Stallman has no opposition to commercialization. You can write GPL software and sell it. You just need to include the source and allow the person you sold it to, to redistribute it.
In a fantasy world where *all* software was licensed this way, there are a lot of people would happily pay for software. Because if developers don't get paid, indeed, very little software would get written. The reason that almost all open source software is not sold for a price is because of pragmatic considerations and the conventions and consumer expectations of the current business model.
This varies by time of day. The MTA's load guidelines currently define capacity as when "Every seat is taken and an average of 3 people are left standing in each car"
There are a good number of lines that are well above capacity at rush hour.
They handle this the same as in the olden days. Of course, this is primarily due to Hurricane Sandy, which effectively destroyed the new South Ferry station further down the battery which was rebuilt and opened in the late 2000s. When that station was destroyed, service was rerouted to the old outer loop just to turn around, and months afterwards passenger service in the outer loop station was resumed.
This would be a reasonable point, if indeed the economy were functioning in a rational way. In a rational world, this economy would be taxed in such a way that sustainable maintenance and capital construction of the MTA could function.
As this has not been the case for many, many years, your point about the economic expense of a 15 minute delay on the subway -- which is relatively minor considering the low duration of the delay -- becomes warped out of context.
So publically employed transit workers should have the right to determine what services are necessary and viable to the running of a transit operation?
In new york, that has been true for the last twenty years, and the result is that the union is now out of control and functioning as just another a money sieve for a taxpayer funded agency that desperately needs money, despite the state being broke and cutting its funding over and over that is specifically earmarked for the MTA.
One thing you haven't mentioned is that the IRT and second-system tracks are different grade tracks and cannot be shared even in principle unless the entire system were reconstructed (that is, all the tracks were relaid for one half or the other). Thus the transition from doing something (for instance the countdown clocks) on the IRT system and then doing it for the entire rest of the second system, is quite extensive.
Most people - yes, even Wall Street - use public transit in NYC. The subway is way faster than a car. There is a reason that they are building a new 2nd Ave line, and it isn't for the poor people.
Not entirely for the poor people, but it's not like SAS Phase 2 goes through East Harlem or anything.
My issue with the trains is that we are in 2013 and they are still putting new cars out with conductors! Yes, a person paid (and paid more than a cop IIRC) to stand in a little booth and close the doors on the train. I won't even get into why they still have drivers, they can't even get rid of the conductor.
Yeah, it's almost as if there were a crazy transit workers union that keeps on winning arbitration cases to make it impossible to get old and deprecated work rules removed.
I'm sure that Jerry Brown is very concerned about your website in Poughkeepsie, and not the websites hosted by small companies in California that you may have heard of such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Indeed, who cares what features GNOME 3.10 or GNOME 4 has, when GNOME 2 works and is familiar and does everything you need and has an expected lifetime of as long as mint keeps on developing for it.
the intended goal was always obvious -- pick a distribution that the community has made popular, then build their own, proprietary platform based on it and...hope that developers decide to release their titles for it.
What is left unsaid here is that the benevolence of this solution is ambiguous, but essentially positive. That is, it is not clear to what degree steamOS is a "proprietary platform." TFA says that it will be free, which presumably means that it is free as in beer and at least partly free as in speech. As long as this is true, then this can really not be seen as a loss, unless you despise steam DRM so much that you would prefer it to die instead of grow and bring along whatever market share they end up mustering.
Another thing that we should mention is that while visual studio has an impressive array of visualization tools, emacs also does all of the things you're describing, providing not only a ton of high-quality visualization tools, but also includes a builtin waffle maker, a banana slicer, and a mode that plays skyrim on high video settings (although to move your character you have press and hold LCtrl+LAlt+RMeta+G+F8, which is a bit annoying).
But, its support for text editing is not so great -- you have to use vim mode to do anything useful.
If Steam Linux only runs on Valvenix and doesn't really work on ubuntu, who would bother to buy Valvenix? If someone buys a new computer and installs ubuntu, expecting steam to work and then it doesn't, do you expect that person to go out and buy Valvenix?
Your post absolutely right in that the selfish selflessness is fundamental to the community, but Valve will have to depend on this as well in encouraging adoption of the new platform.
Why would C# development ever be worth doing on Linux? If *that's* what you're waiting for, you may have to wait a lot longer than for Valve to move the games market there.
Can't say if my experiences are representative, but I gave playonlinux a try with some old and very large titles that should have support -- League of Legends and Dragon Age: Origins. It pretty much didn't work at all. I'll give it another try in a year or so.
I have had no problems with the dota2 client on debian. Can't speak to whether its faster on windows, haven't tried much. But I suspect I wouldn't find much difference (with nvidia drivers).
I have taken the excuse for dota2 on linux to try to learn dota2, as opposed to LoL. But it's hard, and I'm still very bad at it. If you've played league for a long time, they're really different games.
That is an excellent idea, as long as you don't want to use any software that actually require some capability to use high-end graphics. Like, for instance, games. Of course, Valve probably doesn't care about the games market at all; like everyone else sensible, they see the future of Linux for its convenient, easy-to-use software that users love, such as LibreOffice, ddate, and the Cheese webcam booth.
These results make sense because fglrx is terrible. If you used the proprietary nvidia-glx drivers along with nvidia hardware, it tells a very different story from my experience.
Although I agree the comparison is not crystal clear -- some games in some setups work better under wine or natively on linux than on windows, but other games and other setups do not.
Seconded, when I installed Debian Wheezy for the first time, it took me about five minutes to get rid of GNOME 3 and set up MATE.
It works. No garbage. I know where the things I need are. I see no reason to use any other desktop environment for the foreseeable future.
Rhode island and Providence Plantations, the smallest state, is indeed larger than a couple dozen countries*, if by a "couple dozen" you mean two dozen. Specifically, it is greater than 28 countries: the Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, the Maldives, Malta, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, the Seychelles, Palau, Andorra, St Lucia, Micronesia, Singapore, Tonga, Dominica, Bahrain, Kiribati, Comoros, Mauritius, Luxembourg, and Samoa. How many of those have you heard of, or are politically or economically relevant?
*only Sporcle countries are considered. Guidelines for inclusion as a Sporcle country represent the best simple rigorous definition of what is a country.
s others argue, the inherent right of workers to unionize is something that should be upheld, as should the inherent right of workers *not* to unionize.
This doesn't mean that some unions don't *precisely* deserve to get busted, in the harshest way possible. These are the unions that cause more bureaucracy than the management that they work for. These are the unions that prevented my utterly incompetent 11th grade technology teacher from being fired, because he had a disability (he was blind). These are the unions that, when facing off against public transportation agencies bleeding money at the seams, refuse to accept even the slightest change in archaic work rules, colossal pension structures, and cause new rail construction projects to have billions of dollars in cost overruns (whereas other countries end up doing just fine).
There are *plenty* of unions in this country that deserve to have their faces smashed in (a position that it sickens me that more liberals don't comprehend). The Hostess union, by all accounts, was not one of them.
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Stallman has no opposition to commercialization. You can write GPL software and sell it. You just need to include the source and allow the person you sold it to, to redistribute it. In a fantasy world where *all* software was licensed this way, there are a lot of people would happily pay for software. Because if developers don't get paid, indeed, very little software would get written. The reason that almost all open source software is not sold for a price is because of pragmatic considerations and the conventions and consumer expectations of the current business model.
This varies by time of day. The MTA's load guidelines currently define capacity as when "Every seat is taken and an average of 3 people are left standing in each car" There are a good number of lines that are well above capacity at rush hour.
They handle this the same as in the olden days. Of course, this is primarily due to Hurricane Sandy, which effectively destroyed the new South Ferry station further down the battery which was rebuilt and opened in the late 2000s. When that station was destroyed, service was rerouted to the old outer loop just to turn around, and months afterwards passenger service in the outer loop station was resumed.
This would be a reasonable point, if indeed the economy were functioning in a rational way. In a rational world, this economy would be taxed in such a way that sustainable maintenance and capital construction of the MTA could function. As this has not been the case for many, many years, your point about the economic expense of a 15 minute delay on the subway -- which is relatively minor considering the low duration of the delay -- becomes warped out of context.
So publically employed transit workers should have the right to determine what services are necessary and viable to the running of a transit operation? In new york, that has been true for the last twenty years, and the result is that the union is now out of control and functioning as just another a money sieve for a taxpayer funded agency that desperately needs money, despite the state being broke and cutting its funding over and over that is specifically earmarked for the MTA.
Another underestmation of the importance of capital construction as a maintenance cost....
One thing you haven't mentioned is that the IRT and second-system tracks are different grade tracks and cannot be shared even in principle unless the entire system were reconstructed (that is, all the tracks were relaid for one half or the other). Thus the transition from doing something (for instance the countdown clocks) on the IRT system and then doing it for the entire rest of the second system, is quite extensive.
Most people - yes, even Wall Street - use public transit in NYC. The subway is way faster than a car. There is a reason that they are building a new 2nd Ave line, and it isn't for the poor people.
Not entirely for the poor people, but it's not like SAS Phase 2 goes through East Harlem or anything.
My issue with the trains is that we are in 2013 and they are still putting new cars out with conductors! Yes, a person paid (and paid more than a cop IIRC) to stand in a little booth and close the doors on the train. I won't even get into why they still have drivers, they can't even get rid of the conductor.
Yeah, it's almost as if there were a crazy transit workers union that keeps on winning arbitration cases to make it impossible to get old and deprecated work rules removed.
JoUR isn't an open-access journal, it is only available via subscription.
Hi, Linux mint just called. They want their anonymity back.
I'm sure that Jerry Brown is very concerned about your website in Poughkeepsie, and not the websites hosted by small companies in California that you may have heard of such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
If you just tell people to use mint, you won't have this problem.
Indeed, who cares what features GNOME 3.10 or GNOME 4 has, when GNOME 2 works and is familiar and does everything you need and has an expected lifetime of as long as mint keeps on developing for it.
the intended goal was always obvious -- pick a distribution that the community has made popular, then build their own, proprietary platform based on it and...hope that developers decide to release their titles for it.
What is left unsaid here is that the benevolence of this solution is ambiguous, but essentially positive. That is, it is not clear to what degree steamOS is a "proprietary platform." TFA says that it will be free, which presumably means that it is free as in beer and at least partly free as in speech. As long as this is true, then this can really not be seen as a loss, unless you despise steam DRM so much that you would prefer it to die instead of grow and bring along whatever market share they end up mustering.
Another thing that we should mention is that while visual studio has an impressive array of visualization tools, emacs also does all of the things you're describing, providing not only a ton of high-quality visualization tools, but also includes a builtin waffle maker, a banana slicer, and a mode that plays skyrim on high video settings (although to move your character you have press and hold LCtrl+LAlt+RMeta+G+F8, which is a bit annoying).
But, its support for text editing is not so great -- you have to use vim mode to do anything useful.
If Steam Linux only runs on Valvenix and doesn't really work on ubuntu, who would bother to buy Valvenix? If someone buys a new computer and installs ubuntu, expecting steam to work and then it doesn't, do you expect that person to go out and buy Valvenix? Your post absolutely right in that the selfish selflessness is fundamental to the community, but Valve will have to depend on this as well in encouraging adoption of the new platform.
Why would C# development ever be worth doing on Linux? If *that's* what you're waiting for, you may have to wait a lot longer than for Valve to move the games market there.
Can't say if my experiences are representative, but I gave playonlinux a try with some old and very large titles that should have support -- League of Legends and Dragon Age: Origins. It pretty much didn't work at all. I'll give it another try in a year or so.
I have had no problems with the dota2 client on debian. Can't speak to whether its faster on windows, haven't tried much. But I suspect I wouldn't find much difference (with nvidia drivers).
I have taken the excuse for dota2 on linux to try to learn dota2, as opposed to LoL. But it's hard, and I'm still very bad at it. If you've played league for a long time, they're really different games.
That is an excellent idea, as long as you don't want to use any software that actually require some capability to use high-end graphics. Like, for instance, games. Of course, Valve probably doesn't care about the games market at all; like everyone else sensible, they see the future of Linux for its convenient, easy-to-use software that users love, such as LibreOffice, ddate, and the Cheese webcam booth.
Microkernels and exokernels are what acemics say are supperior and the wave of the future.
:O It is 2013, and finally we see the light!
These results make sense because fglrx is terrible. If you used the proprietary nvidia-glx drivers along with nvidia hardware, it tells a very different story from my experience. Although I agree the comparison is not crystal clear -- some games in some setups work better under wine or natively on linux than on windows, but other games and other setups do not.
Seconded, when I installed Debian Wheezy for the first time, it took me about five minutes to get rid of GNOME 3 and set up MATE. It works. No garbage. I know where the things I need are. I see no reason to use any other desktop environment for the foreseeable future.
Rhode island and Providence Plantations, the smallest state, is indeed larger than a couple dozen countries*, if by a "couple dozen" you mean two dozen. Specifically, it is greater than 28 countries: the Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, the Maldives, Malta, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, the Seychelles, Palau, Andorra, St Lucia, Micronesia, Singapore, Tonga, Dominica, Bahrain, Kiribati, Comoros, Mauritius, Luxembourg, and Samoa. How many of those have you heard of, or are politically or economically relevant?
*only Sporcle countries are considered. Guidelines for inclusion as a Sporcle country represent the best simple rigorous definition of what is a country.
s others argue, the inherent right of workers to unionize is something that should be upheld, as should the inherent right of workers *not* to unionize.
This doesn't mean that some unions don't *precisely* deserve to get busted, in the harshest way possible. These are the unions that cause more bureaucracy than the management that they work for. These are the unions that prevented my utterly incompetent 11th grade technology teacher from being fired, because he had a disability (he was blind). These are the unions that, when facing off against public transportation agencies bleeding money at the seams, refuse to accept even the slightest change in archaic work rules, colossal pension structures, and cause new rail construction projects to have billions of dollars in cost overruns (whereas other countries end up doing just fine).
There are *plenty* of unions in this country that deserve to have their faces smashed in (a position that it sickens me that more liberals don't comprehend). The Hostess union, by all accounts, was not one of them.