Do you honestly think the RIAA needs to prove that people will take for free instead of paying? It's not really ever been in doubt. Lots of people are greedy for entertainment. It's only unrealistic places like Slashdot that try to propagate the myth that it's somehow noble.
I should have expected everyone to hop on and whine about the danger, but it still took me surprise. I don't know why I thought there would be people who understood the idea of having a nice heavy pair of cojones here.
Nothing in the Free Software defintion requires that you give source code away. Just that if you distribute binaries (whether gratis or for $1,000 a copy) you have to also distribute the source to those same people. I don't see that including a source CD-ROM with a CD-ROM of binaries that you might charge $1,000 for qualifies as "giving away" either.
This is disingenuous, however, because you also have to give the right to redistribute the software and source. You may sell a copy or two, but it will be available for free in short order, and your business is done.
You're wrong. He's entitled to the software at whatever price he wants to pay. It's a matter of freedom to take as you wish and give nothing back. Are you an enemy of freedom?
It's the music. It's all about the music. Very few people are interested in a rhythm game with music they've never heard before. For that matter, I found most of the Guitar Freaks soundtrack to be awful. Just not the kind of stuff I'd be interested in at all.
Guitar Hero, on the other hand, includes songs many people here know and love. Rock Band is looking to juice that up to levels heretofore undreamt. That's the only "secret" really.
There's something fundamentally sick about a society that thinks there's something wrong with pointing out where somebody did something right. Simply brushing things aside as "that's what was expected" while continuing to flagellate those who do wrong is a half-assed way to approach things.
Why is it my job (metaphorically speaking) to ensure those who are disabled can use my facilities? Why isn't it their job to somehow adapt? Is it my fault someone else can't see, hear, walk, or think clearly? Frankly, too bad on them. You got a shitty roll of the dice. Life sucks.
Nerds can't be objective. One of the key defining characteristics is that they think they know everything, and along with that comes the need to spread the good word.
I'll see your "Other people have it much worse" and raise you "Fix your own damn problems before you bitch about mine."
That don't fly on Slashdot, son. This is where all the armchair leaders propose their idealistic unworkable solutions, barely understandable in most cases, for everyone to use as a guide to life. This website, more than anywhere else on the Internet, is the epitome of "if only everyone lived the way I told them too, everything would be perfect."
One, you're disseminating false information. You're gonna get kicked for that.
Two, you're reading anger where there is none. Psychologically speaking, this means you're the angry one. Instead of taking it out on Slashdot, go see a counselor.
This thousand dollar fine isn't too severe, particularly when it's easy to avoid. I think you're just the type of person who has to keep arguing every little point until you run out of steam.
The problem with both points of view? The word evil.
The truth of the matter is, no matter what your economy, there will always be the rich and powerful at the top, and whiners at the bottom. Why pander to them if they aren't going to shut up anyway?
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I don't see what the sexual orientation of numbers has to do with anything
Do you honestly think the RIAA needs to prove that people will take for free instead of paying? It's not really ever been in doubt. Lots of people are greedy for entertainment. It's only unrealistic places like Slashdot that try to propagate the myth that it's somehow noble.
I should have expected everyone to hop on and whine about the danger, but it still took me surprise. I don't know why I thought there would be people who understood the idea of having a nice heavy pair of cojones here.
Or the headline, or any other comments.
You are of course aware that plugging headphones into a television or even directly into a DVD player also works just fine, right?
Nothing in the Free Software defintion requires that you give source code away. Just that if you distribute binaries (whether gratis or for $1,000 a copy) you have to also distribute the source to those same people. I don't see that including a source CD-ROM with a CD-ROM of binaries that you might charge $1,000 for qualifies as "giving away" either.
This is disingenuous, however, because you also have to give the right to redistribute the software and source. You may sell a copy or two, but it will be available for free in short order, and your business is done.
You're wrong. He's entitled to the software at whatever price he wants to pay. It's a matter of freedom to take as you wish and give nothing back. Are you an enemy of freedom?
It's the music. It's all about the music. Very few people are interested in a rhythm game with music they've never heard before. For that matter, I found most of the Guitar Freaks soundtrack to be awful. Just not the kind of stuff I'd be interested in at all.
Guitar Hero, on the other hand, includes songs many people here know and love. Rock Band is looking to juice that up to levels heretofore undreamt. That's the only "secret" really.
Mistakes are not necessarily incompetence, and admitting to them is desirable. Why pretend otherwise?
The expectation of perfection is an element that needs to be eliminated
There's something fundamentally sick about a society that thinks there's something wrong with pointing out where somebody did something right. Simply brushing things aside as "that's what was expected" while continuing to flagellate those who do wrong is a half-assed way to approach things.
Could you let me know how to place these free ads on Google? I have a few things I'd like to see, and a free ad is just the ticket.
This isn't going to be a popular opinion at all.
Why is it my job (metaphorically speaking) to ensure those who are disabled can use my facilities? Why isn't it their job to somehow adapt? Is it my fault someone else can't see, hear, walk, or think clearly? Frankly, too bad on them. You got a shitty roll of the dice. Life sucks.
Introspection.
Nerds can't be objective. One of the key defining characteristics is that they think they know everything, and along with that comes the need to spread the good word.
You have excellent priorities.
I'll see your "Other people have it much worse" and raise you "Fix your own damn problems before you bitch about mine."
That don't fly on Slashdot, son. This is where all the armchair leaders propose their idealistic unworkable solutions, barely understandable in most cases, for everyone to use as a guide to life. This website, more than anywhere else on the Internet, is the epitome of "if only everyone lived the way I told them too, everything would be perfect."
The line appears to be: if there's a chance anyone anywhere made a buck from something, it's gotta be evil.
I don't consider myself to be rich and powerful at all. Where did you get that?
My opinion, to be quite frank, is that nothing actually will ever work to everyone's satisfaction. I think people just like to whine.
Two things:
One, you're disseminating false information. You're gonna get kicked for that.
Two, you're reading anger where there is none. Psychologically speaking, this means you're the angry one. Instead of taking it out on Slashdot, go see a counselor.
This thousand dollar fine isn't too severe, particularly when it's easy to avoid. I think you're just the type of person who has to keep arguing every little point until you run out of steam.
The problem with both points of view? The word evil.
The truth of the matter is, no matter what your economy, there will always be the rich and powerful at the top, and whiners at the bottom. Why pander to them if they aren't going to shut up anyway?
Reading that hurt my head. Try not to do that again.
Naturally, someone on Slashdot was offended by that assertion.
Nothing like using an utterly unrealistic example to make a point.