In pharma, it takes a long time after the patent is granted before you get your product onto the market, because you have to do lots of tests on it to satisfy the regulators that it is safe. Generally they have about five years of sales under patent before the generic manufacturers can move in.
If tech patents lasted 5 years, that would take us back to around the time WIndows XP SP2 was released. I think we could live with that.
You can't fork GPL code into an LGPL licence. If you want LGPL code and the original developer doesn't agree, you will have to rewrite it from scratch.
But the American companies that do have to do with "theft"[1] of "Intellectual Property"[2] - telecoms companies, computer manufacturers etc, make more money every day than the entire music industry makes in a whole year.
The obscure thing you need to do is to add the site in question to your trusted sites zone.
Of course if you are trying to download firefox which sends you to a different mirror each time, it could take a few goes until you get enough firefox mirrors listed.
I suspect it isn't a problem with the computer code. It was a problem with the values fed into the program.
I sometimes find myself having to value derivatives at work. I know what the formulae for working out the values are, but finding the right values to use in it is very difficult, and often very subjective.
Look at Adobe vs Sklyarov & Elcomsoft back in 2001.
Adobe tried to prosecute for creating software that enabled blind people to read e-books. The jury chose to exercise their constitutional right to find them not guilty.
Text to talented dramatic performance will never happen.
It is possible that in the future there might be a sort of MIDI format for text which will provide the additional mark-up information to enable it. You will need sound-fonts for different voices, and mark-up to provide details of the intonation and so on. You will also need to add in the background sound effects. For example if in the story, someone takes a phone-call, the audio book will often have the sound of the phone ringing.
copyright law only comes in if I'm allowing someone else access
I don't agree. When I lend someone one my books, I don't ask the publishers permission to do so, nor am I required to. The same applies to lending ebooks to people (as opposed to giving away copies, which may well require the publisher's permission).
The higher audio book rates were previously necessary to encourage people to hire actors to read the books. If you no longer need to hire those actors, you don't need the higher royalty rates to pay for it.
It costs about $100 for a 500GB network hard drive, or $100 for one of these things + about another $70 for a 500GB USB drive to go with it. That's not quite the disruptive technology than a EEE was when it came out.
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In pharma, it takes a long time after the patent is granted before you get your product onto the market, because you have to do lots of tests on it to satisfy the regulators that it is safe. Generally they have about five years of sales under patent before the generic manufacturers can move in.
If tech patents lasted 5 years, that would take us back to around the time WIndows XP SP2 was released. I think we could live with that.
Hmm, maybe not
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You can't fork GPL code into an LGPL licence. If you want LGPL code and the original developer doesn't agree, you will have to rewrite it from scratch.
But the American companies that do have to do with "theft"[1] of "Intellectual Property"[2] - telecoms companies, computer manufacturers etc, make more money every day than the entire music industry makes in a whole year.
[1] It isn't theft
[2] It isn't property
If the RIAA starts suing well-heeled investors, then these investors will stop investing money in American companies, and take their money elsewhere.
Then who's going to pay your grandmother's pension? And who's going to give you a job so you can save up for your pension?
The obscure thing you need to do is to add the site in question to your trusted sites zone.
Of course if you are trying to download firefox which sends you to a different mirror each time, it could take a few goes until you get enough firefox mirrors listed.
I suspect it isn't a problem with the computer code. It was a problem with the values fed into the program.
I sometimes find myself having to value derivatives at work. I know what the formulae for working out the values are, but finding the right values to use in it is very difficult, and often very subjective.
dig new.labour.org.uk mx suggests that the labour party are capable of running a mail server for themselves.
I still recon their health & safety officers would tell them the aren't able to organise a piss-up in a brewery.
He should be using is jack.straw@parliament.uk address for that.
He will have something along the lines of jack.straw@justice.gsi.gov.uk for his ministerial duties.
It allows for a blueray sized number of pits on the CD. But that isn't going to happen with this particular product.
Green lasers are a bit better than red lasers but not as good as blue ones, as the wavelength is in between the two.
If I lend my dead tree book to someone, copyright law is not involved. I am not making any copies.
That's a public performance, so libraries will have to pay again for that.
Look at Adobe vs Sklyarov & Elcomsoft back in 2001.
Adobe tried to prosecute for creating software that enabled blind people to read e-books. The jury chose to exercise their constitutional right to find them not guilty.
Text to talented dramatic performance will never happen.
It is possible that in the future there might be a sort of MIDI format for text which will provide the additional mark-up information to enable it. You will need sound-fonts for different voices, and mark-up to provide details of the intonation and so on. You will also need to add in the background sound effects. For example if in the story, someone takes a phone-call, the audio book will often have the sound of the phone ringing.
copyright law only comes in if I'm allowing someone else access
I don't agree. When I lend someone one my books, I don't ask the publishers permission to do so, nor am I required to. The same applies to lending ebooks to people (as opposed to giving away copies, which may well require the publisher's permission).
Am I allowed to hire someone to read the book to me without paying the author any extra money?
I believe I am, so why can't I hire a computer to do the same thing?
The higher audio book rates were previously necessary to encourage people to hire actors to read the books. If you no longer need to hire those actors, you don't need the higher royalty rates to pay for it.
But, can you make phone calls on it? That wasn't demoed, and what happens when both operating systems try to use the radio stack at the same time?
There is already a Windows Mobile emulator for desktop pcs, so all that is needed is for someone to make an Android emulator.
These of course are emulators, not virtualisers, because you are running an ARM platform on an Intel machine.
There are three countries I'm aware of that use CDMA, the one you missed is Canada, who have two CDMA carriers and one GSM carrier.
But if you pay cash for the phone, and always pay cash for the vouchers, they aren't going to know who you are to collect the money.
If it's a GSM network, then the cell towers do transmit a country ID. My phone says it is connected to an "O2 - UK" tower at the moment.
It costs about $100 for a 500GB network hard drive, or $100 for one of these things + about another $70 for a 500GB USB drive to go with it. That's not quite the disruptive technology than a EEE was when it came out.
Or plug an HSDPA modem stick into it and you can dial into the other side of their firewall.