Then they would be out of business in a few months when overseas lowball sleezes come out with their own free versions of comparable games and engines.
who don't use computers at all, or any more, due to their insane complexity and instability. If they provide an interface any moron can use and it can do two or three common computery things rock solid well, then they will double the dough they are currently rolling in. And those people DO shop at Walmart.
But is it not possible that the probability function only exists to paper over the part of the equation that our current theories fail to fully explain? I remember reading about an experimental law of probabilistic incompleteness that states whenever an unknown relies on a probability then it is incomplete - i.e. there is unaccounted for functionality deeper than the theory can handle perhaps due to experimental limits. This would be similar to luminiferous ether explanations before space flight and better ideas about gravitational forces. Reading the above discussions makes me feel like a victorian wondering what the 21st century scientists will think of our apparently complete explanations of 19th century scientific observations...
I think it is aimed at open source free databases like mySQL. After getting embedded into developer projects, Oracle will try to entice them into getting the "professional" version with a long list of tasty plugins/modules not available to the free one. It will work, too.
Will we be having this conversation some day about Japan, a province of China, or Korea, a province of China, etc... We should keep politics out of technology. Taiwan is Taiwan, argue about who owns the slaves somewhere else.
that M$FT would use net accessed applications to charge everyone for their own software. But we cheer when Sun/Google (we are not worthy, we are not worthy) proposes it. Don't think we will pay per use? Follow the money. And feel dirty. Very dirty.
>>So China and US right now will likely be as close to the capitalism side...
Try to start a * significant * venture in China without involving or paying off a party fatcat. What you say will be the future for China but it is still hamstrung by it's monolithic political hold on it's economy.
all expressions of socialism, at least thus far, have been characterized by some form of common labor to a governing authority that one cannot escape. This is a subclass of Slavery and always will be.
Linux/OpenOff, etc. were 200-800 dollars in licenses as the current MS suite cost. We might all be MS underground supporters and be ruthlessly giving Linus rectal exams in these blog pages. Follow the money.
People could still use your version. And if someone charged for their "improved" version, I would use yours anyway. We should not be so uptight about this. PD was great in the 70's when you could put the source code into a magazine article and anyone could use it. Maybe it would end up in some commercial game or product, too but you still can have it as it. That's freedom to me.
common wisdom today says you need a staff of 50-100, art directors, project managers, legal staff, blahblah, server farms, marketing deals, and about 100,000 USD and two years expenses to even begin work. This is very far from the basement/garage game creators we had in the seventies/eighties. The development tools alone are priced to keep out noncorporate developers.
Not making any judgements just illustrating the situation as I see it for the clarification and edification of others. Some might think that more benefit would come if the Ax had no strings attached but others might view the ultimate goal of free housing as a greater good. Just differing goals of differing onlookers. GPL and BSD are right for differning sorts of folks. Neither sort should claim moral superiority.
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when everyone uses java, everywhere.
EU: This is a stickup! Step away from the source code and drop your wallet and noone get's hurt.
decidedly offtopic but relevant.
Then they would be out of business in a few months when overseas lowball sleezes come out with their own free versions of comparable games and engines.
Because the limited number covers about 94% of the installed base of computers on the planet. That won't last but dat's da fact, jack.
who don't use computers at all, or any more, due to their insane complexity and instability. If they provide an interface any moron can use and it can do two or three common computery things rock solid well, then they will double the dough they are currently rolling in. And those people DO shop at Walmart.
But is it not possible that the probability function only exists to paper over the part of the equation that our current theories fail to fully explain? I remember reading about an experimental law of probabilistic incompleteness that states whenever an unknown relies on a probability then it is incomplete - i.e. there is unaccounted for functionality deeper than the theory can handle perhaps due to experimental limits. This would be similar to luminiferous ether explanations before space flight and better ideas about gravitational forces. Reading the above discussions makes me feel like a victorian wondering what the 21st century scientists will think of our apparently complete explanations of 19th century scientific observations...
we must try at all costs to humbly honor their wise demands...
I think it is aimed at open source free databases like mySQL. After getting embedded into developer projects, Oracle will try to entice them into getting the "professional" version with a long list of tasty plugins/modules not available to the free one. It will work, too.
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But nothing gets you going better than the funky, chunky, hum of Chartreuse when you get a jones'in for some chromatones!
But Google, with their "good works" program), will get palms and rose petals laid before them...
>>China has no way to control the west pacific..
Why should anyone want that? They have enough slaves and should leave the waters of the world to the rest of the planet's population.
yes, but will it be the force of intellect or the force of jack-booted military thugs?
Will we be having this conversation some day about Japan, a province of China, or Korea, a province of China, etc... We should keep politics out of technology. Taiwan is Taiwan, argue about who owns the slaves somewhere else.
that M$FT would use net accessed applications to charge everyone for their own software. But we cheer when Sun/Google (we are not worthy, we are not worthy) proposes it. Don't think we will pay per use? Follow the money. And feel dirty. Very dirty.
>>So China and US right now will likely be as close to the capitalism side...
Try to start a * significant * venture in China without involving or paying off a party fatcat. What you say will be the future for China but it is still hamstrung by it's monolithic political hold on it's economy.
all expressions of socialism, at least thus far, have been characterized by some form of common labor to a governing authority that one cannot escape. This is a subclass of Slavery and always will be.
Those who see the market potential as a zero-sum resource always fail to consider this.
Linux/OpenOff, etc. were 200-800 dollars in licenses as the current MS suite cost. We might all be MS underground supporters and be ruthlessly giving Linus rectal exams in these blog pages. Follow the money.
or .un since the current occupation is fully supported by a UN resolution now unlike the period immediately following the war.
>>and effectively subvert my efforts
People could still use your version. And if someone charged for their "improved" version, I would use yours anyway. We should not be so uptight about this. PD was great in the 70's when you could put the source code into a magazine article and anyone could use it. Maybe it would end up in some commercial game or product, too but you still can have it as it. That's freedom to me.
common wisdom today says you need a staff of 50-100, art directors, project managers, legal staff, blahblah, server farms, marketing deals, and about 100,000 USD and two years expenses to even begin work. This is very far from the basement/garage game creators we had in the seventies/eighties. The development tools alone are priced to keep out noncorporate developers.
given their healthy business relationships with Microsoft, SCO, and other competitors. /sarcasm off
Not making any judgements just illustrating the situation as I see it for the clarification and edification of others. Some might think that more benefit would come if the Ax had no strings attached but others might view the ultimate goal of free housing as a greater good. Just differing goals of differing onlookers. GPL and BSD are right for differning sorts of folks. Neither sort should claim moral superiority.