Backwards compatibility however is not something to be frown up. And you lumped a lot of different things together: patents, backwards compatibility and government subsidies/corporate welfare. These are huge topics in themselves, and I don't see each of them as harmful to competition (e.g. patents, and don't go into software patents, that's a whole different cup of tea).
You mean that middle class/working class loses, and corporations win? Well, we're competing with a market that isn't opposed to slave labour. Now look up, why the American Civil War happened!
How does it prevent good math and physics education? Hell, would it really matter if those fundies became mathematicians and you from the rest the needed number of biologists? I'm not defending the fundies, but they're not the root of all evil. Maybe the everyone is special, everyone wins a trophy attitude?
On the other hand, CEOs always say you have to compete with Chinese laborers. If you have to compete with slave work then what have you become? (Remember, most Chinese people doesn't have healthcare insurance, nor pension plans. They just get disposed when they get old and sick.)
Surely you're aghast at the prospect of all of the bandwidth usage! The sheer audacity of UbiSoft for insisting that you're connected to the internet to play a single player game!
"No, not really. I have 30GB per month, I never use it."
Does it ever slow down or disconnect quickly when someone else in the house is downloading some music, or have to reboot your modem / router sometimes?
I wouldn't think it would use too much bandwidth, and makes only one connection. While bittorrent makes zillions of connections and uses lot of bandwidth. (I had to reboot a lot my router because of bittorrent, until changing firmware.)
Ahem. 1, Artisjus doesn't give the money to the content producers most people like. They give it to the ones that are most played by Radio. 2, If you're a musician who wants to give away promotional CDs for free, Artisjus will charge you horrible amounts of money. 3, They're breaking EU law: a content producer can't choose to be represented by other organization (there are several in EU).
Hitler won with rigging the elections. Even burning the Reichstag and blaming it on commies wasn't enough to get him elected. By that note you could argue that whole Eastern Europe democratically elected communist leaders. (Which happened in similar ways.)
There's a similar system in Hungary. You pay IP tax when buying empty CD/DVD (Artisjus hologram sticker). However the proceedings go to only musicians as far as I know, and the disrtibution ratio is based on how much their songs was played in the radio. Filesharing is legal as far you don't make profits. (Well, theoretically only downloading is legal, but they don't go after p2p users.)
"No, I'm not being trollish or suggesting stupidity." Indeed you do.
Consumers have the right to choose. And sometimes sticking with older version of things is more cost effective. Do you always buy the latest version of MS Word?
Don't confuse GPL with LGPL. What you described is considered a loophole in GPL (and only if you used shardel libraries), maybe in recent revisions of GPL it have been fixed.
Personally I prefer LGPL. It gives you the right to ask for a fee for higher level layers, but if you improve on the base you have to share it. It's win-win.
But the most annoying thing is when on cans of food you just see the numbers (2 digits for years) but there's no clue for format, and you have to guess.
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Clients don't like ad-hoc availability.
Oreilly already has such a service.
create schema ponzi;
It's called the World Wide Web. People hated it because it wasn't constrained and limited enough.
It's like saying c++ is so much powerful than an accounting application.
But if I want to do accounting, I'd still rather use an accounting app.
Backwards compatibility however is not something to be frown up.
And you lumped a lot of different things together: patents, backwards compatibility and government subsidies/corporate welfare. These are huge topics in themselves, and I don't see each of them as harmful to competition (e.g. patents, and don't go into software patents, that's a whole different cup of tea).
You mean lock-down?
(Ducks from stones.)
You mean that middle class/working class loses, and corporations win?
Well, we're competing with a market that isn't opposed to slave labour. Now look up, why the American Civil War happened!
How does it prevent good math and physics education?
Hell, would it really matter if those fundies became mathematicians and you from the rest the needed number of biologists?
I'm not defending the fundies, but they're not the root of all evil. Maybe the everyone is special, everyone wins a trophy attitude?
On the other hand, CEOs always say you have to compete with Chinese laborers. If you have to compete with slave work then what have you become? (Remember, most Chinese people doesn't have healthcare insurance, nor pension plans. They just get disposed when they get old and sick.)
Don't confuse innovation and marketingspeak! Or you wanted to be modded funny?
Surely you're aghast at the prospect of all of the bandwidth usage! The sheer audacity of UbiSoft for insisting that you're connected to the internet to play a single player game!
"No, not really. I have 30GB per month, I never use it."
Does it ever slow down or disconnect quickly when someone else in the house is downloading some music, or have to reboot your modem / router sometimes?
I wouldn't think it would use too much bandwidth, and makes only one connection. While bittorrent makes zillions of connections and uses lot of bandwidth. (I had to reboot a lot my router because of bittorrent, until changing firmware.)
Of course they turn on humans: what else would you expect?
There's a pretty good scifi that starts with self-modifying, self-replicating robots: screamer
Ahem.
1, Artisjus doesn't give the money to the content producers most people like. They give it to the ones that are most played by Radio.
2, If you're a musician who wants to give away promotional CDs for free, Artisjus will charge you horrible amounts of money.
3, They're breaking EU law: a content producer can't choose to be represented by other organization (there are several in EU).
By the same note: why do corporations try to avoid taxations?
Hitler won with rigging the elections. Even burning the Reichstag and blaming it on commies wasn't enough to get him elected.
By that note you could argue that whole Eastern Europe democratically elected communist leaders. (Which happened in similar ways.)
There's a similar system in Hungary. You pay IP tax when buying empty CD/DVD (Artisjus hologram sticker). However the proceedings go to only musicians as far as I know, and the disrtibution ratio is based on how much their songs was played in the radio.
Filesharing is legal as far you don't make profits. (Well, theoretically only downloading is legal, but they don't go after p2p users.)
"No, I'm not being trollish or suggesting stupidity."
Indeed you do.
Consumers have the right to choose. And sometimes sticking with older version of things is more cost effective. Do you always buy the latest version of MS Word?
Why is it always the same old bullshit when people want to control others?
You mean the parents controlling their children?
Look, there's reason we have child protection services. Your child is not your property.
At least human males don't kill their stepchildren.
But maybe lemmings have invented religion and that's why they kill themselves.
Don't confuse GPL with LGPL. What you described is considered a loophole in GPL (and only if you used shardel libraries), maybe in recent revisions of GPL it have been fixed.
http://www.advogato.org/article/148.html
Personally I prefer LGPL. It gives you the right to ask for a fee for higher level layers, but if you improve on the base you have to share it. It's win-win.
Yay, Hungary wins again :)
But the most annoying thing is when on cans of food you just see the numbers (2 digits for years) but there's no clue for format, and you have to guess.
You mean nothing GNU.
That's called anecdotal evidence.