A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative work".
As you can see, merely being based upon a preexisting work isn't enough.
Actually the very section you quote says that being based upon a preexisting work is enough. It then gives a list of examples lest anyone interpret "based upon" too narrowly.
I quite agree that it's not the point, but I was jumping into a thread about technical remedies which can be taken while you wait for the slow process of legal remedies to grind through.
It can't be done mentally. To make sure of that, they included the magic words "with a computer". Truly their lawyers are more cunning than a fox with a PhD in cunning from Oxford University.
In a strict interpretation of "regular expression", they are equivalent to Chomsky type 3 grammars - the most restricted of the four levels in the Chomsky hierarchy. Turing completeness corresponds to equivalence to type 0 grammars. Of course, the monstrosities which Perl calls regexes are far from regular, and for all I know may be Turing complete.
Looks interesting. I've been wanting a functional language with a read-execute loop which I can put on my PocketPC for a while, but not finding anything. I'll have to play around and see what I can do with Clojure.
Hang on. The post to which you originally replied was explicitly talking about Europe, and made the point that Europe and the US differed in this regard.
You can prove anything you want with selective use of statistics, and that's very selective. How many brands of console were there in the 80s vs brands of computer? For the former, I can think of two or three: for the latter, I can come up with a dozen off the top of my head (Apple, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Tandy, Dragon, Spectrum, Amstrad, IBM, Sinclair QL, Acorn, BBC).
But to get some actual stats into the picture, see the UK's Competition Commission's 1995 report on the market for video games. It seems that, in the UK at least, consoles overtook what the report calls "home computers" in about 1992, but still lagged behind combined domestic "home computer" and "personal computer" ownership.
Allowing use of abandonware would certainly keep the good games alive, but I think you're missing the point of an archive: to make as complete a collection as possible, so that the non-popular stuff is preserved, and to make it available to researchers. The two complement each other, and shouldn't be treated as alternatives.
I think Taco is hoping to confine the discussion to one thread per day. In related news, the first batch of porcine fighter pilots receive their wings today.
It's currently modded insightful, flamebait and underrated. So the would-be theorists are going to send a suicide bomber to the subway and then disband?
IANA particle physicist or cosmologist, but I can answer this one: it depends on which particles. For example, a position (anti-electron) has opposite charge to an electron and will thus attract electrons and repulse protons.
No, the point is that they don't distribute a.cab. They distribute an.exe which won't run on PocketPC. Sometimes running it under Wine will extract a.cab to a temporary folder in preparation for syncing (at which point it will fail, but I can manually copy the.cab). An example of one which wouldn't is the Oxford English-Spanish dictionary, which I would probably have bought had I been able to install it - I tried with the free trial and couldn't.
With a 400 MHz processor and 8 GB of storage I don't understand why I can't just run a compiler on the phone.
Hear, hear. The only thing which annoys me about Windows Mobile more than the lack of compilers which run under it are the companies who assume that everyone with a PocketPC also has a Windows desktop with which to install software onto it. (Wine sometimes gets far enough to let me copy an installable.cab across, but not always).
It's unusual on/., though. Normally the editors here don't bother with the quotation marks. I'm not sure whether it's significant or whether it's just that the submitter used them.
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Derivatives are defined in the law:
A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a "derivative work".
As you can see, merely being based upon a preexisting work isn't enough.
Actually the very section you quote says that being based upon a preexisting work is enough. It then gives a list of examples lest anyone interpret "based upon" too narrowly.
Are you sure you don't mean "that evil SOB Carse"?
It only takes one word: antithesis.
I quite agree that it's not the point, but I was jumping into a thread about technical remedies which can be taken while you wait for the slow process of legal remedies to grind through.
Something tells me they'll still get the expats in the end, probably when we renew our passports.
It can't be done mentally. To make sure of that, they included the magic words "with a computer". Truly their lawyers are more cunning than a fox with a PhD in cunning from Oxford University.
In a strict interpretation of "regular expression", they are equivalent to Chomsky type 3 grammars - the most restricted of the four levels in the Chomsky hierarchy. Turing completeness corresponds to equivalence to type 0 grammars. Of course, the monstrosities which Perl calls regexes are far from regular, and for all I know may be Turing complete.
I don't have problems skipping any warnings with xine.
Looks interesting. I've been wanting a functional language with a read-execute loop which I can put on my PocketPC for a while, but not finding anything. I'll have to play around and see what I can do with Clojure.
What regex library do you use which precludes a match for microsoft.* also being a match for *.beastiality.* ?
Can you mount under Linux and delete them?
It seems to be slashdotted now.
The phrase I prefer to use is "good sense".
Hang on. The post to which you originally replied was explicitly talking about Europe, and made the point that Europe and the US differed in this regard.
People were buying 2 NESes for every 1 C64 sold.
You can prove anything you want with selective use of statistics, and that's very selective. How many brands of console were there in the 80s vs brands of computer? For the former, I can think of two or three: for the latter, I can come up with a dozen off the top of my head (Apple, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Tandy, Dragon, Spectrum, Amstrad, IBM, Sinclair QL, Acorn, BBC).
But to get some actual stats into the picture, see the UK's Competition Commission's 1995 report on the market for video games. It seems that, in the UK at least, consoles overtook what the report calls "home computers" in about 1992, but still lagged behind combined domestic "home computer" and "personal computer" ownership.
Allowing use of abandonware would certainly keep the good games alive, but I think you're missing the point of an archive: to make as complete a collection as possible, so that the non-popular stuff is preserved, and to make it available to researchers. The two complement each other, and shouldn't be treated as alternatives.
I think Taco is hoping to confine the discussion to one thread per day. In related news, the first batch of porcine fighter pilots receive their wings today.
Suffice it is to say that AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is to e-mail.
So it sort-of works but it's 30 years out of date and every man and his dog has a different opinion as to how to fix its gaping flaws?
It's currently modded insightful, flamebait and underrated. So the would-be theorists are going to send a suicide bomber to the subway and then disband?
Not really. You need a function which is in P but whose inverse is NP-hard.
I saw that, came back here to comment, and then got thoroughly confused because TFS says that they're trying on Sunday.
Does antimatter attract matter or repulse it
IANA particle physicist or cosmologist, but I can answer this one: it depends on which particles. For example, a position (anti-electron) has opposite charge to an electron and will thus attract electrons and repulse protons.
No, the point is that they don't distribute a .cab. They distribute an .exe which won't run on PocketPC. Sometimes running it under Wine will extract a .cab to a temporary folder in preparation for syncing (at which point it will fail, but I can manually copy the .cab). An example of one which wouldn't is the Oxford English-Spanish dictionary, which I would probably have bought had I been able to install it - I tried with the free trial and couldn't.
With a 400 MHz processor and 8 GB of storage I don't understand why I can't just run a compiler on the phone.
Hear, hear. The only thing which annoys me about Windows Mobile more than the lack of compilers which run under it are the companies who assume that everyone with a PocketPC also has a Windows desktop with which to install software onto it. (Wine sometimes gets far enough to let me copy an installable .cab across, but not always).
It's unusual on /., though. Normally the editors here don't bother with the quotation marks. I'm not sure whether it's significant or whether it's just that the submitter used them.