Humdinger Wind Energy. News. Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal. Our copyright laws are stealing from the mouths of Charles Dickens' great-great-great-great grandchildren On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law.
" SOCA's threat is a stirring defence of what we hold dear in this country – the right of a creator to benefit from their intellectual property, whether it be a song, book, film, or game. Without this assurance of compensation, we might not see any new creative works being produced at all, and so it's for this reason that we've continually lengthened copyright terms from 14-28 years as set out by the Statue of Anne in 1710 to "lifetime plus 70 years" today. Imagine you're a new parent at 30 years old and you've just published a bestselling new novel. Of course, there will be some odd effects. Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society.
Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. Truss dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution"; she added this dedication as an afterthought after finding the factoid in a speech from a librarian.[1] Overview[edit] The book was a commercial success.
In 2004, the U.S. edition became a New York Times bestseller. Title[edit] A panda walks into a café. Criticism[edit] Editions[edit] 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work.
How to Win Friends and Influence People. How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide.[1] Leon Shimkin of the publishing firm Simon & Schuster took one of the 14-week courses given by Carnegie in 1934. Shimkin persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication. In 1981, a new revised edition containing updated language and anecdotes was released.[2] The revised edition reduced the number of sections from 6 to 4, eliminating sections on effective business letters and improving marital satisfaction.
Major sections and points[edit] Twelve Things This Book Will Do For You[edit] This section was included in the original 1936 edition as a single page list, which preceded the main content of the book, showing a prospective reader what to expect from it. The book has six major sections. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People[edit] Udacity & Coursera. Is It Really Education Reform? The name Sebastian Thrun may not mean much to you, but it should. And if it doesn’t now … it probably will at some point. Last year, Professor Thrun of Stanford University and his colleague Professor Norvig opened up an otherwise closed AI university course to the world. Instead of 200 students (tuition paying Stanford pupils) they ended up with what is arguably the world’s largest MOOC when they opened up enrolment to citizens of Earth. 160,000 students enrolled in their “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” online version.
For free. Oh, and those 200 paying customers? Amazingly, 20,000 people stuck around the course through to the final exam. And no, it’s my understanding that the ‘official’ students didn’t get their money back. Now the story gets even more interesting. Professor Thrun, a previously tenured academic at one of the most prestigious universities on the planet has, well … discontinued his tenure. And what is he up to now? What is it? “There’s no turning back. How about you? Udacity’s model. Robert Reich has three very good questions about Sebastian Thrun’s new online university, Udacity, which I wrote about last week. I spoke to Thrun yesterday, so I took the opportunity to clear them up. Reich begins: 1. Why did Thrun need to quit Stanford? Why not pursue the project under the umbrella of Stanford, with its enormous and global reputation? Indeed, hadn’t he already carried out a demonstration proof of the concept with his Artificial Intelligence class at Stanford?
Why not just continue with that in expanded form at Stanford? As Thrun says on his homepage, he quit Stanford on April 1, 2011 — before offering the free class in artificial intelligence — “primarily to continue my employment with Google”. This helps to answer another of Reich’s questions. What’s more, the online version of the course, which was not hosted at Stanford’s website, was very careful with its Stanford branding. Leaving Stanford, Thrun told me, “was the only way I could pull this off. 2. 3. Me pasa a veces.
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