Well exactly - if the networks insist on treating their customers badly, eventually their customers will look for alternatives. And then the networks will turn around and scream at the government to help them stop their customers exercising freedom of choice.
The MEAA has always been quite inflexible when it comes to allowing it's members to work on projects that want to use different ways of getting actor participation. In the past actors have been prevented from working on projects for little-or-no pay (e.g. short low-or-no-budget films) because the MEAA has been worried that unscrupulous producers will plead poverty to avoid paying actors the proper industry rates. This move to prevent particpation in Creative Commons projects would appear to be from the same mindset - an attempt to prevent actors from being exploited. Imagine the scenario - an actor gets paid to work on a short film. The film is licensed under the Creative Commons and is subsequently remixed. The remix (somehow) makes money, but the actor doesn't get paid for appearing in what is bascially a 'new' work.
What the MEAA doesn't get is - by creating a high barrier to entry for film-making (i.e. not allowing professional actors to set their own rates for projects that can't afford the standard industry rates), in effect they are keeping actors out of work. Everyone knows that the more you get your face in front of people the more likely they are to recognise your talent and then offer you more work.
In the same way, by preventing actors from appearing works that are licensed under a Creative Commons arrangement, all the MEAA is doing is reducing the opportunities for actors to work.
What amazes me is that anyone can put together a couple of badly drawn diagrams, and not even explain EXACTLY HOW they are going to achieve what they are talking about.
I just spent a week in Beijing - the pollution there was the worst I have ever experiened. You couldn't see buildings that were more than a few blocks away.
Yep, cricket, and to break your duck all you have to do is score one run. So we can safely assume that SCO have sold at least one license in Australia/NZ. One license!
In an office of Word junkies, I have never seen any evidence at all that the grammar checker is helping my co-workers write well. The grammar checker is next to useless and frequently wrong.
Well, I use the "public transportation system" known as the 109 Port Melbourne tram and I find it incredibly useful - it takes me to and from work every day, there's only a 3 minute walk at either end, and it's much cheaper than paying for parking.
I've had similar experiences with many other "public transportation systems" including trains and buses in Melbourne, subways in Tokyo, bullet trains in Japan, trains in Sydney, and buses and trains in Adelaide. All of these services took me where I wanted to go, for a reasonable price, and within an acceptable time. The only dud experience I've had is a monorail in Sydney.
Or, maybe it's because of votes. Y'see, there aren't that many votes in defending some nerd's right to hack his X-Box. But don't ever get in the way of truck-drivin' rebel-yellin' good-old-boy's God Given Right to put his truck up on blocks and pull the engine out of it. Not unless you don't mind people not voting for you...
That's exactly what I am struggling with now - I have a gmail account, and while I do like it, I am still wondering if I should send out the general email to all my contacts, asking them all to update their address books. At the moment I have a work account, which also gets used for personal mail, a home account (from my dial-up provider) and now the gmail account.
The featureset is good, there's no doubt about that, and I am sure they'll add more later on. It's still in beta after all. But I can't help feeling uneasy about enttrusting all my mail to a hard drive (well, a farm of hard drives) I don't own.
Check the buyer feedback - the guy sold OpenOffice.org for 1 cents! And then the buyer said "what a deal; great ebayer, arrived perfect, new, much less thatn retail." !!!!
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Well exactly - if the networks insist on treating their customers badly, eventually their customers will look for alternatives. And then the networks will turn around and scream at the government to help them stop their customers exercising freedom of choice.
nope - the parent post was me too, but I figured most people on slashdot wouldn't head over to the linked site.
The MEAA has always been quite inflexible when it comes to allowing it's members to work on projects that want to use different ways of getting actor participation. In the past actors have been prevented from working on projects for little-or-no pay (e.g. short low-or-no-budget films) because the MEAA has been worried that unscrupulous producers will plead poverty to avoid paying actors the proper industry rates. This move to prevent particpation in Creative Commons projects would appear to be from the same mindset - an attempt to prevent actors from being exploited. Imagine the scenario - an actor gets paid to work on a short film. The film is licensed under the Creative Commons and is subsequently remixed. The remix (somehow) makes money, but the actor doesn't get paid for appearing in what is bascially a 'new' work.
What the MEAA doesn't get is - by creating a high barrier to entry for film-making (i.e. not allowing professional actors to set their own rates for projects that can't afford the standard industry rates), in effect they are keeping actors out of work. Everyone knows that the more you get your face in front of people the more likely they are to recognise your talent and then offer you more work.
In the same way, by preventing actors from appearing works that are licensed under a Creative Commons arrangement, all the MEAA is doing is reducing the opportunities for actors to work.
check out their patent for mobile commerce (PDF).
What amazes me is that anyone can put together a couple of badly drawn diagrams, and not even explain EXACTLY HOW they are going to achieve what they are talking about.
No, it's still there. It's his first blog post too. How's that, one post and he gets a slashdotting - not too shabby?
In fact here's a description of it. With screenshots.
In the release notes there's a description of the new database component that incorporates an Access-like frontend.
oh bah - UK/US spelling issues again. nevermind.
and four-story, or four-storey?
'Specially as he's on Atkins...
Hiro Protagonist - it's a pun. The hero/protagonist is the main character of the book.
I just spent a week in Beijing - the pollution there was the worst I have ever experiened. You couldn't see buildings that were more than a few blocks away.
These guys make great sturdy bags, with nice designs and pockets.
Crumpler computer bags
Yep, cricket, and to break your duck all you have to do is score one run. So we can safely assume that SCO have sold at least one license in Australia/NZ. One license!
Check out the awards section. The congratulatory certificate from the State Senate of California looks a bit less than imposing, thanks to the use of centre-justified MS Comic Sans
In an office of Word junkies, I have never seen any evidence at all that the grammar checker is helping my co-workers write well. The grammar checker is next to useless and frequently wrong.
...somebody patent tabbed browsing, mouse gestures and standards compliant browsing...
slightly OT - but don't forget the other great C64 contribution to music: the Sidstation. A synthesizer that uses the SID6581 sound chip as its heart.
Well, I use the "public transportation system" known as the 109 Port Melbourne tram and I find it incredibly useful - it takes me to and from work every day, there's only a 3 minute walk at either end, and it's much cheaper than paying for parking.
I've had similar experiences with many other "public transportation systems" including trains and buses in Melbourne, subways in Tokyo, bullet trains in Japan, trains in Sydney, and buses and trains in Adelaide. All of these services took me where I wanted to go, for a reasonable price, and within an acceptable time. The only dud experience I've had is a monorail in Sydney.
I invited a friend who has a Hotmail account to join Google. They signed up with no problems.
"Visiclac kicked off ebusiness, email gave us instant global communications, mobile phones let us do that on the move, whats next?"
Rocketpacks with streaming audio obviously...
Or, maybe it's because of votes. Y'see, there aren't that many votes in defending some nerd's right to hack his X-Box. But don't ever get in the way of truck-drivin' rebel-yellin' good-old-boy's God Given Right to put his truck up on blocks and pull the engine out of it. Not unless you don't mind people not voting for you...
That's exactly what I am struggling with now - I have a gmail account, and while I do like it, I am still wondering if I should send out the general email to all my contacts, asking them all to update their address books. At the moment I have a work account, which also gets used for personal mail, a home account (from my dial-up provider) and now the gmail account.
The featureset is good, there's no doubt about that, and I am sure they'll add more later on. It's still in beta after all. But I can't help feeling uneasy about enttrusting all my mail to a hard drive (well, a farm of hard drives) I don't own.
Konqueror is included in the Xandros distro.
Check the buyer feedback - the guy sold OpenOffice.org for 1 cents! And then the buyer said "what a deal; great ebayer, arrived perfect, new, much less thatn retail." !!!!
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