Posts by David Hamilton
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Another way of looking at it is that a ~90% vote on a contentious issue is a good signal that the referendum shouldn't really have happened. If the question is so easy to answer in one direction, why the need to ask it? It's more a testament to the wording of the question, and as Ben said, the government doesn't need to read any more into it than is there.
As someone who doesn't think a smack should be a criminal offense, but thinks the assault law is just fine and working, it's frustrating that the No answer is being used as a evidence to try and change the law. Would have been nice to see a question that more honestly linked the issues.
From the quote it sounds like he's done some thorough experimentation. The fucker.
I knew Larry through being friends with his kids when I was in my late teens. He's a decent guy and a good dad, however much I disagree with his methods and his politics.
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Gmail has something like what you're looking for, but for drunken messages. Surely some adaptive text analysis could catch most of the conscious but regrettable ones too.
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It wouldn't be so much where you were up to, but the last comment that was displayed to your browser that session (whether or not you actually read it or not). That is usually close enough.
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Another vote here against threading - ideas unfolding in a stream of consciousness narrative style is much better, more like a real discussion. One feature I would find super useful is the ability jump to the first new post since I was last on. I tend to catch up fairly intermittently.
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The shitty thing is that if I want to to see any more films, I need to drive up Highway One again. Biill Gosden cancelled the Hamilton festival (after 31 years of festivals), arguing that there wasn't a suitable venue (the Rialto has closed and the Lido in moving in , in late September). There are plenty of available screens, so he has really done us a dirty. Greymouth gets a festival but Hamilton doesn't!!
Ah, I was wondering why I completely missed it this year. What I love about them is that they bring some seriously good animation. Sad I missed Ponyo, but I in the past I have caught Evangelion 1.0, Steamboy, Paprika and The Triplets of Bellville - one of my all time favourite animated movies.
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But seriously, I'm going to have to have *that* conversation with this person obviously, but I've put it off partly because I don't remember how it goes in its tactful version, and partly because in 2009 it's so rare to find people who will do that. It's almost got a retro kitsch nostalgia value.
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Does this remind anyone else of the Presidential briefings in the Simpsons movie?
"Pick a number between one and five..."
"Six"
"There is no six.""I was elected to lead, not to read"
Isn't that what organised religion is for?
Sometimes it is, other times it isn't. I know what you're getting at but statements like this are a bit blanket for my tastes.
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Team, I'd like to give us a pep talk about the real issue here, which is that if we all pull together, we've got a serious chance of making it to 100 pages!
Word. This thread feels like an old, though cantakerous friend.
In their position with examples of copy protect that do work and with budgets in the multi million of dollars for each of their products what really is fair to expect of them?
Should they dismantle their protection so that primary school teachers can have a crisp digital copy of a chunk of barney for their kids to dance to?I mainly agree with you here rob, there is no motivation for the DVD copyright owners to provide special treatment for, well, anyone. I'm guessing no legal obligation either. The MPAA endorsing a copy method indicates though that they agree that in some circumstances it's ok to use their content in ways unsupported by the media.
It makes me wonder whether there should be an obligation to allow certain groups looser copyright restrictions in a technologically up to date way. Lets take into account the fact that people who wish to acquire the content using copyright circumvention will always be able to, so are outside the system anyway. Then whats the problem with licensing differently to education and giving them tools to extract some of the content for digital use?
Nice to dream anyway.
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Interesting article on a new P2P study
Instead of enforcement, the study implies that copyright holders should view P2P file sharing as a new kind of broadcast medium, one which should be licensed. A legitimate market, in other words.
I personally think P2P technologies are a great way to address some of the problems with distribution of content. It's sad that the technology is so allied in peoples minds with piracy and copyright infringement.
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Not sure why it's worse than saying they're nuts, implying mental illness. Although for all that it seems to be fairly common phraseology in this part of the world implying they've done something rather bizarre and irrational. And so they have.
Sorry I should have been more specific - I was in complete agreement with you. It's low, even for the MPAA. It's astonishing they could even consider touting that as the solution.
what are the implications of allowing schools to copy and how would it happen?
do they give em software which allows a work around?
do they issue them with un copy protected versions?
I can see the immediate flaw in both of those ideas.on top of that I can't really see a reason to copy a dvd for teaching purposes other than maybe to show selected excerpts to film students but that's what scene selection on a dvd is for isn't it.
Would be nice if the text rule (no more than 10% is it?) applied, though you're right about it being difficult to allow only limited access. Perhaps watermarking as educational with the name of the organisation would be enough.
As far as video excerpts converted from dvd for teaching go I can think of a few examples. Embedded in powerpoint for the lecture, available online for students, easier frame captures for notes etc, could probably go on.