When I think "cover band" I think live performance, and that is the word I meant to use.
My understanding was that cross-fades and dj speak were specific issues wrt internet "radio", and I guess I falsely assumed that was already standard on the real radio, as indeed there is usually a fade out, or a cross fade on every some I hear.
I always assumed the difference from the original recording was the basis for the decision to call it a performance.
Radio pays writers (which are part of the music industry), but not performers.
It counts as a cover act (dj is required to crossfade and talk over music so it is not record quality).
The recording industry is torn about this, they want radio play so that they can get heard and sell records (thus paying to be played, causing scandel). They also want money when played (thus wining about it periodically trying to get money).
The top performers win hard if they get paid when played, but artists in general benifit more from being played. the RIAA benifits if the recording royalties are paid, but that is not the case, only thw writer (ascap)
How much against a creators wishes can i change their creation and pretend it's their product?
I don't spite either debian or mozilla over firefox/iceweasel, similarly, i think that banshee should have control overroducts called "banshee", if cononical doesn't like it, don't include banshee, include screaming spirit, and use the same code.
I generally use a combination of CFLs, and Halogen bulbs. The light out of the Halogen is much more pleasant and rich vs a CFL (or vs a regular bulb). Even the "full spectrum" CFLs lack compared to a Halogen, and the Halogen saves some power too. I like to have at least one Halogen bulb in a room I'm trying to keep well lit, and I avoid CFLs in the bathroom entirely (take too long to warm up).
Lead paint is a problem for others, because it has a tendency to be thrown out (an argument could be made about increased power use, or mercury though power is easy enough to to increase the price to an appropriate amount to minimize the externalities, such as making the smoke coming out cleaner). Lead paint just is bad.
You not using a seat-belt costs me money, as I pay for insurance.
Cost of being whipped is an expense to the children. The regulation could reduce over-all cost of the system, which in the end is what I want as a consumer.
As a customer I want cost minimized too though. If regulation increases overall cost the cure is worse than the disease.
Cost of a breach can be shared by more than the prevention though, which would be a case for regulation to step in, as total cost could go down, even if corporate cost goes up.
Sometimes the slow drag of being protected against oneself costs more than the risk being averted though.
For example, the cost of code generators to access bank accounts online in Europe surely prevents some fraud, but how much compared to the cost of every generator, and the inconvenience of not having access if you lose it.
Similar with active protection virus software not too long ago. It caused instability and slowed things down immensely.
Considering they purchased StarOffice in 1999, I would say they were a little late to the party.
I could be wrong, but there appeared to be a lot of MS hate from Sun, perhaps justified, but that doesn't mean they need to retaliate. I would say remote desktop/citrix made the whole separate office suite irrelevant (WRT your explanation). They should-of just really pushed that (note, not actually used rdesktop, but it appears to be supported on Linux as a client).
A real tragedy that the start application and the close current are so damned close to each other. Stupidest design I've ever see. A complete and utter fail for usability.
How dare they use an open source project (Wayland) that Fedora is likely going to use too.
But what's worse is that they made a replacement for sysvinit that others are using. Actually creating a project that becomes upstream to other distros is the epitome of bad.
Maemo is using both, Palm used Upstart, Fedora may use both, but is switching to a newer sysvinit replacement (evil). OpenSUSE is offering Upstart too.
If a chosen replacement for sysvinit (upstart) was lacking (thus systemd) I would think that upstart was a worthy project.
Wayland is hardly Conical's fault (coming from a Red Hat employee), the article is stupid and flamebait, as the premise is false IMO.
Unity on the other-hand is just stupid, and blech, but certainly started on a valid place.
I am curious what they felt was lacking with GNOME2 + Compiz + Wayland, as that would on the face of it be a good way to skip GNOME3 (which from what I can tell is OK, but about KDE 4.0 or 4.1 in quality (I felt 4.3 was the first KDE to feel usable with more than 10 minutes of use, and 4.5 the first to be usable).
What I like about GNOME3 is it appears to be moving towards Desktop Wall + Expose for task switching, I find this is very scalable vs a taskbar, though I am torn between picking it strait out over the Windows 7 taskbar.
But there is more money in it for them to work on their documents products. I imagine with full-on HTML 5 they could make it happen pretty well (I know gmail worked well in offline or flaky connection mode, and I don't see why they can't make the documents more interface rich than they are).
Investing in Libre Office allows some migration to Linux, which may or may not be profitable for them (depends how many people use google even with bing being default vs how much they pay in royalties to Linux distros).
Investing in wine is very similar, allows more Linux, but it may cost them money as they pay more royalties (and has the risk you mention).
Having a Chromebook I predict it is dead in the water, it's nice, but not necessarily nicer than an Android tablet would be. It really needs some type of local storage. I really hope they get around to rebuilding the offline mail for gmail (had to disable it when allowing multiple signons). The ability to save shots from the camera, and upload from the included SD slot would be good. And they really need to get skype going on it somehow.
Android would just be a lot more useful.
Fighting MS for spite is not google's style, they want ad revenue, and will focus on that.
Mucking around with Office was a huge waste for Sun. Google is doing similar, but with a real chance at gaining from it (their docs). Perhaps if they could get truly seamless integration with the desktop app, and their cloud, it could be a win. But, I would think it's unlikely OSS is going to want to do that.
Wine could actually be something for them, as at least for now, Linux tends to default towards google searches (usually through the distro). Still, the money gained by people getting Google default - the money paid to the distro could be less than losing some to MS, but what they get comes fully to them.
I will say, it was the sponsorship money paid to Firefox that spawned Chrome more than anything else. Google was paying Mozilla lots of money every year (Mozilla gets 100 Million in search royalties). I don't know what Chrome costs, but it appears pretty reasonable they the reduced search royalty could fund the developement. At least for a while Chrome was primarily eating Firefox's market.
With an improved Wine, unless they make a real solid distro too, there won't be the reduced royalty that come with Chrome.
For how long? How long did they try to work withing the system before forking off? I will say, I support Libre Office, and I don't think Oracle is the place for them to be. But to say "tired of the overbearing hand of Oracle preventing them from progressing". I think it was more accurate to say they didn't trust Oracle, and want to be completely independent.
At least in my region being tired of something implies long term dealing with it.
To be saying things like "tired of the overbearing hand of Oracle preventing them from progressing"
I support the fork, and think it's good they did it when momentum was on their side, but to act like they were prevented from progression by oracle is silly. It was seeing the writing on the wall at best (and very likely) and fear at worse.
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Fair enough.
When I think "cover band" I think live performance, and that is the word I meant to use.
My understanding was that cross-fades and dj speak were specific issues wrt internet "radio", and I guess I falsely assumed that was already standard on the real radio, as indeed there is usually a fade out, or a cross fade on every some I hear.
I always assumed the difference from the original recording was the basis for the decision to call it a performance.
Radio pays writers (which are part of the music industry), but not performers.
It counts as a cover act (dj is required to crossfade and talk over music so it is not record quality).
The recording industry is torn about this, they want radio play so that they can get heard and sell records (thus paying to be played, causing scandel). They also want money when played (thus wining about it periodically trying to get money).
The top performers win hard if they get paid when played, but artists in general benifit more from being played. the RIAA benifits if the recording royalties are paid, but that is not the case, only thw writer (ascap)
How much against a creators wishes can i change their creation and pretend it's their product?
I don't spite either debian or mozilla over firefox/iceweasel, similarly, i think that banshee should have control overroducts called "banshee", if cononical doesn't like it, don't include banshee, include screaming spirit, and use the same code.
WOW, where do you live gernally?
it's not too cold here, and CFLs get slaughtered outside, like last less time than an incandecent (or is your porch closed)?
Isn't this more about Libre meaning being able to do the wrong thing?
I generally use a combination of CFLs, and Halogen bulbs. The light out of the Halogen is much more pleasant and rich vs a CFL (or vs a regular bulb). Even the "full spectrum" CFLs lack compared to a Halogen, and the Halogen saves some power too. I like to have at least one Halogen bulb in a room I'm trying to keep well lit, and I avoid CFLs in the bathroom entirely (take too long to warm up).
Lead paint is a problem for others, because it has a tendency to be thrown out (an argument could be made about increased power use, or mercury though power is easy enough to to increase the price to an appropriate amount to minimize the externalities, such as making the smoke coming out cleaner). Lead paint just is bad.
You not using a seat-belt costs me money, as I pay for insurance.
Paypal certainly does have the right to not collect the money.
This is very different then freezing money they already collected.
Cost of being whipped is an expense to the children. The regulation could reduce over-all cost of the system, which in the end is what I want as a consumer.
As a customer I want cost minimized too though. If regulation increases overall cost the cure is worse than the disease.
Cost of a breach can be shared by more than the prevention though, which would be a case for regulation to step in, as total cost could go down, even if corporate cost goes up.
Sometimes the slow drag of being protected against oneself costs more than the risk being averted though.
For example, the cost of code generators to access bank accounts online in Europe surely prevents some fraud, but how much compared to the cost of every generator, and the inconvenience of not having access if you lose it.
Similar with active protection virus software not too long ago. It caused instability and slowed things down immensely.
Considering they purchased StarOffice in 1999, I would say they were a little late to the party.
I could be wrong, but there appeared to be a lot of MS hate from Sun, perhaps justified, but that doesn't mean they need to retaliate. I would say remote desktop/citrix made the whole separate office suite irrelevant (WRT your explanation). They should-of just really pushed that (note, not actually used rdesktop, but it appears to be supported on Linux as a client).
A real tragedy that the start application and the close current are so damned close to each other. Stupidest design I've ever see. A complete and utter fail for usability.
How dare they use an open source project (Wayland) that Fedora is likely going to use too.
But what's worse is that they made a replacement for sysvinit that others are using. Actually creating a project that becomes upstream to other distros is the epitome of bad.
Maemo is using both, Palm used Upstart, Fedora may use both, but is switching to a newer sysvinit replacement (evil). OpenSUSE is offering Upstart too.
If a chosen replacement for sysvinit (upstart) was lacking (thus systemd) I would think that upstart was a worthy project.
Wayland is hardly Conical's fault (coming from a Red Hat employee), the article is stupid and flamebait, as the premise is false IMO.
Unity on the other-hand is just stupid, and blech, but certainly started on a valid place.
I am curious what they felt was lacking with GNOME2 + Compiz + Wayland, as that would on the face of it be a good way to skip GNOME3 (which from what I can tell is OK, but about KDE 4.0 or 4.1 in quality (I felt 4.3 was the first KDE to feel usable with more than 10 minutes of use, and 4.5 the first to be usable).
What I like about GNOME3 is it appears to be moving towards Desktop Wall + Expose for task switching, I find this is very scalable vs a taskbar, though I am torn between picking it strait out over the Windows 7 taskbar.
I agree.
But there is more money in it for them to work on their documents products. I imagine with full-on HTML 5 they could make it happen pretty well (I know gmail worked well in offline or flaky connection mode, and I don't see why they can't make the documents more interface rich than they are).
Investing in Libre Office allows some migration to Linux, which may or may not be profitable for them (depends how many people use google even with bing being default vs how much they pay in royalties to Linux distros).
Investing in wine is very similar, allows more Linux, but it may cost them money as they pay more royalties (and has the risk you mention).
Having a Chromebook I predict it is dead in the water, it's nice, but not necessarily nicer than an Android tablet would be. It really needs some type of local storage. I really hope they get around to rebuilding the offline mail for gmail (had to disable it when allowing multiple signons). The ability to save shots from the camera, and upload from the included SD slot would be good. And they really need to get skype going on it somehow.
Android would just be a lot more useful.
Fighting MS for spite is not google's style, they want ad revenue, and will focus on that.
But neither of them are that helpful to Google.
Mucking around with Office was a huge waste for Sun. Google is doing similar, but with a real chance at gaining from it (their docs). Perhaps if they could get truly seamless integration with the desktop app, and their cloud, it could be a win. But, I would think it's unlikely OSS is going to want to do that.
Wine could actually be something for them, as at least for now, Linux tends to default towards google searches (usually through the distro). Still, the money gained by people getting Google default - the money paid to the distro could be less than losing some to MS, but what they get comes fully to them.
I will say, it was the sponsorship money paid to Firefox that spawned Chrome more than anything else. Google was paying Mozilla lots of money every year (Mozilla gets 100 Million in search royalties). I don't know what Chrome costs, but it appears pretty reasonable they the reduced search royalty could fund the developement. At least for a while Chrome was primarily eating Firefox's market.
With an improved Wine, unless they make a real solid distro too, there won't be the reduced royalty that come with Chrome.
It's somewhat more of just a ploy:
http://alchemistar.blogspot.com/2010/12/htc-vision-g2-custom-rom-list.html
Not just any browser, but in almost any program.
F11
Aren't they allegedly running afoul of virtual machine patents too?
A system built on python could have similar issues.
It is indeed. I call fail on my part :)
you should clarify that you mean half way on a logarithmic scale. .5*10^80 would be half-way.
I don't know.
I suspect there are not many blu ray players that are using component.
The early adapters most likely have replaced their non HDMI TV's, and the late adapters all got TVs that come with it.
For how long?
How long did they try to work withing the system before forking off?
I will say, I support Libre Office, and I don't think Oracle is the place for them to be.
But to say "tired of the overbearing hand of Oracle preventing them from progressing". I think it was more accurate to say they didn't trust Oracle, and want to be completely independent.
At least in my region being tired of something implies long term dealing with it.
To be saying things like "tired of the overbearing hand of Oracle preventing them from progressing"
I support the fork, and think it's good they did it when momentum was on their side, but to act like they were prevented from progression by oracle is silly. It was seeing the writing on the wall at best (and very likely) and fear at worse.
I agree with you.
People getting software patents should publish their source code, and not get copyright on it. After 15 years it's public domain. A very good point.