Ok, so instead of using the date of creation, you use the date of first sale. In the case of self-published or corporately-created works (think movie industry), it would be the first time you sell a copy to anyone other than yourself.
In the case of contracted works (think music industry, publishing industry), it would be the date on the contract, where the creator is making his first sale, by selling some rights to the work to another entity.
Tracking both types of dates should prove relatively simple, and in those cases where specific dates are lost, let the date be set as January 1, in the year it was released.*
You could easily use this metric to handle things like "...term of no more than 20 years, or 5 years beyond the author's death, whichever shall occur first."
*Because if they lose the paperwork, they should lose part of a year. Say they produced a work in December of 1980...but can't prove the date of first sale. The copyright would expire on January 1, 2000 (a term of 19 years, and a few extra days). This provides incentive for creators at all levels to keep their records in order.
No, the real issue is whether or not he can now take advantage of the fact that she acted criminally against him without introducing the fruit of the crime as evidence, and whether or not she will do any jail time for having violated the law.;)
Personally, I'm torn on the issue. She violated his privacy, but she was his wife, and he was cheating on her. Still, in the words of so many cops, the law is the law whether or not you like it. (it made me shudder to say that, if it helps any.)
I hereby propose that we slashdotters implement a fark-like system... when posting links that might get you fired for viewing, use the acronym NSFW (not safe for work) after the link. Henceforth, moderators should mod posts not conforming as flamebait or troll.
Permission to use a copyrighted thing is not the same as permission to use a patented thing, and that's different from permission to use a trade secret.
Hey, dude, wake up. If MS reveals trade secrets to the world (as part of some 'open standards' whatsit), they are no longer trade secrets. The protections afforded trade secrets would fall off the minute they voluntarily allow public access to them.
Troll is a slur. By definition, a troll is one who through his/her words deliberately instigates a hostile response in an online forum.
If you'll read the post that provoked this slur, you'll understand that it is clearly Trollish in nature, and thus justifiable to label it so.
Had the author intended to inspire civilized thought, he would not have begun the post with the words, "you retards". He also would not have attacked the entire forum by claiming it is "a cesspool".
Here, he is making the classic mistake of guilt by association, assuming that the Slashdot readership in its entirety believes a certain thing.
(None of what I've just said is an argument against his opinions; this place might very well be a cesspool, in the eyes of some. And it is certainly true that some of the posters on Slashdot are retards. However, I am attacking his methods of getting the point across, and your defense of a clearly Trollish post.)
That's how you make a point, civilly, instead of calling names.
In my opinion, we haven't seen any advantage for oil and question why anyone would expect that going to war would help with oil prices/quantity. To me, the war is not an issue of oil.
That's because you're not seeing it from the right angle. It's not a war *for* oil, it's a war for *control of* oil. You didn't expect that the oil industry (of which I am a part, fair disclosure and all) would want prices lower, did you?
Unlikely. Earth's mass remains the same, so the orbit around the sun is unaltered.
False. The gravitational pull of the earth attracts additional matter from space on a constant basis, so its mass is *always* increasing, even if the increase is barely measurable and totally imperceptible.
Why is this the rational thing, when opting for cheaper labor lessens the ability of the consumer to buy, and thus in the long run, destroys profit?
Because, you insensitive clod, the long run is not a part of any CEO's calculations. Didn't you get the memo? In today's corporate culture anyone caught thinking more than one fiscal quarter ahead has his job outsourced.
The MMO genre is only a few years old, is based on incremental improvements, and has longer development cycles than conventional design. Worse, evolutionary considerations for MMO games favor the least common denominator of complexity and involvement. It should come as no surprise that they still suck, even though I keep hoping otherwise.
It certainly comes as no surprise that you think your opinion should determine the fate of the market. With very rare exception, I think that first person shooters are 'teh suxxors'. I feel like asking people how they can derive enjoyment from a game with such a limited story/plot line, that essentially becomes "walk down this corridor until you see something, shoot it, pick up its ammo and keys, move on."
Do you see my point here? Just because you think something is stupid doesn't make it stupid, stupid. It just means your whiny ass doesn't like them, and I'm fine with that.
Common sense tells me that the laser never hit the plane, never hit the police chopper, and that the story was conveniently put together by prosecuters and a media which has nothing useful to report about the war or terror.
Common sense tells me that someone saw the laser in order for it to be noticed. To see such a laser requires, a) clouds nearby b) fog or c) it pointed right at your eyes.
Will some slashdotter save me the effort of RTFA by telling me how powerful this laser was? It would have to be pretty strong to be noticeable in clouds at flight altitudes (unless he was near an airport, then he should be hanged).
In conclusion, IIWOTJ (if I were on the jury), anyone saying the laser didn't hit the plane had better be prepared to back it up with some evidence of a good, strong laser beam.
And yeah, I think the use of the words 'terror' and 'PATRIOT Act' in conjunction with this story deserves further investigation. I fail to understand the terrorist link, unless there are details we're not being fed (which is highly likely).
GIving in would have set a nasty precedent. They would have been indundated with so many "requests" that it would take up an inordinate amount of their time.
You said it: they're just saying (in a metaphorical kind of way) 'we don't negotiate with terrorists'.
One of my roommates had a DVD copy of Full Metal Jacket... we had a blast watching it in French with English subtitles. We didn't learn much French, but we did learn a few ways to insult the hell out of someone.:D
Tell me one thing that this complicates or causes you to be inable(sic) to do.
How is it that you can look at Windoze, with its single-directory-per-app, and at UNIX, with its/etc,/bin,/sbin,/var,.... and then claim that UNIX is somehow not more complicated?
More parts = more complication. In Win32, there are fewer locations to check if you're having issues. If I'm having problems, I open a single folder and 99% of the time I can handle the issue from that folder (or at CLI, from a single directory). In *NIX, you jump all over the map depending on what you want to do.
So while I really despise Microsoft's business practices, and the vendor lock-in, and the outrageous prices of their software, yada yada, yada yada... Their solution to the directory/folder issue is much more intuitive, and more elegant, than the *NIX solution, which is to dump new users into a maze of 3(or 4)-letter 'guess what I do' directory-names.
The biggest problem with the Google Toolbar is that it's only engineered for IE (not that I expect them to port it to a browser with less than 10% usage). If you're using the Toolbar, it means the foundation on which you stand is likely to turn to mud any moment now.
I'm sorry, you're wrong. The issue in question was the grammar-naziness of a poster. When s/he included the parenthetical "perhaps...", I felt inclined to respond. I was responding exclusively to that, and that's why I practiced cut/paste as I did.
This is what comes from a society that eliminates man's need to survive. We get so comfortable with our toys that all of the little problems suddenly seem like big problems. Go experience war or hunger (real hunger, not "hey, I want a cheeseburger" hunger), and then come talk to me about vulgarity being a Big Issue.
Murder, rape, and theft are Big Problems. Homelessness is a Big Problem. AIDS and other diseases are Big Problems. Vulgarity is little shit, and not really that big of an issue in the long run, ya know?
To sum it up: if you're afraid that radio (or TV, or Rock and Roll, or Video Games) will ruin your kids, then you have done a lousy fucking job as a parent, and deserve any disrespect handed your way. You're probably the same type that is happy to send your kids off to public schools where someone you can't fire gets to tell your kids how the world works.
It must be embarrassing to correct someone's grammar and be incorrect about it (perhaps I will find out now).
Yeah, you will. A new thought, regardless of its tangentiality to the subject matter, should begin a new sentence. Parentheses are typically reserved for clarification or definition, along with their brothers, the footnotes.
ftfa: As I already own a, legitimate, copy of T2, that wasn't the reason I bought the two-dvd disk set, I was looking forward to playing back the hd version, which promises the very best image quality and a great way for me to enjoy the full potential of my, hd capable, home theater installation.
could, the author, of this article, be William Shatner, in disguise, maybe, hiding between all the, commas?
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Name one idea that wasn't just building on the basics.
In the case of contracted works (think music industry, publishing industry), it would be the date on the contract, where the creator is making his first sale, by selling some rights to the work to another entity.
Tracking both types of dates should prove relatively simple, and in those cases where specific dates are lost, let the date be set as January 1, in the year it was released.*
You could easily use this metric to handle things like "...term of no more than 20 years, or 5 years beyond the author's death, whichever shall occur first."
*Because if they lose the paperwork, they should lose part of a year. Say they produced a work in December of 1980...but can't prove the date of first sale. The copyright would expire on January 1, 2000 (a term of 19 years, and a few extra days). This provides incentive for creators at all levels to keep their records in order.
Personally, I'm torn on the issue. She violated his privacy, but she was his wife, and he was cheating on her. Still, in the words of so many cops, the law is the law whether or not you like it. (it made me shudder to say that, if it helps any.)
I hereby propose that we slashdotters implement a fark-like system... when posting links that might get you fired for viewing, use the acronym NSFW (not safe for work) after the link. Henceforth, moderators should mod posts not conforming as flamebait or troll.
Hey, dude, wake up. If MS reveals trade secrets to the world (as part of some 'open standards' whatsit), they are no longer trade secrets. The protections afforded trade secrets would fall off the minute they voluntarily allow public access to them.
If you'll read the post that provoked this slur, you'll understand that it is clearly Trollish in nature, and thus justifiable to label it so.
Had the author intended to inspire civilized thought, he would not have begun the post with the words, "you retards". He also would not have attacked the entire forum by claiming it is "a cesspool".
Here, he is making the classic mistake of guilt by association, assuming that the Slashdot readership in its entirety believes a certain thing.
(None of what I've just said is an argument against his opinions; this place might very well be a cesspool, in the eyes of some. And it is certainly true that some of the posters on Slashdot are retards. However, I am attacking his methods of getting the point across, and your defense of a clearly Trollish post.)
That's how you make a point, civilly, instead of calling names.
I, for one... oh, fuck it.
In korea, only old people eat grits.
That's because you're not seeing it from the right angle. It's not a war *for* oil, it's a war for *control of* oil. You didn't expect that the oil industry (of which I am a part, fair disclosure and all) would want prices lower, did you?
False. The gravitational pull of the earth attracts additional matter from space on a constant basis, so its mass is *always* increasing, even if the increase is barely measurable and totally imperceptible.
You sir are a fucking liar. I've had a higher uid than yours for over a year now.
Because, you insensitive clod, the long run is not a part of any CEO's calculations. Didn't you get the memo? In today's corporate culture anyone caught thinking more than one fiscal quarter ahead has his job outsourced.
It certainly comes as no surprise that you think your opinion should determine the fate of the market. With very rare exception, I think that first person shooters are 'teh suxxors'. I feel like asking people how they can derive enjoyment from a game with such a limited story/plot line, that essentially becomes "walk down this corridor until you see something, shoot it, pick up its ammo and keys, move on."
Do you see my point here? Just because you think something is stupid doesn't make it stupid, stupid. It just means your whiny ass doesn't like them, and I'm fine with that.
Common sense tells me that someone saw the laser in order for it to be noticed. To see such a laser requires, a) clouds nearby b) fog or c) it pointed right at your eyes.
Will some slashdotter save me the effort of RTFA by telling me how powerful this laser was? It would have to be pretty strong to be noticeable in clouds at flight altitudes (unless he was near an airport, then he should be hanged).
In conclusion, IIWOTJ (if I were on the jury), anyone saying the laser didn't hit the plane had better be prepared to back it up with some evidence of a good, strong laser beam.
And yeah, I think the use of the words 'terror' and 'PATRIOT Act' in conjunction with this story deserves further investigation. I fail to understand the terrorist link, unless there are details we're not being fed (which is highly likely).
You said it: they're just saying (in a metaphorical kind of way) 'we don't negotiate with terrorists'.
One of my roommates had a DVD copy of Full Metal Jacket... we had a blast watching it in French with English subtitles. We didn't learn much French, but we did learn a few ways to insult the hell out of someone. :D
Because this is the simple way to do things, and the simple way is broken less often than the complex way.
How is it that you can look at Windoze, with its single-directory-per-app, and at UNIX, with its /etc, /bin, /sbin, /var, .... and then claim that UNIX is somehow not more complicated?
More parts = more complication. In Win32, there are fewer locations to check if you're having issues. If I'm having problems, I open a single folder and 99% of the time I can handle the issue from that folder (or at CLI, from a single directory). In *NIX, you jump all over the map depending on what you want to do.
So while I really despise Microsoft's business practices, and the vendor lock-in, and the outrageous prices of their software, yada yada, yada yada... Their solution to the directory/folder issue is much more intuitive, and more elegant, than the *NIX solution, which is to dump new users into a maze of 3(or 4)-letter 'guess what I do' directory-names.
The biggest problem with the Google Toolbar is that it's only engineered for IE (not that I expect them to port it to a browser with less than 10% usage). If you're using the Toolbar, it means the foundation on which you stand is likely to turn to mud any moment now.
I'm sorry, you're wrong. The issue in question was the grammar-naziness of a poster. When s/he included the parenthetical "perhaps...", I felt inclined to respond. I was responding exclusively to that, and that's why I practiced cut/paste as I did.
Sorry, wasn't meant as an ad hominem... the 'you' in this case was meant to be rhetorical, aimed at any and all readers. Just figured I'd clarify. :)
Murder, rape, and theft are Big Problems. Homelessness is a Big Problem. AIDS and other diseases are Big Problems. Vulgarity is little shit, and not really that big of an issue in the long run, ya know?
To sum it up: if you're afraid that radio (or TV, or Rock and Roll, or Video Games) will ruin your kids, then you have done a lousy fucking job as a parent, and deserve any disrespect handed your way. You're probably the same type that is happy to send your kids off to public schools where someone you can't fire gets to tell your kids how the world works.
Yeah, you will. A new thought, regardless of its tangentiality to the subject matter, should begin a new sentence. Parentheses are typically reserved for clarification or definition, along with their brothers, the footnotes.
I like to simplify the whole matter by just saying "I don't give a fuck".
could, the author, of this article, be William Shatner, in disguise, maybe, hiding between all the, commas?