Down With Compulsory Licensing, PLEASE
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What's with the compulsory license sort of slant that's happening now? I'm sorry, but if slashdot supports this idea, no thanks to you.
What I want to see is an Open Proposal Network. I.e., a band proposes a new album. Fans fund production. After that, it becomes public domain. Most likely, bands would have to release some free samples to generate initial support, but this would be much more ideal. This same model could be used for GPL'd software. People could propose features, and it could be funded, and then released under the GPL.
I skimmed the article. I'm not sure what they were trying to prove. Release dates didn't jump out at me. As a software engineer, I don't see what release dates by you. Regression testing is obviously missing.
BUT HERE's the free idea. Maybe someone (aka doctoral candidate) could prove that because Free software is used by ALL possible users in whatever way they are going to use it within, say 4 months, that it doesn't matter if there's some obscure bug, in say, the Intellivision drivers for Linux, because no one uses those. I.e., software has an astronomical amount of states, any 1 of which could be broken, but after all (5 billion people) actually use the software, all HUMANLY possible states are VERIFIED.
I thought this meant that in the next Bond movie, the girl would be CG. That would definitely be worth mentioning, as opposed to the actual subject, of which, I don't really care.
Although I have never played any of these games, since I think their gameplay is detracts from the story, the only one I would consider playing is Chrono Trigger. Enc None? Chrono Trigger had enc none from the beginning unless you couldn't avoid the obvious monsters, or traps. FF8 still had my most dreaded "artifact of primitive technology"; the separate battle screen. And the worst of all (excluding FFX's) battle music to go with it. And the SNES didn't have LOAD TIMES like the un-primitive Playstation.
If Chrono Trigger is overrated, then everything is overrated. Even FFX.
How is this not what you said? Just think of it as a webserver. "If you we out taking pictures with your digicam and were carrying a server, the images would be transfered to the (presumably very expansive) drive in the server." The only thing missing is "you hit the new 'upload' button on your camera". Or am I somehow overestimating the generality of the term 'wireless hard drive'? Is this not a wireless hard drive?
actually, it's unfair to put the blame on capitalist America. I should say, 'isn't it pathetic, that no one has come up with competition for the ipod'.
I was just hoping that insulting capitalist America would make someone try to prove me wrong, i.e., by making iPod competition.
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What's with the compulsory license sort of slant that's happening now? I'm sorry, but if slashdot supports this idea, no thanks to you.
What I want to see is an Open Proposal Network. I.e., a band proposes a new album. Fans fund production. After that, it becomes public domain. Most likely, bands would have to release some free samples to generate initial support, but this would be much more ideal. This same model could be used for GPL'd software. People could propose features, and it could be funded, and then released under the GPL.
$25?
I just saw 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. 'Sometimes the right path, the right course, requires a little piracy'
Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark
I just don't want to catch nuclear flesh-eating bacteria.
Matter vs. Anti-Matter
I skimmed the article. I'm not sure what they were trying to prove. Release dates didn't jump out at me. As a software engineer, I don't see what release dates by you. Regression testing is obviously missing.
BUT HERE's the free idea. Maybe someone (aka doctoral candidate) could prove that because Free software is used by ALL possible users in whatever way they are going to use it within, say 4 months, that it doesn't matter if there's some obscure bug, in say, the Intellivision drivers for Linux, because no one uses those. I.e., software has an astronomical amount of states, any 1 of which could be broken, but after all (5 billion people) actually use the software, all HUMANLY possible states are VERIFIED.
Whatever! If I were president, I'd be like, "I will pardon anyone who gets arraigned for DMCA violation or Copyright infringement"
The president CAN undo a lot of damage.
Plans don't solve problems.
People do. Good bye.
Put money where our mouths are. We'll show the morons trying to hold back the future how the public really feels.
Do we really have no good new ideas?
someone would make a Swing C++ Library. That would OWN.
Yeah, just what I want. Instead of 1 hardware device to play ALL forms of digital media, I have to buy 20.
I wish the console wars were finished forever. Just let me add devices to my computer. Please.
What if SCO took linux code and put it in their unix code and then said, "Look, linux stole our code". How can we prove that they didn't do this?
It's not capitalism. It's infantile-capitalism.
Come on Nintendo. You know you could do it.
I thought this meant that in the next Bond movie, the girl would be CG. That would definitely be worth mentioning, as opposed to the actual subject, of which, I don't really care.
Although I have never played any of these games, since I think their gameplay is detracts from the story, the only one I would consider playing is Chrono Trigger. Enc None? Chrono Trigger had enc none from the beginning unless you couldn't avoid the obvious monsters, or traps. FF8 still had my most dreaded "artifact of primitive technology"; the separate battle screen. And the worst of all (excluding FFX's) battle music to go with it. And the SNES didn't have LOAD TIMES like the un-primitive Playstation.
If Chrono Trigger is overrated, then everything is overrated. Even FFX.
How is this not what you said? Just think of it as a webserver. "If you we out taking pictures with your digicam and were carrying a server, the images would be transfered to the (presumably very expansive) drive in the server." The only thing missing is "you hit the new 'upload' button on your camera". Or am I somehow overestimating the generality of the term 'wireless hard drive'? Is this not a wireless hard drive?
But I'll believe it when I can buy it. And it works on linux out of the box.
Why doesn't the open source community take over Sun? Now that would be the day.
How did you post anonymously? Slashdot doesn't give me the option.
Mozilla and w3m have no luck with that link. Thanks linden labs and slashdot for supporting the Microsoft monopoly's network effects.
where's a link?
and even before I see it, I'll bet that it weighs more than the ipod and/or doesn't have a scroll wheel to navigate tunes.
actually, it's unfair to put the blame on capitalist America. I should say, 'isn't it pathetic, that no one has come up with competition for the ipod'.
I was just hoping that insulting capitalist America would make someone try to prove me wrong, i.e., by making iPod competition.