Man, your reply to every one of his comments is "I didn't know that." Maybe this should be a lesson: Next time you know virtually nothing about a subject, maybe you should keep your mouth shut and let those who know speak. If he hadn't corrected you, a lot of ignorant slobs like myself could have assumed what you said to be true.
Why not Llamacard? Because it's not the same thing. Hypertalk is special and unique, and makes programming fun and relatively easy to understand, almost like speaking English. A Hypercard button script to go to the next card (Hypercard is designed like a Rolodex) could be written "Go to the next card". Or for the advanced user, "go next" would suffice. That's all you need. Yet at the same time that it provides that simplicity, it also provides enough power create somewhat useful (or at least fun) software, and expandability in the form of XCMDs. It teaches youngsters (or oldsters who never learned) basics of programming such as objects, variable scope, calling functions, and general logic in a way that's not too complex but easily translates to more utilitarian languages. There's really nothing like it. (Except Supercard.)
If your kids have access to any sort of Macintosh, they should definitely start out using Hypercard. If not, visual basic is the next best thing. It will teach them basic programming concepts in an environment which is not too complex for them to understand or too boring for them to continue with. There will always be time for them to learn more complex, non-visual languages later, but start them off with something simple. After all, the goal here isn't for them to write some specific useful program, but just to learn basics and develop an interest which will serve them well later on.
If you'd read my post before replying, you would have noticed that I never said you could prove it. But if you found that in Napster intensive areas, album sales had taken a downturn which correlated exactly with an upturn in Napster usage, it would be a pretty good indicator that Napster has something to do with declining album sales. At any rate, if you didn't find any correlation, you could probably assume that Napster didn't contribute to declining sales.
Of course it accomplishes nothing to look at the CD sales around colleges right now, so you don't do that. You look at CD sales around colleges over the past several years. Make a chart of CD sales near colleges, then a chart of Napster usage (I'm sure Napster's servers keep records). If you notice that whenever Napster usage increases, CD sales around colleges decrease, there's a pretty good chance it can be attributed to Napster.
Of course there's no conclusive proof either way. It could just be that Napster reflects online awareness, which results in online CD purchasing. But you can rule out things like studying political science, because the students were doing that all along without it affecting CD sales.
As for finding a university without Napster to compare with, good luck! The only ones without it are the ones that banned it (and even they're not totally without it, if you know what I mean) and they've already been tainted by it.
You final point was correct, though. The original study didn't really go the extra mile to get results that were in any way significant or useable. Too bad.
Just because you have a lot of software you never would have paid for doesn't mean you're in the clear. The real question isn't "Have you ever downloaded software you wouldn't have paid for?", but rather "Have you ever downloaded software you would have had to pay for otherwise?". As an admitted warez pup, you'd have to have had a lot of self-restraint to download all that software you don't need but still go out and fork over cash when you need something worth buying. Unless you're saying you wouldn't use any software if you had to pay for it.
So what kind of a study would you suggest to determine one way or another whether a free way to get music will adversely effect a non-free competitor?
You could perhaps track MP3 trading on a large scale, track down every person who traded MP3s (like Metallica did) and find out somehow how many CDs they bought per week or something. There are numerous problems with this though, chiefly stemming from not knowing how many CDs per week they bought before they had Napster. It's possible (likely) that the people using Napster were already disinclined to purchase CDs.
The logical solution, then, seems to be to find someone who can tell you not only how many CDs Napster users are purchasing today but also how many they were purchasing last year. Luckily, most retailers keep complete records. The only problem left, then, is that retailers don't know who uses Napster and who doesn't! The logical solution: Find retailers that cater to groups of people prone to using Napster. Granted, a large error will tend to result, but a genuine trend still shows up.
Of course they didn't invent the word processor. They just improved it.
Staroffice is not in any way better than Microsoft Word. The only reason anyone would use it is necessity; it runs under Linux. But people had to waste time reprogramming things that work fine in Word so as to create a similar word processor for Linux deviants. If those same people had been instead writing enhancements for Word or working on some other original project, imagine what could have been accomplished! But instead they were lured into programming for an OS that's essentially made of rehashes of things written for other OSes.
gnucash and staroffice are just ripoffs of Quicken and MS Word. They don't offer anything new or innovative, and are only reprogrammings of existing programs. Talented people wasted their time rehashing old features so that "rebels" could use them on their deviant OSes. I spit on gnucash and staroffice.
Since you didn't seem to get this on your own, I will spell it out for you. When Nintendo says that copyrights and trademarks are corporate assets, they are referring to copyrights and trademarks that they hold. They don't care what anybody else does with their own copyrights and trademarks; those aren't Nintendo's corporate assets. In other words, NINTENDO IS THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. They're not getting a dime because they no longer make Nintendo Entertainment Systems or any of the original games (as far as I know), so the NES and games were purchased second-hand. The people making money are, like I said in my original post which you didn't read carefully, the used Nintendo industry. Copyright holders get squat.
Pretending that people have never hated other people won't keep people from hating each other in the future. They print Swastikas in history books and show them in museums so that people can learn what could provoke other people to such terrifying acts.
I would be interested to see the uniform my Grandfather fought in, and I would be just as interested to see the uniforms of the men he thought. Whether you like it or not, the symbols and the "hate speech" which went with them changed the world in ways that directly affect you every day. You are a fool to call your own history trash.
You keep referring to some group - "we" need to get together, the government meddles in "our" affairs, they should negotiate if they want something from "us" - but who exactly do you think "we" are? Who is going to live in your independent internet nation? Who is an internet citizen? Anyone who is online?
"You can't arrest me, officer, I'm in the country of Internet right now. You'll have to wait until I log off."
The internet simultaneously exists and does not exist. I can exist in multiple places on the internet while still existing in the United States. You can't have an independently governed state if your state doesn't exist.
Sure, your brother bought an old Nintendo and a bunch of games, but did the copyright holders of those games get a penny of it? Almost certainly not. They're the ones complaining, here, not the used Nintendo industry.
Yeah, but the guy being robbed would know about that. He wouldn't know if someone made a rubber mold of his finger in his sleep or copied his fingerprint off a glass. No technology can protect you from a guy with a gun pressed to your gut.
Can't fingerprint scanners tell if a finger is alive or not? I know retinal scanners can check for blood pumping through capillaries in the eye, and I thought fingerprint scanners could too.
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Those girls who took your cash and told you you were "dating" - they are called "prostitutes".
Man, your reply to every one of his comments is "I didn't know that." Maybe this should be a lesson: Next time you know virtually nothing about a subject, maybe you should keep your mouth shut and let those who know speak. If he hadn't corrected you, a lot of ignorant slobs like myself could have assumed what you said to be true.
Seems like that only looks like a troll if you don't know what RPMs are.
Um... That would be hardware, you idiot.
Why not Llamacard? Because it's not the same thing. Hypertalk is special and unique, and makes programming fun and relatively easy to understand, almost like speaking English. A Hypercard button script to go to the next card (Hypercard is designed like a Rolodex) could be written "Go to the next card". Or for the advanced user, "go next" would suffice. That's all you need. Yet at the same time that it provides that simplicity, it also provides enough power create somewhat useful (or at least fun) software, and expandability in the form of XCMDs. It teaches youngsters (or oldsters who never learned) basics of programming such as objects, variable scope, calling functions, and general logic in a way that's not too complex but easily translates to more utilitarian languages. There's really nothing like it. (Except Supercard.)
Yeah, but doesn't "Hard Drive" come from "Hard Disk Drive"? What would be an example of a storage device that wasn't a piece of hardware?
If it's RAM based, can you really call it a "Hard" drive?
If your kids have access to any sort of Macintosh, they should definitely start out using Hypercard. If not, visual basic is the next best thing. It will teach them basic programming concepts in an environment which is not too complex for them to understand or too boring for them to continue with. There will always be time for them to learn more complex, non-visual languages later, but start them off with something simple. After all, the goal here isn't for them to write some specific useful program, but just to learn basics and develop an interest which will serve them well later on.
If you'd read my post before replying, you would have noticed that I never said you could prove it. But if you found that in Napster intensive areas, album sales had taken a downturn which correlated exactly with an upturn in Napster usage, it would be a pretty good indicator that Napster has something to do with declining album sales. At any rate, if you didn't find any correlation, you could probably assume that Napster didn't contribute to declining sales.
You're not using your head.
Of course it accomplishes nothing to look at the CD sales around colleges right now, so you don't do that. You look at CD sales around colleges over the past several years. Make a chart of CD sales near colleges, then a chart of Napster usage (I'm sure Napster's servers keep records). If you notice that whenever Napster usage increases, CD sales around colleges decrease, there's a pretty good chance it can be attributed to Napster.
Of course there's no conclusive proof either way. It could just be that Napster reflects online awareness, which results in online CD purchasing. But you can rule out things like studying political science, because the students were doing that all along without it affecting CD sales.
As for finding a university without Napster to compare with, good luck! The only ones without it are the ones that banned it (and even they're not totally without it, if you know what I mean) and they've already been tainted by it.
You final point was correct, though. The original study didn't really go the extra mile to get results that were in any way significant or useable. Too bad.
Just because you have a lot of software you never would have paid for doesn't mean you're in the clear. The real question isn't "Have you ever downloaded software you wouldn't have paid for?", but rather "Have you ever downloaded software you would have had to pay for otherwise?". As an admitted warez pup, you'd have to have had a lot of self-restraint to download all that software you don't need but still go out and fork over cash when you need something worth buying. Unless you're saying you wouldn't use any software if you had to pay for it.
No, I think that moderation was just fine. Your post was stupid, irrelevant, immature, and not funny. The moderators are fine.
So what kind of a study would you suggest to determine one way or another whether a free way to get music will adversely effect a non-free competitor?
You could perhaps track MP3 trading on a large scale, track down every person who traded MP3s (like Metallica did) and find out somehow how many CDs they bought per week or something. There are numerous problems with this though, chiefly stemming from not knowing how many CDs per week they bought before they had Napster. It's possible (likely) that the people using Napster were already disinclined to purchase CDs.
The logical solution, then, seems to be to find someone who can tell you not only how many CDs Napster users are purchasing today but also how many they were purchasing last year. Luckily, most retailers keep complete records. The only problem left, then, is that retailers don't know who uses Napster and who doesn't! The logical solution: Find retailers that cater to groups of people prone to using Napster. Granted, a large error will tend to result, but a genuine trend still shows up.
Of course they didn't invent the word processor. They just improved it.
Staroffice is not in any way better than Microsoft Word. The only reason anyone would use it is necessity; it runs under Linux. But people had to waste time reprogramming things that work fine in Word so as to create a similar word processor for Linux deviants. If those same people had been instead writing enhancements for Word or working on some other original project, imagine what could have been accomplished! But instead they were lured into programming for an OS that's essentially made of rehashes of things written for other OSes.
Yeah, that would be cool! When the volcano erupts again you'd get rid of all your deviant and stupid geeks at the same time!
Bravo.
Can I use gnucash and staroffice ?
gnucash and staroffice are just ripoffs of Quicken and MS Word. They don't offer anything new or innovative, and are only reprogrammings of existing programs. Talented people wasted their time rehashing old features so that "rebels" could use them on their deviant OSes. I spit on gnucash and staroffice.
Oh. Then never mind.
Since you didn't seem to get this on your own, I will spell it out for you. When Nintendo says that copyrights and trademarks are corporate assets, they are referring to copyrights and trademarks that they hold. They don't care what anybody else does with their own copyrights and trademarks; those aren't Nintendo's corporate assets. In other words, NINTENDO IS THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. They're not getting a dime because they no longer make Nintendo Entertainment Systems or any of the original games (as far as I know), so the NES and games were purchased second-hand. The people making money are, like I said in my original post which you didn't read carefully, the used Nintendo industry. Copyright holders get squat.
It isn't trash.
Pretending that people have never hated other people won't keep people from hating each other in the future. They print Swastikas in history books and show them in museums so that people can learn what could provoke other people to such terrifying acts.
I would be interested to see the uniform my Grandfather fought in, and I would be just as interested to see the uniforms of the men he thought. Whether you like it or not, the symbols and the "hate speech" which went with them changed the world in ways that directly affect you every day. You are a fool to call your own history trash.
You keep referring to some group - "we" need to get together, the government meddles in "our" affairs, they should negotiate if they want something from "us" - but who exactly do you think "we" are? Who is going to live in your independent internet nation? Who is an internet citizen? Anyone who is online?
"You can't arrest me, officer, I'm in the country of Internet right now. You'll have to wait until I log off."
The internet simultaneously exists and does not exist. I can exist in multiple places on the internet while still existing in the United States. You can't have an independently governed state if your state doesn't exist.
Sure, your brother bought an old Nintendo and a bunch of games, but did the copyright holders of those games get a penny of it? Almost certainly not. They're the ones complaining, here, not the used Nintendo industry.
Yeah, but the guy being robbed would know about that. He wouldn't know if someone made a rubber mold of his finger in his sleep or copied his fingerprint off a glass. No technology can protect you from a guy with a gun pressed to your gut.
Yeah, it could happen, but the poor idiot would have wasted his time.
Good fingerprint scanners can tell whether the finger is alive or not by looking for blood in the capillaries close to the surface of the skin.
Can't fingerprint scanners tell if a finger is alive or not? I know retinal scanners can check for blood pumping through capillaries in the eye, and I thought fingerprint scanners could too.
If they don't already, it won't be long.