Because your summer is six months before ours for a start. And thats about the delay for popular first run stuff. Iron Chef isn't really all that popular and it doesn't really matter if we see it 10 years later. To be perfectly honest I can't tell its 10 years old when i see it. Can anyone?
But they can do it if they want. I think it was Jericho? It was shown in Australia within a few days of the US to beat the torrents.
And don't for get the Sports Factor. Last year Channel 9 here had a catchup week where they showed seceially put together digest showreels of some of the most popular Soaps to catch up the almost 2 years that some were behind the US. This delay arose because [among other things] Channel 9 shows live Cricket over the summer and 5 x 4 day games and maybe another 12 one day games basically mean every year some of those shows will get 2 months behind just from the Cricket. The other major network, 7, has a similar problem with the Tennis including the Australian Open. They show full coverage for the entire tournament in January plus a few of the leadup Tournaments.
In the US the sport would be on Cable. In Australia anti siphoning laws prevent them from disappearing from free to air so while you watch first run CSI:Blue:Yellow or:Green we watch cricket. Everyone's a loser.
The same in Australia. Marginal tax rates rise as you move into a new tax level but the tax on lower portions of the income are stilltaxed at the lower rate.
I actually met somone who had refused promotions for about 5 years because she thought that the next marginal rate would be applired to her total income, not the additional income only.
I was literally speechless that someone could think that but it seems to be at the root of a lot of the "i cant afford a payrise' problems.
There are real disincentives at the lower end where increases in income can cause loss of other benefits like government payments and healthcare but in Australia at least this is known as a problem and social security benefits are designed as much as possible to alleviate it [not that it always works]
Actually the gov gets its cut from the state gambling transaction tax [maybe 15% in Vic not sure about Qld but I think its smaller] Because there are specified payout figures the only other bit that gets taxed is the bit going to the organizer as their admin fee which is taxed as income to them in the normanl way. The payouts to gamblers of the other 80% of the takings [depending which state] is not a taxable receipt to them.
The reason is simply because it is not Income. The Australian tax law is both specific and vague. Gambling winnings arent income according to general law. The US has a specific provision that makes winnings taxable.. Australia doesnt. So they aren't taxed. And they couldn't introduce one now if they wanted to. There would be a revolution
Under Astralian tax law it is almost impossible to be taxed on gambling winnings. Even a professional gambler has trouble getting to pay tax. But I suspect the tax authorities are happy enough to let a few winners off tax free if they don't have to allow the losers to deduct their losses.
In the case of a new artist, you have to admit that the record companies DO do stuff to get you exposure. For instance, it's VERY hard to get on most radio stations if you don't have support from the labels.
Totally agree. It's the promotion side that bands pay for. Those web sites that bands [or even independants and co-ops set up] need traffic. There are 100s of bands out there that I might hear but the way most people hear about them is on radio or tv.
So if the artists signed to labels are still getting that promotion, fine. I tiotally agree with the complaints about distribution cost part of the take by the labels.
But the bottom line has been mentioned in another post, that price [on anything] is set at a level people are prepared to pay. Cost is not taken into account except to give you an idea of the lowest price you can sell something for and still make some money.
Green data entry screens arent CLI. This is nothing to do with CLI. Its a question of Windows programmers ignoring keyboard use in data entry applications.
I deal with this problem big time. Our organization replaced a DOS based Pension Fund accounting program with a Progress based Windows-looking GUI program. And it sucks enormously in usability. eg [and i found this stuff withion an hour of turning it on.
No alt+letter combos to access menus. well no identified ones. sometimes if you guess right one will work even if there are no underlines. But it may not work on the next screen witrh the same menu.
two drop down boxes on the same data entry screen where one uses the down arrow to drop the list and move down to select and the other uses the right arrow,
a data entry screen that uses tab or enter to move between input fields UNTIL you get to the second hidden field and you can only get to the next visible input field with the Tab.
a wizard where the focus in every new screen on the Back button and if you accidentally hit enter instead of tab [most buttons you actually have to use the Space bar to activate] it it goes back to the previous screen [but loses ALL data that has been input since the start of the wizard]
This isnt a CLI question. Its a piss poor design question.
You are forgetting that you don't own the software but have purchased a licence to use it so its a contract setting out the conditions of use. The EULA is just a way of making sure you understand the terms of the licence before you start using it. If you had purchased the software the agreement would be radically different.
Installing software you've already paid for: legal. Neither the copyright holder nor the previous owner of the physical media has any leverage to prohibit your use after the sale is final. Or do you think that I could sell my house and then later tell the new owners that going inside will indicate acceptance to some new promissary terms?
You equate a cd containing Office to a house. It's very difficult to have a reasonable conversation about this if you dont accept the difference between an Office CD and a house. For all the talk about wheteher or not EULAs are enforcable etc I think it needs to be accepted that retail software is sold on a licence to use basis and will be decided at law on that basis. You will not get any judge who knows what he is talking about to decide on the basis that the Office cd is just like a house.
So change the example to renting the house and look how the answer changes dramatically.
You think... nowhere in any of the articles does it say he ordered new boxes for the purpose of making furniture. On the site he says he and his friends made the furniture after his friends had moved to Seattle and he moved to New Mexico. So they had boxes from the move [some at least]. And nowhere does it say he thinks FedEx are suckers for giving him free boxes.
I think... its just FedEx going overboard protecting their trademark as they are required to do to keep it current. It seems they were wrong to use the DMCA as a tool and it displays a lack of humour on their part but I dont think thay are too concerned that there will be a run on free shipping boxes for nefarious furniture related purposes. Personally i would have put the logoed side inwards. A whole room of that stuff would get real tired, real quick.
But you don't need to write it down in language that makes you sound like you're trying to cover something up.
And why do you need to tell people that you are honest, have integrity, are there to serve the customer and believe in excellence? I think there's something a bit suss about a business that has to tell its staff that honesty is a value they should hold.
The words in that list were submitted by readers and not subjected to editorial comment. Watson didn't pick the words or make the comments under the words, the anal idiots who sent them in made the comments.
Except for the fact that Watsons book was published in 2004 in Australia as a follow up to an earlier book [2003] on the Decay Of Public Language, primarily in Australia but more generally throughout the world. So I could ask who jumps on whose bandwagon given that Frankfurt's book is a 2005 publication.
In any case, Watson as an Australian writes for us and then the world. US examples of bullshit are so numerous that, outside the US we can easily lapse into thinking that it is only the US that uses bullshit as it's main rhetorical tool. Watson shows Australians how it creeps into Australian public discourse.
My guess is that's the total amount of movies/warez/etc that passed through their server during the 2 years they ran it.
Actually 27TB is only 27,000 GB. A friend said that he noticed one participant on a dc hub had just hit the 1TB share the other day and that was in a reggae hub with only a few movies included in the share.
27TB is a lot but its not that surprising. As for traffic, i imagine that was in the peta region [I think thats the next step up isn't it]
They are all intellectual property and the general arguments about them have direct relevance to all areas mentioned though you do get arguments that get the unique aspects confused sometimes.
I think on balance its better to cover them all in one section.
But, thank god, they could never become President as long as the watchdogs of our democracy, the media, have any say.
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A simple example -- when Rolston needed to clear disk space on his laptop, he used Spotlight to find all the bulky QuickTime movie files scattered across many different folders. Then he created a Smart Folder for them so he'd always be able to quickly see which little-used files he could delete.
its about damm programmers who are too lazy to program a gui so that you can navigate without the mouse. Most retail software seems to be able to manage it but specialist stuff that I have seen is absymal.
Just yesterday I spent a whole day learning how to use a new windows version of an accounting report generation program which is a module in the most popular client accounting app in Australia for public accountants. And there are whole sections of the program where there are NO keyboard commands available only icons which are impossible to get to without the mouse. [except AltF4]. And its not a graphics intensive program but there is a lot of text input needed in many areas. Even the company trainer expressed frustration at the lack of keyboard navigation.
This brilliant organization also has a program for pension funds that is even worse. It's got things like drop down boxes where on one screen the up/down arrows move you through the list and on the next its the right/left arrows. They have one particular screen where a lot of info is input and they trumpet the usability and say you can keyboard enter all the particular screen and in fact you can move from field to field using the tab or the enter button but only as far as the second hidden field in the middle of the form where enter just doesn't work and tab is the only thing that will get you back to the screen [except a mouse of course]
Oh and if you do manage to get to the Next button and use the space bar to get to the next screen the focus goes for some godunknown reason to the Back button. If you're silly enough to tab forward to the top of the page the client details in the top part of the input screen blank out as if you were going to select another client. If you do this you should try to do it on the second of the 5 screens because you just lost all your input so far. You could back tab up the entire screen to get to the start [below the client details section] but am I the oly person who thinks it would make sense to just have focus go to the first blank text input box. This is their implementation of the "Wizard".
They are also the people who consider it easier for the user to remember a 7 digit code number for a listed company investment [such as 744-0141] than a three alpha Stock Exchange code [such as BHP} when selecting accounts to allocate income.
Forgive my rant but I'll say again; its not about the best tool; it's about usable tools. For transaction input and simple selection tasks [a lot of the work that a lot of people do on computers] the mouse is the worst thing invented. It makes lazy programmers.
Maybe the mouse is the modern equivalent of the qwerty keyboard; designed to slow down input so the cpu doesn't jam up or something.
but I'm not so sure about a 16 year old, unless they had completely horrible parenting
How bout a 16 yo after 11 years of violent gaming along with the TV, movies, music, books [if they can read] and random crap like Bumfights they dl from the internet.
I take exceptoin to people who insist that one violent video game has no consequences so action against violent video games will be a waste and ineffective [not you BTW]
Problem is that although rape is done through unwanted sex, the reason is a power thrill.
I have aproblem with this all-encompasing rationale fir rape. If it's true how come no-one ever tried to rape the ever so powerful but ever so fugly Margaret Thatcher.
I don't know exactly if there are studies that link play to behaviour one way ot the other. I suspect there are.
I always thought that that was what play did; acted as rehearsal for life. It's where kids learnt how to behave in the real world. How to get along with others, what the rules were for operating in a world that doesn't have you as the centre of the universe. I never saw it as something for kids to do while they waited for their next meal.
So I would find it really strange if play did not have any effect on behaviour. But I can in all fairness say that I don't believe that GTA by itself would have any significant effect on anyone's behaviour.
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He didn't say it was online did he? He did say that he burned it all to DVD regularly.
why wouldn't he have just bought an Xserve with an Xserve RAID
He is going to but its like drugs, the need just creeps up on you. First i's a bigger internal drive, then all your ide channels are full and you get an industrial strength DVD burner but you can't keep up and you need something NOW and the man shows you an external usb 300GB drive and you are in heaven. But the first one is never enough.
and the man is going to sell you 300GB external drives every day rather than one big Xserve rig. Being rich never =ed being smart.
please cite as many scientific studies as possible that indicate children who view naked breasts are likely to have been psychologically harmed
What's your point? Is it that children in Islamic societies are psychologically harmed because of the fact that women are covered. If so then it's up to you to prove it, not for me to prove that exposure to breasts causes damage in Western society.
I see no evidence that the general population in Islamic countries are psychologically damaged by not being able to see tits whenever they feel like it.
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But they can do it if they want. I think it was Jericho? It was shown in Australia within a few days of the US to beat the torrents.
And don't for get the Sports Factor. Last year Channel 9 here had a catchup week where they showed seceially put together digest showreels of some of the most popular Soaps to catch up the almost 2 years that some were behind the US. This delay arose because [among other things] Channel 9 shows live Cricket over the summer and 5 x 4 day games and maybe another 12 one day games basically mean every year some of those shows will get 2 months behind just from the Cricket. The other major network, 7, has a similar problem with the Tennis including the Australian Open. They show full coverage for the entire tournament in January plus a few of the leadup Tournaments.
In the US the sport would be on Cable. In Australia anti siphoning laws prevent them from disappearing from free to air so while you watch first run CSI:Blue :Yellow or :Green we watch cricket. Everyone's a loser.
The same in Australia. Marginal tax rates rise as you move into a new tax level but the tax on lower portions of the income are stilltaxed at the lower rate. I actually met somone who had refused promotions for about 5 years because she thought that the next marginal rate would be applired to her total income, not the additional income only. I was literally speechless that someone could think that but it seems to be at the root of a lot of the "i cant afford a payrise' problems. There are real disincentives at the lower end where increases in income can cause loss of other benefits like government payments and healthcare but in Australia at least this is known as a problem and social security benefits are designed as much as possible to alleviate it [not that it always works]
The reason is simply because it is not Income. The Australian tax law is both specific and vague. Gambling winnings arent income according to general law. The US has a specific provision that makes winnings taxable.. Australia doesnt. So they aren't taxed. And they couldn't introduce one now if they wanted to. There would be a revolution
Under Astralian tax law it is almost impossible to be taxed on gambling winnings. Even a professional gambler has trouble getting to pay tax. But I suspect the tax authorities are happy enough to let a few winners off tax free if they don't have to allow the losers to deduct their losses.
There is absolutely no evidence to prove otherwise.
Do you close your eyes and wriggle the fingers in your ears when you say that or just shout it out very loudly.
Totally agree. It's the promotion side that bands pay for. Those web sites that bands [or even independants and co-ops set up] need traffic. There are 100s of bands out there that I might hear but the way most people hear about them is on radio or tv. So if the artists signed to labels are still getting that promotion, fine. I tiotally agree with the complaints about distribution cost part of the take by the labels. But the bottom line has been mentioned in another post, that price [on anything] is set at a level people are prepared to pay. Cost is not taken into account except to give you an idea of the lowest price you can sell something for and still make some money.
I deal with this problem big time. Our organization replaced a DOS based Pension Fund accounting program with a Progress based Windows-looking GUI program. And it sucks enormously in usability. eg [and i found this stuff withion an hour of turning it on.
No alt+letter combos to access menus. well no identified ones. sometimes if you guess right one will work even if there are no underlines. But it may not work on the next screen witrh the same menu.
two drop down boxes on the same data entry screen where one uses the down arrow to drop the list and move down to select and the other uses the right arrow,
a data entry screen that uses tab or enter to move between input fields UNTIL you get to the second hidden field and you can only get to the next visible input field with the Tab.
a wizard where the focus in every new screen on the Back button and if you accidentally hit enter instead of tab [most buttons you actually have to use the Space bar to activate] it it goes back to the previous screen [but loses ALL data that has been input since the start of the wizard]
This isnt a CLI question. Its a piss poor design question.
Installing software you've already paid for: legal. Neither the copyright holder nor the previous owner of the physical media has any leverage to prohibit your use after the sale is final. Or do you think that I could sell my house and then later tell the new owners that going inside will indicate acceptance to some new promissary terms?
You equate a cd containing Office to a house. It's very difficult to have a reasonable conversation about this if you dont accept the difference between an Office CD and a house. For all the talk about wheteher or not EULAs are enforcable etc I think it needs to be accepted that retail software is sold on a licence to use basis and will be decided at law on that basis. You will not get any judge who knows what he is talking about to decide on the basis that the Office cd is just like a house.
So change the example to renting the house and look how the answer changes dramatically.
The same provision appears in Australian trademark law
I think... its just FedEx going overboard protecting their trademark as they are required to do to keep it current. It seems they were wrong to use the DMCA as a tool and it displays a lack of humour on their part but I dont think thay are too concerned that there will be a run on free shipping boxes for nefarious furniture related purposes. Personally i would have put the logoed side inwards. A whole room of that stuff would get real tired, real quick.
And why do you need to tell people that you are honest, have integrity, are there to serve the customer and believe in excellence? I think there's something a bit suss about a business that has to tell its staff that honesty is a value they should hold.
Sort of like /. really
In any case, Watson as an Australian writes for us and then the world. US examples of bullshit are so numerous that, outside the US we can easily lapse into thinking that it is only the US that uses bullshit as it's main rhetorical tool. Watson shows Australians how it creeps into Australian public discourse.
I hope that's OK with you guys.
Actually 27TB is only 27,000 GB. A friend said that he noticed one participant on a dc hub had just hit the 1TB share the other day and that was in a reggae hub with only a few movies included in the share.
27TB is a lot but its not that surprising. As for traffic, i imagine that was in the peta region [I think thats the next step up isn't it]
No? Maybe the Oil Industry, or big Pharma.
Seriously, if you can make a statement like that without your head exploding you've got it made in PR.
I think on balance its better to cover them all in one section.
tab? what's a tab.
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You trying to get me divorced or something.
Just yesterday I spent a whole day learning how to use a new windows version of an accounting report generation program which is a module in the most popular client accounting app in Australia for public accountants. And there are whole sections of the program where there are NO keyboard commands available only icons which are impossible to get to without the mouse. [except AltF4]. And its not a graphics intensive program but there is a lot of text input needed in many areas. Even the company trainer expressed frustration at the lack of keyboard navigation.
This brilliant organization also has a program for pension funds that is even worse. It's got things like drop down boxes where on one screen the up/down arrows move you through the list and on the next its the right/left arrows. They have one particular screen where a lot of info is input and they trumpet the usability and say you can keyboard enter all the particular screen and in fact you can move from field to field using the tab or the enter button but only as far as the second hidden field in the middle of the form where enter just doesn't work and tab is the only thing that will get you back to the screen [except a mouse of course]
Oh and if you do manage to get to the Next button and use the space bar to get to the next screen the focus goes for some godunknown reason to the Back button. If you're silly enough to tab forward to the top of the page the client details in the top part of the input screen blank out as if you were going to select another client. If you do this you should try to do it on the second of the 5 screens because you just lost all your input so far. You could back tab up the entire screen to get to the start [below the client details section] but am I the oly person who thinks it would make sense to just have focus go to the first blank text input box. This is their implementation of the "Wizard".
They are also the people who consider it easier for the user to remember a 7 digit code number for a listed company investment [such as 744-0141] than a three alpha Stock Exchange code [such as BHP} when selecting accounts to allocate income.
Forgive my rant but I'll say again; its not about the best tool; it's about usable tools. For transaction input and simple selection tasks [a lot of the work that a lot of people do on computers] the mouse is the worst thing invented. It makes lazy programmers.
Maybe the mouse is the modern equivalent of the qwerty keyboard; designed to slow down input so the cpu doesn't jam up or something.
How bout a 16 yo after 11 years of violent gaming along with the TV, movies, music, books [if they can read] and random crap like Bumfights they dl from the internet.
I take exceptoin to people who insist that one violent video game has no consequences so action against violent video games will be a waste and ineffective [not you BTW]
I have aproblem with this all-encompasing rationale fir rape. If it's true how come no-one ever tried to rape the ever so powerful but ever so fugly Margaret Thatcher.
I always thought that that was what play did; acted as rehearsal for life. It's where kids learnt how to behave in the real world. How to get along with others, what the rules were for operating in a world that doesn't have you as the centre of the universe. I never saw it as something for kids to do while they waited for their next meal.
So I would find it really strange if play did not have any effect on behaviour. But I can in all fairness say that I don't believe that GTA by itself would have any significant effect on anyone's behaviour.
But GTA doesn't exist in a vacumn.
We did. They didn't.
why wouldn't he have just bought an Xserve with an Xserve RAID
He is going to but its like drugs, the need just creeps up on you. First i's a bigger internal drive, then all your ide channels are full and you get an industrial strength DVD burner but you can't keep up and you need something NOW and the man shows you an external usb 300GB drive and you are in heaven. But the first one is never enough.
and the man is going to sell you 300GB external drives every day rather than one big Xserve rig. Being rich never =ed being smart.
What's your point? Is it that children in Islamic societies are psychologically harmed because of the fact that women are covered. If so then it's up to you to prove it, not for me to prove that exposure to breasts causes damage in Western society.
I see no evidence that the general population in Islamic countries are psychologically damaged by not being able to see tits whenever they feel like it.