Can you imagine being imprisoned for life if life meant forever?
If suicide will still be illegal, this will finally give enough support to make it legal.
Presumably the technology won't ever self-replicate. That would be a nightmare. Imagine the resources it would consume. We would need huge processing power in tiny spaces to prevent deaths from over-replication.
That at least is easily solved - simply make them aware of their approximate concentration, or replicate based on need.
We don't have the resources to handle that many people.
We can support as many people as we like, simply by wise utilization of resources and technology (e.g. nanotech, hydrophonic agriculture) - even a spaceship can be made self sufficient.
Frequent moviegoers and family-friendly films helped drive ticket sales even though the number of movie screens continued to decrease, Valenti said Tuesday during ShoWest, an annual convention for theater operators meeting in Las Vegas through Thursday.
If I understand economics at any level, this doesn't make sense, why would the number decrease when clearly the profits should rise (more audience per screen).
Can entertainment even be considered 'useful art' (as required for the congress to have power to protect them), I think not. Remeber, copyrights were designed for maps, not cartoons, enjoyable != useful by any credible definition that I know of.
This is simply not true, even the most simplistic model would only cap the salary there. Supply vs demand is much more important to estimate the actual salary.
Kaman can't do that, if the Japanese patent wasn't filed in the USA, anyone can use that technology in the USA (and after one year of the Japanese filing it can't be filed in the US AFAIK). This means that Kamen is only protected against usage of his cool innovations.
Furthermore, if his patent claims a self balancing scooter, etc, the USPTO should have rejected those claims and any court will.
I know this may be looked at as a flamebait, but if used correctly, UDP will do much better than TCP for file transfers applications (when you are intereseted not in getting packets in order as soon as possible but in getting all the packets as soon as possible) effectivly, a variant of TCP with a dynamic window size of exactly the file size (plus metadata, etc.), can and should be implemented over UDP, and that can lower traffic and reduce latency (although I am saying this without looking at specs that don't really remember).
Ideally, software copyrights should be like patents, you get exclusive rights for use of your code (if you wish to have such protection), for a limited time (I would say 10 years), but you must release it to the public domain (disclosure) after a certain (shorter) time period. If your code is based on something that was already in the public domain, you only get protection for your additions.
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IANAL but AFAIK, that, as opposed to a deep link, would be a violation of copyright, there is not even a fair use provision for that.
You obviously never worked with a tank... these things break up constantly. You can't really expect to go 100 miles in a tank without service.
If you outlaw nanotech, only outlaws would have nanotech... :-)
If suicide will still be illegal, this will finally give enough support to make it legal.
Presumably the technology won't ever self-replicate. That would be a nightmare. Imagine the resources it would consume. We would need huge processing power in tiny spaces to prevent deaths from over-replication.
That at least is easily solved - simply make them aware of their approximate concentration, or replicate based on need.
We don't have the resources to handle that many people.
We can support as many people as we like, simply by wise utilization of resources and technology (e.g. nanotech, hydrophonic agriculture) - even a spaceship can be made self sufficient.
Does anyone else consider a 4% original content ratio insanly small? Or is it only me?
Seriously, what is the world coming to?
You can say a lot about he MPAA - but not that they would be calm about losing money.
You do know that (last time I checked) most of it isn't ? - it's not matter as we know it.
It will be used (in a few years - I guesstimate 2-3) by major telcos for major national and international backbones and for new ones at that.
Or do they plan a seperate levy only for themselves?
The wheel OTOH was innovative.
If it wasn't setteled, the patent might (IMHO would) have be ruled uninovative. This way it still stands. Maybe that's why amazon setteled.
Are you serious? The can only hurt the sales. Think of all the crap they are producing. Would anyone buy that after they saw it?
If I understand economics at any level, this doesn't make sense, why would the number decrease when clearly the profits should rise (more audience per screen).
Ideas anyone?
Can entertainment even be considered 'useful art' (as required for the congress to have power to protect them), I think not. Remeber, copyrights were designed for maps, not cartoons, enjoyable != useful by any credible definition that I know of.
This is simply not true, even the most simplistic model would only cap the salary there. Supply vs demand is much more important to estimate the actual salary.
Sure, by there is no mentioning of that anywhere on their site.
One word : XOLOX
Furthermore, if his patent claims a self balancing scooter, etc, the USPTO should have rejected those claims and any court will.
I know this may be looked at as a flamebait, but if used correctly, UDP will do much better than TCP for file transfers applications (when you are intereseted not in getting packets in order as soon as possible but in getting all the packets as soon as possible) effectivly, a variant of TCP with a dynamic window size of exactly the file size (plus metadata, etc.), can and should be implemented over UDP, and that can lower traffic and reduce latency (although I am saying this without looking at specs that don't really remember).
Ideally, software copyrights should be like patents, you get exclusive rights for use of your code (if you wish to have such protection), for a limited time (I would say 10 years), but you must release it to the public domain (disclosure) after a certain (shorter) time period. If your code is based on something that was already in the public domain, you only get protection for your additions.