when I hear Linux development, I think kernel, modules, and organization (like what goes in/etc, what goes in/bin, what goes in/usr/bin, and so on). Things like KDE, Gnome and other window managers are merely applications as far as I'm concerned and should be considered no more Linux development than, say, Open Office.
How is a window manager less a part of Linux development than basically anything other than the kernel? I mean, just about anything else *could* be considered an "application"--even something as basic as 'ls'--and could potentially be left out of a distro. Like you, I'm not saying you're wrong, but to the Linux-desktop community, things like KDE and Gnome are pretty important.
When I was in Korea (I'm in the Army right now) the drivers would take advantage of soldiers all the time. The language barrier didn't help. They'd drive halfway around Seoul and make 30,000 won (1,000 won is approximately a dollar) when the actual route should have cost about 10k won
Has this ever happened to anybody here (while in their home country)? It's something you hear about, and it's something I could imagine happening, but I ride in cabs fairly regularly, and I've never had a cab driver try to do this to me...
What about the sound technicians, mixer, etc? They probably don't get a royalty, but they have to be paid out of the total profits somehow. Let's guess that they get 5 between them.
They get paid prior to the album going on sale, so no, they don't generally get royalty payments. Rates vary quite a bit, but generally they get paid from the artist's share of the profits. The record companies treat the money they put into making the album basically like a loan to the artist. Whatever money the artist would be making from the sale of the CD goes initially into paying back the record company for fronting the money to produce the album.
By and large, music fans think that music is too expensive, and that much of what is available isn't very good.
As a musician who purchases quite a few albums each month, I don't agree that music is too expensive, but I do agree that most of what is *marketed* isn't very good. There are many great albums that are *available*, and $12-$18 for a really great album is a fair price, in my opinion. The problem is that record companies are often not willing to develop and market the artists who actually have any talent...and while I don't think music is too expensive, I do think that far more of the money should be going directly to the artists, and far less of it should go to record company execs.
Yeah, it works both ways...there have been plenty of companies that have had their products copied in China who have never contracted with Chinese companies, though. This months issue of Popular Science talks about several.
I've had good experiences with AVG. Unfortunately, on the rare occasions that I have had to deal with a virus, I've had to go through just about every single virus scanner that I can find before I'm able to completely eliminate the virus. Last time around, AVG was the one that correctly identified the virus, allowing me to find some special utility that somebody had written specifically to delete that particular virus. I think it was still a fairly new virus, which might explain why the major brands weren't able to clean my system, but I've been somewhat surprised in the past that it's so difficult to remove a virus/worm with commercial virus scanners.
Software contracts, like the GPL, state pretty much unambiguously that they aren't "sales" so "first sale" doesn't apply.
First sale applies if the courts say that it does, which at the moment is somewhat ambiguous. Not everything in a contract is legally enforceable. A sales contract can't restrict fair use, for instance (even if it's called something other than a sale).
You might do some reading about U.S. Copyright Law "First Sale Doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine. For software, there are conflicting court cases, so legally it's not quite as cut and dry as either of us are trying to act like it is. As for MP3 files and the like, nobody really knows the answer, because it isn't something that has gone to court yet. This article discusses the legality a bit: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071108.html
So you're saying that all of the software for sale by non-vendors on eBay is illegal? Or, for that matter all of the "used and new" software on Amazon? Or all of the used CDs sold on Amazon and in used-record stores across the country? I never said a support contract could be sold, but software licenses and MP3s most certainly can be.
Have you ever worked in a real company? Probably not, since the first example on your website is for "class notes."
Interesting that you would assume that anybody marketing a product to students must have never worked for a real company. The title of Mead.com is "Mead Store - Student Planners, Notebooks and School Supplies"...I wonder how they've gotten to be such a ubiquitous name brand without any of their employees ever having worked for a "real company". That's certainly a mystery we'll never crack...
To be legal? Which legal system is this? Intellectual Property is governed by different laws than physical property.
Bullshit. If I own a license to use a software package, for instance, I'm fully able to sell that software license to somebody else. If I own a copy of an MP3, I can sell that copy to somebody else. The only thing I can't do is sell it to somebody else, and retain my own copy of it.
Not sure where morals or ethics are involved. If I buy something for one price (even if that price is $0), and the price rises, I don't see why I should be prevented from selling it at the higher price. Obviously, to be legal, I would have to delete any copies that I may have of the mp3 after I sell it.
Oh, except we have actual beliefs where democrats* use polling.
I think it's interesting that representatives listening to what their constituents think has been turned into a bad thing by the politicians and pundits who don't give a crap what people think, and just want to force their ideologies onto everybody else.
I can't imagine ANYONE using a phone as their main phone if they had to listen to ads before every call-- unless they couldn't afford a cell phone in the first place, inwhich case I doubt those ads would attract many buyers.:)
The article does say that it "plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications"...doesn't say anything about voice ads...except later in TFA, there's a quote from somebody echoing your sentiment...so it's not really clear if there will be voice ads or not...
Photoshop has always given best results compressing in either GIF or JPEG.
I don't have the most recent version of Photoshop, but from my own observation, Fireworks has always seemed to handle PNG better than Photoshop...maybe because it uses PNG as it's native file format.
If there are restrictions, Microsoft's HD photo will go the way of the GIF format.
Websites still use gif quite a bit. And the patents have expired, so there's no real reason not to anymore...Personally, I prefer png, but for some reason png hasn't really caught on. I imagine because graphic design schools break web graphics up into 2 categories, full-color jpg, and line-art gif.
Nowhere in my post was I arguing for her to go to jail for a year for doing this. In fact, I think NOTHING will (or should) happen to her. But that is for a judge and a jury to decide, not the movie theater.
Well, technically speaking, it was up to the movie theater to press charges. I'm not going to argue over whether it *should* be up to them, but it is already their choice.
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I definitely started to get these "face is all over 'net" SPAMs at about that point in time...I've been getting a few per day since.
True, but he said Kernel, Modules, and Organization. I'm asking how Gnome/KDE is substantially different from "modules", not "kernel"
when I hear Linux development, I think kernel, modules, and organization (like what goes in /etc, what goes in /bin, what goes in /usr/bin, and so on). Things like KDE, Gnome and other window managers are merely applications as far as I'm concerned and should be considered no more Linux development than, say, Open Office.
How is a window manager less a part of Linux development than basically anything other than the kernel? I mean, just about anything else *could* be considered an "application"--even something as basic as 'ls'--and could potentially be left out of a distro. Like you, I'm not saying you're wrong, but to the Linux-desktop community, things like KDE and Gnome are pretty important.
When I was in Korea (I'm in the Army right now) the drivers would take advantage of soldiers all the time. The language barrier didn't help. They'd drive halfway around Seoul and make 30,000 won (1,000 won is approximately a dollar) when the actual route should have cost about 10k won
Has this ever happened to anybody here (while in their home country)? It's something you hear about, and it's something I could imagine happening, but I ride in cabs fairly regularly, and I've never had a cab driver try to do this to me...
Well, at least you'll still be able to listen to your Ratt cassette on your biobattery-walkman.
What about the sound technicians, mixer, etc? They probably don't get a royalty, but they have to be paid out of the total profits somehow. Let's guess that they get 5 between them.
They get paid prior to the album going on sale, so no, they don't generally get royalty payments. Rates vary quite a bit, but generally they get paid from the artist's share of the profits. The record companies treat the money they put into making the album basically like a loan to the artist. Whatever money the artist would be making from the sale of the CD goes initially into paying back the record company for fronting the money to produce the album.
By and large, music fans think that music is too expensive, and that much of what is available isn't very good.
As a musician who purchases quite a few albums each month, I don't agree that music is too expensive, but I do agree that most of what is *marketed* isn't very good. There are many great albums that are *available*, and $12-$18 for a really great album is a fair price, in my opinion. The problem is that record companies are often not willing to develop and market the artists who actually have any talent...and while I don't think music is too expensive, I do think that far more of the money should be going directly to the artists, and far less of it should go to record company execs.
Yeah, it works both ways...there have been plenty of companies that have had their products copied in China who have never contracted with Chinese companies, though. This months issue of Popular Science talks about several.
true, but unfortunately, it's worked for them in the past. Why do you think so many products are made in China:
Company makes product.
China copies product.
Company notices China's version is almost as good, and contracts with them to make their product at a fraction of the cost.
???.
Profit!
I've had good experiences with AVG. Unfortunately, on the rare occasions that I have had to deal with a virus, I've had to go through just about every single virus scanner that I can find before I'm able to completely eliminate the virus. Last time around, AVG was the one that correctly identified the virus, allowing me to find some special utility that somebody had written specifically to delete that particular virus. I think it was still a fairly new virus, which might explain why the major brands weren't able to clean my system, but I've been somewhat surprised in the past that it's so difficult to remove a virus/worm with commercial virus scanners.
Software contracts, like the GPL, state pretty much unambiguously that they aren't "sales" so "first sale" doesn't apply.
First sale applies if the courts say that it does, which at the moment is somewhat ambiguous. Not everything in a contract is legally enforceable. A sales contract can't restrict fair use, for instance (even if it's called something other than a sale).
You might do some reading about U.S. Copyright Law "First Sale Doctrine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine. For software, there are conflicting court cases, so legally it's not quite as cut and dry as either of us are trying to act like it is. As for MP3 files and the like, nobody really knows the answer, because it isn't something that has gone to court yet. This article discusses the legality a bit: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071108.html
Such as?
U.S. copyright Law "first sale doctrine":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Don't forget that whether you can sell it depends on the license you agreed to when you purchased your LICENSE to use the provided mp3.
And laws regarding the legality of such licenses...
So you're saying that all of the software for sale by non-vendors on eBay is illegal? Or, for that matter all of the "used and new" software on Amazon? Or all of the used CDs sold on Amazon and in used-record stores across the country? I never said a support contract could be sold, but software licenses and MP3s most certainly can be.
Have you ever worked in a real company? Probably not, since the first example on your website is for "class notes."
Interesting that you would assume that anybody marketing a product to students must have never worked for a real company. The title of Mead.com is "Mead Store - Student Planners, Notebooks and School Supplies"...I wonder how they've gotten to be such a ubiquitous name brand without any of their employees ever having worked for a "real company". That's certainly a mystery we'll never crack...
To be legal? Which legal system is this? Intellectual Property is governed by different laws than physical property.
Bullshit. If I own a license to use a software package, for instance, I'm fully able to sell that software license to somebody else. If I own a copy of an MP3, I can sell that copy to somebody else. The only thing I can't do is sell it to somebody else, and retain my own copy of it.
Er, maybe a sense of morals or ethics?
Not sure where morals or ethics are involved. If I buy something for one price (even if that price is $0), and the price rises, I don't see why I should be prevented from selling it at the higher price. Obviously, to be legal, I would have to delete any copies that I may have of the mp3 after I sell it.
more to the point, what is to stop me from "selling" my free versions when the band gets popular?
One could set up an entire MP3 futures trading market! You could invest in MP3's, hoping that their popularity will grow...
Oh, except we have actual beliefs where democrats* use polling.
I think it's interesting that representatives listening to what their constituents think has been turned into a bad thing by the politicians and pundits who don't give a crap what people think, and just want to force their ideologies onto everybody else.
Hell yeah. And while we are at it, why don't we get rid of the whole color monitor thing too. We should all just go back to line printer terminals.
;-)
You kids and your fancy newfangled "monitors"! Why, in my day, computer output was on paper! So was the input!
I can't imagine ANYONE using a phone as their main phone if they had to listen to ads before every call-- unless they couldn't afford a cell phone in the first place, inwhich case I doubt those ads would attract many buyers. :)
The article does say that it "plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications"...doesn't say anything about voice ads...except later in TFA, there's a quote from somebody echoing your sentiment...so it's not really clear if there will be voice ads or not...
Also the fact that Internet Explorer didn't support PNG alpha transparency didn't help. At least IE7 finally does.
;-)
Hey, it only took them 10 years...what do you expect from Microsoft...
Photoshop has always given best results compressing in either GIF or JPEG.
I don't have the most recent version of Photoshop, but from my own observation, Fireworks has always seemed to handle PNG better than Photoshop...maybe because it uses PNG as it's native file format.
If there are restrictions, Microsoft's HD photo will go the way of the GIF format.
Websites still use gif quite a bit. And the patents have expired, so there's no real reason not to anymore...Personally, I prefer png, but for some reason png hasn't really caught on. I imagine because graphic design schools break web graphics up into 2 categories, full-color jpg, and line-art gif.
Nowhere in my post was I arguing for her to go to jail for a year for doing this. In fact, I think NOTHING will (or should) happen to her. But that is for a judge and a jury to decide, not the movie theater.
Well, technically speaking, it was up to the movie theater to press charges. I'm not going to argue over whether it *should* be up to them, but it is already their choice.