Slashdot losing touch with it's love for tech?
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As someone who usually browses/. and seldom posts, I felt I needed to comment on the (what I perceive to be) strange phenomenon that is a tech focused community that seems to hate new tech.
Its starting to feel like the prominent opinions on this are shifting toward "New tech is pointless since old tech works fine for me" and away from "Lets imagine/design/build it because its neat and might have potential!"
It's becoming tiresome for me to read about some new tech that looks like it might be cool, only to have 80% of the comments by what I thought were tech enthusiasts calling it pointless or lame, instead of suggesting what great things it might lead to, or even just some optimism that it might just be cool.
You ask us to read this statement carefully, when you completely ignore the statement that follows
From a policy perspective, my view is that drops and purely in-game trades should not bear income tax. Everyone here seems to be thinking that she's only talking about taxing real profits from virtual sales because well, she is.
For these reasons and others, I argue that players of games like WoW should be taxed if and when they cash out--that is, on real market trades.
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As someone who usually browses /. and seldom posts, I felt I needed to comment on the (what I perceive to be) strange phenomenon that is a tech focused community that seems to hate new tech.
Its starting to feel like the prominent opinions on this are shifting toward "New tech is pointless since old tech works fine for me" and away from "Lets imagine/design/build it because its neat and might have potential!"
It's becoming tiresome for me to read about some new tech that looks like it might be cool, only to have 80% of the comments by what I thought were tech enthusiasts calling it pointless or lame, instead of suggesting what great things it might lead to, or even just some optimism that it might just be cool.
Just my two cents.