No offense meant to anyone, it's just that Slashdot is the worst place I've been for audio visual advices.
That's just because you know a little bit about audio-visual. I assure you -- if you knew a bit about other tech subjects, you'd quickly realize that Slashdot is the worst place for any kind of advice.
Well, duh... he's spent the last two years becoming l33t. Didn't you know -- learning obscure command line switches to random programs is far, far more important than learning computer science, or theory, or doing real work.
Only because the intent of this software was never to be sold.
I am incapable of understanding how this could matter. The "intent" of a business is to make money. If your VP flew into town (or came out of his magic broom closet, or whatever) to ask if there's any prospect your project will ever be worth anything to the company, there's a pretty good chance someone above him is asking him to justify it.
I'm not saying that you're in trouble for suggesting open source. I am suggesting that companies don't like to spend money forever and ever, without some hope of a return on investment. Eventually, someone is going to suture the wound closed, so that the company stops bleeding cash out of your department. Figure out where you're going to be when that happens.
Do you want my honest opinion? Polish your resume.
Your department just spent the two million dollars developing a project that, by your own admission, probably isn't worth more than $10,000. Not only that, but it's a project that's still bleeding cash, and is a maintenance headache to boot. Seriously, if you're still spending cash on this thing, and it's not making the company any money, and there's no prospect of ever making money...
Well, let's just be blunt: every group has at least one smarmy little cocksucker with a well pressed shirt but no technical skills, who makes a point to go out for drinks with the VP every time he's in town. That guy still has a job in two months. There's a good chance you won't.
Do you ask Yamaha for permission to use the sound from their piano in a recording?
No, of course not... if you hear someone doing a cool riff on the piano and you decide to record it and sell it, you don't ask Yamaha for permission. As long as you own a Yamaha piano of your own, you're perfectly free to copy and distribute any song performed by anyone, as long as they perform it on a Yamaha piano.
Similarly, if you own a copy of Adobe Photoshop, the license explicitly gives you permission to copy and distribute any work done by any artist, as long as that artist used PhotoShop at some point in the creation of the work.
Regardless, it's very, very unlikely that the intellectual property lawyers for a book publisher have ever heard of "fair use", and they are probably unfamiliar with the concept of "derived work." Simply show them this discussion, and the bright, clear, and applicable examples provided by many helpful slashdot posters, and you'll be in the clear.
So, unless you're talking about trademark, there aren't any copyright issues in reproducing the output of GPLed programs.
Exactly. The GPL has absolutely no bearing on the output of the program, and introduces exactly zero issues.
Just because Apple uses GCC, that doesn't make OS X free, does it? That doesn't mean you get to copy their graphics for your book, does it? No, of course not, on both counts.
Oh thank god. It's just a throwaway line, written by an intern, in pre-alpha version of a manual, that says they currently aren't using OpenFirmware in their developer machines.
Basically, it just says, "we do not promise to use open firmware," not "we promise not to use open firmware."
If you can't package it up for sale to paying customers, you can't package it up for the Open Source market, either.
If you can't support paying customers, you can't support the Open Source market, either.
If you're never going to have more than a few dozen paying customers, you're never going to have more than a few dozen Open Source customers, either.
Seriously, if you're an R&D branch, just toss the package over the wall to production, and let them figure out what to do with it. If you're afraid of getting support calls, or bug reports, or feature requests after it's left R&D, then that's a conversation you should be having with the VP. Idle speculation about how many people might find the software useful, or how useful they'll find it, really doesn't do you very much good.
Well, you've kind of proved my point. HD televisions have something like a 10% or 15% market penetration for a few years -- it's almost inconcievable that she hasn't seen an HDTV before.
But, yours is the first TV where she's ever seen a difference. In other words, of the hundreds of HDTV she's seen, yours is the very first, ever, to be running on an HD signal. The other 99 of the 100 she's seen have all been running at normal resolution. And that's why it makes absolutely no difference if Nintendo sells an HDTV or normal resolution player -- 99% of people who own HDTV won't know the difference.
The only interesting thing about the article was that in four tries, they managed to find someone who worked in retail who wasn't a rude clueless prick.
Exactly. Anime is the Japanese word for animation. Pixar does anime. Snow White is anime. The damned flip book you made in third grade was anime.
Anime means animation. Of course, I have absolutely no clue why any American or native english speaker would ever actually say the word Anime. It seems like an insanely pretentious thing to do.
If by "anime" you mean animation targetted toward stupid american fad-boy geeks, then yes... it will go away, just like riced out honda civics and stupid-ass square emo glasses eventually will go away.
But if you mean animation targetted toward a japanese audience, then no... obviously that will not go away. The popularity of animation doesn't seem to wane at all, and if you include animated movies with a few live action pieces (like the most recent Star Wars), its probably increasing in popularity. And, there's no reason to assume the Japanese market is going away.
My guess is that in 20 years, we'll still have the same discussion, with "India" as a substitute for "Japan." Oh, and the stupid american fad-boys will have some other stupid word to shove in their mouth and worship like a ripe cock, just like they say "manga" today.
The US box office for Princess Mononoke was $2.3 million, total.
The US box office for Spirited Away was $10 million, total.
Howls Moving Castle is currently playing at maybe half a dozen screens in the entire United States, and probably didn't break a few hundred thousand dollars on its opening weekend.
In comparison, Madagascar made $18 million, just last weekend, and nearly $130 million total US box office in the last three weeks.
Hmm... yeah, I bet Disney is going to get right on that Studio Ghibli thing.
If Linux is going to succeed on in gaining Desktop Market share. You should really listen to the rants of people who tried the platform and then ditched it.
Why? Everyone who can do anything about it is smart enough to recognize the problem, and to recognize that the linux development model will offer solutions very sloooooowly, if ever.
Everyone who can't do anything about it is bitching and moaning on slashdot.
The current Linux development model will never produce a working desktop system. The current development model will never produce anything but what linux is -- a very good clone of a 70's operating system, updated for the 90's.
This guy just bolted a very ugly sheet metal box in front of the fans on his G5. And, the bolts stick through the grill outside the case.
About the only thing I could compare this to is slapping narrow high profile snow tires on the back of a civic, to jack it up and make it look more aggressive. Or, possibly gluing a wing to the trunk, upside down, with elmers glue.
Furthermore, the FCC changed the timings of the US HD rollout (as previously covered on/.) making it far more agressive meaning that more than 10% of the american households will have HD in the relatively near future.
No, they didn't. The FCC made the rollout to digital more aggressive, not high definition. Those are two different things.
Seriously, with the amount of confusion around television standards, I figure the marketing department at Nintendo will be perfectly justified slapping "HD compatible" on the side of the box, so that anyone who was going to buy a Nintendo won't have excuse not to buy it. Since the majority of Americans with HD televisions have never seen an HD signal on the box anyhow, they'll never know the difference.
"Look! Mario looks so totally awesome in High Def on my TV! I can tell the difference, just like when I watch DVD's!"
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No offense meant to anyone, it's just that Slashdot is the worst place I've been for audio visual advices.
That's just because you know a little bit about audio-visual. I assure you -- if you knew a bit about other tech subjects, you'd quickly realize that Slashdot is the worst place for any kind of advice.
You should mind your p's and q's, because it's clear that you're unfamiliar with the apostrophe and its beauty.
Well, duh... he's spent the last two years becoming l33t. Didn't you know -- learning obscure command line switches to random programs is far, far more important than learning computer science, or theory, or doing real work.
It's a shame that you post at 0, my friend. This was well done.
I know I could use an emulator such as Wine to use Endnote but that defeats the object of switching to Linux.
And the object of switching to Linux is... what, exactly?
Only because the intent of this software was never to be sold.
I am incapable of understanding how this could matter. The "intent" of a business is to make money. If your VP flew into town (or came out of his magic broom closet, or whatever) to ask if there's any prospect your project will ever be worth anything to the company, there's a pretty good chance someone above him is asking him to justify it.
I'm not saying that you're in trouble for suggesting open source. I am suggesting that companies don't like to spend money forever and ever, without some hope of a return on investment. Eventually, someone is going to suture the wound closed, so that the company stops bleeding cash out of your department. Figure out where you're going to be when that happens.
Do you want my honest opinion? Polish your resume.
Your department just spent the two million dollars developing a project that, by your own admission, probably isn't worth more than $10,000. Not only that, but it's a project that's still bleeding cash, and is a maintenance headache to boot. Seriously, if you're still spending cash on this thing, and it's not making the company any money, and there's no prospect of ever making money...
Well, let's just be blunt: every group has at least one smarmy little cocksucker with a well pressed shirt but no technical skills, who makes a point to go out for drinks with the VP every time he's in town. That guy still has a job in two months. There's a good chance you won't.
In 4-6, there are exactly 2 Jedi, one of whom is dead for 2 movies, the other only becomes even a Padawan about halfway through the second movie.
Yep, there are only two Jedi in 4-6: Luke, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin.
Apparently, the movies don't teach you to count.
Do you ask Yamaha for permission to use the sound from their piano in a recording?
No, of course not... if you hear someone doing a cool riff on the piano and you decide to record it and sell it, you don't ask Yamaha for permission. As long as you own a Yamaha piano of your own, you're perfectly free to copy and distribute any song performed by anyone, as long as they perform it on a Yamaha piano.
Similarly, if you own a copy of Adobe Photoshop, the license explicitly gives you permission to copy and distribute any work done by any artist, as long as that artist used PhotoShop at some point in the creation of the work.
Regardless, it's very, very unlikely that the intellectual property lawyers for a book publisher have ever heard of "fair use", and they are probably unfamiliar with the concept of "derived work." Simply show them this discussion, and the bright, clear, and applicable examples provided by many helpful slashdot posters, and you'll be in the clear.
So, unless you're talking about trademark, there aren't any copyright issues in reproducing the output of GPLed programs.
Exactly. The GPL has absolutely no bearing on the output of the program, and introduces exactly zero issues.
Just because Apple uses GCC, that doesn't make OS X free, does it? That doesn't mean you get to copy their graphics for your book, does it? No, of course not, on both counts.
Oh thank god. It's just a throwaway line, written by an intern, in pre-alpha version of a manual, that says they currently aren't using OpenFirmware in their developer machines.
Basically, it just says, "we do not promise to use open firmware," not "we promise not to use open firmware."
they will not be using openfirmware
You're kidding, right? Is this just an ill-informed slashdot rumor, or is this true?
If you can't package it up for sale to paying customers, you can't package it up for the Open Source market, either.
If you can't support paying customers, you can't support the Open Source market, either.
If you're never going to have more than a few dozen paying customers, you're never going to have more than a few dozen Open Source customers, either.
Seriously, if you're an R&D branch, just toss the package over the wall to production, and let them figure out what to do with it. If you're afraid of getting support calls, or bug reports, or feature requests after it's left R&D, then that's a conversation you should be having with the VP. Idle speculation about how many people might find the software useful, or how useful they'll find it, really doesn't do you very much good.
Not from independent sources, no.
Well, you've kind of proved my point. HD televisions have something like a 10% or 15% market penetration for a few years -- it's almost inconcievable that she hasn't seen an HDTV before.
But, yours is the first TV where she's ever seen a difference. In other words, of the hundreds of HDTV she's seen, yours is the very first, ever, to be running on an HD signal. The other 99 of the 100 she's seen have all been running at normal resolution. And that's why it makes absolutely no difference if Nintendo sells an HDTV or normal resolution player -- 99% of people who own HDTV won't know the difference.
The point is not whether or not I've ever seen HD television. The point is that the majority of people who own HD televisions have never seen HD.
The only interesting thing about the article was that in four tries, they managed to find someone who worked in retail who wasn't a rude clueless prick.
Exactly. Anime is the Japanese word for animation. Pixar does anime. Snow White is anime. The damned flip book you made in third grade was anime.
Anime means animation. Of course, I have absolutely no clue why any American or native english speaker would ever actually say the word Anime. It seems like an insanely pretentious thing to do.
If by "anime" you mean animation targetted toward stupid american fad-boy geeks, then yes... it will go away, just like riced out honda civics and stupid-ass square emo glasses eventually will go away.
But if you mean animation targetted toward a japanese audience, then no... obviously that will not go away. The popularity of animation doesn't seem to wane at all, and if you include animated movies with a few live action pieces (like the most recent Star Wars), its probably increasing in popularity. And, there's no reason to assume the Japanese market is going away.
My guess is that in 20 years, we'll still have the same discussion, with "India" as a substitute for "Japan." Oh, and the stupid american fad-boys will have some other stupid word to shove in their mouth and worship like a ripe cock, just like they say "manga" today.
The US box office for Princess Mononoke was $2.3 million, total.
The US box office for Spirited Away was $10 million, total.
Howls Moving Castle is currently playing at maybe half a dozen screens in the entire United States, and probably didn't break a few hundred thousand dollars on its opening weekend.
In comparison, Madagascar made $18 million, just last weekend, and nearly $130 million total US box office in the last three weeks.
Hmm... yeah, I bet Disney is going to get right on that Studio Ghibli thing.
If Linux is going to succeed on in gaining Desktop Market share. You should really listen to the rants of people who tried the platform and then ditched it.
Why? Everyone who can do anything about it is smart enough to recognize the problem, and to recognize that the linux development model will offer solutions very sloooooowly, if ever.
Everyone who can't do anything about it is bitching and moaning on slashdot.
The current Linux development model will never produce a working desktop system. The current development model will never produce anything but what linux is -- a very good clone of a 70's operating system, updated for the 90's.
By default office loads into memory everytime you boot your system thus making startup time APPEAR fast.
Bullshit. Complete and total bullshit.
It's more like slapping snow tires on a Civic because you're going to drive through snow.
OK, I'll grant that. It's like slapping bald snow tires on the back that are too big and rub against the fenders, then.
This guy just bolted a very ugly sheet metal box in front of the fans on his G5. And, the bolts stick through the grill outside the case.
About the only thing I could compare this to is slapping narrow high profile snow tires on the back of a civic, to jack it up and make it look more aggressive. Or, possibly gluing a wing to the trunk, upside down, with elmers glue.
Furthermore, the FCC changed the timings of the US HD rollout (as previously covered on /.) making it far more agressive meaning that more than 10% of the american households will have HD in the relatively near future.
No, they didn't. The FCC made the rollout to digital more aggressive, not high definition. Those are two different things.
Seriously, with the amount of confusion around television standards, I figure the marketing department at Nintendo will be perfectly justified slapping "HD compatible" on the side of the box, so that anyone who was going to buy a Nintendo won't have excuse not to buy it. Since the majority of Americans with HD televisions have never seen an HD signal on the box anyhow, they'll never know the difference.
"Look! Mario looks so totally awesome in High Def on my TV! I can tell the difference, just like when I watch DVD's!"