No, you're missing the point, apparently. What you're hinting at comes dangerously close to dictating other people's programming methodology. Making full use of the tools available doesn't mean everyone has to do it the one true way. There are many ways to solve many problems, and everyone has a different set of balanced requirements which are best solved by different tools. You don't know everyone's answer better than everyone else.
Which all boils down to: if it works for you, go for it. Waiting for it to be popular is for people who listen to Britney Spears. Popularity has nothing to do with merit in engineering.
Maybe presenting the idea of tracking your preference for free entertainment as a way of making up for other things I (as a country) might be doing wrong was a little too subtle, although I thought the relation to the story was sort of obvious. I'll break out the rhetorical sledgehammer next time.
Excellent, so free entertainment makes up for any multitude of sins. It's good to know you're amongst the easily distracted. That information will be most useful.
there's variations on communes like employee-owned businesses
How is an employee owned business like a commune? I have stock in my employer. Do I work in a commune? I need to understand what the heck you're trying to say here, because it's not too clear to me and I'm curious.
Intellectual property is a straw man argument
Just declaring that out loud doesn't make it so. I can wish away murder laws all I want, but that doesn't mean I have the right to kill.
That's right, you need to actually give evidence on this, otherwise it's recognized as FUD.
The tendency of Linux zealots on Slashdot to call everything FUD as a defense has weakened the term to me. I now recognize it as meaning "I am afraid of what this person is saying." Particularly when it's used as the answer to an honest question, which seems to be a fairly typical response around here. The problem, as I see it, is the fact that the Linux zealotry community is deadset in the belief that they couldn't possibly be wrong about anything. I assume it's some sort of psychological block common to nerds everywhere. I've never met a nerd who could admit he was wrong.
This isn't meant to comment on problems in Linux as a system, free software as a philosophy, or any other near and dear concept. I've said it over and over here, it's the people. The community ruined Linux for me. It's my own fault for being an extremely technical non-nerd.
Hope springs eternal, apparently. All your "team" needs to realize is that when a word is clumsy in pronunciation (such as mebibyte) people won't use it.
Nobody ever gets paid for anything but their time, because time is the only thing with intrinsic value anyone possesses. You can be sick of it until the end of time, but everything gets factored down to it eventually.
Apparently it only works that way if you acquiesce to it, however, since I live in the USA and don't find myself subject to the conditions you seem to think I must be. Of course, I also don't spend my time wishfully believing it must be better elsewhere. I just live by my terms and things seem to work out.
It must be awful to put yourself into horrible conditions because you believe that's how things must be. Fortunately for myself, I don't stand for that.
God, every time I read that site I'm more amazed at just how insufferably arrogant it is. It's like reading Jack Chick's site. Nothing is worse than the condensed opinions of people who are convinced they cannot be wrong, despite the fact there is no objective measure proving any such thing.
Why are the people who make up a corporation somehow less worthy in your eyes than other people? Where is the line drawn in your particular double standard? Is it based on something as mundane as net worth or income, or do you have a more complicated set of criteria?
When's the last time a game got a 0, 1, or 2? I've played games that might have gotten a 6 or 7 that I think deserved a 2 or 3....I check some game review sites, like IGN...
No reason to take that tone, really. You are only correct in certain spheres of influence, and this website isn't within those spheres, so your attitude is what is unacceptable here.
It all comes down to "don't be a dick." I understand that's hard to do in the face of an easy slam against America, but try to hold down your insecurities for a few seconds and the urge will pass.
So what you're saying is that it's imperative that Microsoft be forced to provide a product which you consider substandard?
I don't know that you paid attention to the logical conclusions of your own statements, and in any case, this was a possible course of action which they didn't even take. I've seen some crazily ridiculous MS bashing here on Slashdot, but to start a circle jerk over an action they rejected 10 years ago is a new low.
Slashdot is populated by nerds, and one of the defining characteristics of a nerd (and also one of the reasons no one likes a nerd) is that they are never wrong.
Don't go looking for contrition here. You'd have an easier time learning evolution in a tent revival.
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No, you're missing the point, apparently. What you're hinting at comes dangerously close to dictating other people's programming methodology. Making full use of the tools available doesn't mean everyone has to do it the one true way. There are many ways to solve many problems, and everyone has a different set of balanced requirements which are best solved by different tools. You don't know everyone's answer better than everyone else.
Which all boils down to: if it works for you, go for it. Waiting for it to be popular is for people who listen to Britney Spears. Popularity has nothing to do with merit in engineering.
You win the topic. Everything else is masturbation.
Thank you for mentioning it. I was scratching a hole in my head wondering just how far sideways I'd tilted.
Don't forget rampant zealotry and useless pseudoclever snide commentary.
Maybe presenting the idea of tracking your preference for free entertainment as a way of making up for other things I (as a country) might be doing wrong was a little too subtle, although I thought the relation to the story was sort of obvious. I'll break out the rhetorical sledgehammer next time.
I'm sure you're already aware of this, but in case you aren't: Restating the premise doesn't answer the question.
If I were here a little earlier, I'd say "cue the apologists" but apparently they've already started...
Excellent, so free entertainment makes up for any multitude of sins. It's good to know you're amongst the easily distracted. That information will be most useful.
there's variations on communes like employee-owned businesses
How is an employee owned business like a commune? I have stock in my employer. Do I work in a commune? I need to understand what the heck you're trying to say here, because it's not too clear to me and I'm curious.
Intellectual property is a straw man argument
Just declaring that out loud doesn't make it so. I can wish away murder laws all I want, but that doesn't mean I have the right to kill.
That's right, you need to actually give evidence on this, otherwise it's recognized as FUD.
The tendency of Linux zealots on Slashdot to call everything FUD as a defense has weakened the term to me. I now recognize it as meaning "I am afraid of what this person is saying." Particularly when it's used as the answer to an honest question, which seems to be a fairly typical response around here. The problem, as I see it, is the fact that the Linux zealotry community is deadset in the belief that they couldn't possibly be wrong about anything. I assume it's some sort of psychological block common to nerds everywhere. I've never met a nerd who could admit he was wrong.
This isn't meant to comment on problems in Linux as a system, free software as a philosophy, or any other near and dear concept. I've said it over and over here, it's the people. The community ruined Linux for me. It's my own fault for being an extremely technical non-nerd.
Hope springs eternal, apparently. All your "team" needs to realize is that when a word is clumsy in pronunciation (such as mebibyte) people won't use it.
Nobody ever gets paid for anything but their time, because time is the only thing with intrinsic value anyone possesses. You can be sick of it until the end of time, but everything gets factored down to it eventually.
I like your justification for pirating games. Sure, it smells like your ass, but since you pulled it from there, that's to be expected.
Apparently you aren't sure if "ads" has an apostrophe or not. I'll help you get off the fence on this one: it doesn't.
Apparently it only works that way if you acquiesce to it, however, since I live in the USA and don't find myself subject to the conditions you seem to think I must be. Of course, I also don't spend my time wishfully believing it must be better elsewhere. I just live by my terms and things seem to work out.
It must be awful to put yourself into horrible conditions because you believe that's how things must be. Fortunately for myself, I don't stand for that.
Warioware also uses the Miis stored on the system. There may be others, but I have no idea.
My point still remains. Your denial that it means anything doesn't diminish it at all.
God, every time I read that site I'm more amazed at just how insufferably arrogant it is. It's like reading Jack Chick's site. Nothing is worse than the condensed opinions of people who are convinced they cannot be wrong, despite the fact there is no objective measure proving any such thing.
Not one that worked system wide in any game that chose to use it.
I wouldn't say curmudgeonly. I'd say typical Slashdottian jackassery.
Why are the people who make up a corporation somehow less worthy in your eyes than other people? Where is the line drawn in your particular double standard? Is it based on something as mundane as net worth or income, or do you have a more complicated set of criteria?
When's the last time a game got a 0, 1, or 2? I've played games that might have gotten a 6 or 7 that I think deserved a 2 or 3. ...I check some game review sites, like IGN...
I think we've found your problem.
No reason to take that tone, really. You are only correct in certain spheres of influence, and this website isn't within those spheres, so your attitude is what is unacceptable here.
It all comes down to "don't be a dick." I understand that's hard to do in the face of an easy slam against America, but try to hold down your insecurities for a few seconds and the urge will pass.
So what you're saying is that it's imperative that Microsoft be forced to provide a product which you consider substandard?
I don't know that you paid attention to the logical conclusions of your own statements, and in any case, this was a possible course of action which they didn't even take. I've seen some crazily ridiculous MS bashing here on Slashdot, but to start a circle jerk over an action they rejected 10 years ago is a new low.
Slashdot is populated by nerds, and one of the defining characteristics of a nerd (and also one of the reasons no one likes a nerd) is that they are never wrong.
Don't go looking for contrition here. You'd have an easier time learning evolution in a tent revival.
Enlighten a layman who has no idea where you're going with this: what would he say?