There is one at approximately 123.2W49.2N. Right now there probably aren't any people there because it's raining, but if it were summer and it were not raining then it would probably look yellow with pink dots.
Uhh, I don't know if there is a 51st state. I was just displaying my Canadian lack of knowledge of american politics. All I know is that there are about fifty states, plus quite a lot of occupied territories ^H^H^H^H^H protectorates.
The fact of the matter is that the work is copyright and redistributing it, even if it was initally broadcast, is illegal.
Well, actually no, at least in Canada. Canadian law states that you can rebroadcast any TV program provided that a) you do not edit it, and b) you make a *reasonable attempt* to pay copyright fees. You don't have to have permission from the copyright holder in advance, and if they are unreasonable in negotiating (or refuse to negotiate) copyright fees, you don't have to pay them anything.
Yes, it is a dumb law -- it goes back to the days when the canadian government wanted to promote cable TV, and thus passed laws designed to permit cable TV companies to rebroadcast material without too much trouble -- but it IS the Canadian law. This entire issue has really been attacked from the wrong angle by the US broadcasters. Instead of trying to get a court order to stop the rebroadcasts, they should lobby the US federal government to lodge a protest with the Canadian government over this -- it falls under copyright treaties -- and get the Canadian government to change the laws. But until the laws change in Canada, what iCraveTV is doing is completely legal.
I don't get it. A Canadian company is doing something which is, according to most Canadian legal experts, technically legal in Canada. Some US companies sue them in US court and get a restraining order. Does this order have any legal merit? It seems to me that if any action is to be taken against them it should be under Canadian law, in Canadian courts. Or did Canada become the 52nd US state while I wasn't paying attention?
IMHO, drivers are the reason that the windows 2000 machines have such short uptimes, or more specifically, the fact that new drivers are still being released constantly. I have been running RC2 since it was released, and my computer has never crashed. However, it has never been up for more than about 15 days at once, because I have wanted to try some new TNT drivers, or some new ATA-66 controller drivers, etc. Once I am satisfied that I have all the right drivers (and there is no reason that I should be satisfied yet, since windows 2000 has not been released yet!) I will stop rebooting to change drivers -- and if my past experience is any indication, that means that my computer's uptime will keep on increasing at a rate of 24 hours/day.
Some caches don't like expires=now, so it is common to just put in a date from the ancient past. The story is out of date, but not quite that much out of date;-)
IMO, whether students have the right to sell their notes depends upon what is in their notes. If their notes are _really_ their interpretation of the material, they have every right to sell them, for their interpretation of public information is their IP. However, if their notes are (as most notes I have seen) merely a transcription of the lecture, then it is not their interpretation, but rather the instructor's, and thus the IP belongs to the instructor. I think the test would come if we compare the notes taken by two students in the same course; if they are 'substantively similar', then it probably is the instructor's IP, while if they are different, I would say it is theirs.
Babel Fish isn't that bad. I think that it mangles vocabulary less than some people do. As a test of how bad Babel Fish is, I put this scentence through it, from English to French, and back. The result was: As test of at which point the bad fish of Babel east, I put this sentence by it, of English-French and back.
Amusing, but I think more easily understood than some of the quotes from that story.
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What? You mean all the times I've tried to get through to /. and it has taken several minutes to reply *haven't* been as a result of DoS attacks?
There is one at approximately 123.2W49.2N. Right now there probably aren't any people there because it's raining, but if it were summer and it were not raining then it would probably look yellow with pink dots.
Uhh, I don't know if there is a 51st state. I was just displaying my Canadian lack of knowledge of american politics. All I know is that there are about fifty states, plus quite a lot of occupied territories ^H^H^H^H^H protectorates.
The fact of the matter is that the work is copyright and redistributing it, even if it was initally broadcast, is illegal.
Well, actually no, at least in Canada. Canadian law states that you can rebroadcast any TV program provided that a) you do not edit it, and b) you make a *reasonable attempt* to pay copyright fees.
You don't have to have permission from the copyright holder in advance, and if they are unreasonable in negotiating (or refuse to negotiate) copyright fees, you don't have to pay them anything.
Yes, it is a dumb law -- it goes back to the days when the canadian government wanted to promote cable TV, and thus passed laws designed to permit cable TV companies to rebroadcast material without too much trouble -- but it IS the Canadian law.
This entire issue has really been attacked from the wrong angle by the US broadcasters. Instead of trying to get a court order to stop the rebroadcasts, they should lobby the US federal government to lodge a protest with the Canadian government over this -- it falls under copyright treaties -- and get the Canadian government to change the laws.
But until the laws change in Canada, what iCraveTV is doing is completely legal.
I don't get it. A Canadian company is doing something which is, according to most Canadian legal experts, technically legal in Canada. Some US companies sue them in US court and get a restraining order.
Does this order have any legal merit? It seems to me that if any action is to be taken against them it should be under Canadian law, in Canadian courts.
Or did Canada become the 52nd US state while I wasn't paying attention?
is in the middle of the left side of the keyboard.
If they considered using it, etoy's press releases might be a little more legible.
As I read your post, it is moderated at Score:2, Funny -- looks like Hemos was just joking.
>Yes, such algorithms exist. The Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe algorithm can compute an arbitrary digit of pi in almost linear time.
... and a distributed implementation of it is currently computing the quadrillionth bit of Pi at http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/
There should be CmdrTaco and Hemos models which always simultaneously do whatever they did six months ago.
IMHO, drivers are the reason that the windows 2000 machines have such short uptimes, or more specifically, the fact that new drivers are still being released constantly.
I have been running RC2 since it was released, and my computer has never crashed. However, it has never been up for more than about 15 days at once, because I have wanted to try some new TNT drivers, or some new ATA-66 controller drivers, etc.
Once I am satisfied that I have all the right drivers (and there is no reason that I should be satisfied yet, since windows 2000 has not been released yet!) I will stop rebooting to change drivers -- and if my past experience is any indication, that means that my computer's uptime will keep on increasing at a rate of 24 hours/day.
Some caches don't like expires=now, so it is common to just put in a date from the ancient past. ;-)
The story is out of date, but not quite that much out of date
IMO, whether students have the right to sell their notes depends upon what is in their notes.
If their notes are _really_ their interpretation of the material, they have every right to sell them, for their interpretation of public information is their IP.
However, if their notes are (as most notes I have seen) merely a transcription of the lecture, then it is not their interpretation, but rather the instructor's, and thus the IP belongs to the instructor.
I think the test would come if we compare the notes taken by two students in the same course; if they are 'substantively similar', then it probably is the instructor's IP, while if they are different, I would say it is theirs.
Colin Percival
NT
Babel Fish isn't that bad. I think that it mangles vocabulary less than some people do.
As a test of how bad Babel Fish is, I put this scentence through it, from English to French, and back.
The result was:
As test of at which point the bad fish of Babel east, I put this sentence by it, of English-French and back.
Amusing, but I think more easily understood than some of the quotes from that story.