They put so few machines in the market that the few derided people that did not reserve their machine in advance (honestly, what kind of loser do you have to be to stand in a queue for hours instead of reserver your products a few weeks in advance) were completely desperate to get one.
Lets wait for sales figures over a longer period of time 9once hype has subdued and the machine has to satnd on its own merits.
-Infecting their users computers. -Making batteries that may explode in your lap (watch your crown jewells). -Making cameras that may not work. -Harrasing enthusiats developping for the PSP with constant firmware "updates". -Killing the Aibo. -Recognized the bet in the worn technology (plasma) in the plasma vs LCD TV wars. -Not figuring at all in the portable music player market, which the used to dominate.
Honestly man, you are going to heaven, such a kind soul should receive some kind of reward.
Every time some natural phenomenon is described accurately by science, we notice that is governed by laws that work alwys. No god needed.
That is why religious folk fear so much evolution by natural selection: it is a mechanism that requires no maker to work.
We keep discovering things, and the more we discover, the more apparent it is that there is no creator or divinity, because if there was one, we would have no rules in the universe, things could appear or disappear out of nowhere, the speed of light could be variable or have no limit. In synthesis science would be useless because the deity would be changing the rules all the time for impenetrable reasons.
The problem for religious people is that thes rules do not change. If the deity in question has decided to take itself out of th epicture, then for all intents and purposes it is irrelevant anyway. Deities are cornered to be non relevant or non existent.
Nowadays religious folk trying to reconcile the universe we see and measure with their beliefs are cornered to the moment just before the big-bang. It is the last infinitesimal moment in which a deity, chosing the values of the different constants governing how the Unvierse works, would have any relevance left.
One day we may very well discover why an electron has the amount of electrical charge it has, and why the speed of light is the number it is, but for all intents and purposes deities have been confined by science and observation out of the observable universe, and thus outside of any influence on how the Universe works.
MS could let out an MS Linux and I would be all for it as long as they layed by the rules.
But they just can't stop being themselves. MS hates fair competition and they will do all what is in their might to crush it, they have shown they are not afraid to go beyond what is legal and moral to do so if necessary.
In this case our "buddies" in Novell decided to raise a one finger salute to Red Hat, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire and any other commercial distirbutions makers (all of whom contribute software to Linux, or in this case, I shuld say GNU/Linux which is entirely appropiate).
They decided that they could keep benefitting from the community at large while becoming a safe heaven from the MS protection racket whose thugs can be unleashed, suits and all, into the rest of the community.
They want to reap the benefits of shared development without standing with the rest of the Linux developing community when a bogus patent war is unleahsed.
That may be actually legal, but for bunnies sakes, it should live a bad mouth taste in any decent inidividual.
That is the model you know and you are most familiar with.
In many human societies women have always been the ones raising the children, normally helping ech other, with little or no intervention from the father, who is engaged in other businesse like hunting, herding or warmongering.
In many modern societies noawadays we have many fmialies with a single parent, there are some countries where they manage better than others (mostly north European) which would indicate cultural diferences in regards to how people rear children.
You can still buy the artificially expensive stuff and do all the necessary hackery if you know how.
They are artificially trying to squeze more money out of prospective customers.
If anything this is yet one more incentive not to buy their software (anybody that understand VM technology will be capable to understand the stinker MS is trying to pull out with this nonsense).
Lets stop building centers of technological excellence in Mexico so all those technicians and Engineers are unemployed.
You would be surprised of how many of those illegal immigrants that so many US people dislike so much (in spite of keeping entire US industries up and running) are unemployed technicians and even Engineers (I should know, my uncle, with a degree in Engineering, was an illegal worker for a while, later on he became the most respected Engineer in a car manufacturing plant in Mexico, where he is still fondly remembered).
What many of you folks in the US really want is to keep paying pennies for the work we do in your country, provide no social services for us and in top of that to deny us opportunities to access to high tech jobs (many of you did not and still don't like NAFTA in spite of how one sided on your favour it is in nature ).
And then you say we should do more on our own. THe problem is that every time we try you meddle with our affirs one way or another (I was going to go on overdrive here, better not).
It is high time that if you really believe all that bullshit about freedom, capitalism and the pursuit of happiness that you reach a comprehensive agreement to regulate migration between both countries in a realistic manner. You will have Mexcians and Latinos in the US. Many of us. Get used to it, adapt to it and deal with it. You can deal with it taking into account the economical realities of the world or you can build bullshit walls that the only think they achieve is to please xenophobes and to waste monumental ammounts of money.
Instead of xenophobic wasteful projects like the racist wall you are intending to build, proejcts like this and manny others is what is needed.
Mutual cooperation (you need our cheap labour, we need your capital and technology) is the only way forward, and that will happen no matter what, because Mexicans and Latinos will not stop going to the US.
The US will one day, for better or worst, be a Latino country, the only thing you can control is that the path enriches everybody or if it is full of pain and abuse.
It is bad enough that countries like Mexico did not invest on science for decades to suggest they should keep doing so.
THe MExican people is better server by raising the standards of living and by investing in science.
Science and technology adds expertise needed to attract jobs with high added value. THere is no better investment in order to help the population to stand on their own feet (we have many Engineers and technicians that are unemployed or driving taxis to survive, projects like thes allows them to remain current and pehapd gain the skill to get well paid jobs or start companies in new fields).
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They want to profit with work that is not their to protect.
They acted like if they owned Linux.
Sorry budy, there are not many like you.
Sensible people would not buy anymore an article that breaks constantly.
It is not like these machines are articles of first necesity.
What would stop Sony to do that?
In any case, if MythTV is a real bitch to configure in PCs, why do you think that it will eventually be any better in the PS3?
It is not like Sony willl be sharing their precious trade secrets with a bunch of "hippies".
.... that I have no idea what you are talking about.
You can't walk 10 meters without being filmed by one camera or two.
They get shoplifters with this for gods sakes, there is no way such actions would go unnoticed.
Why should we use statistics, maket analysis and even companies re-calls when we can have a few anecdotes?
I will go no further explaining why, i should be patently obivous to anybody why I can ascert this and be right on the money.
As for your sorry tirade about the complexity of Sony, well, that is not my problem.
If they want to have their fingers in all the pies they should be up for it or get out of the kitchen.
Well, gee, I am so fucking grateful for Sony comming forward. 200, 300 400 US$ fone bad in 2 years.
Man, I am really grateful for their due care and consideration.
They put so few machines in the market that the few derided people that did not reserve their machine in advance (honestly, what kind of loser do you have to be to stand in a queue for hours instead of reserver your products a few weeks in advance) were completely desperate to get one.
Lets wait for sales figures over a longer period of time 9once hype has subdued and the machine has to satnd on its own merits.
If Sony has no involvement then the company should not bear their name.
It is that simple.
Gee man, just little things like:
-Infecting their users computers.
-Making batteries that may explode in your lap (watch your crown jewells).
-Making cameras that may not work.
-Harrasing enthusiats developping for the PSP with constant firmware "updates".
-Killing the Aibo.
-Recognized the bet in the worn technology (plasma) in the plasma vs LCD TV wars.
-Not figuring at all in the portable music player market, which the used to dominate.
Honestly man, you are going to heaven, such a kind soul should receive some kind of reward.
Something you can measure and describe. Look at a dictionary man, it could not be simpler.
If you tell me god talks to you or to any others, sorry, but I did not hear it, do not ask me to take such thing as evidence.
Every time some natural phenomenon is described accurately by science, we notice that is governed by laws that work alwys. No god needed.
That is why religious folk fear so much evolution by natural selection: it is a mechanism that requires no maker to work.
We keep discovering things, and the more we discover, the more apparent it is that there is no creator or divinity, because if there was one, we would have no rules in the universe, things could appear or disappear out of nowhere, the speed of light could be variable or have no limit. In synthesis science would be useless because the deity would be changing the rules all the time for impenetrable reasons.
The problem for religious people is that thes rules do not change. If the deity in question has decided to take itself out of th epicture, then for all intents and purposes it is irrelevant anyway. Deities are cornered to be non relevant or non existent.
Nowadays religious folk trying to reconcile the universe we see and measure with their beliefs are cornered to the moment just before the big-bang. It is the last infinitesimal moment in which a deity, chosing the values of the different constants governing how the Unvierse works, would have any relevance left.
One day we may very well discover why an electron has the amount of electrical charge it has, and why the speed of light is the number it is, but for all intents and purposes deities have been confined by science and observation out of the observable universe, and thus outside of any influence on how the Universe works.
Just so you know how stupid you sound.
... they would be wasting money.
MS could let out an MS Linux and I would be all for it as long as they layed by the rules.
But they just can't stop being themselves. MS hates fair competition and they will do all what is in their might to crush it, they have shown they are not afraid to go beyond what is legal and moral to do so if necessary.
... that are not moral.
Take patent trolls for example.
In this case our "buddies" in Novell decided to raise a one finger salute to Red Hat, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire and any other commercial distirbutions makers (all of whom contribute software to Linux, or in this case, I shuld say GNU/Linux which is entirely appropiate).
They decided that they could keep benefitting from the community at large while becoming a safe heaven from the MS protection racket whose thugs can be unleashed, suits and all, into the rest of the community.
They want to reap the benefits of shared development without standing with the rest of the Linux developing community when a bogus patent war is unleahsed.
That may be actually legal, but for bunnies sakes, it should live a bad mouth taste in any decent inidividual.
That is the model you know and you are most familiar with.
In many human societies women have always been the ones raising the children, normally helping ech other, with little or no intervention from the father, who is engaged in other businesse like hunting, herding or warmongering.
In many modern societies noawadays we have many fmialies with a single parent, there are some countries where they manage better than others (mostly north European) which would indicate cultural diferences in regards to how people rear children.
That means, not economically viable.
You can still buy the artificially expensive stuff and do all the necessary hackery if you know how.
They are artificially trying to squeze more money out of prospective customers.
If anything this is yet one more incentive not to buy their software (anybody that understand VM technology will be capable to understand the stinker MS is trying to pull out with this nonsense).
If your hobby is running Windows Vista (for which you paid) MS does not allow you to do it just because.
There is absofuckinglutely no technical reason whatoever to stop virtualization as a hobby.
If I paid form my VM software, I paid form the cheapest MS OS, why the fuck should I tno be allowed to run it?
There is no sane or decent explanation for this.
Not that I care, but frankly some people around here should be more demanding and discriminating.
USB fobs.
Whatever.
Find your solution, but don't bloddy annoy me if I already paid you.
.... are useful for speculators only.
Any person (or most importantly institution) should be questioning the long term numbers and bussiness model of MS.
It is no coincidence that the may be preparing to be sue happy. In the US that is the mark of a failed company nowadays.
Spanish-Indian-Black-French.
Mix, stirr... wow!
Lets stop building centers of technological excellence in Mexico so all those technicians and Engineers are unemployed.
You would be surprised of how many of those illegal immigrants that so many US people dislike so much (in spite of keeping entire US industries up and running) are unemployed technicians and even Engineers (I should know, my uncle, with a degree in Engineering, was an illegal worker for a while, later on he became the most respected Engineer in a car manufacturing plant in Mexico, where he is still fondly remembered).
What many of you folks in the US really want is to keep paying pennies for the work we do in your country, provide no social services for us and in top of that to deny us opportunities to access to high tech jobs (many of you did not and still don't like NAFTA in spite of how one sided on your favour it is in nature ).
And then you say we should do more on our own. THe problem is that every time we try you meddle with our affirs one way or another (I was going to go on overdrive here, better not).
It is high time that if you really believe all that bullshit about freedom, capitalism and the pursuit of happiness that you reach a comprehensive agreement to regulate migration between both countries in a realistic manner. You will have Mexcians and Latinos in the US. Many of us. Get used to it, adapt to it and deal with it. You can deal with it taking into account the economical realities of the world or you can build bullshit walls that the only think they achieve is to please xenophobes and to waste monumental ammounts of money.
Instead of xenophobic wasteful projects like the racist wall you are intending to build, proejcts like this and manny others is what is needed.
Mutual cooperation (you need our cheap labour, we need your capital and technology) is the only way forward, and that will happen no matter what, because Mexicans and Latinos will not stop going to the US.
The US will one day, for better or worst, be a Latino country, the only thing you can control is that the path enriches everybody or if it is full of pain and abuse.
It is bad enough that countries like Mexico did not invest on science for decades to suggest they should keep doing so.
THe MExican people is better server by raising the standards of living and by investing in science.
Science and technology adds expertise needed to attract jobs with high added value. THere is no better investment in order to help the population to stand on their own feet (we have many Engineers and technicians that are unemployed or driving taxis to survive, projects like thes allows them to remain current and pehapd gain the skill to get well paid jobs or start companies in new fields).