Basically, this guy and his company are admitting to playing the "Dennis the Menace" game, where they go in, mess things up and walk away like nothing happened. Is this the entertainments industries way of saying, "If you can't beat 'em, screw 'em"? If you think about it, desperate people do desperate things and this definately sounds like the actions of people who are at or near the end of their rope. It is really their own fault, but unfortunately, they will never see it that way.
It is pretty funny to watch someone tie their own noose, but it is even more hilarious when you watch a company like SCO actually put the noose around it's own neck and jump. This can only end up bad for them in the end, in my opinion.
Well, if they want to play that way, they may very well see the amount of printers they sell drop like a rock. I think a sort of boycott where nobody buys Lexmark printers would hopefully give them a kick in the butt that the computing public will not stand for moves like this. They RELY on people to buy their products to stay in business. If nobody does, OOPS, the revenues go down. Screw 'em I say, SCREW 'EM!!!
To me, it sounds like M$ is incorporating a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, where they steal.... er... include into it's OS, ideas from the competitive OS in an attempt to make people like them (more). Now, there is no question that Unix will always be more stable than Windows and Unix has had command line shells forever. The only people who may really find this interesting are those that have no idea what Unix is let alone use it. This is just another attempt by Billy boy to "twy to get peepo to wike him and his pwoduct!".
The way I see it, whether or not someone decides they want to blow all of their money on a game is strictly up to them. Yes, it is wrong the way Sony is going about maintaining things, but if people stay and play and only complain about the environment, never actually doing anything about it ( like quitting and getting a game you only have to pay once for ), then they are doing it to themselves and Sony will continue to rake in the dough.
In a way it is like a casino, if people are going to keep pumping their money in, how are you ever going to stop the addiction to gambling, or in this case, gaming?
Eventually the people who are addicted to game may run out of money and what then? Will they resort to getting the money by other means? Who knows. All we know at the present time is that Sony sees that they have a good thing going and are not going to stop it. The gamers seem to like the abuse and problems and stay playing the game through the turmoil of problems that aare apparently present. The only way to put an end to Sony making so much on this game is to stop everyone from playing it once and for all and I doubt that will happen. All we can do is hope that an article, like the one above, can open the eyes of many of the gamers who find themselves engrossed in this fantasy world and maybe, by some small miracle, they will stop playing the game. Then again, I could be really dilusional.
All I know is I actually looked at Everquest when it first came out and when I saw that I had to pay every month to play it, that was enough to deter me from getting it.
You know, some people will whine about anything, especially if things don't go their way. They are typiclaly refered to as having 'sore loser' syndrome.
Ok, the title of the book is "Vi - Improved". That is what vim stands for. See, if you would read the book, or any manual reference for that matter, you would know that.
You miss out on so many of the cool features of a product by by-passing the references. Don't you even read the man pages?
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Basically, this guy and his company are admitting to playing the "Dennis the Menace" game, where they go in, mess things up and walk away like nothing happened.
Is this the entertainments industries way of saying, "If you can't beat 'em, screw 'em"? If you think about it, desperate people do desperate things and this definately sounds like the actions of people who are at or near the end of their rope.
It is really their own fault, but unfortunately, they will never see it that way.
jlk
It is pretty funny to watch someone tie their own noose, but it is even more hilarious when you watch a company like SCO actually put the noose around it's own neck and jump.
This can only end up bad for them in the end, in my opinion.
jlk
Well, if they want to play that way, they may very well see the amount of printers they sell drop like a rock. I think a sort of boycott where nobody buys Lexmark printers would hopefully give them a kick in the butt that the computing public will not stand for moves like this.
.02
They RELY on people to buy their products to stay in business. If nobody does, OOPS, the revenues go down.
Screw 'em I say, SCREW 'EM!!!
Just my
To me, it sounds like M$ is incorporating a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, where they steal.... er... include into it's OS, ideas from the competitive OS in an attempt to make people like them (more).
Now, there is no question that Unix will always be more stable than Windows and Unix has had command line shells forever. The only people who may really find this interesting are those that have no idea what Unix is let alone use it.
This is just another attempt by Billy boy to "twy to get peepo to wike him and his pwoduct!".
Regards,
Jeff Kirkland
The way I see it, whether or not someone decides they want to blow all of their money on a game is strictly up to them. Yes, it is wrong the way Sony is going about maintaining things, but if people stay and play and only complain about the environment, never actually doing anything about it ( like quitting and getting a game you only have to pay once for ), then they are doing it to themselves and Sony will continue to rake in the dough.
In a way it is like a casino, if people are going to keep pumping their money in, how are you ever going to stop the addiction to gambling, or in this case, gaming?
Eventually the people who are addicted to game may run out of money and what then? Will they resort to getting the money by other means? Who knows. All we know at the present time is that Sony sees that they have a good thing going and are not going to stop it. The gamers seem to like the abuse and problems and stay playing the game through the turmoil of problems that aare apparently present. The only way to put an end to Sony making so much on this game is to stop everyone from playing it once and for all and I doubt that will happen. All we can do is hope that an article, like the one above, can open the eyes of many of the gamers who find themselves engrossed in this fantasy world and maybe, by some small miracle, they will stop playing the game. Then again, I could be really dilusional.
All I know is I actually looked at Everquest when it first came out and when I saw that I had to pay every month to play it, that was enough to deter me from getting it.
Just my .02
Regards, jlkYou know, some people will whine about anything, especially if things don't go their way. They are typiclaly refered to as having 'sore loser' syndrome.
Care for some cheese with that whine?
#jlk
Ok, the title of the book is "Vi - Improved". That is what vim stands for. See, if you would read the book, or any manual reference for that matter, you would know that.
You miss out on so many of the cool features of a product by by-passing the references. Don't you even read the man pages?
#jlk