Freely available code, be it open source or academic are the original innovators. They seed ideas. They are not constrained by funding or time.
Businesses adopt these ideas, invest into them and produce viable and profitable software. They create products, not innovations. They are restricted by time and profits.
It would have been hard for the internet to be what it is today without freely available code.
They don't want to pay to maintain software. They would rather give it away as open source and let some unpaid people maintain it indefinitely into the future, something that no company can really afford.
It's a win for the open source community but it's win-win for businesses. Afterall, they benefit from the project when it's open source. They can deallocate resources to it too.
I am not sure how it makes me feel. All software seems to be derived from some open source code somewhere. The web? TCP/IP stacks? KHTML? Linux? Netscape/Firebird?
Sudden digression regarding patents: Patents? Yeah they need to go. Will IBM donate patents to go along with OpenSymphony? I wonder how many existing patents are preceded by openly available code?
I usually take out only what I need. A single credit card or some cash. I have a card holder but that stays in my bag which is in my 'base' is for the day, such as in a house or in my car.
You don't flick through magazines? Read the first few pages of a book in a bookshop? Listen to a youtube video from a new album that has just been released? Does your wife sniff a perfume before buying it? You sound like you arguing that you should buy everything regardless how little you use it. That not owning the item completely should be illegal.
I think you've blown my original post out of proportion. I bought four boxsets (and two more since then because my example for a month ago). I only downloaded a handful of episodes from one season. After the first one finished, I purchased a helluva lot more than I took.
I won't buy a boxset of Desparate Housewives without seeing an episode first. Whether it's on television (I did not like it) or streaming or on YouTube doesn't matter.
I can't tell if you're intentionally not understanding (trolling) or really don't.
If you're telling me you bouught a magazine or book, impulsively, without reading a few pages and without being aware of it I don't believe you. When you go buy a carpet, you feel how it feels on your feet before you buy it.
If people could not find out what something was like, I guarantee there would be fewer sales for everything. If books and magazines were behind a glass counter, you can guarantee you would get fewer sales.
A power station is not a nuclear weapon. Actions speak larger than words. That Iraq nuclear weapon thing? Weapons of massive destruction? That turned out to be a fabrication. I think America oversteps its bounds in foreign affairs. They used it as an excuse.
To believe creates Nuclear weapons requires a massive creative licence to me. We believe in the same things. The constitution is a sound corpus of principlia however it has been bastardized and is no longer followed by your government.
The topic was originally about Transformers and the portayal of Libya as bad guys. That's what I don't like. The nerve to use the word 'illegal' in 'illegal nuclear site' is ridiculous. If it said 'enemy', it wouldn't have been political. It's just American (government) hypocrisy.
All that said, I like America in general. I am on an American website afterall. You make some nice things that I couldn't enjoy without you. As you said, there are flaws and we (and you) are suffering because of it.
I had no idea. The only Star Trek shows I've seen on British TV was Enterprise on Channel Four, The Original Series on BBC and Voyager or The Next Generation on Sky1. They used to show The Next Generation on VirginOne but that channel no longer exists. Since I don't watch regular television anymore I've not kept track. (No cable or satellite anymore. Waste of money.)
Everyone used to speak of DS9 on the web so I downloaded it to see what it was like.
They're known for falsifying published figures inside and outside of trials.
It holds very little weight. They have a vested interest to make it seem worse than it is. Provenance. If you search RIAA and misleading, you get lots of results.
Give me a university backed study, not backed by the RIAA and I might feel sympathy. In other news, the 20xxs are the year of the independent artist using the internet to distribute and market music and movies. Good news!
Not everyone appreciates how much damage the US does to other cultures by starting wars, invading countries and generally interfering with other countries outside US jurisdiction. That America preaches freedom is deliciously ironic and even offensive at the same time. This is why it is offensive.
It helps if you know that the show does not air in the UK and is a spinoff a series that I do like. Does that answer your question?
If it was on TV, how would it have been any different if it was recorded automatically by VHS? Someone just shared their VHS of that publicly broadcasted show (except not in the UK). Which I then watched then paid for.
I think it's more that if you watch one episode from a television show, you know that you know if you like it or not. When you have bought the real thing, you don't watch the one you downloaded.
The price you pay for the boxset of a television series is for the convenience and without the adverts. You don't even have to watch them more than once for it it to be worthwhile. If you wanted to watch X hours of entertainment, that's the going rate and it's cheaper than the theater. I buy the boxset after it comes down in price, a few years after. I won't torrent unless I could afford the boxset to begin with. It's not like I am torrenting and then buying years and years later. I'm doing the same acts next to one another.
I had a similar experience but with the 3D version. It was 10 GBP plus 1GBP for the glasses! Rip off.
There are sequences in that film that are really good fun. Unfortunately there is a lot of bad acting and ridiculous pro-American propaganda.
The scene that left me gawping was when the voiceover said the Autobots agreed to help the US 'save humans from themselves'. The scene showed a nuclear power plant subtitled 'Illegal Nuclear Site' with Libya flags. Very offensive.
The irony is that the film is all about freedom and yet freedoms in America are being taken away everyday (Slashdot YROs etc) Plus America supresses the freedoms of other nations too, UK, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Guatemala and so on.
Other than that, the action is good fun but thoughtless. I found the prisoner scene with the Eeinstein robot particularly disturbing.
I recently felt like watching DS9 so I started torrenting a season of it. After watching an episode I proceeded to buy four box sets online.
I went back to watching my torrented versions. How convenient they are!
When they arrived, I deleted all the episodes I watched and started watching the DVDs from the boxset on TV.
Not only do I have Babylon 5 and SG, I have almost completed my DS9 series. They were all collected in the same fashion. Streaming or torrents first and then proper purchases.
Why the fuck would I buy something before knowing what it is like first?
It really wouldn't surprise me if they made empty 'profile stubs' for everyone who hasn't joined. Perhaps with a button labelled 'Add my detail!' They really want to make inroads against Facebook. The Buzz fiasco won't stop them, they may be more cautious but they are getting desparate.
Customers are supposed to buy products. They're not supposed to be paid not to use competing products.
If it was a discount then it's not the same thing. The summary sounds like the incentive was 250k of cash plus the product. That's not a discount. That's a bribe or anticompetitive behaviour.
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Freely available code, be it open source or academic are the original innovators. They seed ideas. They are not constrained by funding or time.
Businesses adopt these ideas, invest into them and produce viable and profitable software. They create products, not innovations. They are restricted by time and profits.
It would have been hard for the internet to be what it is today without freely available code.
They don't want to pay to maintain software. They would rather give it away as open source and let some unpaid people maintain it indefinitely into the future, something that no company can really afford.
It's a win for the open source community but it's win-win for businesses. Afterall, they benefit from the project when it's open source. They can deallocate resources to it too.
I am not sure how it makes me feel. All software seems to be derived from some open source code somewhere. The web? TCP/IP stacks? KHTML? Linux? Netscape/Firebird?
Sudden digression regarding patents: Patents? Yeah they need to go. Will IBM donate patents to go along with OpenSymphony? I wonder how many existing patents are preceded by openly available code?
What do you do instead?
I usually take out only what I need. A single credit card or some cash. I have a card holder but that stays in my bag which is in my 'base' is for the day, such as in a house or in my car.
You were pleasant and up till now, a good online convesationalist. Now you're an ass.
You project your arrogance just like your country.
Good day to you sir.
You don't flick through magazines? Read the first few pages of a book in a bookshop? Listen to a youtube video from a new album that has just been released? Does your wife sniff a perfume before buying it? You sound like you arguing that you should buy everything regardless how little you use it. That not owning the item completely should be illegal.
I think you've blown my original post out of proportion. I bought four boxsets (and two more since then because my example for a month ago). I only downloaded a handful of episodes from one season. After the first one finished, I purchased a helluva lot more than I took.
I won't buy a boxset of Desparate Housewives without seeing an episode first. Whether it's on television (I did not like it) or streaming or on YouTube doesn't matter.
I can't tell if you're intentionally not understanding (trolling) or really don't.
If you're telling me you bouught a magazine or book, impulsively, without reading a few pages and without being aware of it I don't believe you. When you go buy a carpet, you feel how it feels on your feet before you buy it.
If people could not find out what something was like, I guarantee there would be fewer sales for everything. If books and magazines were behind a glass counter, you can guarantee you would get fewer sales.
A power station is not a nuclear weapon. Actions speak larger than words. That Iraq nuclear weapon thing? Weapons of massive destruction? That turned out to be a fabrication. I think America oversteps its bounds in foreign affairs. They used it as an excuse.
To believe creates Nuclear weapons requires a massive creative licence to me. We believe in the same things. The constitution is a sound corpus of principlia however it has been bastardized and is no longer followed by your government.
The topic was originally about Transformers and the portayal of Libya as bad guys. That's what I don't like. The nerve to use the word 'illegal' in 'illegal nuclear site' is ridiculous. If it said 'enemy', it wouldn't have been political. It's just American (government) hypocrisy.
All that said, I like America in general. I am on an American website afterall. You make some nice things that I couldn't enjoy without you. As you said, there are flaws and we (and you) are suffering because of it.
I had no idea. The only Star Trek shows I've seen on British TV was Enterprise on Channel Four, The Original Series on BBC and Voyager or The Next Generation on Sky1. They used to show The Next Generation on VirginOne but that channel no longer exists. Since I don't watch regular television anymore I've not kept track. (No cable or satellite anymore. Waste of money.)
Everyone used to speak of DS9 on the web so I downloaded it to see what it was like.
I notice that the sources are from the RIAA.
They're known for falsifying published figures inside and outside of trials.
It holds very little weight. They have a vested interest to make it seem worse than it is. Provenance. If you search RIAA and misleading, you get lots of results.
Give me a university backed study, not backed by the RIAA and I might feel sympathy. In other news, the 20xxs are the year of the independent artist using the internet to distribute and market music and movies. Good news!
Not everyone appreciates how much damage the US does to other cultures by starting wars, invading countries and generally interfering with other countries outside US jurisdiction. That America preaches freedom is deliciously ironic and even offensive at the same time. This is why it is offensive.
What treaty?
If this were true. Nothing would get sold.
Magazines
Radio
Television
Lending
That begs two questions. Illegal to whom? The US? Who has the right to remove anyone outside our borders? Isn't that the opposite to freedom?
It helps if you know that the show does not air in the UK and is a spinoff a series that I do like. Does that answer your question?
If it was on TV, how would it have been any different if it was recorded automatically by VHS? Someone just shared their VHS of that publicly broadcasted show (except not in the UK). Which I then watched then paid for.
I think it's more that if you watch one episode from a television show, you know that you know if you like it or not. When you have bought the real thing, you don't watch the one you downloaded.
The price you pay for the boxset of a television series is for the convenience and without the adverts. You don't even have to watch them more than once for it it to be worthwhile. If you wanted to watch X hours of entertainment, that's the going rate and it's cheaper than the theater. I buy the boxset after it comes down in price, a few years after. I won't torrent unless I could afford the boxset to begin with. It's not like I am torrenting and then buying years and years later. I'm doing the same acts next to one another.
Read more.
This is offtopic but do I believe that we're in this war to support the rebels? It can't possibly be for something we want. It has happened once, it will happen again.
If I could not have streamed or downloaded something in advance, I would never have bought it.
This might be why music and movie sales are up these days.
I had a similar experience but with the 3D version. It was 10 GBP plus 1GBP for the glasses! Rip off.
There are sequences in that film that are really good fun. Unfortunately there is a lot of bad acting and ridiculous pro-American propaganda.
The scene that left me gawping was when the voiceover said the Autobots agreed to help the US 'save humans from themselves'. The scene showed a nuclear power plant subtitled 'Illegal Nuclear Site' with Libya flags. Very offensive.
The irony is that the film is all about freedom and yet freedoms in America are being taken away everyday (Slashdot YROs etc) Plus America supresses the freedoms of other nations too, UK, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Guatemala and so on.
Other than that, the action is good fun but thoughtless. I found the prisoner scene with the Eeinstein robot particularly disturbing.
I torrent but I am not a pirate.
How is this possible?
I recently felt like watching DS9 so I started torrenting a season of it. After watching an episode I proceeded to buy four box sets online.
I went back to watching my torrented versions. How convenient they are!
When they arrived, I deleted all the episodes I watched and started watching the DVDs from the boxset on TV.
Not only do I have Babylon 5 and SG, I have almost completed my DS9 series. They were all collected in the same fashion. Streaming or torrents first and then proper purchases.
Why the fuck would I buy something before knowing what it is like first?
How do you become a paying customer?
Something that is public for even a short duration can no longer be regarded private in the future.
I know what you mean but I don't want anything leaked out accidentally. It annoys me that Google Contacts adds people I've emailed to my contact list.
This is what I do.
Buy webhosting with some company.
Set up a personal domain email address.
Use the email hosting with your personal domain.
Use IMAP to access your email and use POP to remove it from the server. This is what I do.
Keep your email on your own domain and it won't matter which email host you use.
It really wouldn't surprise me if they made empty 'profile stubs' for everyone who hasn't joined. Perhaps with a button labelled 'Add my detail!' They really want to make inroads against Facebook. The Buzz fiasco won't stop them, they may be more cautious but they are getting desparate.
I never had a Google Profile and opted out of Buzz as soon as I could.
How do I opt out of Google+?
What even was Google Profile?
Its anticompetitive. Intel did it once too.
Customers are supposed to buy products. They're not supposed to be paid not to use competing products.
If it was a discount then it's not the same thing. The summary sounds like the incentive was 250k of cash plus the product. That's not a discount. That's a bribe or anticompetitive behaviour.
Looks like they're outsourcing shills to India now!