the moral compass

<completely lost now>

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'^'

 

BLT

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Doh! <slaps forehead>

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'^'

 

Arnie in the nude? Didn't do anything for me, I'm afraid but to each his
own.

 

Have you come across the Baen Free Library? Said SF publisher
experimented with putting complete novels on their site, in easily useable
formats, at no charge. The authors whose work has been made available
have seen their royalties increase significantly.

There's a sort of editorial thing there as well, mostly with articles
about their experiment and copyright generally which makes quite
interesting reading. Some articles from musicians, also.

 

There are some practical differences: if I download a piece of music which
I like I am then more likely to buy other work by the same artist(s).
That's clearly not very likely with software.

However, it's actually quite difficult to see what the difference is: I'd
be taking someone's intellectual property for my own use in both cases.

Perhaps the problem lies with the type of legal protection available.
Copyright laws were introduced for the benefit of the consumer: to
encourage artists - primarily writers initially - to produce more work.
That's fairly straightforward, although publishers are trying to subvert
the original intent.

Software gets covered by copyright - in the UK - because it was a
convenient body of existing law. But that model doesn't really work very
well except, perhaps, for various types of Free software.

 

I do, but I thought you still worked in Docklands.

Oh fair enough; let me know when.

 

erm, sometimes it is. I'm starting to take notice of which
games companies produce games I Like, and so will head towards
those in future...

 

I use the Darsy "cigarette break" defense

And I love you, ya big lug.

 

Have you met the new bosses? Are they the same as the old bosses?

 

Salad Dodger

"Nordostersjokustarilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningsmaterielunderhasupp
foljningssystemdiskuss"

"Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmütze"

 

Doc Gonz0

For Dodger? You'd need arms like an Orang-Utan.

 

Nah, he won't get fooled again.


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BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Agglutinating languages rock.

Phil

 

even our dyslexic, dyspraxic, statemented 10 year old can string
sentences together better than the above.

Having said that, I must say I laughed when I noticed he has a little
excercise book with "Speeling Book" written on the front of it.

 

I should have said, these are PCs, nothing flash.

 

ever considered going on an "English as a Second Language" course? I
/think/ I know what you mean, but it's a struggle.

not me, for sure.

 

"not smoking break".

 

What does 'statemented' mean?

 

he has been issued a "statement of special educational needs" by the
local education authority. Basically just means he gets some extra
help at school. He's not nearly as bad as what I wrote above might
make you think. He's only got some "issues" with explaining in words
what's going on in his head. And he's actually pretty good at
speeling.