If you are an idiot and the internet means Netcape and ICQ (which means the internet began in the mid 90s) then maybe you have a point. What the hell does the internet have to do with Winamp?
Scary that AOL owns three of four, eh? I think so....
Why is that scary? There are plenty of instant messanger clients, MP3 players, UnZippers and Browsers in the world... who cares if AOL is buying the most popular ones. If the quality goes down, people will switch in droves.
If I were AOL it certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense to buy ICQ than say, Tribal Voice, or Netscape instead of Opera, or Nullsoft instead of whoever makes Sonique..
And they spelled Komputer and Computer... and I say my way is right and everyone else is wrong.
Face it, just becuase a small vocal and annoying minority try to use a word in a certain way, doesn't make that the "correct" meaning of the word. Go find a battle you haven't already lost.
You know Citizen Kane has a pretty big plot hole in it... (Kane dies alone, yet this reporter is searching for the meaning of his last word - "Rosebud". How does he know Kane's dying word if he died alone?)... yet is widely considered the best movie ever made.
...I mean this far before Episode I came out we were inundated with Kenneth Branagh as Obi-Wan and Charleton Heston rumors, and we can see how accurate those were.
So by banning AC's we would have lost 1 good post in the last few months? Compared to the troubles they cause, that doesn't sound like such a bad hit to take from the whole cost / benefit analysis side of the question.
...I was a bloated, uncompetitive government subsidized European company, so when I lost business to more competitve companies in other countries I could compain about my failings as sort of government conspiracy.
Prehaps reading comprehension isn't your strong point. I was responding to the not too well thought out point that the above poster made that those that do things for love do thing better than those that do it for money. Which, IMO, is a bunch of nice trite sounding crap-ola.
My challenge, which you avoided, is to name something that was done for free by someone that was a great work some field. For your above examples how about some great songs that no one received payment for, or one of those althletes that plays for the "love of the game" and doesn't take a salary.
I'm not denying that people do things because they enjoy doing them. I just think it is silly to assign a value that something is "better" than something else, just because one person recieved or didn't recieve payment for it.
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If you are an idiot and the internet means Netcape and ICQ (which means the internet began in the mid 90s) then maybe you have a point. What the hell does the internet have to do with Winamp?
Scary that AOL owns three of four, eh? I think so....
Why is that scary? There are plenty of instant messanger clients, MP3 players, UnZippers and Browsers in the world... who cares if AOL is buying the most popular ones. If the quality goes down, people will switch in droves.
If I were AOL it certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense to buy ICQ than say, Tribal Voice, or Netscape instead of Opera, or Nullsoft instead of whoever makes Sonique..
"hackers" (why can't *anyone* get this right?)
And they spelled Komputer and Computer... and I say my way is right and everyone else is wrong.
Face it, just becuase a small vocal and annoying minority try to use a word in a certain way, doesn't make that the "correct" meaning of the word. Go find a battle you haven't already lost.
OK, I like Linux as much as the next guy, but I don't think I would want to get on a real plane run by Linux....
You know Citizen Kane has a pretty big plot hole in it... (Kane dies alone, yet this reporter is searching for the meaning of his last word - "Rosebud". How does he know Kane's dying word if he died alone?) ... yet is widely considered the best movie ever made.
...I mean this far before Episode I came out we were inundated with Kenneth Branagh as Obi-Wan and Charleton Heston rumors, and we can see how accurate those were.
Good, glad to see Intel sticking to their guns instead of buckling under pressure from the 'Black Helicopter' crowd.
So by banning AC's we would have lost 1 good post in the last few months? Compared to the troubles they cause, that doesn't sound like such a bad hit to take from the whole cost / benefit analysis side of the question.
Could someone go through the vast Slashdot archives and find 2 worthwile AC posts? I don't think they are there, myself....
How different is it from the company that pays workers to build a road? Salaries for their employees sure aren't tax deductable.
Information is warfare these days. Its kinda scary
This is scary? Getting bombed or shot is scary, having your computer hacked kind of pales in significance, don't you think?
Are we also to assume that free software makes no claims of accuracy?
I've been told they tried to fire him. I wish they had succeeded
Why wouldn't they have been able too?
Then again, I hear your screwing your cousin... thats rumors for ya..
high in information content
Are we talking about the same intenet?
You would have prefered, what, coming at some indeterminate point in the future
You are right, here is my revised comment..
Ignorent people use AOL
People who are involved in Local TV news are pretty ignorent...
Therefore, if you want to fool a lot of ignorent people...
...I was a bloated, uncompetitive government subsidized European company, so when I lost business to more competitve companies in other countries I could compain about my failings as sort of government conspiracy.
Stupid people use AOL
Stupid people watch Local TV News
Therefore if you want to fool a bunch of stupid people...
That's not the point, the point is would the work be any better if he had done it for free? I say, nope.
PERL is not a GNU program, nor is it under any of the FSF licenses. Thanks for playing.
You can sue all you want....
...winning, on the other hand is another thing.
Well, I really mike Michaelangelo and as far as I know all of his art was "commercial" art.
Prehaps reading comprehension isn't your strong point. I was responding to the not too well thought out point that the above poster made that those that do things for love do thing better than those that do it for money. Which, IMO, is a bunch of nice trite sounding crap-ola.
My challenge, which you avoided, is to name something that was done for free by someone that was a great work some field. For your above examples how about some great songs that no one received payment for, or one of those althletes that plays for the "love of the game" and doesn't take a salary.
I'm not denying that people do things because they enjoy doing them. I just think it is silly to assign a value that something is "better" than something else, just because one person recieved or didn't recieve payment for it.
.... and when it comes out over here I will buy it.
Um... why? You've already read it... Seems like a waste of resources to me.
Those that do things for love do thing better than those that do it for money.
Oh, bullshit...
Lets look at all the great books, great music, great archetecture done for free over the years....
Damn short list, isn't it (other than some old religious texts, I sure can't think of any)