and my eyes arent what they used to be, but when I first saw the headline I saw "How to protect your piracy". I thought "Finally a useful article on Slashdot", but lo.
It's really nice to see a company releasing new products to stay competitive instead of using litigation to destroy their competitors. I hope they can keep it up.
I cry bullshit!! I am no particular lover of unions but:
Railroads - died because they became an inefficient and expensive form of transportation, at least more expensive than a fleet of trucks. The railroads were too stubborn and refused to compete by lowering their prices and changing their business model to reflect new technologies. The unions didnt kill them, hell I still know people drawing a pension from their railroad career, I guarantee that never would have been possible without unions.
Airlines - The airlines are going down because of greedy executives (whatever happened to the.5 bil. the gov gave to them after 9/11?). When you have the top 10 executives giving themselves raises every year that are percentages of the companies gross profits, it tends to take away from money for day-to-day operations. Though I agree that unions have done nothing to help the airline industry, the management is more to blame for their ineffectivness than anything else. When the airlines bribed the Reagan administration to end the air-traffic controllers strike, it was all downhill for those unions.
Automotive - They just plain refused to compete against Japan and wasted all of their resources lobbying for import protections. They are the model as to why government protections are a bad thing. GM, Ford and Dodge should have died 20 years ago because they couldnt step up to the plate and compete when the rest of the world entered the consumer automotive business.
So in conclusion I argue that it was stubborn, pig-headed, greedy executives who refused to compete that hurt these industries the most. Corporations have spent trillions of dollars over the last few decades to mount a slander campaign against unions, by the comments on here I would that it worked beautifully. Outsourcing is just one of the results of that campaign. And even though I agree that the entire concept of unions is flawed and no matter what the intentions are when it is formed any union will eventually become a tool of management, they have their place as long as all the members are wiling to be active participants.
Ummm...no. Apple signed a contract that said they would not get in the music business. That is sign, promote and distribute their own artists, as far as I know the agreement never states that Apple is prohibited from being a retail outlet of the music business.
I have to tell you that Google is very close to being a monopoly, and that is exactly how they got Firefox to default to them.
So what, Google like threatened Firefox with higher licensing fees if they didnt make their search engine the default? Help me here, how does Google "force" or even coerce Firefox to use them as the default search engine? Oh! I know, Google sent their deadly team of assassin engineers with blood-soaked slide rules to "convince" the Firefox folks to use them as the default search engine. Could it possible be that firefox made Google the default because...oh...I dont know......they felt google is the best?
If I wanted to play football I would go out buy a football...and find some friends.
I actually think this is really cool. I like Madden but it has gotten stale over the last few years, this may actually motivate me to go out and buy a new copy. I wonder, if EA makes a hockey game for the Revolution will I have to hit my opponent over the head with the controller to check him? or would that be high sticking? Could be interesting.
It seems to me that the art world has a glorious history of incorporating prior art into modern creations.
The art world does have a glorious history of using prior content to define current content. Its the business world thats the problem here.
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I would definately feel better if a Dutch company were making them. But unfortunately the Dutch are concernced about useless things like quality and safety and thus could never be the lowest bidder.
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Nothing is being forced down anyone's throat.
except for the conservative republicans entire values system.
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Yes but Americans would not make them pretty, making them pretty would mean they would cost more and you know what that means, less money to love. I am not sure I want Americans putting up windmill farms contracted out to the cheapest bidder, we will have windmill fans flying all over the place.
that if broadcasters spent a little less money trying to implement these stupid technologies and lobbying congress for more content protection that maybe, just maybe they may have more money? Could it be that the reason they are seeing less money is that they are spending way too much just trying to maintain control of an industry that was never controllable? Its not p2p downloading that is costing them so much money, its the shyster security people that have them dupped into thinking that everyone is just trying to steal their content.
Apple has always said one of their goals was to allow consumers to be able to go into Best Buy, buy a program off of the shelf and run it on their machine, without having to worry about what the softwares specs are or even that it was written for another OS. I dont get all the speculation crap. Boot Camp, Universal Binaries and moving to Intel hardware just supports that goal. My guess is OS 11 (XI?) will allow you to run any software and it wont matter if it was made for windows or macintosh. In other words I will be able to buy a piece of software because I find it useful and not just because it runs on my machine.
Because this country was founded by people who would publically stone you just for talking about sex in public. Puritans are nothing more than evil disguised as good.
ask to see his boss. If he is BSing you he will give you what you want. If he is not you have the opportunity to speak to someone that is possibly authorized to make that decision.
So, in other words. Step up or shut up. Start a project to produce a distro that is suitable for the $100 laptop or accept the fact that MS is going to be on these things.
Abramoff did work for Preston, Gates & Ellis as a lobbyist before he was appointed to Bush's staff. Many of the accusations against him are things he did while working for that very firm. Preston, Gates & Ellis is the company Microsoft uses to do lobbying for them. I just did a quick google on Abramoff and Preston Gates and I could not find any info about him lobbying for MS while at the firm, mostly it seems he worked with Indian casinos.
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The DS is another line of handhelds, nintendo has always claimed that the DS is not the next gen gameboy and that the next gen gameboy is due soon.
hell lets just outsource America...oh wait that is what we are doing already.
...and now they came for you!
or for Atheists or poor people.
and my eyes arent what they used to be, but when I first saw the headline I saw "How to protect your piracy". I thought "Finally a useful article on Slashdot", but lo.
It's really nice to see a company releasing new products to stay competitive instead of using litigation to destroy their competitors. I hope they can keep it up.
I cry bullshit!! I am no particular lover of unions but:
.5 bil. the gov gave to them after 9/11?). When you have the top 10 executives giving themselves raises every year that are percentages of the companies gross profits, it tends to take away from money for day-to-day operations. Though I agree that unions have done nothing to help the airline industry, the management is more to blame for their ineffectivness than anything else. When the airlines bribed the Reagan administration to end the air-traffic controllers strike, it was all downhill for those unions.
Railroads - died because they became an inefficient and expensive form of transportation, at least more expensive than a fleet of trucks. The railroads were too stubborn and refused to compete by lowering their prices and changing their business model to reflect new technologies. The unions didnt kill them, hell I still know people drawing a pension from their railroad career, I guarantee that never would have been possible without unions.
Airlines - The airlines are going down because of greedy executives (whatever happened to the
Automotive - They just plain refused to compete against Japan and wasted all of their resources lobbying for import protections. They are the model as to why government protections are a bad thing. GM, Ford and Dodge should have died 20 years ago because they couldnt step up to the plate and compete when the rest of the world entered the consumer automotive business.
So in conclusion I argue that it was stubborn, pig-headed, greedy executives who refused to compete that hurt these industries the most. Corporations have spent trillions of dollars over the last few decades to mount a slander campaign against unions, by the comments on here I would that it worked beautifully. Outsourcing is just one of the results of that campaign. And even though I agree that the entire concept of unions is flawed and no matter what the intentions are when it is formed any union will eventually become a tool of management, they have their place as long as all the members are wiling to be active participants.
Ummm...no. Apple signed a contract that said they would not get in the music business. That is sign, promote and distribute their own artists, as far as I know the agreement never states that Apple is prohibited from being a retail outlet of the music business.
yes, just wait next year they are planning on remaking King Kong.
I know, how about 10.69 "Tacos & Hot Dogs"...Oh wait, thats not a feline name...sorry.
I have to tell you that Google is very close to being a monopoly, and that is exactly how they got Firefox to default to them.
So what, Google like threatened Firefox with higher licensing fees if they didnt make their search engine the default? Help me here, how does Google "force" or even coerce Firefox to use them as the default search engine? Oh! I know, Google sent their deadly team of assassin engineers with blood-soaked slide rules to "convince" the Firefox folks to use them as the default search engine. Could it possible be that firefox made Google the default because...oh...I dont know......they felt google is the best?
If I wanted to play football I would go out buy a football...and find some friends.
I actually think this is really cool. I like Madden but it has gotten stale over the last few years, this may actually motivate me to go out and buy a new copy. I wonder, if EA makes a hockey game for the Revolution will I have to hit my opponent over the head with the controller to check him? or would that be high sticking? Could be interesting.
It seems to me that the art world has a glorious history of incorporating prior art into modern creations.
The art world does have a glorious history of using prior content to define current content. Its the business world thats the problem here.
I would definately feel better if a Dutch company were making them. But unfortunately the Dutch are concernced about useless things like quality and safety and thus could never be the lowest bidder.
Nothing is being forced down anyone's throat.
except for the conservative republicans entire values system.
Yes but Americans would not make them pretty, making them pretty would mean they would cost more and you know what that means, less money to love. I am not sure I want Americans putting up windmill farms contracted out to the cheapest bidder, we will have windmill fans flying all over the place.
ON THE NOSE!
that if broadcasters spent a little less money trying to implement these stupid technologies and lobbying congress for more content protection that maybe, just maybe they may have more money? Could it be that the reason they are seeing less money is that they are spending way too much just trying to maintain control of an industry that was never controllable? Its not p2p downloading that is costing them so much money, its the shyster security people that have them dupped into thinking that everyone is just trying to steal their content.
Apple has always said one of their goals was to allow consumers to be able to go into Best Buy, buy a program off of the shelf and run it on their machine, without having to worry about what the softwares specs are or even that it was written for another OS. I dont get all the speculation crap. Boot Camp, Universal Binaries and moving to Intel hardware just supports that goal. My guess is OS 11 (XI?) will allow you to run any software and it wont matter if it was made for windows or macintosh. In other words I will be able to buy a piece of software because I find it useful and not just because it runs on my machine.
Because this country was founded by people who would publically stone you just for talking about sex in public. Puritans are nothing more than evil disguised as good.
ask to see his boss. If he is BSing you he will give you what you want. If he is not you have the opportunity to speak to someone that is possibly authorized to make that decision.
Think of how many new jobs will be created by introducing a popular new tech to the market. Heck think of the entire industries that would be created.
The problem is that when we show it, people are going to be like, Yeah, whatever. Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it
So, in other words. Step up or shut up. Start a project to produce a distro that is suitable for the $100 laptop or accept the fact that MS is going to be on these things.
Abramoff did work for Preston, Gates & Ellis as a lobbyist before he was appointed to Bush's staff. Many of the accusations against him are things he did while working for that very firm. Preston, Gates & Ellis is the company Microsoft uses to do lobbying for them. I just did a quick google on Abramoff and Preston Gates and I could not find any info about him lobbying for MS while at the firm, mostly it seems he worked with Indian casinos.