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+ - Public Domain Day 2014->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "What could have been entering the public domain in the US on January 1, 2014? Under the law that existed until 1978.... Works from 1957. The books “On The Road,” “Atlas Shrugged,” "Empire of the Atom," and “The Cat in the Hat,” the films "The Incredible Shrinking Man," “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” and “12 Angry Men,” the article "Theory of Superconductivity," the songs “All Shook Up” and “Great Balls of Fire,” and more.... What is entering the public domain this January 1? Not a single published work. http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2014/pre-1976"
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Comment: Re:costs (Score 1) 261

by jtmach (#45705433) Attached to: Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry
I'd be willing to pay for it, but I think Tivo's service fee's are way to expensive. $500 for a lifetime pass, or $15 a month (last time I checked). What are you getting for that? Pretty much just access to the guide. Why is just knowing what's on at what time worth twice as much (nearly) as Netflix's whole service. I used to run a home brew DVR, and I paid for the guide data then from some company I don't recall. It was $20 or $30 a year.

+ - The 10 Best Ways Cities Are Combating Climate Change->

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes "In a city like New York, where convenience is king, it can be challenging to get individuals to take the initiative to addressing climate change—that is, until extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy rip their lives apart. Thankfully, New York, and many other large cities have begun to combat global warming on a massive scale. To celebrate such efforts, the first City Climate Leadership Awards ceremony was held in London last night. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group awarded ten cities for making the biggest and most innovative efforts to undertake green infrastructure projects and to fight the effects of climate change. Here are the winners from last night—and how 10 cities are fighting climate change in ten different ways."
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+ - Firefox OS for phones is shipping, and it is impressive->

Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes "Even though you need to live in Spain or Poland to buy one (either the “ZTE Open” from Telefonica or the “Alcatel One Touch Fire” from Deutsche Telekom), the Firefox OS is shipping, and it's more impressive than I had expected. The team has delivered a quality, gorgeous-looking phone experience. And its “app” ecosystem is already starting to gain serious momentum (thanks, in large part, to their usage of/dependence on HTML5/JS as the primary software development stack). The Firefox Marketplace is already up to 1,260 apps available. Even if you consider only 1 percent of those apps to be of a good quality, that's still a lot of apps for such a young platform."
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Comment: Re:My theory (Score 2) 1010

by jtmach (#43421625) Attached to: Windows 8 Killing PC Sales
Windows 7, Visual Studio 2012, and a couple office programs where simply crushing the 4GB that came installed on my work laptop. Upgrading to 8, made the near constant moves to swap almost completely disappear. That being said 8GB on my home computer running Mint, almost never get's anywhere near fully utilized unless I'm running games.

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