Here's why it is stupid, all those people paying 1000+ on ebay probably would have paid 1000+ on the 360, and every single game/perhipial. Will some of them still do it? Sure, but $500 in markup that MS isn't getting can't help.
Over the next few weeks I predict there will be many many more available. MS didn't go to all the trouble of releasing for christmas to go out and not sell many (not that they haven't sold a good many when you include preorders). On release they had 10-20 at Wal-marts and more at best buy--nation-wide their sales had to be TINY. All the advantages of pumping out a console before the PS3 are lost if they don't sell a LOT and get developers interested.
Economical in the car sense usually refers to fuel economy. Lets equate that with eletricity economy. Open office, because of its XML format, is very inefficient and requires more memory and more processor time to deal with documents.
He can't tell us what he believes now about what could have happened given an alternate outcome without travelling through time? That makes a lot of sense.
You can already do that on gamecube. That is completely unsatisfactory for the DS. The whole point of the thing is that you can take it all around and hop on to whatever hotspot is available and play a game.
Not only that... we're talking the BSD license here. The company could take the code along with their changes and relicense it GPL if they wanted. Or hell they could even make it proprietary. I don't see the parent's point about Microsoft whatsoever--he is a shill who should never have been modded +5.
"Because those better alternatives provide more freedom for Microsoft to take the code, repackage it, hack it about as they wish and sell it to the masses, giving fuck-all back to the community. This would likely bother a few of the developers in question." Ugg, I think the parent was suggeting that the companies do exactly that themselves; then other companies couldn't take any of their work.
"Also you probably have linux in your home router if you have one." I'd like you to substantiate that. It isn't true whatsoever. While linux is in some home routers (most notably early versions of the famous linksys WRT54G), it certainly isn't in most.
Actually in most jurisdictions if you offer a reasonable settlement (and you don't need a lawyer to do this) and they turn it down and then you take them to court and win they have to pay lawyer fees.
Liquor, beer, and cigarette companies all hire girls to go into bars and use their products. Granted this is a one to one thing as oppossed to one to many, but I could see it.
I know over 75 people who have met attractive, young, and firm females on Match.com (TM). Out of those 75, 60 have gotten married, had wonderful sex on command and have gone on to fulfill their greatest ambitions in life.
That supposes you aren't selling these to kids who will delete the other people's characters for fun. Or just take all their stuff--how is the person supposed to prove it happened.
Did Sony make money in this past generation of consoles (PS2)? I thought I heard only Nintendo did, or perhaps it was just that Nintendo made the most.
"ou can't build insurmountable walls (like in productivity software) to hold back your competition indefinitely,"
What do you think MS is doing with live? Will all your online friends move to the next best thing with you? How will you find them? They are basically trying to do to consoles what the triumvirate of IM clients does to quick personal communication: strangle.
"These are the people that are blazing a trail and advertizing the xbox to the xmas 06 crowds." Well considering most people will just notice it sounds bad and not know why, they are gonna be doing a lot of that "advertising" in mono.
"You'd be better off giving them bottles of hard liquor." According to the Union Captain holding the bridge in "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" that's exactly what you want to do.
Ah but you are looking at it from a server's point of view and not the user's. You're forgetting that many people on IPv4 can't accept incoming connections today anyway because they are NATed. So they don't have the problem of "not being accessible to customers" when they are on IPv6 anyway. Their problem is they can't talk to other NATed people and if they go to IPv6 they can't talk to unNATed IPv4 people. For them they can go IPv6 and gain connectivity with everyone who is also on IPv6 and then go through a NATed pipe to IPv4. This allows them to still have their limited IPv4 connection abilities and begin freeing themselves of it with IPv6.
IPv4 allows the same thing. Unless there are major improvements with IPv6 it will never see the light of day. Think about it, it means that a single user could be 6x more effective at DDoSing sites (and that's just your example, multicasting theoretically should scale a lot higher up than that).
"by threatening this international standard..." funny, since the US is one of the few countries to recognize sw patents appealing to "international" threats is quite rediculous. I also like how they don't give any reasons to invalidate the patent on typical patent grounds, it is just "we need this!!"
"There was limited anticipation, another decent looking FPS to share market with Quake 3, Unreal Tournament" You lost me there. Even before Microsoft picked it up, even right as halo was originally revealed (for PC and Mac), it was going to share the market with Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, which were already released.
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I think the shortage is
a)intentional
b)stupid
Here's why it is stupid, all those people paying 1000+ on ebay probably would have paid 1000+ on the 360, and every single game/perhipial. Will some of them still do it? Sure, but $500 in markup that MS isn't getting can't help.
Over the next few weeks I predict there will be many many more available. MS didn't go to all the trouble of releasing for christmas to go out and not sell many (not that they haven't sold a good many when you include preorders). On release they had 10-20 at Wal-marts and more at best buy--nation-wide their sales had to be TINY. All the advantages of pumping out a console before the PS3 are lost if they don't sell a LOT and get developers interested.
Deconvolution works great for telescope pictures of stars... and that's about it.
Economical in the car sense usually refers to fuel economy. Lets equate that with eletricity economy. Open office, because of its XML format, is very inefficient and requires more memory and more processor time to deal with documents.
He can't tell us what he believes now about what could have happened given an alternate outcome without travelling through time? That makes a lot of sense.
You can already do that on gamecube. That is completely unsatisfactory for the DS. The whole point of the thing is that you can take it all around and hop on to whatever hotspot is available and play a game.
Not to be realistic, but the "reference" you described should never be called a reference.
Not only that... we're talking the BSD license here. The company could take the code along with their changes and relicense it GPL if they wanted. Or hell they could even make it proprietary. I don't see the parent's point about Microsoft whatsoever--he is a shill who should never have been modded +5.
"Because those better alternatives provide more freedom for Microsoft to take the code, repackage it, hack it about as they wish and sell it to the masses, giving fuck-all back to the community. This would likely bother a few of the developers in question." Ugg, I think the parent was suggeting that the companies do exactly that themselves; then other companies couldn't take any of their work.
"Also you probably have linux in your home router if you have one." I'd like you to substantiate that. It isn't true whatsoever. While linux is in some home routers (most notably early versions of the famous linksys WRT54G), it certainly isn't in most.
Wow, you just admitted on Slashdot that you have a Russian bride.
Actually in most jurisdictions if you offer a reasonable settlement (and you don't need a lawyer to do this) and they turn it down and then you take them to court and win they have to pay lawyer fees.
I don't get how punitive damages can exist without a full criminal level (beyond a reasonable doubt) burden of proof.
Liquor, beer, and cigarette companies all hire girls to go into bars and use their products. Granted this is a one to one thing as oppossed to one to many, but I could see it.
I know over 75 people who have met attractive, young, and firm females on Match.com (TM). Out of those 75, 60 have gotten married, had wonderful sex on command and have gone on to fulfill their greatest ambitions in life.
That supposes you aren't selling these to kids who will delete the other people's characters for fun. Or just take all their stuff--how is the person supposed to prove it happened.
If you define "coming out in 2000" as "impossible to get until 2001 without paying $600 to some camper on ebay" then you have a point.
Did Sony make money in this past generation of consoles (PS2)? I thought I heard only Nintendo did, or perhaps it was just that Nintendo made the most.
"ou can't build insurmountable walls (like in productivity software) to hold back your competition indefinitely,"
What do you think MS is doing with live? Will all your online friends move to the next best thing with you? How will you find them? They are basically trying to do to consoles what the triumvirate of IM clients does to quick personal communication: strangle.
"These are the people that are blazing a trail and advertizing the xbox to the xmas 06 crowds." Well considering most people will just notice it sounds bad and not know why, they are gonna be doing a lot of that "advertising" in mono.
"You'd be better off giving them bottles of hard liquor." According to the Union Captain holding the bridge in "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" that's exactly what you want to do.
I think people had problems because they were using https://mail.google.com/ that only works for login and then returns to a regular http session. https://gmail.google.com/mail works as you say.
Ah but you are looking at it from a server's point of view and not the user's. You're forgetting that many people on IPv4 can't accept incoming connections today anyway because they are NATed. So they don't have the problem of "not being accessible to customers" when they are on IPv6 anyway. Their problem is they can't talk to other NATed people and if they go to IPv6 they can't talk to unNATed IPv4 people. For them they can go IPv6 and gain connectivity with everyone who is also on IPv6 and then go through a NATed pipe to IPv4. This allows them to still have their limited IPv4 connection abilities and begin freeing themselves of it with IPv6.
IPv4 allows the same thing. Unless there are major improvements with IPv6 it will never see the light of day. Think about it, it means that a single user could be 6x more effective at DDoSing sites (and that's just your example, multicasting theoretically should scale a lot higher up than that).
"by threatening this international standard..." funny, since the US is one of the few countries to recognize sw patents appealing to "international" threats is quite rediculous. I also like how they don't give any reasons to invalidate the patent on typical patent grounds, it is just "we need this!!"
"There was limited anticipation, another decent looking FPS to share market with Quake 3, Unreal Tournament" You lost me there. Even before Microsoft picked it up, even right as halo was originally revealed (for PC and Mac), it was going to share the market with Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, which were already released.