Well for sure it's not the people who copy the media without paying. Of course, they do it from a moral high ground only inhabited by people with a very particular blind spot "it's not theft if it's not something I can hold"
How much time, effort or money do you think content publishers would spend on copy protection if they didn't think their content was going to be illicitly copied?
No, let's not - I'm planning to spend the last couple of years before I retire making silly money fixing old C/C++ programs to work with longer time_t . It's my pension dammit!
I think (and this will go down really well here) that the problem is of licensing. The copyright clearance obtained for the original project didn't include republication rights, so they're not able to republish the content in a different form without contacting all the copyright holders. That would be expensive and timeconsuming, even if they could find all the information...
I think you are missing the context which the poster advised was required...
Many years ago ('82?), the BBC launched the "BBC Microcomputer" (a rebadged Acorn machine based on a 6502). It quickly became the ONLY computer you'd find in any sort of educational establishment. It was backed by TV series & all sorts of other material, and was probably the best of the 8-bit micros in the UK (and this from an ex-Spectrum owner!)
Very few people in the UK moan about the BBC - and most of those who do don't complain about political bias, but the fact that we have to pay a license fee to fund it. What complaints there are about bias tend to come equally from both extremes of the political spectrum, which is probably a good sign
But what the heck, I'm posting a serious reply to a gun control freak when I could have just modded him down, so that shows how silly I am
You'd mod someone down because you disagree with them? I must be missing the point...
Personally, I might describe you as a 'gun freak', but I'm not going to tell people not to listen to your opinions, just that you're wrong. (I am, incidentally, interested in hearing facts which might convince me of your position)
It's reassuring to see, however, that despite your urges, you did do the Right Thing in posting a reasoned response to someone you disagree with, rather than trying to ignore or suppress them.
It's kind of hard to make roads bigger in the middle of one of the world's nicer capital cities. The tourists (not to mention the locals) are likely to object to demolishing so many landmarks...
Parent is absolutely correct, please mode them up!
Either dump or control the 1% of customers using 80% of the bandwidth and everyone is happier because NTL can support more (paying) customers on the same bandwidth with better service. The only cost is a bit of bad PR which will evaporate with the noisy users.
These 1Mb cable connections are contended 50:1, so even 1GB a day is 5 peoples' share. It's not unreasonable, but people who have been treated to cheap peak bandwidth on the assumption that they won't use it all the time are getting a lesson in how much it costs.
The problem in the UK is that there are very few *good* people. There are lots of shit ones, who think because they studied databases, they can be DBAs, for example. Experience is paid for. The job market is very fluid - we've had the dotcom boom, and things seem to be calming down. That means sensible salaries for the best, and realistic salaries for the rest. The most IT-centric areas are starting to have problems supporting other parts of society (rent/mortgage too high, unless you get paid 2-3x national average)
In the UK, start salaries are about $28-35k. 2 years experience will get you up to $70k as a direct employee, or $200k as a contractor, but you'll be screwed for tax. Average tax burden is about 40% (including indirect taxation), but you'll be paying more than the average because you earn more than the average.
Accomodation varies $400-1300 a month, to rent in a shared house, $1k-3k to rent solo. Its cheapest in the north and west (Scotland and Wales too), London is very expensive
You can play all sorts of telecoms games to keep landline prices down (uncluding unmetered access), Mobiles are endemic - >50% of people carry one. Cost is about $30 pcm, depending (obviously) on usage
Eating out is very expensive compared to the US - $15 would be about normal. Big Mac is about 2 pounds ($2.80) for comparison.
Transport - petrol (gas) is very expensive compared to the US. A bit over $5/gal at the moment. New cars about $15k+, decent 2nd hand from about $8k, but if you're living in a metropolis, you probably don't want one.
Public transport is variable. Not particularly reliable or cheap, but it is there. Things are improving, but slowly. Best to live close to where you work than try to travel (unless you're into pain!). Travelling further afield, Ireland is about $100 to fly, France is roughly the same, but you can go on the train or ferry for about $50, IIRC. You can get to most major cities in Europe for $250
Having said all that, the immigration system is fairly harsh - like the US system for incoming Brits! *Don't* come on a tourist visa and try to get a job - you'll be PNGed and sent home. Many companies won't even interview if you need a visa/work permit - its just too much hassle for them to get one (unless you have truly exceptional skills!), so try to get the paperwork first.
You almost certainly won't be able to work in the rest of the EU with a UK visa. Similarly, a French, or Italian, or German visa won't help you in the UK!
Cheers
James (and its not raining, and there have been no floods, honest!)
Whoever becomes President is sure as hell going to think about the rest of the world! Perhaps you should at least consider it. While the US President is primarily the President of America, he also exerts a staggering amount of influence in the rest of the world - way out of scale with the population, and even the economy of the USA.
Your comments about the President simply stopping Congress overreaching indicates that perhaps you don't appreciate the power (and influence) he actually exerts...
The US President used to be described as the leader of the Free World, whatever that meant. When the USSR dissolved, there was lots of hand-wringing in the US about what being the only superpower meant, and whether you wanted to be the 'Policeman of the World'. Like it or not, the US President is the closest person we have to a whole world leader.
I don't think that other countries should have a voice in who your President is (we in the UK have enough problems with the implications of joining a 'non-political' European Union), but I think that it wouldn't do the US any harm to be less parochial that it often seems to be.
We got 150 pounds ($220) extra for each week we were on call. We got an additional 50 pounds ($75) plus expenses each time we had to go into the office outside normal hours.
After I kicked up a fuss, having spent 3 hours dialed to the customer from home and not being paid, that was changed to 50 pounds if we couldn't talk the customer through it (ie, we had to intervene).
I should say that this was for about 4th line support, so there weren't many calls, but when they came, they were stinkers...
I remember a special that noted on many street corners in the UK, there are surveilance cameras guarding against criminal activity. There are, in fact, thousands of these cameras all around the Britain.
That's true, but it does give people most people a safer feeling, and its better than news helicopters...
Slashdot Mirror
Dammit, I'm going to need some new sunglasses...
Well for sure it's not the people who copy the media without paying. Of course, they do it from a moral high ground only inhabited by people with a very particular blind spot "it's not theft if it's not something I can hold"
How much time, effort or money do you think content publishers would spend on copy protection if they didn't think their content was going to be illicitly copied?
Who cares - just pass the popcorn!
You hook the int 2 (?) and int 3 during the run, so your code gets called before the debugger's breakpoint handler, amongst other techniques.
:)
Have a look at this paper and be enlightened
Buy the DVDs, cheapskate. Lots of people worked hard to make Futurama happen, and you want a freebie. How can you justify that?
Parent is absolutely right. I'd take a new hard science grad over a CS grad any day. 2 years down the road, it's a different matter...
Hello? Cruel and unusual?
No, let's not - I'm planning to spend the last couple of years before I retire making silly money fixing old C/C++ programs to work with longer time_t . It's my pension dammit!
Gotta love submarine patents.
Is there a win32 ext2/3 filesystem driver out there anywhere?
That's what I call a dirty little secret...
Actually, the original Domesday book is probably still crown copyright or something ;)
I meant the original Doomsday project, however
I think (and this will go down really well here) that the problem is of licensing. The copyright clearance obtained for the original project didn't include republication rights, so they're not able to republish the content in a different form without contacting all the copyright holders. That would be
expensive and timeconsuming, even if they could find all the information...
I think you are missing the context which the poster advised was required...
Many years ago ('82?), the BBC launched the "BBC Microcomputer" (a rebadged Acorn machine based on a 6502). It quickly became the ONLY computer you'd find in any sort of educational establishment. It was backed by TV series & all sorts of other material, and was probably the best of the 8-bit micros in the UK (and this from an ex-Spectrum owner!)
Very few people in the UK moan about the BBC - and most of those who do don't complain about political bias, but the fact that we have to pay a license fee to fund it. What complaints there are about bias tend to come equally from both extremes of the political spectrum, which is probably a good sign
James
You'd mod someone down because you disagree with them? I must be missing the point...
Personally, I might describe you as a 'gun freak', but I'm not going to tell people not to listen to your opinions, just that you're wrong. (I am, incidentally, interested in hearing facts which might convince me of your position)
It's reassuring to see, however, that despite your urges, you did do the Right Thing in posting a reasoned response to someone you disagree with, rather than trying to ignore or suppress them.
James
208 Megabytes
Broadband? Bring it on!
1 000 000 000 000 000 bits
Or roughly a billion megabits (125 million megabytes)
HTH HAND
It's kind of hard to make roads bigger in the middle of one of the world's nicer capital cities. The tourists (not to mention the locals) are likely to object to demolishing so many landmarks...
Parent is absolutely correct, please mode them up!
Either dump or control the 1% of customers using 80% of the bandwidth and everyone is happier because NTL can support more (paying) customers on the same bandwidth with better service. The only cost is a bit of bad PR which will evaporate with the noisy users.
These 1Mb cable connections are contended 50:1, so even 1GB a day is 5 peoples' share. It's not unreasonable, but people who have been treated to cheap peak bandwidth on the assumption that they won't use it all the time are getting a lesson in how much it costs.
James
Its Denis Ritchie
And he only might have done it (can you tell?)
See http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ for more details
The problem in the UK is that there are very few *good* people. There are lots of shit ones, who think because they studied databases, they can be DBAs, for example. Experience is paid for. The job market is very fluid - we've had the dotcom boom, and things seem to be calming down. That means sensible salaries for the best, and realistic salaries for the rest. The most IT-centric areas are starting to have problems supporting other parts of society (rent/mortgage too high, unless you get paid 2-3x national average)
In the UK, start salaries are about $28-35k. 2 years experience will get you up to $70k as a direct employee, or $200k as a contractor, but you'll be screwed for tax. Average tax burden is about 40% (including indirect taxation), but you'll be paying more than the average because you earn more than the average.
Accomodation varies $400-1300 a month, to rent in a shared house, $1k-3k to rent solo. Its cheapest in the north and west (Scotland and Wales too), London is very expensive
You can play all sorts of telecoms games to keep landline prices down (uncluding unmetered access), Mobiles are endemic - >50% of people carry one. Cost is about $30 pcm, depending (obviously) on usage
Eating out is very expensive compared to the US - $15 would be about normal. Big Mac is about 2 pounds ($2.80) for comparison.
Transport - petrol (gas) is very expensive compared to the US. A bit over $5/gal at the moment. New cars about $15k+, decent 2nd hand from about $8k, but if you're living in a metropolis, you probably don't want one.
Public transport is variable. Not particularly reliable or cheap, but it is there. Things are improving, but slowly. Best to live close to where you work than try to travel (unless you're into pain!). Travelling further afield, Ireland is about $100 to fly, France is roughly the same, but you can go on the train or ferry for about $50, IIRC. You can get to most major cities in Europe for $250
Having said all that, the immigration system is fairly harsh - like the US system for incoming Brits! *Don't* come on a tourist visa and try to get a job - you'll be PNGed and sent home. Many companies won't even interview if you need a visa/work permit - its just too much hassle for them to get one (unless you have truly exceptional skills!), so try to get the paperwork first.
You almost certainly won't be able to work in the rest of the EU with a UK visa. Similarly, a French, or Italian, or German visa won't help you in the UK!
Cheers
James (and its not raining, and there have been no floods, honest!)
James
Bloody hell you lot! Learn how to run an election! There is such a thing as too much tension... 8-)
You're right, but...
Whoever becomes President is sure as hell going to think about the rest of the world! Perhaps you should at least consider it. While the US President is primarily the President of America, he also exerts a staggering amount of influence in the rest of the world - way out of scale with the population, and even the economy of the USA.
Your comments about the President simply stopping Congress overreaching indicates that perhaps you don't appreciate the power (and influence) he actually exerts...
The US President used to be described as the leader of the Free World, whatever that meant. When the USSR dissolved, there was lots of hand-wringing in the US about what being the only superpower meant, and whether you wanted to be the 'Policeman of the World'. Like it or not, the US President is the closest person we have to a whole world leader.
I don't think that other countries should have a voice in who your President is (we in the UK have enough problems with the implications of joining a 'non-political' European Union), but I think that it wouldn't do the US any harm to be less parochial that it often seems to be.
James
We got 150 pounds ($220) extra for each week we were on call. We got an additional 50 pounds ($75) plus expenses each time we had to go into the office outside normal hours.
After I kicked up a fuss, having spent 3 hours dialed to the customer from home and not being paid, that was changed to 50 pounds if we couldn't talk the customer through it (ie, we had to intervene).
I should say that this was for about 4th line support, so there weren't many calls, but when they came, they were stinkers...
That's true, but it does give people most people a safer feeling, and its better than news helicopters...