No, in general. Slashdot is a bad place to make points like this, because there's a definite nerdish tendency to be different for the sake of being different (and then complaining that everyone else isn't the same, stupidly enough.)
See, I personally pick technology based on what does the job I need it to do. The ideology isn't really worth considering, in my opinion. I have a feeling lots of people work this same way. So if PDF and MP3 meet my needs, that's what I'm gonna use.
This one is neither. It does what it is intended to do. This entire article is complaining about the drive not working in a situation it wasn't intended for.
You're not realizing something here - this is what the geeks want to be true. It's like the ultimate "I told you so" and they can't wait to scream it from their graves.
And by "impede everyone's effort to innovate" you mean "impede everyone's effort to copy other people's successes without putting in the work to come up with them in the first place" right? Because patents pretty much force people to innovate.
It's Cricton. His collected works make up the Luddite's bible. It goes something like this: scientists make technology, demonstrate arrogance and lack of foresight, people die, and the reader's brain is injured by his clunky writing and inability to conceive a plot that doesn't telegraph itself from the dust jacket.
You know what Firefly is? It's Luc Besson through the eyes of Joss Whedon, ten years after Luc did it. It's an amalgamation of all Luc's characters, thrown in a western and set in space. With added bonus of the pantywaist male bitch (the extra sensitive doctor) that Joss can't seem to avoid writing in. Probably to represent himself, based on interviews he's given.
It wasn't even sci fi. It just had a sci fi setting. It would have been exactly the same show set in 1800s Oklahoma, and I still would have been bored watching it.
Since Wikipedia itself claims to only be a compilation and not a definitive source of information, I have a hard time seeing the problem. They aren't responsible for other people's perceptions. Trying to make them so is fairly disingenuous.
Of course, why not hammer them for it anyway? It's the human thing to do.
If I download a copy of the Koran through Project Gutenberg and put that on my Kindle, am I going to be paid a visit by Homeland Security if I view the wrong passages too many times?
No.
Or what if I spend too much time reading a copy of "The Communist Manifesto"?
Also no.
Can you imagine if information could have been tracked like that during the McCarthy era?
Maybe the same thing would have happened, maybe. Who knows? Shoulda, coulda, woulda is a bankrupt exercise.
Clearly, you are an economic genius. These advertisers must have the secret to an inexhaustible fund of money they don't need to get from anyone else. Brilliant.
Don't you wish that were true. All it really means is that you and the GP have at least a few prejudices that line up. Of course in many people's minds, agreement of opinion is equivalent to intelligence. Not so in reality, but why let that get in the way.
I love these stories so much, reading the tortured logic, absurd dystopian predictions, and whiny entitled cries of "entertain me!"
It really makes my day.
Of course, the central point ignored by the greedy entertainment collectors who don't wish to pay for the collection is the underlying truth that if you remove the economic incentive to create entertainment, people aren't going to do it any more. But ignore that! For now, the majority of people do the right thing and pay, so you get to freeload off of them as well. It's win-win! You get something for nothing! What more can you ask for than to have your lifestyle subsidized by the decent hardworking people you claim to represent?
Probably because putting the movie in the drive and watching it isn't exactly being treated like shit. I guess I should rage against the publishers who don't want me to put their content on the Internet for everyone to freeload, but I just can't work up the righteous lather over it.
To me there is no greater crime than the one that involves planning and execution, breaking and skirting security measures, taking advantage of and defrauding thousands if not millions of people, and doing so with a sense of entitlement.
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Let us all know when you finally get laid.
No, in general. Slashdot is a bad place to make points like this, because there's a definite nerdish tendency to be different for the sake of being different (and then complaining that everyone else isn't the same, stupidly enough.)
See, I personally pick technology based on what does the job I need it to do. The ideology isn't really worth considering, in my opinion. I have a feeling lots of people work this same way. So if PDF and MP3 meet my needs, that's what I'm gonna use.
This one is neither. It does what it is intended to do. This entire article is complaining about the drive not working in a situation it wasn't intended for.
It's a Slashdot ookie cookie, in other words.
You're not realizing something here - this is what the geeks want to be true. It's like the ultimate "I told you so" and they can't wait to scream it from their graves.
And by "impede everyone's effort to innovate" you mean "impede everyone's effort to copy other people's successes without putting in the work to come up with them in the first place" right? Because patents pretty much force people to innovate.
Care to 'splain what you mean by that?
For the sake of discussion, what would you suggest, and what benefits would it bring to the process?
It's Cricton. His collected works make up the Luddite's bible. It goes something like this: scientists make technology, demonstrate arrogance and lack of foresight, people die, and the reader's brain is injured by his clunky writing and inability to conceive a plot that doesn't telegraph itself from the dust jacket.
You know what Firefly is? It's Luc Besson through the eyes of Joss Whedon, ten years after Luc did it. It's an amalgamation of all Luc's characters, thrown in a western and set in space. With added bonus of the pantywaist male bitch (the extra sensitive doctor) that Joss can't seem to avoid writing in. Probably to represent himself, based on interviews he's given.
It wasn't even sci fi. It just had a sci fi setting. It would have been exactly the same show set in 1800s Oklahoma, and I still would have been bored watching it.
Because it's a human tendency to find exactly what you're looking for.
Since Wikipedia itself claims to only be a compilation and not a definitive source of information, I have a hard time seeing the problem. They aren't responsible for other people's perceptions. Trying to make them so is fairly disingenuous.
Of course, why not hammer them for it anyway? It's the human thing to do.
If I download a copy of the Koran through Project Gutenberg and put that on my Kindle, am I going to be paid a visit by Homeland Security if I view the wrong passages too many times?
No.
Or what if I spend too much time reading a copy of "The Communist Manifesto"?
Also no.
Can you imagine if information could have been tracked like that during the McCarthy era?
Maybe the same thing would have happened, maybe. Who knows? Shoulda, coulda, woulda is a bankrupt exercise.
Yeah, sarcasm works really well on the Internet.
(see what I did there?)
Very Slashdot of you to put your sex-monitoring chip in your hand.
If the reshuffling introduces something many people find useful, who are you to tell them they're wrong?
That's my basic problem with language zealots.
Clearly, you are an economic genius. These advertisers must have the secret to an inexhaustible fund of money they don't need to get from anyone else. Brilliant.
Yes, exactly. Our right to take the work of others and do with it as we wish with no compensation whatsoever is being usurped. The bastards.
Don't you wish that were true. All it really means is that you and the GP have at least a few prejudices that line up. Of course in many people's minds, agreement of opinion is equivalent to intelligence. Not so in reality, but why let that get in the way.
I love these stories so much, reading the tortured logic, absurd dystopian predictions, and whiny entitled cries of "entertain me!"
It really makes my day.
Of course, the central point ignored by the greedy entertainment collectors who don't wish to pay for the collection is the underlying truth that if you remove the economic incentive to create entertainment, people aren't going to do it any more. But ignore that! For now, the majority of people do the right thing and pay, so you get to freeload off of them as well. It's win-win! You get something for nothing! What more can you ask for than to have your lifestyle subsidized by the decent hardworking people you claim to represent?
Probably because putting the movie in the drive and watching it isn't exactly being treated like shit. I guess I should rage against the publishers who don't want me to put their content on the Internet for everyone to freeload, but I just can't work up the righteous lather over it.
You only get to do that if the joke was funny.
What's more absolute than saying "Only the Sith deal in absolutes"?
Nethack is infinitely more sophisticated, varied, and engrossing than any MMO.
To a very narrow segment of the population, yes. To many, it's offputting and quite boring.
To me there is no greater crime than the one that involves planning and execution, breaking and skirting security measures, taking advantage of and defrauding thousands if not millions of people, and doing so with a sense of entitlement.
Holy shit are your priorities fucked.