This is not insightful, it's total bullshit. DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube. Anyone that tells you they can is either an idiot, a DSP salesman, or both. Recent advances in modeling technology have made large leaps in making DSP sound better, but it's still not there for applications such as mic pres and guitar amps.
Sure, transistor amps are more powerful dollar for dollar, but what does that dollar sound like? What application are you putting it towards? There are no clearly defined areas where one is better than the other when you're dealing with recording.
The emulator is public domain, but the main thing they're selling is their collection of five closed-source games.
That have been in circulation for how long now? 15-20 years? Sorry, this just isn't an open/closed thing.
Putting that aside, who knows what changes or improvements they may have made to PocketNES? Perhaps they didn't make any, but if they did, they never have to share the source with anybody.
No, they don't and the author of the software doesn't care. You know what else? This is exactly how the BSD license works as well. I don't see anyone saying that isn't open source. You're confusing Stallman-esque "Free Software" that has its basis in software-as-religion and "Open Source" software that has its basis in reality. Free Software is some lame moral crusade about proprietary software being evil. Open Source software just means the code is available. It doesn't get much more available than being in the public domain.
Maybe the author just doesn't care about credit, has no interest in playing bullshit software politic games, and just wants to have fun writing some software. You ever think that not everyone sees software as a religion?
If he thinks the GPL has strings attached, what does he think of the ropes and chains on his software now?
What ropes and chains, moron? You can't take something out of the public domain once it's there. Public domain means that nobody has ownership and nobody controls it. Then again, you're too stupid to comprehend the fact that he doesn't care that Jaleco used his code, despite quoting him saying so in your own post.
I'm of two minds on this one. Open-source / public-domain or not, the code was still taken without consent: it was stolen. The fact it was then used to make money just worsens their situation. Jaleco did the wrong thing.
The author of the software comes out and says "I put this in the PUBLIC DOMAIN so things like this WOULD HAPPEN." and some other dipshit thinks that using that code is stealing. FUCKING MORON! Learn what public domain means, dumbass. No consent is needed, because no ownership is claimed.
It has nothing to do with any country's education system and everything to do with the fact that this is Slashdot. We're here to masturbate over the GPL, remember?
Neither one. They're aging liberal hippie douches that still pine for the days of ITS and spooge in their pants anytime someone talks about LISP. What you're reading is the exhaust fumes from the dumbasses that treat software like a fucking religion.
Because it's NOT obvious. It's no more or less obvious than with proprietay code. Believe it or not, companies have better things to do than download every fucking thing on Sourceforget, trolling for their code.
Look, fucking idiot, do you also bitch that you had to buy a VCR to watch video tapes? You're making lameass excuses, just like every other whiny bitch on this fucking website. This is why nobody gives a fuck about Linux, and nobody ever will outside of a server setting. You can not make money on Linux software, because the dipshits that run it would rather use a half-baked shitty implementation of software than pay money for something that actually works.
Personally. That means TO YOU it's not important. To someone that's developing consumer-level applications it should be second on the list behind the actual programming. UI design is *VERY* important to MODERN DESKTOP COMPUTING. It might not be a necessity for the borderline Luddite console freaks that occupy Slashdot but for anyone who uses a computer as something more than internet penis size, like doing actual work, shiny blue beats cryptic commands any day of the week.
"Getting it right" is Mozilla programmer speak for "We already have themes and XML scripting capabilities, with tabbed browsing, integrated popup blocking, and all the other bells and whistles. We'll get around to actually connecting it to the internet one day. Isn't it pretty? Mmmm.... XML...."
It's not the speed that's the issue, it's the super-lame 20-40 mile range. I couldn't even get to Dallas without recharging. Even a nominal 10 mile commute would be a nail-biter.
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He specifically cited Line 6 vs Fender Princeton. He changed absolutely nothing.
Tell that to Apple.
Like the man sad, he wanted it to be REALLY free, not 'GPL Free'.
This is not insightful, it's total bullshit. DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube. Anyone that tells you they can is either an idiot, a DSP salesman, or both. Recent advances in modeling technology have made large leaps in making DSP sound better, but it's still not there for applications such as mic pres and guitar amps.
Sure, transistor amps are more powerful dollar for dollar, but what does that dollar sound like? What application are you putting it towards? There are no clearly defined areas where one is better than the other when you're dealing with recording.
Maybe the author just doesn't care about credit, has no interest in playing bullshit software politic games, and just wants to have fun writing some software. You ever think that not everyone sees software as a religion?
It has nothing to do with any country's education system and everything to do with the fact that this is Slashdot. We're here to masturbate over the GPL, remember?
Tell me, do you own a CD player? A VCR? Why are you such a whiny bitch about paying for a fucking DVD player then?
Neither one. They're aging liberal hippie douches that still pine for the days of ITS and spooge in their pants anytime someone talks about LISP. What you're reading is the exhaust fumes from the dumbasses that treat software like a fucking religion.
Yeah, exactly. It's like when the old nVidia Linux drivers would completely crash my entire system... oh wait... nevermind. Shit happens.
Because it's NOT obvious. It's no more or less obvious than with proprietay code. Believe it or not, companies have better things to do than download every fucking thing on Sourceforget, trolling for their code.
Look, fucking idiot, do you also bitch that you had to buy a VCR to watch video tapes? You're making lameass excuses, just like every other whiny bitch on this fucking website. This is why nobody gives a fuck about Linux, and nobody ever will outside of a server setting. You can not make money on Linux software, because the dipshits that run it would rather use a half-baked shitty implementation of software than pay money for something that actually works.
Personally. That means TO YOU it's not important. To someone that's developing consumer-level applications it should be second on the list behind the actual programming. UI design is *VERY* important to MODERN DESKTOP COMPUTING. It might not be a necessity for the borderline Luddite console freaks that occupy Slashdot but for anyone who uses a computer as something more than internet penis size, like doing actual work, shiny blue beats cryptic commands any day of the week.
"Getting it right" is Mozilla programmer speak for "We already have themes and XML scripting capabilities, with tabbed browsing, integrated popup blocking, and all the other bells and whistles. We'll get around to actually connecting it to the internet one day. Isn't it pretty? Mmmm.... XML...."
"Just" design and quality control. That's the OSS mentality in a nutshell, folks.
Could be worse. It could be like Sourceforge's search. *SHUDDER*
No, dumbass, my argument is that MS is so fucking huge that anything they perceive as a threat still isn't much of one.
I'm glad at least one person doesn't have their head up their own urethra. ;)
i guess we'll never know, since microsoft has identified free/open source/linux as its number one threat
Which is similar to a rabid pitbull identifying a chihuahua as its number one threat.
Well, they could always completely ignore OSS and all the childlike whining morons that come with it. It's not like it's going to hurt them.
No.... IIRC, they specifically said the GPL was those things. Not OSS in general.
And they're right.
It's not the speed that's the issue, it's the super-lame 20-40 mile range. I couldn't even get to Dallas without recharging. Even a nominal 10 mile commute would be a nail-biter.