Having copyright to be the lifespan of the original artist/author/director etc 70 in the EU, or 75 in the US IIRC, makes it blatant this is to protect companies, not individuals. I mean, if they'd had that rule previously, Edward Elgar's works would just be coming out of copyright in the UK next year. That would mean that until then, the English couldn't sing 'Land of Hope and Glory', and US schools wouldn't be able to play their traditional graduation music without coughing up a fee until 2009!
One exception - I'm quite happy with Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital having perpetual UK copyright of Peter Pan.
Then get a different product, or do it when your sleeping/using another computer etc. If you demand a product does everything, you end up with a massive bloated product, far too expensive, that doesn't do anything really well.
Er... no, a free market means you can *buy* from whomsoever you wish to. It doesn't mean you can just walk in and pick up whatever you want and only pay if you feel like it.
Do you not, as the originating scientist, have an ethical obligation to these resulting future persons ?
Well, let me see. We're using up all the resources, we've wiped out most of the fisheries, we're refusing to do anything about global warming until it is conclusively proven to be our fault, in which case it would be too late, we're racking up huge debts they'll have to pay for... Are ethical obligations only something scientists have to consider?
To be accurate/pedantic, that's the name given to it by the International Paralympic Committee, who run it. It's now linked to the Olympic games, so you can't have one without the other. And the origins are as a sports competition for WWII veterans with spinal injuries, so physical disability/prosthetics have always been included, and the other categories were added later. However, the intellectually disabled athletic categories have been thrown into some doubt by the Spanish cheating cheating (ten of the 12 strong basketball team weren't actually disabled in any way), so they won't be included unless there is some way to make sure the athletes are genuine.
Oh, have you ever heard of any school Shootings in Germany, england, france, or Japan?
England? We had one earlier this year. A kid shot his teacher. Er... ball-bearing guns do count, don't they? The teacher was rather unhappy about it. Those things sting.
Oh, hold on, that was in Wales. Damn. I'll try to think of one.
Seriously, though, there were about 17 killed in a school shooting in Erfut, Germany a couple of years ago, and 16 I think in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996. Both provoked legislation. I don't know of any in Japan or France.
I mean, we've never been to Alpha Centauri. For heaven's sake mankind, it's only four light years away you know. I'm sorry, but if we can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's our own lookout...
Well, the 18 year old doesn't legally have to obey their parents, but then the parents don't legally have to let the ungrateful brat back in the house...
I was told by a computer programmer/part-time projectionist that the original analogue 35mm prints of film are equivalent to 4K pixels vertical, although by the time you get the actual cinema run print it is more like 2K (google searches agree with this, although I'm more inclined to believe him than a random person on the internet). So there is room for at least one more version of T2 in a few years from now...
One interesting point, which I haven't seen brought up is the fact that many high school seniors are 18 and are thus no longer minors. It strikes me that they should have the right to deny access to their information.
That sets up the oft-repeated argument
offspring "I'm 18 now, I don't have to do what you say!"
parent"While you are living in this house, etc. etc. "
It's just about the only such international unit as well. Americans talk about Manhattan Islands, New Jerseys and Libraries of Congress, while Europeans have the Rock of Gibraltar or Belgiums. You really don't want to be hit by a Belgium. You wouldn't call it plucky little Belgium if it landed on your head.
Surely if the US soldiers don't have anything that can see through the sandstorm/oil smoke/whatever, then neither can the satellite? So if something has moved since the satellite last got a clear look, you won't know it is there. So you may know in which direction to drive your tank, but if you rely on this alone, it'd be a case of
"Look out for those goats!"
"What goats?"
Blaaaart *splat*
And bang goes any chance of one Iraqi herdsman being happy to see you.
Well, look at the filename - it contained
SRPMS/OpenOffice
Look it contains 'MS' and 'Office'! Just ignore the '/Open' bit inbetween and send off the letters!
Excerpt from the BSA email... Filename:/mandrake_current/SRPMS/OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk. src.rpm
The above computer program(s) is/are being made available for copying, through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the copyright owner(s).
It seems almost astonishing that even the BSA can be as utterly incompetent as this (does BSA stand for Bloody Stupid Alliance?). Unless you go for the conspiracy theory that they're deliberately hassling their clients rivals...
"If on your campus you had an assault and battery or a murder, you'd go down to the district attorney's office and deal with it that way," said Rep. William Jenkins, R-Tenn.
Either someone is taking the mickey, or this politician really needs to get a sense of proportion.
Not sure about that. Although many people still refer to their vacuum cleaners as 'hoovers' (at least in my country) and the act of vacuuming as 'hoovering' that doesn't mean that anyone other than the Hoover company put the word 'Hoover' on their vacuum cleaners.
As the article admits at the end, it's only the coldest natural place in the universe. Scientists have produced lower temperatures in the lab, less than a few 100 billionths above absolute zero. Last time I checked, which appears to be later than the journalist who wrote the article, the coldest place in the universe was actually Brighton, England.
Ah, I've experienced the Yanks not knowing this abbreviation before. When I was in the rowing squad ('crew' in US-speak) at Sheffield Uni, we had two crews in at Henley - when the one I wasn't in beat Syracuse, CNN reported it as a loss to 'Sheffield United'.
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Having copyright to be the lifespan of the original artist/author/director etc 70 in the EU, or 75 in the US IIRC, makes it blatant this is to protect companies, not individuals. I mean, if they'd had that rule previously, Edward Elgar's works would just be coming out of copyright in the UK next year. That would mean that until then, the English couldn't sing 'Land of Hope and Glory', and US schools wouldn't be able to play their traditional graduation music without coughing up a fee until 2009!
One exception - I'm quite happy with Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital having perpetual UK copyright of Peter Pan.
Then get a different product, or do it when your sleeping/using another computer etc. If you demand a product does everything, you end up with a massive bloated product, far too expensive, that doesn't do anything really well.
Er... no, a free market means you can *buy* from whomsoever you wish to. It doesn't mean you can just walk in and pick up whatever you want and only pay if you feel like it.
Hey, Europe's a big place. France is more corrupt than the USA, let alone Finland.
Well, let me see. We're using up all the resources, we've wiped out most of the fisheries, we're refusing to do anything about global warming until it is conclusively proven to be our fault, in which case it would be too late, we're racking up huge debts they'll have to pay for... Are ethical obligations only something scientists have to consider?
To be accurate/pedantic, that's the name given to it by the International Paralympic Committee, who run it. It's now linked to the Olympic games, so you can't have one without the other. And the origins are as a sports competition for WWII veterans with spinal injuries, so physical disability/prosthetics have always been included, and the other categories were added later. However, the intellectually disabled athletic categories have been thrown into some doubt by the Spanish cheating cheating (ten of the 12 strong basketball team weren't actually disabled in any way), so they won't be included unless there is some way to make sure the athletes are genuine.
England? We had one earlier this year. A kid shot his teacher. Er... ball-bearing guns do count, don't they? The teacher was rather unhappy about it. Those things sting.
Oh, hold on, that was in Wales. Damn. I'll try to think of one.
Seriously, though, there were about 17 killed in a school shooting in Erfut, Germany a couple of years ago, and 16 I think in Dunblane, Scotland in 1996. Both provoked legislation. I don't know of any in Japan or France.
I mean, we've never been to Alpha Centauri. For heaven's sake mankind, it's only four light years away you know. I'm sorry, but if we can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's our own lookout...
Well, the 18 year old doesn't legally have to obey their parents, but then the parents don't legally have to let the ungrateful brat back in the house...
I was told by a computer programmer/part-time projectionist that the original analogue 35mm prints of film are equivalent to 4K pixels vertical, although by the time you get the actual cinema run print it is more like 2K (google searches agree with this, although I'm more inclined to believe him than a random person on the internet). So there is room for at least one more version of T2 in a few years from now...
Only where it is allowed to. Concorde never flew supersonic where there were people on the ground to complain about the sonic boom.
That sets up the oft-repeated argument
offspring "I'm 18 now, I don't have to do what you say!"
parent"While you are living in this house, etc. etc. "
It's just about the only such international unit as well. Americans talk about Manhattan Islands, New Jerseys and Libraries of Congress, while Europeans have the Rock of Gibraltar or Belgiums. You really don't want to be hit by a Belgium. You wouldn't call it plucky little Belgium if it landed on your head.
"Look out for those goats!"
"What goats?"
Blaaaart *splat*
And bang goes any chance of one Iraqi herdsman being happy to see you.
Plus, let's be honest, the squemish, pacifistic 21st century Germans make much nicer neighbours than the militiaristic early 20th century model...
George Lucas? But she said good movie editors...
Well, look at the filename - it contained
SRPMS/OpenOffice
Look it contains 'MS' and 'Office'! Just ignore the '/Open' bit inbetween and send off the letters!
Filename:
The above computer program(s) is/are being made available for copying, through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the copyright owner(s).
It seems almost astonishing that even the BSA can be as utterly incompetent as this (does BSA stand for Bloody Stupid Alliance?). Unless you go for the conspiracy theory that they're deliberately hassling their clients rivals...
Sounds likely.
1. Take classic Spectrum game and update the graphics
2. Sell it to run on the latest mobile phones
3. Profit.
Either someone is taking the mickey, or this politician really needs to get a sense of proportion.
He could afford a car? Bloody hell, I couldn't afford a car as a student. Sometimes I couldn't afford beer either.
Not sure about that. Although many people still refer to their vacuum cleaners as 'hoovers' (at least in my country) and the act of vacuuming as 'hoovering' that doesn't mean that anyone other than the Hoover company put the word 'Hoover' on their vacuum cleaners.
As the article admits at the end, it's only the coldest natural place in the universe. Scientists have produced lower temperatures in the lab, less than a few 100 billionths above absolute zero. Last time I checked, which appears to be later than the journalist who wrote the article, the coldest place in the universe was actually Brighton, England.
Yeah, I mean, look at the films that have won it recently. Gladiator? Titanic? I mean, no-one watched them at all..
*End Sarcasm*
Ah, I've experienced the Yanks not knowing this abbreviation before. When I was in the rowing squad ('crew' in US-speak) at Sheffield Uni, we had two crews in at Henley - when the one I wasn't in beat Syracuse, CNN reported it as a loss to 'Sheffield United'.