What if buying the propietary software is cheaper than paying for support. I have several offices run on Xp and Openoffice/Thunderbird, as the cheapest, least troublesome combination.
I bought an ATI card (HD 3800) and its Linux driver sucks, I can't use it for gaming or 3d arts. (If I try to run blender, it won't display some menu elements, and looks totally broken.) It only works decently on Windows. So the funny thing is, I can't use an opensource software (Blender) with a video card that's supposedly opensource friendly on an opensource operating system (Linux; I tried it with several distros). The funny thing is that only nVidia and Intel have decent drivers for Linux. So it's not about a few more FPSes.
What's missing in Blender. You can easily create animation keyframes from Python scripts? If they went such great lengths to integrate an opensource middleware, I don't think it would be hard to make it work in Blender. What cleaning tools do you need beside a sliding window average?
"The whole damn system is broken! Everything has to be immediately profitable or at least have demonstratable potential for future profitability. "
It's called local optimum.
You need to do random stuff to get out of there. That's what bohemians/researchers are for (i.e. not Normal Responsible Adult Person) For further reading see simulated annealing.
"The entire "distribution" was created so that they could put Red Hat into their enterprise load balancers without having to do that pesky licensing and fair dealing thing."
If that were the case, they weren't sharing it with the world.
"It is a loss to the honest people, but dishonesty is always a loss to the honest people eventually. If CentOS et al were engaged in something more than just scraping the serial numbers off of other people's work, then I would be more upset."
Centos is prohibited to advertise the fact that it's based on RHEL. Look up Red Hat's policy on trademarks. By the way, Red Hat isn't the only contributor to FOSS (although the biggest one), so they also take other people's work as well. Also, Red Hat doesn't have a problem with Centos (said by Red Hat seniors), if they wanted, they could make things much harder for them.
I read that book, and it felt like a very different universe. Fans of the original are likely to be pissed off. (Although I liked it, but it felt a bit mediocre.)
"To create everything from scratch God would have to at least understand *everything* and so has to be more complex than everything else. "
What if he just created the starting position (e.g. Big Bang, or even Earth), and some basic physics laws, and left it alone. Then he doesn't have to understand everything. He was just messing around with universes and accidentally, one had life.
" By their nature, open formats are accessible and open to anyone who would like to implement them. " But it might take some time to be an expert on them (e.g. ODT).
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I guess in Cuba the US is legally a terrorist organization too.
4chan
M rated games (it won't be classified, so they're forbidden to sell)
porn with woman with small tits (who are above 18)
What if buying the propietary software is cheaper than paying for support. I have several offices run on Xp and Openoffice/Thunderbird, as the cheapest, least troublesome combination.
I bought an ATI card (HD 3800) and its Linux driver sucks, I can't use it for gaming or 3d arts. (If I try to run blender, it won't display some menu elements, and looks totally broken.) It only works decently on Windows. So the funny thing is, I can't use an opensource software (Blender) with a video card that's supposedly opensource friendly on an opensource operating system (Linux; I tried it with several distros).
The funny thing is that only nVidia and Intel have decent drivers for Linux. So it's not about a few more FPSes.
Sorrry, but it's bullshit, the winning strategy is randomness. (see Nash-equilibrium)
What's missing in Blender. You can easily create animation keyframes from Python scripts? If they went such great lengths to integrate an opensource middleware, I don't think it would be hard to make it work in Blender. What cleaning tools do you need beside a sliding window average?
Real estate crisis IN OUTER SPACE
For things not foreseeable, no timeframe is long enough.
But meanwhile you don't pay rent. Also, paying rent wont give you something to resell.
"The whole damn system is broken! Everything has to be immediately profitable or at least have demonstratable potential for future profitability. "
It's called local optimum.
You need to do random stuff to get out of there. That's what bohemians/researchers are for (i.e. not Normal Responsible Adult Person)
For further reading see simulated annealing.
We can make as much hydrocarbons as we want, if we have biomass (firewood).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process
Although we only have such tax on CD/DVD and flash memory cards. (see Artisjus)
In Hungary it works based on radio playlists.
"The entire "distribution" was created so that they could put Red Hat into their enterprise load balancers without having to do that pesky licensing and fair dealing thing."
If that were the case, they weren't sharing it with the world.
"It is a loss to the honest people, but dishonesty is always a loss to the honest people eventually. If CentOS et al were engaged in something more than just scraping the serial numbers off of other people's work, then I would be more upset."
Centos is prohibited to advertise the fact that it's based on RHEL. Look up Red Hat's policy on trademarks.
By the way, Red Hat isn't the only contributor to FOSS (although the biggest one), so they also take other people's work as well.
Also, Red Hat doesn't have a problem with Centos (said by Red Hat seniors), if they wanted, they could make things much harder for them.
The point is that mails sent through De-mail have legal binding, so you can use as proof at court.
I put some comment into your comments so you can comment when you comment.
I read that book, and it felt like a very different universe. Fans of the original are likely to be pissed off. (Although I liked it, but it felt a bit mediocre.)
wine snobs are turned into mice.
I wouldn't bet on that.
O rly?
Horn tooting is well deserved.
"To create everything from scratch God would have to at least understand *everything* and so has to be more complex than everything else. "
What if he just created the starting position (e.g. Big Bang, or even Earth), and some basic physics laws, and left it alone. Then he doesn't have to understand everything. He was just messing around with universes and accidentally, one had life.
" By their nature, open formats are accessible and open to anyone who would like to implement them. "
But it might take some time to be an expert on them (e.g. ODT).
Any finite explanation of the universe, no matter how complex, is simpler than an explanation by God.
Well, that's some non-trivial statement. Can you prove it?
There's Autodesk instead.