Would people stop infringing on their copyright until the track earned $1 million?
Some would. However, those who engage in massive copyright infringement (you know, the ones who are getting sued by the RIAA because they have a hundred gigs of MP3s) aren't likely to change their behaviour.
They're not shutting off access to the public airwaves -- they're just using them as they see fit. If you think that you should be able to broadcast anything you want, but somebody else can't, you need to reexamine your double standard.
Well, perhaps I should have said "proof by anecdote" as well as "proof by assertion." I'm not saying that this never happens. I'm not even saying that it's not possible that P2P really does increase music sales. But the attitude on slashdot (as a whole) has been "of course it does, so the validity of a study/statement depends on whether it reinforces that belief." (And, of course, the music industry does exactly the same thing.) That is the nonsense that I find a bit irritating.
But of course, it's perfectly all right for slashdotters to point to other reasons for music sales falling, and thus unauthorized copying of music has no effect on CD sales.
Both sides have resorted to "proof by assertion" rather than making any attempt to determine the real causes. Honestly, it's getting pretty old by now.
Within 4 years, the Open Source community will come up with a trike featuring round wheels but a suspension good enough for it to also interoperate with MSroads. Unlike the MS product, it will work with all versions of MSroads.
Unfortunately, two years before Microsoft introduced flying cars, so nobody's using MSroads anymore anyway. However, OS users get to feel superior because, even though they get to their destination slower, they're not nearly as likely to blow up in midair.
Well, the reason why it won't be fixed is because they have something against funny comments. Taco whined about how he didn't think funny comments were funny for the longest time, and then he switched the metamod to be harsher on funny comments, and then funny comments no longer get the author any karma... of course, he could just set his options to give a -5 to funny comments, but for some reason he thinks that his opinions should be pushed onto everybody else.
Then the employee should get a lawyer and sue the company. At some point, people have to start taking responsibility for their own lives instead of pretending that it's somebody else's responsibility to take care of them.
In such a case, I mod the higher-modded person as overrated, and the lower-modded person as underrated.
If the higher-modded person is trolling, and the lower-modded person is insightful, then you should be moderating them as Troll and Insightful, not Overrated and Underrated. The over/underrated moderations are for weak-opinioned fools who are abusing the mod system.
Cars are inefficient and dangerous. In any moderately sized city (1 million or more), the infrastructure is enormous and yet is still inadequate -- gridlock occurs everywhere with annoying frequency. Cars are expensive to buy and maintain. They produce more than their share of pollution. Whatever the future of transportation is, I'm quite sure that we will see much less reliance on individual cars, and much more on mass transit.
Unless they're forgetful like me. I used to check out a dozen books every few weeks from the library, until I realized that it was more cost-effective to just buy used books rather than pay the inevitable fines -- and this way, I get to keep the books. By this point, I've got enough that I never have to worry about running out of things to read; even at my typical rate of three or four books a week, books I've read before seem fresh by the time I get back to them.
but 'bulk coding' will start becomming more scarce (IE the type of people who program a game engine).
It's interesting that you would pick games as an illustration of your point, given that the open source in gaming has largely been a failure. There are lots of open source tetris clones and so forth, but very few of the big, popular games have been open sourced. (There are a few for which source was released after the game's popularity had faded, but those are the exception, not the rule.) Traditionally, the excuse has been that "nobody tries to do open source games!", but that's obviously not the case. Interest in creating games runs very high in the OSS community. This community has created high-quality operating systems, desktop environments, word processors, web browsers, and many other applications, and yet the vast majority of their games are either toy projects or they end in failure. The problem is more fundamental: open source development, as it is practiced now, does not work well for game development.
As far as I can see, the need for coders is not going to decrease -- if anything, it's going to increase, at least for the forseeable future. Some of this need will be filled by hobbyist programmers, but for the most part people will still need to be paid to do it. Slashdotters like to use the fact that the majority of programming is done for internal company use (At least, they claim it as fact, though I've never seen a reference, so take it with a grain of salt.) Whatever the actual ratio, none of those jobs will be going away. The paid programmer is going to be safe for years to come.
...paying coding jobs are going the way of the dodo.
Yeah. 'Cause outsourced Indian programmers work for free. And no businesses would hire somebody to do internal coding jobs. And nobody ever gets paid to create free software.
Come on. Even if you believe that free software will be all that's left in the near future, "paying coding jobs are going the way of the dodo" is still a ridiculous assertion.
Maybe when someone fights them, and loses, as they inevitably will, as these people are all guilty, Slashdot will be able to post a story about the RIAA issuing lawsuits without someone saying "I cant wait til they hit some rich kid who decides to fight them on it".
Methinks you vastly underestimate the capability of Slashdotters to come up with something stupid to say.
Any pro-MS response seems to get modded up without consideration of merit
You have got to be kidding me. I'm in full agreement that unworthy posts are modded up all the time, but if you think that there is an overall pro-Microsoft bias, you must either be blind or you bought your impressive UID and posting history off of somebody else.
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Would people stop infringing on their copyright until the track earned $1 million?
Some would. However, those who engage in massive copyright infringement (you know, the ones who are getting sued by the RIAA because they have a hundred gigs of MP3s) aren't likely to change their behaviour.
They're not shutting off access to the public airwaves -- they're just using them as they see fit. If you think that you should be able to broadcast anything you want, but somebody else can't, you need to reexamine your double standard.
Dude, why are you taking an important conference call in the middle of a movie theatre?
(This is not to say that I actually believe that the OP is an executive of any kind.)
Well, perhaps I should have said "proof by anecdote" as well as "proof by assertion." I'm not saying that this never happens. I'm not even saying that it's not possible that P2P really does increase music sales. But the attitude on slashdot (as a whole) has been "of course it does, so the validity of a study/statement depends on whether it reinforces that belief." (And, of course, the music industry does exactly the same thing.) That is the nonsense that I find a bit irritating.
Then you realize what a fool you've been wasting your non-refundable, one-shot & short life in front of a non-interactive tube.
I feel like a fool for wasting my non-refundable, one-shot & short life in front of a web browser posting to slashdot.
Not that I'm going to stop.
But of course, it's perfectly all right for slashdotters to point to other reasons for music sales falling, and thus unauthorized copying of music has no effect on CD sales.
Both sides have resorted to "proof by assertion" rather than making any attempt to determine the real causes. Honestly, it's getting pretty old by now.
Well, of course the news here is slanted. Otherwise they'd have to call it "Pipedot."
Yeah. Recompiling the kernel should be easy, just like it is in Windows.
Within 4 years, the Open Source community will come up with a trike featuring round wheels but a suspension good enough for it to also interoperate with MSroads. Unlike the MS product, it will work with all versions of MSroads.
Unfortunately, two years before Microsoft introduced flying cars, so nobody's using MSroads anymore anyway. However, OS users get to feel superior because, even though they get to their destination slower, they're not nearly as likely to blow up in midair.
Well, the reason why it won't be fixed is because they have something against funny comments. Taco whined about how he didn't think funny comments were funny for the longest time, and then he switched the metamod to be harsher on funny comments, and then funny comments no longer get the author any karma ... of course, he could just set his options to give a -5 to funny comments, but for some reason he thinks that his opinions should be pushed onto everybody else.
Then the employee should get a lawyer and sue the company. At some point, people have to start taking responsibility for their own lives instead of pretending that it's somebody else's responsibility to take care of them.
In such a case, I mod the higher-modded person as overrated, and the lower-modded person as underrated.
If the higher-modded person is trolling, and the lower-modded person is insightful, then you should be moderating them as Troll and Insightful, not Overrated and Underrated. The over/underrated moderations are for weak-opinioned fools who are abusing the mod system.
No kidding. I don't stop drinking 'till 0800, no matter what anyone says.
Pretty much any state comes out favorably in comparison with California. And I'm not just referring to taxes.
Have you ever been to the country, where like 75% of America lives?
Sorry, buddy. See here. Less than 25% of the US population lives in rural areas, and that number is decreasing.
Cars are inefficient and dangerous. In any moderately sized city (1 million or more), the infrastructure is enormous and yet is still inadequate -- gridlock occurs everywhere with annoying frequency. Cars are expensive to buy and maintain. They produce more than their share of pollution. Whatever the future of transportation is, I'm quite sure that we will see much less reliance on individual cars, and much more on mass transit.
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They let their local library do it for them.
Unless they're forgetful like me. I used to check out a dozen books every few weeks from the library, until I realized that it was more cost-effective to just buy used books rather than pay the inevitable fines -- and this way, I get to keep the books. By this point, I've got enough that I never have to worry about running out of things to read; even at my typical rate of three or four books a week, books I've read before seem fresh by the time I get back to them.
but 'bulk coding' will start becomming more scarce (IE the type of people who program a game engine).
It's interesting that you would pick games as an illustration of your point, given that the open source in gaming has largely been a failure. There are lots of open source tetris clones and so forth, but very few of the big, popular games have been open sourced. (There are a few for which source was released after the game's popularity had faded, but those are the exception, not the rule.) Traditionally, the excuse has been that "nobody tries to do open source games!", but that's obviously not the case. Interest in creating games runs very high in the OSS community. This community has created high-quality operating systems, desktop environments, word processors, web browsers, and many other applications, and yet the vast majority of their games are either toy projects or they end in failure. The problem is more fundamental: open source development, as it is practiced now, does not work well for game development.
As far as I can see, the need for coders is not going to decrease -- if anything, it's going to increase, at least for the forseeable future. Some of this need will be filled by hobbyist programmers, but for the most part people will still need to be paid to do it. Slashdotters like to use the fact that the majority of programming is done for internal company use (At least, they claim it as fact, though I've never seen a reference, so take it with a grain of salt.) Whatever the actual ratio, none of those jobs will be going away. The paid programmer is going to be safe for years to come.
...paying coding jobs are going the way of the dodo.
Yeah. 'Cause outsourced Indian programmers work for free. And no businesses would hire somebody to do internal coding jobs. And nobody ever gets paid to create free software.
Come on. Even if you believe that free software will be all that's left in the near future, "paying coding jobs are going the way of the dodo" is still a ridiculous assertion.
Maybe when someone fights them, and loses, as they inevitably will, as these people are all guilty, Slashdot will be able to post a story about the RIAA issuing lawsuits without someone saying "I cant wait til they hit some rich kid who decides to fight them on it".
Methinks you vastly underestimate the capability of Slashdotters to come up with something stupid to say.
Don't be stupid. It was obviously Ashcroft's doing. And he had the support of the RIAA.
You have got to be kidding me. I'm in full agreement that unworthy posts are modded up all the time, but if you think that there is an overall pro-Microsoft bias, you must either be blind or you bought your impressive UID and posting history off of somebody else.
Well, I would use emacs, but I couldn't afford an extra 100 GB disk to use as a swap partition. So I just use the standard -- ed.