cnet is full of the internet's unwashed masses in their comments sections. heaven forbid the main article says something about apple that isn't "apple is god's gift to the world" or "windows a portal to hell", the the sh*t really hits the fan.
the economist in me is wondering something... what would happen to broadband competition if instead of leaving the infrastructure in the hands of the telcos, it was put under the charge of a third party, who in turn sold bandwidth to ISPs, similar to how DSL providers were able to operate before Verizon and AT&T switched to fiber optics?
the way i'm seeing things right now, more choice would lower costs to consumers (which naturally the telcos would oppose), but if an ISP was caught doing something shaky (traffic shaping, etc), consumers would have other choices than their cable or phone company. having competing infrastructures strikes me as having to choice which company's sewers i flush my toilet into. it would make things simpler to have the one infrastructure.
can't wait for the current administration to take its ball and go home because people can do what they want with their money.
Bill Frist got the provision into the port security bill for two reasons... 1)he knew it would pass no matter what was in it, and 2)Harrah's is one of his largest donors. translation, "play poker in our card rooms, or you can't play at all."
perhaps ATT wants teleworkers to bike to work? that would let them keep their thumbs on everyone and not add to pollution!
oh wait, this is ATT, there's no positive motive possible.
...as prevailing factors (whether true on not) in youth violence. the kids want mom and dad to pay attention to them and do something together, like play Super Mario! it's a cry for attention!
Seriously, if the Slashdot crowd led the way, others might follow and put just enough pressure on EA to get them to stick to their sports games while real companies innovate and expand the gaming market.
i'm probably the only one who's been boycotting since ea got the exclusive license to make nfl games when sega's nfl 2k5 was the best game that year.
in regards to "innovate and expand", how many new, original IP's has EA come up with in the last few years? i can think of SSX and Black. that's about it.
well, anybody with a brain.
those that do shop there don't realize that used game sales are as big a threat to the video game industry as piracy.
for example, when gamestop runs their annual "trade in this year's ncaa football game towards madden and get $30 credit instead of $25" and that traded in copy of ncaa sells for $5 less than the new copy, EA sees none of it. any wonder why gamestop is able to keep raking in cash during quarters when publishers and developers lose money?
One thing I'm surprised I haven't seen here is the TJX breach http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/16/207 215&from=rss caused by insecure terminals for job applications. The data that was stolen was not given online, but by giving a credit card to a clerk in a store. 45 million credit card numbers were stolen in this breach, which is nearly one third of the 158 million reported here. This is not a case of a consumer being duped by a phishing scam or DNS attack, this was a corporation not taking security seriously. In the end, it was the trusting consumers that were harmed.
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cnet is full of the internet's unwashed masses in their comments sections. heaven forbid the main article says something about apple that isn't "apple is god's gift to the world" or "windows a portal to hell", the the sh*t really hits the fan.
/. more civilized flame wars.
this is why i love
definitely won't be against Miami though.
the economist in me is wondering something... what would happen to broadband competition if instead of leaving the infrastructure in the hands of the telcos, it was put under the charge of a third party, who in turn sold bandwidth to ISPs, similar to how DSL providers were able to operate before Verizon and AT&T switched to fiber optics?
the way i'm seeing things right now, more choice would lower costs to consumers (which naturally the telcos would oppose), but if an ISP was caught doing something shaky (traffic shaping, etc), consumers would have other choices than their cable or phone company. having competing infrastructures strikes me as having to choice which company's sewers i flush my toilet into. it would make things simpler to have the one infrastructure.
not to split hairs, but you left out the PSP UMD format.
too bad Gambit from the X-Men is a fictional character...
can't wait for the current administration to take its ball and go home because people can do what they want with their money. Bill Frist got the provision into the port security bill for two reasons... 1)he knew it would pass no matter what was in it, and 2)Harrah's is one of his largest donors. translation, "play poker in our card rooms, or you can't play at all."
perhaps ATT wants teleworkers to bike to work? that would let them keep their thumbs on everyone and not add to pollution! oh wait, this is ATT, there's no positive motive possible.
...as prevailing factors (whether true on not) in youth violence. the kids want mom and dad to pay attention to them and do something together, like play Super Mario! it's a cry for attention!
well, anybody with a brain. those that do shop there don't realize that used game sales are as big a threat to the video game industry as piracy. for example, when gamestop runs their annual "trade in this year's ncaa football game towards madden and get $30 credit instead of $25" and that traded in copy of ncaa sells for $5 less than the new copy, EA sees none of it. any wonder why gamestop is able to keep raking in cash during quarters when publishers and developers lose money?
...an economics student reading both Adam Smith and Karl Marx? divide by zero error?
One thing I'm surprised I haven't seen here is the TJX breach http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/16/207 215&from=rss caused by insecure terminals for job applications. The data that was stolen was not given online, but by giving a credit card to a clerk in a store. 45 million credit card numbers were stolen in this breach, which is nearly one third of the 158 million reported here. This is not a case of a consumer being duped by a phishing scam or DNS attack, this was a corporation not taking security seriously. In the end, it was the trusting consumers that were harmed.