Why pay for things that have no replication/distribution costs? Ideas are free. Production costs for software? Up-front, then zero.
Yes, all software should be free. Adapting it to special needs should cost money.
Do you know that commercial software makes up 10% of software development? The rest is in-house. Maintaining, rewriting, expanding specialized in-house software. And adapting open-source to real-world.
Well they'd better host the projects in China where no one cares for the rest of the world's IP laws.
What's wrong with you people? Technical problem : we can't code stuff because it's all patented to hell, boo hoo. Technical solutions: host the code wherever those laws don't apply. Let people who find it in the rest of he world use it without advertising their doing so...
Your code will end up - stolen - in Chinese devices, of course. Those devices will get sold in the States, because you Americans buy 80% of all electronic gizmos in the world. Then there will be some scandal here, for GPL violation or such, then IBM will try to sue the manufacturers of the devices, which won't work of course, then it will get interesting when they try to injunct Wal-Mart to stop selling the stuff.
Oh fuck you and your friends. The guy wanted the best, could afford it, and got it.
Are you SURE you know enough to NEVER get infected? The non-technical guy will run half a botnet before his computer begins to slow down. YOU will have to reinstall your Windows every couple of months. And the guy can run games. Do YOU have a GF9400? He has a GF10 Ultra (whatever they're called now), games will run beautifully on his rig for years while you'll be fussing over the $100 or $150 graph card you'll replace every six months. Aaaaand he can stream HD video, full-screen, without any (non-network) lag. And run Firefox with over ten tabs in facebook or such without everything beginning to crawl.
Seems easy enough for me. More cache = less misses = faster system More cores = more tasks without context-switching More GHz = more speed per task
Architecture : buy Intel because AMD CPUs overheat to the point of melting laptops (without the CoolNQuiet driver, the one that's NOT in Windows Setup, so when your Windows needs reinstalling, hope that it's over fast enough. The point is, AMD sells CPUs that run at their nominal speed a small fraction of the time and risk bursting in flames if they run continuously at their nominal speed. They're made to be underclocked almost all the time, so when your OS doesn't support that, your laptop MELTS.)
So, yeah. Buy Intel. There's always at least ONE cpu in their line-up that's worth buying.... verifying...
Not any longer, it seems. Game over now. Needs an Extreme to squeeze some perf.
Remember when they released the first Quads Extreme? The ones where they slightly overclocked their CPUs, put them in black boxes, and happily sold them five times the price? At that time, you could buy the base processor, put it in a watercooled case and enjoy real perf for a reasonable price.
Seems enough idiots have enough money now that Extreme Edition is no longer an Idiot Tax, but that Intel removed the "decent CPU, decent price" from their line-up, letting perf-needy people to either get those good CPUs in Apple tech, or selling a kidney to buy one.
They'll sell Extremes for $300 anyway, just need to buy ten thousand of them... as if it did really cost them five times the price of a Normal to produce one Extreme...
Seen many netbooks with over 2G of RAM by default lately? Running Eclipse recommends 1536M RAM. And you add to that an application server? You're clinically insane. Or maybe you love to watch slugs copulate while you're waiting for your IDE to load, swapping the whole app server to disk, and replay them in slow-motion while you're waiting for the app server to unswap so as to test your code. About code, Eclipse has the "I can read less code on this POS 1024x600 screen than I could on VT100" syndrome, what with the Eclipse interface, which needs a couple FullHD monitors just to display everything you need to see at a glance to code correctly... and that is without plugins. (Yeah, you can train your short-term memory to hold a thousand items instead of seven, right, that's so gonna happen.)
Yes. Days of research or trust Dell or Acer to do the Right Thing and select the right CPU, instead of skimping on every part that is not HEADLINE CPU or HEADLINE GRAPHCARD.
Depends if you'd rather 1. waste a couple of days in research, XOR 2. buy a really overpriced pre-built computer so that you're sure the hardware packs serious power (like Alienware and their PCs twice the parts price) XOR 3. buy a piece of pre-built crap and pray that you won't get fucked over too much.
There's almost nothing more parallelizable than games. If you wrote game code single-threaded, you're dangerously stupid. There are methods for writing bug-free multithreaded code, the most prominent of which are 1. Think and 2. Test.
HAS TO run single threaded? WHAT? The input code in the same thread as the graphics, physics, sound, rendering? Do you handle the interrupts yourself, directing them in a state machine that branches to the relevant part of the main loop? NO you don't. Else you'd be programming embedded microcontrollers, not games on PC.
Of COURSE if you're running some windows, that one switches affinity all the time, just to make everything slower... Not gonna happen to them to think of distributing interrupts. Or design their systems in any remotely sane way.
Tremendous cost in interconnection... run one task per core... leave one core for undemanding background system processes... no more interconnection costs... voilà, more cores = more power.
Yeah, faster to run everything at all on one overclocked core instead of leaving the OS and everything on at least a second one? Wait MINUTES for context switching? (Yeah, microseconds - go run one demanding app on Windows on 1-core and switch tasks, even to Start menu. Minutes.)
Who wants AMD cpus? They overheat, get mounted on low-quality chipsets, need drivers to not burn (funny story with a 3500+, windows setup had no K8 driver, the laptop MELTED during install), they always have less cache than Intel cpus, the chipset drivers suck, Intel does everything better.
I've installed the Adobe CS 2, 3, 4 and 5 successively. Never earned any money from them, played a bit with some programs ad a lot with the other.
Why would I give Adobe $20,000? What money would I pay them with?
Now if they sold the full suite for $100, I'd have bought it, every time : it's easier for me to find $100 than wait for days of downloading, then put up with the various cracks.
As for the original question... I could not do art without Photoshop and Illustrator. Yeah, GIMP and Inskscape : I tried, they suck. So piracy does not only not prevent art from getting done, it also enables art to get done in the first place.
Go try to afford modules for producing electronica, hardware. First to find money by the ten-grand? Nah, go download Ableton... and if/when you get paid for mixing, then you can go buy the license.
Selling BBS software for money? Your friend was an idiot. Go try to sell a torrent-tracker server for money!
The BBS was for warez like the Internet is for porn. Your friend would have made money writing PBX software at that time. Phone-Box eXchange were high-value gizmos by then, and would certainly not be pirated by the kind of companies that used such.
I can't wait! For the day YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY is FULL of sex offenders because.... in a high school... seriously, what are your officials smoking? ANYone who's having sex with anyone under 18 is a pedophile then... Yeah by the end of high school, only terminal nerds will not be such.
So the 16 years slut who drunkenly fucks a guy who's 14 can report him as a sex offender pedophile? And that's legal!
Decent surveillance in schools could well mean that in a couple of years, everyone in the USA will be a registered sex offender...
Know what? What they really want, the morons who sign those laws? They want their daughters to have their labia sewn shut until they're 18, that's what these laws are expressing.
Age has a LOT to do with maturity (we're speaking about the mental kind). It's true there are outliers of very young people who are more mature than older people, and older people who seem to never become mature at all, but they are just that - outliers, they are not proof against the general rule.
Let's say that's right
The part of the brain that assesses risk is not fully developed until an average age of around 25.
That, can't. Until 25? Sorry, it's way too important for monkeys that can replicate from the age of 12. We' have been wiped out long, long ago if our brains could not assess risk until old age. We are primates and puberty is around 12. You CAN assess risk accurately before you're twice as old as what's required for reproduction or else, your species has already disappeared and you're not existent enough to read this.
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Why pay for things that have no replication/distribution costs? Ideas are free. Production costs for software? Up-front, then zero.
Yes, all software should be free. Adapting it to special needs should cost money.
Do you know that commercial software makes up 10% of software development? The rest is in-house. Maintaining, rewriting, expanding specialized in-house software. And adapting open-source to real-world.
Oh go install qemu and a virtual windows to use warez like we all do.
What, you need links?
Go try to use an Ubuntu out of the box.
Now go do the exact same thing on MacOS.
One is a desktop Unix done right, the other is a thin layer of gloss over a ton of incompatible software.
When I see a distro as polished and finalized and unified as MacOSX, I'll consider Linux on the desktop.
What, the most expensive line item on the bill?
No Way. The really expensive thing in Medical is HARDWARE. How many doctor years does one CAT machine cost? An fMRI device?
NLP is a crackpot pseudo-science field. Forget that.
Well they'd better host the projects in China where no one cares for the rest of the world's IP laws.
What's wrong with you people? Technical problem : we can't code stuff because it's all patented to hell, boo hoo. Technical solutions: host the code wherever those laws don't apply. Let people who find it in the rest of he world use it without advertising their doing so...
Your code will end up - stolen - in Chinese devices, of course. Those devices will get sold in the States, because you Americans buy 80% of all electronic gizmos in the world. Then there will be some scandal here, for GPL violation or such, then IBM will try to sue the manufacturers of the devices, which won't work of course, then it will get interesting when they try to injunct Wal-Mart to stop selling the stuff.
Oh fuck you and your friends. The guy wanted the best, could afford it, and got it.
Are you SURE you know enough to NEVER get infected? The non-technical guy will run half a botnet before his computer begins to slow down. YOU will have to reinstall your Windows every couple of months. And the guy can run games. Do YOU have a GF9400? He has a GF10 Ultra (whatever they're called now), games will run beautifully on his rig for years while you'll be fussing over the $100 or $150 graph card you'll replace every six months. Aaaaand he can stream HD video, full-screen, without any (non-network) lag. And run Firefox with over ten tabs in facebook or such without everything beginning to crawl.
Seems easy enough for me.
More cache = less misses = faster system
More cores = more tasks without context-switching
More GHz = more speed per task
Architecture : buy Intel because AMD CPUs overheat to the point of melting laptops (without the CoolNQuiet driver, the one that's NOT in Windows Setup, so when your Windows needs reinstalling, hope that it's over fast enough. The point is, AMD sells CPUs that run at their nominal speed a small fraction of the time and risk bursting in flames if they run continuously at their nominal speed. They're made to be underclocked almost all the time, so when your OS doesn't support that, your laptop MELTS.)
So, yeah. Buy Intel. There's always at least ONE cpu in their line-up that's worth buying. ... verifying ...
Not any longer, it seems. Game over now. Needs an Extreme to squeeze some perf.
Remember when they released the first Quads Extreme? The ones where they slightly overclocked their CPUs, put them in black boxes, and happily sold them five times the price? At that time, you could buy the base processor, put it in a watercooled case and enjoy real perf for a reasonable price.
Seems enough idiots have enough money now that Extreme Edition is no longer an Idiot Tax, but that Intel removed the "decent CPU, decent price" from their line-up, letting perf-needy people to either get those good CPUs in Apple tech, or selling a kidney to buy one.
They'll sell Extremes for $300 anyway, just need to buy ten thousand of them... as if it did really cost them five times the price of a Normal to produce one Extreme...
WAAAAHAHAAAAAAA!
Linux Java IDE... netbook... my ribs hurt.
Seen many netbooks with over 2G of RAM by default lately? Running Eclipse recommends 1536M RAM. And you add to that an application server? You're clinically insane. Or maybe you love to watch slugs copulate while you're waiting for your IDE to load, swapping the whole app server to disk, and replay them in slow-motion while you're waiting for the app server to unswap so as to test your code. ... and that is without plugins.
About code, Eclipse has the "I can read less code on this POS 1024x600 screen than I could on VT100" syndrome, what with the Eclipse interface, which needs a couple FullHD monitors just to display everything you need to see at a glance to code correctly
(Yeah, you can train your short-term memory to hold a thousand items instead of seven, right, that's so gonna happen.)
Aaaaaand your i5 is coupled to an Intel graphcard, so it will not run games. Oh, you can buy a console too, of course...
... with a graph card that Will. Not. Run. Games. At anything above 12 FPS minimum framerate. Unplayable. $500 : wasted.
Yes. Days of research or trust Dell or Acer to do the Right Thing and select the right CPU, instead of skimping on every part that is not HEADLINE CPU or HEADLINE GRAPHCARD.
Depends if you'd rather 1. waste a couple of days in research, XOR 2. buy a really overpriced pre-built computer so that you're sure the hardware packs serious power (like Alienware and their PCs twice the parts price) XOR 3. buy a piece of pre-built crap and pray that you won't get fucked over too much.
Bwaaaahahaaaa idiot.
There's almost nothing more parallelizable than games. If you wrote game code single-threaded, you're dangerously stupid. There are methods for writing bug-free multithreaded code, the most prominent of which are 1. Think and 2. Test.
HAS TO run single threaded? WHAT? The input code in the same thread as the graphics, physics, sound, rendering? Do you handle the interrupts yourself, directing them in a state machine that branches to the relevant part of the main loop? NO you don't. Else you'd be programming embedded microcontrollers, not games on PC.
No, it doesn't.
Dedicated server? Ok, one task per core.
Of COURSE if you're running some windows, that one switches affinity all the time, just to make everything slower... Not gonna happen to them to think of distributing interrupts. Or design their systems in any remotely sane way.
Tremendous cost in interconnection... run one task per core... leave one core for undemanding background system processes... no more interconnection costs... voilà, more cores = more power.
Yeah, faster to run everything at all on one overclocked core instead of leaving the OS and everything on at least a second one? Wait MINUTES for context switching? (Yeah, microseconds - go run one demanding app on Windows on 1-core and switch tasks, even to Start menu. Minutes.)
Who wants AMD cpus? They overheat, get mounted on low-quality chipsets, need drivers to not burn (funny story with a 3500+, windows setup had no K8 driver, the laptop MELTED during install), they always have less cache than Intel cpus, the chipset drivers suck, Intel does everything better.
I've installed the Adobe CS 2, 3, 4 and 5 successively. Never earned any money from them, played a bit with some programs ad a lot with the other.
Why would I give Adobe $20,000? What money would I pay them with?
Now if they sold the full suite for $100, I'd have bought it, every time : it's easier for me to find $100 than wait for days of downloading, then put up with the various cracks.
As for the original question... I could not do art without Photoshop and Illustrator. Yeah, GIMP and Inskscape : I tried, they suck. So piracy does not only not prevent art from getting done, it also enables art to get done in the first place.
Go try to afford modules for producing electronica, hardware. First to find money by the ten-grand? Nah, go download Ableton... and if/when you get paid for mixing, then you can go buy the license.
Selling BBS software for money? Your friend was an idiot. Go try to sell a torrent-tracker server for money!
The BBS was for warez like the Internet is for porn. Your friend would have made money writing PBX software at that time. Phone-Box eXchange were high-value gizmos by then, and would certainly not be pirated by the kind of companies that used such.
Adblock. What "Access denied"?
Viruses on Linux. Yeah, right.
Wait. What? Did that happen?
I can't wait! For the day YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY is FULL of sex offenders because .... in a high school... seriously, what are your officials smoking? ANYone who's having sex with anyone under 18 is a pedophile then... Yeah by the end of high school, only terminal nerds will not be such.
So the 16 years slut who drunkenly fucks a guy who's 14 can report him as a sex offender pedophile? And that's legal!
Decent surveillance in schools could well mean that in a couple of years, everyone in the USA will be a registered sex offender...
Know what? What they really want, the morons who sign those laws? They want their daughters to have their labia sewn shut until they're 18, that's what these laws are expressing.
Age has a LOT to do with maturity (we're speaking about the mental kind). It's true there are outliers of very young people who are more mature than older people, and older people who seem to never become mature at all, but they are just that - outliers, they are not proof against the general rule.
Let's say that's right
The part of the brain that assesses risk is not fully developed until an average age of around 25.
That, can't. Until 25? Sorry, it's way too important for monkeys that can replicate from the age of 12. We' have been wiped out long, long ago if our brains could not assess risk until old age. We are primates and puberty is around 12. You CAN assess risk accurately before you're twice as old as what's required for reproduction or else, your species has already disappeared and you're not existent enough to read this.
Blah blah blah racism blah blah.
At some point in the future, all humans will be the same race : mixed-up human, with racial features characteristics appearing as per standard rules.
For the rest : go read http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296
Never. "Plasmonic Nanolithography"? Yeah, yeah, and I've got a machine that extracts OIL from SNAKES while producing more energy than it consumes.
When will they fire Roland? He never even posted anything remotely plausible.