Exactly! And instead of bringing them the wonders of the Internet, maybe it would be better to give them what they need - good government.
Good government can only come from a well informed population. I can't think of a better way to keep informed than through effective use of the Internet.
People in the UK whose TV license funded this stunt, perhaps.
I pay a TV licence and couldn't care less how they "broadcast" it. Either way, the show's been made and I've got to see it. Why would I object to that?
... is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic asking people who pirate films, music and other such downloads for money?
I guess. It does show however, that visitors to LokiTorrent are prepared to pay something in some way to somebody in order to access this material in this way. In the light of this, if I was the RIAA or the MPAA I would be thinking that their distribution model is flawed somehow and try to think of ways to get the money paid to LokiTorrent for themselves. Whatever method they come up with, step #2 would be, "don't alienate potential customers".
I've just posted this in another article thread but it's worth repeating I think. Science isn't limited to the physical sciences, it also includes the social sciences. The question of religion and the need to believe in something supernatural is arguably a topic for sociologists and psychologists.
Now, whether or not you consider psychology and sociology to be real science or not is a completly different argument but none-the-less, I don't see why science-fiction should limit itself to discussions involving physics, chemistry and biology.
Tackling social topics in science-fiction isn't without precedent. Asimov's Foundation novels are good examples of science fiction stories where the central premise is rooted in sociology.
I disagree. Sci-Fi is about technology - it's what gives it its name.
I would say that Sci-Fi is about science rather than technology. This is a less restrictive thought once you realise that this includes the social sciences as well as the physical sciences.
The Foundation series, where the central premise is rooted in psychology/sociology rather than physics/chemistry/biology, is a good example of this.
Similiar arguments were made about the copyrighting of software back in the day. The reasoning was something like this: computer programs are conceptually similar to recipies and recipes aren't copyrightable so copyright shouldn't be applicable to computer programs. It didn't work.
From page 84 of "Just For Fun", by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.
With the shell working, I started testing it's builtin progams. Then I compiled enough new programs to actually do something. I was compiling everything in Minix, but I moved the shell over to a special partition for the new operating system. Privately I called it Linux.
Honest: I didn't want to ever release it under the name Linux because it was too egotistical. What was the name I reserved for any eventual release? Freax.
And then from page 88 of the same book.
[...] Ari Lemke, who insured that it made its way to the ftp site, hated the name Freax. He preferred the other working name I was using -- Linux -- and named my posting: pub/OS/Linux.
So while it may be true to say that Linus didn't want to release the kernel under the name Linux. Through his own admission in his own book, Linus came up with the name Linux himself.
I've always maintained that if the MPAA ever decided to co-oporate and offer movies for download they would have to charge less than the box office. My reasoning being that a good percentage of the $10 ticket is the price of the environment you're seeing the movie in -- big screen, big sound system and so forth. However, after reading your post I'm thinking they'd be justified in charging more.
The material is released with no info regarding the downloader's rights to distribute, no EULA, no contract or anything that is spelt out that you have no right what so ever to distribute what is offered by the agents of the RIAA / MPAA
I've wondered on this subject too. It's a little different for movies and games but for music, there's no copyright notice except in the liner notes. However, if I download a piece of music there are most probably no liner notes or anything else, so how am I supposed to know it's copyrighted? Is the assumption to be that everything is copyrighted and therefore undistributable without an explicit licence? Is so, would that not mean that public domain material have to be explicitely labelled as such in order for people to safely share it? The latter seemingly being a reversal of the concept of copyright notices.
I'm guessing that the onus is on the distributor to ensure that the material being distributed is either public domain or appropriately licenced but I'd like some confirmation all the same, preferably with references.
Anyone who has worked with databases knows that sorting many records adds quite a bit to processing time and processing power. If by removing the sort by date ability they're freeing up more processing power for video search and other projects, then that's a good thing.
They're adding a sort by date facility, not removing it. It's the search by date feature that people will miss.
Besides, they didn't remove search by date (look in advanced search options)... they removed the ability to sort by date within a search. Not that big of a deal, so settle down.
The main page has reverted to the old interface, but the beta is still available
here.
Just yesterday I booted a Ubuntu live CD. I checked OO.org. Guess what: I can't write "~", as in São Paulo. This renders it useless for Portuguese (my native language).
I don't know anything about Ubuntu but I find it hard to believe the installed fonts don't have a "ã" character defined. If you're having difficulty finding that character on the keyboard, goto the "Insert" menu and select "Special Character...". It doesn't stand out but it's character number 227 in the list. Quite simple really and if memory serves me correctly, this is as near as dammit how you solve the problem in MS Word.
Cephalapods have no blind spot because the optic nerves are on the "correct" side of the retina. ie. behind the eye. It's not that the Cephalapod eye is "superior" necessarily but it does demonstrate how an eye would be made by an "intelligent designer".
I like, for example, LoTR as much as anyone else and find it one of the best trilogies ever (as novels). But, what has magic, dragons, castles etc. to do with science?
I'm prepared to accept fantasy under the SF umbrella if only to keep the peace but I have to ask what "Gollum's accaptance speech" has got to do with SF or Fantasy. Technically impressive I suppose but as far as I can remember it was just a foul-mouthed tirade intended to amuse the MTV audience. No new ideas or anything worth discussing, I'm left baffled as to why it was even nominated.
One of my favourite tracks was "I'll find my way home"
Was that on the Blade Runner Soundtrack? I've got the official OST and the unofficial Esper Edition, but I don't see that track on there. Does it have a different name perhaps?
If you haven't got the Esper Edition incidentally, you should. The album Warner Music should have released.
The reason we capitalise 'Internet' is so that we can distinguish between it and mere 'internets'. 'Internet', with a lower case 'i', refers to any set of interconnected networks. Whereas 'Internet', with a capital 'i' refers to "the specific, worldwide internet that is widely used to connect universities, government offices, companies and [...] private individuals". That quotation incidentally comes from Tanenbaum's
textbook, "Computer Networks" (3rd edition, page 16) where he made the exact same distinction that I have just made.
It's always been capitalised and always will be AFIAC.
Every time I read one of these propaganda pieces on the virtues of applying market principles to the RF spectrum, I have to ask...
This article is about removing the market from the RF allocation system. It argues that with the advent of "cognitive radios" (and other less exciting technologies) we can now afford a free-for-all in the spectrum, which benefits the people and organisations you speak of.
The legendary British radio manufacturer Roberts, produce a similar device called the Gemini 1. I don't know if it's as "sexy" as The Bug (whatever that means) but Roberts' reputation in the field of portable radio manufacturer is second to none.
Why the fuck is there a hard limit?!? In summary, I installed vim.
In my early UNIX sysadmin career when I was learning the ropes, I was admonished by my boss when he realised I was using vim instead of vi. His reasoning as far as I could gather was that vi is universal and vim isn't and that I might "learn bad habits" by using vim and "become unstuck" if I ever needed to config a machine that doesn't have vim installed.
Even in my inexperienced youth I realised that there's a line in the sand between UNIX advocacy and clueless lunacy and that he had crossed it.
Apart from the stunningly obvious fact that the titles "Fahrenheit 451" and "Fahrenheit 911" are not the same and a copyright on the former would be of absolutely no use to Bradbury, I find it humorous that Bradbury himself has a history of, shall we say, borrowing titles. For example, the title of the book "Something Wicked This Way Comes" comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's MacBeth and "I Sing The Body Electric" was the title of a chapter in Walt Whitman's book, Leaves of Grass.
I'm reminded of Disney at this point. Here we have someone who plunders the public domain, adapts and creates something new from what they found there and then complains when others do the same to their own creations.
There's no individual POSIX call to do that, true. But using the asynchronous I/O model specified in Posix.1 you can do away with blocking waits completely and just employ a signal handler. It's not that bad. In fact, it's pretty good.
Before someone points out that a call to select() will tell you when data becomes available for reading, the important distinction is that in the asynchronous callback model in Win32 you get told when and don't have to hang around waiting for it to happen.
I've never even seen Windows for about 10 years let alone know anything about the kernel so I may have misunderstood your point, but what you're describing sounds suspiciously like the asynchronous I/O model specified in Posix.1 of all places. The aio_* functions return immediately and generate a signal if requested, when the I/O has been completed. It's similar to the non-blocking I/O model that everyone knows about but despite the name, non-blocking operations do occasionally block, the aio_* model never blocks.
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"Neil Armstrong (an accomplished pilot before he did a certain something in 1969)"
Kept his face straight?
I've just posted this in another article thread but it's worth repeating I think. Science isn't limited to the physical sciences, it also includes the social sciences. The question of religion and the need to believe in something supernatural is arguably a topic for sociologists and psychologists. Now, whether or not you consider psychology and sociology to be real science or not is a completly different argument but none-the-less, I don't see why science-fiction should limit itself to discussions involving physics, chemistry and biology.
Tackling social topics in science-fiction isn't without precedent. Asimov's Foundation novels are good examples of science fiction stories where the central premise is rooted in sociology.
Similiar arguments were made about the copyrighting of software back in the day. The reasoning was something like this: computer programs are conceptually similar to recipies and recipes aren't copyrightable so copyright shouldn't be applicable to computer programs. It didn't work.
I've always maintained that if the MPAA ever decided to co-oporate and offer movies for download they would have to charge less than the box office. My reasoning being that a good percentage of the $10 ticket is the price of the environment you're seeing the movie in -- big screen, big sound system and so forth. However, after reading your post I'm thinking they'd be justified in charging more.
I'm guessing that the onus is on the distributor to ensure that the material being distributed is either public domain or appropriately licenced but I'd like some confirmation all the same, preferably with references.
Cephalapods have no blind spot because the optic nerves are on the "correct" side of the retina. ie. behind the eye. It's not that the Cephalapod eye is "superior" necessarily but it does demonstrate how an eye would be made by an "intelligent designer".
Are you sure you're not thinking of Eldred vs. Ashcroft? As far as I can tell, Eldred doesn't have anything to do with Project Gutenberg.
None-the-less, your point is correct; Project Gutenberg will very likely not back down over this.
If you haven't got the Esper Edition incidentally, you should. The album Warner Music should have released.
The reason we capitalise 'Internet' is so that we can distinguish between it and mere 'internets'. 'Internet', with a lower case 'i', refers to any set of interconnected networks. Whereas 'Internet', with a capital 'i' refers to "the specific, worldwide internet that is widely used to connect universities, government offices, companies and [...] private individuals". That quotation incidentally comes from Tanenbaum's textbook, "Computer Networks" (3rd edition, page 16) where he made the exact same distinction that I have just made.
It's always been capitalised and always will be AFIAC.
The legendary British radio manufacturer Roberts, produce a similar device called the Gemini 1. I don't know if it's as "sexy" as The Bug (whatever that means) but Roberts' reputation in the field of portable radio manufacturer is second to none.
Even in my inexperienced youth I realised that there's a line in the sand between UNIX advocacy and clueless lunacy and that he had crossed it.
Title's aren't copyrightable therefore the title is by definition in the public domain.
Apart from the stunningly obvious fact that the titles "Fahrenheit 451" and "Fahrenheit 911" are not the same and a copyright on the former would be of absolutely no use to Bradbury, I find it humorous that Bradbury himself has a history of, shall we say, borrowing titles. For example, the title of the book "Something Wicked This Way Comes" comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's MacBeth and "I Sing The Body Electric" was the title of a chapter in Walt Whitman's book, Leaves of Grass.
I'm reminded of Disney at this point. Here we have someone who plunders the public domain, adapts and creates something new from what they found there and then complains when others do the same to their own creations.
There's no individual POSIX call to do that, true. But using the asynchronous I/O model specified in Posix.1 you can do away with blocking waits completely and just employ a signal handler. It's not that bad. In fact, it's pretty good.
I've never even seen Windows for about 10 years let alone know anything about the kernel so I may have misunderstood your point, but what you're describing sounds suspiciously like the asynchronous I/O model specified in Posix.1 of all places. The aio_* functions return immediately and generate a signal if requested, when the I/O has been completed. It's similar to the non-blocking I/O model that everyone knows about but despite the name, non-blocking operations do occasionally block, the aio_* model never blocks.