I see no reason why "hording" should be allowed. If the copyright owner is not interested in selling the work anymore, be it book, game, software, or whatever, then copyright should expire.
Just because I've written something and distributed at some time doesn't mean I want it distributed in the future. I've had the experience of writing something that I then had to withdraw. Your system wouldn't allow me to do that.
Also, why should selling the work be relevant? Surely distributing the work should be the thing.
Over here in Northern Ireland, we have 4 different banks who issue money. It gets very confusing if you travel between England and Northern Ireland a lot. Once, in a fit of confusion I tried to oay for petrol with a Marks and Spencer voucher.
Recently, one of the banks' headquarters was robbed. So the bank is now withdrawing all their notes so the thieves can't spend them any more.
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XHTML means that the page HAS to be formatted correctly
Not true. If it is served as text/html it should be parsed as HTML. See XHTML media types on w3.org.
A couple of days ago I was travelling on a domestic flight within the UK - Birmingham to Belfast. My 70 year old aunt, who was travelling with me, had her nail file confiscated. I was allowed to take my full lenght walking unbrella on board, complete with big sharp pointy thing on the end. OK, I'm not sure how to use an umbrella to hijack a plane, but I'm sure it would me much easier than hijacking a plane with a nail file.
We did discuss this with the friendly security guard. He agreed it was mad, and went on to list all the stupid things they had banned, along with some unbanned things that could be used as hijacking accessories.
For small simple documents, Word is OK, but for small simple documents there are better solutions - like AbiWord. Abiword is faster, more stable, and it doesn't have all the mad features that you don't need for small documents.
For larger documents - anything over a few pages - Word is awful. It produces huge file sizes, can crash, goes slowly, has a horribly fragile stylesheet mechanism. For really large documents - when you are using autogenerated TOCs for example - the odd bugs really build up. TOCs that look fine when Print Previewed, but are corrupted when actually printed, character level formatting that changes to paragraph level formatting when using references.
The trouble with Word is it tries to be a word processor and a DTP system, and that is too much for one thing to do.
My question is simply why don't you hear complaining about the data banks have access to,
My bank, Halifax must have a huge amount of information on me. I'm not worried about this, because over time they have earned my trust, and I now trust them in the same way that I trust my doctor. Halifax has always helped me when I needed it. They treat me as a person, just as my doctor does. They are not just interested in me as a source of money.
On the other hand, Brand X sees me exactly as a source of money - that's what Brand X does, and that is OK by me. However, because they see me as just a source of money they are much more likely to milk my data for everything they can get.
You ever wonder why newspapers have columns? Because after a certain width the reader begins losing their place, which results in re-reading or skipping lines.
That is why browser windows are adjustable: that way I can set my browser window to display the text at the width I find most convenient for me, rather than the width that is on average best for everyone.
Also, I've asked this before: what's someone with their resolution set at 1600x1200 doing running fullscreen web browsers? Unless you're doing design work, there's no reason to put that real estate to waste.
I used to work with a huge monitor set at some insanely high resolution. However, I had to set the (logical) pixels per inch to something non-standard so I could read text. Web pages that had nice fluid designs adapted easily. Web pages that had fixed pixel width designs ended up with one or two words per line.
Yes, I probably could have reconfigured my machine some other way to read web pages, but the beauty of HTML and CSS is that, when used correctly, they adapt to the users needs, not vice versa.
Please explain what you think makes anyone valuable, to you or anyone else.
There are various things I would like to do before I die; read certain books, write one or two, buy a house, etc. I realise that other people also have hopes and dreams. Occasionally I will be in the position to help them. The fact that I have desires makes me more likely to help those who also have desires. The fact that I have hopes and dreams makes it more likely that I will help you achieve yours, if you want that help.
Of course, this is nothing to do with intrinsic value,but that's another topic altogether. (And as a cat owner, I'd like to know how you know what an animal believes. Sometimes I find it impossible to know what another English speaking human believes).
The position of the streetsweeper is valuable, but the only reason why is because e helps to improve the environment where lots of obscure but valuable people live, including the streetsweeper erself.Most people are obscure, but just being obscure doesn't mean they are worthless. The obscure have hopes, dreams, and all those other things that make us valuable as individuals.
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Over here in Northern Ireland, we have 4 different banks who issue money. It gets very confusing if you travel between England and Northern Ireland a lot. Once, in a fit of confusion I tried to oay for petrol with a Marks and Spencer voucher. Recently, one of the banks' headquarters was robbed. So the bank is now withdrawing all their notes so the thieves can't spend them any more.
Not true. If it is served as text/html it should be parsed as HTML. See XHTML media types on w3.org.
A couple of days ago I was travelling on a domestic flight within the UK - Birmingham to Belfast. My 70 year old aunt, who was travelling with me, had her nail file confiscated. I was allowed to take my full lenght walking unbrella on board, complete with big sharp pointy thing on the end. OK, I'm not sure how to use an umbrella to hijack a plane, but I'm sure it would me much easier than hijacking a plane with a nail file.
We did discuss this with the friendly security guard. He agreed it was mad, and went on to list all the stupid things they had banned, along with some unbanned things that could be used as hijacking accessories.
For small simple documents, Word is OK, but for small simple documents there are better solutions - like AbiWord. Abiword is faster, more stable, and it doesn't have all the mad features that you don't need for small documents. For larger documents - anything over a few pages - Word is awful. It produces huge file sizes, can crash, goes slowly, has a horribly fragile stylesheet mechanism. For really large documents - when you are using autogenerated TOCs for example - the odd bugs really build up. TOCs that look fine when Print Previewed, but are corrupted when actually printed, character level formatting that changes to paragraph level formatting when using references. The trouble with Word is it tries to be a word processor and a DTP system, and that is too much for one thing to do.
A couple of years ago one of our central heating pipes burst. We found out when a light switch started squirting water across the room.
I'm not trolling actually. Halifax has a surprisingly nice attitude to its customers. Even their letters saying you have no money left are polite.
My bank, Halifax must have a huge amount of information on me. I'm not worried about this, because over time they have earned my trust, and I now trust them in the same way that I trust my doctor. Halifax has always helped me when I needed it. They treat me as a person, just as my doctor does. They are not just interested in me as a source of money.
On the other hand, Brand X sees me exactly as a source of money - that's what Brand X does, and that is OK by me. However, because they see me as just a source of money they are much more likely to milk my data for everything they can get.
That is why browser windows are adjustable: that way I can set my browser window to display the text at the width I find most convenient for me, rather than the width that is on average best for everyone.
I used to work with a huge monitor set at some insanely high resolution. However, I had to set the (logical) pixels per inch to something non-standard so I could read text. Web pages that had nice fluid designs adapted easily. Web pages that had fixed pixel width designs ended up with one or two words per line.
Yes, I probably could have reconfigured my machine some other way to read web pages, but the beauty of HTML and CSS is that, when used correctly, they adapt to the users needs, not vice versa.
Please explain what you think makes anyone valuable, to you or anyone else.
There are various things I would like to do before I die; read certain books, write one or two, buy a house, etc. I realise that other people also have hopes and dreams. Occasionally I will be in the position to help them. The fact that I have desires makes me more likely to help those who also have desires. The fact that I have hopes and dreams makes it more likely that I will help you achieve yours, if you want that help.
Of course, this is nothing to do with intrinsic value,but that's another topic altogether. (And as a cat owner, I'd like to know how you know what an animal believes. Sometimes I find it impossible to know what another English speaking human believes).
The position of the streetsweeper is valuable, but the only reason why is because e helps to improve the environment where lots of obscure but valuable people live, including the streetsweeper erself.Most people are obscure, but just being obscure doesn't mean they are worthless. The obscure have hopes, dreams, and all those other things that make us valuable as individuals.
People who are easily offended deserve to be... a lot!
.sig if I work up the courage.
Excellent. I'm going to add that to my
You still haven't discovered why we engineered the revolutionary war? You don't still think you won it, do you?