Nowhere did I say that the congress has the right to restrict other citizens' freedoms. That is inherently the responsibility of individual governments. The bottom line is that trade agreements have been put into place, and there are a number of countries that do not enforce their laws, much like the U.S. is routinely not enforcing illegal immigration statutes.
I'd imagine much of the seemingly anti-IP/anti-copyright feeling around here comes from anti-big business sentiment. Take in this scenario then: A group of student from DeVry institute (a vo-tech school, post high-school) developed the xbox game "Flatout." This was rather big news for indie developers. Let's assume they got a (tiny) percentage of the gross on sales of this. Do you personally feel it's fair for them to get shut out of compensation for their work? Or does the fact that they attached themselves to MS negate any positive karma for them?
So you have absolutely no problem with pirated copies of Wii, DS, PSP, 360, PS2, and PS3 games, along with bootleg DVD's + CD's on every street corner in many of these countries?
So the same Linux community that lambasted Microsoft for the agreement with Novell is now begging them to support them? I find this ironic. Dontcha think?
4, Insightful? Wow, must be a lot of foreign readers today.
Foreigners will never understand piracy concerns - it's not like Americans have a healthy black market for "Soviet Windows XP" or the latest Baliwood flicks are being sold on every street corner.
...but rarely has any of it been useful for anything but developers already committed to Microsoft's platform. So, essentially the gripe is that when MS does open up their source, it's either intuitively (or by license) restricted to development for Windows? Given that MS *nix and MS OSX do not exist, I'm not sure what platforms you expect them to encourage or allow development on. It would be counterproductive for them to release proprietary code to enhance other OS's, wouldn't it? I mean, I'm sure that's what the Linux community wants, by why on earth would MS do that?
From TFA:
Reports have already emerged that the some Xbox 360 Elites are showing the red ring of death. This comes just a day after the model's release in the US.
Apparently disc-scratching issues are also emerging, with the video below demonstrating that one unit (in the owner's words) "always sounds like a screaming banshee on crack". At this stage, however, SPOnG's treating the reports as rumour only until we see more evidence. Given that there has been no evidence other than "reports," I call bullshit on this one.
Wrong. Bad press in the YRO section of slashdot? Sure. However, investors typically don't care about YRO, or human rights in general. It's all about the bottom line, and if Google turns a profit in China (and there is no reason to think they're not), then that is all that matters to "real" investors. You and your 1 (or 100 shares) in GOOG is a non-factor in this.
There's plenty of Google services that could be rolled out into China. It's a market of over 1 billion people, and they certainly don't want to screw this up. Is Gmail even available there yet?
Unless you have the backing of major shareholders and any hedge funds holding stake in Google, I wouldn't expect this to pass. It'd set up a roadblock to expansion in China, and since China = $$$, I wouldn't expect shareholders to pass anything that interferes.
This would be the same reason that owners of GM stock don't pass a resolution requiring the company to shift all their R&D into ethanol research - it doesn't make good business sense right now.
Fiscal year, not calendar year. So what you're saying that that the 3rd quarter of the 2006 fiscal year was actually the 1st quarter of the 2006 calendar year? That's not how it works.
"During the quarter, the company shipped a half million consoles, as compared to 1.7 in the third quarter of 2006, that being the first full quarter in which Xbox 360s became available."
This console was released in November of 2005, so I'm really not sure how 3rd quarter of 2006 was the first full quarter they became available.
I'm wondering if there's even a market out there for all of the "soon-to-be-released" MMOs/MMORPGs that are currently being developed. Given the amount of time that needs to be put into any of these games from a player's standpoint, is there room for another WoW? It seems as though when developers saw the subscriber numbers and cash that WoW was bringing into Blizzard, they all jumped into development of a "new ground-breaking MMORPG!"
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This should surprise nobody, as the olympics themselves are typically given to the city that spends the most $$ and bribes the most IOC officials.
Sorry, but it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I'd imagine much of the seemingly anti-IP/anti-copyright feeling around here comes from anti-big business sentiment. Take in this scenario then: A group of student from DeVry institute (a vo-tech school, post high-school) developed the xbox game "Flatout." This was rather big news for indie developers. Let's assume they got a (tiny) percentage of the gross on sales of this. Do you personally feel it's fair for them to get shut out of compensation for their work? Or does the fact that they attached themselves to MS negate any positive karma for them?
How about pharmaceuticals, aeronautics, grain/crops, and produce?
So you have absolutely no problem with pirated copies of Wii, DS, PSP, 360, PS2, and PS3 games, along with bootleg DVD's + CD's on every street corner in many of these countries?
So the same Linux community that lambasted Microsoft for the agreement with Novell is now begging them to support them? I find this ironic. Dontcha think?
Foreigners will never understand piracy concerns - it's not like Americans have a healthy black market for "Soviet Windows XP" or the latest Baliwood flicks are being sold on every street corner.
...but rarely has any of it been useful for anything but developers already committed to Microsoft's platform. So, essentially the gripe is that when MS does open up their source, it's either intuitively (or by license) restricted to development for Windows? Given that MS *nix and MS OSX do not exist, I'm not sure what platforms you expect them to encourage or allow development on. It would be counterproductive for them to release proprietary code to enhance other OS's, wouldn't it? I mean, I'm sure that's what the Linux community wants, by why on earth would MS do that?Thatsa Spicy-a Meata-balla!
MS finally announces they'll open-source something, and all that the Linux users do is complain.
And agreed on your next point, however this entire thing smells like FUD to me.
Reports have already emerged that the some Xbox 360 Elites are showing the red ring of death. This comes just a day after the model's release in the US. Apparently disc-scratching issues are also emerging, with the video below demonstrating that one unit (in the owner's words) "always sounds like a screaming banshee on crack". At this stage, however, SPOnG's treating the reports as rumour only until we see more evidence. Given that there has been no evidence other than "reports," I call bullshit on this one.
#2) Any vote-stuffing should be directed towards Stephen Colbert.
That is all.
Or is it mostly visited by people just trying to get their "story" on the front page?
If even one-tenth of a percent are, then that's still 1 million consumers. Logic would dictate that this percentage would be higher than 0.1%
Wrong. Bad press in the YRO section of slashdot? Sure. However, investors typically don't care about YRO, or human rights in general. It's all about the bottom line, and if Google turns a profit in China (and there is no reason to think they're not), then that is all that matters to "real" investors. You and your 1 (or 100 shares) in GOOG is a non-factor in this.
There's plenty of Google services that could be rolled out into China. It's a market of over 1 billion people, and they certainly don't want to screw this up. Is Gmail even available there yet?
This would be the same reason that owners of GM stock don't pass a resolution requiring the company to shift all their R&D into ethanol research - it doesn't make good business sense right now.
These telcos seem to be just a tad over-ambitious.
This console was released in November of 2005, so I'm really not sure how 3rd quarter of 2006 was the first full quarter they became available.
Payroll != HR in any medium to large-size company.
I'm wondering if there's even a market out there for all of the "soon-to-be-released" MMOs/MMORPGs that are currently being developed. Given the amount of time that needs to be put into any of these games from a player's standpoint, is there room for another WoW? It seems as though when developers saw the subscriber numbers and cash that WoW was bringing into Blizzard, they all jumped into development of a "new ground-breaking MMORPG!"
Exactly. Even better would have been if the judge said, "I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul."