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The RIAA’s Jennifer Pariser claimed that there’s no value to a work in the public domain. Apparently Pariser is unfamiliar with the works of Shakespeare. Or Beethoven. Is she serious? I mean, you could make the argument that it makes life more difficult to sell those works for the labels she represents, but those works…
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When Barlow had a chance to speak, he expressed his own surprise at being on the panel, “because I don’t think I’m from the same planet, actually.” He then proceeded to trash the foundational assumptions of everyone who had just spoken. I may be one of very few people in this room who actually makes…
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To investigate the question mathematically, they describe the following game: Hypothetical participants start with an equal endowment of money. Faced with a tragedy of the commons, they are given two choices: cooperate (contribute a fraction of your endowment to fixing the problem) or defect (keep your entire endowment for yourself). If a minimum group investment…
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To investigate the question mathematically, they describe the following game: Hypothetical participants start with an equal endowment of money. Faced with a tragedy of the commons, they are given two choices: cooperate (contribute a fraction of your endowment to fixing the problem) or defect (keep your entire endowment for yourself). If a minimum group investment…
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Then there are the players who are devoted to seeing just how much fun they can wring out of the landscape. Base-jumping groups have formed, where players find the highest spots in Azeroth and leap out into space, trying to land on tiny targets far below. Others engage in less noble pursuits, known as griefing,…
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Then there are the players who are devoted to seeing just how much fun they can wring out of the landscape. Base-jumping groups have formed, where players find the highest spots in Azeroth and leap out into space, trying to land on tiny targets far below. Others engage in less noble pursuits, known as griefing,…
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The Manchester International Festival has commissioned Björk for the world premiere of her Biophilia show in an intimate concert setting. Biophilia, her seventh studio album was partially recorded on an iPad and will be released as apps (directed by Michel Gondry) in conjunction with Apple. Somehow these apps will be utilized in the upcoming live…
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Fast-fashion retailers reap the fruits of that creativity by capturing our preferences in successive generations of products and nearly synchronizing to our whims. Thanks to the rich data we generate as we select, reject, and recombine the items fast fashion offers, the companies need not develop their own brands so much as seize upon customers’…