First of all, there is a country where software is free, it is called "Free Software" and "Open source". Good huh?
It doesn't make sense to outsource outside of your economical region. If you don't want to pay the working force, where are they going to get money to actually buy products? I am baffled that so few look at the economical aspects of this whole ordeal.
How can world peace be optained if one single country controls a very important technology? Dominance and leverage can surely be optained from it, but not much more I'm afraid...
When are our goverments going to start to cater to those who elected them instead of corporations? Let's face it, these contracts are not good for us.
A company/corporation should keep its employees by being a good company to work at, and who wants to screw someone who has been very nice to you? Some people do, and that is one needs to be careful with whom you hire, can't let the contracts try to sort out the hiring proceses.
It looks like Java's generics are much like C++'s templates. This means that it is a compiler feature, and not a runtime feature. This is not a step forward, but a way to keep the VMs still working. A trade off.
For some interesting words on generics, and implementation for both Java and M$ CLR take a peak at this link:
All you "I hate M$" people out there will more than likely scream about how horrible they are and how we must use Java. If you hate M$ I would suggest you go take a look at mono instead. The CLR together with C# completly owns Java, and when generics are added it will be even sweeter. I program both Java, C#, and C/C++ daily, and it gives a very good view on what language is the easiest to work with and use.
Come on, will they find a bunch of terrorists this way? As soon as they find out that all telephone communication is basically tapped, they will have someone else do the calls for them, and use codes. I am sure that bringing up his love for camels can be the key for starting to nuke cities.
The american goverment needs to start to do some real spy and undercover work, together with those who know what they are doing (GRU etc). That will yield results, this will do nothing but putting another nail in the coffin of freedom.
And I sure hope that some malicious people start to produce cards with fake money on them. And then simply spread them like wildfire. Maybe someone could wake up then?
What these guys are trying to do is not sabotage, they are doing a public service. This would be analogue to put the journalist that found out that the new Mercedes A-klass tips over really easily behind bars.
This is a flawed product, I do not see how keeping quiet about it can help the public. And after all, the goverment should be on the publics side, not the greedy companies side (there are also good companies trying their best to make good products and make a living, don't forget about that).
I think it is about time the fight for freedom is started in the US as well, it is time you win your own freedom for once.
I do think that organised piracy is bad for them. If people think of music/video as something you download, the won't buy them. Having me copy a friends CD and (s)he in turn copy one of mine won't matter. But the both of us download both albums could.
They should produce better products (no more removing the japanese DTS ES track of Ghibli movies) and better material (most music today I think is crap, and I get it from the radio anyways) and price them at a more fair price.
Add to this the huge market for downloadable music that could be legal. They don't have to shell out for copying, printing, distributing, etc. Could put a full CD down to maybe $1-4 dollars, tops. Add to this that you get a professinal encoding, easy searching, no screw ups, etc. It does sound viable to me.
After all, they all compete for the money that I don't put on the most basic, and somehow I rather put the money on a faster computer / teufel speakers than the new pop wonder album or just any movie.
I don't buy them because I can't afford them anymore, I must use my money for food. Regardless of how wrong it might be if I get a pirate version of a movie, it couldn't bring a loss to Hollywood. I wish I had more money, because I would buy a crapload of DVDs then after all.
I dislike that they go after this supposed "loss" instead of simply saying "this is ours, if you want it, you have to pay for it". The same with music. When the music and movie business gets serious I will get serious as well.
Source code will never be better or more secure than the progammers who make and work with the software. As easy as that. If open source is better it is because the programmers are better and given better conditions to make it better (more time, more ppl checking it out, etc).
Any chance that someone has a link that also shows this Beer Water in some kind of clear container. I have memories of it being transparent (like water). I don't know if that was the "coolness" factor of Beer Water, or if it was something else.
If it says "Works with XP", they can say "you have broken your XP, otherwise it would work with it" and then also know that it really should work with XP (and does).
This has nothing to do with DRM or anything like this, this is simply a way to improve profits (and a dang good one). Problems costs money after all.
I am sure that if it was a "works with Red Hat" it would be taken as good...
Where is the DTS ES track on the american release? Quick answer... nowhere! They even have the nerver to include a 1.33:1 version, but no proper sound.
Real nice, I can choose from bad sound or overly red tinted picture (Japanese R2 release).
Really makes you feel sad, considering what an incredible movie it is.
After reading that article I seriously don't like IBM more than I did before. I have troubles seeing how the "free" movement can look up to IBM so much, simply because they happen to profit from Linux right now...
All dumbs jokes aside, EU really really needs to get a GPS system of our own. We should of course let the US use it, and use the original GPS when appropriate (for example extra accurcy or if one fail etc). It is fairly dumb to give away so much power to a foreign military.
Yes, there is a problem when you buy a piece of software that won't be supported the way you need it to be. The problem is almost the same with closed and open source. If you are a large corporation you can hire people to work with the application after the support has faded, as long as that is cheaper than upgrading/switching software, etc.
If you use Quark in a small company of two, you certainly can't hire people to work on it, and open source doesn't help.
I do agree with you wholeheartly though, it is a problem. I think that good companies should make solutions, whether it be open sourcing, or something else.
Oh there are people working on OSS for a living, and just as good old Bill they are getting paid better than me (I wouldn't mind getting paid like they;)). I wouldn't have anything against working with making more OSS, I don't oppose OSS at all. Heck, if you want to offer me a job, go ahead. If it is good I'd take it.
But what I asked for was more people working with OSS for a living. Imagine how good KDE could be with five times the manpower (or womenpower for that matter). Not everybody has to become millionaries on OSS after all. I rather see more people having jobs than few being stunningly rich.
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First of all, there is a country where software is free, it is called "Free Software" and "Open source". Good huh?
It doesn't make sense to outsource outside of your economical region. If you don't want to pay the working force, where are they going to get money to actually buy products? I am baffled that so few look at the economical aspects of this whole ordeal.
The red banner looks VERY horrible though. I rather pay to not see that;)
This must be a huge improvement for pimps. Just buy your hoes a device and put in all her specialities. Much easier to find customers.
I can see it before me, geeky men in dimly lit appartments trying to disturb the other cyber pimp's hoes connections.
Heck, you could even make a movie out of this;)
How can world peace be optained if one single country controls a very important technology? Dominance and leverage can surely be optained from it, but not much more I'm afraid...
When are our goverments going to start to cater to those who elected them instead of corporations? Let's face it, these contracts are not good for us.
A company/corporation should keep its employees by being a good company to work at, and who wants to screw someone who has been very nice to you? Some people do, and that is one needs to be careful with whom you hire, can't let the contracts try to sort out the hiring proceses.
It looks like Java's generics are much like C++'s templates. This means that it is a compiler feature, and not a runtime feature. This is not a step forward, but a way to keep the VMs still working. A trade off.
r l= /library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbconCProgramming LanguageFutureFeatures.asp
For some interesting words on generics, and implementation for both Java and M$ CLR take a peak at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?u
All you "I hate M$" people out there will more than likely scream about how horrible they are and how we must use Java. If you hate M$ I would suggest you go take a look at mono instead. The CLR together with C# completly owns Java, and when generics are added it will be even sweeter. I program both Java, C#, and C/C++ daily, and it gives a very good view on what language is the easiest to work with and use.
Never tell anyone the names of your dogs!!!
Microsoft sure would do a good move for themselves if they bought Sega, and launched X-Box2 as Sega in Japan.
That plus all the games. If Microsoft do buy them, I don't think they would close them down, but rather make use of them.
But I am sure someone will stop it before it happens. Best chance for the Sega legacy to live on though.
Come on, will they find a bunch of terrorists this way? As soon as they find out that all telephone communication is basically tapped, they will have someone else do the calls for them, and use codes. I am sure that bringing up his love for camels can be the key for starting to nuke cities.
The american goverment needs to start to do some real spy and undercover work, together with those who know what they are doing (GRU etc). That will yield results, this will do nothing but putting another nail in the coffin of freedom.
And I sure hope that some malicious people start to produce cards with fake money on them. And then simply spread them like wildfire. Maybe someone could wake up then?
What these guys are trying to do is not sabotage, they are doing a public service. This would be analogue to put the journalist that found out that the new Mercedes A-klass tips over really easily behind bars.
This is a flawed product, I do not see how keeping quiet about it can help the public. And after all, the goverment should be on the publics side, not the greedy companies side (there are also good companies trying their best to make good products and make a living, don't forget about that).
I think it is about time the fight for freedom is started in the US as well, it is time you win your own freedom for once.
Broadband should be at least 1MBit/s today, and full duplex. None of that slower up than down.
It is time for a fiber revolution!
Oddly enough the icons looked fine here in IE. Win XP pro with all updates (I dunno if there is some plug-in or something doing something).
But I agree, the engineers over at M$ should fix the alphachannel stuff for PNG (etc) asap.
But is JCP still any good? Just because you relinquish your patents doesn't make Java any more open, just saves Sun's big fat ass.
What we need is a system where standards becomes fully free, free to use, free of patent claims, etc.
I do think that organised piracy is bad for them. If people think of music/video as something you download, the won't buy them. Having me copy a friends CD and (s)he in turn copy one of mine won't matter. But the both of us download both albums could.
They should produce better products (no more removing the japanese DTS ES track of Ghibli movies) and better material (most music today I think is crap, and I get it from the radio anyways) and price them at a more fair price.
Add to this the huge market for downloadable music that could be legal. They don't have to shell out for copying, printing, distributing, etc. Could put a full CD down to maybe $1-4 dollars, tops. Add to this that you get a professinal encoding, easy searching, no screw ups, etc. It does sound viable to me.
After all, they all compete for the money that I don't put on the most basic, and somehow I rather put the money on a faster computer / teufel speakers than the new pop wonder album or just any movie.
Does this also affect JPEG 2000?
Shows that one should use media that is open and patent free (such as ogg/png/etc) after all...
I don't buy them because I can't afford them anymore, I must use my money for food. Regardless of how wrong it might be if I get a pirate version of a movie, it couldn't bring a loss to Hollywood. I wish I had more money, because I would buy a crapload of DVDs then after all.
I dislike that they go after this supposed "loss" instead of simply saying "this is ours, if you want it, you have to pay for it". The same with music. When the music and movie business gets serious I will get serious as well.
Source code will never be better or more secure than the progammers who make and work with the software. As easy as that. If open source is better it is because the programmers are better and given better conditions to make it better (more time, more ppl checking it out, etc).
They cost like workstations, they are supposed to be used by workstation users, then they need to have the CPU of a workstation:
64-bit
VERY fast
Get with the program, and get Itanium 2 or something before it is too late.
Any chance that someone has a link that also shows this Beer Water in some kind of clear container. I have memories of it being transparent (like water). I don't know if that was the "coolness" factor of Beer Water, or if it was something else.
I never did try it, for obvious reasons;)
Considering that they have Beer Water (whatever that might be) in Japan, the rumor might hold some truth;)
If it says "Works with XP", they can say "you have broken your XP, otherwise it would work with it" and then also know that it really should work with XP (and does).
This has nothing to do with DRM or anything like this, this is simply a way to improve profits (and a dang good one). Problems costs money after all.
I am sure that if it was a "works with Red Hat" it would be taken as good...
Where is the DTS ES track on the american release? Quick answer... nowhere! They even have the nerver to include a 1.33:1 version, but no proper sound.
Real nice, I can choose from bad sound or overly red tinted picture (Japanese R2 release).
Really makes you feel sad, considering what an incredible movie it is.
After reading that article I seriously don't like IBM more than I did before. I have troubles seeing how the "free" movement can look up to IBM so much, simply because they happen to profit from Linux right now...
Maybe the French has threathened to veto? ;)
All dumbs jokes aside, EU really really needs to get a GPS system of our own. We should of course let the US use it, and use the original GPS when appropriate (for example extra accurcy or if one fail etc). It is fairly dumb to give away so much power to a foreign military.
Yes, there is a problem when you buy a piece of software that won't be supported the way you need it to be. The problem is almost the same with closed and open source. If you are a large corporation you can hire people to work with the application after the support has faded, as long as that is cheaper than upgrading/switching software, etc.
If you use Quark in a small company of two, you certainly can't hire people to work on it, and open source doesn't help.
I do agree with you wholeheartly though, it is a problem. I think that good companies should make solutions, whether it be open sourcing, or something else.
Oh there are people working on OSS for a living, and just as good old Bill they are getting paid better than me (I wouldn't mind getting paid like they;)). I wouldn't have anything against working with making more OSS, I don't oppose OSS at all. Heck, if you want to offer me a job, go ahead. If it is good I'd take it.
But what I asked for was more people working with OSS for a living. Imagine how good KDE could be with five times the manpower (or womenpower for that matter). Not everybody has to become millionaries on OSS after all. I rather see more people having jobs than few being stunningly rich.