Think about it, their ISP divisions pull in what, 1-2 digit billions of dollars a year? Maybe 3 digit billions?
That is nothing compared to the 2-4 digit trillions they state they are losing due to piracy.
do you have a Non **AA affiliated source for that figure?
Also, anyone who says "Nikon doesn't have a monopoly" isn't familiar with the way camera systems work. Nikon, Canon, etc have a pretty strong monopoly on any non-rich photographer who has bought into their lens system over the years. You can't easily jump ship to another manufacturer when you've got 3 years worth of salary sunk into proprietary glass.
I'm not a photographer so this will probably sound ignorant (because it is), but what makes lenses proprietary? Isn't it just physics, light input/output? Is it really impossible considering the pro-level costs to build mounting adapters to mate different branded components?
it's the expense of replacing those lenses, since the method of connecting the lens to the body (where the image sensor is) is proprietary.
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Think about it, their ISP divisions pull in what, 1-2 digit billions of dollars a year? Maybe 3 digit billions? That is nothing compared to the 2-4 digit trillions they state they are losing due to piracy.
do you have a Non **AA affiliated source for that figure?
and here I thought it was about hotel taxes.
of course it comes down to taxes.
Also, anyone who says "Nikon doesn't have a monopoly" isn't familiar with the way camera systems work. Nikon, Canon, etc have a pretty strong monopoly on any non-rich photographer who has bought into their lens system over the years. You can't easily jump ship to another manufacturer when you've got 3 years worth of salary sunk into proprietary glass.
I'm not a photographer so this will probably sound ignorant (because it is), but what makes lenses proprietary? Isn't it just physics, light input/output? Is it really impossible considering the pro-level costs to build mounting adapters to mate different branded components?
it's the expense of replacing those lenses, since the method of connecting the lens to the body (where the image sensor is) is proprietary.
Uhhh "genius" you can keep a basic phone that you just have to plug into the phone jack and it will work.
because Walmart doesn't want it.
strange, I can turn Wifi on and off manually without any apps.
are you sure it's not the Mirror universe instead?
if I had mod points (law of irony says I will get some tomorrow) +5insightful
that's the downside to getting an apple device *ducks and puts on fireproof body armor*
and that less affected by malware thing will go away once Linux becomes popular
how dare you interject facts, this is the internet!
Original jokes, here on /., surely you can't be serious.
I thought it was the publishers who do did thing like 90/copy and killing resale markets.
why would you want to ban anthrax, I don't think they're that good of a band.
now we're just getting recursive
especially since no reads the articles
I see what you did there...
maybe he meant 10 yards?
So no real source of news allowed than? With the ones you listed, we are only really left with 'Corporate approved' media.
FTFY
you mean like the members of congress?
we can start with investment banks and Oil companies.
and IIRC most of what went wrong with Tabula Rasa was NcSoft committing forgery to kill it.
I think it got shafted by users and management at EA before it hit the light of day.
Fixed
I was just mention the incident to happen first. though in the intrests of full disclosure, I was a long time City of Heroes Player.