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by jbjohns 18y ago
Well, this is the problem. There is the cost and the perceived cost. And, right or wrong, the perceived cost ends up costing a lot of people. Usually the ones who are actually paying for the product (that useless country code thing on
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by jbjohns 18y ago
If it's just as easy why doesn't it happen? From what I've seen, companies seem to only challenge patents in court.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
It's not technically called "stealing", but license infringement. You should tell all brick and morter retail stores to get rid of their cameras, security and other security measures. If people are not willing to pay for their products and
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Why should someone who can't afford to have a house not be allowed to have it? Oh wait....
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Fair enough, looks like we're in agreement. Oh, and I'll be stealing some of your arguments here next time I'm talking to my swiss friend who supports the Socialist party (not sure how socialist they actually are, but anyway that's what th
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I agree that the basic kind of school system everyone uses is broken (though the quality of pre-university education is low in the US), but the US exported that? I think it predates the US. I live in Switzerland. No government involvement
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Actually, given how strongly RMS believes in licenses I would expect him to think the unethical ones are both the ones not given away the software and the ones violating the license. After all, if they'll violate one why wouldn't they
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Yea, I got what you meant and thought it was pretty obvious personally. What some of these guys don't seem to get is when you buy something physical you pay for the whole thing, production costs and all, right in one go (or if it's too expe
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by jbjohns 18y ago
What are you saying? The creators of games don't have a value? Ok then, let them know that so they can all stop producing them. It's a terrible shame to have so many people devoted to something that creates no value for anyone.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Actually the "free" TV shoes are easily explained. Not everyone who lived in america and got addicted to these shows lives there now. You can't watch the shows on the broadcaster's web site unless you live in country, so if you live i
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Of course it does. Shrinkage isn't fallacious, companies look at how much they lost to theft and adjust their prices accordingly. What do you think companies do when they see that their product has an 82% piracy rate? They think "we only
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Good grief, where are you meeting all these "partners"?
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Sorry, but this argument is a strawman. Most people who are downloading games free aren't spending all their dollars on games and then downloading the rest once they run out of money.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I think his point is that the software probably wouldn't cost $600 if they weren't figuring in theft. Things in retail brick & morter stores also cost more due to "shrinkage". Stealing has a price whether we chose to "logic" it away or
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by jbjohns 18y ago
What you say is true, but what percentage of people are not paying because they can't afford it vs. the one's who just don't want to pay for it? While it is true that someone downloading a game that they couldn't have paid for doesn't d
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I'm not surprised that Japan's solution isn't very good (especially considering their some-what toxic property/business ownership laws), but it's a big step from "all the ones I'm familiar with suck" to "they all suck".
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by jbjohns 18y ago
When you say "exported to the rest of the world" what countries do you mean? I live in western Europe and health insurance must be covered by the individual, and the school system is a lot better then what I experienced in the US.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Personally I try to only comment the "why", as this is what you can't figure out from code. Having a good revision control system allows you to log the "why" why even better. Comments themselves have, especially when you have lots of them,
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by jbjohns 18y ago
What's so great about being patriotic? I'm American by birth, so I guess my views are pretty uncommon but I just don't personally see the point in being proud of something that happened by complete chance, and I certainly don't feel like
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I think this is part of a theme mentioned in one of pg's talks, namely that people still have it ingrained in their psychic that getting lots of money can only be done via fraudulent means (since for such a long time that was more or less t
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Then step outside the US.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Actually it is patent law that's messed up. US patent law, anyway. It's not that patents shouldn't exist, of course they should in some form. And I disagree that the problem is with the examiners. People always say that more money needs
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by jbjohns 18y ago
C++ certainly was popular, in fact the most popular by every measurement I saw back in the day. And he's talking about how it got there when it did , not today. I don't necessarily agree, but what he was saying should have been pretty
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Have a link for this? But lightweight threading isn't all that Erlang brings to the table. It comes with an entire library designed to create extremely fault tolerant, live-upgradable, extremely concurrent systems. Getting lightweight t
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I looked at the new Mac Pro the other day, and it seems to me that things are coming full circle. The advantage Mac gets by controlling the hardware as well as the software is really putting them ahead of Microsoft in terms of what they
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Did you read my comment? They would have to be incredibly stupid to make fake accounts of hot women. Enough men/ugly women would do that for them.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Nice to see Mac getting more popular. I wish the linux desktop solutions would look more closely to how mac works then how windows does.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
This article is from March 2008. I realized it must be old when Eric Raymond was talking about Vista not getting adopted.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Fair enough, I guess I have too many people around me here in Europe that have much too high expectations to the point that I start seeing in more places then it is. I agree about keeping away from politics, and now that you mention it, peo
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Oh my, we mustn't say bad things about the new messiah. You should look at the political compass web site sometime to see how different the US politicians actually are. Obama is going to be like any other US president: optionally do some g

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