million million million GeV. Further, he goes on to say that it would take something the size of a solar system to produce this. So you're right, we can't do it.
BUT, there could very well be places that do have this necessary energy and could be observed to exhibit traits that we can measure and confirm theories with. This has been how most of the more recent unification theories have been confirmed -- either by measuring very small things with very fine equipment or measuring very large things in space.
Also has a major downfall -- it prevents people from contacting you for the first time. So yes, it blocks all spam - but also all legit traffic from people you've never heard from before.
Can someone recommend a graphical IDE for *nix? A prof of mine demonstrated DDD and I would have killed for it (compared to the horrible, horrible time I had in my data structs class doing it 100% from the command line), but getting it to work well is another matter entirely.
The FTC brought an antitrust complaint against a company (can't remember which one at the moment) in the 70's (I think). In that case, the target company had around 65% of the market, and it was ruled that that was insuffecient to be a monopoly. In this case, I don't think AOL has anywhere near 65%. 30 million customers (what AOL claims to have, but they were recently accused of inflating that) is small compared to the number of ISP subscribers; laughably so to be called a monopoly
I do believe that for 2001, the book is based on the movie (IE, the movie predates the book). Because so many people came away not know what happened, Arthur C Clarke wrote the book to clarify the movie.
1972's The Man is all about a black man (James Earl Jones) who becomes president (from Pro tempore of the senate) when the President and Vice both die. That's the earliest I know of. (Birth of a Nation the earliest, perhaps?)
I'm sorry, but my take on 2001 is totally different. It took 5 tries to watch that movie all the way through (3 of them I fell asleep during any one of the numerous 20 minutes acid-trip induced classical music scenes) The script would fit comfortably on a 3x5 notecard, and in the end, you have no idea what you have just watched. It seems to me that the movie is vastly overrrated.
I suggest removing the heat sink from your athlon and replacing it with a small plastic bag. In one step, you increase the amount of smokey goodness and help to keep it all contained.
I know you're joking, but that's exactly what I'm getting at. They are not using these things to track license-able merchandise (And to anyone who would argue that there is no such thing - I hope someone beats you). So, to me, this is not an intellectual property issue.
The proposed EU Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive (see FIPR analysis) would specifically forbid Europeans from removing or deactivating Radio Frequency (RFID) tags embedded in clothing and other consumer devices!
Can someone explain to me what the hell RFID tags have to do with intellectual property? They're a way of tracking packages, short and simple -- nothing at all to do with copyrights, patents, trade secrets, or any other sort of intellectual property.
When they did the proof of the 4 color theorem, one mathematician said (IIRC) that a proof should be elegant and small, and that a brute force proof is like a phone book.
Xbox is basically a gussied-up PC, complete with x86 processor. That's one of it's big hooks for developers, that it's almost trivial to develop for it compared to a PC.
Contrast that with the other two systems. Totally proprietary. I hear PS2 is a "nightmare" to develop for. I doubt the cube is cake either. Getting linux to run on these would be, at best, a long and expensive process. Touche - why should they spend money to develop that when maybe.0001% of users would run linux? Cost-benefit analysis would seem to suggest it best for them to not do it.
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Just one more answer I'd like to add to your questions (because so many have been submitted). The natural elements stop occuring after atomic number 92, yes. But it's also worth point out that for all intents and purposes, technetium (element #43) does not exist in nature either.
After decades of searching, extremely small quantites were obtained from pitchblend, but that's negligible.
Long story short (long answer being availabe from google cache here) is that pairing energy makes the atom extremely unstable and causes it to break -a(C)Y quickly.
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The copyright clock starts ticking down from the the initial publication date. This work has never yet been published, therefore the clock has not yet started ticking.
First of all, the law isn't made in heaven. It's an ugly, ugly process (remember the Bismark quote about those who love sauseges and the law should not watch how either is made?), which typically today involves monied interets getting an unfair advantage.
Second, copyright law was never meant to apply to the individual. It was aimed squarely at buisnesses to prevent them from making a profit by blatantly copying someone else's work and selling it themselves. The founding fathers never intended for the RIAA police to be breaking down grandma's door to see if she owns all of her MP3s (ok, so that hasn't happened... yet)
Third of all, the law *isn't* precise. In fact, every single decision made by a judge that isn't on-point means the law needs clarification.
PS: I think my sig says it all
Thunderbird, Firebird, Phoenix - the common naming scheme might sound cool, but it gets confusing really quick and I think the dev team would do well pick more differentiable names.
Lindon, Utah has now been designated as a Class 1 nuclear whipping boy. At the outside of nuclear war, the United States and all of our allies will use Lindow as a testing area to calibrate all of our nukes.
Like in that scence in Meet the Feebles?
You are correct in stating that we lack the energy to test string theory -- According to Hawking, one estimate of the (theoritcal) grand unification energy would be a thousand million million million GeV. Further, he goes on to say that it would take something the size of a solar system to produce this. So you're right, we can't do it.
BUT, there could very well be places that do have this necessary energy and could be observed to exhibit traits that we can measure and confirm theories with. This has been how most of the more recent unification theories have been confirmed -- either by measuring very small things with very fine equipment or measuring very large things in space.
Yeah...'cause "conversations with dead people" was chuck full of science-fiction
In that case, I hearby nominate Jonathan Edwards for the 2004 Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award
Somehow I don't think posting a link to a shoutcast-stream on slashdot is the smartest thing to do...
Don't worry, it doesn't have long to live
Also has a major downfall -- it prevents people from contacting you for the first time. So yes, it blocks all spam - but also all legit traffic from people you've never heard from before.
I don't know if the BBC is in the same class of evil that the MPAA is
Then you obviously have never seen Doctor Who
(*ducks*)
Can someone recommend a graphical IDE for *nix? A prof of mine demonstrated DDD and I would have killed for it (compared to the horrible, horrible time I had in my data structs class doing it 100% from the command line), but getting it to work well is another matter entirely.
The FTC brought an antitrust complaint against a company (can't remember which one at the moment) in the 70's (I think). In that case, the target company had around 65% of the market, and it was ruled that that was insuffecient to be a monopoly. In this case, I don't think AOL has anywhere near 65%. 30 million customers (what AOL claims to have, but they were recently accused of inflating that) is small compared to the number of ISP subscribers; laughably so to be called a monopoly
I would if I had any mod points :-(
I do believe that for 2001, the book is based on the movie (IE, the movie predates the book). Because so many people came away not know what happened, Arthur C Clarke wrote the book to clarify the movie.
1972's The Man is all about a black man (James Earl Jones) who becomes president (from Pro tempore of the senate) when the President and Vice both die. That's the earliest I know of. (Birth of a Nation the earliest, perhaps?)
I'm sorry, but my take on 2001 is totally different. It took 5 tries to watch that movie all the way through (3 of them I fell asleep during any one of the numerous 20 minutes acid-trip induced classical music scenes) The script would fit comfortably on a 3x5 notecard, and in the end, you have no idea what you have just watched. It seems to me that the movie is vastly overrrated.
I suggest removing the heat sink from your athlon and replacing it with a small plastic bag. In one step, you increase the amount of smokey goodness and help to keep it all contained.
I know you're joking, but that's exactly what I'm getting at. They are not using these things to track license-able merchandise (And to anyone who would argue that there is no such thing - I hope someone beats you). So, to me, this is not an intellectual property issue.
The proposed EU Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive (see FIPR analysis) would specifically forbid Europeans from removing or deactivating Radio Frequency (RFID) tags embedded in clothing and other consumer devices!
Can someone explain to me what the hell RFID tags have to do with intellectual property? They're a way of tracking packages, short and simple -- nothing at all to do with copyrights, patents, trade secrets, or any other sort of intellectual property.
When they did the proof of the 4 color theorem, one mathematician said (IIRC) that a proof should be elegant and small, and that a brute force proof is like a phone book.
Xbox is basically a gussied-up PC, complete with x86 processor. That's one of it's big hooks for developers, that it's almost trivial to develop for it compared to a PC.
.0001% of users would run linux? Cost-benefit analysis would seem to suggest it best for them to not do it.
Contrast that with the other two systems. Totally proprietary. I hear PS2 is a "nightmare" to develop for. I doubt the cube is cake either. Getting linux to run on these would be, at best, a long and expensive process. Touche - why should they spend money to develop that when maybe
Damn near caused an uproar too
Just one more answer I'd like to add to your questions (because so many have been submitted). The natural elements stop occuring after atomic number 92, yes. But it's also worth point out that for all intents and purposes, technetium (element #43) does not exist in nature either.
After decades of searching, extremely small quantites were obtained from pitchblend, but that's negligible.
Long story short (long answer being availabe from google cache here) is that pairing energy makes the atom extremely unstable and causes it to break -a(C)Y quickly.
4. Sue Tim Berners-Lee for creating a copyright-circumvention tool
I can almost see someone trying #4. But I just can't think of anyone who would sue people for creating circumvention devices?
And SCO is paying how much per hour for this legal mastery?