The court has provided companies with a new piece of ammunition: the ability to argue that their deliberate misconduct was not actually fraud.
So, while there's no getting away from the fact that it takes (on average) longer to ship a hardware product than a piece of software, the ability to both "prove product market fit" — via a crowdfunding campaign — and buy time to build the product by booking pre-orders, means the difference between starting a hardware vs a software business is not as great as once it was.
A drop track, a roller coaster element which has only been used on five coasters around the world, is a movable piece that has the ability to be released into free-fall.
OCG: Since "Big Mind Sky" is a conceptual piece, it has the ability to rise above time and location; if a city were to install the sculpture twenty years from now, it would speak to a different set of issues, different ways of opening the mind, but the concept would be the same.
After a final payment has been made, the buyer would have the right to exhibit and sell the artwork, but the artist would retain copyright and, with that, be credited as the author of the piece and have the ability to use the image of the sculpture in brochures or on a Web site, as well as make reproductions that the artist would own and could sell.
"That means dominant set piece, strangulating defence and the ability to be ruthless in attack.
The piece requires extraordinary agility, the ability to play with exquisite softness both high and low (especially tough on the horn) and a mastery of complex rhythms.
Even though I studied fine arts, I haven't really gone down that path—I'm more interested in the sensory experience of the piece, although also in the ability of computers and the kinds of outcomes that can be created by a computer.
"If you work at a small agency that depends on traditional advertising functions, such as creating ads, buying media and creating collateral pieces, you're losing the ability to earn your living".
