Strictly speaking, what they're charging for is access to *their* repository, you're always free to download, compile and install any Free app you'd like, or even find someone kind enough to give access to their repository for free and use it instead of Red Hat's.
We do need front companies, bands like Radiohead already have thousands of fans reading their website daily but Google isn't good enough for finding new music to listen to.
However, as Magnatune and Jamendo prove, there's no need for that company to be evil either.
Dunno how that'd extrapolate to the videogame market, however. The thing about copyright is that it covers such drastically different areas that a "one size fits all" solution would necessarily be as flawed as copyright itself already is.
If our weather men can't even predict the weather to an acceptable degree of accuracy the day before, than why should people believe predictions that far out.
Let's play a game then: grab a fair coin, throw it a thousand times. I predict the number of heads you'll get will be approximately 500, give or take 50. Now, I'll throw a single coin, what's the result gonna be?
Yeah! screw the Man, and screw their godless commie "universities"! I never went to one myself, never even finished high-school and I can tell you all this "global warming" bullshit is nothing but a commie liberal scheme to steal our trucks away and ruin everything America stands for.
If there is "convincing evidence", there must have been a valid experiment to provide it. Which earth was used to change the levels of CO2 and leave all the other factors constant to measure the actual effect of CO2 on temperature?
The same one used to show the effect of the Sun's gravity onto the Earth's rotation.
Yet another strawman from the denialist crowd, huh? there's so many problems with your post I'd need one three times as long just to ennumerate them all but I'll start with the basics and see if you can work from there: both the "unnatural" and "irreversible" adjectives were qualifying the word "damage" rather than "climate" in the phrase you quoted. Ohh, and everytime you use the words "study shows", it's nice to see actual citations of the studies in question.
Or use LXDE, in its default form it looks and feels pretty close to Win2K or XP's Classic interface, plus a few traditional Linux goodies like multiple desktops, a terminal that doesn't suck and the ability to put any and all applications in full-screen.
Best of all? it's modular enough that, if you've ever thought "gee, Windows would be great if only its $X did $Y" you can have that in less than five minutes simply by reconfiguring the appropiate program, or replacing it altogether if necessary.
Why would it be ironic? regular users aren't interested in configuring a system so it's irrelevant how "easy" or "hard" it is as long as it's done automagically for their limited usage scenarios, but they are interested in *using* a system so they'll need an interface that's simple and "friendly" enough for them.
Gnome stopped being aimed at power users with version 2.0 *eight* years ago, so you really have no excuse. I'd suggest using Xfce or Openbox instead, perhaps even a tiling WM like wmii or awesome if you're feeling daring.
Riddle me this: if "considering the source" is the only valid criterion on which a person's authority on a subject rests, then how the hell does said person achieve enough authority to ever pass the "consider the source" test?
You author a paper alongside someone who's already an authority in the subject. In the field of Mathematics, for instance, this is measured as the Erdos number though similar schemes exist for other fields as well.
Exactly. Say a very good artist makes $50/hour. Cost to his company (Health insurance, his desk, power to his desk, 401k, taxes) is roughly double that: $100/hour.
If one of these new duodeccore processor computers is $12k. As soon as it saves the user from 120 hours of rendering, it's paid for itself. I can easily see someone hitting that in a year. Between opening a 20MP RAW to saving, to applying filters, etc.
Yeah, as long as the artist in question is then hired at half the salary for half the hours. Fat chance of that.
The comparison you should be making isn't with the artist's wage but with the overall productivity and the money *that* makes for the company, but I'd say that's a bit beyond the scope of a mere Slashdot post.
No, no they aren't. Not compared to a mouse, not compared to a trackpoint, not even compared to a keyboard.
Hell, in my experience the easiest way to make someone learn how to navigate their OS with the keyboard is to take away their notebook's external mouse.
And the same happens for bringing products to the Mac except replacing "closed-source shit" with "ugly non-integrated crap" just because it doesn't support Apple's patented three-finger semi-circular swipe gesture or some obscure idiocy like that (see also: Opera 10.60 announcement, every comment about OpenOffice on Mac *ever*). And Windows power-users have similar reactions as well except they don't even try to give you a reason for their hatred other than "it's a {Linux,Mac} app, ugh".
Still, being free to do something doesn't mean free from criticism of it and if some devs want to bring a closed-source app to Linux that's not better than what we currently have, "freedom of choice" ain't a good enough reason not to call them up on it.
Hell, what if some third-party finds your pacemaker infringes on their patent and demand monthly royalties from you? replacing, say, a pacemaker is a *bit* harder than uninstalling your copy of ffmpeg.
Evolution is indefinable. Small scale adaptations are visible and observable; but we have difficulty pointing to a moment where one thing "evolves" from another.
Isn't it when they stop having viable offspring, like ligers or mules? IANAB but that's the way I've always understood it.
Funny. Replace the US with "me" in your post and other countries with "murderers" and your post makes a nice argument for legalizing murder.
There's a phrase that I quite like, usually said in the context of software but still: "perfect is the enemy of good". Though I suspect you already knew that and your argument about wanting everything to be sunshine and rainbows was a strawman to make up some excuse for your country's imperialist ambitions but still, it's best to give you the benefit of doubt.
Like how STALKER is another Doom or Sins of a Solar Empire is another Command & Conquer only if you oversimplify the ideas to the point of uselessness?
Face it, there's no credible argument to be made for the idea that games *used* to innovate but don't anymore, things are just as they've always been. If you like that, good, if you don't then pity, but no, things weren't "better in the good ol' days".
I'm a fairly hard core geek but sometimes you just don't want to be bothered with all the options. They just make things confusing.
True, but why would you choose an *iPhone* in that case instead of a far simpler, robust and above all *cheap* phone of the sorts that can be gotten for free with your contract is beyond me.
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Strictly speaking, what they're charging for is access to *their* repository, you're always free to download, compile and install any Free app you'd like, or even find someone kind enough to give access to their repository for free and use it instead of Red Hat's.
We do need front companies, bands like Radiohead already have thousands of fans reading their website daily but Google isn't good enough for finding new music to listen to.
However, as Magnatune and Jamendo prove, there's no need for that company to be evil either.
Dunno how that'd extrapolate to the videogame market, however. The thing about copyright is that it covers such drastically different areas that a "one size fits all" solution would necessarily be as flawed as copyright itself already is.
In short, you don't believe in gravity either.
If our weather men can't even predict the weather to an acceptable degree of accuracy the day before, than why should people believe predictions that far out.
Let's play a game then: grab a fair coin, throw it a thousand times. I predict the number of heads you'll get will be approximately 500, give or take 50. Now, I'll throw a single coin, what's the result gonna be?
Yeah! screw the Man, and screw their godless commie "universities"! I never went to one myself, never even finished high-school and I can tell you all this "global warming" bullshit is nothing but a commie liberal scheme to steal our trucks away and ruin everything America stands for.
If there is "convincing evidence", there must have been a valid experiment to provide it. Which earth was used to change the levels of CO2 and leave all the other factors constant to measure the actual effect of CO2 on temperature?
The same one used to show the effect of the Sun's gravity onto the Earth's rotation.
Yet another strawman from the denialist crowd, huh? there's so many problems with your post I'd need one three times as long just to ennumerate them all but I'll start with the basics and see if you can work from there: both the "unnatural" and "irreversible" adjectives were qualifying the word "damage" rather than "climate" in the phrase you quoted. Ohh, and everytime you use the words "study shows", it's nice to see actual citations of the studies in question.
just like you can provide unlimited energy with fusion in theory
Actually, I'm pretty sure that'd violate the Laws of Thermodynamics. Which are, y'know, laws, not suggestions or something.
It does it by yesterday.
Or use LXDE, in its default form it looks and feels pretty close to Win2K or XP's Classic interface, plus a few traditional Linux goodies like multiple desktops, a terminal that doesn't suck and the ability to put any and all applications in full-screen.
Best of all? it's modular enough that, if you've ever thought "gee, Windows would be great if only its $X did $Y" you can have that in less than five minutes simply by reconfiguring the appropiate program, or replacing it altogether if necessary.
Why would it be ironic? regular users aren't interested in configuring a system so it's irrelevant how "easy" or "hard" it is as long as it's done automagically for their limited usage scenarios, but they are interested in *using* a system so they'll need an interface that's simple and "friendly" enough for them.
Gnome stopped being aimed at power users with version 2.0 *eight* years ago, so you really have no excuse. I'd suggest using Xfce or Openbox instead, perhaps even a tiling WM like wmii or awesome if you're feeling daring.
Repeat a lie often enough...
Don't blame me, I was aiming for Funny.
Riddle me this: if "considering the source" is the only valid criterion on which a person's authority on a subject rests, then how the hell does said person achieve enough authority to ever pass the "consider the source" test?
You author a paper alongside someone who's already an authority in the subject. In the field of Mathematics, for instance, this is measured as the Erdos number though similar schemes exist for other fields as well.
Exactly, but saying "it may not work as well for editing images but..." would be marketing suicide.
Exactly. Say a very good artist makes $50/hour. Cost to his company (Health insurance, his desk, power to his desk, 401k, taxes) is roughly double that: $100/hour.
If one of these new duodeccore processor computers is $12k. As soon as it saves the user from 120 hours of rendering, it's paid for itself. I can easily see someone hitting that in a year. Between opening a 20MP RAW to saving, to applying filters, etc.
Yeah, as long as the artist in question is then hired at half the salary for half the hours. Fat chance of that.
The comparison you should be making isn't with the artist's wage but with the overall productivity and the money *that* makes for the company, but I'd say that's a bit beyond the scope of a mere Slashdot post.
No, no they aren't. Not compared to a mouse, not compared to a trackpoint, not even compared to a keyboard.
Hell, in my experience the easiest way to make someone learn how to navigate their OS with the keyboard is to take away their notebook's external mouse.
And the same happens for bringing products to the Mac except replacing "closed-source shit" with "ugly non-integrated crap" just because it doesn't support Apple's patented three-finger semi-circular swipe gesture or some obscure idiocy like that (see also: Opera 10.60 announcement, every comment about OpenOffice on Mac *ever*). And Windows power-users have similar reactions as well except they don't even try to give you a reason for their hatred other than "it's a {Linux,Mac} app, ugh".
Still, being free to do something doesn't mean free from criticism of it and if some devs want to bring a closed-source app to Linux that's not better than what we currently have, "freedom of choice" ain't a good enough reason not to call them up on it.
Hell, what if some third-party finds your pacemaker infringes on their patent and demand monthly royalties from you? replacing, say, a pacemaker is a *bit* harder than uninstalling your copy of ffmpeg.
Evolution is indefinable. Small scale adaptations are visible and observable; but we have difficulty pointing to a moment where one thing "evolves" from another.
Isn't it when they stop having viable offspring, like ligers or mules? IANAB but that's the way I've always understood it.
Funny. Replace the US with "me" in your post and other countries with "murderers" and your post makes a nice argument for legalizing murder.
There's a phrase that I quite like, usually said in the context of software but still: "perfect is the enemy of good". Though I suspect you already knew that and your argument about wanting everything to be sunshine and rainbows was a strawman to make up some excuse for your country's imperialist ambitions but still, it's best to give you the benefit of doubt.
Like how STALKER is another Doom or Sins of a Solar Empire is another Command & Conquer only if you oversimplify the ideas to the point of uselessness?
Face it, there's no credible argument to be made for the idea that games *used* to innovate but don't anymore, things are just as they've always been. If you like that, good, if you don't then pity, but no, things weren't "better in the good ol' days".
There's *always* been rehasing of old ideas in gaming. Ever played Pitfall? the Mario before Mario, I guess you could say.
So you hate basic phones because they cost too little, and you want a lot of functionality but without too much functionality? err... right.
I'm a fairly hard core geek but sometimes you just don't want to be bothered with all the options. They just make things confusing.
True, but why would you choose an *iPhone* in that case instead of a far simpler, robust and above all *cheap* phone of the sorts that can be gotten for free with your contract is beyond me.