But it's a funny world we live in, where stealing seems to bring you elss trouble than buying - and that's leaving money out of the equation.
I mean, really... if you buy Windows, you didn't really buy it as such. You bought a license to use it on one computer under the exact conditions provided by Microsoft, take it or leave it.
If you steal it, however... why, you don't have a worry in your life (BSA is not all-powerful, after all) - not only do you steal a license, but you steal so much that you can disregard the license altogether. Hey, you stole it, you might as well steal all the way.
Which only goes to prove: if you know something about computers, one way or the other, you'll stop paying for software.
It's not that I couldn't optimize my code, and it's not that I wouldn't love to optimize my code. It's just the most companies don't want to pay for it.
I have encountered the same problem regarding good translations. I could do them, and I'd love to do them, but no-one in my country would pay me their worth.
What is to stop the other "communities built around video" from doing the same and turning the thing into the "who'll pay more" type war they say they wanted to avoid?
It's an interesting move (I can't wait for the first "so now they'll pay me for my home pr0n" posts and the "this is/. therefore you are a virgin" replies), but if anyone else decides to pay their uploaders, how different is it going to be?
I'm not sure the right idea is to "know how to do something" in a particular language. If programmers are encouraged to learn algorithms specific to a particular language, how will they ever adapt once their pet language sinks? (By using an algorithm repository to re-learn rote code?)
But this kind of thing should be very good for someone learning a new language - you know how to do it in one language, now you're looking it up in another one... like learning the most common phrases first when learning a natural language.
I hope this project will amount to something; it can be really useful.
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The moral of the story: steal Windows.
It's not worth the money anyway.
But it's a funny world we live in, where stealing seems to bring you elss trouble than buying - and that's leaving money out of the equation.
I mean, really... if you buy Windows, you didn't really buy it as such. You bought a license to use it on one computer under the exact conditions provided by Microsoft, take it or leave it.
If you steal it, however... why, you don't have a worry in your life (BSA is not all-powerful, after all) - not only do you steal a license, but you steal so much that you can disregard the license altogether. Hey, you stole it, you might as well steal all the way.
Which only goes to prove: if you know something about computers, one way or the other, you'll stop paying for software.
I said, some truth.
The OSs are different.
And Mac users really don't have to worry about viruses much.
So, funny ads.
With some truth in them, too...
So now what? Let the flames begin!
Well, you know what they say about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity...
Well, if YouTube is paying, and someone else is paying more, Yahoo! would have had to not only do away with fees, but start paying people to use it.
But since other such sites exist, this is just nitpicking. ;)
I have encountered the same problem regarding good translations. I could do them, and I'd love to do them, but no-one in my country would pay me their worth.
Well, I guess they will check the ratings of a video as well...
... for the First Poster managed to do just the thing I... hmmm... postdicted. (Can't call it a prediction anymore, can I?)
What is to stop the other "communities built around video" from doing the same and turning the thing into the "who'll pay more" type war they say they wanted to avoid?
It's an interesting move (I can't wait for the first "so now they'll pay me for my home pr0n" posts and the "this is /. therefore you are a virgin" replies), but if anyone else decides to pay their uploaders, how different is it going to be?
Besides, if people object to "Microsoft are", how do they react to "Windows is shutting down"?
Who knows, maybe we're looking at the days of assembly programming again... you know, the days of well-written, optimized software?
The ever-growing processor speed had all but removed the need for optimization; maybe the long-forgotten art is facing a revival...
With genetic sequences being patented, are you really sure you aren't infringing on anyone's patent already?
It is at least one thing of which I know for certain Solaris lacks.
Note that I'm not a programmer, so what I notice are just the plainest things.
Ooooh, but if we unleash Vigor on the unsuspecting Wal-Mart customers... evilgasm time...
But this kind of thing should be very good for someone learning a new language - you know how to do it in one language, now you're looking it up in another one... like learning the most common phrases first when learning a natural language.
I hope this project will amount to something; it can be really useful.
From what I remember, their motto isn't "do no evil", but rather "don't be evil". There is a difference, however subtle.
But what if they decided to be neither good or evil, but something even worse... say, neutral...
What makes a man turn... neutral?
Um... hardware support?
Not in Croatia, you don't.
I don't know. I buy AMD.
And I build my own, which I cannot do with laptops.
Great.
Until now, I only had to find a laptop without Windows preinstalled.
Now I have to check I'm not buying crippleware, too.
Oh, joy.
If you're able to comprehend even the most obscure Perl programs at a glance, you already are out of your mind.
And you'll never forget it.
Maybe... an OS?
And it would still be easier to debug than Windows.
Is that a program for filtering out pics of girls with boobs smaller than DD?
If it is, I think I can convert several hundred people to Solaris and leave the thinking up imaginative reasons for the conversion to them.
Feh, prisons.
Compare it to the Congress. If you dare.
It's negligible compared to the energy wasted by the good old P4s.