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...advice about foreign entanglements, Americans have been reluctant to join organizations they cannot control. But it might be better for U.S. taxpayers -- and all humans who value exploration -- if NASA would drop its traditional take-charge role and join its peers abroad in a fresh assault on the final frontier...
...counter, according to a new industry report. The Software Publishers Association says piracy of spreadsheet and similar programs lost companies $7.4 billion in 1993, compared to about $8 billion in sales. The worst abuses were in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. But Stanton McCandlish, the maverick Electronic Frontier Foundation's "on-line activist," argues the theft trend may have actually helped the complaining software industry: "Piracy gets software exposure. People are 1,000 times more likely to go and buy newer versions and manuals once they've been exposed to it."parpar
...play Wyatt Earp heroically, as a mythopoeic legend of the Old West, riding out of some misty nowhsere to bring peace, justice and other good values to the American frontier. You can play him antiheroically (which is probably closer to the historical truth), as a wandering thug who, when he isn't dealing faro or looking for a gold strike, occasionally makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic...
...Will Randall, an editor for a large publishing house in New York City. With the last sweep of 1980's-style conglomerations, he finds out his job is going to be given to his scheming underling, Stewart Swinton (James Spader) and he is going to be offered the new frontier of Eastern Europe to develop. With his New-found canine powers he gets a shoot of testosterone and guts and decides to battle with is boss, the publishing tycoon, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile the boss' daughter has fallen in love with him, so when he finds out his wife...
Trying to stamp out piracy under the current copyright system may ultimately prove futile. "The drafters of copyright never anticipated a day when everyone could infringe," says Michael Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Godwin thinks society may be entering a postcopyright era, in which the creators of intellectual property have to find new ways to be compensated for their work. In the future, the real value of a piece of software may not be in the program itself but in the ancillary services that come with it: printed manuals, frequent upgrades and a live person...