As you're squeezing those sour grapes, consider this: According to many long-time IBMers, during the bad years company ended retaining all of the so-so people. The truly lazy and stupid were booted and the really smart and agressive took the money and ran.
Which were you?
Ok, I must admit I got some money.:P
Sometime really dumb people would stay. A senior consultant wrongly estimated the project budget which ended up ten times overbudget. This particular project is still costing IBM a million each year(yes he has wrongly estimated the maintenance cost too!)
Guess what? That consultant got promoted for 'bidding a big project', and 1/2 project managers(1 at the beginning, 6 in the end) was fired/layoffed for bad project management(who can effectively manage a project with 1/10 budget?).
He's still there. His survival tips is to stay in the right tree of authority. In retrospective I should have accepted to transfer to R&D.:)  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
That reminds me of last time I've a drink with my friend who just finished his overnight work on setting up an IIS 5.0 webserver.
Then I said "Can you tell me the address? I'd like to test a remote adminstration program called jill.c that could bring up a C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ prompt on my xterm."
He told me this was impossible to hack his server as he has already applied the lastest services patch. Nevertheless, he excused himself and ran back to his office after seeing me grined evilly.
The lastest services patch is not good enough, but I wonder there aren't too many admins there keeping up with the latest hotfix.  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
I'm lucky enough to work for IBM, in Durham, NC, in a job that mostly calls for Linux skills. So far, IBM has not laid anyone off, and is in fact, doing very well.
How long have you been in IBM? I, together with my teammates from R&D, were layoffed during 90's, because some idiots at that time focused on 'business and consultancy services'(i.e. they don't need no stinking R&D)
It's proven to be a biggest failure. IBM cannot live by offerring services alone.
When they told you IBM don't layoff they lie. Good luck.:)  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
they really need to hire better people
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Once I hanged around #debian helping a guy who was obviously knew just a little more than basic things.
He told me he's in a hurry because a customer was waiting for the answer as we spoke. Out of curiosity I did a/whois on him: valinux.com...
P.S. I know there are more good people in VA then lousy ones, so no hard feeling here okay?  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Dears, have you got your answer so far? Don't just ask the question, how about contribute to the society by giving us a detail comparison on the following Linux PDAs for us?
My boss told me to do so but I am just a poor employee and can't afford to make a mistake here. Thanks.  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Fortunately for the developer community, Young Hoon Kim, a G.Mate programmer, ported X to the YOPY and made it available "unofficially." Finally, giving up trying to hold back water, G.Mate agreed an X environment would become the new base installation for the YOPY, dumping W Windows. In addition, a 2.4.x kernel would be made available, largely based on the work done by the Handhelds.org group.
I submitted Young Hoon Kim's interview to/. last time. He's doing a good job to steer G.Mate getting back on right track. The problems with YOPY is that they don't know what makes a Linux handheld different. The following paragraph gave you an answer.
This shift in direction demonstrates (again) that introducing an incompatible technology without strong justification just won't work. Particularly amongst open/free programmers, no one is willing to invest in your new technology unless its worth their time. While W may be faster than X on a 206-MHz machine, is it worth the loss of compatibility? Empirically, NO!
See that NO? The key is to have an open platform PDA. G.Mate didn't see it before. That's the reason why it worth our time waiting, regardless of the fact that it's coming late.
If you want a consumer product, go for iPaq. It's there and it's good; but open source developers probably won't be interested in writing for CE.
Of course, unless your intention is to hack this iPaq like in Embedded Debian project; but then again, you've to pay for a preinstalled Windows CE.
 _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Choose your processor architecture.
A brass lantern is here.
There is a row of buttons on the wall of this room. They read:
X86, ALPHA, SPARC32, SPARC64, MIPS32, MIPS64, PPC, M68K, ARM, SUPERH, IA64, PARISC, S390, S390X, CRIS
The button marked X86 is pressed.
>take lantern
Lantern: taken.
>enter SPARC64
You are now in SPARC64 kernel, process.c is staring at you in its cage.
>look process.c
arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c:/* fuck me plenty */
Binary packages like Redhat RPM and Debian DEB does that, but I know what you mean is automatically compiling tar package.
Really, it could be done. Double click the tar file, then system then run Configure and if there isn't any error make all. That's a thought.
It's as easy as writing a TCL/TK front end and do some exception handling from Configure and make. I'm sure it'd be much useful to incorporate this capability in Gnome or KDE desktop. Also, it'd be better to have security check in the process.
Good idea, let me think about it.  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
the package dependencies will take care of those 60 libraries for you. At least that's the case with Debian,
A package relys on such a huge set of dependencies would cause many dependency problems when you apt-get upgrade once a while. Slight problems would cause packages holding back or something like "...package xxxx is needed but yyyy is installed instead." failure.
Remind me to remove gnucash tonight.
P.S. apply to Debian unstable/sid distro only. Stable version shouldn't have that much problem because it's well-tested and upgrade is less frequent.  _ /. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
I thought the P4 was supposed to have better branch prediction to minimize the pipeline flush penalty. Does anyone know which CPU has a better branch prediction algorithm?
I think its major improvement is to make each stage comparatively simple by lengthening pipelines, but it brings other problems as I said before
There are improvements in other aspects, but they are mostly useless, some reviewers said.
P6 architecture on which Pentium III is based has 6 10-stage pipelines while Pentium 4 has 9 20-stage pipelines, for out-of-order instructions execution.
Sometime the out-of-order execution would fail due to excessive branching and mis-prediction, in this case Pentium processor will flush all the stages in pipelines. Pentium 4 has then lost more instructions then Pentium III on average, thus lost more execution cycles. Chances that a program which has a lot of conditional branching would run faster in Pentium III.
That explain why some benchmark tests show Pentium III out-perform Pentium IV in some cases.
P.S. FYI, Athlon only flush 1/2 stages on average and that explain why Athlon run faster then Pentium III&4 at same Mhz.
When I were studying CS, they usually didn't offer something like "Programming in XXX", "Fundamental of XXX". They usually went straight into "let's do this assignment in language XXX". The best they could do was to provide reference materials of this languages.
I still remember I've to program in ADA, which I never heard of before, in Software Technology course, for a section about OO(OO was very new then). No one taught you how to program in ADA, and I must admit it was fun.
It's very different nowaday. When you design a course which requires students to program, you must offer a seperate programming course as a prerequisite, or spend enough time to teach them programming in that course.
I were involved in the design of a course Computer Architecture for a local university. There is 2 assignments for programming in 68000. The course coordinator said since we don't have a seperate course for 68000, we must spend enough time, say 3 weeks, to teach the students how to use 68000. That would greatly affect the content of the course, but I failed in the argument. "May be that's today's trend, may be in the future we must spend enough time to teach students how to do mouse click" - you guess, the CC was VERY unhappy about it.:D
I think you shouldn't whine when you school don't offer the language course you like. If you want to learn a language, learn by yourself.
It looks as if an article about evil commercial working with evil Government, together with evil politicans who support Internet censorship, against a single citizen, and most people would jump into conclusion that the person stands against them is hero, guardian of something.
I'd not comment on anybody in the case. I'd like to tell you a story on domain name registration in Hong Kong. (.hk)
The domian name registration was controlled by a University owned commercial sector. They were having their own regulations like one company one domain name, no personal application, and no domain other than.com.hk,.edu.hk,.net.hk,.org.hk allowed. We argued many policies are obviously ridiculous, say why must we append.com. to.hk for everything commercial? We could make it shorter and decent.
Later Government took over the domain registration business. We did't trust the Government at all, and expected the worst to come. However, they actually make major improvement in domain name registration like allowing one company apply for multiple domain names, personal domain name registration and soon we can apply for domain name other than.com.hk,.net.hk,.org.hk.
The key point is that their work is now accountable. No more dictatorship and there's communication channels accepting suggestions from all different interest parties, and they actually made improvement out of them - not perfect solutions but at least the process of suggestion to improvement is very open, and the outcome is balanced for most interest parties.
I think as long as the domain name registration process is open, fair and accountable it's fine for any one to run it.
[Rep]: Maam, please tune to channel 3
[Wife]: I am on 3
[Rep]: No...you're on 5
That reminds me of an horrible experience of my brother with a sysadmin at a powerhouse company:
[Support]:...Please click the OK button.
[Bro]: I clicked it.
[Support]: No...you clicked the CANCEL. Let me show this for you.
To his horror the mouse pointer moved by itself and clicking the apps. I later told him the sysadmin could take control of his computer with some tools like PCAnywhere without your knowledge, and you can't uninstall it because it's an admin-locked NT workstation.
He never play quake/watch p0rn thereafter. Poor guy.
I'm not the one you bashed, but I was wondering where do you get this information?
As has already been stated, Gartner asked end-users what they installed on their computers after they bought them.
As one of a Gartner customers, we failed to get hold of the detail information on how they did the survey, they (inofficially) said it's commercial secret. All we know is the market segment and sample size. So, are you sure they really did?
Garter is a research agency that has its value locked in its reputation. If it produces poor quality research on a regular basis, people will stop subscribing or purchasing its reports.
Good point, but in fact customers choose Gartner because they want to get what they want to hear, and Gartner chooses who to list in their report. Once my friend's company complaint Gartner on their unfair comparison to their product. Their response was like "You were lucky we ever listed you" attitude. Gartner offered to come over to evaluate the situation, turn out gave them an opportunity to make business. My friend has then grown up thereafter any never take their study seriously.
Are you arrogant enough to believe they haven't thought of this?
Are you naive enough to believe they haven't thought of doing study in favour of big corps. for long term benefit?
Garter is not in the business of assessing obscure technical facts. They provide a strategic business perspective on technology. Tech-heads are not their market. They don't care about the operational aspects of the technology. The people who run business (which, most commonly, are not tech-heads and have different skills) are their market. They care about the strategic implications of the technology and longer-term market trends.
Hmm, isn't that exactly the major problem here?.....no wonder why they rated Rambus having brilliant future....
But, the village idiots on slashdot are always willing to provide legal advice, assume everyone in management is a PHB, that companies never ever know what they're doing, that everything is part of a conspiracy and that anyone who doesn't know how to write a sound compression script using bash is an idiot.
village idiots on slashdot? Compare to people like you who are so naive to believe that reports from big and rich companies must always be trusted, we are real idiots.
In summary, read the bloody report and get some perspective before spouting off.
I read those bloody reports quite frequently for my job. Have you ever wonder how do they come up with those probability factors that predict future trends on something, and how accurate do they turn out to be? I'd be much grateful if you could talk Gartner's to release the details, formula and source data of their research. (No Sir, it's company's secret!)
Well, actually after economics turmoil corporations are seeking alternatives in the implmentation of enterprise systems.
E.g. my company listed Linux in the evaluation process when starting new project, which is so amazing - our company never ever spend any resource on R&D and every adoption must be known technology and justified(read: have big corp. behind). The move is like seeing a dinosaur flying to us.
Our internal papers even positioned Linux as the midway between Win2k and commercial UNIX. It might not due to the increase in awareness of management, it might due to the budget consideration.
They solved budget problem, we are happy with Linux. It's a win-win situation for us.
(That's only one specific case for our corp., I didn't mean to generalize - in case you argue)
When they say zone protection is to protect their business, it's bullshit. It's to protect their profit without value-adding in their products. If they really want to prevent water goods, they can:
- Don't price up outragously in some regions
- Make some regional specific stuffs, e.g. european languages version, so that customers would prefer to buy they own regional version
In the past they'd focus on customers' satisfaction, now they find legal ways to restrict customers from making their own purchase preferences - with Government consent. That's sad.
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As you're squeezing those sour grapes, consider this: According to many long-time IBMers, during the bad years company ended retaining all of the so-so people. The truly lazy and stupid were booted and the really smart and agressive took the money and ran.
:P
:)
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Which were you?
Ok, I must admit I got some money.
Sometime really dumb people would stay. A senior consultant wrongly estimated the project budget which ended up ten times overbudget. This particular project is still costing IBM a million each year(yes he has wrongly estimated the maintenance cost too!)
Guess what? That consultant got promoted for 'bidding a big project', and 1/2 project managers(1 at the beginning, 6 in the end) was fired/layoffed for bad project management(who can effectively manage a project with 1/10 budget?).
He's still there. His survival tips is to stay in the right tree of authority. In retrospective I should have accepted to transfer to R&D.
 _
That reminds me of last time I've a drink with my friend who just finished his overnight work on setting up an IIS 5.0 webserver.
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Then I said "Can you tell me the address? I'd like to test a remote adminstration program called jill.c that could bring up a C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ prompt on my xterm."
He told me this was impossible to hack his server as he has already applied the lastest services patch. Nevertheless, he excused himself and ran back to his office after seeing me grined evilly.
The lastest services patch is not good enough, but I wonder there aren't too many admins there keeping up with the latest hotfix.
 _
I'm lucky enough to work for IBM, in Durham, NC, in a job that mostly calls for Linux skills. So far, IBM has not laid anyone off, and is in fact, doing very well.
:)
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
How long have you been in IBM? I, together with my teammates from R&D, were layoffed during 90's, because some idiots at that time focused on 'business and consultancy services'(i.e. they don't need no stinking R&D)
It's proven to be a biggest failure. IBM cannot live by offerring services alone.
When they told you IBM don't layoff they lie. Good luck.
 _
Once I hanged around #debian helping a guy who was obviously knew just a little more than basic things.
/whois on him: valinux.com...
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
He told me he's in a hurry because a customer was waiting for the answer as we spoke. Out of curiosity I did a
P.S. I know there are more good people in VA then lousy ones, so no hard feeling here okay?
 _
I'm a poor student
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Dears, have you got your answer so far? Don't just ask the question, how about contribute to the society by giving us a detail comparison on the following Linux PDAs for us?
4P DAT500 rugged handheld
Agenda VR3
HNT Exilien 00101/00201 Handheld PC and HNT Exilien 00102 Multimedia PDA
MiTAC CAT
Yopy
SK Telecom IMT2000 WebPhone
VTech Helio
My boss told me to do so but I am just a poor employee and can't afford to make a mistake here. Thanks.
 _
Fortunately for the developer community, Young Hoon Kim, a G.Mate programmer, ported X to the YOPY and made it available "unofficially." Finally, giving up trying to hold back water, G.Mate agreed an X environment would become the new base installation for the YOPY, dumping W Windows. In addition, a 2.4.x kernel would be made available, largely based on the work done by the Handhelds.org group.
/. last time. He's doing a good job to steer G.Mate getting back on right track. The problems with YOPY is that they don't know what makes a Linux handheld different. The following paragraph gave you an answer.
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
I submitted Young Hoon Kim's interview to
This shift in direction demonstrates (again) that introducing an incompatible technology without strong justification just won't work. Particularly amongst open/free programmers, no one is willing to invest in your new technology unless its worth their time. While W may be faster than X on a 206-MHz machine, is it worth the loss of compatibility? Empirically, NO!
See that NO? The key is to have an open platform PDA. G.Mate didn't see it before. That's the reason why it worth our time waiting, regardless of the fact that it's coming late.
If you want a consumer product, go for iPaq. It's there and it's good; but open source developers probably won't be interested in writing for CE.
Of course, unless your intention is to hack this iPaq like in Embedded Debian project; but then again, you've to pay for a preinstalled Windows CE.
 _
"If you see this, you get off too soon."
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
 _
I'm compiling the freaking kernel!
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
Oh yes, this is a Quake front end.
 _
Choose your processor architecture. A brass lantern is here.
/* fuck me plenty */
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
There is a row of buttons on the wall of this room. They read:
X86, ALPHA, SPARC32, SPARC64, MIPS32, MIPS64, PPC, M68K, ARM, SUPERH, IA64, PARISC, S390, S390X, CRIS
The button marked X86 is pressed.
>take lantern
Lantern: taken.
>enter SPARC64
You are now in SPARC64 kernel, process.c is staring at you in its cage.
>look process.c
arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c:
(Actual quote from grepping 2.2.17 source)
 _
I double-click on it to uncompress it.
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
It's installed!
Binary packages like Redhat RPM and Debian DEB does that, but I know what you mean is automatically compiling tar package.
Really, it could be done. Double click the tar file, then system then run Configure and if there isn't any error make all. That's a thought.
It's as easy as writing a TCL/TK front end and do some exception handling from Configure and make. I'm sure it'd be much useful to incorporate this capability in Gnome or KDE desktop. Also, it'd be better to have security check in the process.
Good idea, let me think about it.
 _
the package dependencies will take care of those 60 libraries for you. At least that's the case with Debian,
/. /    |\/| |\/| |\/| / Run, Bill!
A package relys on such a huge set of dependencies would cause many dependency problems when you apt-get upgrade once a while. Slight problems would cause packages holding back or something like "...package xxxx is needed but yyyy is installed instead." failure.
Remind me to remove gnucash tonight.
P.S. apply to Debian unstable/sid distro only. Stable version shouldn't have that much problem because it's well-tested and upgrade is less frequent.
 _
send my dog's DNA to space? I hope aliens don't mind practical joke.
I thought the P4 was supposed to have better branch prediction to minimize the pipeline flush penalty. Does anyone know which CPU has a better branch prediction algorithm?
I think its major improvement is to make each stage comparatively simple by lengthening pipelines, but it brings other problems as I said before
There are improvements in other aspects, but they are mostly useless, some reviewers said.
P6 architecture on which Pentium III is based has 6 10-stage pipelines while Pentium 4 has 9 20-stage pipelines, for out-of-order instructions execution.
Sometime the out-of-order execution would fail due to excessive branching and mis-prediction, in this case Pentium processor will flush all the stages in pipelines. Pentium 4 has then lost more instructions then Pentium III on average, thus lost more execution cycles. Chances that a program which has a lot of conditional branching would run faster in Pentium III.
That explain why some benchmark tests show Pentium III out-perform Pentium IV in some cases.
P.S. FYI, Athlon only flush 1/2 stages on average and that explain why Athlon run faster then Pentium III&4 at same Mhz.
When I were studying CS, they usually didn't offer something like "Programming in XXX", "Fundamental of XXX". They usually went straight into "let's do this assignment in language XXX". The best they could do was to provide reference materials of this languages.
:D
I still remember I've to program in ADA, which I never heard of before, in Software Technology course, for a section about OO(OO was very new then). No one taught you how to program in ADA, and I must admit it was fun.
It's very different nowaday. When you design a course which requires students to program, you must offer a seperate programming course as a prerequisite, or spend enough time to teach them programming in that course.
I were involved in the design of a course Computer Architecture for a local university. There is 2 assignments for programming in 68000. The course coordinator said since we don't have a seperate course for 68000, we must spend enough time, say 3 weeks, to teach the students how to use 68000. That would greatly affect the content of the course, but I failed in the argument. "May be that's today's trend, may be in the future we must spend enough time to teach students how to do mouse click" - you guess, the CC was VERY unhappy about it.
I think you shouldn't whine when you school don't offer the language course you like. If you want to learn a language, learn by yourself.
It looks as if an article about evil commercial working with evil Government, together with evil politicans who support Internet censorship, against a single citizen, and most people would jump into conclusion that the person stands against them is hero, guardian of something.
.com.hk, .edu.hk, .net.hk, .org.hk allowed. We argued many policies are obviously ridiculous, say why must we append .com. to .hk for everything commercial? We could make it shorter and decent.
.com.hk, .net.hk, .org.hk.
I'd not comment on anybody in the case. I'd like to tell you a story on domain name registration in Hong Kong. (.hk)
The domian name registration was controlled by a University owned commercial sector. They were having their own regulations like one company one domain name, no personal application, and no domain other than
Later Government took over the domain registration business. We did't trust the Government at all, and expected the worst to come. However, they actually make major improvement in domain name registration like allowing one company apply for multiple domain names, personal domain name registration and soon we can apply for domain name other than
The key point is that their work is now accountable. No more dictatorship and there's communication channels accepting suggestions from all different interest parties, and they actually made improvement out of them - not perfect solutions but at least the process of suggestion to improvement is very open, and the outcome is balanced for most interest parties.
I think as long as the domain name registration process is open, fair and accountable it's fine for any one to run it.
Hey, did you hear that Windows has installed a "Find File" feature in windows so that my sister can spy on me?
And the C:\WINDOWS\RECENT betrays the secret locations of her obscene love letters...(so does my cheap p0rns, DOH!)
[Rep]: Maam, please tune to channel 3
...Please click the OK button.
[Wife]: I am on 3
[Rep]: No...you're on 5
That reminds me of an horrible experience of my brother with a sysadmin at a powerhouse company:
[Support]:
[Bro]: I clicked it.
[Support]: No...you clicked the CANCEL. Let me show this for you.
To his horror the mouse pointer moved by itself and clicking the apps. I later told him the sysadmin could take control of his computer with some tools like PCAnywhere without your knowledge, and you can't uninstall it because it's an admin-locked NT workstation.
He never play quake/watch p0rn thereafter. Poor guy.
I'm not the one you bashed, but I was wondering where do you get this information?
As has already been stated, Gartner asked end-users what they installed on their computers after they bought them.
As one of a Gartner customers, we failed to get hold of the detail information on how they did the survey, they (inofficially) said it's commercial secret. All we know is the market segment and sample size. So, are you sure they really did?
Garter is a research agency that has its value locked in its reputation. If it produces poor quality research on a regular basis, people will stop subscribing or purchasing its reports.
Good point, but in fact customers choose Gartner because they want to get what they want to hear, and Gartner chooses who to list in their report. Once my friend's company complaint Gartner on their unfair comparison to their product. Their response was like "You were lucky we ever listed you" attitude. Gartner offered to come over to evaluate the situation, turn out gave them an opportunity to make business. My friend has then grown up thereafter any never take their study seriously.
Are you arrogant enough to believe they haven't thought of this?
Are you naive enough to believe they haven't thought of doing study in favour of big corps. for long term benefit?
Garter is not in the business of assessing obscure technical facts. They provide a strategic business perspective on technology. Tech-heads are not their market. They don't care about the operational aspects of the technology. The people who run business (which, most commonly, are not tech-heads and have different skills) are their market. They care about the strategic implications of the technology and longer-term market trends.
Hmm, isn't that exactly the major problem here?.....no wonder why they rated Rambus having brilliant future....
But, the village idiots on slashdot are always willing to provide legal advice, assume everyone in management is a PHB, that companies never ever know what they're doing, that everything is part of a conspiracy and that anyone who doesn't know how to write a sound compression script using bash is an idiot.
village idiots on slashdot? Compare to people like you who are so naive to believe that reports from big and rich companies must always be trusted, we are real idiots.
In summary, read the bloody report and get some perspective before spouting off.
I read those bloody reports quite frequently for my job. Have you ever wonder how do they come up with those probability factors that predict future trends on something, and how accurate do they turn out to be? I'd be much grateful if you could talk Gartner's to release the details, formula and source data of their research. (No Sir, it's company's secret!)
Well, actually after economics turmoil corporations are seeking alternatives in the implmentation of enterprise systems.
E.g. my company listed Linux in the evaluation process when starting new project, which is so amazing - our company never ever spend any resource on R&D and every adoption must be known technology and justified(read: have big corp. behind). The move is like seeing a dinosaur flying to us.
Our internal papers even positioned Linux as the midway between Win2k and commercial UNIX. It might not due to the increase in awareness of management, it might due to the budget consideration.
They solved budget problem, we are happy with Linux. It's a win-win situation for us.
(That's only one specific case for our corp., I didn't mean to generalize - in case you argue)
Just Talk To Your Kid.
Cheers,
^_^
Dear Cat,
I must be missing something, someone tell me why they can't charge whatever the fuck they want for their product.
Because we can.
Best Rgds,
Chief Bonehead of MPAA
When they say zone protection is to protect their business, it's bullshit. It's to protect their profit without value-adding in their products. If they really want to prevent water goods, they can:
- Don't price up outragously in some regions
- Make some regional specific stuffs, e.g. european languages version, so that customers would prefer to buy they own regional version
In the past they'd focus on customers' satisfaction, now they find legal ways to restrict customers from making their own purchase preferences - with Government consent. That's sad.
Kindergarten?
Look like someone really needs to get back to kindergarden.
Sorry, couldn't resist...