As I said earlier, I don't know cars. Someone said "cars are closed, so why shouldn't software be" and that's an argument that I've heard two times before as well.
If they aren't -- well, great! People tell me that engines these days are sealed.
I don't see how nukes, be they a necessary evil or an unnecessary evil (you might argue for the former but I don't think you can argue that they are good), are related to proprietary software.
Except that they're about using power, extortion on other humans, other people.
"Linux is developed for free, and uses the laws to stay free."
Yeah, I like the GPL. It takes a law that was designed to hurt people and turns it 180 around.
But if that law was changed, to give people more software freedom, do you think RMS would fucking cry? Of course not. He'd be happy.
"Proprietary software is developed for profit, and uses the laws to remain profitable."
At the expense of society.
If companies couldn't make money off of their programs, which they couldn't if the law just allowed free trade, they wouldn't invest the money in writing them, and software would suck.
Sure, they would have to find another way to pay for the software (like the Blender fund or maybe something else entirely). The many drawbacks of proprietary software are bigger than the one advantage.
As for me being dumb: I've, as a consumer, got no interest in seeing proprietary software succeed as a business model, therefore I figure that the less people who support those companies, the better.
Warez people put their neck on the line and they bring gratis stuff to the public. Not as cool as free software hackers or free art creators, but warez people do contribute.
The example they set by "sharing" is a greater contribution than the actual warez.
Texture maps are created by artists; procedural shaders are created by programmers.
Procedural shaders is as much 'art' as texture maps.
Speaking with an 'artsy' analogy, using texture maps is akin to doing a rough sculpture and painting patterns on it to make it look more real, while using procedural shaders is like doing a very detailed sculpture. How can you say that modelling the threads on the screws is 'less art'?
Texture maps, bump maps, and displacement maps can be used to modulate procedural shaders,
This I agree with, though. In the short term, bump & displacement maps is a fast way to beauty.
But maybe it'll become easier for artists to use procedural shaders in the future, and there might be more ready-made objects available.
By the same twisted logic, all vehicles purchased by governments should have their blueprints, down to the VLSI layout of the controller, available freely. Because there's no other way to do "public examination".
Yes, please!. Now, I don't know cars as I do software, but it seems to me that this would be a very good idea.
Forced Open Source? No. That's no better than being forced to use proprietary software. You're implementing artificial restrictions that will help ensure the best product doesn't get used.
Not really. Proprietary software is in itself tainted with artificial restrictions -- open source (forced or otherwise) is about removing those restrictions.
Thanks. That's what I get for trying to look smart.
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(I'm dubbing the players A and B to avoid confusion.)
If A. had made it a queen, which he did, the queen would have an additional attack pattern (diagonally); this additional attack pattern would limit the possible moves of B -- causing a stalemate.
See? The problem wasn't that the queen didn't have enough attack patterns, rather the opposite. It had too many.
But I was really annoyed with Tobey McGuire in Spider-Man. The rest of the casting was great, but...
In the first minutes of the movie, I thought he reminded me of Peter Parker from the Amazing Stories period, which was okay, but I'd prefer a later Parker like the later Lee/Romita dayes, or the JMS/Romita as of today.
Superman is not a caucasian, he's from another planet.
Why would he be white? He was created by two jewish guys as a continuation of the golem myth (protecting the weak and all that), with some resonance of Nietchze thrown in.
Are you slightly crazy? Why do you want per-app specific tabs? I prefer using one of the many window managers with tabs. I use Ion but I recommend fluxbox or pwm (because Ion is... different).
I used to run tabbed mozilla within Ion but last month I went back in prefs and removed all tabbed browsing because I'd rather use Ions tabs.
"Shouldn't there be more posts moderated up that mention that this jacket is definately not GPL compliant?"
Actually, that is sort of a valid concern in this case, but I digress...
Regarding your signature about God dropped acid;
We were roleplaying the other night, I whipped up a little adventure based on Neil Young's "After the goldrush" lyrics. The characters (The Knight in Shining Armor, The Chosen One, The Hopefully Lying Friend, the Queen and the Archer) traveled to the sun and visited God and tricked him into taking drugs. He burst out in song and the Queen had to break his brains with a ninjutsu move.
I kinda wished I'd seen your sig earlier because it would have been funny to have God seeing people.
Are you proud to own a product? What's up with that?
You failed to adress the issue, as well. You can build solid state ogg players with no moving parts (larger than atoms), while an MD player'll have a disc that spins round and round.
My MD player broke before a year. I liked having it but I'm looking for a really durable player. Solid state is the way to go.
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The way I understood it the difference would only be the video format. E.g. the "suits" version might be real or wmv or sorensen, while the "nerd" would be mpeg or theora.
I might be wrong, though, that was just my general impression from not reading very carefully.:)
...or the aoeui keyboard (for the left hand home row keys) - might as well call it the vowel keyboard then, or the dihutenosa keyboard, for a good mnemonic I used to learn the key placements. (It's the right and left hands alternately writing the home row characters from the inside out.)
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As I said earlier, I don't know cars. Someone said "cars are closed, so why shouldn't software be" and that's an argument that I've heard two times before as well.
If they aren't -- well, great! People tell me that engines these days are sealed.
I agree with your points.
Except that they're about using power, extortion on other humans, other people.
"Linux is developed for free, and uses the laws to stay free."
Yeah, I like the GPL. It takes a law that was designed to hurt people and turns it 180 around.
But if that law was changed, to give people more software freedom, do you think RMS would fucking cry? Of course not. He'd be happy.
"Proprietary software is developed for profit, and uses the laws to remain profitable."
At the expense of society.
Sure, they would have to find another way to pay for the software (like the Blender fund or maybe something else entirely). The many drawbacks of proprietary software are bigger than the one advantage.
As for me being dumb: I've, as a consumer, got no interest in seeing proprietary software succeed as a business model, therefore I figure that the less people who support those companies, the better.
Warez people put their neck on the line and they bring gratis stuff to the public. Not as cool as free software hackers or free art creators, but warez people do contribute.
The example they set by "sharing" is a greater contribution than the actual warez.
As for obeying the law... I think that people who say "I don't care what's ethical, I'll obey the law" are trying to take an easy way out.
Really? Well, your post got modded up.
That proprietary software is harmful to society is hardly bullshit, and these 'warez'-guys lessen some of that harmful impact.
I don't think that Slashdot needs to be told that there are bad laws that deserve to be broken. Repeatedly.
Procedural shaders is as much 'art' as texture maps.
Speaking with an 'artsy' analogy, using texture maps is akin to doing a rough sculpture and painting patterns on it to make it look more real, while using procedural shaders is like doing a very detailed sculpture. How can you say that modelling the threads on the screws is 'less art'?
This I agree with, though. In the short term, bump & displacement maps is a fast way to beauty.
But maybe it'll become easier for artists to use procedural shaders in the future, and there might be more ready-made objects available.
Yeah, I know...
The auto industry is so closed this would be a hassle, but ain't that a shame?
We should consider ourselves lucky that there is a strong free software movement so the software industry is more open.
Or do you long for it to be as closed as the auto industry?
Talking about an open auto industry is bordering on the utiopian drivel, I know, but it would be nice, and I'll be glad the day it happens.
My point is that it was irrational to say "cars are closed, so software could be too."
Yes, please!. Now, I don't know cars as I do software, but it seems to me that this would be a very good idea.
Not really. Proprietary software is in itself tainted with artificial restrictions -- open source (forced or otherwise) is about removing those restrictions.
Thanks. That's what I get for trying to look smart.
(I'm dubbing the players A and B to avoid confusion.)
If A. had made it a queen, which he did, the queen would have an additional attack pattern (diagonally); this additional attack pattern would limit the possible moves of B -- causing a stalemate.
See? The problem wasn't that the queen didn't have enough attack patterns, rather the opposite. It had too many.
"You liked having it? What's up with that?"
I liked having access to music in my pocket. I didn't enjoy any proud feelings of "ownership" if that's what you're referring to.
"That disc spins round and round. So what?"
That makes it sensitive to shocks and crushes.
Good point, Batman is much more Nietchze with all of the "everyone can become an overman if they just practice weird yoga techniques enought" idea.
But I was really annoyed with Tobey McGuire in Spider-Man. The rest of the casting was great, but...
In the first minutes of the movie, I thought he reminded me of Peter Parker from the Amazing Stories period, which was okay, but I'd prefer a later Parker like the later Lee/Romita dayes, or the JMS/Romita as of today.
Superman is not a caucasian, he's from another planet.
Why would he be white? He was created by two jewish guys as a continuation of the golem myth (protecting the weak and all that), with some resonance of Nietchze thrown in.
Michael is IMHO the sanest of the /. editors.
Just release it as free software and someone will port it. Or better yet, hire someone to do that, too.
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Ah, how embarrassing! I sometimes forget that windows exist.
Yeah, you just have to load them.
(I had to look in the FAQ for that today, I wanted to try the IRC-plugin. It was very nice, though.)
Are you slightly crazy? Why do you want per-app specific tabs? I prefer using one of the many window managers with tabs. I use Ion but I recommend fluxbox or pwm (because Ion is... different).
I used to run tabbed mozilla within Ion but last month I went back in prefs and removed all tabbed browsing because I'd rather use Ions tabs.
"Shouldn't there be more posts moderated up that mention that this jacket is definately not GPL compliant?"
Actually, that is sort of a valid concern in this case, but I digress...
Regarding your signature about God dropped acid;
We were roleplaying the other night, I whipped up a little adventure based on Neil Young's "After the goldrush" lyrics. The characters (The Knight in Shining Armor, The Chosen One, The Hopefully Lying Friend, the Queen and the Archer) traveled to the sun and visited God and tricked him into taking drugs. He burst out in song and the Queen had to break his brains with a ninjutsu move.
I kinda wished I'd seen your sig earlier because it would have been funny to have God seeing people.
Are you proud to own a product? What's up with that?
You failed to adress the issue, as well. You can build solid state ogg players with no moving parts (larger than atoms), while an MD player'll have a disc that spins round and round.
My MD player broke before a year. I liked having it but I'm looking for a really durable player. Solid state is the way to go.
The way I understood it the difference would only be the video format. E.g. the "suits" version might be real or wmv or sorensen, while the "nerd" would be mpeg or theora.
:)
I might be wrong, though, that was just my general impression from not reading very carefully.
...or the aoeui keyboard (for the left hand home row keys) - might as well call it the vowel keyboard then, or the dihutenosa keyboard, for a good mnemonic I used to learn the key placements. (It's the right and left hands alternately writing the home row characters from the inside out.)
There's only one real benefit of the mandrake club, but it's a major one. You keep the distro/company alive so they work on your favourite distro!
I'm not a member, I'm a debhead, but I don't think this is a "bad" business model. It's one way to pay for software.
"Centi-Quake - Roaming around a giant garden shooting the hell out of giant centipedes"
:-)"
Wouldn't that be real cool, though?
"Super Mario Quake - Not that it would make a great game, but blowing up that fat little plumber would set me up for the day
I'm still looking for that Giana Sisters mod that was available a few years ago.
I'm kinda longing for a quiet, nice durable keyboard, RISC personal computer running BRiX.
The "microcomputers" of the early eighties were great -- something like that but still powerful enough to run emacs and ogg theora.