If you're a band, a painter, a web designer, a sculptor or any other artist, there are ways to sell your art face-to-face for a profit and skip turning over your rights to a cartel middleman.
Actually, the ancient Greeks knew the world was round, and made a pretty good stab at measuring it based on simultaneous observations around the mediterranean basin.
Later on, pretty much anybody dealing with sailing ships noticed that the mast came over the horizon before the rest of the ship did. It was the church, with its insistence on the literal veracity of biblical statements about the world, and its stranglehold on political power throughout Europe, that made the Earth's shape a dangerous topic to shout from the rooftops.
For a modern analogue, biology, rather than cosmology, would seem to be the place to look.
It should be a well know fact (especially to/.ers) that OPEC buys up every alternative energy/locomotion patent it can get its hands on, and then calls it "Research".
If that were true, wouldn't these technologies come to market once the patents expire?
Actually, one of the early mage guild quests makes her go downstairs to talk to the rival apprentice. That's when you can steal a whole shitload of _fillled_ and incredibly valuable soul gems.
After seeing the Operation Crossroads footage of the Navy dudes smiling as white-suited techs swept madly clicking geiger counters over their nuts after a swim in the radioactive lagoon, I'd say the jokes were worth it.
One of the primary ways to handle this, BSP trees, are completely broken by going inside the walls. Also, most rendering engines can't cut up the triangles that make up the model, so you get glitchy, fragmented geometry. And tracing rays is still generally outside the capability of realtime systems.
Yes it is absolutely their job to look into and investigate all sorts of scenarios, however improbable they may seem to the average person. And they do it.
Of course, when they do anticipate it, like the destruction of New Orleans, that doesn't seem to make a whole hell of a lot of difference...
Actually, it was a Columbo episode. The guy strangled his wife, then came back a couple hours later and shot her, then turned himself in for shooting her.
Actually, they're confused, and are talking about trademarks, which you do have to show some effort to defend.
Also, the IRS and the US legal system treat copyrights as assets that have value, and they can be transferred between parties for consideration (and for a transfer beyond the licensure of reproduction rights, sales tax will apply in most jurisdictions, which is usually reserved for "tangible goods and services"). Not sure whether that falls under your definition of "property," but one could make a good faith argument that copyrights are property from that. Note that this doesn't stop "intellectual property" from being a disingenuous term, which I think was your larger point.
But, corporations of all commercial and non-government kind need to be deprived of this new SSN
But employers need the SSN to pay into those retirement accounts, to find out if your wages need to be garnished, and to report your income to the IRS (Filled out a W2 or I9 lately?).
And whatever number can be used to do that needs to be protected. But can't be because the companies need it, and need it correlated with your personal information.
Play/Pause/Record can be only one button. FF and RW can be eliminated if you use the Channel buttons while the media is paused. And the Menu can be selected by going to Channel number zero.
Please, do us all a favor and don't ever design a user interface, form, or procedure that anyone will ever use.
As a serious question though, who's going to be doing renders and such where dual cores really shine, on a laptop? Can anyone tell me applications of dual core for a on-the-go computer?
Hired content creation guns who are flown across the country to kick ass and save deadlines.
The only way I accept a company as a monopoly is if they force others out of the market through physical action (murder is one option) or if they hire government to protect their processes.
If you define your terms properly, you can be right no matter what position you take.
Also, what kind of article are you writing when you seem to be unaware of monopoly abuses and remedies from the Gilded Age through the Roosevelt administration?
The Roosevelt administration was one of the most corrupt, anti-market groups I've ever researched. They were backed by so much corruption that I can't say they ever had consumer defense in mind. One large part of the article I'm working on reviews some of the backroom deals they performed to help some by hurting others.
Regardless of your position on the New Deal, it was popular for a reason. Talking about the corruption without understanding the economic and political landscape it occurred in is disingenuous. "Consumer Defense" takes on a different meaning when people are literally starving to death in the streets. For a quick overview of the issues, try the early chapters of Robert Caro's The Path to Power, the first volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson.
Finally, plenty of 'good products' have been crushed by MS in underhanded ways. The DR-DOS lawsuit, and the demise of Lotus 1-2-3, OS/2, and Wordperfect come to mind.
All 3 of these programs were "destroyed" based on government laws that defended Microsoft's position. Without government protection on Microsoft's software, we'd have seen better programs come out, not destroyed.
What government protection? They broke compatibility, on purpose, at the last minute, and then obfuscated the fixes. Are you talking about copyright? And by the way, you haven't offered any facts at all, just vague assertions and a link to an article with more assertions.
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And you paid up front? Suckers.
Crazy little thing called sleep. (although not much... I was expecting it to turn out to be 16 hour days.)
What about filmmakers and animators?
Later on, pretty much anybody dealing with sailing ships noticed that the mast came over the horizon before the rest of the ship did. It was the church, with its insistence on the literal veracity of biblical statements about the world, and its stranglehold on political power throughout Europe, that made the Earth's shape a dangerous topic to shout from the rooftops.
For a modern analogue, biology, rather than cosmology, would seem to be the place to look.
Patents do, and they're what's relevant to this discussion. Next?
If that were true, wouldn't these technologies come to market once the patents expire?
Actually, one of the early mage guild quests makes her go downstairs to talk to the rival apprentice. That's when you can steal a whole shitload of _fillled_ and incredibly valuable soul gems.
After seeing the Operation Crossroads footage of the Navy dudes smiling as white-suited techs swept madly clicking geiger counters over their nuts after a swim in the radioactive lagoon, I'd say the jokes were worth it.
Not so simple. GP's estimate of 4 rays only works if everything is convex and boxy. For an arbitrary mesh, you'll need a lot more rays.
One of the primary ways to handle this, BSP trees, are completely broken by going inside the walls. Also, most rendering engines can't cut up the triangles that make up the model, so you get glitchy, fragmented geometry. And tracing rays is still generally outside the capability of realtime systems.
Of course, when they do anticipate it, like the destruction of New Orleans, that doesn't seem to make a whole hell of a lot of difference...
Actually, it was a Columbo episode. The guy strangled his wife, then came back a couple hours later and shot her, then turned himself in for shooting her.
Also, the IRS and the US legal system treat copyrights as assets that have value, and they can be transferred between parties for consideration (and for a transfer beyond the licensure of reproduction rights, sales tax will apply in most jurisdictions, which is usually reserved for "tangible goods and services"). Not sure whether that falls under your definition of "property," but one could make a good faith argument that copyrights are property from that. Note that this doesn't stop "intellectual property" from being a disingenuous term, which I think was your larger point.
But without a comment, there's no way to tell that code is buggy. It could be setting an index in a 1000-element 1-based array.
How does that obscure the bug in that line? It makes it much more obvious because you know what they're trying to do.
the GIMP is usable for web graphics. It's retouching and prepress where it falls over (still no CMYK, right?)
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Photoshop (no, the GIMP doesn't count yet)
NLE Software
Same number of pixels, different pixel aspect ratio for 16:9 at standard def.
But employers need the SSN to pay into those retirement accounts, to find out if your wages need to be garnished, and to report your income to the IRS (Filled out a W2 or I9 lately?).
And whatever number can be used to do that needs to be protected. But can't be because the companies need it, and need it correlated with your personal information.
Please, do us all a favor and don't ever design a user interface, form, or procedure that anyone will ever use.
The trouble is, that's the slippery-slope justification for making Trusted Computing a prerequisite for consumer internet access.
Will Adblocking *.wmf stop a malicious site from infecting me?
Hired content creation guns who are flown across the country to kick ass and save deadlines.
If you define your terms properly, you can be right no matter what position you take.
The Roosevelt administration was one of the most corrupt, anti-market groups I've ever researched. They were backed by so much corruption that I can't say they ever had consumer defense in mind. One large part of the article I'm working on reviews some of the backroom deals they performed to help some by hurting others.
Regardless of your position on the New Deal, it was popular for a reason. Talking about the corruption without understanding the economic and political landscape it occurred in is disingenuous. "Consumer Defense" takes on a different meaning when people are literally starving to death in the streets. For a quick overview of the issues, try the early chapters of Robert Caro's The Path to Power, the first volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson.
Finally, plenty of 'good products' have been crushed by MS in underhanded ways. The DR-DOS lawsuit, and the demise of Lotus 1-2-3, OS/2, and Wordperfect come to mind.
All 3 of these programs were "destroyed" based on government laws that defended Microsoft's position. Without government protection on Microsoft's software, we'd have seen better programs come out, not destroyed.
What government protection? They broke compatibility, on purpose, at the last minute, and then obfuscated the fixes. Are you talking about copyright? And by the way, you haven't offered any facts at all, just vague assertions and a link to an article with more assertions.