Except in most cases significantly more profit would be obtained by moving out of an acedemic setting, the main advantages the academic setting has is stability (tenure) and the ability to pursue that which interests you and the second is increasingly being lost through the corporatization of university research.
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Actually I believe Debit cards charge much lower fees, but only if the retailer treats them as a debit card (requiring them to enter their PIN code).
If the customer doesn't understand the difference and says a debit card is credit (since they look very similar) and doesnt enter their PIN than a transaction fee higher than a credit card is charged.
I had heard that a lawsuit (not sure if its the same one you are referring to) was aimed at this particular confusion between debit and credit cards causing large fees for debit transactions because of requiring the customer to self determine the card type, which would be quite cheap if the customer had identified their card as a debit card and had entered their PIN.
Its too bad Pixar came down on Exluna/BMRT and stopped them from distributing BMRT (though you can still get it other places) and I suppose stopped development (since they can't distribute anymore).
The point is that Disney has been spearheading repeated extentions to the terms copyrighted materials enjoy to keep their material from falling into the public domain, while largely benefiting and deriving their profits from works which were allowed to pass into the public domain.
This doesn't include outright dervitives of others currently copyrighted works, which if someone else had done anything remotely like this to a Disney story they would come down on them like a ton of bricks since they are very active in protecting their copyrights and have immense capital with which to persue lawsuits.
Remeber, free speech et al was written in a time when there wasn't true anonmity.
It was also a time of anonymous pamphleteering of political opinions unpopular with the established government which was part of the forsce behind the first amendment (speech and press) and has been held by the Supreme Court including a case of an Ohio law being struck down as unconstitutional because it wouldn't allow anonymous political speech through pamphleteering.
But another helpful thing is that for the amount involved it will usually fall under the small claims limit, which means for a generally nominal fee you can have your day in court, although you do need to do a bit of preperation to document how the other party didn't live up to thier end of the bargain, in this case possibly false advertising.
Small claims is relatively painless to pursue if you have your act together, and generally the worst outcome is that you lose the nominal filing fee.
totally agree. laser printer prints run around $0.015/page for toner and about $6.00/ream for nice (but not too nice) paper. So a 500 page book would print out at about $14, plus about $3 to bind it at Kinkos, or somewhere else that can do a nice sealed velo bind for a grand total of $17 make it $25 and you have a nice profit margin/per book although you'd still need to sell a lot to make the original time invested in producing a 500 page book worth while, unless it was simply an itch that you needed to scratch.
Or you can just assign the 7 or so most used programs a shortcut key on the right click properties Shortcut tab where it says Shortcut Key, which will go to a shortcut by hitting CTRL-ALT-(Letter/number you choose to assign)
So you could assign many more than 7, but 7 or so are good because it will be quite quick to learn and easy to rememeber.
You answered your own question. Look at the lengths involved after Disney sent the letter to stop using the Donald Duck likeness (although thats not what Christensen was doing in his mind). Copyright does not only prevent you from creating exact duplicates, it also prevents you from making derivative works. That means anything based on the story using the characters, or bearing a superficial resemblance can be determined to be infringing. So if as you say it was an interpretation of Donald Duck as something else it is technically an infringing work, because it is derivative. Disney might not have dropped its legal suit so quickly if the comic was in english.
Or for another example look at the case of the Gone with the Wind Estate (note the author is dead) vs. the author of The Wind Done Gone, a parody of the Gone with the Wind book. Even though its very different and a parody as well it was found to infringe the copyright of Gone with the Wind, and although the ban on publishing was lifted a monetary settlement had to be made to the copyright holder of Gone with the Wind.
Except that many different methods yield the same result for a single time event within their stated uncertainties.
Here is a comparison of different radiometric and non-radiometric methods used to date a string of craters formed in the Triassic Period.
Of course the methods of radioactive dating for objects that old have uncertainties of +/- a few million years but that's only a few percent of the total age.
INAL however, Olsen seems to be totally offbase on the argument of the additional years.
This argument -
Breyer said that the "additive value" of a 70 year term versus a 50 year term is "essentially zero." Olson said that wasn't true, if you were 80 years old the additional 20 years might encourage you to produce, or if you were a publisher, the additional 20 years might change your economic calculation.
This argument seems incompatible with current copyright law since the term of copyrights has been extended from 50 years + the LIFE of the author to 70 years + the LIFE of the author [Title 17 Chapter 3 Section 302].
So no matter what the age of the author while that author is alive copyright is retained and the author benefits themselves by producing new works and their family long after their death.
In fact the extension is more relevant to a young author with a family they care for and who knows they will die early in life since people that author actually has contact with (children, immediate family) may be affected by the extension leading to the dying author to quickly produce work that the author knows will provide royalties to the immediate family throughout their lives.
Another argument would be an 80 year old author with children and grandchildren who rely on revenue from royalties of the author, but don't produce any valuable work themselves could promote the author to produce new works that the 20 year increase might help so the author knows their great great grand children will be taken care of, rather than just their great grandchildren.
In any case it seems that extending the terms many years after the authors death does little to promote the author to create new works.
In the case of corporate owned works why would extension of the rights change your calculation to produce new works, rather than take the most valuable works you already have rights on and continue profiting from them as a stable revenue stream rather than the vageries of trying to sell new works.
It's interesting though that his sentence is higher than the mean sentence for Manslaughter, Assault, Burglary/B&E, Auto Theft, Fraud, Embezzlement, Counterfeiting, Bribery, Civil Rights Violations, and a few others.
In 1997 in any case. From a publication of the United States Sentencing Commission.
The connection to the tower was by waveguide (from what I read in another bit posted from the/.'ed site anyway). Since the outside conductor is ground and only a small range of frequencies is tranmitted efficiently the broad spectrum EMP may not cause a problem, but I'm not a microwave engineer, however it seems like a possibility.
You can alway hire a collection agency to hound them, or hire an off duty police officer to serve the court judgement. If they don't pay they will be in contempt of court and you can file a complaint. Of course how far you'll be willing to take it generally depends on the amount of money or anger involved.
The early history of Hollywood is even more interesting.
The first motion picture studios were in New York City, but they moved out to California to avoid paying licensing fees to Edison for his patents. They then avoided his lawsuits by going to Mexico until the heat was off. (1)
Then in the late thirties antitrust lawsuits were attempted against the big eight leading to a consent decree between the studios and the justice dept. (we all know how effective those are;>) promising to limit some monopolistic practices. The independants (at that time) used their name recognition (Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Orson Welles) to take their case to the people recruiting other well known names to promote their cause - Howard Hughes, Hal Roach, Leo McCarey, Sol Lesser, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, John Huston, Preston Sturges, Sam Spiegel, and Stanley Kramer.
In 1948 a supreme court decision against the big eight for conspiracy forced them to sell their theater holdings and stop certain monopolistic practices such as block booking (requiring a theater to buy all the films they needed in a single package, hmm sounds a little like bundling).
The studio system and its opposition which forced the dissolution then both faded away leading to the rise of new monopoly structure.
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Except in most cases significantly more profit would be obtained by moving out of an acedemic setting, the main advantages the academic setting has is stability (tenure) and the ability to pursue that which interests you and the second is increasingly being lost through the corporatization of university research.
Actually I believe Debit cards charge much lower fees, but only if the retailer treats them as a debit card (requiring them to enter their PIN code).
If the customer doesn't understand the difference and says a debit card is credit (since they look very similar) and doesnt enter their PIN than a transaction fee higher than a credit card is charged.
I had heard that a lawsuit (not sure if its the same one you are referring to) was aimed at this particular confusion between debit and credit cards causing large fees for debit transactions because of requiring the customer to self determine the card type, which would be quite cheap if the customer had identified their card as a debit card and had entered their PIN.
Its too bad Pixar came down on Exluna/BMRT and stopped them from distributing BMRT (though you can still get it other places) and I suppose stopped development (since they can't distribute anymore).
The point is that Disney has been spearheading repeated extentions to the terms copyrighted materials enjoy to keep their material from falling into the public domain, while largely benefiting and deriving their profits from works which were allowed to pass into the public domain.
This doesn't include outright dervitives of others currently copyrighted works, which if someone else had done anything remotely like this to a Disney story they would come down on them like a ton of bricks since they are very active in protecting their copyrights and have immense capital with which to persue lawsuits.
Never mind you've limited your self to Mac only. Rhino is windows.
to do with the software, but most high end 3d stuff costs an arm and a leg.
One reasonably priced well spoken of modeller you didn't mention is Rhino.
Maya is nice, but if you aren't animating you're only using a very small portion of its abilities.
Here's the distributed computing project for you:
http://folding.stanford.edu
Remeber, free speech et al was written in a time when there wasn't true anonmity.
It was also a time of anonymous pamphleteering of political opinions unpopular with the established government which was part of the forsce behind the first amendment (speech and press) and has been held by the Supreme Court including a case of an Ohio law being struck down as unconstitutional because it wouldn't allow anonymous political speech through pamphleteering.
Not everyone agrees, although its good for the US soybean industry Health food is a much higher margin than cattle feed.
This is not legal advice either.
But another helpful thing is that for the amount involved it will usually fall under the small claims limit, which means for a generally nominal fee you can have your day in court, although you do need to do a bit of preperation to document how the other party didn't live up to thier end of the bargain, in this case possibly false advertising.
Small claims is relatively painless to pursue if you have your act together, and generally the worst outcome is that you lose the nominal filing fee.
totally agree. laser printer prints run around $0.015/page for toner and about $6.00/ream for nice (but not too nice) paper. So a 500 page book would print out at about $14, plus about $3 to bind it at Kinkos, or somewhere else that can do a nice sealed velo bind for a grand total of $17 make it $25 and you have a nice profit margin/per book although you'd still need to sell a lot to make the original time invested in producing a 500 page book worth while, unless it was simply an itch that you needed to scratch.
This is a viewsonic based on that tech I believe -
VP2290b
Although its 'only' about 200 pixels per inch.
Or you can just assign the 7 or so most used programs a shortcut key on the right click properties Shortcut tab where it says Shortcut Key, which will go to a shortcut by hitting CTRL-ALT-(Letter/number you choose to assign)
So you could assign many more than 7, but 7 or so are good because it will be quite quick to learn and easy to rememeber.
You answered your own question. Look at the lengths involved after Disney sent the letter to stop using the Donald Duck likeness (although thats not what Christensen was doing in his mind). Copyright does not only prevent you from creating exact duplicates, it also prevents you from making derivative works. That means anything based on the story using the characters, or bearing a superficial resemblance can be determined to be infringing. So if as you say it was an interpretation of Donald Duck as something else it is technically an infringing work, because it is derivative. Disney might not have dropped its legal suit so quickly if the comic was in english.
Or for another example look at the case of the Gone with the Wind Estate (note the author is dead) vs. the author of The Wind Done Gone, a parody of the Gone with the Wind book. Even though its very different and a parody as well it was found to infringe the copyright of Gone with the Wind, and although the ban on publishing was lifted a monetary settlement had to be made to the copyright holder of Gone with the Wind.
Except that many different methods yield the same result for a single time event within their stated uncertainties.
Here is a comparison of different radiometric and non-radiometric methods used to date a string of craters formed in the Triassic Period.
Of course the methods of radioactive dating for objects that old have uncertainties of +/- a few million years but that's only a few percent of the total age.
No not carbon, the half-life is too short.
Here are two articles on how dinosaur finds ages are determined, the first in general, the second on radiometric dating specifically.
Dating Fossils
Radiometric Dating
This argument -
This argument seems incompatible with current copyright law since the term of copyrights has been extended from 50 years + the LIFE of the author to 70 years + the LIFE of the author [Title 17 Chapter 3 Section 302].
So no matter what the age of the author while that author is alive copyright is retained and the author benefits themselves by producing new works and their family long after their death.
In fact the extension is more relevant to a young author with a family they care for and who knows they will die early in life since people that author actually has contact with (children, immediate family) may be affected by the extension leading to the dying author to quickly produce work that the author knows will provide royalties to the immediate family throughout their lives.
Another argument would be an 80 year old author with children and grandchildren who rely on revenue from royalties of the author, but don't produce any valuable work themselves could promote the author to produce new works that the 20 year increase might help so the author knows their great great grand children will be taken care of, rather than just their great grandchildren.
In any case it seems that extending the terms many years after the authors death does little to promote the author to create new works.
In the case of corporate owned works why would extension of the rights change your calculation to produce new works, rather than take the most valuable works you already have rights on and continue profiting from them as a stable revenue stream rather than the vageries of trying to sell new works.
Most gas suppliers will sell you liquid nitrogen and rent you the dewar/dispenser as well.
Found this out when our departmental (very large) dewar ran dry once. (need LN2 for numerous things in scientific labs)
correction correction.
Watt = J/s (Energy / Time) = Power
WattHour = J/s * Hour (Energy *Time/ Time) = Energy
I believe the orignal poster is referring to the State Street decision which expanded the range of patentable material significantly from the historical norm by minimizing the Business method and Mathmatical algorithm exceptions.
Although that decision was in 1998, not quite 10 years ago. However that was when the recent explosion in patent filings started oddly enough.
It's interesting though that his sentence is higher than the mean sentence for Manslaughter, Assault, Burglary/B&E, Auto Theft, Fraud, Embezzlement, Counterfeiting, Bribery, Civil Rights Violations, and a few others.
In 1997 in any case. From a publication of the United States Sentencing Commission.
The connection to the tower was by waveguide (from what I read in another bit posted from the /.'ed site anyway). Since the outside conductor is ground and only a small range of frequencies is tranmitted efficiently the broad spectrum EMP may not cause a problem, but I'm not a microwave engineer, however it seems like a possibility.
You can alway hire a collection agency to hound them, or hire an off duty police officer to serve the court judgement. If they don't pay they will be in contempt of court and you can file a complaint. Of course how far you'll be willing to take it generally depends on the amount of money or anger involved.
Ah but he did challenge them, they just decided they didn't really want a challenge and took their ball and went home.
The early history of Hollywood is even more interesting.
;>) promising to limit some monopolistic practices. The independants (at that time) used their name recognition (Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Orson Welles) to take their case to the people recruiting other well known names to promote their cause - Howard Hughes, Hal Roach, Leo McCarey, Sol Lesser, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, John Huston, Preston Sturges, Sam Spiegel, and Stanley Kramer.
The first motion picture studios were in New York City, but they moved out to California to avoid paying licensing fees to Edison for his patents. They then avoided his lawsuits by going to
Mexico until the heat was off. (1)
Then in the late thirties antitrust lawsuits were attempted against the big eight leading to a consent decree between the studios and the justice dept. (we all know how effective those are
In 1948 a supreme court decision against the big eight for conspiracy forced them to sell their theater holdings and stop certain monopolistic practices such as block booking (requiring a theater to buy all the films they needed in a single package, hmm sounds a little like bundling).
The studio system and its opposition which forced the dissolution then both faded away leading to the rise of new monopoly structure.
(2)