Of course, there are arts that certainly needs more skill to be produced, and at the same time are less popular than arts that require less skill. People that like these, usualy think of their preference as superior. But its nonsense, it's value is in it's pleasure, not the difficulties required to produce it. Of course, for it's creator, there can be a bigger joy in being able to make it if its difficult, but its not necessary.
But there are snobbish arts that are plain and simple crap. I dont want to point out, that would turn into a flame war. And there are people that pretend to like boring things just to be a snob.
Art is just intellectual snobbery; nothing more, nothing less. If you can't agree on an objective standard for what's good and what's bad, then you have no viable metric to pass judgement at all.
For me, good art is the one that please more people. That clearly puts the so bashed hollywood movies as good and the things the snobs like as bad. But I can't see any reason to think snob art can be any good if there are so few people that like it. And I can't se any good reason to think the most popular art is so bad if that is what is more sucessful at pleasing people. What snobbers think is art is in reality a fraud, like in the nude king history. Ridiculous things people pretend to like, or perhaps they have really odd tastes, just to look like an "intellectual".
They're trying to achieve real energy independence
We already achieved that, in the begining of this year. We still need to swap our oil for another type of oil that is easier to process, but our extraction is already bigger than our demand.
In Africa, a large amount of US aid was used to build a milk plant. But it was not near any cows or roads, and ended up shutting down. Those kinds of mistakes are much more rare in the private sector, because there is accountabillity and control. Many aid loans were blown by corrupt leaders, who then left it to the citizens to pay back.
Here in the 3rd world, when anything that is not private do anything that costs money, we are sure that this government or organization overpaid for it, and its administrator got part of the money back for himself. Its the rule, not the exception. These governments should be prohibited from asking for loans, its very annoying to pay high taxes that go down the drain to pay interests from a loan where all the money was thrown in the drain:-(
If you sue MS for any of your patents, then this pledge is void for you and they can sue the hell out of you. Its a good way to disencourage anyone for sueing them with their patents. In other slashdot comments, its said that MS never sued anyone with patent infringment, and that pledge has legal value.
About brazilian ethanol. It did not start for environment reasons. Our military dictatorship created this ethanol program to have a fuel that would not depend on the middle-east. I would not even be impressed if it was not their USA bosses, to test this thing on us.
Then, they enforced everyone that wanted to sell gas to sell ethanol too. And they gave tax benefits to the ethanol makers/sellers. When these benefits where over or reduced, ethanol almost disappeared from our economy, but the sellers kept selling it.
These days, ethanol was coming back, because of dual fuel cars that are being sold here, and the gas got too expensive. But the ethanol sellers rised its price, so its pretty much the same thing again.
I, for one, prefer the cane to be used for sugar, and the soil for food. Better live without cars than without food.
The oil price will increase when its near the end, and the alternatives will be increasing interesting. There will be a natural change, all this fuel discussion is overrated.
Even if the car were slower, it would still be better than being compressed with other people filling like sardine in a can, eventually smelling someone else vomit in the ground, and being shaken like hell in an old bus, in a road full of holes.
So, I dont have problems with scratched disks, I can record TV programs to see when I want, and the quality is not so bad. I dont need these shiny disks.
The news at the side shows that vi is more commonly used as a roman number. If you search for emacs and VIM, as in not VI, emacs started more popular but now they are tied. Everyone I know use VIM, but it must be just some local culture, as the linux community is a small world here.
There is the pirate party. Even if they never win, the main parties will have a measurable way to know how many votes they are losing for it, and it may be effective to change them.
Amerians had more problems with inflation than us in the recent past.
And there was no recent defaulting of bonds. But its a pain to know that I am paying that bonds with my taxes, and that the goverment that asked for these bonds was never, ever, near to defending my best interests. I dont recognize this government as representing me, and neither this debt. And there is noone acceptable to vote this year's election too, guess we're screwed again.
Immigrating to Chile? We have people immigrating to usa or to the 1st world, not to Chile nor another 3rd world country.
If the said person cant afford for the game, it is not a lost sale for the developers and publishers. And I bet that they are not worried about these guys.
In fact, they dont even campaign here in the good old 3rd world for people to buy games, like the movie and music industry does. They just ignore these poor souls. They dont even advertise their games. You dont see game ads in our TV nor in our websites. Games are sold in bookstores and computer shops, and its boxes there are the only hint you will ever have they exist here.
Its very understandable they complain about some americans, that earn something like 10x what we earn, and pay half what we would pay for games, pirating their games.
Its not so hard to imagine an average joe, that bought his computer in 24 monthly payments, making a 20 dollars program and selling it around, that wont make enough money to pay for that license while he is still eating.
In real life, this joe usually has pirated software, or he would use the free version of something and ignore the rules or something. But I think its a case where GTK licensing fits better.
This discussion is getting pointless, as we have both them. We dont have to choose one.
I don't buy into the suggestion that allowing commercial developers to basically freeload without contributing back is a good thing. Qt is a quality toolkit which saves development time, so IMO it's not too much to ask commercial developers to either release the source code or pay for a commercial license.
Pay attention to this contradiction. Trolltech claims they cannot mantain themselves without selling a commercial version of their license. Someone that is just starting to work as a freelancer in the 3rd world would never be able to afford for QT, so I think its important to have free as in beer developing tools that allow it, like gtk or java. It doesnot mean that this guy will never contribute with anything.
I dont see much sense in releasing free software and then complain that people are freeloading it.
Now, following the link of the grandparent, I read that there is an agreement that if they cannot continue the KDE Free Qt Foundation is allowed to release a bsd style license for it.
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Of course, there are arts that certainly needs more skill to be produced, and at the same time are less popular than arts that require less skill. People that like these, usualy think of their preference as superior. But its nonsense, it's value is in it's pleasure, not the difficulties required to produce it. Of course, for it's creator, there can be a bigger joy in being able to make it if its difficult, but its not necessary.
But there are snobbish arts that are plain and simple crap. I dont want to point out, that would turn into a flame war. And there are people that pretend to like boring things just to be a snob.
For me, good art is the one that please more people. That clearly puts the so bashed hollywood movies as good and the things the snobs like as bad. But I can't see any reason to think snob art can be any good if there are so few people that like it. And I can't se any good reason to think the most popular art is so bad if that is what is more sucessful at pleasing people. What snobbers think is art is in reality a fraud, like in the nude king history. Ridiculous things people pretend to like, or perhaps they have really odd tastes, just to look like an "intellectual".
The constitution should have something saying the president has to be a human. That would block both robots and super-intelligent tentacles.
We already achieved that, in the begining of this year. We still need to swap our oil for another type of oil that is easier to process, but our extraction is already bigger than our demand.
I dont think anyone but americans deny global-warming and second-hand smoking. I think its an american thing to believe in such bullshits.
If we humans were perfect, any system would work perfectly, even a monarchy or tirany.
Here in the 3rd world, when anything that is not private do anything that costs money, we are sure that this government or organization overpaid for it, and its administrator got part of the money back for himself. Its the rule, not the exception. These governments should be prohibited from asking for loans, its very annoying to pay high taxes that go down the drain to pay interests from a loan where all the money was thrown in the drain :-(
If you sue MS for any of your patents, then this pledge is void for you and they can sue the hell out of you. Its a good way to disencourage anyone for sueing them with their patents. In other slashdot comments, its said that MS never sued anyone with patent infringment, and that pledge has legal value.
About brazilian ethanol. It did not start for environment reasons. Our military dictatorship created this ethanol program to have a fuel that would not depend on the middle-east. I would not even be impressed if it was not their USA bosses, to test this thing on us.
Then, they enforced everyone that wanted to sell gas to sell ethanol too. And they gave tax benefits to the ethanol makers/sellers. When these benefits where over or reduced, ethanol almost disappeared from our economy, but the sellers kept selling it.
These days, ethanol was coming back, because of dual fuel cars that are being sold here, and the gas got too expensive. But the ethanol sellers rised its price, so its pretty much the same thing again.
I, for one, prefer the cane to be used for sugar, and the soil for food. Better live without cars than without food.
The oil price will increase when its near the end, and the alternatives will be increasing interesting. There will be a natural change, all this fuel discussion is overrated.
Its is reported in brazilian news from time to time. Pretty common knowledge here.
Even if the car were slower, it would still be better than being compressed with other people filling like sardine in a can, eventually smelling someone else vomit in the ground, and being shaken like hell in an old bus, in a road full of holes.
So, I dont have problems with scratched disks, I can record TV programs to see when I want, and the quality is not so bad. I dont need these shiny disks.
No, you cant. Trolltech is a very special case where a single author owns all the necessary copyrights. In most cases, its almost impossible.
The news at the side shows that vi is more commonly used as a roman number. If you search for emacs and VIM, as in not VI, emacs started more popular but now they are tied. Everyone I know use VIM, but it must be just some local culture, as the linux community is a small world here.
UFO people would say its the area 51, as they suppose it has its own law like a 51th state.
He already has enough money, his work is enough recognition for him and he is tired of the math community.
There is the pirate party. Even if they never win, the main parties will have a measurable way to know how many votes they are losing for it, and it may be effective to change them.
Amerians had more problems with inflation than us in the recent past. And there was no recent defaulting of bonds. But its a pain to know that I am paying that bonds with my taxes, and that the goverment that asked for these bonds was never, ever, near to defending my best interests. I dont recognize this government as representing me, and neither this debt. And there is noone acceptable to vote this year's election too, guess we're screwed again. Immigrating to Chile? We have people immigrating to usa or to the 1st world, not to Chile nor another 3rd world country.
English-speakers do it the same way. There are just fewer non-english forums able to attract them as the opposed.
If the said person cant afford for the game, it is not a lost sale for the developers and publishers. And I bet that they are not worried about these guys.
In fact, they dont even campaign here in the good old 3rd world for people to buy games, like the movie and music industry does. They just ignore these poor souls. They dont even advertise their games. You dont see game ads in our TV nor in our websites. Games are sold in bookstores and computer shops, and its boxes there are the only hint you will ever have they exist here.
Its very understandable they complain about some americans, that earn something like 10x what we earn, and pay half what we would pay for games, pirating their games.
pirating != stealing
Its not so hard to imagine an average joe, that bought his computer in 24 monthly payments, making a 20 dollars program and selling it around, that wont make enough money to pay for that license while he is still eating.
In real life, this joe usually has pirated software, or he would use the free version of something and ignore the rules or something. But I think its a case where GTK licensing fits better.
This discussion is getting pointless, as we have both them. We dont have to choose one.
Pay attention to this contradiction. Trolltech claims they cannot mantain themselves without selling a commercial version of their license. Someone that is just starting to work as a freelancer in the 3rd world would never be able to afford for QT, so I think its important to have free as in beer developing tools that allow it, like gtk or java. It doesnot mean that this guy will never contribute with anything.
I dont see much sense in releasing free software and then complain that people are freeloading it.
Now, following the link of the grandparent, I read that there is an agreement that if they cannot continue the KDE Free Qt Foundation is allowed to release a bsd style license for it.
http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation .php
This foundation is allowed to do that, but they could disappear before Trolltech. Forever is a long time, and I like to think linux will live forever.
This is probably the biggest advantage linux has over any comercial OS. Microsoft can go bankrupt, but there is no way to kill linux. (nor BSD too)