There's not a lot you can do about unique story submissions, so I wouldn't let that get you down too much. Maybe add a (Unique) tag or a (First) tag to a story to show that this is the first and only submission about this today, thus negating the argument over whether or not a story should be aggregated up from the number of submissions.
Whoa...nevermind then! I'm an editor as well, obviously not on the same scale as Slashdot, but for a mid-sized organization. We have a corporate intranet site that anyone can submit articles too and my job is to edit the submissions for posting and then post them. It's not a terribly difficult job, and correcting spelling, grammar, verifying URLs and removing inflammatory material is part of the job.
Are you saying that there's only a specific subset of people that submit quality links over the course of a day, because I'd be very surprised to hear that. I would hazard an estimate that you generate around 300 submissions per day, of which only 90 or so are post-worthy. Of course, I could be WELL under what the actual numbers are.
Yikes, if this is the quality of an editor submission, no wonder Roland, Scuttlemonkey and Beatles Beatles get their submissions accepted.:/
I think people just want to see some quality out of Slashdot, instead of dumping everything onto the main page. And yes, your job as editor is to edit the submission, not to just accept it as is and fix URLs.
No, Google's great strategy is a scattershot "Make a whole bunch of beta crap and hope some early adopters see some use in it and make money on it" Seriously unsustainable.
Please tell me you're not honestly this dense. Google is a search engine, period. That's it, that's all. Everything is an off-shoot of that search engine. Ask people what Google is? They don't say advertising placement (If they are, they're still overvalued), or a marketing company (Making them HIGHLY overvalued) or an information broker (Extremely overvalued), they are a simple little text box with a neat little logo above it.
The only thing keeping Google afloat is 1) Investor Overexuberance 2) Using investment funds to hire people instead of buying Aeron chairs 3) Brand recognition.
Google will not be around in 10 years in any identifiable form comparable to today. They'll go hardware, they'll be bought up by a larger company, the little search engine that was will be laughed at.
Google is nothing more than a search engine IPO. It's an answer looking for a problem, and once investors wake up to where their money is being spent, they are going to pull out en masse and a lot of people are going to be hurt. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it; the same "Oh, the stock price is high for a reason" were given as excuses for the dot.com bubble too.
If they use the $.99 price as a punishment, does this not mean that the price for the rest of the songs available would be reduced? Isn't that 'a good thing' and marketing forces at work; supply and demand, etc etc.
Because there's a lot of ignorance being posted here, I figured I'd chime in.
Telus went to the BC Supreme Court before blocking the website and asked for an injunction against it. It was approved and thus the site was blocked. (to telus customers only, of course).
Most of the Alberta side of the bargaining unit is crossing picket lines, it's only BC that seems to have a problem with a very nice new contract.
The union refuses to have a vote on the new contract because they'd lose, badly.
"At Microsoft, Lee oversaw development of the company's MSN Internet search technology, including a desktop search service released earlier this year."
Sounds like he was working in direct competition with Google to me.
Maybe he should have read his contract, especially considering:
"At Microsoft, Lee oversaw development of the company's MSN Internet search technology, including a desktop search service released earlier this year."
Sign a non-compete clause on your contract, run a department, leave that company to work for the competitors identical department, and then sit back and say "Aw shucks, I didn't realize this would be a problem."? No, sorry, no support from me on this issue.
Sounds more like Google went head-hunting and didn't cross their T's and dot their i's.
And don't proclaim the whole 'undue hardship of finding a job in that field' angle, because it's rather obvious exactly why he got this job.
I think Microsoft will probably let this one go; however, it does reflect poorly on Lee (and Google).
What a grand idea. Let's dumb-down, mollify, coddle and all-around temper any possibility of having something 'different' and instead replace it with the infamous 'too many cooks' defense.
Honestly, how many books have you read, written by a committee, were worthy of the time spent reading them? Or movie-scripts written by 4 or more people?
I have nothing against collaboration, but let's be honest; it's easier for one person to innovate than it is for ten people to integrate.
A Slashdot Editor writes an 'article' for NewsForge, which is then linked to from Slashdot by a submitter. Maybe if they put half the effort into Editing Slashdot that they do writing 'articles' for other people, the quality of the site would improve substantially.
As for the article itself, one piece of hardware doesn't perform correctly with the myriad of drives available and we're supposed to gush heartily about it? I think not.
The Offending Blog Post, taken from Google Cache
on
Google Fires Blogger?
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· Score: 1
first day on the job, first post on the blog in the ever increasing chaos known as the blogosphere, i've decided to add yet another random stream. if nothing else, this blog will serve as a personal journal of my life at google. maybe one day, a collection of these postings and comments will compile into a book...
in the meantime, i'll introduce myself and my new blog. my name is mark jen and i began my life as a googler (or noogler for those of you in the know) today: janurary 17th, 2005. in previous chapters of my life, i'd interned at ibm and worked full time for 18 months at microsoft. so i guess you could say i'm getting first hand experience at three companies who embody the tech company lifecycle - ibm at the tailend of their era; microsoft at the inflection point leading to maturity; and google at the beginning of what would become a new empire.
so what happened today? nothing too exciting. i think new employee orientation is about the same at any company: you show up early, get a security badge, sit through hours of boring presentations and fill out the required paperwork.
cool things about the process at google:
* almost everything is electronic. only four forms need to be printed (two were required by the government; one was the electronic signature authorization form; and of course, the NDA we've all come to know and love)
* my login, badge and workstation were completely ready to go on the first day. you'd think this wouldn't be so hard, but it actually proves to be quite difficult at most companies. to top it all off, my laptop was given to me all setup and in its carrying case with a full complement of goodies:)
now the bad:
* same old 3 hour HR presentation about nothing important in particular
the rest of my day was spent surfing the corporate intranet. this was quite an experience. you'd think that an intranet would typically be oragnized and very cohesive - after all, it's the internal network for a single company. however, google has managed to recreate the chaos of the internet on its internal network. fortunately, they've applied their search engine to help sort through everything. which begs the question - did the intranet become messy becuase google had a great search engine to find things anyways? or would intranets naturally become a mess if not for the fear of creating a huge tangled mess with no search tool to help users?
closing thought: the ibm t41p is truly a laptop done right. i'm not entirely sure why any company would issue anything less to their employees (*ahem* microsoft:p)
Yeah, good reason to fire him there... Look at all that proprietary information!
Once you become accustomed to what the technology is providing to you, you lose the skills that the technology was either enhancing or replacing. There's no reason, when satellites, sensors, and networks fail, that good old scouts and binocs, pieces of paper and pens can't get this information (Maybe not as readily, but at least some form of smart war-making).
We come back, again, to the difference between intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence is knowing how to fix your external camera feed, wisdom is knowing that you can look out the window.
Considering they were in the middle of the Democratic race for nomination at that time, I think you can excuse a bit of unattendance (You'll note Leiberman was away at the same time).
Moving away from the time for the race for president, random sampling showed his attendance to be higher then average.
Email sent to Heritage Minister and Prime Minister:
Honourable Ms. Scherrer;
I have heard your recent comments about seeking to change the Copyright Act. I would urge you to consider very carefully what steps are taken in any changes to this act. As the act stands, Canadians pay a levy on recordable media, money from which specifically goes to the music industry in compensation for supposed lost revenues.
As such if the law is changed, I would also expect any media levies to be immediately lifted, as the proper method for handling any cases of copyright infringement would then fall to the music industry and the legal system of Canada, and not to a discriminatory levy applied to the majority of law-abiding citizens.
Beyond this, the issue of whether revenues are lost at all is entirely debatable, as you can see in this story from the Washington Post citing a study done by two university researchers specializing in economics: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story& u=/washpost/ 20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_2004mar29
This issue of copyright is a very important one to me because those countries that address the issue properly stand to be at the fore-front of the information economy. Limiting information flow to prop up business models that simply are no longer feasible is not the way to go about this.
Thank you for your time. Me
Response received
On behalf of Ms. Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, Minister of Canadian Heritage, thank you for your correspondence regarding potential changes to the Copyright Act and expressing your views regarding the private copying levy on blank audio recording media.
Ms. Chalifour Scherrer appreciates your advising her of your views and has noted your comments with respect to these matters. Policy developments abroad encouraged the establishment of private copying levies for the benefit of authors, performers and producers of sound recordings long before Canada decided to establish such mechanisms. The private copying levy has been promoted as the only efficient mechanism to offset increasing reproduction capacity made available through developments in consumer electronics.
The levy on blank audio recording media was developed to apply generally on all media ordinarily used by consumers to copy music for their private use. Accordingly, the law governing the levy was drafted to give the Copyright Board of Canada, a specialized tribunal, the authority and discretion necessary to accurately evaluate the appropriate portion of music copied onto some of the media used by consumers for any digital data.
It should be noted that the Government is not involved in the collection, administration or distribution of the levy; these tasks are carried out by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC). Detailed information on the levy is outlined on the CPCC Web site at http://cpcc.ca/english/about.htm and the Copyright Board Web site at http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/index.html.
Information and updates on the copyright reform process, including issues on file sharing and the private copying levy, are available on the Department of Canadian Heritage Web site at http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb /ind ex_e.cfm.
I trust that this information is useful. Please accept our best wishes.
So, essentially, go ask THOSE people..
What our Heritage Minister had to say:
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My email:
Honourable Ms. Scherrer;
I have heard your recent comments about seeking to change the Copyright Act.
I would urge you to consider very carefully what steps are taken in any
changes to this act. As the act stands, Canadians pay a levy on
recordable media, money from which specifically goes to the music industry in
compensation for supposed lost revenues.
As such if the law is changed, I would also expect any media levies to be
immediately lifted, as the proper method for handling any cases
of copyright infringement would then fall to the music industry and the legal
system of Canada, and not to a discriminatory levy applied
to the majority of law-abiding citizens.
Beyond this, the issue of whether revenues are lost at all is entirely
debatable, as you can see in this story from the Washington Post
citing a study done by two university researchers specializing in economics:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/ 20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_
2004mar29
This issue of copyright is a very important one to me because those countries
that address the issue properly stand to be at the
fore-front of the information economy. Limiting information flow to prop up
business models that simply are no longer feasible is not the
way to go about this.
Thank you for your time.
Adam Monteith
Their response:
Dear Mr. Monteith:
On behalf of Ms. Hlne Chalifour Scherrer, Minister of Canadian
Heritage, thank you for your correspondence regarding potential changes to
the Copyright Act and expressing your views regarding the private copying
levy on blank audio recording media.
Ms. Chalifour Scherrer appreciates your advising her of your views
and has noted your comments with respect to these matters. Policy
developments abroad encouraged the establishment of private copying levies
for the benefit of authors, performers and producers of sound recordings
long before Canada decided to establish such mechanisms. The private
copying levy has been promoted as the only efficient mechanism to offset
increasing reproduction capacity made available through developments in
consumer electronics.
The levy on blank audio recording media was developed to apply
generally on all media ordinarily used by consumers to copy music for their
private use. Accordingly, the law governing the levy was drafted to give
the Copyright Board of Canada, a specialized tribunal, the authority and
discretion necessary to accurately evaluate the appropriate portion of
music copied onto some of the media used by consumers for any digital data.
It should be noted that the Government is not involved in the
collection, administration or distribution of the levy; These tasks are
carried out by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC). Detailed
information on the levy is outlined on the CPCC Web site at
http://cpcc.ca/english/about.htm and the Copyright Board Web site at
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/index.html.
Information and updates on the copyright reform process, including
issues on file sharing and the private copying levy, are available on the
Department of Canadian Heritage Web site at
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/ind ex_e.cfm.
I trust that this information is useful. Please accept our best
wishes.
The defect is in Office 2K3. This is the product which should be changed to have the option to save in 97 doc format, just like Ooo does it when we choose differently from the default sxw.
Why this was modded insightful I don't know.
From the save as dropdown in Word 2003: Word Document (*.doc) XML Document (*.xml) Single File Web Page (*.mht) 5 more formats and then.. Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc) Works 6.0 - 7.0 (*.wps)
A lot of posts seem to say "Well, it's not LINUX's fault that the manufacturers don't have drivers for his sound card (Whichever sound card it is, it's probably an M$ sound card, he used to work for Windows magazine *insert nerdy snort here*).
Well, right there in the article it says it DID work on SOME Linux distros. Why would it work on one and not all? Why isn't there a centralized LINUX device driver database that every distribution uses in it's install? Why should we depend on HW manufacturers to write umpteen odd versions of their drivrs for umpteen odd flavors of Linux? One centralized repository, one way to handle devices and drivers. If someone doesn't want to use this DB, they are welcome to try a DriverDB-less distro.
TELUS has recently started this. In co-operation with PureTracks, you can purchase songs from a large assortment of albums for 99 cents a song, legally. I don't really know the details for it as I just use P2P to download songs illegally but it seems to be fairly popular as they've sold 1,000,000 songs already in the 4 months it has been operating. If you can't stop people from doing something, at least make money off of it
I did read the article. And I saw the comparisons, and I'm saying that you can't really complain about the price considering the ease of use, branding, and design of the Ipod. Geez, did you even read my comment? (oh wait, this is slashdot)
128Mb 5-6Mb a song 21 songs
I see Math and English aren't your strong points, maybe you should get some tutoring?
Slashdot Mirror
There's not a lot you can do about unique story submissions, so I wouldn't let that get you down too much. Maybe add a (Unique) tag or a (First) tag to a story to show that this is the first and only submission about this today, thus negating the argument over whether or not a story should be aggregated up from the number of submissions.
Whoa...nevermind then! I'm an editor as well, obviously not on the same scale as Slashdot, but for a mid-sized organization. We have a corporate intranet site that anyone can submit articles too and my job is to edit the submissions for posting and then post them. It's not a terribly difficult job, and correcting spelling, grammar, verifying URLs and removing inflammatory material is part of the job.
Are you saying that there's only a specific subset of people that submit quality links over the course of a day, because I'd be very surprised to hear that. I would hazard an estimate that you generate around 300 submissions per day, of which only 90 or so are post-worthy. Of course, I could be WELL under what the actual numbers are.
Yikes, if this is the quality of an editor submission, no wonder Roland, Scuttlemonkey and Beatles Beatles get their submissions accepted. :/
I think people just want to see some quality out of Slashdot, instead of dumping everything onto the main page. And yes, your job as editor is to edit the submission, not to just accept it as is and fix URLs.
Windows is sold, for a profit. Google Maps? Not sold. Google maps? Not making a profit. How do you sustain that?
No, Google's great strategy is a scattershot "Make a whole bunch of beta crap and hope some early adopters see some use in it and make money on it" Seriously unsustainable.
Please tell me you're not honestly this dense. Google is a search engine, period. That's it, that's all. Everything is an off-shoot of that search engine. Ask people what Google is? They don't say advertising placement (If they are, they're still overvalued), or a marketing company (Making them HIGHLY overvalued) or an information broker (Extremely overvalued), they are a simple little text box with a neat little logo above it.
The only thing keeping Google afloat is 1) Investor Overexuberance 2) Using investment funds to hire people instead of buying Aeron chairs 3) Brand recognition.
Google will not be around in 10 years in any identifiable form comparable to today. They'll go hardware, they'll be bought up by a larger company, the little search engine that was will be laughed at.
Google is nothing more than a search engine IPO. It's an answer looking for a problem, and once investors wake up to where their money is being spent, they are going to pull out en masse and a lot of people are going to be hurt. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it; the same "Oh, the stock price is high for a reason" were given as excuses for the dot.com bubble too.
$600 a share? That's freaking ridiculous. Google, I like some of the stuff you're doing, but you're going to crash, and you're going to crash hard.
Cognitive Dissonance I believe
If they use the $.99 price as a punishment, does this not mean that the price for the rest of the songs available would be reduced? Isn't that 'a good thing' and marketing forces at work; supply and demand, etc etc.
Because there's a lot of ignorance being posted here, I figured I'd chime in.
Telus went to the BC Supreme Court before blocking the website and asked for an injunction against it. It was approved and thus the site was blocked. (to telus customers only, of course).
Most of the Alberta side of the bargaining unit is crossing picket lines, it's only BC that seems to have a problem with a very nice new contract.
The union refuses to have a vote on the new contract because they'd lose, badly.
"At Microsoft, Lee oversaw development of the company's MSN Internet search technology, including a desktop search service released earlier this year."
Sounds like he was working in direct competition with Google to me.
Maybe he should have read his contract, especially considering:
"At Microsoft, Lee oversaw development of the company's MSN Internet search technology, including a desktop search service released earlier this year."
Sign a non-compete clause on your contract, run a department, leave that company to work for the competitors identical department, and then sit back and say "Aw shucks, I didn't realize this would be a problem."? No, sorry, no support from me on this issue.
Sounds more like Google went head-hunting and didn't cross their T's and dot their i's.
And don't proclaim the whole 'undue hardship of finding a job in that field' angle, because it's rather obvious exactly why he got this job.
I think Microsoft will probably let this one go; however, it does reflect poorly on Lee (and Google).
What a grand idea. Let's dumb-down, mollify, coddle and all-around temper any possibility of having something 'different' and instead replace it with the infamous 'too many cooks' defense.
Honestly, how many books have you read, written by a committee, were worthy of the time spent reading them? Or movie-scripts written by 4 or more people?
I have nothing against collaboration, but let's be honest; it's easier for one person to innovate than it is for ten people to integrate.
A Slashdot Editor writes an 'article' for NewsForge, which is then linked to from Slashdot by a submitter. Maybe if they put half the effort into Editing Slashdot that they do writing 'articles' for other people, the quality of the site would improve substantially.
As for the article itself, one piece of hardware doesn't perform correctly with the myriad of drives available and we're supposed to gush heartily about it? I think not.
first day on the job, first post on the blog
:)
:p)
in the ever increasing chaos known as the blogosphere, i've decided to add yet another random stream. if nothing else, this blog will serve as a personal journal of my life at google. maybe one day, a collection of these postings and comments will compile into a book...
in the meantime, i'll introduce myself and my new blog. my name is mark jen and i began my life as a googler (or noogler for those of you in the know) today: janurary 17th, 2005. in previous chapters of my life, i'd interned at ibm and worked full time for 18 months at microsoft. so i guess you could say i'm getting first hand experience at three companies who embody the tech company lifecycle - ibm at the tailend of their era; microsoft at the inflection point leading to maturity; and google at the beginning of what would become a new empire.
so what happened today? nothing too exciting. i think new employee orientation is about the same at any company: you show up early, get a security badge, sit through hours of boring presentations and fill out the required paperwork.
cool things about the process at google:
* almost everything is electronic. only four forms need to be printed (two were required by the government; one was the electronic signature authorization form; and of course, the NDA we've all come to know and love)
* my login, badge and workstation were completely ready to go on the first day. you'd think this wouldn't be so hard, but it actually proves to be quite difficult at most companies. to top it all off, my laptop was given to me all setup and in its carrying case with a full complement of goodies
now the bad:
* same old 3 hour HR presentation about nothing important in particular
the rest of my day was spent surfing the corporate intranet. this was quite an experience. you'd think that an intranet would typically be oragnized and very cohesive - after all, it's the internal network for a single company. however, google has managed to recreate the chaos of the internet on its internal network. fortunately, they've applied their search engine to help sort through everything. which begs the question - did the intranet become messy becuase google had a great search engine to find things anyways? or would intranets naturally become a mess if not for the fear of creating a huge tangled mess with no search tool to help users?
closing thought: the ibm t41p is truly a laptop done right. i'm not entirely sure why any company would issue anything less to their employees (*ahem* microsoft
Yeah, good reason to fire him there... Look at all that proprietary information!
Once you become accustomed to what the technology is providing to you, you lose the skills that the technology was either enhancing or replacing. There's no reason, when satellites, sensors, and networks fail, that good old scouts and binocs, pieces of paper and pens can't get this information (Maybe not as readily, but at least some form of smart war-making).
We come back, again, to the difference between intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence is knowing how to fix your external camera feed, wisdom is knowing that you can look out the window.
Considering they were in the middle of the Democratic race for nomination at that time, I think you can excuse a bit of unattendance (You'll note Leiberman was away at the same time).
Moving away from the time for the race for president, random sampling showed his attendance to be higher then average.
Email sent to Heritage Minister and Prime Minister:
& u=/washpost/ 20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_2004mar29
b /ind ex_e.cfm.
Honourable Ms. Scherrer;
I have heard your recent comments about seeking to change the Copyright Act.
I would urge you to consider very carefully what steps are taken in any changes to this act. As the act stands, Canadians pay a levy on
recordable media, money from which specifically goes to the music industry in compensation for supposed lost revenues.
As such if the law is changed, I would also expect any media levies to be immediately lifted, as the proper method for handling any cases
of copyright infringement would then fall to the music industry and the legal system of Canada, and not to a discriminatory levy applied
to the majority of law-abiding citizens.
Beyond this, the issue of whether revenues are lost at all is entirely debatable, as you can see in this story from the Washington Post
citing a study done by two university researchers specializing in economics:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story
This issue of copyright is a very important one to me because those countries that address the issue properly stand to be at the
fore-front of the information economy. Limiting information flow to prop up business models that simply are no longer feasible is not the
way to go about this.
Thank you for your time.
Me
Response received
On behalf of Ms. Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, Minister of Canadian
Heritage, thank you for your correspondence regarding potential changes to
the Copyright Act and expressing your views regarding the private copying
levy on blank audio recording media.
Ms. Chalifour Scherrer appreciates your advising her of your views
and has noted your comments with respect to these matters. Policy
developments abroad encouraged the establishment of private copying levies
for the benefit of authors, performers and producers of sound recordings
long before Canada decided to establish such mechanisms. The private
copying levy has been promoted as the only efficient mechanism to offset
increasing reproduction capacity made available through developments in
consumer electronics.
The levy on blank audio recording media was developed to apply
generally on all media ordinarily used by consumers to copy music for their
private use. Accordingly, the law governing the levy was drafted to give
the Copyright Board of Canada, a specialized tribunal, the authority and
discretion necessary to accurately evaluate the appropriate portion of
music copied onto some of the media used by consumers for any digital data.
It should be noted that the Government is not involved in the
collection, administration or distribution of the levy; these tasks are
carried out by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC). Detailed
information on the levy is outlined on the CPCC Web site at
http://cpcc.ca/english/about.htm and the Copyright Board Web site at
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/index.html.
Information and updates on the copyright reform process, including
issues on file sharing and the private copying levy, are available on the
Department of Canadian Heritage Web site at
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cp
I trust that this information is useful. Please accept our best
wishes.
So, essentially, go ask THOSE people..
My email:
/ 20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_
d ex_e.cfm.
Honourable Ms. Scherrer;
I have heard your recent comments about seeking to change the Copyright Act.
I would urge you to consider very carefully what steps are taken in any
changes to this act. As the act stands, Canadians pay a levy on
recordable media, money from which specifically goes to the music industry in
compensation for supposed lost revenues.
As such if the law is changed, I would also expect any media levies to be
immediately lifted, as the proper method for handling any cases
of copyright infringement would then fall to the music industry and the legal
system of Canada, and not to a discriminatory levy applied
to the majority of law-abiding citizens.
Beyond this, the issue of whether revenues are lost at all is entirely
debatable, as you can see in this story from the Washington Post
citing a study done by two university researchers specializing in economics:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost
2004mar29
This issue of copyright is a very important one to me because those countries
that address the issue properly stand to be at the
fore-front of the information economy. Limiting information flow to prop up
business models that simply are no longer feasible is not the
way to go about this.
Thank you for your time.
Adam Monteith
Their response:
Dear Mr. Monteith:
On behalf of Ms. Hlne Chalifour Scherrer, Minister of Canadian
Heritage, thank you for your correspondence regarding potential changes to
the Copyright Act and expressing your views regarding the private copying
levy on blank audio recording media.
Ms. Chalifour Scherrer appreciates your advising her of your views
and has noted your comments with respect to these matters. Policy
developments abroad encouraged the establishment of private copying levies
for the benefit of authors, performers and producers of sound recordings
long before Canada decided to establish such mechanisms. The private
copying levy has been promoted as the only efficient mechanism to offset
increasing reproduction capacity made available through developments in
consumer electronics.
The levy on blank audio recording media was developed to apply
generally on all media ordinarily used by consumers to copy music for their
private use. Accordingly, the law governing the levy was drafted to give
the Copyright Board of Canada, a specialized tribunal, the authority and
discretion necessary to accurately evaluate the appropriate portion of
music copied onto some of the media used by consumers for any digital data.
It should be noted that the Government is not involved in the
collection, administration or distribution of the levy; These tasks are
carried out by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC). Detailed
information on the levy is outlined on the CPCC Web site at
http://cpcc.ca/english/about.htm and the Copyright Board Web site at
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/index.html.
Information and updates on the copyright reform process, including
issues on file sharing and the private copying levy, are available on the
Department of Canadian Heritage Web site at
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/in
I trust that this information is useful. Please accept our best
wishes.
The defect is in Office 2K3. This is the product which should be changed to have the option to save in 97 doc format, just like Ooo does it when we choose differently from the default sxw.
Why this was modded insightful I don't know.
From the save as dropdown in Word 2003:
Word Document (*.doc)
XML Document (*.xml)
Single File Web Page (*.mht)
5 more formats and then..
Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc)
Works 6.0 - 7.0 (*.wps)
A lot of posts seem to say "Well, it's not LINUX's fault that the manufacturers don't have drivers for his sound card (Whichever sound card it is, it's probably an M$ sound card, he used to work for Windows magazine *insert nerdy snort here*).
Well, right there in the article it says it DID work on SOME Linux distros. Why would it work on one and not all? Why isn't there a centralized LINUX device driver database that every distribution uses in it's install? Why should we depend on HW manufacturers to write umpteen odd versions of their drivrs for umpteen odd flavors of Linux? One centralized repository, one way to handle devices and drivers. If someone doesn't want to use this DB, they are welcome to try a DriverDB-less distro.
TELUS has recently started this. In co-operation with PureTracks, you can purchase songs from a large assortment of albums for 99 cents a song, legally. I don't really know the details for it as I just use P2P to download songs illegally but it seems to be fairly popular as they've sold 1,000,000 songs already in the 4 months it has been operating. If you can't stop people from doing something, at least make money off of it
I did read the article. And I saw the comparisons, and I'm saying that you can't really complain about the price considering the ease of use, branding, and design of the Ipod. Geez, did you even read my comment? (oh wait, this is slashdot)
128Mb
5-6Mb a song
21 songs
I see Math and English aren't your strong points, maybe you should get some tutoring?