6/10. Interesting piece, full of brutality and beautiful landscapes. Never quite sure it found its groove instead swaying this way and that culminating in an ending that jumped sideways at the last minute (rather predictably it must be said). Guy Pearce was impressive and striking as Charlie Burns while Ray Winstone delivered a commanding performance [...]
Someone mentioned to me the other day that Microsoft had spent a $1 billion on implementing DRM. This is a huge sum and should be counted as pure transaction costs (and just shows how dumb, compared to the alternatives, the whole idea of DRM is).
You often hear the following argument for retrospective term extensions put forward_[1]:
‘Retrospective term extensions will allows us to make more money on old artists we can then use to fund new talent’
This is a fallacy though all the more dangerous for being superficially plausible (for reasons we detail below). It is a fallacy [...]
This speech was delivered in my capacity as Director of FFII-UK in the “IP and the Knowledge Commons – Political Parties” panel of the TACD conference on The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property, which took place in Brussels on the 20-21 March 2006.
Politically, IP is where the Environmental movement was 30 years [...]I was pointed at this post about making a first edition of the OED freely available online. This is a wonderful idea but here I just wanted to talk about what the value of doing this would be.
In his email Kragen Sitaker guesstimates a social value of $293 billion for the project_[1]. While [...]
Very annoyingly if you update the WP site url (or move your blog without updating site url) your install will be b0rked and you will have to go mess around with the db. What you need to do (tested on WP 2.0) is:
update wp_options set option_value = ‘[wordpress -address]‘ where option_name = ‘siteurl’; [...]
If men have not enough it is from want of provident care, and foresight, and industry and frugality. No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault – unless it be his sin Henry Ward Beecher
The belief that success reveals virtue (and the converse) is a prominent intellectual [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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