How could you play with fire like that? We loved you and now you're gone. Zion needed your guidance. Why couldn't you accept the truth about Neo? Neo wasn't a holy being, he and you were just pawns of the machines. Now you've martered yourself for a cause that wasn't worth fighting. The peace brought new hope for the matrix. Instead of being a place of oppression it could have been a place of beauty and eternal life. Bluepills could be taught the truth and continue their lives without ever having to jack out. But now Zion is divided. Those who seek revenge for your death will destroy the peace, the matrix will fall, and every bluepill will die.
You just did, every single one of them (except possibly Apollo which I've never heard of) has contributed changes to GCC. The fact that they have properietary compilers as well really proves nothing. Meanwhile, go look at the length of the contributors page.
We were talking about ancient history where you could actually start a chip company and compete in the UNIX server market on the strength of your architecture. Many many companies did this and the first thing they did was port GCC to their architecture, then compile their AT&T licensed UNIX to it.
Yes, that's right, I'm not talking about some wild theory about why licensing GCC with GNU was a good thing, I'm talking about documented history. There were (and still are) other alternatives to porting GCC but every one of them was inferior solely because anyone who put any work into them refused to give that work to others. The fact that RMS demanded that you give up your changes if you want to distribute GCC meant that all these little companies contributed a little bit of work each and the whole got built.
That's cause you're a tool. Why go to the Mono team to get support? Why not go to one of the millions of companies that offer support for FOSS and buy a support contract?
There'd be nothing left of ROTS. On the other hand, I thought the film The Village would have been 100% better if they'd cut the early scene that reveals the "twist" of the film. You could actually have enjoyed the movie as a horror flick, the whole time thinking "man this is a cheap production" and then when the twist hits you could see that it wasn't a horror at all. In fact, I'd like to get that movie out on DVD and just press "skip" at the appropriate place for someone who has never seen the film.
Don't offer a prize. Offer a nice big advertisement on the front page of blender.org pointing to where the work can be downloaded and linking to the home page of the group that creates it, but don't offer a monetary prize. Why? Because when you offer a prize everything becomes an economic rationalisation. "Ok, the prize money is $10,000, that means I can work 100 hours on this thing and I shouldn't try to get others to help me cause then I'd have to give them a cut." People will always work more for kudos than prizes. Even if you offer to give kudos and a prize, people will think entirely in terms of the monetary value of that prize.
No, a BSD licensed compiler would never have matured as everyone who made a new cpu would have released a proprietary version of that compiler ported to their platform instead of giving the port back to the community. The GNU license is the only reason why GCC became as widely used as it was.
You are aware that a massive energy discharge from those "lasers" would actually vibrate a nearby spacecraft and cause sound right? And lightsabers, duh, same deal but even more so. Don't believe me? Go listen to the hum of a florescent tube.. plasma is hot, heat is just vibrating atoms, atoms causing other atoms to vibrate is sound.
The cross-platform element really isn't that important to Trolltech. BTW, don't those 50 developers cost you $4 million a year in wages? Doesn't the office they work in cost you more. $250k is chump change to you.
Wow ok, where to start. I have an opinion on 3d modelling programs: they're kitchen sinks. They break the fundamental rule about software, they do everything poorly instead of trying to do one thing well. All the parts that make up the "suite" of tools in a 3d modelling program are not accessible outside the environment so whenever you want to perform a simple task you have to fire up this behemoth of a program.
I recently decided to make a cal3d animation editor. It was very easy to do and I completed it quickly. Then I decided to write a GTK frontend. Unfortunately I find UI coding boring as pigshit so I quit. Maybe I'll finish it one day (like all my projects). This was one tool, it allowed you to pose a precreated cal3d model and animate between poses.
Cal3d is a good library, you can easily write a system to add Cal3d models to a scene and script them with something like Python (or whatever your favourite scripting language is). One could easily make some interesting movies with that. Of course, don't go looking for lip syncing yet.
So if you're gunna start coding, that's where I'd start. Alternatively you could go with a completely different animation library, there's a dozen of them.
You want tv downloads? Go make a tv show and license it under a permissive license. When there's a whole range of things to choose from the restrictive licensing tv creators will come around. It worked for software, it'll work for tv too. Can you imagine if RMS had taken the path that the warez kids of today had taken? We'd still have no Free Software. Now we have proprietary software companies making Free Software. What we need is a movement. Consider this, if everyone who fancied themselves as a script writer but was already happy in their current employment actually sat down and wrote a script now and then, and let others use their work we would have a wealth of good scripts available for amature actors to read from. Everyone who has a video camera should be filming everyone who thinks they have some acting ability. Then we should throw it all together and make some great shows.
Blah, if OpenOffice were to actually use GCJ there would have been no argument in the first place. The problem is they want to use third party code that has been written for Sun Java not GCJ. It's surprising, it really is. When people write stuff for Mono they don't go looking for code that someone has written for.Net and expect it to work out of the box. But when people write stuff for GCJ they always expect stuff written for Sun Java to work out of the box.
You may recall that the OpenOffice developers were complaining that there is very little community involvement in their project. As such, it's obvious they're not making concessions in the interest of peace, they're making concessions in an effort to stay relevant.
Government funded education campaigns never work. That's because government's cant do anything effectively. Privately funded education campaigns are notoriously cheap. Have a look at how simple the school meals program in the UK was to revamp. All it took was a famous chef with a camera crew.
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How could you play with fire like that? We loved you and now you're gone. Zion needed your guidance. Why couldn't you accept the truth about Neo? Neo wasn't a holy being, he and you were just pawns of the machines. Now you've martered yourself for a cause that wasn't worth fighting. The peace brought new hope for the matrix. Instead of being a place of oppression it could have been a place of beauty and eternal life. Bluepills could be taught the truth and continue their lives without ever having to jack out. But now Zion is divided. Those who seek revenge for your death will destroy the peace, the matrix will fall, and every bluepill will die.
You just did, every single one of them (except possibly Apollo which I've never heard of) has contributed changes to GCC. The fact that they have properietary compilers as well really proves nothing. Meanwhile, go look at the length of the contributors page.
We were talking about ancient history where you could actually start a chip company and compete in the UNIX server market on the strength of your architecture. Many many companies did this and the first thing they did was port GCC to their architecture, then compile their AT&T licensed UNIX to it.
Yes, that's right, I'm not talking about some wild theory about why licensing GCC with GNU was a good thing, I'm talking about documented history. There were (and still are) other alternatives to porting GCC but every one of them was inferior solely because anyone who put any work into them refused to give that work to others. The fact that RMS demanded that you give up your changes if you want to distribute GCC meant that all these little companies contributed a little bit of work each and the whole got built.
Methinks Joe used "objective" when he meant to use "subjective".
Yes, that's what you think.
Reporter: "Do you think MacOS is better than Windows?"
Bill Gates: "Hell no!"
Headline: Bill Gates Denies Allegation: Apple Makes Superior Product.
Check out this site.. I don't think millions is an overstatement.
That's cause you're a tool. Why go to the Mono team to get support? Why not go to one of the millions of companies that offer support for FOSS and buy a support contract?
There'd be nothing left of ROTS. On the other hand, I thought the film The Village would have been 100% better if they'd cut the early scene that reveals the "twist" of the film. You could actually have enjoyed the movie as a horror flick, the whole time thinking "man this is a cheap production" and then when the twist hits you could see that it wasn't a horror at all. In fact, I'd like to get that movie out on DVD and just press "skip" at the appropriate place for someone who has never seen the film.
Don't offer a prize. Offer a nice big advertisement on the front page of blender.org pointing to where the work can be downloaded and linking to the home page of the group that creates it, but don't offer a monetary prize. Why? Because when you offer a prize everything becomes an economic rationalisation. "Ok, the prize money is $10,000, that means I can work 100 hours on this thing and I shouldn't try to get others to help me cause then I'd have to give them a cut." People will always work more for kudos than prizes. Even if you offer to give kudos and a prize, people will think entirely in terms of the monetary value of that prize.
No, a BSD licensed compiler would never have matured as everyone who made a new cpu would have released a proprietary version of that compiler ported to their platform instead of giving the port back to the community. The GNU license is the only reason why GCC became as widely used as it was.
Yeah, and we didn't actually hear Theo's reply to RMS but you can be sure it was only two words.
You are aware that a massive energy discharge from those "lasers" would actually vibrate a nearby spacecraft and cause sound right? And lightsabers, duh, same deal but even more so. Don't believe me? Go listen to the hum of a florescent tube.. plasma is hot, heat is just vibrating atoms, atoms causing other atoms to vibrate is sound.
hehe, yes. All too often I see references to the speed of sound at sea level when the vehicle in question is most definitely not at sea level.
Jesus man! Did you ever stop to think that he might have been there? You insensitive clod.
The cross-platform element really isn't that important to Trolltech. BTW, don't those 50 developers cost you $4 million a year in wages? Doesn't the office they work in cost you more. $250k is chump change to you.
If your only ambitions are to get married and live in the burbs then nothing is going to help you.
Sony isn't 3 guys in a room. Different divisions of the company solve problems in different ways.
Uhhh. no, violating copyright is not "wrong". It's unlawful, and for that you can be sued, but it's not "wrong" in the moral sense.
Wow ok, where to start. I have an opinion on 3d modelling programs: they're kitchen sinks. They break the fundamental rule about software, they do everything poorly instead of trying to do one thing well. All the parts that make up the "suite" of tools in a 3d modelling program are not accessible outside the environment so whenever you want to perform a simple task you have to fire up this behemoth of a program.
I recently decided to make a cal3d animation editor. It was very easy to do and I completed it quickly. Then I decided to write a GTK frontend. Unfortunately I find UI coding boring as pigshit so I quit. Maybe I'll finish it one day (like all my projects). This was one tool, it allowed you to pose a precreated cal3d model and animate between poses.
Cal3d is a good library, you can easily write a system to add Cal3d models to a scene and script them with something like Python (or whatever your favourite scripting language is). One could easily make some interesting movies with that. Of course, don't go looking for lip syncing yet.
So if you're gunna start coding, that's where I'd start. Alternatively you could go with a completely different animation library, there's a dozen of them.
You want tv downloads? Go make a tv show and license it under a permissive license. When there's a whole range of things to choose from the restrictive licensing tv creators will come around. It worked for software, it'll work for tv too. Can you imagine if RMS had taken the path that the warez kids of today had taken? We'd still have no Free Software. Now we have proprietary software companies making Free Software. What we need is a movement. Consider this, if everyone who fancied themselves as a script writer but was already happy in their current employment actually sat down and wrote a script now and then, and let others use their work we would have a wealth of good scripts available for amature actors to read from. Everyone who has a video camera should be filming everyone who thinks they have some acting ability. Then we should throw it all together and make some great shows.
You don't BBQ? You don't BBQ?! God damn boy, put down that keyboard and go buy some coals and steaks.
Blah, if OpenOffice were to actually use GCJ there would have been no argument in the first place. The problem is they want to use third party code that has been written for Sun Java not GCJ. It's surprising, it really is. When people write stuff for Mono they don't go looking for code that someone has written for .Net and expect it to work out of the box. But when people write stuff for GCJ they always expect stuff written for Sun Java to work out of the box.
You may recall that the OpenOffice developers were complaining that there is very little community involvement in their project. As such, it's obvious they're not making concessions in the interest of peace, they're making concessions in an effort to stay relevant.
Only God knows how corporate sponsorship is justified.
Government funded education campaigns never work. That's because government's cant do anything effectively. Privately funded education campaigns are notoriously cheap. Have a look at how simple the school meals program in the UK was to revamp. All it took was a famous chef with a camera crew.