But that's not how most people use time shifting. We record things that are on when we have other, more pressing, things to do, and then watch them at out leisure. With the broadcast flag, we'll still have pressing things to do, but (in all likelihood) won't have our favourite shows available during our free time.
Sure, we could sit down and watch whatever's on, but that (by definition) is less appealing than our favourite shows.
I like the broadcast flag. If we couldn't record stuff off the television, perhaps the nation would find better things to do with their time that watching endless television programs. Like extra exercise, or socialising. We'd all be a whole lot better for it...
Second, it shows the algorithms on a low level. Very good.
No. Very bad. This just means that the algorithm and the implementation get confused in the readers head. When learning algorithms, the algorithm should be be written in as high a level language as possible, preferably natural language of the student.
Which one of these better explains the bubble sort algorithm:
i) start with the first item on the list ii) if their places of that item and the next should be exchanged, exchange them iii) move down the list one place iv) repeat from (ii) v) when you reach the bottom of the list, start again from the top, but ignore the bottom element
for (i=0; i<n-1; i++) {
for (j=0; j<n-1-i; j++)
if (a[j+1] < a[j]) {/* compare the two neighbors */
tmp = a[j];/* swap a[j] and a[j+1] */
a[j] = a[j+1];
a[j+1] = tmp;
} }
I wasn't trying to perpetuate a myth (I wasn't even aware of its existence). I was just regaling people with an "amusing", true anecdote. I've had other, less amusing experiences of queueing for almost an our to get through passport control at YVR, Vancouver.
I'll take what little remains of my religious freedom and stay in the US.
Cool. That's your lifestyle choice. I never said my country was better than yours. I just said that yours isn't better, or freer (in any objective sense), than mine.
Unless you want to: i) pay for sex ii) smoke marijuana iii) marry (or have a legal union with) someone of your own gender iv) implement a number of simple mathematical algorithms in software v) have a telephone conversation without risk of government surveillance vi) travel internally on an aeroplane without ID....
I could go on. The US is the the last truly free country, as long as you define "free" as "free to do those things the government, in its wisdom, allow you to do".
This information is then kept for later use or forwarded to the police so that they can then (you guessed it) track you.
Wow. Paranoid much?
Do you really think the French Police (for example) have nothing better to do than track the thousands of foreign tourists who are visiting Paris at any one time? Yes, you need photo ID to check into a hotel, but the last time I used a Travelodge, that was true in the US, too. I've stayed in many European hotels, and only once had by ID duplicated (at a real fleapit dive in Paris).
If you think that a functioning welfare state providing a safety net for the poor constitutes state socialism, and think that having to register gun ownership is an infringement of your basic human rights... I recommend that you move to the USA.
I crossed from the US to Canada once, (I'm a Brit) and the toughest question the Canadian authorities (represented by a young female border guard) asked me was "Do you know you have the loveliest accent?"
These 'Linux is ready for the desktop' stories have been piling up for quite a few years now, but will it really happen
I think its a mistake to think they'll be a time when it "will happen". It is happening, but its happening slowly. Linux has been ready for my desktop since 1997, but I have esoteric tastes. Linux is now ready for my sister's desktop, and she's a fairly tech-savvy IT person, but not a geek. It's not ready for my dad's desktop, because he still finds Windows Installation Wizards too complicated to comprehend.
Unfortunately, he's one of those intelligent people who believes that because his opinions are respected in one arena, he is automatically an expert in all arenae
Most hilariously, have your read his views on pornography (which can be summarised as "anything that turns me on is good, the rest of it isn't". Or, less succinctly Eric Raymond is a tit man.)
No, he's not. That's based on someone else's work -- a program called popclient. ESR wrote a new parser for the config file (which, rapidly, is starting to look like this particular pony's single trick.)
I see where you got confused now. You're thinking of the 4 principles that goven Fair Use. It's true, if you're not doing it for profit, you've got a better chance of pleading "fair use", but it is nowhere near as set in stone as you make out. In fact, if you don't make any of the other three criteria, it is extremely unlikely that free, unlicensed redistribution would be considered Fair Use.
In the USA, copyright law has 4 rules that determine whether an infringement has taken place. The most important one is the question of monetary damages.
That is simply not the case. The question of monetary damages has a major determination on the penalty for infringemnet but not on the fact of whether infringement has occured.
The TCP/IP protocols themselves need to be redesigned.
There's nowt wrong with TCP/IP. It's SMTP that's showing that its roots are from a more trusting time. And there are already a number of secure mail protocols in existence.
Actually many people have more incentive becaue they know it's a good series, and feel a moral obligation to get them
I'm sure many people do feel like that, especially the hard core fans. But I'd bet you dollars to donuts that many more people don't. Of course, many of those wouldn't have bought it anyway, but no-one really knows the ratio of these three groups.
This has been going on for 20 years, and in fact was largely ignored by the anime companies
But thats a matter of scale. 20 years ago, a very small group of people were doing this -- few had the means, few had an interest in Anime and fewer still had the contacts. Now, everyone and his brother has a DVD burner, certain elements of Anime are mainstream (or almost so), and the uptake of the Internet means *anyone* can download the stuff from P2P networks.
What was once a small, ignorable, minority have suddenly got to be a considerably larger problem.
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But that's not how most people use time shifting. We record things that are on when we have other, more pressing, things to do, and then watch them at out leisure. With the broadcast flag, we'll still have pressing things to do, but (in all likelihood) won't have our favourite shows available during our free time.
Sure, we could sit down and watch whatever's on, but that (by definition) is less appealing than our favourite shows.
I like the broadcast flag. If we couldn't record stuff off the television, perhaps the nation would find better things to do with their time that watching endless television programs. Like extra exercise, or socialising. We'd all be a whole lot better for it...
Which one of these better explains the bubble sort algorithm:
i) start with the first item on the list
ii) if their places of that item and the next should be exchanged, exchange them
iii) move down the list one place
iv) repeat from (ii)
v) when you reach the bottom of the list, start again from the top, but ignore the bottom element
for (i=0; i<n-1; i++) {
for (j=0; j<n-1-i; j++)
if (a[j+1] < a[j]) {
tmp = a[j];
a[j] = a[j+1];
a[j+1] = tmp;
}
}
I wasn't trying to perpetuate a myth (I wasn't even aware of its existence). I was just regaling people with an "amusing", true anecdote. I've had other, less amusing experiences of queueing for almost an our to get through passport control at YVR, Vancouver.
The man put a play on in a theatre, without gaining the theatre owner's permission. In what country is this *not* considered illegal?
My dad has no arms and legs, you insensitive clod!
i) pay for sex
ii) smoke marijuana
iii) marry (or have a legal union with) someone of your own gender
iv) implement a number of simple mathematical algorithms in software
v) have a telephone conversation without risk of government surveillance
vi) travel internally on an aeroplane without ID....
I could go on. The US is the the last truly free country, as long as you define "free" as "free to do those things the government, in its wisdom, allow you to do".
Exactly like every other Western Democracy.
All I'm saying is, if you want those values that are mainly American (paranoia about socialism, unrestricted gun ownership), try America.
Do you really think the French Police (for example) have nothing better to do than track the thousands of foreign tourists who are visiting Paris at any one time? Yes, you need photo ID to check into a hotel, but the last time I used a Travelodge, that was true in the US, too. I've stayed in many European hotels, and only once had by ID duplicated (at a real fleapit dive in Paris).
If you think that a functioning welfare state providing a safety net for the poor constitutes state socialism, and think that having to register gun ownership is an infringement of your basic human rights ... I recommend that you move to the USA.
I crossed from the US to Canada once, (I'm a Brit) and the toughest question the Canadian authorities (represented by a young female border guard) asked me was "Do you know you have the loveliest accent?"
Canadians rule.
Hey! We don't say "copying".
The nice word is "re-implementing".
I see where you got confused now. You're thinking of the 4 principles that goven Fair Use. It's true, if you're not doing it for profit, you've got a better chance of pleading "fair use", but it is nowhere near as set in stone as you make out. In fact, if you don't make any of the other three criteria, it is extremely unlikely that free, unlicensed redistribution would be considered Fair Use.
Oh, do grow up, you silly little boy.
What was once a small, ignorable, minority have suddenly got to be a considerably larger problem.