"They will likely change the way they do business, like IBM did. Perhaps they will produce their own "open source" products, and then the Linux/FOSS community had better be ready for it, because they certainly won't be free software."
but one thing I will say is that GNU/Linux could really do with some decent marketing.
you could drop the GNU for a start/hides
Before I get modded down, I respect RMS and his work on the software he did over the last 20 years or so but that doesnt give him any excuse to try and put some childish in joke abrv into a software title. I don't want to call Linux the full OS, but that doesn't mean I can stand the alternative.
Put GNU/linux and Madriva in the same boat and sink it.
if it was a pittance that decided whether you ate that day or not what would you choose?
I'd say 80% of artists hardly have enough to eat nevermind clothe themselves. 10% make lots of money on a few good songs/art/movies and pish it against the wall till they end up back with the 80% 5% get constant coverage on their creations due to media hype, backhanding and chest size and the last 5% couldn't give a flying fvck because they made their millions 40 years ago, have never created since, and probably make more now on royalties than they ever did as a performer.
I do believe the whole system is screwed....
I admit that RMS has some social issues that should maybe be addressed (like most geeks?) but I REALLY think the madman has a very valid point in what he says here: <URL:http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Copyrigh t%20vs%20Community%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Compute r%20Networks.html>
I never realised before that Steamboat willie (the birth of mickey mouse) was a derivative of another artists work... Shame on Disney for trying to promote perpetual copyright on something that they never even came up with!
if it was a pittance that decided whether you ate that day or not what would you choose?
I'd say 80% of artists hardly have enough to eat nevermind clothe themselves. 10% make lots of money on a few good songs/art/movies and pish it against the wall till they end up back with the 80% 5% get constant coverage on their creations due to media hype, backhanding and chest size and the last 5% couldn't give a flying fvck because they made their millions 40 years ago, have never created since, and probably make more now on royalties than they ever did as a performer.
I never realised before that Steamboat willie (the birth of mickey mouse) was a derivative of another artists work... Shame on Disney for trying to promote perpetual copyright on something that they never even came up with!
What is the difference between fuck, frig and shag?
If I said I was going to cabbage your sister... knowing the context of my phrase, would it matter what word I used? As far as I am aware, people usually swear because they are annoyed or upset. The very harshness of the word expresses and releases built up energy, regardless of the actual word used.
I do agree that the people using these words to compensate for a lack of vocabulary should go back to school and that business use of the word is ill advised. BUT, the majority of what we consider profane words today were perfectly appropriate many years ago. How about 'Bastard' for example?
Personally I find 'belly' barely better than 'stomach' and makes my hair stand on end everytime I hear it. Should that make it profane?
I think it goes back to what is or is not politically correct. 50 years ago if I called someone a nigger (with the best intent possible) then I was addressing a black person. I can't even call them black any more I have to call them 'coloured' or even afro American if I don't want to be considered a racist. The black lab in 'The Dam Busters' was called 'nigger' and nobody gave it a second thought. How about Golliwogs?
Have people stopped calling me white? should I be hurt because they called me what I am? But then my heritage does not go back to slavery.
It is the same Politically correct crap with disabilities. Spastic, mongo, retard etcetera used to be perfectly acceptable general terms to refer to someone that had a mental handicap. Due to the **intent** of the said words they have become profane and now we call them 'special'.
As our language continues to evolve for better, or worse. These words will pass in and out of general use. No offence to the Americans but considering how much you butchered the kings English over the years I'd suggest that 'text speak' is a far greater danger to our vocabulary than the use of profane or indecent phrases in every day use.
All in all... it does not really matter. In the grand scheme of things, we'll likely all be speaking Indian or Chinese within a hundred years or so, no?
imagine whats his name from Ubuntu got that UNIX certified? I'm not saying that's the best distro, but it certainly has the finances to get the certificate... would be rather amusing though I think.
"BBC reported in an article this morning that the American government may start using tough anti-terror laws to censor bloggers who insult either Christianity or the country's king"
errr hello ? tell me one decent bit of software that has been out 5 years, is still useful and hasn't been superseded. I wouldn't give developers more than 5 years copyright for any of their works, maybe we could add another 5 year extension if they share the source and under law after the 10 years the code would be open source and in the public domain.
One of the few counter arguments of course would be Windows XP, but was that not superseded by SP1? and then SP2? remastered music isn't any more or less protected than the original work as it stands.
"this would have impact on the incomes of a lot of Slashdotters"
And who are all these people I hear of? I would give games 10 years but after that the art and the code would be split up into the public domain under their respective categories.
rather than packet shaping BT traffic or any of that shit wouldn't they be better packet shaping the DDOS servers that have obviously taken over?
Why dont they add something to their contract saying that if we detect a bot running on your computer, we'll cut your b/w down to dial up till you do something about it?
I know so many people that simply don't care how much their computer is infected with malware, (admittedly last person I spoke to was a 15 year old idiot) But as long as their internet works half of china could be on their computer.
"We're missing a lot of things that "don't exist." "
Yeah we'd all love a space elevator.
"The real BS here is that without some kind of money it's damn hard to get your game/music out there."
Easy answer number one? EA goes bankrupt... playing field is suddenly a lot more open. The best games dont have the best graphics, and the majority of the all time greatest were made in peoples bedrooms.
"Can you front the money for a recording studio session? Do you even know how much they charge an hour?? "
No and I wouldn't care... I'd go see them at a local concert, and for the huge international bands? oh wait, there wouldn't be any because there would be no money to market them.
So what happens? do you think the music will dry up? Music is ART... its got absolutely jack shit to do with making money. Music has been made for thousands of years and only in the last 100 or so have people and their corporations tried to control it.
I'm sure it would be harder for companies to pay people not to make music its a natural human expression!
"I'm as tired as you are of the same old shit that is fed to us by the mega corps, but if an indie developer/band needs some kind of sponsor in order to deliver true entertainment, i'm all for it."
In all of this I actually agree with you here, we do need to support the indies but blanket advertising is no better than the mafiaa's loyalties. The developers will see none of the money from this and game prices will certainly not go down. Advertising would only become interested when the game went gold and from then till its death it would be numbers numbers numbers... and the quality of advertising will depend on the popularity of the game. Can you imagine a ww2 hanger with 'get you c@lis here' ?
If the indies really ever had a voice then most people reading this would know about http://www.gametunnel.com/ and would be able to give the money directly to the artists.
As long as corporations such as E.A and vivendi exist they will continue to bite directly into the consumers wallet and give NOTHING back in return to the developers.
"Without the money coming from in-game advertising...you may not have the chance to play the game anyway."
Then so what? What would we miss if we never knew they existed?
That's the same BS reason said about record companies.. If they didn't exist there wouldn't be any music!! of course there would be bloody music we just wouldn't be forced to put up with the same re-mixed crap over and over and over and over again!
I would LOVE the games industry to collapse again like it did in the 80's (some people suggest it's just about to) and we'd get back to proper fun games that were not cash cows and there wouldn't be any finance for financially risky games to exist in the first place.
I don't need 20 million reiterations of pacman! (80's)
I don't need 20 million reitterations of bejeweled (2000's)... see a pattern here?
Slashdot Mirror
I cant decide on whether I want to mod you up... or mod you down :-|
:D
so I'll comment instead
"They will likely change the way they do business, like IBM did. Perhaps they will produce their own "open source" products, and then the Linux/FOSS community had better be ready for it, because they certainly won't be free software."
you mean like this?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41395
I hate to say this....
"PC use in the home wouldn't be as widespread as it is now"
but maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing?
only sayin!
billions of dollars and man hours contributed to the office 2007 bar?
woah thats a lot of innovation.
my opinion of this guy is one word... shill
/hides
but one thing I will say is that GNU/Linux could really do with some decent marketing.
you could drop the GNU for a start
Before I get modded down, I respect RMS and his work on the software he did over the last 20 years or so but that doesnt give him any excuse to try and put some childish in joke abrv into a software title. I don't want to call Linux the full OS, but that doesn't mean I can stand the alternative.
Put GNU/linux and Madriva in the same boat and sink it.
if it was a pittance that decided whether you ate that day or not what would you choose?
h t%20vs%20Community%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Compute r%20Networks.html>
I'd say 80% of artists hardly have enough to eat nevermind clothe themselves.
10% make lots of money on a few good songs/art/movies and pish it against the wall till they end up back with the 80%
5% get constant coverage on their creations due to media hype, backhanding and chest size
and the last 5% couldn't give a flying fvck because they made their millions 40 years ago, have never created since, and probably make more now on royalties than they ever did as a performer.
I do believe the whole system is screwed....
I admit that RMS has some social issues that should maybe be addressed (like most geeks?) but I REALLY think the madman has a very valid point in what he says here:
<URL:http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Copyrig
I never realised before that Steamboat willie (the birth of mickey mouse) was a derivative of another artists work... Shame on Disney for trying to promote perpetual copyright on something that they never even came up with!
if it was a pittance that decided whether you ate that day or not what would you choose?
v s%20Community%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Computer%20N etworks.html
I'd say 80% of artists hardly have enough to eat nevermind clothe themselves.
10% make lots of money on a few good songs/art/movies and pish it against the wall till they end up back with the 80%
5% get constant coverage on their creations due to media hype, backhanding and chest size
and the last 5% couldn't give a flying fvck because they made their millions 40 years ago, have never created since, and probably make more now on royalties than they ever did as a performer.
I do believe the whole system is screwed....
I admit that RMS has some social issues that should maybe be addressed (like most geeks?) but I REALLY think the madman has a very valid point in what he says here:
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Copyright%20
I never realised before that Steamboat willie (the birth of mickey mouse) was a derivative of another artists work... Shame on Disney for trying to promote perpetual copyright on something that they never even came up with!
humour aside, I think WWII with Microsoft is just round the corner :-\
Is the intent not worse than the choice?
What is the difference between fuck, frig and shag?
If I said I was going to cabbage your sister... knowing the context of my phrase, would it matter what word I used?
As far as I am aware, people usually swear because they are annoyed or upset. The very harshness of the word expresses and releases built up energy, regardless of the actual word used.
I do agree that the people using these words to compensate for a lack of vocabulary should go back to school and that business use of the word is ill advised. BUT, the majority of what we consider profane words today were perfectly appropriate many years ago. How about 'Bastard' for example?
Personally I find 'belly' barely better than 'stomach' and makes my hair stand on end everytime I hear it. Should that make it profane?
I think it goes back to what is or is not politically correct. 50 years ago if I called someone a nigger (with the best intent possible) then I was addressing a black person. I can't even call them black any more I have to call them 'coloured' or even afro American if I don't want to be considered a racist. The black lab in 'The Dam Busters' was called 'nigger' and nobody gave it a second thought. How about Golliwogs?
Have people stopped calling me white? should I be hurt because they called me what I am? But then my heritage does not go back to slavery.
It is the same Politically correct crap with disabilities. Spastic, mongo, retard etcetera used to be perfectly acceptable general terms to refer to someone that had a mental handicap. Due to the **intent** of the said words they have become profane and now we call them 'special'.
As our language continues to evolve for better, or worse. These words will pass in and out of general use. No offence to the Americans but considering how much you butchered the kings English over the years I'd suggest that 'text speak' is a far greater danger to our vocabulary than the use of profane or indecent phrases in every day use.
All in all... it does not really matter. In the grand scheme of things, we'll likely all be speaking Indian or Chinese within a hundred years or so, no?
Did Next have UNIX certification?
:-|
Next always seemed like a good OS, back in the day
imagine whats his name from Ubuntu got that UNIX certified? I'm not saying that's the best distro, but it certainly has the finances to get the certificate... would be rather amusing though I think.
I'm not sure I understand your comment.. but hell yeah I'd love 32 Go RAM
a bit like Catholicism then eh? just 500 years onward.
In other news:
"BBC reported in an article this morning that the American government may start using tough anti-terror laws to censor bloggers who insult either Christianity or the country's king"
errr hello ? tell me one decent bit of software that has been out 5 years, is still useful and hasn't been superseded. I wouldn't give developers more than 5 years copyright for any of their works, maybe we could add another 5 year extension if they share the source and under law after the 10 years the code would be open source and in the public domain.
One of the few counter arguments of course would be Windows XP, but was that not superseded by SP1? and then SP2? remastered music isn't any more or less protected than the original work as it stands.
"this would have impact on the incomes of a lot of Slashdotters"
And who are all these people I hear of? I would give games 10 years but after that the art and the code would be split up into the public domain under their respective categories.
rather than packet shaping BT traffic or any of that shit wouldn't they be better packet shaping the DDOS servers that have obviously taken over?
Why dont they add something to their contract saying that if we detect a bot running on your computer, we'll cut your b/w down to dial up till you do something about it?
I know so many people that simply don't care how much their computer is infected with malware, (admittedly last person I spoke to was a 15 year old idiot) But as long as their internet works half of china could be on their computer.
From what I've heard... they would but people demand him and Zelda come back.
can't remember the source tho
bit of a major grammar error if you ask me :)
/hides
but if he did actually mean something else I'll be willing to lincense it for sure =)
do providers allow random phones to be used on there network?
yes, thats what an unlocked phone is....
as to your question about blocking phones...
if the imei number is correct and its FCC approved I doubt they would have any reason to block you
meh who cares?
:P
go for the yanks and the limeys will follow
and that's coming from a scot!
<hides>
=)
"We're missing a lot of things that "don't exist." "
Yeah we'd all love a space elevator.
"The real BS here is that without some kind of money it's damn hard to get your game/music out there."
Easy answer number one? EA goes bankrupt... playing field is suddenly a lot more open. The best games dont have the best graphics, and the majority of the all time greatest were made in peoples bedrooms.
"Can you front the money for a recording studio session? Do you even know how much they charge an hour?? "
No and I wouldn't care... I'd go see them at a local concert, and for the huge international bands? oh wait, there wouldn't be any because there would be no money to market them.
So what happens? do you think the music will dry up? Music is ART... its got absolutely jack shit to do with making money. Music has been made for thousands of years and only in the last 100 or so have people and their corporations tried to control it.
I'm sure it would be harder for companies to pay people not to make music its a natural human expression!
"I'm as tired as you are of the same old shit that is fed to us by the mega corps, but if an indie developer/band needs some kind of sponsor in order to deliver true entertainment, i'm all for it."
In all of this I actually agree with you here, we do need to support the indies but blanket advertising is no better than the mafiaa's loyalties. The developers will see none of the money from this and game prices will certainly not go down. Advertising would only become interested when the game went gold and from then till its death it would be numbers numbers numbers... and the quality of advertising will depend on the popularity of the game. Can you imagine a ww2 hanger with 'get you c@lis here' ?
If the indies really ever had a voice then most people reading this would know about http://www.gametunnel.com/ and would be able to give the money directly to the artists.
As long as corporations such as E.A and vivendi exist they will continue to bite directly into the consumers wallet and give NOTHING back in return to the developers.
Its a shame... damage modelling is something I really love...
:)
nothing more amusing than causing a 20 car pile up on the raceway when you are bored
then again maybe that's just me and my sick sense of humour
"Without the money coming from in-game advertising...you may not have the chance to play the game anyway."
... see a pattern here?
Then so what? What would we miss if we never knew they existed?
That's the same BS reason said about record companies.. If they didn't exist there wouldn't be any music!! of course there would be bloody music we just wouldn't be forced to put up with the same re-mixed crap over and over and over and over again!
I would LOVE the games industry to collapse again like it did in the 80's (some people suggest it's just about to) and we'd get back to proper fun games that were not cash cows and there wouldn't be any finance for financially risky games to exist in the first place.
I don't need 20 million reiterations of pacman! (80's)
I don't need 20 million reitterations of bejeweled (2000's)
"Just as Need For Speed has always had real cars"
...
One problem I see with this alone is that car manufacturers are not willing to put their car in a game if it has realistic/any damage modelling
I'm not saying NFS is like that, I haven't played them in ages...
just like half the trolls on /. :-|