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-f0dder (September 25, 2012, 10:20 AM)
Musicians and groups desperately need venues like The Rat. Too bad there are so few of them left.-40hz (September 25, 2012, 09:44 AM)
On January 1, 2010, she stated on her Twitter feed that she "might have told [Neil Gaiman] [she]'d marry him but also might have been drunk."
I was referring to projects like this one: http://www.kickstart...et-recording-project
This is an established musician with a good fan base that has had 10+ albums already, most on major labels, and he doesn't want to go back to recording for a big name label. This guy is a pro, not an amateur.
I was not referring to an unknown garage band that wants to have instant riches and has no fans.-app103 (September 24, 2012, 06:25 PM)
So did Wraith's PM beat my Post or does "First Come First Serve" mean something new now? : )-TaoPhoenix (September 24, 2012, 12:18 AM)
OK, maybe the phrasing was a little awkward. His was the first post that I saw, see? That made him the first, not by the clock, but by perception
. And that was notification by Gmail ... I
sawreceived the PM notice before Isawreceived the forum notice.-barney (September 24, 2012, 03:11 PM)
I wonder what the indie musicians using Kickstarter will put in as the risks for the albums they are trying to pre-sell and looking for financing to get the album released.-app103 (September 24, 2012, 10:59 AM)
If the artist knows how much it will cost to produce and distribute the album, then maybe they can simply say that there is virtually no risk if the goal is met.-Deozaan (September 24, 2012, 11:07 AM)
Creators must talk about “Risks and Challenges”
Today we added a new section to the project page called "Risks and Challenges." All project creators are now required to answer the following question when creating their project:
“What are the risks and challenges this project faces, and what qualifies you to overcome them?”
We added the "Risks and Challenges" section to reinforce that creators' projects are in development. Before backing a project, people can judge both the creator's ability to complete their project as promised and whether they feel the creator is being open and honest about the risks and challenges they face.
The new section will appear below the project description of projects that launch starting today.
New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines
The development of new products can be especially complex for creators and seductive to backers. Today we’re adding additional guidelines for Hardware and Product Design projects.
They are:
Product simulations are prohibited. Projects cannot simulate events to demonstrate what a product might do in the future. Products can only be shown performing actions that they’re able to perform in their current state of development.
Product renderings are prohibited. Product images must be photos of the prototype as it currently exists.
BTW, I'm still kinda iffy on the PM stuff. I thimk I replied, wraith808, but I've been wrong before - December 31st, 1999 - thought it was January 1st, 2000. Still using old dating system
-barney (September 23, 2012, 11:09 PM)
Somewhere in an Eye for an Eye, comes Legal Precedent. If Apple wins a wild lawsuit based on a rounded corner, then why not have Google win one back on Maps? It hits the meta level of what we think precedent means and how basic it can become.
Lots of pundits are looking for a watershed where we all finally say "enough - no more".-TaoPhoenix (September 23, 2012, 08:12 PM)
Why not overturn the Apple lawsuit, instead of trying to make it legal precedent? If you make it legal precedent, then you can bet that people will use (and misuse) it. Again... why propagate the issue?-wraith808 (September 23, 2012, 08:21 PM)
Of course, see Groklaw, there were several fishy things. You can bet Senior Legal Counsel of Samsung is prepping for the Appeal. You just know it won't end here. It does take time to prepare the 200 pages of appeal research though.-TaoPhoenix (September 23, 2012, 10:01 PM)
No. It was always there from release 10.04, 3 years back. I am surprised that people found out so late. Same with Mint, gnoppix, mephis and few other distros, none of them have it mentioned on their site.-mahesh2k (September 23, 2012, 08:29 PM)
I didn't get you there.-mahesh2k (September 23, 2012, 08:07 PM)
Somewhere in an Eye for an Eye, comes Legal Precedent. If Apple wins a wild lawsuit based on a rounded corner, then why not have Google win one back on Maps? It hits the meta level of what we think precedent means and how basic it can become.
Lots of pundits are looking for a watershed where we all finally say "enough - no more".-TaoPhoenix (September 23, 2012, 08:12 PM)
I know the feeling. Inactivity? Bad! - but is it, really, that bad? It is for proprietary systems, but iirc NSIS is opensource?-f0dder (September 23, 2012, 03:41 PM)
I generally have 3+ seconds before the installer launches (even for the simple stuff),-f0dder (September 23, 2012, 02:26 PM)
Canonical seems to make a difference, according to the comments above.-Tuxman (September 23, 2012, 02:18 PM)
Well, all .msi installers I've used take a lot of time to "boot", and generally seem slow and sluggish - even if only dealing with a few megabytes worth of files. Nullsoft based installers, on the other hand, are crazy fast.
I do realize that .msi offers a lot of rollback and whatnot, but... meh.-f0dder (September 23, 2012, 02:13 PM)