True, but the US is the second largest producer of movies in the world. Not sure about music (a Carlin routine I saw last year claimed 15K CDs/year), or TV.
Still that's a LOT of content (good or bad - that's subjective) that is locked away from US citizens.
According to the Breyer Dissenting Opinion, a COngressional report indicates 2% of older material still generates revenues (royalties). The same report indicates life +50 years has wrung more than 99% of all potential revenue (perpetual copyright) from the work.
I dunno. Unless you're in some specialized field like Animal Biology I just don't see much need. What I've read of ontologies (limited to iaslash, boxes and arrows and the like - not a scholarly program like the one at FSU) makes it sound like a holy grail to me. There is no objective way to permanently organize data that changes, especially in a business environment.
I'm glad the W3 is there, pushing this, but I hope ontologies aren't just a web fad and can mature to a usable component of 'the semantic web'.
(Of course I also hope to one day get back to school or get a job that pays more than my expenses;P)
BUt after all those people paid money for eternal upgrades (I mean MS Licensing 6) won't the bean counters think they are getting ripped off?
Bean Counter 1 (hardware/software purchases): "I can't believe 6 months after we paid for annnual upgrades that MS won't ship the next Server version for 3.5 years! What did we just pay for?" Bean Counter 2 (employee recruitment): "I don't know. All I know is I won't be needing to hire 'cutting-edge.Net developers' at contractor rates until 2006. *My* job is safe!"
Everybody assumes she was using X. I'm not convinced. Either that or the article was deliberately giving the impression that X doesn't have those features.
Even if she was using 8/9 Netscape is not the default browser. Nor ahs it been since the deal with Gates in '97. She would actually have to seek out the program to use Netscape.
I'm sure the whole thing is modus operandi for any company nowadays.
1. Yeah, the mouse. One button. I like to surf using new windows for links and then close 'em down to go back for more links. A single-button mouse doesn't do this and it's a pain in the butt to carry a mouse with me.
>You said you are using an i-Book. So I am guessing you're carrying a mouse anyway. Easily solved by picking up nearly any third party mouse. Maybe even your Windows or Linux one works (if it's USB)
2. One desktop. Damn! How can I work with only one desktop? On my Linux box I have 4 desktops; one for email/calendar (Ximian Evolution), one for web browsers, and two for misc apps I pull up (Open Office, GAIM, etc.). How anyone can do useful work without having multiple desktops (accessible with alt-F keys) is beyond me. Is there a way to do this on the MAC. I dunno yet.
Not a true desktop, but Space.app may work for you. See: http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=0&db =mac&id=9738
3. The keyboard on this iBook bounces... some letters in words appear twice in a row. This annoys me. Although, to be frank, it might be just my untrained fingers on a new keyboard.
Apple keyboards take some getting used to. After a while I found I prefer them to those of most other manufacturers.
It'll be intersting when in 5 years we see the underground return to web press and cut-n-paste jobs in order to practice the rights guaranteed to us via the Constitution. After all not much DRM involved in typeset, hand-operated presses. Maybe we'll even see a new Tom Paine arise.
Even the IP industry admits that DRM methods restrict access that otherwise may be legal. The consumer electronics industry is right when it says you can't encode intent and all possible uses into software.
So who's going to win? The IP industry getting the legal defintion of Fair Use restricted even more or the electronics industry who can't give the majority of its customers what they truly want? There can't be any compromise or solution until the legal defintions of acceptable legal use are able to be encoded in software.
"Copyright law has never existed to ensure or even provide equity between the little guys and the big guys. It exists to preserve the wealth creation potential of artists and content providers."
Actually, the Consitution Reads:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
Article I, section 8, clause 8.
Sounds to me that wealth creation is secondary to the goal of promoting the progress of science and the arts, not for the exclusive right to make money.
I spend about 1.5 hours a day actually doing work. If I were home on a real computer with real software I could do everything I need to do in half that time.
Yet, somehow I need to spend 9 hours a day at work simply because the phone might ring. I'd be happy to work if I had some. In fact, I actually request more work constantly. By all accounts I would be a model employee. Yet, when I have nothing to do I surf the web. I'm using company resources to do things other than my job.
So I guess that makes me a bad person.
*rolls eyes*
If I do my job appropriately and efficiently then the company should cut me some slack. I'm not wasting company time or resources if I have fulfilled my job duties. If I read a book at work would it be any different?
Well yeah. So what? You already have the original. I'm not saying its perfect, but I think its a decent compromise between my fair use rights for backup and prevents people from making copies of copies of copies.
Why not make CD copies have this instead of the original source discs?
For example, making backups of your software or music files. At least then you can guarantee copies of the original you own and prevent multi-generational copies of copies.
I would think both the software barons and the customer would find this win-win.
Look, the reason most Mac users aren't switching isn't because they are wedded to the past it can be boiled down to one thing: cost. The cost of purchasing new hardware, the cost of purchasing new software, and the cost of changing workflows.
Do you think that a newspaper is going to upgrade to OSX simply because it is available? No. They have a huge investment in their workflow and equipment. They need time to ensure their systems will work under OSX.
You think a family with a Performa is going to switch? Nope. Not if they can get by with System 7/8 while they wait to see if dad might get laid off.
FCOL, OSX doesn't even support most printers or scanners yet. The sound subsystem isn't finished. Nobody's going to spend money on hardware or software until they are sure it is worth the investment. If you work in the A/V field where a lot of the Mac market is, you have to wait.
I find it hard to believe that a few days could expose you to anything of value. It took me a few weeks to get used to the Mac way, even though I was moving over from Windows. Within 2-3 weeks I didn't want to go back. What did you do for those few days, surf the web and cd in Terminal?
Did you even have time to try any apps? If all you want to do is use Terminal.app I guess you have a point, but then that defeats the purpose of switching in the first place, doesn't it?
Cool. I can imagine 90% of all stored data being spam. The government will become the chief authority on spam, knowing who sends it, to him and on what machine they did it.:)
Seems to me that the exact thigns you cite is a good reason to avoid TV altogether. Having TV disappear due to skipped commercials seems to me to just fine.
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True, but the US is the second largest producer of movies in the world. Not sure about music (a Carlin routine I saw last year claimed 15K CDs/year), or TV.
Still that's a LOT of content (good or bad - that's subjective) that is locked away from US citizens.
According to the Breyer Dissenting Opinion, a COngressional report indicates 2% of older material still generates revenues (royalties). The same report indicates life +50 years has wrung more than 99% of all potential revenue (perpetual copyright) from the work.
For me it is Chimera's CSS/XML support that keeps it in my Favorites over Safari. Once Safari gets equal/better CSS/XML support Safari will be on top.
Since the Chimera author works on Safari what does that mean to Chimera defvelopment in the future?
I dunno. Unless you're in some specialized field like Animal Biology I just don't see much need. What I've read of ontologies (limited to iaslash, boxes and arrows and the like - not a scholarly program like the one at FSU) makes it sound like a holy grail to me. There is no objective way to permanently organize data that changes, especially in a business environment.
;P)
I'm glad the W3 is there, pushing this, but I hope ontologies aren't just a web fad and can mature to a usable component of 'the semantic web'.
(Of course I also hope to one day get back to school or get a job that pays more than my expenses
BUt after all those people paid money for eternal upgrades (I mean MS Licensing 6) won't the bean counters think they are getting ripped off?
.Net developers' at contractor rates until 2006. *My* job is safe!"
Bean Counter 1 (hardware/software purchases): "I can't believe 6 months after we paid for annnual upgrades that MS won't ship the next Server version for 3.5 years! What did we just pay for?"
Bean Counter 2 (employee recruitment): "I don't know. All I know is I won't be needing to hire 'cutting-edge
The ontology project seems kinda cool, but it iwll never be practical for anything but the most stringently controlled or automated Intranet.
Everybody assumes she was using X. I'm not convinced. Either that or the article was deliberately giving the impression that X doesn't have those features.
Even if she was using 8/9 Netscape is not the default browser. Nor ahs it been since the deal with Gates in '97. She would actually have to seek out the program to use Netscape.
I'm sure the whole thing is modus operandi for any company nowadays.
allow me to take screenshots for reviews.
What do I not like???
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b =mac&id=9738
1. Yeah, the mouse. One button. I like to surf using new windows for links and then close 'em down to go back for more links. A single-button mouse doesn't do this and it's a pain in the butt to carry a mouse with me.
>You said you are using an i-Book. So I am guessing you're carrying a mouse anyway. Easily solved by picking up nearly any third party mouse. Maybe even your Windows or Linux one works (if it's USB)
2. One desktop. Damn! How can I work with only one desktop? On my Linux box I have 4 desktops; one for email/calendar (Ximian Evolution), one for web browsers, and two for misc apps I pull up (Open Office, GAIM, etc.). How anyone can do useful work without having multiple desktops (accessible with alt-F keys) is beyond me. Is there a way to do this on the MAC. I dunno yet.
> CodeTek VirtualDesktop. Very beta from the reviews I've read
Not a true desktop, but Space.app may work for you. See: http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=0&d
3. The keyboard on this iBook bounces... some letters in words appear twice in a row. This annoys me. Although, to be frank, it might be just my untrained fingers on a new keyboard.
Apple keyboards take some getting used to. After a while I found I prefer them to those of most other manufacturers.
I hope it lasts longer than these other shows that were on Fox Fridays:
Millenium (3 seasons)
Strange Luck (17 episodes)
Brimstone (12 episodes)
and of course Harsh Realm which was hyped to death and cancelled *3 days* after the pilot aired. I think they ran 1 more episode.
What else am I missing?
It'll be intersting when in 5 years we see the underground return to web press and cut-n-paste jobs in order to practice the rights guaranteed to us via the Constitution. After all not much DRM involved in typeset, hand-operated presses. Maybe we'll even see a new Tom Paine arise.
Whatever happened to "The Match"?
I guess things really do go in cycles.
Even the IP industry admits that DRM methods restrict access that otherwise may be legal. The consumer electronics industry is right when it says you can't encode intent and all possible uses into software.
So who's going to win? The IP industry getting the legal defintion of Fair Use restricted even more or the electronics industry who can't give the majority of its customers what they truly want? There can't be any compromise or solution until the legal defintions of acceptable legal use are able to be encoded in software.
"Copyright law has never existed to ensure or even provide equity between the little guys and the big guys. It exists to preserve the wealth creation potential of artists and content providers."
Actually, the Consitution Reads:
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
Article I, section 8, clause 8.
Sounds to me that wealth creation is secondary to the goal of promoting the progress of science and the arts, not for the exclusive right to make money.
They support it because some large companies require Netscape 4 for apps built in house.
I spend about 1.5 hours a day actually doing work. If I were home on a real computer with real software I could do everything I need to do in half that time.
Yet, somehow I need to spend 9 hours a day at work simply because the phone might ring. I'd be happy to work if I had some. In fact, I actually request more work constantly. By all accounts I would be a model employee. Yet, when I have nothing to do I surf the web. I'm using company resources to do things other than my job.
So I guess that makes me a bad person.
*rolls eyes*
If I do my job appropriately and efficiently then the company should cut me some slack. I'm not wasting company time or resources if I have fulfilled my job duties. If I read a book at work would it be any different?
Well yeah. So what? You already have the original. I'm not saying its perfect, but I think its a decent compromise between my fair use rights for backup and prevents people from making copies of copies of copies.
Why not make CD copies have this instead of the original source discs?
For example, making backups of your software or music files. At least then you can guarantee copies of the original you own and prevent multi-generational copies of copies.
I would think both the software barons and the customer would find this win-win.
It seemed to me that yor post was a typical Linux user ranting about Mac users.
I meant no disrespect and wanted to reply with a real argument.
Great generalization. How Insightful.
Look, the reason most Mac users aren't switching isn't because they are wedded to the past it can be boiled down to one thing: cost. The cost of purchasing new hardware, the cost of purchasing new software, and the cost of changing workflows.
Do you think that a newspaper is going to upgrade to OSX simply because it is available? No. They have a huge investment in their workflow and equipment. They need time to ensure their systems will work under OSX.
You think a family with a Performa is going to switch? Nope. Not if they can get by with System 7/8 while they wait to see if dad might get laid off.
FCOL, OSX doesn't even support most printers or scanners yet. The sound subsystem isn't finished. Nobody's going to spend money on hardware or software until they are sure it is worth the investment. If you work in the A/V field where a lot of the Mac market is, you have to wait.
I find it hard to believe that a few days could expose you to anything of value. It took me a few weeks to get used to the Mac way, even though I was moving over from Windows. Within 2-3 weeks I didn't want to go back. What did you do for those few days, surf the web and cd in Terminal?
Did you even have time to try any apps? If all you want to do is use Terminal.app I guess you have a point, but then that defeats the purpose of switching in the first place, doesn't it?
Cool. I can imagine 90% of all stored data being spam. The government will become the chief authority on spam, knowing who sends it, to him and on what machine they did it. :)
I bet within 48 months wireless access will require a license and that the cost will mean only for profits can afford to provide service.
Its what the enterntainment and phone companies want. So its what we'll get.
GUess my joke wasn't funny.
Seems to me that the exact thigns you cite is a good reason to avoid TV altogether. Having TV disappear due to skipped commercials seems to me to just fine.
I'm confusedd. Is this an argument for TV or against it?
So what? code to standards and maintain that 90% as well.
... you guessed it... standards!
And coding to standards will guarantee MORE income to the site, not less as IE6 has pretty good (not the nest) standards support.
Oh, adn don't forget if you do work with the government you need to adhere to Section 508 guidelines which means