"We have the right to free music!" Nowhere does it say you have the right to get other people's work for free even if they want you to pay for it. If a few people want to dedicate their lives to making a CD, and you want the music, buy the fucking CD. If you're not going to buy it, just get the music from any of countless other sources and burn it. But don't whine because they're trying to make it harder for you to steal from them. If all music was free for us to take, as Katz seems to want, then wouldn't the artists make it freely available?
So, it's disturbing that they're trying to stop you from stealing copyrighted material?
If I took what you did for a living and offered it free so you wouldn't get paid for it anymore, would you still champion that as "free"? We all do it - but that doesn't mean it's our "right" to do it. If you have the right to abuse other people's work, then I should have the right to violate the GPL any time I want - I mean, after all, the GPL is just a restriction on my freedom...
I'll assume from the Baltimore Ghetto line that this was directed at me.
Okay, not sure where the hell that came from. The Baltimore ghetto line is directed at noone - since I live exceedingly close to one it seemed as good an example as anything. Feel free to s/baltimore/$your_city/g.
However I never said anything about anyone being able to build/program from a complete lack of knowledge. That's why you don't see a lot of 4 year old sysadmins.
But that was the point the original person made - that 'if they can't afford it, they can just build it themselves' - poor people who've never seen a computer _have_ a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Therefore that person's argument was crap.
If I take away all your knowledge (assuming you have any) on how to build a computer, and an operating system, and a web browser, and the access to the online world of HOW-TOs and do-it-yourself web sites, could you build your own - assuming you had extremely limited financial resources?
If not, then you need to go see a doctor of some sort - having your head inserted into your ass like that is probably unhealthy.
Let's drop you in the middle of ghetto Baltimore with amnesia and see how long it takes you to get yourself back onto/. to reply.
Consider that most computers usage in schools is being 'taught' by teachers with no conceptual or even working knowledge of the tools themselves. A system with poor students with computers and no guidance is at least as bad as one with students and no computers - at least without the computers they wouldn't be wasting their time.
Mine tried to discourage me from sending applications to CMU and UIUC because "I should go to a community college for two years and then get my degree from a local college."
He also tried to discourage my friend from majoring in music because "she probably wouldn't make it in music" (though he admitted he didn't know how good she was...)
It's a very painful idea that he shapes minds for a living...
In case you haven't noticed, Alpha Centauri is yet another cookie-cutter game (although a fun one!). Games where you "build your civilization" and "discover new technologies" are a dime a dozen - MOO/MOO2, Outpost, Civilization(1,2), Age of Empires, Lightspeed ; the list goes on.
There are only a few genres - FPS, build-a-civilization, overhead-action (ala Diablo), fighting games, and sports games. And almost universally, all the games within each genre resemble each other to a disturbing degree. New games just mean more blinky lights and neat-o sound effects.
Yeah, but some people don't want to risk everything they have in starting a business - especially in a field where small companies are eaten alive at an alarming rate. For every lil' guy who makes it there are a huge number who don't.
If you're a young developer, maybe you can go off on your own and take the plunge. But if you've got a family or debts, taking a huge risk might not be such a hot idea. The only other choice is to work for someone else - and then you've lost most of your "freedom to innovate".
I agree fully - this just seems to be a rant about bad uber-commercial movies. It's interesting to notice that the number of valid posts being marked as Off-topic or even Troll have been increasing as of late... something one disagrees with isn't 'off-topic' or 'troll', people...
Ok, so if he changes ISP, that helps the ISP he just left???
Maybe it's just too early to be thinking, but if I'm paying ISP A $100 a year for service and I switch over to ISP B, isn't that hurting ISP A? How does losing business promote a practice? That argument makes no sense...
Almost everyone holds the position that we should keep young kids away from porn - that's not much of a position to hold. She's just reaching out to an american culture confused by school shootings and finger pointing. It's akin to saying 'I think murder is wrong' - everyone agrees, but it's a pointless position to run with.
The problem with her solution is that almost every system out there, if not _every_ system out there, doesn't block porn - it blocks 'content harmful to minors', which includes any educational sex sites, most fringe religions, and any site the filtering company has a vendetta against. Libraries are supposed to be where you can learn about anything and everything, not where you can just learn about happy fuzzy Christian values.
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"We have the right to free music!" Nowhere does it say you have the right to get other people's work for free even if they want you to pay for it. If a few people want to dedicate their lives to making a CD, and you want the music, buy the fucking CD. If you're not going to buy it, just get the music from any of countless other sources and burn it. But don't whine because they're trying to make it harder for you to steal from them. If all music was free for us to take, as Katz seems to want, then wouldn't the artists make it freely available?
So, it's disturbing that they're trying to stop you from stealing copyrighted material?
If I took what you did for a living and offered it free so you wouldn't get paid for it anymore, would you still champion that as "free"? We all do it - but that doesn't mean it's our "right" to do it. If you have the right to abuse other people's work, then I should have the right to violate the GPL any time I want - I mean, after all, the GPL is just a restriction on my freedom...
I'll assume from the Baltimore Ghetto line that this was directed at me.
Okay, not sure where the hell that came from. The Baltimore ghetto line is directed at noone - since I live exceedingly close to one it seemed as good an example as anything. Feel free to s/baltimore/$your_city/g.
However I never said anything about anyone being able to build/program from a complete lack of knowledge. That's why you don't see a lot of 4 year old sysadmins.
But that was the point the original person made - that 'if they can't afford it, they can just build it themselves' - poor people who've never seen a computer _have_ a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Therefore that person's argument was crap.
If I take away all your knowledge (assuming you have any) on how to build a computer, and an operating system, and a web browser, and the access to the online world of HOW-TOs and do-it-yourself web sites, could you build your own - assuming you had extremely limited financial resources?
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If not, then you need to go see a doctor of some sort - having your head inserted into your ass like that is probably unhealthy.
Let's drop you in the middle of ghetto Baltimore with amnesia and see how long it takes you to get yourself back onto
Consider that most computers usage in schools is being 'taught' by teachers with no conceptual or even working knowledge of the tools themselves. A system with poor students with computers and no guidance is at least as bad as one with students and no computers - at least without the computers they wouldn't be wasting their time.
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Mine tried to discourage me from sending applications to CMU and UIUC because "I should go to a community college for two years and then get my degree from a local college."
He also tried to discourage my friend from majoring in music because "she probably wouldn't make it in music" (though he admitted he didn't know how good she was...)
It's a very painful idea that he shapes minds for a living...
In case you haven't noticed, Alpha Centauri is yet another cookie-cutter game (although a fun one!). Games where you "build your civilization" and "discover new technologies" are a dime a dozen - MOO/MOO2, Outpost, Civilization(1,2), Age of Empires, Lightspeed ; the list goes on.
There are only a few genres - FPS, build-a-civilization, overhead-action (ala Diablo), fighting games, and sports games. And almost universally, all the games within each genre resemble each other to a disturbing degree. New games just mean more blinky lights and neat-o sound effects.
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Yeah, but some people don't want to risk everything they have in starting a business - especially in a field where small companies are eaten alive at an alarming rate. For every lil' guy who makes it there are a huge number who don't .
If you're a young developer, maybe you can go off on your own and take the plunge. But if you've got a family or debts, taking a huge risk might not be such a hot idea. The only other choice is to work for someone else - and then you've lost most of your "freedom to innovate".
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What are some good free programs to do that (if there are any)?
I agree fully - this just seems to be a rant about bad uber-commercial movies.
It's interesting to notice that the number of valid posts being marked as Off-topic or even Troll have been increasing as of late... something one disagrees with isn't 'off-topic' or 'troll', people...
Ok, so if he changes ISP, that helps the ISP he just left???
Maybe it's just too early to be thinking, but if I'm paying ISP A $100 a year for service and I switch over to ISP B, isn't that hurting ISP A? How does losing business promote a practice? That argument makes no sense...
Almost everyone holds the position that we should keep young kids away from porn - that's not much of a position to hold. She's just reaching out to an american culture confused by school shootings and finger pointing. It's akin to saying 'I think murder is wrong' - everyone agrees, but it's a pointless position to run with.
The problem with her solution is that almost every system out there, if not _every_ system out there, doesn't block porn - it blocks 'content harmful to minors', which includes any educational sex sites, most fringe religions, and any site the filtering company has a vendetta against. Libraries are supposed to be where you can learn about anything and everything, not where you can just learn about happy fuzzy Christian values.