Bundle value aside, surely you're going to want to use apps that have had some time and care invested in them - and generally that means you're going to have pay for them, as someone had to spend that time and care on them and if they are doing that as their job, they're going to need to get compensation from it. Shareware is just a form of distribution and a useful one for authors with minimal resources and time for marketing (assuming the software is well written, naturally)
If you're using software enough to get annoyed by the frequency of nagging in nagware for example, then you're probably using it enough to warrant paying for it.
I wouldn't count on that, actually. Apple has already won a couple of injunctions to prevent computers being sold that are similar to the iMac.
I'm not saying I agree with Apple's action, they tend to be a bit heavy handed with their lawyers, even to their own fans, but that skin is pretty much an exact copy, I'm interested to see how it pans out...
You're already paying a big price to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. Plus the fact that your other hand (usually your left) doesn't move and is still on the keyboard and can hit Control, or option or shift, quite easily. I don't think it's a big problem.
Ini fact, I actually prefer the one button mouse on the macs, I have a 3 button one for my sgi at work and the applications interpretation of each button is arbitary (sure, there are guidelines, but still), and I don't find it any faster.
it's the new "morph", one of those rare advances that is actually new, and not just a rehash of something old, which will start popping up everywhere until we are all sick of it.
Still, the matrix work was very cool, and added something to the art:
Only the actors were shot with the timeslice technique, in front of blue screen. the backgrounds were digitally created later, and rendered with camera moves that matched the blended camera 'move' around the actors.
it was 360 degrees, which is impossible without the bluescreen (well, not impossible, but requires a lot of paintbox work and/or difficult and limiting camera positions to reduce visibility) Some was still required on the matrix, but not much.
Very cool, be interesting to see how they can top it in the two sequels.
this sounds just like the Apple suit against Microsoft (and Xerox), both of which they lost.
Can't they realize that good ideas are a renewable resource? Instead of wasting their time with lawysuits, they could keep ahead of the competition by continually raising the bar. fools!
Remember when Wallace Spamford got hit with all those lawsuits. Didn't he end up owing one of the major ISPs a couple of million?
Surely that would have been the precedent setter if anything.
I do agree with you about one thing. Lawyers are good for one thing, and that's sniffing money. If they get the idea that they can make $$$ by nailing spammers, it might just be a beautiful and poetic thing...
I applaud the effort, but will it make any sort of difference whatsoever? Realistically, only geeks would participate in a boycott called by RMS. Sure, our books are, in general, more expensive than the regular crop. It would have to hurt Amazon pretty badly to get them to even consider changing their policy, as the patent has to do with their 'one click' buying, and they must be making money hand over fist from impulse buyers. The patent office is to blame, as someone pointed out earlier, and they won't feel a thing. How far reaching is the 'one click' patent, does anyone know, does it cover more than just books. (especially as Amazon itself is not so limited)
just look at the querty keyboard, though, you only have one vowel on the home row, and the ';' for godssake. granted, for c coding that can be useful, but everything else, it's ain't really. course, i haven't learned it yet, but plan to at some point...
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Bundle value aside, surely you're going to want to use apps that have had some
time and care invested in them - and generally that means you're going to have
pay for them, as someone had to spend that time and care on them and if they
are doing that as their job, they're going to need to get compensation from
it. Shareware is just a form of distribution and a useful one for authors
with minimal resources and time for marketing (assuming the software is
well written, naturally)
If you're using software enough to get annoyed by the frequency of nagging in
nagware for example, then you're probably using it enough to warrant paying for
it.
I wouldn't count on that, actually. Apple has already won a couple of injunctions to prevent computers being sold that are similar to the iMac.
I'm not saying I agree with Apple's action, they tend to be a bit heavy handed with their lawyers, even to their own fans, but that skin is pretty much an exact copy, I'm interested to see how it pans out...
You're already paying a big price to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. Plus the fact that your other hand (usually your left) doesn't move and is still on the keyboard and can hit Control, or option or shift, quite easily. I don't think it's a big problem.
Ini fact, I actually prefer the one button mouse on the macs, I have a 3 button one for my sgi at work and the applications interpretation of each button is arbitary (sure, there are guidelines, but still), and I don't find it any faster.
ok, green screen. same general technique. doh.
I believe it was a Rolling Stones video?
it's the new "morph", one of those rare advances that is actually new, and not just a rehash of something old, which will start popping up everywhere until we are all sick of it.
Still, the matrix work was very cool, and added something to the art:
Only the actors were shot with the timeslice technique, in front of blue screen. the backgrounds were digitally created later, and rendered with camera moves that matched the blended camera 'move' around the actors.
it was 360 degrees, which is impossible without the bluescreen (well, not impossible, but requires a lot of paintbox work and/or difficult and limiting camera positions to reduce visibility) Some was still required on the matrix, but not much.
Very cool, be interesting to see how they can top it in the two sequels.
I like that, we stole it fair and square.
this sounds just like the Apple suit against Microsoft (and Xerox), both of which they lost.
Can't they realize that good ideas are a renewable resource? Instead of wasting their time with lawysuits, they could keep ahead of the competition by continually raising the bar. fools!
Remember when Wallace Spamford got hit with all those lawsuits. Didn't he end up owing one of the major ISPs a couple of million?
Surely that would have been the precedent setter if anything.
I do agree with you about one thing. Lawyers are good for one thing, and that's sniffing money. If they get the idea that they can make $$$ by nailing spammers, it might just be a beautiful and poetic thing...
but my fantasty life is my business...
well, the injunction against Barnes and Noble was already issued, so some judge somewhere thinks that it will at least hold up in US courts.
I applaud the effort, but will it make any sort of difference whatsoever? Realistically, only geeks would participate in a boycott called by RMS. Sure, our books are, in general, more expensive than the regular crop. It would have to hurt Amazon pretty badly to get them to even consider changing their policy, as the patent has to do with their 'one click' buying, and they must be making money hand over fist from impulse buyers. The patent office is to blame, as someone pointed out earlier, and they won't feel a thing. How far reaching is the 'one click' patent, does anyone know, does it cover more than just books. (especially as Amazon itself is not so limited)
How can Australia blow the whistle on Echelon, and then turn around and pull a stunt like this?
just look at the querty keyboard, though, you only have one vowel on the home row, and the ';' for godssake. granted, for c coding that can be useful, but everything else, it's ain't really. course, i haven't learned it yet, but plan to at some point...