Office has a plethora of management tools to ease rollout and configuration. When was the last time you saw end-users expected to configure Outlook themselves? Yesterday.
I think small to medium sized companies often don't use any of those tools because they're too complicated and cost too much.
On the other hand, if your company is large enough to need them, the comparison should probably be against StarOffice instead of OpenOffice. Because StarOffice does have deployment management tools... http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/enterprise_tools.jsp
They may not have been directly paid for the report. Many of Microsoft's most vehement defenders are merely people and/or groups who make their money off of their MS Consultant role. They're big Microsoft boosters because they have to be to sell Microsoft's wares and bring in their own tidy consulting commision on the sale.
Now obviously this is a huge conflict of interest and should be noted as such in any report, but these people tend to believe that they are immune to any such biases.
If it's such a good product, why are they afraid to label it as GMO? The only rational reason to avoid labeling GMO is because some lobbyists and corporations are "encouraging" this action. My understanding is the GMO companies are afraid that people will simply refuse to buy anything that's labelled as GMO out of misplaced fear. Even worse, they're afraid that their products will be singled out as the source of all food evils. They're afraid of being scapegoated for all illnesses and they're afraid of luddites specifically targetting them with phony horror stories to scare people away from their products.
That doesn't justify the decision, but it's a highlight of what those corporations have to fear even with a 100% safer and better product than the non-GMO equivalent.
More specifically, it's not worth panicking over if it kills less people a year than traffic accidents.
We still want to mitigate the risks as much as possible, but panicking because somebody, somewhere might possibly die at some point in the future because of something is a little ridiculous.
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my friend, the Clue-By-Four. He and I have arranged a little demonstration on physics for your appreciation tonight. Please stand very still during the demonstration for maximum effect.
People have a project they think is suitable for use with Rails and then after spending a lot of time working on it, it turns out for some obscure minor reason, it just won't work. That's when reasonable people start saying "Rails sucks".
Frankly, I won't even try Ruby of Rails, I've been down similar roads, and I don't feel the need to straitjacket myself into a self-limiting framework. Plus the only popular site I know that runs Ruby on Rails has a tendency to just break from time to time, despite the fact that they're not doing anything particularly complex with it. That's the type of reliability I just don't need.
After he took office, people being interviewed for positions with some authority in the government were being asked who they voted for in the last presidential election. If it wasn't Bush, you were untrustworth and therefore disqualified from the job.
Now imagine how much worse it would be if they could ask you to prove that you'd voted for Bush.
However, accuracy, security and liberty must all be present in a voting system. If any one of those elements is missing, you no longer have any democracy worth mentioning.
Hand counting is the best method for a couple of reasons:
You can have interested parties participate in the counting. It takes many people to count, thus the conspiracy has to be large to have a big effect. The overall totals can be verified by checking the precints. It's auditable.
The downside:
It's more expensive because you have to pay those people to count the votes. It's slower because you have to give those people time to count the votes.
1) Nobody likes a hypocrit. 2) These cases are all obviously not fair use. 3) Fox, Virgin Mobile, and Microsoft are not computer illiterate single Moms being bullied by corporations into paying $5,000 to avoid a lengthy trial based on false pretences. 4) Schaudenfreude
Everyone loves the irony of bad people getting served what they've dished out. Most of these companies go out of their way to be the biggest dicks they can be over their copyrights. Why shouldn't we judge them to the standard they want to hold everyone else to?
Furthermore, most of the cases outlined in the article are cases where copyright is a good thing. The works are being used for commercial purposes, therefore has value, and the original photographer was not credited or paid for it's use. Most of the people who don't particularly like copyright in it's current form still see some value in having limited copyright, and this is most certainly one of the ways in which works should be protected under that limited copyright.
Don't forget they have amazing stupid experts to tell them that "It's not the vaccinations baby! People just started washing their hands!" as a credible explanation for the drop in incidence of vaccinated against diseases.
No, I'm not joking. Some people are actually claiming the drop in disease incidence is merely amazingly coincidental in that it usually follows vaccination levels and is most likely to strike those who have not been vaccinated. It's really improved sanitation and reduced crowding that's behind it all. It all works as long as you ignore the anti-vaccination scare and their fallouts in the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland among others.
Autism as a diagnosis didn't really exist until the 1960s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#History), not because Autism as a disease didn't exist, but because the symptoms weren't officially recognized as a separate disorder. Furthermore, generally in the U.S. schools didn't treat Autism as a separate disorder from mental retardation and general learning disabilities until 1994 (See article below).
In the U.S. there has been a cross-country decline in mental retardation rates that is fairly similar in magnitude to the rise in autism (a 2.5 rise versus a 2.8 drop), except in a few states like California, where the autism rate rose but was not offset by a fall in mental retardation diagnoses.
The argument isn't that the rise of autism is actually caused by changes in diagnosis, but rather that it's a more plausible explanation than mercury based vaccines which have shown no correlation to autism rates. The one thing we know for sure is that autism runs in families and it is extremely likely to have a strong genetic component.
Frankly, my experience has been the opposite. I've found that many of the parents who are against vaccinations are narrow minded fools who refuse to believe anything that doesn't confirm their already deeply held beliefs. There's a big tendency for them to be right wing Christians who also don't believe in global warming and evolution because "God wouldn't let that happen".
To them, Autism is a punishment visited on people for failing to trust God in his infinite wisdom to take care of their children. Becuase you see vaccinations prove that you don't love God enough to trust him with your children. According them that's the real meaning of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
I looked up Sherri Tenpenny and you know what I found? She looks like a big fraud. She never cites any other doctors who support her. She makes broad allegations that the government and the media are in the pocket of big pharmaceutical companies who make giant profits on vaccinations. She also claims that vaccination had little or nothing to do with the decline in smallpox. Essentially, her entire spiel appears to be that the dangers of vaccination outweigh the dangers of the diseases they're supposed to prevent for every kind of vaccination.
The last nail, is the lack of notability outside of anti-vaccination circles. I was unable to find any critical analysis of her claims, most likely because they have never been seriously published. All in all she looks like an alternative medicine quack who's main claim to fame is the talk show circuit.
Frankly, that doesn't pass the smell test. It defies logic that vaccinations could have been previously found so effective and now be found totally useless, unless of course, the person doing the investigation has already decided they should be useless and is ignoring evidence that doesn't support her desired conclusion.
It doesn't matter how badly Intel wanted to sell their more expensive, less functional copy of the OLPC laptop. It is simply unethical to use insider information to quash a deal and sign a separate one yourself with a client.
This is a big black mark against Intel and should serve as a warning to future partners that they can't be trusted at all. I mean you can't get much worse publicity than "deliberately sabotaged a charitable organization". Maybe the CEO of Intel would like follow it up by kicking puppies and eating babies?
Of course, denying the switch is the correct course of action, whether they're going to switch or not.
There's no sense in risking your sales by announcing shortly you won't be supporting the formatting you're selling. The rumour that they might should be enough to drive sales up a bit for the people who already have HD DVD players and don't want to switch to BluRay. Meanwhile you can be sure as hell, they're getting ready to go both formats and/or BluRay exclusive if the money works out.
I.e. the only reason they would not use the escape clause would be because they have to give back some of the bribe if they don't complete the term of the contract.
Except, there are no reported infections on Unix or Linux and the infections itself seems tailored to attack MS-SQL (relying on it's specific system tables to identify tables to infect).
Also automated attacks like this usually rely on a specific injection vector (usually a common url on domains where the injection can be carried out). And although no one has explained exactly what software was exploited to do the injection, it might well be windows-only software, but that's just speculation on why it might not have hit any Unix servers.
It's also possible that some Unix servers have the vulnerability but because they don't have the MS-SQL system tables, the automated system was unable to actually infect them with anything.
Hmm. Maybe I can make this question a little easier to grasp or shorter. How about:
According to quotes from EN World, the PHB will have 3 power sources (martial, arcane and divine) and 4 roles (defender, leader, controller, and striker). That would seem to indicate that the ideal number of classes should be 12, not 8 as you've announced.
Looking at the actual classes (fighter, paladin, cleric, warlord, wizard, rogue, ranger & warlock) it looks like ranger and rogue both have martial power sources for the striker role. That's an obvious redundancy that could be eliminated. If it were up to me, I'd think I'd drop the warlord class, redesign the rogue to be a leader and add a new controller class based on a divine power source, (war priest?), and an arcane leader class (illusionist? enchanter?). I do see a reasonably good reasons for not including an arcane defender, martial controller and divine striker, though. Those power sources seem incompatible with those roles.
So my question is: Why do these classes (fighter, paladin, cleric, warlord, wizard, rogue, ranger & warlock) represent both a spanning set and a minimal set of abilities that players will need for their adventuring group? (Meaning all the necessary abilities are present with as little repetition as possible).
... Yes, Paladins without a god. I'd forgotten that dreadful 3Eism.
And monks? In the PHB? More trash for the fire.
I don't disagree with you here, those things are fully nonsense as well. But that doesn't make the evasion rules any better. It just shows that there are a bunch of other holes introduced in 3rd Edition.
These seem somewhat analogous to the MMO roles of Tank, Healer, Crowd Control and DPS. There's a few thinsg that seem odd about that list. The first is there's only 1 controller, and 3 strikers. Does that mean every group is going to need a wizard until you get around to releasing the other controller classes at some point in the future? The warlord title seems, well, off. Intuitively it should be a defender, and no amount of explanation is going to stop people from thinking that. Even your "iconic" art for the class makes it look like a knock-off warrior. Also as far as I can tell you have 2 leather wearing classes, 2 cloth wearing classes and 4 plate wearing classes. Where are the inbetween classes that would actually want to use chain armor, or banded mail for reasons other than they can't afford better armor yet? Essentially, I'm already getting turned off by some of the changes made to the game that I don't like that much. Getting rid of wizard schools seems like an even bigger mistake than getting rid of spell spheres (Here's a hint: keep them for categorization purposes, if even if you don't actually use them). Sure, people who didn't care about spheres didn't like them, but it made all clerics into tasteless powergaming mush and made it all but impossible to replicate the specialty priests that everyone, I ever played with loved from Second Edition.
My question is simple: Are you sure you want to publish the game with those 8 classes?
I mean what's the real difference between a warlord and a paladin? Because they look exactly the same from over here.
Actually, it's a "lot" sillier, because there's no explanation for how the rogue "dodged" the fireball without moving. Why is it sillier? Because the rational doesn't make a god damn bit of sense. The rational for the fireworks and the smiting have a plausible justification. The first guy's a wizard and the second guy's summong the holy power of the gawds.
The rogue dodged a 20 foot radius effect, without moving. That's not fantastic, it's nonsense.
I played 3rd Edition, from the outside the system is laughably bad, that's the primary reason I don't play any more. That's one reason they're point out the flaws, the other is as you correctly pointing out, they're trying to upsell their customers to the new shinier version which they don't need in any way, shape or form.
I mean sure the books look cool, but they screwed up all the math behind the scenes in 3rd Edition to the point where the game just sucks if you try to run it the way you're supposed to. The only saving grace is that few people do. Personally, I choose to just not run or play it at all. Why work around a broken system, when you can just a different one that works better.
For some reason you remind me of the guy who was saying that nobody needed color TV in the 60s. I mean the color TV shows weren't that much better than black and white. Plus black and white TV sets were much cheaper! Why get a color TV for $200 when you can get a black and white one for $30? Color is just a costly gimmick!
Personally, I think HD-TV is going to become the standard, in a couple of years it'll be abnormal for a family to not have at least 1 HD-TV. I don't have one yet, but my parents, my single friends, and my co-workers who don't have kids are all getting HD TVs and players. I know that's anecdotal, but what I see is HD TV going from bleeding edge to cutting edge.
It's selling well enough that the local tech stores, like Futureshop, that they are dramatically scaling back their inventories of regular tv sets in favour of HD sets.
I think the point was that blue lasers need for both HD-DVD and BluRay drives were hard to get when the PS3 launched, they would have been impossible to supply the number needed to launch the 360 a year earlier with an HD-DVD drive built in. Thus the 360 wouldn't have had a big head start and wouldn't have as many games. If MS had included the HD-DVD drive they'd probably be in last place, instead of second place.
Much of their success is directly attributable to launching early and getting some early bandwagoners on board.
It's not really that Paramount was dropping Blu-Ray support, so much as Paramount received a very large bribe to release content exclusively on HD-DVD for a year.
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I see the problem here. It's not witchcraft, it's voodoo. You need to sacrifice more goats.
I think small to medium sized companies often don't use any of those tools because they're too complicated and cost too much.
On the other hand, if your company is large enough to need them, the comparison should probably be against StarOffice instead of OpenOffice. Because StarOffice does have deployment management tools...
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/enterprise_tools.jsp
They may not have been directly paid for the report. Many of Microsoft's most vehement defenders are merely people and/or groups who make their money off of their MS Consultant role. They're big Microsoft boosters because they have to be to sell Microsoft's wares and bring in their own tidy consulting commision on the sale.
Now obviously this is a huge conflict of interest and should be noted as such in any report, but these people tend to believe that they are immune to any such biases.
That doesn't justify the decision, but it's a highlight of what those corporations have to fear even with a 100% safer and better product than the non-GMO equivalent.
More specifically, it's not worth panicking over if it kills less people a year than traffic accidents.
We still want to mitigate the risks as much as possible, but panicking because somebody, somewhere might possibly die at some point in the future because of something is a little ridiculous.
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my friend, the Clue-By-Four. He and I have arranged a little demonstration on physics for your appreciation tonight. Please stand very still during the demonstration for maximum effect.
Well, here's the issue:
People have a project they think is suitable for use with Rails and then after spending a lot of time working on it, it turns out for some obscure minor reason, it just won't work. That's when reasonable people start saying "Rails sucks".
Frankly, I won't even try Ruby of Rails, I've been down similar roads, and I don't feel the need to straitjacket myself into a self-limiting framework. Plus the only popular site I know that runs Ruby on Rails has a tendency to just break from time to time, despite the fact that they're not doing anything particularly complex with it. That's the type of reliability I just don't need.
You know, Bush has already done this.
After he took office, people being interviewed for positions with some authority in the government were being asked who they voted for in the last presidential election. If it wasn't Bush, you were untrustworth and therefore disqualified from the job.
Now imagine how much worse it would be if they could ask you to prove that you'd voted for Bush.
However, accuracy, security and liberty must all be present in a voting system. If any one of those elements is missing, you no longer have any democracy worth mentioning.
Hand counting is the best method for a couple of reasons:
You can have interested parties participate in the counting.
It takes many people to count, thus the conspiracy has to be large to have a big effect.
The overall totals can be verified by checking the precints.
It's auditable.
The downside:
It's more expensive because you have to pay those people to count the votes.
It's slower because you have to give those people time to count the votes.
Well, there's several reasons for that:
1) Nobody likes a hypocrit.
2) These cases are all obviously not fair use.
3) Fox, Virgin Mobile, and Microsoft are not computer illiterate single Moms being bullied by corporations into paying $5,000 to avoid a lengthy trial based on false pretences.
4) Schaudenfreude
Everyone loves the irony of bad people getting served what they've dished out. Most of these companies go out of their way to be the biggest dicks they can be over their copyrights. Why shouldn't we judge them to the standard they want to hold everyone else to?
Furthermore, most of the cases outlined in the article are cases where copyright is a good thing. The works are being used for commercial purposes, therefore has value, and the original photographer was not credited or paid for it's use. Most of the people who don't particularly like copyright in it's current form still see some value in having limited copyright, and this is most certainly one of the ways in which works should be protected under that limited copyright.
Don't forget they have amazing stupid experts to tell them that "It's not the vaccinations baby! People just started washing their hands!" as a credible explanation for the drop in incidence of vaccinated against diseases.
No, I'm not joking. Some people are actually claiming the drop in disease incidence is merely amazingly coincidental in that it usually follows vaccination levels and is most likely to strike those who have not been vaccinated. It's really improved sanitation and reduced crowding that's behind it all. It all works as long as you ignore the anti-vaccination scare and their fallouts in the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland among others.
Autism as a diagnosis didn't really exist until the 1960s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#History), not because Autism as a disease didn't exist, but because the symptoms weren't officially recognized as a separate disorder. Furthermore, generally in the U.S. schools didn't treat Autism as a separate disorder from mental retardation and general learning disabilities until 1994 (See article below).
In the U.S. there has been a cross-country decline in mental retardation rates that is fairly similar in magnitude to the rise in autism (a 2.5 rise versus a 2.8 drop), except in a few states like California, where the autism rate rose but was not offset by a fall in mental retardation diagnoses.
The argument isn't that the rise of autism is actually caused by changes in diagnosis, but rather that it's a more plausible explanation than mercury based vaccines which have shown no correlation to autism rates. The one thing we know for sure is that autism runs in families and it is extremely likely to have a strong genetic component.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2006/04/03/autism-children-rate-20060403.html
Frankly, my experience has been the opposite. I've found that many of the parents who are against vaccinations are narrow minded fools who refuse to believe anything that doesn't confirm their already deeply held beliefs. There's a big tendency for them to be right wing Christians who also don't believe in global warming and evolution because "God wouldn't let that happen".
To them, Autism is a punishment visited on people for failing to trust God in his infinite wisdom to take care of their children. Becuase you see vaccinations prove that you don't love God enough to trust him with your children. According them that's the real meaning of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
I looked up Sherri Tenpenny and you know what I found? She looks like a big fraud. She never cites any other doctors who support her. She makes broad allegations that the government and the media are in the pocket of big pharmaceutical companies who make giant profits on vaccinations. She also claims that vaccination had little or nothing to do with the decline in smallpox. Essentially, her entire spiel appears to be that the dangers of vaccination outweigh the dangers of the diseases they're supposed to prevent for every kind of vaccination.
The last nail, is the lack of notability outside of anti-vaccination circles. I was unable to find any critical analysis of her claims, most likely because they have never been seriously published. All in all she looks like an alternative medicine quack who's main claim to fame is the talk show circuit.
Frankly, that doesn't pass the smell test. It defies logic that vaccinations could have been previously found so effective and now be found totally useless, unless of course, the person doing the investigation has already decided they should be useless and is ignoring evidence that doesn't support her desired conclusion.
It doesn't matter how badly Intel wanted to sell their more expensive, less functional copy of the OLPC laptop. It is simply unethical to use insider information to quash a deal and sign a separate one yourself with a client.
This is a big black mark against Intel and should serve as a warning to future partners that they can't be trusted at all. I mean you can't get much worse publicity than "deliberately sabotaged a charitable organization". Maybe the CEO of Intel would like follow it up by kicking puppies and eating babies?
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Of course, denying the switch is the correct course of action, whether they're going to switch or not.
There's no sense in risking your sales by announcing shortly you won't be supporting the formatting you're selling. The rumour that they might should be enough to drive sales up a bit for the people who already have HD DVD players and don't want to switch to BluRay. Meanwhile you can be sure as hell, they're getting ready to go both formats and/or BluRay exclusive if the money works out.
I.e. the only reason they would not use the escape clause would be because they have to give back some of the bribe if they don't complete the term of the contract.
Except, there are no reported infections on Unix or Linux and the infections itself seems tailored to attack MS-SQL (relying on it's specific system tables to identify tables to infect).
Also automated attacks like this usually rely on a specific injection vector (usually a common url on domains where the injection can be carried out). And although no one has explained exactly what software was exploited to do the injection, it might well be windows-only software, but that's just speculation on why it might not have hit any Unix servers.
It's also possible that some Unix servers have the vulnerability but because they don't have the MS-SQL system tables, the automated system was unable to actually infect them with anything.
Hmm. Maybe I can make this question a little easier to grasp or shorter. How about:
According to quotes from EN World, the PHB will have 3 power sources (martial, arcane and divine) and 4 roles (defender, leader, controller, and striker). That would seem to indicate that the ideal number of classes should be 12, not 8 as you've announced.
Looking at the actual classes (fighter, paladin, cleric, warlord, wizard, rogue, ranger & warlock) it looks like ranger and rogue both have martial power sources for the striker role. That's an obvious redundancy that could be eliminated. If it were up to me, I'd think I'd drop the warlord class, redesign the rogue to be a leader and add a new controller class based on a divine power source, (war priest?), and an arcane leader class (illusionist? enchanter?). I do see a reasonably good reasons for not including an arcane defender, martial controller and divine striker, though. Those power sources seem incompatible with those roles.
So my question is: Why do these classes (fighter, paladin, cleric, warlord, wizard, rogue, ranger & warlock) represent both a spanning set and a minimal set of abilities that players will need for their adventuring group?
(Meaning all the necessary abilities are present with as little repetition as possible).
... Yes, Paladins without a god. I'd forgotten that dreadful 3Eism.
And monks? In the PHB? More trash for the fire.
I don't disagree with you here, those things are fully nonsense as well. But that doesn't make the evasion rules any better. It just shows that there are a bunch of other holes introduced in 3rd Edition.
According to EN World the basic classes in the PHB will be:
Defender: fighter & paladin classes
Leader: cleric & warlord classes
Controller: wizard class
Striker: rogue, ranger, & warlock classes
These seem somewhat analogous to the MMO roles of Tank, Healer, Crowd Control and DPS. There's a few thinsg that seem odd about that list. The first is there's only 1 controller, and 3 strikers. Does that mean every group is going to need a wizard until you get around to releasing the other controller classes at some point in the future? The warlord title seems, well, off. Intuitively it should be a defender, and no amount of explanation is going to stop people from thinking that. Even your "iconic" art for the class makes it look like a knock-off warrior. Also as far as I can tell you have 2 leather wearing classes, 2 cloth wearing classes and 4 plate wearing classes. Where are the inbetween classes that would actually want to use chain armor, or banded mail for reasons other than they can't afford better armor yet? Essentially, I'm already getting turned off by some of the changes made to the game that I don't like that much. Getting rid of wizard schools seems like an even bigger mistake than getting rid of spell spheres (Here's a hint: keep them for categorization purposes, if even if you don't actually use them). Sure, people who didn't care about spheres didn't like them, but it made all clerics into tasteless powergaming mush and made it all but impossible to replicate the specialty priests that everyone, I ever played with loved from Second Edition.
My question is simple: Are you sure you want to publish the game with those 8 classes?
I mean what's the real difference between a warlord and a paladin? Because they look exactly the same from over here.
Gandalf's not a wizard, actually he's actually a demi-god, so's Sauruman for that matter, that's explained in the Silmarion, I think.
The D&D mage was actually designed after the wizards in Jack Vance's books.
Actually, it's a "lot" sillier, because there's no explanation for how the rogue "dodged" the fireball without moving. Why is it sillier? Because the rational doesn't make a god damn bit of sense. The rational for the fireworks and the smiting have a plausible justification. The first guy's a wizard and the second guy's summong the holy power of the gawds.
The rogue dodged a 20 foot radius effect, without moving. That's not fantastic, it's nonsense.
I played 3rd Edition, from the outside the system is laughably bad, that's the primary reason I don't play any more. That's one reason they're point out the flaws, the other is as you correctly pointing out, they're trying to upsell their customers to the new shinier version which they don't need in any way, shape or form.
I mean sure the books look cool, but they screwed up all the math behind the scenes in 3rd Edition to the point where the game just sucks if you try to run it the way you're supposed to. The only saving grace is that few people do. Personally, I choose to just not run or play it at all. Why work around a broken system, when you can just a different one that works better.
For some reason you remind me of the guy who was saying that nobody needed color TV in the 60s. I mean the color TV shows weren't that much better than black and white. Plus black and white TV sets were much cheaper! Why get a color TV for $200 when you can get a black and white one for $30? Color is just a costly gimmick!
Personally, I think HD-TV is going to become the standard, in a couple of years it'll be abnormal for a family to not have at least 1 HD-TV. I don't have one yet, but my parents, my single friends, and my co-workers who don't have kids are all getting HD TVs and players. I know that's anecdotal, but what I see is HD TV going from bleeding edge to cutting edge.
It's selling well enough that the local tech stores, like Futureshop, that they are dramatically scaling back their inventories of regular tv sets in favour of HD sets.
I think the point was that blue lasers need for both HD-DVD and BluRay drives were hard to get when the PS3 launched, they would have been impossible to supply the number needed to launch the 360 a year earlier with an HD-DVD drive built in. Thus the 360 wouldn't have had a big head start and wouldn't have as many games. If MS had included the HD-DVD drive they'd probably be in last place, instead of second place.
Much of their success is directly attributable to launching early and getting some early bandwagoners on board.
It's not really that Paramount was dropping Blu-Ray support, so much as Paramount received a very large bribe to release content exclusively on HD-DVD for a year.