Re: [OT] Cordelia (was Re: They are all vampires!)

[David H. Adler]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:40:32AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Speaking of vampires, you've got a treat coming up with Angel.  After
> the exploitative tv show there was a lull of a week, and then
> ... Boobapalooza!  You boys will be capturing plenty of stills from
> the season-ending shows.

And how, exactly, is this off topic?

dha

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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Simon Cozens]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:08:22PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> The interesting question for me is : if I already own a paper copy of the
> book, which costs 30p to produce and the remaining ?39.70 is for 'a
> licence on the copyright'

Whence did you pluck these figures, if it's not completely obvious?

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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Robin Szemeti]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Niklas Nordebo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:27:39AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> *>> You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
> *>> stealing copies of your book on line.
> *>
> *>Ah, good old "piracy is theft" analogy - what would we do without you?
> 
> Well, I don't make the laws and it's not my property but yes, it's
> stealing. Steal is an ugly word but if you didn't pay for the copy of the
> book and are getting a digital copy for free I don't see how one could
> think it as anything else. 

'steal' also covers a wide gamut of acts .. by parking wihtout paying the
meter while you nip to the shops you are stealing from the car park
owner, but its a million miles from banging old ladies over the head with
a brick and stealling their handbags.

but there is no question that piracy *is* theft, quite where you place it
on the long line between the two extremes suggested above is matter of
personal morals.

And since the argument put forward by the publishers is related to loss
of revenue rather than moral highground, I maintain my view that the loss
of sales revenue is essentially small compared to the costs of
enforcement and the induced sales from owners of pirate copies.

The interesting question for me is : if I already own a paper copy of the
book, which costs 30p to produce and the remaining £39.70 is for 'a
licence on the copyright' .. why do I have to pay full price for a CD
version as well? ... seems to me that I already have a licence to the
copyright, surely I can choose to view it any manner I see fit? 

[ thats a purely hypothetical question anyway,  I just cant stand CD
books .. yuk yuk yuk ..  there is something rather satisfying about a
nicely printed book, on nice paper with good typography that the digital
version will never match. .. The Addison-Wesley ones for instance, and
Robert Bringhurst's 'Elements of Typograhic Style' come to mind ]

-- 
Robin Szemeti

Redpoint Consulting Limited
Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Niklas Nordebo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:27:39AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
*>> You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
*>> stealing copies of your book on line.
*>
*>Ah, good old "piracy is theft" analogy - what would we do without you?

Well, I don't make the laws and it's not my property but yes, it's
stealing. Steal is an ugly word but if you didn't pay for the copy of the
book and are getting a digital copy for free I don't see how one could
think it as anything else. 

What I think would be interesting is if someone started selling these
digital copies of books on-line. 

e.

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Mike Jarvis]

Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:17:03 PM, Dave Cross wrote:

DC> At 20:50 20/05/2001, Mike Jarvis wrote:
>>Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
>>
>>DC> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was
>>DC> simply by looking at a photo.
>>
>>This is really two questions:
>>1) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
>>to have a relationship with?  (No)
>>
>>2) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
>>to have sex with?(Yes)

DC> OK. Well that's where I'm getting confused then. By believing the sex is 
DC> also a relationship (however fleeting!) I think that the answer to 2 is 
DC> also 'No' :)

I always viewed sex as a physical act that's great with someone you
love, but it can be pretty darned good even with someone you wouldn't
want to talk to.

The grudge-fuck after a breakup is often better (from a physical
standpoint) than the sex during a relationship.  Or so my ex's tell
me. ;)


-- 
mike

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Dave Cross]

At 20:50 20/05/2001, Mike Jarvis wrote:
>Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
>
>DC> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was
>DC> simply by looking at a photo.
>
>This is really two questions:
>1) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
>to have a relationship with?  (No)
>
>2) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
>to have sex with?(Yes)

OK. Well that's where I'm getting confused then. By believing the sex is 
also a relationship (however fleeting!) I think that the answer to 2 is 
also 'No' :)

Dave...


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Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Mike Jarvis]

Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote:

DC> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was 
DC> simply by looking at a photo.

This is really two questions:
1) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
to have a relationship with?  (No)

2) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like
to have sex with?(Yes)


-- 
mike

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Piers Cawley]

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
> >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
> > > >
> > > > The interesting bits are as follows;
> > >
> > > The really interesting bit was Mr Ford dancing around in his
> > > living room crowing because Sara Cox had read his name out on
> > > the radio.
> >
> >Ahh Sara Cox - as deserving of her position in the FHM top 100
> >women as she is of her £750K out of the license fee for two years
> >blathering.
> 
> I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only
> one who finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've
> never really understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to
> objectify women in this way.

Indeed. I just thought Neil's reaction was funny.

> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man)
> was simply by looking at a photo.

With you all the way here.

-- 
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Robert Shiels]

I bought 3 CDs yesterday, about 32 quids worth . I downloaded 2 Napster
tracks last week.

I object to paying 3.99 gbp (for a single), or 12.99gbp  (for an album
track) to just get one song. However, if I hear another track from those
artists, and like it, I will probably get the full album.

I also use Napster (when I'm working somewhere with a big pipe) to get
digital copies of music that I've already paid for analogue copies of.

--
Robert


- Original Message -
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 20 May 2001 17:05
Subject: Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?


> At 13:27 20/05/2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>
> >You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
> >stealing copies of your book on line.
>
> True. But just so as we know where we all stand. I have only ever used
> Napster to find copies of unavailable music.
>
> Dave...
>
>
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>

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Dave Cross]

At 10:52 20/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
>On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> > I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only one who
> > finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've never really
> > understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to objectify women in
> > this way.
>
>Although of course everyone objects most vociferously when Cosmo or some
>similar magazines produce a list of 'The Worlds Sexiest Men'. :)

"Ooh, look! Look! They're doing it to. Therefore it _must_ be alright!"

Personally I find it just as objectionable, but funnily enough you don't it 
anywhere near as much.

> > And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was
> > simply by looking at a photo.
>
>Its in the eyes, Dave, its in the eyes.

See, I find it's in the personality. Which doesn't come across too well in 
glossy magazine.

> > Dave...
> > [disgruntled]
>
>Yeah, we noticed. Bad Hangover ?-)

No. That was yesterday. Today I'm just ranting at the world for no good reason.

Dave...


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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Dave Cross]

At 13:27 20/05/2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:

>You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
>stealing copies of your book on line.

True. But just so as we know where we all stand. I have only ever used 
Napster to find copies of unavailable music.

Dave...


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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Nicholas Clark]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:15:44PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
> Seriously, I don't advocate copyright violation, but I much prefer it to
> theft or high sea piracy if people are going to commit crimes.

I always found arms trafficking far more fun.
Although I supposed nowadays we should be shipping the DeCCS perl code around
in .sigs rather than the perl RSA code, as the former seems to be much more
successful at getting up people's noses these days.

Nicholas Clark

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Niklas Nordebo]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:27:39AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
> stealing copies of your book on line.

Ah, good old "piracy is theft" analogy - what would we do without you?

I think I'll start reloading that russian site until I've stolen all
O'Reilly's copies of the Camel book - then I'll have a monopoly and can
take over the world (of Perl)!

Seriously, I don't advocate copyright violation, but I much prefer it to
theft or high sea piracy if people are going to commit crimes.

-- 
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 "The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's
crippled with the weight of my evasions, deceit, and downright lies"

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books 
*>_is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.

In a world that advocates Napster, this is no different. Someone buys a
copy of the book, scans it in and shares it with the world. Outrage by the
author is not any different than outrage by a musical artist.

There was an interesting interview with Bill Joy at the P2P conference
iirc that discussed this sort of piracy and Joy specifically talked about
books being the most worrisome part of this type of activity/technology.

The royalties are so small that I doubt if it would make any major
difference in anyones bank account for the people who buy books will still
buy them and the people that don't just might go out and purchase a copy.
You write a book because you think there is something you know that others
might benefit from as noone gets rich in this business. Why, I think
Jarkko and I went to dinner once on his royalty cheque from ORA. 

You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
stealing copies of your book on line.

e.

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Simon Cozens]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:49:56AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books 
> _is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.

"Here is how to do it. Now *you* have a choice."

Have you read "A treatise on the construction of locks"?

-- 
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the power of
assembly language with the flexibility of assembly language."

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Simon Cozens]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:23:05AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> I have in the past had a pirate copy of O'Reillys Network Bookshelf ...
> but a) I would not have paid for the CD in the first place and b)  Iliked
> what I saw so much that I went on to buy a whole bookcase full of
> O'Reilly stuff. 

I'm *sure* at some level, the publishers know this, but they'd rather
not admit it. :) If you release a book as a computer file, *IT WILL GET
COPIED*. Don't think they're too stupid not to realise this.

But people like having nice bound paper copies of things. Having it on
line just isn't the same. That's why O'Reilly publishes copies of
things that *are* freely available, like the Linux Network
Administrator's Guide.

-- 
People who love sausages, respect the law, and work with IT standards
shouldn't watch any of them being made.
- Peter Gutmann  

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Simon Cozens]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:10:02PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I'm curious what the perceived payback is on books: kudos on the one
> hand, benefit to humankind on the other, and then cash. How does it
> all stack up?

The kudos is fun but unless you write something completely
earth-shattering, you're quickly out of fashion. I see the cash as an
incentive to get books written that might not otherwise have been
written, because again, unless you're writing something
earth-shattering or coming out with something new every six months or
so, sales will dry up. Royalties are bonuses, they buy goodies: a
holiday here, a new computer there. And soon, I expect, I'll not be
getting so much in from Beg. Perl, and they'll be buying jewellery for
the other half or video games.

I do it for the benefit - Beg. Perl was written to help one single
individual learn Perl, and if other people have learnt Perl from it,
that's a bonus; the book I'm writing at the moment, I'm doing it because
I want there to be a really damned good book about XS out there, and
there isn't. If I'm going to write a book, it's because I *really
really* want to write it, so the money is in a sense immaterial.

So why don't I forego the cash and do it all under an open publication
license? Well, firstly, I do: I spent rather a lot of time helping fix
up the Perl documentation, and now I'm planning a bunch of books under
the OPL. But if a publisher's going to throw money at me for writing
something, I'm far more likely to sit down and get on with it, rather
than getting bored and hacking Perl instead. Well, that's the plan,
anyway. Sometimes it doesn't work like that, either. :)

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regarded as a criminal offence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Martin Ling]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> 
> I suspect the current 'Lad's' magazines phase is a backlash against the
> crazy political correctness of the 80's .. hopefully the whole thing will
> settle down eventually. I don't particularly care that much about it. The
> women in things like FHM are most certainly in there by choice and doing
> rather nicely from the whole thing thankyou. They are of course brainless
> bimbettes but thats another matter. I do find it rather objectionable is
> having them learing off the counter of every petrol station and
> newsagent you go to, when they should be on a nice high shelf somewhere. 

I seem to recall some comic giving a rant to the effect of "Used to be
just the magazines on the top shelf, everyone knew where they were,
everyone knew what they were for. Then these FHM, Loaded, etc though -
huh?  What are they, for blokes who "aren't sure" if they want to
masturbate?"

Most of the readership I'm aware of don't recall that much of the
eighties anyway...


Martin

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Robin Szemeti]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 00:18 20/05/2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> 
>  > I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves you wide open to 
> rampant
>  > copying...
> 
> A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel 
> thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.

ugh .. yes .. 

But do you think it actually harms sales? ... ?? would any of the people
who downloaded the PDF have actually bought a real copy? ... doubt it.
Piracy is a difficult thing to estimate the effects of.

I have in the past had a pirate copy of O'Reillys Network Bookshelf ...
but a) I would not have paid for the CD in the first place and b)  Iliked
what I saw so much that I went on to buy a whole bookcase full of
O'Reilly stuff. 

Its the same as the software industry who discover some high school kid
with 500 ripped off playstation games and promptly claim thats 20,000
dollars of lost sales .. like the kid would have spent 20,000 dollars on
games.

So yeah .. try and get the site pulled .. (shouldn't be that hard)  but
don;t worry too much I doubt its hurting your pocket in reallity.

-- 
Robin Szemeti

Redpoint Consulting Limited
Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[duncan]

>I suspect the current 'Lad's' magazines phase is a backlash against the
>crazy political correctness of the 80's .. hopefully the whole thing will
>settle down eventually.
[snip]
>  I do find it rather objectionable is
>having them learing off the counter of every petrol station and
>newsagent you go to, when they should be on a nice high shelf somewhere.

see i dont mind 'lad's' magazines being covered in naked women, because i 
mean thats kinda what makes up the content of the magazine.  but im very 
irritated by the fact that technology magazines are using sex to sell 
themselves.  i have a copy of 'stuff' and 't3' and both have semi naked 
models holding the gadgets and things being reviewed.  i find it very 
annoying, because im only interested in the gadgets.  if i wanted mild porn 
then i'd buy FHM!




duncan

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Robin Szemeti]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
> >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
> > > >
> > > > The interesting bits are as follows;
> > >
> > > The really interesting bit was Mr Ford dancing around in his living
> > > room crowing because Sara Cox had read his name out on the radio.
> >
> >Ahh Sara Cox - as deserving of her position in the FHM top 100 women
> >as she is of her £750K out of the license fee for two years blathering.
> 
> I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only one who 
> finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've never really 
> understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to objectify women in 
> this way.

Don't think you're in that much of a minority. But it seems top-shelf
magazines are becoming more acceptable in some circles these days. 

I suspect the current 'Lad's' magazines phase is a backlash against the
crazy political correctness of the 80's .. hopefully the whole thing will
settle down eventually. I don't particularly care that much about it. The
women in things like FHM are most certainly in there by choice and doing
rather nicely from the whole thing thankyou. They are of course brainless
bimbettes but thats another matter. I do find it rather objectionable is
having them learing off the counter of every petrol station and
newsagent you go to, when they should be on a nice high shelf somewhere. 


-- 
Robin Szemeti

Redpoint Consulting Limited
Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:

> At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
> >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
> > > >
> > > > The interesting bits are as follows;
> > >
> > > The really interesting bit was Mr Ford dancing around in his living
> > > room crowing because Sara Cox had read his name out on the radio.
> >
> >Ahh Sara Cox - as deserving of her position in the FHM top 100 women
> >as she is of her £750K out of the license fee for two years blathering.
>
> I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only one who
> finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've never really
> understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to objectify women in
> this way.
>

Although of course everyone objects most vociferously when Cosmo or some
similar magazines produce a list of 'The Worlds Sexiest Men'. :)

> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was
> simply by looking at a photo.

Its in the eyes, Dave, its in the eyes.

>
> Dave...
> [disgruntled]
>

Yeah, we noticed. Bad Hangover ?-)

/J\

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Robin Szemeti]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote:
> > A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
> > thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.
> 
> Why do Manning sell their books online as pdf files? and do they plan to
> stop it
> now that rampant copying is taking place?

O'Reillly sell their books as HTML on cds ... 'rampant copying' of that
happens too .. but I doubt it harms them much.

Same as software really. Except the software idiots haven't quite got it
yet. There are two numbers to juggle: The number of people who would have
actually bought your product, but now don't because they have obtained a
pirate copy.   The other one is the number of people who wouldn't have
ordinarily bought your product, but having had a pirate copy, buy a real
copy next time you publish something.  It only harms your business if A
exceeds B by a significant anount.

Most people who would have actually bought a real one .. actually buy a
real one. Most dodgy copies are kept by people who wouldn't have bought
one anyway.

-- 
Robin Szemeti

Redpoint Consulting Limited
Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Piracy (was Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?)

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:

> At 17:28 19/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> >On Sat, 19 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> >
> > > Robin Houston writes:
> > > > Don't forget the ever-fabulous http://xx.xxx.xx/
> > >
> > > I'd also like to say that I'm pretty disgusted that the Perlmongers,
> > > of all people, would advocate pirating the Camel.  Yeah, way to thank
> > > Larry!
> > >
> >
> >I'm not entirely sure that anyone was actively advocating piracy.
>
> I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books
> _is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.
>

I think that this is probably down to a difference in the way that we
apprehend the meaning of the phrase 'advocating piracy', but on reflection
I can see that it could be understood like that.

There is an increasing ambiguity in peoples attitude to 'soft crime'
these days, I would, say which ranges from Intellectual Property theft to
buying smuggled booze and fags to paying tradesmen 'Cash in Hand' to
buying Hear'Say records - because the final victim is detached from the
perpetrator by a chain of consequences it easy to do this stuff with your
conscience intact.  I'd love to blame Thatcher for it.

/J\

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only
> one who finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've
> never really understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to
> objectify women in this way.

Just 'cause no one would ever treat you like a sex object...

-- 
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star   http://www.deep-purple.com
  Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
   

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Dave Cross]

At 10:14 20/05/2001, Barry Pretsell wrote:

> > A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
> > thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.
>
>Why do Manning sell their books online as pdf files? and do they plan to
>stop it now that rampant copying is taking place?

Two very good questions. But ones that are better addressed to Manning. 
I'll certainly be passing them on later today. I'll let you know what the 
responses are.

Dave...


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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Barry Pretsell]

> A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
> thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.

Why do Manning sell their books online as pdf files? and do they plan to
stop it
now that rampant copying is taking place?

Barry

- Original Message -
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?


> At 00:18 20/05/2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
>
>  > I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves you wide open
to
> rampant
>  > copying...
>
> A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
> thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.
>
> Dave...
>
>
> --
>   SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Advertise your book here. Ask me how!
>
>

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

[Dave Cross]

At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
>On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
> > >
> > > The interesting bits are as follows;
> >
> > The really interesting bit was Mr Ford dancing around in his living
> > room crowing because Sara Cox had read his name out on the radio.
>
>Ahh Sara Cox - as deserving of her position in the FHM top 100 women
>as she is of her £750K out of the license fee for two years blathering.

I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only one who 
finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've never really 
understood why intelligent men find it acceptable to objectify women in 
this way.

And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was 
simply by looking at a photo.

Dave...
[disgruntled]


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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Dave Cross]

At 00:18 20/05/2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:

 > I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves you wide open to 
rampant
 > copying...

A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel 
thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.

Dave...


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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Dave Cross]

At 17:28 19/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
>On Sat, 19 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> > Robin Houston writes:
> > > Don't forget the ever-fabulous http://corvin.spb.ru/
> >
> > I'd also like to say that I'm pretty disgusted that the Perlmongers,
> > of all people, would advocate pirating the Camel.  Yeah, way to thank
> > Larry!
> >
>
>I'm not entirely sure that anyone was actively advocating piracy.

I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books 
_is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.

Dave...


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Buffy - Argh!

[Dave Cross]

For some reason, on Friday night Sky One, NTL and my VCR all conspired 
against me to give me a recording of Buffy and Angel with perfect picture 
and no sound. I'm guessing that's not how they were intended to be seen.

If anyone can lend me a recording at some time this week I'd be most grateful.

Cheers,

Dave...

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Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

[Dave Cross]

At 01:46 20/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:20:31AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > Who here has written a book?  Simon and Dave at least.  It's not easy,
> > is it?
>
>You're asking the wrong guy. I don't write books for money, I write
>them to contribute information.

Don't think anyone writes technical books for money. If they do, then 
they're in for a big shock.

Having said that tho', it _is_ nice to get at least some financial 
recompense for the months of next-to-no social life.

>This is why, unlike some people, I don't blatantly plug my book at the
>end of every mail.

:)

What. Like below

Dave...
[thinking for some time that it's about time for a new .sig anyway]


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