Cultural development trumps evolution in developed societies. This is why they are developed, and they only stay developed if they keep this up. Which also invalidates your other phobia-fuelled post
He was really asking: How can I get people to work for me, for free.
I am not sure if this was his intention or if it was just a clumsy way to ask, but yeah, this is how it came across to me and why I was annoyed by it. In the end it would have been the/. editor's job to help him.
Are we speaking the same language? I'm not sure "petition" means what you think it means.
But sweet Jesus are nerds here sensitive.
English is not my first language, but I have never seen petition used in the sense of "just asking". "A petition is a request to do something" says Wikipedia.
dryriver writes: Somebody I know has been searching...
. dryriver was the one who posted to/.. FWIW, I agree that the "asshole" response was inappropriate, but IMHO the/. editor should not have posted it the was it was phrased. You won't get a good answer to a bad question
Maybe "in effect" if you discard the tone and the total lack of any effort by the submitter. If what he really intended to ask, as you suggest, 'is there an "ideas bank" for software somewhere on the net where people who have a specific suggestion can place it, and programmers who are looking for ideas can go to get suggestions from other people', he did not even invest the effort to come up with a question as good as that; which is the minimum he should have done if he values other people's time at least as much as his own.
He also could have added what precisely he had researched so far and why the results were not satisfactory, why he does not simply hire a freelance coder (for which the web search terms are obvious), and what he would offer to an open source project taking up his idea (e.g., money or contributions to specification or testing).
Not the "dryriver writes" and the quote around his words. "This is a good place..." was added by the Slashdot editor, it had not been part of dryriver's submission. dryriver was talking about "petitioning" other people as if he had a claim to their time and work, at least that's how it sounded to me.
The tone of this message is exactly why so many people consider open source developers to be an incredibly hostile and rude crowd. Although I do understand the reasons for saying no, it need not be done in the rudest way possible, such as what you see on display with the parent post. If you want more open source developers and users, perhaps it's time for the community to become a less hostile place.
I thought the question in the summary was rude, not the answer
Thanks for that. I didn't see a link to Masters anywhere on tidal.com. Another thing I can't find: a publicly searchable catalog. Do you have to join to preview "curated" selections?
For me, Masters shows up as the third panel on the homepage. But no worries, I'm glad I could help. I believe that in a browser you can search by going to the hamburger menu top right, then click web player. Or try to go to https://listen.tidal.com/ directly. But they also have a free one-month trial period.
Tidal HiFi is 16/44.1, i.e. CD quality, so it's not necessarily a reproduction of the studio master, which could be e.g. 24/44.1, 24/88.2, 24/96, 24/192, various DSD formats, etc.
The Hifi subscription is CD quality and has always existed in Tidal of course. What I mean is the newly launched Tidal Masters, which is part of the Hifi subscription and delivers 96 kHz/24 bit. See http://tidal.com/masters
I can start playing the song while it's still being transferred over the network. It's streaming AND being saved locally for future play. They are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Now, you can elect not to save something you transfer and call that "streaming" if you like. But it's purely an artificial restriction. To stream you must transfer it, and to save it locally you must transfer it. The transfer process can be used for either, or both at once.
You are simply not getting it. All streaming services I know have a download option. The real difference is a rental subscription vs buying non-DRM copies. Whether the economics work out depends on your listening habits.
I can stream 4K video, albeit with a reduced color space, and I can even stream theatrical releases using the same source as a theater. Why isn't anyone offering high resolution audio streaming?
Tidal has just started to offer a few days ago. It's included in the Hifi subscription and only works on the desktop clients for now.
Graffiti is by definition against the wishes of the home owner, it's vandalism. If the owner allowed people to paint on their walls, and was indifferent to any hate speech written there, it would be a closer analogy. And if a pub was being used as a meeting place for racists and xenophobes, and they were broadcasting their hatred to other pub visitors, and the publicans did nothing about it for long periods of time, you can bet your ass they would be held responsible.
This from the AC, and even if a change to the property was made against the wishes of the owner he may still be legally responsible for fixing it.
I believe you are being unnecessarily literal. The list mentions the ability to set a fixed price for the work regardless of hours spent, and the poster said a contractor should be able to set his own rate if he really was a contractor, not that he would be guaranteed to find a buyer. It's quite obvious what he meant even if not worded perfectly
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Cultural development trumps evolution in developed societies. This is why they are developed, and they only stay developed if they keep this up. Which also invalidates your other phobia-fuelled post
Wild guesses may come true or not. I talked about actually observed data
Except that actually observed birth rates in developed nations do not support this
He was really asking: How can I get people to work for me, for free.
I am not sure if this was his intention or if it was just a clumsy way to ask, but yeah, this is how it came across to me and why I was annoyed by it. In the end it would have been the /. editor's job to help him.
Are we speaking the same language? I'm not sure "petition" means what you think it means.
But sweet Jesus are nerds here sensitive.
English is not my first language, but I have never seen petition used in the sense of "just asking". "A petition is a request to do something" says Wikipedia.
No, see TFS:
dryriver writes: ...
Somebody I know has been searching
. dryriver was the one who posted to /.. /. editor should not have posted it the was it was phrased. You won't get a good answer to a bad question
FWIW, I agree that the "asshole" response was inappropriate, but IMHO the
He found /.
Maybe "in effect" if you discard the tone and the total lack of any effort by the submitter. If what he really intended to ask, as you suggest, 'is there an "ideas bank" for software somewhere on the net where people who have a specific suggestion can place it, and programmers who are looking for ideas can go to get suggestions from other people', he did not even invest the effort to come up with a question as good as that; which is the minimum he should have done if he values other people's time at least as much as his own.
He also could have added what precisely he had researched so far and why the results were not satisfactory, why he does not simply hire a freelance coder (for which the web search terms are obvious), and what he would offer to an open source project taking up his idea (e.g., money or contributions to specification or testing).
Sorry, typo: Note*
Not the "dryriver writes" and the quote around his words. "This is a good place ..." was added by the Slashdot editor, it had not been part of dryriver's submission. dryriver was talking about "petitioning" other people as if he had a claim to their time and work, at least that's how it sounded to me.
Except that wasn't the way how it was asked
The tone of this message is exactly why so many people consider open source developers to be an incredibly hostile and rude crowd. Although I do understand the reasons for saying no, it need not be done in the rudest way possible, such as what you see on display with the parent post. If you want more open source developers and users, perhaps it's time for the community to become a less hostile place.
I thought the question in the summary was rude, not the answer
Thanks for that. I didn't see a link to Masters anywhere on tidal.com. Another thing I can't find: a publicly searchable catalog. Do you have to join to preview "curated" selections?
For me, Masters shows up as the third panel on the homepage. But no worries, I'm glad I could help. I believe that in a browser you can search by going to the hamburger menu top right, then click web player. Or try to go to https://listen.tidal.com/ directly. But they also have a free one-month trial period.
Tidal HiFi is 16/44.1, i.e. CD quality, so it's not necessarily a reproduction of the studio master, which could be e.g. 24/44.1, 24/88.2, 24/96, 24/192, various DSD formats, etc.
The Hifi subscription is CD quality and has always existed in Tidal of course. What I mean is the newly launched Tidal Masters, which is part of the Hifi subscription and delivers 96 kHz/24 bit. See http://tidal.com/masters
$ wget http://some.domain/some.song.m... &
$ mplayer some.song.mp3
I can start playing the song while it's still being transferred over the network. It's streaming AND being saved locally for future play. They are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Now, you can elect not to save something you transfer and call that "streaming" if you like. But it's purely an artificial restriction. To stream you must transfer it, and to save it locally you must transfer it. The transfer process can be used for either, or both at once.
You are simply not getting it. All streaming services I know have a download option. The real difference is a rental subscription vs buying non-DRM copies. Whether the economics work out depends on your listening habits.
I can stream 4K video, albeit with a reduced color space, and I can even stream theatrical releases using the same source as a theater. Why isn't anyone offering high resolution audio streaming?
Tidal has just started to offer a few days ago. It's included in the Hifi subscription and only works on the desktop clients for now.
LMOL umm no you don't choose the music. The music is selected for you...jackass.
What?
$10/month or you could just buy the song or album....it would be more cost effective.
If you only listen to one album a month, yeah. Else, not so much.
Previous poster who said they should have maintained current infrastructure and put the new garbage elsewhere was spot-bloody-on.
Seems to me he was completely wrong as DAB is not even in the same part of the spectrum as FM. See the replies to his post
There is basically no AM radio in Europe anymore
Furthermore, why is it okay for Germany to force their laws on an American company?
Because they are doing business in Germany where German law applies. They are free not to.
Graffiti is by definition against the wishes of the home owner, it's vandalism. If the owner allowed people to paint on their walls, and was indifferent to any hate speech written there, it would be a closer analogy. And if a pub was being used as a meeting place for racists and xenophobes, and they were broadcasting their hatred to other pub visitors, and the publicans did nothing about it for long periods of time, you can bet your ass they would be held responsible.
This from the AC, and even if a change to the property was made against the wishes of the owner he may still be legally responsible for fixing it.
Whatever dude
And anyway, even if we ignore the "set own rate" discussion, few of the things on the list apply to an Uber driver
I believe you are being unnecessarily literal. The list mentions the ability to set a fixed price for the work regardless of hours spent, and the poster said a contractor should be able to set his own rate if he really was a contractor, not that he would be guaranteed to find a buyer. It's quite obvious what he meant even if not worded perfectly