If you sell a ROM, you get one sale at a pitiance.
If you sell a controller, you can sell them ANOTHER controller later with 2 more games, a all-in-one collection of two systems' games, GBA ports, PSX ports, PS2 ports of the PSX port, and so on.
Take a look at the Namco museums. How many times have they sold Rally Race and Pacman now?
BSDed code is not in any way subject to being 'broke' by this license. GPL is because it specifically breaks the (IIRC) 3rd clause of the GPL, by added extra encumberment to the distribution of the software. BSD-style license do not have any similar such clause.
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"It also has a beautiful frontside bus, and huge tracts... of LAN."
Actually, Apache isn't a monoculture because it doesn't have all of the install base.
Every figure I see talking about Apache puts it at 2/3 the market, with IIS taking up the other 1/3. Of course, that doesn't count the fun variations that all those apps have. Add on that many are running other lesser-known servers, and that the 2/3rds figure is really probably closer to ~2/4ths, and it becomes even less of a "monoculture."
You can't really put Apache and Windows in the same "monoculture" box because you'd be hard pressed to argue that Apache is at ~95% of all servers.
But I can't combine it with BSDed code. Or any other open code license. So by your logic, since the GPL is a propriety license now and impeeds my and the code's freedom, I'm free to include/distribute it as BSDed or public domain software, yes?
Shoulda' waited for the Ultimate Death Star Box Deluxe edition. Oh sure, it comes out 4 months later, but it has over 2 years of extra footage on 9264 DVDs.
And a collectable 'Hans Solo in carbonite' keychain.
They should just get it over with and name the browser a symbol. Like Prince did.
If anyone asks, it can be the BFKAFFFKAFBFKAPFKAM. (Browser formerly known as FireFox formerly known as FireBird formerly known as Phoenix formerly known as Mozilla)
And it'd just be a apt-get install bfkafffkafbfkapfkam away.:)
I don't look at photos for text. I look for images. If I sort them, it's by date and then later I might sort them by subject.
What needs to be done is to make the sorting easier at importing. Thumbnails and a easy to use browser/mover/orginizer, not metadata, are what we really need.
I don't think you can blame Harmony House on anyone but Harmony House. Every time I'd check them out, their prices were insane. When they went out of business, they had all their CDs somewhere close to 50% off. The CD I found, after discount, was the store down the street's regular price.
And you can't say they carried all that much of a essentric collection. Most of them were small shops in strip-malls. (Though the few massive storefronts they had were pretty cool. Only knew of one in "the area," but it was roughly a hour drive)
But IMHO bad prices and living off Ticketmaster is what did them in.
They're saying they are OK with you copying it for your own use. IE, you make 2 copys for yourself for, say, the car or office. And they're giving the CD-Rs to let you do it with original art.
I'd say quicktime, as it seems to be the most responsive and flexible in regards to dealing with different connection speeds, but that would rule out anyone not running windows or mac.
As opposed to WMP, which... would rule out... anyone not running windows or mac....
But what about my +2 iPod of strength and my +1 Headphones of Music? Then it's a perfect 10, and it's perfect sounding assuming the minijack doesn't make it's saving throw.
You seem to be under the assumtion that a lossless compression format would do anything with audio that would have to be heard on cheap, portable headphones or a small, cheap speaker.
This is speaking in general of all portable, small audio solutions, not a dig on any company, just before anyone decides to go on a tangent on me.:P;)
With a small device like a iPod or a walkman, you can't bring the type of equipment where a lossless file would show any noticable difference. Hell, even low bitrates probably wouldn't show much of a difference. The lossy compression's artifacting would mostly be covered by the fact that the headphones or speaker can't cover what's being lost in the first place.
So, basically, why FLAC? Why waste that much space on something portable? Why wouldn't you convert that to a Ogg Vorbis (Ogg is a wrapper, not a format. But you knew that, right?;) ) or other lossy audio file? It'd be a drain on the storage, and since there'd be more disk activity a drain on the batteries as well.
As for Ogg Vorbis support, the iRiver iHP 120s support it and are "only" 400$ or so.
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If you sell a ROM, you get one sale at a pitiance.
If you sell a controller, you can sell them ANOTHER controller later with 2 more games, a all-in-one collection of two systems' games, GBA ports, PSX ports, PS2 ports of the PSX port, and so on.
Take a look at the Namco museums. How many times have they sold Rally Race and Pacman now?
BSDed code is not in any way subject to being 'broke' by this license. GPL is because it specifically breaks the (IIRC) 3rd clause of the GPL, by added extra encumberment to the distribution of the software. BSD-style license do not have any similar such clause.
"It also has a beautiful frontside bus, and huge tracts... of LAN."
Actually, Apache isn't a monoculture because it doesn't have all of the install base.
Every figure I see talking about Apache puts it at 2/3 the market, with IIS taking up the other 1/3. Of course, that doesn't count the fun variations that all those apps have. Add on that many are running other lesser-known servers, and that the 2/3rds figure is really probably closer to ~2/4ths, and it becomes even less of a "monoculture."
You can't really put Apache and Windows in the same "monoculture" box because you'd be hard pressed to argue that Apache is at ~95% of all servers.
It could be people just have a preference to something they were used to.
Plus humans have a natural resistance to change, so it's actually to be expected in pockets while a large-scale change-over happens.
That's not a dual processor computer, is it?
I can get a 386 for 10$. Why bother with a Amd64, it's just so costly.
You can buy a dual Xeon for under 1200$? Where?
Install YellowDog GNU/Linux? ;)
I can't release it under the GPL. I am releasing BSD code.
As such, your code is closed, and I must release it under a BSD license. Because it must be free.
Or, in other words, take the copyright owner's work, and release it in a way that they don't want that I deem to be free. This was your logic, yes?
But I can't combine it with BSDed code. Or any other open code license. So by your logic, since the GPL is a propriety license now and impeeds my and the code's freedom, I'm free to include/distribute it as BSDed or public domain software, yes?
The revolutionary thing isn't that it's open, but that it's willfully open.
You can afford that and not a USB mouse?
;)
And I though I budgeted poorly.
Huh. Funny.
Archlinux has 1.2.5-1.
CRUX has 1.2.5.
FreeBSD? You guessed it, 1.2.5-1.
Debian testing even has libsdl_mixer 1.2.5-3, for what that's worth.
It's simple.
... I feel so dirty.
1) Design machine.
2) ???
3) Prophet.
You laugh, but this could be big.
Get a Nvidia FX mobile and Harley Davidson together, and you've got gold.
But does it have a hemi?
Shoulda' waited for the Ultimate Death Star Box Deluxe edition. Oh sure, it comes out 4 months later, but it has over 2 years of extra footage on 9264 DVDs.
And a collectable 'Hans Solo in carbonite' keychain.
They should just get it over with and name the browser a symbol. Like Prince did.
:)
If anyone asks, it can be the BFKAFFFKAFBFKAPFKAM. (Browser formerly known as FireFox formerly known as FireBird formerly known as Phoenix formerly known as Mozilla)
And it'd just be a apt-get install bfkafffkafbfkapfkam away.
I don't look at photos for text. I look for images. If I sort them, it's by date and then later I might sort them by subject.
What needs to be done is to make the sorting easier at importing. Thumbnails and a easy to use browser/mover/orginizer, not metadata, are what we really need.
I don't think you can blame Harmony House on anyone but Harmony House. Every time I'd check them out, their prices were insane. When they went out of business, they had all their CDs somewhere close to 50% off. The CD I found, after discount, was the store down the street's regular price.
And you can't say they carried all that much of a essentric collection. Most of them were small shops in strip-malls. (Though the few massive storefronts they had were pretty cool. Only knew of one in "the area," but it was roughly a hour drive)
But IMHO bad prices and living off Ticketmaster is what did them in.
They're saying they are OK with you copying it for your own use. IE, you make 2 copys for yourself for, say, the car or office. And they're giving the CD-Rs to let you do it with original art.
Other then that, they promise nothing.
I'd say quicktime, as it seems to be the most responsive and flexible in regards to dealing with different connection speeds, but that would rule out anyone not running windows or mac.
As opposed to WMP, which... would rule out... anyone not running windows or mac....
Since when has default == basically broke?
I dunno. When was Microsoft incorperated?
But what about my +2 iPod of strength and my +1 Headphones of Music? Then it's a perfect 10, and it's perfect sounding assuming the minijack doesn't make it's saving throw.
You seem to be under the assumtion that a lossless compression format would do anything with audio that would have to be heard on cheap, portable headphones or a small, cheap speaker.
:P ;)
;) ) or other lossy audio file? It'd be a drain on the storage, and since there'd be more disk activity a drain on the batteries as well.
This is speaking in general of all portable, small audio solutions, not a dig on any company, just before anyone decides to go on a tangent on me.
With a small device like a iPod or a walkman, you can't bring the type of equipment where a lossless file would show any noticable difference. Hell, even low bitrates probably wouldn't show much of a difference. The lossy compression's artifacting would mostly be covered by the fact that the headphones or speaker can't cover what's being lost in the first place.
So, basically, why FLAC? Why waste that much space on something portable? Why wouldn't you convert that to a Ogg Vorbis (Ogg is a wrapper, not a format. But you knew that, right?
As for Ogg Vorbis support, the iRiver iHP 120s support it and are "only" 400$ or so.