You don't think separate entities with common goals and interests should be allowed to pool their resources and remove inefficiencies in simultaneously advocating said goals and interests? Darn, I guess now we have to disband the FSF, EFF, etc.
There are a bunch of reasons not to use solid state storage...
Limited life. Current flash RAM can only be rewritten a few hundred thousand times, then it's useless. A solid state drive running a modern OS, let alone a busy server, wouldn't last very long.
Cost. Hard drives went below $1/GB a while back, while memory is hundreds of times that cost. Fabricating chips will always cost more than coating disks with magnetic gunk.
Pipe dreams. Most of the hot new ideas from the 80s and 90s, like storage in holograms or organic compounds, never went anywhere, and the staggering gains in the performance of boring old Winchester drivers meant no one ever looked seriously at alternatives. And now, in this highly networked world, it's becoming increasingly common to use some sort of centralized or offsite storage and let someone else deal with maintenance and reliability management, so there's still no real drive for fundamental shifts in direction.
I really don't see how "pay for upgrade" == "prove right". If Red Hat hadn't done that, what would be the state of GCC today? It sounds like it would have barely progressed beyond the doldrums it had been in, and would be vastly inferior to proprietary alternatives (in other words, the same thing that happened to Hurd).
The only truly free "license" is public domain. All licenses have restrictions. Whether a particular restriction is objectionable to you depends on how you intend to use the software covered by it.
OmniWeb is also a legacy app- it's the legacy of NeXTStep:) Cocoa is Apple's assimilation of NeXTStep (ever wondered why all the classes start with NS?). so they were able to continue developing it.
The only major stumbling block to everyone using Cocoa is its lack of portability; Apple doesn't care about this so all their brand-new first party apps can be Cocoa (Mail, iChat). Programs which were ported over from MacOS (iTunes) are Carbon, but some of them are being converted (iMovie).
No, he was equating two instances of one person forcing his beliefs on another against his will. Since the grandparent had no problem with one, surely he would have no problem with the other?
It's also useful as a basic MS-Paint-style paint program. And a draw program. It's the epitome of "jack of all trades, master of none", and it's still good to have something like it around.
It wasn't "under development", it was in duplication and got leaked. The beta period (which is basically what you're describing, only with money and random people instead of trust, NDAs, and professionals and/or dedicated fans) had already completed.
When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so bad (objectively). How much money do you spend on hardware and software upgrades per year? How much TIME do you spend troubleshooting your computer?
And remember that some people don't want to be bothered with those things at all, they just want it to work. Why shouldn't they pay someone else to take care of the details for them? This model works for cars and houses and lots of other areas.
They are, indeed, the closest thing we have to romantic pirates. They also purchase the majority of the software they crack and distribute, ironically. They do this as a philosophical movement, and do not believe in copyright law or IP law.
And I'm supposed to admire them for that? Would they mind if I broke into their house, stole their computer, and left a note saying I didn't believe in private property?
The real truth of the matter, as the article also reveals, is that these people don't *care* that they caused so many problems for Valve or any other company. They also don't care about breaking media monopolies, changing distribution paradigms, and only just barely care about possessing and using the media and programs they pirate. It's all about getting attention and respect, and being online lets them reduce the chance of getting caught and ignore any side effects their "races" cause.
Uh... In your second picture, why does the laser beam end before the top of the frame? Either you suck at photoshop, or you own a camera with a really, really, REALLY fast shutter:P
We're expected to feel sorry for this person who failed to retain full control of his intellectual property? We see the opposite situation all the time- people and companies go to great lengths to control their intellectual property. And we laugh in their face and actively thwart their efforts. What would you think of this man if he had cemented his position as the owner of optical digital storage and charged royalties from everyone for its use? If the Sorenson codec algorithm had slipped out onto the open market through a similar process?
I personally chalk this up to the sudden appearance of detailed shaders. 3D games have had a certain "look" for years- a look that is missing a lot of aspects of real scenes. A lot of stylistic tricks were created to get around these limitations and improve appearances, and this is what we became used to as "looking good" or "realistic graphics". Suddenly, it becomes possible to put a lot more detail into things, the bar is raised, and the tricks can be replaced with more realistic alternatives- but this breaks the expectations we've developed.
The real world really does have a lot of shiny things in it- walk around your room/office and see how many things have faint or blurry reflections in them, and how many have specular highlights (that change location depending on your view angle).
The article summary makes it sound like a fact, but this is in fact a RUMOR that was most likely made up by OXM. Microsoft/Bungie has never said anything like this.
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Your sig is strangely appropriate here :P
You don't think separate entities with common goals and interests should be allowed to pool their resources and remove inefficiencies in simultaneously advocating said goals and interests? Darn, I guess now we have to disband the FSF, EFF, etc.
0-day conventions! l33ch!
That specific complaint has been more than addressed now that consumer-level cards support floating point pixel buffers.
In the wormhole created by my teleporter.
I really don't see how "pay for upgrade" == "prove right". If Red Hat hadn't done that, what would be the state of GCC today? It sounds like it would have barely progressed beyond the doldrums it had been in, and would be vastly inferior to proprietary alternatives (in other words, the same thing that happened to Hurd).
The only truly free "license" is public domain. All licenses have restrictions. Whether a particular restriction is objectionable to you depends on how you intend to use the software covered by it.
OmniWeb is also a legacy app- it's the legacy of NeXTStep :) Cocoa is Apple's assimilation of NeXTStep (ever wondered why all the classes start with NS?). so they were able to continue developing it.
The only major stumbling block to everyone using Cocoa is its lack of portability; Apple doesn't care about this so all their brand-new first party apps can be Cocoa (Mail, iChat). Programs which were ported over from MacOS (iTunes) are Carbon, but some of them are being converted (iMovie).
No, he was equating two instances of one person forcing his beliefs on another against his will. Since the grandparent had no problem with one, surely he would have no problem with the other?
It's also useful as a basic MS-Paint-style paint program. And a draw program. It's the epitome of "jack of all trades, master of none", and it's still good to have something like it around.
It wasn't "under development", it was in duplication and got leaked. The beta period (which is basically what you're describing, only with money and random people instead of trust, NDAs, and professionals and/or dedicated fans) had already completed.
Movies, maybe. There is a far greater impact for other areas. The number of pirated copies of Doom 3 was several tens of thousands before the game even came out (as in, it's certainly higher by now). The game has sold between 1 and 2 million copies based on this report which came soon after release. So I'd guess it's around 5% pirated, plus or minus a bit.
Would you mind if I stole $300 from you? That's probably about the same percent of your salary.
There were never any plans for a Linux release even before the buyout. Please provide a (reputable) link that says there were.
When you put it that way, it doesn't sound so bad (objectively). How much money do you spend on hardware and software upgrades per year? How much TIME do you spend troubleshooting your computer?
And remember that some people don't want to be bothered with those things at all, they just want it to work. Why shouldn't they pay someone else to take care of the details for them? This model works for cars and houses and lots of other areas.
They are, indeed, the closest thing we have to romantic pirates. They also purchase the majority of the software they crack and distribute, ironically. They do this as a philosophical movement, and do not believe in copyright law or IP law.
And I'm supposed to admire them for that? Would they mind if I broke into their house, stole their computer, and left a note saying I didn't believe in private property?
The real truth of the matter, as the article also reveals, is that these people don't *care* that they caused so many problems for Valve or any other company. They also don't care about breaking media monopolies, changing distribution paradigms, and only just barely care about possessing and using the media and programs they pirate. It's all about getting attention and respect, and being online lets them reduce the chance of getting caught and ignore any side effects their "races" cause.
I don't know, but it sounds like it would make a great action movie.
Uh... In your second picture, why does the laser beam end before the top of the frame? Either you suck at photoshop, or you own a camera with a really, really, REALLY fast shutter :P
192Khz sound? What the hell are you recording, bat choirs?
Also, as TFA describes, they want to see how the heat shield has been affected by a few months of Martian weather.
"What's 'taters', NASA?"
POH-TAY-TOES!!
(don't use so many caps. it's like yelling.)
We're expected to feel sorry for this person who failed to retain full control of his intellectual property? We see the opposite situation all the time- people and companies go to great lengths to control their intellectual property. And we laugh in their face and actively thwart their efforts. What would you think of this man if he had cemented his position as the owner of optical digital storage and charged royalties from everyone for its use? If the Sorenson codec algorithm had slipped out onto the open market through a similar process?
I personally chalk this up to the sudden appearance of detailed shaders. 3D games have had a certain "look" for years- a look that is missing a lot of aspects of real scenes. A lot of stylistic tricks were created to get around these limitations and improve appearances, and this is what we became used to as "looking good" or "realistic graphics". Suddenly, it becomes possible to put a lot more detail into things, the bar is raised, and the tricks can be replaced with more realistic alternatives- but this breaks the expectations we've developed.
The real world really does have a lot of shiny things in it- walk around your room/office and see how many things have faint or blurry reflections in them, and how many have specular highlights (that change location depending on your view angle).
The article summary makes it sound like a fact, but this is in fact a RUMOR that was most likely made up by OXM. Microsoft/Bungie has never said anything like this.