Now I would say Franklin's thoughts were correct for his day, some industries today are different (the article points out pharmaceuticals as a good example) and in those industries it is genuinely in the public interest to have patents - but they are the minority of industries.
Is it really though? Considering how the pharmaceutical industry is already quite good at misusing patents. I'd rather see them lose patent protection completely and come up with a more effective way of funding drugs research.
You've got it upside down, the recipient of the proprietary fork has been deprived of the ability to change the code and/or redistribute. It's not the original coder that's been deprived of anything, it's the recipients of the closed version that have lost out.
The pretty much is the model in the UK, new games come out at £40-50, most apart from the biggest titles move quickly down to £30. Quite a few people wait until middle tier games drop to £20 a few months after release before buying them. Over time they drop down towards £10 and even as low as £6.
Even that varies some games release at £30 and others are down to £10 / £20 a few weeks after release. It really depends on how well the game has done.
So I guess the real question: why doesn't that happen in the US?
Me either, I've bought a few humble bundle titles but for the most part I've given up on PC gaming completely as I'm not interested in running multiple operating systems on my PC. I did my bit for PC gaming back in the DOS era, have bought a few boxed Linux titles that interest me since then (from Tux Games and LGP apart from a few exceptions), but these days get my gaming fix elsewhere.
I still buy a lot of games, just very few of them are on PC any more.
If it's worth buying I'll normally get it on blu ray now once it's cheap enough, £5-£10, and watch it on the PS3. If it's something I'm likely to watch once I'll just watch a low quality streamed version via iPlayer or Lovefilm. If it's a series I'll still buy the DVD boxset. So streaming has basically replaced my cheap DVD purchases, which quite frankly were just taking up space, and blu ray fills the films I want to keep niche.
1) You don't need to, but anyway, it's been a long time since I've seen boxed PC software in the wild. Online there's plenty of software you can buy for it. 2) Humble Bundle. But that said, I game on PC a lot less than I used to, the Windows only policy of a lot of PC game developers drove me to console gaming. 3) Which decade did you last use Linux? I don't think I've even got emacs installed. 4) Given the tone of your post, I'm not surprised, but in my experience that's inaccurate. 5) Gibberish.
I gave it a go recently when it was mentioned as a way to escape the search bubble and eliminating the bias of a search engine knowing too much about you. Was then surprised how on a search for ubuntu it quite prominently gave a link about how ubuntu was an imperfect alternative to windows. It took me back to "get the facts".
I'm not sure I'd trust opinion articles from LinuxInsider to be anything other than anti-linux trolling. Weren't they constantly talking up SCO during that whole debacle years ago?
Other operating systems have been doing that for much longer than Windows, when Windows Vista/7 started doing that it was just catching up with the status quo.
I'd try Gormenghast again, you may just have tried it two quickly after reading another dense work. If you're not flying through them after the first fifty pages you're doing it wrong:-) It is quite satirical, some of the characters deliberate caricatures, but the story and world he creates is a wonderful one. I'd quite happily read the trilogy again, and if it was a choice between that and LOTR then it would win easily.
Not sure about the other browsers, but Firefox at least implements its table support using CSS.
So the CSS properties are there to do it: "display: table", "display: table-row", etc. Which means you can get table-style presentation without polluting the mark-up with tables for layout. Table based layouts filled code with so much unnecessary garbage that distracted from the content, CSS keeps that out of the way and in a re-usable form.
I can remember when designers and artists hated CSS and preferred using Dreamweaver to chop up their photoshop images to create a layout so they could have it pixel perfect in every browser. CSS has always been very developer friendly: multiple css files imported as needed, ease of templating, id/class referencing etc.
And try looking at a table based layout in a graphical browser that doesn't support tables. Get off my lawn indeed:-)
What about all those contracts where the OEM had to pay Microsoft per machine shipped whether it ran Windows or not? That sounds a lot like a tax to me.
Compare linux server infections to Windows Server infections, and you have a viable comparison. Comparing Linux desktop viruses to WIndows would be a little more fair, but not really, since youre talking 0.1% of the market and there really isnt anyone who would want to spend time writing a virus for a heavily fragmented, highly technical userbase with a tiny percentage of the market.
Closer to 1.5% according to browser stats, not big in percentage terms but not so small as a absolute number in terms of the web user population. It's not just the writing of the virus, there are plenty of people angry enough about Linux to do that, but also the successful distribution and Linux makes that hard.
If you want a really stark illustration of the problem, ask any parent how many endangered species they would be willing to see go extinct if it would mean sparing the life of just one of their children. (and now multiple that by the number of parents in the world).
I'm not sure how the mapping between endangered species and child sacrifice works out? Is it a religious thing?
Actually, it's not. Science and faith can coexist quite nicely since they really consider two different questions - the how (science) and why (faith). One can be a good scientist regardless of one's views on faith. Some religions certainly are anti - science but that does not mean all are; as Haught's viewpoint illustrates.
Doesn't science cover how (observation) and why (theory)?
It's like the source coming with the software. You can enjoy the original work as it is, but you also have the freedom to adapt it, chop it up and change it into something else.
IE3 was the first bundled version, before bundling that version wasn't gaining quickly on anything. Netscape easily had the dominant share back then, and that's why MS grew concerned about Netscape's talk of creating cross-platform applications/services than run in a browser and make the OS irrelevant.
Historical evidence shows clearly expansions of humanity and ecosystems during warmer periods, even periods *much* warmer than today (for example, the Late Eocene with near tropical temperatures in Antarctica).
What was the size of the human population during that time? Anywhere near 7 billion?
The "rootkit-on-cd" thing just another broken DRM implementation designed to run on Windows. I'd like to be surprised at the naivety of those who boycott Sony over that while quite happily running Windows, but I can't say I am. People are quite happily voting with their feet in favour of DRM by buying Windows, a system designed to be friendly to DRM from the ground up, so aren't they pretty much getting what they've asked for?
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Now I would say Franklin's thoughts were correct for his day, some industries today are different (the article points out pharmaceuticals as a good example) and in those industries it is genuinely in the public interest to have patents - but they are the minority of industries.
Is it really though? Considering how the pharmaceutical industry is already quite good at misusing patents. I'd rather see them lose patent protection completely and come up with a more effective way of funding drugs research.
We could undo that. "How about a nice game of chess?"
You've got it upside down, the recipient of the proprietary fork has been deprived of the ability to change the code and/or redistribute. It's not the original coder that's been deprived of anything, it's the recipients of the closed version that have lost out.
The pretty much is the model in the UK, new games come out at £40-50, most apart from the biggest titles move quickly down to £30. Quite a few people wait until middle tier games drop to £20 a few months after release before buying them. Over time they drop down towards £10 and even as low as £6.
Even that varies some games release at £30 and others are down to £10 / £20 a few weeks after release. It really depends on how well the game has done.
So I guess the real question: why doesn't that happen in the US?
Me either, I've bought a few humble bundle titles but for the most part I've given up on PC gaming completely as I'm not interested in running multiple operating systems on my PC. I did my bit for PC gaming back in the DOS era, have bought a few boxed Linux titles that interest me since then (from Tux Games and LGP apart from a few exceptions), but these days get my gaming fix elsewhere.
I still buy a lot of games, just very few of them are on PC any more.
Where do the Humble Bundle stats fit in with your assertions?
If it's worth buying I'll normally get it on blu ray now once it's cheap enough, £5-£10, and watch it on the PS3. If it's something I'm likely to watch once I'll just watch a low quality streamed version via iPlayer or Lovefilm. If it's a series I'll still buy the DVD boxset. So streaming has basically replaced my cheap DVD purchases, which quite frankly were just taking up space, and blu ray fills the films I want to keep niche.
1) You don't need to, but anyway, it's been a long time since I've seen boxed PC software in the wild. Online there's plenty of software you can buy for it.
2) Humble Bundle. But that said, I game on PC a lot less than I used to, the Windows only policy of a lot of PC game developers drove me to console gaming.
3) Which decade did you last use Linux? I don't think I've even got emacs installed.
4) Given the tone of your post, I'm not surprised, but in my experience that's inaccurate.
5) Gibberish.
I gave it a go recently when it was mentioned as a way to escape the search bubble and eliminating the bias of a search engine knowing too much about you. Was then surprised how on a search for ubuntu it quite prominently gave a link about how ubuntu was an imperfect alternative to windows. It took me back to "get the facts".
But I thought nuclear was the clean green solution to global warming? Replacing dirty old oil.
I'm not sure I'd trust opinion articles from LinuxInsider to be anything other than anti-linux trolling. Weren't they constantly talking up SCO during that whole debacle years ago?
There's a setting in the power management section to get the controllers to switch themselves off after a period of inactivity.
That worked for them with netbooks.
Other operating systems have been doing that for much longer than Windows, when Windows Vista/7 started doing that it was just catching up with the status quo.
I'd try Gormenghast again, you may just have tried it two quickly after reading another dense work. If you're not flying through them after the first fifty pages you're doing it wrong :-) It is quite satirical, some of the characters deliberate caricatures, but the story and world he creates is a wonderful one. I'd quite happily read the trilogy again, and if it was a choice between that and LOTR then it would win easily.
Not sure about the other browsers, but Firefox at least implements its table support using CSS.
So the CSS properties are there to do it: "display: table", "display: table-row", etc. Which means you can get table-style presentation without polluting the mark-up with tables for layout. Table based layouts filled code with so much unnecessary garbage that distracted from the content, CSS keeps that out of the way and in a re-usable form.
I can remember when designers and artists hated CSS and preferred using Dreamweaver to chop up their photoshop images to create a layout so they could have it pixel perfect in every browser. CSS has always been very developer friendly: multiple css files imported as needed, ease of templating, id/class referencing etc.
And try looking at a table based layout in a graphical browser that doesn't support tables. Get off my lawn indeed :-)
The passwords were *cough* hashed. I suppose that's a kind of plain text.
What about all those contracts where the OEM had to pay Microsoft per machine shipped whether it ran Windows or not? That sounds a lot like a tax to me.
Compare linux server infections to Windows Server infections, and you have a viable comparison. Comparing Linux desktop viruses to WIndows would be a little more fair, but not really, since youre talking 0.1% of the market and there really isnt anyone who would want to spend time writing a virus for a heavily fragmented, highly technical userbase with a tiny percentage of the market.
Closer to 1.5% according to browser stats, not big in percentage terms but not so small as a absolute number in terms of the web user population. It's not just the writing of the virus, there are plenty of people angry enough about Linux to do that, but also the successful distribution and Linux makes that hard.
If you want a really stark illustration of the problem, ask any parent how many endangered species they would be willing to see go extinct if it would mean sparing the life of just one of their children. (and now multiple that by the number of parents in the world).
I'm not sure how the mapping between endangered species and child sacrifice works out? Is it a religious thing?
Actually, it's not. Science and faith can coexist quite nicely since they really consider two different questions - the how (science) and why (faith). One can be a good scientist regardless of one's views on faith. Some religions certainly are anti - science but that does not mean all are; as Haught's viewpoint illustrates.
Doesn't science cover how (observation) and why (theory)?
It's like the source coming with the software. You can enjoy the original work as it is, but you also have the freedom to adapt it, chop it up and change it into something else.
IE3 was the first bundled version, before bundling that version wasn't gaining quickly on anything. Netscape easily had the dominant share back then, and that's why MS grew concerned about Netscape's talk of creating cross-platform applications/services than run in a browser and make the OS irrelevant.
Historical evidence shows clearly expansions of humanity and ecosystems during warmer periods, even periods *much* warmer than today (for example, the Late Eocene with near tropical temperatures in Antarctica).
What was the size of the human population during that time? Anywhere near 7 billion?
The "rootkit-on-cd" thing just another broken DRM implementation designed to run on Windows. I'd like to be surprised at the naivety of those who boycott Sony over that while quite happily running Windows, but I can't say I am. People are quite happily voting with their feet in favour of DRM by buying Windows, a system designed to be friendly to DRM from the ground up, so aren't they pretty much getting what they've asked for?