I'd be willing to bet the concept of IP exists in China, it's just that IP is owned by the state instead of private corporations.
The government can absorb IP rights in the interests of state security. But in general you'll find few surprises here. Laws and Regulations (Intellectual Property Rights)
Mainstream press is starting to figure out that MS-Windows dominance will last only another 2- 4 years and that only because of the enormous marketing and lobbying engine that MS is.
Closer reading of the article suggests that it will be 2-4 years before Linux becomes competitive with Windows. The year of Linux always seems to be 2-4 years in the future.
Keep in mind that China is a Communist country and any concept of intellectual property is relatively novel.
Laws and Regulations provides links to English language translations of the Chinese law of copyright, trademarks, patents, etc. There is not much here that would look unfamiliar to the U.S. or any of it's major trading partners. No one is expecting any immeadiate changes on the street, but building a solid IP portfolio is beginning to look like a good business practice even in China. Microsoft Notebook: Piracy battle is key in China
"Qualified Education Customers who have acquired licenses through Microsoft's Academic Volume Licensing programs may grant to their faculty and staff the right to use a second copy of a limited selection of products on either a home or portable computer for work-related purposes."
"Work at Home Rights for Campus Agreement and School Agreement customers are available for all application, system, and CAL products at no extra cost." Work at Home Rights (last updated Nov. 11, 2004)
Tell me how evidence in the Novell case becomes admissible in any other case. Novell is permitted to probe only as deep as is needed to make it's own case. It cannot become a fact-finder for others. Tell me why once a final decision or settlement is reached either party is obligated to maintain the records from which the evidence in the case was drawn.
I don't "get" the Funny mod here. This is Microsoft cutting another big deal to provide a set-top box for a major service provider. SBC Communications Inc (SBC) Hereabouts, broadband cable has become synomonous with Windows XP. The number of subscribers running an alternative O/S is scarcely worth mentioning.
Burst.com is a penny stock company with no employees, no product and no discernible assets except a lawsuit against Microsoft, a company kept afloat by speculators --- gamblers --- in the lawsuit lottery game who believe a pot of gold lies at the end of that particlar rainbow. Burst.com's streaming snake oil
Seriously though, instead of just making a blanket statement, care to explain why morale hinges on whether or not you have a screensaver or computer background set a certain way? I'm not trying to pick a fight. I really am curious. What difference does it make?
It means that you are a distinct individiual and not merely the occupant of a featureless cubicle. It means that you are encouraged to customize the tools with which you must work, within reasonable limits. It means that the word "luser" isn't part of your vocabulary as a system administrator.
Sure, the networks have based their businesses on selling airtime to advertisers, but whose fault is that? They have an archaic business plan, one which is going the way of the buggy whip.
These are the alternatives:
1 Free television disappears and every local broadcaster becomes a multichannel DRM'd subscription service.
2 Sponsorship is embedded into program content, product placement dictates content, shows and stars are identified and bound to their sponsors and the advertising agencies are in complete control. This is how radio broadcasting was structured in the 1930s and 1940s, television in the 1950s.
For every episode of Maverick, Studio One or The Twilight Zone you get a hundred of Ozzie and Harriet.
You can't even get a telephone to work very far unless you have some sort of amplification (unless you yell really loudly into one end, and hear something very faint at the other -some 50 feet away).
There were 48,000 telephones in the U.S. by 1880. Long-distance service between New York and Chicago began in 1892. You can use electro-mechanical devices as amplifiers: imagine placing an earphone next to a microphone.
Motor driven spark-gap transmitters and diode "cystal set" receivers were in common use long after the invention of the vacuum tube. Marconi's transmitters were immense, resembling nothing so much as a power station. The regenerative receiver was a critical advance, but tubes were short-lived and expensive.
Morse (CW) has the advantage of being easy to read in a weak signal or a noisy environment and the hardware requirements and costs are minimal. Morse code isn't bound to radio or the telegraph. You can use it with flags, a horn, a whistle, a flashlight, a mirror, almost anything, really.
In the enviroments where CW and Morse endured the longest, this was generally considered a plus.
The problem is, a diversified corporation like Disney can survive many failures and still keep it's artistic and financial independence. But if you have only five backlist titles and no independent sources of revenue, taking a $100 million loss on a single film like Treasure Planet can kill you.
Open your Sunday papers. Thanksgiving is next week. Half-Life 2 is on the shelves. You won't find a single PC advertised which doesn't ship with XP-SP2 and Internet Explorer as the default browser. That has been the reality since August of 2001. XP has 60% of the market and it's share has been growing at the rate of about 2% a month all year.
Slashdot may be moving their friends, family, co-workers and pets, to Firefox at a furious pace, but, statistically, it probably doesn't add up to a damn thing.
For the curious that quote comes from Heinlein's first published story, Life-line.
---in which the inventor who would change the world is murdered and all records of his invention destroyed.
The gadget, for those of you who haven't read the story, could probe the future and determine with 100% accuracy the time and date of your death. No one mourns it's loss.
As an example, my alma mater (University of Toronto) hosted eugenics conferences in the 1930s -- an egregious example of where credibility can be misused. 'This is obviously leading scientific theory if UofT is sponsoring this research!!!'"
Eugenics was mainstream in the 20's and 30's. To oppose it effectively demanded both intellectual rigor and a forceful presence on the public stage, neither of which is encouraged by the democratic consensus of the Wikipedia.
I imagine that an Encyclopedia written this century is a rare find.
The hardcover edition of the EB (in print since 1768) is revised annually and available on DVD-ROM. Hardcover EB annuals have been published since 1938. The World Book, which has always been closely tied to the school curriculum in the states, and written at the level subjects are introduced in the classroom, has been around since 1917.
Essays in the Brittanica are reviewed for style and content, signed by their authors and have now and again been proven historically significant in their own right. Bruno Bettelheim writing on the psychology of the German death camps, Einstein on the physics of Relativity. The EB has been many things in it's 200+ years of existence, but a haven for mediocrity, a "democratic" consensus, it is not.
So why use relays, which are slower and less reliable?
Telephone switches and relays were reliable and remanined in service for decades. Bell had a functional elecro-mechanical calculator using 450 relays with teletytpe output in 1939. Ballistic calculators built for WWII had 9000 relays, and there lies the problem. 9000 vacuum tube relays are power-hungry, hard to cool and need constant replacement.
I would expect this sort of thing from Microsoft, Sony, maybe Apple (or Sun, my kind employer). But isn't Google supposed to be above this sort of crap?
Google is a business, not a charity. It exists to make money and for no other reason.
so there you have it, the kids know so why don't you ? all this company are doing is screwing the USA, the other 191 countries will carry on without you
It has been a long time since commercial farmers have harvested their own seeds. Ferry-Morse has been in the business since 1856, Burpee since the 1880s. Contemporaries of Mendel and Darwin. Free seed doesn't mean much to a farmer if yields are low, crops are vulnerable to insects and diseases, perishable, labor-intensive, difficult to market.
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The government can absorb IP rights in the interests of state security. But in general you'll find few surprises here. Laws and Regulations (Intellectual Property Rights)
Closer reading of the article suggests that it will be 2-4 years before Linux becomes competitive with Windows. The year of Linux always seems to be 2-4 years in the future.
Laws and Regulations provides links to English language translations of the Chinese law of copyright, trademarks, patents, etc. There is not much here that would look unfamiliar to the U.S. or any of it's major trading partners. No one is expecting any immeadiate changes on the street, but building a solid IP portfolio is beginning to look like a good business practice even in China. Microsoft Notebook: Piracy battle is key in China
"Qualified Education Customers who have acquired licenses through Microsoft's Academic Volume Licensing programs may grant to their faculty and staff the right to use a second copy of a limited selection of products on either a home or portable computer for work-related purposes."
"Work at Home Rights for Campus Agreement and School Agreement customers are available for all application, system, and CAL products at no extra cost." Work at Home Rights (last updated Nov. 11, 2004)
Tell me how evidence in the Novell case becomes admissible in any other case. Novell is permitted to probe only as deep as is needed to make it's own case. It cannot become a fact-finder for others. Tell me why once a final decision or settlement is reached either party is obligated to maintain the records from which the evidence in the case was drawn.
I don't "get" the Funny mod here. This is Microsoft cutting another big deal to provide a set-top box for a major service provider. SBC Communications Inc (SBC) Hereabouts, broadband cable has become synomonous with Windows XP. The number of subscribers running an alternative O/S is scarcely worth mentioning.
Burst.com is a penny stock company with no employees, no product and no discernible assets except a lawsuit against Microsoft, a company kept afloat by speculators --- gamblers --- in the lawsuit lottery game who believe a pot of gold lies at the end of that particlar rainbow. Burst.com's streaming snake oil
It means that you are a distinct individiual and not merely the occupant of a featureless cubicle. It means that you are encouraged to customize the tools with which you must work, within reasonable limits. It means that the word "luser" isn't part of your vocabulary as a system administrator.
which is why morale within the cubicles hits rock bottom whenever the system nazis take charge.
Yeah, but it's the i-Pod that gets all the attention.
Quick, now, name three mass market retailers that are out pushing the Mac this holiday season.
These are the alternatives:
1 Free television disappears and every local broadcaster becomes a multichannel DRM'd subscription service.
2 Sponsorship is embedded into program content, product placement dictates content, shows and stars are identified and bound to their sponsors and the advertising agencies are in complete control. This is how radio broadcasting was structured in the 1930s and 1940s, television in the 1950s.
For every episode of Maverick, Studio One or The Twilight Zone you get a hundred of Ozzie and Harriet.
There were 48,000 telephones in the U.S. by 1880. Long-distance service between New York and Chicago began in 1892. You can use electro-mechanical devices as amplifiers: imagine placing an earphone next to a microphone.
Motor driven spark-gap transmitters and diode "cystal set" receivers were in common use long after the invention of the vacuum tube. Marconi's transmitters were immense, resembling nothing so much as a power station. The regenerative receiver was a critical advance, but tubes were short-lived and expensive.
Morse (CW) has the advantage of being easy to read in a weak signal or a noisy environment and the hardware requirements and costs are minimal. Morse code isn't bound to radio or the telegraph. You can use it with flags, a horn, a whistle, a flashlight, a mirror, almost anything, really.
In the enviroments where CW and Morse endured the longest, this was generally considered a plus.
The problem is, a diversified corporation like Disney can survive many failures and still keep it's artistic and financial independence. But if you have only five backlist titles and no independent sources of revenue, taking a $100 million loss on a single film like Treasure Planet can kill you.
Open your Sunday papers. Thanksgiving is next week. Half-Life 2 is on the shelves. You won't find a single PC advertised which doesn't ship with XP-SP2 and Internet Explorer as the default browser. That has been the reality since August of 2001. XP has 60% of the market and it's share has been growing at the rate of about 2% a month all year.
Slashdot may be moving their friends, family, co-workers and pets, to Firefox at a furious pace, but, statistically, it probably doesn't add up to a damn thing.
---in which the inventor who would change the world is murdered and all records of his invention destroyed.
The gadget, for those of you who haven't read the story, could probe the future and determine with 100% accuracy the time and date of your death. No one mourns it's loss.
Eugenics was mainstream in the 20's and 30's. To oppose it effectively demanded both intellectual rigor and a forceful presence on the public stage, neither of which is encouraged by the democratic consensus of the Wikipedia.
The hardcover edition of the EB (in print since 1768) is revised annually and available on DVD-ROM. Hardcover EB annuals have been published since 1938. The World Book, which has always been closely tied to the school curriculum in the states, and written at the level subjects are introduced in the classroom, has been around since 1917.
Essays in the Brittanica are reviewed for style and content, signed by their authors and have now and again been proven historically significant in their own right. Bruno Bettelheim writing on the psychology of the German death camps, Einstein on the physics of Relativity. The EB has been many things in it's 200+ years of existence, but a haven for mediocrity, a "democratic" consensus, it is not.
most readers use an encyclopedia as a reference source.
they are not trained, cautious, researchers, nor do they do not begin with biographies of Hamilton and his collected works on their bookshelf.
Telephone switches and relays were reliable and remanined in service for decades. Bell had a functional elecro-mechanical calculator using 450 relays with teletytpe output in 1939. Ballistic calculators built for WWII had 9000 relays, and there lies the problem. 9000 vacuum tube relays are power-hungry, hard to cool and need constant replacement.
Google is a business, not a charity. It exists to make money and for no other reason.
world trading partners tend to share certain interests and values, among them the principle of reciprocity. Patent Law of the People's Republic of China (Article 18)
Twice nothing is still nothing.
It has been a long time since commercial farmers have harvested their own seeds. Ferry-Morse has been in the business since 1856, Burpee since the 1880s. Contemporaries of Mendel and Darwin. Free seed doesn't mean much to a farmer if yields are low, crops are vulnerable to insects and diseases, perishable, labor-intensive, difficult to market.
Strength defined as a 2% market share that has shown no significant growth since mid-summer of last year.
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