To the best of my knowledge, the works themselves are not under any form of copyright. Some scholars have suggested that fact as a reason why printed versions of his plays became very popular very quickly - they could be printed without worrying about copyright.
The First Folio was entered into the Stationer's Register in November of 1623. For all practical purposes, a printer's guild copyright, backed by the crown. The First Folio
I think you'll discover rather broad sweeps of English and American history where Shakespeare's plays are read because they cannot be performed - at least not in the uncensored originals.
Out of curiosity, does anyone actually have the rights to Shakespeare's work (in its original form).
The "original form" doesn't exist.
What we have are incomplete and sometimes contradictory readings based on the manuscripts that found their way into print.
Shakespeare himself was perfectly capable of cutting and splicing scenes that ran too long or got in the way of a successful bit of stage business that appealed to an audience.
His plays will always have to be edited for reading and performance.
1. A true engineer would is proud of the work that they do, therefore not hiding it. Hard to hide a bomb that you are proud of.
The bomb is hidden only until it explodes.
In World War II engineers on all sides showed remarkable pride and ingenuity in devising lethal gadgets for the spy and saboteur.
The plastic explosive molded and dyed to resemble a lump of coal.
3. when they see a security hole, they will point it out instead of abusing it.
The Russians didn't seem to have any trouble recruiting engineers to report on the development of the atomic bomb. The Germans got the Norden bombsight as a gift
4. When they do something, they will tell everyone about it.
Which only means that their lives are often cut short - like Gerald Bull.
The term "Terrorist" has been so deluded that most people will fall into that category anymore. Smoke pot? Terrorist. Downloaded a song? Terrorist. Using SSH? Terrorist.
I think the word you are looking for is "diluted."
But I'll tell you frankly that I've seen this argument used far more as a strawman on Slashdot than in the real world.
No need for Bluetooth to interact with ordinary physical objects.
The "surface" could be sheet glass or plastic purchased from Home Depot.
The core tech - the video camera - is ridiculously cheap. Use "solid state" projection and you have a very rugged and reliable device that could be installed damn near anywhere.
In principle, Surface should be scalable to any size, shape, angle or placement you find useful or decorative.
The OS is off-the-shelf Windows.
The development tools perhaps as simple and accessible as an SDK for Visual Studio Express.
I've always loved the fact that through Yahoo Music (or Rhapsody) you can access any music you'd like via subscription. Greatest Party Toy ever!
Denon has integrated Ethernet, WiFi, vTuner Internet radio and Rhapsody into its high end HT receivers. HD radio is standard. The iPod dock and XM satellite radio optional.
The set-up and programming of one of these beasts should keep a geek usefully occupied for weeks.
It is this sheep mentality that is the reason why the mediocre Harry Potter books, for example, can be huge global bestsellers.
The readers found Harry Potter, not the other way around.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" first appeared in a hardcover edition of 500 copies, most of which went to purchases by public libraries. Early Harry Potter edition fetches $40,000
Its presentation on the retail bookshelf hobbled by one of the most god-awful cover illustrations known to man.
"The "magnitude of Office sales relative to the rest of the PC software market" is phenomenal. It's the massively huge tail wagging the dog."
"The talk [around SharePoint] is getting strategic now, and people are talking about it as a middleware decision. MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 is the fastest growing product in the company's history."
"Just four years ago, the majority of revenue came from North America. Now, 60 percent of sales are outside the United States. For the quarter, Microsoft sales increased 30 percent in emerging markets, 20 percent in established markets like Europe and 15 percent in the United States."
Basically, what they just did was to retroactively standardize 20 years of legacy document formats.
explain to me why such a pragmatic decision should come as a surprise to anyone. or, to put the question another way, how many industrial standards simply rationalize practices of long standing?
But witness that recent brand-awareness survey. As understanding of the computer world seeps into mainstream conciousness, MSFT's rotten practices are coming back to haunt them.
The surveys that Microsoft cares about tend to look more like these:
In the Net Applications stats you'll find Vista winning a healthy 14% share of the market and Linux neatly sandwiched between Win NT and Win 98 with a 0.61% share.
Governments either built all the infrastructure or heavily subsidized telecom companies to do it.
the telcommunications infrastructure in the states has been privately built from the beginning.
now and again the federal government might throw a few pennies to the rural co-op. it may keep a service like Iridium afloat.
but any deeper involvement than negotiating an eeasement along a public right-of-way is more likely to ignite a brutal political firefight between the left and the right.
For this silly claim 18 to be taken seriously, the judge will essentially have to decide
(a) that the RIAA's information collection practices are criminal...
(b) that by virtue of doing any investigation, the RIAA is acting illegally...
[c] the RIAA is doing something bad (in protecting intellectual property rights that are assigned to them...but we have no proof and so we're filing frivolous claims to get as much information as possible so we can see what it is that they've done that's wrong
The judge narrows claims to the specific - definable - actions which injured you. You almost never get the chance to frame yourself as a member of an injured class or to paint the defendant's misconduct with the broadest of brushes.
will force us into a proper re-evaluation of self-appointed standards bodies and the standards they whore around.
In the real world this translates to nothing more than the acceptance of the de facto standards of the marketplace. The entrepreneur will always move faster than the committee - he'll be at light speed before the committee is out of first gear.
the more interesting provisions in it is in the 18th claim, which seeks to stop the RIAA from 'continuing to engage in criminal investigation of private American citizens'
The first thing a judge does is strip your case down to its essemtials.
The broader the reach and more fanciful your demands, the more quickly they disappear from view.
- - and never faster then when you try to persuade a court to make policy decisions in criminal law when they are hearing a civil case.
I see no constitutional barriers to the launch of a private criminal investigation. There was, after all, no such thing as a paid, professional, police force in the U.S. before 1845. Police History
The Pinkerton Detective - "The eye that never sleeps" - dates from 1850.
Slashdot Mirror
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The First Folio was entered into the Stationer's Register in November of 1623. For all practical purposes, a printer's guild copyright, backed by the crown. The First Folio
I think you'll discover rather broad sweeps of English and American history where Shakespeare's plays are read because they cannot be performed - at least not in the uncensored originals.
Then you won't mind if I "borrow" your bank card. The balance on your account is, after all, nothing more than an entry in a ledger.
There is a profound difference between knowledge and understanding.
You may know the facts, or at least think you do. But there is no engagement, no passion, in an encounter with a textbook.
The "original form" doesn't exist.
What we have are incomplete and sometimes contradictory readings based on the manuscripts that found their way into print.
Shakespeare himself was perfectly capable of cutting and splicing scenes that ran too long or got in the way of a successful bit of stage business that appealed to an audience.
His plays will always have to be edited for reading and performance.
I'll take it as given that you have never attended a lecture or audited a course taught by a firs-rate teacher.
The bomb is hidden only until it explodes.
In World War II engineers on all sides showed remarkable pride and ingenuity in devising lethal gadgets for the spy and saboteur.
The plastic explosive molded and dyed to resemble a lump of coal.
3. when they see a security hole, they will point it out instead of abusing it.
The Russians didn't seem to have any trouble recruiting engineers to report on the development of the atomic bomb. The Germans got the Norden bombsight as a gift
4. When they do something, they will tell everyone about it.
Which only means that their lives are often cut short - like Gerald Bull.
I think the word you are looking for is "diluted."
But I'll tell you frankly that I've seen this argument used far more as a strawman on Slashdot than in the real world.
Nothing at all.
The tabletop is just a tabletop - used as a rear projection screen.
I can think of many reasons why you want a system that could interact with a service animal or companion.
considering the pounding the Enterprise bridge is expected to endure ... does anyone else think a touch sensitive interface is incredibly stupid?
LCARS didn't seem to have any visible interlocks or physical barriers.
one slip of your fingers brings downs the shields, puts the engines into reverse, and jettisons the warp core.
It can read a dot or bar code.
No need for Bluetooth to interact with ordinary physical objects.
The "surface" could be sheet glass or plastic purchased from Home Depot.
The core tech - the video camera - is ridiculously cheap. Use "solid state" projection and you have a very rugged and reliable device that could be installed damn near anywhere.
In principle, Surface should be scalable to any size, shape, angle or placement you find useful or decorative.
The OS is off-the-shelf Windows.
The development tools perhaps as simple and accessible as an SDK for Visual Studio Express.
Tabletop Projection
Microsoft Surface: consumer version in 2011? [March 26]
Denon has integrated Ethernet, WiFi, vTuner Internet radio and Rhapsody into its high end HT receivers. HD radio is standard. The iPod dock and XM satellite radio optional.
The set-up and programming of one of these beasts should keep a geek usefully occupied for weeks.
The readers found Harry Potter, not the other way around.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" first appeared in a hardcover edition of 500 copies, most of which went to purchases by public libraries. Early Harry Potter edition fetches $40,000
Its presentation on the retail bookshelf hobbled by one of the most god-awful cover illustrations known to man.
Repetition becomes tedious.
But the Slashdot Geek seems to live within a bubble that no outside force can penetrate - without, of course, being modded down into oblivion.
"But, frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn."
Here are the links again, whether you like them or not:
MS Office
The Year of Office 2007
Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
"The "magnitude of Office sales relative to the rest of the PC software market" is phenomenal. It's the massively huge tail wagging the dog."
"The talk [around SharePoint] is getting strategic now, and people are talking about it as a middleware decision. MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 is the fastest growing product in the company's history."
MS Financial
Microsoft Q2 2008 by the Numbers
"Just four years ago, the majority of revenue came from North America. Now, 60 percent of sales are outside the United States. For the quarter, Microsoft sales increased 30 percent in emerging markets, 20 percent in established markets like Europe and 15 percent in the United States."
OS Market Share [Net Applications]
March 2008
OS Share Trend May 2007 - March 2008
OS Share Trend By Versions May 2007-March 2008
MS Vista 14% Up 10% from May 07
Win XP 82% Down 9%
OSX 8% Up 1%
Linux 0.6% Up 0.2%
In the familiar W3Schools stats it took Vista six months to grow from a 2% to 4% market share.
Linux five years.
the mp3 is never introduced as evidence simply because those cases are settled out of court.
in criminal law the standard is proof beyond a "reasonable" doubt. absolute certainty is not possible and absolute certainty is not demanded.
Here is a hint: Sun doesn't provide staff and funding for OO.org simply out of the goodness of its heart.
explain to me why such a pragmatic decision should come as a surprise to anyone. or, to put the question another way, how many industrial standards simply rationalize practices of long standing?
The surveys that Microsoft cares about tend to look more like these:
The Year of Office 2007
Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
Microsoft Q2 2008 by the Numbers
Top Operating System Versions Share Trend for May, 2007 to March, 2008, Top Operating System Share Trend for May, 2007 to March, 2008 , Operating System Market Share for March, 2008
In the Net Applications stats you'll find Vista winning a healthy 14% share of the market and Linux neatly sandwiched between Win NT and Win 98 with a 0.61% share.
the telcommunications infrastructure in the states has been privately built from the beginning.
now and again the federal government might throw a few pennies to the rural co-op. it may keep a service like Iridium afloat.
but any deeper involvement than negotiating an eeasement along a public right-of-way is more likely to ignite a brutal political firefight between the left and the right.
What public funds?
The telecommunications infrastructure in the states is and always has been privately funded. [The rare city-owned phone company notwithstanding.]
Western Union was offering transcontinental telegraph service in 1861. AT&T long-distance telephone service from New York to Chicago in 1892.
RDS in the EU defines twenty nine programs for broadcast.
vTuner - built into Denon's high end HT receivers - organizes 11,000 internet radio stations into about fifty categories of music and talk.
The odds that the geek will have anything meaningful to about music outside the bare handful of genres that appeal to him personally is negligible.
(a) that the RIAA's information collection practices are criminal...
(b) that by virtue of doing any investigation, the RIAA is acting illegally...
[c] the RIAA is doing something bad (in protecting intellectual property rights that are assigned to them...but we have no proof and so we're filing frivolous claims to get as much information as possible so we can see what it is that they've done that's wrong
The judge narrows claims to the specific - definable - actions which injured you. You almost never get the chance to frame yourself as a member of an injured class or to paint the defendant's misconduct with the broadest of brushes.
In the real world this translates to nothing more than the acceptance of the de facto standards of the marketplace. The entrepreneur will always move faster than the committee - he'll be at light speed before the committee is out of first gear.
The first thing a judge does is strip your case down to its essemtials.
The broader the reach and more fanciful your demands, the more quickly they disappear from view.
- - and never faster then when you try to persuade a court to make policy decisions in criminal law when they are hearing a civil case.
I see no constitutional barriers to the launch of a private criminal investigation. There was, after all, no such thing as a paid, professional, police force in the U.S. before 1845. Police History
The Pinkerton Detective - "The eye that never sleeps" - dates from 1850.