>>> "The Trust will require the BBC Executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach within a reasonable timeframe."
The suggested timeframe is 24months. What I want to know is if they push this through by saying access for non-MS users will come later, what happens if later they just ignore us.
I'm guessing that the BBC Trust says "naughty-naughty next time you initiate an DRM based video download player system make sure you do better". Indeed in the same (iPlayer PVT) document they say they'll ask after 24 months:
"What progress has been made towards offering seven-day TV catch-up over the internet on a platform-agnostic basis?"
This kinda suggests that they're expecting that a solution won't have been implemented. I can't really see how they think they're going to implement a usable and secure DRM solution for Linux and OSX in 2 years unless they are banking on claiming that a virtualised solution counts as support.
>>> "so it doesn't seem like orchestras mind the coverage"
Not wanting to sound childish (and failing) but tough-titty-ha-ha if the orchestras mind. It's work for hire, the TV owning British Public is the client, they are providing work at our (distant) request.
The license fee payer owns the recording, the BBC manages that ownership for us, so why can't we listen when we want?
I'm so with you on the not protecting commercial interests. This isn't a commercial television channel. The fact that this small bit of socialist/communist action doesn't fit into a capitalist backdrop is not the license payers concern. Either stick with serving the fee payer _OR_ go for broke in the capitalist system.
>>> "Aside from that, let's look at one of the shows the BBC is proposing to make available online: Doctor Who [imdb.com]. Click the link and scroll down to "Production Companies". Yes, that's right, the venerable BBC Sci-Fi series is produced in part by the CBC.
Thus, I at least have already paid for part of Doctor Who. How many other modern BBC shows are co-produced in conjunction with the national broadcasters in other (esp. Commonwealth) countries? "
You may be right. But I suspect that if CBC is in the credit then they are being paid a commercial rate for their services by the BBC. In which case, even if you fund other work by the CBC then your entitlement to BBC(UK) output is non-existent.
Reading between the lines in the above reports it seems that CBC "sponsored" the production ("produced by BBC Wales in association with the CBC") by buying it early and plugging it prime-time. For example in the news report (last link above) about Doctor Who winning an award they don't mention anything about it being produced by CBC, that seems strange to me as in Wales if a Doctor Who producer wipes his nose it's all over the news reports (! eww). BBC news here also gives the impression that the show is Welsh made (Welsh nationalism is rife).
[quote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worl dwidestories/pressreleases/2006/04_april/mip_torch wood.shtml%5D Kirstine Layfield, Executive Director, Network Programming, CBC Television, commented: "CBC is proud to supplement our overwhelmingly Canadian schedule with the best of the rest of the world, and our British programming has struck a real chord with audiences here. We're delighted with the success of Doctor Who, and we're sure Torchwood will prove equally popular." [/quote]
ccTLDs have been used it's just that the established norm is to have a.com not a.co.us or.co.uk and so those that have a.co.uk (etc.) also have a.com.
Later on when choosing a domain you have to battle against the public assumption that any domain name is a dot-com and the technological assumptions in autocompletion systems which only add.com or.org (unless you hack them).
The real objection is that you then need an.int for cross border entities like WIPO, CERN, UN, etc.. My response would have been that that's fine, any body with addresses in multiple countries could also inhabit the.int TLD.
eg:
ford.com - US site, with links to "global sites" ford.co.uk - UK site
So where's the international site? Why it's the US site, because of course the US is the centre of the universe!
>>> "Did you not read the post you're replying to? There is no Irish or Welsh version of OS X because _OS X directly supports_ approximately 100 languages or variants of languages out of the box"
Did you research the grandparent post? The Apple website doesn't mention that OSX supports welsh (although it does support many languages)... I didn't check for Gaelic, I assume it's the same. By support we're talking the display of [nearly] all OS texts in the native human language.
Seems strange that OSX would support a language and not say anywhere on their website! Give us a link!?!
I think the problem was that the US decided that they should be exempt from using a ccTLD. If there had been a rule of only allowing a ccTLD to go to a person/corporation/establishment with an "address for service" in that country and requiring a document for proof of establishment as a trading operation for.co[m].cc then it could, in my opinion have worked.
Of course this would mean that the domain registrars would have to do administration beyond thinking up new TLDs to cash in on.
I think this is because the stomach environment kills the probiotic bacteria and so generating a better environment for your endemic gut bacteria is better - prebiotic vegetables will do this for you.
Stock investment is simply making money because having money has value.
I see the only ethical way to make money here is by investing in a company to enable them to do what they do (if that's make products or perform services) better, cleaner, faster, more efficiently. And then there'd have to be some provisos on what the company does. So, letting someone else borrow the value of your money in exchange for some of their money.
If you're buying stock to get rich from a pump-and-dump scheme, no matter at what stage, then you're trading not on the use of your money's value but on taking money from other people.
Of course "ethical" depends on the source of your morality. For a pure darwinist I'd imagine anything goes that increases your chances of passing on your genes over those of another organism. In which case it seems that providing you get rich and don't get locked up then it's all good.
>>> To make matters worse, one of those recordings is a modest artistic success. But the publisher (in his infinite wisdom) has decided that it's no longer financially viable to distribute it.
It strikes me that it's probably in the interests of the publisher to cull the small fry from the market so that people are more likely to buy their latest promotions. I guess it's a sort of artificial scarcity.
I was thinking this is a bit like patenting a technology to prevent an opponents use of it. Except in that instance (at least in UK/EPC countries) you can have a compulsory license order served. Pity you can't have the same and force your publisher to license (with reasonable terms) the work back to you.
Of course if artists didn't give away all rights but instead signed away rights for as long as the publisher promoted them (or something) then we wouldn't get in this mess... I guess you'd need a consensus of nearly all musicians though.
If you use hyphens as a replacement for spaces how do you show a hyphen... what does mother-in-law-school mean (my mothers gone to law school || a school to teach mother-in-laws how to keep shtum and do the dishes:o)> )
I prefer underscores — then hyphens can be kept for their proper purpose.
At least when I was at Uni (graduated '98) the matriculation process involved signing rights to any intellectual property created whilst at the Uni over to the Uni.
I don't fancy this guys chances of winning sole rights but in _patent_ cases that I've seen (mainly UK, some EU) fair compensation of the employee who's ideas are being appropriated is a demanded by the courts along with attribution as an inventor.
You can buy a length of 2-by-4. But it's not actually a 2x4 inch measure - it's a metric equivalent. Lengths (where I buy timber) are always quoted in metric.
Short yarn: Tesco supermarket (after our ratification of some metrication part of EU law) started quoting prices in £/Kg - great, finally. Then when there apples went over £1/Kg they suddenly changed all the signs to read in very large letter the £/lb value (some signs even illegally missing off the Kg value). I then found it very difficult to work out how much the fruit was having got used to the metric version. They are not so bad now. So I can understand the reluctance but it only takes a couple of months to tune into the new weights.
I'd be surprised if Warner doesn't get a license that excludes other suppliers from licensing the same material for airing within a similar time-frame (measured in years). Such a license would normally exclude the BBC from licensing themselves to show the material in a competing manner. Wonder how they'll get around their current licenses?
>>> "My main point is that there is no way for them to make the programs available to you that doesn't cost them money"
I don't doubt your verity. Yet strangely they have enough money to finance an internationally used website made free to the rest of the world and paid for by the British TV owning public (though correct me if all BBC websites are paid for by 'World').
Also, once the BBC is funding this commercial activity it's not going to be much more money (in terms of BBC amounts) to give free access to License fee payers.
Finally, the BBC could just make us pay for their bandwidth (at their rates) and direct costs of maintaining the computer systems. I suspect we'd still be getting theses shows at circa 15p rather than the several quid that we pay now via DVD distribution.
I just played my first session on a friends Wii tonight.
I got about 105 mph as a standard pitch with a flick of the wrist. About 150mph by trying for a fast pitch and pressing up on the D-pad (if that makes a difference?).
I didn't see any pitches less than about 90mph including curve- and screw-balls.
The "Book of God" is a novel based on the Bible filling in well researched but still imagined details about life in Biblical times. It stays close to the original text and gives a reverend rendition of happenings starting with Abraham and moving on through to the Acts of the Apostles. It is not an exhaustive account. YMMV
Quote:
Abraham felt the hairs on his neck begin to tingle. Suddenly this was not mere dinner conversation. It felt intimate and dangerous.
He was about to respond, when the stranger turned toward the tent and called out, "Sarah! Sarah, why did you laugh?"
A tiny voice in the dark interior said, "I didn't laugh."
The stranger said, "Yes, you did. When I said you would bear a son you laughed in your heart and mumbled. Shall old age have pleasure anymore? Woman," said the stranger, "is anything too hard for the Lord?"
Abraham gaped. His heart had begun to race wildly. His mind could scarcely keep pace with events. The Lord! This fellow had said. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Once more, louder now but hidden still behind the reed screen of the tent, Sarah said, "I did not laugh!"
The three men were rising up, preparing to travel on. "You did, you know," the more glorious one said. "You laughed."
And then they left. They set out on the long road that descended to the city of Sodom.
So do you understand the concept of a premise or are you just flaming?
You'll notice that as I haven't read the report I speculate on it's content and use the word "if" to show that my considerations are only valid (in my opinion) for cases in which the premise is true. The premise is that the detail which the FCC does not want to release pertains to a single point of failure.
Clearly, from your comment you are privy to the details of the report. It would be more constructive therefore to release the details of the report to the public rather than lambasting my uninformed comment like some kind of deranged imbecile.
In response to one of the other replies. Yes they should fix it _if_ such a situation exists.
You see the parent said he "couldn't imagine" how the report could be used by terrorists. So I imagined content which, if I were a terrorist, I'd find potentially useful.
Lastly, someone commented along the lines of: terrorists kill and not being able to call your mom ain't going to kill anyone. To respond briefly. Terrorists cause terror - the clues in the word formation. Terror or panic can be caused without direct loss of life. Example: I see a large mushroom shaped cloud of smoke after a big earthshaking bang, none of the electrical devices in my home work any longer. I try my cellphone, no signal... so I drive across town to find a signal / phone and maybe a coffee shop with a hot drink. Everywhere in my city has no power. I notice cars leaving the city at a greater rate than usual. My reaction might be - panic and try to leave town. Reality might be a manmade explosion at a local chemical works along with a terrorist hit on the cities power grid.
Slashdot Mirror
>>> "The Trust will require the BBC Executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach within a reasonable timeframe."
The suggested timeframe is 24months. What I want to know is if they push this through by saying access for non-MS users will come later, what happens if later they just ignore us.
I'm guessing that the BBC Trust says "naughty-naughty next time you initiate an DRM based video download player system make sure you do better". Indeed in the same (iPlayer PVT) document they say they'll ask after 24 months:
"What progress has been made towards offering seven-day TV catch-up over the internet on a platform-agnostic basis?"
This kinda suggests that they're expecting that a solution won't have been implemented. I can't really see how they think they're going to implement a usable and secure DRM solution for Linux and OSX in 2 years unless they are banking on claiming that a virtualised solution counts as support.
>>> "so it doesn't seem like orchestras mind the coverage"
Not wanting to sound childish (and failing) but tough-titty-ha-ha if the orchestras mind. It's work for hire, the TV owning British Public is the client, they are providing work at our (distant) request.
The license fee payer owns the recording, the BBC manages that ownership for us, so why can't we listen when we want?
I'm so with you on the not protecting commercial interests. This isn't a commercial television channel. The fact that this small bit of socialist/communist action doesn't fit into a capitalist backdrop is not the license payers concern. Either stick with serving the fee payer _OR_ go for broke in the capitalist system.
>>> "Aside from that, let's look at one of the shows the BBC is proposing to make available online: Doctor Who [imdb.com]. Click the link and scroll down to "Production Companies". Yes, that's right, the venerable BBC Sci-Fi series is produced in part by the CBC.
l dwidestories/pressreleases/2004/10_october/doctor_ who_canada.shtmll dwidestories/pressreleases/2006/04_april/mip_torch wood.shtmlh o/2005/06/29/20283.shtmlv -awards.html
l dwidestories/pressreleases/2006/04_april/mip_torch wood.shtml%5D Kirstine Layfield, Executive Director, Network Programming, CBC Television, commented: "CBC is proud to supplement our overwhelmingly Canadian schedule with the best of the rest of the world, and our British programming has struck a real chord with audiences here. We're delighted with the success of Doctor Who, and we're sure Torchwood will prove equally popular." [/quote]
l dwidestories/pressreleases/2004/10_october/doctor_ who_canada.shtml%5D BBC Worldwide today concluded its first major pre-sale for the new Doctor Who series with Canadian public broadcaster, CBC Television. [/quote]
Thus, I at least have already paid for part of Doctor Who. How many other modern BBC shows are co-produced in conjunction with the national broadcasters in other (esp. Commonwealth) countries? "
You may be right. But I suspect that if CBC is in the credit then they are being paid a commercial rate for their services by the BBC. In which case, even if you fund other work by the CBC then your entitlement to BBC(UK) output is non-existent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/wor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/wor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drw
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/05/08/british-t
Reading between the lines in the above reports it seems that CBC "sponsored" the production ("produced by BBC Wales in association with the CBC") by buying it early and plugging it prime-time. For example in the news report (last link above) about Doctor Who winning an award they don't mention anything about it being produced by CBC, that seems strange to me as in Wales if a Doctor Who producer wipes his nose it's all over the news reports (! eww). BBC news here also gives the impression that the show is Welsh made (Welsh nationalism is rife).
[quote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/wor
[quote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/wor
ccTLDs have been used it's just that the established norm is to have a .com not a .co.us or .co.uk and so those that have a .co.uk (etc.) also have a .com.
.com or .org (unless you hack them).
.int for cross border entities like WIPO, CERN, UN, etc.. My response would have been that that's fine, any body with addresses in multiple countries could also inhabit the .int TLD.
Later on when choosing a domain you have to battle against the public assumption that any domain name is a dot-com and the technological assumptions in autocompletion systems which only add
The real objection is that you then need an
eg:
ford.com - US site, with links to "global sites"
ford.co.uk - UK site
So where's the international site? Why it's the US site, because of course the US is the centre of the universe!
This is quite common.
Surely dice have 6+6n sides as there are necessarily more than one of them. Whilst most singular die have 6 sides.
... it's just possible that I shouldn't have tried to be pedantic at this late at night.
OK
>>> "Did you not read the post you're replying to? There is no Irish or Welsh version of OS X because _OS X directly supports_ approximately 100 languages or variants of languages out of the box"
... I didn't check for Gaelic, I assume it's the same. By support we're talking the display of [nearly] all OS texts in the native human language.
Did you research the grandparent post? The Apple website doesn't mention that OSX supports welsh (although it does support many languages)
Seems strange that OSX would support a language and not say anywhere on their website! Give us a link!?!
I think the problem was that the US decided that they should be exempt from using a ccTLD. If there had been a rule of only allowing a ccTLD to go to a person/corporation/establishment with an "address for service" in that country and requiring a document for proof of establishment as a trading operation for .co[m].cc then it could, in my opinion have worked.
Of course this would mean that the domain registrars would have to do administration beyond thinking up new TLDs to cash in on.
Just a little late now though!
What sort of warped space is that!
Most cubes in euclidean space have six sides (think die).
PS: "die" is the plural of "dice" - I'd have written "dices" to be clear but I'm a pedant and didn't want to suffer the wrath of slashdot.
PPS: Yes, I knew what you meant.
A recent BBC program showed that eating prebiotic veg was better than having probiotic yoghurt stuff.
h ealthy/prebiotics.shtml - main program details
See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/
http://www.food.rdg.ac.uk/news#104 - titbit about the PhD researcher used
I think this is because the stomach environment kills the probiotic bacteria and so generating a better environment for your endemic gut bacteria is better - prebiotic vegetables will do this for you.
I've had paper-mail and phone calls recently.
Hmm.
Stock investment is simply making money because having money has value.
I see the only ethical way to make money here is by investing in a company to enable them to do what they do (if that's make products or perform services) better, cleaner, faster, more efficiently. And then there'd have to be some provisos on what the company does. So, letting someone else borrow the value of your money in exchange for some of their money.
If you're buying stock to get rich from a pump-and-dump scheme, no matter at what stage, then you're trading not on the use of your money's value but on taking money from other people.
Of course "ethical" depends on the source of your morality. For a pure darwinist I'd imagine anything goes that increases your chances of passing on your genes over those of another organism. In which case it seems that providing you get rich and don't get locked up then it's all good.
I too would like to know ... where you can get an ex-google harddrive with inside details of the non-published alterations to their algorithms.
Let me know.
Thanks
I can't recall exactly but I think everything in your field of study whilst matriculated (so not when you're on summer holidays ('vacation')).
>>> To make matters worse, one of those recordings is a modest artistic success. But the publisher (in his infinite wisdom) has decided that it's no longer financially viable to distribute it.
... I guess you'd need a consensus of nearly all musicians though.
It strikes me that it's probably in the interests of the publisher to cull the small fry from the market so that people are more likely to buy their latest promotions. I guess it's a sort of artificial scarcity.
I was thinking this is a bit like patenting a technology to prevent an opponents use of it. Except in that instance (at least in UK/EPC countries) you can have a compulsory license order served. Pity you can't have the same and force your publisher to license (with reasonable terms) the work back to you.
Of course if artists didn't give away all rights but instead signed away rights for as long as the publisher promoted them (or something) then we wouldn't get in this mess
If you use hyphens as a replacement for spaces how do you show a hyphen ... what does mother-in-law-school mean (my mothers gone to law school || a school to teach mother-in-laws how to keep shtum and do the dishes :o)> )
I prefer underscores — then hyphens can be kept for their proper purpose.
At least when I was at Uni (graduated '98) the matriculation process involved signing rights to any intellectual property created whilst at the Uni over to the Uni.
I don't fancy this guys chances of winning sole rights but in _patent_ cases that I've seen (mainly UK, some EU) fair compensation of the employee who's ideas are being appropriated is a demanded by the courts along with attribution as an inventor.
You can buy a length of 2-by-4. But it's not actually a 2x4 inch measure - it's a metric equivalent. Lengths (where I buy timber) are always quoted in metric.
Short yarn: Tesco supermarket (after our ratification of some metrication part of EU law) started quoting prices in £/Kg - great, finally. Then when there apples went over £1/Kg they suddenly changed all the signs to read in very large letter the £/lb value (some signs even illegally missing off the Kg value). I then found it very difficult to work out how much the fruit was having got used to the metric version. They are not so bad now. So I can understand the reluctance but it only takes a couple of months to tune into the new weights.
that's rediculous!
... yes!
Hmm, is that domain taken
300-400 commands.
.... err what else do they do at the shows?
Like what? Active vocabulary of english speakers is only of the order 10 times that.
So, jump flip splash eat play-dead score-a-basket knit-a-sweater
I'd be surprised if Warner doesn't get a license that excludes other suppliers from licensing the same material for airing within a similar time-frame (measured in years). Such a license would normally exclude the BBC from licensing themselves to show the material in a competing manner. Wonder how they'll get around their current licenses?
>>> "My main point is that there is no way for them to make the programs available to you that doesn't cost them money"
I don't doubt your verity. Yet strangely they have enough money to finance an internationally used website made free to the rest of the world and paid for by the British TV owning public (though correct me if all BBC websites are paid for by 'World').
Also, once the BBC is funding this commercial activity it's not going to be much more money (in terms of BBC amounts) to give free access to License fee payers.
Finally, the BBC could just make us pay for their bandwidth (at their rates) and direct costs of maintaining the computer systems. I suspect we'd still be getting theses shows at circa 15p rather than the several quid that we pay now via DVD distribution.
I just played my first session on a friends Wii tonight.
I got about 105 mph as a standard pitch with a flick of the wrist. About 150mph by trying for a fast pitch and pressing up on the D-pad (if that makes a difference?).
I didn't see any pitches less than about 90mph including curve- and screw-balls.
Weird.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-God-Bible-Novel/dp/07 4593983X/sr=1-1/qid=1166533688/ref=sr_1_1/026-5404 366-8449265?ie=UTF8&s=books
... there's an excerpt here http://walterwangerinjr.org/new_web/publish_detail s.php?id=27&t=excerpt from the start of the novel.
Or just google for it.
The "Book of God" is a novel based on the Bible filling in well researched but still imagined details about life in Biblical times. It stays close to the original text and gives a reverend rendition of happenings starting with Abraham and moving on through to the Acts of the Apostles. It is not an exhaustive account. YMMV
Try it
Quote:
Abraham felt the hairs on his neck begin to tingle. Suddenly this was not
mere dinner conversation. It felt intimate and dangerous.
He was about to respond, when the stranger turned toward the tent and
called out, "Sarah! Sarah, why did you laugh?"
A tiny voice in the dark interior said, "I didn't laugh."
The stranger said, "Yes, you did. When I said you would bear a son you
laughed in your heart and mumbled. Shall old age have pleasure anymore?
Woman," said the stranger, "is anything too hard for the Lord?"
Abraham gaped. His heart had begun to race wildly. His mind could scarcely keep
pace with events. The Lord! This fellow had said. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Once more, louder now but hidden still behind the reed screen of the tent,
Sarah said, "I did not laugh!"
The three men were rising up, preparing to travel on. "You did, you know,"
the more glorious one said. "You laughed."
And then they left. They set out on the long road that descended to the city of
Sodom.
So do you understand the concept of a premise or are you just flaming?
... so I drive across town to find a signal / phone and maybe a coffee shop with a hot drink. Everywhere in my city has no power. I notice cars leaving the city at a greater rate than usual. My reaction might be - panic and try to leave town. Reality might be a manmade explosion at a local chemical works along with a terrorist hit on the cities power grid.
You'll notice that as I haven't read the report I speculate on it's content and use the word "if" to show that my considerations are only valid (in my opinion) for cases in which the premise is true. The premise is that the detail which the FCC does not want to release pertains to a single point of failure.
Clearly, from your comment you are privy to the details of the report. It would be more constructive therefore to release the details of the report to the public rather than lambasting my uninformed comment like some kind of deranged imbecile.
In response to one of the other replies. Yes they should fix it _if_ such a situation exists.
You see the parent said he "couldn't imagine" how the report could be used by terrorists. So I imagined content which, if I were a terrorist, I'd find potentially useful.
Lastly, someone commented along the lines of: terrorists kill and not being able to call your mom ain't going to kill anyone. To respond briefly. Terrorists cause terror - the clues in the word formation. Terror or panic can be caused without direct loss of life. Example: I see a large mushroom shaped cloud of smoke after a big earthshaking bang, none of the electrical devices in my home work any longer. I try my cellphone, no signal
>>> damage to business (yeah wwhatever the fuck that means) is not somethign a normal person is scared of happening..
You mean a normal unemployed person who doesn't consume any inputs presumably.