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Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray?
eldavojohn writes "How much would you pay to be the leading video media technology right now? Is $400 million too much? Sony didn't think so and this article speculates that's how they won the Hi-Def format war. 'With billions of dollars in global sales at stake, experts had predicted the Toshiba-Sony battle would go on for years - not unlike the 1980s battle of videotape formats between VHS (Matsushita) and Betamax (Sony). That war lasted a decade, leaving Sony battered and humiliated. So how did this epic battle come to such an abrupt end? The answer lies in part with the bruising Sony experienced with Betamax, which, like Blu-ray, was also the better product on paper.'"
The quota is "I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
Sorry for the OT post but every time I read your sig Vader kills a puppy
Here's to the crazy ones
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So many competitive events aren't what they appear.
Much like Blue-Ray, the "surge" in Iraq is about paying people off ($10/day).
They pay people cash to not fight and it works... as long as we keep paying. The news media will constantly talk about troop levels but it is really about the cash.
Money makes the world go around.
Woo-hoo - we have a winner. Not!
1993 called. It wants its catch-phrase back.
I keep trying to pick fights, but I can't shake this Excellent karma.
Yeah i'm talking to you. The wannabe computer programmer who thinks they are good at computers because they can click around the computer enough times and find the reboot button and 'fix' an inherently flawed windows system. You think you're cool because you can pirate photoshop but not know anything about it, get Microsoft Office for free but have the literacy of a 1st grader when writing a paper, and get a copy of Norton Anti-virus because your inherently flawed system is useless without Administrative privileges. Get a clue, you are not smart, you are just a corporate sheep for a company that will bury you if you ever tried to write any software that did anything remotely useful. You are a clickaround and all you know if your ugly gray existence that is Windows.
/dev/random > Windows.com
Want the sourcecode to windows vista?
head -n 1000000
Speaking of quotes not being entirely correct...
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
Brainy Quote- Desiderius Erasmus
and what if it's not a Star Wars quote?
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
I am still fairly libertarian.
However, I realized in my 30's that the libertarian philosophy breaks down when anyone gets much over 100 times the resources of the average citizen. And becomes increasingly broken the higher they get over that mark.
Sony- if they wanted to, could destroy your house, your life, and get away with it.
Bill Gates- if he wanted to, could do the same.
Only a government with enough assets to control the most powerful members of society can deal with these people-- and even then, these people slowly take control of such governments.
If we start from zero, these days the problem would be back in under 20 years. I'm really not sure what the solution is other than draconian taxes on the "winners" who get too big.
Right now, I think 90% taxation on anyone with an income (including corporate provided "benefits") over $5 mill a year is about right. Making 5 mill a year is a phenomenal income . Anything over that is absurd. That's easily 100 times the income of the average citizen-- per year.
And they would still fight really hard for that remaining 10%. Because if you made 105 million, you'd have double the income of people making 5 million. That means you can still buy that rare car over the "poor" 5 million income person. You just can't buy everything and do anything that you desire.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
In the consumer electronics market, yes. But try fooling mother nature with a wad of cash. I don't care how many dollars you plow into a heavy lifter, if the technical merit isn't there, that damn rocket is going to fall right off the launch pad.