It's always easy to speak from an idealistic worldview, where one country does all the wrong. It doesn't really mean anything, of course, because reality contradicts the idealistic worldview in almost every regard, but it sure is easy.
Possibly because there really is no place for a childish US-bashing response to someone pointing out the problems of China. It was off-topic at best, and basically flamebait.
Not true, you get whatever people feel like posting. That's the nature of the site. You, sir, are welcome to take your inanities right here. Just don't expect them to be heeded.
It's pithy little witticisms like these that initially made me suspicious of the "intelligent == liberal" paradigm. Intelligence doesn't rely on the appearance of being clever.
No, I actually still don't see the problem. The 5 dollar charge covers everything you might ever wish to download. It changes a murky legal situation into something akin to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It allows the artists to be compensated for making music. And it's a proposal, subject to negotiation. Overall, I think it's a workable idea that solves a significant problem in a reasonable way.
I could possibly have seen your point a little better if you didn't use a totally inapplicable lawn ornament analogy. Since it was completely unrelated, I ignored it.
They'll never be able to match free. This actually seems like a modern, cost effective and fair distribution model to me. Out of curiosity, what about it doesn't meet that criteria?
Using my many years of reading Slashdot as a gauge, the enthusiasm for the Android handsets, and lack thereof for the iPhone, that are evident on this site lead me to believe that Android will flop and the iPhone will take over the mobile market. Large-scale market trends always seem to defy the common wisdom brokered by the denizens of this site.
Of course, I'm not making a prediction. Just a hunch, based on self-selected observations. My take means nothing, ultimately.
The silly part of you is assuming that you could somehow make consumption reduction a priority over improving generation facilities. It's a simple issue - one requires the cooperation of everybody, while the other requires changes that can be made without that cooperation. There's a pragmatic decision to be made there.
Someone who is willing to listen to me and like-minded people and also willing to ignore people I don't want him to listen to.
Or maybe you don't realize that PACs also represent people... which could be. There is a touch of the foolish and naive around here when it comes to politics.
You're making a monstrous presumption - the 'we' to which you refer is indeterminate, and hence useless for the purposes of this discussion. Certainly for you, the value isn't there. Obviously that's not true for a vast number of customers, because the ITMS is doing quite well, thank you.
Your needs are not everybody's needs. Never have been, never will be. Any argument with that premise as its basis is null and void.
Small time coders don't need protection in a world without patents (so long as you also prevent cartels and monopolies), because it's very easy to break into a market - all you need is one computer, one programmer and the right idea to make it big, or nowadays perhaps a server if you want to do web apps.
That's no different from right now. The only thing a world without patents would provide to that scenario is removing the necessity to have the right idea. You could just take someone else's idea and undercut them since development costs would be paid by the creator.
That's what patents serve to prevent. Not perfectly, of course, but pretty damn well. It's hard to see that from Slashdot since the rampant anti-patent bias only ever points out failures of the system, but by raising the little prairie dog head out of this little prairie dog hole, you can see that things aren't what they seem as presented around here.
Considering some of the Japanese porn I've watched, that really doesn't seem too far out there. Plus they could sell videos of the extraction operation to subsidize the research costs.
Far be it from me to offer advice to one further advanced in years than I, but extrapolating the population of the Internet from Slashdot strikes me as foolhardy.
There are amazingly smart game and graphics engineers out there. Carmack is not one of them.
I find it instructive that you aren't willing to log in to make this statement. I'm not calling him the best at any particular thing (cause I just don't know), but he certainly qualifies as amazingly smart.
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It's always easy to speak from an idealistic worldview, where one country does all the wrong. It doesn't really mean anything, of course, because reality contradicts the idealistic worldview in almost every regard, but it sure is easy.
Possibly because there really is no place for a childish US-bashing response to someone pointing out the problems of China. It was off-topic at best, and basically flamebait.
And doing your best to make sure you're not noticed taking the photos is rude, norm or not.
Not true, you get whatever people feel like posting. That's the nature of the site. You, sir, are welcome to take your inanities right here. Just don't expect them to be heeded.
Those on the bottom always whine that it's not fair to have anyone on top, until they're on top. Then they like it.
Large scale human nature is still human nature.
I sure hope you're not a privacy advocate, cause what you do is a bigtime invasion.
The truth has a liberal bias.
Only when the listener has a liberal bias.
It's pithy little witticisms like these that initially made me suspicious of the "intelligent == liberal" paradigm. Intelligence doesn't rely on the appearance of being clever.
And most of us here on Slashdot are in the US. So guess what the preferred format would be here, on Slashdot, where this story is being discussed.
I'm not familiar with the 'scam' aspect. What are they doing wrong?
Obviously their 'service' isn't worth it, but it seemed straightforward to my cursory review.
Once again, I'm amazed at the tendency towards Ludditism on what is ostensibly a tech site.
No, I actually still don't see the problem. The 5 dollar charge covers everything you might ever wish to download. It changes a murky legal situation into something akin to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It allows the artists to be compensated for making music. And it's a proposal, subject to negotiation. Overall, I think it's a workable idea that solves a significant problem in a reasonable way.
I could possibly have seen your point a little better if you didn't use a totally inapplicable lawn ornament analogy. Since it was completely unrelated, I ignored it.
They'll never be able to match free. This actually seems like a modern, cost effective and fair distribution model to me. Out of curiosity, what about it doesn't meet that criteria?
Using my many years of reading Slashdot as a gauge, the enthusiasm for the Android handsets, and lack thereof for the iPhone, that are evident on this site lead me to believe that Android will flop and the iPhone will take over the mobile market. Large-scale market trends always seem to defy the common wisdom brokered by the denizens of this site.
Of course, I'm not making a prediction. Just a hunch, based on self-selected observations. My take means nothing, ultimately.
The silly part of you is assuming that you could somehow make consumption reduction a priority over improving generation facilities. It's a simple issue - one requires the cooperation of everybody, while the other requires changes that can be made without that cooperation. There's a pragmatic decision to be made there.
You know it's good one when you feel like you've been punched in the stomach after you read it.
Better than what? I guess it's my theme for the day - be careful applying your perspective to the general public. Most likely, you're wrong.
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Someone who is willing to listen to me and like-minded people and also willing to ignore people I don't want him to listen to.
Or maybe you don't realize that PACs also represent people... which could be. There is a touch of the foolish and naive around here when it comes to politics.
You're making a monstrous presumption - the 'we' to which you refer is indeterminate, and hence useless for the purposes of this discussion. Certainly for you, the value isn't there. Obviously that's not true for a vast number of customers, because the ITMS is doing quite well, thank you.
Your needs are not everybody's needs. Never have been, never will be. Any argument with that premise as its basis is null and void.
Small time coders don't need protection in a world without patents (so long as you also prevent cartels and monopolies), because it's very easy to break into a market - all you need is one computer, one programmer and the right idea to make it big, or nowadays perhaps a server if you want to do web apps.
That's no different from right now. The only thing a world without patents would provide to that scenario is removing the necessity to have the right idea. You could just take someone else's idea and undercut them since development costs would be paid by the creator.
That's what patents serve to prevent. Not perfectly, of course, but pretty damn well. It's hard to see that from Slashdot since the rampant anti-patent bias only ever points out failures of the system, but by raising the little prairie dog head out of this little prairie dog hole, you can see that things aren't what they seem as presented around here.
I assume people here are so fearful of interpersonal communication that they really can't stand the idea of anybody actually enjoying it.
I've been busy developing tests to see if this hypothesis holds.
Considering some of the Japanese porn I've watched, that really doesn't seem too far out there. Plus they could sell videos of the extraction operation to subsidize the research costs.
Far be it from me to offer advice to one further advanced in years than I, but extrapolating the population of the Internet from Slashdot strikes me as foolhardy.
Dolphins aren't fish, they just taste the same.
There are amazingly smart game and graphics engineers out there. Carmack is not one of them.
I find it instructive that you aren't willing to log in to make this statement. I'm not calling him the best at any particular thing (cause I just don't know), but he certainly qualifies as amazingly smart.
I disagree with you, but enumerating my reasons on Slashdot is pissing into the wind since I'll be modded down for my stance alone.
There's an irony in there somewhere, but again I can't be bothered to piss into the wind.