About this talk
At TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.
I want to talk about what we learn from conservatives. And I'm at a stage in life where I'm yearning for my old days, so I want to confess to you that when I was a kid, indeed, I was a conservative. I was a Young Republican, a Teenage Republican, a leader in the Teenage Republicans. Indeed, I was the youngest member of any delegation in the 1980 convention that elected Ronald Reagan to be the Republican nominee for president.
Now, I know what you're thinking. (Laughter) You're thinking, "That's not what the Internets say." You're thinking, "Wikipedia doesn't say this fact." And indeed, this is just one of the examples of the junk that flows across the tubes in these Internets here. Wikipedia reports that this guy, this former congressman from Erie, Pennsylvania was, at the age of 20, one of the youngest people at the Republican National Convention, but it's just not true. (Laughter) Indeed, it drives me so nuts, let me just change this little fact here. (Laughter) (Applause) All right. Okay, so ... perfect. Perfect. (Laughter) Okay, speaker Lawrence Lessig, right. Okay. Finally, truth will be brought here. Okay, see? It's done. It's almost done. Here we go. "... youngest Republican," okay, we're finished. That's it. Please save this. There we go. And ... Wikipedia is fixed, finally. Okay, but no, this is really beside the point.
(Applause)
But the thing I want you to think about when we think about conservatives -- not so much this issue of the 1980 convention -- the thing to think about is this: They go to church. Now, you know, I mean, a lot of people go to church. I'm not talking about that only conservatives go to church. And I'm not talking about the God thing. I don't want to get into that, you know; that's not my point. They go to church, by which I mean, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. Indeed, they sell books about potluck dinners. They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. And it's the very same people leading Wall St. firms who, on Sundays, show up and share. And, not only food, right.
These very same people are strong believers, in lots of contexts, in the limits on the markets. They are in many important places against markets. Indeed, they, like all of us, celebrate this kind of relationship. But they're very keen that we don't let money drop into that relationship, else it turns into something like this. They want to regulate us, those conservatives, to stop us from allowing the market to spread in those places. Because they understand, there are places for the market and places where the market should not exist, where we should be free to enjoy the fellowship of others. They recognize, both of these things have to live together.
And the second great thing about conservatives: they get ecology. Right, it was the first great Republican president of the 20th century who taught us about environmental thinking -- Teddy Roosevelt. They first taught us about ecology in the context of natural resources. And then they began to teach us in the context of innovation, economics. They understand, in that context -- free -- they understand free is an important essential part of the cultural ecology as well. That's the thing I want you to think about them.
Now, I know you don't believe me, really, here. So here's exhibit number one. I want to share with you my latest hero, Julian Sanchez, a libertarian who works at the, for many people, "evil" Cato Institute. Okay, so Julian made this video. He's a terrible producer of videos, but it's great content, so I'm going to give you a little bit of it. So here he is beginning.
Julian Sanchez: I'm going to make an observation about the way remix culture seems to be evolving ...
Larry Lessig: So what he does is he begins to tell us about these three videos. This is this fantastic brat pack remix set to Lisztomania. Which, of course, spread virally. Hugely successful.
(Music) And then some people from Brooklyn saw it. They decided they wanted to do the same. (Music) And then, of course, people from San Fransisco saw it. And San Fransisco's thought they had to do the same as well. (Music) And so they're beautiful, but this libertarian has some important lessons he wants us to learn from this. Here's lesson number one.
JS: There's also obviously something deeply great about this. They are acting in the sense that they're emulating the original mashup. And the guy who shot it obviously has a strong eye and some experience with video editing. But this is also, basically, just a group of friends having an authentic social moment and screwing around together. It should feel familiar and kind of resonate for anyone who's had a sing-a-long or a dance party with a group of good friends.
LL: Or ...
JS: So that's importantly different from the earlier videos we looked at because here, remix isn't just about an individual doing something alone in his basement; it becomes an act of social creativity. And it's not just that it yields a different kind of product at the end, it's that potentially it changes the way that we relate to each other. All of our normal social interactions become a kind of invitation to this sort of collective expression. It's our real social lives themselves that are transmuted into art.
LL: And so this libertarian draws from these two points ...
JS: One remix is about individuals using our shared culture as a kind of language to communicate something to an audience. Stage two, social remix, is really about using it to mediate people's relationships to each other. First, within each video, the brat pack characters are used as a kind of template for performing the social reality of each group. But there's also a dialogue between the videos, where, once the basic structure is established, it becomes a kind of platform for articulating the similarities and differences between the groups' social and physical worlds.
LL: And then, here's for me, the critical key to what Julian has to say.
JS: Copyright policy isn't just about how to incentivize the the production of a certain kind of artistic commodity; it's about what level of control we're going to permit to be exercised over our social realities, social realities that are now, inevitably, permeated by pop culture. I think it's important that we keep these two different kinds of public goods in mind. If we're only focused on how to maximize the supply of one, I think we risk suppressing this different and richer and, in some ways, maybe even more important one.
LL: Right. Bingo. Point. Freedom needs this opportunity to both have the commercial success of the great commercial works and the opportunity to build this different kind of culture. And for that to happen, you need ideas like fair use to be central and protected, to enable this kind of innovation, as this libertarian tells us, between these two creative cultures, a commercial and a sharing culture. The point is they, he, here, gets that culture.
Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much. All right, take for example this great company. In the good old days when this Republican ran that company, their greatest work was work that built on the past, right. All of the great Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and remixed them, or waited until they entered the public domain to remix them, to celebrate this add-on remix creativity. Indeed, Mickey Mouse himself, of course, as "Steamboat Willie," is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular "Steamboat Bill" by Buster Keaton. This man was a remixer extraordinaire. He is the celebration and ideal of exactly this kind of creativity.
But then the company passes through this dark stage to this Democrat. Wildly different. This is the mastermind behind the eventual passage of what we call the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, extending the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, so that no one could do to Disney what Disney did to the Brothers Grimm. Now, when we tried to challenge this, going to the Supreme Court, getting the Supreme Court, the bunch of conservatives there -- if we could get them to wake up to this -- to strike it down. We had the assistance of Nobel Prize winners including this right-wing Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman, who said he would join our brief only if the word "no brainer" was in the brief somewhere. (Laughter) But apparently, no brains existed in this place when Democrats passed and signed this bill into law. Now, tiny little quibble of a footnote, Sonny Bono, you might say, was a Republican, but I don't buy it. This guy is no republican.
Okay, for a second example, think about this cultural hero, icon on the left, creator of this character. Look at the site that he built: "Star Wars" MashUps, inviting people to come and use their creative energy to produce a new generation of attention towards this extraordinarily important cultural icon. Read the license. The license for these remixers assigns all of the rights to the remix back to Lucas. The mashup is owned by Lucas. Indeed, anything you add to the mashup, music you might add, Lucas has a worldwide perpetual right to exploit that for free. There is no creator here to be recognized. The creator doesn't have any rights. The creator is sharecropper in this story. And we should remember who employed the sharecroppers: the Democrats, right?
So the point is the Republicans here recognize that there's a certain need of ownership, a respect for ownership, the respect we should give the creator, the remixer, the owner, the property owner, the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff, and not a generation of sharecroppers. Now, I think there are lessons we should learn here, lessons about openness. Our lives are sharing activities, at least in part. Even for the head of Goldman Sachs, at least in part. And for that sharing activity to happen, we have to have well protected spaces of fair use.
That's number one. Number two: This ecology of sharing needs freedom within which to create. Freedom, which means without permission from anyone, the ability to create. And number three: We need to respect the creator, the creator of these remixes through rights that are directly tied to them. Now, this explains the right-wing non-profit Creative Commons. Actually, it's not a right-wing non-profit, but of course -- let me just tie it here -- the Creative Commons, which is offering authors this simple way to mark their content with the freedoms they intended to carry.
So that we go from a "all rights reserved" world to a "some rights reserved" world so that people can know the freedoms they have attached to the content, building and creating on the basis of this creative copyrighted work. These tools that we built enable this sharing in parts through licenses that make it clear and a freedom to create without requiring permission first because the permission has already been granted, and a respect for the creator because it builds upon a copyright the creator has licensed freely. And it explains the vast right-wing conspiracy that's obviously developed around these licenses, as now more than 350 million digital objects are out there, licensed freely in this way.
Now that picture of an ecology of creativity, the picture of an ecology of balanced creativity, is that the ecology of creativity we have right now? Well, as you all know, not many of us believe we do. I tripped on the reality of this ecology of creativity just last week. I created a video which was based on a Wireside Chat that I'd given, and I uploaded it to YouTube. I then got this email from YouTube weirdly notifying me that there was content in that owned by the mysterious WMG that matched their content ID. So I didn't think much about it.
And then on Twitter, somebody said to me, "Your talk on YouTube was DMCA'd. Was that your purpose?" imagining that I had this deep conspiracy to reveal the obvious flaws in the DMCA. Answered, "No." I didn't even think about it. But then I went to the site and all of the audio in my site had been silenced. My whole 45 minute video had been silenced because there were snippets in that video, a video about fair use, that included Warner Music Group music. Now, interestingly, they still sold ads for that music, if you played the silent video. You could still buy the music, but you couldn't hear anything because it had been silenced.
So I did what the current regime says I must do to be free to use YouTube to talk about fair use. I went to this site, and I had to answer these questions. And then in an extraordinarily Bart Simpson-like, juvenile way you've actually got to type out these words and get them right to reassert your freedom to speak. And I felt like I was in third grade again. I will not put tacks on the teacher's chair. I will not put tacks on the teacher's chair. This is absurd. It is outrageous. It is an extraordinary perversion of the system of freedom we should be encouraging.
And the question I ask you is: Who's fighting it? Well, interestingly, in the last presidential election, who was the number one, active opponent of this system of regulation in online speech? John McCain. Letter after letter attacking YouTube's refusal to be more respectful of fair use with their extraordinary notice and take down system, that led his campaign so many times to be thrown off the Internet.
Now, that was the story of me then, my good old old days of right-wing lunacy. Let me come back to now, now when I'm a little leftist -- I'm certainly left handed, so at least a lefty -- And I wonder, can we on the left expect to build this ecology of freedom, now, in a world where we know the extraordinarily powerful influences against it, where even icons of the left like this entertain and push bills that would effectively ban the requirement of open access for government funded research? The president, who has supported a process that secretly negotiates agreements, which effectively lock us into the insane system of DMCA that we have adopted and likely lock us down a path of three strikes, you're out that, of course, the rest of the world are increasingly adopting. Not a single example of reform has been produced yet. And we're not going to see this change in this system anytime soon.
So here's the lessons of openness that I think we need to learn. Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values. We need to speak of those values. The value of freedom. It's a value of community. It's a value of the limits in regulation. It's a value respecting the creator. Now, if we can learn those values from at least some influences on the right, if we can take them and incorporate them, maybe we could do a little trade. We learn those values on the left, and maybe they'll do health care or global warming legislation or something in the right.
Anyway, please join me in teaching these values.
Thank you very much.
(Applause)
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
5/28角頭被槍殺 竟有4名警官在泡茶 警察和黑道 是水火不容還是水乳交融？
5/28角頭被槍殺 竟有4名警官在泡茶 警察和黑道 是水火不容還是水乳交融？
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警察改革協會發言人 馬在勤
中央警察大學外事警察系副教授 葉毓蘭
資深媒體人 沈明杰
資深媒體人 楊天佑
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On AT&T…
On TV…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t seem interested in revolutionizing TV the same way his company changed the mobile phone industry. But he is hopeful that newspapers will find a way to tap into iPad technology to keep the news flowing and keep us from becoming a nation that gets its news from bloggers.
Hey, should I be offended?
Apple’s CEO spent 90 minutes Tuesday evening on the stage of the “D: All Things Digital” conference, kicking off the event, which is being held near Los Angeles this week. During the Q&A session, he tackled a lot of different topics - from the iPhone prototype that was lost/stolen and the back-and-forth battles with Adobe over Flash to his thoughts on AT&T’s network and the competitive relationship with Google (Techmeme).
There was no news, of course. Jobs will be back on stage in less than a week to deliver a keynote address at his company’s Worldwide Developers Forum in San Francisco. That’s where everyone seems to expect the big iPhone announcement to take place.
But he did offer some insight into where tablet computing might be going and why television isn’t necessarily the industry that he wants to tackle, something many of us had already figured out given the company’s lack of love for its AppleTV product.
I wasn’t in the audience at the D8 conference so my take on the event is based solely on what I’ve read in tweets, live blogs and other posts. What I’ve gathered from his comments about TV, it seems that until the set-top box can be blown up and re-launched with some sort of new user interface, there isn’t room for yet another set-top box on the television.
He jabbed at companies like Roku and TiVo, which have tried to enhance the TV viewing experience with set-top boxes of their own - but really haven’t gained much traction. He even jabbed at Google, which announced Google TV at the I/O developer’s conference last month.
I don’t know that I necessarily agree with Jobs’ assessment of television’s future, largely because consumers have shown that they can be receptive to new technologies if the companies providing them offer enough value. TiVo introduced a disruptive technology that people loved once they understood it. But it also made huge marketing and advertising missteps in its early years, as well as some poor partnership deals that forced into becoming a perpetually niche product while cable and satellite companies offered DVR technology in their own set-top boxes.
Google, on the other hand, recognized that consumers want to be able to watch all content on their living rooms screens - whether from a cable provider or hosted on the Web - and has come up with a multi-pronged approach that includes set-top boxes but also TVs themselves that would have its technology built in.
Newspapers, Jobs said, are in trouble and could make some money by bringing their content to platforms like the iPad - but they’re going to have to get more aggressive about cutting their prices, going for volume and figuring out ways for people to pay for hard-earned content.
Asked if tablets could replace laptops, Jobs used the analogy of early automobiles. Trucks were the preferred vehicles because people needed them for their farms. But, over time, transportation evolved and people started to buy passenger cars. That didn’t spell the end for trucks - it just fragmented the markets into different types of buyers. The same goes for the laptop/tablet game.
Finally, in terms of AT&T and its exclusive relationship for the iPhone in the U.S., Jobs offered no hints of a deal with other carriers in the future but did say that AT&T has the fastest 3G service in the nation and that’s it’s getting better - but that he also wishes it would get better faster.
So do we, Steve. So do we.
Key videos to watch:
On AT&T…
On TV…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn’t seem interested in revolutionizing TV the same way his company changed the mobile phone industry. But he is hopeful that newspapers will find a way to tap into iPad technology to keep the news flowing and keep us from becoming a nation that gets its news from bloggers.
Hey, should I be offended?
Apple’s CEO spent 90 minutes Tuesday evening on the stage of the “D: All Things Digital” conference, kicking off the event, which is being held near Los Angeles this week. During the Q&A session, he tackled a lot of different topics - from the iPhone prototype that was lost/stolen and the back-and-forth battles with Adobe over Flash to his thoughts on AT&T’s network and the competitive relationship with Google (Techmeme).
There was no news, of course. Jobs will be back on stage in less than a week to deliver a keynote address at his company’s Worldwide Developers Forum in San Francisco. That’s where everyone seems to expect the big iPhone announcement to take place.
But he did offer some insight into where tablet computing might be going and why television isn’t necessarily the industry that he wants to tackle, something many of us had already figured out given the company’s lack of love for its AppleTV product.
I wasn’t in the audience at the D8 conference so my take on the event is based solely on what I’ve read in tweets, live blogs and other posts. What I’ve gathered from his comments about TV, it seems that until the set-top box can be blown up and re-launched with some sort of new user interface, there isn’t room for yet another set-top box on the television.
He jabbed at companies like Roku and TiVo, which have tried to enhance the TV viewing experience with set-top boxes of their own - but really haven’t gained much traction. He even jabbed at Google, which announced Google TV at the I/O developer’s conference last month.
I don’t know that I necessarily agree with Jobs’ assessment of television’s future, largely because consumers have shown that they can be receptive to new technologies if the companies providing them offer enough value. TiVo introduced a disruptive technology that people loved once they understood it. But it also made huge marketing and advertising missteps in its early years, as well as some poor partnership deals that forced into becoming a perpetually niche product while cable and satellite companies offered DVR technology in their own set-top boxes.
Google, on the other hand, recognized that consumers want to be able to watch all content on their living rooms screens - whether from a cable provider or hosted on the Web - and has come up with a multi-pronged approach that includes set-top boxes but also TVs themselves that would have its technology built in.
Newspapers, Jobs said, are in trouble and could make some money by bringing their content to platforms like the iPad - but they’re going to have to get more aggressive about cutting their prices, going for volume and figuring out ways for people to pay for hard-earned content.
Asked if tablets could replace laptops, Jobs used the analogy of early automobiles. Trucks were the preferred vehicles because people needed them for their farms. But, over time, transportation evolved and people started to buy passenger cars. That didn’t spell the end for trucks - it just fragmented the markets into different types of buyers. The same goes for the laptop/tablet game.
Finally, in terms of AT&T and its exclusive relationship for the iPhone in the U.S., Jobs offered no hints of a deal with other carriers in the future but did say that AT&T has the fastest 3G service in the nation and that’s it’s getting better - but that he also wishes it would get better faster.
So do we, Steve. So do we.
Key videos to watch:
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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The 1963 Elfstedentocht, the coldest and most difficult in history, was recently the subject of a very enjoyable film.
Cambridge. A crash and the public response
It's become quite common for cyclists in the UK to video their cycling in order to catch evidence of motorists misdemeanors. This video from Cambridge shows how a cyclist is hit by a car while cycling, and the remarkably unsympathetic response of the average BBC Look East (local news TV programme in Cambridge) viewer...
I used to commute along roads very near here myself when I lived in Cambridge, and just like Paul in this video, I'd occasionally have more than a close call and actually be hit by a car.
The comparison with cycling in the Netherlands is remarkable. While I cycle much more now than I ever did in the UK, not once have I had the least bit of hassle here due to a driver.
While Britain continues to ignore the need for decent cycling infrastructure, the situation will remain the same. The cycling rate will continue to flatline and cyclists will continue to be treated as outlaws with no legitimate place either on the road or on the pavement.
Copying Dutch infrastructure which gives cyclists direct journeys in safety is the only way of turning this around. Real action is needed. Not yet more empty promises.
I know of many Dutch people who make cycling videos, but not one of them records their cycle rides to catch "evidence". Rather, Dutch cyclists' videos are made to record pleasant experiences of cycling. There are many of them on youtube.
Isn't it better that cycling should be something enjoyable and full of good memories ? Something not only for commuting adults but that you're also happy for your children to do ?
I came across the Cambridge video on the I Pay Road Tax blog, thanks to a tip from Biking Brits.
Geplaatst door David Hembrow op 00:01 9 reacties
Labels: britain, cambridge, cars, comparisons
Fietselfstedentocht - a jolly ride through the countryside
Cycling in the rain of the Netherlands
Autumn Cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling in the snow; 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2010上海世博EXPO开幕式-谷村新司 星
2010上海世博EXPO开幕式-谷村新司 星
昴 詞/曲: 谷村 新司
目を閉じて何も見えず 哀しくて目を開ければ
荒野に向かう道より 他に見えるものはなし
ああ 砕け散る 宿命の星たちよ
せめて密やかに この身を照らせよ
我は行く 蒼白き頬のままで 我は行く さらば昴よ
呼吸をすれば胸の中 凩は吠き続ける
されど我が胸は熱く 夢を追い続けるなり
ああ さんざめく 名もなき星たちよ
せめて鮮やかに その身を終われよ
我も行く 心の命ずるままに 我も行く さらば昴よ
ああ いつの日か 誰かがこの道を
ああ いつの日か 誰かがこの道を
我は行く 蒼白き頬のままで
我は行く さらば昴よ 我は行く さらば昴よ
Monday, May 31, 2010
什麼是設計
東海大學「設計邊境」第一堂／主講人：姚仁祿／學校的教育體制，多是符合工業革命制度的設計與需求，很容易抹殺了人們的原創性，課堂中並引用TED TALK影片「學校教育扼殺了創意？」（中文字幕），引導同學討論。
VIDEOS : BP's next move
VIDEOS
BP's next move
Sun, May 30: The anger is growing along the Gulf Coast after BP's best hope to stop an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico failed. It's now being called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. History. Crystal Goomansingh reports.
Raw Video: Oliphant on Mulroney (May 31)
Raw Video: Oliphant on Mulroney (May 31)
Raw Video: Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has found former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney breached federal ethics guidelines in the past. Raw video. May 31.
Raw Video: Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has found former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney breached federal ethics guidelines in the past. Raw video. May 31.
富士康12跳 世界工廠出問題！ 台商太剝削？陸勞不耐操？廉價勞工不再！企業管理要改！
來賓：
嘉農發展基金會總裁 蔡武璋
環球經濟社社長 林建山
資深媒體人 楊憲宏
Call out 香港大專師生監察無良企業行動項目 幹事 鄭依依
富士康連續發生員工跳樓事件，中國官方媒體新華社發表評論指出，顯示中國經濟發展方式轉變的緊迫性，也反映出傳統發展方式的時代之痛。近來中國罷工、員工殺害雇主或自殺屢見不鮮，隨著經濟轉型，過去被認為廉價、服從、穩定的勞工正在急遽變化。
富士康12跳！中國勞動市場轉型預示？
富士康驚傳第十二起跳樓自殺案件，而諷刺的是，數小時前，鴻海集團董事長郭台銘才親自帶兩岸以及國際媒體到深圳廠區視察。郭董深深鞠躬道歉。如何看待富士康問題？
全球電子代工龍頭的鴻海集團形象重挫，富士康在香港股市的股價重跌一成多，創下七個月來新低。郭台銘極力澄清，富士康絕對不是外傳的血汗工廠。
本田大罷工！勞工意識高漲？
日本知名車廠本田汽車位於廣東佛山的零件廠，上千名中國員工不滿薪資過低要求加薪，從21號晚間開始大規模罷工，導致零件供給不足暫時關閉在中國的四座裝配廠。市場預估本田每日產值損失可能超過2億人民幣。本田中國管理方面表示將積極展開對話，但何時復工則尚未有時間表。
世界工廠的背後，勞工境遇悲慘
沿海工廠的基層勞工，往往都是鄉村來的農民工，在中國總數有兩點三億，其中沿海城市就有一億六千多萬名農民工，佔了城市人口的兩成七。在戶口二元制的政策下，這群農民工在城市沒有戶籍、薪資低，食衣住行全靠資方掌控。南方周末：「人像碎片般的活著！」，40萬人的工廠，非得軍事化、機械化的管理？
世界銀行的報告指出，中國維持基本生活水準費用，每月是1685塊人民幣，但絕大多數的沿海農民工底薪在1000元以下，平均每週得工作66個小時，每月得加班120個小時，才能拿到1685元工資。
薪資低，迫使勞工不得不加班，但加班後精神狀況不佳，加上持續的壓力，勞工的處境堪憐。員工抗壓不足？索求無度？雇主苛刻勞工？
世界工廠面臨轉型，老闆亦難為
員工動輒罷工、自殺、殺害雇主，大陸勞工變了嗎？對企業會有多大傷害？台商管理大有問題？在企業眼中，原本和低工資及密集勞力畫上等號的中國，也開始改變。中國政府08年中國實施《勞動合同法》包括設定基本工資，以及配合一胎化政策，給予女性員工產假及育嬰津貼等福利樣樣不少，而沿海基本工資也不斷調漲。
薪資、穩定度、勞動合同法…大陸勞動成本的改變？雇主如何調整薪資待遇與管理方式？60年代管理方式始終不變？老闆必須與時俱進？
當中國勞動成本越來越高，世界工廠的未來，影響產業重新布局的下一步。薪資漲、勞動意識抬頭、動輒跳槽忠誠度低、中國的勞動市場優勢不再？世界工廠位置不再？企業的大陸布局會因此調整嗎？該因此調整嗎？
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Reinstall Mac OS X
Reinstall Mac OS X
1Insert your Mac OS X Install DVD or Installation Disc 1.
2Restart the computer and hold down the letter "C" as the computer starts up.
3Continue to hold down the letter "C" until you see a grey screen with an Apple and a small spinning gear.
4Select your language on the Welcome to the Mac OS X Installer screen and click "Continue".
5Click "Continue" on the following screen.
6After reading the Software License Agreement, click "Agree".
7Select the volume to which you are going to install. "Macintosh HD" is the default name.
8Click the "Options" button in the bottom corner of the window and select your installation type.
9Click "OK" and then "Continue". You will be presented with a confirmation window at which point you can click "Install" to proceed.
THE CORPORATION [1/23]
The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.
Denmark Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / BIG
In my opinion Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, is one of the best architects when it comes to give shape to the interests of an “unspoken” client on public buildings,either representing the values of a country or a culture. All with exceptional syntax and presentation skills.
And BIG’s latest project (in collaboration with Arup and 2+1), the Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, does it again, by taking the best of living in Copenhagen and placing it on China for visitors to experience.
The Finnish pavilion
The Finnish pavilion will look like a "giant kettle", in the words of the architects. For images of the Finnish pavilion.
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