This is something I can definitely relate too. However, I find that project-specific PPAs solve most of these problems. For the projects you've mentioned:
How many programmers cant be bothered to use the standard shortcut keys of the system(s) they target with their programs? Particularly in X, unfortunately, many even deliberately remove the ability of the user to *set* those keys to the standard they are used to? (Yes, I'm looking at you Gnome.)
I don't know how long this has been there, but I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and if you go into System -> Preferences -> Appearance, in the Interface tab you can tick a box to give you "Editable menu shortcut keys", which as far as I know enables editable shortcuts Gnome-wide (it works in Gedit anyway).
Yes, of course they deserve to be paid. In a digital world though, it doesn't make sense for that the revenue stream for software developers (or even musicians and authors, etc) to come from the distribution of their software (or music, etc). As others have said, generally a company hires a software developer to develop some software that will make the company's life easier - not so they can profit from the distribution of that software.
I see the point you're making and it's a good point, but I don't think your analogy works. I see touring and live performances as something separate to composing and recording music... a lot of artists do both, but I don't see why they should have to to make a living. You're right though in saying that the cost of the CDs/MP3s/whatever (ie, distribution) is not the main cost for the artist with making recorded music, it's producing the first copy that costs money (ie, the cost of equiment/renting a studio/etc). It's hard to find a way to compensate them directly for this cost though, it's not as simple as the wedding photograph scenario.
I write and record my own music but I never play live (I wouldn't be able to anyway). I don't make any money from my music, but I just give it away online. There aren't any huge costs associated with recording for me though, I record my music on my computer with Ardour and some other apps that run on the JACK sound-server (you might be thinking "this only works for electronic music" - my music isn't electronic, it's vaguely rock-based music - it's perfectly possible to use Ardour, etc with acoustic instruments). This works for me, but not all musicians would be comfortable enough with such technologies to be able to use them to record music (and mix, etc) with their own hardware - there will always be a need for more professional studios, etc. So either we find some way of compensating artists for these costs or else recording and releasing music becomes a loss-making process. If the latter does happen, I don't think it'll be the end of the world - there are enough people out there (myself included) that write and record music simply for the love of it and don't care about the financial aspects of it. Music is not going to disappear even if the money it makes does.
Thank you. That was a far better than anything I could have written in response to that loon, and expressed every sentiment that I wanted to express. Thanks for taking the time to read even a third of his drivel (even reading that much is painful) and taking the time to respond properly to it.
You're a fucking idiot, and I really feel sorry for your kids. Seriously, if I was your kid I'd want to kill you. You have no respect for your children whatsoever, you treat them as subhumans solely because their age is below some arbitrary number. You'll get away with it when they're at the age they're at, but as other posters have said, wait until they hit their teenage years.
And no, I don't have any children, but I am one (or at least I'd still be lojacked at my age if I was your kid and you had your way). I can't wait until they rebel against you, I wish them the best of luck.
From what I've seen of these KittenAuth things, though I don't know much about them, you're given 9 pictures, 3 of which are kittens, and you're asked to identify them? By my reckoning, the probability of any arbitrary 3 pictures being the 3 kittens is 1/84 (9C3), which I don't think is that small. You probably wouldn't get 1400 accounts a day out of it, but you'd get enough for it to be a problem.
But isn't gstreamer already a wrapper of sorts? I know it doesn't do mplayer and xine so this is slightly different, but isn't writing a wrapper around Gstreamer sort of making Gstreamer pointless? I would've thought that the point of Gstreamer was to basically eliminate (the need for) the use of things like xine and mplayer as backends with a more modular system, not to complicate things and create the need for yet another multimedia wrapper/framework.
Yeah - in Ireland, most (younger) people are on Meteor - and we all get free texts to each other. All of my friends are on Meteor, so we text each other all the time.
Slashdot Mirror
I couldn't find one for FileZilla. In most cases though, there will be a PPA with up-to-date packages of the stuff you want.
I was just going to say this, I'll second a reading of Getting Things Done (link to PDF).
sudo apt-get install lame works fine in Ubuntu
Ruby on Rails is not a language.
This is completely untrue.
How many programmers cant be bothered to use the standard shortcut keys of the system(s) they target with their programs? Particularly in X, unfortunately, many even deliberately remove the ability of the user to *set* those keys to the standard they are used to? (Yes, I'm looking at you Gnome.)
I don't know how long this has been there, but I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and if you go into System -> Preferences -> Appearance, in the Interface tab you can tick a box to give you "Editable menu shortcut keys", which as far as I know enables editable shortcuts Gnome-wide (it works in Gedit anyway).
Download the book and send a cheque directly to the author with a note explaining what you did and why.
Yes, of course they deserve to be paid. In a digital world though, it doesn't make sense for that the revenue stream for software developers (or even musicians and authors, etc) to come from the distribution of their software (or music, etc). As others have said, generally a company hires a software developer to develop some software that will make the company's life easier - not so they can profit from the distribution of that software.
Haha, you mean "you're".
Where do you live, out of curiousity?
Am I the only one that saw the subject and thought "IP over Anonymous Cowards"?
I see the point you're making and it's a good point, but I don't think your analogy works. I see touring and live performances as something separate to composing and recording music... a lot of artists do both, but I don't see why they should have to to make a living. You're right though in saying that the cost of the CDs/MP3s/whatever (ie, distribution) is not the main cost for the artist with making recorded music, it's producing the first copy that costs money (ie, the cost of equiment/renting a studio/etc). It's hard to find a way to compensate them directly for this cost though, it's not as simple as the wedding photograph scenario.
I write and record my own music but I never play live (I wouldn't be able to anyway). I don't make any money from my music, but I just give it away online. There aren't any huge costs associated with recording for me though, I record my music on my computer with Ardour and some other apps that run on the JACK sound-server (you might be thinking "this only works for electronic music" - my music isn't electronic, it's vaguely rock-based music - it's perfectly possible to use Ardour, etc with acoustic instruments). This works for me, but not all musicians would be comfortable enough with such technologies to be able to use them to record music (and mix, etc) with their own hardware - there will always be a need for more professional studios, etc. So either we find some way of compensating artists for these costs or else recording and releasing music becomes a loss-making process. If the latter does happen, I don't think it'll be the end of the world - there are enough people out there (myself included) that write and record music simply for the love of it and don't care about the financial aspects of it. Music is not going to disappear even if the money it makes does.
Personally I do:
if (something)
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statement;
}
else
{
statement;
}
I don't really understand why other styles seem to be more common myself.
Thank you. That was a far better than anything I could have written in response to that loon, and expressed every sentiment that I wanted to express. Thanks for taking the time to read even a third of his drivel (even reading that much is painful) and taking the time to respond properly to it.
You're a fucking idiot, and I really feel sorry for your kids. Seriously, if I was your kid I'd want to kill you. You have no respect for your children whatsoever, you treat them as subhumans solely because their age is below some arbitrary number. You'll get away with it when they're at the age they're at, but as other posters have said, wait until they hit their teenage years.
And no, I don't have any children, but I am one (or at least I'd still be lojacked at my age if I was your kid and you had your way). I can't wait until they rebel against you, I wish them the best of luck.
You can use tabs in Python if you want? Or spaces if that's what you want? I don't get what you're complaining about.
TCMP
Does anyone else think this should be tagged "godwinslaw"?
From what I've seen of these KittenAuth things, though I don't know much about them, you're given 9 pictures, 3 of which are kittens, and you're asked to identify them? By my reckoning, the probability of any arbitrary 3 pictures being the 3 kittens is 1/84 (9C3), which I don't think is that small. You probably wouldn't get 1400 accounts a day out of it, but you'd get enough for it to be a problem.
You must be new here.
Where's my "+1 Car Analogy" mod?
Would anyone be able to post an English translation of that page?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
But isn't gstreamer already a wrapper of sorts? I know it doesn't do mplayer and xine so this is slightly different, but isn't writing a wrapper around Gstreamer sort of making Gstreamer pointless? I would've thought that the point of Gstreamer was to basically eliminate (the need for) the use of things like xine and mplayer as backends with a more modular system, not to complicate things and create the need for yet another multimedia wrapper/framework.
Yeah - in Ireland, most (younger) people are on Meteor - and we all get free texts to each other. All of my friends are on Meteor, so we text each other all the time.