If I ever begin a literary career, I'll be pushing my books into P2P networks myself. Mindshare is how you generate an audience and sales, and having people download your stuff is how you generate mindshare. A download is not a lost sale, it is a future sale in the making.
You'll have trouble finding a publisher who's OK with you giving your books away.
I'm not sure intellectual property fits in that definition. However, giving away stuff that could be sold doesn't seem capitalist to me. Which is far from scary.
No one giving a crap about their community, that's the way to go. It isn't only about keeping yourself safe from gangs, it's also about keeping those lives from being wasted on crime when they could have fulfilling lives and do something productive.
I didn't mind his articles. Nor am I outraged by him linking to his blog (mainly because I don't RTFA). However, I am pissed at the idiots who turned the discussion on his submissions into rants against Roland, taking away from the usual interesting debate. Guess this is the end of it.
That's because the classic and always-amusing GNAA press releases get caught by the lameness filter now. Which is a damn shame, they were always a good read.
I'll second that, now all we get are lame, unfunny racist trolls.
However I can't think of a better way to play Diablo or some other hack&slash than with a wiimote that carefully translates your actions into sword movements
Are you kidding? Going from *click*click*click*click* to *swing*swing*swing*swing* would make your arm fall off after 5 minutes.
Calming? A friend of mine has one of those lights outside his house, it makes me feel like I'm in an alien ship about to be probed. Probably drives bored youths to take their business elsewhere.
Actually, it's past that stage of communism. It's more like the communist ideal: all forms of control abolished, people contribute out of good will and the sense of reward they get.
It's not a free market in the sense of profit and labor since, as you say, most people contribute out of good will. What he meant might be better described by natural selection: what works, spreads.
It is like when 20 farm workers are replaced by a mechanized piece of farm machinery, they don't just starve and die. Those twenty farm workers end up operating, repairing, and building those pieces of farm machinery instead of breaking their backs in a field and every benefits from the productivity increase.
Code? All we have is the hex (quaternary, rather) code, and a crude disassembly (the aminoacids that correspond to each triplet). That's like saying a hexdump of an executable counts as code. God is a closed-source monopolist!
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That contradicts other explanations in this discussion, where did you read that?
If I ever begin a literary career, I'll be pushing my books into P2P networks myself. Mindshare is how you generate an audience and sales, and having people download your stuff is how you generate mindshare. A download is not a lost sale, it is a future sale in the making.
You'll have trouble finding a publisher who's OK with you giving your books away.
I'm not sure intellectual property fits in that definition. However, giving away stuff that could be sold doesn't seem capitalist to me. Which is far from scary.
No one giving a crap about their community, that's the way to go. It isn't only about keeping yourself safe from gangs, it's also about keeping those lives from being wasted on crime when they could have fulfilling lives and do something productive.
Or Arubix, if we were talking about another tropical island...
Raul, obviously, didnt think this one through properly
Or... the whole nova thing is a myth and this just proves it.
Good point. Why the hell does slashdot report this?
Right. Traffic.
How much RFI does this type of device cause
As some guy before me said, "first they came for the hams, and I didn't speak up because finally they would stop bitching about RFI"
I didn't mind his articles. Nor am I outraged by him linking to his blog (mainly because I don't RTFA). However, I am pissed at the idiots who turned the discussion on his submissions into rants against Roland, taking away from the usual interesting debate. Guess this is the end of it.
So? Why on earth are you reading the article anyways?
That's because the classic and always-amusing GNAA press releases get caught by the lameness filter now. Which is a damn shame, they were always a good read.
I'll second that, now all we get are lame, unfunny racist trolls.
However I can't think of a better way to play Diablo or some other hack&slash than with a wiimote that carefully translates your actions into sword movements
Are you kidding? Going from *click*click*click*click* to *swing*swing*swing*swing* would make your arm fall off after 5 minutes.
Calming? A friend of mine has one of those lights outside his house, it makes me feel like I'm in an alien ship about to be probed. Probably drives bored youths to take their business elsewhere.
Bonus points if it takes out the street lights
Duh, it's in hex
Bollocks
Although I vaguely recall that this kind of operations are necessary for quantum computing
Actually, it's past that stage of communism. It's more like the communist ideal: all forms of control abolished, people contribute out of good will and the sense of reward they get.
It's not a free market in the sense of profit and labor since, as you say, most people contribute out of good will. What he meant might be better described by natural selection: what works, spreads.
The only way to stop it is mass murder and book burning.
Yeah, it sure worked against the mayans.
Yeah, communism sucks so we should adopt cut-throat capitalism.
Get a grip
It is like when 20 farm workers are replaced by a mechanized piece of farm machinery, they don't just starve and die. Those twenty farm workers end up operating, repairing, and building those pieces of farm machinery instead of breaking their backs in a field and every benefits from the productivity increase.
Your farm workers must be smarter than ours...
They sound harmless now but once they've taken your jobs you'll be screaming for laws against our cheap labor spider overlords.
Code? All we have is the hex (quaternary, rather) code, and a crude disassembly (the aminoacids that correspond to each triplet). That's like saying a hexdump of an executable counts as code. God is a closed-source monopolist!
Whenever I see a moderation like (Score:0, Funny) I feel "I'm about to laugh at something I should be offended by"
I agree, it's like if they made a fractal building. Sure, it's cool and original, but give the designer an award and use something less extravagant.