Of course one wonders why a City Library is allowed to buy a book, loan it out physically to thousands of people, but not do the same digitally. Hmmmm.
We (I work in an academic library) can do it digitally, It can even be free to get the first three thousand books*, you just have to play by the rules to remain within the law.
*I'm currently in the process of implementing this for our students before the new term in September.
The original lengths of copyrights were created in a time when the media wasn't as widely connected. Now because of television, movies, and digital formats, someone can make money off of their creation for a longer period of time
How can you make money 70 years after you've died? Copyright both here in the UK and over there in the USA is life + 70 now; explain how that's not excessive.
At this point we will have two choices as a society.
This isn't the first time we've had to make this type of choice, previously we had the Industrial Revolution, when mechanisation made the jobs of many those in agriculture, transport, manufacturing etc. redundant. those who opposed it aren't remembered kindly. Indeed, the "Luddite fallacy" is well understood by economists.
The UK is the size of one US state. It's minuscule.
The whole area is tiny with lots of people crammed in. That's why trains work so well in Europe, lots of points of interests within a small area.
Anyone claiming the trains work in the UK clearly hasn't been here since they were privatised all those years ago...
The trains get a bad rap, but I use them semi-regularly and have never had a major problem. Apart from the extortionate price of sandwiches, I've never seen why so many people give them a bad time, after all they get you from A to B and are on time 90% of the time.
this would make a complete mockery of the protections that the Framers intended.
AFAIK Contempt is a common law principle you inherited from us here in the UK. Your framers would have been quite aware of it.
Oh, I'm sure they were aware of it. But, you know, part of the reason we went through the whole American Revolution thing (did you hear about that? it was in all the papers), wrote and ratified a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, etc. was to establish greater personal freedoms and liberties than the English legal system permitted at the time.
You kept the English legal system as it was then almost entirely the same*, that includes contempt. I'm not intimately familiar with the US constitution but I don't see anything that makes this unconstitutional. Had your founders seen fit, they had the chance to abolish it, they didn't. I doubt they saw anything wrong with it. Indeed, even in this extreme case from everything I've read it seems to have been used appropriately, they guy seems to have gone through several judges who all believed he had the money but was refusing to comply with the court order, so he remained in contempt. He's had the keys to his cell from day one.
*Aspects of the current US legal system are closer to the old english one than parts of the current English one, e.g. we no longer have jury selection.
So what would be a good way to market a console-style multiplayer game for the PC?
You don't. You market it for a console, you could even use xbl. If it's good enough it'll be published, if not it won't. Remember that you don't have an automatic right to be published (just ask the millions of unpublished authors out there).
Well that's odd. The opposite of authortarianism is Libertarianism. No reason to invent new terms for something that already exists.
That's not quite right, liberal has been used to describe "pro-civil liberties" since at least the 1700s
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) indicates that the word liberal has long been in the English language with the meanings of "befitting free men, noble, generous" as in liberal arts; also with the meaning "free from restraint in speech or action", as in liberal with the purse, or liberal tongue, usually as a term of reproach but, beginning 1776-88 imbued with a more favorable sense by Edward Gibbon and others to mean "free from prejudice, tolerant."
"The gazebo under which the party guests were gathered because it had started to rain. Then the police riot van arrived..."
Which to me implies that the Daily mail set up the Gazebo again in some other field so they could take a picture of it. I'm certain that isn't a photo taken at the event by one of the people at the party.
I'm afraid not, it was amended in 1995/6 to life + 70. A human readable summary of UK copyright law is here. In short:
Duration of copyright
The 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act states the duration as:
1. For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.
If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, (by publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.), then the duration will be 70 years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.
2. Sound Recordings and broadcasts
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,
if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released.
3. Films
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last principal director, author or composer dies.
If the work is of unknown authorship: 70 years from end of the calendar year of creation, or if made available to the public in that time, 70 years from the end of the year the film was first made available.
4. Typographical arrangement of published editions
25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.
5. Broadcasts and cable programmes
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the broadcast was made.
That's where trhings start to get really complicated, a Googolplex 1 followed by a googol of zeros. I don't know if DNA was aware of this or had just heard the word and thought it sounded cool before modifying it for HHGTTG.
No, You're thinking of a googol, admittedly the founders of Google thought they were naming their company after 1*10^100, but they accidentaly got it wrong
The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good.
Really? What other app will allow me to drag and drop an email into my task list, and set a deadline to follow it up, and not only that but then allow me to drag my newly created task onto my calendar so i can block some time out to act on it. And all the while I can let the whole office knows that I'm unavailable during that time because they can see my calendar. Outlook isn't just a mail app it's quite good at being an all round (albeit basic) time management tool.
If it's a replacement for X11, why are they doing that? I could see that maybe X11 has too much legacy code and really isn't designed to be the most efficient for a single screen laptop where you don't need an X windows server per se, but on the other hand, I can't imagine that they are going to need something that can outperform X11 for gpu intensive applications like gaming development. I'd love to be wrong about that last bit though. Whatever they mean by it though, it'll be nice to see.
It's a replacement for X; Chrome OS is aimed at netbooks, so they're going for lightweight and speed. No gpu intensive applications involved.
I don't believe it was a lapse on the part of the former principal, I believe it was a flagrant action with malicious intent.
Not to mention creepy as hell. Good going, Roger Campbell of Coalinga High. Now everyone knows you stalk teenage girls.
The USA isn't a democracy, and has never been a democracy at any time in it's history, ever.
The USA is a/republic/.
People who claim the USA is a democracy are/always wrong/./pet peeve
The two are compatible, the USA is a democratic republic, just as the modern UK is a democratic constitutional monarchy, North Korea is a dictatorial republic and European countries in the middle ages were absolute monarchies (some are now republics, others are constitutional monarchies all except Belarus are democracies.)
Not to mention the $11000 price tag attached to a 2-mile ambulance ride...
You charge people for travel in ambulances in the states?! I knew you had paid* health care, but I thought even the USA gave free emergency care.
*Yes, I know that there's no such thing as totally free health care, but I prefer ours free at point of use system to the American "take all your money you whilst you're already down" one.
I'm 99% sure that the license is for the ability to watch live TV, so watching BBC iPlayer on the internet doesn't count as it is being watched after the live broadcast.
That's correct, however if you watch live streams on the BBC website, then you do have to pay.
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Of course one wonders why a City Library is allowed to buy a book, loan it out physically to thousands of people, but not do the same digitally. Hmmmm.
We (I work in an academic library) can do it digitally, It can even be free to get the first three thousand books*, you just have to play by the rules to remain within the law.
*I'm currently in the process of implementing this for our students before the new term in September.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is "O-dumb-a" a racial slur?
A childish insult for sure, but racist?
It's spelt wrong, he meant O'dumba. It's a making fun of his Irish roots by playing on the Irish == stupid stereotype. /sarcasm
It's time youtube checks uploaders for drug use.
That song got to number one in the eighties here in the UK (or so I'm told, I was about 3 at the time).
The original lengths of copyrights were created in a time when the media wasn't as widely connected. Now because of television, movies, and digital formats, someone can make money off of their creation for a longer period of time
How can you make money 70 years after you've died? Copyright both here in the UK and over there in the USA is life + 70 now; explain how that's not excessive.
At this point we will have two choices as a society.
This isn't the first time we've had to make this type of choice, previously we had the Industrial Revolution, when mechanisation made the jobs of many those in agriculture, transport, manufacturing etc. redundant. those who opposed it aren't remembered kindly. Indeed, the "Luddite fallacy" is well understood by economists.
The UK is the size of one US state. It's minuscule.
The whole area is tiny with lots of people crammed in. That's why trains work so well in Europe, lots of points of interests within a small area.
Anyone claiming the trains work in the UK clearly hasn't been here since they were privatised all those years ago...
The trains get a bad rap, but I use them semi-regularly and have never had a major problem. Apart from the extortionate price of sandwiches, I've never seen why so many people give them a bad time, after all they get you from A to B and are on time 90% of the time.
this would make a complete mockery of the protections that the Framers intended.
AFAIK Contempt is a common law principle you inherited from us here in the UK. Your framers would have been quite aware of it.
Oh, I'm sure they were aware of it. But, you know, part of the reason we went through the whole American Revolution thing (did you hear about that? it was in all the papers), wrote and ratified a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, etc. was to establish greater personal freedoms and liberties than the English legal system permitted at the time.
You kept the English legal system as it was then almost entirely the same*, that includes contempt. I'm not intimately familiar with the US constitution but I don't see anything that makes this unconstitutional. Had your founders seen fit, they had the chance to abolish it, they didn't. I doubt they saw anything wrong with it. Indeed, even in this extreme case from everything I've read it seems to have been used appropriately, they guy seems to have gone through several judges who all believed he had the money but was refusing to comply with the court order, so he remained in contempt. He's had the keys to his cell from day one.
*Aspects of the current US legal system are closer to the old english one than parts of the current English one, e.g. we no longer have jury selection.
this would make a complete mockery of the protections that the Framers intended.
AFAIK Contempt is a common law principle you inherited from us here in the UK. Your framers would have been quite aware of it.
So, judge says: "I order you to be in contempt of court." Your move.
I appeal: court orders can be appealed, at least here in the UK.
So what would be a good way to market a console-style multiplayer game for the PC?
You don't. You market it for a console, you could even use xbl. If it's good enough it'll be published, if not it won't. Remember that you don't have an automatic right to be published (just ask the millions of unpublished authors out there).
Well that's odd. The opposite of authortarianism is Libertarianism. No reason to invent new terms for something that already exists.
That's not quite right, liberal has been used to describe "pro-civil liberties" since at least the 1700s
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) indicates that the word liberal has long been in the English language with the meanings of "befitting free men, noble, generous" as in liberal arts; also with the meaning "free from restraint in speech or action", as in liberal with the purse, or liberal tongue, usually as a term of reproach but, beginning 1776-88 imbued with a more favorable sense by Edward Gibbon and others to mean "free from prejudice, tolerant."
Libertarian didn't make it until 1857
The French communist-anarchist Joseph Déjacque was the first to employ the term libertarian in a political sense in May 1857, in an 11-page pamphlet De l'Etre Humain male et femelle
"The gazebo under which the party guests were gathered because it had started to rain. Then the police riot van arrived..."
Which to me implies that the Daily mail set up the Gazebo again in some other field so they could take a picture of it. I'm certain that isn't a photo taken at the event by one of the people at the party.
So it expired a while back.
I'm afraid not, it was amended in 1995/6 to life + 70. A human readable summary of UK copyright law is here. In short:
Duration of copyright
The 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act states the duration as:
1. For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.
If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, (by publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.), then the duration will be 70 years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.
2. Sound Recordings and broadcasts
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,
if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released.
3. Films
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last principal director, author or composer dies.
If the work is of unknown authorship: 70 years from end of the calendar year of creation, or if made available to the public in that time, 70 years from the end of the year the film was first made available.
4. Typographical arrangement of published editions
25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first published.
5. Broadcasts and cable programmes
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the broadcast was made.
That's where trhings start to get really complicated, a Googolplex 1 followed by a googol of zeros. I don't know if DNA was aware of this or had just heard the word and thought it sounded cool before modifying it for HHGTTG.
Like Google?
No, You're thinking of a googol, admittedly the founders of Google thought they were naming their company after 1*10^100, but they accidentaly got it wrong
The bizarre thing is that Outlook really isn't very good.
Really? What other app will allow me to drag and drop an email into my task list, and set a deadline to follow it up, and not only that but then allow me to drag my newly created task onto my calendar so i can block some time out to act on it. And all the while I can let the whole office knows that I'm unavailable during that time because they can see my calendar. Outlook isn't just a mail app it's quite good at being an all round (albeit basic) time management tool.
Nowadays most games are either RTS and FPS. The most important factor is speed. Gamers simply don't have the time to admire any humor.
RTS can be funny; take the the red alert series, it's brilliant for a laugh, and littered with humour and parody throughout.
If it's a replacement for X11, why are they doing that? I could see that maybe X11 has too much legacy code and really isn't designed to be the most efficient for a single screen laptop where you don't need an X windows server per se, but on the other hand, I can't imagine that they are going to need something that can outperform X11 for gpu intensive applications like gaming development. I'd love to be wrong about that last bit though. Whatever they mean by it though, it'll be nice to see.
It's a replacement for X; Chrome OS is aimed at netbooks, so they're going for lightweight and speed. No gpu intensive applications involved.
I don't like the Chrome browser and I don't need an OS named Chrome that is actually Linux with a lame web browser bolted on as the front end.
So then don't use it.
You know, normally I'd be morally opposed to publishing such a person's contact info to unleash the /. mob on them,
Indeed, there's a reason I didn't just post his email address directly to my /. comment. People will still have to make some effort to be idiots
The whole lot only took me a 10 second google to find anyway, the real morons will have already trolled\spammed the guy.
I don't believe it was a lapse on the part of the former principal, I believe it was a flagrant action with malicious intent. Not to mention creepy as hell. Good going, Roger Campbell of Coalinga High. Now everyone knows you stalk teenage girls.
Some info about the creepy old man: http://www.coalinga-huron.org/chs/administrators.html You can find both his picture and his email address from that site.
Or more likely, he reads Private Eye. Go ahead buy a copy it's the best dead tree publication in the UK
The USA isn't a democracy, and has never been a democracy at any time in it's history, ever.
The USA is a /republic/.
People who claim the USA is a democracy are /always wrong/. /pet peeve
The two are compatible, the USA is a democratic republic, just as the modern UK is a democratic constitutional monarchy, North Korea is a dictatorial republic and European countries in the middle ages were absolute monarchies (some are now republics, others are constitutional monarchies all except Belarus are democracies.)
Not to mention the $11000 price tag attached to a 2-mile ambulance ride...
You charge people for travel in ambulances in the states?! I knew you had paid* health care, but I thought even the USA gave free emergency care.
*Yes, I know that there's no such thing as totally free health care, but I prefer ours free at point of use system to the American "take all your money you whilst you're already down" one.
I'm 99% sure that the license is for the ability to watch live TV, so watching BBC iPlayer on the internet doesn't count as it is being watched after the live broadcast.
That's correct, however if you watch live streams on the BBC website, then you do have to pay.