why do some people think that 'the founding fathers' were space aliens with more wisdom than anyone who has lived since?
We had some old white men write important documents in UK history too. Most of them were maniacs or bloodthirsty freaks, and we don't cling to some fantasy that what they wrote down was THE LAST WORD. In fact, we overturned their views many times, regarding votes for women and homosexuality, abortion etc etc. Just because people wrote a document a long time ago doesn't make what they wrote magically wise.
"Showing up in person is like wearing nice clothes to work"
I wear whatever I want to work, so do all my business partners and contractors, I presume, since I've never even seen pictures of them. Why do I care what they look like? So I can be judgemental about an artists looks or race/gender? I don't pay people to wink,nudge and wear a suit, I pay them to produce work.
Hi. Theres a single hard drive in there. a typical 'shipped with the box' PSU, no wireless card or anything fancy. The PC is from mesh Computers, about a year old.
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indeed. I don't understand this face-meeting obsession by air-mile-obsessed execs. Ok, I'm a small fry business, but I have contracts with companies all over the world, and I've never met anyone from any of them. My biggest partners have worked with me for a year and we never even spoke on the phone.
Business people need to get over this prehistoric desire to go pick fleas off fellow apes if they want to sign deals with them. We have broadband, phones, and webcams, you should be flying much less now for business than you did 10 years ago.
I see. I wonder if there are similar considerations to do with changes in the future that may, for example, affect our attempts to safely store nuclear waste?
None of this is a concern for wind, solar or wave power
the twin towers were designed to withstand being hit by a jumbo jet. as it goes, they didn't withstand it. I guess its hard to do real world tests of those situations. bummer eh?
because I need to do tech support for linux then, god knows how many distros. Besides, people who think the best payment model is paying for support cant seriously think that should be applied to games?
but its hardly a huge inconvenience, if you will buy an online-only game, then clearly that sort of restriction on a game does not upset you in practice.
You are refusing to buy it out of principle, which is fine, but which is why nobody makes single player games any more.
You are killing off games you would like to play, despite the fact that you have proved its really no big inconvenience to you.
excellent post. I don't even port my little indie games to linux, because its' not viable. Not that a lot of lunux gamers would be interested, but the general sense of entitlement to free games by people in that community means that the majority who wanted it would pirate it.
Its not just market share or driver support that results in less linux games, its the perception the community gives off that they will refuse to pay for software that convinces devs it's not worth porting.
I give it ten minutes before some dork makes a comment that the guy is just copying the wine and not taking it, and I bet $50k that the dork posting it has never run a software biz.
go torrent some movies little boy. you can tell your school chums you are "sticking it to the man!" fight those evil corporate enemies dude!!!!!!!!!!!!
so everyone who loses sales to thepiratebay is evil and greedy eh? welcome to the new world of the internet, where anyone can create new original pieces of entertainment and sell them to the entire world in digital form, freeing us from the tyranny of the few megacorps who controlled bricks and mortar! except it all falls apart because people like YOU are happy to steal from EVERYONE, including the independents and the little guys.
You still want to enjoy high quality entertainment, but you want tens of thousands of people to work to produce it while you spend not a single cent on it. And you have the fucking arrogance to call the content creators greedy? grow up.
how does a game like Bioshock or Call of Duty 4 get made under your system? because I loved both games and was happy to pay for them, yet you seem keen for that system to be smashed to pieces, and thus deprive me of being able to enjoy that kind of entertainment.
if you like free software,games and music, go and enjoy it. That's fine, nobody cares. Pirating copyrighted stuff on P2P just goes to show that that is exactly the kind of content people want. Free music and movies are not in the torrent sites top ten lists.
Also, my work is protected by copyright, and when you buy it from me, I get 90% of the money, so don't try and lump all copyright holders in together with this crap about the artists not getting paid.
hello anonymous coward. How do you expect the government should collect taxes? just leave a box on the desk and ask people to deposit the right amount? People like you make me wonder why the fuck I run my business honestly. Why should I give a fuck if I evade my taxes and schmucks like you pay more eh? fool.
so if a guy incorporate a business, he should be taxed to bits, but if he is making the same amount of money from home running an ebay store and keeps quiet, he is a hero and shouldn't pay a penny in tax?
slashdots crusade of 'anti-corporatism' makes zero sense.
the chunk of the economy that is accounted for by small businesses trading online is likely way bigger than 1%. And even that 1% of billions and billions of dollars no doubt.
I pay my taxes, but if you are to be believed we are better off as a society if I just don't pay a penny, and leech government services from dumb schmucks with a bricks and mortar business. That would be great for me, but shit for everyone else.
Would you rather pay tens of millions to employ loads of government tax inspectors to follow people around, or much less for automated statistical systems that could spot anomalies between someone's ebay earnings and the tax they pay, and flag that up for manual review? How is that not a reasonable system?
hold on, if you are supporting free software (by which I presume you mean free as in freeware, not pirated), surely you are 100% in favour of anything that turns people away from pirating commercial software, and encourages them to use free alternatives?
Surely all those threats to French pirates getting photoshop will make them try blender instead? Isn't that a good thing?
presumably to avoid tax fraud. if you are sat at home apparently out of work and claiming state benefits, but in practice have a major ebay store that brings in $80,000 a year, then the federal government would like to
1) tax you and 2) stop paying you benefits.
How is this not fair? Like many companies, I do most of my business on-line, and have no noticeable bricks and mortar premises. If it wasn't for banks reporting to the govt what I earned, I could pretend to be earning nothing, and pay not a penny in a tax. Am I missing something here? People really expect the govt to not be interested in small online businesses and taxing them?
basically people run games companies on the system of getting cheap graduates, treating them badly, and then replenishing them the minute they wise up and leave. This isn't a new thing at all. Of my msn contacts from when I was in retail AAA dev, 70% of my ex colleagues now work in other industries or for themselves. That's the problem.
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As I recall, this is already illegal countrywide in the UK.
why do some people think that 'the founding fathers' were space aliens with more wisdom than anyone who has lived since?
We had some old white men write important documents in UK history too. Most of them were maniacs or bloodthirsty freaks, and we don't cling to some fantasy that what they wrote down was THE LAST WORD.
In fact, we overturned their views many times, regarding votes for women and homosexuality, abortion etc etc.
Just because people wrote a document a long time ago doesn't make what they wrote magically wise.
if that is true, why does the US as a whole, with much more open gun laws, have higher rates of gun crime than the UK?
"Showing up in person is like wearing nice clothes to work"
I wear whatever I want to work, so do all my business partners and contractors, I presume, since I've never even seen pictures of them. Why do I care what they look like? So I can be judgemental about an artists looks or race/gender? I don't pay people to wink,nudge and wear a suit, I pay them to produce work.
Hi. Theres a single hard drive in there. a typical 'shipped with the box' PSU, no wireless card or anything fancy.
The PC is from mesh Computers, about a year old.
indeed. I don't understand this face-meeting obsession by air-mile-obsessed execs.
Ok, I'm a small fry business, but I have contracts with companies all over the world, and I've never met anyone from any of them. My biggest partners have worked with me for a year and we never even spoke on the phone.
Business people need to get over this prehistoric desire to go pick fleas off fellow apes if they want to sign deals with them. We have broadband, phones, and webcams, you should be flying much less now for business than you did 10 years ago.
I see. I wonder if there are similar considerations to do with changes in the future that may, for example, affect our attempts to safely store nuclear waste?
None of this is a concern for wind, solar or wave power
the twin towers were designed to withstand being hit by a jumbo jet.
as it goes, they didn't withstand it. I guess its hard to do real world tests of those situations.
bummer eh?
because I need to do tech support for linux then, god knows how many distros.
Besides, people who think the best payment model is paying for support cant seriously think that should be applied to games?
but its hardly a huge inconvenience, if you will buy an online-only game, then clearly that sort of restriction on a game does not upset you in practice.
You are refusing to buy it out of principle, which is fine, but which is why nobody makes single player games any more.
You are killing off games you would like to play, despite the fact that you have proved its really no big inconvenience to you.
do you play on-line games? or do you refuse to play them because they require an internet connection?
excellent post. I don't even port my little indie games to linux, because its' not viable. Not that a lot of lunux gamers would be interested, but the general sense of entitlement to free games by people in that community means that the majority who wanted it would pirate it.
Its not just market share or driver support that results in less linux games, its the perception the community gives off that they will refuse to pay for software that convinces devs it's not worth porting.
I give it ten minutes before some dork makes a comment that the guy is just copying the wine and not taking it, and I bet $50k that the dork posting it has never run a software biz.
go torrent some movies little boy. you can tell your school chums you are "sticking it to the man!"
fight those evil corporate enemies dude!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no arguing with idiots like you. You think you were born with an innate right to be entertained by other people at their expense.
I suggest you fucking grow up.
so everyone who loses sales to thepiratebay is evil and greedy eh?
welcome to the new world of the internet, where anyone can create new original pieces of entertainment and sell them to the entire world in digital form, freeing us from the tyranny of the few megacorps who controlled bricks and mortar!
except it all falls apart because people like YOU are happy to steal from EVERYONE, including the independents and the little guys.
You still want to enjoy high quality entertainment, but you want tens of thousands of people to work to produce it while you spend not a single cent on it.
And you have the fucking arrogance to call the content creators greedy?
grow up.
how does a game like Bioshock or Call of Duty 4 get made under your system?
because I loved both games and was happy to pay for them, yet you seem keen for that system to be smashed to pieces, and thus deprive me of being able to enjoy that kind of entertainment.
if you like free software,games and music, go and enjoy it. That's fine, nobody cares. Pirating copyrighted stuff on P2P just goes to show that that is exactly the kind of content people want. Free music and movies are not in the torrent sites top ten lists.
Also, my work is protected by copyright, and when you buy it from me, I get 90% of the money, so don't try and lump all copyright holders in together with this crap about the artists not getting paid.
hello anonymous coward. How do you expect the government should collect taxes? just leave a box on the desk and ask people to deposit the right amount?
People like you make me wonder why the fuck I run my business honestly. Why should I give a fuck if I evade my taxes and schmucks like you pay more eh?
fool.
so if a guy incorporate a business, he should be taxed to bits, but if he is making the same amount of money from home running an ebay store and keeps quiet, he is a hero and shouldn't pay a penny in tax?
slashdots crusade of 'anti-corporatism' makes zero sense.
madness.
so when 99% of commerce is done online. you are happy for the remaining 1% to pay the entire tax bill?
insanity.
the chunk of the economy that is accounted for by small businesses trading online is likely way bigger than 1%. And even that 1% of billions and billions of dollars no doubt.
I pay my taxes, but if you are to be believed we are better off as a society if I just don't pay a penny, and leech government services from dumb schmucks with a bricks and mortar business. That would be great for me, but shit for everyone else.
Would you rather pay tens of millions to employ loads of government tax inspectors to follow people around, or much less for automated statistical systems that could spot anomalies between someone's ebay earnings and the tax they pay, and flag that up for manual review?
How is that not a reasonable system?
you can sell your pc
you can loan it to friends
you can use a cyber cafe in emergencies.
hold on, if you are supporting free software (by which I presume you mean free as in freeware, not pirated), surely you are 100% in favour of anything that turns people away from pirating commercial software, and encourages them to use free alternatives?
Surely all those threats to French pirates getting photoshop will make them try blender instead?
Isn't that a good thing?
presumably to avoid tax fraud. if you are sat at home apparently out of work and claiming state benefits, but in practice have a major ebay store that brings in $80,000 a year, then the federal government would like to
1) tax you
and
2) stop paying you benefits.
How is this not fair? Like many companies, I do most of my business on-line, and have no noticeable bricks and mortar premises. If it wasn't for banks reporting to the govt what I earned, I could pretend to be earning nothing, and pay not a penny in a tax.
Am I missing something here? People really expect the govt to not be interested in small online businesses and taxing them?
GTA IV was made in Britain wasn't it?
It's a staff retention issue. I blogged in some depth about it here:
http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/?p=16
basically people run games companies on the system of getting cheap graduates, treating them badly, and then replenishing them the minute they wise up and leave. This isn't a new thing at all.
Of my msn contacts from when I was in retail AAA dev, 70% of my ex colleagues now work in other industries or for themselves. That's the problem.