You're wrong, and your own post proves it. Even tough you're writing on Slashdot, it is properly punctuated, capitals are used, grammar and spelling are pretty good. Good writing is not something you "put on" or "put off", it's a ingrained. If you write correctly, you'll have a hard time writing badly (a typo here or there I see, but not -1 posts).
By way of example: a factory that produces 10,000,000 tins of powdered ethernet cable per day has a productivity of zero because there is no market for powdered ethernet cable.
See, this is where you are wrong. Powdered ethernet cable is what you sprinkle around to make wireless networks.
Remind me to explain you some other time how they make the magic smoke.
What's the last movie you went to see? Stealth. Laura Ziskin, who produced it, optioned the film rights to Deus Ex and she let me read the Stealth script like three years ago, so I had to see the finished film!
I'm scared about the Deus Ex movie now (and I bet Warren is freaking panicking).
It's not your costs you would have to artificially inflate, it's the costs of your competitors. Otherwise, they'll stay in the market, pricing their products below yours, and you'll go out of business.
And that is exactly what MS is trying to do to the companies that compete with it in controllers. Can we agree that is a bad thing?
I'm a reporter and attend several press conferences a week. I have seen obnoxious reporters (and obnoxious interviewees, but that's a different story). I have never, in 10 years of experience, seen a reporter thrown out of a press conference. Never.
I think you watch too many movies. In movies, yeah, reporters are obnoxious and get thrown out of press conferences, and aliens conquer Earth. Not in real life.
Yeah, I'm also waiting to preorder 2 Xbox 360s as soon as they're available. Boy, they will be great, and I hear that all the cool guys will have at least two.
(Psst, Blakey... did you get your check already? Mine is late. Think I should give MS a call?)
Wrong, wrong, wrong. While price is not a direct function of cost, cost does have an impact on price (price should never be less than cost, for instance). If --as you say-- in a competitive market price approaches cost, and you artificially inflate cost... guess what happens to price?
Yeah... much better to find out all the first party versions are sold out and you are SOL.
If you don't want the crappy controller, don't buy it. But I think it should be my choice ("Mmmhh... it's crappy, but it's only 9.99, and I really need it tonight").
Well, mister "someone should do something about it, just not me", care to enlighten us as to what should he have done? Pray to God someone else will catch him? Geez.
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If the boy was 14, I'd probably agree. I admit I ran off the handle, picturing a 17 year old (after all, he did have 450 bucks for a video card).
If he was 16-17, I think he should be treated harshly. He's old enough to know what he's doing. Plus, let's not dramatize; it's not like hes gonna be doing hard time. I'm guessing a suspended sentence and a clean slate when he turns 18.
The internet is letting scammers really go into overdrive- every trick that's ever been thought of is out there free for the taking, so they can help each other get away with it. Every single time a legitimate person makes an assumption, there will be someone out there trying to defy that assumption for personal gain.
And retailers and law-enforcement agencies are also finding aout about them, and seeking ways to counteract them. This is actually a good thing.
Remember rule number one: Security through obscurity does not work.
The stupid kid was STEALING 450 bucks --just short of grand theft. And you advocate that he should not have been punished at all? No wonder kids have no moral compass.
I can only hope you don't reproduce. At least until you mature a bit.
To all of you defending Google, make a little thought experiment.
Say CNet had used MSN Search to find details about Bill Gates and then used them in an article. As a result, Microsoft decides not to talk to CNet reporters anymore. Do you also defend Microsoft?
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For a moment there, you had me thinking "wow, they sure have put some advanced AI in the kernel".
Someone actually told me "LOL" out loud. Instead of laughing. I felt like following up with a "/me kills idiot", but I didn't have my gun with me.
I'd listen to this guy. Looking at his ID, he probably remember it. Right gramps?
You seem to have a rather cromagnonic attitude regarding Neanderthals.
You're right! Let's see....
/. to crumble to pieces.
*cough* *cough*
MICROSOFT SUCKS!!!
*sits down and waits for
Maybe there's a reason he described the company as a family owned business?
You're wrong, and your own post proves it. Even tough you're writing on Slashdot, it is properly punctuated, capitals are used, grammar and spelling are pretty good. Good writing is not something you "put on" or "put off", it's a ingrained. If you write correctly, you'll have a hard time writing badly (a typo here or there I see, but not -1 posts).
By way of example: a factory that produces 10,000,000 tins of powdered ethernet cable per day has a productivity of zero because there is no market for powdered ethernet cable.
See, this is where you are wrong. Powdered ethernet cable is what you sprinkle around to make wireless networks.
Remind me to explain you some other time how they make the magic smoke.
Behold, my patent for a "Portable, pocked-sized multimedia asset player via a computer network... in space "
Bwahahahahahaha!
and... um... something like "Thou shalt not covet they neighbour's ass" are all in there.
But my neighbor's donkey is so cute! C'mon!
Because he used a bot. That's the crux of the argument (if he hadn't, your logic would stand).
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What's the last movie you went to see?
Stealth. Laura Ziskin, who produced it, optioned the film rights to Deus Ex and she let me read the Stealth script like three years ago, so I had to see the finished film!
I'm scared about the Deus Ex movie now (and I bet Warren is freaking panicking).
If I guy a house is it immoral to add on a room or to tile the floor?
Dude, I don't know what "guying a house" is, but I'm quite sure it should be immoral.
It's not your costs you would have to artificially inflate, it's the costs of your competitors. Otherwise, they'll stay in the market, pricing their products below yours, and you'll go out of business.
And that is exactly what MS is trying to do to the companies that compete with it in controllers. Can we agree that is a bad thing?
I'm a reporter and attend several press conferences a week. I have seen obnoxious reporters (and obnoxious interviewees, but that's a different story). I have never, in 10 years of experience, seen a reporter thrown out of a press conference. Never.
I think you watch too many movies. In movies, yeah, reporters are obnoxious and get thrown out of press conferences, and aliens conquer Earth. Not in real life.
Yeah, I'm also waiting to preorder 2 Xbox 360s as soon as they're available. Boy, they will be great, and I hear that all the cool guys will have at least two.
(Psst, Blakey... did you get your check already? Mine is late. Think I should give MS a call?)
Wrong, wrong, wrong. While price is not a direct function of cost, cost does have an impact on price (price should never be less than cost, for instance). If --as you say-- in a competitive market price approaches cost, and you artificially inflate cost... guess what happens to price?
Yeah... much better to find out all the first party versions are sold out and you are SOL.
If you don't want the crappy controller, don't buy it. But I think it should be my choice ("Mmmhh... it's crappy, but it's only 9.99, and I really need it tonight").
Well, mister "someone should do something about it, just not me", care to enlighten us as to what should he have done? Pray to God someone else will catch him? Geez.
If the boy was 14, I'd probably agree. I admit I ran off the handle, picturing a 17 year old (after all, he did have 450 bucks for a video card).
If he was 16-17, I think he should be treated harshly. He's old enough to know what he's doing. Plus, let's not dramatize; it's not like hes gonna be doing hard time. I'm guessing a suspended sentence and a clean slate when he turns 18.
The internet is letting scammers really go into overdrive- every trick that's ever been thought of is out there free for the taking, so they can help each other get away with it. Every single time a legitimate person makes an assumption, there will be someone out there trying to defy that assumption for personal gain.
And retailers and law-enforcement agencies are also finding aout about them, and seeking ways to counteract them. This is actually a good thing.
Remember rule number one: Security through obscurity does not work.
The stupid kid was STEALING 450 bucks --just short of grand theft. And you advocate that he should not have been punished at all? No wonder kids have no moral compass.
I can only hope you don't reproduce. At least until you mature a bit.
Somehow, I think anyone who has a hard time understanding "Memento" is not exactly scientist material anyway.
To all of you defending Google, make a little thought experiment.
Say CNet had used MSN Search to find details about Bill Gates and then used them in an article. As a result, Microsoft decides not to talk to CNet reporters anymore. Do you also defend Microsoft?
Don't see the players. See the game.