If the trees gave an infinite amount of fruit every year, and cutting a tree for wood didn't actually stop it from bearing fruit, you would see a society where there's no property on trees, because there's no disadvantages in letting everyone full access to said tree.
Irrelevant. If you legally take a fruit from said infinite fruit tree, that particular fruit is still your property.
Not legally. I'm banned from owning guns for my entire life because I was convicted for giving a friend of mine a nickel bag of pot when I was 16. Anybody convicted of a felony (and almost everything is a felony these days) is banned from owning a gun.
You could easily get one if you wanted to, despite being "banned from guns.".
Thats actually not true.. what happens then is they go into game design thinking that all they have to do is reskin doom/quake/unreal/whatever engine is hot right now...
You really don't know many serious fine art students, do you? It's not about creating commercial style games.
This kind of rampant lunacy only succeeds in countries where only the criminals (and fed gov police enforcement) have guns.
In the USA everybody has (or is able to have) guns, yet we have much more rampant lunacy going on among our politicians. I've yet to see guns stop any of it.
We know that most of the worst stuff on the net is much further underground, with P2P and private trading via email.
How would you know this, unless you are a child pornographer yourself? Your use of the word "we" also implies that you are a member of some kind of ring of child pornographers.
Does the ticket contain the concert? No, it lets you in the door. When you go to a concert, what media actually holds the concert - where's the container? Keys are not the car. I'm with mh1997.
But that post was in a reply to a post mentioning all music. Why isn't live music performance included under "all music"? That's a very limited definition of music.
Going further up the thread, it was initiated by somebody saying it was "foolish" to buy virtual property. So, by this logic, someone must be a fool to buy a ticket to a concert rather than a recording of the concert? Someone must be a fool to buy a copyright to a valuable recording? To rent a house? To pay for internet access?
I'm sorry, the notion that only physical items are worthy of purchase is ridiculous.
So, being aware that music comes in forms other than on pre-recorded media makes me a jackass and a douche? Are you not also aware that you can play a game of card or see a movie at the cinema without owning it in perpetuity?
The difference being that software, games, music, TV shows, and movies can continue working as long as you have the media
So, when I buy a ticket to see a musical concert, that gives me the ability to see that same concert again whenever I please? Amazing. I thought that once the concert was over, that was it.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to call the Pixies and tell them they need to hold a concert for me, seeing as I still have the ticket.
Branching storyline design. Unlike traditional storylines, which are linear, game storylines have the potential to change based on player choices. Think choose-your-own-adventure type of storyline design.
Balance. For instance, keeping weapons and power-ups weak enough and the enemies just powerful enough so the gameplay stays challenging. Similarly, you don't want the units in a strategy game to be too powerful.
What this would be teaching them is the opposite of art. This is a formula for a certain type of game.
What you want to teach them is the tools they need to create games. Then they can use their imagination and artistic abilities to come up with new ideas for games and challenge the preconceived notions you've set forth.
Someone has to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers--think of it as a long term investment in our future. And I think it's a good idea to ask science minded outsiders how they can do so more effectively.
So, why would you choose slashdot, rather than some other place, with more intelligent and science-minded people? Slashdot seems to be mostly computing platform bigots and right-wing zealots these days.
I was at a luncheon fundraiser in DC for a congressman from a midwestern, corn-raising state and was seated across from a sugar lobbyist, and in between a guy from Raytheon and a guy from Microsoft. The sugar lobbyist was the biggest asshole of the three, too.
Well, you know what they say. In America, First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
... that will subsidize artists who are convinced that there is no link between poor sales and their complete lack of talent.
Errr, no. If any of this revenue is given back to any artists, it will be to the untalented ones who make shitloads of money despite their lack of talent. Have you really not noticed there is an inverse relationship between talent and income?
Are they intentionally copying famous comic books where the first letter of the first and last names have to be the same? (You know, like Peter Parker, Bruce Banner and all that?)
Yeah, because as we all know, comic books invented alliteration. It was a completely original idea of the comic book writers, and certainly not something that is so commonplace there's a word for it in the dictionary.
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If the trees gave an infinite amount of fruit every year, and cutting a tree for wood didn't actually stop it from bearing fruit, you would see a society where there's no property on trees, because there's no disadvantages in letting everyone full access to said tree.
Irrelevant. If you legally take a fruit from said infinite fruit tree, that particular fruit is still your property.
Not legally. I'm banned from owning guns for my entire life because I was convicted for giving a friend of mine a nickel bag of pot when I was 16. Anybody convicted of a felony (and almost everything is a felony these days) is banned from owning a gun.
You could easily get one if you wanted to, despite being "banned from guns.".
I just cannot believe that people are taking my comment seriously. Are people around here so humor impaired that they didn't realize it was a joke?
Yes there is.
No, there isn't. Have you tried looking at the dictionary?
And that government action required to enforce your "rights" on this copy show you that you are no libertarian if you want copyrights.
When did I ever say anything about Libertarianism or copyrights? I was simply talking about the definition of the word "property."
Thats actually not true.. what happens then is they go into game design thinking that all they have to do is reskin doom/quake/unreal/whatever engine is hot right now...
You really don't know many serious fine art students, do you? It's not about creating commercial style games.
Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians [wikipedia.org]
And how did that stop any of the lunacy in politics? Many of the assassinations are the direct result of lunatics.
For example, see the Ludwig Von Mises article (http://mises.org/daily/4575) because property by nature is scarce and not unlimited.
Huh? There's nothing in the definition of the word "property" which requires it to be scarce or limited.
You might want to look up, I think something might have just flown by and made some kind of sound I can't quite put my finger on.
Did you have something to actually refute the arguments made or did you just want to say "please think of the children"?
Of course we should think of the children, particularly the price we can get for them when we sell them for food.
This kind of rampant lunacy only succeeds in countries where only the criminals (and fed gov police enforcement) have guns.
In the USA everybody has (or is able to have) guns, yet we have much more rampant lunacy going on among our politicians. I've yet to see guns stop any of it.
We know that most of the worst stuff on the net is much further underground, with P2P and private trading via email.
How would you know this, unless you are a child pornographer yourself? Your use of the word "we" also implies that you are a member of some kind of ring of child pornographers.
Does the ticket contain the concert? No, it lets you in the door. When you go to a concert, what media actually holds the concert - where's the container? Keys are not the car. I'm with mh1997.
But that post was in a reply to a post mentioning all music. Why isn't live music performance included under "all music"? That's a very limited definition of music.
Going further up the thread, it was initiated by somebody saying it was "foolish" to buy virtual property. So, by this logic, someone must be a fool to buy a ticket to a concert rather than a recording of the concert? Someone must be a fool to buy a copyright to a valuable recording? To rent a house? To pay for internet access?
I'm sorry, the notion that only physical items are worthy of purchase is ridiculous.
Jackass, have you always been a douche?
So, being aware that music comes in forms other than on pre-recorded media makes me a jackass and a douche? Are you not also aware that you can play a game of card or see a movie at the cinema without owning it in perpetuity?
Do you have a problem with facts and logic?
The difference being that software, games, music, TV shows, and movies can continue working as long as you have the media
So, when I buy a ticket to see a musical concert, that gives me the ability to see that same concert again whenever I please? Amazing. I thought that once the concert was over, that was it.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to call the Pixies and tell them they need to hold a concert for me, seeing as I still have the ticket.
It exploded for the same reason that the iPhone did, it was the best polished MMO created by a developer with a large fanbase
The iPhone is an MMO? Who knew? Hmmm... you may have a point if you consider the monthly fees to "play."
Sounds like a plan for success, providing you can find an audience of mental retards who can still actually turn on a computer.
Slashdot accepts advertising, why didn't they just try that?
Branching storyline design. Unlike traditional storylines, which are linear, game storylines have the potential to change based on player choices. Think choose-your-own-adventure type of storyline design.
Balance. For instance, keeping weapons and power-ups weak enough and the enemies just powerful enough so the gameplay stays challenging. Similarly, you don't want the units in a strategy game to be too powerful.
What this would be teaching them is the opposite of art. This is a formula for a certain type of game.
What you want to teach them is the tools they need to create games. Then they can use their imagination and artistic abilities to come up with new ideas for games and challenge the preconceived notions you've set forth.
Someone has to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers--think of it as a long term investment in our future. And I think it's a good idea to ask science minded outsiders how they can do so more effectively.
So, why would you choose slashdot, rather than some other place, with more intelligent and science-minded people? Slashdot seems to be mostly computing platform bigots and right-wing zealots these days.
Why are "you at the Hubble Space Telescope" wasting your time asking slashdot users what they want? Don't you have better things to do?
So, you've linked to a bunch of promotional videos saying how great MeeGo will be. That's what vaporware is!
I was at a luncheon fundraiser in DC for a congressman from a midwestern, corn-raising state and was seated across from a sugar lobbyist, and in between a guy from Raytheon and a guy from Microsoft. The sugar lobbyist was the biggest asshole of the three, too.
Well, you know what they say. In America, First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
Well, would you be inclined buy something accurately labelled as "soy juice", or would you buy "soy milk" instead?
What's inaccurate about the term? The "juice" of many plants is called milk. It's not a term that's exclusive to animal milks.
No. You know what is actually related to MeeGo? Vaporware.
... that will subsidize artists who are convinced that there is no link between poor sales and their complete lack of talent.
Errr, no. If any of this revenue is given back to any artists, it will be to the untalented ones who make shitloads of money despite their lack of talent. Have you really not noticed there is an inverse relationship between talent and income?
Are they intentionally copying famous comic books where the first letter of the first and last names have to be the same? (You know, like Peter Parker, Bruce Banner and all that?)
Yeah, because as we all know, comic books invented alliteration. It was a completely original idea of the comic book writers, and certainly not something that is so commonplace there's a word for it in the dictionary.