There you go. You sold it for more than a buck. The truth is that a dollar game should not be a direct substitute for a $60 game and if it is you're making it wrong. This is true almost everywhere - you can rent a movie for your family for $1 or go to the movies for $50 (or a football game for hundreds). You can buy $2 flip-flops or $400 designer footwear. You can get $0.50 ramen or $30 steak, Two buck chuck or a $100 bottle of wine.
The gaming industry has always been volatile and unpredictable and if this guy is just figuring that out he's forgotten a lot of history.
What do you want to bet the company that makes the unit charges per record or per phone pulled out of it. That would let the police hide the transaction cost in the normal budget instead of adding it to the equipment budget and the company would make a freaking fortune.
I have a right for you to stop your car when you have put it in danger of running me over. I have a right for you to move out of the way if you are blocking access to a voting booth. I have a right for you to get off of my property if I haven't given you permission to be there.
I wouldn't be so sure of that definition. Reality doesn't generally conform to absolutes.
They want the Striesand effect. If it becomes widely distributed and known that people who hack PS3's get sued into oblivion the lesson is clear: mess with Sony and you lose your house. This is especially true for the people who had the talent and interest to do it the first time and it's probably going to slow down future hacks. The population of skilled hardware/software/firmware/microcontroller hackers capable of jailbreaking PS3's out there is probably large, but not infinite and they're reducing the pool.
After the assets are seized there would inevitably be an EU Twitter-like company started. That company would grow to service areas where Twitter cannot and might very possibly become a competitor to Twitter everywhere, especially if people set up cross platform retweeting.
There's a little secret to the economy. Even though rich people make huge profits and take large salaries if most of it goes into investments it doesn't matter much. When the money is invested somewhere it's adding value to the world. It isn't going to feed the hungry, but it is going to increase efficiency, build businesses or enable people to live a decent life. After it is done doing that it can be reinvested to do it again and again pretty much forever.
When that money is taken out and blown it on something you are redirecting real productive assets away from improving the world toward making large pointless objects. This is when societal problems are realized - sort of locked into reality. For example: The wood for the boat is gone - so it cannot be made into houses (or the gas is burned or the engineer's time is spent, etc.). If there is a time to be offended at excess it is at this point, not when the original amounts were earned and then wisely invested by people the market has evaluated as good decisionmakers.
These decisions mean that these resources are permanently and forever removed from the global pool. That's why it's interesting.
The costs of the rote standardized execution of normal transactions is nothing compared to processing the exceptions created by over 2000 pages of law that have no doubt given rise to hundreds of times that much supporting legal interpretation documentation each and every one of which may require implementation of a supplementary system.
It's never the "1) Do this 2) Do 1 again with a different name" system that costs money. It's exceptions, interfaces, changes, specialized reporting and human intervention required crap that costs and that is an absolutely key fact of IT business.
A 7% variance is OK? That's about $50B a year vs the entire SS administration budget of $12B and no matter what you'd still have to pay someone and have systems to make sure some jackass wasn't collecting for six fake people. Let's just ignore that it would take a major legislative effort that might cost more than the new systems.
If they are going to take your car they are going to take your car. It might be easy, it might be hard but as long as cars can be towed you'd better kiss it goodbye if someone wants it bad enough.
The biggest theft deterrent around is probably title registry and money laundering laws, the locks just protect you from the joyriding kids.
Because the court says so. Not a good reason, but the real one. I'm sure if you searched way down to the court transcripts you could find the arguments made by the lawyers for the officers. Oh and they can search your house, they just have to have to properly justify it afterward. Perhaps they would argue that weapons or dangerous chemicals could have been present.
And each country that the traffic crosses over/under/through? That could be long list if you're geographically distributed. Actually maybe a network pro can tell me - could it be almost every country if it's very high traffic and load balancing starts routing things different directions to get to the end destination? I'm out of my field there.
So does Civ V. So does my globe. Anything can be used to simulate anything else poorly. Nothing can be used to simulate everything else exactly. The quality of the output will be determined by the areas they focus, the choices made when they write the algorithms and the data they get to put into the system. 'We're simulating the whole world and how it interacts' provides little information about the quality or usefulness of the simulation.
>Analysts say pay-as-you-go Internet access could put the brakes on the burgeoning online video industry,
No, it won't. Like advanced cellphone systems earlier this century the industry will simply move to where it is viable. America will limp on with inferior general service then deny that the service is inferior and proclaim it a world besting triumph of technology.
There's little question the AP and other press sources wouldn't have published anything like the volume of information Wikileaks has. Right now they are acting as a restraint rather than an enabler and it's likely the government will see them as an ally trying to bring a troublesome organization under control. I don't think that's the role the press is supposed to have, but they have decided that for whatever reasons they must make decisions about what the public should see rather than maximizing transparency and reporting simple facts.
Wonderful. Since Paypal is linked to checking accounts now you can expect that should a hold be placed on a check you deposit or if there's a bank error you'll be in for a $33.05 gumball.
My property goes to my heirs at my death. My body is my property. Stealing bits of my body is stealing from my heirs. No mystical crap required.
If the government chooses to take my body at time of death then it's a tax or confiscation of property from the heirs but the government generally has to disclose taxes or confiscations.
That will be a monopoly governed by people who's main goal is to get reelected and do it by giving favors out to people who donate money.
Neither capitalists nor government have your personal best interests at heart. At your interests and theirs are complimentary for a while and you can glean some mutual benefit from working together. It is foolish to believe that either organization exists to help you because both are governed by people who have no interest in doing anything of the sort.
>Turn to an industrialized hacker and hope we can pay more than our competitor's might pay? NO NO NO NO. If you hire a criminal they will steal from you. This is like hiring a wolf to guard the sheep except the sheep are chopped up into cutlets and served to him on fine china.
Turn to a decent computer consulting company and bring in an integrated security solution, practices and policies. Use the breach as a lever to get the CEO to cough up the money for it. Business case goes like this: Get good security = Spend big $. Don't have good security = delaying expansion plans, legal exposure, unknown potential economic impacts, cobbled together solutions that could fail at any moment. Conceptually describe security as entirely different from normal IT so you don't lose your job. Stay on top of your consultants so you don't lose your job or get screwed with scope change and billing creep.
If you're worried about gouging get your purchasing people involved but ride herd on them too. Get bids from multiple companies, fixed price lists of services where possible, case examples as available and recommendations.
This - don't do it!! Use the volume to hammer the pricing and use all you know about current cost of technology. If you build your own you will suffer for the experience not only as others have mentioned here but through ongoing maintenance costs (inventories of parts, maintaining old documentation and skills, managing not one but perhaps a dozen vendors, etc. etc.). Your pricing for computers only sucks if you aren't good at managing your suppliers or negotiations (or if you skip them all together).
You also might not have a complete picture of all the services that have been wrapped into the PC purchase cost. Does that include the overhead of your own purchasing department? Does it include a particular level of service for hot swaps? Does warranty coverage include shipping? Does the price include custom builds including your released corporate software and the testing of those builds prior to rollout? Are you getting a GREAT price on your servers and a crappy price on the desktops so the whole thing evens out? Does the purchase of the hardware from somewhere entitle you to significant software, rack, power system discounts from the same supplier?
Stepping into PC assembly is a vertical integration strategy decision, not a cost savings one. You have better options.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn that's close. It's freaky how almost anything can be expressed as a car analogy.
Hello? Portal 2
There you go. You sold it for more than a buck. The truth is that a dollar game should not be a direct substitute for a $60 game and if it is you're making it wrong. This is true almost everywhere - you can rent a movie for your family for $1 or go to the movies for $50 (or a football game for hundreds). You can buy $2 flip-flops or $400 designer footwear. You can get $0.50 ramen or $30 steak, Two buck chuck or a $100 bottle of wine.
The gaming industry has always been volatile and unpredictable and if this guy is just figuring that out he's forgotten a lot of history.
What do you want to bet the company that makes the unit charges per record or per phone pulled out of it. That would let the police hide the transaction cost in the normal budget instead of adding it to the equipment budget and the company would make a freaking fortune.
I have a right for you to stop your car when you have put it in danger of running me over.
I have a right for you to move out of the way if you are blocking access to a voting booth.
I have a right for you to get off of my property if I haven't given you permission to be there.
I wouldn't be so sure of that definition. Reality doesn't generally conform to absolutes.
Bah - now they've let those little spaceships out on the web. At least you can use them to kill adds - http://erkie.github.com/
And the article hits Slashdot just as they take down the Drupal servers for a 12 hour migration to Git. That's some good timing.
I'm guessing Sovereign Immunity says no you get nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States
They want the Striesand effect. If it becomes widely distributed and known that people who hack PS3's get sued into oblivion the lesson is clear: mess with Sony and you lose your house. This is especially true for the people who had the talent and interest to do it the first time and it's probably going to slow down future hacks. The population of skilled hardware/software/firmware/microcontroller hackers capable of jailbreaking PS3's out there is probably large, but not infinite and they're reducing the pool.
Sony is planning for the PS4,5,6,...
It's got to either crap or have really bad gas. It's hard to use everything in a fly for anything but being a fly but you could burn the leftovers.
After the assets are seized there would inevitably be an EU Twitter-like company started. That company would grow to service areas where Twitter cannot and might very possibly become a competitor to Twitter everywhere, especially if people set up cross platform retweeting.
There's a little secret to the economy. Even though rich people make huge profits and take large salaries if most of it goes into investments it doesn't matter much. When the money is invested somewhere it's adding value to the world. It isn't going to feed the hungry, but it is going to increase efficiency, build businesses or enable people to live a decent life. After it is done doing that it can be reinvested to do it again and again pretty much forever.
When that money is taken out and blown it on something you are redirecting real productive assets away from improving the world toward making large pointless objects. This is when societal problems are realized - sort of locked into reality. For example: The wood for the boat is gone - so it cannot be made into houses (or the gas is burned or the engineer's time is spent, etc.). If there is a time to be offended at excess it is at this point, not when the original amounts were earned and then wisely invested by people the market has evaluated as good decisionmakers.
These decisions mean that these resources are permanently and forever removed from the global pool. That's why it's interesting.
The costs of the rote standardized execution of normal transactions is nothing compared to processing the exceptions created by over 2000 pages of law that have no doubt given rise to hundreds of times that much supporting legal interpretation documentation each and every one of which may require implementation of a supplementary system.
It's never the "1) Do this 2) Do 1 again with a different name" system that costs money. It's exceptions, interfaces, changes, specialized reporting and human intervention required crap that costs and that is an absolutely key fact of IT business.
A 7% variance is OK? That's about $50B a year vs the entire SS administration budget of $12B and no matter what you'd still have to pay someone and have systems to make sure some jackass wasn't collecting for six fake people. Let's just ignore that it would take a major legislative effort that might cost more than the new systems.
If they are going to take your car they are going to take your car. It might be easy, it might be hard but as long as cars can be towed you'd better kiss it goodbye if someone wants it bad enough.
The biggest theft deterrent around is probably title registry and money laundering laws, the locks just protect you from the joyriding kids.
They're going to burn through a lot of money proving you right. Lots of dreamers are willing to tell them otherwise though.
Because the court says so. Not a good reason, but the real one. I'm sure if you searched way down to the court transcripts you could find the arguments made by the lawyers for the officers. Oh and they can search your house, they just have to have to properly justify it afterward. Perhaps they would argue that weapons or dangerous chemicals could have been present.
Of course some disagree
Not ok
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2007/may/31/search_and_seizure_california_fe
Sure, ok
http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Cops-OK-to-copy-cell-phone-content/2100-1030_3-6177464.html
And each country that the traffic crosses over/under/through? That could be long list if you're geographically distributed. Actually maybe a network pro can tell me - could it be almost every country if it's very high traffic and load balancing starts routing things different directions to get to the end destination? I'm out of my field there.
So does Civ V. So does my globe. Anything can be used to simulate anything else poorly. Nothing can be used to simulate everything else exactly. The quality of the output will be determined by the areas they focus, the choices made when they write the algorithms and the data they get to put into the system. 'We're simulating the whole world and how it interacts' provides little information about the quality or usefulness of the simulation.
>Analysts say pay-as-you-go Internet access could put the brakes on the burgeoning online video industry,
No, it won't. Like advanced cellphone systems earlier this century the industry will simply move to where it is viable. America will limp on with inferior general service then deny that the service is inferior and proclaim it a world besting triumph of technology.
There's little question the AP and other press sources wouldn't have published anything like the volume of information Wikileaks has. Right now they are acting as a restraint rather than an enabler and it's likely the government will see them as an ally trying to bring a troublesome organization under control. I don't think that's the role the press is supposed to have, but they have decided that for whatever reasons they must make decisions about what the public should see rather than maximizing transparency and reporting simple facts.
Wonderful. Since Paypal is linked to checking accounts now you can expect that should a hold be placed on a check you deposit or if there's a bank error you'll be in for a $33.05 gumball.
My property goes to my heirs at my death. My body is my property. Stealing bits of my body is stealing from my heirs. No mystical crap required.
If the government chooses to take my body at time of death then it's a tax or confiscation of property from the heirs but the government generally has to disclose taxes or confiscations.
That will be a monopoly governed by people who's main goal is to get reelected and do it by giving favors out to people who donate money.
Neither capitalists nor government have your personal best interests at heart. At your interests and theirs are complimentary for a while and you can glean some mutual benefit from working together. It is foolish to believe that either organization exists to help you because both are governed by people who have no interest in doing anything of the sort.
>Turn to an industrialized hacker and hope we can pay more than our competitor's might pay?
NO NO NO NO. If you hire a criminal they will steal from you. This is like hiring a wolf to guard the sheep except the sheep are chopped up into cutlets and served to him on fine china.
Turn to a decent computer consulting company and bring in an integrated security solution, practices and policies. Use the breach as a lever to get the CEO to cough up the money for it. Business case goes like this: Get good security = Spend big $. Don't have good security = delaying expansion plans, legal exposure, unknown potential economic impacts, cobbled together solutions that could fail at any moment. Conceptually describe security as entirely different from normal IT so you don't lose your job. Stay on top of your consultants so you don't lose your job or get screwed with scope change and billing creep.
If you're worried about gouging get your purchasing people involved but ride herd on them too. Get bids from multiple companies, fixed price lists of services where possible, case examples as available and recommendations.
This - don't do it!! Use the volume to hammer the pricing and use all you know about current cost of technology. If you build your own you will suffer for the experience not only as others have mentioned here but through ongoing maintenance costs (inventories of parts, maintaining old documentation and skills, managing not one but perhaps a dozen vendors, etc. etc.). Your pricing for computers only sucks if you aren't good at managing your suppliers or negotiations (or if you skip them all together).
You also might not have a complete picture of all the services that have been wrapped into the PC purchase cost. Does that include the overhead of your own purchasing department? Does it include a particular level of service for hot swaps? Does warranty coverage include shipping? Does the price include custom builds including your released corporate software and the testing of those builds prior to rollout? Are you getting a GREAT price on your servers and a crappy price on the desktops so the whole thing evens out? Does the purchase of the hardware from somewhere entitle you to significant software, rack, power system discounts from the same supplier?
Stepping into PC assembly is a vertical integration strategy decision, not a cost savings one. You have better options.