This is only a civil and not a criminal act, so as an individual you don't have to worry. If however defamation was criminal (eg you can go to Jail) then the Australian government could have you extradited under a common treaty.
If you are an individual in the US, it would also be very difficult for you to libel, slander, or defame someone in Australia anyway (unless you are working for an employer that has power over public opinion such as a big company or press). eg. Bill Gates could Slander me (but only because he is idenitifiable becasue of Microsoft). In that case I could sue Microsoft IF they endorse or publish the information.
Either way I don't think that Gutnick will win the case anyway. The press are a forum for opinion, that is what they do, offer their opinion and they did. I don't think there are many people who would have their perception of Joe altered in anyway by the article they published. Everyone here in Australia already knows he is a blood sucking parasite and as such the perception of his good standing is crap and has been for years anyway.
All of the companies he has run are in financial ruin (well most of them), and in typical fashion Joe is teflon man (the shit never sticks).
Hell, he even got kicked off the board of the football club he financially supported because he was such a prick. How can anyone who nobody respects or admires be defamed!
Q11: Will ATI Retail drivers work with my Partner Product?
A11: Yes. ATI Retail drivers are designed for products "Built by ATI" however these drivers will also work on "Powered by ATI" partner products. These drivers are available at the following link http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
I have a "powered by ATI" card that I bought on the cheap, and I remember reading at rage3d.com that one particular release of the windows drivers for XP did a similar check for "OEM vs Retail". This was back in the day when the retail drivers and OEM drivers were different. Funnily enough though, my OEM card had a retail bios so I didn't experience this problem.
This problem in the older driver sets was removed (aain I cna't confirm) when ATI went to the unified driver "Catalyst series"
Maybe this set of drivers has been ported from the old code base? Now according to the press release the Linux build is a "unified driver". So I expect it is ported from the newer code base...
If you go to the ati site and click on the "powered by ATI" drivers, there is no option for a linux driver. It only appears under the "Built by ATI" drivers section. This would suggest to me that it is very deliberate. All of us can assume why... but none of us know for sure.
My gut feeling is they can't be sure how the OEM cards are set up (eg mem speed etc) and therefore can't guarantee the driver will work. ATI don't have the resources to field calls from every man and his dog world wide for 100 variants of the same card. Then again like I said this is only speculation. We should probably find out the reason before everyone shoots off at the hip and accuse ATI of all sorts of things.
Back to windows for a second. The solution to work around the windows install was a simple modify of an inf file....
Mybe it is just as simple for the linux xfree drivers, but I don't want to start pulling rpm's apart and looking at whats inside.
The reason why these countries take the waste and dispose of it poorly may be a little less obvious than you might think. The first step in economic growth and prosperity for a country like China (or Bangladesh for that matter) is agricultural production. They will make cotton and clothing, or wheat and grains. They can do this cheaper than anyone else because their labour costs are low. They export it to rich countries and that money they receive increases their standards of living.
Unfotunately the US (and Europe) is preventing the poorest nations on earth from entering the Agricultural market (remember agricultural export is the first step to development) because they have MASSSIVE subsidies on farm products and clothing.
Taking waste from industrialised nations will be the next big export (in effect) for these countries as they have been prevented from making a sustainable living in agriculture. We are driving them to accept our waste because we are protecting inefficient local industries.
An important thing to note here. I think the WTO is a good thing! The WTO is all about stopping these stupid agricultural sibsidies, so that countries like China can export their goods to the world. In turn that will mean they won't take our waste (because they won't need to). In the end that will force us to deal with our own waste problems! Unfortunately (AGAIN) the US and Europe talk about free trade only when it is in their best interests. When they realise that subsidies only hurt the poorest nations, and adjust their local industries accordingly, the world we be much better for these poor nations. The suffereing in the US and Europe will only be temporary. A few farmers will either need to improve the way they work to be MORE COPETITIVE or find a new career. This really is only a short term problem.
An example of a country doing the right thing in this area is Australia. They have come out this month and said they will abolish subsidies on imports from the 50 poorest nations on earth. At the same time local recylcing of things like IT equipment is starting to happen.
Some of the consequences is they are paying sugar farmers to change industries. Get out of the sugar industry. "We are not competitive. There is too much sugar in the world." The farmers get payed to find a new career.
Hang on a minute... this can be a Win-Win situation !!!
Derby Hydro Power are constructing a 48 MW tidal power station near Derby to supply electricity to Derby, Broome, Fitzroy Crossing and the Western Metals lead and zinc mine at Pillara. The project will take advantage of the flow from a high tidal range of around 10 metres. The double basin design allows continuous electricity output from the flow of water between the high and low basins which the barrages maintain in two adjacent creeks.
From an Aussie research report commissioned by Murdoch Universoty
"There are currently two commercial scale barrages in operation around the world: a 240 MW bulb turbine at La Rance, Brittany, France and a 16 MW plant at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. Several other tidal power stations are being considered, including the Severn project in England"
I thought Postgres would have too many limitations to be considered a healthy alternative to Oracle. eg 8k row sizes. Before people flame away. It has been a few years since I touched postgres, so this may be fixed by now.
and I used to have problems with database and index corruptions if it ever crashed...
If they inadvertantly do this to an Australian citizen, then they are breaking our privacy laws, and can be extradited and prosecuted in Australia.
Sentences include jail time. They may think what they are doing is nice and legal, and it may be for people in America, but how are they to know if I am in America or Australia? I bet they don't check the IP ranges and where they reside before running port scans.
In Australia, Under the trade practices act, a product has to be fit for purpose. If all our tax laws for depreciation etc are based around a 3 year time frame for computer parts, then the Australian Consumer watchdog may well argue that the product must be designed to meet that purpose.... this argument has already started, with the ACCC looking into mandating certain products having certain length warranties....
Goto the ATI web site.
Just Click on "Built by ATI" in the Drivers section, choose Linux/Xfree86 and then Radeon 9700 Pro, and there yah have it. Their approach is not perfect, but at least theyconsider it, and actively support the 2d side. As for 3d... Doesn't look to promising...
IF you can't be bothered with the clicks, look here
What a quote on page 16. "110 million transistors of joy".
My power Supply struggles with the Radeon 8500. I am going to have to upgrade before i get one of these babies. Running Dual LCD's, the Radeon's are the only real option.
I have to hand it to ATI, they have absolutely wholloped the rest of the market getting this baby out before Christmas.
This confirms my belief that the simplest forms of communications are often the least effective.
Email is most anonymous and potentially anonymous, and hence has the least chance of being taken seriously.
A phone call is better, and even more so a letter. But the best (and for obvious reasons), the hardest to to is a face to face meeting.
A solution to the problem mentioned: In australia we have an electoral roll, and I am sure you guys in the US do aswell. Why can't they just allow e-mail addresses to be added to the electoral role. Obviously some privacy protections would be needed, but it is surely possible.
On the otherhand, does it really matter if people are constituents or not? Is broad public and global opinion more important that those of an individual community, county or state? Hrm... an interesting question is posed here..... damn I don't have the answer to this one.
IF they can recoup some of the costs of producing games through product placement, then hopefully it will help more developers get products to market, or reduce the costs of games.
I wonder how long it will be before there is subliminal advertising in games? Every 100 frames inserting a picture of a big mac with a McDonalds logo will sell lots of burgers. Or Playboy Fron pages, or even Swedish Babes selling swatch watches. We will never notice, but we will have this strange craving to go and buy vegemite (read marmite or promite depending on where you are from in the world)
And for the kiddies games, subliminal advertising of barbie and bob the builder. And given that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are going to make a comeback with "all new" episodes, maybe a game with subliminal advertising of "mutant turtles" action figures!
The possibilities are endless. Time to go and start working on an engine to insert subliminal advertising into games... shhh don't tell anyone.
I wonder what would happen if I ever accidentally inserted Pr0n into kiddies games..... mmmm scenes reminiscent of Fight club... better be carefult this doesn't fall into the wrong hands;)
This sounds like a classic case of "Bureaucracy Gone Mad". Another public institution passes legislation to "be seen to be doing the right thing". I think someone should go and submit this baby over at Stupidlaws.com
They have a collection of classic stupid laws like this US law:
While it is legal for theaters to show movies on a Sunday, it is only legal so long as (1) they have a permit from either the city or the county and (2) at least once monthly they show a religious or educational film.
Has anyone thought of taking these jobs and deliberately doing a really crap job? Do it so poorly that they never succeed;)
I wonder if anyone is a sick and twisted as me. In Australia at the moment they have jobs going for "anti linux and anti SUN" people. The job advertisments specifically mention limiting the growth of linux and solaris in the "responsibilities" section of the job description.
get the job, take the cash, and then go around promoting linux on Microsoft's money;)
As a project Manager I can really associate with these guys..
I became a release manager at the company where I used to work by volunteering... it nearly gave me a heart attack after 18 months.
Release dates are set at standard intervals becasue theat's the way it has always been done;)
Scope changes to meet time available;) If it looks to tough to finish in time, delay it for the next release.. I have seen releases with 50 updates and fixes scaled back to 10-15.
Time to code ! bah no release manager has time for sleep, family or counter-strike..
and all of the above explains why I now do Business Continuity rather than release management;) Mind you I would recommend it to anyone who wants to see how project teams, communities and stakeholders react to what happens with software releases. As the release manager you are one of the few who ever gets to see all sides of the argument.
Is the COmmunications revolution resulting in decreased communication skills?
We have mobile phones, email, irc, and slashdot. These communication mediums are meant to be part of the communications revolution, but are we losing the art of effective communication?
How often do you send 5 or six emails for what could be covered off in a 1 minute phone call? With email people miss your mood, tone, and oftne misinterpret what you mean.
How important is a face to face meeting? Meeting people face to face allows you to project senses that you just can't with a phone call or email. You get to guage each others body lnaguage and alter your communication to meet the changing mood. This is much harder on the phone, and almost impossible on email...
So mobile phones probably are making us more stupid, I also switch off to the world in a similar manner when I am writing emails, so email is also making more stupid.
Note to self, must meet the/. guys in person next time they come to Australia... I am sure I will learn more in five minutes face to face than I have from reading their musings on/. for the last 3 years.
I agree. They are saying they have never charged for it. This is a statement of fact.... BUT now that it is removed from their licence, as menitioned by ftobin, they technically can, whenever they choose, pursue you for not adhering to the licence.
For example, Sun could be sued in 5 years time and have to make a retrospective licence payment. Thompson are making sure they keep a few cards up their sleeve.
The PR stunt in saying nothing has change is true for today, but not necessarily tomorrow.
It is very rare for governments to think long term. They are just like companies. They need to make themselves look good so you re-elect them. They do this by reducing expenditure, reducing taxes, and making populist decisions etc. Open Source is a good way to make the books look good on a short timeframe (reduced licence costs). I would be pleasantly surprised if they are even considering the long term implications of such a decision. Don't get me wrong, the long term implications might be good, but then again, they might not be.
As long as you can read both formats, and write in the +r/+rw formats, do you really need something that can write both?
In this regard I would look at the Sony DRU120A or the Ricoh MP5125A. These (from what I have read) can read both +r/+rw and -r/-rw formats, and write in the +R/+RW. Don't confuse this with the earlier ricoh MP51250A which can't do +r
If I buy new discs (and they are cheap enough), as long as I can read the old ones I don't care if I can't write them.
I wouldn't look for an alternative, I would just look for a responsibly mined dimaond.
I would look for companies that sell diamonds mined from developed nations like Australia. Eg Rio Tinto mines diamonds at the Argyle mine in Western Australia. They are relatively unique, and the company has very progressive policies towards working with the indigenous residents that live in the area.
If it is a little hard to find them, then look for a PINK diamond. they are absolutely beautiful, and 95% of them come from the Argyle Diamond mine in Western Australia. This way, in the words of Aali G you can "bone two birds with one cock". You can get something unique and beautiful, it is still a diamond, and you know it is not from a cartel, or involved slave labor.
Just my thoughts for the day...
You can find information on Argyle Diamonds Here
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I have about 450 Original CD's, and my two flat mates (combined) would have over 1000. so do they make a version with 150Gb+????
If you are an individual in the US, it would also be very difficult for you to libel, slander, or defame someone in Australia anyway (unless you are working for an employer that has power over public opinion such as a big company or press). eg. Bill Gates could Slander me (but only because he is idenitifiable becasue of Microsoft). In that case I could sue Microsoft IF they endorse or publish the information.
Either way I don't think that Gutnick will win the case anyway. The press are a forum for opinion, that is what they do, offer their opinion and they did. I don't think there are many people who would have their perception of Joe altered in anyway by the article they published. Everyone here in Australia already knows he is a blood sucking parasite and as such the perception of his good standing is crap and has been for years anyway.
All of the companies he has run are in financial ruin (well most of them), and in typical fashion Joe is teflon man (the shit never sticks).
Hell, he even got kicked off the board of the football club he financially supported because he was such a prick. How can anyone who nobody respects or admires be defamed!
Remember Krush Kill N' Destroy. That was made here. I knew a few of the guys that made it.
Q11: Will ATI Retail drivers work with my Partner Product?
A11: Yes. ATI Retail drivers are designed for products "Built by ATI" however these drivers will also work on "Powered by ATI" partner products. These drivers are available at the following link http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
according to this they should work!!!!!
I have a "powered by ATI" card that I bought on the cheap, and I remember reading at rage3d.com that one particular release of the windows drivers for XP did a similar check for "OEM vs Retail". This was back in the day when the retail drivers and OEM drivers were different. Funnily enough though, my OEM card had a retail bios so I didn't experience this problem.
This problem in the older driver sets was removed (aain I cna't confirm) when ATI went to the unified driver "Catalyst series"
Maybe this set of drivers has been ported from the old code base? Now according to the press release the Linux build is a "unified driver". So I expect it is ported from the newer code base...
If you go to the ati site and click on the "powered by ATI" drivers, there is no option for a linux driver. It only appears under the "Built by ATI" drivers section. This would suggest to me that it is very deliberate. All of us can assume why... but none of us know for sure.
My gut feeling is they can't be sure how the OEM cards are set up (eg mem speed etc) and therefore can't guarantee the driver will work. ATI don't have the resources to field calls from every man and his dog world wide for 100 variants of the same card. Then again like I said this is only speculation. We should probably find out the reason before everyone shoots off at the hip and accuse ATI of all sorts of things.
Back to windows for a second. The solution to work around the windows install was a simple modify of an inf file....
Mybe it is just as simple for the linux xfree drivers, but I don't want to start pulling rpm's apart and looking at whats inside.
The reason why these countries take the waste and dispose of it poorly may be a little less obvious than you might think. The first step in economic growth and prosperity for a country like China (or Bangladesh for that matter) is agricultural production. They will make cotton and clothing, or wheat and grains. They can do this cheaper than anyone else because their labour costs are low. They export it to rich countries and that money they receive increases their standards of living.
Unfotunately the US (and Europe) is preventing the poorest nations on earth from entering the Agricultural market (remember agricultural export is the first step to development) because they have MASSSIVE subsidies on farm products and clothing.
Taking waste from industrialised nations will be the next big export (in effect) for these countries as they have been prevented from making a sustainable living in agriculture. We are driving them to accept our waste because we are protecting inefficient local industries.
An important thing to note here. I think the WTO is a good thing! The WTO is all about stopping these stupid agricultural sibsidies, so that countries like China can export their goods to the world. In turn that will mean they won't take our waste (because they won't need to). In the end that will force us to deal with our own waste problems! Unfortunately (AGAIN) the US and Europe talk about free trade only when it is in their best interests. When they realise that subsidies only hurt the poorest nations, and adjust their local industries accordingly, the world we be much better for these poor nations. The suffereing in the US and Europe will only be temporary. A few farmers will either need to improve the way they work to be MORE COPETITIVE or find a new career. This really is only a short term problem.
An example of a country doing the right thing in this area is Australia. They have come out this month and said they will abolish subsidies on imports from the 50 poorest nations on earth. At the same time local recylcing of things like IT equipment is starting to happen.
Some of the consequences is they are paying sugar farmers to change industries. Get out of the sugar industry. "We are not competitive. There is too much sugar in the world." The farmers get payed to find a new career.
Hang on a minute... this can be a Win-Win situation !!!
Further there is a pilot program in Australia:
Derby Hydro Power are constructing a 48 MW tidal power station near Derby to supply electricity to Derby, Broome, Fitzroy Crossing and the Western Metals lead and zinc mine at Pillara. The project will take advantage of the flow from a high tidal range of around 10 metres. The double basin design allows continuous electricity output from the flow of water between the high and low basins which the barrages maintain in two adjacent creeks.
From an Aussie research report commissioned by Murdoch Universoty
"There are currently two commercial scale barrages in operation around the world: a 240 MW bulb turbine at La Rance, Brittany, France and a 16 MW plant at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. Several other tidal power stations are being considered, including the Severn project in England"
Thanks, I will do that.
I thought Postgres would have too many limitations to be considered a healthy alternative to Oracle. eg 8k row sizes. Before people flame away. It has been a few years since I touched postgres, so this may be fixed by now.
and I used to have problems with database and index corruptions if it ever crashed...
If they inadvertantly do this to an Australian citizen, then they are breaking our privacy laws, and can be extradited and prosecuted in Australia.
Sentences include jail time. They may think what they are doing is nice and legal, and it may be for people in America, but how are they to know if I am in America or Australia? I bet they don't check the IP ranges and where they reside before running port scans.
Tut Tut you evil crackers of doom
In Australia, Under the trade practices act, a product has to be fit for purpose. If all our tax laws for depreciation etc are based around a 3 year time frame for computer parts, then the Australian Consumer watchdog may well argue that the product must be designed to meet that purpose.... this argument has already started, with the ACCC looking into mandating certain products having certain length warranties....
Will be interesting to see how it pans out.
IF you can't be bothered with the clicks, look here
What a quote on page 16. "110 million transistors of joy".
My power Supply struggles with the Radeon 8500. I am going to have to upgrade before i get one of these babies. Running Dual LCD's, the Radeon's are the only real option.
I have to hand it to ATI, they have absolutely wholloped the rest of the market getting this baby out before Christmas.
This confirms my belief that the simplest forms of communications are often the least effective.
Email is most anonymous and potentially anonymous, and hence has the least chance of being taken seriously.
A phone call is better, and even more so a letter. But the best (and for obvious reasons), the hardest to to is a face to face meeting.
A solution to the problem mentioned: In australia we have an electoral roll, and I am sure you guys in the US do aswell. Why can't they just allow e-mail addresses to be added to the electoral role. Obviously some privacy protections would be needed, but it is surely possible.
On the otherhand, does it really matter if people are constituents or not? Is broad public and global opinion more important that those of an individual community, county or state? Hrm... an interesting question is posed here..... damn I don't have the answer to this one.
I wonder how long it will be before there is subliminal advertising in games? Every 100 frames inserting a picture of a big mac with a McDonalds logo will sell lots of burgers. Or Playboy Fron pages, or even Swedish Babes selling swatch watches. We will never notice, but we will have this strange craving to go and buy vegemite (read marmite or promite depending on where you are from in the world)
And for the kiddies games, subliminal advertising of barbie and bob the builder. And given that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are going to make a comeback with "all new" episodes, maybe a game with subliminal advertising of "mutant turtles" action figures!
The possibilities are endless. Time to go and start working on an engine to insert subliminal advertising into games... shhh don't tell anyone.
I wonder what would happen if I ever accidentally inserted Pr0n into kiddies games..... mmmm scenes reminiscent of Fight club... better be carefult this doesn't fall into the wrong hands ;)
They have a collection of classic stupid laws like this US law: While it is legal for theaters to show movies on a Sunday, it is only legal so long as (1) they have a permit from either the city or the county and (2) at least once monthly they show a religious or educational film.
http://www.microsoft.com/careers/international/sou thpacific.asp?lang=EN&loc=MSSP&job=90089463&jobsli st=
Has anyone thought of taking these jobs and deliberately doing a really crap job? Do it so poorly that they never succeed ;)
;)
I wonder if anyone is a sick and twisted as me.
In Australia at the moment they have jobs going for "anti linux and anti SUN" people. The job advertisments specifically mention limiting the growth of linux and solaris in the "responsibilities" section of the job description.
get the job, take the cash, and then go around promoting linux on Microsoft's money
As a project Manager I can really associate with these guys..
;)
;) If it looks to tough to finish in time, delay it for the next release.. I have seen releases with 50 updates and fixes scaled back to 10-15.
;) Mind you I would recommend it to anyone who wants to see how project teams, communities and stakeholders react to what happens with software releases. As the release manager you are one of the few who ever gets to see all sides of the argument.
I became a release manager at the company where I used to work by volunteering... it nearly gave me a heart attack after 18 months.
Release dates are set at standard intervals becasue theat's the way it has always been done
Scope changes to meet time available
Time to code ! bah no release manager has time for sleep, family or counter-strike..
and all of the above explains why I now do Business Continuity rather than release management
Is the COmmunications revolution resulting in decreased communication skills?
/. guys in person next time they come to Australia... I am sure I will learn more in five minutes face to face than I have from reading their musings on /. for the last 3 years.
We have mobile phones, email, irc, and slashdot. These communication mediums are meant to be part of the communications revolution, but are we losing the art of effective communication?
How often do you send 5 or six emails for what could be covered off in a 1 minute phone call? With email people miss your mood, tone, and oftne misinterpret what you mean.
How important is a face to face meeting? Meeting people face to face allows you to project senses that you just can't with a phone call or email. You get to guage each others body lnaguage and alter your communication to meet the changing mood. This is much harder on the phone, and almost impossible on email...
So mobile phones probably are making us more stupid, I also switch off to the world in a similar manner when I am writing emails, so email is also making more stupid.
Note to self, must meet the
I agree. They are saying they have never charged for it. This is a statement of fact.... BUT now that it is removed from their licence, as menitioned by ftobin, they technically can, whenever they choose, pursue you for not adhering to the licence.
For example, Sun could be sued in 5 years time and have to make a retrospective licence payment. Thompson are making sure they keep a few cards up their sleeve.
The PR stunt in saying nothing has change is true for today, but not necessarily tomorrow.
It is very rare for governments to think long term. They are just like companies. They need to make themselves look good so you re-elect them. They do this by reducing expenditure, reducing taxes, and making populist decisions etc. Open Source is a good way to make the books look good on a short timeframe (reduced licence costs). I would be pleasantly surprised if they are even considering the long term implications of such a decision. Don't get me wrong, the long term implications might be good, but then again, they might not be.
As long as you can read both formats, and write in the +r/+rw formats, do you really need something that can write both?
In this regard I would look at the Sony DRU120A or the Ricoh MP5125A. These (from what I have read) can read both +r/+rw and -r/-rw formats, and write in the +R/+RW. Don't confuse this with the earlier ricoh MP51250A which can't do +r
If I buy new discs (and they are cheap enough), as long as I can read the old ones I don't care if I can't write them.
I wouldn't look for an alternative, I would just look for a responsibly mined dimaond. I would look for companies that sell diamonds mined from developed nations like Australia. Eg Rio Tinto mines diamonds at the Argyle mine in Western Australia. They are relatively unique, and the company has very progressive policies towards working with the indigenous residents that live in the area. If it is a little hard to find them, then look for a PINK diamond. they are absolutely beautiful, and 95% of them come from the Argyle Diamond mine in Western Australia. This way, in the words of Aali G you can "bone two birds with one cock". You can get something unique and beautiful, it is still a diamond, and you know it is not from a cartel, or involved slave labor. Just my thoughts for the day... You can find information on Argyle Diamonds Here