Who gives a damn about "Lily Allen, George Michael, and Sandie Shaw" in the first place? Who are they? I can walk outside if I want to hear random nobodies waving their arms and yelling about god knows what for attention - why are we even discussing this? If all the MAFIAA can get are three random no-names to back a watered-down version of an evil piece of legislation, it tells me they're not only losing their war, but they're becoming more and more desperate as well.
The root of the evil would be hierarchy and capitalism. Combined, institutions of unjustifiable power and antisocial behavior are born. Things won't "always be this way" (as one of the other replies said) given enough time.
Yes, we do want government regulating the internet, because it's vastly superior to the alternative of private interests regulating the internet. Plain and simple. What exactly do you want?
Seriously, I'm completely blown away by the sheer insanity of people. Hundreds of tabs, several windows, 40-something YouTube tabs open. wtf? Go close the 147 of 150 tabs you aren't using anymore, close 49 of the 50 YouTube videos you aren't watching, and close the 4 Firefox windows you haven't even looked at since (apparently) yesterday.
Sometimes I catch myself having ~10 tabs open, and I become immediately annoyed and go close off almost all of them, except in extremely rare cases. And I close Firefox as soon as I'm done using it. Maybe that means it's open 20 minutes, maybe longer (especially if I'm watching a video or something). What are earth are people doing that requires Firefox to run for 3 days? Do you people sleep? How can someone be dumb enough to let 150 tabs accumulate and sit around? I don't understand any of this. I honestly can't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me, and I upgrade to newest versions asap. Doesn't crash on Windows, Linux, or OpenBSD, ever, even with Flash (on Windows) and a handful of addons.
What kind of crappy trailer was that? Text on a website would've sufficed. I mean, if you got nothin' to show...
Also, apparently I have the complete opposite reaction than a lot of you. The 2D Sonic games are really boring and dated, yet the original Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast was by far one of the best games of its time. Seeing as it's the only 3D Sonic game I've played though, I can't really vouche for anything further.
"relatively government-free history."
WTF? All of the most significant innovation in computers and technology came out of the public sector - government grants, defense contracts/spending, universities. I guess I shouldn't be floored by such a stupid, wrong claim though. It's a (former) CEO of a US corporation afterall.
Why do we object? Because we aren't fucking brainwashed, passive consumers and don't appreciate being treated as such. I haven't bought a video game in a long time, and news like this only makes me feel good about that fact. I want the video game industry to tank, along with the music, movie, and advertising industries. They can take their DRM, copyrights, product placement, and "personalized ads" and shove it. Wishful thinking, I know.
As an aside, if not for Adblock Plus, popup blockers, and similar programs/plugins/functionalities, browsing the internet would be unbearable. That's what advertising does.
As another aside, please buy nothing and "pirate" everything.
Well, if you're talking about The New Pirate Bay, I doubt you're going to be able to choose where your monthly fee (or whatever) is going. All the cash will go into a common pool, and you're going to be funding the MAFIAA even if you don't touch any of their content - which is the biggest reason why you shouldn't use the new site.
If you're just talking in general, I agree.
I'm deterred as well. Deterred from ever buying movies and music again. I haven't in some time now - ever since this absurd crusade started - and I couldn't be happier. All one needs are public libraries and http://jamendo.com/ - there's much better music on here than any of the shit you're generally going to find on major record labels anyway. Why are people still donating money to these machines? You're subsidizing tyranny over your own population.
That these terms either have little to no meaning or mean the opposite of what they're supposed to mean (especially in the US) is a great triumph of propaganda. One way to squelch ideas that might "rock the boat" is to sabotage the ways of talking about them.
It's simply irresponsible to just throw any pile of shit out the door. This attitude of "it's acceptable for programs to suck and be horribly inefficient because my new desktop hardware is a pretty good crutch" is going to horribly backfire if it catches on too much. Imagine what your system is going to feel like if every program you run has developers with those same poor practices and sentiments. Imagine, especially, if you aren't running a fast desktop, but perhaps a netbook. Computers aren't just getting bigger. It's going both ways.
Firefox 3.0 was released in June '08. Firefox 3.5 (the first following major release) was released in June '09. A year later. Update fatigue? What in the world are you on about?
Plus, this is an alpha release. The actual release won't be for another (approximately, at this time) 2-3 months. How does one get update fatigue from upgrading your browser twice in about a year and a half? Actually, I don't see how you can't be excited, assuming you use your browser as much as most people, that your browser is developing so fast in important ways. (HTML5, performance, etc.) Have fun "not bothering" with that, I guess.
It's seriously amazing how much easier it is to read articles when they aren't cluttered and surrounded with a bunch of shit on the crappy source website. People should just copy/paste the content out of them from now on. Maybe more would RTFA too.
He kills another everytime you forget to close a tag too. Actually, he kills at least two, because you're forced to preview your post before publishing it, so it's quite a feat to miss it. In addition, our murderous God's kitten killing spree is doubled for any edit you made to your post before publishing and after having been made aware of the problem via a post preview.
How do you sleep at night?
Git wid da program. (Should be git's slogan.)
Alright, listen up Slashdot. AcidPenguin934282349 doesn't care for the tone that this site is taking. He's particularly annoyed that you've all become somewhat socially aware, concerned with the US's corporate power over non-US countries, concerned about the future, concerned about the direction and shaping of the internet and the policies and laws surrounding it, and he's particularly annoyed that you aren't all completely mindless drones. Please just give him an empty science & tech news site, one from 9 years back when so many of these issues weren't approaching us head-on like a speeding train. Let's all close our ears, eyes, and mouths to the things that actually matter in the world.
I'm 22 years old, and I think the last time I was required to write in cursive was in 3rd or 4th grade. It really has been that long since since I have. Starting in middle school, typing on computers was either encouraged or required, and since we had a computer in my home, that was the end of that. I'm tempted to go find a piece of paper and write some sentences to see if I can actually remember every single letter in cursive. I don't think I could.
Of course, I can't personally see any inherent value in cursive writing, and I don't see its relation to writing/grammar in general. It's a writing style. Sometimes it looks purty. Nothing more.
Without rms and his insistence on freedom, and the years of work on GNU, there would be no fame for Linux nor Linus (whom, to this day, is ungrateful and rude to the very provider of the tools and freedom that led to his project success).
Everyone's time is free. It takes time to learn anything new. There's nothing special about a free *nix in this regard, nor is there anything special about computers or OS's in general in this regard. It's a very meaningless statement.
Any GPL code would lose its protected status, which would apply to most of the free software you use.
You mean it would actually become free software? Sounds good to me. You know, some people do view the GPL as being in the same realm as proprietary software. It takes and doesn't give. It's possibly even worse, because the GPL has a sting of hypocrisy attached to it that proprietary software doesn't (at least with proprietary software, you're told upfront you're getting it stuck to you).
Diablo3 and Starcraft2 will probably be the last two major PC game titles.
...at least until whatever Blizzard decides to release after that, I'd imagine, considering their games are pretty much the cream of the crop. I haven't heard of them moving to consoles. (If I remember right, StarCraft: Ghost was their only pure console attempt at a game, and it turned out to be vaporware.)
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Who gives a damn about "Lily Allen, George Michael, and Sandie Shaw" in the first place? Who are they? I can walk outside if I want to hear random nobodies waving their arms and yelling about god knows what for attention - why are we even discussing this? If all the MAFIAA can get are three random no-names to back a watered-down version of an evil piece of legislation, it tells me they're not only losing their war, but they're becoming more and more desperate as well.
The root of the evil would be hierarchy and capitalism. Combined, institutions of unjustifiable power and antisocial behavior are born. Things won't "always be this way" (as one of the other replies said) given enough time.
Yes, we do want government regulating the internet, because it's vastly superior to the alternative of private interests regulating the internet. Plain and simple. What exactly do you want?
Seriously, I'm completely blown away by the sheer insanity of people. Hundreds of tabs, several windows, 40-something YouTube tabs open. wtf? Go close the 147 of 150 tabs you aren't using anymore, close 49 of the 50 YouTube videos you aren't watching, and close the 4 Firefox windows you haven't even looked at since (apparently) yesterday.
Sometimes I catch myself having ~10 tabs open, and I become immediately annoyed and go close off almost all of them, except in extremely rare cases. And I close Firefox as soon as I'm done using it. Maybe that means it's open 20 minutes, maybe longer (especially if I'm watching a video or something). What are earth are people doing that requires Firefox to run for 3 days? Do you people sleep? How can someone be dumb enough to let 150 tabs accumulate and sit around? I don't understand any of this. I honestly can't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me, and I upgrade to newest versions asap. Doesn't crash on Windows, Linux, or OpenBSD, ever, even with Flash (on Windows) and a handful of addons.
What kind of crappy trailer was that? Text on a website would've sufficed. I mean, if you got nothin' to show...
Also, apparently I have the complete opposite reaction than a lot of you. The 2D Sonic games are really boring and dated, yet the original Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast was by far one of the best games of its time. Seeing as it's the only 3D Sonic game I've played though, I can't really vouche for anything further.
"relatively government-free history." WTF? All of the most significant innovation in computers and technology came out of the public sector - government grants, defense contracts/spending, universities. I guess I shouldn't be floored by such a stupid, wrong claim though. It's a (former) CEO of a US corporation afterall.
Well done on exemplifying the disaster that is capitalism.
Why do we object? Because we aren't fucking brainwashed, passive consumers and don't appreciate being treated as such. I haven't bought a video game in a long time, and news like this only makes me feel good about that fact. I want the video game industry to tank, along with the music, movie, and advertising industries. They can take their DRM, copyrights, product placement, and "personalized ads" and shove it. Wishful thinking, I know.
As an aside, if not for Adblock Plus, popup blockers, and similar programs/plugins/functionalities, browsing the internet would be unbearable. That's what advertising does.
As another aside, please buy nothing and "pirate" everything.
Thanks.
Well, if you're talking about The New Pirate Bay, I doubt you're going to be able to choose where your monthly fee (or whatever) is going. All the cash will go into a common pool, and you're going to be funding the MAFIAA even if you don't touch any of their content - which is the biggest reason why you shouldn't use the new site. If you're just talking in general, I agree.
I'm deterred as well. Deterred from ever buying movies and music again. I haven't in some time now - ever since this absurd crusade started - and I couldn't be happier. All one needs are public libraries and http://jamendo.com/ - there's much better music on here than any of the shit you're generally going to find on major record labels anyway. Why are people still donating money to these machines? You're subsidizing tyranny over your own population.
"songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes, and artwork". Brilliant! Although I think I found a better technology for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)
That these terms either have little to no meaning or mean the opposite of what they're supposed to mean (especially in the US) is a great triumph of propaganda. One way to squelch ideas that might "rock the boat" is to sabotage the ways of talking about them.
It's simply irresponsible to just throw any pile of shit out the door. This attitude of "it's acceptable for programs to suck and be horribly inefficient because my new desktop hardware is a pretty good crutch" is going to horribly backfire if it catches on too much. Imagine what your system is going to feel like if every program you run has developers with those same poor practices and sentiments. Imagine, especially, if you aren't running a fast desktop, but perhaps a netbook. Computers aren't just getting bigger. It's going both ways.
Firefox 3.0 was released in June '08. Firefox 3.5 (the first following major release) was released in June '09. A year later. Update fatigue? What in the world are you on about? Plus, this is an alpha release. The actual release won't be for another (approximately, at this time) 2-3 months. How does one get update fatigue from upgrading your browser twice in about a year and a half? Actually, I don't see how you can't be excited, assuming you use your browser as much as most people, that your browser is developing so fast in important ways. (HTML5, performance, etc.) Have fun "not bothering" with that, I guess.
It's seriously amazing how much easier it is to read articles when they aren't cluttered and surrounded with a bunch of shit on the crappy source website. People should just copy/paste the content out of them from now on. Maybe more would RTFA too.
Far more serious than actual terrorism or any other American Fear of the Week. And I wish I was actually joking.
He kills another everytime you forget to close a tag too. Actually, he kills at least two, because you're forced to preview your post before publishing it, so it's quite a feat to miss it. In addition, our murderous God's kitten killing spree is doubled for any edit you made to your post before publishing and after having been made aware of the problem via a post preview. How do you sleep at night? Git wid da program. (Should be git's slogan.)
If the RIAA allegedly don't want me to pirate music, why are they hellbent on consistently give me reason after reason after reason to pirate?
Alright, listen up Slashdot. AcidPenguin934282349 doesn't care for the tone that this site is taking. He's particularly annoyed that you've all become somewhat socially aware, concerned with the US's corporate power over non-US countries, concerned about the future, concerned about the direction and shaping of the internet and the policies and laws surrounding it, and he's particularly annoyed that you aren't all completely mindless drones. Please just give him an empty science & tech news site, one from 9 years back when so many of these issues weren't approaching us head-on like a speeding train. Let's all close our ears, eyes, and mouths to the things that actually matter in the world.
I'm 22 years old, and I think the last time I was required to write in cursive was in 3rd or 4th grade. It really has been that long since since I have. Starting in middle school, typing on computers was either encouraged or required, and since we had a computer in my home, that was the end of that. I'm tempted to go find a piece of paper and write some sentences to see if I can actually remember every single letter in cursive. I don't think I could. Of course, I can't personally see any inherent value in cursive writing, and I don't see its relation to writing/grammar in general. It's a writing style. Sometimes it looks purty. Nothing more.
Without rms and his insistence on freedom, and the years of work on GNU, there would be no fame for Linux nor Linus (whom, to this day, is ungrateful and rude to the very provider of the tools and freedom that led to his project success).
BSD doesn't exist.
Everyone's time is free. It takes time to learn anything new. There's nothing special about a free *nix in this regard, nor is there anything special about computers or OS's in general in this regard. It's a very meaningless statement.
Any GPL code would lose its protected status, which would apply to most of the free software you use.
You mean it would actually become free software? Sounds good to me. You know, some people do view the GPL as being in the same realm as proprietary software. It takes and doesn't give. It's possibly even worse, because the GPL has a sting of hypocrisy attached to it that proprietary software doesn't (at least with proprietary software, you're told upfront you're getting it stuck to you).
Diablo3 and Starcraft2 will probably be the last two major PC game titles.
...at least until whatever Blizzard decides to release after that, I'd imagine, considering their games are pretty much the cream of the crop. I haven't heard of them moving to consoles. (If I remember right, StarCraft: Ghost was their only pure console attempt at a game, and it turned out to be vaporware.)
Do they scream "BUY COWON!!!" as they burn? Good effin' riddance.