Thing is, how do you punish a corporation for manslaughter? Remember, a corporation is a "legal person" so you can't punish an employee for obeying the will of the company.
Oh yes you can. Look at the Enron folks. You have a legal duty to refuse an illegal request. If they fire you for obeying a police request, you will have a line of ambulance chasers waiting to "help" you.
Point taken... The do not need to provide the wining fork, just support it. They actually have a cost advantage if the winning fork is developed by someone else. The downside is that they can't just merge the open code back into the commercial database, and that is a significant downside.
The only difference between the last 20 or so elements is the later ones are not quite so ridiculously cold. Eventually we may get to just unbelievably cold!
"When cooled and squeezed very hard, the soft metallic element europium turns into a superconductor... which, if harnessed, could make for more efficient energy transfer."
After factoring in the cost of compressing and cooling a big long cable... In other words, not any time soon.
Actually, I think it is getting there. Like the 70mph limit, IP law is getting to the point where even my mother thinks it is silly. At some point, there will be a public backlash, and it will swing just an violently the other way. It is starting now... Look at The Pirate Part in several countries.
I don't buy used games on principle. (Wait... so I'm paying someone for a game and simultaneously not giving the content creators any money? Why not just pirate it and spend more money on new games if I'm not going to pay the creators?)
But even if I wasn't against the concept of used games I still don't see the financial incentive. Gamestop will pay me less than the parking fee to go in and sell them a game. If I were to drive to a free-parking gamestop it would cost more in gas than they would give me. The used prices of new games tend to be almost the same as new. ~$45-50 for new releases and games on steam tend to be priced as low or lower for older games.
If you aren't going to buy it new you might as well just pirate it and save the money going to Wal-Mart.
By giving money to someone who purchases new games, you are providing them with more resources to purchase more new games, and support new content creators. Or to put it another way, would you buy a car that you knew would have no value on the used car market? Auto companies like good resale value, so that one guy will buy a new car every year.
Also, if you save up a few games, it might just cover your parking. And give you cash for a new game. (Which is the point)
Again, you're assuming convention. ISPs do know that a lot of people will use their systems for illegal purposes, and some of the packages they sell certainly are pitched pretty obviously at file traders; one or two have even run obviously suggestive advertising campaigns to match. In any case, they've bitched about file sharing plenty here in the UK when it came time to consider upgrade costs for the hardware, and many of them seem to have no difficulty throttling all high-bandwidth users when it allows them to continue selling overlapping bandwidth, even if that traps those who are merely using the advertised package for legitimate, legal purposes.
As do car companies. For example, the Subaru WRX STI, and the SPT performance parts from the dealer. Many people who buy these cars (and riced out Civics, and DSM Mitsus) race them on the street. Many more speed like mad men. Some race only on the track. Hard to tell who is who, and harder still to enforce without hitting a lot of innocent people. Kinda like what the RIAA wants to do.
And, yes, I have a WRX.
No but if the auto dealer had good reason to believe his car was going to be used illegally he shouldn't be selling it, just like a shopkeeper selling solvents for example.
I'll just be content when the JavaScript stops eating up all of my clock cycles every time it pulls in more stories.
Me to, and to the OP. It used to work well, and with every "improvement" usability has gone down. "Hey, this is a feature users like! Lets get rid of it!"
It would be foolish to count downloads for this purpose. However, Canonical could surely count update requests to repositories, for example.
Which repository? There are mirrors all over the world, some run by third parties. Also, some people or companies set up internal mirrors. Then you have apt-cd and other update methods.
And Ubuntu is not Linux. It is *A* linux distribution. There are many others.
And it is still a false number. I have a few VMs on my system that I just fire up to update. I might actually use them once a month.
How many hardcore gamers with expensive gaming rigs do you know who only play games with native Linux versions?
You yourself are playing a game with no Linux version. How would NCsoft have stood to make any more money from you by providing a windows version of Guild Wars?
30 million Linux users are irrelevant. The potential market for Linux video games is vanishingly small, if you discount the people who would buy the windows version in the absence of a linux port.
This is easy to find out. Look for the bump when iD releases the Linux port. I did not buy Quake Wars until it was out. I am sure I am not *that* special...
How about this? The EU decides that it wants to stop the monopoly of Windows for PC gaming and defines that game developers would need to follow certain criteria which would allow the games to be played on different OSes.
Oh yes... A coder being told by the government that he must code for another OS he doesn't use... That will go over well. I am sure it will also result in rock solid code.
you dont need to understand free licences - there's nothing to stop you releasing proprietary software that runs on linux.
Other than the old FUD that anything that touches GPL will become GPL. And some people are still afraid of that. Remember that in court it is not enough just to win. You have to be so obvious that you will win that no one will try. Defending yourself, even when you win, is expensive.
If you are more interested in playing than in linux, then linux is not your OS.
Linux (and OSS in general) is to scratch an itch, to do it yourself, and it has not yet enough people to support the next layer of users.
No, Linux is a tool. For you it is a tool to scratch an itch. The problem is that many developers feel that they way they want to use a tool is the way that everyone should use that tool. This is not just a Linux problem, by the way... But you will notice that the most successful software projects (or products) actively try to find out what itches others.
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(Hopefully soon to be a former customer)
Almost was...
But manslaughter.
Thing is, how do you punish a corporation for manslaughter? Remember, a corporation is a "legal person" so you can't punish an employee for obeying the will of the company.
Oh yes you can. Look at the Enron folks. You have a legal duty to refuse an illegal request. If they fire you for obeying a police request, you will have a line of ambulance chasers waiting to "help" you.
but +5 funny doesn't get you mod points
But it does give you a nice achievement. :)
No, that's YourSQL.
No, it's Bill's SQL.
Point taken... The do not need to provide the wining fork, just support it. They actually have a cost advantage if the winning fork is developed by someone else. The downside is that they can't just merge the open code back into the commercial database, and that is a significant downside.
The only difference between the last 20 or so elements is the later ones are not quite so ridiculously cold. Eventually we may get to just unbelievably cold!
"When cooled and squeezed very hard, the soft metallic element europium turns into a superconductor ... which, if harnessed, could make for more efficient energy transfer."
After factoring in the cost of compressing and cooling a big long cable... In other words, not any time soon.
Actually, I think it is getting there. Like the 70mph limit, IP law is getting to the point where even my mother thinks it is silly. At some point, there will be a public backlash, and it will swing just an violently the other way. It is starting now... Look at The Pirate Part in several countries.
I don't buy used games on principle. (Wait... so I'm paying someone for a game and simultaneously not giving the content creators any money? Why not just pirate it and spend more money on new games if I'm not going to pay the creators?)
But even if I wasn't against the concept of used games I still don't see the financial incentive. Gamestop will pay me less than the parking fee to go in and sell them a game. If I were to drive to a free-parking gamestop it would cost more in gas than they would give me. The used prices of new games tend to be almost the same as new. ~$45-50 for new releases and games on steam tend to be priced as low or lower for older games.
If you aren't going to buy it new you might as well just pirate it and save the money going to Wal-Mart.
By giving money to someone who purchases new games, you are providing them with more resources to purchase more new games, and support new content creators. Or to put it another way, would you buy a car that you knew would have no value on the used car market? Auto companies like good resale value, so that one guy will buy a new car every year.
Also, if you save up a few games, it might just cover your parking. And give you cash for a new game. (Which is the point)
Again, you're assuming convention. ISPs do know that a lot of people will use their systems for illegal purposes, and some of the packages they sell certainly are pitched pretty obviously at file traders; one or two have even run obviously suggestive advertising campaigns to match. In any case, they've bitched about file sharing plenty here in the UK when it came time to consider upgrade costs for the hardware, and many of them seem to have no difficulty throttling all high-bandwidth users when it allows them to continue selling overlapping bandwidth, even if that traps those who are merely using the advertised package for legitimate, legal purposes.
As do car companies. For example, the Subaru WRX STI, and the SPT performance parts from the dealer. Many people who buy these cars (and riced out Civics, and DSM Mitsus) race them on the street. Many more speed like mad men. Some race only on the track. Hard to tell who is who, and harder still to enforce without hitting a lot of innocent people. Kinda like what the RIAA wants to do. And, yes, I have a WRX.
No but if the auto dealer had good reason to believe his car was going to be used illegally he shouldn't be selling it, just like a shopkeeper selling solvents for example.
You mean like every sports car made?
My boyfriend and I dropped base last saturday morning, it was pretty warm.
Really... Don't do everything they tell you in music...
"Let the base drop!"
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I thought it was Adblockplus + noscript = geekfight...
I'll just be content when the JavaScript stops eating up all of my clock cycles every time it pulls in more stories.
Me to, and to the OP. It used to work well, and with every "improvement" usability has gone down. "Hey, this is a feature users like! Lets get rid of it!"
I can go to a local computer recycler in town, pay cash and walk out with a trunk full of hard drives. If you want bulk, go wholesale.
Or at least until we wander into Enemy Territory.
It would be foolish to count downloads for this purpose. However, Canonical could surely count update requests to repositories, for example.
Which repository? There are mirrors all over the world, some run by third parties. Also, some people or companies set up internal mirrors. Then you have apt-cd and other update methods.
And Ubuntu is not Linux. It is *A* linux distribution. There are many others.
And it is still a false number. I have a few VMs on my system that I just fire up to update. I might actually use them once a month.
How many hardcore gamers with expensive gaming rigs do you know who only play games with native Linux versions? You yourself are playing a game with no Linux version. How would NCsoft have stood to make any more money from you by providing a windows version of Guild Wars? 30 million Linux users are irrelevant. The potential market for Linux video games is vanishingly small, if you discount the people who would buy the windows version in the absence of a linux port.
This is easy to find out. Look for the bump when iD releases the Linux port. I did not buy Quake Wars until it was out. I am sure I am not *that* special...
How about this? The EU decides that it wants to stop the monopoly of Windows for PC gaming and defines that game developers would need to follow certain criteria which would allow the games to be played on different OSes.
Oh yes... A coder being told by the government that he must code for another OS he doesn't use... That will go over well. I am sure it will also result in rock solid code.
you dont need to understand free licences - there's nothing to stop you releasing proprietary software that runs on linux.
Other than the old FUD that anything that touches GPL will become GPL. And some people are still afraid of that. Remember that in court it is not enough just to win. You have to be so obvious that you will win that no one will try. Defending yourself, even when you win, is expensive.
If you are more interested in playing than in linux, then linux is not your OS. Linux (and OSS in general) is to scratch an itch, to do it yourself, and it has not yet enough people to support the next layer of users.
No, Linux is a tool. For you it is a tool to scratch an itch. The problem is that many developers feel that they way they want to use a tool is the way that everyone should use that tool. This is not just a Linux problem, by the way... But you will notice that the most successful software projects (or products) actively try to find out what itches others.
Use rice paper, then you can eat any extra printouts.
Soy Ink on Rice Paper? Eat your words!
I've always considered myself a Quaker.
No DOOMsday cult?
nobody would have believed that Microsoft was the good guys.
Actually there was a time when Microsoft was hailed as the white knight in the shiny armor freeing us from the evil IBM empire.
Like Google... (dire sounding chords)
He is just doing it to meet young girls... I mean he is bringing the Clinton years back. ;)