Re:Boxen Is Not A Word
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You used "boxen" as an adjective and "is" as a preposition, so you can hardly complain.
Anyway, the language changes, it doesn't matter whether the plural of box used to be boxes or not, as long as you understand what people are talking about.
No. Copyright automatically lasts until it expires, and requires no defense. It doesn't even require registration. This post is copyrighted by me, and would still be if I didnt say so, and it will remain copyrighted until 70 years after my death. (at least i think it's 70).
A few weeks ago I was hearing things about SL like that corporations were holding press conferences there, businesses were running there and making good profits, and its economy was worth millions of dollars. I thought SL was just beginning to become important, and show the world that a virtual economy was a viable idea.
Now we have CopyBot and grey goo and it seems like SL is just another dodgy online game after all.
So I could create an HTML document, declare that the existence of an tag in the document means "Don't copy this document", then sue people under the DMCA if they copy it?
Your comment reminds me of the motherboard I saw, with integrated audio on the motherboard, with a VACUUM TUBE for an amplifier. "Because it sounds better".
My USB fan has a USB-capable microcontroller in it so it can tell the host how much current it will draw and therefore actually BE A REAL STANDARDS-COMPLIANT USB DEVICE, you insensitive clod!
XML and all the stuff that goes with it (DTD, XSLT, XPath, ) could hardly be described as "simple". There's a lot of stuff to learn if you want to be using XML as effectively as possible.
My broadband provider (in Australia, our broadband sucks, we are years behind in terms of internet access) resets the connection every 24 hours for "billing reasons" (read: so I don't end up getting a business-grade connection and static IP for $30/month)
<sarcasm>Yes, because of course by the time your application is obsolete we will have an uber-cool AI that can automagically work out what all your tags meant and convert your XML document to the latest format.</sarcasm>
It's not like just because something's in XML that automatically makes it easily usable with new applications. Converting an old XML format to a new XML format can be just as hard as converting an old binary format to a new one.
Antigua would be fully justified in ignoring the US's patent and trademark laws.
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Antiguasoft Vista would be copyright infringement as well as being trademark and possibly patent infringement. Are they able to ignore copyright laws too?
My point wasn't that real-world copies are just as valuable as originals; it was that virtual-world "originals" can be more valuable than copies.
The value from an original virtual item comes from the fact that the actual artist worked on that object, not because it has exactly the same stream of bits as the original
It scares me that it is theoretically possible for Microsoft to shut down most of the world's economy tomorrow if they want to. (push down an update which trashes the kernel on all winXP installations).
I wonder if the government has considered asking Microsoft to use this power against the "Axis of Evil" or other "enemies of the American people".
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Why not just have an alert box pop up saying "This page is asking for the password for at . Allow? Yes/No"
Passwords are dead! Netcraft confirms it!
Anyway, the language changes, it doesn't matter whether the plural of box used to be boxes or not, as long as you understand what people are talking about.
No. Copyright automatically lasts until it expires, and requires no defense. It doesn't even require registration. This post is copyrighted by me, and would still be if I didnt say so, and it will remain copyrighted until 70 years after my death. (at least i think it's 70).
From what I understand, almost certainly yes.
It is no less viable in this sense than an online music store, or other similar business models.
Now we have CopyBot and grey goo and it seems like SL is just another dodgy online game after all.
So I could create an HTML document, declare that the existence of an tag in the document means "Don't copy this document", then sue people under the DMCA if they copy it?
Once I put a floppy disk on the tray of a CDROM drive, and closed it, and when I opened it the disk was gone.
You'll find all the information you ever needed about PS4's death right here, on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
a $40 DVD recorder?
Actually that would be ARM.
Two words. "Video stabiliser".
Your comment reminds me of the motherboard I saw, with integrated audio on the motherboard, with a VACUUM TUBE for an amplifier. "Because it sounds better".
My USB fan has a USB-capable microcontroller in it so it can tell the host how much current it will draw and therefore actually BE A REAL STANDARDS-COMPLIANT USB DEVICE, you insensitive clod!
2011 called, they want their quantum entanglement antetemporal communications back
XML and all the stuff that goes with it (DTD, XSLT, XPath, ) could hardly be described as "simple". There's a lot of stuff to learn if you want to be using XML as effectively as possible.
WBXML perhaps?
Now that is unreliability.
<sarcasm>Yes, because of course by the time your application is obsolete we will have an uber-cool AI that can automagically work out what all your tags meant and convert your XML document to the latest format.</sarcasm>
It's not like just because something's in XML that automatically makes it easily usable with new applications. Converting an old XML format to a new XML format can be just as hard as converting an old binary format to a new one.
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3251.html
[...]
Pre-register now for your copy of Antiguasoft Vista.
Antiguasoft Vista would be copyright infringement as well as being trademark and possibly patent infringement. Are they able to ignore copyright laws too?
The value from an original virtual item comes from the fact that the actual artist worked on that object, not because it has exactly the same stream of bits as the original
I wonder if the government has considered asking Microsoft to use this power against the "Axis of Evil" or other "enemies of the American people".