As another poster pointed out, you've got the terms of UK copyright wrong.
More reasonably what has pushed the BBC into action is that scripts of the new series were leaked online weeks before the new series, and most of the actual episodes days before.
This site may or may not have been among those that did it. But once the BBC had got FACT involved, any site having whole Dr Who episodes, and based within the UK was likely to get taken down.
However, if the kid HAD gone on to commit a gun massacre, everyone would be questioning why the signs that the kid was fantasising about guns weren't followed up.
The problem with America here isn't too much censorship, it's that there's too many school gun massacres. Other first world countries don't have security guards and metal detectors in schools. In most other countries school principles don't need to make plans for what to do if a kid turns up with a gun.
Your American problem is your gun culture. And many of you don't even realise it's an aberration.
What I am really looking forward to is buying a new car, and having the interface upgrade over the life of the car.
Well you better hope it's not Android then. They can't even give updates over the much shorter lifespan of a mobile phone. You're lucky if you get one update.
This is not a crime and there is no victimization. Nothing is being stolen. The person recording videos just disagrees with what is clearly out of line. It is a civil matter.
That might be what you want to believe, but it's not true.
"Both men pleaded guilty to charges of committing offences under the Fraud Act 2006 and the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988."
It's criminal law. Legally, the mistake he made was selling copies. Yes, selling things you don't own is fraud and fraud is a crime.
The common sense errors he made were selling the copies (at £1.50 each) via facebook, and using the same username for both the torrent uploads, and online profiles such as the plentyoffish dating website, which made it trivial to trace him.
Nonsense. The Affordable care act for example is intended to do the opposite. Its a flawed semi-done piece of legislation, but that's because the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct as usual.
Nothing he said implies they're all exactly the same. As a group they do have the motivation he mentions. The wealth gap is widening, and everything the Republicans do is designed to make it so. They are evil. Every single one.
So what you are saying is that NVIDIA and ATI don't release closed source binary-only drivers?So what you are saying is that NVIDIA and ATI don't release closed source binary-only drivers?
It appears you didn't get around to reading paragraph 4 of my post.
I wrote a FUSE driver
Which are only for file systems, and exist BECAUSE of the drawbacks of the generic Linux driver model I mentioned.
Apparently Basil Brush and hairyfeet are involved in anti-Linux FUD.
Not really, we're just not emotionally invested in Linux, so we don't feel the need to make excuses for it's drawbacks.
Uber is illegal in Finland as taxis here need a license to operate and they have service obligation.
Uber is able to modify their business model for different locales. In the UK too, drivers need licensing either as taxis or private hire cars, so Uber does indeed only take on licensed private hire drivers and vehicles.
If the user rating is an issue, they can simply remove that feature from Uber when it's used in Finland. They may well not do that initially, and test the law, but if it comes down to it, any feature can be localised.
In any case, from the story, it appears that Helsinki is welcoming experimentation in transportation from new commercial providers, so they'll probably bend over backwards to accomodate Uber and the like.
You're both right. DOS had drivers, but there was little OS standard for what they did. So individual apps had to be aware of the individual drivers. For example in DOS games you usually had to select Soundblaster specifically within the game. If you didn't it's because the game detected it itself, with no help from DOS.
In Windows, there's an ABI (Application Binary Interface) that 3rd parties can code against to create their drivers. No cooperation is required from Microsoft to implement a new driver. And the 3rd party doesn't need to release source, so any trade secrets embodied or hinted at by the source can be kept secret.
In Linux, there is no ABI. Drivers have to be accepted and included in the kernel source tree. Yes really. It's that fucked up.
This means that you have to have cooperation from the Linux kernel team. And you have to divulge any trade secrets embodied in the source. Which may compromise an advantage that you have on other platforms.
It is practically possible to create a binary Linux driver and embed it in an open source wrapper. But then politics bites you in the ass. Only some distributions will accept them.
So the missing Linux drivers aren't just because it's a tiny marketshare that isn't worth bothering with. OSX was better served with drivers back in the day when it was as rare as desktop Linux. It's because the politics of Linux and it's broken model are often acting against the business interests of the device manufacturers.
I'm writing this from a desktop, with a confortable mechanical keyboard, a good mouse and a widescreen monitor, cause that's what you need if you want to get shit done.
And yet here you are on/. showing that you're not getting shit done. Maybe it's the fault of the windowing system exacerbated by that large screen. Maybe, if you didn't have a browser window constantly on view, but just a single app filling the screen, you wouldn't be so easily distracted?
It's more than just the cover image and text though. A book has an individual feel. It's page size, thickness, weight, the extent to which the spine opens, the colour and texture of the paper, even the smell.
A simplistic attitude is that these things don't matter. But for memory, such details do matter. The context is at least as important as the content. For example it's a common experience that a smell can bring forth strong memories.
It is also possible that they had A4 sheets for the paper version while smaller pages on the Kindle that cannot display that much text at one go. Unless they give them a proper small paperback for comparison, they could have a lot of sources of error.
Why would that be an error? A4 sheets are amongst the paper materials that people read, and even bound books come in a variety of sizes. The fact that ebooks are small and present much less at a time than most paper experiences may be amongst the valid reasons for performing worse in sequence memory.
I find it just as likely that the 28 page story bored the kindle folks half to death and they didn't bother trying to recall it.
Which doesn't explain why the ones reading it on paper act differently.
I find both effects described are plausible. It's certainly true that the human memory by associating items with physical locations. Order particularly. It's how memory experts operate using memory palaces or the method of loci. It may be that the physical nature of a book (or a shorter form) gives the brain more to hang the details of the story on. That the reader can feel the weight and size, and is repeatedly seeing the front page, and can at all times how far through the page or document or book they are.
Its also plausible that ebooks perform better as textbooks, because whilst they'll lose out on the features I mentioned above they benefit from greater efficiency with hyperlinks and searching, such that they can be a better tool for learning. (Learning being different from memorizing. It includes the concept of first understanding the material.)
That doesn't transfer to the UK, where speeding is antisocial arseclown behaviour.
In the UK, speeding used to be the majority behaviour. It's changed in the last 15 years or so because fixed speed cameras (called GATSOs here) and average speed cameras on motorways have become so common. And because for much of the day the weight of traffic doesn't allow traveling fast.
It's not because everyone here believes that the speed limits have been reasonably set.
Compare and contrast to drinking and driving, where that IS seen in the UK as antisocial and extremely irresponsible. However that change too came about as a result of technology and enforcement. The introduction of the breathalyser such that every police car had them, and the will to use them as much as possible brought about the change in behaviour which came before the change in attitude to the mortality of it.
Point out that the similarities are widespread and it's just denied by Android fanboys. Get down to specific examples, and they are called "tiny similarities".
There's no accident here, there is widespread copying.
Not sure what MTBs have to do with it. Maybe it's your hobby. But it's an even worse than the usual car analogies. Unless you want to be specific about specific aspects of two models.
If you think those are the same colour, you must be legally blind.
They're both purple, asshole. I wasn't saying they were the same RGB, HSV or fucking Pantone.
There's nothing intrinsically purple abut "Do Not Disturb". It COULD just be a coincidence without the fact that the image is the same (only differing with bing filled in or not), and the fact that most of the other icons share the same color (in the non-asshole meaning of the word.)
It's far closer to Android 4 than IOS7
You're an idiot or a liar. Don't you realise you're not fooling anyone, you just make yourself look bad.
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As another poster pointed out, you've got the terms of UK copyright wrong.
More reasonably what has pushed the BBC into action is that scripts of the new series were leaked online weeks before the new series, and most of the actual episodes days before.
This site may or may not have been among those that did it. But once the BBC had got FACT involved, any site having whole Dr Who episodes, and based within the UK was likely to get taken down.
which rubs its own political ideology in your face every day ...... sucks.
Yeah, the BBC's most profitable program has the most appalling political biases. Especially that Jeremy Clarkson.
But maybe that's not what you meant. Maybe you only considered programs that you disagree with.
I am a little confused; Isn't all material on the BBC public property in Britain since it's paid for with taxes?
That's an American law. There's no such equivalent in the UK, nor I imagine in most of the rest of the world.
However, if the kid HAD gone on to commit a gun massacre, everyone would be questioning why the signs that the kid was fantasising about guns weren't followed up.
The problem with America here isn't too much censorship, it's that there's too many school gun massacres. Other first world countries don't have security guards and metal detectors in schools. In most other countries school principles don't need to make plans for what to do if a kid turns up with a gun.
Your American problem is your gun culture. And many of you don't even realise it's an aberration.
Apple Carplay: Cars that people who car about quality buy.
Android Auto: Cars that are pushed on people by the auto salesman.
What I am really looking forward to is buying a new car, and having the interface upgrade over the life of the car.
Well you better hope it's not Android then. They can't even give updates over the much shorter lifespan of a mobile phone. You're lucky if you get one update.
This is not a crime and there is no victimization. Nothing is being stolen. The person recording videos just disagrees with what is clearly out of line. It is a civil matter.
That might be what you want to believe, but it's not true.
"Both men pleaded guilty to charges of committing offences under the Fraud Act 2006 and the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988."
It's criminal law. Legally, the mistake he made was selling copies. Yes, selling things you don't own is fraud and fraud is a crime.
The common sense errors he made were selling the copies (at £1.50 each) via facebook, and using the same username for both the torrent uploads, and online profiles such as the plentyoffish dating website, which made it trivial to trace him.
Nonsense. The Affordable care act for example is intended to do the opposite. Its a flawed semi-done piece of legislation, but that's because the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct as usual.
Nothing he said implies they're all exactly the same. As a group they do have the motivation he mentions. The wealth gap is widening, and everything the Republicans do is designed to make it so. They are evil. Every single one.
The driver model you are complaining about is never ever ever ever ever ever going to change.
And Linux is never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to be successful on the desktop. In part because of this.
Madness. You've got religion if you think this is a defensible position.
Drivers can be delivered as source and built on the target machine or as binaries with the appropriate packageing.
Massive fail.
So you've got no argument.
So what you are saying is that NVIDIA and ATI don't release closed source binary-only drivers?So what you are saying is that NVIDIA and ATI don't release closed source binary-only drivers?
It appears you didn't get around to reading paragraph 4 of my post.
I wrote a FUSE driver
Which are only for file systems, and exist BECAUSE of the drawbacks of the generic Linux driver model I mentioned.
Apparently Basil Brush and hairyfeet are involved in anti-Linux FUD.
Not really, we're just not emotionally invested in Linux, so we don't feel the need to make excuses for it's drawbacks.
Uber is illegal in Finland as taxis here need a license to operate and they have service obligation.
Uber is able to modify their business model for different locales. In the UK too, drivers need licensing either as taxis or private hire cars, so Uber does indeed only take on licensed private hire drivers and vehicles.
If the user rating is an issue, they can simply remove that feature from Uber when it's used in Finland. They may well not do that initially, and test the law, but if it comes down to it, any feature can be localised.
In any case, from the story, it appears that Helsinki is welcoming experimentation in transportation from new commercial providers, so they'll probably bend over backwards to accomodate Uber and the like.
Yeah, Linus can be a bit irrational and has anger issues like that.
You're both right. DOS had drivers, but there was little OS standard for what they did. So individual apps had to be aware of the individual drivers. For example in DOS games you usually had to select Soundblaster specifically within the game. If you didn't it's because the game detected it itself, with no help from DOS.
Evidence - you mentioned DOOM. Here's the DOOM setup for the sound card.
http://www.captainwilliams.co....
In Windows, there's an ABI (Application Binary Interface) that 3rd parties can code against to create their drivers. No cooperation is required from Microsoft to implement a new driver. And the 3rd party doesn't need to release source, so any trade secrets embodied or hinted at by the source can be kept secret.
In Linux, there is no ABI. Drivers have to be accepted and included in the kernel source tree. Yes really. It's that fucked up.
This means that you have to have cooperation from the Linux kernel team. And you have to divulge any trade secrets embodied in the source. Which may compromise an advantage that you have on other platforms.
It is practically possible to create a binary Linux driver and embed it in an open source wrapper. But then politics bites you in the ass. Only some distributions will accept them.
So the missing Linux drivers aren't just because it's a tiny marketshare that isn't worth bothering with. OSX was better served with drivers back in the day when it was as rare as desktop Linux. It's because the politics of Linux and it's broken model are often acting against the business interests of the device manufacturers.
I'm writing this from a desktop, with a confortable mechanical keyboard, a good mouse and a widescreen monitor, cause that's what you need if you want to get shit done.
And yet here you are on /. showing that you're not getting shit done. Maybe it's the fault of the windowing system exacerbated by that large screen. Maybe, if you didn't have a browser window constantly on view, but just a single app filling the screen, you wouldn't be so easily distracted?
It's more than just the cover image and text though. A book has an individual feel. It's page size, thickness, weight, the extent to which the spine opens, the colour and texture of the paper, even the smell.
A simplistic attitude is that these things don't matter. But for memory, such details do matter. The context is at least as important as the content. For example it's a common experience that a smell can bring forth strong memories.
It is also possible that they had A4 sheets for the paper version while smaller pages on the Kindle that cannot display that much text at one go. Unless they give them a proper small paperback for comparison, they could have a lot of sources of error.
Why would that be an error? A4 sheets are amongst the paper materials that people read, and even bound books come in a variety of sizes. The fact that ebooks are small and present much less at a time than most paper experiences may be amongst the valid reasons for performing worse in sequence memory.
I find it just as likely that the 28 page story bored the kindle folks half to death and they didn't bother trying to recall it.
Which doesn't explain why the ones reading it on paper act differently.
I find both effects described are plausible. It's certainly true that the human memory by associating items with physical locations. Order particularly. It's how memory experts operate using memory palaces or the method of loci. It may be that the physical nature of a book (or a shorter form) gives the brain more to hang the details of the story on. That the reader can feel the weight and size, and is repeatedly seeing the front page, and can at all times how far through the page or document or book they are.
Its also plausible that ebooks perform better as textbooks, because whilst they'll lose out on the features I mentioned above they benefit from greater efficiency with hyperlinks and searching, such that they can be a better tool for learning. (Learning being different from memorizing. It includes the concept of first understanding the material.)
That doesn't transfer to the UK, where speeding is antisocial arseclown behaviour.
In the UK, speeding used to be the majority behaviour. It's changed in the last 15 years or so because fixed speed cameras (called GATSOs here) and average speed cameras on motorways have become so common. And because for much of the day the weight of traffic doesn't allow traveling fast.
It's not because everyone here believes that the speed limits have been reasonably set.
Compare and contrast to drinking and driving, where that IS seen in the UK as antisocial and extremely irresponsible. However that change too came about as a result of technology and enforcement. The introduction of the breathalyser such that every police car had them, and the will to use them as much as possible brought about the change in behaviour which came before the change in attitude to the mortality of it.
Point out that the similarities are widespread and it's just denied by Android fanboys. Get down to specific examples, and they are called "tiny similarities".
There's no accident here, there is widespread copying.
Not sure what MTBs have to do with it. Maybe it's your hobby. But it's an even worse than the usual car analogies. Unless you want to be specific about specific aspects of two models.
If you think those are the same colour, you must be legally blind.
They're both purple, asshole. I wasn't saying they were the same RGB, HSV or fucking Pantone.
There's nothing intrinsically purple abut "Do Not Disturb". It COULD just be a coincidence without the fact that the image is the same (only differing with bing filled in or not), and the fact that most of the other icons share the same color (in the non-asshole meaning of the word.)
It's far closer to Android 4 than IOS7
You're an idiot or a liar. Don't you realise you're not fooling anyone, you just make yourself look bad.