Since when is it any random person's right for google to be an accurate and/or useful search engine. Some thing just get taken for grated these days. Even if they are paying for advertising, the exact implementation of search probably wasn't included in the contract. These idiots can go fall in a hole.
Some of us stick to our ideals more closely then others. I'd rather use a crippled card then a proprietary driver, And this is for practical reasons. Free software is always dependable, meanwhile, the proprietary shit always keeps crashing on me and I have no one to go to for help.
More then once I have asked for help with free software and seen a bug patched in under 24 hours (other times I have fixed bugs myself and contributed my knowledge). It may seem like crap to most, but it makes me happy.
You may, in your infinite knowledge say that you would have given it away for free, being a true artist, but you try looking at the receipt after paying for even ONE professional guitar, never mind a whole studio, music videos and distribution system. If you still want to give it away for free then you're a better man than 99% of bands in the world (except Radiohead and bands so new or bad that they can't even give it away) How about making them work for their possessions, like everyone else in the world? Honestly, you don't need a $7000+ custom guitar and a $50,000+ studio to make art. Me and my friends get along fine with less expensive equipment, and we all actually worked for what we have.
GNU/Linux doesn't get attacked for one reason in particular. There is only one person you need to trust: your distributor. You aren't downloading programs from dozens of sources since it's all free software and it all can be stored in one place (legally).
You don't need to waist time writing millions of lines of code that will become obsolete in under a week. All you need is trust. (Rant: this applies to games to. All the anti-cheat bullshit is a worthless drain on legitimate players).
Open source, he said, creates a license 'so that nobody can ever improve the software to make money off the original work they got for free And that's not even it. You are entitled to make money, but you have to do it in a way which doesn't involve ripping off the community. Redhat, and Novell, and others seem to have found a way:)
at this point, it seems that the precise parts, such as extruder heads and the crane-game style 3-D conveyors are still made out of professionally manufactured or hand built pieces. RepRap isn't yet *fully* capable of copying itself because in order to do that, it would need to extrude a few metal parts and at lest 3 separate printed circuit boards with components.
Microsoft is doing the right thing here. One of my biggest complaints about using the OS has been all the legacy 3rd party code. The OS and the software need to evolve together in harmony. When you are using a modern OS, it's a pain to put up with shitty 10 year old programs. They lack compatibility with new standards, have bugs that will never get fixed, and simply tend to be a lot less convenient to use (ie. notepad vs. any modern light-weight editor).
Now, keep in mind free software has been doing this since day one:)
Interesting thought, though I'd imagine it would be much easier to implement the same sort of thing for a fresh new OS, instead of 15 years of backwards compatibility mess.
The GPL is a free-software license. It's main job is to make sure that the software provided is free. It's not supposed to allow things like proprietary software, required digital signature, or patents slip through the cracks. The GPL is supposed to be your bullet-proof grant of freedom (from a user's perspective), and that's what the upgrades in v3 try to do. Is it a pain in the ass? Certainly... However, I believe the end result is worth it - without a doubt. Be weary of those who wish to stay behind (like Torvalds). Promotion of free software is not their primary interest (that's why we have binary blobs in the kernel >_).
Stallman explained this very clearly in one of his speeches (don't remember where). You have to be really stupid to use something like this, especially when the GIMP can be downloaded for free.
It is true that free software may not measure up in all areas (it is also true that free software surpasses proprietary software in some), but in the long run, those losses are truly survivable. If you are willing to adapt, you'll never have to "pirate" software again. The primary argument against the GIMP is that it lacks CMYK support (which is coming), but I am not effected since I am not in the printing biz. I suppose everyone using this flash isn't either though.
Since you have two eyes which are somewhat distanced, you can perceive your surroundings in 3D. I assume the eye trackers used would take both eyes into account and determine what you are looking at.
This is where bittorrent comes to the rescue, and this is the reason why p2p technolegy was developed in the first place. You don't need the world's most excellent server to distribute your music when every single one of your fans is helping out. This happened for NiN right here. Even their server wasn't able to cope with the stress, but the content was still available on the bittorrent trackers (even the special content which they are asking money for). As a beginning band, you really have nothing to loose from putting your works up for download on bittorrent. Those fans who turn out to really enjoy your music will try to find some way of supportig you.
... Would be a wonderful think (but hardly in they way imagined by this character). If you take a step back, our current "internet" is really a ball of crap. The domain system is horribly abused and disorganized (everything lumped under.com just because grandma can remember it. And then throw in the cybersquatters...). The standard for producing documents (html/css+javascript) is horribly complicated and not universally supported in the same ways, and many people loose site of what it is they are trying to accomplish when developing websites (conveying information in a document vs. throwing in bells and whistles). Many of the things html is stretched to do could be better done in other ways.
Who gives a shit? It's not our job to ensure that anyone has a successful business model. As people change, your business model needs to change. As it turns out, people do not like having their minds polluted with this garbage all day. Thank god the internet is our one escape from it. If advertisements are so annoying that people (like me) are willing to take extreme measures to get rid of them, maybe they should not be relied on as a primary source of income.
Also, I seriously doubt slashdot is going to keel over tomorrow as a result of users like myself.
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Since when is it any random person's right for google to be an accurate and/or useful search engine. Some thing just get taken for grated these days. Even if they are paying for advertising, the exact implementation of search probably wasn't included in the contract. These idiots can go fall in a hole.
Some of us stick to our ideals more closely then others. I'd rather use a crippled card then a proprietary driver, And this is for practical reasons. Free software is always dependable, meanwhile, the proprietary shit always keeps crashing on me and I have no one to go to for help.
More then once I have asked for help with free software and seen a bug patched in under 24 hours (other times I have fixed bugs myself and contributed my knowledge). It may seem like crap to most, but it makes me happy.
Try using "linux." See how far it gets you.
Who modded this "funny?" It is entirely true.
GNU/Linux doesn't get attacked for one reason in particular. There is only one person you need to trust: your distributor. You aren't downloading programs from dozens of sources since it's all free software and it all can be stored in one place (legally).
You don't need to waist time writing millions of lines of code that will become obsolete in under a week. All you need is trust. (Rant: this applies to games to. All the anti-cheat bullshit is a worthless drain on legitimate players).
at this point, it seems that the precise parts, such as extruder heads and the crane-game style 3-D conveyors are still made out of professionally manufactured or hand built pieces. RepRap isn't yet *fully* capable of copying itself because in order to do that, it would need to extrude a few metal parts and at lest 3 separate printed circuit boards with components.
I am not concerned with them.
Good luck with that ;)
:)
Microsoft is doing the right thing here. One of my biggest complaints about using the OS has been all the legacy 3rd party code. The OS and the software need to evolve together in harmony. When you are using a modern OS, it's a pain to put up with shitty 10 year old programs. They lack compatibility with new standards, have bugs that will never get fixed, and simply tend to be a lot less convenient to use (ie. notepad vs. any modern light-weight editor).
Now, keep in mind free software has been doing this since day one
Interesting thought, though I'd imagine it would be much easier to implement the same sort of thing for a fresh new OS, instead of 15 years of backwards compatibility mess.
It's a huge pain that it takes nearly 250 years (and counting) to interpret our constitution. Something is completely fucking wrong here.
The GPL is a free-software license. It's main job is to make sure that the software provided is free. It's not supposed to allow things like proprietary software, required digital signature, or patents slip through the cracks. The GPL is supposed to be your bullet-proof grant of freedom (from a user's perspective), and that's what the upgrades in v3 try to do. Is it a pain in the ass? Certainly... However, I believe the end result is worth it - without a doubt. Be weary of those who wish to stay behind (like Torvalds). Promotion of free software is not their primary interest (that's why we have binary blobs in the kernel >_).
Stallman explained this very clearly in one of his speeches (don't remember where). You have to be really stupid to use something like this, especially when the GIMP can be downloaded for free.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
It is true that free software may not measure up in all areas (it is also true that free software surpasses proprietary software in some), but in the long run, those losses are truly survivable. If you are willing to adapt, you'll never have to "pirate" software again. The primary argument against the GIMP is that it lacks CMYK support (which is coming), but I am not effected since I am not in the printing biz. I suppose everyone using this flash isn't either though.
Since you have two eyes which are somewhat distanced, you can perceive your surroundings in 3D. I assume the eye trackers used would take both eyes into account and determine what you are looking at.
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This is where bittorrent comes to the rescue, and this is the reason why p2p technolegy was developed in the first place. You don't need the world's most excellent server to distribute your music when every single one of your fans is helping out. This happened for NiN right here. Even their server wasn't able to cope with the stress, but the content was still available on the bittorrent trackers (even the special content which they are asking money for). As a beginning band, you really have nothing to loose from putting your works up for download on bittorrent. Those fans who turn out to really enjoy your music will try to find some way of supportig you.
There still are AOL users :S
... Would be a wonderful think (but hardly in they way imagined by this character). If you take a step back, our current "internet" is really a ball of crap. The domain system is horribly abused and disorganized (everything lumped under .com just because grandma can remember it. And then throw in the cybersquatters...). The standard for producing documents (html/css+javascript) is horribly complicated and not universally supported in the same ways, and many people loose site of what it is they are trying to accomplish when developing websites (conveying information in a document vs. throwing in bells and whistles). Many of the things html is stretched to do could be better done in other ways.
My band plans to do exactly that whenever we end up finishing our first album.
Who gives a shit? It's not our job to ensure that anyone has a successful business model. As people change, your business model needs to change. As it turns out, people do not like having their minds polluted with this garbage all day. Thank god the internet is our one escape from it. If advertisements are so annoying that people (like me) are willing to take extreme measures to get rid of them, maybe they should not be relied on as a primary source of income.
Also, I seriously doubt slashdot is going to keel over tomorrow as a result of users like myself.
Maybe when we listen to a song, the first thing we see isn't money, it's emotion.
PS: I am a musician by the way.