It is not the CRTC or Canadian Law that stops shows from being available in Canada. It's the regional licensing systems the entertainment industry has that that require negotiating separately for each region that sites like Netflix want to make the content available in.
Often you can't even go to a single source either because often the same content has different corporations to manage it depending on country or continent. Scrabble is a fantastic example of that: British scrabble players can't play North American players when using the official Facebook Scrabble apps because the two corporations that hold the rights couldn't even get together and agree on a single app.
I wish there were more programmers like you and the other reply to my post in my office rather than ones I have to work with who actually edit C header filess to disable my vararg format specifiers in order to cut back on warnings.
Why are we doing it? There is just one reason, it helps get code shipped faster. Code does not get written faster though, in either Chrome or the new Firefox process:) It just gets shipped quicker. But that is important too, and that's why we (and Google) are doing this.
It may not get written faster but fewer changes each cycle will allow it to be tested and debugged faster.
Not just int the US. Right now I find myself in a country that goes out of it's way to protect the poor from the rich but goes much too far. The renter protections are so strict that people are afraid to rent to anyone and would rather leave unused apartments empty rather than rent to someone who decided not to pay rent since it can take over a year to get rid of a family who simply refuses to pay.
At the other extreme are people who have attempted to enforce their non religion on people and there have, believe it or not, been a number of incarcerations and executions done in the name of removing religion from society.
A conservative will try and protect you from yourself because he thinks it's good for you morally, a liberal will try and protect you from yourself so you can live longer/healthier and be protected from people with more advantages in life than you have. I think the third axes should be authoritarian vs libertarian: whether I can force another to be more correct no matter what my motivation.
Liberals will tell you what to eat and not to eat (just look at the number of countries with bans on non pasteurized milk) and whether you should be wearing a seat belt etc. The liberal motivation is to protect the little guy from others and himself and their tenancy is to punish people who don't share in their need to bubble wrap everything and as a result they tend to smack their heads repeatedly against the law of unintended consequences.
One of the major reasons the Linux Kernel people moved to shorter releases is so that distros would stop back porting features. Debian should either be basing it's distro on a long term supported kernel (bug fixes but no new features) or periodically updating to something known stable.
Add to that the crap he has pulled since then like the shooting of a British Policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in the UK, blowing up an airliner, the support for terrorists around the world (IRA etc) and when he stopped all of that he still continues to arm, train and fund some of the most brutal rebellions in Africa (some of them against democratic governments).
This all makes it one of the few cases where I would justify an invasion since the pain and suffering he causes extends well beyond his borders and the world would be better off without this psychopathic wackjob.
Audio commentary is often just an extra audio track and when it's not then it's an extra video file. Really the only thing you lose is PiP but then I *hate* that function anyways so ripping it to my media NAS is no loss for me.
makemkv but on it's own it creates 30 GB mkv files. I use the "backup disk option" from makemkv to get a decrypted copy of the disk and run the resulting files through handbrake to get a smaller copy.
Here is a better question: Why would anyone prefer to buy a Win7 phone that by MS own pricing must be at least $50 more than the equivalent Android handset?
Android has already forced the prices for phones down to the point where they are now cheaper than the "feature" phones from 5 years ago and the prices will only go down farther. The only companies that will avoid the downward spiral are companies that either manage to be a fashion statement or provide some niche service not covered by the cheaper phones. In neither case is that something either Nokia or Microsoft can provide.
I agree with most of that but to be completely fair SGI was screwed over by Intel since betting the farm on a chip that was sold as the chip to rule them all turned out to be a dog.
You forgot the Splygass.. The browser maker that was promised a cut of the profits from the derivative browser that was IE but was then told that there weren't any since IE was free.
There is a very simple reason the telcos hate it when we install our own stuff: They want to be the sole gatekeeper so they can tax us anytime we do something and they actually feel entitled to that money.
Telcos used to bully phone makers to no end to the point where they would provide the means to disable features that saved the customer money. I still recall hacking my phone to enable basic features like the ability to transfer files over USB instead of having to spent $0.75 a shot emailing *my own* pictures to myself or being able to upload custom ringtones instead of having to buy them from the telco's ringtone store.
Then, as much as I dislike Apple, Steve Jobs comes along and pulls the carpet out from under them all by allowing Wifi data transfers of all things on top of all of the features telcos were already forbidding the manufactures from providing. So now they are scrambling to get that control back.
Some of it was overrated but some of it actually helped by kicking the people who needed to open their wallets. Y2K consulting was painfully expensive because it was all done at the last minute when everyone who knew what they were doing was busy. Had the same companies started even a few years earlier they would most likely have been able to get the same service at half the price.
IPv6 is the same stupidity all over again. A few years back I worked for an isp and asked if I could try some test IPv6 deployments but was refused because no one could see a need for it in the next quarter. I don't even want to know how much work it will take them to set it up now that it is an emergency.
What's missing are apps that aren't wrappers for Google apps that 200 different "programmers" throw together. I often find myself wishing that so many Android apps weren't cloud based since there is nothing more annoying than being underground and discovering my Spanish/English dictionary doesn't work now because I happen to be in a cell dead zone when I need to look something up.
Don't forget that the people who you call to disconnect your service get payed a commission on every customer they get to stay and those people will say anything to get you to reconsider even if it's completely untrue. You might also want to keep in mind that their disconnection process was actually the subject of a lawsuit that involved the Attorney Generals of 48 states.
I know guy who bought a computer to keep himself busy now that he was in a retirement home. IT cam with "free internet for three months" and by that they meant they tossed in an AOL CD. What they didn't say was that they had already provided his credit card details to AOL so even though the software was never installed he got billed for it anyways. When I called to complain they told me "we don't look into people's accounts to see if they are using it" and then provided a partial refund only.
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At this point that doesn't apply to the Internet. Canadian broadcasters are begging the CRTC to change the rules to change that though.
It is not the CRTC or Canadian Law that stops shows from being available in Canada. It's the regional licensing systems the entertainment industry has that that require negotiating separately for each region that sites like Netflix want to make the content available in.
Often you can't even go to a single source either because often the same content has different corporations to manage it depending on country or continent. Scrabble is a fantastic example of that: British scrabble players can't play North American players when using the official Facebook Scrabble apps because the two corporations that hold the rights couldn't even get together and agree on a single app.
I wish there were more programmers like you and the other reply to my post in my office rather than ones I have to work with who actually edit C header filess to disable my vararg format specifiers in order to cut back on warnings.
Also -Werror for fixing programmers who are too lazy to fix warnings.
Why are we doing it? There is just one reason, it helps get code shipped faster. Code does not get written faster though, in either Chrome or the new Firefox process :) It just gets shipped quicker. But that is important too, and that's why we (and Google) are doing this.
It may not get written faster but fewer changes each cycle will allow it to be tested and debugged faster.
Seems like they're pulling numbers out of a hat to me.
That's about normal for IDC. Just check out their Itanium predictions
Not just int the US. Right now I find myself in a country that goes out of it's way to protect the poor from the rich but goes much too far. The renter protections are so strict that people are afraid to rent to anyone and would rather leave unused apartments empty rather than rent to someone who decided not to pay rent since it can take over a year to get rid of a family who simply refuses to pay.
At the other extreme are people who have attempted to enforce their non religion on people and there have, believe it or not, been a number of incarcerations and executions done in the name of removing religion from society.
A conservative will try and protect you from yourself because he thinks it's good for you morally, a liberal will try and protect you from yourself so you can live longer/healthier and be protected from people with more advantages in life than you have. I think the third axes should be authoritarian vs libertarian: whether I can force another to be more correct no matter what my motivation.
Liberals will tell you what to eat and not to eat (just look at the number of countries with bans on non pasteurized milk) and whether you should be wearing a seat belt etc. The liberal motivation is to protect the little guy from others and himself and their tenancy is to punish people who don't share in their need to bubble wrap everything and as a result they tend to smack their heads repeatedly against the law of unintended consequences.
In my experience both liberals and conservatives both want to control morality but disagree on what the morals should be.
One of the major reasons the Linux Kernel people moved to shorter releases is so that distros would stop back porting features. Debian should either be basing it's distro on a long term supported kernel (bug fixes but no new features) or periodically updating to something known stable.
Add to that the crap he has pulled since then like the shooting of a British Policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in the UK, blowing up an airliner, the support for terrorists around the world (IRA etc) and when he stopped all of that he still continues to arm, train and fund some of the most brutal rebellions in Africa (some of them against democratic governments).
This all makes it one of the few cases where I would justify an invasion since the pain and suffering he causes extends well beyond his borders and the world would be better off without this psychopathic wackjob.
Audio commentary is often just an extra audio track and when it's not then it's an extra video file. Really the only thing you lose is PiP but then I *hate* that function anyways so ripping it to my media NAS is no loss for me.
makemkv but on it's own it creates 30 GB mkv files. I use the "backup disk option" from makemkv to get a decrypted copy of the disk and run the resulting files through handbrake to get a smaller copy.
Here is a better question: Why would anyone prefer to buy a Win7 phone that by MS own pricing must be at least $50 more than the equivalent Android handset?
Android has already forced the prices for phones down to the point where they are now cheaper than the "feature" phones from 5 years ago and the prices will only go down farther. The only companies that will avoid the downward spiral are companies that either manage to be a fashion statement or provide some niche service not covered by the cheaper phones. In neither case is that something either Nokia or Microsoft can provide.
I agree with most of that but to be completely fair SGI was screwed over by Intel since betting the farm on a chip that was sold as the chip to rule them all turned out to be a dog.
You forgot the Splygass.. The browser maker that was promised a cut of the profits from the derivative browser that was IE but was then told that there weren't any since IE was free.
There is a very simple reason the telcos hate it when we install our own stuff: They want to be the sole gatekeeper so they can tax us anytime we do something and they actually feel entitled to that money.
Telcos used to bully phone makers to no end to the point where they would provide the means to disable features that saved the customer money. I still recall hacking my phone to enable basic features like the ability to transfer files over USB instead of having to spent $0.75 a shot emailing *my own* pictures to myself or being able to upload custom ringtones instead of having to buy them from the telco's ringtone store.
Then, as much as I dislike Apple, Steve Jobs comes along and pulls the carpet out from under them all by allowing Wifi data transfers of all things on top of all of the features telcos were already forbidding the manufactures from providing. So now they are scrambling to get that control back.
It doesn't have two ethernet ports either so it rules out using it as a firewall.
Indeed. I have been waiting forever for something I can build a firewall with for under $200 that has low power requirements.
The oversight with that setup is that IPv6 has no mechanism to advertize the location of the nameservers.
Some of it was overrated but some of it actually helped by kicking the people who needed to open their wallets. Y2K consulting was painfully expensive because it was all done at the last minute when everyone who knew what they were doing was busy. Had the same companies started even a few years earlier they would most likely have been able to get the same service at half the price.
IPv6 is the same stupidity all over again. A few years back I worked for an isp and asked if I could try some test IPv6 deployments but was refused because no one could see a need for it in the next quarter. I don't even want to know how much work it will take them to set it up now that it is an emergency.
What's missing are apps that aren't wrappers for Google apps that 200 different "programmers" throw together. I often find myself wishing that so many Android apps weren't cloud based since there is nothing more annoying than being underground and discovering my Spanish/English dictionary doesn't work now because I happen to be in a cell dead zone when I need to look something up.
Don't forget that the people who you call to disconnect your service get payed a commission on every customer they get to stay and those people will say anything to get you to reconsider even if it's completely untrue. You might also want to keep in mind that their disconnection process was actually the subject of a lawsuit that involved the Attorney Generals of 48 states.
I know guy who bought a computer to keep himself busy now that he was in a retirement home. IT cam with "free internet for three months" and by that they meant they tossed in an AOL CD. What they didn't say was that they had already provided his credit card details to AOL so even though the software was never installed he got billed for it anyways. When I called to complain they told me "we don't look into people's accounts to see if they are using it" and then provided a partial refund only.
Please back that statement up with some sort of evidence. I have worked for ISPs and have never heard of any such policy.