This was only true before things were commonly fileshared and accessable.
Now, if something has online/multiplayer and I deem it more worthy than just it's singleplayer, then I'll buy it. Otherwise, a quick trip to piratebay for the full-game test run will determine if its even worth my time, let alone money.
It all ends up like this: All logical debate aside, it is purely personal preference.
Without starting another round, I merely prefer GPL myself. I compare it to the wine vs cedega examples personally. In an interesting philosophy if someone were to be able to combine GPL and BSD into a license, I think we'd be in good shape.
This in fact reminds me exactly of how Israeli Kibbutzes worked as a physical example. First it was "everything is shared, period- 100% communal" but people still wanted ownership of things for themselves, so they'd allow things to be "bought" from the Kibbutz at a price enough to replace said item within the Kibbutz for sharing. As noted, there still isn't an exact solution - everyone has a preference on one side of the scale or another.
Anyone have ideas how having a shared community system where things can still be purchased for the individual would work with both BSD and GPL simultaneously?
Sorry, let me try this way. Thanks for the correction, by the way. I forgot larrabee was the attempt at a card gpu from intel.
Sandwiching a bunch of processors on a card does not = graphics capability due to bandwidth constraints, processing complexity and memory access/latency issues. Especially considering the speed of each core on a gpu currently. Same things a GPU has had to engineer around intel is not going to be able to leapfrog into (plus lack of developer support)
I welcome intel trying to push for marketshare but it's going to be many generations before intel can play catchup on graphics cards...specifically when we get around to 32+GB of ram and you can afford a couple gigs for graphics (at which point we'll need 4+ gigs for graphics probably), the performance of an integrated solution will still be lacking. Graphics bandwidth and needs increases far exponentially beyond that of processing needs for anything graphics intensive by definition (currently).
I agree that they are not books to me either, but people do buy these shenanigans from time to time. Any book over $50-100 in an E-reader form? Pretty crazy. The fact that these are sold as "e-books" technically means they are considered books.
Also, in the reverse scenario (low to high), you don't see books either for quite a while....lots of presentations, news articles.
Considering Kindle is Amazon's offering until it is jailbroken, one should be expectant of them to have better support for their own device (even though I doubt they intended to in the first place)
Why wouldn't you? It's the same as any other device; it's still trying to be similar in functionality with some bonuses. Being able to turn pages by just flipping it over would be very useful and simple for people to comprehend.
Kindle is not an accurate use for digital distribution. It's a big ole marketing hype. Kindle is akin to 1 step of a complete staircase.
Content control is not the solution, and the device is a piece of garbage. DRM and other problems left and right. People just like that it's cheaper than normal books. This not being kindle's fault but the publisher's own.
Wait until people create a double sided OLED bendable/foldable reader....then you're good. I'm sure its being developed as we speak, probably by MIT or CMU.
Once book prices go reasonable online (say 2-5 bucks a book at maximum), then things will sell like hotcakes and piracy will drop. For now, even e-books for some books are ridiculously priced.
Internet/computers have created their own market for pricings. Until pricing gets to a volume level instead of scarcity level, things will continue to be purchased illegitimately. I'm not going to trade a night of going out to the bars just to buy a textbook...but I will download it free instead.
works on linux, windows, everything, free. Notably that you can require a key stored on something in addition to password to decrypt. So USB key + password to unencrypt. Works flawless and smooth. Go ahead and store that encrypted file anywhere, I think they use blowfish algorithms for the encryption,
Forms, well, tons of stuff for that.
Please don't assume that I wanted to have all my data stored on the web. That's just not a good idea. I don't care who can see my bookmarks, even at work. I do care who can see form data. I know how to keep my systems safe and secure but still, not worth the risk here. honestly.
Since our problems stem far further than just from the president himself, I doubt anything short of an armed uprising will restore some of the things we have been waiting for this whole time. I don't think it'll be a civil war. It'll be "large corporations/political figures vs normal citizens", and when that begins to show that people can't fight against themselves, the war will end prematurely.
Honestly, Bush is horrible, but he's a continuation of the turds that have been dropped on us for the past 16+ years. At 25, I can't remember a single president in my lifetime who actually did some good.
I agree civil wars are more nasty than I could possibly imagine or no, just the same as any war. However, if it's coming, then it is the natural outcome that would have been anyway.
it was more "replying in agreement" than as contradictory. I should have definitely posted maybe to the OP instead.
The truth is, I can't really speculate. However, claims are always, always, always always intentionally drawn out 4and well beyond reasonable and rationale thought when you're in court.
This isn't a "shoot for the moon so you get close", its "if the judge happens to actually be retarded and make a bad judgement call, you have to post this unreasonable amount of bond to appeal the claim just to get justice back". In the interim that money is out of google's pocket. Likewise, Jamie Thomas with the RIAA case has to post the bond to appeal 225 thousand bucks or whatever before she can actually do the appeal. This is why corporations crush individuals.
Also, this is exactly why the plaintiff's complaints are very serious. Prosecution has the advantage in a legal situation...they can drop the case after costing google wads of cash and in worst case might face sanctions or have to pay back the legal fees but there isn't enough time in the world for google to sue for damages back on every putz that takes em to court.
I honestly doubt the claims are legitimate, this sounds a lot more like a company lawyering out of its lack of business sense. Failed market = sue successors has been tried and true as of lately. I'm almost surprised they didn't sue in the east texas rocket docket.
The fact that people can only say that "there is an equal chance it may or may not be right" shows how little information is truly there. Not even a slight lean that it's incorrect or correct or even factual. This is speculating on 0 information whatsoever.
Migrating people to gmail from any competitor makes sense for google, and it's good and all that but really there's no reason google can't offer their own migration tool (as is what it really sounds like). No reason this guy can't offer his own too. I don't get why he didn't ask to have it listed by google or something.
All he's doing now is drumming up publicity for google's version, and ensuring that he's wasted google's time.
Nobody on slashdot is stupid enough to believe that we shouldn't get what we pay for and that the alternative is to get even less of what we already pay for.
The fact that an ANON makes this post is very telling of itself.
Maybe with that philosophy we should all go back to dialup for 40$/month. yeah, that'll slide real smooth.
Meanwhile, how about undersell instead of oversell! WHAT AN IDEA! Maybe that might allow people to actually you know, expand like any smart business and not end up backtracking nonstop like comcast has been doing for the past few years of this crap?
If you want to buy a domain you can do that the same as always. Want abdjiophgnbio.net,.com, etc, go buy it and pay for it. No surcharge.
However, want to prevent someone from using that domain infinitely for free? Not anymore. This is what it prevents.
It wasn't that someone could hold a domain for a week while they decide to get it that was the issue. It was that they would continually do this between shell companies for a lifetime, until someone pays for it, at no charge to the abuser holding the domain name. Meaning you could automate enough to hold every domain in the world if you had the resources.
To cost them money means its not free, and you need to sell a much higher amount of domains held. The average consumer paying 20 cents is nothing. The average squatter paying 40 bucks for 200 domains, is more in line with the "hey, quit jacking the market" idea.
Also, had this not occurred, what makes you think another company wouldn't do the same?
Stating that this is to make money is obviously not even remotely understanding the issue at hand.
My parents cared for me and taught me to stand up for what I believe and to use logic to come to conclusions (and not half assed or backwards logic).
Is it any surprise that a majority of the people who use logic end up a: not following religion, and b: very technology/computer oriented and c: forward thinking?
Why do so few of these kinds of people get in power, and how do we get people of the opposite variety to that who come straight out of Harvard for example?
One of the real problems is that people are ridiculously stupid and uneducated. I don't mean going through harvard/yale, I mean people actually researching issues. The kind of people who can acknowledge that both our republican and democratic candidates (all of them) are horrible horrible people, and our choices are merely between the lesser of evils.
Obviously you've never had soylent greens, nor have you read 1984. Good job, move on, enjoy your perceived to be excellent life. The rest of us will keep fighting for what barely remains of most rights.
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This was only true before things were commonly fileshared and accessable.
Now, if something has online/multiplayer and I deem it more worthy than just it's singleplayer, then I'll buy it. Otherwise, a quick trip to piratebay for the full-game test run will determine if its even worth my time, let alone money.
It all ends up like this:
All logical debate aside, it is purely personal preference.
Without starting another round, I merely prefer GPL myself. I compare it to the wine vs cedega examples personally. In an interesting philosophy if someone were to be able to combine GPL and BSD into a license, I think we'd be in good shape.
This in fact reminds me exactly of how Israeli Kibbutzes worked as a physical example. First it was "everything is shared, period- 100% communal" but people still wanted ownership of things for themselves, so they'd allow things to be "bought" from the Kibbutz at a price enough to replace said item within the Kibbutz for sharing. As noted, there still isn't an exact solution - everyone has a preference on one side of the scale or another.
Anyone have ideas how having a shared community system where things can still be purchased for the individual would work with both BSD and GPL simultaneously?
Sorry, let me try this way. Thanks for the correction, by the way. I forgot larrabee was the attempt at a card gpu from intel.
Sandwiching a bunch of processors on a card does not = graphics capability due to bandwidth constraints, processing complexity and memory access/latency issues. Especially considering the speed of each core on a gpu currently. Same things a GPU has had to engineer around intel is not going to be able to leapfrog into (plus lack of developer support)
Not only is the power retarded, but ATI already can do 100% native ray tracing which crushed intel bigtime.
I welcome intel trying to push for marketshare but it's going to be many generations before intel can play catchup on graphics cards...specifically when we get around to 32+GB of ram and you can afford a couple gigs for graphics (at which point we'll need 4+ gigs for graphics probably), the performance of an integrated solution will still be lacking. Graphics bandwidth and needs increases far exponentially beyond that of processing needs for anything graphics intensive by definition (currently).
Freemind is indeed great, but it's a equivalent/form of wiki. It's not so much for notetaking as much as keeping things in a hierarchy.
I value it for flowchart equivalents, but for just taking notes it doesn't seem to make so much sense.
I do agree 100% it should be used in every class, however. Immense educational value.
Well,
it makes perfect sense for just text
but OneNote allows clipboard copying and stuff like that. Just writing text we have notepad and equivalent in linux.
Basket really does keep up with everything OneNote can do and zoho does too.
Sometimes people need visual notes, etc etc. To me some of the features are just "unnecessary" as well.
Open Source Onenote?
Yes, one you don't have to download, and one you do.
On Linux: Basket Notepads
On windows: Zoho Notebook (no software required for that one)
It was only to show an extreme.
I agree that they are not books to me either, but people do buy these shenanigans from time to time. Any book over $50-100 in an E-reader form? Pretty crazy. The fact that these are sold as "e-books" technically means they are considered books.
Also, in the reverse scenario (low to high), you don't see books either for quite a while....lots of presentations, news articles.
Considering Kindle is Amazon's offering until it is jailbroken, one should be expectant of them to have better support for their own device (even though I doubt they intended to in the first place)
Why wouldn't you? It's the same as any other device; it's still trying to be similar in functionality with some bonuses. Being able to turn pages by just flipping it over would be very useful and simple for people to comprehend.
Kindle is not an accurate use for digital distribution. It's a big ole marketing hype. Kindle is akin to 1 step of a complete staircase.
Content control is not the solution, and the device is a piece of garbage. DRM and other problems left and right. People just like that it's cheaper than normal books. This not being kindle's fault but the publisher's own.
Wait until people create a double sided OLED bendable/foldable reader....then you're good. I'm sure its being developed as we speak, probably by MIT or CMU.
Once book prices go reasonable online (say 2-5 bucks a book at maximum), then things will sell like hotcakes and piracy will drop. For now, even e-books for some books are ridiculously priced.
Internet/computers have created their own market for pricings. Until pricing gets to a volume level instead of scarcity level, things will continue to be purchased illegitimately. I'm not going to trade a night of going out to the bars just to buy a textbook...but I will download it free instead.
Hey, not so much.
I want google sync too but honestly it's too much of a security risk on its own. Honestly, encrypted passwords? Come now.
Form data? Plenty of stuff out there for that,although not all in one combination.
Encrypted passwords? bring them on Keepass. http://keepass.info/download.html
works on linux, windows, everything, free. Notably that you can require a key stored on something in addition to password to decrypt. So USB key + password to unencrypt. Works flawless and smooth. Go ahead and store that encrypted file anywhere, I think they use blowfish algorithms for the encryption,
Forms, well, tons of stuff for that.
Please don't assume that I wanted to have all my data stored on the web. That's just not a good idea. I don't care who can see my bookmarks, even at work. I do care who can see form data. I know how to keep my systems safe and secure but still, not worth the risk here. honestly.
Foxmarks does extremely well for addition of bookmarks, plus it even has a history of previous modifications so you can restore your own mistakes.
Wish I could have seen browser sync but its the same idea overall.
Really, so you're saying there's no way this would have happened without Reagan?
I'd call that a hell of an illusion.
We've had it coming for at least 8 years.
I can't say I'd be surprised.
Since our problems stem far further than just from the president himself, I doubt anything short of an armed uprising will restore some of the things we have been waiting for this whole time. I don't think it'll be a civil war. It'll be "large corporations/political figures vs normal citizens", and when that begins to show that people can't fight against themselves, the war will end prematurely.
Honestly, Bush is horrible, but he's a continuation of the turds that have been dropped on us for the past 16+ years. At 25, I can't remember a single president in my lifetime who actually did some good.
I agree civil wars are more nasty than I could possibly imagine or no, just the same as any war. However, if it's coming, then it is the natural outcome that would have been anyway.
it's okay, I understood what you meant :)
it was more "replying in agreement" than as contradictory. I should have definitely posted maybe to the OP instead.
The truth is, I can't really speculate. However, claims are always, always, always always intentionally drawn out 4and well beyond reasonable and rationale thought when you're in court.
This isn't a "shoot for the moon so you get close", its "if the judge happens to actually be retarded and make a bad judgement call, you have to post this unreasonable amount of bond to appeal the claim just to get justice back". In the interim that money is out of google's pocket. Likewise, Jamie Thomas with the RIAA case has to post the bond to appeal 225 thousand bucks or whatever before she can actually do the appeal. This is why corporations crush individuals.
Also, this is exactly why the plaintiff's complaints are very serious. Prosecution has the advantage in a legal situation...they can drop the case after costing google wads of cash and in worst case might face sanctions or have to pay back the legal fees but there isn't enough time in the world for google to sue for damages back on every putz that takes em to court.
I honestly doubt the claims are legitimate, this sounds a lot more like a company lawyering out of its lack of business sense. Failed market = sue successors has been tried and true as of lately. I'm almost surprised they didn't sue in the east texas rocket docket.
The fact that people can only say that "there is an equal chance it may or may not be right" shows how little information is truly there. Not even a slight lean that it's incorrect or correct or even factual. This is speculating on 0 information whatsoever.
Migrating people to gmail from any competitor makes sense for google, and it's good and all that but really there's no reason google can't offer their own migration tool (as is what it really sounds like). No reason this guy can't offer his own too. I don't get why he didn't ask to have it listed by google or something.
All he's doing now is drumming up publicity for google's version, and ensuring that he's wasted google's time.
Nobody on slashdot is stupid enough to believe that we shouldn't get what we pay for and that the alternative is to get even less of what we already pay for.
The fact that an ANON makes this post is very telling of itself.
Maybe with that philosophy we should all go back to dialup for 40$/month. yeah, that'll slide real smooth.
Meanwhile, how about undersell instead of oversell! WHAT AN IDEA! Maybe that might allow people to actually you know, expand like any smart business and not end up backtracking nonstop like comcast has been doing for the past few years of this crap?
This has 0 to do with money.
ICANN makes plenty and does just fine.
If you want to buy a domain you can do that the same as always. Want abdjiophgnbio.net, .com, etc, go buy it and pay for it. No surcharge.
However, want to prevent someone from using that domain infinitely for free? Not anymore. This is what it prevents.
It wasn't that someone could hold a domain for a week while they decide to get it that was the issue. It was that they would continually do this between shell companies for a lifetime, until someone pays for it, at no charge to the abuser holding the domain name. Meaning you could automate enough to hold every domain in the world if you had the resources.
To cost them money means its not free, and you need to sell a much higher amount of domains held. The average consumer paying 20 cents is nothing. The average squatter paying 40 bucks for 200 domains, is more in line with the "hey, quit jacking the market" idea.
Also, had this not occurred, what makes you think another company wouldn't do the same?
Stating that this is to make money is obviously not even remotely understanding the issue at hand.
Elenco has some amazing products (humorously a toys r us DIY wiretap kit linked from slashdot).
http://www.elenco.com/
They have some great stuff aimed at all ages, I took a look through, and I was deeply impressed.
I agree with you in your entirety.
My parents cared for me and taught me to stand up for what I believe and to use logic to come to conclusions (and not half assed or backwards logic).
Is it any surprise that a majority of the people who use logic end up a: not following religion, and b: very technology/computer oriented and c: forward thinking?
Why do so few of these kinds of people get in power, and how do we get people of the opposite variety to that who come straight out of Harvard for example?
One of the real problems is that people are ridiculously stupid and uneducated. I don't mean going through harvard/yale, I mean people actually researching issues. The kind of people who can acknowledge that both our republican and democratic candidates (all of them) are horrible horrible people, and our choices are merely between the lesser of evils.
can anyone actually connect to wikileaks right now?
I'm having no such luck...not sure if its a work coincidence or a result of the manual.
Thank you. It took people way too long to catch my joke here :)
The type of meat usually varies from person to person.
Actually I had a joke of my own there :)
didn't miss it, but kinda worded it a bit harsh now that I look back at it.
Obviously you've never had soylent greens, nor have you read 1984. Good job, move on, enjoy your perceived to be excellent life. The rest of us will keep fighting for what barely remains of most rights.