Haha, awesome. I was waiting for this response somewhere along the way. I love the attitude, it's so great. It goes a long way towards explaining why Linux is taking so damn long to gain any kind of popularity outside of arrogant geeks.
Seems reasonable, really. Otherwise people who feel all entitled will start distributing the game on their own. All 2k wants to do is slow that down long enough to make a few bucks. I support them in this endeavor, although I realize I'm nearly alone on this site in believing people should be paid for making software.
You didn't demonstrate your conclusion at all, you simply supplied an anecdote (which frankly is backed by nothing more than your word, which is worth the bits that carried it to me.)
What I'm saying is you can't disprove something with such a fallacious technique. It doesn't work.
Just remember, your "mediocre content" is someone else's prime entertainment. Like it or not, no one person (and certainly no one person on Slashdot) has a handle on everyone's taste. To construct an argument around such a premise is frighteningly arrogant.
Why jump to the conclusion that anything was forgotten? It's in the RIAA's interest to delay paying until they have to, since that is money they can hold on to and put to work. Again, I find myself wondering how such an easy concept escapes the supposedly intelligent people who post here.
You make some good points, although they're somewhat orthogonal to the current setup of the legal system. Frankly, it's just not built to deal with technical issues on technical terms.
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Well holy fuck I'd hate for them to know I programmed something.
Ah, you mean the people that come to this American website to bitch and moan at us for not being them?
I don't know, I'm not a Christian either. Fuck them while I'm at it.
The terrorists have won. I guess I'd better start praising Allah and learning how to beat my wife.
Haha, awesome. I was waiting for this response somewhere along the way. I love the attitude, it's so great. It goes a long way towards explaining why Linux is taking so damn long to gain any kind of popularity outside of arrogant geeks.
You're demonstrating, in spectacular fashion, something my dad taught me when I was younger:
Opinions are like assholes, and so are you.
Seems reasonable, really. Otherwise people who feel all entitled will start distributing the game on their own. All 2k wants to do is slow that down long enough to make a few bucks. I support them in this endeavor, although I realize I'm nearly alone on this site in believing people should be paid for making software.
Some people ask me why I hate the term "FTW" ("for the win"). Simple: because it's a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"
Boy, if you're that sensitive the Internet is going to be a very bad experience for you.
Yep, and it's not a rootkit, so your whole comment is null and void. Congratulations on being a Slashdot stereotype.
Your rebuttal is nothing more than a personal assertion. Can you put some more substance into it, please?
You didn't demonstrate your conclusion at all, you simply supplied an anecdote (which frankly is backed by nothing more than your word, which is worth the bits that carried it to me.)
What I'm saying is you can't disprove something with such a fallacious technique. It doesn't work.
You sort of got the point and missed it at the same time, then went all aggro about it. Very entertaining.
Just remember, your "mediocre content" is someone else's prime entertainment. Like it or not, no one person (and certainly no one person on Slashdot) has a handle on everyone's taste. To construct an argument around such a premise is frighteningly arrogant.
Yeah, everything you've never actually done is easy.
Because "she" is a machine as well?
Sorry, had to swing at the slow pitch...
To be sure there are exceptions, but in general, men are larger and stronger that women. Life is not a Joss Whedon TV show.
I don't believe the arguments of anyone who uses "thou" as a shortcut for "though."
Also, your argument was debunked above you, thanks for playing.
I always thought declaring something that is morally ambiguous to be evil was stupid.
Why am I so certain the Apple iCar would have one pedal, and you'd have to press a modifier button (on the steering wheel?) to use the brake?
I'm willing to bet you're in an extreme minority, I don't have anything to back that up, but I would certainly lay money down.
I've been hoping for a story to bring out the paranoid crowd. They are my favorites.
I'd have to think that for the most part, this would end up tracking cabs.
Sorta like Democrats, Socialists, Communists, and Soviets, right?
Frankly, bullshit. People have different tastes, you know. What's shit to you isn't necessarily shit to other people.
Why jump to the conclusion that anything was forgotten? It's in the RIAA's interest to delay paying until they have to, since that is money they can hold on to and put to work. Again, I find myself wondering how such an easy concept escapes the supposedly intelligent people who post here.
You make some good points, although they're somewhat orthogonal to the current setup of the legal system. Frankly, it's just not built to deal with technical issues on technical terms.