I wondered, will people care enough to start making fake donations, i.e. pay 1c, then download the windows version, to make the other camp look bad?
You've got to take these things with a grain of salt anyway. I know I only paid $10 for the bundle because I wasn't sure it was going to work at all on my oldish hardware. I'm likely to "buy" it again for a higher price as a thumbs-up once I give all games a good try and am convinced I like them.
As somebody pointed out, Australia has different laws than US concerning what is considered to be a "public space". I guess throughout the world something similar occurs for "photography without signed contracts". This nightmare you describe... is it already fairly extended all over the world, or are there still some "free" nations? And... do you (or anybody here) have any idea of how Wikimedia Commons handle this?
Please look page 13 of this report of the NASA (las paragraph of the page):
"On September 27, 1999, the operations navigation team consulted with the spacecraft
engineers to discuss navigation discrepancies regarding velocity change (V) modeling
issues. On September 29, 1999, it was discovered that the small forces V's reported by
the spacecraft engineers for use in orbit determination solutions was low by a factor of
4.45 (1 pound force=4.45 Newtons) because the impulse bit data contained in the AMD
file was delivered in lb-sec instead of the specified and expected units of Newton-sec."
I think it's weirder than you might expect: a fully new computing paradigm arises with quantum computing, without regard to your hardware, be it electrical, magnetic, mechanic or raw photons. New logic gates (how about sqrt(NOT) such as (sqrt(NOT))^2 = NOT?), new algorithms (e.g. Quantum Fourier Transform) and a new complexity class (BQP)...
If you scale things really down, you arrive to quantum mechanics, and there things go really interesting (or will go, if we eventually get a scallable hardware candidate for quantum computing).
By the way: a slash site on quantum computing: QubitNews. Join us and discuss the computational platform of the future:)
You certainly have got a point, but I might counterargue that mantaining the history of revisions is very in the spirit of the wikipedia.
The most recent edition of any given article might be a vandalism. When we finally get the first official stable release, then we will have the right to expect a finished product. Until then, it's just a fairly stable nightly build. I wouldn't say Wikipedia has failed at buildind impressive nightly builds, and I doubt it will fail at producing an impressive stable release, when the Community chooses to do so.
He meant that the reader has no way to resolve the information presented to him, and he's right.
No, he is not. And he showed it by himself. I can't believe nobody has mentioned it, but I have not found it, so here it goes: when confronted to a incoherent article, the user can go to the history of the article, as he did. And the user will find a coherent, well-written document in the first version of the article. I know I would trust more a coherent, well-written version.
In the spanish wikipedia we have a little project called Wikipedia in the classrooms ("Wikipedia en las aulas"). If you could document a little better your experience, we would love to link to it and/or translate it. It could be useful to lots of people, couldn't it?
One standard we do have: Creative Commons. Through CC licenses, iRATE radio (the unstable build, at least) recognizes music from Magnatune, displays the logo, and that way the users can know that it's not only legal to listen to this music, they can also legally burn it and share it with friends:)
I agree, we need more standards, but I think progress will be done in that direction. We all will benefit from it.
Ah, but lots of them do! Lots of musicians earn their livings teaching. Lots of musicians (not necessarily the same) get paid by public funding (via cultural programs). Why not get the maximum profit from their music? Many nations fund art and culture, but somehow miss the oportunity of creating a huge pool of Free music. I doubt the (privative) music industry would have any chance against such a pool. It's already suffering from free (as in p2p) music...
I work for a university. You are entitled to learn from my scientific results. Why not do the same with music? It works great with science (we would not go very far without public science...).
I'm sure you have heard of Creative Commons. Get a license, let somebody hang it in his/her server, and send an e-mail to Anthony from iRATE Radio. Bingo, people like me will hear, enjoy (and rate) your music:)
In my country I *do* get quality medical care and education for free, when I need it. I hope I will sometime soon get a "real" job (not a predoctoral grant, where I worked with no social benefits) and will enjoy social care, too. My country (Spain) does seem prosper enough for me. It would seem a lot less prosper if I didn't have the above mentioned, taxed-payed, benefits. It would have seem *more* prosper if I had had a predoctoral contract, (therefore allowing me to pay taxes and get more benefits!).
Unless you approve of double-taxation and prefer the government gets your company's money instead of you, as an employee or investor, your complaint makes little sense.
I am sick of hearing and reading this nonsense. Governments do not "get" taxes, States do. Governments are citizens appointed by citizens to administer the State's money and the State's laws. I do like the State having money, that way I can get quality social care, medical care and education, everything for free, if I ever need it. (Even better: I can count on everybody getting it, thus reducing dramatically my insecurity when I walk through the city). I would not live in a poor State. I will never be rich enough to hire personal police forces to keep me safe from hordes of my illiterate, hungry, unemployed neighbours. Will you?
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I wondered, will people care enough to start making fake donations, i.e. pay 1c, then download the windows version, to make the other camp look bad?
You've got to take these things with a grain of salt anyway. I know I only paid $10 for the bundle because I wasn't sure it was going to work at all on my oldish hardware. I'm likely to "buy" it again for a higher price as a thumbs-up once I give all games a good try and am convinced I like them.
As somebody pointed out, Australia has different laws than US concerning what is considered to be a "public space". I guess throughout the world something similar occurs for "photography without signed contracts". This nightmare you describe... is it already fairly extended all over the world, or are there still some "free" nations?
And... do you (or anybody here) have any idea of how Wikimedia Commons handle this?
Really?
Could they, until now?
(just joking! or should be...)
"On September 27, 1999, the operations navigation team consulted with the spacecraft engineers to discuss navigation discrepancies regarding velocity change (V) modeling issues. On September 29, 1999, it was discovered that the small forces V's reported by the spacecraft engineers for use in orbit determination solutions was low by a factor of 4.45 (1 pound force=4.45 Newtons) because the impulse bit data contained in the AMD file was delivered in lb-sec instead of the specified and expected units of Newton-sec."
...we have a slash site called QubitNews which could use some of your comments. In fact, we talked about this book some days ago. Feel free to drop by and participate (get quonnected!).
Oh, but we can. Can you say "Creative Commons"? I knew you could :)
Stop buying crippled music and start buying Free music. You can do it today, Free music is fine for me, just like Free software.
In 2010, when Machinima movies finally are worth it, stop buying crippled movies and start buying Free movies.
**AA will tighten their DRM, as will Microsoft... I will be sorry for their customers, really. But not for me.
I think it's weirder than you might expect: a fully new computing paradigm arises with quantum computing, without regard to your hardware, be it electrical, magnetic, mechanic or raw photons. New logic gates (how about sqrt(NOT) such as (sqrt(NOT))^2 = NOT?), new algorithms (e.g. Quantum Fourier Transform) and a new complexity class (BQP)...
If you scale things really down, you arrive to quantum mechanics, and there things go really interesting (or will go, if we eventually get a scallable hardware candidate for quantum computing).
By the way: a slash site on quantum computing: QubitNews. Join us and discuss the computational platform of the future :)
You certainly have got a point, but I might counterargue that mantaining the history of revisions is very in the spirit of the wikipedia.
The most recent edition of any given article might be a vandalism. When we finally get the first official stable release, then we will have the right to expect a finished product. Until then, it's just a fairly stable nightly build. I wouldn't say Wikipedia has failed at buildind impressive nightly builds, and I doubt it will fail at producing an impressive stable release, when the Community chooses to do so.
He meant that the reader has no way to resolve the information presented to him, and he's right.
No, he is not. And he showed it by himself. I can't believe nobody has mentioned it, but I have not found it, so here it goes: when confronted to a incoherent article, the user can go to the history of the article, as he did. And the user will find a coherent, well-written document in the first version of the article. I know I would trust more a coherent, well-written version.
In the spanish wikipedia we have a little project called Wikipedia in the classrooms ("Wikipedia en las aulas"). If you could document a little better your experience, we would love to link to it and/or translate it. It could be useful to lots of people, couldn't it?
One standard we do have: Creative Commons. Through CC licenses, iRATE radio (the unstable build, at least) recognizes music from Magnatune, displays the logo, and that way the users can know that it's not only legal to listen to this music, they can also legally burn it and share it with friends :)
I agree, we need more standards, but I think progress will be done in that direction. We all will benefit from it.
You mean, as in "good-bye XFree86"? As in "hello fork"? Here comes the big difference between beer and speech! GPL certainly rules, doesn't it?
Since it doesn't affect the Mac OS X version (just checked), it won't stop me using Mozilla Firefox, for sure ;)
Ah, but lots of them do! Lots of musicians earn their livings teaching. Lots of musicians (not necessarily the same) get paid by public funding (via cultural programs). Why not get the maximum profit from their music? Many nations fund art and culture, but somehow miss the oportunity of creating a huge pool of Free music. I doubt the (privative) music industry would have any chance against such a pool. It's already suffering from free (as in p2p) music...
I work for a university. You are entitled to learn from my scientific results. Why not do the same with music? It works great with science (we would not go very far without public science...).
FYI, it's called Creative Commons.
I'm sure you have heard of Creative Commons. Get a license, let somebody hang it in his/her server, and send an e-mail to Anthony from iRATE Radio. Bingo, people like me will hear, enjoy (and rate) your music :)
In my country I *do* get quality medical care and education for free, when I need it. I hope I will sometime soon get a "real" job (not a predoctoral grant, where I worked with no social benefits) and will enjoy social care, too. My country (Spain) does seem prosper enough for me. It would seem a lot less prosper if I didn't have the above mentioned, taxed-payed, benefits. It would have seem *more* prosper if I had had a predoctoral contract, (therefore allowing me to pay taxes and get more benefits!).
Unless you approve of double-taxation and prefer the government gets your company's money instead of you, as an employee or investor, your complaint makes little sense.
I am sick of hearing and reading this nonsense. Governments do not "get" taxes, States do. Governments are citizens appointed by citizens to administer the State's money and the State's laws. I do like the State having money, that way I can get quality social care, medical care and education, everything for free, if I ever need it. (Even better: I can count on everybody getting it, thus reducing dramatically my insecurity when I walk through the city). I would not live in a poor State. I will never be rich enough to hire personal police forces to keep me safe from hordes of my illiterate, hungry, unemployed neighbours. Will you?
I wonder how sun are feeling at the moment?
You might be sure that they either feel good or bad at the moment ;)
...is testing the market for linux through their yellowdog resellers?
Not that it is a bad thing. It is definitely a Good Thing (TM). Just take it with perspective.
and being shipped off to some Siberian gulag just because I surfed the wrong website last night.
I think you just misspelled "Guantanamo" and "for being of arabic origin".
It also highlights Suns vague assurances that this amazing utility may or may not end up in the public domain." so, we are assured of a and !a ???
No, we are _vaguely_ assured of a *or* !a. I thought Sun made it clear enough! ;)