Even if immigrants(legal or otherwise) no longer did fruit picking. They would still be cheapest for gardening, housekeeping, nannies.
I would worry more about robots replacing legal service workers(could you imagine McDonalds automating its food preparation??? Walmart replacing most of its overnight stockworkers with stockbots.
28 years plus a 28 year extension, and you actually have to file for a copyright and put copyright notices on the work. If this law were still in place everything before 1951 would be in the public domain. Imagine a world where you could download all your old 1930s and 40s films online. In the year 2016 if the 1909 copyright act were still in place, everyone could be trading tv series from the 1950s.
The fact that most people dont realized between 1790 and 1976 only 1 extension had been granted from 14 to 28 years.
The question the copyright lawyers of 1976-2006 have to explain is how all these extensions encouraged the promotion of arts and sciences. How does it encourage the creation of new works to grant extensions to estates and corporations?
Think of the likelyhood of being sued multiply by the number of college students downloading, maybe there is a market for insurance...say pay $10 a year , if you get one of those letters , the insurance would pay the $3000 settlement cost. hmm...
It would be technically liability insurance to protect you from the expense of "accidentally" sharing copyrighted material.
With no global tax and no global army, the UN lacks the money and the power to rule the internet.
Any power the UN has is because the world powers use it to provide the cover of international law to protect their interests. Of course this is significant because when world powers want to do something they must compromise to get UN backing. The absence of UN backing means additional political costs for any nation that acts without UN backing.
Openoffice will not be not taken seriously until it has a)A database program that doesnt suck b)A presentation program with all the bells and whistles(the current one lacks it) c)well thought out Desktop publishing d)web page design tools
I use openoffice and I like it but I couldnt stop using publisher and frontpage
The energy required to create it can be obtained through Solar, Nuclear, coal or hydroelectric
Who cares if takes 5 times as much solar energy to create hydrogen as it produces
The fact is -hydrogen is portable , electricity is not -You can pump hydrogen out of a fuel pump when you are away from home -You dont need full power electricity to pump hydrogen(hurricane wilma knocked the power out in my area for 11 days)
Novell has had its own version of openoffice for quite some time.
How does Novell intend to improve compatibility "The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product." most likely in the extras disc just like they put the drivers for intel wireless cards in the extras disc.
In trying to make a laptop for the third world, they might have stumbled upon an amazing breakthrough product. Is it possible they might have accidentally stumbled on the Commodore 64 of laptops? Even at $199 Id buy my nephew one.
Good for the tomb robbers...That treasure was collected off the backs of thousands of slaves and from the pockets of honest egyptians for thousands of years. The "tomb robbers" are not thieves, that stuff was abandoned the same as a sunken treasure ship. The egyptian government didnt even care until they realized they could make money off it.
At least the tomb robbers did something with the gold and treasure instead of just taking from innocent people and burying it. What good does it do history yet another Golden mask sitting in some museum somewhere. At least the tomb robbers enjoyed the treasure and put the gold into the economy.
You want to talk about a treasure...the palimpset of archimedes is a treasure, the Rosetta stone is a treasure, the ruins of pompeii and karnak are treasures, Gold should be used for the living not the dead.
Because of that statement, I predict within 10 years, we will have computers with at least 64 (4 x 4 x 4) if not more cores. We wont call them cores, we'll call them nodes or something like that.
Well most playstation or xbox users would probably settle for surfing the web and typing things for school. They probably could make the resolution computer acceptable by using a DVI interface and a usb port for keyboard, mouse and printer and a flash drive for saving their work.
Thats one thing ive never understood, why use custom memory for saving games when flash drives are big and cheap and the usb 2.0 port is fast, dirt cheap and proven technology.
The commodore 64 was a brilliant machine, with a cost of manufacture so far below its competition for 3 years it killed everything else on the market.
It was simply unrepeatable...the C128 had no real gaming edge over the c64
and Amiga while it had the best version of the original simcity ever made cost too much to make by comparison.
Commdore 64 --- that is my rebuttal. Explanation. The commdore 64 was originally designed as a video game machine, even the production model came with a cartridge slot. It was so successful that it killed the video game market for the next two years. It sold 17 million units. People had no problem finding great games for it.
1) Its the hardware stupid. 2) Its also the software stupid
The Atari 7800 keyboard could have worked, it was a good product, it was just two years too late... Atari had lousy management.
cybersquatting is using someones elses good name to make money.
Its a different issue if you thought of a cool domain name and got it before anyone else...or even if you found a name that several people might want "sex.com" its still not cybersquatting.
Also regarding the prequel issue, lots of movies come about world war II and are quite good despite people knowing how world war II turned out they still seem to have good plots.
In actual medieval cities there were city walls and then the inner castle. In a good computer network their perhaps needs to be an outer firewall and and an inner firewall.
Slashdot Mirror
Its called "violating civil rights under color of law."
Even if immigrants(legal or otherwise) no longer did fruit picking. They would still be cheapest for gardening, housekeeping,
nannies.
I would worry more about robots replacing legal service workers(could you imagine McDonalds automating its food
preparation??? Walmart replacing most of its overnight stockworkers with stockbots.
You still cannot claim copyright over someone elses work even if they chose not to copyright it.
28 years plus a 28 year extension, and you actually have to file for a copyright and put copyright notices on the work.
If this law were still in place everything before 1951 would be in the public domain. Imagine a world where you could download
all your old 1930s and 40s films online. In the year 2016 if the 1909 copyright act were still in place, everyone could be trading tv series
from the 1950s.
The fact that most people dont realized between 1790 and 1976 only 1 extension had been granted from 14 to 28 years.
The question the copyright lawyers of 1976-2006 have to explain is how all these extensions encouraged the promotion of
arts and sciences. How does it encourage the creation of new works to grant extensions to estates and corporations?
Think of the likelyhood of being sued multiply by the number of college students downloading,
maybe there is a market for insurance...say pay $10 a year , if you get one of those letters , the insurance would
pay the $3000 settlement cost. hmm...
It would be technically liability insurance to protect you from the expense of "accidentally" sharing copyrighted material.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070
this is the correct link from the original source.
With no global tax and no global army, the UN lacks the money and the power
to rule the internet.
Any power the UN has is because the world powers use it to provide the cover of international law
to protect their interests. Of course this is significant because when world powers want to do something
they must compromise to get UN backing. The absence of UN backing means additional political costs for
any nation that acts without UN backing.
Openoffice will not be not taken seriously until it has
a)A database program that doesnt suck
b)A presentation program with all the bells and whistles(the current one lacks it)
c)well thought out Desktop publishing
d)web page design tools
I use openoffice and I like it but I couldnt stop using publisher and frontpage
Inserting into purchasing process
WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU WANT PRE-INSTALLED
( ) Windows (add $99)
( ) Red Hat Linux (add $39)
( ) Suse (add $39)
( ) NONE
The energy required to create it can be obtained
through Solar, Nuclear, coal or hydroelectric
Who cares if takes 5 times as much solar energy to create hydrogen
as it produces
The fact is
-hydrogen is portable , electricity is not
-You can pump hydrogen out of a fuel pump when you are away from home
-You dont need full power electricity to pump hydrogen(hurricane wilma knocked the power out
in my area for 11 days)
Novell has had its own version of openoffice for quite some time.
How does Novell intend to improve compatibility
"The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product."
most likely in the extras disc just like they put the drivers for intel wireless cards in the extras
disc.
Seriously,
In trying to make a laptop for the third world, they might have stumbled
upon an amazing breakthrough product. Is it possible they might have
accidentally stumbled on the Commodore 64 of laptops? Even at $199
Id buy my nephew one.
Good for the tomb robbers...That treasure was collected off the backs of thousands of
slaves and from the pockets of honest egyptians for thousands of years. The "tomb robbers"
are not thieves, that stuff was abandoned the same as a sunken treasure ship. The egyptian government didnt even care until they realized they could make money off it.
At least the tomb robbers did something with the gold and treasure instead of just taking
from innocent people and burying it. What good does it do history yet another
Golden mask sitting in some museum somewhere. At least the tomb robbers enjoyed the
treasure and put the gold into the economy.
You want to talk about a treasure...the palimpset of archimedes is a treasure, the Rosetta stone is a treasure, the ruins of pompeii and karnak are treasures, Gold should be used for the living not the dead.
A ticket and fine or citation(with some community service like picking up trash) was the proper action not jail time
and DNA printing.
You only take DNA samples if it was necessary to prove the crime.
The main crime of 9/11 was not the destruction of the world trade center, it was the killing of 3000 people.
Because of that statement, I predict within 10 years, we will have computers
with at least 64 (4 x 4 x 4) if not more cores. We wont call them cores, we'll call them
nodes or something like that.
Labelling me overrated before anyone else had rated me and
labelling me redundant when I was the first comment.
I call Shenangians!
but does it run linux? ;-)
Well most playstation or xbox users would probably settle for surfing the web and
typing things for school. They probably could make the resolution computer acceptable
by using a DVI interface and a usb port for keyboard, mouse and printer and a flash
drive for saving their work.
Thats one thing ive never understood, why use custom memory for saving games
when flash drives are big and cheap and the usb 2.0 port is fast, dirt cheap
and proven technology.
The commodore 64 was a brilliant machine, with a cost of manufacture so far below its competition
for 3 years it killed everything else on the market.
It was simply unrepeatable...the C128 had no real gaming edge over the c64
and Amiga while it had the best version of the original simcity ever made
cost too much to make by comparison.
Commdore 64 --- that is my rebuttal. Explanation. The commdore 64 was originally designed as a video game
machine, even the production model came with a cartridge slot. It was so successful that it killed the video
game market for the next two years. It sold 17 million units. People had no problem finding great games for it.
1) Its the hardware stupid.
2) Its also the software stupid
The Atari 7800 keyboard could have worked, it was a good product, it was just two years too late...
Atari had lousy management.
cybersquatting is using someones elses good name to make money.
Its a different issue if you thought of a cool domain name and got it before
anyone else...or even if you found a name that several people might want
"sex.com" its still not cybersquatting.
You know adama wont die but thats about it.
Also regarding the prequel issue, lots of movies come about
world war II and are quite good despite people knowing
how world war II turned out they still seem to have good plots.
Lets keep perspective before we feel too sorry for him.
In actual medieval cities there were city walls and then the inner castle.
In a good computer network their perhaps needs to be an outer firewall and
and an inner firewall.