Yes.. and when developers are paid $500000+ a year, what happens to the price of commercial software?
This might be good for open source software in the short term, but I think most OSS programmers also earn money doing programming - hell also they need food, right? So when they loose their jobs because their businesses go bankrupt because noone will pay for their sollutions and rather go back to pen, paper and possibly pocket calculators (though they will cost 20000$ because they contain software too)...what happens to OSS? It gets bad because noone know how to program...and the story ends with a world where the countries with this new law looses, and todays third world countries win - because they don't have that law - until - they are taken over by right wing record companies.
So what about people that can't afford medical insurance? Is it OK for them to die because they don't have insurance?
If someone is poor because they come from a poor family and was never given the chance of getting rich, are they less worthy than you to get medical threatment?
(and don't come and say everybody can get rich... the rich get richer, that's the way things work, all because the world is close to what you would want it to be - education costs money!)
But how good do you think your ears are? Have you got 20-20000Hz hearing? I must say I think most audiophiles over estimate their ears. I got a mate that says it's about feeling the sound.. I think he is bsing.
Encoding mp3s on 256kbps or more I must say is impossible to hear the difference on on my Hifi (which is supposed to sound really good). But.. there are some aspects that count when making the mp3s (you must do it right!):
The encoders are not equal in quality and you must encode using the right settings.. There are several reviews around... http://www.r3mix.net/ got some good comparission of mp3 encoders and guidelines to encoding mp3s.
I remember V.everything USR modems.... what about v.everything LAN interfaces.. YEY! If I only could do lazer, microwave, radiowave and perhaps pigeon carried LAN with one of doze.
Oh yes. I just came home from town now and I am pretty drunk. thanx for noticing.,
One thing I have wondered using OpenOffice (and als o Mozilla) is: How do they manage to make them so slow?! I am a software developer myself and even though I might never have made something as complex as OpenOffice or Mozilla, I can't see how they even manage to make the menues take ages to drop down.
My theory (call me paranoid) is that there are time loops in there to make the free version worse than the proprietary version.(StarOffice/Netscape is faster.. at least a little, or am I wrong there?).
When will people offer rentals of DivX (or similar) online?
Well, (hmm, I am answering my own question too:-) ) we must make a new format that can't be easily copied first... What about those DVDs that could be read only X times that were mentioned on Slashdot earlier this week? well, they can't be transferred digitally... so they suck.
Well, perhaps making money is not a bad thing, but when you abuse your monopoly power and take away people's freedom doing it, I think it is a bad thing. And that is what I see.NET as.
If dotGNU is a bad thing or not, I think we just have to wait and see how popular.NET will be and if we have to use dotGNU or mono to do stuff in the future.
Yes, I am using Java, and I must say it is quite adequate for creating server or GUI applications. When it comes to fast graphics and direct hardware access, perhaps it's not good though.
That is what we got C++ for:-). Java got support for all the stuff I need atleast.
But MSDOS was the thing used by most people, I think making a MSDOS clone wouldn't really be a hit. Imagine an open source AmigaOS clone with a bit better memory managment... that would have made a better world I tell you!:-)
I say think crative instead of jumping on the M$.NET bandwagon. Do we really need.NET or C# on Linux when we got Java and C++? As I see it, both.NET and C# was created by M$ to earn some more bucks for Bill's wallet.
Why not use resources to create better Java sollutions or C++ sollutions instead?
If this software is good, then buy it, use it and enjoy it! Then again, if it is just a piece of crap, don't buy it, use it -or enjoy it! It is up to you! Boycotting a great piece of software just because it is made by M$ is wrong I think. I have never tried XP, and propably never going to buy it, but if it is good, people should have the right to use it, and maybe we can learn from it and improve out favourite penguin or devil-OSes...
... But really... we could transfer this technology to more usable fields.. just check out freenet - using it to publish anonymously un-sensorable documents on the web. Freedom of speech man!
Stop this already! File sharing should not be illegal! At least not the technology allowing it! File sharing is SO MUCH MORE than just porn and copyrighted mp3s!
One thing that would be really cool would be to use my ZX spectrum to play against the really good players at Freechess. Maybe I could beat them just ONCE!:-)
Mind your own business.. I think moderators got brains too!:-) Maybe the guy that wrote this thinks he is funny, even though it has not much to do with the article... Everyone wants to own a 1000 node Beowulf cluster - let the poor guy wish:)
This article must be one of the more fascinating I have read the last month. This might be due to my over worked imagination, but this seems like the idea of making computers do the work for us is taken to the next level. (oh long sentence) One thing I am agains though are all those (b)anal patents around. Americans seem to be the worst, but Europe is getting there. Why are they making the computers invent things to patent? I feel the reason for running this project is wrong. "Let's start a project so we can register loads of patents" should instead be "Let's start a project to benefit humanity"
Of course they will cover the whole thing up as space debris, as long as we don't get parts from both satellites raining over some major city. I bet the US ones are painted in iraqee colors though...
...hmm and and propably they both would burn in the atmosphere... so yes - definetively cover up!:-)
Well, spy satellites are spottable by amateur astronomers... so we should count on that the rest of the world have calculated their orbits themselves.
The danger as I see it is the spy satellites crashing into important scientific satellites or even commercial ones like TV satellites. I would be really pissed of if I couldn't watch TV because of the stupid US government! The NSA,FBI and CIA reading my mail I don't care about, but when they start interfering with what TV channels I can watch, I get mad!
Well, perhaps they do already through sensorship already? Through sensoring sensorship, sensorship can be hold secret.
The USA think they can do whatever they want - and they can. They got most nukes, even though I bet Russia and China got enough aswell.
I think space based telescopes are better - put more money into space research! Why use alot of cash on ground based units when you know you can do it better in space where there's no atmosphear to block the sight?
...but who cares? Everyone should use Jabber I think. Spread it to the Windows world too! Why let huge corporations like AOL or M$ control our messaging
Why support C# at all? It is clearly only a M$ attempt to pollute the world of programming languages! I will never touch it and hope there are more people like me! If we all stick to C++ (I am talking about on the windows platform too! Not only on Un?xes) maybe there's a small chance of C# dying a silent death like I think it should!
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Yes.. and when developers are paid $500000+ a year, what happens to the price of commercial software?
...what happens to OSS? It gets bad because noone know how to program ...and the story ends with a world where the countries with this new law looses, and todays third world countries win - because they don't have that law - until - they are taken over by right wing record companies.
This might be good for open source software in the short term, but I think most OSS programmers also earn money doing programming - hell also they need food, right? So when they loose their jobs because their businesses go bankrupt because noone will pay for their sollutions and rather go back to pen, paper and possibly pocket calculators (though they will cost 20000$ because they contain software too)
So what about people that can't afford medical insurance? Is it OK for them to die because they don't have insurance?
If someone is poor because they come from a poor family and was never given the chance of getting rich, are they less worthy than you to get medical threatment?
(and don't come and say everybody can get rich... the rich get richer, that's the way things work, all because the world is close to what you would want it to be - education costs money!)
But how good do you think your ears are? Have you got 20-20000Hz hearing? I must say I think most audiophiles over estimate their ears. I got a mate that says it's about feeling the sound.. I think he is bsing.
.. there are some aspects that count when making the mp3s (you must do it right!):
Encoding mp3s on 256kbps or more I must say is impossible to hear the difference on on my Hifi (which is supposed to sound really good). But
The encoders are not equal in quality and you must encode using the right settings.. There are several reviews around... http://www.r3mix.net/ got some good comparission of mp3 encoders and guidelines to encoding mp3s.
Do not forget MHz, the speed measure everyone, even people that should know better, is talking about.. stoopid engineers.
I remember V.everything USR modems.... what about v.everything LAN interfaces.. YEY! If I only could do lazer, microwave, radiowave and perhaps pigeon carried LAN with one of doze.
Oh yes. I just came home from town now and I am pretty drunk. thanx for noticing.,
One thing I have wondered using OpenOffice (and als o Mozilla) is: How do they manage to make them so slow?! I am a software developer myself and even though I might never have made something as complex as OpenOffice or Mozilla, I can't see how they even manage to make the menues take ages to drop down.
.(StarOffice/Netscape is faster.. at least a little, or am I wrong there?).
My theory (call me paranoid) is that there are time loops in there to make the free version worse than the proprietary version
When will people offer rentals of DivX (or similar) online? :-) ) we must make a new format that can't be easily copied first... What about those DVDs that could be read only X times that were mentioned on Slashdot earlier this week? well, they can't be transferred digitally... so they suck.
Well, (hmm, I am answering my own question too
Well, perhaps making money is not a bad thing, but when you abuse your monopoly power and take away people's freedom doing it, I think it is a bad thing. And that is what I see .NET as.
.NET will be and if we have to use dotGNU or mono to do stuff in the future.
If dotGNU is a bad thing or not, I think we just have to wait and see how popular
Yes, I am using Java, and I must say it is quite adequate for creating server or GUI applications. When it comes to fast graphics and direct hardware access, perhaps it's not good though. :-). Java got support for all the stuff I need atleast.
That is what we got C++ for
But MSDOS was the thing used by most people, I think making a MSDOS clone wouldn't really be a hit. Imagine an open source AmigaOS clone with a bit better memory managment... that would have made a better world I tell you! :-)
Word!
.NET (espesially hailstorm) looks much like it was made to take over the internet and not to give people more security or freedom.
Though I think
I say think crative instead of jumping on the M$ .NET bandwagon. Do we really need .NET or C# on Linux when we got Java and C++? As I see it, both .NET and C# was created by M$ to earn some more bucks for Bill's wallet.
Why not use resources to create better Java sollutions or C++ sollutions instead?
If this software is good, then buy it, use it and enjoy it! Then again, if it is just a piece of crap, don't buy it, use it -or enjoy it! It is up to you! Boycotting a great piece of software just because it is made by M$ is wrong I think. I have never tried XP, and propably never going to buy it, but if it is good, people should have the right to use it, and maybe we can learn from it and improve out favourite penguin or devil-OSes ...
... But really... we could transfer this technology to more usable fields .. just check out freenet - using it to publish anonymously un-sensorable documents on the web. Freedom of speech man!
Hehe... just trying to make a pro-file sharing statement here!
Stop this already! File sharing should not be illegal! At least not the technology allowing it! File sharing is SO MUCH MORE than just porn and copyrighted mp3s!
One thing that would be really cool would be to use my ZX spectrum to play against the really good players at Freechess. Maybe I could beat them just ONCE! :-)
Well, it propably will get used by the US government for spying anyway, wont it?
Perhaps it could be used for broadband communication? Just have them circuling above with antennas...
Mind your own business.. I think moderators got brains too! :-) Maybe the guy that wrote this thinks he is funny, even though it has not much to do with the article... Everyone wants to own a 1000 node Beowulf cluster - let the poor guy wish :)
This article must be one of the more fascinating I have read the last month. This might be due to my over worked imagination, but this seems like the idea of making computers do the work for us is taken to the next level. (oh long sentence)
One thing I am agains though are all those (b)anal patents around. Americans seem to be the worst, but Europe is getting there.
Why are they making the computers invent things to patent? I feel the reason for running this project is wrong. "Let's start a project so we can register loads of patents" should instead be "Let's start a project to benefit humanity"
Of course they will cover the whole thing up as space debris, as long as we don't get parts from both satellites raining over some major city. I bet the US ones are painted in iraqee colors though... :-)
...hmm and and propably they both would burn in the atmosphere... so yes - definetively cover up!
Well, spy satellites are spottable by amateur astronomers... so we should count on that the rest of the world have calculated their orbits themselves.
The danger as I see it is the spy satellites crashing into important scientific satellites or even commercial ones like TV satellites. I would be really pissed of if I couldn't watch TV because of the stupid US government! The NSA,FBI and CIA reading my mail I don't care about, but when they start interfering with what TV channels I can watch, I get mad!
Well, perhaps they do already through sensorship already? Through sensoring sensorship, sensorship can be hold secret.
The USA think they can do whatever they want - and they can. They got most nukes, even though I bet Russia and China got enough aswell.
I think space based telescopes are better - put more money into space research! Why use alot of cash on ground based units when you know you can do it better in space where there's no atmosphear to block the sight?
...but who cares? Everyone should use Jabber I think. Spread it to the Windows world too! Why let huge corporations like AOL or M$ control our messaging
Why support C# at all? It is clearly only a M$ attempt to pollute the world of programming languages! I will never touch it and hope there are more people like me! If we all stick to C++ (I am talking about on the windows platform too! Not only on Un?xes) maybe there's a small chance of C# dying a silent death like I think it should!