Yes. Tweeters. That's what I said. Not 12" speakers in Marshall stacks et al., which is what I read when you asked, "how many amp/speaker combos did Hendrix blow out? Korn?".
Something like this. Or let's say they use both photos from free sources and their own stock photos, but in the preview these are low-quality and include a watermark, as is already usual at istockphoto.com and others. Then when you decide between the different possible results, you get a button "Click here to get rights" for each one. Enter your credit card number and you get the full quality, no watermarks and the rights. They would offer time based-subscriptions and various quality and rights options for different prices like they already do.
They could prepare their own photos better (tagging, masks, and whatever the software needs) than the free ones of course, thus making sure that results that use their stock frequently are better than free ones.
Too late. This is already part of Shai Agassi's plan according to an interview with him that I read somewhere (it's not mentioned in the linked article; I seem to remember the trademark may be "drive sounds".)
Yeah, and if they were honest and serious that's were they would have said, "third-party applications can be tough. There are very good systems for patching them, like Debian's APT, but sadly most vendors of proprietary software have made practically no progress in this area in two decades".
http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-deb.html ? And I haven't used Picasa, but maybe f-spot (Ubuntu's default photo manager) is an option (it also can upload files to Picasa, allows to manage your albums, etc.)
the Indians were at the mercy of nature to prevent starvation.
Just like any other farm economies at that time, i.e., more or less everyone. And like we are if your think it through.
If the "settlers" had not come about, they would have either died, been wiped out, or advanced their own civilization by now, anyway.
Why? They survived for thousands of years, until assaulted by a genocidal conqueror. Why would they not have survived a few hundred years more, until "now"? They might have advanced their way of life, probably not fundamentally, but what's wrong with that.
Yeah, you are somewhat right, they were "wiped out", but that's kind of my point: being wiped out by a genocidal enemy does not necessarily make the enemy correct or its culture desirable.
In virtual worlds, "game economics" apply. The rules of soccer could, for instance, state that "Each team shall automatically receive infinite points and be declared 'King of all Cosmos and Universal Omniwinner." If that actually were the case, though, the game wouldn't be worth playing.
That's nonsense, though. I know that this is how many people feel who grew up in capitalist economies, me sometimes included, but it's still nonsense that won't make you happy. See, the game would be still worth playing because for the actual players it's about playing first and foremost, not winning or making money.
How can this be possibly modded insightful? Isn't this the same place where every time stuff like piratebay are discussed people fall over themselves arguing that downloading music/movies is not stealing?
There is nothing lost, so how could it possibly be "stealing"?
Agreed, it was an unfortunate choice of words by me. Though you may want to take note of the fact that there are multiple people discussing on this site, who don't all hold the same opinions. Thus it's nonsensical to argue that user B must not hold an opinion Y because user A held opinion X in a different discussion. Keeping this in mind will help you make sense of this place.
Nice effort in sidestepping my more important points about file format or protocol incompatibilities, though.
The fact that it can't happen. If you BSD license project A, and company M takes it and makes closed source project B with it, project A is *still* available from your site for free and open. yada yada.
We've been through this a million times before. The company has now stolen the time of the guy who wrote the free code in the first place, or at least the guy may feel like that. It's also possible that they extended his file format or network protocol with proprietary parts, harming interoperability and the users of the free version by impeding the network effect.
Some developers care, some don't, some care or not depending on circumstance and goals of the software project. None of these positions is more irrational than the other.
I realize this probably stems from an irrational fear of proprietary software -- fear that F/OSS code will get eaten up and essentially stolen if there wasn't the backing of the GPL.
If you want to build from source, then it's going to be more complicated. If you do so, you cannot use this as an argument against alleged free software complexity, since building Firefox from source is not going to be more simple on Windows, either. It does not even come with a compiler.
Acting as if it was required to build Firefox from source if you want to run Mozilla's version in Ubuntu is dishonest.
Upstream = X.org. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) has 7.4, while Debian Lenny has 7.3.
I know MS had it, and it would have been a usability nightmare then, except it did not stick out among the many others and it was the 80ies/early 90ies and computing was not mainstream yet.
C+A+B by default was removed/upstream/, it took one command to reenable it in Ubuntu 9.04, and 9.10 has a checkbox. If you have no clue, why not just shut up?
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace by default was removed UPSTREAM, it took one command to reenable it in 9.04, and 9.10 has a checkbox. Get your facts straight. In any case, if Windows had a 3-key combo that terminates all users' sessions without saving anything and without asking, people would rightfully bitch. So.
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Yes. Tweeters. That's what I said. Not 12" speakers in Marshall stacks et al., which is what I read when you asked, "how many amp/speaker combos did Hendrix blow out? Korn?".
The discussion is not about guitar or bass speakers, but tweeters.
Look into what analog filters do to the signal. There's a reason speaker design was a black art until the advent of computer simulation.
Something like this. Or let's say they use both photos from free sources and their own stock photos, but in the preview these are low-quality and include a watermark, as is already usual at istockphoto.com and others. Then when you decide between the different possible results, you get a button "Click here to get rights" for each one. Enter your credit card number and you get the full quality, no watermarks and the rights. They would offer time based-subscriptions and various quality and rights options for different prices like they already do.
They could prepare their own photos better (tagging, masks, and whatever the software needs) than the free ones of course, thus making sure that results that use their stock frequently are better than free ones.
Ka-ching.
If the photo agencies like iStock are smart they are going going to buy this, develop it and include an online shop.
Too late. This is already part of Shai Agassi's plan according to an interview with him that I read somewhere (it's not mentioned in the linked article; I seem to remember the trademark may be "drive sounds".)
People didn't inhale asbestos-lined buildings or brake pads either.
Yeah, and if they were honest and serious that's were they would have said, "third-party applications can be tough. There are very good systems for patching them, like Debian's APT, but sadly most vendors of proprietary software have made practically no progress in this area in two decades".
http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-deb.html ?
And I haven't used Picasa, but maybe f-spot (Ubuntu's default photo manager) is an option (it also can upload files to Picasa, allows to manage your albums, etc.)
the Indians were at the mercy of nature to prevent starvation.
Just like any other farm economies at that time, i.e., more or less everyone. And like we are if your think it through.
If the "settlers" had not come about, they would have either died, been wiped out, or advanced their own civilization by now, anyway.
Why? They survived for thousands of years, until assaulted by a genocidal conqueror. Why would they not have survived a few hundred years more, until "now"? They might have advanced their way of life, probably not fundamentally, but what's wrong with that.
Yeah, you are somewhat right, they were "wiped out", but that's kind of my point: being wiped out by a genocidal enemy does not necessarily make the enemy correct or its culture desirable.
Not in Germany, it would take the state to go bankrupt to void a savings account.
Seems to me that the Indian system worked better and the settlers' system is the broken one, but that's me.
In virtual worlds, "game economics" apply. The rules of soccer could, for instance, state that "Each team shall automatically receive infinite points and be declared 'King of all Cosmos and Universal Omniwinner." If that actually were the case, though, the game wouldn't be worth playing.
That's nonsense, though. I know that this is how many people feel who grew up in capitalist economies, me sometimes included, but it's still nonsense that won't make you happy. See, the game would be still worth playing because for the actual players it's about playing first and foremost, not winning or making money.
Actually, there recently were a few cases like that in Amsterdam, only with mushrooms instead of pot. Now, the 'shrooms are no longer legal.
And mushrooms != pot. Very much so. Also, note the sibling reply.
How can this be possibly modded insightful? Isn't this the same place where every time stuff like piratebay are discussed people fall over themselves arguing that downloading music/movies is not stealing?
There is nothing lost, so how could it possibly be "stealing"?
Agreed, it was an unfortunate choice of words by me. Though you may want to take note of the fact that there are multiple people discussing on this site, who don't all hold the same opinions. Thus it's nonsensical to argue that user B must not hold an opinion Y because user A held opinion X in a different discussion. Keeping this in mind will help you make sense of this place.
Nice effort in sidestepping my more important points about file format or protocol incompatibilities, though.
That's a different discussion.
The fact that it can't happen. If you BSD license project A, and company M takes it and makes closed source project B with it, project A is *still* available from your site for free and open. yada yada.
We've been through this a million times before. The company has now stolen the time of the guy who wrote the free code in the first place, or at least the guy may feel like that. It's also possible that they extended his file format or network protocol with proprietary parts, harming interoperability and the users of the free version by impeding the network effect.
Some developers care, some don't, some care or not depending on circumstance and goals of the software project. None of these positions is more irrational than the other.
I realize this probably stems from an irrational fear of proprietary software -- fear that F/OSS code will get eaten up and essentially stolen if there wasn't the backing of the GPL.
What's irrational about that?
If you want to build from source, then it's going to be more complicated. If you do so, you cannot use this as an argument against alleged free software complexity, since building Firefox from source is not going to be more simple on Windows, either. It does not even come with a compiler.
Acting as if it was required to build Firefox from source if you want to run Mozilla's version in Ubuntu is dishonest.
Upstream = X.org. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) has 7.4, while Debian Lenny has 7.3.
I know MS had it, and it would have been a usability nightmare then, except it did not stick out among the many others and it was the 80ies/early 90ies and computing was not mainstream yet.
C+A+B by default was removed /upstream/, it took one command to reenable it in Ubuntu 9.04, and 9.10 has a checkbox. If you have no clue, why not just shut up?
You do know that you can download a binary from mozilla.org? And anyway, Ubuntu already has a Firefox installed.
It's in 9.10 ALPHA 3. People need to calm down.
The add-on doesn't bother me.
Installing it without any notification does.
I work for a company which has standardized on Ubuntu, but I'm pushing for them to switch to CentOS. This is just another bullet in my arsenal.
So you were planning to install Alpha 3 in your company?
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace by default was removed UPSTREAM, it took one command to reenable it in 9.04, and 9.10 has a checkbox. Get your facts straight.
In any case, if Windows had a 3-key combo that terminates all users' sessions without saving anything and without asking, people would rightfully bitch. So.