Also, try openclipart.org, where there is a lot of public domain licened content you can use.
Is there are mirror or something for this? It seems to be down?
As opposed to OpenOffice? The only good thing about OpenOffice is that it is open source. At some point it might be a worthy competitor to MS Office for regular users, but right now it is inferior.
no, he's going to say screw you and find something else, maybe from someone else giving the software out for free.
Not if he already paid for the support or a warranty.
Basing things on support is horrible. A good peice of software won't need support. If someone has to call you to figure out how to work it, then the software has a problem.
Really? Perfect software won't need support. If your statement is correct there is no good software available today.
There is probably some forms of support that work, maybe you give the app away for free, but you charge for plugin that add features, or there is some prescription for an aspect of it, like you pay to have the program get feed info all the time (like a tivo like app, or a weather program would need).
Are you sure you really understand what free in free software stands for. The above example is how freeware works.
But in the end support fails on these ones to, because someone else won't have any intention of being a business, they will just be making something and giving every aspect of it away, and doesn't need support. At that point no free software business model will work.
as would any software business model.
Pay software will survive though. For one there is less diversity, thus more people using the same app which makes person to person (friends) support work better, and just nice to know that a big chunk of the world is using the same as you, so you get things like "oh hey, my bank lets me download my statements in the format my app uses".
Also known as standardization.
Also when something goes wrong with it, there is someone to hold responsible.
Also known as a warranty.
People want to buy stuff from solid companies that they know of, and can feel certain that company will be around.
Such as IBM or Sun...
But maybe you just confuse free beer with free speech. In that case disregard my post and go visit Free Software Foundation
I'm devout to Firefox, but without the View in IE extension I'd be lost. Many sites simply doesn't work in Firefox, my primary bank beeing the best example. (They told me they were reworking the site to fit standards, but for now it doesn't work).
This isn't really a problem with Firefox, but to a regular user it will appear so. Of course if more people switch to firefox or other non-IE browsers we'll probably get more standards compliant sites.
Most Chinese neither steal or get Windows for free, they buy it from pirates.
There are many disadvantages to pirated software. Pirated copies of Windows usually have troubles using Windows Update and pirated software always comes without any sort of support. That is a downside to the Chinese customers who buys pirated software.
For organizations of some size, pirated software has many limits. First off, they may be so large that it is worth suing them. Secondly, they need support and stability something hard to achieve with pirated software.
Free software doesn't have these issues. Chinese business and goverment institutions are better off using free software. If the largest institutions adopt free software expect many to follow.
Not really. There are many disadvantages to pirated software. Pirated copies of Windows usually have troubles using Windows Update and pirated software always comes without any sort of support. That is a downside also to the Chinese customers who buys pirated software (they do buy it still, just at lower cost).
For organizations of some size, pirated software has many limits. First off, they may be so large that it is worth suing them. Secondly, they need support and stability something hard to achieve with pirated software.
Free software doesn't have these issues. If the Chinese government deceides that it prefers Linux due to among other things these issues, Linux stands a fair chance in China.
Probably not.
Most folklorists believe that myths about wee folk are remnants of animist beliefs. When a new religion came people merged it with it's earlier religion, and the animist spirits became the wee folk. A good example is how Pan has many features in common with the Christian devil.
As the wee folk of different cultures usually has much more in common with how spirits are viewed in animist cultures than with any small humans I believe we can disregard the homo foresiensis as any explanation of the wee folk.
But this on the other is probably a myth based on fact (from the BBC article): "Even more intriguing is the fact that Flores' inhabitants have incredibly detailed legends about the existence of little people on the island they call Ebu Gogo.
The islanders describe Ebu Gogo as being about one metre tall, hairy and prone to "murmuring" to each other in some form of language. They were also able to repeat what islanders said to them in a parrot-like fashion.... ... The last evidence of this human at Liang Bua dates to just before 12,000 years ago, when a volcanic eruption snuffed out much of Flores' unique wildlife.
Yet there are hints H. floresiensis could have lived on much later than this. The myths say Ebu Gogo were alive when Dutch explorers arrived a few hundred years ago and the very last legend featuring the mythical creatures dates to 100 years ago.
But Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature magazine, goes further. He speculates that species like H.floresiensis might still exist, somewhere in the unexplored tropical forest of Indonesia. "
"We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service,"
Doesn't that also imply that they need a device to access the free wireless internet service? Like a computer or PDA. Free PDAs for the homeless?
Off course, wireless is the only alternative for the homeless.
In my experience people listen to what's played on the radio... or on MTV. That's what they want to hear.
On the other hand, there might be more difference between the different stations if it wasn't for this loophole.
Disable Automatic Updates stops Windows from pestering you the rest of the day. Enable it again when you restart the machine though.
Though the whole security center thing is pure annoyance. It doesn't do anything! Except pestering me with messages and warnings that my computer is vulnerable since I set Automatic Updates to ask me before it download something.
A quality web board that lets me download high-quality copies of music I like. A webcast radio that allows my to buy the music I'm listening to with a click. Now if the web board service or radio also deceide that they want to promote some bands that they like, even new ones that I haven't heard of before. In their policy of offering high-quality content to me, the consumer, they ensure that the recordings of the band is done in a proper studio.
I'd ask them to provide me with good music, and they'd ask me what I think is good music (I'm in the collective body of the listening audience, so they actually ask that body). A merger of alt.goth.music and Sony in a sense.
I think we agree, all I'm saying is that the record companies should be doing this (to survive that is, somebody will do it anyway) and that they will make money.
Music will still be freely available, and if you want to you can spend alot of your time searching for music that you like. You are also free to grow your own food. The average consumer (those who actually listen to Britney Spears) doesn't grow their own food (not a perfect analogy, but you get the point).
Somebody has to link audiences and artists. Record companies do that (as you put it: they make winners). If you want to support your favourite artist: go to a concert. Record companies (both large and small) makes it possible for you to know that your favourite artists exist. That's how they stay in business. There's actually a need (AKA market) for them.
In a world of filesharing (and more or less free copies of music) someone still has to link audiences and artists, and they can get paid for doing this. RedHat makes money by selling Linux, the record companies may do the same thing. I.e. make money by linking audiences and artists, and by providing quality copies to the audiences willing to pay for such.
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How does this work with Creative Commons?
Also, try openclipart.org, where there is a lot of public domain licened content you can use. Is there are mirror or something for this? It seems to be down?
As opposed to OpenOffice? The only good thing about OpenOffice is that it is open source. At some point it might be a worthy competitor to MS Office for regular users, but right now it is inferior.
Open source Word Perfect would be nice though.
I'll assume your going to testify on that in court then?
no, he's going to say screw you and find something else, maybe from someone else giving the software out for free.
Not if he already paid for the support or a warranty.
Basing things on support is horrible. A good peice of software won't need support. If someone has to call you to figure out how to work it, then the software has a problem.
Really? Perfect software won't need support. If your statement is correct there is no good software available today.
There is probably some forms of support that work, maybe you give the app away for free, but you charge for plugin that add features, or there is some prescription for an aspect of it, like you pay to have the program get feed info all the time (like a tivo like app, or a weather program would need).
Are you sure you really understand what free in free software stands for. The above example is how freeware works.
But in the end support fails on these ones to, because someone else won't have any intention of being a business, they will just be making something and giving every aspect of it away, and doesn't need support. At that point no free software business model will work.
as would any software business model.
Pay software will survive though. For one there is less diversity, thus more people using the same app which makes person to person (friends) support work better, and just nice to know that a big chunk of the world is using the same as you, so you get things like "oh hey, my bank lets me download my statements in the format my app uses".
Also known as standardization.
Also when something goes wrong with it, there is someone to hold responsible.
Also known as a warranty.
People want to buy stuff from solid companies that they know of, and can feel certain that company will be around.
Such as IBM or Sun...
But maybe you just confuse free beer with free speech. In that case disregard my post and go visit Free Software Foundation
I'm devout to Firefox, but without the View in IE extension I'd be lost. Many sites simply doesn't work in Firefox, my primary bank beeing the best example. (They told me they were reworking the site to fit standards, but for now it doesn't work).
This isn't really a problem with Firefox, but to a regular user it will appear so. Of course if more people switch to firefox or other non-IE browsers we'll probably get more standards compliant sites.
Build the windfarms in the cities and harness the wind tunnel effect of large buildings. You'll get used to the noise after a while.
Yup, you're safe from terrorism. Actually, the objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. After Ashcroft you don't actually need another Attorney General it seems.
It definetly is.
Most Chinese neither steal or get Windows for free, they buy it from pirates.
There are many disadvantages to pirated software. Pirated copies of Windows usually have troubles using Windows Update and pirated software always comes without any sort of support. That is a downside to the Chinese customers who buys pirated software.
For organizations of some size, pirated software has many limits. First off, they may be so large that it is worth suing them. Secondly, they need support and stability something hard to achieve with pirated software.
Free software doesn't have these issues. Chinese business and goverment institutions are better off using free software. If the largest institutions adopt free software expect many to follow.
Not really. There are many disadvantages to pirated software. Pirated copies of Windows usually have troubles using Windows Update and pirated software always comes without any sort of support. That is a downside also to the Chinese customers who buys pirated software (they do buy it still, just at lower cost).
For organizations of some size, pirated software has many limits. First off, they may be so large that it is worth suing them. Secondly, they need support and stability something hard to achieve with pirated software.
Free software doesn't have these issues. If the Chinese government deceides that it prefers Linux due to among other things these issues, Linux stands a fair chance in China.
Probably not.
...
... The last evidence of this human at Liang Bua dates to just before 12,000 years ago, when a volcanic eruption snuffed out much of Flores' unique wildlife.
Most folklorists believe that myths about wee folk are remnants of animist beliefs. When a new religion came people merged it with it's earlier religion, and the animist spirits became the wee folk. A good example is how Pan has many features in common with the Christian devil.
As the wee folk of different cultures usually has much more in common with how spirits are viewed in animist cultures than with any small humans I believe we can disregard the homo foresiensis as any explanation of the wee folk.
But this on the other is probably a myth based on fact (from the BBC article):
"Even more intriguing is the fact that Flores' inhabitants have incredibly detailed legends about the existence of little people on the island they call Ebu Gogo.
The islanders describe Ebu Gogo as being about one metre tall, hairy and prone to "murmuring" to each other in some form of language. They were also able to repeat what islanders said to them in a parrot-like fashion.
Yet there are hints H. floresiensis could have lived on much later than this. The myths say Ebu Gogo were alive when Dutch explorers arrived a few hundred years ago and the very last legend featuring the mythical creatures dates to 100 years ago.
But Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature magazine, goes further. He speculates that species like H.floresiensis might still exist, somewhere in the unexplored tropical forest of Indonesia. "
Really something for the cryptzoologists!
"(mozilla is netscape is aol right?)" No. Mozilla is Mozilla Foundation. As for OSS business models, do you really think IBM rely on donations?
"We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service," Doesn't that also imply that they need a device to access the free wireless internet service? Like a computer or PDA. Free PDAs for the homeless? Off course, wireless is the only alternative for the homeless.
In my experience people listen to what's played on the radio... or on MTV. That's what they want to hear. On the other hand, there might be more difference between the different stations if it wasn't for this loophole.
Disable Automatic Updates stops Windows from pestering you the rest of the day. Enable it again when you restart the machine though. Though the whole security center thing is pure annoyance. It doesn't do anything! Except pestering me with messages and warnings that my computer is vulnerable since I set Automatic Updates to ask me before it download something.
Really? if the code of the communism builder was this wonderful vision Soviet Russia left it in 1917.
A quality web board that lets me download high-quality copies of music I like. A webcast radio that allows my to buy the music I'm listening to with a click. Now if the web board service or radio also deceide that they want to promote some bands that they like, even new ones that I haven't heard of before. In their policy of offering high-quality content to me, the consumer, they ensure that the recordings of the band is done in a proper studio.
I'd ask them to provide me with good music, and they'd ask me what I think is good music (I'm in the collective body of the listening audience, so they actually ask that body). A merger of alt.goth.music and Sony in a sense.
I think we agree, all I'm saying is that the record companies should be doing this (to survive that is, somebody will do it anyway) and that they will make money.
Music will still be freely available, and if you want to you can spend alot of your time searching for music that you like. You are also free to grow your own food. The average consumer (those who actually listen to Britney Spears) doesn't grow their own food (not a perfect analogy, but you get the point).
Somebody has to link audiences and artists. Record companies do that (as you put it: they make winners). If you want to support your favourite artist: go to a concert. Record companies (both large and small) makes it possible for you to know that your favourite artists exist. That's how they stay in business. There's actually a need (AKA market) for them.
In a world of filesharing (and more or less free copies of music) someone still has to link audiences and artists, and they can get paid for doing this. RedHat makes money by selling Linux, the record companies may do the same thing. I.e. make money by linking audiences and artists, and by providing quality copies to the audiences willing to pay for such.
you rage against it