This is roughly what I gathered from comments left on Lawrence Lessig's blog (on the topic of a DRM version of the US Constitution being sold online): You can legaly circumvent DRM for the purpose of accessing public domain works, as long as you make sure the circumvention technology used is not made public (where you would then be charged for distribution of technology intended for circumvention). This is a clause in the DMCA itself, it states the law is only applicable to works that are copyrighted, and would therefore not cover works for which the copyright had expired.
So if you want to break the DRM on your copy of Hamlet, then you would have to either do it yourself, or find someone who has done it before and use their technology while making sure no one else can access it.
It is somewhat silly, but the law doesn't actually stop accessing public domain works, it just makes it a pain.
If I remeber correctly the rule 1*0=0 is not specified in the axioms for the integers/rational/real numbers. Each step he took used one axiom and would be the usual way to prove things at that sort of level from my experience.
>By the way, what do you mean that Safari is faster than Opera on any platform? Safari only runs on MacOSX.
He means Safari/OSX is faster than Opera/Windows and Opera/Linux and Opera/OXS. ie. it's not because Opera is slower on OSX than on other operating systems (I don't know if that is the case or not).
If you actually read through notes at the end of the Hutton Inquiry there are some quotes (from internal emails and such) that show some people saying (paraphrasing) "we'll have trouble on this claim, we don't have solid evidence". Also they did twist other facts such as the "45 minute" claim was alegedly about "battlefield mortar shells or small calibre weaponry" not misiles or anything that would be a threat to the UK. They may not have added things they believed were untrue but they did add things that they knew they couldn't back up, and they also put true claims into different contexts.
I find it very useful, just when I'm copying stuff at university but needing to cut photocopier bills down, no need to mess around because all the size changes are standard.
>wouldn't it have been much nicer to make the ratio a nice, round 1.5?
The whole point is that another number wouldn't work. If you have a piece of paper that is length A on one side and B on the other, then if you want two side by side to have the same shape you need B/A = 2*A/B. So B^2 = 2*A^2 so B = sqrt(2)*A.
If you picked 1.5 say, then two piece of paper together would have one length of 2 and width 1.5, so a ratio of 4/3 = 1.333333, which has now changed shape from your original ratio of 1.5
ResNet = Residential Network I would imagine.
In the UK things vary from place to place, where I am (Oxford) things are quite scrict due to threatened lawsuits and such, but colleges at the university don't all have the same rules and there have been some big SMB shares that some colleges could access. At other universities there may not be centralised servers but it is often possible to run the programs that scan network shares to look for stuff (the sort of programs that some American students were getting into trouble for writing a year or so ago), as the sysadmins don't block network shares internally.
They have zero jurisdiction in America, they are not a government organisation, they only have power because they are so big they can influence the government and launch lots of lawsuits. They are free to try suing people in Russia (which is signed up to honour international copyrights whether or not this is enforced), just the Russian authorities might not help them as much.
Firstly, if those are illegal coppies they will be considered as such when they reach a country that recognises the copyright, in this case Romania does and so does the USA so those copies would be illegal either way, the same would hold in Russia. (In say, Taiwan, you could get bootlegged copies, but these would be illegal if you took them into America.)
The music in this case though is all legal and licenced properly in Russia (with money being transfered back to the American companies and artists involved) so there is no issue with piracy.
If you are purchasing musics from other countries this is normally fine, possibly there will be laws on reselling in another country. In this case the transaction takes place in Russia and then they send you the goods, it's no different than if I (living in the UK) purchased something from amazon.com and got them to ship it to me.
That approach is totally overkill imho, multi-culturalism works fine in some places, but you do have to loose your ideal of a single culture totally. Certainly in London multi-culturalism seems to do ok, in one poll about 80% of people claimed the wide cultural mix is a very positive thing. With regards to language you run into lots of problems, do you expect people to prove they're tourists if they are speaking a forigen language in public? What do you do if someone wants to speak Welsh when they are in England, would that be banned too? At any rate I'm constantly astounded at how badly many people English is spoken by people who's families have been here for hundreds of years:) My Chinese, Indian, Pakistani friends do better than my caucasian friends on average:) I don't doubt that in some communities people put less effort into picking things up but you don't have any more right to force them, than to have to go to Newcastle and detaining Geordies for being unable to speak The Queens' English:)
Actually the way climate systems work means things could happen very quickly, these are not necessarily linear changes, once you pass some critical point things could switch round totally.
One concern of this form is about the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift. Basicly Wester Europe's climate is vastly different to Northern USA and Canada because of a stream of hot water (and air) which comes up from down near Florida, among other effects it keeps the area much warmer in the Winter. When the water reaches Artic regions it cools down and sinces and flows back down to the South. The fear is that melting water from polar ice caps could disrupt this. I think (not an expert) that water would be fresh water (less dense) it could mix with the warm water moving up but this would then not since, as it would not be dense enough because of the lower salt content.
The key point is that if this does happen, the stream won't slow down or anything, it would probably stop totally, this would then plunge Western Europe into a Siberian climate over the course of a year or so. I don't know for sure if this will occur, but I think it's general considered that if an effect like this did cause disruption it wouldn't be slow it would just happen almost overnight.
If you expect children to learn off their own back then why send them to school in the first place? Just give them some books and let them teach themselves at home. However I always thought that children were sent to school to be taught, this isn't the same as just going to learn, you should actually have teachers actively helping you.
Just because a child is clever that doesn't mean they will always learn with no effort, they still need to be motivated and they still need to teaching to appropriately direct their efforts, plenty of people haven't developed to the level where they can really take things into their own hands teenager (at least they may not be as productive).
At any rate, aiming for the level of an average student will screw over any less inteligent people, rather than learning 70% of the material well, they may learn 100% of the material badly as they are rushed along. It's not an easy thing to do, but the school system really ought to aim to cater for everybody and try and be as flexible as possible imho.
You can't take your money with you when you die anyway. It's better than leaving all of it too his children but it still doesn't stop the fact that Microsoft is, to a large extent, a dead end in the economy. More of that money flowing through other software companies would be a much better situation. His desire to maintain Microsoft's grip of the software market with some very questionable business tactics certainly doesn't imply respect (and the fact that many other businessmen would do that doesn't change that fact, a fair few of them don't respect customers either).
I'm with you here, especially for a lossy format (not worried about the quality, more about being able to move it to different formats in the future). I don't think droping prices would really hurt profits that much.
When I used to buy quite a lot of music (I don't anymore because I'm a student and I don't have much spare cash, though I download less too) there would always be lots of stuff I wanted but couldn't afford. I'd mainly buy during sales so I was paying at 60/70% normal retail price but I still didn't have enough money to get every album I wanted. If the prices dropped more I would have spent pretty much the same amount of money but with more CDs to show for it.
Now there is an argument against this with CDs that have production and transport costs (a weak argument though as it is still a fraction of a CD's price) but I doubt bandwidth/server load is expensive enough to make a difference here.
Most phones don't have special slots or anything, you have to open the phone up to get at the SIM card , often in the battery compartment. You ought to still be able to remove it though. Most phones aren't decided with SIM swapping as a super simple feature, just something that is there if you need it.
You mentioned at the bottom that you glossed over the effect of proportional representation on third parties. This is an interesting point as it effects the "deadlock" between parties in some situations, in a different way to the executive/legislative seperation.
Imagine a situation when voters were very even between democrats and republicans when voting for congress, the republicans takes the House of Representatives by 1 seat. If the voting trends are reasonably consistent accross states (or at least heavily democrat cancel out heavily republican). In a proportional system it would then be quite likely that the republicans would no longer have the majority. Instead they may have 217, democrats 215 and green 2, libertarian 1 say (House totals 435, is this right?). As a result they are now pulled into a situations where they may often have to moderate their plans to get votes from other parties. ALso since a 3rd (or 4th/5th) party vote is no longer "wasted" the numbers for those parties go up and often the leading party may often end up in 40% region. So now the dominating party cannot totaly control policy just with its own members, bringing in a "deadlock" of a slightly different sort.
Of course many of the European with this system also have a President and therefore have powers split too, though the roles do not match up exactly with the USA. Here in Britain we have the first past the post system without the power split, so we do have rather strong goverment central goverment (there are always other checks and measures but they don't always come into play of course).
Anyway just to explain to people that there are some other approaches to the problem of too much power in one body (not really to address the parent who seems to have a good grasp of these ideas:)
In the UK at least, a phone will come up with the number if it is unrecognized and the person's name if you have entered them in your phone book. However it is possible to send a name header that will take priority over the number if it is not recognised. This is used by businesses of cellphone related nature (eg. sending free SMS from the web, new ringtones, or being contacted from your network provider) to make sure people know who they are dealing with.
While you can't do this on most phones afaik, there are websites that allow you to change this data when sending SMS from a web link-up. You would need to know what is on someone's phonebook (eg. I spotted one when my friend was messing about, he sent one from "Katie" but I only have a "Katie L" on my phone) but it is easily possible to trick people like this.
I think this is the point. It's true that "the licence" in clauses 4 & 5 does refer the specific agreement between distributor and user with regards to that one piece of software. But the GPL licence is consistent accross many different products. SCO have not simply disagreed with the licencing for Linux, they have attacked the GPL as a whole. You can't seriously claim the GPL is invalid and unconstitutional when regards to Linux but then claim the exact same licence is fine with regards to NMap.
It's a weird situation, I wonder what would happen if, for example, someone simply didn't redistribute source code? Would that count as rejecting the licence as a whole, or simply breaking the conditions in one instance? In this case at least however, I believe SCO's public comments could cause them to violate the terms of any GPL'd software.
The "capital" in capitalism doesn't just refer to the people at the top making money. It refers to the fact that effectively, everything has a price and can be viewed in terms of capital. The value of land, goods and workers wages is determined by the demand. Ideally this should encourage companies to be efficient and provide good value for money, in reality this doesn't always happen due to customer inertia and advertising affecting the publics' buying habits, legal issues them come into play as well.
While monopolies will always occur in capitalism, for the system to work well, ideally they should not be able to affect their market control using anything other than the quality of their product and value for money. However we often see people control the market by using one product to help another (financial support or compatibility issues) or lobbying for favorable laws to be passed.
As some people on here have mentioned, the push towards this didn't come from the whole (male dominated) community. Many girls chose to play in teams that are female only. When I started playing 4-5 years ago there were only a handfull of female only teams, and girl gamers scattered around other teams. There were plenty of all male teams, but these weren't "male only", it was because of practical (not many girls about) rather than ideological reasons.
I'm not sure whether the trend towards segregation was started from females who were sick of men looking down on them (I've never noticed it in the circles I've hung out in, but I'm sure it happens, maybe more in some communities) or whether it game from organisers looking for a gimick. Certainly I think some female 1on1 tournaments were held before the team ones became common, and guys were certainly not pro-segregation (girls having a tournament to themselfs with prize money, when they could enter in the main tournament too, that made some guys pretty annoyed).
I've certainly had some issues on my linux box. I'm new to it, I decided to move from win2k to a knoppix based debian install last November. This was fine, it doesn't run much on install without permision. However a few weeks later and I find all the services I'd been asked about during install are now running (and I had checked after install so this happened for some other reason).
I'm not quite sure why it happened, I'm guessing it was part of the dist upgrade I did to fix some knoppix dependancy/apt issues. Maybe I made a mistake in the process myself, but I had no idea it would do something like that.
Other than this my experiences haven't been to bad, but this was concerning, I may not know all the technical details of the OS but I thought I'd be able to simply not run things without too many problems!
Does AIM actually work like that? I'm pretty sure MSN Messanger is server based (probably going p2p for file transfers) and I thought all IM systems were like this (with ones like jabber broadening to multiple servers). At the very least the client needs to connect to an AOL server to check who is online/offline surely?
I do think starting with a new game is a good thing, before things have settled down you tend to get a more varried base of players, people won't have got bored of it, beginers won't have been scared off. With the older games most people still playing them will have been playing for a few years at least so they'll be pretty damn good compared to a beginner. Some body mentioned the good players always jumping to a new game, often the reverse is true, because they are more experienced they tend to be more picky about what they like.
However I don't think starting with deathmatch is necessarily such a good thing, while it seems simple as a beginer there's really quite a lot going on and it can be very fast paced. Games aren't always team based on public server so you probably won't have anyone good to protect you:) With the "tactical/realistic" type games you can possibly pick a class that suits your strengths and learn while having people back you up, there will be a lot to learn but your told the main objectives when you start and you can always follow team members:) Also since these games are a bit more mainstream you will find more casual players then in deathmatch games (well that's my experience, though all of this does change from game to game).
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This is roughly what I gathered from comments left on Lawrence Lessig's blog (on the topic of a DRM version of the US Constitution being sold online): You can legaly circumvent DRM for the purpose of accessing public domain works, as long as you make sure the circumvention technology used is not made public (where you would then be charged for distribution of technology intended for circumvention). This is a clause in the DMCA itself, it states the law is only applicable to works that are copyrighted, and would therefore not cover works for which the copyright had expired.
So if you want to break the DRM on your copy of Hamlet, then you would have to either do it yourself, or find someone who has done it before and use their technology while making sure no one else can access it.
It is somewhat silly, but the law doesn't actually stop accessing public domain works, it just makes it a pain.
If I remeber correctly the rule 1*0=0 is not specified in the axioms for the integers/rational/real numbers. Each step he took used one axiom and would be the usual way to prove things at that sort of level from my experience.
>By the way, what do you mean that Safari is faster than Opera on any platform? Safari only runs on MacOSX.
He means Safari/OSX is faster than Opera/Windows and Opera/Linux and Opera/OXS. ie. it's not because Opera is slower on OSX than on other operating systems (I don't know if that is the case or not).
If you actually read through notes at the end of the Hutton Inquiry there are some quotes (from internal emails and such) that show some people saying (paraphrasing) "we'll have trouble on this claim, we don't have solid evidence". Also they did twist other facts such as the "45 minute" claim was alegedly about "battlefield mortar shells or small calibre weaponry" not misiles or anything that would be a threat to the UK. They may not have added things they believed were untrue but they did add things that they knew they couldn't back up, and they also put true claims into different contexts.
I find it very useful, just when I'm copying stuff at university but needing to cut photocopier bills down, no need to mess around because all the size changes are standard.
>wouldn't it have been much nicer to make the ratio a nice, round 1.5?
The whole point is that another number wouldn't work. If you have a piece of paper that is length A on one side and B on the other, then if you want two side by side to have the same shape you need B/A = 2*A/B. So B^2 = 2*A^2 so B = sqrt(2)*A.
If you picked 1.5 say, then two piece of paper together would have one length of 2 and width 1.5, so a ratio of 4/3 = 1.333333, which has now changed shape from your original ratio of 1.5
ResNet = Residential Network I would imagine. In the UK things vary from place to place, where I am (Oxford) things are quite scrict due to threatened lawsuits and such, but colleges at the university don't all have the same rules and there have been some big SMB shares that some colleges could access. At other universities there may not be centralised servers but it is often possible to run the programs that scan network shares to look for stuff (the sort of programs that some American students were getting into trouble for writing a year or so ago), as the sysadmins don't block network shares internally.
There are some other posts further down the thread that point out some more issue that could change the legality... a few things I hadn't realised.
They have zero jurisdiction in America, they are not a government organisation, they only have power because they are so big they can influence the government and launch lots of lawsuits. They are free to try suing people in Russia (which is signed up to honour international copyrights whether or not this is enforced), just the Russian authorities might not help them as much.
Firstly, if those are illegal coppies they will be considered as such when they reach a country that recognises the copyright, in this case Romania does and so does the USA so those copies would be illegal either way, the same would hold in Russia. (In say, Taiwan, you could get bootlegged copies, but these would be illegal if you took them into America.)
The music in this case though is all legal and licenced properly in Russia (with money being transfered back to the American companies and artists involved) so there is no issue with piracy.
If you are purchasing musics from other countries this is normally fine, possibly there will be laws on reselling in another country. In this case the transaction takes place in Russia and then they send you the goods, it's no different than if I (living in the UK) purchased something from amazon.com and got them to ship it to me.
That approach is totally overkill imho, multi-culturalism works fine in some places, but you do have to loose your ideal of a single culture totally. Certainly in London multi-culturalism seems to do ok, in one poll about 80% of people claimed the wide cultural mix is a very positive thing. With regards to language you run into lots of problems, do you expect people to prove they're tourists if they are speaking a forigen language in public? What do you do if someone wants to speak Welsh when they are in England, would that be banned too? At any rate I'm constantly astounded at how badly many people English is spoken by people who's families have been here for hundreds of years :) My Chinese, Indian, Pakistani friends do better than my caucasian friends on average :) I don't doubt that in some communities people put less effort into picking things up but you don't have any more right to force them, than to have to go to Newcastle and detaining Geordies for being unable to speak The Queens' English :)
Actually the way climate systems work means things could happen very quickly, these are not necessarily linear changes, once you pass some critical point things could switch round totally.
One concern of this form is about the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift. Basicly Wester Europe's climate is vastly different to Northern USA and Canada because of a stream of hot water (and air) which comes up from down near Florida, among other effects it keeps the area much warmer in the Winter. When the water reaches Artic regions it cools down and sinces and flows back down to the South. The fear is that melting water from polar ice caps could disrupt this. I think (not an expert) that water would be fresh water (less dense) it could mix with the warm water moving up but this would then not since, as it would not be dense enough because of the lower salt content.
The key point is that if this does happen, the stream won't slow down or anything, it would probably stop totally, this would then plunge Western Europe into a Siberian climate over the course of a year or so. I don't know for sure if this will occur, but I think it's general considered that if an effect like this did cause disruption it wouldn't be slow it would just happen almost overnight.
If you expect children to learn off their own back then why send them to school in the first place? Just give them some books and let them teach themselves at home. However I always thought that children were sent to school to be taught, this isn't the same as just going to learn, you should actually have teachers actively helping you.
Just because a child is clever that doesn't mean they will always learn with no effort, they still need to be motivated and they still need to teaching to appropriately direct their efforts, plenty of people haven't developed to the level where they can really take things into their own hands teenager (at least they may not be as productive).
At any rate, aiming for the level of an average student will screw over any less inteligent people, rather than learning 70% of the material well, they may learn 100% of the material badly as they are rushed along. It's not an easy thing to do, but the school system really ought to aim to cater for everybody and try and be as flexible as possible imho.
You can't take your money with you when you die anyway. It's better than leaving all of it too his children but it still doesn't stop the fact that Microsoft is, to a large extent, a dead end in the economy. More of that money flowing through other software companies would be a much better situation. His desire to maintain Microsoft's grip of the software market with some very questionable business tactics certainly doesn't imply respect (and the fact that many other businessmen would do that doesn't change that fact, a fair few of them don't respect customers either).
I'm with you here, especially for a lossy format (not worried about the quality, more about being able to move it to different formats in the future). I don't think droping prices would really hurt profits that much.
When I used to buy quite a lot of music (I don't anymore because I'm a student and I don't have much spare cash, though I download less too) there would always be lots of stuff I wanted but couldn't afford. I'd mainly buy during sales so I was paying at 60/70% normal retail price but I still didn't have enough money to get every album I wanted. If the prices dropped more I would have spent pretty much the same amount of money but with more CDs to show for it.
Now there is an argument against this with CDs that have production and transport costs (a weak argument though as it is still a fraction of a CD's price) but I doubt bandwidth/server load is expensive enough to make a difference here.
>>At least, not one I can easily get at
Most phones don't have special slots or anything, you have to open the phone up to get at the SIM card , often in the battery compartment. You ought to still be able to remove it though. Most phones aren't decided with SIM swapping as a super simple feature, just something that is there if you need it.
I don't think its really fair to include the news links. They don't match up perfectly without them, but MS doesn't look quite so biased.
You mentioned at the bottom that you glossed over the effect of proportional representation on third parties. This is an interesting point as it effects the "deadlock" between parties in some situations, in a different way to the executive/legislative seperation.
:)
Imagine a situation when voters were very even between democrats and republicans when voting for congress, the republicans takes the House of Representatives by 1 seat. If the voting trends are reasonably consistent accross states (or at least heavily democrat cancel out heavily republican). In a proportional system it would then be quite likely that the republicans would no longer have the majority. Instead they may have 217, democrats 215 and green 2, libertarian 1 say (House totals 435, is this right?). As a result they are now pulled into a situations where they may often have to moderate their plans to get votes from other parties. ALso since a 3rd (or 4th/5th) party vote is no longer "wasted" the numbers for those parties go up and often the leading party may often end up in 40% region. So now the dominating party cannot totaly control policy just with its own members, bringing in a "deadlock" of a slightly different sort.
Of course many of the European with this system also have a President and therefore have powers split too, though the roles do not match up exactly with the USA. Here in Britain we have the first past the post system without the power split, so we do have rather strong goverment central goverment (there are always other checks and measures but they don't always come into play of course).
Anyway just to explain to people that there are some other approaches to the problem of too much power in one body (not really to address the parent who seems to have a good grasp of these ideas
In the UK at least, a phone will come up with the number if it is unrecognized and the person's name if you have entered them in your phone book. However it is possible to send a name header that will take priority over the number if it is not recognised. This is used by businesses of cellphone related nature (eg. sending free SMS from the web, new ringtones, or being contacted from your network provider) to make sure people know who they are dealing with.
While you can't do this on most phones afaik, there are websites that allow you to change this data when sending SMS from a web link-up. You would need to know what is on someone's phonebook (eg. I spotted one when my friend was messing about, he sent one from "Katie" but I only have a "Katie L" on my phone) but it is easily possible to trick people like this.
I think this is the point. It's true that "the licence" in clauses 4 & 5 does refer the specific agreement between distributor and user with regards to that one piece of software. But the GPL licence is consistent accross many different products. SCO have not simply disagreed with the licencing for Linux, they have attacked the GPL as a whole. You can't seriously claim the GPL is invalid and unconstitutional when regards to Linux but then claim the exact same licence is fine with regards to NMap.
It's a weird situation, I wonder what would happen if, for example, someone simply didn't redistribute source code? Would that count as rejecting the licence as a whole, or simply breaking the conditions in one instance? In this case at least however, I believe SCO's public comments could cause them to violate the terms of any GPL'd software.
The "capital" in capitalism doesn't just refer to the people at the top making money. It refers to the fact that effectively, everything has a price and can be viewed in terms of capital. The value of land, goods and workers wages is determined by the demand. Ideally this should encourage companies to be efficient and provide good value for money, in reality this doesn't always happen due to customer inertia and advertising affecting the publics' buying habits, legal issues them come into play as well.
While monopolies will always occur in capitalism, for the system to work well, ideally they should not be able to affect their market control using anything other than the quality of their product and value for money. However we often see people control the market by using one product to help another (financial support or compatibility issues) or lobbying for favorable laws to be passed.
As some people on here have mentioned, the push towards this didn't come from the whole (male dominated) community. Many girls chose to play in teams that are female only. When I started playing 4-5 years ago there were only a handfull of female only teams, and girl gamers scattered around other teams. There were plenty of all male teams, but these weren't "male only", it was because of practical (not many girls about) rather than ideological reasons.
I'm not sure whether the trend towards segregation was started from females who were sick of men looking down on them (I've never noticed it in the circles I've hung out in, but I'm sure it happens, maybe more in some communities) or whether it game from organisers looking for a gimick. Certainly I think some female 1on1 tournaments were held before the team ones became common, and guys were certainly not pro-segregation (girls having a tournament to themselfs with prize money, when they could enter in the main tournament too, that made some guys pretty annoyed).
I've certainly had some issues on my linux box. I'm new to it, I decided to move from win2k to a knoppix based debian install last November. This was fine, it doesn't run much on install without permision. However a few weeks later and I find all the services I'd been asked about during install are now running (and I had checked after install so this happened for some other reason).
I'm not quite sure why it happened, I'm guessing it was part of the dist upgrade I did to fix some knoppix dependancy/apt issues. Maybe I made a mistake in the process myself, but I had no idea it would do something like that.
Other than this my experiences haven't been to bad, but this was concerning, I may not know all the technical details of the OS but I thought I'd be able to simply not run things without too many problems!
Does AIM actually work like that? I'm pretty sure MSN Messanger is server based (probably going p2p for file transfers) and I thought all IM systems were like this (with ones like jabber broadening to multiple servers). At the very least the client needs to connect to an AOL server to check who is online/offline surely?
I do think starting with a new game is a good thing, before things have settled down you tend to get a more varried base of players, people won't have got bored of it, beginers won't have been scared off. With the older games most people still playing them will have been playing for a few years at least so they'll be pretty damn good compared to a beginner. Some body mentioned the good players always jumping to a new game, often the reverse is true, because they are more experienced they tend to be more picky about what they like.
:) With the "tactical/realistic" type games you can possibly pick a class that suits your strengths and learn while having people back you up, there will be a lot to learn but your told the main objectives when you start and you can always follow team members :) Also since these games are a bit more mainstream you will find more casual players then in deathmatch games (well that's my experience, though all of this does change from game to game).
However I don't think starting with deathmatch is necessarily such a good thing, while it seems simple as a beginer there's really quite a lot going on and it can be very fast paced. Games aren't always team based on public server so you probably won't have anyone good to protect you