5) No, 35 USC 102 and 35 USC 103 lay out the guidlines for what can be patent. An invention can not be granted if it would have been obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art at the time of invention. It is important to note that the obviousness has to be based on the prior art which is already on record somewhere, be it previous patents, products, publications, etc. The basis of obvious is not whether, given the problem at hand, someone of ordinary skill in the art would be able to come up with a solution.
This isn't obvious to someone ordinarily skilled in the 'art'?
5. I am also in favor of having a group of small businesses get together,reviewing, and rewriting the copyright laws from the standpoint of those who are most affected by the changes in the DMCA.
Letting corporations write the laws is why things are so screwed up. The cause of the problem is rarely, if ever, the solution.
I have heard (and someone please correct me if I am wrong) that one of the reasons for the extension was because people were living longer.
Many people of that era lived longer than 28 years. Nobody today lives longer than life + 90 years(by definition). Whoever said that was an idiot.
For god's sake, if you are going to go communist for college students, why not just imply that college students should get a free education, room, and board?
Capitalism is the most effective way of distributing scarce resources, however when a resource is not scarce(music can be duplicated easily at practically no cost), there is no reason for capitalism.
The artists get most of there money off of concerts, which will still be protected by tresspassing laws. Its just the record labels that will suffer. BTW there were songs before copyright laws.
I agree with your first comment completely, and I wouldn't even think it was tongue-in-cheek... If we see a phenomenon in nature, and the model doesn't predict that, then the model is not good. Certainly.
It is copyright violation because they didn't have permission to distribute it. The license is just permission to do certain things with it. You do not have permision to distribute a derivative work unless you are willing to give out the source, and to license your code under the GPL.
BTW I don't think SCO will be able to pay punitive damages before they tank.
OK, I admit I'm taking a simplistic "organ pipe" model here, but the waves will only destructively interfere when the reflection length is an odd multiple of half a wavelength, such that waves arrive at a point exactly out of phase.
They will keep reflecting until they are out of phase, so pretty soon they will have destructively interfere.
Ah, but the medium would be very dense, so the speed of sound would be high.
no the speed of sound is the square root of the bulk modulus divided by the density, so high density means sound moves slower. However if it did move faster it would mean low wavelengths correspond to even higher frequencys.
And, if the soundwaves were longer, they *wouldn't* destructively interfere except at very specific wavelengths.
Without taking into account the uncertainty principle, They *would* destructively interfere except at certain wavelengths. When the wave hits the boundary and is reflected it then interferes with other parts of the wave, which are out of phase, they continue to reflect back and forth until they are 180 degrees out of phase and you get destrictive interference.
However with the uncertainty principle its more complicated. The uncertainty in the wave number (the wave number is 2 times pi divided by the wavelength) times the uncertainty in position (not really an uncertainty, this roughly describes the amount of space the wave takes up, the term comes from quantum mechanics) is at least 1/2. This leads to a wider range of wave numbers being possible(for the same reason spectral lines have thickness, however there it is best to use energy rather than wave number). Since we are talking about a very small amount of space being possible for the wave to take up this means the uncertainty in the wave number is very high, meaning any wave number, and thus any wavelength, is possible.
I'm not fond of the idea of incarcerating (or murdering) people without any form of due process
yes we should bring juries and judges into a combat operation and give the enemies a trial while they're shooting at us. Of course when there is no immediate danger they should be given due process, but its dumb to hold a trial while they're shooting at you.
Our beloved commercial driven-to-efficiency-by-the-market companies have produced an absolute steaming heap of bovine excrement when it comes to an e-voting product.
The market needs a large number of buyers and sellers to function properly. A small number of sellers is an Oligopoly and is more common, but in this case there is a small number of buyers(government buys them but I dont know anyone who uses them for personal use.
and because we spend almost 10 times as much as the second highest military spender. Just because you have a better military doesn't mean its more efficient if you spend 10 times as much.
No, its copyrighted. The copyright owners have agreed to let you distribute it, view the source, and modify it, as long as you give the source to those it is distributed to if they ask.
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good point; They're stupid enough it wouldn't surprise me.
And how is that better than the current system?
In the current system people aren't arrested for massive voter fraud.
It's Sony vs. Betamax not Betamax vs. VCR. Who would sue a VCR?
This isn't obvious to someone ordinarily skilled in the 'art'?
The GPL wouldn't be as important without copyright, as the users would for the most part be free to do the things the GPL allows.
Letting corporations write the laws is why things are so screwed up. The cause of the problem is rarely, if ever, the solution.
I have heard (and someone please correct me if I am wrong) that one of the reasons for the extension was because people were living longer.
Many people of that era lived longer than 28 years. Nobody today lives longer than life + 90 years(by definition). Whoever said that was an idiot.
Capitalism is the most effective way of distributing scarce resources, however when a resource is not scarce(music can be duplicated easily at practically no cost), there is no reason for capitalism.
You do realize there were many books before the first copyright laws were passed in 1708.
The artists get most of there money off of concerts, which will still be protected by tresspassing laws. Its just the record labels that will suffer. BTW there were songs before copyright laws.
No it means nature is not good
How is this informative? There is a link to that page in the article.
Unfortunately most worms(Slammer, Blaster, SoBig, etc) are for Windows.
It is copyright violation because they didn't have permission to distribute it. The license is just permission to do certain things with it. You do not have permision to distribute a derivative work unless you are willing to give out the source, and to license your code under the GPL.
BTW I don't think SCO will be able to pay punitive damages before they tank.
They will keep reflecting until they are out of phase, so pretty soon they will have destructively interfere.
no the speed of sound is the square root of the bulk modulus divided by the density, so high density means sound moves slower. However if it did move faster it would mean low wavelengths correspond to even higher frequencys.
And, if the soundwaves were longer, they *wouldn't* destructively interfere except at very specific wavelengths.
Without taking into account the uncertainty principle, They *would* destructively interfere except at certain wavelengths. When the wave hits the boundary and is reflected it then interferes with other parts of the wave, which are out of phase, they continue to reflect back and forth until they are 180 degrees out of phase and you get destrictive interference.
However with the uncertainty principle its more complicated. The uncertainty in the wave number (the wave number is 2 times pi divided by the wavelength) times the uncertainty in position (not really an uncertainty, this roughly describes the amount of space the wave takes up, the term comes from quantum mechanics) is at least 1/2. This leads to a wider range of wave numbers being possible(for the same reason spectral lines have thickness, however there it is best to use energy rather than wave number). Since we are talking about a very small amount of space being possible for the wave to take up this means the uncertainty in the wave number is very high, meaning any wave number, and thus any wavelength, is possible.
I bet you can't prove that.
yes we should bring juries and judges into a combat operation and give the enemies a trial while they're shooting at us. Of course when there is no immediate danger they should be given due process, but its dumb to hold a trial while they're shooting at you.
The market needs a large number of buyers and sellers to function properly. A small number of sellers is an Oligopoly and is more common, but in this case there is a small number of buyers(government buys them but I dont know anyone who uses them for personal use.
and because we spend almost 10 times as much as the second highest military spender. Just because you have a better military doesn't mean its more efficient if you spend 10 times as much.
There was an explosive factory near where I live that was surrounded by a fire, but was spared by its private fire department.
No, its copyrighted. The copyright owners have agreed to let you distribute it, view the source, and modify it, as long as you give the source to those it is distributed to if they ask.
Because they are the majority of the electorate.
Or the robots.txt file was updated since the last time google crawled the web.
A lot of people have said its from sending a command to flush the cache
Not under the DMCA, its not an access control or copy prevention measure; You can use the car with it, and you can't duplicate the car either way.