That is not the case and is simple as the difference between hiring a person out of school and one with 10 years experience. The both know C++ so the results will be the same, correct?
Well, studies have shown that experience is worth jack and shit when it comes to programming - you're far better off hiring a smart person with no experience at all, rather than an average person with 20 years of experience.
Oh come on, the so called "tragedy of the commons" is a crock of shit.
Library books are free for all to borrow, but people don't all go there and borrow as many as they can just because it's open to anyone for free.
Water from a public drinking fountain is free, but nobody sits there all day filling up bottles of water just because it's free.
Besides, the "tragedy of the commons" is usually used as an example of why government control of something is bad. Yet in this case the connection is owned by a private company, and you're still crying about the "tragedy of the commons"?
If it wasn't for the shared backbone you wouldn't have an internet connection at all. I find nothing tragic about having this sort of "commons", it's an enabling device for crying out loud!
If Microsoft did something like this, everyone here would be screaming blue murder. Yet when Apple drops support for platforms other than their own, it's ok?
Or maybe they were just enthusiastic about their computer in a way you weren't about yours. Sometimes the truth is right in front of you and not a paranoid conspiricy about people's secret thoughts
He is using occam's razor - the simplest explaination is a small minority of people are making a lot of noise because they're compensating, or jealous, or feel the need to reassure themselves, or whatever.
The complicated explaination is that all these zealous Mac users are somehow singuarly brilliant enough to see something that each and every one of the unwashed masses of PC users don't.
Now that would be stretching credibility.
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The record companies, media compies and publishing houses (which are often all the same company) view it like this, as far as I can tell:
Copying a CD is like conterfeiting money - the mere existence of another CD ($20 note) out there devalues the worth of the existing ones.
The amount of truth in this statement is pure conjecture at this point, because there hasn't been a widespread scientific study to prove or disprove it. Lots of anecdotal evidence for both sides, but no real proof.
Re:Of course there's the most obvious way to benef
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I tend to call this the DOOM model, since id used it for Wolfenstein/DOOM/Quake 1. Give away the first episode free, charge for the complete game (or in book terms series).
Id is a company with annual revenues of over 1 million dollars per employee, so they must be doing something right.;)
Steven King managed to keep up his 75% percent requirement for a number of chapters... around 5 or 6 as I recall. So it was hardly a matter of "very few" people paying for the book.
Secondly, since STeven King never released the book in paper form (as far as I'm aware), we can't compare it to his other books and see if the sales were higher or lower.
It's an invalid comparison anyway, because he put it up for free to bolster sales of the book, where as Steven King was trying to sell the online version.
Personally I think the online version of Steven King's book failed because people prefer their books on paper... and in general prefer to get physical things for their money. I know I do!
As far as the MP3 argument go, Britney doesn't suit my taste, but I have bought many albums of major label well known artists after I downloaded some MP3s off napster. I mean I bought the best of the Eurythmics (can't get a much bigger group than that!) even though I had most of the songs on MP3. If I hadn't downloaded them, I wouldn't have realised what a great group they really were.
Before anyone says that it's not a new release, I counter it with the fact that selling old releases is better for the record companies. The album is already made, and it's costing them little to nothing to produce extra copies. Additionally, best of albums generally mean that the record companies keep ALL of the profits and don't have to give ANY to the artists, so it's in their interests to sell them.
I found it interesting that it was said that internet radio and napster are different cases. I think that given the stand being taken is that the DMCA should only be concerned with perfect digital copies, and that mp3s are not perfect digital copies, it becomes a bit hard to seperate the two.
I mean, either it's perfect or it's not - how close various lossy audio formats come to perfect is a matter of much debate and so I find it hard to see how you could impose any sort of distinction other than perfect or not perfect.
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So monitoring another adult is violating their civil rights, but spying on children is perfectly fine?
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
I find the way children are treated like an inferior class of beings until they turn a certain age is far more of a threat than any internet pedophile.
And there's no reason why NETSCAPE couldn't have implemented their browser to comply with all the COM interfaces microsoft use and have it become the one used when installed on a windows system. Absolutely no technical restriction what so ever.
Just because netscape were too stupid to do it doesn't mean that it's microsoft's fault.
Re:Why I won't be developing with .NET: $$$
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You can get the.NET platform SDK which AFAIK does have the basic libraries and compiler (not sure if it's an optimising compiler or not).
Sure you don't get all the VS.NET goodness (which is SUPERB btw), but you can get some level of tools for free.
In 1998 it was originally planned for Netscape 5 was to be based on MozillaClassic, with Netscape 6 be based on the Gecko rendering engine. But MozillaClassic was scrapped in favor of a code rewrite late that year, and Gecko has been the heart of the Mozilla browser ever since. So when MozillaClassic was scrapped, the "Netscape 5" moniker was scrapped with it.
Ever hear of someone choosing to switch to windows ?
*raises hand*
Windows 2000 simply offers too many advantages over linux for me, it would have been insanity not to switch to it over linux when it was released.
The OS integration means that people are not inclined to use additional resources starting up a browser when they esentially have IE loaded from start-up
IE isn't "loaded from start up". IE the browser is a series of ActiveX components that are loaded and unloaded as required. It's just that Microsoft unlike some people *cough*Netscape*cought* know how to make a browser that doesn't take a minute to load...
You need a sane system with preferential voting, like that used in many other more democratic countries...;)
That is, I might vote like this:
Nader 1
Gore 2
Bush 3
What happens is the number 1 votes are distributed. Then the person with the least votes is eliminated (in this case likely Nader) and their votes distributed along to the next preference (ie Gore). Then the next lowest vote count is eliminated, until someone has > 50% of the vote. That way you can vote for someone you know is not going to win and still know that your vote will count for the person you choose.
Although, proportional representation is also needed, in my opinion. If Nader gets 4% of the vote, and Gore and Bush get 48% each in a 25 electoral vote state, Nader should surely get an electoral seat, and the other two take 12 each...
The whole American system seems astonishingly unfair to an outsider like myself.:)
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Well, studies have shown that experience is worth jack and shit when it comes to programming - you're far better off hiring a smart person with no experience at all, rather than an average person with 20 years of experience.
I wasn't aware they did.
Oh come on, the so called "tragedy of the commons" is a crock of shit.
Library books are free for all to borrow, but people don't all go there and borrow as many as they can just because it's open to anyone for free.
Water from a public drinking fountain is free, but nobody sits there all day filling up bottles of water just because it's free.
Besides, the "tragedy of the commons" is usually used as an example of why government control of something is bad. Yet in this case the connection is owned by a private company, and you're still crying about the "tragedy of the commons"?
If it wasn't for the shared backbone you wouldn't have an internet connection at all. I find nothing tragic about having this sort of "commons", it's an enabling device for crying out loud!
If Microsoft did something like this, everyone here would be screaming blue murder. Yet when Apple drops support for platforms other than their own, it's ok?
Simple. Just use the BSD license instead of the GPL. It's so short and to the point that anybody could understand it.
Except that Half Life uses OpenGL not DirectX ...
;)
But not self respecting slashbot would let facts get in the way of a Microsoft bash, I'm sure.
He is using occam's razor - the simplest explaination is a small minority of people are making a lot of noise because they're compensating, or jealous, or feel the need to reassure themselves, or whatever.
The complicated explaination is that all these zealous Mac users are somehow singuarly brilliant enough to see something that each and every one of the unwashed masses of PC users don't.
Now that would be stretching credibility.
The record companies, media compies and publishing houses (which are often all the same company) view it like this, as far as I can tell:
Copying a CD is like conterfeiting money - the mere existence of another CD ($20 note) out there devalues the worth of the existing ones.
The amount of truth in this statement is pure conjecture at this point, because there hasn't been a widespread scientific study to prove or disprove it. Lots of anecdotal evidence for both sides, but no real proof.
I tend to call this the DOOM model, since id used it for Wolfenstein/DOOM/Quake 1. Give away the first episode free, charge for the complete game (or in book terms series).
;)
Id is a company with annual revenues of over 1 million dollars per employee, so they must be doing something right.
Steven King managed to keep up his 75% percent requirement for a number of chapters ... around 5 or 6 as I recall. So it was hardly a matter of "very few" people paying for the book.
... and in general prefer to get physical things for their money. I know I do!
Secondly, since STeven King never released the book in paper form (as far as I'm aware), we can't compare it to his other books and see if the sales were higher or lower.
It's an invalid comparison anyway, because he put it up for free to bolster sales of the book, where as Steven King was trying to sell the online version.
Personally I think the online version of Steven King's book failed because people prefer their books on paper
As far as the MP3 argument go, Britney doesn't suit my taste, but I have bought many albums of major label well known artists after I downloaded some MP3s off napster. I mean I bought the best of the Eurythmics (can't get a much bigger group than that!) even though I had most of the songs on MP3. If I hadn't downloaded them, I wouldn't have realised what a great group they really were.
Before anyone says that it's not a new release, I counter it with the fact that selling old releases is better for the record companies. The album is already made, and it's costing them little to nothing to produce extra copies. Additionally, best of albums generally mean that the record companies keep ALL of the profits and don't have to give ANY to the artists, so it's in their interests to sell them.
This is no different than if you'd read the Microsoft source code. You wouldn't be able to do a GPL implementation of it then either.
This is really nothing new, just a different implementation of it.
If you don't like it, clean room reverse engineer it instead of using the documentation, or release your code under a "non-viral" license (eg BSD).
I found it interesting that it was said that internet radio and napster are different cases. I think that given the stand being taken is that the DMCA should only be concerned with perfect digital copies, and that mp3s are not perfect digital copies, it becomes a bit hard to seperate the two.
I mean, either it's perfect or it's not - how close various lossy audio formats come to perfect is a matter of much debate and so I find it hard to see how you could impose any sort of distinction other than perfect or not perfect.
So monitoring another adult is violating their civil rights, but spying on children is perfectly fine?
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
I find the way children are treated like an inferior class of beings until they turn a certain age is far more of a threat than any internet pedophile.
I question exactly who is feeding on paranoia.
And there's no reason why NETSCAPE couldn't have implemented their browser to comply with all the COM interfaces microsoft use and have it become the one used when installed on a windows system. Absolutely no technical restriction what so ever.
Just because netscape were too stupid to do it doesn't mean that it's microsoft's fault.
You can get the .NET platform SDK which AFAIK does have the basic libraries and compiler (not sure if it's an optimising compiler or not).
Sure you don't get all the VS.NET goodness (which is SUPERB btw), but you can get some level of tools for free.
http://www.gerbilbox.com/newzilla/netscape6/genera l01.php
As it states right on mozilla's own FAQ:
Ever hear of someone choosing to switch to windows ? *raises hand* Windows 2000 simply offers too many advantages over linux for me, it would have been insanity not to switch to it over linux when it was released.
The OS integration means that people are not inclined to use additional resources starting up a browser when they esentially have IE loaded from start-up IE isn't "loaded from start up". IE the browser is a series of ActiveX components that are loaded and unloaded as required. It's just that Microsoft unlike some people *cough*Netscape*cought* know how to make a browser that doesn't take a minute to load ...
You need a sane system with preferential voting, like that used in many other more democratic countries ... ;)
That is, I might vote like this:
Nader 1
Gore 2
Bush 3
What happens is the number 1 votes are distributed. Then the person with the least votes is eliminated (in this case likely Nader) and their votes distributed along to the next preference (ie Gore). Then the next lowest vote count is eliminated, until someone has > 50% of the vote. That way you can vote for someone you know is not going to win and still know that your vote will count for the person you choose.
Although, proportional representation is also needed, in my opinion. If Nader gets 4% of the vote, and Gore and Bush get 48% each in a 25 electoral vote state, Nader should surely get an electoral seat, and the other two take 12 each ...
The whole American system seems astonishingly unfair to an outsider like myself. :)