Yep. I lived in good old SoCal for about a year and went to an Outback. They had a Tooheys poster on the wall... I asked the waitress if they actually served Tooheys... she looked at me blankly so I pointed at the wall... she said... Oh you mean thats a brand of beer I always wondered...
Every Australian should read their menu at least once... the inapproriate use of Oz slang is something that could only have been written by an expat taking the piss... "Yep we really say bonzo fries... all the time.. really".
While I agree with you on the drug situation Im not sure it applies here. The drug laws generate a lot of emotion regarding the perceived harm that drugs do to society. This is reinforced when you walk around Kind Cross/St Pancras late at night and see blokes shooting up/smoking crack.
Its hard to push downloading copyright as somethign truely evil when so maybe people do it without anything obviously bad happening. I just get a vibe that this situation is going to be a lot more like the "copying vinyl to audio tapes" type of deal. I of course could be completely wrong:) But then you are listening to a slashdot punter so what do you want ?:)
It aint gonna work. The reason is simple : The rules have changed. Distribution of music is now much easier and cheaper than before and a large chunk of the old distribution network is *no longer necessary*. This is totally irrelavent as to weather or not this new distribution model is legal or not. It is happening. It probably cant be stopped(I mean the software industry tried and failed thru the 80s/early 90s)
So now the RIAA have several choice.
1. Try to roll back the technolgy that enables this new distribution channel. This is possible but not very likey.
2. Use more draconian law enforment techniques. Posibble but I mean whata ya gonna do... start sending colleage kids to prison ? For what stealing a Brittney track ? Is this what we want ?
3. Try to adapt to the new medium. Be creative and come up with new profit channels that take advantage of the medium.
Personally I dont think 3 is very likely either... I think RIAA is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Actually they might have. I doubt it seriously considering the probable low security crtieria for simple helicopter parts. However often background checks are done without the knowledge of the person.
Ive worked a little in the Australian defence industry as a coder and have written encryption software drivers for a company in the UK. I have submitted information for security review once with a bunch of other in a company. My clearnce came back first and quite a long time before anyone elses. I suspect secret checks had been made on my background before and someone simply checked my file and OKed me.
BTW Im not saying Im some big nob secret squirrl type guy. All these checks were routine and probably not vey deep.... But Im sure ASIO and the Australian DoD have files with my name on it.
This is a link to David Ickes site. Im not sure I place too much faith in the opinions of a bloke who reckons we are being invaded by reptilian space aliens. YMMV.
I think hes talking about the development documentation. Having some quality doco on the code base can greatly increase the time it takes to understand and start hacking with a code base. Being presented with a huge monolitic, sometimes cryptic codebase doesnt really appeal to a programmer whose just spent 12 hours coding at work.
There have been several projects I keep meaning to contribute something too... however first I have to sit for a few weeks playing with the codebase before I can make any really significant contribution. Also having coders that dont fully understand the code base cause many arguments in mailing lists("Why the hell did you do it this way ?" "I dunno... didnt implement that and its not documented" "Well Ill change it to suit me better... oh crap its broken... now I see why its done that way... Ill change it back"... all this wastes valuable development time
It would never occur to me to laugh at them about it, that's called tolerance
Well bully for you. Id laugh at em personally. Just as much as Id laugh at a guy who said he believes the earth is a flat disk on the back or a tortoise. Tolerence of ignorance is going to get this race into trouble.
Gheez. That link is such a was of perfectly good HTML. It assert more incorrect statments per sentence than anything I have ever read. Usually Im a nice person and dont say thinks like this. But the dude that spewed that little diatribe was 1. Hopelessly ill informed about biology, 2. An idiot, 3. Lying and misdirecting all over the place.
And if I wanted to have inane debates about evolution vrs creationism Id hang out in talk.origins
He probably isnt actually. It sounds like they develop kernel code. As a NT kernel developer(and Vx D developer... if anyone wants one developed these days:) ) I can give you a dozen ways to reboot a perfectly good box from ring zero.:)
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Even if these stats are broken. Im stunned. There is someone out there still using IE 1.0 ????!!!????
Yep. I lived in good old SoCal for about a year and went to an Outback. They had a Tooheys poster on the wall... I asked the waitress if they actually served Tooheys... she looked at me blankly so I pointed at the wall... she said... Oh you mean thats a brand of beer I always wondered...
Every Australian should read their menu at least once... the inapproriate use of Oz slang is something that could only have been written by an expat taking the piss... "Yep we really say bonzo fries... all the time.. really".
While I agree with you on the drug situation Im not sure it applies here. The drug laws generate a lot of emotion regarding the perceived harm that drugs do to society. This is reinforced when you walk around Kind Cross/St Pancras late at night and see blokes shooting up/smoking crack.
:) But then you are listening to a slashdot punter so what do you want ? :)
Its hard to push downloading copyright as somethign truely evil when so maybe people do it without anything obviously bad happening. I just get a vibe that this situation is going to be a lot more like the "copying vinyl to audio tapes" type of deal. I of course could be completely wrong
It aint gonna work. The reason is simple : The rules have changed. Distribution of music is now much easier and cheaper than before and a large chunk of the old distribution network is *no longer necessary*. This is totally irrelavent as to weather or not this new distribution model is legal or not. It is happening. It probably cant be stopped(I mean the software industry tried and failed thru the 80s/early 90s)
So now the RIAA have several choice.
1. Try to roll back the technolgy that enables this new distribution channel. This is possible but not very likey.
2. Use more draconian law enforment techniques. Posibble but I mean whata ya gonna do... start sending colleage kids to prison ? For what stealing a Brittney track ? Is this what we want ?
3. Try to adapt to the new medium. Be creative and come up with new profit channels that take advantage of the medium.
Personally I dont think 3 is very likely either... I think RIAA is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Actually they might have. I doubt it seriously considering the probable low security crtieria for simple helicopter parts. However often background checks are done without the knowledge of the person.
Ive worked a little in the Australian defence industry as a coder and have written encryption software drivers for a company in the UK. I have submitted information for security review once with a bunch of other in a company. My clearnce came back first and quite a long time before anyone elses. I suspect secret checks had been made on my background before and someone simply checked my file and OKed me.
BTW Im not saying Im some big nob secret squirrl type guy. All these checks were routine and probably not vey deep.... But Im sure ASIO and the Australian DoD have files with my name on it.
(Pan Am got screwed for helping out)
This is a link to David Ickes site. Im not sure I place too much faith in the opinions of a bloke who reckons we are being invaded by reptilian space aliens. YMMV.
I think hes talking about the development documentation. Having some quality doco on the code base can greatly increase the time it takes to understand and start hacking with a code base. Being presented with a huge monolitic, sometimes cryptic codebase doesnt really appeal to a programmer whose just spent 12 hours coding at work.
There have been several projects I keep meaning to contribute something too... however first I have to sit for a few weeks playing with the codebase before I can make any really significant contribution. Also having coders that dont fully understand the code base cause many arguments in mailing lists("Why the hell did you do it this way ?" "I dunno... didnt implement that and its not documented" "Well Ill change it to suit me better... oh crap its broken... now I see why its done that way... Ill change it back"... all this wastes valuable development time
It would never occur to me to laugh at them about it, that's called tolerance
Well bully for you. Id laugh at em personally. Just as much as Id laugh at a guy who said he believes the earth is a flat disk on the back or a tortoise. Tolerence of ignorance is going to get this race into trouble.
Gheez. That link is such a was of perfectly good HTML. It assert more incorrect statments per sentence than anything I have ever read. Usually Im a nice person and dont say thinks like this. But the dude that spewed that little diatribe was 1. Hopelessly ill informed about biology, 2. An idiot, 3. Lying and misdirecting all over the place.
And if I wanted to have inane debates about evolution vrs creationism Id hang out in talk.origins
He probably isnt actually. It sounds like they develop kernel code. As a NT kernel developer(and Vx D developer... if anyone wants one developed these days :) ) I can give you a dozen ways to reboot a perfectly good box from ring zero. :)
That said there are also provisions for various fair use caveats. Such as play a DVD to a group of film students in film school.