This shouldn't surprise anyone who's had to deal with a lot of Debian developers. The KDE ones, for example, constantly complain - on public mailing lists, no less! - about being too busy to forward bugs to upstream or merge in fixes. There are some amazing people working for the project, but also a lot of clowns who want to ride the name.
Oh, I'm well aware that no US anime publisher has filed suit against a fansub group. They're smarter than that. They know that if they shut down fansubbing, their market collapses entirely. The whole thing just disappears overnight.
As for fansubs, the only entitlement I've seen is people who want to see the whole series before buying it. I can't say I blame them. I've been burned (back in the days before downloadable fansubs) way too many times by series that had a promising start and then quickly turned into crap. Almost all of which got praised by every review source I could find. (We're not talking ordinary bad entertainment here. We're talking crap. Think "Tekken" or "Sorcerer Hunters" bad. The only conclusion I can reach is that the reviewers were idiots or were paid off.) I now buy series I've liked all the way through as I can afford them and stop watching series I don't like.
If I didn't have access to fansubs, I wouldn't buy any anime, because of those bad experiences. Period.
And from what I can tell, I'm typical. Oh, sure, you get the really loud lamers who just download download download, but they're a distinct (if loud) minority. Which is why no-one's been stupid enough to try and shut down fansubbing, even though they bitch and moan endlessly about it because it means they can't just shovel out crap and rake in the cash.
Fansubbing isn't killing anime any more than airing it on TV does. Because if you air it on TV, people don't buy the DVDs, they just record it. On the other hand, almost everyone who watches fansubs will buy DVDs of shows they like.
So what we've really got here is the same complaint as the movie industry. They can't get people to buy crap sight unseen anymore, and it's killing their business model.
Except that they used Apache 1.3 and MySQL, two of the worst possible choices. If they'd gone for Apache 2.x (which actually uses threading, instead of processes) and PostgreSQL, things would've looked much nicer.
Innovative open source software? How about... Oh, say... The entire fucking Internet, from A to Z? How about gcc? I'd say one compiler that can compile dozens of languages for any platform you care to name is innovative - mostly because nothing did that before gcc did. How about emacs?
There's plenty of innovation in open source software. Yes, there's a lot of stuff that isn't innovative, but don't pretend that isn't the case with proprietary crap... Er... Software.
The other thing about the services model is this... Not everyone wants the same set of features. With proprietary software, if it doesn't have a feature you want, you might be able to submit a request, but usually, you just have to suck it up and deal. With open-source software, you can pay someone - usually the creator - to implement any features you need on top of their (presumably) mature codebase.
Never, ever underestimate the massive value of this.
QNX uses shared memory to pass messages. Its message passing is very lightweight, and the resulting performance is far better than Linux.
In this day and age, there is no reason to use a macrokernel unless your hardware lacks the features needed for a microkernel. QNX has proved this quite nicely.
There have been memory leaks connected with tabbed browsing in Firefox for years now. No-one on the Mozilla team seems interested in fixing them, as it requires actual hard work.
Fortunately, Mail 2.0's buttons are easy to fix. They're all just image files in the Application bundle. So if you can get icons that are usable without the purple background and replace everything appropriately, they'll go away without any code changes.
Of course, even if code changes were necessary, you could probably pull it off with mach_inject...
Oh, this fucker. It's been up before. If I remember the bill right, this also makes home showings of DVDs to people - including your own family - who don't own a copy a federal crime.
At my university, they've switched to them as the primary webservers. They're the only things that the university can afford that can handle the load, and the sysadmins all love them because they do a good job and the OS just works.
For the performance you get for your money, they're the best mid-range server out there. They absolutely annihilate Sun. Of course, once you move into high-range, nobody beats IBM.
Actually, browsers do often do this to avoid DRM. After all, the very definition of DRM is that it's software which controls who can view the content. Thus, limiting what browsers can view content (perhaps, for example, to restrict it to those where they can easily disable copying content to the clipboard?) is very definitely a form of DRM. Yes, DRM is incredibly broad, which is why it's so scary.
I think Apple's going to tread very carefully here. I'm betting that one of the reasons they didn't sue over this is that they didn't want to create a precedent that could hurt them in their fight against Microsoft in other areas. They just need to keep things secure enough that the record labels remain blissfully unaware of what, exactly, Apple's doing to them.
Interestingly, it's worth noting that, while mainstream religions (IE, those that have been around for a few thousand years) typically still have a couple of those characteristics, others have generally been purged. Few have all of 1,3,4, and 5; when they have them at all, they're typically very watered-down versions. 2 is a common trait of most religions, but even that's starting to get watered down in many. And even historically, few had all of these to the same degree as modern cults...
Doesn't one of the PATRIOT Act's more objectionable portions say that information regarding the use of many of the act's more easily abuseable portions is classified? For example, if my library records get pulled under the PATRIOT Act, or even if a request's submitted, it's a Federal crime for the librarian to tell me about it, tell the media about it, or even consult a lawyer.
Are these classified incidents included or excluded from the report?
Unfortunately, the problem is that the Valerie Plame story:
a) Does not involve nepotism. Valerie and her husband were both very clear that she had not been involved in any way with his selection, and reliable sources at the CIA confirmed this. Wilson was qualified.
b) Does not involve poor-quality research. Plame and her husband's research on the Niger Yellowcake documents was one of the few shining high points in the events surrounding Dubya's bullheaded rush to war. The two of them confirmed that the documents were faked and that Iraq had not tried to acquire weapons-grade uranium from Niger. Unfortunately, the neo-cons in power decided that the facts were the wrong facts and lied their way to war anyway.
c) Does involve the public interest. Revealing the identity of an undercover CIA agent is treason. Plame's identity was a closely-guarded secret and, by revealing it, someone in the White House put a lot of people in direct mortal danger and severely damaged our ability to gain intelligence about the very threat they have been claiming to be fighting. The outing was also not due to concerns about nepotism; rather, it was revenge against Plame and her husband for speaking out against the Cheney/Rove administration.
Not so "back then". A few years ago, a comic book store owner in Texas got busted for selling porn to minors. The problem? He wasn't selling porn to minors and, in fact, was very good about keeping adult books in a separate room and controlling access. The problem was that he was selling anime and manga... And refused to get a mother who was a devout Republican and a member of a number of local committees a specific Pokemon card she asked for.
OS X. Without question. I'm a recent switcher (thanks to the Mini, from KDE, which I thought was really nice, and still think is the next best thing) and OS X just blows everything else out of the water. Until you actually experience it, it's all too easy to underestimate the advantages of consistency and simplicity. But under OS X, everything just works the way I expect it to, and does so with a minimum of fuss.
Now getting used to things actually working the way you expect... That is a challenge.
(Okay, except for cursor navigation keys. Those have taken some getting used to, but that took less than a week.)
If you doubt the utility of OS X for programming, you've never used SubEthaEdit.
Interesting, isn't it? Conservatives always claim they don't want stuff like this... Yet the instant they get into power, they start passing it left, right, and center, and blame the "Liberals".
That was official the instant the sheep... Er, Republicans elected Bush in 2004. They've shown that the Republican party is the party of torture, of the violation of personal liberties, and of the proliferation of terrorism and war.
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This shouldn't surprise anyone who's had to deal with a lot of Debian developers. The KDE ones, for example, constantly complain - on public mailing lists, no less! - about being too busy to forward bugs to upstream or merge in fixes. There are some amazing people working for the project, but also a lot of clowns who want to ride the name.
Under the Bush administration, any politically inconvenient opinion is grounds for dismissal. Just look at what they've been doing to scientists.
Oh, I'm well aware that no US anime publisher has filed suit against a fansub group. They're smarter than that. They know that if they shut down fansubbing, their market collapses entirely. The whole thing just disappears overnight.
As for fansubs, the only entitlement I've seen is people who want to see the whole series before buying it. I can't say I blame them. I've been burned (back in the days before downloadable fansubs) way too many times by series that had a promising start and then quickly turned into crap. Almost all of which got praised by every review source I could find. (We're not talking ordinary bad entertainment here. We're talking crap. Think "Tekken" or "Sorcerer Hunters" bad. The only conclusion I can reach is that the reviewers were idiots or were paid off.) I now buy series I've liked all the way through as I can afford them and stop watching series I don't like.
If I didn't have access to fansubs, I wouldn't buy any anime, because of those bad experiences. Period.
And from what I can tell, I'm typical. Oh, sure, you get the really loud lamers who just download download download, but they're a distinct (if loud) minority. Which is why no-one's been stupid enough to try and shut down fansubbing, even though they bitch and moan endlessly about it because it means they can't just shovel out crap and rake in the cash.
Fansubbing isn't killing anime any more than airing it on TV does. Because if you air it on TV, people don't buy the DVDs, they just record it. On the other hand, almost everyone who watches fansubs will buy DVDs of shows they like.
So what we've really got here is the same complaint as the movie industry. They can't get people to buy crap sight unseen anymore, and it's killing their business model.
Instead, you buy from Microsoft, who would never dare do such a thing.
Except that they used Apache 1.3 and MySQL, two of the worst possible choices. If they'd gone for Apache 2.x (which actually uses threading, instead of processes) and PostgreSQL, things would've looked much nicer.
Innovative open source software? How about... Oh, say... The entire fucking Internet, from A to Z? How about gcc? I'd say one compiler that can compile dozens of languages for any platform you care to name is innovative - mostly because nothing did that before gcc did. How about emacs?
There's plenty of innovation in open source software. Yes, there's a lot of stuff that isn't innovative, but don't pretend that isn't the case with proprietary crap... Er... Software.
The other thing about the services model is this... Not everyone wants the same set of features. With proprietary software, if it doesn't have a feature you want, you might be able to submit a request, but usually, you just have to suck it up and deal. With open-source software, you can pay someone - usually the creator - to implement any features you need on top of their (presumably) mature codebase.
Never, ever underestimate the massive value of this.
You might want to check out the MiniMate... (Also visible on engadget.)
In this day and age, there is no reason to use a macrokernel unless your hardware lacks the features needed for a microkernel. QNX has proved this quite nicely.
There have been memory leaks connected with tabbed browsing in Firefox for years now. No-one on the Mozilla team seems interested in fixing them, as it requires actual hard work.
You misunderstand.
Bill thinks this is a good thing, and is literally unable to see how anyone could think otherwise.
These people really do believe that what's good for them is good for everyone. Typical Republicans.
Fortunately, Mail 2.0's buttons are easy to fix. They're all just image files in the Application bundle. So if you can get icons that are usable without the purple background and replace everything appropriately, they'll go away without any code changes.
Of course, even if code changes were necessary, you could probably pull it off with mach_inject...
Should tell the reader what the code should do, not simply describe what it does do.
Whatever squabbles there are about a Linux version, there is nothing wrong with selling software.
Good thing RMS fucking agrees with you. In fact, he advocates charging as much for software as the market will bear.
Unfortunately for witless "economists" like yourself, "what the market will bear" is actually very low.
Oh, this fucker. It's been up before. If I remember the bill right, this also makes home showings of DVDs to people - including your own family - who don't own a copy a federal crime.
At my university, they've switched to them as the primary webservers. They're the only things that the university can afford that can handle the load, and the sysadmins all love them because they do a good job and the OS just works.
For the performance you get for your money, they're the best mid-range server out there. They absolutely annihilate Sun. Of course, once you move into high-range, nobody beats IBM.
Actually, browsers do often do this to avoid DRM. After all, the very definition of DRM is that it's software which controls who can view the content. Thus, limiting what browsers can view content (perhaps, for example, to restrict it to those where they can easily disable copying content to the clipboard?) is very definitely a form of DRM. Yes, DRM is incredibly broad, which is why it's so scary.
I think Apple's going to tread very carefully here. I'm betting that one of the reasons they didn't sue over this is that they didn't want to create a precedent that could hurt them in their fight against Microsoft in other areas. They just need to keep things secure enough that the record labels remain blissfully unaware of what, exactly, Apple's doing to them.
Interestingly, it's worth noting that, while mainstream religions (IE, those that have been around for a few thousand years) typically still have a couple of those characteristics, others have generally been purged. Few have all of 1,3,4, and 5; when they have them at all, they're typically very watered-down versions. 2 is a common trait of most religions, but even that's starting to get watered down in many. And even historically, few had all of these to the same degree as modern cults...
Doesn't one of the PATRIOT Act's more objectionable portions say that information regarding the use of many of the act's more easily abuseable portions is classified? For example, if my library records get pulled under the PATRIOT Act, or even if a request's submitted, it's a Federal crime for the librarian to tell me about it, tell the media about it, or even consult a lawyer.
Are these classified incidents included or excluded from the report?
Unfortunately, the problem is that the Valerie Plame story:
a) Does not involve nepotism. Valerie and her husband were both very clear that she had not been involved in any way with his selection, and reliable sources at the CIA confirmed this. Wilson was qualified.
b) Does not involve poor-quality research. Plame and her husband's research on the Niger Yellowcake documents was one of the few shining high points in the events surrounding Dubya's bullheaded rush to war. The two of them confirmed that the documents were faked and that Iraq had not tried to acquire weapons-grade uranium from Niger. Unfortunately, the neo-cons in power decided that the facts were the wrong facts and lied their way to war anyway.
c) Does involve the public interest. Revealing the identity of an undercover CIA agent is treason. Plame's identity was a closely-guarded secret and, by revealing it, someone in the White House put a lot of people in direct mortal danger and severely damaged our ability to gain intelligence about the very threat they have been claiming to be fighting. The outing was also not due to concerns about nepotism; rather, it was revenge against Plame and her husband for speaking out against the Cheney/Rove administration.
Not so "back then". A few years ago, a comic book store owner in Texas got busted for selling porn to minors. The problem? He wasn't selling porn to minors and, in fact, was very good about keeping adult books in a separate room and controlling access. The problem was that he was selling anime and manga... And refused to get a mother who was a devout Republican and a member of a number of local committees a specific Pokemon card she asked for.
OS X. Without question. I'm a recent switcher (thanks to the Mini, from KDE, which I thought was really nice, and still think is the next best thing) and OS X just blows everything else out of the water. Until you actually experience it, it's all too easy to underestimate the advantages of consistency and simplicity. But under OS X, everything just works the way I expect it to, and does so with a minimum of fuss.
Now getting used to things actually working the way you expect... That is a challenge.
(Okay, except for cursor navigation keys. Those have taken some getting used to, but that took less than a week.)
If you doubt the utility of OS X for programming, you've never used SubEthaEdit.
Interesting, isn't it? Conservatives always claim they don't want stuff like this... Yet the instant they get into power, they start passing it left, right, and center, and blame the "Liberals".
It's official. We now live in a police state
That was official the instant the sheep... Er, Republicans elected Bush in 2004. They've shown that the Republican party is the party of torture, of the violation of personal liberties, and of the proliferation of terrorism and war.