Posts by Rochelle Hume
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Okay, I'm a sucker for a multi-choice - here's my guess:
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Touch-typing has served me well, but all the other skills - like counting spaces and tabbing across to lay out a brochure - were virtually obsolete when they were being taught.
LOL tell me about it. The typing teacher at my high school didn't even fully grasp the concept of the electric typewriters we were using and was constantly telling us the best way to get optimal rapid downforce with your fingers so as to get an even print level. She was mighty impressed by how fast I could type, because she never cottoned on that I cheated by loading up the little screen buffer, and then mimed typing when she asked me to. She couldn't believe I never made any mistakes, and thought I was some bizarre prodigy.
Man, you guys had ELECTRIC typewriters? We had the old imperial mechanical ones, and learnt about punchcards in 'Computer Studies' - on the plus side, our teacher did have the Apple franchise for NZ....
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Nandor's speech was awesomely concise. My concern is that the legislative process (this review began in about 2002) is just not quick enough to keep up with the quantum changes digital technology is making to the way we do things.
The whole point of the digital review was to ensure that the centuries-old 'Copyright' based legislation could apply equally to digital technologies (ie, the words/ideas were technologically neutral). But the very concept of protecting and stimulating the creative process is unlikely to be protected by legislating against 'copying' in the digital age [its so damn easy everyones going to do it anyway, right?]. Perhaps it is commercial distribution without consent that should be prohibited?
At the start of the Digital Review, the entire paradigm shift caused by the digital revolution couldn't be anticipated ( we certainly never thought about bands like Radiohead making a business decision to offer their music on-line for no fixed price...). And now, the legislative process is so far down the track, that its too late to go and look at issues like "Is Copyright the wrong protection to ensure that creatives are fairly recompensed for their talent/work - and third parties can't make a commercial killing at their expense?".
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Thanks Russell for the first sensible evaluation of the events of this past week i've read/seen/heard.