Check with your school's international ed office to see what schools they have relationships with. Many years ago, as part of my college's study-abroad program, I spent a term at the University of Aberdeen, where I took classes in "Computing Science" that counted for my CS degree stateside. One of those classes was my first major exposure to C and Unix (I said this was a long time ago), and to this day I still pronounce "Kernighan" with a Scots accent, because that's how my prof said it. I shared a flat with a Glaswegian, a Highlander, a Londoner, a Mancunian, and an Aussie, and living as an expat was an invaluable experience for a shy Yankee computer geek.
I thought the Psion netBook was rather clearly aimed at the latter niche; didn't it come with Opera pre-installed? It wasn't as good at the job as the current crop of netbooks, but that was largely the state of the tech at the time.
If you can supress that knee-jerking reflex a moment, you might figure out that I was pointing out that the headline (which simply says "copyright") was misleading, and the statement in the summary that "Fox owns the copyright" is simply false. They don't. The judge didn't say they did. Neither did the Times.
Oh, and try not to make ASSumptions about the people's background or opinions based on such a quick, emotional reading; I happen to be a staunch defender of copyright. And I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that despite your ludicrous statement that "IP law is simpler than..." that you meant to say the opposite, which is certainly true.
You've missed the point. Fox has no copyright claim to the original work, and it has no copyright claim to the movie currently in production. This whole dispute is a contract dispute, not an ownership dispute. Everyone who knows anything about copyright law can confirm this.
The notion that Fox owns the copyright to Watchmen is utterly absurd (and presumably just incompetent reporting). The comics series was produced by Moore and Gibbons under contract with DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, and (rightly or wrongly) that company owns the copyright. Fox might hold an exclusive license to the movie rights to the material, but that's a very different question.
Psion used to be a wonderful company with innovative software and hardware engineering, and excellent customer service. Back when the Sharp Wizard and Casio BOSS were the (dismal) state of the art in pocketable computers, they leveraged their expertise in industrial data-collection devices to produce a vastly superior (but inadequately marketed) handheld computer called the Series3. The rock-solid software they developed was the basis for the Symbian OS that runs so many smartphones today. I was a very pleased user and promoter of the Series3 and its successor the Revo/Mako, which I nursed along for years after they stopped making them, since no other solution available (e.g. Palm, WinCE, RIM) was as powerful and easy to use. (I finally gave up and got an iPod Touch earlier this year.) And as a matter of fact, they did create one of the first "netbooks" as we know them today (a Symbian-based device which they called... the "netBook") well before Asus et al did.
But the netBook is no more... and the same can be said of the Psion I just described.
OK, but there are plenty of other examples. The Detroit Free Press and News just announced that they're canceling home delivery of the paper, except for Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. If you live in Detroit, the time-honored tradition of sitting down to breakfast every morning with the local paper is over. They're still going to update the web sites, so technically Detroit is not without a "daily", but this is an ominous sign.
Everyone's talking about how the advertising model isn't working, well what this says is that the subscriber model isn't working either. That doesn't leave many funding models to try... let's see... government subsidy, pledge drives and tip jars, billionaire sponsorship, bake sales, criminal enterprise, and "... ????... Profit!"
Being part-time is no safeguard against your employer making unfair demands on your time. I used to have a part-time job (their decision, not mine) doing tech support, but routinely found myself working 40-50 (sometimes 60) hours a week. After all, it was so much easier to give me more work (and more hours) than adding staff. They seemed to think that they were doing me a favor, but it also meant that my other priorities (i.e. my personal life and the freelance work that I did to make up for the lack of benefits) had to be neglected.
I had a previous tech support job that was genuinely part-time, and paid just enough (including pro-rated benefits) to survive while I went back to school. The problem there was that being part-time meant that I wasn't a "regular" employee who needed input on technology strategy, etc. Because I wasn't in the office every day, I often didn't hear about things. And when the budget got tight, instead of laying off one of the full-timers with less seniority, they laid off the part-timer, because that was "less disruptive".
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Your personal raceometer might only have four or five settings and "they all look alike" to you, but others' definitions of "race" can easily be more specific.
Yes, I read all kinds of comics (some superhero, a little manga, mostly graphic novels). But the vast majority of American comics (by unit volume) are about people in spandex punching each other... not really suitable for kids, but plenty juvenile. Since manga emerged as a publishing phenomenon in post-WWII Japan, it has never suffered from that problem (mostly because it never had to deal with the cultural McCarthyism the U.S. went through in the 1950s, during which "comics are for kids" was very nearly written into law).
Unlike the U.S., which pretty much relegated comics to a few juvenile genres (e.g. superheroes, kiddie comedy) back in the 1950s, Japanese manga is produced about just about any subject you can think of, for just about any demographic audience. There are manga for housewives, for businessmen, for little girls, for teenage boys, etc. There are manga about history, economics, cooking... so manga about stastistics isn't really that surprising.
The only thing that has to happen for those files to vanish is for someone at Amazon to say, "We're getting out of this business now." They don't have to actually go out of business themselves.
Only an idiot sells a computer/phone/pda without making some effort to erase their personal information from it. Even if they're not sure how, they know they should find someone to tell them. Even my retired non-techie parents know that if they get rid of their desktop computer they need to worry about information that could be use for identity theft or accessing bank accounts. Someone working for the government (or trying to be) should be acutely aware of the importance. I don't mean this to be partisan, but if this is the level of sense to be found in the McCain organization, I think we just dodged a bullet. Hiring people to be responsible for your smartphones who don't know you need to erase them is like picking a running mate who doesn't know there are 50 countries in Africa. (OK, so that was partisan.:) )
Give him one of your old computers, an internet connection, and a Gentoo boot disk. Let him figure it out from there.
Let's get realistic here. The kid doesn't read or even understand what the different keys on the keyboard are at this age. A conventional computer won't teach him that. Maybe you should set the bar within his reach for the next couple years. A toy computer that presents him with challenges that are appropriate for his cognitive level will be far more educational.
What aspect of the verb "to lie" do you find so confusing? It means "to speak untruthfully with the intention of deceiving". If you think - whether because you're an idiot, or gullible, or whatever reason - that you're telling the truth, then you're obviously not trying to deceive anyone.
For example, if you can't understand the difference between "wrong" and "lying", and because of that you say "Neocons are all liars," that doesn't make you a liar. It just makes you wrong.
A hoax requires the intent to present something one knows to be false. The folks promoting Intelligent Design believe it to be true. They're not lying... they're merely mistaken.
This is getting out of hand, to be sure. In some states it's possible to register to vote even if your grandfather wasn't registered! Clearly voter registration requirements have become overly lax since the 19th century.
Nonsense. Most consumers don't even know what DRM is, or if they do they don't care all that much. They already can't copy their DVDs (without some special software), and I don't see that harming the market acceptance of DVD players or DVD movies. Most consumers probably have no idea what DRM Blu-Ray uses.
Blu-Ray's problem is that it's a solution in search of a problem. VHS looked lousy (and progressively lossy) and was clunky to use; the DVD solved those problems by being a higher quality digital disk, so it was successful in the market. So... what's the consumer problem with DVDs that Blu-Ray is supposed to solve? "The resolution could be higher," just isn't that compelling a reason to upgrade.
I've occasionally thought that it'd be nice to have a second job as a parking lot attendant or something of that sort. Sure, you get interrupted a lot, but that's not much0 different from being on Help Desk duty and without the intellectual distraction. In between, you can write, blog, code, draw, chat*, surf*,/.*, whatever.
*requires internet access, of course
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Check with your school's international ed office to see what schools they have relationships with. Many years ago, as part of my college's study-abroad program, I spent a term at the University of Aberdeen, where I took classes in "Computing Science" that counted for my CS degree stateside. One of those classes was my first major exposure to C and Unix (I said this was a long time ago), and to this day I still pronounce "Kernighan" with a Scots accent, because that's how my prof said it. I shared a flat with a Glaswegian, a Highlander, a Londoner, a Mancunian, and an Aussie, and living as an expat was an invaluable experience for a shy Yankee computer geek.
I thought the Psion netBook was rather clearly aimed at the latter niche; didn't it come with Opera pre-installed? It wasn't as good at the job as the current crop of netbooks, but that was largely the state of the tech at the time.
If you can supress that knee-jerking reflex a moment, you might figure out that I was pointing out that the headline (which simply says "copyright") was misleading, and the statement in the summary that "Fox owns the copyright" is simply false. They don't. The judge didn't say they did. Neither did the Times.
Oh, and try not to make ASSumptions about the people's background or opinions based on such a quick, emotional reading; I happen to be a staunch defender of copyright. And I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that despite your ludicrous statement that "IP law is simpler than..." that you meant to say the opposite, which is certainly true.
You've missed the point. Fox has no copyright claim to the original work, and it has no copyright claim to the movie currently in production. This whole dispute is a contract dispute, not an ownership dispute. Everyone who knows anything about copyright law can confirm this.
The notion that Fox owns the copyright to Watchmen is utterly absurd (and presumably just incompetent reporting). The comics series was produced by Moore and Gibbons under contract with DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, and (rightly or wrongly) that company owns the copyright. Fox might hold an exclusive license to the movie rights to the material, but that's a very different question.
Psion used to be a wonderful company with innovative software and hardware engineering, and excellent customer service. Back when the Sharp Wizard and Casio BOSS were the (dismal) state of the art in pocketable computers, they leveraged their expertise in industrial data-collection devices to produce a vastly superior (but inadequately marketed) handheld computer called the Series3. The rock-solid software they developed was the basis for the Symbian OS that runs so many smartphones today. I was a very pleased user and promoter of the Series3 and its successor the Revo/Mako, which I nursed along for years after they stopped making them, since no other solution available (e.g. Palm, WinCE, RIM) was as powerful and easy to use. (I finally gave up and got an iPod Touch earlier this year.) And as a matter of fact, they did create one of the first "netbooks" as we know them today (a Symbian-based device which they called... the "netBook") well before Asus et al did.
But the netBook is no more... and the same can be said of the Psion I just described.
OK, but there are plenty of other examples. The Detroit Free Press and News just announced that they're canceling home delivery of the paper, except for Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. If you live in Detroit, the time-honored tradition of sitting down to breakfast every morning with the local paper is over. They're still going to update the web sites, so technically Detroit is not without a "daily", but this is an ominous sign.
... Profit!"
Everyone's talking about how the advertising model isn't working, well what this says is that the subscriber model isn't working either. That doesn't leave many funding models to try... let's see... government subsidy, pledge drives and tip jars, billionaire sponsorship, bake sales, criminal enterprise, and "... ????
Being part-time is no safeguard against your employer making unfair demands on your time. I used to have a part-time job (their decision, not mine) doing tech support, but routinely found myself working 40-50 (sometimes 60) hours a week. After all, it was so much easier to give me more work (and more hours) than adding staff. They seemed to think that they were doing me a favor, but it also meant that my other priorities (i.e. my personal life and the freelance work that I did to make up for the lack of benefits) had to be neglected.
I had a previous tech support job that was genuinely part-time, and paid just enough (including pro-rated benefits) to survive while I went back to school. The problem there was that being part-time meant that I wasn't a "regular" employee who needed input on technology strategy, etc. Because I wasn't in the office every day, I often didn't hear about things. And when the budget got tight, instead of laying off one of the full-timers with less seniority, they laid off the part-timer, because that was "less disruptive".
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Your personal raceometer might only have four or five settings and "they all look alike" to you, but others' definitions of "race" can easily be more specific.
Yes, I read all kinds of comics (some superhero, a little manga, mostly graphic novels). But the vast majority of American comics (by unit volume) are about people in spandex punching each other... not really suitable for kids, but plenty juvenile. Since manga emerged as a publishing phenomenon in post-WWII Japan, it has never suffered from that problem (mostly because it never had to deal with the cultural McCarthyism the U.S. went through in the 1950s, during which "comics are for kids" was very nearly written into law).
Unlike the U.S., which pretty much relegated comics to a few juvenile genres (e.g. superheroes, kiddie comedy) back in the 1950s, Japanese manga is produced about just about any subject you can think of, for just about any demographic audience. There are manga for housewives, for businessmen, for little girls, for teenage boys, etc. There are manga about history, economics, cooking... so manga about stastistics isn't really that surprising.
The only thing that has to happen for those files to vanish is for someone at Amazon to say, "We're getting out of this business now." They don't have to actually go out of business themselves.
Only an idiot sells a computer/phone/pda without making some effort to erase their personal information from it. Even if they're not sure how, they know they should find someone to tell them. Even my retired non-techie parents know that if they get rid of their desktop computer they need to worry about information that could be use for identity theft or accessing bank accounts. Someone working for the government (or trying to be) should be acutely aware of the importance. I don't mean this to be partisan, but if this is the level of sense to be found in the McCain organization, I think we just dodged a bullet. Hiring people to be responsible for your smartphones who don't know you need to erase them is like picking a running mate who doesn't know there are 50 countries in Africa. (OK, so that was partisan. :) )
Obviously that won't do any good. You need to create a RAM disk using virtual memory mapped to space on the USB drive.
Give him one of your old computers, an internet connection, and a Gentoo boot disk. Let him figure it out from there.
Let's get realistic here. The kid doesn't read or even understand what the different keys on the keyboard are at this age. A conventional computer won't teach him that. Maybe you should set the bar within his reach for the next couple years. A toy computer that presents him with challenges that are appropriate for his cognitive level will be far more educational.
ICANN has .cheezburger?
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
What aspect of the verb "to lie" do you find so confusing? It means "to speak untruthfully with the intention of deceiving". If you think - whether because you're an idiot, or gullible, or whatever reason - that you're telling the truth, then you're obviously not trying to deceive anyone.
For example, if you can't understand the difference between "wrong" and "lying", and because of that you say "Neocons are all liars," that doesn't make you a liar. It just makes you wrong.
A hoax requires the intent to present something one knows to be false. The folks promoting Intelligent Design believe it to be true. They're not lying... they're merely mistaken.
This is getting out of hand, to be sure. In some states it's possible to register to vote even if your grandfather wasn't registered! Clearly voter registration requirements have become overly lax since the 19th century.
Nonsense. Most consumers don't even know what DRM is, or if they do they don't care all that much. They already can't copy their DVDs (without some special software), and I don't see that harming the market acceptance of DVD players or DVD movies. Most consumers probably have no idea what DRM Blu-Ray uses.
Blu-Ray's problem is that it's a solution in search of a problem. VHS looked lousy (and progressively lossy) and was clunky to use; the DVD solved those problems by being a higher quality digital disk, so it was successful in the market. So... what's the consumer problem with DVDs that Blu-Ray is supposed to solve? "The resolution could be higher," just isn't that compelling a reason to upgrade.
Um... is this your first, by any chance? :)
I've occasionally thought that it'd be nice to have a second job as a parking lot attendant or something of that sort. Sure, you get interrupted a lot, but that's not much0 different from being on Help Desk duty and without the intellectual distraction. In between, you can write, blog, code, draw, chat*, surf*, /.*, whatever.
*requires internet access, of course
"Flamebait"? This "humor" must be a difficult concept for some of y'all.
If they're not more careful, we might find someday intelligent artificial life out there... and kill it.