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...ad, they wanted exactly one vendor to summon if something went wrong. By the 1960s, the company name was International Business Machines, and IBM dom... ...e power, of the generic mainframe. 7 A typical PC vendor was the opposite of 1960s IBM: it made available little more than a processor in a box, one i... ... $99 Timex/Sinclair Z-1000 or a $199 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A could use a television set as a display, and a standard audio cassette recorder to st... ...parties’ code. The box has mattered. The complex, expensive computers of the 1960s, cen- trally run and managed by a professional class, allowed for c... ... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...to a limited range of applications. For example, TiV o is greatly leveraging—television viewers describe its impact on their lives as rev- olutionary—... ...ted variations in performance have long been smoothed out in refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and automobiles. As for PCs, telling users th... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co...
..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... .... Berard (181) (describing a group of users who are interested in a radio series whose original right holders were known, but also known to be decea... ...ribed a film project involving the history of postcards from the 1890s to 1960s, which on the surface appears to involve many works that are now in ... ...k, if it wanted to make additional derivative works (such as a television series based on the original motion picture it created), it would need per...
...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ... so on. A transaction takes place, for example, when a person decides to watch a television program; he is exchanging his time for entertainment. ... ...roducts.) 40 41 Items 17 and 18 of the survey instrument listed a series of "terms one might associate with marketing" and asked re... ...tamate in baby food, fatty hot dogs, unclean fish, tractors, medical X-rays, color television radiation and many Federal agencies. Another change a... ...tion. Bagozzi (1975) points out that "an exchange can occur between a person and a television program.” The "person gives his attention, support, p... ...es provided more credible information of the diffusion-adoption process. In the 1960s and 1970s a great deal of information accumulated in the are... ...radition in the area of innovation- diffusion-adoption has been dominated since the 1960s by researchers in marketing (pp. 68-69). An excellent inte...
...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...oody Hastings, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial population doubles every 20 minu... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...nd has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Her mother was ambassador to India in the 1960s. She is cherished by all her countrymen. Moreover, Au... ...Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing televisions and such. Nokia continued with its acquisitions ... ...ary.com suggests that it is derived from a Monty Python skit in their Flying Circus television show in 1970. In it a group of Vikings harass two pat... ...s/ea/side/teapot.html http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2851.html Television The transmission of images obsessed inventors as ea... ...s of breakthrough technologies in 1938. But color TV became widespread only in the 1960s. http://www.tvhistory.tv/ http://www.novia.net/~ereita...
...t have ever guessed. They offer access to an entertaining and informative series of examples of how the word and particularly the printed word have ... ...ter he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave the way for a ―Golden Age of Babylon.‖ Hammu... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...ightbulb 1880 Electricity distribution 1906–1919 Radio 1920s Television 1930s (or sooner) Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...—censored that accurate call until morning vote totals had confirmed it. 1960s Integrated circuits replace transistors. Plain-paper copying ma... ...e, Kemeny explained, ―Einstein wasn‘t very good at math.‖) Prior to the 1960s, one had to be able to write custom software in order to use a compu... ...of the twenty-first century: Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz...
... their shifting friendships and enmities and their pasilaly of violence. In this series of articles, I will attempt to study four such groups whi... ...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...it refused to accept their capitulation and turned them over to the partisans. In a series of death marches army soldiers and civilian collaborators... ...s lacked both compass and leader. His natural successors were purged by Tito in the 1960s and 1970s. The party wasn't sure whether to turn to Gorbac... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ...were used. The Serbs were not impressed - but they were provoked into an escalating series of ever more hideous massacres of Albanian villagers (the... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ... other periodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in courses organised by the Agency o...
...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...s a good thing to buy and you have something to boast about when you own a television. I think that TV programmes are mostly good. It's our human natu... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...es' (Table 8). The village school system was set up in the 1950's and 1960s, and by the beginning of the '70s almost all people under the age of... ...trends Local cultural development. The stages in rice growing contain a series of structural changes concerning production technology, the basic u... ...Systems, 106–114. Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies. Cultural Report Series No. 17. Davies, David 1967. Thailand. The Rice Bowl of Asia. Wiltsh...
...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...mple, The Netherlands' "structural budget margin," developed in the early 1960s, and West Germany's "cyclically neutral budget," calculated by its G... ...udget," calculated by its German Council of Experts beginning in the late 1960s. Contract with the People of Macedonia We hereby declare that... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ...tterns of employment and unemployment irreversibly and globally. In this series of articles, I study this tectonic shift: employment and unemployme... ...be the outcome of the former. But as "The Economist" has pointed out in a series of "School Briefs", the world has been much more globalized one hun... ...immaculate quality of one's labor and produce? Both dead in the water. A series of earth-shattering social, economic, and technological trends conv... ...riodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in Macedonia in courses organized by the Agency...
...us and intelligent person has the intention to achieve a goal. He then engages in a series of absolutely random and unrelated actions, one of which ... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and t... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ...e Encyclopaedia Britannica merely as a teacher. Yet for two important decades (the 1960s and the 1970s), Althusser was at the eye of all the import...
...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ... government position for an acquaintance, produced a fascinating and lengthy series of comments on a new “Rudiments of English Grammar,” discussed the... ...er to have an intellectual property system is only the first choice in a long series. 13 Even if one believes that intellectual property is Thomas Jeff... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...s clearly disapproving, others would point out that book- stores, movies and television channels are filled with material on how to commit mur der...an... ... cook’s shop underground. 12 The art form is different, but the thought of a 1960s Cliff Richard or Ian An- derson being “cheered under a fit of the sp...
...s readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is le...