It says that you can charge for it, but that doesn't make it at all effective.
RMS charged for tapes when it was impractical to toss around the programs in no time flat via the Internet. Now, unless you charge a million bucks for that first copy, you're going to lose your shirt if just one client decides to pass it around.
The problem with his worldview is that it ignores one very important thing: artists have to eat, too. Take computer games, for example (and as a game developer who wants to bring more than bland oatmeal to the table, I very much do consider it art, but if you don't, entertainment works too). The GPL causes a cost-zero situation because anyone can, and if your product is good enough will, undercut anything you can do to generate revenue.
Sell copies of the game? Well, "personal use" includes giving copies away to everyone, so unless you're selling that first copy for a million bucks, you're going to lose your shirt. (Please don't give me that tired fucking bullshit about "well don't release it until people donate the amount you want," it sounds great if you discount that nobody will actually donate in significant numbers.)
Advertisements in the game to recoup your investment? Well, they have the code, so bye-bye ads and bye-bye revenue.
MMO? All your code's out there, enjoy those free-to-play ad-free private servers killing what little market share you can scrape up.
I can buy the argument, though I disagree heartily with it, that the GPL is useful for low-level tools--operating systems, userlands, etcetera. "Information freedom" is the fastest way to killing the software industries that many people derive a lot of enjoyment from, though, and it's not like you'll be getting Half-Life 2 out of an open source project any time soon.
Yeah, after a bit more research I found that out. I vaguely remembered hearing a rumor and the Google results seemed to be trending that way, so I added it to the list. My bad.
I don't own a PS3, but there are a few exclusives I've enjoyed when hanging out at a friend's and a few upcoming ones that are making me tempted (although I'll probably get a 360 because I'm involved in game dev and my company wants to try to branch to consoles with our 3D engine):
Metal Gear Solid 4 (it's coming out on the 360, but I strongly doubt it'll look anywhere near as nice) Wipeout HD Uncharted and Uncharted 2 (I thought they were lame when they were first released, but they grow on you fast) Gran Turismo 5 (not out yet, but a definite exclusive) Ninja Gaiden Sigma Fat Princess (don't knock it till you've played it, this shit is hilarious)
No, it's not the rest of the world's responsibility to fix IE.
It is a web developer's job to ensure that a website works for its users. I agree it'd be nice to give IE users the finger, but for the vast majority of business cases, it's nowhere near realistic.
Civ games and, especially, Colonization (still among my favorite games ever) are effective teaching games because whenever you hit F1, you get a bit of historically-relevant fluff text as well as the help text. Most people will read it just out of curiosity.
If you're an "advanced user", shouldn't you know the (unchanged) hotkeys? I mean, I'm a pretty heavy Office user, and I was apprehensive about the changes at first, but all the hotkeys still work and the ribbon is easier to actually find things that I don't already know about.
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No shit. I didn't say they weren't false.
I doubt it. It's much, much more likely that people just ignore your site.
It says that you can charge for it, but that doesn't make it at all effective.
RMS charged for tapes when it was impractical to toss around the programs in no time flat via the Internet. Now, unless you charge a million bucks for that first copy, you're going to lose your shirt if just one client decides to pass it around.
The problem with his worldview is that it ignores one very important thing: artists have to eat, too. Take computer games, for example (and as a game developer who wants to bring more than bland oatmeal to the table, I very much do consider it art, but if you don't, entertainment works too). The GPL causes a cost-zero situation because anyone can, and if your product is good enough will, undercut anything you can do to generate revenue.
Sell copies of the game? Well, "personal use" includes giving copies away to everyone, so unless you're selling that first copy for a million bucks, you're going to lose your shirt. (Please don't give me that tired fucking bullshit about "well don't release it until people donate the amount you want," it sounds great if you discount that nobody will actually donate in significant numbers.)
Advertisements in the game to recoup your investment? Well, they have the code, so bye-bye ads and bye-bye revenue.
MMO? All your code's out there, enjoy those free-to-play ad-free private servers killing what little market share you can scrape up.
I can buy the argument, though I disagree heartily with it, that the GPL is useful for low-level tools--operating systems, userlands, etcetera. "Information freedom" is the fastest way to killing the software industries that many people derive a lot of enjoyment from, though, and it's not like you'll be getting Half-Life 2 out of an open source project any time soon.
Flash is installed on 95% of computers.
Not-IE is installed on less than 50%.
I don't think you quite grasp the difference.
Yeah, after a bit more research I found that out. I vaguely remembered hearing a rumor and the Google results seemed to be trending that way, so I added it to the list. My bad.
I don't own a PS3, but there are a few exclusives I've enjoyed when hanging out at a friend's and a few upcoming ones that are making me tempted (although I'll probably get a 360 because I'm involved in game dev and my company wants to try to branch to consoles with our 3D engine):
Metal Gear Solid 4 (it's coming out on the 360, but I strongly doubt it'll look anywhere near as nice)
Wipeout HD
Uncharted and Uncharted 2 (I thought they were lame when they were first released, but they grow on you fast)
Gran Turismo 5 (not out yet, but a definite exclusive)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Fat Princess (don't knock it till you've played it, this shit is hilarious)
No, it's not the rest of the world's responsibility to fix IE.
It is a web developer's job to ensure that a website works for its users. I agree it'd be nice to give IE users the finger, but for the vast majority of business cases, it's nowhere near realistic.
Or the wigger.
So you're telling me that the Kindle is putting couriers and newspaper boys out of business?
The bastards!
They haven't branded it a "search engine" quite possibly for that reason. They call it a "decision engine."
So it is. Huh!
Of course they have a right to do that. And you have a right not to use their service.
Twitter's API returns tweets in chunks; it's not one call per tweet.
A slashdotting is not really an appreciable bump in traffic for Twitter. They have a lot of throughput at any given time.
Compared to Twitter's usual activity load, a slashdotting is not going to be that big a deal.
Civ games and, especially, Colonization (still among my favorite games ever) are effective teaching games because whenever you hit F1, you get a bit of historically-relevant fluff text as well as the help text. Most people will read it just out of curiosity.
You had to win to progress, even though they historically lost.
An icon, period. It's just a rounded corner, no icon.
Many Vista and Windows 7 applications don't have a traditional icon in the corner there. Windows Explorer, for example.
If you're an "advanced user", shouldn't you know the (unchanged) hotkeys? I mean, I'm a pretty heavy Office user, and I was apprehensive about the changes at first, but all the hotkeys still work and the ribbon is easier to actually find things that I don't already know about.
You press the pop-out button on the Styles pane. It creates a floating tool window rather than a sidebar.
These pop-out buttons are standard in the Ribbon UI.
The Agincourt map wasn't "on a hill." He misremembered.
If you don't see the blatantly obvious differences between GNOME-Do/Windows start search and the bash shell, you are beyond help.
Thank you for once again proving why the majority of Slashbots Don't Get It(tm).
Flickr comes to mind. Personally I like it more than Picasa.
Delicious used to be good, but I've never used Google Bookmarks. I use Xmarks.