Comment Re:In completely unrelated news (Score 1) 725
Comment Re:Researchers (Score 1) 211
Comment PC. (Score 1) 304
Comment Memories.. (Score 1) 480
Comment Yup (Score 1) 1049
Comment Re:And good luck with Google, too (Score 2, Interesting) 769
Comment Re:The real question is... (Score 1) 454
Comment Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability (Score 1) 1124
It is if you've been doing it for seven+ years, or however long Firefox has been on my desktop. Right or wrong, I know exactly where these tools are by now - I don't want to have to relearn where they are in an "intuitive" ribbon solely because "it's better" (for whom? Someone who has never, ever used a web browser? Really?)
"There is resistance to the change because of 'menus are the way we are used to doing things' not necessarily the way things should be done.""
Should as defined by whom? This sounds like change for the sake of change. By this logic we should all immediaetly begin using the Dvorak keyboard.
Comment TFStatute (Score 1) 587
Comment Re:These plaintiffs are being very reasonable (Score 1) 526
I have no idea how _much_ money they're losing because the images are on Wikimedia, but I think it's reasonable to assume there's a noticeable loss.
My guess would be they're not experiencing a loss at all. If their revenue stream is based on prints from their gift shop, or even exclusive'deals with online print sellers, I can't see someone not buying from them thinking, "Oho, I can just go to Wikipedia and print it out on my color printer for free!" Hrm, or maybe it's other online print sellers grabbing the wiki entries and selling them that's the problem?
Comment Re:"the NPG's taxpayer-funded mission" (Score 1) 526
"somebody has invested money, skills and effort in making the reproduction be as good as possible."
True, a lot of sweat went into it, but does that make it an original work of art which should be afforded the same protections as a any other piece under the law? Apparently under UK law, yes; fairly dumb if ya ask me.