So then you agree that you'll have to post a "keep out" message in the manner I described to keep my picture-taking robot out of your closets... This "user" doesn't understand your "human" messages.
Your complaints about the analogy are all tied to the differences between the virtual and real worlds. However the analogy was intended to be crafted this way.
My website is definitely NOT in the public space, nor is there any publicly accessible directory describing how to get to it. My house is however listed on public maps at the county hall of records...
The reality is that I do have an unprotected website WITH a robots.txt which half of the crawlers ignore, sometimes causing me to lose most of my rather limited bandwidth. I have sent "cease and desist" letters to those who have ignored it, clearly stating that any further access would amount to acceptance of the terms of a contract requiring them to pay $5,000.00 per hit. The latter has always worked, so far...
Just because you like Google, and Archive.org, find them valuable resources, believe all information and services should be free, copyright laws negated, etc, doesn't mean this is the case, or that Google and Archive.org's violations are legally acceptable.
Most people already have disks and doormats and ample hard-drive space and network speed on their webservers so my requiring them as opt-out mechanisms is equally acceptable.
Thieves have been around longer than houses, so burglary is then acceptable if I leave my door unlocked?
Why can't I argue that? Because it's a perfect analogy?
Also, why are you assuming that anything accessible via a public infrastructure was placed there for the implicit purpose of limitless sharing? I park my car on the roadside but I do not want anybody to drive it -- even if I were to forget to lock it.
Why do you assume you spider has the right to make copies of other people's content?
Is it just because your spider is too stupid?
If so that's a pretty lame argument. If I have a script that makes copies of DVDs and distributes them via BitTorrent. My script was not able to parse the MPEG-2 stream and thus is oblivious to the FBI/Copyright notice at the beginning of the disks. Thus I am not obligated to follow copyright law.
I have a picture-taking robot that goes through people's houses and takes pictures of your closets. My robot can't read English "no trespassing" signs, nor can it understand spoken words, and as such you are obligated to put a robots.txt file on a 3 1/2" floppy disk, and put it under your doormat. Otherwise you agree to have my robot crawl your house if any doors or windows are unlocked. If you don't have a floppy disk or a doormat you'll have to go out and buy one. Many people enjoy my "secrets of the closets" website and we can't simply put a stop to it because you have failed to take precautions as noted here.
> First of all, algorithm running times and complexities are not compared as 3x or 5x faster. Please give me running time in Big O notation. Saying 10 times faster than merge sort makes no sense.
But I came up with a sorting algorithm yesterday that's 12 times faster than bubblesort! Click here to see my advertisements....
Seriously, mergesort (but NOT quicksort) is optimal, O(n log n) in one model. But there are sub-n log n sorting algorithms in other models. Some of them are based upon radix sort, surprise, surprise....
So if you obtain it illegally, in your country, in your usable, useful format, find it worth buying having listened to it in its entirety, do you then send the record company enough money in your preferred payment method?
This is why I always said that all software for a FOSS operating system should be just that... OPEN.
Shouldn't this rather be a matter of choice for the user (i.e. system installer/admin)? If I want to muck about with my system, potentially causing myself damage in the process, why do you want to stop me?
The Linux community gains more from individual freedom than from dogmatic declarations and limitations...
The worst possessive errors are restaurant names. There's a San Francisco-based chain called "Specialty's". I would really like to meet Mr. or Ms. Specialty...
Well 8 is already too many, obviously: when you divide your 640k by 8 you get 80k per core, and a few of the newer applications coming out require more than 80k...
Let me tell you a story about the rest of the world, or, well - my little corner of it (namely Stockholm, Sweden).
Ah, Tjockhult...
We have 5 or 6 major internet cafés in this little town, and all but one of them have 100Mbps pipes. What's the purpose? Maybe it's because our idea of a internet café is a gaming center with 100+ stations. Most games these days "require" more than a 512kbps pipe to run properly.
Ah, I see, but are these 08's playing together/against each other?
The one I used to work at saw peak traffic of around 50Mbps, regular traffic was around 30 - 35Mbps.
When you get a 100Mbps pipe for a few hundred euro per month (note: this is commercial grade pipes, no overselling), you might as well go for that - it's great advertising.
With such prices, why don't these gamers have home connections?
What's the purpose? Reading emails really quickly? I mean what kind of activity (other than nefarious) does one really need that requires that speed, when sipping coffee?
The tax will be charged indiscriminately to manufacturers...
Won't this simply kill manufacturing of blank media in Spain, if there even is any?
I mean, if I'm a Spaniard, why shouldn't I just order my media shipped to me from another EU country? Taxes are paid in the country of purchase, if I remember correctly. If not, something to do when travelling outside the country... Or maybe the smugglers in Gibraltar have a new product line...
... if you're the average male--not too tall, short, fat, thin, etc.; and you always sit in them exactly as they designed you to sit in them--no slouching, sitting sideways, on the "edge of your seat", with your feet up, etc....
My advice? Go to one of those office supply places and sit in every chair. Buy the one you feel is most comfortable, and learn how to make all the possible adjustments. Next, get off your ass every now and then--stretch your legs, go have a conversation (with yourself) at the water cooler (kitchen sink), etc....
I got the same treatment a while back when I was cancelling an account from AOL -- not quite as bad, but close. The rep kept offering me free months in exchange for not cancelling. I didn't know how I got signed up for AOL in the first place, but that's a different story.
My parents got free AOL for about a year by calling up to cancel and getting free months. They finally decided they didn't even want the free service--it was better to pay Earthlink than to have to deal with pop up ads just for signing on...
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So then you agree that you'll have to post a "keep out" message in the manner I described to keep my picture-taking robot out of your closets... This "user" doesn't understand your "human" messages.
Your comments are utter crap.
robots.txt is NOT a defined rule!
Your complaints about the analogy are all tied to the differences between the virtual and real worlds. However the analogy was intended to be crafted this way.
My website is definitely NOT in the public space, nor is there any publicly accessible directory describing how to get to it. My house is however listed on public maps at the county hall of records...
The reality is that I do have an unprotected website WITH a robots.txt which half of the crawlers ignore, sometimes causing me to lose most of my rather limited bandwidth. I have sent "cease and desist" letters to those who have ignored it, clearly stating that any further access would amount to acceptance of the terms of a contract requiring them to pay $5,000.00 per hit. The latter has always worked, so far...
Just because you like Google, and Archive.org, find them valuable resources, believe all information and services should be free, copyright laws negated, etc, doesn't mean this is the case, or that Google and Archive.org's violations are legally acceptable.
Most people already have disks and doormats and ample hard-drive space and network speed on their webservers so my requiring them as opt-out mechanisms is equally acceptable.
Thieves have been around longer than houses, so burglary is then acceptable if I leave my door unlocked?
Why can't I argue that? Because it's a perfect analogy?
Also, why are you assuming that anything accessible via a public infrastructure was placed there for the implicit purpose of limitless sharing? I park my car on the roadside but I do not want anybody to drive it -- even if I were to forget to lock it.
Why do you assume you spider has the right to make copies of other people's content?
Is it just because your spider is too stupid?
If so that's a pretty lame argument. If I have a script that makes copies of DVDs and distributes them via BitTorrent. My script was not able to parse the MPEG-2 stream and thus is oblivious to the FBI/Copyright notice at the beginning of the disks. Thus I am not obligated to follow copyright law.
I have a picture-taking robot that goes through people's houses and takes pictures of your closets. My robot can't read English "no trespassing" signs, nor can it understand spoken words, and as such you are obligated to put a robots.txt file on a 3 1/2" floppy disk, and put it under your doormat. Otherwise you agree to have my robot crawl your house if any doors or windows are unlocked. If you don't have a floppy disk or a doormat you'll have to go out and buy one. Many people enjoy my "secrets of the closets" website and we can't simply put a stop to it because you have failed to take precautions as noted here.
> First of all, algorithm running times and complexities are not compared as 3x or 5x faster. Please give me running time in Big O notation. Saying 10 times faster than merge sort makes no sense.
But I came up with a sorting algorithm yesterday that's 12 times faster than bubblesort! Click here to see my advertisements....
Seriously, mergesort (but NOT quicksort) is optimal, O(n log n) in one model. But there are sub-n log n sorting algorithms in other models. Some of them are based upon radix sort, surprise, surprise....
You can be sure such a video would be just as filled with ads, product placements, etc.
And just as unscientific...
... will continue to be broadcast by the Dutch, as usual. No need for alarm.
Better watch out when you are in the Netherlands--a car or a portable TV may be broadcast at you at any moment!
"If you vote Republican, are you guilty of their crimes?"
Has anyone considered that Oracle is merely pressing down the price of RHAT stock in order to later buy out the company?
So if you obtain it illegally, in your country, in your usable, useful format, find it worth buying having listened to it in its entirety, do you then send the record company enough money in your preferred payment method?
The Linux community gains more from individual freedom than from dogmatic declarations and limitations...
The worst possessive errors are restaurant names. There's a San Francisco-based chain called "Specialty's". I would really like to meet Mr. or Ms. Specialty...
Their thinking is likely: "You shouldn't have any content that you didn't pay us for!"
And I printed out every frame so I could scan them. I'll be posting the TIFFs on my website shortly...
Well 8 is already too many, obviously: when you divide your 640k by 8 you get 80k per core, and a few of the newer applications coming out require more than 80k...
Ah, I see, but are these 08's playing together/against each other?
With such prices, why don't these gamers have home connections?
What's the purpose? Reading emails really quickly? I mean what kind of activity (other than nefarious) does one really need that requires that speed, when sipping coffee?
I mean, if I'm a Spaniard, why shouldn't I just order my media shipped to me from another EU country? Taxes are paid in the country of purchase, if I remember correctly. If not, something to do when travelling outside the country... Or maybe the smugglers in Gibraltar have a new product line...
... if you're the average male--not too tall, short, fat, thin, etc.; and you always sit in them exactly as they designed you to sit in them--no slouching, sitting sideways, on the "edge of your seat", with your feet up, etc....
My advice? Go to one of those office supply places and sit in every chair. Buy the one you feel is most comfortable, and learn how to make all the possible adjustments. Next, get off your ass every now and then--stretch your legs, go have a conversation (with yourself) at the water cooler (kitchen sink), etc....
The way to deal with this is just to send them a paper letter, certified, warning about imminent chargebacks if they do not comply...