That is good to know. The only thing I have ever pirated is the Doctor Who 2005 series (BT of the last three episodes downloading now). I wuld have bought the DVDs if they were available here.
1) The US is a huge market, especially for anything in English.
2) Thanks to the lobbying of the big music companies, other countries have similar systems to sew things up for the big music companies.
3) US net broadcasters are listed to around the world.
All this adds up to a good reason for non-big music copyright holders to waive broadcasting fees globally, regardless of where they are.
Obviously this is part of the RIAA's campaign to keep control, but it is a very minor part. The raising of statutory fees, payola, DRM and lots of other things are far more damaging in terms of reducing our choice as listeners.
we did that to address some stability issues we were having', said Suzanne Young, Qantas group general manager for finance improvement and segmentation
Surrely, if they are having problem's with Linux stability, it must be the general manager for segmentation's fault?
1) want to collect their royalties from compulsory licensing, in which case they can use Sound Exchange, or, 2) They will require direct payment of their royalties, or, 3) They will simply waive all copyright fees.
I do not think many will go for 2) (too much hassle). 3) Does not stop you hearing their music, but it is bad because it helps the RIAA keep control. I hope many non RIAA copyright holders will go for 3), which is the most logical as they do not usually expect to be paid for broadcasts of their music.
Perhaps because the interest is not enough to cover all the costs?
Given that it is a non-profit, and exempted from tax as such, they cannot actually make a profit out of overcharging - except, perhaps, insofar as the management can overpay themselves a bit.
It is not true. This is Slashdot quoting DailyKos - what sort of standards did you expect?
1) You do not have to be a member to collect fees through sound exchange, though you do have to pay them an admin fee.
2) There is nothing to stop radio stations from making direct agreements with copyright holders and by passing Sound Exchange. You only need to use Sound Exchange to make use of the compulsory license.
The practical problem is that it would be a lot of work for a radio station to contact every copyright owner (often two of three per recording) and negotiate agreements with them, so it is difficult to avoid using Sound Exchange.
Solution for non RIAA copyright holders: unless you are going to make lots of money off radio (not likely) just have a free license for radio and net broadcasters.
They can use a package manager to install, but since the package manager does not know where there repository is, the software will not be kept up to date.
If the software does not run without the registry key they can allow it to be distributed by any repository and updated through any repository. Anyone can install and update it, but only those with a key can actually use it.
The article was not specific about how this could work. If it is going to be a countrywide wi-fi network instead of wired connections to every household then the last mile cost disappears as well.
... then what kind of computer are they using on the Klingon ships?
Good question: we already know what they use on the Borg cubes.
... then what kind of computer should I use at home?
Depends who you ask:
Steve Jobs: Mac Bill Gates and sheep: Windows Slashdotters: Gentoo to show how l33t you are - no, BSD because non-geeks have started using Linux - no, Atheos - no open source Beos - Amiga..... Me: Ubuntu
It was not advantageous to leave the Garden of Eden; that was a big step down in standard of living. There are plenty of rational species (I believe) who would not touch the fruit of knowledge. ie you can be rational but lack knowledge and curiosity.
I do not think:
I do not think the fall is a historical event, and certainly not one that happened after humanity evolved.
Since when are knowledge and curiosity sins? I would have thought that they are intrinsically good.
Oh, Tony wants to do everything just like the US. He even wants to be head of state like Bill and Dubya, but he has no way of getting rid of the current incumbent.
More seriously, most of the problems in the British education system are the result of having governments that are obsessed with tarrgets. In this case the proportion of people who get degrees, get A levels (the exam we take at 18) etc.
So having made these numbers the targets, the easiest ways to reach them are:
1) Lower standards 2) Encourage students to do easy subjects
This is why many of the better British schools (including my old school was one of the first) are allowing pupils to do the the International Baccalaureate instead.
The expansion of the number of university places without a proportionate increase in funding or a matching improvement in teaching at schools was damaging from every point of view, except that of making the chosen target numbers look better.
In addition, Wordpress has excellent online documentation, as well as the responsive forums you mention. Who needs a book?
I have gone from being a complete novice (I had never touched PHP before either) to writing themes and plugins, and I have never had the slightest difficulty finding what I want online.
My plugins are not brilliant, but they are useful and a fair number of people use them - especially Slug Trimmer, which produces short automatically generated urls instead of ones-that-go-on-and-on-like-this.
why can't Christ just be incarnated somewhere in the middle of the universe and die and rise again there for the whole universe's sins, rather than at 30 AD in Jerusalem, Earth, and at 200,000 AD on the planet Zardoz-3 in the city of Qyynax'gbtht, and..etc
That is not really more of a problem than why it was Jerusalem then rather than in Mohenjo-Daro in 2500 BC or Gaborone in 2500 AD.
You mention the possibility of multiple incarnations of Christ, even if you do not think much of it.
There is also the possibility that other intelligent species will be so different from us that they will be redeemed in an entirely different way.
Finally, there may be species that do not sin. I, personally think it unlikely that a perfectly good creature could evolve - there is too much evil behaviour that is advantageous.
It will be fascinating to find out what aliens believe. As a Christian I think it is quite likely that they will have had some revelation that we have not, or have not understood properly, or have forgotten.
They also do not want to directly tell their customers they need to pay more to get more bandwidth, so they are looking for indirect ways to do it.
I suppose we should be grateful that they do not want to abolish network neutrality for voice calls. Imagine it: "hi, if you want our customers to be able to phone your organisation, you must agree to pay us a negotiated fee".
It can therefore be withdrawn by government mandate.
If the EU says "we ought to punish this company, but it is too powerful for us to tangle with", then it completely undermines the EU's credibility as a government and regulator of companies.
It is not the lack of access to drugs that I regard as the key problem. That is soluble without changing the patent system.
I did not want to post these links because I posted them on Slashdot before, but they explain my objections better than I will in a quick Slashdot comment.:
Also get decent peripherals. I doubt many people reading Slashdot do it, but you might be able to influence others not to buy crap like USB ADSL "modems", cheap inkjets with expensive cartridges and weird drivers, etc., to attach to their PC with a fast expensive processor and not quite enough RAM.
Of course people like that do need a fast PC and lots of RAM, to keep up with all the malware they will be running.
People bitch about software patents, but in reality they are not that different from any other patents.
The only reason you are right about that, is because patents are horribly broken in lots of fields - pharmaceuticals, for example.
They often do not work anything like as well as they are supposed to in advancing technology, and they do a lot to impose extra costs and barriers to entry.
People on Slashdot dislike software patents in particular, partly because they are particularly bad, and partly because that is what they know most about. There is also very good evidence that software patents do not work because software only recently became patentable. Technology did not advance any faster after this, therefore software patents do not work. We do not have as solid evidence on other types of patents.
See my past Slashdot comments and my blog for more.
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Yes, of course, you cannot let all us foreigners ignore state imposed monopolies. That's communist. Oh, wait....
It also is the real killer for this contract.
A new employer is certain to have confidentiality clauses that prevent him from telling people about ideas related to his new job.
There is no way I would sign this, unless they agree to compensate him for the year before he can take another job. Even in then I would be reluctant.
You should have read his sig before replying - it might have given you a clue.
That is good to know. The only thing I have ever pirated is the Doctor Who 2005 series (BT of the last three episodes downloading now). I wuld have bought the DVDs if they were available here.
1) The US is a huge market, especially for anything in English.
2) Thanks to the lobbying of the big music companies, other countries have similar systems to sew things up for the big music companies.
3) US net broadcasters are listed to around the world.
All this adds up to a good reason for non-big music copyright holders to waive broadcasting fees globally, regardless of where they are.
Obviously this is part of the RIAA's campaign to keep control, but it is a very minor part. The raising of statutory fees, payola, DRM and lots of other things are far more damaging in terms of reducing our choice as listeners.
Surrely, if they are having problem's with Linux stability, it must be the general manager for segmentation's fault?
Non RIAA copyright holders will either:
1) want to collect their royalties from compulsory licensing, in which case they can use Sound Exchange, or,
2) They will require direct payment of their royalties, or,
3) They will simply waive all copyright fees.
I do not think many will go for 2) (too much hassle). 3) Does not stop you hearing their music, but it is bad because it helps the RIAA keep control. I hope many non RIAA copyright holders will go for 3), which is the most logical as they do not usually expect to be paid for broadcasts of their music.
Perhaps because the interest is not enough to cover all the costs?
Given that it is a non-profit, and exempted from tax as such, they cannot actually make a profit out of overcharging - except, perhaps, insofar as the management can overpay themselves a bit.
It is not true. This is Slashdot quoting DailyKos - what sort of standards did you expect?
1) You do not have to be a member to collect fees through sound exchange, though you do have to pay them an admin fee.
2) There is nothing to stop radio stations from making direct agreements with copyright holders and by passing Sound Exchange. You only need to use Sound Exchange to make use of the compulsory license.
The practical problem is that it would be a lot of work for a radio station to contact every copyright owner (often two of three per recording) and negotiate agreements with them, so it is difficult to avoid using Sound Exchange.
Solution for non RIAA copyright holders: unless you are going to make lots of money off radio (not likely) just have a free license for radio and net broadcasters.
According to other comments, the system used does not check for updates if you have a web browser with a Mac or Linux user agent.
Why can they not use the package manager to install, but have the software refuse to run without a registration key?
The article was not specific about how this could work. If it is going to be a countrywide wi-fi network instead of wired connections to every household then the last mile cost disappears as well.
Good question: we already know what they use on the Borg cubes.
Depends who you ask:
Steve Jobs: Mac
Bill Gates and sheep: Windows
Slashdotters: Gentoo to show how l33t you are - no, BSD because non-geeks have started using Linux - no, Atheos - no open source Beos - Amiga
Me: Ubuntu
Yes, provided you run Linux on it.
Oh, Tony wants to do everything just like the US. He even wants to be head of state like Bill and Dubya, but he has no way of getting rid of the current incumbent.
More seriously, most of the problems in the British education system are the result of having governments that are obsessed with tarrgets. In this case the proportion of people who get degrees, get A levels (the exam we take at 18) etc.
So having made these numbers the targets, the easiest ways to reach them are:
1) Lower standards
2) Encourage students to do easy subjects
This is why many of the better British schools (including my old school was one of the first) are allowing pupils to do the the International Baccalaureate instead.
The expansion of the number of university places without a proportionate increase in funding or a matching improvement in teaching at schools was damaging from every point of view, except that of making the chosen target numbers look better.
In addition, Wordpress has excellent online documentation, as well as the responsive forums you mention. Who needs a book?
I have gone from being a complete novice (I had never touched PHP before either) to writing themes and plugins, and I have never had the slightest difficulty finding what I want online.
My plugins are not brilliant, but they are useful and a fair number of people use them - especially Slug Trimmer, which produces short automatically generated urls instead of ones-that-go-on-and-on-like-this.
That is not really more of a problem than why it was Jerusalem then rather than in Mohenjo-Daro in 2500 BC or Gaborone in 2500 AD.
You mention the possibility of multiple incarnations of Christ, even if you do not think much of it.
There is also the possibility that other intelligent species will be so different from us that they will be redeemed in an entirely different way.
Finally, there may be species that do not sin. I, personally think it unlikely that a perfectly good creature could evolve - there is too much evil behaviour that is advantageous.
It will be fascinating to find out what aliens believe. As a Christian I think it is quite likely that they will have had some revelation that we have not, or have not understood properly, or have forgotten.
You could say the same with regard to Thunderbird vs Kmail. I recently switched back to the latter.
Yes, the first thing I thought.
They also do not want to directly tell their customers they need to pay more to get more bandwidth, so they are looking for indirect ways to do it.
I suppose we should be grateful that they do not want to abolish network neutrality for voice calls. Imagine it: "hi, if you want our customers to be able to phone your organisation, you must agree to pay us a negotiated fee".
That is why George Bush is trying so hard to balance this out by making sure that foreigners do not like Americans either.
Copyright exists by government mandate.
It can therefore be withdrawn by government mandate.
If the EU says "we ought to punish this company, but it is too powerful for us to tangle with", then it completely undermines the EU's credibility as a government and regulator of companies.
I did not want to post these links because I posted them on Slashdot before, but they explain my objections better than I will in a quick Slashdot comment.:
http://pietersz.co.uk/2007/02/patents-inefficientn tives-development
http://pietersz.co.uk/2007/01/pharmaceutical-ince
Also get decent peripherals. I doubt many people reading Slashdot do it, but you might be able to influence others not to buy crap like USB ADSL "modems", cheap inkjets with expensive cartridges and weird drivers, etc., to attach to their PC with a fast expensive processor and not quite enough RAM.
Of course people like that do need a fast PC and lots of RAM, to keep up with all the malware they will be running.
The only reason you are right about that, is because patents are horribly broken in lots of fields - pharmaceuticals, for example.
They often do not work anything like as well as they are supposed to in advancing technology, and they do a lot to impose extra costs and barriers to entry.
People on Slashdot dislike software patents in particular, partly because they are particularly bad, and partly because that is what they know most about. There is also very good evidence that software patents do not work because software only recently became patentable. Technology did not advance any faster after this, therefore software patents do not work. We do not have as solid evidence on other types of patents.
See my past Slashdot comments and my blog for more.