No, they don't have to. If you sell a binary, the GPL requires only that you supply the source to that buyer. It doesn't require you to give anything away at all, free or otherwise.
I do have a problem with continuing to pay them after they've died. I will never understand how the aristocracy managed to get the plebes to buy into the idea of leaving one's heirs a "legacy". It's really simple. Let's say you and your bandmates record a CD. Whether it's good or crap, the income profile will be the same: a wad over the first year or three, followed by a trick for the rest of the copyright term. Now, you can't live off a trickle, much less for 100 years. Wouldn't it be nice if you could collect all that future money right now, all at once? At the very least, it would keep you afloat til the next CD comes out.
You may not be able to live 100 years, but a corporation can. So you create a corp, have it estimate the future value of your CD, and give that to you in a lump. You can use the money now, and the corp takes care of recovering it over the subsequent 100 years.
Under this scheme, copyrights of any length will benefit the artist.
I just got Virgin, they don't have that plan any more. Your options are:
$0 per month + 18 cents per minute $7 per month + 10 cents per minute Regular monthly plans
The zero dollar plan is cheaper under 90 minutes per month, above which the $7 plan is usually best. The regular monthly plans work out to about 10 cents per minute, but overages are WAY MORE than 10 cents per minute.
As a bonus, if you can choke down a few ads a day, you can get free minutes.
I like the "Slice"; my mom likes the built-in flashlight on the K10. Both are very cheap.
The big disadvantage is grossly overpriced wallpaper and ringtones, and you can't create your own.
Wow, those previous answers were great, I'm not sure I can beat them. But here's my add anyway:
Don't think about "this job" or "this city", think about your life: where do you want to be in 10 years? If you don't know, what about 5 years? If you still don't know, just figure out what you want *next* year. Then determine which of the options before you will get you one step closer to that plan.
Sometimes the job itself, though sucky, will get you closer. Sometimes the job is useless, but the *money* gets you closer.
As for the relocation thing, you might see if your company has an ombudsman to help you iron that out.
Reminds me of that other book
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Ironically, "Groovy Inaction" is the canonical book on accomplishing nothing at all.
Not really; I had one sentence after I said I couldn't comment and it was prefaced with a hypothesis on your possible motives. Do you see something wrong with that? If you have no comment, then why would you post anything at all? Do you need to remind people you have nothing to say? I mean, that's been obvious from the beginning.
And you think you've changed anyone's mind by being rude? OK, I'll be nice and show you how this works:
One does not be rude, or offensive (or in Slashdot's case, inaccurate) to change minds; one does these things to get attention. Once people are paying attention you can then make whatever point you want. Yes, it's cheap, and it annoys people (pretty much by definition), but when done correctly, it works. Now if only I knew how to do it correctly..
Good point, I should have said you're pissing me off, cut it out.
This argument keeps getting posted here, and it's FALSE. The HD adds nothing to the 360 that wasn't already there - There's nothing a game can do with the HD that it CAN'T do without!
You can make the game load faster (after the first load) with the HD, but there's no reason for the game itself to be any different.
If the decoder can't run in real-time, then you don't *want* it in memory with the game. Load the decoder, decode the art, remove the decoder, load the game.
Dumbest argument ever. It's trivial to code the game to load files from whichever source is available. If the file's on the hard drive, load it from there. If not, load it from DVD. The game will run much slower on driveless systems, but that's the price the PLAYER pays for going cheap.
The hard drive adds NO capability to the Xbox, only speed. Games do not need the hard drive, they will run exactly the same either way, only with longer load times.
The question is can you justify spending $500/$600 for 1 good game?
Yes, easily. Cuz when I'm done playing that game, I'll buy one more game, and play that. Then I'll buy one more game after that. And then another game. And then I'll get a mod chip, and pirate everything else.
Not true. Competition breeds efficiency. Transparency breeds fear -- Even if reformed, government is still a political environment, and everything you do will be spun, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad.
Oh, and I believe all schools should be privatized.
Why does Slashdot even HAVE a jobs page? I'm in the middle of a job search now, and it's very hard just to FIND openings because of morons like these who stick their ads in a small corner of their own site. If you want good applicants, you must advertise where people can find you!
To start with, you must advertise in your local paper. Then you must advertise on all of the major job boards that cover your area - Dice, Monster, Craig's, and every other site with more than a few ads from your area.
This really drove me up the wall during my current search - the newspaper contained nothing at all for me, Dice and Monster had a few listings, but some of the larger companies only advertise on their own site. You have no right to complain about applicant quality if you refuse to get the word out!
(Sigh, noone's gonna read my post way down here, but whatever.)
As corrupt as our laws seem to be getting, the constition is still more powerful. All of our "problems" (however defined) can be solved with new amendments. Intellectual property in particular needs an amendment. And maybe we need one more that restates the bill of rights in 21st-century terms so the courts stop misinterpreting it.
I'd rather create new amendments than leave the country. I'm even tempted to run for office, but y'know, I'm a lazy nerd on Slashdot.
You said you have the expertise, didn't you? Surely that's what you meant?
For the short term, throw together a couple DVD changers and a linux-based controller. (At least two changers so the 'next' program is ready to roll the instant the 'last' one finishes.)
That'll give you time to look into file-based playback options (Mplayer, VLC, dedicated MPEG2 card). Tivo/Media Center/MythTV might actually be useful here; they manage a library of programs for you plus have a playback engine; you just need a plugin that schedules continuous playback.
When you're done, post it to Sourceforge, you'll be a hero!
Uh, what word did you just censor? "Poll"? That's not a dirty word. It wasn't "pole", since that's not much of a joke here. It certainly wasn't "piss"; that makes no sense at all. I suppose "pot-shot" makes sense, but it's not four letters.
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No, they don't have to. If you sell a binary, the GPL requires only that you supply the source to that buyer. It doesn't require you to give anything away at all, free or otherwise.
Now compute the cost of the time wasted modding you up, despite the fact you didn't provide any links either. Ok hot stuff, here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
I don't see any one-sentence summary, but Amazon seems to explain it pretty well. And yes, you can run Windows on it.
You may not be able to live 100 years, but a corporation can. So you create a corp, have it estimate the future value of your CD, and give that to you in a lump. You can use the money now, and the corp takes care of recovering it over the subsequent 100 years.
Under this scheme, copyrights of any length will benefit the artist.
I just got Virgin, they don't have that plan any more. Your options are:
$0 per month + 18 cents per minute
$7 per month + 10 cents per minute
Regular monthly plans
The zero dollar plan is cheaper under 90 minutes per month, above which the $7 plan is usually best. The regular monthly plans work out to about 10 cents per minute, but overages are WAY MORE than 10 cents per minute.
As a bonus, if you can choke down a few ads a day, you can get free minutes.
I like the "Slice"; my mom likes the built-in flashlight on the K10. Both are very cheap.
The big disadvantage is grossly overpriced wallpaper and ringtones, and you can't create your own.
But the advantage is, you can have first post whenever you want!
Pretty much one per person. It's hard to roll a distro though, so we tend to share many of them.
There's only 12 versions being released here so it doesn't help much percentage-wise, but it's a step in the right direction.
Wow, those previous answers were great, I'm not sure I can beat them. But here's my add anyway:
Don't think about "this job" or "this city", think about your life: where do you want to be in 10 years? If you don't know, what about 5 years? If you still don't know, just figure out what you want *next* year. Then determine which of the options before you will get you one step closer to that plan.
Sometimes the job itself, though sucky, will get you closer. Sometimes the job is useless, but the *money* gets you closer.
As for the relocation thing, you might see if your company has an ombudsman to help you iron that out.
Ironically, "Groovy Inaction" is the canonical book on accomplishing nothing at all.
One does not be rude, or offensive (or in Slashdot's case, inaccurate) to change minds; one does these things to get attention. Once people are paying attention you can then make whatever point you want. Yes, it's cheap, and it annoys people (pretty much by definition), but when done correctly, it works. Now if only I knew how to do it correctly
Good point, I should have said you're pissing me off, cut it out.
This argument keeps getting posted here, and it's FALSE. The HD adds nothing to the 360 that wasn't already there - There's nothing a game can do with the HD that it CAN'T do without!
You can make the game load faster (after the first load) with the HD, but there's no reason for the game itself to be any different.
If the decoder can't run in real-time, then you don't *want* it in memory with the game. Load the decoder, decode the art, remove the decoder, load the game.
It's still just a speed problem.
Dumbest argument ever. It's trivial to code the game to load files from whichever source is available. If the file's on the hard drive, load it from there. If not, load it from DVD. The game will run much slower on driveless systems, but that's the price the PLAYER pays for going cheap.
The hard drive adds NO capability to the Xbox, only speed. Games do not need the hard drive, they will run exactly the same either way, only with longer load times.
Maybe it's about time to look into an emulator. Power savings would probably pay you back in a couple weeks.
Buy 'em for 250$, sell 'em for 50lb, you won't be able to keep them in stock!
It's already here. Turns out, it's another iPod.
Yes, easily. Cuz when I'm done playing that game, I'll buy one more game, and play that. Then I'll buy one more game after that. And then another game. And then I'll get a mod chip, and pirate everything else.
The site referenced in the vid has pictures of the motherboard.
Not true. Competition breeds efficiency. Transparency breeds fear -- Even if reformed, government is still a political environment, and everything you do will be spun, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad.
Oh, and I believe all schools should be privatized.
Why does Slashdot even HAVE a jobs page? I'm in the middle of a job search now, and it's very hard just to FIND openings because of morons like these who stick their ads in a small corner of their own site. If you want good applicants, you must advertise where people can find you!
To start with, you must advertise in your local paper. Then you must advertise on all of the major job boards that cover your area - Dice, Monster, Craig's, and every other site with more than a few ads from your area.
This really drove me up the wall during my current search - the newspaper contained nothing at all for me, Dice and Monster had a few listings, but some of the larger companies only advertise on their own site. You have no right to complain about applicant quality if you refuse to get the word out!
(Sigh, noone's gonna read my post way down here, but whatever.)
As corrupt as our laws seem to be getting, the constition is still more powerful. All of our "problems" (however defined) can be solved with new amendments. Intellectual property in particular needs an amendment. And maybe we need one more that restates the bill of rights in 21st-century terms so the courts stop misinterpreting it.
I'd rather create new amendments than leave the country. I'm even tempted to run for office, but y'know, I'm a lazy nerd on Slashdot.
You said you have the expertise, didn't you? Surely that's what you meant?
For the short term, throw together a couple DVD changers and a linux-based controller. (At least two changers so the 'next' program is ready to roll the instant the 'last' one finishes.)
That'll give you time to look into file-based playback options (Mplayer, VLC, dedicated MPEG2 card). Tivo/Media Center/MythTV might actually be useful here; they manage a library of programs for you plus have a playback engine; you just need a plugin that schedules continuous playback.
When you're done, post it to Sourceforge, you'll be a hero!
Yup, I'm a yank. Though I still don't understand why people censor on Slashdot. Got 3-year-old techies at your house?
Anyroad, for the other septics trying to twig: gloss-a-ry
-B
Uh, what word did you just censor? "Poll"? That's not a dirty word. It wasn't "pole", since that's not much of a joke here. It certainly wasn't "piss"; that makes no sense at all. I suppose "pot-shot" makes sense, but it's not four letters.
-B
For those still reading, much of this was discussed further down the page. Read on!