Pretty much reminds me how Tesco hypermarkets work here in Eastern-Europe. They ask you shelf price, you have to do regular selloffs (which usually go below production price) etc.
I personally know a guy, who started and maintains a fansite, and Blizzard was quite friendly with him. (Sending him tickets, giving interview etc.) Heck, does EA even have community managers?
You seriously misanderstood what I said: the smaller company doesn't know how seriously the price war will go. Or when it will start. A lot of them just suppose that the bigger one doesn't take notice.
"You're incorrectly assuming companies can't determine the cost of creating a product; " It's very hard to tell in advance, and a its the cause of many bankruptcies.
Ok, the just record my LCD TV/monitor with my camera. And it won't even flicker as CRT would. (Yeah, I lose a bit of quality, but most people won't care. It's still better than the ones taken in the cinema with handycams.)
If you bust up the trust, no one has market prices and prices can rise to a higher level than with a monopoly.
That's some bogus reasoning. (It only works if the price of entering the market is practically zero. These are the markets least prone to become a monopoly.)
By busting the competition by predatory pricing you eliminate the initial capital of the competition. And that takes time to recover. In the meantime you can have outrageous profits. Antitrust makes it harder to destroy that initial capital.
I mean having a huge room, where userloop ends, and different ISPs can be present at the same time. The right to be present at that big room is auctioned off.
However, if you assume that your client's machine is infected, no measure will secure your transaction. (There are keyloggers which do screenshots on mousclicks etc.)
DRM can always be defeated because the "attacker" is exactly the same as the user, and you're already giving them everything they need. That is a system which is fundamentally flawed. Real security is where you don't give the attacker your keys, passwords, etc.
So DRM relies on "security through obscurity", which is generally frowned on in security circles.
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My guess would have been Terminator 2.
That wasn't the point. Read again. GP had problem with sensationalist claims about what we can don now.
You always hurt the ones who love you.
FTFY
Oh, and they don't pay on time, always with a few months delay.
Pretty much reminds me how Tesco hypermarkets work here in Eastern-Europe. They ask you shelf price, you have to do regular selloffs (which usually go below production price) etc.
I personally know a guy, who started and maintains a fansite, and Blizzard was quite friendly with him. (Sending him tickets, giving interview etc.) Heck, does EA even have community managers?
I thought that it's Slashdot.
I can't imagine anything worse for their PR. No amount of advertisement can fix that.
Thought interfaces are cool and dandy until you get a trojan that logs your thoughts ;)
You have to be able prove before court that you published that. Would an upload to Internet Archive do it? I'm not completely sure.
You seriously misanderstood what I said: the smaller company doesn't know how seriously the price war will go. Or when it will start. A lot of them just suppose that the bigger one doesn't take notice.
"You're incorrectly assuming companies can't determine the cost of creating a product; "
It's very hard to tell in advance, and a its the cause of many bankruptcies.
However it's no different from any other media depicting politics.
Blackwater Worldwide
Ok, the just record my LCD TV/monitor with my camera. And it won't even flicker as CRT would. (Yeah, I lose a bit of quality, but most people won't care. It's still better than the ones taken in the cinema with handycams.)
" so they can outlast you if they enter later."
They cannot. Because they don't know it in advance.
If you bust up the trust, no one has market prices and prices can rise to a higher level than with a monopoly.
That's some bogus reasoning. (It only works if the price of entering the market is practically zero. These are the markets least prone to become a monopoly.)
By busting the competition by predatory pricing you eliminate the initial capital of the competition. And that takes time to recover. In the meantime you can have outrageous profits. Antitrust makes it harder to destroy that initial capital.
I don't get this whole global-warming thing. Could someone explain it with a car analogy?
Oh, and I can use different carriers related to the same phone endloop (e.g. Magyar Telekom vs Tele2)
Ok, I don't know how this works in US but in Hungary (EU), user had to pay for installing telephone/cable TV.
Well, I guess it sounded weird.
I mean having a huge room, where userloop ends, and different ISPs can be present at the same time. The right to be present at that big room is auctioned off.
Can't be the end-user loop owned by the user/gov, and auction rights for ISPs?
Seriously, WTF?!
How will virtualisation block ads?
However, if you assume that your client's machine is infected, no measure will secure your transaction. (There are keyloggers which do screenshots on mousclicks etc.)
DRM can always be defeated because the "attacker" is exactly the same as the user, and you're already giving them everything they need. That is a system which is fundamentally flawed. Real security is where you don't give the attacker your keys, passwords, etc.
So DRM relies on "security through obscurity", which is generally frowned on in security circles.