Even if there is a canadian crown copyright no US judge would enforce such such a copyright if the use was exempted under US law(such as satire or political criticism.)
Imagine the ability to make a tank look like a heavy truck at a distance(say to a drone), or a rocket launcher to look like a stack of pipes on satellite photos.
If you ever wonder why old-school bosses are needed in this world. You know the guys in the shirt and tie that expect people to show up to work on time and produce results, this is why.
It didnt even have to be a computer pro, just a competent manager their dad's age to say.
"Boys and girls you have some nice looking stuff here, now lets put it all together and make a videogame"
It sounds like you have a lot of talented people working without a sense of guidance or direction.
Even a $50 nvidia 512mb 9400GS graphics card will give computer users a massive boost over motherboard integrated graphics. Sure call of duty at high res wont be great, but World of warcraft at high res will run decently as will blu-ray and neither will run decently on integrated motherboards.
The US constitution had a similar copyright law from 1789 to 1909, 14 years + 14 year extension if requested, and you had to file for the copyright and the extension no reward for laziness.
The purpose of copyright is to encourage creative arts not to make heirs and corporations wealthy.
"The Alpha 300 is a $99 net-top PC that is half the size of the 680 and meant to be connected to a television set. It also runs a MIPS processor, a low-cost, low-power chip similar to ARM. Wu envisions the Alpha 300 being used at home by users who would control the 300 with a TV remote control and use it to surf the Web during commercial breaks. "
Now if you included an option for a wireless keyboard you might have something.
cbhacking, If your going to mock someone please properly read what they are saying.
Of course Win 9x didnt have a secure mode, Win XP professional had a more secure mode where it could be locked down at the registry level to prevent users modifying folders.
Many win 9x programs cant be run in XP because of that, now if Win 7 created a Win 9x sandbox mode(including dos and hardware emulation) that would be a crucial and desirable feature for K-12 education.
Education users would KILL for a Win9X VM in windows 7. A lot of educational applications had to be "retired" because XP wouldnt run them in a secure mode. Educators use good programs until they dont run anymore a lot of programs from 10-15 years ago children in K-2 classrooms still enjoy but wont run on XP.
Acrobat Reader and flash have both been made in multiple OS'es and multiple cpu architectures. They are even actively developing an ARM version of flash for cheapie netbooks.
Microsofts cross platform committment has been spotty at best and a joke at worst.
Whats microsoft gonna do when $99 arm netbooks come out?
People say race for the bottom like its a terrible thing... im quite happy with my $19 dvd player thank you very much. Make it cheap, easy to use and good enough.
1) bargaining chip 2) hard currency... some pragmatic nk general may actually be trying to create a way to make NK economically self-sufficient with space launches
1) A strip-search of a 13 year old by legal authorities is not illegal in of itself,,,its not a sex crime. 2) The supreme court has said that the gravity of the accused offense affects whether a search is proper 3) If the child was suspected of carrying a gun or other weapon, a seach could be in order. In this case however it was not a weapon not even an illegal drug but a non-narcotic prescription drug and the only evidence was the accusation of another student. 4) What amazes me is that the assistant principal didnt bother to attempt to call the parents first. A strip-search of a 13 year old is not an every day event.
The supreme court needs to draw some clear lines here.
with no intelligent life within 100 light years of earth
1) FTL travel would have a purpose not just a science fiction wank-off 2) People with lots of money can tell the collected governments of the world to go take a flying leap, that alone would be worth billions to right people 3) maybe all those people saying "we need a homeland" well there you go.
Elementary school kids can use 32mb flash drives, kids at the school I work at use them for saving their projects(scratch, powerpoint, screen captures) they do in technology class. While stores want to sell bigger and bigger flash drives for the same price, while schools would rather have small ultra cheap flash drives.
btw: Schools want a $1 flash drive that is a floppy disk replacement not a fashion accessory. At $1 every kid can have one.
If the government can make the legal case that unlawful pre-release of material causes harm, why cant the opposite argument be made?
1) The commercial value arguement- The amount of time something has been released should be directly related to the amount of damages one can claim, If a pre-release violation creates more damages then a violation of an old copyright should create less damages
2) The abandonware argument- copyrighted material that has gone out of publication cannot be litigated for damages because it has ceased to have commercial value.
1) customers do not owe businesses "support", If a business treats their customers with courtesy, good service, and respect for their intelligence they will earn customer loyalty even in bad times.
2) Customers tend to get outraged when they hear about 40% off sales and then go in and see that the 40% off item was marked higher than it had been the week before the sale started. Its not a matter of "didnt get the discount they wanted" its a matter of being suckered into a store and having their time wasted.
3) Their customers didnt kill their store, their bosses did. They shouldnt blame their customers for simply looking for an honest bargain.
Hulu is providing its content legally and for free to windows, mac and linux owners. If you want use torrent to get your content...be my guest. Hulu is saying we will let you watch whatever you want for free as long as you do it through our website. IMHO Its a reasonable request. If your media device doesnt have a web browser(many do) thats a problem with your device.
Boxee is a company that wants in the long run to make money off its set top boxes and to use hulu content free of charge to do so. They use it with a cloak of open source
All modern hdtvs made in the last 3 years have HDMI or DVI ports. Apple TV has an hdmi port.
The flaw is not in Hulu which works with any opensource web browser on windows, mac or linux, its in Apple TV, a closed source box with crippled functionality. That boxee software is opensource doesnt mean it can help itself to hulu's content.
Just because I am not an apple fanboy doesnt make me a troll and doesnt make me wrong either.
They block boxee. So what? If your too lazy to navigate to hulu.com which works fine with linux and mac via firefox, maybe its a bad tactical decision but it doesnt stop you from watching hulu. Its still free and its still available...over the internet!
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Even if there is a canadian crown copyright no US judge would enforce such such a copyright if the use was exempted under US law(such as satire or political criticism.)
Imagine the ability to make a tank look like a heavy truck at a distance(say to a drone), or a rocket launcher to look like a stack of pipes on satellite photos.
If you ever wonder why old-school bosses are needed in this world. You know the guys in the shirt and tie that expect people to show up to work on time and produce results, this is why.
It didnt even have to be a computer pro, just a competent manager their dad's age to say.
"Boys and girls you have some nice looking stuff here, now lets put it all together and make a videogame"
It sounds like you have a lot of talented people working without a sense of guidance or direction.
Because the software is not purchased there is no contract. "permission to use" is not the same as a sale.
Its better to think about whats possible than to constantly tell people whats not possible.
Even a $50 nvidia 512mb 9400GS graphics card will give computer users a massive boost over motherboard integrated graphics. Sure call of duty at high res wont be great, but World of warcraft at high res will run decently as will blu-ray and neither will run decently on integrated motherboards.
14 years.
The US constitution had a similar copyright law from 1789 to 1909, 14 years + 14 year extension if requested, and you had to file for the copyright and the extension no reward for laziness.
The purpose of copyright is to encourage creative arts not to make heirs and corporations wealthy.
"The Alpha 300 is a $99 net-top PC that is half the size of the 680 and meant to be connected to a television set. It also runs a MIPS processor, a low-cost, low-power chip similar to ARM. Wu envisions the Alpha 300 being used at home by users who would control the 300 with a TV remote control and use it to surf the Web during commercial breaks. "
Now if you included an option for a wireless keyboard you might have something.
cbhacking, If your going to mock someone please properly read what they are saying.
Of course Win 9x didnt have a secure mode, Win XP professional had a more secure mode where it could be locked down at the registry level to prevent users modifying folders.
Many win 9x programs cant be run in XP because of that, now if Win 7 created a Win 9x sandbox mode(including dos and hardware emulation) that would be a crucial and desirable feature for K-12 education.
Education users would KILL for a Win9X VM in
windows 7. A lot of educational applications had to be "retired" because XP wouldnt run them in a secure mode. Educators use good programs until they dont run anymore a lot of programs from 10-15 years ago children in K-2 classrooms still enjoy but wont run on XP.
Not encryption or top secret stuff.
Any of the major linux distros should work fine., unicode tibetan is supported.
A mod point, a mod point..a 2 year old cheddar for a mod point!
It sounds weird but how do you think dos/windows got into homes? Its because its what the kids were using in schools.
Adobe supports cross-platform products
Acrobat Reader and flash have both been made in multiple OS'es and multiple cpu architectures. They are even actively developing an ARM version of flash for cheapie netbooks.
Microsofts cross platform committment has been spotty at best and a joke at worst.
Whats microsoft gonna do when $99 arm netbooks come out?
People say race for the bottom like its a terrible thing... im quite happy with my $19 dvd player thank you very much. Make it cheap, easy to use and good enough.
1) bargaining chip
2) hard currency... some pragmatic nk general may actually be trying to create a way to make NK economically self-sufficient with space launches
3) political prestige inside NK
Texas- George W. Bush
Alaska- Sarah Palin
1) A strip-search of a 13 year old by legal authorities is not illegal in of itself,,,its not a sex crime.
2) The supreme court has said that the gravity of the accused offense affects whether a search is proper
3) If the child was suspected of carrying a gun or other weapon, a seach could be in order. In this case however it was not a weapon not even an illegal drug but a non-narcotic prescription drug and the only evidence was the accusation of another student.
4) What amazes me is that the assistant principal didnt bother to attempt to call the parents first. A strip-search of a 13 year old is not an every day event.
The supreme court needs to draw some clear lines here.
with no intelligent life within 100 light years of earth
1) FTL travel would have a purpose not just a science fiction wank-off
2) People with lots of money can tell the collected governments of the world to go take a flying leap, that alone would be worth billions to right people
3) maybe all those people saying "we need a homeland" well there you go.
Elementary school kids can use 32mb flash drives, kids at the school I work at use them for saving their projects(scratch, powerpoint, screen captures) they do in technology class. While stores want to sell bigger and bigger flash drives for the same price, while schools would rather have small ultra cheap flash drives.
btw: Schools want a $1 flash drive that is a floppy disk replacement not a fashion accessory. At $1 every kid can have one.
If the government can make the legal case that unlawful pre-release of material causes harm, why cant the opposite argument be made?
1) The commercial value arguement- The amount of time something has been released should be directly related to the amount of damages one can claim, If a pre-release violation creates more damages then a violation of an old copyright should create less damages
2) The abandonware argument- copyrighted material that has gone out of publication cannot be litigated for damages because it has ceased to have commercial value.
1) customers do not owe businesses "support", If a business treats their customers with courtesy, good service, and respect for their intelligence they will earn customer loyalty even in bad times.
2) Customers tend to get outraged when they hear about 40% off sales and then go in and see that the 40% off item was marked higher than it had been the week before the sale started. Its not a matter of "didnt get the discount they wanted" its a matter of being suckered into a store and having their time wasted.
3) Their customers didnt kill their store, their bosses did. They shouldnt blame their customers for simply looking for an honest bargain.
Hulu is providing its content legally and for free to windows, mac and linux owners. If you want use torrent to get your content...be my guest. Hulu is saying we will let you watch whatever you want for free as long as you do it through our website. IMHO Its a reasonable request. If your media device doesnt have a web browser(many do) thats a problem with your device.
Boxee is a company that wants in the long run to make money off its set top boxes and to use hulu content free of charge to do so. They use it with a cloak of open source
All modern hdtvs made in the last 3 years have HDMI or DVI ports. Apple TV has an hdmi port.
The flaw is not in Hulu which works with any opensource web browser on windows, mac or linux, its in Apple TV, a closed source box with crippled functionality. That boxee software is opensource doesnt mean it can help itself to hulu's content.
Just because I am not an apple fanboy doesnt make me a troll and doesnt make me wrong either.
They block boxee. So what? If your too lazy to navigate to hulu.com which works fine with linux and mac via firefox, maybe its a bad tactical decision but it doesnt stop you from watching hulu. Its still free and its still available...over the internet!