Can you clarify this? As stated it is surely preposterous. What is true is that nobody is obliged to buy his game. If that is what you meant, the fact that he is making money through Xbox Live suggests that even though nobody has to buy it, some people are buying it. To my eyes that works fine; if you don't like the game enough to buy it when it has DRM, just don't buy it. He seems to have discovered that that is not enough to stop some people buying it. Therefore you are happy if you don't buy it and he is also happy because enough other people are buying it.
Can you substantiate this claim? I can't imagine how any cost burden is placed upon you or your legitimate customers by people who aren't your customers copying your work.
Surely this is simply economics? If he wants to make a living out of his game but a proportion of people who play it don't have to pay, he has to charge a higher price to those who do pay. Charging a higher price means that those who pay have to pay more (obviously) and a proportion will not buy the game. So there is a cost to players and a cost to the author.
There is not really much wrong with your analysis, but you should be aware that it is not just people who think differently to you who are arguing from a political perspective. The real question (and it is a question that I can't answer satisfactorily to myself) is what happens to the children of these "nitwits"? The fact is that if a kid is brought up in a household where the adults are not able to look after themselves properly, are the kids more likely to grow up like the adults in their lives? That's the difficulty; you and I and lots of other people are brought up right, we get education as to what is healthy and what is not. But these kids (ie the children of the nitwits) don't get that opportunity. We can dismiss the parents for being nitwits (but remember they may also have been brought up in an unhealthy household) but can we so easily dismiss the children? I grew up in an old-fashioned liberal family. As I have grown older, my views have shifted and I take a slightly more conservative stance. But I cannot (and I hope I never will) dismiss the children of inadequate parents. Doing that is a step too far, in my opinion.
Do you think there is a time limit? Munich is nearly 900 years old - what would be the rush? I think they are going about it in an interesting fashion; first transition to open source software that runs on Windows (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird). Only when people are used to this software do they start transitioning the desktops. Seems pretty sensible to me and it looks like they are playing a long game here.
... but why are we all dead if we cannot get out of the solar system? Strictly speaking, surely we are all dead whether we get out of the solar system or not?
I had to read it twice too: "Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic]". When you read the whole section, you can see why they have put "[sic]" there.
I think that about 70% of games are sold for consoles. So you can't say, "there's no point porting it for X" because you probably have to be able to target as widely as possible. In your first post you said,
These "furious developers" are probably some hobbyists, professional developers still using OpenGL are working on Macs or mobile devices and don't care about cutting-edge features since their target hardware would not support them anyways.
... the article specifically states that running Linux on the PS3 is now far easier. I don't know if that is true but the article states that many of the time-consuming steps are no longer required. The PS3 is a very cheap development environment if your target platform is the CELL processor and that must be a reason for doing it if you are going to be programming one of those systems. There is no reason to assume that everyone has the same motivation for running it.
It is like nothing else out there and it's worth knowing the story before seeing the film. The comic's author is adamant that it's a different art-form and should be considered as a comic so it's worth seeing the comic first so that your first impression is of the story in its intended form. That said, I'm going to see the movie of course!
Last I checked it was at 1.5.5 and it is really easy to use. A lot of time that you otherwise waste with formatting is simply saved by its approach. Given you already have experience of using TeX you might like it.
I hope you realise that your comment makes absolutely no sense at all. I think the problem is the giant non seqitur in the middle when you leap from a commercial vendor failing to innovate to explaining that Open Source doesn't innovate. But then talking about socialism and marxism probably doesn't help your argument either.
.. that the person would be there anyway. You have to think about this idea as recovering wasted energy, rather than generating new energy because all those people are walking about anyway.
Surely 10.5.x and 10.4.x will continue working anyway when 10.6.0 comes out? Presumably that may mean a hit on resale prices for G3, G4 and G5 Macs but the machines will still work!
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Can you clarify this? As stated it is surely preposterous. What is true is that nobody is obliged to buy his game. If that is what you meant, the fact that he is making money through Xbox Live suggests that even though nobody has to buy it, some people are buying it. To my eyes that works fine; if you don't like the game enough to buy it when it has DRM, just don't buy it. He seems to have discovered that that is not enough to stop some people buying it. Therefore you are happy if you don't buy it and he is also happy because enough other people are buying it.
Surely this is simply economics? If he wants to make a living out of his game but a proportion of people who play it don't have to pay, he has to charge a higher price to those who do pay. Charging a higher price means that those who pay have to pay more (obviously) and a proportion will not buy the game. So there is a cost to players and a cost to the author.
But why don't you convince your local library to buy the book? They will thank you for your recommendation.
The location of the statue is very close to the gay village in Manchester.
If you're visiting Manchester in the north-west of England, don't forget to visit the statue of Alan Turing: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.476722,-2.236028&spn=0.01,0.01&t=m&q=53.476722,-2.236028.
There is not really much wrong with your analysis, but you should be aware that it is not just people who think differently to you who are arguing from a political perspective. The real question (and it is a question that I can't answer satisfactorily to myself) is what happens to the children of these "nitwits"? The fact is that if a kid is brought up in a household where the adults are not able to look after themselves properly, are the kids more likely to grow up like the adults in their lives? That's the difficulty; you and I and lots of other people are brought up right, we get education as to what is healthy and what is not. But these kids (ie the children of the nitwits) don't get that opportunity. We can dismiss the parents for being nitwits (but remember they may also have been brought up in an unhealthy household) but can we so easily dismiss the children? I grew up in an old-fashioned liberal family. As I have grown older, my views have shifted and I take a slightly more conservative stance. But I cannot (and I hope I never will) dismiss the children of inadequate parents. Doing that is a step too far, in my opinion.
Previously I thought you were an idiot. This comment suggests you're just a troll.
Do you think there is a time limit? Munich is nearly 900 years old - what would be the rush? I think they are going about it in an interesting fashion; first transition to open source software that runs on Windows (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird). Only when people are used to this software do they start transitioning the desktops. Seems pretty sensible to me and it looks like they are playing a long game here.
... but why are we all dead if we cannot get out of the solar system? Strictly speaking, surely we are all dead whether we get out of the solar system or not?
I had to read it twice too: "Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic]". When you read the whole section, you can see why they have put "[sic]" there.
I don't think they used a tax. The City sold bonds to finance this development.
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The government isn't doing this. Youtube (or google if you prefer) are doing this.
What are you talking about? That is exactly what happened. Do you believe Linux preceded gcc?
I think that about 70% of games are sold for consoles. So you can't say, "there's no point porting it for X" because you probably have to be able to target as widely as possible. In your first post you said,
These "furious developers" are probably some hobbyists, professional developers still using OpenGL are working on Macs or mobile devices and don't care about cutting-edge features since their target hardware would not support them anyways.
That is not true.
What about consoles? PS3? Wii?
... the article specifically states that running Linux on the PS3 is now far easier. I don't know if that is true but the article states that many of the time-consuming steps are no longer required. The PS3 is a very cheap development environment if your target platform is the CELL processor and that must be a reason for doing it if you are going to be programming one of those systems. There is no reason to assume that everyone has the same motivation for running it.
It is like nothing else out there and it's worth knowing the story before seeing the film. The comic's author is adamant that it's a different art-form and should be considered as a comic so it's worth seeing the comic first so that your first impression is of the story in its intended form. That said, I'm going to see the movie of course!
Last I checked it was at 1.5.5 and it is really easy to use. A lot of time that you otherwise waste with formatting is simply saved by its approach. Given you already have experience of using TeX you might like it.
Grab the skull on the right-hand side and use it as a slider. That's how it works here on Safari.
I hope you realise that your comment makes absolutely no sense at all. I think the problem is the giant non seqitur in the middle when you leap from a commercial vendor failing to innovate to explaining that Open Source doesn't innovate. But then talking about socialism and marxism probably doesn't help your argument either.
Because you have to get the oil which powers the source from your sworn enemies.
.. that the person would be there anyway. You have to think about this idea as recovering wasted energy, rather than generating new energy because all those people are walking about anyway.
Surely 10.5.x and 10.4.x will continue working anyway when 10.6.0 comes out? Presumably that may mean a hit on resale prices for G3, G4 and G5 Macs but the machines will still work!