I did a PC refresh project for a local hospital a few years ago, replacing old WinXP systems with new Win7 systems. The pharmacy department for the poor clinic were running a DOS-based application for managing prescriptions. The last tech who installed this application was long gone for six years. There was no documentation. The developer no longer supported the application. The hospital didn't want to buy a new application with an incompatible data format. And the old computers were ready to die. Somehow I managed to get the application working on Win7.
Because copyright is by no means eternal, eventually all creative works will fall into the public domain. For music, there are very specific laws that govern when a piece or song lapses into the public domain. If the Copyright Office has no confirmation that a composer or song-writer is still living and it has been 75 years since the first copyright protection order was granted, or 100 years since the recognized creation date of the piece, it becomes public domain. The reasoning behind this occurrence is both that copyright protection has expired or the creator of the piece is presumed dead. Therefore, it would be assumed that any piece of music copyrighted in 1930 or earlier written by an American songwriter or composer presumed dead by the Copyright Office is now part of the public domain.
Please note that I'm quoting the above under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Patsy Cline died in 1963. If the copyrights for her songs were renewed, the songs published before 1964 will enter the public domain in 2058. However, if her estate didn't renew the copyrights, the songs are now in the public domain. The songs I ripped in particular were the old religious hymns, say, "Just A Closer Walk With Thee," that's been in public domain for decades. Those MP3s got deleted from the file server within five minutes, as I fully expected to happen. Patsy Cline is no match for the Back Street Boys.
Mickey Mouse was invented in 1928, after that there is no public domain.
Unless Congress extends the copyright law for another 20 years, the Mickey Mouse copyright is scheduled to expire in 2023. Unless the Disney CORPORATION lobbies Congress again and/or files a trademark application, Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain.
This incident happened in 1999 and preceeded the Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum case in 2003. If I'm not mistaken, the Patsy Cline music from the 1950's were in the public domain. Hence, no copyright violation.
When I worked at a video game company prior to the dot com bust, one of the QA supervisors kept pestering me to contribute to the internal MP3 server. So I did. I brought in my collection of Patsy Cline CDs, ripped on my workstation, and transferred to the MP3 server. My contribution to the communal music collection was deleted within five minutes and the supervisor stopped pestering me.
I tried to search for that story but couldn't find it. Flipping a 16- or 32-bit counter is a far more likely scenario. A 24-bit counter is/was incomprehensible.
It could have been a 16-bit field. With the amount of traffic that Slashdot gets, the field was small enough to exceed the limit sooner rather than later. Hence the site crashed. This was an "Oh, doh!" programming moment if there was ever one.
I haven't done formal flowcharts in ages, but I probably have the plastic template from college stashed in a storage box somewhere. If I'm having trouble with a piece of code, I might make a diagram to visually walkthrough the code and figure out where I'm getting stuck.
When I took Introduction to Computers in the early 1990's, the class had to draw flowchart diagrams to demonstrate our logic before we could program a DOS batch file. When I went back to school to learn computer programming in mid 2000's, all we needed was a napkin to write pseudocode before programming a web app. Kids today have it too easy.
At some point they closed it up, but does anyone know when/why?
Probably after Slashdot crashed and taken offline for several days when a 32-bit counter in a database table reached its limit. That was about ten years ago or so.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a mega volcano and not a quasi volcano.
Yet most people stop learning once they get out of school, knowing all they need to know and surprised that they really don't know anything.
Is a quasi-moon like a quasi -planet (i.e., Pluto)?
I did a PC refresh project for a local hospital a few years ago, replacing old WinXP systems with new Win7 systems. The pharmacy department for the poor clinic were running a DOS-based application for managing prescriptions. The last tech who installed this application was long gone for six years. There was no documentation. The developer no longer supported the application. The hospital didn't want to buy a new application with an incompatible data format. And the old computers were ready to die. Somehow I managed to get the application working on Win7.
they used M for most of what they did...
No wonder this is screwed up. What does M, head of the British intelligence agency, got to do with American health records?
You're assuming that sound recordings are treated in the same manner as other copyrighted works.
Damnit, Jim! I'm a writer, not a musician! :P
Because copyright is by no means eternal, eventually all creative works will fall into the public domain. For music, there are very specific laws that govern when a piece or song lapses into the public domain. If the Copyright Office has no confirmation that a composer or song-writer is still living and it has been 75 years since the first copyright protection order was granted, or 100 years since the recognized creation date of the piece, it becomes public domain. The reasoning behind this occurrence is both that copyright protection has expired or the creator of the piece is presumed dead. Therefore, it would be assumed that any piece of music copyrighted in 1930 or earlier written by an American songwriter or composer presumed dead by the Copyright Office is now part of the public domain.
Please note that I'm quoting the above under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Actually, it was "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" that got me banished from the MP3 server. Patsy Cline was no match for the Back Street Boys.
Patsy Cline died in 1963. If the copyrights for her songs were renewed, the songs published before 1964 will enter the public domain in 2058. However, if her estate didn't renew the copyrights, the songs are now in the public domain. The songs I ripped in particular were the old religious hymns, say, "Just A Closer Walk With Thee," that's been in public domain for decades. Those MP3s got deleted from the file server within five minutes, as I fully expected to happen. Patsy Cline is no match for the Back Street Boys.
Mickey Mouse was invented in 1928, after that there is no public domain.
Unless Congress extends the copyright law for another 20 years, the Mickey Mouse copyright is scheduled to expire in 2023. Unless the Disney CORPORATION lobbies Congress again and/or files a trademark application, Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain.
This incident happened in 1999 and preceeded the Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum case in 2003. If I'm not mistaken, the Patsy Cline music from the 1950's were in the public domain. Hence, no copyright violation.
When I worked at a video game company prior to the dot com bust, one of the QA supervisors kept pestering me to contribute to the internal MP3 server. So I did. I brought in my collection of Patsy Cline CDs, ripped on my workstation, and transferred to the MP3 server. My contribution to the communal music collection was deleted within five minutes and the supervisor stopped pestering me.
The eight-bit retro look is coming back in style these days. New name should be Windows Minecraft.
Looking forward to all the naughty bits in WinXXX when it comes out.
Could you really consider it a tablet if you have to plug a mouse in for it to work?
Mount it on the wall above your desk, plug in a keyboard and mouse, and use it as a cheap PC.
I tried to search for that story but couldn't find it. Flipping a 16- or 32-bit counter is a far more likely scenario. A 24-bit counter is/was incomprehensible.
I loved the Microsoft Sidewinder game controller for the PC back in the day.
It could have been a 16-bit field. With the amount of traffic that Slashdot gets, the field was small enough to exceed the limit sooner rather than later. Hence the site crashed. This was an "Oh, doh!" programming moment if there was ever one.
I haven't done formal flowcharts in ages, but I probably have the plastic template from college stashed in a storage box somewhere. If I'm having trouble with a piece of code, I might make a diagram to visually walkthrough the code and figure out where I'm getting stuck.
Microsoft emulating Apple.
When I took Introduction to Computers in the early 1990's, the class had to draw flowchart diagrams to demonstrate our logic before we could program a DOS batch file. When I went back to school to learn computer programming in mid 2000's, all we needed was a napkin to write pseudocode before programming a web app. Kids today have it too easy.
At some point they closed it up, but does anyone know when/why?
Probably after Slashdot crashed and taken offline for several days when a 32-bit counter in a database table reached its limit. That was about ten years ago or so.
Nevertheless, this statistical approach to literature could introduce the process of mathematical modelling to more people than any textbook.
Reading Shakespeare in the original Klingon language would probably easier.
Dude, you're getting Chinese spyware!
Every Lenovo is equipped with a backdoor in the BIOS. You're getting Chinese hackers AND spyware!
So the 5-7-5 design pattern doesn't work for this particular haiku? :P