For thousands of years, the artist has looked for ways to protect their reputation and identity, and those qualities in their works. They have egos to fulfil, after all, and this is done by making sure that their name is associated with their works.
In 1886, Victor Hugo, who was tired of having his works protected only in one country at a time, called for and received an agreement by the nations of Europe to recognize copyright across borders: behold, the Berne Convention. AFAIK this implemented the idea of automatic copyright with the duration of at least the author's life plus fifty years.
Go read the Wikipedia articles on this stuff. At some point, WIPO was created, with huge financial backing. I think we all know what that means.
Anyway, my real point is that there are three groups to consider in this tug-of-war:
the artists, who believe strongly in preserving the integrity of their works;
the publishers/labels/companies, whose goal (ostensibly) it is to accelerate the spread of culture and support this venture by making a profit; and
the free culturists, who wish to promote culture by making it as available as possible, in theory accelerating the creation of new culture.
Basically, most of us are in the third group, and no one with our views was ever party to the Berne Convention or any derivative agreements (perhaps until recently?). Since our point of view has never agreed to anything we negotiated concerning this, we do not implicly respect the agreements. I think I speak for us when I say that we believe that the original Berne Convention never considered the abuses capable of the multi-national corporation, and therefore that the life+50 minimum was a bad idea. I personally think that life+10 sounds like something that could be reasonable to all parties, but I would like to add that I think that royalties should only be collectable by the estate(s) of the original author(s).
I'd like to second these concerns. Many Mac people do not like the way Firefox performs on that platform, and much prefer Camino. I know that many Mac enhancements are slated for 1.1, but in order not to push away those users too much, they should at least try to guarantee Camino development to some point.
Did you look at the timestamp on that file? 25-Apr-2003
I say keep the goddamn names as they are, maybe with the exception of having the Suite branch off as a separate project, perhaps as SeaMonkey. But don't disrupt the marketing and the image. You have three very striking project names, with three striking images. Keep them.
There are other advantages, namely the additions to the x86 ISA that fix some of its shortcomings. There are 8 more general-purpose registers and 8 more SIMD registers.
I know they're trying to tweak every possible thing to grow as fast as possible, but this is just pointless. Nothing is ostensibly broken at this point, so why fix it when it may not be there?
Unless there's some creative differences happening that are only now coming to the surface, leave it alone, your organizational model is fine.
The weird thing about it, is to think that people would go out of their way to make D&D look bad. I mean, if you think it's bad, that's your deal, but wtf do you get from villainizing it? It was strange to my 12 year old mind.
Anyway. Adults who are into live action roleplayers are detached from reality.
Put 2 and 2 together. You yourself do not; but if you look at many other people's reactions over LARPers--and if I may take this to the far end of the hostility scale, fursuiters--look at the villainizing that happens. These people are in their own world; and when we go into that world and are disturbed by what we see, we somehow extend our disapproval of their activities into ad hominem attacks against their characters, when they have done nothing to harm us. I think it's the detatchment from reality that we criticize subconsciously.
We always say that it takes fewer *nix admins to maintain a *nix system than it does Windows admins to maintain a Windows system performing the same tasks.
Should we factor this in, or does the headline really mean it when they say "developers"?
Somewhere, I read, or saw, or heard, or made up, that theoretically we could put so much junk in orbit that one collision would trigger a chain reaction, wrapping the Earth in a cloud of junk, making space travel from Earth impossible. And knocking out all our satelites.
Not at the moment, but in future moments of weakness in Flash, we should start pushing SVG. SVG could be a Flash-killer, because it's open. Now I know that the.swf format is "open," but where are the open-source content creation programs that use it? They just don't seem to exist.
And why else would SVG exist than to give other vector-based drawing formats a run for their money?
I have had 2 or 3 bots trying to brute-force my main box's password for months on end. The attacks all come from (likely compromised) server farms. I used to run without a firewall, but now I block every IP that tries to run an attack.
They won't succeed as long as I patch, because root logins through SSH are disallowed, and I don't have any of the usernames they guess.
I see journalists use it in headlines (especially concerning politics and law and business) all the time, and it can mean anything from "insult" and "discredit" to (in this case) "LMAO." Do a Google search for slams -brakes -door -tennis -poetry (adding "slam" returns too many non-relevant results) and you'll see what I mean.
It's such a sensationalist word and, frankly, I have become quite annoyed at the frequency with which I see it.
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In 1886, Victor Hugo, who was tired of having his works protected only in one country at a time, called for and received an agreement by the nations of Europe to recognize copyright across borders: behold, the Berne Convention. AFAIK this implemented the idea of automatic copyright with the duration of at least the author's life plus fifty years.
Go read the Wikipedia articles on this stuff. At some point, WIPO was created, with huge financial backing. I think we all know what that means.
Anyway, my real point is that there are three groups to consider in this tug-of-war:
- the artists, who believe strongly in preserving the integrity of their works;
- the publishers/labels/companies, whose goal (ostensibly) it is to accelerate the spread of culture and support this venture by making a profit; and
- the free culturists, who wish to promote culture by making it as available as possible, in theory accelerating the creation of new culture.
Basically, most of us are in the third group, and no one with our views was ever party to the Berne Convention or any derivative agreements (perhaps until recently?). Since our point of view has never agreed to anything we negotiated concerning this, we do not implicly respect the agreements. I think I speak for us when I say that we believe that the original Berne Convention never considered the abuses capable of the multi-national corporation, and therefore that the life+50 minimum was a bad idea. I personally think that life+10 sounds like something that could be reasonable to all parties, but I would like to add that I think that royalties should only be collectable by the estate(s) of the original author(s).But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
Um... looks like we need a new entry in The Book of Mozilla.
I'd like to second these concerns. Many Mac people do not like the way Firefox performs on that platform, and much prefer Camino. I know that many Mac enhancements are slated for 1.1, but in order not to push away those users too much, they should at least try to guarantee Camino development to some point.
Did you look at the timestamp on that file? 25-Apr-2003
I say keep the goddamn names as they are, maybe with the exception of having the Suite branch off as a separate project, perhaps as SeaMonkey. But don't disrupt the marketing and the image. You have three very striking project names, with three striking images. Keep them.
There are other advantages, namely the additions to the x86 ISA that fix some of its shortcomings. There are 8 more general-purpose registers and 8 more SIMD registers.
I know they're trying to tweak every possible thing to grow as fast as possible, but this is just pointless. Nothing is ostensibly broken at this point, so why fix it when it may not be there?
Unless there's some creative differences happening that are only now coming to the surface, leave it alone, your organizational model is fine.
-1, Bad Pun
The weird thing about it, is to think that people would go out of their way to make D&D look bad. I mean, if you think it's bad, that's your deal, but wtf do you get from villainizing it? It was strange to my 12 year old mind.
Anyway. Adults who are into live action roleplayers are detached from reality.
Put 2 and 2 together. You yourself do not; but if you look at many other people's reactions over LARPers--and if I may take this to the far end of the hostility scale, fursuiters--look at the villainizing that happens. These people are in their own world; and when we go into that world and are disturbed by what we see, we somehow extend our disapproval of their activities into ad hominem attacks against their characters, when they have done nothing to harm us. I think it's the detatchment from reality that we criticize subconsciously.
Well... Taco does have a bias towards Macs himself...
Not men's underwear, anyway...
My father is a lawyer. They used Wordstar, then Wordperfect. He says that's basically how lots of his associates did things too.
You become used to it after a while.
Did you ever happen to feel a choking sensation, or ever remember losing consciousness or waking up on the ground?
We always say that it takes fewer *nix admins to maintain a *nix system than it does Windows admins to maintain a Windows system performing the same tasks.
Should we factor this in, or does the headline really mean it when they say "developers"?
Well, if people keep on guessing, eventually someone's going to be right. Right?
Somewhere, I read, or saw, or heard, or made up, that theoretically we could put so much junk in orbit that one collision would trigger a chain reaction, wrapping the Earth in a cloud of junk, making space travel from Earth impossible. And knocking out all our satelites.
This one seems written by somebody who knows his way around the landscape.
And does TFA say anything about licensing? I mean, this is Microsoft we're talking about here.
Not at the moment, but in future moments of weakness in Flash, we should start pushing SVG. SVG could be a Flash-killer, because it's open. Now I know that the .swf format is "open," but where are the open-source content creation programs that use it? They just don't seem to exist.
And why else would SVG exist than to give other vector-based drawing formats a run for their money?
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
And I suppose TV is semi-animate...
Yeah, but will the user have to bare her boobies to use it?
I have had 2 or 3 bots trying to brute-force my main box's password for months on end. The attacks all come from (likely compromised) server farms. I used to run without a firewall, but now I block every IP that tries to run an attack.
They won't succeed as long as I patch, because root logins through SSH are disallowed, and I don't have any of the usernames they guess.
Keep trying, d00dz!
Hey, at least he didn't use "slams"...
*Checks to make sure nobody's looking*
Don't worry. Nobody else even knows this story exists. Your secret is safe.
I see journalists use it in headlines (especially concerning politics and law and business) all the time, and it can mean anything from "insult" and "discredit" to (in this case) "LMAO." Do a Google search for slams -brakes -door -tennis -poetry (adding "slam" returns too many non-relevant results) and you'll see what I mean.
It's such a sensationalist word and, frankly, I have become quite annoyed at the frequency with which I see it.