According to Wolfram Alpha, Sony's revenue is 7.316 trillion yen (about $89 billion), Microsoft's revenue is $68.62 billion. Although Microsoft's market cap is much larger (almost x8).
Notice how all of them were in it for the money. It's money that attracted the investors in the first place. The whole reason for limited liability corporations is so that investors can make money while mitigating the risks (the "limited" part of limited liability).
Corporations exists to make money, nothing else. If you can't handle that simple fact then you must have a frustrating and confusing life.
Patents are a form of taking property away from those who own it. Each inventor owns what he invents. But the government allows the first who filed for a patent to take the property away from other inventors. So the 2nd and latter inventors lose.
In the US a patent goes to whoever is first to invent, in most of the rest of the world it is first to file.
Wait, are we sure it isn't patents that are the problem?
Yes. You only restated my point, it's stupid patents that are the problem. Stupid because they aren't merit-worthy in the first place, stupid because they are obvious, stupid because they are too broad or stupid because they last too long. I don't think anybody is going to argue that patents don't need a massive overhaul, but there's no point throwing out the baby with the bath water.
If this newly discovered messaging method is a surprise to western intelligence, however, it means they may not have been monitoring the recipients of his USB-facilitated missives - possibly because Al-Qaida is thought to be using short-lived email addresses after an earlier trick of theirs was rumbled.
That trick? Before 9/11 some of the attackers evaded email surveillance by not sending email. Instead they used webmail services but saved messages as drafts - and then shared their logins with their co-conspirators.
Which is fair enough, but then really what we are talking about is that managing a fully featured general purpose computer is "torture" (for users who don't need that level of functionality and don't have the skills) regardless of OS.
Kinda like how managing a custom hot rod car is probably "torture" for a non-gear head who just wants something to run them to work and back and to the shops once in a while.
Since PSN user's personal information has been stolen, Sony should take [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's advice and help all their users change their names. Problem solved!
Comparing Tivo running Linux to a general purpose desktop or laptop computer running Windows is apples and oranges. I'm sure the reason for using Linux in thin terminals is motivated more by cost and easy of customization (versus say Windows CE), which is great, but not really relevant.
You live in a fantasy world. Companies exist to make money. Nothing else. If they can make money by entertaining you, then they will. As soon as they stop making money entertaining you, they will do something else instead (or go broke).
Somebody mod the parent up. This is exactly why it would be stupid for NCSoft to release their server code. Some people seem to think publishers exist purely to entertain them.
Just because he was a man with explosives does not make him a terrorist. He intended to blow up the House of Lords, a very specific political target. He would have been a political assassin, not unlike Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't try to blow up an entire building at a time when it would be full of hundreds of people. many of them innocent and uninvolved in the political process. I'd say that makes a difference.
Which has nothing to do with being in the house or outside the house. In fact being wireless would suggest that putting it in the house would make more sense (less exposure to the elements). We have BPL available in our area, and why I don't subscribe to it, my meter uses it anyway. It's one of the side benefits of the system the local utility installed.
In regards to the Sony hack which Anonymous supposedly denies, if Anonymous is leaderless, isn't it pretty much impossible to say whether or not they did something? Can't anybody claim to be Anonymous and do what ever they want? I assume for anything Anonymous does there are some people who consider themselves members who disagree, so does that mean Anonymous didn't do it?
This isn't meant as a critique of Anonymous, but without leaders or hierarchy it's pretty much impossible to define what it is or what it does.
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I think it's hyperbole rather than bad research. Deaths in video games are more dramatic and often more bloody that they would be in real-life.
According to Wolfram Alpha, Sony's revenue is 7.316 trillion yen (about $89 billion), Microsoft's revenue is $68.62 billion. Although Microsoft's market cap is much larger (almost x8).
They are both immensely rich companies.
Despite all the haters, I agree. I'm surprised that Microsoft is seemingly being so generous with this.
Notice how all of them were in it for the money. It's money that attracted the investors in the first place. The whole reason for limited liability corporations is so that investors can make money while mitigating the risks (the "limited" part of limited liability).
Corporations exists to make money, nothing else. If you can't handle that simple fact then you must have a frustrating and confusing life.
And why wouldn't that be the case. If somebody else files first then of course you'll need to provide proof that you invented first.
This is why lab notebooks have to be dated, signed and witnessed.
Stop talking about things you clearly know nothing about.
No it wasn't. That has never been the case. What fantasy world do you live in?
Clearly you're not cut out for capitalism.
Microbes aren't the problem, bad microbes are the problem.
Actually bad microbes are the problem, not microbes in general. Or have you never eaten yogurt? Or cheese?
You realize that your gut is home to billions of beneficial microbes without which you would be very sick?
Patents are a form of taking property away from those who own it. Each inventor owns what he invents. But the government allows the first who filed for a patent to take the property away from other inventors. So the 2nd and latter inventors lose.
In the US a patent goes to whoever is first to invent, in most of the rest of the world it is first to file.
Wait, are we sure it isn't patents that are the problem?
Yes. You only restated my point, it's stupid patents that are the problem. Stupid because they aren't merit-worthy in the first place, stupid because they are obvious, stupid because they are too broad or stupid because they last too long. I don't think anybody is going to argue that patents don't need a massive overhaul, but there's no point throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Yeah, 'cos I'm sure with no government getting in the way, the big boys will all agree to play nice. Yes siree, can't see any problem with that.
Patents aren't the problem, stupid patents are the problem.
So what you are saying is that AD&D nerds are actually terrorists? I always suspected as much....
I was about to submit this from New Scientist:
Which is fair enough, but then really what we are talking about is that managing a fully featured general purpose computer is "torture" (for users who don't need that level of functionality and don't have the skills) regardless of OS.
Kinda like how managing a custom hot rod car is probably "torture" for a non-gear head who just wants something to run them to work and back and to the shops once in a while.
To make money. Same as any other business.
Since PSN user's personal information has been stolen, Sony should take [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's advice and help all their users change their names. Problem solved!
Comparing Tivo running Linux to a general purpose desktop or laptop computer running Windows is apples and oranges. I'm sure the reason for using Linux in thin terminals is motivated more by cost and easy of customization (versus say Windows CE), which is great, but not really relevant.
You live in a fantasy world. Companies exist to make money. Nothing else. If they can make money by entertaining you, then they will. As soon as they stop making money entertaining you, they will do something else instead (or go broke).
...I'm pretty sure Linux ain't the cure.
...is why I don't play MMO games.
Sure playing games is inherently pointless, but things like this really ram it down your throat.
Somebody mod the parent up. This is exactly why it would be stupid for NCSoft to release their server code. Some people seem to think publishers exist purely to entertain them.
Terrorist ?
Just because he was a man with explosives does not make him a terrorist. He intended to blow up the House of Lords, a very specific political target. He would have been a political assassin, not unlike Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't try to blow up an entire building at a time when it would be full of hundreds of people. many of them innocent and uninvolved in the political process. I'd say that makes a difference.
Not everybody is that paranoid. Whether that's a good thing or not is beside the point.
Which has nothing to do with being in the house or outside the house. In fact being wireless would suggest that putting it in the house would make more sense (less exposure to the elements). We have BPL available in our area, and why I don't subscribe to it, my meter uses it anyway. It's one of the side benefits of the system the local utility installed.
In regards to the Sony hack which Anonymous supposedly denies, if Anonymous is leaderless, isn't it pretty much impossible to say whether or not they did something? Can't anybody claim to be Anonymous and do what ever they want? I assume for anything Anonymous does there are some people who consider themselves members who disagree, so does that mean Anonymous didn't do it?
This isn't meant as a critique of Anonymous, but without leaders or hierarchy it's pretty much impossible to define what it is or what it does.