"Drop your lawsuit or you're guaranteed to lose. Besides, our market cap is much bigger than yours so we can simply buy you to make this go away. "
It would be absolutely brilliant if Google bought Viacom; they could continue the Viacom lawsuit (against themselves) but lose on purpose, thereby establishing favorable legal precedent.
Current Xbox 360 owners, who can purchase a separate 120-gigabyte hard drive at a cost of $179, appear to be getting a raw deal. Not only are these early adopters stuck with an older model of the console
So do the same complaints apply to Apple, when they release a new revision of the ipod every 12 months? What about Dell, when they release a new computer?
Are these people completely unfamiliar with the concept of purchasing goods and services?
Does Ford owe you a coupon because the new Taurus comes with more trunk space, which your year-old model lacks? Give me a break.
Since when does Xbox come with TV tuners or DVR software?
You think the future of video programming involves something as archaic as TV tuners and DVR software? You might as well be asking where the buggy-whip-holder is in your new car.
HP is ceasing production of its Digital Entertainment Center, the only real success story for Media Center PCs in a living-room form factor.
You're completely missing the point that MCE was a dry-run to get the xbox done right. The path of the XBOX + xbox marketplace is the real fruit of Microsoft's MCE endeavor.
Why not? Have you bought into the myth that Magick Elves work at the iPod factory and their Apple DRM compatibility can ONLY be had by purchasing an iPod??
MS Says Vista Selling At Twice XP's Pace... The Associated Press dug deeper, noting that since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of 2, so it would be a surprise if Vista didn't do twice as well
My instinct is that the 'that's lame' penalty would be quite a bit higher though(econ literacy would be somewhat higher in high minded theory land right?).
Well, the irony of free-market capitalism is that free-market capitalism always tends toward strictly-ordered monopoly. (The most profitable company is the one that controls the most aspects of the market, right?)
In high minded theory land, doesn't a more efficient producer step in in that case?
Well, then you're entering the murky world between the pure capitalism of a commodity market, and the non-price-sensitive premium product space which is driven by marketing.
For example, if Apple wants to lock the price of iPods, there isn't going to be a more efficient producer of iPods that will undercut their price lock. Another type of MP3-player, sure, but the premium consumer product space is not one that responds in the normal way. It's completely different, than say, selling gasoline.
Is Microsoft having worries about selling Vista already?... To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount
Ok, then they're not worried about selling Vista, if the new discount program is worse than the old discount program. A rational person would draw the opposite conclusion: that they're confident in Vista sales numbers. At least, enough to reduce the incentive.
but i say that people like you, who just comment on that reality cynically, are part of the problem.
because in your cynicism is acceptance
And I say that people who cannot accept how a system functions, have no hope of making steps to make it work to their own benefit.
Is it really better to deny reality, because that reality reflects the naked ugliness of the corporate person (and by extension, human nature as a whole)?
I love how paranoid speculation like this is always marked "Insightful". How about this: what if such "federal legislation" is, in fact, not "coming soon"?
The spokesperson for the University also notes that since they constantly rotate IP addresses and have no need to hang onto that information for very long, they simply cannot help the RIAA.
Coming soon, federal legislation giving the University a need to hang onto that information.
Entered by Representative Fred Upton, the bill spells out penalties for game companies that try to 'sneak' something past ESRB raters.
What does that even mean? Hot Coffee wasn't a 'sneak', it was excised content that required a third-party modification to even view. Yeah it was on the disc, but it wasn't accessible. It's not like you hit a secret code and OMG PORN.
It hasn't always been digital data...It hasn't even always been recordable data...prior to analog recording techniques, the only way to record a song was to write it down and learn to play it yourself.
Of course, but the author of the article is conflating the information with the media. His real complaint is that the music industry is transitioning from a convenient media system to an inconvenient media system.
Whether or not the music data is stored Digitally, or in an Analog fashion is irrelevant. Music hasn't evolved into data, just like any other kind of information hasn't evolved into data in the transition from oral tradition to magnetic storage.
An anonymous reader sends us to George Ou's blog on ZDNet for a tale of how Apple's PR director reportedly orchestrated a smear campaign against security researchers David Maynor and Jon Ellch last summer.
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"Drop your lawsuit or you're guaranteed to lose. Besides, our market cap is much bigger than yours so we can simply buy you to make this go away. "
It would be absolutely brilliant if Google bought Viacom; they could continue the Viacom lawsuit (against themselves) but lose on purpose, thereby establishing favorable legal precedent.
Current Xbox 360 owners, who can purchase a separate 120-gigabyte hard drive at a cost of $179, appear to be getting a raw deal. Not only are these early adopters stuck with an older model of the console
So do the same complaints apply to Apple, when they release a new revision of the ipod every 12 months? What about Dell, when they release a new computer?
Are these people completely unfamiliar with the concept of purchasing goods and services?
Does Ford owe you a coupon because the new Taurus comes with more trunk space, which your year-old model lacks? Give me a break.
The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity.
Well, I guess that's cheaper than alcohol.
Since when does Xbox come with TV tuners or DVR software?
You think the future of video programming involves something as archaic as TV tuners and DVR software? You might as well be asking where the buggy-whip-holder is in your new car.
HP is ceasing production of its Digital Entertainment Center, the only real success story for Media Center PCs in a living-room form factor.
You're completely missing the point that MCE was a dry-run to get the xbox done right. The path of the XBOX + xbox marketplace is the real fruit of Microsoft's MCE endeavor.
The very same day the RIAA put its tail between its legs and dropped the case, filing a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal.
Maybe now they'll start resorting to more traditional methods for people in their business. Like severed horse heads at the foot of your bed.
Why not? Have you bought into the myth that Magick Elves work at the iPod factory and their Apple DRM compatibility can ONLY be had by purchasing an iPod??
Fixed that for you.
MS Says Vista Selling At Twice XP's Pace ... The Associated Press dug deeper, noting that since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of 2, so it would be a surprise if Vista didn't do twice as well
Well, then surprise! There's no surprise!
My instinct is that the 'that's lame' penalty would be quite a bit higher though(econ literacy would be somewhat higher in high minded theory land right?).
Well, the irony of free-market capitalism is that free-market capitalism always tends toward strictly-ordered monopoly. (The most profitable company is the one that controls the most aspects of the market, right?)
In high minded theory land, doesn't a more efficient producer step in in that case?
Well, then you're entering the murky world between the pure capitalism of a commodity market, and the non-price-sensitive premium product space which is driven by marketing.
For example, if Apple wants to lock the price of iPods, there isn't going to be a more efficient producer of iPods that will undercut their price lock. Another type of MP3-player, sure, but the premium consumer product space is not one that responds in the normal way. It's completely different, than say, selling gasoline.
If the Supreme Court sides with business interests in a case they heard today, however, such sales may no longer be possible.
I don't care what the free marketeers say, these are exactly the types of questions that capitalism can't solve by itself.
a one million-dollar laptop from the U.K-based company Luvaglio?
so that's what he wanted the money for!
TextMate is a closed-source, GUI-based, extensible text editor that looks and behaves like a mashup of GNU Emacs ("Emacs") and NetBeans.
What I want to see is a mashup between vi and emacs, so we can put the eternal battle behind us once and for all.
Is Microsoft having worries about selling Vista already? ... To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount
Ok, then they're not worried about selling Vista, if the new discount program is worse than the old discount program. A rational person would draw the opposite conclusion: that they're confident in Vista sales numbers. At least, enough to reduce the incentive.
Once more the proposal has led to pornographers and religious groups finding themselves on the same side of an issue
Yeah, they both use the phrase "oh god, oh god" on a daily basis.
It's hard to guess if Gates, the wealthiest person in the world and co-founder of a company that brought in $44 billion in revenue last year, cares.
Well, he certainly must care, as he's obviously not doing it for the money.
Thats great and all, but will the AI-enabled cars also come with an afro wig and a black leather jacket? Oh, and they should probably be bulletproof.
PTO Rejects Instant Live Patent
That's because the idea of granting it is patently ridiculous.
but i say that people like you, who just comment on that reality cynically, are part of the problem. because in your cynicism is acceptance
And I say that people who cannot accept how a system functions, have no hope of making steps to make it work to their own benefit.
Is it really better to deny reality, because that reality reflects the naked ugliness of the corporate person (and by extension, human nature as a whole)?
I love how paranoid speculation like this is always marked "Insightful". How about this: what if such "federal legislation" is, in fact, not "coming soon"?
You seem to be having trouble understanding the post. Here, let me help you out.
The spokesperson for the University also notes that since they constantly rotate IP addresses and have no need to hang onto that information for very long, they simply cannot help the RIAA.
Coming soon, federal legislation giving the University a need to hang onto that information.
Entered by Representative Fred Upton, the bill spells out penalties for game companies that try to 'sneak' something past ESRB raters.
What does that even mean? Hot Coffee wasn't a 'sneak', it was excised content that required a third-party modification to even view. Yeah it was on the disc, but it wasn't accessible. It's not like you hit a secret code and OMG PORN.
It hasn't always been digital data...It hasn't even always been recordable data...prior to analog recording techniques, the only way to record a song was to write it down and learn to play it yourself.
Of course, but the author of the article is conflating the information with the media. His real complaint is that the music industry is transitioning from a convenient media system to an inconvenient media system.
Whether or not the music data is stored Digitally, or in an Analog fashion is irrelevant. Music hasn't evolved into data, just like any other kind of information hasn't evolved into data in the transition from oral tradition to magnetic storage.
Music has somehow evolved from tangible things into amorphous collections of 1's and 0's
What? Music has always been data. This guy isn't a music lover, he's a memorabilia lover.
An anonymous reader sends us to George Ou's blog on ZDNet for a tale of how Apple's PR director reportedly orchestrated a smear campaign against security researchers David Maynor and Jon Ellch last summer.
Karl Rove is Apple's PR director?