If you can afford to pay in cash, you can pay off your bill before it accrues interest, receive your "1% of each transaction" back, and make a small bit of money. And they still make money off the fools who have thousands in credit card debt that they can't pay off.
Then they extend this to believing information has intrinsic value. That it can be property. That it costs money to exchange information.
This sounds familiar.... US History is coming back to me.
"How can somebody own land?" -- Native Americans when Europeans came to the Americas.
Yes, I firmly believe that information shouldn't be owned, but that doesn't mean it can't be. Ownership is merely an agreement between people and/or society. So long as the majority of society agrees that information has intrinsic value and that it can be property and have cost, it does and it can.
This sounds like something ripped straight out of Jennifer Government. Okay, slightly changed, not ripped straight, but still. Not saying that's where you got it from given that it's a highly likely scenario, but I am saying that you should read it if you haven't.
You can read the first chapter for free from Max Barry's website, which is exactly where you'll see this.
"now this is a good idea" might be your own thought, but it has no substance at all. It certainly isn't insightful in any way.
"it gets people like us who like firefox, and would secretly like to have their names in the code, to go out and really try to get other prople to use Firefox"
So what if it doesn't explicitly state it? Many made-for-TV movies have shootings occur offscreen, and it's not explicitly stated that somebody is dead, but I'm not insightful for saying "OMG Harry shot Fred!!!!!" And it might not be given that people would like the idea of being in a comment in the Firefox source, but it is a given that the entire point of this project is to appeal to people who would. It doesn't become insightful just by changing it from an abstract third-person to a single-person plural.
"in a way that costs nothing for them (well, almost nothing)."
So what if it's not specifically mentioned? There is nothing insightful about it at *all*, just as it wouldn't be insightful for me to say that word-of-mouth is good advertisement because it has little to no cost. It's kind of obvious to most people.
So all we have from you now are obvious statements and substance-less value judgements. Your implied wish to participate is far from insightful or any other real moderation. Summary of the site is useful if TFP doesn't have it, but stating the obvious point of what is already summarized in TFP is not. I'm sorry, there is just nothing mod-worthy about your post and the only reason it got modded at all is that it appeals to the/. groupthink.
It is similarly a good idea to simply summarize the whole point of the site and watch the +1 insightful mods roll right in.... I mean, you didn't even say anything of your own, let alone anything insightful!
So we're up to 7? I'm not saying that it's impossible or even that most people couldn't do it, but I'm saying that 10 people saying "I did it" doesn't disprove the statement.
You have done nothing to disprove his point. GP says "almost nobody" you provide one example. In a world with between 6 & 7 billion people, you are certainly almost nobody.
Why should that change just because you chose a lifestyle that leaves no time for gaming?
Mostly because game companies want to make as much money as possible and if they can include more persons in the fold, they'll change the game to make more money.
That's one I haven't heard before.... American soccer is football, American football is American football... but kickball being football? That's ridiculous!
3. The new security model is also late, but definitely a big plus. As I understand it, no tuning is needed. People just need to quit writing software that does things it shouldn't (and fix their bad code).
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the "new security model" mainly a new default and telling programmers not to suck? Because I've been working on Windows with an "everybody's a user" set up for years....
5. You're not qualified to comment. IE and WMP, of course, and Vancorps mentions Media Center and DVD maker. I would assume there are more.
I don't really think included software really counts as an "improvement". It ups the price of the OS for things that not everybody will use and it doesn't change the OS in any way. More importantly, the fact you can have the same functionality in XP means it's not an improvement.
7. Some people don't want to search through dozens of benchmark apps.
Once more, the fact they exist means it's not an OS improvement, it's just bundling more software.
8. It's a given. I don't see how this is something to boast about either, since there's a 64-bit version of XP.
Presumably the fact that it was designed for 64-bit and not ported to 64-bit is worth something. Oh, and the fact that people will probably actually write software for it.
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If you can afford to pay in cash, you can pay off your bill before it accrues interest, receive your "1% of each transaction" back, and make a small bit of money. And they still make money off the fools who have thousands in credit card debt that they can't pay off.
Just be sure to watch those decimal points...
Yes, canvass is a real word, not a misspelling of canvas.
This sounds familiar.... US History is coming back to me.
"How can somebody own land?" -- Native Americans when Europeans came to the Americas.
Yes, I firmly believe that information shouldn't be owned, but that doesn't mean it can't be. Ownership is merely an agreement between people and/or society. So long as the majority of society agrees that information has intrinsic value and that it can be property and have cost, it does and it can.
Unless he's not referring to the quote about everybody having opinions. Maybe he's just calling bloggers assholes?
What the *hell*? How is this insightful in any way, shape, form, and/or fashion?
You can read the first chapter for free from Max Barry's website, which is exactly where you'll see this.
"it gets people like us who like firefox, and would secretly like to have their names in the code, to go out and really try to get other prople to use Firefox"
So what if it doesn't explicitly state it? Many made-for-TV movies have shootings occur offscreen, and it's not explicitly stated that somebody is dead, but I'm not insightful for saying "OMG Harry shot Fred!!!!!" And it might not be given that people would like the idea of being in a comment in the Firefox source, but it is a given that the entire point of this project is to appeal to people who would. It doesn't become insightful just by changing it from an abstract third-person to a single-person plural.
"in a way that costs nothing for them (well, almost nothing)."
So what if it's not specifically mentioned? There is nothing insightful about it at *all*, just as it wouldn't be insightful for me to say that word-of-mouth is good advertisement because it has little to no cost. It's kind of obvious to most people.
So all we have from you now are obvious statements and substance-less value judgements. Your implied wish to participate is far from insightful or any other real moderation. Summary of the site is useful if TFP doesn't have it, but stating the obvious point of what is already summarized in TFP is not. I'm sorry, there is just nothing mod-worthy about your post and the only reason it got modded at all is that it appeals to the /. groupthink.
It is similarly a good idea to simply summarize the whole point of the site and watch the +1 insightful mods roll right in.... I mean, you didn't even say anything of your own, let alone anything insightful!
(Says the Firefox user & FOSS supporter...)
So we're up to 7? I'm not saying that it's impossible or even that most people couldn't do it, but I'm saying that 10 people saying "I did it" doesn't disprove the statement.
You have done nothing to disprove his point. GP says "almost nobody" you provide one example. In a world with between 6 & 7 billion people, you are certainly almost nobody.
Given all Google results returning the exact string including "eror" and the fact that it just makes sense to be intentional, I'll take that as a yes.
Mostly because game companies want to make as much money as possible and if they can include more persons in the fold, they'll change the game to make more money.
Out! Now!
Oh, yeah, http://www.clearplay.com/
I was just about to say that.... And, of course, I just had to have used my last mod point an hour ago....
Because it obviously requires specialization to figure out that you need to turn the device on....
I know. I was going for the cheap laugh :)
I live in NW PA, next to NYC and half of California, Since when is PA next to half of California?
That's one I haven't heard before.... American soccer is football, American football is American football... but kickball being football? That's ridiculous!
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the "new security model" mainly a new default and telling programmers not to suck? Because I've been working on Windows with an "everybody's a user" set up for years....
5. You're not qualified to comment. IE and WMP, of course, and Vancorps mentions Media Center and DVD maker. I would assume there are more.
I don't really think included software really counts as an "improvement". It ups the price of the OS for things that not everybody will use and it doesn't change the OS in any way. More importantly, the fact you can have the same functionality in XP means it's not an improvement.
7. Some people don't want to search through dozens of benchmark apps.
Once more, the fact they exist means it's not an OS improvement, it's just bundling more software.
8. It's a given. I don't see how this is something to boast about either, since there's a 64-bit version of XP. Presumably the fact that it was designed for 64-bit and not ported to 64-bit is worth something. Oh, and the fact that people will probably actually write software for it.
No. It would be apropos. Unless DNF actually does get released.
No, because I still never think about the is/are plurality funness when working with words that can be both singular and plural.
I love how the /. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software is. We'd all be in the dark without that!