Boycotts rarely work. First, if every slashdotter were to boycott a large company, the resulting loss of sales would probably ammount to little more than a rounding error. There aren't enough geeks to make a difference and most non-geeks just don't care. Second, the mentality of many content provider companies is that any lost sale for any reason = piracy. Not because the content sucks, not because the poorly designed DRM causes computers to spontaneously explode,(Sony, anyone) it's because of piracy. (If their product sold 100 million copies and there are 6 Billion people on earth there must be 5.9 Billion pirates out there...)
On the other hand, this is the same IBM that remamed its various server lines (RS/6000 AIX UNIX, AS/400 midrange, etc. To its Letter series (iSeries, pSeries, etc.) Which I still have trouble keeping straight.
It's a well known fact that a typical high school student will spend more time and energy getting out of an assignment than it would take to actually do it in the first place, so why not make the assignment to write an excuse note! It's brilliant! Even if they aren't doing their homework they ARE doing their homework!
That the opposition to stem cell research will continue even after horrible diseases are cured. But once a cure for baldness or some other cosmetic application is found most of the opposition will dissappear.
I work for a company that makes high-end datacenter power systems, this should be good for business once the trade rags the CxOs read report on the millions and millions of lost business.
Or at least it will keep the sales staff busy writing up quotes that will be rejected for being too expensive (although much less than the cost of a prolonged outage...)
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This just in: Sony has filed no less than 50 patents on robot kittens.
There's not going to be a some kind of Watergate or Pearl Harbour to shake the system to its foundations.
If someone patents regular expressions would it be like an IP Perl Harbor?
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You can kill it, but as long as there is even a remote chace that money can be made it will be back in a sequel.
National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?
If convicted. A high cost for something he did on a Saturday in the park on the 4th of July...
Pass a law to let the market decide to boil the bastards in oil.
Boycotts rarely work. First, if every slashdotter were to boycott a large company, the resulting loss of sales would probably ammount to little more than a rounding error. There aren't enough geeks to make a difference and most non-geeks just don't care. Second, the mentality of many content provider companies is that any lost sale for any reason = piracy. Not because the content sucks, not because the poorly designed DRM causes computers to spontaneously explode,(Sony, anyone) it's because of piracy. (If their product sold 100 million copies and there are 6 Billion people on earth there must be 5.9 Billion pirates out there...)
For one thing, 7 Mbps + 13 Mbps is not 20 Gbps
Sure it is, if you are using the same math used to calculate damages for the (MP|RI)AA
But you will still have to pay a license fee for the more gramatically accurate 'Free as in "Free Beer"'.
On the other hand, this is the same IBM that remamed its various server lines (RS/6000 AIX UNIX, AS/400 midrange, etc. To its Letter series (iSeries, pSeries, etc.) Which I still have trouble keeping straight.
It's a well known fact that a typical high school student will spend more time and energy getting out of an assignment than it would take to actually do it in the first place, so why not make the assignment to write an excuse note! It's brilliant! Even if they aren't doing their homework they ARE doing their homework!
No Cylon tag?
I figured that he secretly had a thing for Gilligan...
He probably invented it... Yet he still couldn't fix a hole in a boat.
Imagine a remake of Casablanca with new digital special effects.
DIE HEATHEN!!! How DARE you even sugguest making a remake of Casablanca!
Just add a part about Bruce Willis being sent to blow it up with a big nuke...
More like the lifetime of the author + 999 years.
It sounds like they are using waste CO2 from one of their chemical plants so the CO2 sequestering device wouldn't be necessary.
Why post it to various P2P networks with a title of 'Britney_Spears_Nekkid.mpg' of course...
Have the government outlaw your product?
It worked for alcohol back in the '20s and is working for drugs today...
That the opposition to stem cell research will continue even after horrible diseases are cured. But once a cure for baldness or some other cosmetic application is found most of the opposition will dissappear.
Well, one review (CNN, I think) described Transformers as "Robot Porn".
I work for a company that makes high-end datacenter power systems, this should be good for business once the trade rags the CxOs read report on the millions and millions of lost business.
Or at least it will keep the sales staff busy writing up quotes that will be rejected for being too expensive (although much less than the cost of a prolonged outage...)
Let's see... He founded a company, Sold it for several metric sh*tloads of money before the market crashed, and, and... There's got to be something...
Oh yeah, he was on Dancing with the Stars.