Jeez, your domestic carriers must be garbage;-) Qantas here charge more than the other carriers (one of which they own: Jetstar) they regularly bump full-fare paying flyers down from unfull Qantas flights to Jetstar (no refund on the difference in ticket price, no upgrade on Jetstar service levels) and even if the delay in checking in is their fault, they'll cut you off and bump you to the next flight. Virgin Blue all the way for me (and looking forward to Tiger Air starting up into Hobart - real competition)
Also, it's likely Qantas will announce a fare hike next week to cover the net fitout.
Wrap your head in tinfoil, too, I reckon. You never know when the scanners are tracking your thoughts. (Bloody 'eck, sometimes there aren't enough eyes to roll!)
For anybody writing viruses, the punishment should be just enough torture each day to keep them in a life of constant and excruciating pain for the rest of their natural life:-/
Especially if they're trying to bring the whole, bullshit, windows-rampant virus/antivirus economy to my beloved platform:-( That just totally sucks.
Well, actually, the Forbidden Fruit would have been a pommegranate (the Bible originating in the Middle East and North Africa, 'n'all), therefore this joke holds no water. Besides, while we're getting all biblical (I'm an atheist BTW) surely, as Mac OS X has more open source code in its base than does Windows (er, none?), Macroslop worships Mamon while Apple is giving (a bit, anyway) to the community, making Apple the less evil one;-)
Do we need to wait for the law to change? Surely artists, coders or any creative can set a duration on their rights, and as the artist owns the work, not the parliament or congress which passes copyright laws, the shorter duration would apply.
I suggest that, if you support this rational approach, where you can you should tag all your commercial work as having an abbreviated rights period. Should give the lawyers something to scratch their heads over;-)
I've said this before, but as an indie artist who gives away tracks to encourage audiences to buy others, the day I discover one of my free tracks with Microsoft DRM on it is the day Microsoft will rue. Same for Apple, or any agent undertaking this automatically.
No agency has the right to implement a device that, through automation, restricts rights on my IP that I expressly don't restrict. I don't care if they hand me every red cent of the cash raised, if I put a song out there free, I want it to be free, not restricted.
Their arses will be grass to my lawnmower, and I'll share the proceeds of any suit equally with anybody who sends me a zune DRM encrypted copy of one of my songs. I respect the right of any artist to reserve rights, but my rights are main to NOT reserve, not Microsofts to unilaterally reserve for me, the bastards.
The trouble with pure mathematicians is they have such a poor grasp of english;-) Less is a measure of degree: you don't want lesser girls, they're not as good as better girls. Fewer is a measure of quantity: you want more girls, but because you're a math geek, you get fewer. Less is common usage, I know, but that never makes it "right", it changes the core of the language and meaning gets lost between generations.
Back on topic (and there was a point to my nit pick) programming is a symbiosis of mathematics and linguistics. If you like, the less/fewer mixup is like not understanding the difference between while/wend and do/while.
I recently commented on another post... "We live in a golden age, but we're surrounded by fools." In this case, it's the clowns who think patenting a "1-click" is worth trying on. If people had a sense of community like they did in the Victorian era (when most "modern" patent systems were established) then we wouldn't need to worry about somebody thinking they could claim they invented 1-Click. And as for those "researchers" who claimed to have "invented" wireless power transmission last month... HOW CAN SOMEBODY WORKING IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING NOT KNOW ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA'S WORK?
The album is not dead, there will always be a place for it. As an economically practical means of delivering music with value for money for the consumer and label it no longer applies, and for ditties and pop, the single is a good way to go, but there is always a place for collections of related songs. Seriously, do these clowns who say the album is dead also say the musical is? Does a true Pink Floyd fan love Shine On You Crazy Diamond, but hate the rest of the album? How would you take a Magical Mystery Tour without an album? This is just more record label hype dressed up as "serving the market". I live in a golden age, yet I'm surrounded by fools!
I wish the RIAA had prevented me from playing guitar. Instead of being a pirating covers band bass player I might have studied harder and become a record industry lawyer. Now THAT's how to make it in the music biz:-/
Maybe it's just cleverly harnessing all that pent up sexual energy out there and turning it into electricity. We don't notice it yet because they've only got a prototype, but if this is rolled out worldwide we'll all lose our libidos!
In a land obsessed with fame, we're suprised a former US Army PR flak would purjor themself while alive and not allow the affidavit's publication until after his death. A desperate grasp for a last minute entry in the record books.
As for the idea that an alien race that could come here from so far away wouldn't crash, well, have a look at traffic stats. People of high of high IQ, in well-maintained, late-model cars, are just as likely to crash as anybody in the community. Just because a species is advanced doesn't mean it's naturally going to follow that individuals in that species will be perfect.
Wake me up when I can stick 10 of them in my ear, still hear, use speech recognition and voice synth to interface, and be on wireless ultrabroadband at a carrier frequency the won't give me head cancer...
That will be cool.
Look, this is a US ruling, affecting US netcasters. US law doesn't apply in Australia or the UK (yet, anyway), so while I support the netcasters affected, and support their stand, net "radio" will not go silent. In fact, this may just briefly reverse the torrent of cultural steamrollering the rest of the world gets. You yanks may just get to hear a different cultural view to your own;-)
There is a minimum weight a car can be and remain practical. There is a minimum energy input required to move this car in any practical way. There are actual thermodynamic limits to how much of that motion energy can actually be released from the energy source. There is a global population that cannot support universal BICYCLE ownership, let alone universal car ownership and it's growing... FAST (It'll be 10 billion before we know it!) People really believe we'll have hydrogen fuel cell cars and and the good life for all?
If we could harness every photon that falls on the earth, and turn it into one electron movement in a wire, there's still a limit to the population this planet can support. Welcome to entropy, even electric cars and magic wands can't beat that. {sheesh}
As a Mac user forced to suffer PCs at work, I have to say Safari on doze isn't going to take off until there's a drag-drop install. The PCs at my workplace are install-locked. If you're not an administrator, you can't install... unless you get the mobile version of Firefox or copy the Firefox folder from a PC with it installed (which is how I come to be using FF to make this post.) Safari needs to be drag-droppable before Windows users will adopt it in any numbers. As long as it's strict Macroslop "only-install-from-the-installer" people are not going to try it at work, and that's how it could make inroads into most people's lives. Apple have dropped the ball on this one.
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Jeez, your domestic carriers must be garbage ;-) Qantas here charge more than the other carriers (one of which they own: Jetstar) they regularly bump full-fare paying flyers down from unfull Qantas flights to Jetstar (no refund on the difference in ticket price, no upgrade on Jetstar service levels) and even if the delay in checking in is their fault, they'll cut you off and bump you to the next flight. Virgin Blue all the way for me (and looking forward to Tiger Air starting up into Hobart - real competition)
Also, it's likely Qantas will announce a fare hike next week to cover the net fitout.
While you're cloning your liver, get 'em to do me a new pancreas, I just bought a big tub of ice cream ;-)
Wrap your head in tinfoil, too, I reckon. You never know when the scanners are tracking your thoughts. (Bloody 'eck, sometimes there aren't enough eyes to roll!)
For anybody writing viruses, the punishment should be just enough torture each day to keep them in a life of constant and excruciating pain for the rest of their natural life :-/
Especially if they're trying to bring the whole, bullshit, windows-rampant virus/antivirus economy to my beloved platform :-( That just totally sucks.
I agree. Also, "Bloody Hell!" :-( I was going to do this a few months back and decided there was no money in it! Poop poop poop. :-(
Well, actually, the Forbidden Fruit would have been a pommegranate (the Bible originating in the Middle East and North Africa, 'n'all), therefore this joke holds no water. Besides, while we're getting all biblical (I'm an atheist BTW) surely, as Mac OS X has more open source code in its base than does Windows (er, none?), Macroslop worships Mamon while Apple is giving (a bit, anyway) to the community, making Apple the less evil one ;-)
Do we need to wait for the law to change? Surely artists, coders or any creative can set a duration on their rights, and as the artist owns the work, not the parliament or congress which passes copyright laws, the shorter duration would apply.
;-)
I suggest that, if you support this rational approach, where you can you should tag all your commercial work as having an abbreviated rights period. Should give the lawyers something to scratch their heads over
I've said this before, but as an indie artist who gives away tracks to encourage audiences to buy others, the day I discover one of my free tracks with Microsoft DRM on it is the day Microsoft will rue. Same for Apple, or any agent undertaking this automatically.
No agency has the right to implement a device that, through automation, restricts rights on my IP that I expressly don't restrict. I don't care if they hand me every red cent of the cash raised, if I put a song out there free, I want it to be free, not restricted.
Their arses will be grass to my lawnmower, and I'll share the proceeds of any suit equally with anybody who sends me a zune DRM encrypted copy of one of my songs. I respect the right of any artist to reserve rights, but my rights are main to NOT reserve, not Microsofts to unilaterally reserve for me, the bastards.
QUOTE: If someone is severely punished by an autonomous robot, who are you going to take to a tribunal?
The robot's owner, duh!
The trouble with pure mathematicians is they have such a poor grasp of english ;-) Less is a measure of degree: you don't want lesser girls, they're not as good as better girls. Fewer is a measure of quantity: you want more girls, but because you're a math geek, you get fewer. Less is common usage, I know, but that never makes it "right", it changes the core of the language and meaning gets lost between generations.
Back on topic (and there was a point to my nit pick) programming is a symbiosis of mathematics and linguistics. If you like, the less/fewer mixup is like not understanding the difference between while/wend and do/while.
I recently commented on another post... "We live in a golden age, but we're surrounded by fools." In this case, it's the clowns who think patenting a "1-click" is worth trying on. If people had a sense of community like they did in the Victorian era (when most "modern" patent systems were established) then we wouldn't need to worry about somebody thinking they could claim they invented 1-Click. And as for those "researchers" who claimed to have "invented" wireless power transmission last month... HOW CAN SOMEBODY WORKING IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING NOT KNOW ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA'S WORK?
The album is not dead, there will always be a place for it. As an economically practical means of delivering music with value for money for the consumer and label it no longer applies, and for ditties and pop, the single is a good way to go, but there is always a place for collections of related songs. Seriously, do these clowns who say the album is dead also say the musical is? Does a true Pink Floyd fan love Shine On You Crazy Diamond, but hate the rest of the album? How would you take a Magical Mystery Tour without an album? This is just more record label hype dressed up as "serving the market". I live in a golden age, yet I'm surrounded by fools!
I wish the RIAA had prevented me from playing guitar. Instead of being a pirating covers band bass player I might have studied harder and become a record industry lawyer. Now THAT's how to make it in the music biz :-/
Maybe it's just cleverly harnessing all that pent up sexual energy out there and turning it into electricity. We don't notice it yet because they've only got a prototype, but if this is rolled out worldwide we'll all lose our libidos!
;-)
(I do take the piss here, BTW.)
In a land obsessed with fame, we're suprised a former US Army PR flak would purjor themself while alive and not allow the affidavit's publication until after his death. A desperate grasp for a last minute entry in the record books. As for the idea that an alien race that could come here from so far away wouldn't crash, well, have a look at traffic stats. People of high of high IQ, in well-maintained, late-model cars, are just as likely to crash as anybody in the community. Just because a species is advanced doesn't mean it's naturally going to follow that individuals in that species will be perfect.
...Isaac Asimov's psychohistorians from the Foundation trilogy! Awesome and scarey all at once.
Wake me up when I can stick 10 of them in my ear, still hear, use speech recognition and voice synth to interface, and be on wireless ultrabroadband at a carrier frequency the won't give me head cancer... That will be cool.
Look, this is a US ruling, affecting US netcasters. US law doesn't apply in Australia or the UK (yet, anyway), so while I support the netcasters affected, and support their stand, net "radio" will not go silent. In fact, this may just briefly reverse the torrent of cultural steamrollering the rest of the world gets. You yanks may just get to hear a different cultural view to your own ;-)
amen brother... er... seems like a logical proposition to me ;-)
There's plenty of internet radio OUTSIDE the USA ;-)
(Mind you, some poor Australian just got extradited recently for breaking US law although he'd never been to the USA)
Bring on peak oil, I say.
...by 2009 no child will be without MSN {rolls eyes}
There is a minimum weight a car can be and remain practical. There is a minimum energy input required to move this car in any practical way. There are actual thermodynamic limits to how much of that motion energy can actually be released from the energy source. There is a global population that cannot support universal BICYCLE ownership, let alone universal car ownership and it's growing... FAST (It'll be 10 billion before we know it!) People really believe we'll have hydrogen fuel cell cars and and the good life for all?
If we could harness every photon that falls on the earth, and turn it into one electron movement in a wire, there's still a limit to the population this planet can support. Welcome to entropy, even electric cars and magic wands can't beat that. {sheesh}
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As a Mac user forced to suffer PCs at work, I have to say Safari on doze isn't going to take off until there's a drag-drop install. The PCs at my workplace are install-locked. If you're not an administrator, you can't install... unless you get the mobile version of Firefox or copy the Firefox folder from a PC with it installed (which is how I come to be using FF to make this post.) Safari needs to be drag-droppable before Windows users will adopt it in any numbers. As long as it's strict Macroslop "only-install-from-the-installer" people are not going to try it at work, and that's how it could make inroads into most people's lives. Apple have dropped the ball on this one.
Beta Version, people, Beta Version.