Ok, that sounds fair to me. If the band has actually determined that they can make enough money with gigs and voluntarily puts their album free on their own website, I am fine with that kind of business model.
Albums are nice though, as they allow you to "bring the band" into any location and moment. I would still like to see recorded music being made.
Whether they get paid once or a billion times, the amount of work has not changed.
Yes, but then it might not be a good investment for them anymore. The production houses usually plan to recoup the production costs in sales. And those sales allow them to make new projects too.
I can't believe you still don't get it. Taking that copy causes NO loss of resources to the artist, the resources being used are by the sharer and the downloader. The artist didn't lose anything.
There is no stealing, despite what some ignorant people unable to think for themselves claim.
Well, you are still taking the copy without paying for it. That copy still carries a value even when the plain act of copying does not involve any manufacturing costs. I can't believe how tough concept this often is for slashdotters.
In an extreme scenario, one guy could just buy 1 piece of the authentic music album and then copy it for his 1,000,000 buddies for free. In this example, 1,000,001 people receive the album, but the artist gets money from just 1 copy. How is that fair?
Yep, I have sometimes fantasized about a similar system. The performance would probably be quite poor, but it does not matter because the idea is very cool. A grassroots network from people, to people. Would be fun to geek around setting up extra nodes here and there, all you need is an electrical socket.
I strongly disagree(actually by definition this is false). Linux never suffered from inaccessibility, you *ALWAYS* had your repositories full of software.
People often forget that even the repositories of a Linux distro are a form of walled garden.
Installing software from outside sources can still often posit some significant difficulties.
Under Windows, starting any third-party "setup.exe" has a good chance of installing the program properly with a few simple mouse clicks. Under Linux, you have to manually verify that the library dependencies are met, and then you find out that the installer is some hacked-together shell script which a prints a bunch of weird "Directory or filename not found" and "Invalid argument" messages.
Its worse than that, Gnome3/Unity/etc are actively pushing users either back to Windows or to Macs with their terrible designs.
On the other hand the ugly flat look of Windows and Mac is pushing people back to Gnome3 and Unity, which are the remaining cool-looking desktops. Besides, Unity is actually very close to the Windows 7 UI.
Let me know when it's on sale for $5 bucks on Steam:).
Actually you can use steamalerts.com for that. It allows you to set an arbitrary price point for a game and when it goes under that, you receive an e-mail notification.
What do you think, will we at some point get a "Hackintosh edition" of PS4 or Xbox One, as they are based on PC hardware? Either run the game console OS on generic PC hardware, or the other way around: run a custom OS inside the game console.
Microsoft has taken the approach for over a decade that it's better for people to use pirated Windows than an alternative OS.
AFAIK Windows 8's WGA hasn't been cracked yet. We don't have a "Daz Loader" like we have for Windows 7. All the pirate activation solutions for Win8 are some kind of KMS (Key Management Server) running inside virtual machine or a similar workaround solution.
All in all, I would say that these days some really sophisticated copy protections can be engineered, such as WGA or SonyPS3 (which took very long time to crack). Whether this is a good or bad thing, I'm not sure. The times when I have had to activate Microsoft products over phone while entering the long-ass string of numbers using the phone number pad, I would say that it's a bad thing.
You are of course right, but just as a sidenote for those who don't know, in electronics solid-state is a broader concept than just hard disks with flash memory.
Americans can twist any topic to be a battle between democrats and republicans. Actually, a fun party game would be one where someone tries to make up a topic that cannot be made into such a battle, such as "eyeglasses". Then the opponent tries to refute that by making it a political turmoil such as "we would get much higher quality and cheaper eyeglasses if the republican clowns were not cruising the ship".
I have used Linux for 15 years without any problems.
Think again. For example, do you remember in the past 15 years you experiencing any of the following while using Linux?
- the desktop is tearing (vsync problem)
- suspend or hibernate is not working properly
- you get a blank screen when X.org starts
- making manual modifications to the system as a workaround for a bug
- a power management issue has bitten you, such as the system consuming too much power, overheating, or fan spinning constantly
I am not making comparison to Windows or Mac here, because they have their similar bag of problems. Your claim was about using Linux without any problems.
... to the masses of sarcastic "I though Open Source was more secure!" crowd: in an Open Source forum, when vulnerabilities are found, they are patched. Since it's a public forum, the vulnerabilities are disclosed, and patches / updates made available. The poor, sorry state of the first cut gets rapidly and openly improved.
With closed source, the vulnerabilities merely stay hidden and undisclosed, and you have no ability to know about it, or fix it yourself. the poor, sorry state of the first cut never improves. Yes, there are some cultures that take security seriously. You have no way of knowing.
This, right here, is what "more secure" looks like: public notification of the vulnerabilities and patches to distribute.
Except when they are not fixed.
There are various serious bugs lingering on bug trackers, which have been known for a long time, but no one takes the responsibility to fix them.
Linus's Law worked better back in the day when the projects were smaller, but these days most people do not have the time or inclination to go through hundreds of thousands of lines of source code. You really want to be paid for that kind of work, in other words professional code audits.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, that sounds fair to me. If the band has actually determined that they can make enough money with gigs and voluntarily puts their album free on their own website, I am fine with that kind of business model.
Albums are nice though, as they allow you to "bring the band" into any location and moment. I would still like to see recorded music being made.
That is because Google does not explicitly specialize in pirated material. It mirrors the whole web.
Whether they get paid once or a billion times, the amount of work has not changed.
Yes, but then it might not be a good investment for them anymore. The production houses usually plan to recoup the production costs in sales. And those sales allow them to make new projects too.
I can't believe you still don't get it. Taking that copy causes NO loss of resources to the artist, the resources being used are by the sharer and the downloader. The artist didn't lose anything.
Duhh. Neither does the artist make any money.
There is no stealing, despite what some ignorant people unable to think for themselves claim.
Well, you are still taking the copy without paying for it. That copy still carries a value even when the plain act of copying does not involve any manufacturing costs. I can't believe how tough concept this often is for slashdotters.
In an extreme scenario, one guy could just buy 1 piece of the authentic music album and then copy it for his 1,000,000 buddies for free. In this example, 1,000,001 people receive the album, but the artist gets money from just 1 copy. How is that fair?
Yep, I have sometimes fantasized about a similar system. The performance would probably be quite poor, but it does not matter because the idea is very cool. A grassroots network from people, to people. Would be fun to geek around setting up extra nodes here and there, all you need is an electrical socket.
Linux suffers from inaccessibility to software
I strongly disagree(actually by definition this is false). Linux never suffered from inaccessibility, you *ALWAYS* had your repositories full of software.
People often forget that even the repositories of a Linux distro are a form of walled garden.
Installing software from outside sources can still often posit some significant difficulties.
Under Windows, starting any third-party "setup.exe" has a good chance of installing the program properly with a few simple mouse clicks. Under Linux, you have to manually verify that the library dependencies are met, and then you find out that the installer is some hacked-together shell script which a prints a bunch of weird "Directory or filename not found" and "Invalid argument" messages.
Its worse than that, Gnome3/Unity/etc are actively pushing users either back to Windows or to Macs with their terrible designs.
On the other hand the ugly flat look of Windows and Mac is pushing people back to Gnome3 and Unity, which are the remaining cool-looking desktops. Besides, Unity is actually very close to the Windows 7 UI.
It's not really a Unix desktop, it just sits on top of a Unix subsystem, much like how Android sits on top of Linux.
What made the desktop of the old UNIX workstations different in this regard?
Proof?
Let me know when it's on sale for $5 bucks on Steam :).
Actually you can use steamalerts.com for that. It allows you to set an arbitrary price point for a game and when it goes under that, you receive an e-mail notification.
+1 Funny
What do you think, will we at some point get a "Hackintosh edition" of PS4 or Xbox One, as they are based on PC hardware? Either run the game console OS on generic PC hardware, or the other way around: run a custom OS inside the game console.
Microsoft has taken the approach for over a decade that it's better for people to use pirated Windows than an alternative OS.
AFAIK Windows 8's WGA hasn't been cracked yet. We don't have a "Daz Loader" like we have for Windows 7. All the pirate activation solutions for Win8 are some kind of KMS (Key Management Server) running inside virtual machine or a similar workaround solution.
All in all, I would say that these days some really sophisticated copy protections can be engineered, such as WGA or SonyPS3 (which took very long time to crack). Whether this is a good or bad thing, I'm not sure. The times when I have had to activate Microsoft products over phone while entering the long-ass string of numbers using the phone number pad, I would say that it's a bad thing.
You are of course right, but just as a sidenote for those who don't know, in electronics solid-state is a broader concept than just hard disks with flash memory.
Well, KDE consists of two parts. Plasma is the desktop shell. SC (Software Compilation) are the various apps that come with KDE.
Americans can twist any topic to be a battle between democrats and republicans. Actually, a fun party game would be one where someone tries to make up a topic that cannot be made into such a battle, such as "eyeglasses". Then the opponent tries to refute that by making it a political turmoil such as "we would get much higher quality and cheaper eyeglasses if the republican clowns were not cruising the ship".
Do you remember problems something as basic as keyboard?
I certainly have no problems remembering how they recently broke the keyboard in many LG laptops.
I have used Linux for 15 years without any problems.
Think again. For example, do you remember in the past 15 years you experiencing any of the following while using Linux?
- the desktop is tearing (vsync problem)
- suspend or hibernate is not working properly
- you get a blank screen when X.org starts
- making manual modifications to the system as a workaround for a bug
- a power management issue has bitten you, such as the system consuming too much power, overheating, or fan spinning constantly
I am not making comparison to Windows or Mac here, because they have their similar bag of problems. Your claim was about using Linux without any problems.
... to the masses of sarcastic "I though Open Source was more secure!" crowd: in an Open Source forum, when vulnerabilities are found, they are patched. Since it's a public forum, the vulnerabilities are disclosed, and patches / updates made available. The poor, sorry state of the first cut gets rapidly and openly improved.
With closed source, the vulnerabilities merely stay hidden and undisclosed, and you have no ability to know about it, or fix it yourself. the poor, sorry state of the first cut never improves. Yes, there are some cultures that take security seriously. You have no way of knowing.
This, right here, is what "more secure" looks like: public notification of the vulnerabilities and patches to distribute.
Except when they are not fixed.
There are various serious bugs lingering on bug trackers, which have been known for a long time, but no one takes the responsibility to fix them.
For example, in addition to Heartbleed, OpenSSL had another bug which had been unfixed for 4 years and even had a CVE record in place.
All the eyes ... they do nothing! Arrrrrg.
Linus's Law worked better back in the day when the projects were smaller, but these days most people do not have the time or inclination to go through hundreds of thousands of lines of source code. You really want to be paid for that kind of work, in other words professional code audits.
Agreed. Quality assurance is what open source sorely needs, and I'm glad that more focus is assigned to that area.
who cares?
It's actually quite historical for a CEO of a highly successful publicly-traded company to come out as gay.
True.
Cray XC40 containing 17 petabytes of storage and capable of 16 TeraFLOPS
Why do you need so beefy hardware? One could think that a normal Mac Pro would be enough to do even extremely sophisticated flow simulations.