I tried playing it and found it really impressive. The implementation is still beta-ish, but good enough to give it a try.
The first thing I make it do for me, is to launch my VNC viewer on my mac laptop, connect to my local head-less windows 7 machine, and click the iTunes play button to play some music there. It just worked (amazingly), and I found it to be a pretty good use case for a tool like this. A task like that cannot be easily automated. At least, it has not be the case with a tool that you just start trying for 5 minutes.
I can imagine that, if the image pattern matching can be extended to do recognition, such as face recognition / text OCR, and passed the recognized info back, or it adds webcam as its input device (instead of keyboard / mouse IO) it'll be overwhelming.
It shoud also be noticed that they are simply using open source software instead of making contribution. It is the contribution that counts.
Also, I think the are way more then 56.2% of developers who are using proprietary software in development process. There are some overlap between open source users and proprietary software users.
But it is still a good number to tell people the impact of open source software in general.
Well local singer's CD isn't expensive but things are different when the CDs are imported.
But Price is not the point, the point is that the illegal vendors are not been arrested. In taiwan every CD shops sale copied,illegal CDs. It's very strange that , police, IFPI never catch them.
I'm from NTU and friends of my were in NCKU,where this event started. Many of us are very doubted about this : ``Why the ploice doing this again STUDENTS only ?''.
In Taiwan there are many illegal venders that sales CDs with no copyright. If the gov denied the use of MP3s, we students have to buy CDs for music. And what will be the chioce ? The Copyrighted,NT$ 350 for one, or non-copyrighted, NT$ 100 for one??
Students are under arrest, but the *SOURCE* of guilt is not on them.
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I tried playing it and found it really impressive. The implementation is still beta-ish, but good enough to give it a try.
The first thing I make it do for me, is to launch my VNC viewer on my mac laptop, connect to my local head-less windows 7 machine, and click the iTunes play button to play some music there. It just worked (amazingly), and I found it to be a pretty good use case for a tool like this. A task like that cannot be easily automated. At least, it has not be the case with a tool that you just start trying for 5 minutes.
I can imagine that, if the image pattern matching can be extended to do recognition, such as face recognition / text OCR, and passed the recognized info back, or it adds webcam as its input device (instead of keyboard / mouse IO) it'll be overwhelming.
Besides, it really is an inspiring way of coding.
It shoud also be noticed that they are simply using open source software instead of making contribution. It is the contribution that counts. Also, I think the are way more then 56.2% of developers who are using proprietary software in development process. There are some overlap between open source users and proprietary software users. But it is still a good number to tell people the impact of open source software in general.
Well local singer's CD isn't expensive but things are different when the CDs are imported. But Price is not the point, the point is that the illegal vendors are not been arrested. In taiwan every CD shops sale copied,illegal CDs. It's very strange that , police, IFPI never catch them.
I'm from NTU and friends of my were in NCKU,where this event started. Many of us are very doubted about this : ``Why the ploice doing this again STUDENTS only ?''.
In Taiwan there are many illegal venders that sales CDs with no copyright. If the gov denied the use of MP3s, we students have to buy CDs for music. And what will be the chioce ? The Copyrighted,NT$ 350 for one, or non-copyrighted, NT$ 100 for one??
Students are under arrest, but the *SOURCE* of guilt is not on them.