...Sony had a portable music player called the "Walkman" which was so dominant that every portable music player was referred to as a "Walkman", even if it was a clone made by some other company. Sony had the market totally sewn up. Sony was going to own portable music players until the end of time. There was only one small flaw in this cunning plan.
Sony is retarded. Or, rather, the electronic devices arm of Sony became the bitch of Sony's music arm. So everything that was cool about the Walkman was pushed to the background in order that the Walkman could better serve the interests of SonyBMG. DRM, incompatible players and media formats, you name it.
And Apple came along with a better Walkman called the Ipod, and that was the end of that.
Sony can't win an electronic-device battle against Apple even when it starts from a position of total market dominance. How do you think it's going to go this time?
There's images of real children (their faces). They were too young to give informed consent for those images being combined with the other images (adult women's bodies).
IANAL but doesn't ownership of the photos belong to the photographer, not the subject? Whether or not the children consented to this use of their faces is irrelevant, those photos are the photographer's intellectual property.
Please. Ranking software engineering alongside real engineering is exactly the sort of feel-good certificate-of-achievement bullshit that you think you're opposing.
No, it's not. At least not when I think of the prima donna IT bitches I have to deal with.
If, for an important project, I need a doorknob replaced or a faucet added, I don't expect to have the janitor ask me "why do you want that doorknob replaced? why do you want that faucet added? what's the point of that? why would you want that when the doors and fittings you already have are perfectly adequate?"
Hey, IT janitor, FUCK YOU. It's none of your fucking business why I want it. Just fucking do it.
(in the above replace doorknob and faucet with stuff like "DNS entry" or "config file" or something similarly trivial)
"The sites of early lunar landings are of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity, and extraordinary caution should be taken to PREVENT EVER BEING ABLE TO PROVE THEY EVEN EXIST"
Valve Software recently announced that during the recent "75 percent off" sale on Steam, Valve made more revenue than when the games were at full price. Lots more people bought the games.
nintendo really needs 3rd party games badly. The fact they went with underpowered hardware really killed 3rd party companies ability to port their games to the system
Worldwide sales to date.
WII: 255,066
XB360: 118,622
PS3: 103,378
Ooh yeah. Nintendo's hurting all right. They really must be kicking themselves about the utter incompetence they've shown in TOTALLY DOMINATING WORLDWIDE CONSOLE SALES.
Slashdot Mirror
Just kdawson using Slashdot as his personal blog again.
...Sony had a portable music player called the "Walkman" which was so dominant that every portable music player was referred to as a "Walkman", even if it was a clone made by some other company. Sony had the market totally sewn up. Sony was going to own portable music players until the end of time. There was only one small flaw in this cunning plan.
Sony is retarded. Or, rather, the electronic devices arm of Sony became the bitch of Sony's music arm. So everything that was cool about the Walkman was pushed to the background in order that the Walkman could better serve the interests of SonyBMG. DRM, incompatible players and media formats, you name it.
And Apple came along with a better Walkman called the Ipod, and that was the end of that.
Sony can't win an electronic-device battle against Apple even when it starts from a position of total market dominance. How do you think it's going to go this time?
Hint: Sony gonna git raped.
No, because there'll always be companies like Nokia, and Siemens, and IBM, there to prop the powers that be up.
free software doesn't suck any worse than any other sort
Oh yes it does.
When I first scanned the news headlines, I thought someone had released a game called "Battlefield Herpes".
There's images of real children (their faces). They were too young to give informed consent for those images being combined with the other images (adult women's bodies).
IANAL but doesn't ownership of the photos belong to the photographer, not the subject? Whether or not the children consented to this use of their faces is irrelevant, those photos are the photographer's intellectual property.
Please. Ranking software engineering alongside real engineering is exactly the sort of feel-good certificate-of-achievement bullshit that you think you're opposing.
Americans usually need cars to function in American society.
Americans want to have 72"+ LED backlit LCD TVs.
Wow, if this is you trying to insult Indians, I can't wait to see you laying into Americans!
Yeah, but by focusing on the zero I got to draw attention to the big string of them in the US bankruptcy score. More detail would'a ruined it.
Hyuck, ya sure done got me good with that thur comeback Cletus!
India has not done a damned thing for the USA
It would be hard to neatly express the USA's $11,400,000,000,000 debt without the zero. Invented in India.
OOOH BURN!
When IE4 was first bundled with Windows, it WAS the superior product.
I am not familiar with Facebook's TOS (don't use it) so I don't know if you grant them the use of the stuff you upload
Irrevocably, forever, in whatever way Facebook wants.
Anyone who posts photos to Facebook is a retard.
Glims for Safari lets you tweak a million things, including user-defined search options:
http://www.machangout.com/
most doctors are incompetent
1. Most people are incompetent. ...
2. All doctors are people.
4. SOCRATES IS A MAN!
http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/
Being an IT person is being a computer janitor
No, it's not. At least not when I think of the prima donna IT bitches I have to deal with.
If, for an important project, I need a doorknob replaced or a faucet added, I don't expect to have the janitor ask me "why do you want that doorknob replaced? why do you want that faucet added? what's the point of that? why would you want that when the doors and fittings you already have are perfectly adequate?"
Hey, IT janitor, FUCK YOU. It's none of your fucking business why I want it. Just fucking do it.
(in the above replace doorknob and faucet with stuff like "DNS entry" or "config file" or something similarly trivial)
"Am I ranting?"
No, you're licking balls for a living. Grow a pair of your own and say "no" next time.
whatever Shrek sequel is coming down the pipeline
You misspelled "colon"
WoW was just a combined clone of every MMO that had existed before it, just like every other MMO now is a clone of WoW
So every MMO is just a clone of every other MMO...?
It's not worthless - it's so valuable that it's radioactive. Any competitor coming anywhere near this data would get sued into oblivion.
"The sites of early lunar landings are of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity, and extraordinary caution should be taken to PREVENT EVER BEING ABLE TO PROVE THEY EVEN EXIST"
Valve Software recently announced that during the recent "75 percent off" sale on Steam, Valve made more revenue than when the games were at full price. Lots more people bought the games.
nintendo really needs 3rd party games badly. The fact they went with underpowered hardware really killed 3rd party companies ability to port their games to the system Worldwide sales to date. WII: 255,066 XB360: 118,622 PS3: 103,378 Ooh yeah. Nintendo's hurting all right. They really must be kicking themselves about the utter incompetence they've shown in TOTALLY DOMINATING WORLDWIDE CONSOLE SALES.
Someone wanna explain to me how drug-using hooker-banging ex-cons are OFFICERS IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE?