Are these the Mac users who aren't on the Internet? The ones I've met online have certainly been a humorless bunch about their chosen corporate masters, for sure.
Come on, don't act naive. "Homebrew" is code for pirating and emulating old games, and "backups" is code for pirating new games. Now you have your education.
Company A spends 5 million dollars researching how to design and manufacture widgets. They release it into the market. Company B then buy one of the first run, spends 100,000 dollars reverse engineering it, and sells it for 25% of the price Company A offers. Company A now goes out of business.
It's really not that hard to understand, unless you're on Slashdot, where everything someone else came up with is obvious and stupid, but only once they've come up with it.
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You're right. All we need if we want everything to be perfect is for everyone to be perfect. Totally achievable.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You have to hate anything that other people like if you want to be nerdcool.
I was waiting for the M$ joke, personally.
Personally, I come here to watch these little bitchfights. Nerdsniping is just amusing to me.
You know, you don't speak for everyone at Slashdot either.
Yeah, here's the justification: there is no reasonable expectation of Applefan approved behavior from the public at large. How's that one fit?
real Mac users usually have a good sense of humor
Are these the Mac users who aren't on the Internet? The ones I've met online have certainly been a humorless bunch about their chosen corporate masters, for sure.
You'd better learn to love disappointment.
Come on, don't act naive. "Homebrew" is code for pirating and emulating old games, and "backups" is code for pirating new games. Now you have your education.
I think you guys draw sustenance from your paranoid fantasies, somehow.
Your legal knowledge is astounding.
Don't worry, even though you were dead wrong you still got modded up. Gotta love Slashdot.
Here's a hypothetical situation:
Company A spends 5 million dollars researching how to design and manufacture widgets. They release it into the market. Company B then buy one of the first run, spends 100,000 dollars reverse engineering it, and sells it for 25% of the price Company A offers. Company A now goes out of business.
It's really not that hard to understand, unless you're on Slashdot, where everything someone else came up with is obvious and stupid, but only once they've come up with it.
It's kinda like the Special Olympics, no matter who wins, they're both retarded.
That would be a very interesting business decision, to say the least.
You admitted directly in your post that you don't buy every game, so you refuted your own closing point before you made it. At least be consistent.
Who said it was?
Lord Stallman, for one.
Yes, that was the joke. Also moran, to further grind it into the dirt. It's dead. Happy now?
I just looked over Comcast's marketing materials for broadband Internet, and I never once saw even an implication of unlimited transfer.
Rioting over Internet access? If that's not the most overblown suggestion I've seen yet on Slashdot, I'm not sure what would be.
Wow, you haven't wandered far off-topic at all.
Tell me, is everything you can't do simple?
Why do you, or any other techie, deserve the job more?
Nothing lends itself to overanalysis like an advertisement.