Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Re: Australian Teachers Being Discriminated Against ..
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:46:18 +0100
On 15 Aug 2006, at 23:03, Jo Booth wrote:
Some good points, matt...
That's fine. Here in the UK we break the law every time we media
shift as encoding a CD onto our computer has always been illegal.
Ditto here in New Zealand, though a review of copyright laws is "in
progress" - generally these reviews result in heavy lobbying by
record companies, for no net consumer benefit, if anything - we end
up worse off.
Ys, I agree the trend is going the wrong way in some areas.
The addition of adding "Trusted Computing" to the kernel is
disturbing to say the least.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html
Why? Do you honestly think it will make a difference to your life?
I think it's another step down the wrong sort of road if the
technology isn't used as it should - giving us choice... It might
not make a difference to my life, illegal as it is to play my CDs
on a computer already, but, in time... Take look at the animated
short at <http://www.lafkon.net/tc/> if you haven't already.
Lawerence Lessig usually has a few words of that general topic as
well: <http://www.lessig.org/blog/>
I read Lessig's blog already. I just don't see it as being seriously
detrimental to my life. I see buying music a little like see plane
travel. At some point it becomes too much of a pain in the butt to do
it there way so you look for alternatives.
In the case of music, I'm turning to different bands. In the case of
plane travel, I'm intending to see if there are better/easier ways to
get to Apple Expo this year.
Why not take it a step further? When Ubuntu gets the bugs out and
the GUI tuned I'd try it, and I'm a photographer not a computer
guy. Maybe a slightly above average mac user. Best.
I'm a geek. I've been using UNIX for longer than I've been using a
Mac. When Apple married the Mac to UNIX, it was like coming home.
Ubuntu is still a pain in the butt. Ugly too.
Heh, I too have been using Linux/Unix for a while, and still take
my linux/ubuntu laptop with Apple sticker to MUG committee
meetings. Windows till '96 then Linux till 2001, then OS 7 and OS X
shortly after.
My own progression was Ultrix -> Windows 3.1 -> Mac System 7 ->
Solaris/HPUX -> Windows NT/2000 -> OSX
Jo Booth
Executive Committee Member
Unlimited Potential
http://up.org.nz
+64 21 526684
My business partner is an ex-pat English Kiwi (from England, lived in
NZ for 7 years, considers it her true home....now living in Ireland).
She's a long time Mac head as well. How's the Mac scene in NZ?
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