Bookstores still charge for Shakespeare books, even though there's no copyright on that
Shakespeare will be copyrighted.
You can't simply reprint the first folio in facsimile and have an edition that will be suitable for casual reading or performance: anyone familiar with Project Gutenberg runs head-on into this wall all the time.
My mother loves to travel to foreign cities where she spends days walking. She is too old to do that so I was thinking that she could rent a segway instead. Do you think that the segway would be useful for the elderly too?
Too old to walk? But stong enough to stand for hours and with the muscular control to handle the scooter? Think again.
Copyright laws are nothing more than a tool of the ruling class to keep freedom and autonomy away from the people. The stifling blockade of draconian laws behind which which the free transmission of ideas is presently locked down is one of the more noxious devices by which the capitalist system perverts human society.
I'll ask you to name one - just one - significant author of lower or middle class origins from the classical to the modern era.
A man who could live and write with freedom without a substantial independent income. A man without the patronage of the the church, the state, the lord of the manor, or the merchant prince.
There are the aristocrats, of course. Men with names like Adams and Jefferson, Parkman and Roosevelt. But there is also Baldwin, Wright and Du Bois, Hammett and Chandler, Lovecraft and Poe, Kaufman and Thurber. London and Steinbeck.
Twenty volumes dedicated to works by women, ten to American journalism, eight to the classics of American Noir, the hard-boiled crime novel with its roots in pulp fiction.
Over sixty volumes of twentieth century fiction, plays and essays. This enormous and engaging body of work the product of a society that is elementally democratic and capitalist to the core. Copyright not copyleft.
the ONLY way to make technically fragile public transit work is to promote an atmosphere where people do not want to attack us,
The fundamental fact driving radical Islam is the 400 year decline of Islamic civilization in competition with the West. What Went Wrong?
off-topic: sattelite broadband for trucks and RVs
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Doing anything with moving vehicles costs real money
Here is an example of an off-the-shelf broadband solution for emergency services, a commercial trucker or the ultimate RV: Magellan Ground Control Priced from $4500-$6600 US. The dish deploys and sets up in about five minutes. Instant Hotspot. But you must be parked. Coverage extends deep into northern Canada, Alaska and northern Mexico.
When the corporations in question can quite brazenly buy politicians and get laws rushed through Congress specifically to make these charges possible, that's quite enough INDIRECT power to give me the shits.
Ask someone in the UK what James Bond and Harry Potter are worth to the British economy. Then take a look at New York, Florida, and California, where the stakes are higher.
Politicians vote the interests of their consituients. Ronald Reagan becomes the President, The Terminator becomes the Governor.
You don't have to bribe Bush to to vote the interests of the Oil Patch. He is the Oil Patch.
The idea of "innocent until proven guilty" (we used to have that in the UK once) should still hold: any copy should be presumed to be permitted under the doctrine of "fair use" unless it can be proved otherwise. And the scope of fair use in the USA is quite broad.
Let me remind you, for what seems like the 10,000th time:
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN QUILTY IS NOT THE STANDARD OF PROOF IN AMERICAN CIVIL LAW.
In the best case, a jury could even decide that P2P filesharing constitutes fair use!
CIVIL JURIES ARE PRSENTED WITH A VERY NARROW FACTUAL QUESTION. THEY DO NOT GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-DEFINE STATUTES OR JUDGE-MADE LAW.
The reality is that your jury will be middle-class, middle-aged, and small-C or big-C conservative. If you expect to find any sympathy here, you are living in a dream world.
In a truly fair legal system, the lawyers would only be paid after all appeals were exhausted and both sides' costs would be borne by the losing party.
Good lord, do you really want to apply such a rule when the plaintiff has pockets as deep as Microsoft or the RIAA?
I think you would have to pass an intelligence test before you should be allowed to have an Internet connection. You should show that you posses the basic common sense that ensures that you won't let your PC be turned into a zombie. Of course, that means that about 80% of the current population would be barred.
I suggest as an alternative that is the Geek who should be tested on his knowledge and commitment to ethical standards and the law before he is allowed access to the net.
This at least strikes against the source of the problem.
The virus, the trojan, malware of every sort, is not the creation of is masses, the non-technical end users.
The correct way to handle this is to remove the conditionals and let MSIE users harass their vendor about the buggy sub-standard software they supplied. That's how it works for every other piece of software, why should IE be any different?
No one hangs around long enough to give a damn about why your site doesn't render properly. There is always another just one click way.
And of course the established music industry only signs really, really good bands to contracts
The majors sign bands that meet certain minimal standards of talent, originality and professional discipline. The show enough promise in their market to warrant an investment of time and money in development.
I remember reading one success story of some jazz musician that was bringing in about $20000 per month from CD sales on mp3.com
You remember stories like these because they make you feel good, not because they are true or even plausible.
The Original Amatuer Hour (The American Idol of 1935) had a twenty year run on radio and TV, of the 15,000 or so who made it to broadcast only Pat Boone and Frank Sinatra emerged as significant talents.
Three million unsigned bands buried within a community the size of MySpace. Give me a break. This is vanity press publishing, nothong more.
It looks like a limited number of beta testers for the beta and for the RC, not "everyone."
From the Vista Team Blog:
# re: It's Official: Windows Vista RC1 Is Complete
Friday, September 01, 2006 2:59 PM by nwhite
Hey everybody: just wanted to clarify that the TechBeta/TAP site is not open to the public, so RC1 is not currently available to you if you're not part of one of those programs.
**However,** we're planning to make RC1 available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers next week, and to the general public shortly thereafter. Also, anyone who participated in testing of Beta 2 will also be given the opportunity to download/order RC1. Windows Vista Team Blog
Would you buy your music on 8-tracks? You know you can still find some at swap meets these days... but eventually your music won't play anymore. Same with ACME Brand DRM.
Eventually we are all dead.
8-Track tapes were disposable media for play in your car.
They broke, they jammed, they melted, You paid for the convenience, not for permanence.
All physical media can be lost to some trivial accident, all physical media degrades in time, all physical media demands storage and maintenance.
Suppose I decide I want to chuck all that and simply maintain an account with a service like Rhapsody? Pay X dollars a year for access to a library of Y million tracks. One click on a playlist programs my Zen for a week or a month.
No time wasted trolling the P2P nets. No settlement costs with the RIAA. Just hour after hour of pristine pro-quality rips.
In RMS's World, software development is a *hobby*, just like solving jigsaw puzzles. Selling sloved jigsaw puzzles shouldn't cross your mind as a way of making a living, even if you're good at it.
Strange.
I would have said that gainful employment is all about solving other people's problems.
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Shakespeare will be copyrighted.
You can't simply reprint the first folio in facsimile and have an edition that will be suitable for casual reading or performance: anyone familiar with Project Gutenberg runs head-on into this wall all the time.
This is likely to be the deal-breaker in any climate less benign and predictable than Hawaii.
Too old to walk? But stong enough to stand for hours and with the muscular control to handle the scooter? Think again.
I'll ask you to name one - just one - significant author of lower or middle class origins from the classical to the modern era.
A man who could live and write with freedom without a substantial independent income. A man without the patronage of the the church, the state, the lord of the manor, or the merchant prince.
I'll ask you next to name the authors in the Library of America.
There are the aristocrats, of course. Men with names like Adams and Jefferson, Parkman and Roosevelt. But there is also Baldwin, Wright and Du Bois, Hammett and Chandler, Lovecraft and Poe, Kaufman and Thurber. London and Steinbeck.
Twenty volumes dedicated to works by women, ten to American journalism, eight to the classics of American Noir, the hard-boiled crime novel with its roots in pulp fiction.
Over sixty volumes of twentieth century fiction, plays and essays. This enormous and engaging body of work the product of a society that is elementally democratic and capitalist to the core. Copyright not copyleft.
because it will spare us twitter and the 500 other predictable Microshaft posts when your sloppy-but-oh-so-innocent JavaScript code gets the boot.
But are they learning if they are not part of the interaction between the teacher and the class?
No questions asked, none answered.
The fundamental fact driving radical Islam is the 400 year decline of Islamic civilization in competition with the West. What Went Wrong?
Here is an example of an off-the-shelf broadband solution for emergency services, a commercial trucker or the ultimate RV: Magellan Ground Control Priced from $4500-$6600 US. The dish deploys and sets up in about five minutes. Instant Hotspot. But you must be parked. Coverage extends deep into northern Canada, Alaska and northern Mexico.
Ask someone in the UK what James Bond and Harry Potter are worth to the British economy. Then take a look at New York, Florida, and California, where the stakes are higher.
Politicians vote the interests of their consituients. Ronald Reagan becomes the President, The Terminator becomes the Governor.
You don't have to bribe Bush to to vote the interests of the Oil Patch. He is the Oil Patch.
Let me remind you, for what seems like the 10,000th time:
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN QUILTY IS NOT THE STANDARD OF PROOF IN AMERICAN CIVIL LAW.
In the best case, a jury could even decide that P2P filesharing constitutes fair use!
CIVIL JURIES ARE PRSENTED WITH A VERY NARROW FACTUAL QUESTION. THEY DO NOT GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO RE-DEFINE STATUTES OR JUDGE-MADE LAW.
The reality is that your jury will be middle-class, middle-aged, and small-C or big-C conservative. If you expect to find any sympathy here, you are living in a dream world.
In a truly fair legal system, the lawyers would only be paid after all appeals were exhausted and both sides' costs would be borne by the losing party.
Good lord, do you really want to apply such a rule when the plaintiff has pockets as deep as Microsoft or the RIAA?
I suggest as an alternative that is the Geek who should be tested on his knowledge and commitment to ethical standards and the law before he is allowed access to the net.
This at least strikes against the source of the problem. The virus, the trojan, malware of every sort, is not the creation of is masses, the non-technical end users.
Joe simply wants to be connected to the Nascar site. If the browser can point him in the right direction, that is exactly what he wants it to do.
how many of Earthlink's customers do you suppose heve the foggiest notion of what a DNS server is or does or knows how to set up an alternative?
I saw some minor glitches in rendering in the public betas. But no show-stoppers so far in RC 1.
Classic mode is more or less identified with W2K. But W2K was never mass market.
I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that most users don't know and don't care that there is an alternative to "Luna."
If you anyone but a Geek, the answer is, and always will be, "Yes!"
Popularity solves too many problems for the user for the decision to go any other way.
Protected Mode in Vista IE7, Windows Vista and Parental Controls in IE7, and Vista only network diagnostic tools.
No one hangs around long enough to give a damn about why your site doesn't render properly.
There is always another just one click way.
Name one, male or female.
With better credentials that the Hollywood A-list. Stars like Johnny Depp, for example.
The majors sign bands that meet certain minimal standards of talent, originality and professional discipline. The show enough promise in their market to warrant an investment of time and money in development.
You remember stories like these because they make you feel good, not because they are true or even plausible.
The Original Amatuer Hour (The American Idol of 1935) had a twenty year run on radio and TV, of the 15,000 or so who made it to broadcast only Pat Boone and Frank Sinatra emerged as significant talents.
Three million unsigned bands buried within a community the size of MySpace. Give me a break. This is vanity press publishing, nothong more.
From the Vista Team Blog:
# re: It's Official: Windows Vista RC1 Is Complete
Friday, September 01, 2006 2:59 PM by nwhite
Hey everybody: just wanted to clarify that the TechBeta/TAP site is not open to the public, so RC1 is not currently available to you if you're not part of one of those programs.
**However,** we're planning to make RC1 available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers next week, and to
the general public shortly thereafter. Also, anyone who participated in testing of Beta 2 will also be given the opportunity to download/order RC1. Windows Vista Team Blog
Dell's Back-To-School special was a $279 XP Home system. Word Perfect. Monitor. One-Year Warranty. You can't get much cheaper than that.
Eventually we are all dead.
8-Track tapes were disposable media for play in your car.
They broke, they jammed, they melted, You paid for the convenience, not for permanence.
All physical media can be lost to some trivial accident, all physical media degrades in time, all physical media demands storage and maintenance.
Suppose I decide I want to chuck all that and simply maintain an account with a service like Rhapsody? Pay X dollars a year for access to a library of Y million tracks. One click on a playlist programs my Zen for a week or a month.
No time wasted trolling the P2P nets. No settlement costs with the RIAA. Just hour after hour of pristine pro-quality rips.
Tell me exactly what it is that I have lost.
Strange.
I would have said that gainful employment is all about solving other people's problems.