Most of the time, when I help out people with computer problems, I get at least a thank you. Probably the best thing I've received was when I thoroughly constructively critiqued someone's web site, and fixed a minor table error for him. This is something I just happened to do because I was bored one day. He was so grateful that he ended up sending me a Wacom Graphire tablet.
Sure, he said he didn't really like it or need it, but I was very grateful for having received it. I still use it to this day.
The small amount of music I've downloaded from Napster has actually GENERATED sales for the music labels from me. When the Napster of old was still alive & kickin', I could actually download & listen to music which wasn't spoonfed to me over the corporate radio waves. I discovered great music that I would never have been given a chance to hear otherwise.
I'm not one who wishes to leave the artists high & dry. At the time I downloaded the music for free from Napster, I could not afford to pay for the music. However, when the time came that i COULD afford it, I gladly handed over my cash so I could support the artists of MY choice. It's just too bad that most of the dollar goes to the record label cartels, who get rich by legally robbing the very people who keep them alive.
Now those cartels are demanding a minimum 26 cent raise in price for legitimate music downloads?! I've purchased a good deal of music from the ITMS, and plan on purchasing more in the future. However, this will NOT be the case if the price is raised. I will NOT spend more than.99 cents for a single track of music, especially when there is no physical storage supplied (such as a CD, tape, or 8-track). I will not support an industry whose greed is unchecked, leaves skilled and talented people broke & in ruins on a regular basis, and continues to subject people to cheap crap passed off as the best of the best.
Again, the same can pretty much be said about the majority of mainstream news outlets. They all regularly just regurgitate each other's stories, in many cases mucking up the facts to varying degrees. They get much of their filler from various sources such as Associated Press and Reuters. Slashdot does tend to link to other stories many times, but there are also many cases where it generates its own content. The ability for people to comment on each story allows the reader to get many other different perspectives, thus creating a clearer picture in the readers own mind about what's really going on, which gives them the ability to come to a more informed conclusion.
Excuse me, but BULLSHIT this isn't a "real" news source! I trust this source of news more than all the cable & local news programs COMBINED. (Fox News just puts it over the top...)
I've found out more about what's really going on in the world in the past couple of months on Slashdot, than "mainstream" news sources have even DARED to cover in the past couple of years.
As for "Linking to other networks and sites (not making) you a legitimate news site", I guess that leaves supposedly "legit" newspapers, television (broadcast & cable), and most of the internet up shit creek without even a canoe...
Mod up or down as you wish, but there it is...
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Most of the time, when I help out people with computer problems, I get at least a thank you. Probably the best thing I've received was when I thoroughly constructively critiqued someone's web site, and fixed a minor table error for him. This is something I just happened to do because I was bored one day. He was so grateful that he ended up sending me a Wacom Graphire tablet.
Sure, he said he didn't really like it or need it, but I was very grateful for having received it. I still use it to this day.
The small amount of music I've downloaded from Napster has actually GENERATED sales for the music labels from me. When the Napster of old was still alive & kickin', I could actually download & listen to music which wasn't spoonfed to me over the corporate radio waves. I discovered great music that I would never have been given a chance to hear otherwise. I'm not one who wishes to leave the artists high & dry. At the time I downloaded the music for free from Napster, I could not afford to pay for the music. However, when the time came that i COULD afford it, I gladly handed over my cash so I could support the artists of MY choice. It's just too bad that most of the dollar goes to the record label cartels, who get rich by legally robbing the very people who keep them alive. Now those cartels are demanding a minimum 26 cent raise in price for legitimate music downloads?! I've purchased a good deal of music from the ITMS, and plan on purchasing more in the future. However, this will NOT be the case if the price is raised. I will NOT spend more than .99 cents for a single track of music, especially when there is no physical storage supplied (such as a CD, tape, or 8-track). I will not support an industry whose greed is unchecked, leaves skilled and talented people broke & in ruins on a regular basis, and continues to subject people to cheap crap passed off as the best of the best.
Actually, it's not, and it's for sale now.
While it wasn't a Divx encoding, I just put together a (90 minute) full length computer animated movie, and it looks GOOD!
Again, the same can pretty much be said about the majority of mainstream news outlets. They all regularly just regurgitate each other's stories, in many cases mucking up the facts to varying degrees. They get much of their filler from various sources such as Associated Press and Reuters. Slashdot does tend to link to other stories many times, but there are also many cases where it generates its own content. The ability for people to comment on each story allows the reader to get many other different perspectives, thus creating a clearer picture in the readers own mind about what's really going on, which gives them the ability to come to a more informed conclusion.
Excuse me, but BULLSHIT this isn't a "real" news source! I trust this source of news more than all the cable & local news programs COMBINED. (Fox News just puts it over the top...) I've found out more about what's really going on in the world in the past couple of months on Slashdot, than "mainstream" news sources have even DARED to cover in the past couple of years. As for "Linking to other networks and sites (not making) you a legitimate news site", I guess that leaves supposedly "legit" newspapers, television (broadcast & cable), and most of the internet up shit creek without even a canoe... Mod up or down as you wish, but there it is...