Then lots of years of news reports and gimmicky comedies followed (Chaplin anyone? I'm not sure his work is Oscar worthy but..).
Chaplin won a regular Oscar, two honorary Oscars, and a further three nominations, along with numerous other honours.
Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in highly critically acclaimed films like The Great Dictator and Modern Times, both of which are in the IMDB's top 250 films of all time.
You can't dismiss Chaplin as gimmicky comedy, that's just not fair.
You're right...I'm in Melbourne, and can choose from dozens and dozens of ISPs...most of them do suck, however. As there's basically no such thing as unlimited downloading in Australia (see previous sentence) I'm agog that we manage to steal a billion dollars worth of music a year, as it takes so fucking long to steal on our crappy bandwidth.
The ABC is an underfunded public service - there's a difference between allowing your material to be posted on YouTube, and allowing the entire content of your program to be reused by the rest of the world. I'm an Australian, I pay a LOT of tax, and the ABC is one of the few media producers I have sympathy for. When I mentioned DVD sales, I was talking about how they can get some money (which all goes towards production costs for more excellent television) from the rest of the world, who've not contributed via taxes. Oh, and we can watch it as many times as we want, via our own recorded copies or vodcast, so nobody's asking Aussies to pay twice.
At the end of the legal blurb you'll see that it's a standard form written by people from Screenrights, a royalty collection company that collects money primarily from schools & colleges using television content in teaching. The ABC, like any starved-for-money service with a DVD market, does need some form of revenue protection, and they contract Screnrights to provide it. The spirit and intent to make everything available to everyone is still there.
To be fair to the ABC, their income is neither set in stone, nor reasonable. Our current government has been slowly choking the ABC for years, and excellent shows like the Chaser can make them some desperately needed money in DVD sales (where non-Australians get a chance to pay for it). I'm not arguing that clips shouldn't be available everywhere, but they do have a reason to protect their content in some way.
The DMCA becomes an interesting issue when the material isn't American. I'm curious about whose laws apply with regard to a takedown notice coming from outside the domain of the Act. Obviously, IANAL.
The ABC allows its own content to be posted, not the shows it carries. Also, it's a non-commercial station, so it's not really relevant in terms of the Viacom vs YouTube debate.
3,00 readers of one SF magazine...yeah, that's definitive. I can think of a handful of SF films better than either. I'm a huge Firefly fan, loved Star Wars, but this "trouncing" is only slightly more relevant than me and my homies declaring 'Jabba the Slut' best SF-porn of all time on our MySpace page.
Your client take the position that my middle-aged, conservative clients should speculate regarding the identity of persons your clients' claim used their AOL account to download pornographic-lyric gangsta rap tracks as predicate to possible case resolution. In an age of Wintel-virus created bot-farms, spoofs, and easily cracked WEP encrypted wireless home networks (among other easy hacks), the only tech-savvy response to such a request is, "You've got to be kidding." The extensive press that has been generated over computer security (and the insecurity of Windows XP and its predecessors) underscores the complete absence of facts on which probable cause to sue my clients could be established and your clients' willingness (even insistence) that others be implicated in Big Music's speculative, "driftnet" litigation tactics. Sorry: Mr. Merchant cannot and will not expose himself to still more litigation by speculating.
It's purely a personal thing, but I like my computer BIG. I have an extended ATX tower, so many monitors I cook a chicken if I place it correctly amongst them, and peripheral devices stretching beyond the horizon in every direction. Every time I try to operate a notebook's mouse replacement pad thing I very quickly feel like a 'tard.
My employer rocks. The day before payday, I get a choice of being paid for the month at my salary rate, or I can take it as hourly pay, the hourly rate being ever-so-slightly less than salary/37.5...so if I work more than a couple of hours OT a month, I take option B. It's a good deal, and I work my ass off because I work for reasonable people.
Sure, but I've installed Dapper, and I have 1440x900 native resolution, and I was amazed when first trying Linux that I had to manually edit a file to get that option - it's just not a good omen when you're making a major move like switching OSes. As for this not being a Windows vs Linux article, read t5he summary...I was specifically addressing a claim made in the review - that this release would be good for Windows/OSX users to switch to.
..There was a problem though and X11 would crash on load -- and the graphical safe mode would not work either (confirmed bug). The 915resolution hack was not needed for my Intel graphics card, but I needed to have more information for my laptop's LCD. By manually entering the vertical and horizontal sync in the xorg.conf file it fixed the problem for my 1440x900 screen and I was able to load the LiveCD and finally install Feisty on the hard drive.
Yeah, that sounds really easy for an average Windows user...I'm sure you wouldn't lose 99% of them right there. If you honestly think that an OS which needs a "hack" or "manually entering the vertical and horizontal sync in the xorg.conf file" beofre it will install is ready to compete with one that installs with nothing more challenging than "what time zone are you in", you're fooling yourself.
Internode is a great isp, I get an 8mbps plan with free premium usenet access and a 40gb limit for $90 a month.
You think that's a reasonable plan? $90 a month for 40gb is out-fucking-rageous. I know 'node stack up well within Aus, but go to Europe and see how good that deal looks. $90 a month with a cap of any sort is ridiculous money. Best of a cretinous bunch is barely a good thing...I have European friends paying half what you do for unlimited 24/1 megabit lines. I reiterate, Australian internet access is outrageously expensive and our government is taking the ISPs' side, rather than advocating for consumers. So it will remain shit. Our telecommunications minister is repeating "nobody's complaining" every time someone asks "dude, wtf?", and as long as she refuses to hear the complaints, the big guys will keep bending us over and screwing us...the only good deal you can get in Australia is the equivalent of a reach-around during your reaming.
I'm with an Australian ISP, on an 'unlimited' plan. The problem is, 'unlimited' doesn't apply when the ISP's network utilization is over 80% - which since they oversell their bandwidth is always...so my 'unlimited' 1.5 mbit line is capped 24/7 to around 768kbits.
I find it unsurprising that countries that are decidedly anti-consumer, pro-corporate like Australia & the US are seriously lagging in broadband adoption...you've essentially got to be desperate for internet access to go for any of the ISP offerings.
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Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in highly critically acclaimed films like The Great Dictator and Modern Times, both of which are in the IMDB's top 250 films of all time.
You can't dismiss Chaplin as gimmicky comedy, that's just not fair.
I've got modpoints, and I consider it a sign of my maturity that I don't smack you down for wanting to own "Hey, Dad!"
Outside the US, your weaker dollar makes the OLPC cheaper for everyone else, as $175US is less in their local currency.
MS, Google, Mozilla, Opera...pick the odd one out of this list of browser creators.
Thanks! You're right, that's not so interesting.
You're right...I'm in Melbourne, and can choose from dozens and dozens of ISPs...most of them do suck, however. As there's basically no such thing as unlimited downloading in Australia (see previous sentence) I'm agog that we manage to steal a billion dollars worth of music a year, as it takes so fucking long to steal on our crappy bandwidth.
The ABC is an underfunded public service - there's a difference between allowing your material to be posted on YouTube, and allowing the entire content of your program to be reused by the rest of the world. I'm an Australian, I pay a LOT of tax, and the ABC is one of the few media producers I have sympathy for. When I mentioned DVD sales, I was talking about how they can get some money (which all goes towards production costs for more excellent television) from the rest of the world, who've not contributed via taxes. Oh, and we can watch it as many times as we want, via our own recorded copies or vodcast, so nobody's asking Aussies to pay twice.
At the end of the legal blurb you'll see that it's a standard form written by people from Screenrights, a royalty collection company that collects money primarily from schools & colleges using television content in teaching. The ABC, like any starved-for-money service with a DVD market, does need some form of revenue protection, and they contract Screnrights to provide it. The spirit and intent to make everything available to everyone is still there.
To be fair to the ABC, their income is neither set in stone, nor reasonable. Our current government has been slowly choking the ABC for years, and excellent shows like the Chaser can make them some desperately needed money in DVD sales (where non-Australians get a chance to pay for it). I'm not arguing that clips shouldn't be available everywhere, but they do have a reason to protect their content in some way.
The DMCA becomes an interesting issue when the material isn't American. I'm curious about whose laws apply with regard to a takedown notice coming from outside the domain of the Act. Obviously, IANAL.
The ABC allows its own content to be posted, not the shows it carries. Also, it's a non-commercial station, so it's not really relevant in terms of the Viacom vs YouTube debate.
3,000 - there, fixed :D
3,00 readers of one SF magazine...yeah, that's definitive. I can think of a handful of SF films better than either. I'm a huge Firefly fan, loved Star Wars, but this "trouncing" is only slightly more relevant than me and my homies declaring 'Jabba the Slut' best SF-porn of all time on our MySpace page.
It's purely a personal thing, but I like my computer BIG. I have an extended ATX tower, so many monitors I cook a chicken if I place it correctly amongst them, and peripheral devices stretching beyond the horizon in every direction. Every time I try to operate a notebook's mouse replacement pad thing I very quickly feel like a 'tard.
Never use the word 'actionize' again, I beg you.
My employer rocks. The day before payday, I get a choice of being paid for the month at my salary rate, or I can take it as hourly pay, the hourly rate being ever-so-slightly less than salary/37.5...so if I work more than a couple of hours OT a month, I take option B. It's a good deal, and I work my ass off because I work for reasonable people.
Sure, but I've installed Dapper, and I have 1440x900 native resolution, and I was amazed when first trying Linux that I had to manually edit a file to get that option - it's just not a good omen when you're making a major move like switching OSes. As for this not being a Windows vs Linux article, read t5he summary...I was specifically addressing a claim made in the review - that this release would be good for Windows/OSX users to switch to.
You, sir, have made my day. Comedy gold!
My mistake, I meant unlimited up/downloads, not bandwidth. Frankly, for browsing, our latency sucks balls too.
I'm with an Australian ISP, on an 'unlimited' plan. The problem is, 'unlimited' doesn't apply when the ISP's network utilization is over 80% - which since they oversell their bandwidth is always...so my 'unlimited' 1.5 mbit line is capped 24/7 to around 768kbits.
I find it unsurprising that countries that are decidedly anti-consumer, pro-corporate like Australia & the US are seriously lagging in broadband adoption...you've essentially got to be desperate for internet access to go for any of the ISP offerings.