You are exchanging the word "consumer" with "customer". The members of a corp are not its customers, but they are probably "consumers in the United States".
I think this is the sticking point. You think that the corporation's employees would be considered consumers, but they wouldn't be. Corporations have special rights that allow them to be treated as individuals in certain ways. When the employees are acting for the corporation (ie, when they are working), they are all considered to be just a piece of one legal entity. The corporation is the consumer in this case, and not the employees. Since the corporation already has the source somewhere, the restrictions are satisfied. Your position is like saying that you are required to give the GPL'd source code you've modified to each of your skin cells.
Nevertheless, I would prefer it if GMail were GPL v3
Regardless of what you prefer, we're talking about copyright licenses. An addition like the one proposed would take the GPL from being solely a copyright license into the realm of being a usage license as well. Usage licenses are not on very firm legal ground, and most people object to them when they understand what they represent.
This addition would be tantamount to the GPL dictating software features (like the feature that allows users to download the source). I wouldn't go anywhere near code licensed like this. If I want to use some GPL'd code, I don't want to be forced to include any certain functionality just because of its license.
The articles that came out when the controller was revealed stated that you needed to place a small sensor on each side of your TV. As long as you place the sensors correctly, it would know exactly where your TV is, as well as its dimensions.
Sony doesn't care if you want to run your own code. Why should they? There's no legal or financial reason that they should let you. They made the machine, they can make it function however they like. It's your choice to buy one, after investigating its strengths and weaknesses.
I agree that people should be able to do what they want with their own property. Sony hasn't taken anyone to court over hacking their PSP, so I think they realize that legally they can't stop you. But they can make it harder to function in ways that doesn't bring them money. They are trying to run a business, after all.
No one is forcing you to buy a PSP. If you don't like the way Sony does business, take your business to someone you do like.
I started learning Haskell because of Pugs, as well. I agree with you. Haskell is more interesting and intriguing than Perl to me. I doubt that it will cause a revolution, though. I think one of your other responders hit it on the head: imperative programming is easier to pick up because it's just giving a list of instructions. People who don't have formal training in programming will be much more comfortable with a setup like that then trying to reason about abstract models, even if they are more powerful. Why do you think there are more accountants than abstract mathematicians? Because companies need someone to keep track of their finances, and accountants can do that with less training. Most business apps do not really need the power of Haskell. I write productivity apps for a county government, and I can tell you that almost every one is the same: store data in a database, pull it out for reports, maybe fiddle with it a bit. All that changes is the interface.
I admit to being kind of disappointed when I heard that about Larry.
Is it because you think intelligent people would obviously choose atheism? Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. You just need to look past the dogma that the outspoken zealots are spouting.
That will give you 30 users at a time, with a link at the bottom to go to the next 30. If you know approximately what UID you had, it makes it much easier than trying them one-by-one.
The new rage these days is pasting your sig into the post, so that astroturfers can put as much stupid advertising in as they want. Plus, you can't just turn sigs off to get rid of them. It's a win-win! Oh, wait.
I realize I'm a bit late in posting this response, but I wanted to say it anyway. The revolutionary part is not the controller itself. Its shape isn't new, motion detection isn't new. The revolutionary part is that this slightly different controller is the primary controller for a major game console. The possibilities that it opens for gaming is the revolution. If the main controller were just a variation on the norm, as the other consoles are doing, with this motion detecting one as an add-on for use with one or two games, it wouldn't be revolutionary because almost no one would develop anything significant for it. But the fact that it's the primary controller opens up gaming possibilities that the other consoles won't see this generation. That's the revolutionary aspect.
they are not trying to capture the whole gaming market, they are trying to capture a niche.. retro gamers / kids
I would say it the other way around. Sony and Microsoft are the ones going after a niche: the traditional gaming market. Nintendo is trying to get a much wider audience: the people who would never play what we think of as "normal" video games.
There is *no way* you can get the same precision by waving your arm around that you can with an analog control stick.
Why don't you think so? The linked 1-Up article stated that fine control was very easy and natural. I think you can hardly say that for analog sticks. As long as you have some kind of cursor or on-screen indicator, I think it'll be much easier than using thumbsticks.
I guess I don't really understand your objection to wanting a "full controller" as opposed to one you plug the wand into. You said it yourself:
The cost will probably be the same, and you'll still have another piece of hardware lying around when it's not in use, so what's the difference?
What is the difference? Why do you care if it's basically the same either way? Why are you objecting to it if getting a "full controller" is no better?
I wonder how long before MS and Sony offer gyro motion control on THEIR controllers...
Unless Sony gets it into their controllers soon (to give devs time), and confirms that it will actually be there for certain, it won't really matter. Microsoft has already missed the boat. Devs won't want to put something in their game that people would have to go out and get a special controller for, because people would be pissed about it. They could include the controller with the game, but that raises the game's price quite a bit, so it's probably not practical. I think at most, devs might throw something in that could allow the game to work with motion control if present, but only if it doesn't take too much more time or testing (since it's not likely to be used anyway). It's like the whole hard drive fiasco with the PS3: devs can't depend on it, so it won't get used much.
You might also want to check out the Hit-a-Hint extension. It's great for keyboard-only surfing. Basically, it works like this:
Hit a specified key to start hint mode.
Each link on the page will get a small floating label next to it.
Type the keys for a particular label and it will light up.
Hit Enter or Space to follow the link associated with that label.
You can configure which letters/numbers are used to create the labels, and which keys start hint mode. (There are two slightly different modes.) Shift-click and Ctrl-click also still work to open links in a new window or tab.
The space program is not going to give us a viable way to get off this planet before we ruin the ecology from pollution. Instead of gambling that we can move the entire population of earth off because something might happen, maybe it would be a good idea to first fix the problems that will definitely kill us.
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You are exchanging the word "consumer" with "customer". The members of a corp are not its customers, but they are probably "consumers in the United States".
I think this is the sticking point. You think that the corporation's employees would be considered consumers, but they wouldn't be. Corporations have special rights that allow them to be treated as individuals in certain ways. When the employees are acting for the corporation (ie, when they are working), they are all considered to be just a piece of one legal entity. The corporation is the consumer in this case, and not the employees. Since the corporation already has the source somewhere, the restrictions are satisfied. Your position is like saying that you are required to give the GPL'd source code you've modified to each of your skin cells.
Either that, or don't accept that change into your source tree.
Nevertheless, I would prefer it if GMail were GPL v3
Regardless of what you prefer, we're talking about copyright licenses. An addition like the one proposed would take the GPL from being solely a copyright license into the realm of being a usage license as well. Usage licenses are not on very firm legal ground, and most people object to them when they understand what they represent.
This addition would be tantamount to the GPL dictating software features (like the feature that allows users to download the source). I wouldn't go anywhere near code licensed like this. If I want to use some GPL'd code, I don't want to be forced to include any certain functionality just because of its license.
Speaking of Ogg, whatever happened to Theora?
The articles that came out when the controller was revealed stated that you needed to place a small sensor on each side of your TV. As long as you place the sensors correctly, it would know exactly where your TV is, as well as its dimensions.
Sony doesn't care if you want to run your own code. Why should they? There's no legal or financial reason that they should let you. They made the machine, they can make it function however they like. It's your choice to buy one, after investigating its strengths and weaknesses.
I agree that people should be able to do what they want with their own property. Sony hasn't taken anyone to court over hacking their PSP, so I think they realize that legally they can't stop you. But they can make it harder to function in ways that doesn't bring them money. They are trying to run a business, after all.
No one is forcing you to buy a PSP. If you don't like the way Sony does business, take your business to someone you do like.
Admit it, you created a Slashdot account just to post this. All that effort, and no one here cares.
I started learning Haskell because of Pugs, as well. I agree with you. Haskell is more interesting and intriguing than Perl to me. I doubt that it will cause a revolution, though. I think one of your other responders hit it on the head: imperative programming is easier to pick up because it's just giving a list of instructions. People who don't have formal training in programming will be much more comfortable with a setup like that then trying to reason about abstract models, even if they are more powerful. Why do you think there are more accountants than abstract mathematicians? Because companies need someone to keep track of their finances, and accountants can do that with less training. Most business apps do not really need the power of Haskell. I write productivity apps for a county government, and I can tell you that almost every one is the same: store data in a database, pull it out for reports, maybe fiddle with it a bit. All that changes is the interface.
Use the "Print" link at the top of the article. You get the entire thing on one long page. Much easier to read.
I admit to being kind of disappointed when I heard that about Larry.
Is it because you think intelligent people would obviously choose atheism? Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. You just need to look past the dogma that the outspoken zealots are spouting.
One of the best grammar jokes I've seen. I wish I had mod points for you.
A faster way to list UIDs than shown by the other responder is to use this page:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?op=users
That will give you 30 users at a time, with a link at the bottom to go to the next 30. If you know approximately what UID you had, it makes it much easier than trying them one-by-one.
How about using the Preview button and actually reading what you wrote? You've got as long a grace period as you want before hitting Submit.
Just get him one if these.
The new rage these days is pasting your sig into the post, so that astroturfers can put as much stupid advertising in as they want. Plus, you can't just turn sigs off to get rid of them. It's a win-win! Oh, wait.
I realize I'm a bit late in posting this response, but I wanted to say it anyway. The revolutionary part is not the controller itself. Its shape isn't new, motion detection isn't new. The revolutionary part is that this slightly different controller is the primary controller for a major game console. The possibilities that it opens for gaming is the revolution. If the main controller were just a variation on the norm, as the other consoles are doing, with this motion detecting one as an add-on for use with one or two games, it wouldn't be revolutionary because almost no one would develop anything significant for it. But the fact that it's the primary controller opens up gaming possibilities that the other consoles won't see this generation. That's the revolutionary aspect.
they are not trying to capture the whole gaming market, they are trying to capture a niche.. retro gamers / kids
I would say it the other way around. Sony and Microsoft are the ones going after a niche: the traditional gaming market. Nintendo is trying to get a much wider audience: the people who would never play what we think of as "normal" video games.
There is *no way* you can get the same precision by waving your arm around that you can with an analog control stick.
Why don't you think so? The linked 1-Up article stated that fine control was very easy and natural. I think you can hardly say that for analog sticks. As long as you have some kind of cursor or on-screen indicator, I think it'll be much easier than using thumbsticks.
I guess I don't really understand your objection to wanting a "full controller" as opposed to one you plug the wand into. You said it yourself:
The cost will probably be the same, and you'll still have another piece of hardware lying around when it's not in use, so what's the difference?
What is the difference? Why do you care if it's basically the same either way? Why are you objecting to it if getting a "full controller" is no better?
I wonder how long before MS and Sony offer gyro motion control on THEIR controllers...
Unless Sony gets it into their controllers soon (to give devs time), and confirms that it will actually be there for certain, it won't really matter. Microsoft has already missed the boat. Devs won't want to put something in their game that people would have to go out and get a special controller for, because people would be pissed about it. They could include the controller with the game, but that raises the game's price quite a bit, so it's probably not practical. I think at most, devs might throw something in that could allow the game to work with motion control if present, but only if it doesn't take too much more time or testing (since it's not likely to be used anyway). It's like the whole hard drive fiasco with the PS3: devs can't depend on it, so it won't get used much.
You can also use Ctrl-G and Shift-Ctrl-G for next and previous, so you don't have to move your hand all the way to the F-keys.
I think he means he'd like to see that option in Safari.
- Hit a specified key to start hint mode.
- Each link on the page will get a small floating label next to it.
- Type the keys for a particular label and it will light up.
- Hit Enter or Space to follow the link associated with that label.
You can configure which letters/numbers are used to create the labels, and which keys start hint mode. (There are two slightly different modes.) Shift-click and Ctrl-click also still work to open links in a new window or tab.Parent is absolutely correct. For more on the topic, read about the broken window fallacy.
The space program is not going to give us a viable way to get off this planet before we ruin the ecology from pollution. Instead of gambling that we can move the entire population of earth off because something might happen, maybe it would be a good idea to first fix the problems that will definitely kill us.