Which Thunderbird do you use? The Mozilla one? I've been launching things with my email viewer ever since I installed the Thunderbird six or seven months ago.
Web links took a while to sort out, it's true. But that's been about it, unless you're talking about those strange *pif files which keep on turning up...
As is (on the whole), recording a show off TV, backing up a software CD, and so on.
I'm still trying to work out how someone can legally use an iPod in Australia. As I understand it (corrections accepted!) you can only buy AAC format songs from iTunes, which isn't yet available in Australia. You certainly can't rip them from oyur own CDs.
Except for cases where you explicitly have a license, or the recording is in the Public Domain, you're screwed. That's one expensive paperweight.
If we're going to go to US style copyright, at least we could get some of those good ol' Fair Use provisions. I doubt we will though.
In fact, I could imagine US MAFIA (Music and Film Industry Association) outfits citing the FTA as a reason for Congress to change US law to Australian style law.
As I understand it, Johnny's excuse for not signing the agreement was that he wanted to reserve the right to preemptive strikes on terrorist bases in neighbouring nations. This was mentioned by the Foreign Minister a few months ago, but hosed down quickly.
So sorry Indonesia et al, we won't sign a non-aggression treaty because we may need to bomb you one day soon.
Well, at least it's honest. Certain other allies would sign the treaty and go 'Bombs away!' regardless.
I haven't read the NS article, but I do work with many people who are hard core users of a variety of drugs, and a lot of other people who work in similar occupations.
You can normally tell what drugs a person uses by their personalities, but the dope users are far and away the easiest ones to pick---the paranoia and depression stand out a mile away.
Interestingly though, drugs only seem to amplify personality traits that already exist. The question becomes one of cause and effect. Do marijuana users become paranoid and depressed because of marijuana, or do people use marijuana as a way of taking away the pain of their nascent psychological illness?
As always in these arguments, it's probably a bit of both. I just wish the damn stuff had never been discovered...
And even if he tried to patent them, he wouldn't get too far---not one of these ideas was original, and in many cases prior art already exists. I don't think there's one Patent Office in the world that would let any of these through.
It's true---a lot of those examples in the story seem to be thought drool. That's fine as far as it goes\. I sometimes write like that, especially when I'm coding. Like a lot of others I might use some sort of English/coding language hybrid, just to get the main ideas out, and get some sort of structure in place. But then I have to go back and fill in the gaps, rearrange the structure, and recode it into something a compiler will understand.
It's the same when I'm writing prose. It's one thing to brain drool into your mail client, word processor or whetver, but the next step isto go through and actually have a read of your own writing.
That's why/. has a 'Preview' button.
It only takes two seconds for an otherwise literate person to realise what they've written is a load of cerebral saliva that needs to be reworked slightly.
I have an interesting take on this for use when I want to take the Bible literally yet allow the universe to have existed for several billion years.
There are passages in the Bible that say that when God says he will do something, it happens. It may not happen immediately, but it will happen.
So if God says on day one, let there be light, light happens. It may not happen till after day three, when God says, 'let there be lights in the sky.'
He says on day 5 (?) 'let the earth be filled with animals.' The process takes several billion years, but in God's time, that's nothing. He's not going to get bored waiting.
And so on and....
The passages that say 'And God looked at what he'd done, and saw that it was good' can be understood parenthetically---in Hebrew they could refer to a time when creation was finished.
Now this doesn't quite answer everything, but I haven't heard a young-earther come up with an explanation why it couldn't be so. And it involves a lot of rhetorical stuff that Christians will respect, if not agree with.
I left the whole creation thing behind years ago, but this argument is very useful when I'm trying to get along with some otherwise great people who have some, erm, interesting views on our origins.
Need I say how sick and tired we are of hearing this when it is so obviously wrong?
Okay, half wrong. Virus writers may move to *nix, but the security inherent in *nix means that they'll have to come up with a really ingenious model to get the virus to plant itself and propogate (I suggest moving everyone to Lin[dows|spire]). On a reasonably standard configuration, this will be much harder. And the fact that among *nix users there is so much variety in software use that will be even more so.
Current experience tells us that malware writers attack big but easy targets---compare rates of infection on MS web servers to Apache, and then compare their installation sizes.
I second this. I learnt fairly early on in parenhood that it's crucial to have a DVD sitting in the player ready to go so you don't have to bash your brains with infomercials and Benny Hinn.
Don't put a movie on though---if Junior goes to sleep quickly enough you don't want to ahve to ait an hour before the end (I mean, you can't leave a good movie half way through!)
Personally, I find Black Adder and Red Dwarf to be the best at that time of day(?). Sometimes I'd forget to check the player before turning in for the night and I'd find myself watching my wife's Will and Grace DVD, which became strangely addictive. (Changing DVDs with a nearly asleep six month old in your arms can be quite difficult.)
Documentaries are also good, but they have only so much replay value.
When you start to buy your movies based on Junior's sleeping patterns, though, you know that this little bundle of joy nearly owns you. When you start to buy The Wiggles, the transtition has been, I'm afraid, thoroughly completed. Don't worry though, you get to inflict it all on the grandkids in thirty or so years.
Umm, how is this off topic? The poster was making a perfectly on topic reply to the parent. If you didn't like his joke, mark it as 'overrated.' Otherwise, leave it alone.
Mods and meta-mods, it's time to put down your thang...
Given the fact you can't spell Maori or Aborigine, I'll assume you don't know any.
I've lived in both New Zealand and Australia, and know, or have known, a lot of each. Yes, there are those who sit down and whinge all day, wishing they they had a fairer deal and blaming the injustices of the past (and the present) for it.
I also know a lot of Pakehas/White Fellas (in fact, I am one myself) who sit down and whinge all day, wishing they they had a fairer deal and blaming the injustices of the past (and the present) for it.
And of course, I know a lot of all three races who are quite hard working and industrious. Now most Maori I know are still upset that the Pakeha Government has no intention of ever honouring the Treaty of Waitangi. And many Aborigines I know feel the injustice of having their land ripped off them, told that it should never have happened, and are forced to watch while it still happens regardless.
Most Aborigines I know, and there are a lot around where I live, would happily give every cent they own in order to be able to reconnect with their land.
Granted, all of these races have problems, but so do ours. They might drink a bit more and brawl a bit in public, but hey, white fellas send their children to church for sex and throw their old people into prison because they're not wanted.
These issues aren't quite as black and white as you seem to think.
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Nice troll.
Which Thunderbird do you use? The Mozilla one? I've been launching things with my email viewer ever since I installed the Thunderbird six or seven months ago.
Web links took a while to sort out, it's true. But that's been about it, unless you're talking about those strange *pif files which keep on turning up...
Hockey? Our men's and women's hockey teams are among the best in the world (the women won gold in Athens, and the men weren't far off either).
And we don't even need ice to play it on.
As is (on the whole), recording a show off TV, backing up a software CD, and so on.
I'm still trying to work out how someone can legally use an iPod in Australia. As I understand it (corrections accepted!) you can only buy AAC format songs from iTunes, which isn't yet available in Australia. You certainly can't rip them from oyur own CDs.
Except for cases where you explicitly have a license, or the recording is in the Public Domain, you're screwed. That's one expensive paperweight.
If we're going to go to US style copyright, at least we could get some of those good ol' Fair Use provisions. I doubt we will though.
In fact, I could imagine US MAFIA (Music and Film Industry Association) outfits citing the FTA as a reason for Congress to change US law to Australian style law.
Sorry guys, we didn't mean it.
We don't even have a Bill of Rights in our Bill of Rights.
Yes, but the paperwork says (very conveniently) that it's based in Vanuatu.
As I understand it, Johnny's excuse for not signing the agreement was that he wanted to reserve the right to preemptive strikes on terrorist bases in neighbouring nations. This was mentioned by the Foreign Minister a few months ago, but hosed down quickly.
So sorry Indonesia et al, we won't sign a non-aggression treaty because we may need to bomb you one day soon.
Well, at least it's honest. Certain other allies would sign the treaty and go 'Bombs away!' regardless.
Hear that pounding on the door? That's the Ministry of Truth organising your erasure...
I haven't read the NS article, but I do work with many people who are hard core users of a variety of drugs, and a lot of other people who work in similar occupations.
You can normally tell what drugs a person uses by their personalities, but the dope users are far and away the easiest ones to pick---the paranoia and depression stand out a mile away.
Interestingly though, drugs only seem to amplify personality traits that already exist. The question becomes one of cause and effect. Do marijuana users become paranoid and depressed because of marijuana, or do people use marijuana as a way of taking away the pain of their nascent psychological illness?
As always in these arguments, it's probably a bit of both. I just wish the damn stuff had never been discovered...
My dad always told me the g-spot was a myth.
Just like the 'PlayforSure' slogan WMP seems to have picked up.
And even if he tried to patent them, he wouldn't get too far---not one of these ideas was original, and in many cases prior art already exists. I don't think there's one Patent Office in the world that would let any of these through.
Oh, wait...
It's true---a lot of those examples in the story seem to be thought drool. That's fine as far as it goes\. I sometimes write like that, especially when I'm coding. Like a lot of others I might use some sort of English/coding language hybrid, just to get the main ideas out, and get some sort of structure in place. But then I have to go back and fill in the gaps, rearrange the structure, and recode it into something a compiler will understand.
/. has a 'Preview' button.
It's the same when I'm writing prose. It's one thing to brain drool into your mail client, word processor or whetver, but the next step isto go through and actually have a read of your own writing.
That's why
It only takes two seconds for an otherwise literate person to realise what they've written is a load of cerebral saliva that needs to be reworked slightly.
Assuming Azureus is GPL (too lazy to look) I wonder if those responsible for adding the spyware have GPled said spyware.
If not, let the FSF sort it out.
FSF versus scumbag malware distributors. Can't wait...
I have an interesting take on this for use when I want to take the Bible literally yet allow the universe to have existed for several billion years.
There are passages in the Bible that say that when God says he will do something, it happens. It may not happen immediately, but it will happen.
So if God says on day one, let there be light, light happens. It may not happen till after day three, when God says, 'let there be lights in the sky.'
He says on day 5 (?) 'let the earth be filled with animals.' The process takes several billion years, but in God's time, that's nothing. He's not going to get bored waiting.
And so on and....
The passages that say 'And God looked at what he'd done, and saw that it was good' can be understood parenthetically---in Hebrew they could refer to a time when creation was finished.
Now this doesn't quite answer everything, but I haven't heard a young-earther come up with an explanation why it couldn't be so. And it involves a lot of rhetorical stuff that Christians will respect, if not agree with.
I left the whole creation thing behind years ago, but this argument is very useful when I'm trying to get along with some otherwise great people who have some, erm, interesting views on our origins.
Yeah, I get pR0n spam too.
Another Korean old people joke. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! At least in Soviet Russia, the email reads YOU!
Need I say how sick and tired we are of hearing this when it is so obviously wrong?
Okay, half wrong. Virus writers may move to *nix, but the security inherent in *nix means that they'll have to come up with a really ingenious model to get the virus to plant itself and propogate (I suggest moving everyone to Lin[dows|spire]). On a reasonably standard configuration, this will be much harder. And the fact that among *nix users there is so much variety in software use that will be even more so.
Current experience tells us that malware writers attack big but easy targets---compare rates of infection on MS web servers to Apache, and then compare their installation sizes.
QED.
I second this. I learnt fairly early on in parenhood that it's crucial to have a DVD sitting in the player ready to go so you don't have to bash your brains with infomercials and Benny Hinn.
Don't put a movie on though---if Junior goes to sleep quickly enough you don't want to ahve to ait an hour before the end (I mean, you can't leave a good movie half way through!)
Personally, I find Black Adder and Red Dwarf to be the best at that time of day(?). Sometimes I'd forget to check the player before turning in for the night and I'd find myself watching my wife's Will and Grace DVD, which became strangely addictive. (Changing DVDs with a nearly asleep six month old in your arms can be quite difficult.)
Documentaries are also good, but they have only so much replay value.
When you start to buy your movies based on Junior's sleeping patterns, though, you know that this little bundle of joy nearly owns you. When you start to buy The Wiggles, the transtition has been, I'm afraid, thoroughly completed. Don't worry though, you get to inflict it all on the grandkids in thirty or so years.
WIN TV is watched by a third of the Australian population? Really?
The bloke they pay (okay, the other networks too) to get the aspect ratio right seriously needs sacking.
Sorry, bad day at the office...!
All your users are belong to US!!!
Mate, I've got to get a life...
Umm, how is this off topic? The poster was making a perfectly on topic reply to the parent. If you didn't like his joke, mark it as 'overrated.' Otherwise, leave it alone.
Mods and meta-mods, it's time to put down your thang...
Not quite. I use Thunderbird, and apparently Eric Raymond's wife is a very happy but nontechy Kmail user.
Good point though.
I've lived in both New Zealand and Australia, and know, or have known, a lot of each. Yes, there are those who sit down and whinge all day, wishing they they had a fairer deal and blaming the injustices of the past (and the present) for it.
I also know a lot of Pakehas/White Fellas (in fact, I am one myself) who sit down and whinge all day, wishing they they had a fairer deal and blaming the injustices of the past (and the present) for it.
And of course, I know a lot of all three races who are quite hard working and industrious. Now most Maori I know are still upset that the Pakeha Government has no intention of ever honouring the Treaty of Waitangi. And many Aborigines I know feel the injustice of having their land ripped off them, told that it should never have happened, and are forced to watch while it still happens regardless.
Most Aborigines I know, and there are a lot around where I live, would happily give every cent they own in order to be able to reconnect with their land.
Granted, all of these races have problems, but so do ours. They might drink a bit more and brawl a bit in public, but hey, white fellas send their children to church for sex and throw their old people into prison because they're not wanted.
These issues aren't quite as black and white as you seem to think.
"Are you sure, or do you want to run firefox?"
Umm, "Okay."
Okay sure or okay firefox?
And I thought Mac coders took these sorts of things seriously...
Goats, but no Goatse. Of that I'm glad.
And I seriously hope that this is your online only persona speaking, because if it's not, I'd expect a friendly visit from the hedge clippers soon.
What's your default search engine? Google is the standard default, but I don't know about your copy.