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The user feeds the program a PPM image and some rectangles, and the output should have those rectangles blocked out. So it seems the input file has to be in PPM format, though you can use any image library to access the file.
It's my assertion that it would be very hard to come up with a work which is 100% original and that if you did produce such a work it wouldn't be very popular due to it being so different to everything else.
Most innovation is incremental. It comes about by refining and improving earlier innovations.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were based on other plays.
Similarly Beethoven based his earlier works on those of Haydn and Mozart.
These are the things which would be lost if it was possible to go back in time and implement the OP's idea of a permanent copyright.
The ethical rule is this; if you make something, it belongs to you, and you can do what you want with it - and that includes handing it down to your kids to help them in their lives.
This is the case now. No one is going to take away that picture/piece of software/song, ie the thing you actually created. You'll still own that and be able to do what you want with it.
The only thing that'll you lose is the ability to stop other from making copies.
As to whether that's a good thing, consider the fact that if copyright had always been indefinite then most of the literature, software, music around now wouldn't exist.
It seems that most of the people who are replying to this story haven't heard the expression "Innocent until proven guilty"
We know what he's been charged with but we still have no idea whether he did it or not. So the people assuming he got what he deserved are just as guilty of jumping the gun as the people who assumed it was a conspiracy.
Now did/will the shuttle do anything beyond that? Any delivery? Any research? Any discoveries? Anything more than launch, orbit, landing?
They also delivered supplies and performed vital repairs on the ISS. Also they dropped off a third crewman, who will spend the next few months on the station, and tested out a new extension to the shuttle's robot arm, which should make it easier to perform repairs to the underside of the shuttle.
So it was more than just going into space, then landing again.
Some cameras (like the Kodak Z740 that I use) use PTP for uploading pictures rather than USB mass storage. You need GPhoto in order to access the pictures from these sorts of cameras.
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I guess you missed the fact that that phrase came from TFA.
just brings me back to the reasoning why i usually only read slashdot so back in the whole i go...
I guess you're referring to the terrible spelling and grammar, right?
It's my assertion that it would be very hard to come up with a work which is 100% original and that if you did produce such a work it wouldn't be very popular due to it being so different to everything else.
Most innovation is incremental. It comes about by refining and improving earlier innovations.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were based on other plays.
Similarly Beethoven based his earlier works on those of Haydn and Mozart.
These are the things which would be lost if it was possible to go back in time and implement the OP's idea of a permanent copyright.
This is the case now. No one is going to take away that picture/piece of software/song, ie the thing you actually created. You'll still own that and be able to do what you want with it.
The only thing that'll you lose is the ability to stop other from making copies.
As to whether that's a good thing, consider the fact that if copyright had always been indefinite then most of the literature, software, music around now wouldn't exist.
It seems that most of the people who are replying to this story haven't heard the expression "Innocent until proven guilty" We know what he's been charged with but we still have no idea whether he did it or not. So the people assuming he got what he deserved are just as guilty of jumping the gun as the people who assumed it was a conspiracy.
Now did/will the shuttle do anything beyond that? Any delivery? Any research? Any discoveries? Anything more than launch, orbit, landing?
They also delivered supplies and performed vital repairs on the ISS. Also they dropped off a third crewman, who will spend the next few months on the station, and tested out a new extension to the shuttle's robot arm, which should make it easier to perform repairs to the underside of the shuttle.
So it was more than just going into space, then landing again.
Some cameras (like the Kodak Z740 that I use) use PTP for uploading pictures rather than USB mass storage. You need GPhoto in order to access the pictures from these sorts of cameras.