Amazon has eccellent prices compared to Apple's educational discount.... in MY country! Which is Finland. But of course, I can't buy such stuff from Amazon (won't ship overseas). Bummer. I mean, why does Apple care if Amazon sells their goods to Europeans, Chinese, Tunguzians.... ??
Anyhow, there is perhaps a few apps I'd love to have on MacOS X, which I really like and use: OO.o, Inkspace, Mathlab, vim32, Audacity and OpenWatcom. There's a bunch more that I use but I am sure there is a similar counterpart in the Mac world. The others I didn't have time to investigate, but I presume mostly (70%) have Mac ports. Running them under a VMed Windows is perhaps a solution, but I'm not looking forward to it. Let's see.
Noting much to add - I just thought such goodness ought to be acknowledged. I've given up on the imslp surviving this crysis. Surprisingly, humanity (part of it) proved me wrong! I think "w00t!" is appropriate.
If I stay with Windows, I'll be forced, sooner or later, to get Vista. Unless people wise up and stop taking it in the butt. But I'm not holding out for that, so I am ever more seriously considering.... getting a Macbook. I just noticed they give a cool discount to students (plus an iPod Nano, which isn't bad). I've been using Linux for 10 years already, so I am too aware of the things it can't do for me, yet, but a Mac seems to fit the bill properly.
I am a great fan of Irving Berlin. He would probably be upset if he knew that ASCAP would sue you for singing "Happy Birthday" in public! Yessir, that's what I'm talking about right here, see...
I can only reply with what I already said: dead composers probably don't give a duck about that.
I'm a bit fuzzy about the difference you're trying to make between composers and artists. For me a composer is a bona fide artist. Must be a weakness in my English language skills.
In whose name is Universal Edition stirring up this sh*t? In the name of composers that definitely would HAVE deservED the recognition while they were alive? Now that they are dead, if you believe in afterlife, what are the odds that they want their work to fatten a fat-cat? Wouldn't they rather want for their work to be as widespread as possible, that many people would enjoy their music?
I guess dead people don't put all that much emphasis on money loss due to copyright violation.
This might look like atangent to some, but bear with me for a moment: how did the world change in just a few short decades. The 70s and 80s were years when a skilled individual, perhaps with the help of a peer, would be able to project and implement his/her idea of a computer. You had a flurry of various hardware and software architectures, most richly in the "home computer" market, but not only. For an example, the S-100 based computers definitely were in the professional segment, and yet a lot of hardware accessories existed, designed and produced by small workshops.
Fast forward to today: what can an individual do, today? Electronic components are integrated to the point that you can't even assemble them without special and very expensive equipment, not to talk about the motherboards. Not to talk about the difficulties of prototyping. The bar to entry has been set incredibly high. So high, in fact, that the world of microprocessor architectures has significantly shrunk, and basically the only computer designed, produced and sold is based on an intel processor.
It's a word where only multimillion dollar corporations can implement visionary ideas - but them being corporations, it's an idea that usually doesn't excite the developers, only the product managers. It has to be profitable, that's the only relevant angle. In this world, the ideals Wozniak is after, are dead.
OK, now I see. Yeah, that kinda looks like I was implying it's Radiohead the one to be greedy. I hope whoever reads my original comment, reads this one as well.
I totally agree with everything you said. It's the artists that were under the labels' thumb for a while are the ones most likely to have some fire under their arses. I think I'll grab some snacks and enjoy the show, it should start to be real fun right about now. How about you?
NO no no, I did NOT imply Radiohead is greadky???!!!! Where TF did you get that idea? I was talking about the greed that other musicians should have by now *lloks comically at watch* and very seriously considering their current situation.
ummm... did I really make it sound like I thought Radiohead was gready? That is totally not what I think. The opposite is true: they tried something new and perhaps risky, and even let their fans pay 0. That's visionary and definitely NOT gready.
I really hope all the other musicians still under the shackles of a RIAA-affiliated label will feel positively JEALOUS of the kind of dough Radiohead is making!
While I despise greed, it might just be a very powerful force in the downfall of the labels and therefore the RIAA. Just imagine all those musicians just NOT renewing their contracts (or even trying to end their current ones) and go onto forming their own label and sell their music directly to their fans!
Hey, I didn't say to ignore stats. Or didn't mean to, anyway. I might have worded wrongly my thoughts (I'm mostly fried by studying, almost no sleep). I meant to say that stats that compare crime rates vs. punishment across countries don't work. But there are eccellent stats about this within one country, and that's very useful. For example, apparently the number of homicides has drastically increased in the US since the death penalty has been curtailed as a tool. I've read somewhere about a figure of approximately 100.000 more people murdered, compared to the period of more liberal use of the death penalty. The analyst (as in, the person who analysed the results) speculated that, violent offenders may find it a calculated risk to rather kill the witness. So, it's less risky to kill a witness rather than leave him/her alive and face a much higher likelyhood of being caught, especially since the punishment for homicide is small.
I want to know the exact thing. Actually, if I get Ubuntu on a dell laptop (not sure there are, just hoping) and it's 7.04, if I upgrade to 7.10, is the warranty void?
You seriously don't see how this helps? It helps through deterrance, which, unlike what some people would want us to think does work. And before you do: please don't bring up stats that compare various countries to the USA. Various countries have varous cultures. What works in Finland doesn't work in China or the USA.
I guess what the actual news here is not that Linux server sales are up and the increase is at the expense of their Windows counterparts; the news is, rather, that Michale Dell himself went public with the info. I remember the days when such an event would be unimaginable, regardless of Linux server sales numbers.
Good on Linux. Somewhat humbling for Microsoft, but they'll have to learn to take it like men, from now on (Firefox marketshare, Vista brand fiasco etc.)
You are right, but you know what I meant: powerty is not the cause of corruption, but lack of corruption can lead to wealth - if the conditions allow it (i.e. freedom).
Abiword? Did you read my post at all? You can't do formulas with Abiword! The macros in Abiword are lacking, even compared to OO.o, and finally (I didn't mention this, but here goes) it doesn't export in.pdf.
But mainly: no formulas.
Lyx: good but it's annoying when I have to do things like superscripts or subscripts inline in the text (not in the separate formulas). I've considered TeX very seriously, but alas, it's not good when you have to change formatting frequently within your text. Oh, yeah, and the.pdf it produced was ugly. I know it has something to do with how the fonts are configured in Tex/Lyx, but I don't have the time to investigate. I have barely time to see my gf, due to the studying+work, so I should be excused for not spending additional time trying to convince Lyx to work as expected.
There is not one single thing in OO that doesn't have an OSS equivalent stand-alone application that is at least as good.
Can you point me to an alternative to OO Write? I love the ease of creating formulas in OO Write, and the way the Macro system works. But if you show me a more stable opensource application that can do "at least as good", I am ready to convert.
There is NO correlation whatsoever between corruption level and wealth. Finland after the 2nd world war and up until the 70s was extremely poor - due to the war reparations to Russia, which Finland actually did pay to the last cent. And yet, the corruption level then as now, was one of the lowest in the world. Or how about Checoslovakia or Hungary in the 50s till the 80s - poor countries, with low corruption. And then you have extremely wealthy countries like some of the petrol-rich Arab countries, where corruption is rampant.
The truth is, countries where there is no culture of corruption will, sooner or later, develop a healthy economy. So it's the other way around, if anything. Look at the former eastern block countries where corruption was low: after the end of Soviet Russia (no joke) the economies of those countries where corruption was culturally low (Hungary, Chech republic, Poland) blossomed, while the ones where there was corruption, are still in the gutter (Romania and Bulgaria).
I thought that depended onthe version of the GPU. Does the GUI ("eye candy") processing get done in the GPU of older cards, too? If not, the OP is still right.
It doesn't need to be tied to a particular player, as long as it it tied to a class of players, all of which include the royalty payment as part of the purchase. Thus, all that is required is an encryption or encoding format that is only licensed to those particular players.
Yeah, that's the intent. And I for one don't see any way this could fail *cough*CHINA*cough*, none at all.
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I mean, can't you get your hands on a record player in the USA? Has it come to this?
Amazon has eccellent prices compared to Apple's educational discount.... in MY country! Which is Finland. But of course, I can't buy such stuff from Amazon (won't ship overseas). Bummer. I mean, why does Apple care if Amazon sells their goods to Europeans, Chinese, Tunguzians.... ??
Anyhow, there is perhaps a few apps I'd love to have on MacOS X, which I really like and use: OO.o, Inkspace, Mathlab, vim32, Audacity and OpenWatcom. There's a bunch more that I use but I am sure there is a similar counterpart in the Mac world. The others I didn't have time to investigate, but I presume mostly (70%) have Mac ports. Running them under a VMed Windows is perhaps a solution, but I'm not looking forward to it. Let's see.
Noting much to add - I just thought such goodness ought to be acknowledged. I've given up on the imslp surviving this crysis. Surprisingly, humanity (part of it) proved me wrong! I think "w00t!" is appropriate.
Thanks Michael!
If I stay with Windows, I'll be forced, sooner or later, to get Vista. Unless people wise up and stop taking it in the butt. But I'm not holding out for that, so I am ever more seriously considering.... getting a Macbook. I just noticed they give a cool discount to students (plus an iPod Nano, which isn't bad). I've been using Linux for 10 years already, so I am too aware of the things it can't do for me, yet, but a Mac seems to fit the bill properly.
I am a great fan of Irving Berlin. He would probably be upset if he knew that ASCAP would sue you for singing "Happy Birthday" in public! Yessir, that's what I'm talking about right here, see...
I can only reply with what I already said: dead composers probably don't give a duck about that.
I'm a bit fuzzy about the difference you're trying to make between composers and artists. For me a composer is a bona fide artist. Must be a weakness in my English language skills.
In whose name is Universal Edition stirring up this sh*t? In the name of composers that definitely would HAVE deservED the recognition while they were alive? Now that they are dead, if you believe in afterlife, what are the odds that they want their work to fatten a fat-cat? Wouldn't they rather want for their work to be as widespread as possible, that many people would enjoy their music?
I guess dead people don't put all that much emphasis on money loss due to copyright violation.
A DDR2 interface devkit? I guess you had something else in mind, this won't provide you with much fun, at all.
This might look like atangent to some, but bear with me for a moment: how did the world change in just a few short decades. The 70s and 80s were years when a skilled individual, perhaps with the help of a peer, would be able to project and implement his/her idea of a computer. You had a flurry of various hardware and software architectures, most richly in the "home computer" market, but not only.
For an example, the S-100 based computers definitely were in the professional segment, and yet a lot of hardware accessories existed, designed and produced by small workshops.
Fast forward to today: what can an individual do, today? Electronic components are integrated to the point that you can't even assemble them without special and very expensive equipment, not to talk about the motherboards. Not to talk about the difficulties of prototyping. The bar to entry has been set incredibly high. So high, in fact, that the world of microprocessor architectures has significantly shrunk, and basically the only computer designed, produced and sold is based on an intel processor.
It's a word where only multimillion dollar corporations can implement visionary ideas - but them being corporations, it's an idea that usually doesn't excite the developers, only the product managers. It has to be profitable, that's the only relevant angle. In this world, the ideals Wozniak is after, are dead.
OK, now I see. Yeah, that kinda looks like I was implying it's Radiohead the one to be greedy. I hope whoever reads my original comment, reads this one as well.
I totally agree with everything you said. It's the artists that were under the labels' thumb for a while are the ones most likely to have some fire under their arses. I think I'll grab some snacks and enjoy the show, it should start to be real fun right about now. How about you?
NO no no, I did NOT imply Radiohead is greadky???!!!! Where TF did you get that idea? I was talking about the greed that other musicians should have by now *lloks comically at watch* and very seriously considering their current situation.
ummm... did I really make it sound like I thought Radiohead was gready? That is totally not what I think. The opposite is true: they tried something new and perhaps risky, and even let their fans pay 0. That's visionary and definitely NOT gready.
I really hope all the other musicians still under the shackles of a RIAA-affiliated label will feel positively JEALOUS of the kind of dough Radiohead is making!
While I despise greed, it might just be a very powerful force in the downfall of the labels and therefore the RIAA. Just imagine all those musicians just NOT renewing their contracts (or even trying to end their current ones) and go onto forming their own label and sell their music directly to their fans!
I think Ballmer went through most chairs after Michael Dell's announcement.
Hey, I didn't say to ignore stats. Or didn't mean to, anyway. I might have worded wrongly my thoughts (I'm mostly fried by studying, almost no sleep). I meant to say that stats that compare crime rates vs. punishment across countries don't work. But there are eccellent stats about this within one country, and that's very useful. For example, apparently the number of homicides has drastically increased in the US since the death penalty has been curtailed as a tool. I've read somewhere about a figure of approximately 100.000 more people murdered, compared to the period of more liberal use of the death penalty. The analyst (as in, the person who analysed the results) speculated that, violent offenders may find it a calculated risk to rather kill the witness. So, it's less risky to kill a witness rather than leave him/her alive and face a much higher likelyhood of being caught, especially since the punishment for homicide is small.
Anyway, gotta go to sleep.
I want to know the exact thing. Actually, if I get Ubuntu on a dell laptop (not sure there are, just hoping) and it's 7.04, if I upgrade to 7.10, is the warranty void?
You seriously don't see how this helps? It helps through deterrance, which, unlike what some people would want us to think does work. And before you do: please don't bring up stats that compare various countries to the USA. Various countries have varous cultures. What works in Finland doesn't work in China or the USA.
I guess what the actual news here is not that Linux server sales are up and the increase is at the expense of their Windows counterparts; the news is, rather, that Michale Dell himself went public with the info. I remember the days when such an event would be unimaginable, regardless of Linux server sales numbers.
Good on Linux. Somewhat humbling for Microsoft, but they'll have to learn to take it like men, from now on (Firefox marketshare, Vista brand fiasco etc.)
You are right, but you know what I meant: powerty is not the cause of corruption, but lack of corruption can lead to wealth - if the conditions allow it (i.e. freedom).
Abiword? Did you read my post at all? You can't do formulas with Abiword! The macros in Abiword are lacking, even compared to OO.o, and finally (I didn't mention this, but here goes) it doesn't export in .pdf.
.pdf it produced was ugly. I know it has something to do with how the fonts are configured in Tex/Lyx, but I don't have the time to investigate. I have barely time to see my gf, due to the studying+work, so I should be excused for not spending additional time trying to convince Lyx to work as expected.
But mainly: no formulas.
Lyx: good but it's annoying when I have to do things like superscripts or subscripts inline in the text (not in the separate formulas). I've considered TeX very seriously, but alas, it's not good when you have to change formatting frequently within your text. Oh, yeah, and the
There is not one single thing in OO that doesn't have an OSS equivalent stand-alone application that is at least as good.
Can you point me to an alternative to OO Write? I love the ease of creating formulas in OO Write, and the way the Macro system works. But if you show me a more stable opensource application that can do "at least as good", I am ready to convert.
...stability and performance of OO.o.
But somehow I doubt it.
There is NO correlation whatsoever between corruption level and wealth. Finland after the 2nd world war and up until the 70s was extremely poor - due to the war reparations to Russia, which Finland actually did pay to the last cent. And yet, the corruption level then as now, was one of the lowest in the world. Or how about Checoslovakia or Hungary in the 50s till the 80s - poor countries, with low corruption. And then you have extremely wealthy countries like some of the petrol-rich Arab countries, where corruption is rampant.
The truth is, countries where there is no culture of corruption will, sooner or later, develop a healthy economy. So it's the other way around, if anything. Look at the former eastern block countries where corruption was low: after the end of Soviet Russia (no joke) the economies of those countries where corruption was culturally low (Hungary, Chech republic, Poland) blossomed, while the ones where there was corruption, are still in the gutter (Romania and Bulgaria).
I thought that depended onthe version of the GPU. Does the GUI ("eye candy") processing get done in the GPU of older cards, too? If not, the OP is still right.
Just sayin'
Warranty could be exercised only once per purchased product.
Wow - that's douchebaggery.
It doesn't need to be tied to a particular player, as long as it it tied to a class of players, all of which include the royalty payment as part of the purchase. Thus, all that is required is an encryption or encoding format that is only licensed to those particular players.
Yeah, that's the intent. And I for one don't see any way this could fail *cough*CHINA*cough*, none at all.