I just had a quick read through the BrainTree website and they can only offer merchant accounts to the companies with a legal presence in the use - or through partners who generally require a turn over of 3mil+
This still leaves most of the world with only PayPal as an option.
I think teaching the tools of the black arts are useful - you never know when you need to hack into a satellite system and broadcast the evil that it does around the world.
Score 10 points for somewhat obscure movie reference. Antitrust is a truly awesome film.
(you were referring to Antitrust there weren't you?)
Hrmmm... If this is the case, then someone should relay think about standardizing 'legaleze' - As it is it has seemingly different result depending on the interpreter.
Last time I check, gcc and visual c compiled code that returned the same result...
Personally i entirely agree... although my reasoning is not so much 'Ewww' its java as 'I don't want to have to install yet another server module'.
After screwing around with a lot of the well known JavaScript libraries (notably: Prototype+script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo and YUI) as well as a GWT, i settled for Prototype+script.aculo.us - simple, and easy were the main reasons behind this. In the end GWT didn't even come into the decision due to the restriction on server side language.
For me, using something like Prototype makes the entire concept of graceful degradation easy. Also, Prototype isn't something i mind loading for that small quick page that needs an updating panel - where as most of the others seamed like excessive bloat in this case. (and if you suggest that pain JS would be better than loading prototype, it wouldn't relay, blasted browser/ajax compatibility)
You are correct - most modern web browsers will view images fine. However screen readers and other accessibility programs can't - admittedly they should read the 'alt' text instead, but a quick look at the FSF website doesn't show any alt attributes for there nice paragraph images...
The freedom doesn't belong to the user - Ie. the user (aka developer as a sibling post pointed out) CAN NOT do WHATEVER they want with the software under the GPL (whichever version you chose).
The freedom DOSE belong to the software however - as the using the GPL (and especially version 3) makes it a REQUIREMENT to KEEP the software free by keeping its source available.
If one of us are only using the software ourselves, then you can effectively do anything you want - but the article isn't talking about us playing with the software at home where its not used by others and not distributed. Its talking about businesses who would like to use Open Source software in their business to make money, generally involving public access (in the case of Web Apps) or distribution of the software.
Out of interest, what analog medium are you referring to?
Its my understanding that CD's are still the largest selling audio medium - and last time i check, CD's *ARE* a digital medium.
Additionally for those few who still want to buy analogue media where available (vinyl records) who are you to tax them to oblivion?
On the other hand, if you are saying that it's the physical media that should be taxed into oblivion - can you inform me of where i can download CD quality (loss-less) audio files, in an accessible format (FLAC, raw-pcm), with the same range as my local CD shop.
Your last point however, I do agree with - there is no need for the exorbitant 'distribution' costs the record labels take from each sale.
An extracted install of the Eclipse SDK with all of the official extensions installed still comes up well short of 1Gb in my experience.
While this still couldn't be called a direct comparison, its probably as close as you are going to get this side of someone making a clone Visual Studio... so all in all, i would say that VS still has a fair amount of bloat.
The interesting thing about Antarctica is that it dost actually snow. IIRC Antarctica has one of the lowest precipitation levels in the world.
When there is snow in the air in Antarctica it is just show that has been picked up off the ground by the wind.
How is this anything new, I know of, and attend at least 2 church sponsored LAN Parties http://www.inlan.net.au/ and http://www.ignitelan.net/. While InLAN will this weekend be having a Halo 3 competition, its more because its the 'next big thing' than anything else. Both LANs regularly have competition of other 'violent' FPS games, racing games and whatever else the lanners wish to play. How this ranks as news, I'll never know....
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I just had a quick read through the BrainTree website and they can only offer merchant accounts to the companies with a legal presence in the use - or through partners who generally require a turn over of 3mil+
This still leaves most of the world with only PayPal as an option.
Don't forget it's in Server 2008 as well!
I think teaching the tools of the black arts are useful - you never know when you need to hack into a satellite system and broadcast the evil that it does around the world.
Score 10 points for somewhat obscure movie reference. Antitrust is a truly awesome film.
(you were referring to Antitrust there weren't you?)
Hrmmm... If this is the case, then someone should relay think about standardizing 'legaleze' - As it is it has seemingly different result depending on the interpreter.
Last time I check, gcc and visual c compiled code that returned the same result...
Personally i entirely agree... although my reasoning is not so much 'Ewww' its java as 'I don't want to have to install yet another server module'.
After screwing around with a lot of the well known JavaScript libraries (notably: Prototype+script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo and YUI) as well as a GWT, i settled for Prototype+script.aculo.us - simple, and easy were the main reasons behind this. In the end GWT didn't even come into the decision due to the restriction on server side language.
For me, using something like Prototype makes the entire concept of graceful degradation easy.
Also, Prototype isn't something i mind loading for that small quick page that needs an updating panel - where as most of the others seamed like excessive bloat in this case.
(and if you suggest that pain JS would be better than loading prototype, it wouldn't relay, blasted browser/ajax compatibility)
You are correct - most modern web browsers will view images fine. However screen readers and other accessibility programs can't - admittedly they should read the 'alt' text instead, but a quick look at the FSF website doesn't show any alt attributes for there nice paragraph images...
now there is a monster that will get me riled up. Pepsi... disgusting stuff...
No, I'm sure he meant exactly what he said.
The freedom doesn't belong to the user - Ie. the user (aka developer as a sibling post pointed out) CAN NOT do WHATEVER they want with the software under the GPL (whichever version you chose).
The freedom DOSE belong to the software however - as the using the GPL (and especially version 3) makes it a REQUIREMENT to KEEP the software free by keeping its source available.
If one of us are only using the software ourselves, then you can effectively do anything you want - but the article isn't talking about us playing with the software at home where its not used by others and not distributed. Its talking about businesses who would like to use Open Source software in their business to make money, generally involving public access (in the case of Web Apps) or distribution of the software.
Out of interest, what analog medium are you referring to?
Its my understanding that CD's are still the largest selling audio medium - and last time i check, CD's *ARE* a digital medium.
Additionally for those few who still want to buy analogue media where available (vinyl records) who are you to tax them to oblivion?
On the other hand, if you are saying that it's the physical media that should be taxed into oblivion - can you inform me of where i can download CD quality (loss-less) audio files, in an accessible format (FLAC, raw-pcm), with the same range as my local CD shop.
Your last point however, I do agree with - there is no need for the exorbitant 'distribution' costs the record labels take from each sale.
yup, check the Wikipedia page posted by the grandparent!
>> fission power = 20th century tech, fusion power (solar) = 21st century tech
Im sorry, but WTF?
how are fusion power and solar power related?!
fusion is effectively the reverse of fission (though it uses H rather than U) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_power
solar on the other hand is capturing light from the sun... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power
additionally fusion still isn't usable, where as fission is - and solar cells (whats used to capture sunlight) are just very dirty to produce.
An extracted install of the Eclipse SDK with all of the official extensions installed still comes up well short of 1Gb in my experience. While this still couldn't be called a direct comparison, its probably as close as you are going to get this side of someone making a clone Visual Studio... so all in all, i would say that VS still has a fair amount of bloat.
The interesting thing about Antarctica is that it dost actually snow. IIRC Antarctica has one of the lowest precipitation levels in the world. When there is snow in the air in Antarctica it is just show that has been picked up off the ground by the wind.
How is this anything new, I know of, and attend at least 2 church sponsored LAN Parties http://www.inlan.net.au/ and http://www.ignitelan.net/.
While InLAN will this weekend be having a Halo 3 competition, its more because its the 'next big thing' than anything else. Both LANs regularly have competition of other 'violent' FPS games, racing games and whatever else the lanners wish to play.
How this ranks as news, I'll never know....