Capitalism services those who have money, and the current system is built in such a way (arguably its purpose) that it deprives a large majority of people of both the wealth they create and the wealth they work for, thereby decresing the pool of dirty, uncultured "common folk" who must be serviced.
Yes, I'm a leftist, and some guy arguing with me about it on Slashdot isn't going to change it, so don't try.
The American government is easily tyrannous enough to try and shut down Slashdot.org for abuse of the Slashdot effect, but I still think they would meet enough resistance to keep the site firmly in place.
On the other hand, it may be better to adapt the other strategies to the government and attempt to find some form of "intellectual property" we can "steal" from them and pass around with position papers and such attached.
Funny, but did I say we should pick up guns? No. My reasons (jail sentence for armed revolt in a supposedly "free" country) were different from yours (in this era an armed revolt doesn't accomplish much until it encompasses a large segment of the population), but I didn't say that the time was for armed revolt.
I stand by my point. If people distribute the Adelphi charter, we shall make ground. If people conduct Slashdot attacks on government webservers as a form of peaceful protest, we shall make ground. If people download music, games, and old console emulators like never before, distributing the stuff on BitTorrent with political protest messages in the.zip's and.tar.gz's, we shall make ground. If and when we use all these strategies and more to protest the intolerable intellectual "property" laws of today we shall be heard.
It is not if one strategem should be used, but that all are useful.
The answer is obvious when you consider the Slashdot effect, that we can overload servers with traffic just by browsing to them. We should conduct a campaign of letter writings, followed by Slashdot attacks on government servers until our demands are acknowledged. The same thing can be organized at local levels for practically any political cause (and overloadable resource) through the net.
Our weapons for freedom can be our webbrowsers, because most of us are too untrained, too cowardly or too afraid of the very real jail sentence that awaits to pick up a gun and revolt.
Mostly the next Bomberman, as the smart Big Idea behind Smash Bros was really the standardization of controls for ALL moves, including specials. From there they just licensed some Nintendo and HAL Labs characters and levels...
Simple, for a game that uses standard methods of programming (ie: OpenGL rather than Proprietary API Here) compiling for different Linuxen is simply a matter of./configure options.
Just who exactly compared downsizing to the incineration of a million Jews? Why does it seem like you're just playing the Anti-Semitism card to get your way?
Once again, I put forth the idea of worker-owned companies that make it their business to treat their workers well rather than making a good bottom line for shareholders, who in this situation are the workers anyway. Worker ownership solves the labor/capital dispute by placing labor and capital into the same hands.
It's an excellent idea, now somebody just has to put money and effort into it. Also, you might want to make then operating system and devkits COM-like so that older versions of the platform could be used with newer hardware.
High school culture is right. Imagine this: you have 1600 kids in a building with each other every day. They are heavily encouraged to make friends, and making friends is based on 1. Who they already know and 2. Who they share an interest with. Therefore, social groups form and become the center of social life rather than social life revolving around admired individuals. Anyone who wishes to enter a group must either find a group they can fit into or conform to a preexisting group. Due to the fact that most people don't have high intelligence, groups will tend to form around people and interests of low to medium intelligence, which can be participated in by all.
However, innate intelligence is an extremely hard thing to mask or do away with, and so smart kids generate resentment. Combined with the fact that their disproportionately high left-brainedness so often robs them of some right-brained social graces, the reasons are in place for those of high intelligence to become outcasts.
However, those who work hard at what they are told to do, thus creating grades that sometimes even the innately smart can't match without extra effort, is tolerated perfectly, because hard work is perceived to be something anyone is capable of. Fear and loathing only arise when it is perceived that the salient person does something the observer isn't capable of, whereas the salient person doing something the observer can do but doesn't wish is fine.
Thus we see that the smart become high school outcasts while their similarly-graded "hard work" counterparts are tolerated by students and rewarded by the teachers and administration.
When this is seen in light of the fact that schooling inculcates the thought patterns that follow students for most of the rest of their lives, it explains (disturbingly) why nobody wants to go into the sciences: because their friends are only average in Science class.
The best solution is to recreate the schooling environment in a fashion that students will not be constantly in competition with one another.
Mr George Bush happens to be an employee of our rival firm.
I've said it once, I'm saying it again: If Christianity is real than George W. Bush is the Antichrist, the Beast itself. After all, what was the most prominent attribute of the Beast? It's ability to lie its way into earthly power.
Come one, God, I know You have something to say about this! I also know You have a Slashdot account, since I was told the name was used when I tried to make one for You!
When will these ageist morons learn they can't score cheap political points by restricting the rights of (and endangering, what with faked ages) young people?
Slashdot Mirror
Capitalism services those who have money, and the current system is built in such a way (arguably its purpose) that it deprives a large majority of people of both the wealth they create and the wealth they work for, thereby decresing the pool of dirty, uncultured "common folk" who must be serviced.
Yes, I'm a leftist, and some guy arguing with me about it on Slashdot isn't going to change it, so don't try.
The American government is easily tyrannous enough to try and shut down Slashdot.org for abuse of the Slashdot effect, but I still think they would meet enough resistance to keep the site firmly in place.
On the other hand, it may be better to adapt the other strategies to the government and attempt to find some form of "intellectual property" we can "steal" from them and pass around with position papers and such attached.
He was speaking of what should be, not the more unfortunate what is.
Funny, but did I say we should pick up guns? No. My reasons (jail sentence for armed revolt in a supposedly "free" country) were different from yours (in this era an armed revolt doesn't accomplish much until it encompasses a large segment of the population), but I didn't say that the time was for armed revolt.
.zip's and .tar.gz's, we shall make ground. If and when we use all these strategies and more to protest the intolerable intellectual "property" laws of today we shall be heard.
I stand by my point. If people distribute the Adelphi charter, we shall make ground. If people conduct Slashdot attacks on government webservers as a form of peaceful protest, we shall make ground. If people download music, games, and old console emulators like never before, distributing the stuff on BitTorrent with political protest messages in the
It is not if one strategem should be used, but that all are useful.
Witness the response to this Slashdot article.
The answer is obvious when you consider the Slashdot effect, that we can overload servers with traffic just by browsing to them. We should conduct a campaign of letter writings, followed by Slashdot attacks on government servers until our demands are acknowledged. The same thing can be organized at local levels for practically any political cause (and overloadable resource) through the net.
Our weapons for freedom can be our webbrowsers, because most of us are too untrained, too cowardly or too afraid of the very real jail sentence that awaits to pick up a gun and revolt.
Mostly the next Bomberman, as the smart Big Idea behind Smash Bros was really the standardization of controls for ALL moves, including specials. From there they just licensed some Nintendo and HAL Labs characters and levels...
Simple, for a game that uses standard methods of programming (ie: OpenGL rather than Proprietary API Here) compiling for different Linuxen is simply a matter of ./configure options.
Just who exactly compared downsizing to the incineration of a million Jews? Why does it seem like you're just playing the Anti-Semitism card to get your way?
Eli Gottlieb
Once again, I put forth the idea of worker-owned companies that make it their business to treat their workers well rather than making a good bottom line for shareholders, who in this situation are the workers anyway. Worker ownership solves the labor/capital dispute by placing labor and capital into the same hands.
U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
For those in Europe, see Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa.
I believe they're called worker cooperatives.
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http://www.usworkercoop.org/EdResources/SPSHistor
It's an excellent idea, now somebody just has to put money and effort into it. Also, you might want to make then operating system and devkits COM-like so that older versions of the platform could be used with newer hardware.
You don't. From what it looks like, you write the game for Linux and it just turns out to be portable to the GP2X.
Wow, that thing is pretty damned nice. Might just buy one what with the fact that my GBA is going obsolete.
Using an engine to mod another game is at best a patch to the original and at worst merely a change of aesthetic. It doesn't create a NEW game.
High school culture is right. Imagine this: you have 1600 kids in a building with each other every day. They are heavily encouraged to make friends, and making friends is based on 1. Who they already know and 2. Who they share an interest with. Therefore, social groups form and become the center of social life rather than social life revolving around admired individuals. Anyone who wishes to enter a group must either find a group they can fit into or conform to a preexisting group. Due to the fact that most people don't have high intelligence, groups will tend to form around people and interests of low to medium intelligence, which can be participated in by all.
However, innate intelligence is an extremely hard thing to mask or do away with, and so smart kids generate resentment. Combined with the fact that their disproportionately high left-brainedness so often robs them of some right-brained social graces, the reasons are in place for those of high intelligence to become outcasts.
However, those who work hard at what they are told to do, thus creating grades that sometimes even the innately smart can't match without extra effort, is tolerated perfectly, because hard work is perceived to be something anyone is capable of. Fear and loathing only arise when it is perceived that the salient person does something the observer isn't capable of, whereas the salient person doing something the observer can do but doesn't wish is fine.
Thus we see that the smart become high school outcasts while their similarly-graded "hard work" counterparts are tolerated by students and rewarded by the teachers and administration.
When this is seen in light of the fact that schooling inculcates the thought patterns that follow students for most of the rest of their lives, it explains (disturbingly) why nobody wants to go into the sciences: because their friends are only average in Science class.
The best solution is to recreate the schooling environment in a fashion that students will not be constantly in competition with one another.
Mr George Bush happens to be an employee of our rival firm.
I've said it once, I'm saying it again: If Christianity is real than George W. Bush is the Antichrist, the Beast itself. After all, what was the most prominent attribute of the Beast? It's ability to lie its way into earthly power.
Come one, God, I know You have something to say about this! I also know You have a Slashdot account, since I was told the name was used when I tried to make one for You!
I could swear I read something just like this several (3-4) years ago when I logged onto www.gamedev.net.
I think people can tell the difference between pixels comprising words and pixels comprising photographs.
Throw in a logic bomb that'll require a payraise to fix.
When will these ageist morons learn they can't score cheap political points by restricting the rights of (and endangering, what with faked ages) young people?
Oh, right, when we LOWER THE VOTING AGE.
That bigot! There are plenty of good OS's that aren't Unix or Winblows!
And ignorant replaceable workers are exactly what our current system is built to create.
Free Your Mind
So you're saying "Don't study computer science?"