Slashdot moderation is fucking weird. I went from bad karma (only because I challenged a Linux zealot) straight to positive karma, completely bypassing neutral, based solely on the above post.
And yet somehow this didn't occur to Microsoft's own developers who presumably use their own products to death. It stuns me how stupid Microsoft has been behaving these days after the high they had with Windows 7/Office 2010/Visual Studio 2010.
It's also nice, now that I'm used to it, to be able to just hit the windows key and start typing to get the program i want. The search is fast, and you really just type and hit enter.
But... I can already do that in Windows 7, PLUS I have the traditional Start menu structured list so that I can manually pick a tool if I don't quite know the name of it but I do know the company/category folder it's located in.
In Win 7 I get the best of both worlds - search and tradition program selection. In Win 8 the traditional program selection has morphed into something rather ugly and cumbersome.
If you steal a BMW, you have removed physical stock that the dealer no longer has and its absence could seriously hamper their ability to make money off of it (you can't sell what you don't have).
If you pirate a movie, nothing was subtracted, hence nothing was stolen. You've committed copyright infringement, and I can't say I'm happy about this either as it's not a sustainable method of rewarding people who make high-quality products. But it's important to understand that the outcomes between both are significantly more serious for the first case in which they no longer have the item they want to sell, as opposed to the second.
Is it wrong to have an intellectual discussion about the topic? I hope not.
I really don't get this. For some reason a lot of geeks believe that if something is not physical, it has no worth. As if the labor and the cost of the tools/materials required to product a game, album or movie are null and void if the resultant efforts are all 1s and 0s transmitted via electric signals.
Copying content is free. But there's still value in the product and some content really is worth the money.
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Slashdot moderation is fucking weird. I went from bad karma (only because I challenged a Linux zealot) straight to positive karma, completely bypassing neutral, based solely on the above post.
And yet somehow this didn't occur to Microsoft's own developers who presumably use their own products to death. It stuns me how stupid Microsoft has been behaving these days after the high they had with Windows 7/Office 2010/Visual Studio 2010.
I wanted to read the full report. You can too if you go here:
http://www.forrester.com/Market+Update+Office+2013+And+Productivity+Suite+Alternatives/fulltext/-/E-RES102262
$2495 for a fucking survey? Get fucked Forrester. Now there's no way for me to verify if the survey is legit or not.
But... I can already do that in Windows 7, PLUS I have the traditional Start menu structured list so that I can manually pick a tool if I don't quite know the name of it but I do know the company/category folder it's located in.
In Win 7 I get the best of both worlds - search and tradition program selection. In Win 8 the traditional program selection has morphed into something rather ugly and cumbersome.
If you steal a BMW, you have removed physical stock that the dealer no longer has and its absence could seriously hamper their ability to make money off of it (you can't sell what you don't have).
If you pirate a movie, nothing was subtracted, hence nothing was stolen. You've committed copyright infringement, and I can't say I'm happy about this either as it's not a sustainable method of rewarding people who make high-quality products. But it's important to understand that the outcomes between both are significantly more serious for the first case in which they no longer have the item they want to sell, as opposed to the second.
Is it wrong to have an intellectual discussion about the topic? I hope not.
I really don't get this. For some reason a lot of geeks believe that if something is not physical, it has no worth. As if the labor and the cost of the tools/materials required to product a game, album or movie are null and void if the resultant efforts are all 1s and 0s transmitted via electric signals.
Copying content is free. But there's still value in the product and some content really is worth the money.