that crimes which involve hurting another person should carry the greatest sentences. I think it's ridiculous that businesses get to put people away for years for white collar crime. They're BUSINESSES, it's not like someone slashed their CEO's throat.
White collar crime should be subject to civil penalties, fines and not being allowed to run a business. Jail time? They'll just try and commit the same offence from inside. (Alan Bond, anybody? Aussies would know him well)
they can and they do. Those that actually care, anyway. Unfortunately there's a lot of librarians in my profession who are quite happy to comply with the FBI.
did any of the delegates take the opportunity to visit host campus UWA's University Computer Club? I was a member as a fresher back in '96 and although I never actually made it to the club (I was that shy and reclusive back then) I did enjoy very much reading the fresher guide. heh.
oh, fantastic ideas. I've toyed with downloading happy snaps every hour to my ibook and projecting them during the reception. It could include 'getting ready' pics, etc. We have a friend who had his wedding overseas and projected pictures from the ceremony during his reception here. It worked really well because it was easy for people to ask questions and for more than one person to see at the same time.
I'm not using iTunes for the music. My fiancee and I are DJs, so we are going to pre-mix a five hour tape at the radio studio to video before the reception. I don't want to overburden my poor laptop:)
You make some other good tips about distributing CDs, thanks. I'll be sure to use them.
actually they do mind. Some farmers have already complained that rain over New Year destroyed their feed crop.
Some people are never happy.
Instead of adjusting the weather to suit us, we should change to suit the weather. Farmers need to be much better prepared for drought. It's a fact of life in this country, and the sooner Howard put money into sustainability programs, instead of blindly handing out cash to pay mortgages, the better.
surely, surely it could be considered contempt of court to report and discuss legal proceedings on a website before sentencing or during jury selection. It just seems so bleeding obvious. I've been worried about this for a while, as many of my favourite sites do this.
Like it or not, people have to take responsibility for what they say, even if you're just a single person operation at home. We're all journalists now.
If you're in Australia, pick up the ABC's all media handbook, that will give you the rundown on defamation, contempt, libel, etc.
No, telephones don't make you deaf, but for those of us who do have significant hearing loss it does put a lot of strain on what hearing you have left to hear someone on the other end, and this strain is actually quite tiring after a while.
So while it isn't necessary a contributor to hearing loss, phones don't make my life easy.
I am concerned about anything that can affect my hearing. As one of the many many many thousands of people who already has significant hearing loss, I find it frustrating that I am almost forced into exposure to things that could make my hearing worse.
Do I smell a lawsuit? Nah. I just wish sometimes for a return to quieter days where my poor, remaining eardrum can cope without hearing trucks, airplanes, shouting from my neighbours, etc etc. I even work in a library and it's too damn loud.
I don't believe that there is ANY OS that is 100% compliant with usability and logical today. Just because MS is not for power users, does not make it bad. Like it or not, although Windows has a billion problems with UI, they've come a long way and it's now actually quite intuitive for most people to use.
you say The masses of sheep who aren't enlightened to open source are locked in to windows.
Why the use of the word 'enlightened?' I've been using computers for most of my life and I had a hell of a time when I installed Mandrake last week. I've used plenty of OSs (os/2, dos 3, GEM, Windows 3-XP, Red Hat, Mac 7-10) and I found a lot of stuff confusing. And I had to read a lot of manuals to get the damn thing installed. That's bad.
Just because open-source is an *alternative* doesn't make it any *better*. (and down come flames) It doesn't excuse the programmers from making the OS logical and usable, and by that I don't mean 'more like windows'. I really don't like the argument that a lot of open-source people use where they justify its superiority by talking about how much more complex, and customisable it is.
Most people are not 'stuck with' Windows, they actually like it.
in fact, it is bad to charge as little as possible for a product, because consumers immediately think "this must be a load of junk if it's priced below what competitors charge". Like it or lump it, it's how people think.
When was the last time you saw a $5 pair of shoes and thought that they must be ever so superior to the $100 pair sitting next to them? So much more comfortable, and reliable?
Ownership of this stuff is still not decided. I doubt that MIT will ever get 100% of their courses online, because people still can't always decide if the university owns something or the professor does.
I had a look through some of the notes for political science, and there is another problem there. A total lack of attribution for the professor's sources. The problem is that these are actual lecture notes, straight off the professor's computer by the looks of it, and I've never known a teacher to put sources in their notes! Should someone get upset about this, it could get nasty.
As for the arguments about education being open to all vs only available to those who pay, go and check out the notes. They're pretty useless unless you are studying elsewhere in a similar course. They are so abbreviated as to mean little. Reading lists and assignments however, are very useful to other teachers.
rudely suggesting that this guy didn't do his research? And I bet none of you have ever made a bad purchase?
Buying a computer is complex. Maybe not for many of the people who frequent Slashdot, but it is for most people. And a lot of people have limited access to specs, and even more limited understanding of those specs, let alone if sales reps lie or deliberately omit vital information.
Give the guy a break!
I've bought a few PCs (well, parts etc and boxes) and the first time I bought a Mac in April this year, I was completely bewildered. I trawled through hundreds of websites, groups, knowledgebase articles, etc. And I still managed to miss a couple of things. It happens to all of us.
yeah. I'm a librarian too, and I've got to work out how to dispose of a very large management/HR/marketing collection. I'd love to make a bequest to a small library, academic or otherwise, but being in the profession I know the likelihood of it ending up in the bin. My fiancee also has a large gemstone collection to find a home for.
You forgot to mention the cost of cataloguing the items, and maintaining bequests. A collection at my alma mater is now costing a fortune to maintain because they have to now collect other books to maintain the appeal of the collection to researchers and ensure its uniqueness, and pay large amounts of money on preservation. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it.
the idea that people pirate antivirus software worries me. I know norton is a rip off, but I get the creeps wondering if a pirated version is crippled with certain virii included that infect you every time you click liveupdate...
I actually forked out real cash for norton systemworks for my mac last week. it was actually quite painful to part with my money.
I agree. I just completed an online module, and hated it. None of us were ever online at the same time, no one ever replied to anyone else, and there was too much text assigned.
I've been doing my master of arts by distance and that has also been difficult. By it's very nature, a research degree is very solitary when you are working on a thesis, but this past week I flew to meetings with my supervisor and got more done in an hour than I would get done online via email in a month.
Online can work I think - as long as there is no collaboration with others required. It is this part that seems to fail most often.
I once threatened someone with legal action who set up a libellous website about me. The reason I did it was so that the person's site would get shut down, and they would stop doing it.
The threat of action can be strong. The radio station I work at is poor. We have had so many threats of action that we can't fight, and we run scared every time.
I wouldn't take this guy seriously. It's just an idle threat in the vast majority of cases.
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that crimes which involve hurting another person should carry the greatest sentences. I think it's ridiculous that businesses get to put people away for years for white collar crime. They're BUSINESSES, it's not like someone slashed their CEO's throat.
White collar crime should be subject to civil penalties, fines and not being allowed to run a business. Jail time? They'll just try and commit the same offence from inside. (Alan Bond, anybody? Aussies would know him well)
they can and they do. Those that actually care, anyway. Unfortunately there's a lot of librarians in my profession who are quite happy to comply with the FBI.
if your mother was a librarian she'd use the | everyday. It's a key character (ha) in MARC records.
did any of the delegates take the opportunity to visit host campus UWA's University Computer Club? I was a member as a fresher back in '96 and although I never actually made it to the club (I was that shy and reclusive back then) I did enjoy very much reading the fresher guide. heh.
Does the coke machine still run?
oh, fantastic ideas. I've toyed with downloading happy snaps every hour to my ibook and projecting them during the reception. It could include 'getting ready' pics, etc. We have a friend who had his wedding overseas and projected pictures from the ceremony during his reception here. It worked really well because it was easy for people to ask questions and for more than one person to see at the same time.
:)
I'm not using iTunes for the music. My fiancee and I are DJs, so we are going to pre-mix a five hour tape at the radio studio to video before the reception. I don't want to overburden my poor laptop
You make some other good tips about distributing CDs, thanks. I'll be sure to use them.
Dear lord. Saklad is even here now.
There is no escape!
actually they do mind. Some farmers have already complained that rain over New Year destroyed their feed crop.
Some people are never happy.
Instead of adjusting the weather to suit us, we should change to suit the weather. Farmers need to be much better prepared for drought. It's a fact of life in this country, and the sooner Howard put money into sustainability programs, instead of blindly handing out cash to pay mortgages, the better.
duke nukem may still be dust, but you can get DN: Manhattan Project as temporary filler. Runs on the old engine and plays as Duke should.
i wish. i'm 23.
:)
i was born with this problem. i share brian wilson's only hearing mono problem.
some days i really feel like suing the inventors of bloody stereo.
surely, surely it could be considered contempt of court to report and discuss legal proceedings on a website before sentencing or during jury selection. It just seems so bleeding obvious. I've been worried about this for a while, as many of my favourite sites do this.
Like it or not, people have to take responsibility for what they say, even if you're just a single person operation at home. We're all journalists now.
If you're in Australia, pick up the ABC's all media handbook, that will give you the rundown on defamation, contempt, libel, etc.
No, telephones don't make you deaf, but for those of us who do have significant hearing loss it does put a lot of strain on what hearing you have left to hear someone on the other end, and this strain is actually quite tiring after a while.
So while it isn't necessary a contributor to hearing loss, phones don't make my life easy.
I am concerned about anything that can affect my hearing. As one of the many many many thousands of people who already has significant hearing loss, I find it frustrating that I am almost forced into exposure to things that could make my hearing worse.
Do I smell a lawsuit? Nah. I just wish sometimes for a return to quieter days where my poor, remaining eardrum can cope without hearing trucks, airplanes, shouting from my neighbours, etc etc. I even work in a library and it's too damn loud.
hey. unless you're using a military mainframe setup, you ARE using a PC.
"Personal Computer" don't mean Windoze.
you say The masses of sheep who aren't enlightened to open source are locked in to windows.
Why the use of the word 'enlightened?' I've been using computers for most of my life and I had a hell of a time when I installed Mandrake last week. I've used plenty of OSs (os/2, dos 3, GEM, Windows 3-XP, Red Hat, Mac 7-10) and I found a lot of stuff confusing. And I had to read a lot of manuals to get the damn thing installed. That's bad.
Just because open-source is an *alternative* doesn't make it any *better*. (and down come flames) It doesn't excuse the programmers from making the OS logical and usable, and by that I don't mean 'more like windows'. I really don't like the argument that a lot of open-source people use where they justify its superiority by talking about how much more complex, and customisable it is.
Most people are not 'stuck with' Windows, they actually like it.
in fact, it is bad to charge as little as possible for a product, because consumers immediately think "this must be a load of junk if it's priced below what competitors charge". Like it or lump it, it's how people think.
When was the last time you saw a $5 pair of shoes and thought that they must be ever so superior to the $100 pair sitting next to them? So much more comfortable, and reliable?
Never? That'd be right.
in light of Corynne McSherry's excellent book, "Who owns academic work?"
Ownership of this stuff is still not decided. I doubt that MIT will ever get 100% of their courses online, because people still can't always decide if the university owns something or the professor does.
I had a look through some of the notes for political science, and there is another problem there. A total lack of attribution for the professor's sources. The problem is that these are actual lecture notes, straight off the professor's computer by the looks of it, and I've never known a teacher to put sources in their notes! Should someone get upset about this, it could get nasty.
As for the arguments about education being open to all vs only available to those who pay, go and check out the notes. They're pretty useless unless you are studying elsewhere in a similar course. They are so abbreviated as to mean little. Reading lists and assignments however, are very useful to other teachers.
why thanks for your astute observation of my profession.
unless of course, you were being witty.
I for one, am neither old, nor cranky, though I do occasionally feel the urge to shhhh people who use mobile phones in the library.
so, are you Don Saklad in disguise or what?
rudely suggesting that this guy didn't do his research? And I bet none of you have ever made a bad purchase?
Buying a computer is complex. Maybe not for many of the people who frequent Slashdot, but it is for most people. And a lot of people have limited access to specs, and even more limited understanding of those specs, let alone if sales reps lie or deliberately omit vital information.
Give the guy a break!
I've bought a few PCs (well, parts etc and boxes) and the first time I bought a Mac in April this year, I was completely bewildered. I trawled through hundreds of websites, groups, knowledgebase articles, etc. And I still managed to miss a couple of things. It happens to all of us.
indeed.
whatever happened to VQF?
same problem OGG is facing, I would hazard to guess.
You forgot to mention the cost of cataloguing the items, and maintaining bequests. A collection at my alma mater is now costing a fortune to maintain because they have to now collect other books to maintain the appeal of the collection to researchers and ensure its uniqueness, and pay large amounts of money on preservation. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it.
the idea that people pirate antivirus software worries me. I know norton is a rip off, but I get the creeps wondering if a pirated version is crippled with certain virii included that infect you every time you click liveupdate...
I actually forked out real cash for norton systemworks for my mac last week. it was actually quite painful to part with my money.
I agree. I just completed an online module, and hated it. None of us were ever online at the same time, no one ever replied to anyone else, and there was too much text assigned.
I've been doing my master of arts by distance and that has also been difficult. By it's very nature, a research degree is very solitary when you are working on a thesis, but this past week I flew to meetings with my supervisor and got more done in an hour than I would get done online via email in a month.
Online can work I think - as long as there is no collaboration with others required. It is this part that seems to fail most often.
I once threatened someone with legal action who set up a libellous website about me. The reason I did it was so that the person's site would get shut down, and they would stop doing it.
The threat of action can be strong. The radio station I work at is poor. We have had so many threats of action that we can't fight, and we run scared every time.
I wouldn't take this guy seriously. It's just an idle threat in the vast majority of cases.
I used to put little lights inside my lego houses. I thought it added an extra coolness factor. 'watch out! I'm a mean 10 year old soldering machine!'
:(
And sometimes I put matchbox cars on my lego streets.
But you're right in that modding can be bad too.
of course, my younger brother inherited my legos and now I have none