According to TFA, he doesn't have a problem with students taking notes - he has a problem with students taking notes and then selling them in competition to his own, which is a different matter.
Having said that, given that the student's personal notes are part of the point of the lecture, then if there are copyright issues involved, then I'd say that they are a licensed use of the lecture material rather than an "allowable" breach of copyright. Besides, if fair use is allowable, then how can it be a breach?
If only it was that easy - their VP kicked off the sh*tstorm by saying it was a marketing matter. They disabled part of the boards to force people to upgrade their hardware, and DK posted up drivers that reenabled the bits they'd disabled.
If you passed a treaty provision that said no one can say the word Cat ever again hidden somewhere in the text, the countries with free speech clauses in their constitution wouldn't have to comply with it. Personally, I'd say that countries with free speech clauses in their constitutions would have no business signing such a treaty, and their government would be acting ultra vires if they did so.
Currently no other US company can can engage in interstate gambling which is the what is banned. Each and every gambling franchise needs to set a local point of business in each state and follow the rules of that state. Any foreign company is free to do the same. There is no discrimination going on here. Again, the US government is acting ultra vires if this is the case. If it has no power to bind the states to this treaty, then it has no business signing the treaty as if it could.
That's easy to fix - cash it in (or put it in the charity box), get a new one from the dispenser, and only top it up with cash. Like anyone with anything to hide doesn't do that weekly anyway.
Unfortunately, I've got my railcard on mine, so I have to submit to get a discount. (though it is a big one).
pdf works quite well for me - I use Mobipocket, but all the 200-odd books on it are from places like Project Gutenburg, manybooks.net, and Textbook Revolution.
I download them as pdfs, and dump them on a chip for my Zire.
I prefer paper, partcularly for study, but a PDA is good for the bath, in bed at night, and on the tube.
According to TFA, the notice was issued by the Air Force's lawyers, without the consultation or authorisation of the guy who deals with all IP issues.
According to Wikipedia, they are meant to be good enough lawyers to know better, but the talk page had been deleted, so maybe there's just been a big slanging match.
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That may very well be true, but even if your MP is likely to be hostile, it is important to write.
If you don't, then they can say "nobody objected to it" and don't even have to lie.
Most recording artists don't - they only get an income from royalties after the record company get their advance back.
The only _artists_ who'll benefit from this are the likes of Cliff Richard, one of the campaigner's for this - people who have already made enough that they don't need it (and I'd like to know how Cliff squares that sort of greed with his professed christian beliefs).
The winners from this are the record companies, who are also trying to cut the artist's share of royalties.
I aspire to the ideals that she propounds in her books - I wish I was brave enough to be Howard Roarke, for example. I also recognise that life doesn't work like that.
You can be inspired by an unobtainable ideal without being taken in by it.
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According to TFA, he doesn't have a problem with students taking notes - he has a problem with students taking notes and then selling them in competition to his own, which is a different matter. Having said that, given that the student's personal notes are part of the point of the lecture, then if there are copyright issues involved, then I'd say that they are a licensed use of the lecture material rather than an "allowable" breach of copyright. Besides, if fair use is allowable, then how can it be a breach?
If only it was that easy - their VP kicked off the sh*tstorm by saying it was a marketing matter. They disabled part of the boards to force people to upgrade their hardware, and DK posted up drivers that reenabled the bits they'd disabled.
I wouldn't be at all surprised - I've just read the Wikipedia article on the Song Dynasty.
That's easy to fix - cash it in (or put it in the charity box), get a new one from the dispenser, and only top it up with cash. Like anyone with anything to hide doesn't do that weekly anyway.
Unfortunately, I've got my railcard on mine, so I have to submit to get a discount. (though it is a big one).
pdf works quite well for me - I use Mobipocket, but all the 200-odd books on it are from places like Project Gutenburg, manybooks.net, and Textbook Revolution.
I download them as pdfs, and dump them on a chip for my Zire.
I prefer paper, partcularly for study, but a PDA is good for the bath, in bed at night, and on the tube.
This has also been covered by Boing Boing.
According to TFA, the notice was issued by the Air Force's lawyers, without the consultation or authorisation of the guy who deals with all IP issues.
According to Wikipedia, they are meant to be good enough lawyers to know better, but the talk page had been deleted, so maybe there's just been a big slanging match.
I'd prefer a Microsoft supported Wine.
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That may very well be true, but even if your MP is likely to be hostile, it is important to write. If you don't, then they can say "nobody objected to it" and don't even have to lie.
Most recording artists don't - they only get an income from royalties after the record company get their advance back.
The only _artists_ who'll benefit from this are the likes of Cliff Richard, one of the campaigner's for this - people who have already made enough that they don't need it (and I'd like to know how Cliff squares that sort of greed with his professed christian beliefs).
The winners from this are the record companies, who are also trying to cut the artist's share of royalties.
You say that as if being an obsessive, moderately autistic, anal-retentive nerd is a bad thing...
I aspire to the ideals that she propounds in her books - I wish I was brave enough to be Howard Roarke, for example. I also recognise that life doesn't work like that. You can be inspired by an unobtainable ideal without being taken in by it.