Look, GPL3 does not force ``our" morality (in whatever sense of ``our" is relevant) here on anyone; nobody is compelled to use the license OR to use software released under such a license.
Hehe, that's correct. You're free to use the license or not. You can just as well release your work as public domain if you wish. Or protect it with a super restrictive Microsoft-style license where you're barely allowed to even run the software.
But what's being discussed, and why you see all "forcing morale on others stuff" is that you indeed do this if you decide to use GPLv3, which is what the article is basically about; the why's of why Linus don't really like it. And the reason is a lot about forcing morale on others.
Feel free to stray from the topic at hand (implications of GPLv3 and thoughts about it) but be aware you may go off-topic..
If it's "easy to play", and people can easier become Jedi's, and play/meet up with iconic characters, and it's more fast paced, won't SOE risk exchanging a player base of dedicated players with long term goals with unreliable (as for income stream) short-term players looking at the game as an action shooter they're done with after a month or so? I thought the point with MMORPG's was to set up several long term goals and lots of stuff to do, with lots of professions to pick from, lots of quests, lots of opportunities for social interactions, and basically make people grow into the world and make it their home on the Internet. Sounds evil, but I think that's what most MMORPG's strive for, although it doesn't sound like this one does anymore...
Is Sony missing that the equation is money * time = revenue?
Could Sony now see effects of a shortly increased popularity, but be worse off than ever in just a year?
Some companies manage to pull this off quite well, such as Blizzard with Diablo II, but that one's fee-free, as well as an FPS action game like Counterstrike. I think SOE will have quite a large burden to carry to make people want to pay monthly for some action with a reduced depth, professions, and less varying goals to aspire to.
<xterm> The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Heh, especially scenario 2 was funny (besides the super sci-fi scenario of 2105)
Scenario 2 (Circa 2015): Google is the Internet Free wi-fi, a faster version of the Web, the Gbrowser, and the cube transform the technology landscape and our language.
Yes yes, because Google is working to offer free wi-fi now, and I just heard they're purchasing fiber so it must be a new Internet, and, and, there was this Gbrowser rumor so they're actually working on that, and that cube... yes, it all makes sense now!:-p Because all rumors usually come true!!1
It's two online services to help in finding music by suggesting music similar to what you've told it you listen to yourself, either via a media player plugin and simply playing the music, or telling it manually by submitting that information. The music is selected and played for free for you via an "intelligent" radio service, with the virtual "radio channel" personalized for you, rather than by a DJ, and some people see this as the future for online radio, or even music radio in general.
They have vast music libraries the algorithms suggest music from. There's some complexity in the algorithms to determine the music, and many have actually been happy with the results as the services have helped them find new music in their taste.
After a number of songs have been played, Last.fm also finds users that have played similar music to you to automatically create communities with similar interests who can then share music with each other, and IIRC you can also join such a community manually if you wish.
... and that record company (easy enough to find out which from the music that's played) would gain a ton of negative publicity in the process for ruining the point with the service.:-)
I'm sure these newspapers can contact Google News and have their news source removed. Actually, I thought they first had to make an arrangement with Google to even be listed, but I guess I was wrong. I can't believe Google forcefully index those though, but rather make them a service, much like keeping them in their web search index.
If not even this works, there's always robots.txt as well.
But you have to wonder what the point would be. They'll be discovered by less people after all, which is kinda the point with Google News in the first place. To find news.
Um.. Look at the page in IE and then tell me it's just the GIF image here that's causing the problem again. The GIF isn't the source of the problem, it's that the background color and more is all messed up.
It would've helped knowing what language choices you have.
It sounds like you don't want to have your application require large libraries?
For a low level serial port reader app with a slick GUI designer on strictly Windows, Visual C++ Express seems to be one way to go. It's free as in beer and supports native Windows application as well as.NET application development (in that case via Managed C++, but then you need the ~20 MB or so.NET Framework runtime included with your apps, and I guess you don't want that).
One thing I can unfortunately not check now is whether it comes with the C++ GUI designer (which you'd probably be most interested in), as the screenshot only happened to show the.NET designer, and native C++ use a different one. I'm not sure if that one is included in the Express edition or not.
For a fraction of what you can do on the Internet, yes. Stop oversimplifying. Even I as a regular user have run into the problems with two NAT'ed people trying to communicate with each other.
Yes, but you do realize what e.g. common multicast support would give to end users in the form of entertainment etc, as well as the improved mobility support? This is far from a geek matter, really. If it was, it would hardly even be on the table.
Also, one need to keep in mind IPv6 does a whole lot more than increase the address range for more space and removes the NAT need. It's about end-to-end IPsec support, modularized packets for less traffic across the routers, better support for ad hoc networking, and much more.
Slashdot Mirror
So you basically mean that an avian carrier brought the necessary IP datagrams to the Slashdot web server?
...
The obvious question is then, was it a european rock dove, or a
Err, I mean, did it use the experimental QoS extension as well?
Look, GPL3 does not force ``our" morality (in whatever sense of ``our" is relevant) here on anyone; nobody is compelled to use the license OR to use software released under such a license.
Hehe, that's correct. You're free to use the license or not. You can just as well release your work as public domain if you wish. Or protect it with a super restrictive Microsoft-style license where you're barely allowed to even run the software.
But what's being discussed, and why you see all "forcing morale on others stuff" is that you indeed do this if you decide to use GPLv3, which is what the article is basically about; the why's of why Linus don't really like it. And the reason is a lot about forcing morale on others.
Feel free to stray from the topic at hand (implications of GPLv3 and thoughts about it) but be aware you may go off-topic..
If it's "easy to play", and people can easier become Jedi's, and play/meet up with iconic characters, and it's more fast paced, won't SOE risk exchanging a player base of dedicated players with long term goals with unreliable (as for income stream) short-term players looking at the game as an action shooter they're done with after a month or so? I thought the point with MMORPG's was to set up several long term goals and lots of stuff to do, with lots of professions to pick from, lots of quests, lots of opportunities for social interactions, and basically make people grow into the world and make it their home on the Internet. Sounds evil, but I think that's what most MMORPG's strive for, although it doesn't sound like this one does anymore...
Is Sony missing that the equation is money * time = revenue?
Could Sony now see effects of a shortly increased popularity, but be worse off than ever in just a year?
Some companies manage to pull this off quite well, such as Blizzard with Diablo II, but that one's fee-free, as well as an FPS action game like Counterstrike. I think SOE will have quite a large burden to carry to make people want to pay monthly for some action with a reduced depth, professions, and less varying goals to aspire to.
I for one... am not entirely sure I welcome our new sound/vibration emitting anal probe developing overlords. :-/
Why's that? It barely even have any adopters. It's among the languages I *don't* see a big future for.
Heh, especially scenario 2 was funny (besides the super sci-fi scenario of 2105)
:-p Because all rumors usually come true!!1
Scenario 2 (Circa 2015): Google is the Internet
Free wi-fi, a faster version of the Web, the Gbrowser, and the cube transform the technology landscape and our language.
Yes yes, because Google is working to offer free wi-fi now, and I just heard they're purchasing fiber so it must be a new Internet, and, and, there was this Gbrowser rumor so they're actually working on that, and that cube... yes, it all makes sense now!
Why don't they just give up, and distribute Firefox, SeaMonkey or some Gecko based wonder, instead of IE?
For one thing, it would break a ton of both MS and third party apps developed to make use of the IE renderer.
share music with each other
Sorry, I mean "share music *opinions* with each other", as in discuss music with likeminded people. Not share music files or anything.
It's two online services to help in finding music by suggesting music similar to what you've told it you listen to yourself, either via a media player plugin and simply playing the music, or telling it manually by submitting that information. The music is selected and played for free for you via an "intelligent" radio service, with the virtual "radio channel" personalized for you, rather than by a DJ, and some people see this as the future for online radio, or even music radio in general.
They have vast music libraries the algorithms suggest music from. There's some complexity in the algorithms to determine the music, and many have actually been happy with the results as the services have helped them find new music in their taste.
After a number of songs have been played, Last.fm also finds users that have played similar music to you to automatically create communities with similar interests who can then share music with each other, and IIRC you can also join such a community manually if you wish.
... and that record company (easy enough to find out which from the music that's played) would gain a ton of negative publicity in the process for ruining the point with the service. :-)
I'm sure these newspapers can contact Google News and have their news source removed. Actually, I thought they first had to make an arrangement with Google to even be listed, but I guess I was wrong. I can't believe Google forcefully index those though, but rather make them a service, much like keeping them in their web search index.
If not even this works, there's always robots.txt as well.
But you have to wonder what the point would be. They'll be discovered by less people after all, which is kinda the point with Google News in the first place. To find news.
Um.. Look at the page in IE and then tell me it's just the GIF image here that's causing the problem again. The GIF isn't the source of the problem, it's that the background color and more is all messed up.
Microsoft has said before their aim isn't to complete it, so I guess they fail it more or less horribly.
It looks like Microsoft is trying hard to tell they make the web work for me...
Their struggle is to get a heading on an otherwise mostly empty web page show correctly.
They fail it.
Seriously, if they can't even make a title graphic look right, just fire your webmasters.
My brother knew how to do it cross-platform, when he was 13, a multi-billion dollar company don't?
Not sure whether VB .Net 2005 has a serial component; probably not ...
:-)
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s .serialport.aspx
It actually has.
Here's some instructions on usage; unsure of how outdated since it's for beta 2:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/SerialCommunica
Here's the official documentation of the System.IO.Ports.SerialPort class:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/system.io.port
All the Express editions only target .NET.
.NET. You can make pure Win32 apps with it.
No, VC++ Express 2005 target both native and
VB is a poor way to go if he doesn't want to distribute large runtimes. Think a big .NET Framework as for VB.NET.
In that case I recommend Visual C++ instead.
It would've helped knowing what language choices you have.
.NET application development (in that case via Managed C++, but then you need the ~20 MB or so .NET Framework runtime included with your apps, and I guess you don't want that).
.NET designer, and native C++ use a different one. I'm not sure if that one is included in the Express edition or not.
It sounds like you don't want to have your application require large libraries?
For a low level serial port reader app with a slick GUI designer on strictly Windows, Visual C++ Express seems to be one way to go. It's free as in beer and supports native Windows application as well as
One thing I can unfortunately not check now is whether it comes with the C++ GUI designer (which you'd probably be most interested in), as the screenshot only happened to show the
IPv6 is not needed, NAT works.
For a fraction of what you can do on the Internet, yes. Stop oversimplifying.
Even I as a regular user have run into the problems with two NAT'ed people trying to communicate with each other.
Yes, but you do realize what e.g. common multicast support would give to end users in the form of entertainment etc, as well as the improved mobility support? This is far from a geek matter, really. If it was, it would hardly even be on the table.
Also, one need to keep in mind IPv6 does a whole lot more than increase the address range for more space and removes the NAT need. It's about end-to-end IPsec support, modularized packets for less traffic across the routers, better support for ad hoc networking, and much more.
Heh, even worse, this article is current! :o
And this is why Google Video is still the champion.
Baywatch, or at least as good as it gets for free, I suppose.
Or because imageshack is a free host for pr0n ;-)