It's archived, so I can't comment there. One thing, though; I despise the term "copyleft." Very punny, but it needlessly politicizes the issue. Some people are going to reject it just because of that label. It's also imprecise, since there are a variety of copyright alternatives, some of which I like and some (CC-NoDerivs) that I loathe.
The right answer is to limit copyrights. I think that 30 years from creation, plus another 30 years IF the copyright holder explicitly renews his rights is fair.
I'm just about there with you. Personally, I think that given the acceleration of technology, storage times, etc. Two generations (i.e., 40 years) should be the maximum. I'd like to see the initial period being opt-in (rather than the current opt-out.) Ideally, I'd like to see the initial period lasting fourteen years (crap, if it worked in the 1700's, it should at least work in the "information age.")
A password hacked through brute force is still a password hacked, isn't it?
Yes, but the difference is when you guess the right password, you know nearly instantly that you are right. The same is not true of the various iPhone guesses.
Y'know, I almost modded you up for this, but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
From the link: "Health promotion efforts that use an ecological framework to influence economic, organizational, policy, and school/community action"
What the fuck does that even mean? WTF does an ecological framework have to do with, well anything that isn't (I dunno...) relating to either ecology or frameworks?
How about the 10 MB email limit? That seemed to show up in the last 5 years or so. Before that I've had success with almost every size attachment I've been sent (and I do printing, so I see some pretty fat files.)
When was the meeting held where they decided that?
I get so sick of reading this particular lie, time and time again. Consumers have plenty of choice when it comes to artistic works.
Not when it comes to fair use. Technology doesn't distinguish b/t someone who's trying to copy an entire work and someone who's trying to sample part of it for parody/commentary. I recently did the latter, and was a bit put off that the iTunes episode of BSG I had purchased didn't allow me to copy the frakin 30 second INTRO to make a smart-ass comment about it.
Fine. Whatever. I'm now getting that shit off bittorent, not because I fournd iTunes too expensive, but because the DRM was too onerous.
The newspaper's webmaster should just learn how to use the 'NOCACHE,NOARCHIVE' tag.
Bingo. If " one of the key issues was evidently that some of what Google was carrying was no longer available on the newspaper's website itself, so rather then linking to the newspaper, Google was displaying it on their own." is accuarate, they failed to avail themselves of the quick, easy, and cheap solution. Obviously, that's not what it really was about.
I don't understand why news outlets get so upset when sites like google point people to their content. They should think of it as free advertising.
There's a slight diffrence between making a shank out of a tooth brush, and detonating liquid explosives in a shoe mid flight. Although both options could end up killing someone, it's much more difficult to sneak a bomb past 'trained' security personel.
Well, as the recent ban on gels and liquids shows, it's actually not that difficult.
Having said that, I'm all for both random and profiled searches. Yes, the difficulty with profiling is that the profile can be evaded. That's why you do random ones as well. Having said that, how many non-muslims have tried to blow up a plane? Hell, if a bunch of Irish-Polish Roman Catholics were doing that I would fell less safe if I wasn't paid special attention to at the airport.
politicians writing laws on technology are about as helpful as looking for a gas leak with a candle.
You've never had a gas leak. That's exactly how it's done. (Well, usually with a Bic. But the idea's the same.) I agree with your point, but the analogy is bad.
"Defendants' use of the Play Pen trade dress and trademark bears some artistic relevance to the game, and does not explicitly mislead consumers as to the source or content of the game."
They will buy neither to avoid getting stuck with what may be the next Beta.
I don't quite follow this. Beta got trounced by VHS largely because the consumers found the image quality acceptable, given the longer recording times. It's the consumers that made Beta, well, Beta.
If consumers don't find that the new formats offer enough, compared to what they have, then they both will become the next Beta.
That's the alpha and omega of it. (sorry, sorry everybody.)
are real world apps that your audience will be using
Wish I had mod points, that's +5 insightful.
The short answer to this (and any process question, really) is: ask the next guy down the line. If you're a designer, ask the prepress guy what he wants. If you're prepress, ask the pressman. Rinse, repeat.
If you're a developer, ask the fscking user. Your gaussian blur might be teh shit, but if your app takes five minutes to load, nobody's going to bother with it.
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Don't forget that Apple have made no attempt to disable the 'Burn to CD then reimport' workaround
True, but there's no equivalent for DVDs, unfortunately. That's why I buy tunes on iTMS but not vids.
It's archived, so I can't comment there. One thing, though; I despise the term "copyleft." Very punny, but it needlessly politicizes the issue. Some people are going to reject it just because of that label. It's also imprecise, since there are a variety of copyright alternatives, some of which I like and some (CC-NoDerivs) that I loathe.
I'm just about there with you. Personally, I think that given the acceleration of technology, storage times, etc. Two generations (i.e., 40 years) should be the maximum. I'd like to see the initial period being opt-in (rather than the current opt-out.) Ideally, I'd like to see the initial period lasting fourteen years (crap, if it worked in the 1700's, it should at least work in the "information age.")
Yes, but the difference is when you guess the right password, you know nearly instantly that you are right. The same is not true of the various iPhone guesses.
Y'know, I almost modded you up for this, but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? From the link: "Health promotion efforts that use an ecological framework to influence economic, organizational, policy, and school/community action" What the fuck does that even mean? WTF does an ecological framework have to do with, well anything that isn't (I dunno...) relating to either ecology or frameworks?
You got a GF? How how how?
How about the 10 MB email limit? That seemed to show up in the last 5 years or so. Before that I've had success with almost every size attachment I've been sent (and I do printing, so I see some pretty fat files.) When was the meeting held where they decided that?
I get so sick of reading this particular lie, time and time again. Consumers have plenty of choice when it comes to artistic works.
Not when it comes to fair use. Technology doesn't distinguish b/t someone who's trying to copy an entire work and someone who's trying to sample part of it for parody/commentary. I recently did the latter, and was a bit put off that the iTunes episode of BSG I had purchased didn't allow me to copy the frakin 30 second INTRO to make a smart-ass comment about it.
Fine. Whatever. I'm now getting that shit off bittorent, not because I fournd iTunes too expensive, but because the DRM was too onerous.
Where is this outlined? I didn't see anything in the body of the article to suggest why this is so.
It wasn't highlited, but I think what he meant was that the same performance was expected despite the increased overhead.
Or something like that.
Or they remember to factor things like data vulnerability into their pricing model.
That story is related in this comic (don't let the format fool you, it's an extremely good intro to the problems with current IP law.)
Oh, and don't worry about D/Ling it. It's under Creative Commons.
Which company is that? I just want to be sure to avoid working there ever.
The newspaper's webmaster should just learn how to use the 'NOCACHE,NOARCHIVE' tag.
Bingo. If " one of the key issues was evidently that some of what Google was carrying was no longer available on the newspaper's website itself, so rather then linking to the newspaper, Google was displaying it on their own." is accuarate, they failed to avail themselves of the quick, easy, and cheap solution. Obviously, that's not what it really was about.
I don't understand why news outlets get so upset when sites like google point people to their content. They should think of it as free advertising.
I liked the colors, espically when a family has kids (or adults) with more than one nano in the house. It helps to seperate them.
Ditto that. I had to get a new skin for my phone because the GF and I would get them mixed up otherwise.
There's a slight diffrence between making a shank out of a tooth brush, and detonating liquid explosives in a shoe mid flight. Although both options could end up killing someone, it's much more difficult to sneak a bomb past 'trained' security personel.
Well, as the recent ban on gels and liquids shows, it's actually not that difficult.
Having said that, I'm all for both random and profiled searches. Yes, the difficulty with profiling is that the profile can be evaded. That's why you do random ones as well. Having said that, how many non-muslims have tried to blow up a plane? Hell, if a bunch of Irish-Polish Roman Catholics were doing that I would fell less safe if I wasn't paid special attention to at the airport.
You've never had a gas leak. That's exactly how it's done. (Well, usually with a Bic. But the idea's the same.) I agree with your point, but the analogy is bad.
"Defendants' use of the Play Pen trade dress and trademark bears some artistic relevance to the game, and does not explicitly mislead consumers as to the source or content of the game."
Very nice.
In fact, having two different kinds of machines can be pretty darn cool
Amen to that. Documents are usuallly interchangeable, and having two different machines means you have a 2/3 chance of running [whatever] application.
After all, what better fanbase for Apple to secure than the Babylon 5 tech/trek group?
Starship Exeter is already on iTunes, so they probably have the trekkers already. Still, it'd be a cool move.
Pfft. Chaos is so predictable.
It is funny how predictable it is that every time there's a story about long-range forecasting, someone will bring up Chaos Theory...
My office, which is about 3 blocks from the White House, has never had a major event that would have an effect on our network
Coincidence?
Getting a student or two at an art school to make a top notch advert worthy of a back page ad on a newspaper is really stinking easy..
Given that the credits read "Design by ..." I suspect this is exactly what they're going to do. They could have made it a bit more obvious, though.
They will buy neither to avoid getting stuck with what may be the next Beta.
I don't quite follow this. Beta got trounced by VHS largely because the consumers found the image quality acceptable, given the longer recording times. It's the consumers that made Beta, well, Beta.
If consumers don't find that the new formats offer enough, compared to what they have, then they both will become the next Beta.
That's the alpha and omega of it. (sorry, sorry everybody.)
And then he makes it sound like he is uber cool. If he were 21, I might be mildly amused. He is old enough to be a 21 year old's grandfather.
Well, to be fair, I'm more impressed that Gramps is modding his crackberry than I would be by his grandson.
Not that this warrants a spot on slashdot, though. Next up, CowboyNeal mods his jeans with a ballpoint pen!
are real world apps that your audience will be using
Wish I had mod points, that's +5 insightful.
The short answer to this (and any process question, really) is: ask the next guy down the line. If you're a designer, ask the prepress guy what he wants. If you're prepress, ask the pressman. Rinse, repeat.
If you're a developer, ask the fscking user. Your gaussian blur might be teh shit, but if your app takes five minutes to load, nobody's going to bother with it.