There's absolutely no reason copyright should not be infinite years, other than the limit the amount of wealth to copyright holders.
I can think of a good reason:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
It's called a Reality Distortion Field (RDF).
As I wrote in my reply to Oligonicella, the document served by the web server is a collective work consisting of the article proper combined with advertisements licensed from advertisers through the ad network. Or what am I missing?
The server can also simultaneously serve up content in frames, iframes, RSS, XML, JSON in response to dynamic requests.
Just because these are viewed in the same browser window doesn't necessarily make them part of the same "document." A compilation of works may contain elements that are not derivatives of each other.
Mind you, IANAL and I don't know if any of this has been decided by a court, so pardon the argument "ex posteriori!"
The greedy bastards in corporate America have an insatiable lust for the fruits of your labor.
There, FTFY. HAND.
They were around in 94, but they were relatively expensive and rare. That res usually required a fancier video card too to get a better DAC.
Here's a good example from the Mac world c. 1995, offering accelerated 1600x1200 resolution and multimonitor support. It was definitely high-end (~$3500) if you wanted true color at that resolution.
"when we don't give it anything to focus on, it's kind of hard to know what to do."
The stillness... focus on the stillness...
Take the semicoln in C. It's not needed. It's really just a pleasant confirmation to the compiler to let it know that your current statement is done.
It certainly is needed, if you want to keep white space insignificant. C compilers can skip over every space, tab, and line break that isn't part of a string. Getting rid of semicolons would needlessly complicate lexical analysis.
"...acoustics experts with too much free time have long puzzled over exactly how the instrument produces its characteristic tones."
It's something of a myth that keyboarding is faster than mousing for equivalent tasks - for example, people compare using keyboard shortcuts for selecting, copying, and pasting when they should be comparing selection with arrow keys.
Likewise, if you use VIM shortcuts to jump through the text, you're really comparing a find-and-replace feature which is just as fast with the mouse.
The real speed gains come from using keyboard shortcuts in combination with the mouse - it's not either/or. When you have a bunch of copy-pasting to do, keeping your right hand on the mouse for selection and left on Ctrl+C Ctrl+V is the fastest method.
You must be ne-- oh, my bad.
Seriously, though, it doesn't matter what the question was about - pick any religious topics such as Mac vs. Windows, Linux vs. everybody, vi vs. emacs etc. and you will see the same frothing-at-the-mouth chest puffery here!
"You can't accept that someone that is so close to your accepted template of a [computer professional] has this differing viewpoint [about JavaScript]."
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
