Is there a way to watch this without a Windows box? Did soneone put it on youtube or something similar?
I tried reading the source (usually there's a.wmv or.avi url somewhere in all the javascript mess), but I couldn't find an url for a stream or media file to fetch.
Speed has a lot to say about user experience. It feels slow, which makes it fell like a huge bloated application. Somehow that needs to change, at least before I personally would feel better using it.
Then egain, I may really just be in the market for a.pages ->.odt converter, rather than a full OOo suite...
What about freedom of supporting my family by writting commericial software?
You are free to write commercial software to support your family, but you have to write it yourself. You cannot use stuff other people made to support yourself or your family. You are free to write your own commercial software, even with GPLv3
What about the ethics of supply and demand and making money for myself, boss, and family?
What about them? Supply and demand does not change at all because of any version of GPL! As for making money for yourself and your boss: See above.
Free software has devalued alot (sic) of software
Alternatives to a lot of software, which was not available to the general public has been made available by way of FOSS. This has only devaluated software which was inferior to the FOSS alternatives. Example: For all the great features of Gimp, Photoshop is still very successful, and to my knowledge the price tag hasn't gone down because of Gimp.
The BSD folks would argue their licnese respects both rights. Linus thinks if Tivo wants to use his software then great. Its for everyone and not just for hackers living in their mom's basement.
How witty. Given time you might even be able to dress yourself one day.
Yes quite witty, if I may say so myself. And to the point. Sadly it caused you to degenerate into name calling. At what point did I offend you so much that you felt the need for personal insults?
It may be me being spoiled by the graphics available on my PS3 system, but I think the screenshots look rather dull and unexciting... I have no clue about the gameplay (haven't looked into it yet), but even the best gameplay can't overcome graphics which looks a couple of years old...
If it's supposed to be new and exciting, at least make it look new and exciting as well... Then, if it looks better than the MMORPGs on the marked then we can get into if it has better gameplay.
But then again, maybe I'm just not be in the target audience for MMORPGs anymore...
Actually, they don't have to bundle Firefox at all, they just have to throw out their own rendering engine and embed Gecko in IE. They are allowed to do so, and (if they are sincere in declaring the war over) have nothing to loose by doing so.
They might even have an option to embed khtml in IE as well.
As for Opera, well, it costs real money. If people want to buy extra software they should be allowed to do so, but I see no reason to make Windows even more expensive by bundling it.
"The Battle of Dorking" (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney
The original piece upon which works such as "The War of the Worlds" (1898), by H. G. Wells was derived.
From which games like "Space Invaders" (1978) by Toshihiro Nishikado, Taito was derived.
1871 is arguably a long way back to go to find an original piece, but it took me all of 10 minutes with google and wikipedia to find the origial piece from which Space Invaders (which is itself rather original and ground breaking) was derived.
Space Invaders is (aside from being inspired by "The War of the Worlds") a very good example of semi-recent original art in that it was the forerunner for modern video gaming.
Also, "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien can be said to be an original work, which is not derived from somebody else's.
Given that the nature of venture capitalism is to fund startups, at what point do you pull out? Is there a critical size of a company which is a warning to pull out and cash in? If so, what size is it?
To put it more precisely: When, in your opinion, does a startup stop being a startup, and do you pull out and cash in when that point is reached?
Q. Since when is it the right of the company to do anything?
A. Since I agreed to it.
No matter how many contracts you sign it is still not possible to agree to something which is against the law. If I sign a contract where (for instance) I have to give you my first born, then you still don't get rights to my first born, since that would be illegal. Hence I cannot legally agree to any illegal contract. Therefore the companies do not get any new rights even if they pput them in their contracts...
The cost was only $20/month above what my dynamic DSL account was costing
$20 extra for a static ip? That's hardly cheap. Here in Denmark I pay a whopping approx. $1 extra for a static ip. But then again 20Mbit connection is merely approx. $100 a month, if you want it.
Restricting access to math graduates (or any other small group) is usable in many places. I am running a couplpe of instiki installations with captchas that can only be solved by danish people. This works out great for me. No spam and all the feedback I want.
As for my blog - it's ajax submissions only. That won't keep this kind of people away, but I have the entire APNIC blocked in my firewall, which tends to keep most of the unwanted traffic away...
Notice how in his iChat bashing he neglected to mention desktop sharing. Which I would also neglect to mention if I had to say that there were no major features. Adding desktop sharing is indeed a major feature.
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Nevermind, I found it myself...
For those besides me who would like to get hold of the raw movie file, without all the javascript and ad mess, here's the plain .wmv.
Is there a way to watch this without a Windows box? Did soneone put it on youtube or something similar?
.wmv or .avi url somewhere in all the javascript mess), but I couldn't find an url for a stream or media file to fetch.
I tried reading the source (usually there's a
Speed has a lot to say about user experience. It feels slow, which makes it fell like a huge bloated application. Somehow that needs to change, at least before I personally would feel better using it.
.pages -> .odt converter, rather than a full OOo suite...
Then egain, I may really just be in the market for a
You are free to write commercial software to support your family, but you have to write it yourself. You cannot use stuff other people made to support yourself or your family. You are free to write your own commercial software, even with GPLv3
What about them? Supply and demand does not change at all because of any version of GPL! As for making money for yourself and your boss: See above.
Alternatives to a lot of software, which was not available to the general public has been made available by way of FOSS. This has only devaluated software which was inferior to the FOSS alternatives. Example: For all the great features of Gimp, Photoshop is still very successful, and to my knowledge the price tag hasn't gone down because of Gimp.
I agree.
Aside from the obvious Opera plug, how does this relate to spell checking source code?
Yes quite witty, if I may say so myself. And to the point. Sadly it caused you to degenerate into name calling. At what point did I offend you so much that you felt the need for personal insults?
Bah, this is the year of Vista on the desktop!
No, only Microsoft get to do that.
Oh... wow! That's a cool feature! I really want that! Oh wait, I already have it...
He found another job and changed his opinions, RTFA.
It may be me being spoiled by the graphics available on my PS3 system, but I think the screenshots look rather dull and unexciting... I have no clue about the gameplay (haven't looked into it yet), but even the best gameplay can't overcome graphics which looks a couple of years old...
If it's supposed to be new and exciting, at least make it look new and exciting as well... Then, if it looks better than the MMORPGs on the marked then we can get into if it has better gameplay.
But then again, maybe I'm just not be in the target audience for MMORPGs anymore...
Actually, they don't have to bundle Firefox at all, they just have to throw out their own rendering engine and embed Gecko in IE. They are allowed to do so, and (if they are sincere in declaring the war over) have nothing to loose by doing so.
They might even have an option to embed khtml in IE as well.
As for Opera, well, it costs real money. If people want to buy extra software they should be allowed to do so, but I see no reason to make Windows even more expensive by bundling it.
I agree completely, which is why I immediately adopted it into my vocabulary :)
To your defence, those puritans were Europeans who, at the time, viewed themselves as superior.
On the other hand, those snooby Europeans moved past viewing themselves as superior (at least most of them).
Similar ideas have been in production for a while...
A flying alarm clock accomplishes the same task, plus: IT'S FLYING
"The Battle of Dorking" (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney
The original piece upon which works such as "The War of the Worlds" (1898), by H. G. Wells was derived.
From which games like "Space Invaders" (1978) by Toshihiro Nishikado, Taito was derived.
1871 is arguably a long way back to go to find an original piece, but it took me all of 10 minutes with google and wikipedia to find the origial piece from which Space Invaders (which is itself rather original and ground breaking) was derived.
Space Invaders is (aside from being inspired by "The War of the Worlds") a very good example of semi-recent original art in that it was the forerunner for modern video gaming.
Also, "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien can be said to be an original work, which is not derived from somebody else's.
Given that the nature of venture capitalism is to fund startups, at what point do you pull out? Is there a critical size of a company which is a warning to pull out and cash in? If so, what size is it?
To put it more precisely: When, in your opinion, does a startup stop being a startup, and do you pull out and cash in when that point is reached?
No matter how many contracts you sign it is still not possible to agree to something which is against the law. If I sign a contract where (for instance) I have to give you my first born, then you still don't get rights to my first born, since that would be illegal. Hence I cannot legally agree to any illegal contract. Therefore the companies do not get any new rights even if they pput them in their contracts...
$20 extra for a static ip? That's hardly cheap. Here in Denmark I pay a whopping approx. $1 extra for a static ip. But then again 20Mbit connection is merely approx. $100 a month, if you want it.
Restricting access to math graduates (or any other small group) is usable in many places. I am running a couplpe of instiki installations with captchas that can only be solved by danish people. This works out great for me. No spam and all the feedback I want.
As for my blog - it's ajax submissions only. That won't keep this kind of people away, but I have the entire APNIC blocked in my firewall, which tends to keep most of the unwanted traffic away...
Where exactly is it supposed to be?
Yep! Like most other applications in OS X, Safari is completely self contained. Deleting the /Applications/Safari folder rids you completely of Safari.
Notice how in his iChat bashing he neglected to mention desktop sharing. Which I would also neglect to mention if I had to say that there were no major features. Adding desktop sharing is indeed a major feature.
Funny? Was I being funny?
The new duo core CPUs have facilities for this. See Parallels for the first signs of alt tab'ing between OS'es.
In addition rumor has it that Leopard (the next version of OS X) will have something like this built in.