That is, you either bully everyone into doing things your way and make history, or you die. The little people just go along with the way the herd's being pushed.
Conversely, just look at the resounding success of things done by comittee. The space shuttle, for instance./sarcasm
You overlooked a crucial player -- Pixar. They just ended their distribution contract with Disney, who took an unfair share of the profits.
Look at their comparative output in the last ten years. PIXAR is the new Disney. (Well, at least in the animated feature arena. To be fair Disney has several other allied businesses that Pixar is not in. Yet.) And Disney, lacking any real vision or innovation, it resorting to anti-consumer DRM lockin. Just the kind of strategy you'd expect from a company that's lost it's edge.
"I laughed when I first saw it, because I was convinced it was a gag: "
"But I never could figure out exactly how these work"
It looks like it wouldn't be hard to make a cheap knockoff that did just randomly change colors for a lot less. Just a $2 pic and a few colored LEDs. Look like Mr. Important Executive (tm) for $$$ less!
(And I haven't RTFW, but I assume that each device has a ID number and a radio reciever. The company maintains nationwide radio coverage and just beams out updates round-robin.)
Yeah, but we're talking IBM here. A lot of their customers are vertically integrated. Who cares what it runs as long as it can be made to get the job done.
errr, well you do have that whole "OS/2" thing. And I guess getting locked in by buying a custom enterprise system from IBM is just as bad as being indirectly locked into MicroSoft.
I never understood why IBM has stuck with the x86 PeeCees this long. Lord knows I'd like a nice IBM laptop with a Power PC in it. If they could do it for a comprable price.
"You'll also be able to share your files with your XBox2 "buddies" that are also members of the network.
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Geeze, that sounds an awful lot like the dreaded P2P (except for the non-anonymous part...). Does that mean MS is going to sniff your files for copyright violoations? Does the subscriber get the privalege of paying for such "services" or do they directly bill the *AA ? Just make sure to include a industry standard "HACKED BY CHINEESE" index.html in your fileset to provide plausible deniability.
"Disney believed it should be exempt from making any payment to the hospital from the sale of spin-off books, board games, soft toys and computer games, which are expected to generate tens of millions of dollars in their own right."
That's exactly the attidue they took with the De Milne ("Winnie the Pooh") estate. It was a huge case, and I believe they eventually lost for about $800,000,000. (! But probably a fraction of what they actually should have owed.)
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Can't we just ask the Iraq freedom-fighters to just stop blowing up our soldiers?!!!
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Model comparison, circa 1959.
Now it's all about Janet's tit.
An actual instance where dumbing things down for the American market actually improved the work.
That is, you either bully everyone into doing things your way and make history, or you die. The little people just go along with the way the herd's being pushed.
Conversely, just look at the resounding success of things done by comittee. The space shuttle, for instance. /sarcasm
I guess plumbers can charge you triple-time for emergencies, so they have that going for them.
Look at their comparative output in the last ten years. PIXAR is the new Disney. (Well, at least in the animated feature arena. To be fair Disney has several other allied businesses that Pixar is not in. Yet.) And Disney, lacking any real vision or innovation, it resorting to anti-consumer DRM lockin. Just the kind of strategy you'd expect from a company that's lost it's edge.
She beleived him.
Sorry, I thought you said "NASA middle manager".
I thought the movie "Pi" was a warning to look for "Intel inside".
"But I never could figure out exactly how these work"
It looks like it wouldn't be hard to make a cheap knockoff that did just randomly change colors for a lot less. Just a $2 pic and a few colored LEDs. Look like Mr. Important Executive (tm) for $$$ less!
(And I haven't RTFW, but I assume that each device has a ID number and a radio reciever. The company maintains nationwide radio coverage and just beams out updates round-robin.)
In the olden days, telephones were routinely used as weapons in murder mysteries. Try doing that with your cellphone.
That was just a subtle way of calling "BULLSHIT!" on the parent post. Hence, ontopic. And insightful.
Oh Anonymous Coward, you charm the ladies with your sensuous trombone playing!
This is why computer types hate people.
Trolling slashdot's just part of my public service plea agreement.
Kodak just recently announced that it's getting completely out of the chemical film business. They're reacting to market pressures to go digital.
errr, well you do have that whole "OS/2" thing. And I guess getting locked in by buying a custom enterprise system from IBM is just as bad as being indirectly locked into MicroSoft.
I never understood why IBM has stuck with the x86 PeeCees this long. Lord knows I'd like a nice IBM laptop with a Power PC in it. If they could do it for a comprable price.
Jim Bell ran afoul of TPTB for making exactly such a suggestion.
Geeze, that sounds an awful lot like the dreaded P2P (except for the non-anonymous part...). Does that mean MS is going to sniff your files for copyright violoations? Does the subscriber get the privalege of paying for such "services" or do they directly bill the *AA ? Just make sure to include a industry standard "HACKED BY CHINEESE" index.html in your fileset to provide plausible deniability.
Or USB flash drives.
fnarrr fnarrr fnarrr!
Rock / Paper / Scissors / Spock / Lizard is properly "law of fives" compliant.
That's exactly the attidue they took with the De Milne ("Winnie the Pooh") estate. It was a huge case, and I believe they eventually lost for about $800,000,000. (! But probably a fraction of what they actually should have owed.)
Maybe if we said "please".
I've they've gotten the story that goatse's been taken down by censorship-crazy Austrailailailans!