And other communal software devices will prove much harder targets to vanquish through the courts.
If readers approach the Analects as a communal memory, a literary device on the part of those who considered themselves beneficiaries of the Confucian Way to continue the Master's memory and to transmit his form of life as a living tradition, they come close to why it has been so revered in China for centuries.
Among the speculations about its origin, the more plausible are that it began as a primitive form of communication, that it grew out of a device to expedite communal labour, or that it originated as a powerful adjunct to religious ceremonies.
communal living; communalism". .
Like John Adams and the late Steven Stucky, Andres has succeeded in carrying forward the mainstream tradition of orchestral modernism (which includes Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ives, and, now, Adams himself) in a way that is no less distinctive for seeming so ironic and abashed: the piece is at once gently private and powerfully communal in its gestures and devices.
For the minority of those who are able to actually use the Internet, costs can be lessened by a combination of communal institutions and technical sharing devices.
Those features didn't make much sense on a device that, while inherently communal, could only recognize a single voice.
This is a no brainer, but when a device is placed in a communal space, it gets used by lots of people, including children.
W Stephen Gilbert Corsham, Wiltshire First, our eight-year-old twins have access to the internet only through a computer in communal areas – they have no hand-held devices of their own.
It's the shared experience this laughter signifies that seems to be slipping away when someone gazes into a hand-held device instead of at the big communal screen.
