Except in.au the phonebook is indeed copyrighted. The main telco Telstra and their information services arm Sensis have successfully shutdown businesses selling phonebooks on CD. I'm not sure of any legal cases, but at least one network has claimed their TV listings are copyright as well.
Letterman is on channel 10 most weeknights sometime between 11PM and 12AM. 10 recently outbid 9 for rights to CBS shows, which considering how 9 treated Letterman (random times, random days) is a big improvement.
That struggle has been going on since long before my time at RMIT, and ITS only just won the email address battle. I will state that ITS is the most incompetent organization I've ever had to deal with, and considering I'm an RMIT student, that's saying something. However with any luck I too will be gone at the end of the year, one more at the most. It is sad to see the CS school going downhill because of such senseless powerplays though.
Greetings from another RMIT student. That name does sound quite familiar. I could never understand why Blackboard needs to shout our names though.
The x-term systems are fantastic, as is the Moodle installation some courses now use. The more that migrate there the better. Just a pity that most still use Blackboard.
Sadly this semester I'm taking Web Dev Tech, which means C#/.NET and having to use the Windows labs, which suck horribly.
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Except in .au the phonebook is indeed copyrighted. The main telco Telstra and their information services arm Sensis have successfully shutdown businesses selling phonebooks on CD. I'm not sure of any legal cases, but at least one network has claimed their TV listings are copyright as well.
Letterman is on channel 10 most weeknights sometime between 11PM and 12AM. 10 recently outbid 9 for rights to CBS shows, which considering how 9 treated Letterman (random times, random days) is a big improvement.
That struggle has been going on since long before my time at RMIT, and ITS only just won the email address battle. I will state that ITS is the most incompetent organization I've ever had to deal with, and considering I'm an RMIT student, that's saying something. However with any luck I too will be gone at the end of the year, one more at the most. It is sad to see the CS school going downhill because of such senseless powerplays though.
Greetings from another RMIT student. That name does sound quite familiar. I could never understand why Blackboard needs to shout our names though.
The x-term systems are fantastic, as is the Moodle installation some courses now use. The more that migrate there the better. Just a pity that most still use Blackboard.
Sadly this semester I'm taking Web Dev Tech, which means C#/.NET and having to use the Windows labs, which suck horribly.