I have heard of gtkpod and it looks pretty cool. However, it is not an officially support software application from Apple. So if I were to use it and something happened to my iPod, do you think Apple would honor my warranty? I don't. I personally want to see an officially supported way to work with an iPod under Linux. Honestly, that is the only thing holding me back from buying an iPod. Oh and the fact that I need to connect an line-in into the device I buy and record. I record about 2 hours of content from the church I go to and I then convert that into audio CD for other members. Last I heard, the iPod does not allow one to record. That is why I personally am planning on getting an Neuros. It will work under Linux and MS Windows and also allow me to record content as MP3.
No people want a pvr that's built into their cable box, that they don't have to buy, and is just a few dollars more on their cable bill.
Really? And have you interviewed all these "people"? I personally do not want a PVR from my cable provider. I want a PVR that lets me record what _I_ want when _I_ want with no stupid DRM crap. I pay about $100 US a month for my digital cable and cable modem package, the last thing I want is my cable company telling me I cannot record a show for whatever reason.
Please don't try to speak on behalf of "people", it makes you sound like an ID10T. Unless ofcourse you have personally interviewed the millions of people in the USA or $YOUR_COUNTRY that have have a cable box and asked them what they want in a PVR.
I've known more than a few who got fired for having lunch at Taco Bell.
And none of those employees fought that in court? I don't see how a company can legally fire you for where you eat on your lunch break. Unless of cource those employees signed some type of contract when they were hired that stated they would never buy/use a Pepsi product.
I thought the iPod locks out the music section and only allows you to use iTunes to transfer files to/from the iPod. Are you able to just drop MP3 files to your mounted iPod and than play them? The reason that would be important to me is because Apple does not have a Linux iTune client so I would have no way to get music onto an iPod from Linux. With my old Archo Jukebox, I just plug it into to Linux or Windows and drag-n-drop MP3 files, no other software required.
I do agree with you. I have an Archos Jukbox 20 and the thing is a tank. Though I can mount it as a mass-storage device under any OS I have tried withou issue. Oh, and it also only supports MP3's wich is just fine with me.
However, if currently the market is only going to give us locked-down DRM crap, I would at least want the DRM crap from a less-evil comany than MS. I personally do not own an iPOD and don't see myself buying one since any device I purchase next I will want it to work 100% with Linux. I was looking into a Neuros since it will work with Linux and support OGG and MP3, oh and has Open Source code.
Can a simple algorithm pass? Not in my mind. Can more complex systems be patented? Yes in my mind.
So who gets to pick whether one algorithm is "simple" or "complex"? The patent office? They have already shown they have no technical knowledge, especially when granting patents for things like Amazon's "one-click" patent.
How is it fair for me to put in a lot of work on something, go through the trials and errors, only to have someone look at my finished project, and copy it
Who said they get to copy it? Copyright already protects you from that. I cannot go and take MS Office and sell it as FooBar Office. Copyright already prevents others from taking your hard work and selling it. Patents _prevent_ other people from coming up with the _same_ invention as you just because you might have filed for the patent 1 day earlier than someone else.
I personally think software patents are wrong, however I do agree with patents on other things like physical inventions. For example, if you built some physical device, an internal employee could steal it and sell it to a competitor. That competitor could go and reproduce that device. However if you wrote some software application and an internal employee stole it and sold it, there is still copyright that would prevent another from just duplicating it. Software already has a protection called copyright. Physical inventions are not copyrighted, for example, you don't have a copyright on a physical engine, so I can understand the need to protect the design of that engine.
No matter how you look at it, software is nothing more than mathematical algorithms or instructions. Mathematician are not allowed to patent the process of adding 1 + 1, just as chefs are not allowed to patent the process of adding salt to a recipe. However, both are allowed to copyright their works for protection. Copyright has been enough to allow these to fields to flourish; and IMO, copyright is enough to allow software development to flourish.
the only way it threatens MS is in the fact that it totally ignores their pointless, me-too, proprietary.wma crapmat.
Huh? How is that not significant? Do you have any idea how much money MS spent on their WMA format and DRM? Tons of development cash and marketing cash went into their media format/platform? MS is hoping to get a bunch of royalties off of their media/DRM platform. If their platform is not widely adopted or replaced by AAC/FairPlay, it puts a big dent in potential revenues for MS from multimedia.
There is also the other factor of exposure to Apple products. The more consumers that buy Apple iPods, the more that may just buy a Mac Mini, eMac, iMac, iBook or PowerBook. That means less revenue to MS for their OS cash-cow.
I personally hope Apple kicks their butt with the iPod and become the defacto digital music format. The latest home DVD player I bought can play MP3's and WMA files. Maybe the next-gen of DVD players will drop WMA and pick up AAC w/FairPlay.
MS has a lot to lose if they don't control the major digital music format.
You can sign-on to your Linux system with LDAP and even MS's Active Directory if you wanted to (and plenty of other means).
If this ninny is talking about some other type of sign-on, then I have news for him. We have 140,000+ employees where I work and we have rolled out Netegrity's corporate single sign-on product corporate wide. We are running Netegrity sign-on agents on Solaris, Linux and MS Windows servers. We can single sign-on _all_ 140,000+ employees across Linux, Solaris and MS Windows systems. There is honestly no issues what-so-ever.
So honestly, where is this "missing" a "'sign-on system'"? A proprietary MS-to-MS "single-signon" system doesn't sound much use to me, especially in a bigger corporation. The 3 fortune 500 companies I have worked for would certainly not benefit from having their server systems locked into MS-to-MS-ONLY communications.
I think it is time MS pulled their head out of their @ss. The MS marketing machine can only push so many lies before it gets annoying.
Does it really matter _what_ patent it was? This is a perfect example of the problems with "software" patents. This company didn't create one fricken thing, yet they got hundreds of millions from the big companies.
It was Intel and the other companies that actually made these technologies happen. Intel and the others are the ones that spent the tons of cash and man-hours to make all these "technologies" covered by these patents come to fruition. However, the sad US patent system allows some idiot who just sat in a chair and had and "idea" to hold the true innovators of our nation hostage for money.
Please tell us who these "MS Windows Freak" NSA guys you have meet are. It can be easily verified. Most of the NSA "guys" are _real_ computer scientists. You are very unlikely to find a bunch of computer scientist that are "windows freaks". I would bet that most _real_ computer scientist are *nix freaks, Linux, Unix and Mac OS freaks.
Please tell us a few names of these NSA "windows freaks" so we can verify your statements. Unless, of course you are talking out your @ss.
Imagine, if Microsoft said you had to be on-line AND log into their servers to access YOUR document.
Huh? This is exactly what MS does with their latest versions of their software. I recently installed MS Office 2003. I couldn't continue to access _my_ documents until I was "on-line" AND I logged onto a MS server to "verify" that I had a "right" to use Office 2003. So exactly what the H3ll are you talking about?
Sure, it's a bug. Cycle your passwords, and you're fine.
Cycle your passwords? Try to get 140,000 employees (the size of the company I work for) to "cycle their passwords" in a timely fashion. It just isn't going to happen.
Well, the majority of home computer users 96%+ get an MS Windows PC with at least two buttons (and usually a mouse wheel) and have seemed to "manage" using two buttons.
I personally don't understand this whole one-button Mac thing. Based on market-share, the one-button mouse has not proved to be easier to use. I really don't know why Apple sticks with it.
Do you still think that simple mouse (that they probably like to handle with two fingers and release before clicking) is a bad thing for _them_?
Well, I don't think _any_ mouse is "bad". But 10's of millions of users have had _no_ problems with a two+ button mouse. So honestly, there really is no reason for Apple to keep pushing their one button mouse. The only reason I can think of for Apple to use a one button mouse is that there is someone at the executive level (Jobs?) that thinks the one button mouse is "better". I personally don't think that is really working for your customers. Look at how many two button and scroll wheel mice are sold each year vs. one button mice. There is no comparison.
Come on Apple, get with the times and look at the market share for mice and just sell what mice are most popular. I personally like the Apple "design" across the board except for the stupid one-button mouse. All the one-button mouse does for me is causes me to lose money when I toss it out and buy a regular mouse.
Sure, you could add tons of extra storage with Firewire _or_ USB 2.0. However, I was thinking more along the lines of the hard drive that the base OS is installed on.
On my laptop with a 4,800 RPM hard drive, I notice that Linux and MS Windows XP both run a lot slower then a similar speed desktop with a normal 7,200 RPM drive.
If I get this Mac Mini, it will be the first Mac I ever bought for home use. I didn't want to be dissapointed by slow performance becaue the hard drive is slowing the system down.
Firefox has a number of better features over IE that help prevent this type of action.
No ActiveX support
XPI's can only be installed from a whitelist
Automatic Updates
Having no ActiveX support removes a ton of possible holes. The XPI install whitelist means you get a big ugly warning and the install gets BLOCKED for any site other than update.mozilla.org or ones you you put in your whitelist. The Automatic Updates happen as soon as you fire up the browser. This means that if some cleaver spyware got into Firefox, end-users would get an update _very_ fast. IE doesn't send down any updates to prevent spyware or activeX attacks.
While Firefox will never be perfect, it already is far more safer on the net then IE has ever been. The only obstacle now for a much better "Web community" is to get Firefox on more peoples desktops.
Is seems that a lot of/. users hate Real from past actions. However, IMO they really cleaned up their act. No more nag/spy-ware. You can easily turn off options you don't want now (like not starting at boot-up).
Real Player 10 works on Windows, Linux and Mac. You can just dump WMV and use only Real Format. Also Real 10 now has browser plug-ins for Mozilla/Firefox and IE.
If you are _really_ against using Real, then IMO the next best would be just standard MPEG-1 videos or divx. With divx, you will have Windows, Linux and MacOS X support with no problems.
If you don't go with Real, them IMO go with divX or MPEG-4, and have a blurb on the video page that directs users to the download page for VLC. There are versions of VLC for Windows, Linux, Mac and others. VLC will play tons of content on all platforms out-of-the-box.
Main-Land China _thinks_ they own Taiwan. If/when Taiwan ever tried to show too much independence from Main-Land China, you can be pretty certain that China would go to war over that.
No offense, but there is nothing Insightful about this post. Exactly what "great knowledge" would China gain by buying this PC division?
These are basic PC's! There are no great government technologies hidden in the IBM PC division.
You're exactly right, when no-one is being harmed!
Oh, please. How is China harming the USA? Should we as Americans turn into nothing but fighters that try to destroy anyone that competes against us?
I am a former U.S. Marine I served during the Gulf War. I am so tired of the typical American response to fight or kill any opponent. I hope that we (the USA) can wake up on day and actually work within the world.
What I fear as a former U.S. Maine is that one day the world will get tired of the US pushing them around. We (the USA) are are one bad-assed nation, however if the world tried to take us on, they would kick our @sses.
I have a very novel idea for the USA government. Why don't we try to work with the rest of the world, especially Europe, instead of always trying to fight them?
I am surprised no one modded this up! This is right on the money. Do you think MS had no influence over this decision by the "government"? You can be certain that MS came along and bitched and moaned about this sale.
It is funny though because I remember MS selling their source code to the Chinese government and then claiming during their anti-trust case that they couldn't reveal source code for "national security reasons".
I guess it is OK for the Chinese government to have access to the MS source code, however if anyone else can see it, it would "undermine" national security.
It's funny, the land of freedom and capitalism is taking steps that would make a communist plutocracy proud.
I agree 100%. There is nothing "capitalist" about this move.
The Chinese are not the Red Menace they are made out to be. If anything, they are about as far from Red as you can get.
I don't agree with you there. If you are Chinese and live in China, try and say something negative about the Chinese regime. You will be taken away in no time and no one will have a clue where you have been taken. There were a bunch of college students that were taken away just for "speaking". It is really sad if you cannot say what you feel. It is basic Human nature to want to speak.
Imagine living somewhere where you could not say what you feel. Saying what you feel is a _basic_ human instinct that goes back ten's of thousands of years. And here comes the Chinese government and they arrest you for just _talking_! That is really sad IMO.
You can say that the Chinese are "capitalists" all you want. However, until the day comes that the Chinese _people_ can express themselves as _normal_ humans, I will consider the Chinese government to be total scum. Hey, I just said something bad about the Chinese government. Notice that I _won't_ go to jail or be taken away!
Dump on the U.S.A all you want, but I am at least granted basic human rights. I could say I hate Bush if I wanted to (even though I personally don't), and I won't be taken away by our government!
I personally believe that there are _tons_ of problems with the US government. Especially WRT bribes from big business or special interest groups. However, my basic rights as a human have _never_ been stepped on by the US government. You cannot say the same for the Chinese government.
Has anyone been able to get to the site? It is/.ed for me. I have been wondering just how "open" OpenSolaris is. Could I take the whole code to Solaris and release Bozo-OpenSolaris tomorrow? I have my doubts about that.
Linux and GNU software truly are open. I can go and create foobar-Linux tomorrow if I wanted to. Linus has granted pretty much open access to his trademark on Linux.
I honestly would really like to know just how open OpenSolaris really is. If is is as "open" as Java, well, than that is not very open IMO. I can't go and modify Java and still call it Java. I can't go and enhance Java and still call it Java. I need permission first. I don't really consider that "open".
From my perspective, it looks as if OpenSolaris is really nothing more then a marketing ploy to try to undermine GNU/Linux.
A copyright should have nothing to do with the life span of the artist/author. It should be for a set number of years from the time of copyright (IMO 10-20 years). This way if you die right after you finish the "Great American Novel", your loved-ones can still benefit from your work.
Also, if you sell your work to a corporation, that work is no longer life+70. It is 95 years for the corporation. Again, this is still way too long IMO.
So you write something and you get to keep it until you are 100? I call bullshit.
Sorry mboverload, your math is a little off. You don't get to keep something you write until your 100. You "only" get to keep if for 70 years _after_ you die. Please don't try to make the U.S. copyright system sound that _bad_. Seriously, what person can't continue to benefit from a work for 70 years after they die?
Come on now. If I am dead, of course I should still be allowed to make money. Doesn't my ghost deserve to live the life of a "capitalist"? Or are you just a commie that wants to try to oppress my ghost?
While I know what you say is true, _every_ time I read it I can't help but want to vomit. I personally cannot belive that the "representitives" of the US population has been totaly bought off that every copyright is not life+70. I never new that a copyright owner could benefit from a copyright for 70 years after his/her death. How can anyone benefit from something for 70 years after their death? Copyright wasn't create to give copyright owners the power to give their children and their grand-children such benefits. The only person that should benefit from a copyright is the original copyright owner, and IMO, that benefit should not last more than 10 years.
Since when can the dead benefit from finacial gain? Heck, since when should someone have exlusive rights to work they release to the _public_ for their entire life? We live in sad, sad times. I would love to see copyright and patents drop down to 10 years or so. While I don't agree with software patents, I would have a _lot_ less to complain about if software patents dropped to 5 years or so.
Sadly, we will never see these days since our _whole_ government (both republican and democrat) are pretty much paid for by big business or special interest goups.
I am a senior programmer for a fortune 500. Over the last 4 weeks I have been looking at our login stats. For the last two years, 96%+ of _all_ of our 140,000+ home employees have used IE. However, something _very_ strange has happend over the last 6 months to our web stats. I was taking weekly snap-shots, and I saw the IE market share continued to drop. The current IE share is now 88%! That is a _huge_ drop from pervious versions.
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I have heard of gtkpod and it looks pretty cool. However, it is not an officially support software application from Apple. So if I were to use it and something happened to my iPod, do you think Apple would honor my warranty? I don't. I personally want to see an officially supported way to work with an iPod under Linux. Honestly, that is the only thing holding me back from buying an iPod. Oh and the fact that I need to connect an line-in into the device I buy and record. I record about 2 hours of content from the church I go to and I then convert that into audio CD for other members. Last I heard, the iPod does not allow one to record. That is why I personally am planning on getting an Neuros. It will work under Linux and MS Windows and also allow me to record content as MP3.
Please don't try to speak on behalf of "people", it makes you sound like an ID10T. Unless ofcourse you have personally interviewed the millions of people in the USA or $YOUR_COUNTRY that have have a cable box and asked them what they want in a PVR.
I thought the iPod locks out the music section and only allows you to use iTunes to transfer files to/from the iPod. Are you able to just drop MP3 files to your mounted iPod and than play them? The reason that would be important to me is because Apple does not have a Linux iTune client so I would have no way to get music onto an iPod from Linux. With my old Archo Jukebox, I just plug it into to Linux or Windows and drag-n-drop MP3 files, no other software required.
However, if currently the market is only going to give us locked-down DRM crap, I would at least want the DRM crap from a less-evil comany than MS. I personally do not own an iPOD and don't see myself buying one since any device I purchase next I will want it to work 100% with Linux. I was looking into a Neuros since it will work with Linux and support OGG and MP3, oh and has Open Source code.
I personally think software patents are wrong, however I do agree with patents on other things like physical inventions. For example, if you built some physical device, an internal employee could steal it and sell it to a competitor. That competitor could go and reproduce that device. However if you wrote some software application and an internal employee stole it and sold it, there is still copyright that would prevent another from just duplicating it. Software already has a protection called copyright. Physical inventions are not copyrighted, for example, you don't have a copyright on a physical engine, so I can understand the need to protect the design of that engine.
No matter how you look at it, software is nothing more than mathematical algorithms or instructions. Mathematician are not allowed to patent the process of adding 1 + 1, just as chefs are not allowed to patent the process of adding salt to a recipe. However, both are allowed to copyright their works for protection. Copyright has been enough to allow these to fields to flourish; and IMO, copyright is enough to allow software development to flourish.
There is also the other factor of exposure to Apple products. The more consumers that buy Apple iPods, the more that may just buy a Mac Mini, eMac, iMac, iBook or PowerBook. That means less revenue to MS for their OS cash-cow.
I personally hope Apple kicks their butt with the iPod and become the defacto digital music format. The latest home DVD player I bought can play MP3's and WMA files. Maybe the next-gen of DVD players will drop WMA and pick up AAC w/FairPlay.
MS has a lot to lose if they don't control the major digital music format.
You can sign-on to your Linux system with LDAP and even MS's Active Directory if you wanted to (and plenty of other means).
If this ninny is talking about some other type of sign-on, then I have news for him. We have 140,000+ employees where I work and we have rolled out Netegrity's corporate single sign-on product corporate wide. We are running Netegrity sign-on agents on Solaris, Linux and MS Windows servers. We can single sign-on _all_ 140,000+ employees across Linux, Solaris and MS Windows systems. There is honestly no issues what-so-ever.
So honestly, where is this "missing" a "'sign-on system'"? A proprietary MS-to-MS "single-signon" system doesn't sound much use to me, especially in a bigger corporation. The 3 fortune 500 companies I have worked for would certainly not benefit from having their server systems locked into MS-to-MS-ONLY communications.
I think it is time MS pulled their head out of their @ss. The MS marketing machine can only push so many lies before it gets annoying.
It was Intel and the other companies that actually made these technologies happen. Intel and the others are the ones that spent the tons of cash and man-hours to make all these "technologies" covered by these patents come to fruition. However, the sad US patent system allows some idiot who just sat in a chair and had and "idea" to hold the true innovators of our nation hostage for money.
Please tell us a few names of these NSA "windows freaks" so we can verify your statements. Unless, of course you are talking out your @ss.
Huh? This is exactly what MS does with their latest versions of their software. I recently installed MS Office 2003. I couldn't continue to access _my_ documents until I was "on-line" AND I logged onto a MS server to "verify" that I had a "right" to use Office 2003. So exactly what the H3ll are you talking about?Cycle your passwords? Try to get 140,000 employees (the size of the company I work for) to "cycle their passwords" in a timely fashion. It just isn't going to happen.Stop being such and MS apologist.
I personally don't understand this whole one-button Mac thing. Based on market-share, the one-button mouse has not proved to be easier to use. I really don't know why Apple sticks with it.
Well, I don't think _any_ mouse is "bad". But 10's of millions of users have had _no_ problems with a two+ button mouse. So honestly, there really is no reason for Apple to keep pushing their one button mouse. The only reason I can think of for Apple to use a one button mouse is that there is someone at the executive level (Jobs?) that thinks the one button mouse is "better". I personally don't think that is really working for your customers. Look at how many two button and scroll wheel mice are sold each year vs. one button mice. There is no comparison.Come on Apple, get with the times and look at the market share for mice and just sell what mice are most popular. I personally like the Apple "design" across the board except for the stupid one-button mouse. All the one-button mouse does for me is causes me to lose money when I toss it out and buy a regular mouse.
On my laptop with a 4,800 RPM hard drive, I notice that Linux and MS Windows XP both run a lot slower then a similar speed desktop with a normal 7,200 RPM drive.
If I get this Mac Mini, it will be the first Mac I ever bought for home use. I didn't want to be dissapointed by slow performance becaue the hard drive is slowing the system down.
No ActiveX support
XPI's can only be installed from a whitelist
Automatic Updates
Having no ActiveX support removes a ton of possible holes. The XPI install whitelist means you get a big ugly warning and the install gets BLOCKED for any site other than update.mozilla.org or ones you you put in your whitelist. The Automatic Updates happen as soon as you fire up the browser. This means that if some cleaver spyware got into Firefox, end-users would get an update _very_ fast. IE doesn't send down any updates to prevent spyware or activeX attacks.
While Firefox will never be perfect, it already is far more safer on the net then IE has ever been. The only obstacle now for a much better "Web community" is to get Firefox on more peoples desktops.
Does the Mac Mini really come with a slow 2.5" laptop hard drive? This has been the only thing that has made me leery of a purchase.
If it does come with a slow hard drive, could someone stick there own 3.5" 7,200RPM hard drive in place of it?
If you can put your own standard hard drive in, does the Mac Mini come with install disks or would you have to go out and buy a new copy of Mac OS X?
Real Player 10 works on Windows, Linux and Mac. You can just dump WMV and use only Real Format. Also Real 10 now has browser plug-ins for Mozilla/Firefox and IE.
If you are _really_ against using Real, then IMO the next best would be just standard MPEG-1 videos or divx. With divx, you will have Windows, Linux and MacOS X support with no problems.
If you don't go with Real, them IMO go with divX or MPEG-4, and have a blurb on the video page that directs users to the download page for VLC. There are versions of VLC for Windows, Linux, Mac and others. VLC will play tons of content on all platforms out-of-the-box.
Main-Land China _thinks_ they own Taiwan. If/when Taiwan ever tried to show too much independence from Main-Land China, you can be pretty certain that China would go to war over that.
No offense, but there is nothing Insightful about this post. Exactly what "great knowledge" would China gain by buying this PC division?
These are basic PC's! There are no great government technologies hidden in the IBM PC division.
Oh, please. How is China harming the USA? Should we as Americans turn into nothing but fighters that try to destroy anyone that competes against us?I am a former U.S. Marine I served during the Gulf War. I am so tired of the typical American response to fight or kill any opponent. I hope that we (the USA) can wake up on day and actually work within the world.
What I fear as a former U.S. Maine is that one day the world will get tired of the US pushing them around. We (the USA) are are one bad-assed nation, however if the world tried to take us on, they would kick our @sses.
I have a very novel idea for the USA government. Why don't we try to work with the rest of the world, especially Europe, instead of always trying to fight them?
It is funny though because I remember MS selling their source code to the Chinese government and then claiming during their anti-trust case that they couldn't reveal source code for "national security reasons".
I guess it is OK for the Chinese government to have access to the MS source code, however if anyone else can see it, it would "undermine" national security.
Imagine living somewhere where you could not say what you feel. Saying what you feel is a _basic_ human instinct that goes back ten's of thousands of years. And here comes the Chinese government and they arrest you for just _talking_! That is really sad IMO.
You can say that the Chinese are "capitalists" all you want. However, until the day comes that the Chinese _people_ can express themselves as _normal_ humans, I will consider the Chinese government to be total scum. Hey, I just said something bad about the Chinese government. Notice that I _won't_ go to jail or be taken away!
Dump on the U.S.A all you want, but I am at least granted basic human rights. I could say I hate Bush if I wanted to (even though I personally don't), and I won't be taken away by our government!
I personally believe that there are _tons_ of problems with the US government. Especially WRT bribes from big business or special interest groups. However, my basic rights as a human have _never_ been stepped on by the US government. You cannot say the same for the Chinese government.
Hey China, you suck! Come and get me!
Linux and GNU software truly are open. I can go and create foobar-Linux tomorrow if I wanted to. Linus has granted pretty much open access to his trademark on Linux.
I honestly would really like to know just how open OpenSolaris really is. If is is as "open" as Java, well, than that is not very open IMO. I can't go and modify Java and still call it Java. I can't go and enhance Java and still call it Java. I need permission first. I don't really consider that "open".
From my perspective, it looks as if OpenSolaris is really nothing more then a marketing ploy to try to undermine GNU/Linux.
Also, if you sell your work to a corporation, that work is no longer life+70. It is 95 years for the corporation. Again, this is still way too long IMO.
No, because corporations that own a copyright are "limited" to 95 years. They don't get to keep the copyright until _you_ die + 70 years.
Come on now. If I am dead, of course I should still be allowed to make money. Doesn't my ghost deserve to live the life of a "capitalist"? Or are you just a commie that wants to try to oppress my ghost?
Since when can the dead benefit from finacial gain? Heck, since when should someone have exlusive rights to work they release to the _public_ for their entire life? We live in sad, sad times. I would love to see copyright and patents drop down to 10 years or so. While I don't agree with software patents, I would have a _lot_ less to complain about if software patents dropped to 5 years or so.
Sadly, we will never see these days since our _whole_ government (both republican and democrat) are pretty much paid for by big business or special interest goups.
I am a senior programmer for a fortune 500. Over the last 4 weeks I have been looking at our login stats. For the last two years, 96%+ of _all_ of our 140,000+ home employees have used IE. However, something _very_ strange has happend over the last 6 months to our web stats. I was taking weekly snap-shots, and I saw the IE market share continued to drop. The current IE share is now 88%! That is a _huge_ drop from pervious versions.