"The move marks the tech giant's most ambitious video game purchase"
Wouldn't that have been Bungie? You know, the company that made MS billions from the Halo franchise and effectively killed gaming on the Mac for a decade?
America works right now because it has the capacity of importing the knowledge workers it needs. When I worked in IT in the NYC area I'm pretty sure that I worked with a greater number of non-Americans than Americans, overall.
With the United States getting ever more restricted and paranoid in immigration matters, that may not be possible for the future. Let's also not forget that the US's success in attracting that sort of immigration was pretty much entirely reliant on being the one big fish in the pond, which status will not last.
...is that this will fail miserably and cost enough that other manufacturers will think twice before accepting bribes from Microsoft for making something that actively shuts out non-Windows OS's.
I don't think any Glass demo could have been more utterly pointless than this.
Literally if you gave a hobo on the street a pair of those glasses it would be more compelling than this demo. Yay, congrats, you know how to walk up and down on a piece of level floor while wearing something unwearable. I can't help but think that this is the point where Google gets *completely* lost in their own hype.
As soon as DDB split, stealing secrets on his way out, he basically said "hey, I've been working with these guys for years but now I'm deliberately stabbing them in the back for my own selfish benefit so from now on you should trust ME with your secrets!" Yeah right. It's like Sammy The Bull Gravano trying to start a big meth op while in the witness protection program. You literally have to be dumber than a 3rd grader in order to think that this is going to work.
Selling no Playstation 3s will make Sony ripe for bankruptcy.
OK, not exactly a likely thing (there are *some* people who will buy a PS3 on opening day even if it has no games at all), but you get the idea. The rumored numbers are just mind-boggling: $600 (at least) for the console, $100 per game, and who knows how much a second controller will cost -- especially since they apparently won't even rumble.
Sony tried to make the PS3 into all things for all men, but are making a console that's all things to no one.
*Sony has moved into a new market: the older gamer. People like myself that have been playing video games for 25+ years that now have disposable income.*
I'm part of that demographic too. What Sony isn't counting on is the number of people who are tired of waiting for the PS3 to come out and are damned if they're going to pay $600 (plus $70+ per game) for the damn thing, especially for a company that's shown itself willing to infect their products with DRM that can be harmful to the hardware of their paying customers.
I for one don't plan on buying any of the 3 next-gen consoles. I don't think I'm alone in this.
It seems to me that an individual or company who, in this day and age, deliberately chooses to not enable any security on his wireless network really shouldn't get any sympathy from anyone.
I wonder how much the RIAA or any other of these cartels would be willing to go to prove that they pay royalties to artists in the amounts in which they are contracted to do.
If they do that then, and only then, would I consent to taking any of these gangsters' word for anything.
But what I don't want to hear is a bunch of witless complaining (from the same "We're talking about Americans here") about how the FBI (on Bush's watch! that lazy bastard!) didn't see an attack, an arms shipment, etc., coming... just like on 9/11! Because the phone records are going to be there.
Did you know that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were ON TERRORIST WATCH LISTS before they entered the US PERFECTLY LEGALLY AT AN AIRPORT? Seriously. Read the 9/11 commission report if you don't believe me. There were LOTS of leads that could have been followed up on without even thinking about opening the door to universal roving wiretaps, and they were all ignored. THOSE were the missing dots. No need to pop a hard-on about fantasy scenarios.
You could order it from Amazon and have it shipped to Canada, but then you'd also have to pay taxes (15%, which is normal) and the dreaded "UPS tax" of $50-60 to clear customs on it, on top of a shipping fee which should run you around $50 (UPS Canada gouges like crazy). So that would be (to a Canadian) $580 + $75 (taxes) + $60 (UPS 'brokerage fee') + $50 (ship), but those are all estimates. All in all it'll cost you around $750, which is quite expensive considering that the C$ is at about $0.90 US.
Skip the 360 and get the Wii! You'll not only save money, but also the time involved in shopping until you actually find a 360 for sale (and none of that "Core" crap either).
Yes, because obviously the only thing to do is to keep cutting big checks to unproductive leeches taking advantage of the amazing incompetence of the USPTO to file lawsuits which have no basis in reality!
Please tell me you're not responsible for drawing up any company's business plan...
It certainly sounds to a lot of people like a bunch of IP parasites are taking it in turns to sue RIM in the hopes that they can cash in on its work and marketing by virtue of it being a foreign company and not used to the USA's sue-happy culture -- that certainly sounds like the NTP case in a nutshell.
I don't so much mind when Americans muck things up in America -- because I can stay out of it reasonably easily -- but when they overreach like this it just pisses off people like me.
Even then I don't think it's that effective a method, and the way it seems to be implemented (link is verified, then propagated on the network) it can easily be considered a DOS attack. What a smart spammer does to thwart things is just take the opt-out page offline, or better yet link to an opt-out page from a competitor. In any case anyone who makes good money spamming will have equipped himself with a load-balanced server cluster ahead of time just to counter this sort of tactic; it's not that expensive to rig something up nowadays, when you can get a PC for $200-300 *retail*.
I would rather see something (a thunderbird plugin?) that goes after only the email that got to you personally, and sends, say, 50 bogus orders per spam, only from your system. It's straight-up payback, and (I think) less legally ambiguous.
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Those are the same people who've lied about surveillance from the beginning. I'm *sure* that they wouldn't be lying this time!
"The move marks the tech giant's most ambitious video game purchase"
Wouldn't that have been Bungie? You know, the company that made MS billions from the Halo franchise and effectively killed gaming on the Mac for a decade?
America works right now because it has the capacity of importing the knowledge workers it needs. When I worked in IT in the NYC area I'm pretty sure that I worked with a greater number of non-Americans than Americans, overall.
With the United States getting ever more restricted and paranoid in immigration matters, that may not be possible for the future. Let's also not forget that the US's success in attracting that sort of immigration was pretty much entirely reliant on being the one big fish in the pond, which status will not last.
...is that this will fail miserably and cost enough that other manufacturers will think twice before accepting bribes from Microsoft for making something that actively shuts out non-Windows OS's.
I don't think any Glass demo could have been more utterly pointless than this.
Literally if you gave a hobo on the street a pair of those glasses it would be more compelling than this demo. Yay, congrats, you know how to walk up and down on a piece of level floor while wearing something unwearable. I can't help but think that this is the point where Google gets *completely* lost in their own hype.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the former."
I should have said, destroying secrets on his way out, not stealing them.
As soon as DDB split, stealing secrets on his way out, he basically said "hey, I've been working with these guys for years but now I'm deliberately stabbing them in the back for my own selfish benefit so from now on you should trust ME with your secrets!" Yeah right. It's like Sammy The Bull Gravano trying to start a big meth op while in the witness protection program. You literally have to be dumber than a 3rd grader in order to think that this is going to work.
Surely you're lying and each one of the downloaders cost $100,000 to the movie industry! Stop confusing me with actual facts and figures!
Selling no Playstation 3s will make Sony ripe for bankruptcy.
OK, not exactly a likely thing (there are *some* people who will buy a PS3 on opening day even if it has no games at all), but you get the idea. The rumored numbers are just mind-boggling: $600 (at least) for the console, $100 per game, and who knows how much a second controller will cost -- especially since they apparently won't even rumble.
Sony tried to make the PS3 into all things for all men, but are making a console that's all things to no one.
*Sony has moved into a new market: the older gamer. People like myself that have been playing video games for 25+ years that now have disposable income.*
I'm part of that demographic too. What Sony isn't counting on is the number of people who are tired of waiting for the PS3 to come out and are damned if they're going to pay $600 (plus $70+ per game) for the damn thing, especially for a company that's shown itself willing to infect their products with DRM that can be harmful to the hardware of their paying customers.
I for one don't plan on buying any of the 3 next-gen consoles. I don't think I'm alone in this.
It seems to me that an individual or company who, in this day and age, deliberately chooses to not enable any security on his wireless network really shouldn't get any sympathy from anyone.
Asset forfeiture comes to the online gaming world... story at 11.
Buy less. Buy cash. Close your credit accounts.
Actually that's pretty sane advice from a "ending up with more money and less crap you don't need" point of view as well...
...the figures for the "lost revenue" they pull out of their *sses gets larger and larger. I think the industry is goatseing itself there...
I wonder how much the RIAA or any other of these cartels would be willing to go to prove that they pay royalties to artists in the amounts in which they are contracted to do.
If they do that then, and only then, would I consent to taking any of these gangsters' word for anything.
But what I don't want to hear is a bunch of witless complaining (from the same "We're talking about Americans here") about how the FBI (on Bush's watch! that lazy bastard!) didn't see an attack, an arms shipment, etc., coming ... just like on 9/11! Because the phone records are going to be there.
Did you know that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were ON TERRORIST WATCH LISTS before they entered the US PERFECTLY LEGALLY AT AN AIRPORT? Seriously. Read the 9/11 commission report if you don't believe me. There were LOTS of leads that could have been followed up on without even thinking about opening the door to universal roving wiretaps, and they were all ignored. THOSE were the missing dots. No need to pop a hard-on about fantasy scenarios.
Not everyone actually lives in the USA you know.
You could order it from Amazon and have it shipped to Canada, but then you'd also have to pay taxes (15%, which is normal) and the dreaded "UPS tax" of $50-60 to clear customs on it, on top of a shipping fee which should run you around $50 (UPS Canada gouges like crazy). So that would be (to a Canadian) $580 + $75 (taxes) + $60 (UPS 'brokerage fee') + $50 (ship), but those are all estimates. All in all it'll cost you around $750, which is quite expensive considering that the C$ is at about $0.90 US.
Skip the 360 and get the Wii! You'll not only save money, but also the time involved in shopping until you actually find a 360 for sale (and none of that "Core" crap either).
Yes, because obviously the only thing to do is to keep cutting big checks to unproductive leeches taking advantage of the amazing incompetence of the USPTO to file lawsuits which have no basis in reality!
Please tell me you're not responsible for drawing up any company's business plan...
It certainly sounds to a lot of people like a bunch of IP parasites are taking it in turns to sue RIM in the hopes that they can cash in on its work and marketing by virtue of it being a foreign company and not used to the USA's sue-happy culture -- that certainly sounds like the NTP case in a nutshell.
I don't so much mind when Americans muck things up in America -- because I can stay out of it reasonably easily -- but when they overreach like this it just pisses off people like me.
You just think there were no pictures! That's how effective the technology really is!
[... by contrast ...] Microsoft does not need to pay one cent to place its search engine in the lead position on its browser
Except of course ALL THE DEVELOPMENT COSTS OF THE BROWSER ITSELF. Or are they saying IE is worthless? I'm confused!
Even then I don't think it's that effective a method, and the way it seems to be implemented (link is verified, then propagated on the network) it can easily be considered a DOS attack. What a smart spammer does to thwart things is just take the opt-out page offline, or better yet link to an opt-out page from a competitor. In any case anyone who makes good money spamming will have equipped himself with a load-balanced server cluster ahead of time just to counter this sort of tactic; it's not that expensive to rig something up nowadays, when you can get a PC for $200-300 *retail*.
I would rather see something (a thunderbird plugin?) that goes after only the email that got to you personally, and sends, say, 50 bogus orders per spam, only from your system. It's straight-up payback, and (I think) less legally ambiguous.