Yes, I can imagine those poor pirates sat in their ship, inundated with phone calls and letters demanding a better quality version of The Da Vinci Code.
Arrr, Jim lad, we be payin' the price for yet another bad movie!
Arrr! But at least we'll get another load of booty from disappointed viewers who wanted to see an interesting story succeed in the cinema!
Arrrr!
Or maybe you're just completely and utterly wrong in your assumption that anyone complained at all. People know that pirate copies give them no consumer rights. It's just a fact of life that pirates work to produce better and better warez to sell from port to port.
copying a movie to watch it at home, and copying somebody's code and selling it as your own
Dood, shut up! The trolls need the copyright vs GPL idea intact, or they'll shrivel up and die from lack of attention! Won't somebody please think of the trolls?!
My brother told me about an incident at my old secondary school (which he still attends). Some of the kids put together a MySpace in the headmaster's name, complete with a photo and fake blog posts. It became popular and word of it spread around the school.
Eventually it reached the dickheads who people had avoided telling, one of which informed the head. He contacted MySpace, and they took the page down. Then he called a few dozen people into his office to lecture them on the dangers of the Internet, or something.
(Hey, I wonder if anyone reading Slashdot recognises this story...)
Actually most also teach at least one other thing: you are your social status. Maybe it's a better way of putting your lesson, since it includes obeying authority, but it was definitely the main theme of my secondary education.
Did you ever stop to think this will start a community backlash? The kids at Columbine did what the did because they were bullied.
I really don't think he'd do any jailtime for that statement. Don't try to make the administration sound like they've got his best interests at heart, because if that was their reasoning, you can be damn sure they would have wanted everyone to know, instead of avoiding the question with "we don't have time".
So are you sayinig that Mario 64 would have been revolutionary had it used characters other than Mario? Because unless you are, you don't really have a valid point here.
How revolutionary a game is has nothing to do with the characters used, and everything to do with how the gameplay is designed and how much of an impact it has on the games that follow after it.
Way to delude yourself into thinking you're right. Unfortunately, he said nothing about characters in that entire post. He talked about gameplay and development time, but not characters.
We obviously have very different tastes, because I find the 2D Mario series just as samey as the Pokemon series, but got a lot of enjoyment out of both.
Big deal. If Nintendo had numbered the names of the games in each series as honestly as those other companies, it'd look just as bad. While it's true that there has been marginally more innovation in Nintendo's big series', it's the fact that they consistently provide more enjoyable gameplay without obsessing over graphics that makes them stand out, not their innovations.
Miyamoto went on to discuss Sony and Microsoft's showings at E3, stating: "They're talking about the next generation of the same old videogames - it's the same old experiences with new graphics."
Kind of hypocritical given Nintendo's track record of Mario platformers, racers, beat-em-ups and tennis games, along with the neverending Zelda series and the myriad Pokemon versions.
He's part of the balance. I say we absolutely do need him, despite the fact that I disagree with 99% of what he says and think he's an absolute nutter.
On one side we have the 'use it if you can' camp, and on the other, the 'it's not free so screw that' camp. We need both, though we could do without some of the scaremongering so favoured by the latter.
This is good stuff by Stallman's standards. Once he stops talk about the license change being meaningless, and all his usual Free Software stuff that he exists for, and gets onto the subject of inaccurate reporting, he becomes very reasoned and insightful. That's the effect of not having his words completely fuelled by passion - they become much more useful and constructive.
And more importantly, so as the users of the laptop can benefit from developers being able to simulate their working environment and cater for it.
I'm interested in seeing whether it's usable as a day to day distro on normal hardware too. FC is nice and all, but it runs at 70+ degrees on my laptop.
Ha, a lot of people have made the same point as me by now. We're all vigilant for posts like your original one, because it's an ego boost when we get to say things like that. I think I believe you that your point was more complex than what you presented it as, but I'm amazed that you didn't foresee these smartassed rebuttals and make your point more clear in the first place.
Watch as I blow your mind with my powers of reasoning...
Why not a customised version of, get this, Fedora!! Damn Small, Puppy and Vector don't have as huge a community or any commercial backing to help with the customisation. They don't have as broad a range of software to choose from. With the exception of Vector, they are horrible to use.
Your comparison is apples and oranges anyway, as you assume that the Fedora install is near-default and compare that to a customised version of other distros.
The whole field of sociology disagrees with you on that one. If I am an ass, I am so because of my socio-economic background, and that is hardly my fault.
The several billion people from around the world who manage to avoid being asses in spite of their socioeconomic background might take exception to that statement.
It's not an excuse, but it might be a factor. Personally though, I'm against the practice of judging an entire person's worth as a human based on one comment on one subject, so I'm staying out of that bit.
Do you realise what you've just said? You're scared of kids with laptops in developing countries? Myself, I'm more scared of grown men with guns and knives in my own country.
If you really gave a shit, you'd already know where, and would have donated. But you don't, you're just trying to score points, literally. 'I bet you'll mod me down' is weak reverse psychology but we all know how well it works here.
Addressing your point, however, how do you expect kids to learn about IT without access to computers?
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It seems to slip below the radar every fucking time, so I've created a graphical illustration of how to spot a foot icon and what it means.
And as for your car analogy, fuck you.
Eventually it reached the dickheads who people had avoided telling, one of which informed the head. He contacted MySpace, and they took the page down. Then he called a few dozen people into his office to lecture them on the dangers of the Internet, or something.
(Hey, I wonder if anyone reading Slashdot recognises this story...)
No, it is real life. If this kid gets expelled, he's screwed.
We obviously have very different tastes, because I find the 2D Mario series just as samey as the Pokemon series, but got a lot of enjoyment out of both.
- Nintendogs - flashy tamagotchi
- Mario Kart DS - Mario Kart
- Animal Crossing: Wild World - RPG
- Super Mario 64 DS - Super Mario
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - puzzles
- Dr. Kawashimas Brain Training 2 - More puzzles
- WarioWare: Touched! - Lucrative tech demo for the DS
- Big Brain Academy - More puzzles
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop - more tamagotchi
- English Training - not even a game
GBA:The top 20 or so bestselling games on the list are rehashes and sequels.
GC:
Most of the top 10 are sequels.
Nintendo make great games, and I love them for it. Their only problem is that they make great games over and over again.
Big deal. If Nintendo had numbered the names of the games in each series as honestly as those other companies, it'd look just as bad. While it's true that there has been marginally more innovation in Nintendo's big series', it's the fact that they consistently provide more enjoyable gameplay without obsessing over graphics that makes them stand out, not their innovations.
Disclaimer: I'm a Ninty fan.
On one side we have the 'use it if you can' camp, and on the other, the 'it's not free so screw that' camp. We need both, though we could do without some of the scaremongering so favoured by the latter.
This is good stuff by Stallman's standards. Once he stops talk about the license change being meaningless, and all his usual Free Software stuff that he exists for, and gets onto the subject of inaccurate reporting, he becomes very reasoned and insightful. That's the effect of not having his words completely fuelled by passion - they become much more useful and constructive.
Yes, and the people with brains run screaming from the violent advances of the undead.
I'm interested in seeing whether it's usable as a day to day distro on normal hardware too. FC is nice and all, but it runs at 70+ degrees on my laptop.
Ha, a lot of people have made the same point as me by now. We're all vigilant for posts like your original one, because it's an ego boost when we get to say things like that. I think I believe you that your point was more complex than what you presented it as, but I'm amazed that you didn't foresee these smartassed rebuttals and make your point more clear in the first place.
Why not a customised version of, get this, Fedora!! Damn Small, Puppy and Vector don't have as huge a community or any commercial backing to help with the customisation. They don't have as broad a range of software to choose from. With the exception of Vector, they are horrible to use.
Your comparison is apples and oranges anyway, as you assume that the Fedora install is near-default and compare that to a customised version of other distros.
And worse, it'll only feed the child porn problem! Won't somebody please think of the children?
It's not an excuse, but it might be a factor. Personally though, I'm against the practice of judging an entire person's worth as a human based on one comment on one subject, so I'm staying out of that bit.
Do you realise what you've just said? You're scared of kids with laptops in developing countries? Myself, I'm more scared of grown men with guns and knives in my own country.
The priorities seem out of whack to you because of your bigoted views of the developing world. Not everyone is starving to death
Haha, you've just made a real plonker of yourself by confusing Fedora with RHEL.
Addressing your point, however, how do you expect kids to learn about IT without access to computers?
It's not about content. It's about DRM, which is SOFTWARE.