IE7 doesn't have a lot of market share at all, IE9 is already topping it according to NetApplications. Most IE-users are on IE8 right now, so they're not that far away of using a proper browser, really. It's just a matter of a little time and those users will be on IE9, which as you correctly state offers a lot things other browsers have been shipping for a long time, like HTML5, CSS3 and a decent Javascript engine.
IE6 is a problem when you look at the numbers. The thing is however, I haven't shipped a single website in the past 12 months that supports IE6 and I had literally 0 complaints from any client. I develop websites for all sorts of businesses (including schools) and I don't see any of them using IE6 anymore. I don't know who is still using it, but nobody I'm in contact with anyway.
When no 1. never happened you are probably out of luck and only an expensive lawyer could help you.
If the software was never publicly published, it wasn't really open source software to begin with. You release early and you release often, also for these sort of things.
Why don't you just fork it from the latest version when it still had the GPL/MIT license and release it in a new project? This should be even easier in your situation, because the company decided to change the name of the software, which means you can simply keep using the old name for the new project. This also doesn't confuse users, as they will probably remember and recognize the software by name.
Once you've got the new project up and running, you can of course sue your old employer for distributing open source licensed software without the proper licence and source code.
He says it's a former employee, so what are you suggesting when you're saying "deal with the whistleblower"? You obviously can't fire him. What else can you do? Kill him?
It's inferior in two ways. The first is described already by Dr_Barnowl below: you're lossy encoding an already lossy encoded file, which results in inferior audio quality.
The second thing is that you have to manually edit the recording to the desired length, so you'll end up with a file that hasn't got the same start / stop moments (ie length) as the original file, so you'll have more problems automatically getting metadata from services such as freedb.
Of course you can. You can also record radio, which is basically the same as what Spotify is offering. Either way you'll end up putting a lot of time and end up with inferior results, which is why nobody actually does this on a larger scale than a handful of songs.
Why would you go through the hassle of recording and re-encoding streams from Spotify? If you want free music on your hard drive, just head over to the Piratebay or whatever file sharing service you prefer and grab what you want.
The point of services like Spotify is to provide users with free or cheap music to users in such a way that artists are compensated and the music industry can be profitable, allowing it to create new music in the future. If you're interested in that, than a service like Spotify is great. If you just want free music on your PC, then there are many other ways which are both easier and ensure better quality.
Thanks, I didn't know that. The only version of OS/2 I have used myself was OS/2 Warp 3.0. I assumed every version of OS/2 was always sort of like that one, but apparently that's not true.
I don't consider OS/2 to be a "DOS-like operating system", even though it has a DOS compatibility layer and is thus capable of running some DOS applications (including Windows 3).
Of course MS-DOS, or any other DOS-like "operating system" (it's really nothing more than a loader) is utter crap when measured by todays standards. But because DOS was such a massive platform in its day, there is a gigantic wealth of applications and games for it. Especially most of the games are still great when played today. That's why DosBox is such an amazing piece of software: it lets anyone tap into that extremely large pool of really cool stuff. Even though I've played loads of those kind of games, I still discover new and fun ones from time to time and I have a great time with them. So I guess in the end, MS-DOS isn't so bad after all.
Like many people videos are blocked at work, so I cannot view them.
Not on your work PC maybe, but don't you have a smartphone? The videos are embedded from YouTube, so I'm sure just about every phone is able to play them.
When I think of a game that's too long, I think of Zelda. One can easily put 40 or 50 hours in one of those games and still haven't finished it. I have a hard time finishing a game that long. But about half of the length of a Zelda game (say 30 hours or so) is perfect, as far as I'm concerned. 10 hours is way too short, I feel ripped off when I finish a game in such a short time.
I use it every day. I also have Firefox, Chrome and Opera installed, but I prefer using Safari for most of my browsing needs. I don't think other browsers are bad or worse than Safari, but none of them feel as clean, focused and fast to me as Safari does.
I wonder if this has something to do with what the Consumentenbond (very large & influential Dutch consumer foundation) is doing on their website slechtedekking.nl (translates as "badcoverage.nl"). They've recently launched exactly the same thing as the BBC: an Android app which tracks cellular reception for both telephone (signal strength) and data (ping and bandwith) and lets you automatically or manually upload the data to the website.
Dutch music & movie trade association BREIN won a lawsuit against The Piratebay in 2009 (it was covered onSlashdot). When it became clear The Piratebay wouldn't actively block Dutch users, BREIN started to sue Dutch ISP's, but none of them caved. Now, two years later, The Piratebay is still available through all Dutch ISP's, despite all of the lawsuits.
I'm sure anyone agrees good software still gives you the ability to create horrid stuff. But even black text on a white background looks better in Keynote than Powerpoint. There's really no comparison.
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IE7 doesn't have a lot of market share at all, IE9 is already topping it according to NetApplications. Most IE-users are on IE8 right now, so they're not that far away of using a proper browser, really. It's just a matter of a little time and those users will be on IE9, which as you correctly state offers a lot things other browsers have been shipping for a long time, like HTML5, CSS3 and a decent Javascript engine.
IE6 is a problem when you look at the numbers. The thing is however, I haven't shipped a single website in the past 12 months that supports IE6 and I had literally 0 complaints from any client. I develop websites for all sorts of businesses (including schools) and I don't see any of them using IE6 anymore. I don't know who is still using it, but nobody I'm in contact with anyway.
Why did you put quotes there? Are you suggesting browser makers aren't actually making browsers?
Adobe Edge isn't done from scratch. It actually looks a lot like After Effects.
"Releasing to yourself"... right. I don't think that will hold up in court.
When no 1. never happened you are probably out of luck and only an expensive lawyer could help you.
If the software was never publicly published, it wasn't really open source software to begin with. You release early and you release often, also for these sort of things.
Why don't you just fork it from the latest version when it still had the GPL/MIT license and release it in a new project? This should be even easier in your situation, because the company decided to change the name of the software, which means you can simply keep using the old name for the new project. This also doesn't confuse users, as they will probably remember and recognize the software by name.
Once you've got the new project up and running, you can of course sue your old employer for distributing open source licensed software without the proper licence and source code.
He says it's a former employee, so what are you suggesting when you're saying "deal with the whistleblower"? You obviously can't fire him. What else can you do? Kill him?
It's inferior in two ways. The first is described already by Dr_Barnowl below: you're lossy encoding an already lossy encoded file, which results in inferior audio quality.
The second thing is that you have to manually edit the recording to the desired length, so you'll end up with a file that hasn't got the same start / stop moments (ie length) as the original file, so you'll have more problems automatically getting metadata from services such as freedb.
Of course you can. You can also record radio, which is basically the same as what Spotify is offering. Either way you'll end up putting a lot of time and end up with inferior results, which is why nobody actually does this on a larger scale than a handful of songs.
Why would you go through the hassle of recording and re-encoding streams from Spotify? If you want free music on your hard drive, just head over to the Piratebay or whatever file sharing service you prefer and grab what you want.
The point of services like Spotify is to provide users with free or cheap music to users in such a way that artists are compensated and the music industry can be profitable, allowing it to create new music in the future. If you're interested in that, than a service like Spotify is great. If you just want free music on your PC, then there are many other ways which are both easier and ensure better quality.
Thanks, I didn't know that. The only version of OS/2 I have used myself was OS/2 Warp 3.0. I assumed every version of OS/2 was always sort of like that one, but apparently that's not true.
Who else was checking if this filename doesn't contain more than 8 characters?
I don't consider OS/2 to be a "DOS-like operating system", even though it has a DOS compatibility layer and is thus capable of running some DOS applications (including Windows 3).
Of course MS-DOS, or any other DOS-like "operating system" (it's really nothing more than a loader) is utter crap when measured by todays standards. But because DOS was such a massive platform in its day, there is a gigantic wealth of applications and games for it. Especially most of the games are still great when played today. That's why DosBox is such an amazing piece of software: it lets anyone tap into that extremely large pool of really cool stuff. Even though I've played loads of those kind of games, I still discover new and fun ones from time to time and I have a great time with them. So I guess in the end, MS-DOS isn't so bad after all.
I'm not an old fart. The oldest version of MS-DOS I've used that was current at the time was version 5.
But that's not our fault, there's no world peace because the other guys aren't willing to cooperate!
Like many people videos are blocked at work, so I cannot view them.
Not on your work PC maybe, but don't you have a smartphone? The videos are embedded from YouTube, so I'm sure just about every phone is able to play them.
When I think of a game that's too long, I think of Zelda. One can easily put 40 or 50 hours in one of those games and still haven't finished it. I have a hard time finishing a game that long. But about half of the length of a Zelda game (say 30 hours or so) is perfect, as far as I'm concerned. 10 hours is way too short, I feel ripped off when I finish a game in such a short time.
Too bad you're too busy playing a comedian to answer my question.
I guess when Facebook and Google already know who your friends are, there isn't much harm in sharing your private info with Yahoo! as well.
I use it every day. I also have Firefox, Chrome and Opera installed, but I prefer using Safari for most of my browsing needs. I don't think other browsers are bad or worse than Safari, but none of them feel as clean, focused and fast to me as Safari does.
What's wrong with Safari?
I wonder if this has something to do with what the Consumentenbond (very large & influential Dutch consumer foundation) is doing on their website slechtedekking.nl (translates as "badcoverage.nl"). They've recently launched exactly the same thing as the BBC: an Android app which tracks cellular reception for both telephone (signal strength) and data (ping and bandwith) and lets you automatically or manually upload the data to the website.
Dutch music & movie trade association BREIN won a lawsuit against The Piratebay in 2009 (it was covered onSlashdot). When it became clear The Piratebay wouldn't actively block Dutch users, BREIN started to sue Dutch ISP's, but none of them caved. Now, two years later, The Piratebay is still available through all Dutch ISP's, despite all of the lawsuits.
I'm sure anyone agrees good software still gives you the ability to create horrid stuff. But even black text on a white background looks better in Keynote than Powerpoint. There's really no comparison.