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11 Apr 2006
URGENT
The In-Class Test for Classical Mythology scheduled for 12 noon on Wednesday 12 April has been postponed to 12 noon Wednesday 26 April 2006 (in General Lecture Theatre, Main Quad).
The NTEU has today requested its academic members not to penalise students for missing classes in order to attend the VSU rally at 12 noon on Wednesday 12 April. In view of this request, the department of Classics and Ancient History has agreed that the test be postponed.
We regret any inconvenience caused. Please contact me (email.suppressed@arts.usyd.edu.au) if this decision has caused problems for you. Also please note that as the rescheduled test will be held in university teaching time we cannot accept work or social engagements as valid excuses for not attending the test at the rescheduled time.
Thank you, SRC!
(For the record, I don’t mind the USU at all… at present I’d possibly even pay fees next year! The SRC’s political agenda is a little vomit-worthy most of the time… but I may go get a free lunch from them on Wednesday. ;-))
10 Apr 2006
I love it when things just work. Printing directly from LyX rocks. Adobe’s Acrobat gets no opportunity to butcher things by ‘scaling to fit’ (despite the page being designed with generous margins, etc.).
10 Apr 2006
It’s just great organising software. I doubt I’d pay for it on its own, but seeing as it comes with CS there’s nothing much wrong with it. At a pinch, it can also be used for slide shows (for weird corporates like AMP that ship Adobe CS but have held back their MS Office to ’97! Hence, there’s no PowerPoint “insert photos” wizard, and on Win 2k there’s no picture and fax viewer that does slideshows.)
09 Apr 2006
I am procrastinating so hard right now. All I’ve gotta do is write a measly 500 words for an essay plan and it’s just so not happening. So I’m cropping and rotating photos. Have some cool sky.
And a pyramid rope thingy that looks like it’s on fire.
And a freaking huge piece of Jaeger Schnitzel.
We all ate way too much that night… the Schnitzel developed its own identity (or became a certain someone’s baby…) and much strangeness was had by all.
Slowly playing catch-up with content, here! Heh. I haven’t got time for Flickr I’ve decided… it needs to fill in descriptions for you as well! What is this Web 2.0 crap? I want omniscient AI already: it knows everything about my photos so I don’t have to. I’d pay for that…
08 Apr 2006
“It would be quite wrong if fictional writers were to have their writings pored over in the way DVC ( ‘Da Vinci Code’) has been pored over in this case by authors of pretend historical books to make an allegation of infringement of copyright,” Judge Peter Smith said in his 71-page ruling.
“Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about,” said Allan Adler, vice president for legal and government affairs at the Association of American Publishers.
“Copyright doesn’t protect ideas and copyright doesn’t protect facts. That’s why we have genres, fiction and nonfiction, and a number of people can write novels based on the same idea and still have freedom of expression.”
– Associated Press
There is no ownership of ideas. Common sense calls for attribution (which DVC gave anyway!), but an idea is ephemeral in the mind of one person alone: growth beyond that is required for it to survive. If ideas are of value (one presumes that they are), any notion of exclusivity is ludicrous and devaluing.
I am not, therefore, an irrational communist in this regard. I acknowledge value, but simply reject that same value is decreased by propagation/increase in supply/availability. Hence, I am an irrational capitalist.