Ah so you wish for the rest of us to take your mental masturbation as seriously as you do. I'm gonna pass, I'm more interested in pragmatic implications than I am in stroking off.
I guess I prefer to stay on the positive side since no one ever made progress by deciding things were impossible and giving up. Always surprised to see people not getting that. I realize that's my silliness though.
You can opt out, you know. It says so right in the summary.
Also please don't use "evil" to describe things that are merely inconvenient. It greatly diminishes the horror and suffering people have gone through at the hands of real, actual evil.
I was with you in your fight against the evil corporation until I got to the word "fragmentate" which exploded my head. You lost a follower right there.
Are you seriously trying to make an argument that there is no place for low-power easy-to-use computers because some people might need really powerful machines? Are you a believer in one size fits all to the point that you can't allow anything you wouldn't personally want to exist?
Is everyone seriously impressed that we're creating stateless GUIs to remote applications by scripting marked-up text inside increasingly bloated and resource-hogging third-party applications? Is this the future? Really?
No, this is the present. You can tell because it's happening now as opposed to some point after now.
But we can't just stop consuming their products. The RIAA does nothing but produce horrible music that no one wants and that I just can't stop downloading because I'm entitled to it for free because... I don't remember but I'm sure you already know the reason so it's cool. I deserve happiness and the only way I can get it is free entertainment and I'm gonna bitch on the Internet until the whole world agrees with me and copyright is abolished and the only people who make music or movies die by age 20 of horrific malnutrition because I can't be bothered to reach into my wallet for a buck to thank them for their effort. My listening is thanks enough, because I say it is.
People are born with the delusion that they know what is going on, and it just gets stronger as they get older. By the time the average person reaches their 80s they are insufferably confident and still actually know nothing. It's kinda sad, really, but at the same time I understand why it happens. Without the delusions, getting old would probably be unbearable since not only does everything suck, but you are saddled with memories of times when everything didn't suck. Shame, that.
Should probably sterilize anyone who demonstrates they probably have no prospects at success when they hit puberty. Just lop the gonads right off. That'll fix the problem for sure, and give the lazy bitches something to really whine about as well.
Good art is good art, period. Your idealistic imposition of morals on the motivation of the creation have no bearing on anyone's opinion but your own. It surely doesn't work as a general justification for the entitlement culture that has sprung up around creative works consumption.
I keep seeing this "broken design" bullshit, but what they did is patent a method to maintain backward compatibility with a filesystem implementation that was initially designed to work on computers that various Unix implementations wouldn't even consider booting on. It might be hard to remember when 10MB was a big hard drive, but that's the legacy of FAT. Limited file names were a smart idea because it kept the bookkeeping small and predictable. Since Microsoft was extremely successful with DOS and many people created applications that various users needed to continue running, the VFAT implementation was a pretty good compromise to move forward while allowing things to keep working.
I guess if you spin it the zealot way it sounds worse, and I'll probably get accused of being a shill for not bashing Microsoft, but really there's just no need for the anger.
Can you help me out with the absurdity? I'm not sure where it makes sense to be able to use something someone else invented with no compensation. Never did get that part of the argument, since it generally boils down to "I'm entitled!"
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Sure, blackmail is perfectly fine when you have good intentions.
That's not really a problem. The right to feel whatever the hell I feel is one I defend harshly. It doesn't have to be acceptable to anyone.
Ah so you wish for the rest of us to take your mental masturbation as seriously as you do. I'm gonna pass, I'm more interested in pragmatic implications than I am in stroking off.
I guess I prefer to stay on the positive side since no one ever made progress by deciding things were impossible and giving up. Always surprised to see people not getting that. I realize that's my silliness though.
Class warfare is pretty much the only way the Slashdot team can bring any class to this site.
Why dubious? There's no evidence either way, so poo-pooing the possibility doesn't make you smarter, it just makes you close-minded.
Last I checked, console vendors and the ESRB were part of the game industry. That would seem to mean it still qualifies as self-censorship.
You can opt out, you know. It says so right in the summary.
Also please don't use "evil" to describe things that are merely inconvenient. It greatly diminishes the horror and suffering people have gone through at the hands of real, actual evil.
You aren't forgiven for the sin of assuming that your opinion means anything to anyone but you.
I was with you in your fight against the evil corporation until I got to the word "fragmentate" which exploded my head. You lost a follower right there.
Are you seriously trying to make an argument that there is no place for low-power easy-to-use computers because some people might need really powerful machines? Are you a believer in one size fits all to the point that you can't allow anything you wouldn't personally want to exist?
No, this is the present. You can tell because it's happening now as opposed to some point after now.
But we can't just stop consuming their products. The RIAA does nothing but produce horrible music that no one wants and that I just can't stop downloading because I'm entitled to it for free because... I don't remember but I'm sure you already know the reason so it's cool. I deserve happiness and the only way I can get it is free entertainment and I'm gonna bitch on the Internet until the whole world agrees with me and copyright is abolished and the only people who make music or movies die by age 20 of horrific malnutrition because I can't be bothered to reach into my wallet for a buck to thank them for their effort. My listening is thanks enough, because I say it is.
Hey, that's the tradeoff for making the gov't your nanny. Or did you think you somehow get the benefits without the bullshit?
Gah - user agent string. Even the forced preview doesn't work for me.
It's a pretty fair assumption that most people don't know what a user agent is, never mind how to change it.
I wonder if they'll ever find a cure for the particular retardation that makes nerds turn everything into a stupid conspiracy theory.
People are born with the delusion that they know what is going on, and it just gets stronger as they get older. By the time the average person reaches their 80s they are insufferably confident and still actually know nothing. It's kinda sad, really, but at the same time I understand why it happens. Without the delusions, getting old would probably be unbearable since not only does everything suck, but you are saddled with memories of times when everything didn't suck. Shame, that.
But if you go making reasonable assumptions in a socially correct manner then you can't express your nerd rage properly.
The poor will whine, won't they?
Should probably sterilize anyone who demonstrates they probably have no prospects at success when they hit puberty. Just lop the gonads right off. That'll fix the problem for sure, and give the lazy bitches something to really whine about as well.
Good art is good art, period. Your idealistic imposition of morals on the motivation of the creation have no bearing on anyone's opinion but your own. It surely doesn't work as a general justification for the entitlement culture that has sprung up around creative works consumption.
Your conjecture about your magical supreme being who created people so he could require their ignorance to please himself is not compelling.
I keep seeing this "broken design" bullshit, but what they did is patent a method to maintain backward compatibility with a filesystem implementation that was initially designed to work on computers that various Unix implementations wouldn't even consider booting on. It might be hard to remember when 10MB was a big hard drive, but that's the legacy of FAT. Limited file names were a smart idea because it kept the bookkeeping small and predictable. Since Microsoft was extremely successful with DOS and many people created applications that various users needed to continue running, the VFAT implementation was a pretty good compromise to move forward while allowing things to keep working.
I guess if you spin it the zealot way it sounds worse, and I'll probably get accused of being a shill for not bashing Microsoft, but really there's just no need for the anger.
Can you help me out with the absurdity? I'm not sure where it makes sense to be able to use something someone else invented with no compensation. Never did get that part of the argument, since it generally boils down to "I'm entitled!"
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The only important thing is to follow the ideals of people who know better than you what you want and need.