1995 - MS has the largest network in the world!
(in reality, MS had only 2000 employees at this time....while GE Medical as an example, had over 5000 service techs deployed with laptops and 200,000 employees worldwide on the same network. MS was also one of the last corporation to get onto the internet)
Unfortunately, The truth is getting in the way of your reality.
Fiscal year ending 6/30/1995
Microsoft head count = 17,801
I am proud that I do not even know the name of any Celine Dion song.
1. I'm Alive
2. Right In Front Of You
3. Have You Ever Been In Love
4. Rain, Tax (It's Inevitable)
5. A New Day Has Come (Radio Remix)
6. Ten Days
7. Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)
8. Prayer
9. I Surrender
10. At Last
11. Sorry For Love
12. Aun Existe Amor
13. The Greatest Reward
14. When The Wrong One Loves Your Right
15. A New Day Has Come
16. Nature Boy
Celine Dion
Album: A New Day Has Come
You now know the name of a Celine Dion song. You can run from Celine, but you can't hide!
You don't break 'a lot' of applications. Very few have any problem with this, and the ones that do hardly 'break'. For instance, edonkey uses mshtml.dll to display an add banner, in it's absence, you just don't get the ad banners. Big whee.
Considering that edonkey receives money based on the concept that people will see those banner adds, it's probably a big whee to them.
In other words they depend on the functionality provided by mshtml.dll to derive a portion of their revenue. So while you may not miss that feature, they, and any other company who based part of their product on the assumption that Windows works a certain way, most likely would.
A lot of people seem to be overlooking that just because the states claimed they had a modular version of Windows, it doesn't mean they have a modular version of Windows that would be able to fill real world needs. Windows needs to be consistent enough so that when a company writes software for it, they know their software will install and run as they intended no matter which modular Windows one happens to be running. Without a demonstration and critical review of Bach's modular Windows the court cannot know if it was the real deal or just a dog and pony show.
He wrote for everyone, and he invented many words still used today. One estimate found that there were 100,000 unique words used in his works. The average person in America today uses a vocabulary of 1,000 words in their entire lifetime.
Every stat I can find on the average vocabulary is much higher than 1000.
10,000 seems to be the most reported number. Apparently there was a study done in 1997 that showed high school students from the 1950s had an average vocabulary of 25,000 words, while students from 1997 had an average vocabulary of only 10,000.
1000 words seems to be closer to the average vocabulary of a 2-3 year old or so says an article from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Would you really want someone jamming *your* important calls?
If you don't like cell phones, then go find somewhere that doesn't have them.
 
Of course there is the flip side, if you don't like jammers, then go find somewhere that doesn't have them.
Lukcy for you, in the U.S. at least, they are illegal so that shouldn't be hard to do. Really, there's nothing wrong with cell phones, it's just some of the people who use them have no sense of when it's not appropriate to do so.
So why didn't he just go to Bungie or form a MS 2nd party? Why form his own company?
Because he has more money than God (but less than Bill Gates) and wants to start his own company so he can be in charge.
I know if I had $10 million or so, I'd start my own company. Why work for someone else if money is no longer the motivation? For those of us working 9 to 5 with enough money to get by, but not enough to break out this probably seems a foreign concept. Our bosses all like to talk about challenges and empowerment, and we all shake our heads and agree. Well, starting your own company is the ultimate challenge and is the ultimate in empowerment.
You're the boss and at the end of the day success or failure is ultimately on you and with millions in the bank, the fear of failure is no longer quite so imposing. You win some, you lose some, but if you still have millions of dollars, you never have to worry about missing a house payment.
yup, we will miss those guys SF is not what is used to me. I dont think we will ever get the equalt of the Foundation! Peter F Hamilton was prmising, but seems hes slept off after his great Triology. It kinda reminds me of demise of rock, just as rock died a slow death, SF is going the same way, But i just pray, GOD give us Force!
Careful, you're dangerously close to sounding like your father. Especially that bit about the music. All you have to do is deride the way kids of today dress and cut their hair and you'll officially qualify for your AARP membership card.
Try reading something new with an open mind, you'll find the books are just as good as ever. I for one am glad SF isn't what it used to be. Why would you want the same ideas recycled by a new generation of writers? I have many favorite books from the past, but the very concept of Science Fiction suggests that as time advances, so should the ideas behind the writing. Your favorite writer may no longer be putting out books, but don't confuse that with the idea that there is no longer any good Science Fiction. A good book is still a good book, no generation has a monopoly on them.
By the way, 20 years from now they'll be some old guy complaining that the current state of Science Fiction is no where near as good as it was back in the good ol' days of 2002.
On another note, this price drop has a this guy spitting blood. He purchased the X-Box at the full price. Now he has realised it was a waste of money and was going to try and sell it before everyone else worked that out. Seems he was too late. This price drop means he will lose a lot more money than he wants too.
This guy should know that if he has his receipt Microsoft will give him 2 XBox games and an extra controller for free. They're doing this for all early adopters who bought an XBox beore the price break in Austrailia and Europe.
As a big "THANK YOU" to everyone who bought an Xbox before 26th April we are offering, until 1st July 2002, the chance for you to get 2 games and an Xbox Controller for FREE! That means you could be playing games like Halo, Rallisport Challenge, Project Gotham Racing, Amped, Oddworld or Dead or Alive 3 amongst other great games for free!
How is $5-6 billion pocket change? He is currently only worth about 40 billion. Thats a large chunk of their money right there.
He's worth about $48 billion actually. $36 billion being in MSFT, the rest in other investments.
$5-6 billion isn't pocket change, but he certainly could spend it should he choose to. Aside from possibly losing the "Word's Richest Man" title, his life wouldn't change in any meaningful way. Unless you make a habit of buying office buildings or football stadiums, you'd be hard pressed to spend $1 billion in a single lifetime, much less $40 billion.
Besides, it's not Bill Gates' personal money that Blackley convinced Gates to spend on the Xbox anyway. The money being spent on the Xbox is Microsoft's (the corporation) money. Bill Gates' personal wealth really doesn't enter into this, excpet for how that the sucess or failure of the Xbox might affect the price of all that MSFT stock he holds.
That's fucking ridiculous. I had to take a test to get married in the Catholic church but we let tons of unwashed lusers onto the net without any kind of supervision or licensing at all! We really really REALLY need an Internet license with a stringent testing structure that covers basic OSI layer model, networking fundamentals, netiquette, etc.
What an amazingly elitist attitude. Why should you care if someone doesn't know they can use more than one browser? How does it possibly effect you if some AOL user sitting in his house browses the web with his modified version of IE rather than Mozilla?
It's amazing the number of people who measure a person's worth by their ability to operate a computer. Next time you're in need of some surgery, pick your doctor based on his knowledge of Linux rather than his ability to cut you open and put you back together without killing you. One slip of the scapel and you'll realize that computer knowlege is not the ultimate arbiter of intelligence or ability.
The only people whose value should be measured by their ability to efficiently and intelligently use a computer are people who use them to make their living. I know this may be hard to believe, but some people just don't care about computers any more than any other appliance.
You might as well except that the web isn't going back to the days when only geeks knew about it. If you can't deal with that, put on some Nirvana tunes and try the Wayback Machine. You can pretend it's 1992 and all is right in the computing world (and think of all the money you'll make on the upcoming dot-com bull market!).
Will we ever see a better text editor come with the os?
If this were to happen, I can see the story Slashdot would link to. I would probably sound somethinglike this:
 
Microsoft Bundles Advanced Text Editor
In a blatant attempt to cut off the air supply of the advanced text editing market, Microsoft has begun bundling Notepad 2.0 with the new version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn. The new editor copies many of the advanced features already found in products like BBEdit from Bare Bones software, as well as adding a few unique features. When asked to comment on this latest development, a ProComp spokesman stated, "Micorosft is clearly leveraging their desktop monopoly in an attempt to corner the market in text editing. The American people do not want this to happen, and we urge the DOJ and State Attorneys General to look into this further." On Slashdot, a popular pro Linux discussion site, many posters were seen to write comments ranging from "First Post" to "Micro$oft suxors for doing this".
That would have been me. My CD collection soared when Napster was online. I would spend hours going from song to song from groups I liked. The songs I found may have been from earlier CDs that I didn't no exist.
You're confusing the exception with the rule. I don't really care one way or the other, but don't kid yourself that the availability of free music somehow increases sales of non-free music.
Perhaps you're in an economic position where purchasing as many $15 CDs as you want isn't a problem, but you can bet some high school or college kid would rather spend his money on a night out, then on a bunch of music he can get for free.
It'll be very interesting to watch this unfold over the next few years. I really don't see how it will ever be stopped. And if it isn't stopped, the music industry is going to go through some big changes. Won't bother me a bit if the recording industry as we know it collapses. They lost my sympathy (and probably that of most everyone else old enough to remember) when they increased the price of an album when they switched from vinyl to CDs. The media is cheaper, the packaging is cheaper, transport is cheaper, yet the end product is more expensive?
Looks like they kind of shot themselves in the foot by doing that.
The last time I was in, a dozen people where crowded in the Mac section, looking at the computers and watching someone give a demonstration of iDVD and iPhoto. Looking over at the PC's, there were all of two people, looking very bored.
You ever notice how every Mac owner you talk to has a story like this? Yet somehow, week after week, month after month, year after year Wintel PCs continue to outsell Macs 10 to 1.
It suggests 1 of 3 things.
Mac owners who post online all live in the same area and so the local stores are chock full of them, while elsewhere the exact opposite.
People love looking at Macs, but still don't want to buy one.
They see the world through Mac colored glasses that make 2 or 3 people looking at Mac seem like 7 or 8.
There's still a lot more manpower in OSS. It's just more fractious.
There's still a lot more potential manpower in OSS. As has been proven in several big OSS projects, like Mozilla for one, just because there are tens of thousands of people who can work on a poject, it doesn't mean there will be tens of thousands of people who do work on a project.
The truth is that, by virtue of the fact that the contributors to the Mozilla project included about a hundred full-time Netscape developers, and about thirty part-time outsiders, the project still belonged wholly to Netscape -- because only those who write the code truly control the project.
Heck, that's very reasonable for non-PC hardware. Think about this, if you bought that same stuff for an Apple Mac it would set you back about $1000.
$1000? Is that Canadian dollars or something?
Head on over to pricewatch and you pick this stuff up for under $150 without even trying. A USB keyboard & Mouse, a cable, an IDE hard drive, and ethernet card does not cost $1000.
Do you honestly believe Sony is giving you $1000 worth of hardware for just $200? Is this the same Sony that does stuff like this?
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist; that conviction has been upheld on appeal, and the Supreme Court has declined to review the case, so the current judgement stands.
The supreme court has declined to hear arguments that the case should be tossed out due to bias on Judge Jackson's part. Micorosft can still appeal the ruling on the merits of the case. In other words Microsoft took a long shot that they could get the Jackson's ruling reversed on his behavior rather than on questions of law. You can bet that if the settlement isn't approved, they'll be another appeal to the Supreme Court by Microsoft.
Besides, I somehow doubt that kids all over Germany and the rest of Europe are telling their buds "Dude, Sony's letting people play their games for free at CeBIT! Roadtrip!"
Depends on what games Sony was letting people play. You can bet that if it were free and there were Beta versions of Grand Theft Auto 4 or Grand Turismo 4, then there would be kids road tripping to CeBIT to play them.
I bet part of the reason MSFT is so averse to having its precious source code inspected is the possibility it contains GPL'd code that infringes on the license.
doubtful...
http://research.microsoft.com/university/ntsrcli ci nfo.asp
Microsoft® makes source code to Microsoft operating system products like Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows CE available to universities and other "not-for-profit" research institutions at no charge. Currently, there are over 100 universities worldwide with our source licenses.
If you work for a big company with lots of name recognition, having that name on the card is going to result in better service. This can be anything from simply having your pizzas arrive on time for your staff meeting rather than 20 minutes late, all the way up to getting bumped up to business class when the airlines overbook and give away your seat.
A hotel or restaurant may not care about your piddly business, but they do care about the business of a large corporartion.
At least, not in terms of revenues...and a judgement of wealth based on stock value vs. stock outstanding is, in MS's case, grossly inaccurate due to their "stock options as salary" scam.
What scam is that? Is it any different from how Apple, Cisco, Sun, or Oracle handle options?
Are you sure you want to take down every tech company that issues options just to get at Microsoft? Steve Jobs doesn't even get paid, his salary is entirely options! Oh wait, scaratch that, he got paid $1 along with his 10 million options.
they already did, the supreme court refused to listen to them.
Better go read the story again. Microsoft can still appeal to the Supreme Court on the merits of the case. The appeal the Supreme Court refused to hear was regarding Judge Jackson's impartiality.
If the settlement isn't accepted and the Judge hands down a harsher penalty, you can bet your last dollar that this case will end up before the Supreme Court. They aren't going to refuse to hear a case as important as this one.
They Supreme Court may get the case regardless of what happens as the 9 holdout states can also appeal should the Judge accept the settlement and tell them to go pound sand.
I don't give a damn whether Gates, Ballmer, or Allchin accept that they did wrong, THEY DID and they don't get to have a say in the matter. Found. Guilty. The end of the story.
Well actually, they can still appeal to the Supreme Court, so it's not "The end of the story". Regardless, the courts do make mistakes. I know you hate Microsoft, but it's naive to claim the courts have never imprisoned an innocent party, or set free a guilty party.
GameCube has around 60 titles previewed.
Xbox was around 140 previewed.
PlayStation2 has more than 300 previewed."
I think this really says it all.People buy console's for games not to boast about how powerfull there console is.
So 60 games previewed and at least 50 games currently available there will be in short order more than 100 game choices for the Xbox. Yes, the PS2 has more games, but to suggest someone won't buy an Xbox because their aren't enough games available seems strange to me. I have an Xbox and I probably won't buy 100 games for it period much less in the next couple of months.
The absolute number of games doesn't matter. What matters is that there is enough variety and quality to make purchasing the console worthwhile. I'd say the Xbox already has it - Halo, Amped, DOA3, PGR, NFL2K2, Max Payne, Wreckless, Rallisport etc. I want more Xbox games than I can afford, so if there were another 100 titles in addtion it wouldn't really matter, because at $50 a pop one can only afford so many games regardless.
I understand that having 300 games compared to 100 games does increase the chance that they'll be good titles, but you need to understand that for most people the Xbox already has more good titles than one can afford to buy. And they keep coming out with more. The pace of quality game development for the Xbox far surpasses my ability to afford them.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately, The truth is getting in the way of your reality.
Fiscal year ending 6/30/1995
Microsoft head count = 17,801
About Microsoft
1. I'm Alive
2. Right In Front Of You
3. Have You Ever Been In Love
4. Rain, Tax (It's Inevitable)
5. A New Day Has Come (Radio Remix)
6. Ten Days
7. Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)
8. Prayer
9. I Surrender
10. At Last
11. Sorry For Love
12. Aun Existe Amor
13. The Greatest Reward
14. When The Wrong One Loves Your Right
15. A New Day Has Come
16. Nature Boy
Celine Dion
Album: A New Day Has Come
You now know the name of a Celine Dion song. You can run from Celine, but you can't hide!
Considering that edonkey receives money based on the concept that people will see those banner adds, it's probably a big whee to them.
In other words they depend on the functionality provided by mshtml.dll to derive a portion of their revenue. So while you may not miss that feature, they, and any other company who based part of their product on the assumption that Windows works a certain way, most likely would.
A lot of people seem to be overlooking that just because the states claimed they had a modular version of Windows, it doesn't mean they have a modular version of Windows that would be able to fill real world needs. Windows needs to be consistent enough so that when a company writes software for it, they know their software will install and run as they intended no matter which modular Windows one happens to be running. Without a demonstration and critical review of Bach's modular Windows the court cannot know if it was the real deal or just a dog and pony show.
Every stat I can find on the average vocabulary is much higher than 1000.
10,000 seems to be the most reported number. Apparently there was a study done in 1997 that showed high school students from the 1950s had an average vocabulary of 25,000 words, while students from 1997 had an average vocabulary of only 10,000.
1000 words seems to be closer to the average vocabulary of a 2-3 year old or so says an article from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Would you really want someone jamming *your* important calls?
If you don't like cell phones, then go find somewhere that doesn't have them.
 Of course there is the flip side, if you don't like jammers, then go find somewhere that doesn't have them.
Lukcy for you, in the U.S. at least, they are illegal so that shouldn't be hard to do. Really, there's nothing wrong with cell phones, it's just some of the people who use them have no sense of when it's not appropriate to do so.
 
Because he has more money than God (but less than Bill Gates) and wants to start his own company so he can be in charge.
I know if I had $10 million or so, I'd start my own company. Why work for someone else if money is no longer the motivation? For those of us working 9 to 5 with enough money to get by, but not enough to break out this probably seems a foreign concept. Our bosses all like to talk about challenges and empowerment, and we all shake our heads and agree. Well, starting your own company is the ultimate challenge and is the ultimate in empowerment.
You're the boss and at the end of the day success or failure is ultimately on you and with millions in the bank, the fear of failure is no longer quite so imposing. You win some, you lose some, but if you still have millions of dollars, you never have to worry about missing a house payment.
Careful, you're dangerously close to sounding like your father. Especially that bit about the music. All you have to do is deride the way kids of today dress and cut their hair and you'll officially qualify for your AARP membership card.
Try reading something new with an open mind, you'll find the books are just as good as ever. I for one am glad SF isn't what it used to be. Why would you want the same ideas recycled by a new generation of writers? I have many favorite books from the past, but the very concept of Science Fiction suggests that as time advances, so should the ideas behind the writing. Your favorite writer may no longer be putting out books, but don't confuse that with the idea that there is no longer any good Science Fiction. A good book is still a good book, no generation has a monopoly on them.
By the way, 20 years from now they'll be some old guy complaining that the current state of Science Fiction is no where near as good as it was back in the good ol' days of 2002.
This guy should know that if he has his receipt Microsoft will give him 2 XBox games and an extra controller for free. They're doing this for all early adopters who bought an XBox beore the price break in Austrailia and Europe.
A big Thank You to all Xbox gamers!
As a big "THANK YOU" to everyone who bought an Xbox before 26th April we are offering, until 1st July 2002, the chance for you to get 2 games and an Xbox Controller for FREE! That means you could be playing games like Halo, Rallisport Challenge, Project Gotham Racing, Amped, Oddworld or Dead or Alive 3 amongst other great games for free!
He's worth about $48 billion actually. $36 billion being in MSFT, the rest in other investments.
$5-6 billion isn't pocket change, but he certainly could spend it should he choose to. Aside from possibly losing the "Word's Richest Man" title, his life wouldn't change in any meaningful way. Unless you make a habit of buying office buildings or football stadiums, you'd be hard pressed to spend $1 billion in a single lifetime, much less $40 billion.
Besides, it's not Bill Gates' personal money that Blackley convinced Gates to spend on the Xbox anyway. The money being spent on the Xbox is Microsoft's (the corporation) money. Bill Gates' personal wealth really doesn't enter into this, excpet for how that the sucess or failure of the Xbox might affect the price of all that MSFT stock he holds.
What an amazingly elitist attitude. Why should you care if someone doesn't know they can use more than one browser? How does it possibly effect you if some AOL user sitting in his house browses the web with his modified version of IE rather than Mozilla?
It's amazing the number of people who measure a person's worth by their ability to operate a computer. Next time you're in need of some surgery, pick your doctor based on his knowledge of Linux rather than his ability to cut you open and put you back together without killing you. One slip of the scapel and you'll realize that computer knowlege is not the ultimate arbiter of intelligence or ability.
The only people whose value should be measured by their ability to efficiently and intelligently use a computer are people who use them to make their living. I know this may be hard to believe, but some people just don't care about computers any more than any other appliance.
You might as well except that the web isn't going back to the days when only geeks knew about it. If you can't deal with that, put on some Nirvana tunes and try the Wayback Machine. You can pretend it's 1992 and all is right in the computing world (and think of all the money you'll make on the upcoming dot-com bull market!).
If this were to happen, I can see the story Slashdot would link to. I would probably sound somethinglike this:
 
Microsoft Bundles Advanced Text Editor
In a blatant attempt to cut off the air supply of the advanced text editing market, Microsoft has begun bundling Notepad 2.0 with the new version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn. The new editor copies many of the advanced features already found in products like BBEdit from Bare Bones software, as well as adding a few unique features. When asked to comment on this latest development, a ProComp spokesman stated, "Micorosft is clearly leveraging their desktop monopoly in an attempt to corner the market in text editing. The American people do not want this to happen, and we urge the DOJ and State Attorneys General to look into this further." On Slashdot, a popular pro Linux discussion site, many posters were seen to write comments ranging from "First Post" to "Micro$oft suxors for doing this".
You're confusing the exception with the rule. I don't really care one way or the other, but don't kid yourself that the availability of free music somehow increases sales of non-free music.
Perhaps you're in an economic position where purchasing as many $15 CDs as you want isn't a problem, but you can bet some high school or college kid would rather spend his money on a night out, then on a bunch of music he can get for free.
It'll be very interesting to watch this unfold over the next few years. I really don't see how it will ever be stopped. And if it isn't stopped, the music industry is going to go through some big changes. Won't bother me a bit if the recording industry as we know it collapses. They lost my sympathy (and probably that of most everyone else old enough to remember) when they increased the price of an album when they switched from vinyl to CDs. The media is cheaper, the packaging is cheaper, transport is cheaper, yet the end product is more expensive?
Looks like they kind of shot themselves in the foot by doing that.
You ever notice how every Mac owner you talk to has a story like this? Yet somehow, week after week, month after month, year after year Wintel PCs continue to outsell Macs 10 to 1.
It suggests 1 of 3 things.
There's still a lot more potential manpower in OSS. As has been proven in several big OSS projects, like Mozilla for one, just because there are tens of thousands of people who can work on a poject, it doesn't mean there will be tens of thousands of people who do work on a project.
resignation and postmortem.
The truth is that, by virtue of the fact that the contributors to the Mozilla project included about a hundred full-time Netscape developers, and about thirty part-time outsiders, the project still belonged wholly to Netscape -- because only those who write the code truly control the project.
Pretty good eh?
$1000? Is that Canadian dollars or something? Head on over to pricewatch and you pick this stuff up for under $150 without even trying. A USB keyboard & Mouse, a cable, an IDE hard drive, and ethernet card does not cost $1000.
Do you honestly believe Sony is giving you $1000 worth of hardware for just $200? Is this the same Sony that does stuff like this?
The supreme court has declined to hear arguments that the case should be tossed out due to bias on Judge Jackson's part. Micorosft can still appeal the ruling on the merits of the case. In other words Microsoft took a long shot that they could get the Jackson's ruling reversed on his behavior rather than on questions of law. You can bet that if the settlement isn't approved, they'll be another appeal to the Supreme Court by Microsoft.
Supreme Court Declines to Review Microsoft Appeal
The larger the number of options, the more likely you are to find games that you enjoy.
Consider that CSpan and CSpan II show more television than I could possibly watch, does that mean they're the only two channels I need or want?
Depends on what games Sony was letting people play. You can bet that if it were free and there were Beta versions of Grand Theft Auto 4 or Grand Turismo 4, then there would be kids road tripping to CeBIT to play them.
doubtful...
http://research.microsoft.com/university/ntsrcli ci nfo.asp
Microsoft® makes source code to Microsoft operating system products like Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows CE available to universities and other "not-for-profit" research institutions at no charge. Currently, there are over 100 universities worldwide with our source licenses.
There's one other thing in it for the employee.
If you work for a big company with lots of name recognition, having that name on the card is going to result in better service. This can be anything from simply having your pizzas arrive on time for your staff meeting rather than 20 minutes late, all the way up to getting bumped up to business class when the airlines overbook and give away your seat.
A hotel or restaurant may not care about your piddly business, but they do care about the business of a large corporartion.
What scam is that? Is it any different from how Apple, Cisco, Sun, or Oracle handle options?
Are you sure you want to take down every tech company that issues options just to get at Microsoft? Steve Jobs doesn't even get paid, his salary is entirely options! Oh wait, scaratch that, he got paid $1 along with his 10 million options.
Steve Jobs: Staggering Options And A Nice Plane
Better go read the story again. Microsoft can still appeal to the Supreme Court on the merits of the case. The appeal the Supreme Court refused to hear was regarding Judge Jackson's impartiality.
If the settlement isn't accepted and the Judge hands down a harsher penalty, you can bet your last dollar that this case will end up before the Supreme Court. They aren't going to refuse to hear a case as important as this one.
They Supreme Court may get the case regardless of what happens as the 9 holdout states can also appeal should the Judge accept the settlement and tell them to go pound sand.
Well actually, they can still appeal to the Supreme Court, so it's not "The end of the story". Regardless, the courts do make mistakes. I know you hate Microsoft, but it's naive to claim the courts have never imprisoned an innocent party, or set free a guilty party.
Terence Garner: An Ordinary Crime
Trial of the century ends with Simpson's acquittal
I think this really says it all .People buy console's for games not to boast about how powerfull there console is.
So 60 games previewed and at least 50 games currently available there will be in short order more than 100 game choices for the Xbox. Yes, the PS2 has more games, but to suggest someone won't buy an Xbox because their aren't enough games available seems strange to me. I have an Xbox and I probably won't buy 100 games for it period much less in the next couple of months.
The absolute number of games doesn't matter. What matters is that there is enough variety and quality to make purchasing the console worthwhile. I'd say the Xbox already has it - Halo, Amped, DOA3, PGR, NFL2K2, Max Payne, Wreckless, Rallisport etc. I want more Xbox games than I can afford, so if there were another 100 titles in addtion it wouldn't really matter, because at $50 a pop one can only afford so many games regardless.
I understand that having 300 games compared to 100 games does increase the chance that they'll be good titles, but you need to understand that for most people the Xbox already has more good titles than one can afford to buy. And they keep coming out with more. The pace of quality game development for the Xbox far surpasses my ability to afford them.