Tons of companies have managed to be unethical. I think my top 10 evil list would comprise of all laundry detergent companies. M$ is bad, but I don't think they have reached Nike status yet. Everybody knows it is harder to "do what's right".
If people are discussing ease of use for packages and patches. Nobody beats Aix. The maintainance levels are labeled 0-to-1, 1-to-2, 1-to-3 for example. All the regular packages sort out dependencies automatically too. Solaris and Linux would dream of such uniform consistencies.
I expect Apple to have problems in the future when everyone already owns an iPod. These players can last a life time. It's not like a PC where it needs constant upgrades.
But eventually stores are stuck with an inventory that they can't get rid of. Space cost money in a tiny store like EB. You would think the best scenario is if they sold a game and it never came back.
Only thing good out of HP's storage is their ultra high end arrays which is practically HDS's lightning san arrays rebranded into HP XP series. MSA and VA is not remotely comparable to what the rest of the storage industry has to offer.
This is really not about tax dollars and beaches. Though it sounds funny. The music industry has the most messed up payroll. Mainstream artists makes millions, and the remainder 90% are starving. I'd like to see this balanced out, and turn it into a normal industry where alot of artists make your normal 50k salary. And the great ones make 6-figures.
RIAA is putting pressure on winmx and music buyers. Why don't they put pressure on the mainstream artists where they are banking their $$$ to make something decent. I am not convinced it is humanly possible for someone to make 10 albums with all good songs. So many of the top albums only made top Billboard charts cause of the marketing.
Bittorrent is not exactly friendly. Even with all firewalls disabled I get too many of the "now connecting to client" messages. 95% of my downloads don't ever connect.
I have rerouted to use no proxy, and straight box connected to the internet wide open everything. Either there is too many stale database entries or I am not using the best program out there.
That's why there is so many worms invading all these corporations and spreading across the Internet like wildfire.
The time is takes to determine the size of the hole and the severity of the problem is so slow and bureaucratic. By the time you know what the do, the worm has multiplied 100x.
Actually the Sega Genesis launched at $299 with Altered Beast, 2 controllers and 1 free game by mail. I picked Golden Axe. I still remember cause I bought it.
I will upgrade to Vista when the 1st PC game that I really want... is compatible with Vista only. That day might never come as the console gaming world is taking over. I can only find time to play so many games.
Until then, I roll with XP and linux. And if the PC gaming world shits the bed, I roll with Mac and linux. It looks like this is the end of the road for me and M$. They better reshuffle fast if they want to see my money again.
The music industry can save millions by not marketing any artist mainstream. Let's just put every artist's name out there in plain ascii. Not even album covers. And let the world decide what's good music.
There is no place where I can download MAME games anymore. I have a collection from the past, and that collection has not grow for years. Of course, if someone knows of a destination, let me know.
I used to think brands really didn't matter. Until I bought the Abit Ka7-100. It was a highend board back around 2000 with 4 Dimm slots and 6 PCIs, 1 AGP. And an ISA slot which could be used when sacrificing the last PCI slot. It was fantastic at the time.
Then the transistors fried. I paid for shipping etc and got a replacement. Then it fried again, replaced, then fried again. 4 years later Abit sends me a letter saying they lost a lawsuit for selling select board models with broken transistors including the Ka7-100. Basically they knew it, and told consumers nothing about it.
Very different. Alot of us are keeping windows around for the sake of games. Next generation consoles the likes of PS3 and xbox360 will be the first time an actual split might occur, where the masses finally give up on PC gaming.
I know a couple diehard techies who already got tired of buying and installing video cards every other year. Not to mention in 1992, PC offered FPS, RTS games by the dozen. Any good PC games now makes the console list in 12 months anyways.
Shortage is IBM's mainframe skills, not math and science in research. IBM is running on its last generation of mainframe employees. Many of which will retire in no more than 10 years. You want a job? Get into mainframes and you'll be looking at 60-80k salary easy. The companies deploying mainframes aren't going to discontinue anytime.
If the revolution failed, they would have to make available the likes of Zelda, Metroid and the entire Mario franchise on PS3 and Xbox360 to keep the console versions alive. There is still a huge population out there that don't play handhelds.
However, Nintendo is a traditional Japanese company who will probably take Zelda to the grave instead of sharing it with another major rival. Of course if they find success, all the power to them.
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Tons of companies have managed to be unethical. I think my top 10 evil list would comprise of all laundry detergent companies. M$ is bad, but I don't think they have reached Nike status yet. Everybody knows it is harder to "do what's right".
If people are discussing ease of use for packages and patches. Nobody beats Aix. The maintainance levels are labeled 0-to-1, 1-to-2, 1-to-3 for example. All the regular packages sort out dependencies automatically too. Solaris and Linux would dream of such uniform consistencies.
I expect Apple to have problems in the future when everyone already owns an iPod. These players can last a life time. It's not like a PC where it needs constant upgrades.
ROFLMAO I am in tears.
"Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure"
I am not sure U.S is that much better with our journalists. We should rename TV to the propaganda box.
But eventually stores are stuck with an inventory that they can't get rid of. Space cost money in a tiny store like EB. You would think the best scenario is if they sold a game and it never came back.
Homeowner: He's a criminal I swear.
Police: Looks like a dead mailman to me.
Homeowner: Radar must have seen those free aol CDs.
Police: You shot him with 1 million bbs.
Homeowner: I didn't. Sentry did. Bad firmware. Bad!
Half the blogs never get read or modded.
This just meets the Vista low end requirements.
Only thing good out of HP's storage is their ultra high end arrays which is practically HDS's lightning san arrays rebranded into HP XP series. MSA and VA is not remotely comparable to what the rest of the storage industry has to offer.
This is really not about tax dollars and beaches. Though it sounds funny. The music industry has the most messed up payroll. Mainstream artists makes millions, and the remainder 90% are starving. I'd like to see this balanced out, and turn it into a normal industry where alot of artists make your normal 50k salary. And the great ones make 6-figures.
RIAA is putting pressure on winmx and music buyers. Why don't they put pressure on the mainstream artists where they are banking their $$$ to make something decent. I am not convinced it is humanly possible for someone to make 10 albums with all good songs. So many of the top albums only made top Billboard charts cause of the marketing.
Bittorrent is not exactly friendly. Even with all firewalls disabled I get too many of the "now connecting to client" messages. 95% of my downloads don't ever connect.
I have rerouted to use no proxy, and straight box connected to the internet wide open everything. Either there is too many stale database entries or I am not using the best program out there.
That's why there is so many worms invading all these corporations and spreading across the Internet like wildfire.
The time is takes to determine the size of the hole and the severity of the problem is so slow and bureaucratic. By the time you know what the do, the worm has multiplied 100x.
Actually the Sega Genesis launched at $299 with Altered Beast, 2 controllers and 1 free game by mail. I picked Golden Axe. I still remember cause I bought it.
I will upgrade to Vista when the 1st PC game that I really want... is compatible with Vista only. That day might never come as the console gaming world is taking over. I can only find time to play so many games.
Until then, I roll with XP and linux. And if the PC gaming world shits the bed, I roll with Mac and linux. It looks like this is the end of the road for me and M$. They better reshuffle fast if they want to see my money again.
I for one would play alot less video games if I had the millions of dollars politicans has for other forms of entertainment.
The music industry can save millions by not marketing any artist mainstream. Let's just put every artist's name out there in plain ascii. Not even album covers. And let the world decide what's good music.
Well after they saw the stain on my card, the hotel clerk said PLEASE keep it.
There is no place where I can download MAME games anymore. I have a collection from the past, and that collection has not grow for years. Of course, if someone knows of a destination, let me know.
The best thing about Wikipedia is the fact that people without advanced PhD degrees can make a contribution too.
I used to think brands really didn't matter. Until I bought the Abit Ka7-100. It was a highend board back around 2000 with 4 Dimm slots and 6 PCIs, 1 AGP. And an ISA slot which could be used when sacrificing the last PCI slot. It was fantastic at the time.
Then the transistors fried. I paid for shipping etc and got a replacement. Then it fried again, replaced, then fried again. 4 years later Abit sends me a letter saying they lost a lawsuit for selling select board models with broken transistors including the Ka7-100. Basically they knew it, and told consumers nothing about it.
Very different. Alot of us are keeping windows around for the sake of games. Next generation consoles the likes of PS3 and xbox360 will be the first time an actual split might occur, where the masses finally give up on PC gaming.
I know a couple diehard techies who already got tired of buying and installing video cards every other year. Not to mention in 1992, PC offered FPS, RTS games by the dozen. Any good PC games now makes the console list in 12 months anyways.
Holyshit! Mark this guy +99 insightful. I am all out of mod points. Great comment.
Shortage is IBM's mainframe skills, not math and science in research. IBM is running on its last generation of mainframe employees. Many of which will retire in no more than 10 years. You want a job? Get into mainframes and you'll be looking at 60-80k salary easy. The companies deploying mainframes aren't going to discontinue anytime.
If the revolution failed, they would have to make available the likes of Zelda, Metroid and the entire Mario franchise on PS3 and Xbox360 to keep the console versions alive. There is still a huge population out there that don't play handhelds.
However, Nintendo is a traditional Japanese company who will probably take Zelda to the grave instead of sharing it with another major rival. Of course if they find success, all the power to them.