Considering both sides of the Atlantic have been ping-ponging the extensions back and forth every 20 or so years to keep Steam Boat Willie in chains.
A copyright term that approximates the life of the author's grandchildren has been standard in Europe for well over a century. The 1990s term extensions didn't change this rationale; they merely amended its implementation to account for health care improvements during the twentieth century. Barring some drastic change to this rationale or a dramatic improvement to human life span within the next seven years, Gershwin and Disney won't be able to use this excuse again before Rhapsody in Blue, The House at Pooh Corner, and the original Mickey Mouse trilogy enter the public domain in the United States by 2024.
Good luck getting [US exit from WTO] passed without angering constituents in districts with a strong export manufacturing sector.
Not sure why China would care exactly or have any influence here?
I didn't mention China. I was more referring to exporting to the European market and the post-Brexit British market, which would more than likely impose "yuge" import duties on products made in the United States if the United States were to leave the WTO.
Taking is what the government does best.
The framers of the US Constitution recognized this, which is why compensation for takings got written into the Fifth Amendment in the first place.
DVD Video is 704x480* (24 or 30 frames per second) or 704x576 (25 frames per second) for 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 display aspect ratio. (Many players support only one of those resolutions, such as the PlayStation 2 that was popular during the early DVD market.) Video at "scope" aspect ratio is encoded with hard letterboxing, producing a lower resolution: 704x360 or 704x432 respectively. Chroma is encoded at half resolution (4:2:0). DVD also supports interlaced video, trading off vertical detail for high motion (50 or 60 fields per second).
* Stored as 720, including eight pixels of "nominal analog blanking" pillarboxing on each side for recentering the signal.
One fun thing Trump could do to get back at the screeching entertainment industry going after him; halve the current copyright expiration period.
Switching from life of grandchildren back to the 56-year term of the 1909 Act would require leaving not only the WTO but also several bilateral treaties already in force. Good luck getting that passed without angering constituents in districts with a strong export manufacturing sector. And watch entertainment industry lawyers argue in court that shortening the term of subsisting copyrights qualifies as a "taking" that requires "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
No, Flash Player "was rendered irrelevant by HTML5", as was Shockwave. You still need some application to create vector animations that play back in the SVG or HTML Canvas environment. Which timeline-based animation editors are HTML5 animators using to create animations? Or are they all just rendering to video, which is ten times bigger than vectors and lacks any semblance of interactivity?
To create animations for Shockwave, you used Director. To create animations for Flash Player, you used Flash. To create animations for HTML Canvas, you use ________
Every major Android manufacturer has an update process through official channels. The only exceptions are some of the stupid US specific carrier issues which cause one-off phone models to be created and have updates hampered by the carriers themselves.
For one thing, both Google and SlashdotMedia are headquartered in the US, making "US specific [...] issues" on-topic. For another, "carrier issues" don't explain why manufacturers of tablets can't manage to deliver usable updates. One reason is that newer Android versions tend to require more RAM and a faster, larger NAND. Upgrading a first-generation Nexus 7 tablet (Tegra 3, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB NAND) from Android 4.4 to 5.x, for example, leads to an unusably janky system with lag that often reaches five seconds. I've read rumors that this has something to do with disk-level encryption becoming enabled by default in newer versions of Android, and I guess part of the problem might be that encryption breaks data compression, which some NAND controllers use to improve write speed by fitting more logical sectors in each erase block.
We also don't blame Ubuntu when downstream forks/remxies aren't updated either.
We do when Canonical announces plans to remove from its repository the libraries needed for compatibility with Wine and other 32-bit applications, as it has announced for Ubuntu 18.10.
HTC (for a completely unsubstantiated example) not providing an update for the HTC One is entirely irrelevant when discussing Google management.
In theory, Google has the power under copyright to require licensees of the proprietary Google Play Store application to offer Android OS updates for however many months.
Buying online is fine for desktops, but for laptops, you run the risk of being seen as abusing the return policy should you realize that either the display or the keyboard of each of several laptops in a row isn't agreeing with you.
It's not possible to update Android on most phones, without risking bricking the phone.
That hasn't been true since gingerbread and nearly all vendors offer a nice auto upgrade process which reboots, does checks, applies the updates, and drops you right back where you left off. Actually I don't think I've ever heard of a case where an official update executed through proper normal channels has bricked a device, much less "most phones".
I think the implication is that "most phones" don't have "an official update executed through proper normal channels" available at all. Therefore the only possibility to update is through CM or Lineage or what they're calling it now, and the installation process for that is what risks a brick.
And before the peanut gallery calls you an "entitled millennial cheapskate":
I use Firefox Tracking Protection, which blocks resources that track the user from one site to another. The functionality is similar to that of the Disconnect extension. But the detection code used by WIRED is so coarse grained that it can't tell an ad blocker from a tracking blocker. The site makes no attempt to fall back to serving ads that don't track users in this manner.
Is this the case where you couldn't save incomplete applications to disk for legal reasons, but you couldn't discard incomplete applications for customer service reasons? If these are the constraints on your Enterprise, use Enterprise.
Give average users their walled garden ipads, and keep complex machines available only for those who know how to use them.
With that segmentation strategy, how do you expect to keep economies of scale in the PC market so that affordable PCs don't just get discontinued by the manufacturers? "Build your own"? I haven't seen barebone laptops in local PC stores.
Why are changes unsaved in the first place? If the application you are using is free software, fork it and add a feature to save a copy of your document to Local Settings if it has gone unsaved for at least 60 seconds. When the application starts again, reload all such temporarily saved documents. If the application you are using is proprietary, put in a support request to do the same, and make plans to switch to a free alternative or a competitor's proprietary alternative in case support is unfruitful.
In which build number was the ability to delay downloading a multi-gigabyte update until a particular hour introduced? That's what users of satellite Internet are looking for, because satellite ISPs count early morning downloads differently against the subscriber's monthly download quota from downloads at any other time.
You describe what Microsoft refers to as a "mixed binary" situation. On X11/Linux, unless there have been updates to Linux proper or things with "bus" in the name (dbus or ibus), logging out of your X session and back in usually fixes mixed binary.
Game consoles don't run community-made game mods. Some countries impose prohibitive tariffs on imported game consoles. More games are exclusive to PC than to any console. Nintendo Switch isn't available until sometime in March.
Except switching operating systems shuts down all background services. You can't keep, say, music or group chat going during a reboot, especially because Windows games want to run on a copy of Windows installed on bare metal rather than in VirtualBox. And how does one sync browser tabs between operating systems in a dual boot configuration, including form contents that have been entered but not yet submitted?
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Considering both sides of the Atlantic have been ping-ponging the extensions back and forth every 20 or so years to keep Steam Boat Willie in chains.
A copyright term that approximates the life of the author's grandchildren has been standard in Europe for well over a century. The 1990s term extensions didn't change this rationale; they merely amended its implementation to account for health care improvements during the twentieth century. Barring some drastic change to this rationale or a dramatic improvement to human life span within the next seven years, Gershwin and Disney won't be able to use this excuse again before Rhapsody in Blue, The House at Pooh Corner, and the original Mickey Mouse trilogy enter the public domain in the United States by 2024.
Good luck getting [US exit from WTO] passed without angering constituents in districts with a strong export manufacturing sector.
Not sure why China would care exactly or have any influence here?
I didn't mention China. I was more referring to exporting to the European market and the post-Brexit British market, which would more than likely impose "yuge" import duties on products made in the United States if the United States were to leave the WTO.
Taking is what the government does best.
The framers of the US Constitution recognized this, which is why compensation for takings got written into the Fifth Amendment in the first place.
We want to stream movies, all the movies, all the time, to all devices.
And run up a big cellular data overage bill?
DVD Video is 704x480* (24 or 30 frames per second) or 704x576 (25 frames per second) for 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 display aspect ratio. (Many players support only one of those resolutions, such as the PlayStation 2 that was popular during the early DVD market.) Video at "scope" aspect ratio is encoded with hard letterboxing, producing a lower resolution: 704x360 or 704x432 respectively. Chroma is encoded at half resolution (4:2:0). DVD also supports interlaced video, trading off vertical detail for high motion (50 or 60 fields per second).
* Stored as 720, including eight pixels of "nominal analog blanking" pillarboxing on each side for recentering the signal.
DVD Video is how people lawfully watch a Hollywood movie without having to pay the ISP $5 to $10 per GB* every time they watch it.
* Source: satellite and cellular ISPs' rate plans
One fun thing Trump could do to get back at the screeching entertainment industry going after him; halve the current copyright expiration period.
Switching from life of grandchildren back to the 56-year term of the 1909 Act would require leaving not only the WTO but also several bilateral treaties already in force. Good luck getting that passed without angering constituents in districts with a strong export manufacturing sector. And watch entertainment industry lawyers argue in court that shortening the term of subsisting copyrights qualifies as a "taking" that requires "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.
"Flash, which was rendered irrelevant by HTML5"
No, Flash Player "was rendered irrelevant by HTML5", as was Shockwave. You still need some application to create vector animations that play back in the SVG or HTML Canvas environment. Which timeline-based animation editors are HTML5 animators using to create animations? Or are they all just rendering to video, which is ten times bigger than vectors and lacks any semblance of interactivity?
To create animations for Shockwave, you used Director.
To create animations for Flash Player, you used Flash.
To create animations for HTML Canvas, you use ________
Every major Android manufacturer has an update process through official channels. The only exceptions are some of the stupid US specific carrier issues which cause one-off phone models to be created and have updates hampered by the carriers themselves.
For one thing, both Google and SlashdotMedia are headquartered in the US, making "US specific [...] issues" on-topic. For another, "carrier issues" don't explain why manufacturers of tablets can't manage to deliver usable updates. One reason is that newer Android versions tend to require more RAM and a faster, larger NAND. Upgrading a first-generation Nexus 7 tablet (Tegra 3, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB NAND) from Android 4.4 to 5.x, for example, leads to an unusably janky system with lag that often reaches five seconds. I've read rumors that this has something to do with disk-level encryption becoming enabled by default in newer versions of Android, and I guess part of the problem might be that encryption breaks data compression, which some NAND controllers use to improve write speed by fitting more logical sectors in each erase block.
We also don't blame Ubuntu when downstream forks/remxies aren't updated either.
We do when Canonical announces plans to remove from its repository the libraries needed for compatibility with Wine and other 32-bit applications, as it has announced for Ubuntu 18.10.
HTC (for a completely unsubstantiated example) not providing an update for the HTC One is entirely irrelevant when discussing Google management.
In theory, Google has the power under copyright to require licensees of the proprietary Google Play Store application to offer Android OS updates for however many months.
Run the SACD player's analog out to a decent external ADC, dither down to 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo, and compress that with FLAC.
Buying online is fine for desktops, but for laptops, you run the risk of being seen as abusing the return policy should you realize that either the display or the keyboard of each of several laptops in a row isn't agreeing with you.
It's not possible to update Android on most phones, without risking bricking the phone.
That hasn't been true since gingerbread and nearly all vendors offer a nice auto upgrade process which reboots, does checks, applies the updates, and drops you right back where you left off. Actually I don't think I've ever heard of a case where an official update executed through proper normal channels has bricked a device, much less "most phones".
I think the implication is that "most phones" don't have "an official update executed through proper normal channels" available at all. Therefore the only possibility to update is through CM or Lineage or what they're calling it now, and the installation process for that is what risks a brick.
Then store it in a RAM disk on a server running an operating system other than Windows.
the Windows solution is to hope that there's NEVER EVER EVEN ONE that exists on Linux but not Windows.
For a broad definition of "Linux-based system", there are plenty of Android apps that aren't ported to Windows.
Newspapers don't get to track what other publications their readers read. Why should websites?
And before the peanut gallery calls you an "entitled millennial cheapskate":
I use Firefox Tracking Protection, which blocks resources that track the user from one site to another. The functionality is similar to that of the Disconnect extension. But the detection code used by WIRED is so coarse grained that it can't tell an ad blocker from a tracking blocker. The site makes no attempt to fall back to serving ads that don't track users in this manner.
How does GPU passthrough allow the VM host to display its own UI?
Is this the case where you couldn't save incomplete applications to disk for legal reasons, but you couldn't discard incomplete applications for customer service reasons? If these are the constraints on your Enterprise, use Enterprise.
Give average users their walled garden ipads, and keep complex machines available only for those who know how to use them.
With that segmentation strategy, how do you expect to keep economies of scale in the PC market so that affordable PCs don't just get discontinued by the manufacturers? "Build your own"? I haven't seen barebone laptops in local PC stores.
Why are changes unsaved in the first place? If the application you are using is free software, fork it and add a feature to save a copy of your document to Local Settings if it has gone unsaved for at least 60 seconds. When the application starts again, reload all such temporarily saved documents. If the application you are using is proprietary, put in a support request to do the same, and make plans to switch to a free alternative or a competitor's proprietary alternative in case support is unfruitful.
In which build number was the ability to delay downloading a multi-gigabyte update until a particular hour introduced? That's what users of satellite Internet are looking for, because satellite ISPs count early morning downloads differently against the subscriber's monthly download quota from downloads at any other time.
You describe what Microsoft refers to as a "mixed binary" situation. On X11/Linux, unless there have been updates to Linux proper or things with "bus" in the name (dbus or ibus), logging out of your X session and back in usually fixes mixed binary.
All Linux native games on Steam are also available for Windows. Valve requires it. To which games were you referring?
Game consoles don't run community-made game mods. Some countries impose prohibitive tariffs on imported game consoles. More games are exclusive to PC than to any console. Nintendo Switch isn't available until sometime in March.
Except switching operating systems shuts down all background services. You can't keep, say, music or group chat going during a reboot, especially because Windows games want to run on a copy of Windows installed on bare metal rather than in VirtualBox. And how does one sync browser tabs between operating systems in a dual boot configuration, including form contents that have been entered but not yet submitted?
Ubuntu only requests reboots if the kernel changes, and that's rare.
In my experience, Ubuntu's kernel changes at least as often as Patch Tuesday.