See what this phrase did to us? Free Software was about freedom, giving the users choice, and all those warm and fuzzies. Open Source can be hurt if the users decide what they want.
P.S. I've seen more trojans from Sony and retail games.
You are assuming the people were accustomed to, or at least had heard of the open source alternatives before turning to piracy. Usually that isn't the case. I don't think people accustomed to open source software turn to pirating their commercial alternatives that often.
Of course they do, because many open source alternatives are not up to par to commercial software. Gimp vs Adobe? OpenOffice vs. MS Office? Ardour vs. Cubase/FL Studio/Protools?
Open source has some amazing stuff. Apache, Cyrus, Gnome + Compiz, Pidgin, and I could go on and on, but it's naive to think that every open source alternative to a commercial product is a good one, just because it's open source.
How is Palestine a civil war? Or are you talking about history? The last civil war in that area took place a couple thousand years ago, which makes sense seeing as how that was the last time the area had sovereign rule against which to start a war.
it seemed pretty civil warrish when Hamas booted out Abbas by using guns.
Yeah.....because when I want the God's honest truth....I take my advice from someone I know nothing about who has a blog on the Internet.
If it's on the Internet....it MUST be true.
I agree. I tend to side with newspapers full of journalists that uphold a rigorous discipline to maintain their integrity and deliver to me unbiased, objective information. In fact, the minute that information is reported by someone who isn't under the control of an editorial staff, advertisement agencies, corporations, and government, is the minute I stop caring because as we all know, newspapers are here to sell ad supported content, not content supported ads. And the filtration of all the powers that be in the newspaper industry help keep it clean and free of interference from outside sources.
I would think the problem is that North Korea is supposedly going to be sending a missile over to Hawaii. Perhaps meteor monitoring was simply a bad use of the satellites' time as the US military is gearing up to track North Korea's launch.
Yes it is. It's called "Trolling" or "flamebait." Deliberately posting an unpopular or unsupported opinion for the purpose of pissing off people or causing them to waste time in refuting... oooooohhh, I see what you did there.
Actually, it's strongly suggested that instead of modding trolls down, you mod insightfuls and interestings and funnies up. You have a limited number of mod points, better to use them to drown out travesty by over exposing excellency.
The biggest "zone breakers" are interruptions of any kind or duration. Having to stop for even one minute to take a call or acknowledge a communication can break your flow completely and it can take time to get back into gear. I think there have even been studies showing it takes some 15 minutes average to get back.
While I agree 90% of what you just said, I always find that a zone break is something I want after a few hours, without realizing I want it. Zone breaks, mind is distracted by something else, I go back a little refreshed. Yeah, it takes me a bit of time to get into that trance like state of mind, but I get there by checking what I just did in the previous trance. Sometimes when you hit that trance like state, mistakes creep in, or you forget to comment something. That little break helps me get through those smaller tedious tasks WHILE coding, rather than spend a day doing it when I'm done the feature I'm working on.
The Soviets were being taken over by Nazi Germany. Just like Europe was. The Chinese were being taken over by the Japanese. The Soviet Union, Europe, and Asia would all look and sound a lot different if Japan hadn't dragged the US into the war. I'm thinking things like, no Jews, with lots of German and Japanese speakers.
While I agree with you on America's messed up copyright laws, the problem apparently is that a lot of commercially bootlegged products make it into the US through Canada. The Canadian government essentially permits this, for example, if you drive across the border with a truck full of DVDs, the Canadian customs agents can't stop you without getting a warrant. If I were the Canadian government, I would consider allowing this until the US agrees to a more reasonable copyright, say 20 years.
20 years? How about, until the author dies. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people like you telling me what I can and can not do with my music. Yeah, I want to give it away for free, does not mean that 20 years from now, you can use my music as the backing song to a commercial espousing views I don't believe in. It does not mean in 20 years you can take my work, remix it to something you like more, and claim it as your own. I'm sick and fucking tired of extremists who are either trying to screw over the audience, or screw over the creator.
I don't believe in DRM, I don't believe in gouging fans. Like I said, I'd rather give away my music for free and release limited edition albums for collectors. But I don't want to see my music taken away from me so long as I'm alive. And even after death, what then? Stop pushing for limited copyright lengths, you sound just as selfish as the record labels you're trying to fight against and it doesn't really inspire the artists to hear that you expect them to give up their hard work in the near future.
Can someone explain to me why this is so difficult? Anything connected to the internet can share information with anything else connected to the internet and since consoles and portables and mobiles can all connect to the internet, then it stands to reason they can all connect to each other!
I really don't get the WOW factor of this article to be honest.
Well, considering that art is almost always about sharing an idea in "your own words" so to speak, if someone else improved or modified the art, then the message becomes skewed and the original artist might be misinterpreted as a result.
So yeah, the culture of ownership exists because I as a musician, express myself this way, and if someone like you came around and did a remix, then my ability to communicate becomes skewed, and I can no longer express myself properly.
The other thing you talk about, sharing, that's a bit complicated. On the one hand, you want an audience. You might even be willing to give away the music for free, but sharing the context you're talking about, that's USING the music for something other than enjoyment. That's using music to convey a completely different message. What if a political party whose ideologies offend me used one of my songs in one of their TV ads? I'd be furious. I don't like that political party and what they believe in, but now I'm associated with them!?
I think the culture of ownership is justified.
The problem is with the culture of greed and excess. No artist needs to be a millionaire. If it happens it happens and good for you, but don't get there by squeezing the balls of your audience. Should the audience HAVE to pay for your music? Well, that's personal choice I guess, but when you do charge the audience, don't insult them at the same time. I for one plan to sell CDs and give it away for free at the same time. The CDs then will be limited and if people actually like my music, some of them will buy the CDs. Most of my friends know how to download movies and they do so as well, doesn't stop them from spending hundreds of dollars on building a DVD library though.
Anyways, culture of ownership I believe in. Culture of excess, I don't. And I'd really wish people would stop confusing the two...
One of the things these people have to do is take a page from Valve and Epic and look closely how the two created modding tools for their engine.
Well, Unreal Editor doesn't really allow you to make an entirely new game out of the Unreal engine, but it's an incredible mapping tool, much better than Hammer for the Source Engine.
But, Valve has other tools as well, such as Faceposer to help in lip syncing your models. As well, the event based choreography of NPCs and physics seems to me to be unparalleled. NPC see's enemy, fire an event, which triggers the NPC to freeze, since the enemy was MEDUSA ALL ALONG! It's very intuitive programming.
So this engine needs to have an infrastructure in place to make modding as intuitive, as well as tools that make use of that infrastructure.
It's not my responsibility. I'm not paid enough to care. If I need software on my computer, and the IT guy gives me that software, then I will install it and use it and not ask questions.
So... I'm wondering who's in the wrong job at this point. But good luck with that attitude, buddy!
This is all made pointless with what I described above. Your application should be serving up content, not your centralized API. The only views your centralized API should have is logic on how to serialize models for digest by your applications.
And another thing, SOAP is an utterly pointless technology. It reinvents HTTP for no real reason at all. If you're still using SOAP, then you obviously miss the point of what HTTP is and what it represents.
As to browser cache and proxy behavior: You are assuming app developers have control over their users' browsers and proxy servers. That's a false assumption. You just failed to meet the minim requirements for the project (working on ie6 with ghettoproxy 0.1).
You don't know what you're talking about. Who mentioned browsers? Since when do browsers make direct SOAP calls to SOAP-based web services? They don't. Applications make SOAP-based requests to web services and then serves up views based on the data models the web service returns. The problem with SOAP is that SOAP reinvented HTTP. HTTP is perfectly geared to handle this notion of a centralized API with many applications using the same API. You can use this setup with ANY KIND OF APPLICATION, whether it be a desktop app, a web app, a command line app. You don't even need the internet.
User makes request
Application receives request, fetches data from RESTful webservice over HTTP
Centralized API fetches data, returns it to application
Application displays top ten favorite movies to user
If you somehow see a problem with this, then you're working in the wrong job.
That is insane. Have you ever actually tried that stuff? Firewalls, cache, all these things don't behave well with GET. Furthermore, there are arbitrary limits to GET string length.
At the very least, any browser/server communication format must be able to handle arbitrarily complex datastructures of arbitrary length... unless you're writing toy apps.
You're so very wrong. The HTTP protocol does not define a max length for the GET query string. Any complex data structure can be represented by XML and you can return 100gb of XML if you want. Simpler structures can even be represented by JSON which might be even easier.
As for firewall and cache, well... stop setting up idiotic solutions. Your public API is exposed via HTTP. So your firewall and caching solutions need to represent this. If it doesn't, that's because you did something wrong and missed the point. HTTP is highly scalable and that's the point. If your public API are serving massive requests very frequently, throw squid infront of your HTTP server. If you want some obfuscation set your port to something other than 80. Your excuses for firewall and caching don't make a lot of sense.
Sure SOAP is complex, but that complexity can be encapsulated away. Really, the alternative is what? Everyone coming up with completely incompatible data transmission formats, reinventing the wheel and making the same mistakes over and over?
ok, that's not a perfect representation, but HTTP has all your CRUD methods, which is really all you need. You use GET to perform queries, you use PUT and POST to CREATE and UPDATE respectively, and DELETE to... DELETE!
The HTTP protocol makes a hell of a lot more sense than using SOAP, it's a deeply rooted standard, fits perfectly into the MVC pattern, fits perfectly into load balancing schemes, is application agnostic, and with HTTP Digest over SSL, it's as secure as SOAP.
What I don't like is that they say "the exact comment" of defamation. It doesn't seem to mention context anywhere.
If someone says "I helped my uncle jack off the horse", it might look very rude, but if the conversation happens to be about the difficulties of dismounting horses, then it's clear that the phrase just missed some capitalization and no one should be arrested for bestiality. Context is always important and if the trolls see this message, then you'll see how they will quote me out of context, which in of itself, isn't defamation either since they are just making a joke based on this conversation, not and implying anything.
We didn't learn that there is no value in internet advertising from the dotcom bust. We learned that that not every imaginable service in the service industry needs an online presence.
If people would stop being so apathetic to the world around them and start taking a stand, then industry would attempt to police itself more. The problem doesn't lie with abusive corporations, the problem lies in lazy people who don't do anything about it.
And before you say "well I'm powerless to do anything", I'm saying the problem isn't you personally, but society as a whole. Writing a harshly worded letter to your politician is boring, the majority of the population, en masse, quickly moving loyalties from one company to another over perceived trust issues, that will keep corporations on their toes. History has taught us, the truth always comes out.
Corporations aren't innocent, but their guilt exists due in big part to lack of consumer pressure.
That's not a problem. Good distros will eventually succeed because they are good. eg: Ubuntu. Sure, there are other desktop friendly distros, but Ubuntu is just good at what it does and as a result enjoys more popularity.
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See what this phrase did to us? Free Software was about freedom, giving the users choice, and all those warm and fuzzies. Open Source can be hurt if the users decide what they want.
P.S. I've seen more trojans from Sony and retail games.
You are assuming the people were accustomed to, or at least had heard of the open source alternatives before turning to piracy. Usually that isn't the case. I don't think people accustomed to open source software turn to pirating their commercial alternatives that often.
Of course they do, because many open source alternatives are not up to par to commercial software. Gimp vs Adobe? OpenOffice vs. MS Office? Ardour vs. Cubase/FL Studio/Protools?
Open source has some amazing stuff. Apache, Cyrus, Gnome + Compiz, Pidgin, and I could go on and on, but it's naive to think that every open source alternative to a commercial product is a good one, just because it's open source.
How is Palestine a civil war? Or are you talking about history? The last civil war in that area took place a couple thousand years ago, which makes sense seeing as how that was the last time the area had sovereign rule against which to start a war.
it seemed pretty civil warrish when Hamas booted out Abbas by using guns.
Yeah.....because when I want the God's honest truth....I take my advice from someone I know nothing about who has a blog on the Internet.
If it's on the Internet....it MUST be true.
I agree. I tend to side with newspapers full of journalists that uphold a rigorous discipline to maintain their integrity and deliver to me unbiased, objective information. In fact, the minute that information is reported by someone who isn't under the control of an editorial staff, advertisement agencies, corporations, and government, is the minute I stop caring because as we all know, newspapers are here to sell ad supported content, not content supported ads. And the filtration of all the powers that be in the newspaper industry help keep it clean and free of interference from outside sources.
I would think the problem is that North Korea is supposedly going to be sending a missile over to Hawaii. Perhaps meteor monitoring was simply a bad use of the satellites' time as the US military is gearing up to track North Korea's launch.
Doesn't seem too far fetched to me...
We would be at foobar...
Yes it is. It's called "Trolling" or "flamebait." Deliberately posting an unpopular or unsupported opinion for the purpose of pissing off people or causing them to waste time in refuting ... oooooohhh, I see what you did there.
Actually, it's strongly suggested that instead of modding trolls down, you mod insightfuls and interestings and funnies up. You have a limited number of mod points, better to use them to drown out travesty by over exposing excellency.
I think you mean Rascally Rabbit
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The biggest "zone breakers" are interruptions of any kind or duration. Having to stop for even one minute to take a call or acknowledge a communication can break your flow completely and it can take time to get back into gear. I think there have even been studies showing it takes some 15 minutes average to get back.
While I agree 90% of what you just said, I always find that a zone break is something I want after a few hours, without realizing I want it. Zone breaks, mind is distracted by something else, I go back a little refreshed. Yeah, it takes me a bit of time to get into that trance like state of mind, but I get there by checking what I just did in the previous trance. Sometimes when you hit that trance like state, mistakes creep in, or you forget to comment something. That little break helps me get through those smaller tedious tasks WHILE coding, rather than spend a day doing it when I'm done the feature I'm working on.
The Soviets were being taken over by Nazi Germany. Just like Europe was. The Chinese were being taken over by the Japanese. The Soviet Union, Europe, and Asia would all look and sound a lot different if Japan hadn't dragged the US into the war. I'm thinking things like, no Jews, with lots of German and Japanese speakers.
Try reading a history book or two.
Weren't the Soviets the first ones into Berlin?
Also, Battle of Kursk.
While I agree with you on America's messed up copyright laws, the problem apparently is that a lot of commercially bootlegged products make it into the US through Canada. The Canadian government essentially permits this, for example, if you drive across the border with a truck full of DVDs, the Canadian customs agents can't stop you without getting a warrant. If I were the Canadian government, I would consider allowing this until the US agrees to a more reasonable copyright, say 20 years.
20 years? How about, until the author dies. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people like you telling me what I can and can not do with my music. Yeah, I want to give it away for free, does not mean that 20 years from now, you can use my music as the backing song to a commercial espousing views I don't believe in. It does not mean in 20 years you can take my work, remix it to something you like more, and claim it as your own. I'm sick and fucking tired of extremists who are either trying to screw over the audience, or screw over the creator.
I don't believe in DRM, I don't believe in gouging fans. Like I said, I'd rather give away my music for free and release limited edition albums for collectors. But I don't want to see my music taken away from me so long as I'm alive. And even after death, what then? Stop pushing for limited copyright lengths, you sound just as selfish as the record labels you're trying to fight against and it doesn't really inspire the artists to hear that you expect them to give up their hard work in the near future.
Can someone explain to me why this is so difficult? Anything connected to the internet can share information with anything else connected to the internet and since consoles and portables and mobiles can all connect to the internet, then it stands to reason they can all connect to each other!
I really don't get the WOW factor of this article to be honest.
Well, considering that art is almost always about sharing an idea in "your own words" so to speak, if someone else improved or modified the art, then the message becomes skewed and the original artist might be misinterpreted as a result.
So yeah, the culture of ownership exists because I as a musician, express myself this way, and if someone like you came around and did a remix, then my ability to communicate becomes skewed, and I can no longer express myself properly.
The other thing you talk about, sharing, that's a bit complicated. On the one hand, you want an audience. You might even be willing to give away the music for free, but sharing the context you're talking about, that's USING the music for something other than enjoyment. That's using music to convey a completely different message. What if a political party whose ideologies offend me used one of my songs in one of their TV ads? I'd be furious. I don't like that political party and what they believe in, but now I'm associated with them!?
I think the culture of ownership is justified.
The problem is with the culture of greed and excess. No artist needs to be a millionaire. If it happens it happens and good for you, but don't get there by squeezing the balls of your audience. Should the audience HAVE to pay for your music? Well, that's personal choice I guess, but when you do charge the audience, don't insult them at the same time. I for one plan to sell CDs and give it away for free at the same time. The CDs then will be limited and if people actually like my music, some of them will buy the CDs. Most of my friends know how to download movies and they do so as well, doesn't stop them from spending hundreds of dollars on building a DVD library though.
Anyways, culture of ownership I believe in. Culture of excess, I don't. And I'd really wish people would stop confusing the two...
One of the things these people have to do is take a page from Valve and Epic and look closely how the two created modding tools for their engine.
Well, Unreal Editor doesn't really allow you to make an entirely new game out of the Unreal engine, but it's an incredible mapping tool, much better than Hammer for the Source Engine.
But, Valve has other tools as well, such as Faceposer to help in lip syncing your models. As well, the event based choreography of NPCs and physics seems to me to be unparalleled. NPC see's enemy, fire an event, which triggers the NPC to freeze, since the enemy was MEDUSA ALL ALONG! It's very intuitive programming.
So this engine needs to have an infrastructure in place to make modding as intuitive, as well as tools that make use of that infrastructure.
yes we do, so that next bubble, I'll be smart enough to build a savings that will carry me on through life during the next crisis.
Remember back in the day when you used to give mix tapes to girls to show them how amazing you were?
It's not my responsibility. I'm not paid enough to care. If I need software on my computer, and the IT guy gives me that software, then I will install it and use it and not ask questions.
SOAP via xmlhttprequest: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
More browser-based soapiness: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/rpc/soap/mxml/WebService.html
So... I'm wondering who's in the wrong job at this point. But good luck with that attitude, buddy!
This is all made pointless with what I described above. Your application should be serving up content, not your centralized API. The only views your centralized API should have is logic on how to serialize models for digest by your applications.
And another thing, SOAP is an utterly pointless technology. It reinvents HTTP for no real reason at all. If you're still using SOAP, then you obviously miss the point of what HTTP is and what it represents.
Try harder next time :P
As to GET and PUT limitations: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
As to browser cache and proxy behavior: You are assuming app developers have control over their users' browsers and proxy servers. That's a false assumption. You just failed to meet the minim requirements for the project (working on ie6 with ghettoproxy 0.1).
You don't know what you're talking about. Who mentioned browsers? Since when do browsers make direct SOAP calls to SOAP-based web services? They don't. Applications make SOAP-based requests to web services and then serves up views based on the data models the web service returns. The problem with SOAP is that SOAP reinvented HTTP. HTTP is perfectly geared to handle this notion of a centralized API with many applications using the same API. You can use this setup with ANY KIND OF APPLICATION, whether it be a desktop app, a web app, a command line app. You don't even need the internet.
If you somehow see a problem with this, then you're working in the wrong job.
That is insane. Have you ever actually tried that stuff? Firewalls, cache, all these things don't behave well with GET. Furthermore, there are arbitrary limits to GET string length.
At the very least, any browser/server communication format must be able to handle arbitrarily complex datastructures of arbitrary length... unless you're writing toy apps.
You're so very wrong. The HTTP protocol does not define a max length for the GET query string. Any complex data structure can be represented by XML and you can return 100gb of XML if you want. Simpler structures can even be represented by JSON which might be even easier.
As for firewall and cache, well... stop setting up idiotic solutions. Your public API is exposed via HTTP. So your firewall and caching solutions need to represent this. If it doesn't, that's because you did something wrong and missed the point. HTTP is highly scalable and that's the point. If your public API are serving massive requests very frequently, throw squid infront of your HTTP server. If you want some obfuscation set your port to something other than 80. Your excuses for firewall and caching don't make a lot of sense.
Sure SOAP is complex, but that complexity can be encapsulated away. Really, the alternative is what? Everyone coming up with completely incompatible data transmission formats, reinventing the wheel and making the same mistakes over and over?
Uh... use HTTP for what it was designed for?
GET /resourceName/resourceId
PUT /resourceName?param1=val1¶m2=val2
POST /resourceName/resourceId?param1=val1¶m2=val2
DELETE /resourceName/resourceId
ok, that's not a perfect representation, but HTTP has all your CRUD methods, which is really all you need. You use GET to perform queries, you use PUT and POST to CREATE and UPDATE respectively, and DELETE to... DELETE!
The HTTP protocol makes a hell of a lot more sense than using SOAP, it's a deeply rooted standard, fits perfectly into the MVC pattern, fits perfectly into load balancing schemes, is application agnostic, and with HTTP Digest over SSL, it's as secure as SOAP.
So, take a break, and get some REST!
What I don't like is that they say "the exact comment" of defamation. It doesn't seem to mention context anywhere.
If someone says "I helped my uncle jack off the horse", it might look very rude, but if the conversation happens to be about the difficulties of dismounting horses, then it's clear that the phrase just missed some capitalization and no one should be arrested for bestiality. Context is always important and if the trolls see this message, then you'll see how they will quote me out of context, which in of itself, isn't defamation either since they are just making a joke based on this conversation, not and implying anything.
We didn't learn that there is no value in internet advertising from the dotcom bust. We learned that that not every imaginable service in the service industry needs an online presence.
A war easily won by company Y coming out with something that doesn't piss everyone off, subsequently attracting Company A, B and C's consumers.
But, Company Y won't do it because consumers take A, B and C's software for granted and are just too apathetic to change.
If people would stop being so apathetic to the world around them and start taking a stand, then industry would attempt to police itself more. The problem doesn't lie with abusive corporations, the problem lies in lazy people who don't do anything about it.
And before you say "well I'm powerless to do anything", I'm saying the problem isn't you personally, but society as a whole. Writing a harshly worded letter to your politician is boring, the majority of the population, en masse, quickly moving loyalties from one company to another over perceived trust issues, that will keep corporations on their toes. History has taught us, the truth always comes out.
Corporations aren't innocent, but their guilt exists due in big part to lack of consumer pressure.
That's not a problem. Good distros will eventually succeed because they are good. eg: Ubuntu. Sure, there are other desktop friendly distros, but Ubuntu is just good at what it does and as a result enjoys more popularity.