The lever type voting machine was introduced in Lockport, NY, in 1892.
The curtain gave you privacy, the decisive pull of a lever gave visual, audio and tactile feedback, mechanical interlocks preventing the simple mistakes that could void a ballet, and you could make as many changes as you wished before leaving the booth. Tampering with the tally required internal access to the machines and was relatively easy to detect.
There is something to be said for these aging, all-but-indestructible, behemoths, still in use in Niagara County, where tabulations are rarely seriously contested.
I doubt that Outhouse Excess's marketshare is quite as high as IE's
But it must be mighty damn close. Outlook Express was introduced in 1997 with IE4. It is reasonable to assume that Outlook or Outlook Express shipped as the default e-mail program with every Windows PC still in service, by some estimates, that would be 300 millon.
If it does, you can assure I won't be using it. I won't be using longhorn neither.
DRM media distribution in this context essentially means distribution to the home market, where Linux has a presence only as in embedded O/S in devices that do support DRM. DRM'd content, like Microsoft, isn't going away.
It would help if Freenet abandoned the absolutist position that anything on the network must be allowed residence/transit through your system. That is further than I want to go, further than it may be safe for me to go.
You find a new way to recruit talent and raise the bucketloads of cash needed to produce a series like Firefly and then we can talk about outdated business models. But not before.
"Plausible deniability" is not a phrase an attorney wants to hear. The argument is usually transparently fraudulent and will win him no points before a judge or a jury.
The big deal is that if you are caught running a big mp3 server you are dead meat pretty much everywhere. In the U.S. that can mean an appearance in federal criminal court on a felony charge of copyright infringement.
And how do you think the US amounted to anything? Yup, by flounting international copywright and patent law. In the early days, the US ripped technical feats off, and sold un-royaltied literature at cheap, cheap (warez-ed) prices. That is how countries get started.
When the U.S. got started there was no international patent or copyright law. British inventions were protected by export controls with very large criminal penalties.
Dickens argued for copyright protection in his american tour of 1842. This was an industrial America energized by the introduction of steam power, the railroad, and the telegraph. Much of this development financed in London. 1860 would be last year in which the rural population held a bare majority. We are not talking third-world here.
The pirating of foreign works was hurting american authors. Why pay at home for what you can steal from abroad?
Steamboat Willy (which is the first appearance of Mickey Mouse, if you didn't know.)
Steamboat Willy (1928) was the Mouse's first talking picture, released after his silent debut in Plane Crazy (1928.)
You see, once upon a time, the idea of "intellectual property" and "copyright", would've been laughed at.
Shakespeare's plays were closely held in his lifetime because they were the prime assets of his company and defined their market. It was equally essential to have an aristocratic patron who could not be imposed upon lightly. Different means to the same end. The First Folio was printed in 1623, in ten years the Puritans would close the last of the theaters. Publication preserves his work, but only 500 or so readers have access.
Intellectual property is a middle class conception, meaning that it serves the interests of those whose livelihood depends on their own creative talents, middle class in it's insistence that the law is the final arbiter of property rights, not the nobility, not the church and certainly not the mob, middle class in it's demand for arguments a tad less new age and nebulous than talk of an impoverished myth spring. I suspect that the idea of intellectual property is as old as the middle class itself.
Consider all the properties that were copyrighted in 1928, books, films, photograps, sheet music, etc., how many survive in print, how many survive at all? We have Steamboat Willy because it was and remains in Disney's interest to preserve it. You cannot legally produce a work that is explicitly a derivative of the Mouse without Disney's consent. You can find in Steamboat Willie inspiration for an independent work of art.
As for the kids... if this stuff is supposed to engender creativity, it should reward creators, not their children and grandchildren. If someone's great-grandson wants to live like Grandpa the Inventor, then great-grandson should become an inventor. That encourages creativity.
Creative talents are driven in part a desire to provide for their children. That doesn't make them greedy, it makes them human, ask an actor or actress to explain what part residuals play in their financial planning.
What gives people incentive to work on Open Source projects? Hint: It's not the length of the copyright, I can promise you that.
I have wondered at times about the demographics of open source.
How many programmers leave the game after they quit school, get married, take on a full-time job, buy a house, have kids? There will always be room at the top for superstars like Linux, with free-spending corporate sponsors. But who occupies the middle ground and the lower, where the rewards are less visible and the future less secure?
Barrie assigned the rights to Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity in 1929. Peter Pan will remain forever under copyright in the UK, under special legislation passed in 1988. Under the revised rules, European copyright expires in 2007, US coyright in 2023. Peter Pan Copyright
Bambi was released in 1942. The Bambi copyright was not secured until 1926. Disney fought and won on the issue of a "timely renewal" of the coyright in 1954. Amelia Translation Project
1) Find a classic story with expired copyrights.
2) Whitewash it until it can't offend anyone.
3) Use its mass media engine to make it ubiquitous
4) Copyright their neutered version of the public domain work, and pay the government to keep it copyrighted in perpetuity
How does any of this stop you from producing your own version of The Wind in the Willows, Robin Hood, Zorro, The Three Muskeeters, Treasure Island, or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Oh, wait, no, it doesn't.
It struck me the other day that widescreen DVDs were getting prime shelf space at our neighborhood drugstore. You will not find much better evidence of mainstream acceptance than this.
You can configure FireFix to run from a keychain USB drive
now all you need is an accessible USB port, something your boss may not be willing to give you...and a wife who thinks Firefox was worth your getting the chop a month before Christmas.
BTW, is there any way to get Kazaa to not install a metric ton of adware, so I can stop yelling at people to not install it?
Sure there is. You shell out $20 or so for the add-free "pro" version.
Face it, IRC's pretty damn geeky.
It depends on when you got started and where your interests lie. I've been using mIRC since '96 and know users who are in their mid seventies and older. There are still people out there using MS's jargon-free Comic Chat client.
Sure. Is there really a nationwide oil pipeline system in the US that covers most major populated areas?
There were interstate oil pipelines completed or under construction before World War II. U-Boat attacks on coastal tankers accelerated the process. Today, there are 200,000 miles of oil pipelines and 2/3 of US oil is transported by pipeline. Houston to New York, the cost is about $1 a barrel, or 2 1/2 cents a gallon at retail. Association of Oil Pipelines
The USS YORKTOWN will be holding a decommissioning ceremony on 03 December 2004, at 1000, onboard NAVAL STATION PASCAGOULA MS. Further questions may be emailed to decom@yorktown.navy.mil.USS Yorktown CG-48
The Yorktown is the fifth vessel to bear the name and has been in service for twenty years. She has had a lively career and an excellent reputation, in which a testbed Smart Ship failure in 1997 would rank as a demerit only on Slashdot. CG 48 Yorktown
It would seem that success in a combat environment is not beyond Windows.
Because as we all know, all those Linux and BSD users out there are all desperate for a DX 9 card
DX9 implies OGL support at approximately the same level, and a lot of Linux users dual-boot. But that is just gravy. There are cards at the $50 price point that will outperform this "open hardware" card even with hacked Linux drivers.
If you'd read-up on this subject, you'd have seen that these folk *do* know their hardware.
but this would seem to be their first venture into the general PC market. meaning they have no experience competing against el cheapo integrated video, low end cards from ATI and nVidia.
a babe-in-the-woods, a company that is relying on faith-based market research and manna from heaven, free labor and hard cash from the open source community.
These single size fits all solutions are typical of the military
what did you expect? the services standardize everything to keep the machine in motion. you do not hand out weapons to reservists in Iraq that are different from those they trained with in the Carolinas.
There is a market for this card. No it isn't a huge market
Shop around, and you can find an OEM DX 9 card with 256 MB DDR RAM for around $90 US. Tell me how you get your "open hardware" card on the market at a price anyone will be willing to pay.
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The curtain gave you privacy, the decisive pull of a lever gave visual, audio and tactile feedback, mechanical interlocks preventing the simple mistakes that could void a ballet, and you could make as many changes as you wished before leaving the booth. Tampering with the tally required internal access to the machines and was relatively easy to detect.
There is something to be said for these aging, all-but-indestructible, behemoths, still in use in Niagara County, where tabulations are rarely seriously contested.
But it must be mighty damn close. Outlook Express was introduced in 1997 with IE4.
It is reasonable to assume that Outlook or Outlook Express shipped as the default e-mail program with every Windows PC still in service, by some estimates, that would be 300 millon.
DRM media distribution in this context essentially means distribution to the home market, where Linux has a presence only as in embedded O/S in devices that do support DRM. DRM'd content, like Microsoft, isn't going away.
It would help if Freenet abandoned the absolutist position that anything on the network must be allowed residence/transit through your system. That is further than I want to go, further than it may be safe for me to go.
You find a new way to recruit talent and raise the bucketloads of cash needed to produce a series like Firefly and then we can talk about outdated business models. But not before.
"Plausible deniability" is not a phrase an attorney wants to hear. The argument is usually transparently fraudulent and will win him no points before a judge or a jury.
The big deal is that if you are caught running a big mp3 server you are dead meat pretty much everywhere. In the U.S. that can mean an appearance in federal criminal court on a felony charge of copyright infringement.
Interesting only to the insignificant numbers of MSN users who care about bloat.
Looks like I'm going to migrate back to IRC.
Don't forget to write.
When the U.S. got started there was no international patent or copyright law. British inventions were protected by export controls with very large criminal penalties.
Dickens argued for copyright protection in his american tour of 1842. This was an industrial America energized by the introduction of steam power, the railroad, and the telegraph. Much of this development financed in London. 1860 would be last year in which the rural population held a bare majority. We are not talking third-world here.
The pirating of foreign works was hurting american authors. Why pay at home for what you can steal from abroad?
Steamboat Willy (1928) was the Mouse's first talking picture, released after his silent debut in Plane Crazy (1928.)
You see, once upon a time, the idea of "intellectual property" and "copyright", would've been laughed at.
Shakespeare's plays were closely held in his lifetime because they were the prime assets of his company and defined their market. It was equally essential to have an aristocratic patron who could not be imposed upon lightly. Different means to the same end. The First Folio was printed in 1623, in ten years the Puritans would close the last of the theaters. Publication preserves his work, but only 500 or so readers have access.
Intellectual property is a middle class conception, meaning that it serves the interests of those whose livelihood depends on their own creative talents, middle class in it's insistence that the law is the final arbiter of property rights, not the nobility, not the church and certainly not the mob, middle class in it's demand for arguments a tad less new age and nebulous than talk of an impoverished myth spring. I suspect that the idea of intellectual property is as old as the middle class itself.
Consider all the properties that were copyrighted in 1928, books, films, photograps, sheet music, etc., how many survive in print, how many survive at all? We have Steamboat Willy because it was and remains in Disney's interest to preserve it. You cannot legally produce a work that is explicitly a derivative of the Mouse without Disney's consent. You can find in Steamboat Willie inspiration for an independent work of art.
Creative talents are driven in part a desire to provide for their children. That doesn't make them greedy, it makes them human, ask an actor or actress to explain what part residuals play in their financial planning.
What gives people incentive to work on Open Source projects? Hint: It's not the length of the copyright, I can promise you that.
I have wondered at times about the demographics of open source.
How many programmers leave the game after they quit school, get married, take on a full-time job, buy a house, have kids? There will always be room at the top for superstars like Linux, with free-spending corporate sponsors. But who occupies the middle ground and the lower, where the rewards are less visible and the future less secure?
Bambi was released in 1942. The Bambi copyright was not secured until 1926. Disney fought and won on the issue of a "timely renewal" of the coyright in 1954. Amelia Translation Project
2) Whitewash it until it can't offend anyone.
3) Use its mass media engine to make it ubiquitous
4) Copyright their neutered version of the public domain work, and pay the government to keep it copyrighted in perpetuity
How does any of this stop you from producing your own version of The Wind in the Willows, Robin Hood, Zorro, The Three Muskeeters, Treasure Island, or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Oh, wait, no, it doesn't.
So it turns out that Havenco and Sealand are fantasies that didn't survive contact with the real world. Why am I not surprised?
It struck me the other day that widescreen DVDs were getting prime shelf space at our neighborhood drugstore.
You will not find much better evidence of mainstream acceptance than this.
pissing off your major trading partners is bad for business.
now all you need is an accessible USB port, something your boss may not be willing to give you...and a wife who thinks Firefox was worth your getting the chop a month before Christmas.
Sure there is. You shell out $20 or so for the add-free "pro" version.
Face it, IRC's pretty damn geeky.
It depends on when you got started and where your interests lie. I've been using mIRC since '96 and know users who are in their mid seventies and older. There are still people out there using MS's jargon-free Comic Chat client.
There were interstate oil pipelines completed or under construction before World War II. U-Boat attacks on coastal tankers accelerated the process. Today, there are 200,000 miles of oil pipelines and 2/3 of US oil is transported by pipeline. Houston to New York, the cost is about $1 a barrel, or 2 1/2 cents a gallon at retail. Association of Oil Pipelines
The Yorktown is the fifth vessel to bear the name and has been in service for twenty years. She has had a lively career and an excellent reputation, in which a testbed Smart Ship failure in 1997 would rank as a demerit only on Slashdot. CG 48 Yorktown
It would seem that success in a combat environment is not beyond Windows.
DX9 implies OGL support at approximately the same level, and a lot of Linux users dual-boot. But that is just gravy. There are cards at the $50 price point that will outperform this "open hardware" card even with hacked Linux drivers.
but this would seem to be their first venture into the general PC market. meaning they have no experience competing against el cheapo integrated video, low end cards from ATI and nVidia.
a babe-in-the-woods, a company that is relying on faith-based market research and manna from heaven, free labor and hard cash from the open source community.
...was that the patent seems to address a very real problem that doesn't have any obvious, well-established, solution.
what did you expect? the services standardize everything to keep the machine in motion. you do not hand out weapons to reservists in Iraq that are different from those they trained with in the Carolinas.
Shop around, and you can find an OEM DX 9 card with 256 MB DDR RAM for around $90 US. Tell me how you get your "open hardware" card on the market at a price anyone will be willing to pay.