If your goal is money, go after those with the deepest pockets. If your goal is intimidation, go after those with the least ability to defend themselves.
No it wasn't. Reread: "In the USA, life + 70 literally means that, at best, anything created in your lifetime will not become public domain until you are 70." In other words if Lady Gaga released a new CD today, and a baby was born today, and Gaga died in a horrible accident later tonight, her CD would not become public domain until the baby was a 70-year-old man. That's best case.
True -- I was focusing on the "anything created in your lifetime" part of the statement, and missed what was intended by "at best". Oh well...
Er - life + 70 means *exactly* that. You will NOT live to see the copyright expire, no matter how long you live. Assuming that a child of yours is born the day you die, *he* will see the copyright expire when he hits the age of 70.
The original poster's statement was incorrect, but so is this. Life + 70 means the creator's life + 70 years, not mine. I could very easily live to see the copyright expire on works created in my lifetime, assuming that they were created when I was very young and that their creators died shortly thereafter. All I have to do is live seventy years beyond the age I was when they died, and pray that Congress doesn't extend it further...actually, you're right, I'll never see it happen.
The firm said the recent company-wide reorganization and a focus on creating new IP and nurturing of current IP will help make money for investors in the future.
Um, dude -- your customers buy games, not IP. You may think of your games as IP, generic cash cows that you can slap a fresh coat of paint on and get people to shell out another $50 for each year, but lose sight of that fact that your products are games at your own peril.
Perhaps, but the statement that every positive integer can be written as a unique product of prime numbers is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic -- so I'd still consider it worth knowing.;-)
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Well, considering that all positive integers > 1 are either prime themselves (e.g., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11...), or if not, can be expressed as the product of various primes (e.g., 4 = 2 * 2, 6 = 2 * 3, 8 = 2 * 2 * 2, 9 = 3 * 3, 10 = 2 * 5...), you could say that prime numbers are the building blocks of all integers, which is kind of cool...
Flash back to 2000 -- if it wasn't for the Electoral College, if every vote was counted directly for one candidate, an election that close would have meant a nationwide recount. Considering the trouble they had just figuring out the vote in Florida, can you imagine the chaos that would have ensued?
The electoral college system ensures that votes from states with a clear victor need not be recounted in the case of a close election. They can be, if needed, but it's only a requirement if a state's vote is in question. I'd say that by itself is a good enough reason to keep it.
Oh, right! Silly me, I thought they'd have to fall back on the old "Well, this county is mostly registered as <insert party here>; surely this voter meant to pick <insert that party's candidate here> rather than <insert some other candidate here> trick" like they did back in 2000...;-)
Oh, right! Silly me, I thought they'd have to fall back on the old "Well, this county is mostly registered as ; surely this voter meant to pick rather than trick" like they did back in 2000...;-)
Of course, but how are the people counting the ballots going to know that? A ballot on which no candidate has been selected, or on which multiple candidates have been selected, is immediately recognizable and can be tossed out as invalid. However, only the voter knows who he or she intended to vote for -- the counters can determine if a ballot is marked validly, but they cannot determine if it has been marked correctly.
If they deposit the ballot and it is marked incorrectly, either for the wrong candidate or marked such that it is unclear, then that ballot is voided and is not counted.
What constitutes a ballot marked for the wrong candidate?
I find the threads that have developed both amusing and alarming. It seems to me that half the problems in the US are attributable to the way that EVERYTHING has to be divided on bi-polar lines.
This is only indirectly tech-related, but in real-world terms it's probably worse than the time I did an rm -rf * in / on my FreeBSD machine at home...everybody has done, or will do that at some point in their lives, and the sick fun of exploring just how much of the system still worked after realizing my mistake some 30 seconds later just about offset the annoyance of having to reinstall the OS.
Anyways: back in my post-college, pre-moving-to-Portland days, I worked at Radio Shack, and had unofficial but responsible assistant manager status after a year or so. Among other things, closing duties included putting a long-play videotape in the VCR attached to the store security cameras. No big deal, it was right by the PC in the back office where you closed everything out, impossible to forget and nothing every happened anyway. Until, of course, the night I forgot to do it, which also happened to be the night I got a call from security around 1 AM, to let me know the alarms had been triggered and I'd have to go down to meet the police and see what had happened. About a $1000 loss in stolen display merchandise, and no evidence. Oops...
I run Debian on a similar machine (Latitude CP: P233MMX, 128M RAM, 4G HD) and I've been happy with it. Only three floppies needed for the installation (rescue/boot, root, and drivers), and the rest can be pulled in over the network.
The only two problems I ran into were the network configuration not working during the installation (no big deal, after it failed I just switched to a second virtual terminal and manually ran ifconfig and route) and X giving me a blank screen after installation (also no big deal; a Google search turned up two options that had to be added to/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to get the Neomagic driver to work properly).
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If your goal is money, go after those with the deepest pockets. If your goal is intimidation, go after those with the least ability to defend themselves.
As the saying goes, "...and nothing of value was lost."
True -- I was focusing on the "anything created in your lifetime" part of the statement, and missed what was intended by "at best". Oh well...
The original poster's statement was incorrect, but so is this. Life + 70 means the creator's life + 70 years, not mine. I could very easily live to see the copyright expire on works created in my lifetime, assuming that they were created when I was very young and that their creators died shortly thereafter. All I have to do is live seventy years beyond the age I was when they died, and pray that Congress doesn't extend it further...actually, you're right, I'll never see it happen.
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Apparently no bill is too stupid if it's for the sake of the children...
...a code doesn't have to be unbreakable forever; it just has to be unbreakable for long enough.
In other breaking news, water is wet.
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Ah, of course. I just read it the other way, and that was what stuck in my head; now that I know what was intended, it makes perfect sense. :-)
ITYM they've overestimated their influence -- it's no longer the dot.com era when they and Sun ruled the world.
USPTO delenda est.
Perhaps, but the statement that every positive integer can be written as a unique product of prime numbers is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic -- so I'd still consider it worth knowing. ;-)
Well, considering that all positive integers > 1 are either prime themselves (e.g., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11...), or if not, can be expressed as the product of various primes (e.g., 4 = 2 * 2, 6 = 2 * 3, 8 = 2 * 2 * 2, 9 = 3 * 3, 10 = 2 * 5...), you could say that prime numbers are the building blocks of all integers, which is kind of cool...
EVER!!!
The electoral college system ensures that votes from states with a clear victor need not be recounted in the case of a close election. They can be, if needed, but it's only a requirement if a state's vote is in question. I'd say that by itself is a good enough reason to keep it.
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Oh, right! Silly me, I thought they'd have to fall back on the old "Well, this county is mostly registered as <insert party here>; surely this voter meant to pick <insert that party's candidate here> rather than <insert some other candidate here> trick" like they did back in 2000...
Oh, right! Silly me, I thought they'd have to fall back on the old "Well, this county is mostly registered as ; surely this voter meant to pick rather than trick" like they did back in 2000... ;-)
Of course, but how are the people counting the ballots going to know that? A ballot on which no candidate has been selected, or on which multiple candidates have been selected, is immediately recognizable and can be tossed out as invalid. However, only the voter knows who he or she intended to vote for -- the counters can determine if a ballot is marked validly, but they cannot determine if it has been marked correctly.
No, it's the person who commits a crime knowing he already has two strikes against him that's retarded.
Exactly half the problems?
Anyways: back in my post-college, pre-moving-to-Portland days, I worked at Radio Shack, and had unofficial but responsible assistant manager status after a year or so. Among other things, closing duties included putting a long-play videotape in the VCR attached to the store security cameras. No big deal, it was right by the PC in the back office where you closed everything out, impossible to forget and nothing every happened anyway. Until, of course, the night I forgot to do it, which also happened to be the night I got a call from security around 1 AM, to let me know the alarms had been triggered and I'd have to go down to meet the police and see what had happened. About a $1000 loss in stolen display merchandise, and no evidence. Oops...
The only two problems I ran into were the network configuration not working during the installation (no big deal, after it failed I just switched to a second virtual terminal and manually ran ifconfig and route) and X giving me a blank screen after installation (also no big deal; a Google search turned up two options that had to be added to