"EXACTLY I would LOVE to say my copy of XP is legit, but I am not made of money, and Microsoft IS. $299 indeed... I bought SuSe Pro for $79 this year. MS can bite me. Sorry, but they rip people off big time. 50BILLION in the bank proves it."
So you spent more on SuSe Pro then an OEM copy of Windows XP Home would have run you. But you complain that XP is overpriced. Shesh.
But then you seem to have the opinion that any company that shows profit must be a rip off, so color me unsurprised.
"I could see maybe $99 or something, but it's overpriced and bug ridden."
Its not over priced just because its more then you want to spend. Untill you figure out how basic economics work, there's just no helping you. Or would you be OK with your employer deciding that your services are overpriced so they wont be paying you anymore (but dont stop showing up for work)?
If everyone shares the general opinion that people like Ms Sears and the rest of the crap spewed by the record labels isn't worth paying for, then who is doing the buying? I hate to break it to you, but there just isn't that much baby sitting money going around for the CDs to be purchased by pre-teens. Spears, Backstreet Boys etc SELL! Thats why they exist. Whats more, saying that the music is crap so they shouldn't get mad when I download it is basackwards. If its crap, there should be zero piracy. Why would you want to download it? If music is worth the download, its worth the 15$ for the CD. Everyone proclaiming the music to be bad seems to just be trying to come up with a reason to justify their disregard for the work of others.
That having been said, I think the music is crap. But you wont catch me downloading it. For music I like, the cost of the CD is nothing VS the amount of enjoyment I get from it.
This has got to be the most inane paranoid rambling I've read since I flipped thourgh an X-Files novel. How do people who think like this even function? I would be suprised that they could even make it to the store to buy food without having a fit because everyone was out to get them.
"F-ck you all, I never wanted to make star wars in the first place. The special additions are as close as I can now get to what I realy wanted. I wont release the originals because the millions of fans that want to buy them wouldn't (or so the force tells me). Just buy my crap and shut the hell up."
While the above is paraphrased, its more or less whats in the interview.
check me on this, but dont "from-the-network" images get downloaded to cache and then opened? If so then gdk-pixbuf would still be used to load the local cached image for display.
I've looked at the three aps you list and I feel I kick their ass in terms of features and usability. Most of them are a joke. (shrug) look at Hotdog Pro and Home Site Builder for examples of apps I'm competing with. Also, as I said, there are a LOT of people using Net Weasel. So they must think its worth the trouble of at least cracking (or ignoring the nag screen).
They where saying "look, its a N64!" and the demo was not running on any N64 hardwre but on an SGI reality engine. The end product was nothing like what the big N was claiming at the time.
Nothing, I repeate NOTHING, is 100% secure so long as it is still usable. Tossing a hard disk into a volcano is about as close to 100% secure as you can get, but you may have trouble decrypting the data later.
"He wants Apple to let him install his music on the iPod, but won't let us install it on our Mac OS computers."
If you can find a way to install his music on your Mac he wont stop you. However no company can throw money away by supporting a platform that wont recoup the cost of devlopment. This is just sound buisness stratagy. The iPod is the #1 MP3/DRM player on the market, so they want to support it. The Macintosh is not the #1 desktop platform on the market, so they dont want to support it. Seems to be logical to me.
OK, I'll bite. What feature did you find it lacking?
I designed the application to compete with the likes of Home Site Builder and Hotdog Pro and I like to think that it offers a good package in a small foot print for far less money then such applications.
As for the implication that its a "hobbyist programming example from a learning book", you must have some realy advanced books. Net Weasel is over one million lines of code that I wrote in about three years (give or take). While you are welcome to your opinion, and I admit that I am very bad at describing what makes my application good without sitting down and demoing it, I challange you to point out any open source or "hobbyist programming example" editor that can match mines features.
"Why? If your goal is to make money, I submit the market has already shown you what people are willing to pay for an HTML editor."
Because I use the program myself. In addition, the market has indeed shown what its willing to pay for a HTML editor, just look at programs like Home Site Builder.
"There is no such thing as an elastic supply/demand curve in software. Even if the developer charged $20, everybody will still use the crack. Laziness, cheapness, whatever. And for their $20, they will expect real effort for support and upgrades. Its a joke."
I too have been stung by rampant piracy, however I would never do what these authors did for fear of the potential legal and ethical problems it could cause to knowingly sabotage someone's system. In my case the software in question is Net Weasel, a small HTML editor that has had millions of downloads, has several thousand active users bugging me for support and zero registrations (that's right, not a single person willing to pony up any money). Yet people still email me claiming to have a legitimate copy and demanding that I fix bugs or release a new version. As it happens I do have an updated version I use myself and I'm working on a 2.0, but until I come up with a way to stop people from writing cracks its just not worth my time to release. I'm already compressing and encrypting the executable, there's a point when the copy protection gets to be a bigger project then the application itself.
Why? You can get a 1U Sun system for under 1k$. A dual AMD 64 system comes in under 5K$ as well. I'm not saying that the IBM system isn't worth the money, just that it isn't "low cost".
"I thought the artists sign over the IP rights to the corporations who produce (sell) their music... so stronger IP rights wouldn't help the musician at all, just the corporation.."
They do. And in my opinion they shouldn't be able to. I dont think that copyright should be transferable, however they could still contract with a record label for promotion etc but the record companies would then be working for the artists and not the other way around.
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So you spent more on SuSe Pro then an OEM copy of Windows XP Home would have run you. But you complain that XP is overpriced. Shesh.
But then you seem to have the opinion that any company that shows profit must be a rip off, so color me unsurprised.
Its not over priced just because its more then you want to spend. Untill you figure out how basic economics work, there's just no helping you. Or would you be OK with your employer deciding that your services are overpriced so they wont be paying you anymore (but dont stop showing up for work)?
That having been said, I think the music is crap. But you wont catch me downloading it. For music I like, the cost of the CD is nothing VS the amount of enjoyment I get from it.
This has got to be the most inane paranoid rambling I've read since I flipped thourgh an X-Files novel. How do people who think like this even function? I would be suprised that they could even make it to the store to buy food without having a fit because everyone was out to get them.
While the above is paraphrased, its more or less whats in the interview.
Well ok then.
check me on this, but dont "from-the-network" images get downloaded to cache and then opened? If so then gdk-pixbuf would still be used to load the local cached image for display.
I've looked at the three aps you list and I feel I kick their ass in terms of features and usability. Most of them are a joke. (shrug) look at Hotdog Pro and Home Site Builder for examples of apps I'm competing with. Also, as I said, there are a LOT of people using Net Weasel. So they must think its worth the trouble of at least cracking (or ignoring the nag screen).
They where saying "look, its a N64!" and the demo was not running on any N64 hardwre but on an SGI reality engine. The end product was nothing like what the big N was claiming at the time.
I recall a demo of the Nintendo 64 that had an SGI reality engine system under the table.
Getting rid of file/drive size limitations for the foreseeable future?
Of course ZFS is the last word in file systems. I mean, what can come after zed?
Nothing, I repeate NOTHING, is 100% secure so long as it is still usable. Tossing a hard disk into a volcano is about as close to 100% secure as you can get, but you may have trouble decrypting the data later.
If you can find a way to install his music on your Mac he wont stop you. However no company can throw money away by supporting a platform that wont recoup the cost of devlopment. This is just sound buisness stratagy. The iPod is the #1 MP3/DRM player on the market, so they want to support it. The Macintosh is not the #1 desktop platform on the market, so they dont want to support it. Seems to be logical to me.
I designed the application to compete with the likes of Home Site Builder and Hotdog Pro and I like to think that it offers a good package in a small foot print for far less money then such applications.
As for the implication that its a "hobbyist programming example from a learning book", you must have some realy advanced books. Net Weasel is over one million lines of code that I wrote in about three years (give or take). While you are welcome to your opinion, and I admit that I am very bad at describing what makes my application good without sitting down and demoing it, I challange you to point out any open source or "hobbyist programming example" editor that can match mines features.
Because I use the program myself. In addition, the market has indeed shown what its willing to pay for a HTML editor, just look at programs like Home Site Builder.
As it turns out, I am charging 20$.
I too have been stung by rampant piracy, however I would never do what these authors did for fear of the potential legal and ethical problems it could cause to knowingly sabotage someone's system. In my case the software in question is Net Weasel, a small HTML editor that has had millions of downloads, has several thousand active users bugging me for support and zero registrations (that's right, not a single person willing to pony up any money). Yet people still email me claiming to have a legitimate copy and demanding that I fix bugs or release a new version. As it happens I do have an updated version I use myself and I'm working on a 2.0, but until I come up with a way to stop people from writing cracks its just not worth my time to release. I'm already compressing and encrypting the executable, there's a point when the copy protection gets to be a bigger project then the application itself.
Why? You can get a 1U Sun system for under 1k$. A dual AMD 64 system comes in under 5K$ as well. I'm not saying that the IBM system isn't worth the money, just that it isn't "low cost".
Odds are that it wont. Diferent (if similar) CPU and architecture. Also, since when is 5k$ low cost?
You calling me stupid? I'll bust a cap in yo ass!
Much more then 14.7 pounds per square inch and I go squelch.
No?
Never mind then, its YALD (yet another linux distro).
They do. And in my opinion they shouldn't be able to. I dont think that copyright should be transferable, however they could still contract with a record label for promotion etc but the record companies would then be working for the artists and not the other way around.
You dont, you just need excell to be able to import .XLS files into the table editor. Without excell you can still import .CSV files however.