I would argue against that. At least for my part, when I publish programs that I have written as open source, it is for perfectly selfish reasons.
Same. When I started FlacSquisher (shameless plug, I know), it was because I wanted a mass-transcoding tool that was aware of what work had already been done. I had installed Rockbox on my Sansa a couple months earlier, and wanted to transcode my FLACs to Oggs easily so I could play them on the Sansa. If I had bought an 80GB player instead of a 2GB player, I would've just used the FLACs, cause I could've fit my entire music collection. Then I never would've written the program. As it was, I only just implemented MP3 tagging a couple weeks ago because I never encoded to MP3, so in my own usage model it just wasn't necessary.
I suspect that most FOSS projects are the same -- driven by a personal need or desire by the original dev for some functionality not already provided by an existing piece of software, and just coding what they'd want to get out of it.
I would reply that providing a decrypted copy of the files would allow the government to more easily find out the key/password, because it would be much quicker to brute-force.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab does gold CDs, but their main thing is that they've done quite a lot of audio-processing work on the source material before putting the bits on the disc. Gold CDs are just a bonus to give protection against oxidization, you're really paying for the audio engineer's time.
I haven't bought a CD from them yet, but I plan to get one at some point, at the very least to support the fact that they're fighting against the loudness war.
It's nice to open any Windows folder, or type "ls", and get an ordered list if your files, if they start with a date. If you use Windows' "Scanner and Camera Wizard", and someone who doesn't think about ease of sorting names their photo set "Feb 26 2009", then it's a pain. Then with 10 photos, by default you'll have:
Feb 26 2009_1.jpg Feb 26 2009_10.jpg Feb 26 2009_2.jpg Feb 26 2009_3.jpg
I work for Intel; they went a step further: instead of having to deal with months and dates, they just designate the year, Work Week number, and day.
Today is WW09.4, or 2009WW09.4, in long form. (Week starts on Monday, Sunday is "Day 7")
It took some getting used to, but I'm sure it helps prevent issues with month abbreviations among non-native English speakers, in addition to simplifying any calculations regarding quarters, fiscal years, and such.
Basic word roots, and grammar, both matter more than sheer number of words.
For instance, French and other Romantic languages put most adjectives after the noun: "le chapeau rouge" (the red hat). Meanwhile, German puts adjectives before nouns, like English does.
Maybe it wouldn't be far-fetched, but the big reason I love Firefly/Serenity is the characters, especially the variety. Wash and Book are gone, and Inara likely isn't going to stay on board during a war they're involved in (I personally don't care for her anyway, but still...), and Jayne would probably only stay and fight if Mal paid him as a mercenary.
I just don't see how that show would be fun and interesting.
Technically, if you use GPL code in a closed-source project, you're violating the license. If you ask the license-holder for permission, then all that means is that they're telling you they won't go after you for violating that license.
Beyond that, you're violating the spirit of the GPL by including GPL-licensed code in a closed-source project. If the author wanted the work to be usable in that way, then they would've licensed it under one that gives more freedom to redistribute, like the BSD or Apache licenses. I chose Apache for my Sourceforge projects, cause I didn't feel redistribution restrictions were important for those. Since the projects you borrowed from were licensed under the GPL, you're obligated to follow their guidelines.
I'm not an expert on the GPL, but if you used the code in a company-internal project, then I don't think you're obligated to publicly release the source code. However, if it's an externally-distributed project, you're going to have a hellstorm if people find out.
I preface this statement by repeating "in my experience..."
But as far as I can tell, drives that use the 3.3V line for hotplugging just disable hotplugging support when they don't get the 3.3V. They're still usable, just without that feature. I've used some drives that supported hotplugging with a native SATA power connection, but still worked with a Molex->SATA adapter.
I've never come across a SATA device that just flat-out refused to operate if it wasn't fed 3.3V.
Joss Whedon said that with Fox pulling their usual crap for Dollhouse, combined with the success of "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" last year, that he will never again work with a TV network.
Supposedly Wine Doors does a good job of installing Steam games... I haven't tried using Steam in Linux in almost a year myself, and I know that quite a bit has changed since then.
As for Linux games, if you like adventure games, check out the non-Steam version of the Penny Arcade Adventures series: they have Linux binaries available when you buy the game.
Well, cause the primary motivation of the Firefly/Serenity plots was that the Alliance was after River. However, by the end of the movie, it's apparent that River is no longer a threat to the Alliance, so she's no longer a fugitive.
As much as I loved the show, the movie, and the characters, I don't think a new series based on the franchise would be possible. There's not enough motivation for non-boring plotlines involving the Serenity crew continuing to live among the Outer Planets. The best you could hope for is more episodes where the crew are guns-for-hire, like "Heart of Gold".
It quickly becomes obvious that the Witcher is a PC exclusive game which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC gaming master race.
Despite RAM prices, over 35% of Steam gamers have less than 2GB of RAM. About the same number are still running single-core CPUs. Just under half don't have a DX10-capable GPU, meaning their GPU is well over a year old. And that's with a generation of graphics hardware that gives extremely good value for money.
If MS got a hold of the trademark for "Linux", then someone would rename the kernel "Lunix", or "Orange", or something, and we'd continue where we left off.
Data cables that are much shorter than the standard allows usually can have many more defects in them without being out-of-spec on the electrical characteristics. Even with the switch, you'd likely still be running over significantly less than 1 meter. I'd be willing to believe that if you did a half-decent job of putting the switch together, you could make it work.
I know that the article implies that devices exist which require 3.3v, but from my experience it doesn't really seem to be an issue. If you can find an example, I'd love to hear of it.
On the other hand, if you wanted to do this hack on a fully-compliant SATA power cable, the best way would likely to get a modular power supply, and cut up the SATA power cable that comes with it.
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I would argue against that. At least for my part, when I publish programs that I have written as open source, it is for perfectly selfish reasons.
Same. When I started FlacSquisher (shameless plug, I know), it was because I wanted a mass-transcoding tool that was aware of what work had already been done. I had installed Rockbox on my Sansa a couple months earlier, and wanted to transcode my FLACs to Oggs easily so I could play them on the Sansa. If I had bought an 80GB player instead of a 2GB player, I would've just used the FLACs, cause I could've fit my entire music collection. Then I never would've written the program. As it was, I only just implemented MP3 tagging a couple weeks ago because I never encoded to MP3, so in my own usage model it just wasn't necessary.
I suspect that most FOSS projects are the same -- driven by a personal need or desire by the original dev for some functionality not already provided by an existing piece of software, and just coding what they'd want to get out of it.
Then Bush must be our all-time best president!
A good chunk of that coming from Google for homepage use, too!
I'm sure there are some very naive book publishers would love to see a world with no libraries.
Then there are other publishers and authors for whom libraries garner them additional sales
I like this language tree to illustrate the ancestors of modern languages:
http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/Language_Tree.htm
I would reply that providing a decrypted copy of the files would allow the government to more easily find out the key/password, because it would be much quicker to brute-force.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab does gold CDs, but their main thing is that they've done quite a lot of audio-processing work on the source material before putting the bits on the disc. Gold CDs are just a bonus to give protection against oxidization, you're really paying for the audio engineer's time.
I haven't bought a CD from them yet, but I plan to get one at some point, at the very least to support the fact that they're fighting against the loudness war.
It's nice to open any Windows folder, or type "ls", and get an ordered list if your files, if they start with a date. If you use Windows' "Scanner and Camera Wizard", and someone who doesn't think about ease of sorting names their photo set "Feb 26 2009", then it's a pain. Then with 10 photos, by default you'll have:
Feb 26 2009_1.jpg
Feb 26 2009_10.jpg
Feb 26 2009_2.jpg
Feb 26 2009_3.jpg
And so on.
I work for Intel; they went a step further: instead of having to deal with months and dates, they just designate the year, Work Week number, and day.
Today is WW09.4, or 2009WW09.4, in long form. (Week starts on Monday, Sunday is "Day 7")
It took some getting used to, but I'm sure it helps prevent issues with month abbreviations among non-native English speakers, in addition to simplifying any calculations regarding quarters, fiscal years, and such.
Basic word roots, and grammar, both matter more than sheer number of words.
For instance, French and other Romantic languages put most adjectives after the noun: "le chapeau rouge" (the red hat). Meanwhile, German puts adjectives before nouns, like English does.
Maybe it wouldn't be far-fetched, but the big reason I love Firefly/Serenity is the characters, especially the variety. Wash and Book are gone, and Inara likely isn't going to stay on board during a war they're involved in (I personally don't care for her anyway, but still...), and Jayne would probably only stay and fight if Mal paid him as a mercenary.
I just don't see how that show would be fun and interesting.
How many people own one or more gaming consoles, and don't own a computer?
I suggest you read the GPL license in full.
Technically, if you use GPL code in a closed-source project, you're violating the license. If you ask the license-holder for permission, then all that means is that they're telling you they won't go after you for violating that license.
Beyond that, you're violating the spirit of the GPL by including GPL-licensed code in a closed-source project. If the author wanted the work to be usable in that way, then they would've licensed it under one that gives more freedom to redistribute, like the BSD or Apache licenses. I chose Apache for my Sourceforge projects, cause I didn't feel redistribution restrictions were important for those. Since the projects you borrowed from were licensed under the GPL, you're obligated to follow their guidelines.
I'm not an expert on the GPL, but if you used the code in a company-internal project, then I don't think you're obligated to publicly release the source code. However, if it's an externally-distributed project, you're going to have a hellstorm if people find out.
I preface this statement by repeating "in my experience..."
But as far as I can tell, drives that use the 3.3V line for hotplugging just disable hotplugging support when they don't get the 3.3V. They're still usable, just without that feature. I've used some drives that supported hotplugging with a native SATA power connection, but still worked with a Molex->SATA adapter.
I've never come across a SATA device that just flat-out refused to operate if it wasn't fed 3.3V.
Joss Whedon said that with Fox pulling their usual crap for Dollhouse, combined with the success of "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" last year, that he will never again work with a TV network.
Supposedly Wine Doors does a good job of installing Steam games... I haven't tried using Steam in Linux in almost a year myself, and I know that quite a bit has changed since then.
As for Linux games, if you like adventure games, check out the non-Steam version of the Penny Arcade Adventures series: they have Linux binaries available when you buy the game.
FIREFLY/SERENITY SPOILER ALERT!!!
Well, cause the primary motivation of the Firefly/Serenity plots was that the Alliance was after River. However, by the end of the movie, it's apparent that River is no longer a threat to the Alliance, so she's no longer a fugitive.
As much as I loved the show, the movie, and the characters, I don't think a new series based on the franchise would be possible. There's not enough motivation for non-boring plotlines involving the Serenity crew continuing to live among the Outer Planets. The best you could hope for is more episodes where the crew are guns-for-hire, like "Heart of Gold".
Plus the fact that Terminator:TSCC was just moved to Friday as a lead-in to Dollhouse, which will result in both shows dying.
Seriously, the only worse thing they could've done was put those shows on Saturday night.
a sitcom about a female writer living in the city
Are you talking about Sex in the City? ;)
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good!
I prefer Yahtzee's wording :)
It quickly becomes obvious that the Witcher is a PC exclusive game which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC gaming master race.
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That said, I love consoles for platform and racing games, and despise them for FPSs and RTSs.
And Katamari Damacy being sold for the PS2, with those dual analog sticks? Perfect control mechanism.
Can we stop this misinformation? Most gamers do not buy a new video card every 4 days.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Despite RAM prices, over 35% of Steam gamers have less than 2GB of RAM. About the same number are still running single-core CPUs. Just under half don't have a DX10-capable GPU, meaning their GPU is well over a year old. And that's with a generation of graphics hardware that gives extremely good value for money.
If MS got a hold of the trademark for "Linux", then someone would rename the kernel "Lunix", or "Orange", or something, and we'd continue where we left off.
As for GPL'd code, it cannot be made proprietary.
Data cables that are much shorter than the standard allows usually can have many more defects in them without being out-of-spec on the electrical characteristics. Even with the switch, you'd likely still be running over significantly less than 1 meter. I'd be willing to believe that if you did a half-decent job of putting the switch together, you could make it work.
I know that the article implies that devices exist which require 3.3v, but from my experience it doesn't really seem to be an issue. If you can find an example, I'd love to hear of it.
On the other hand, if you wanted to do this hack on a fully-compliant SATA power cable, the best way would likely to get a modular power supply, and cut up the SATA power cable that comes with it.