Airlines are going bust thanks to incompetent management -- they cannot even keep afloat with the huge government subsides and loan guarantees that they've received for decades.
And yet Delta CEO Leo Mullin made $13 million last year while holding his hand out to Congress for money. The system is broken.
Bust up the monopoloy or whatever, but it's fundamentally wrong for the government to infringe on ANY company's rights to do what they feel allows them to best compete and gain market share.
So it's wrong for the government to prevent companies from using child labor, age discrimination, lying to investors, creative accounting, bribery, and circumventing wage laws when they feel it would help them compete or gain market share? There are thousands of things companies are not allowed to do, and there should really be more restrictions. Corporations are being pampered (at least in the U.S.) by the government when it should be looking out for the people. I think your sympathy is misdirected.
I'm only looking for good games. I don't really care who makes them.
You seem to be in the minority. When good games like Ico and Beyond Good and Evil are made, people don't buy them. It seems the majority of gamers just want the same old warmed-over franchise games. Pretty soon, that's going to be all that's left because game companies lose money on anything new or innovative. Meanwhile, EA is busy trashing the MOH franchise, but it still sells.
It pisses me off to see so many perfectly good.com domains being used for little mom and pop companies that only serve there local area rather than having a worldwide presence...
Yes, of course. Names should be awarded based on company size rather than to the people who got off their duff and registered them.
Did you click on the link that says "Consumer Alert"? Under Win2K the hijack works on both IE 6.0 and Firebird 0.6 (yeah, I know, I should upgrade). I haven't tried under Linux.
Unlike the US, India (and many other countries) have a "radical" approach to medical treatment: You get sick, you visit a doctor or hospital in your price range immediately and they treat you!
Ah, yes. I'll have the K-Mart diagnosis, and the Sam's Club discounted surgery please -- to go -- I can't afford the inpatient stay. Just dump me in the alley after the operation. Certainly, U.S. health care has problems, but selecting your treatment based on your "price range" is flying in the face of you-get-what-you-pay-for.
Well, I'm a nomad and all I can say is:
1. nomads have no need for pets.
2. nomads don't posess much. things posess you, take only what you need.
How sad. It sounds so sterile. No pets. No home. No community to support and receive support from. No traditions. No family heirlooms or property. No place to call your own. I've read a number of your comments in this discussion, and you can have your nomadic existence. I would not willingly give up the things that make life enjoyable and satisfying.
Actually, Bill Gates said that they would settle these things when it made sense, but they're not going to be a patsy.
That would be when the opposing principals involved are all dead or in nursing homes and there is no longer any first-person evidence? Why else delay settlement when you're already a convicted monopolist with more money than Croesus?
WP was good- back before 1996. They failed to make a Windows version, even though their customers were asking for one. Then they failed to provide one which wasnt a piece of shit.
In '96, WordPerfect was still far superior to Microsoft's Windows-based word processor. In '96, most MS users were still launching Windows by typing "win" at the DOS prompt.
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Airlines are going bust thanks to incompetent management -- they cannot even keep afloat with the huge government subsides and loan guarantees that they've received for decades.
And yet Delta CEO Leo Mullin made $13 million last year while holding his hand out to Congress for money. The system is broken.
Bust up the monopoloy or whatever, but it's fundamentally wrong for the government to infringe on ANY company's rights to do what they feel allows them to best compete and gain market share.
So it's wrong for the government to prevent companies from using child labor, age discrimination, lying to investors, creative accounting, bribery, and circumventing wage laws when they feel it would help them compete or gain market share? There are thousands of things companies are not allowed to do, and there should really be more restrictions. Corporations are being pampered (at least in the U.S.) by the government when it should be looking out for the people. I think your sympathy is misdirected.
I'm only looking for good games. I don't really care who makes them.
You seem to be in the minority. When good games like Ico and Beyond Good and Evil are made, people don't buy them. It seems the majority of gamers just want the same old warmed-over franchise games. Pretty soon, that's going to be all that's left because game companies lose money on anything new or innovative. Meanwhile, EA is busy trashing the MOH franchise, but it still sells.
. . .unless completion times are shortened and the games made more stupid so that most can whizz through it in a day.
With games like GTA-SA that take months to complete, people are not going be happy forking out $50 for a one-day game.
In LA, KOST-103 FM has been playing Xmas music 24/7 since Thanksgiving. They do it every year.
Change stations. You're welcome. :)
It pisses me off to see so many perfectly good .com domains being used for little mom and pop companies that only serve there local area rather than having a worldwide presence...
Yes, of course. Names should be awarded based on company size rather than to the people who got off their duff and registered them.
Why not .WAP, or .MPA (mobile phone access)
Because if you use .MPA, the MPAA will sue you for piracy.
Senior Cheerleader. There's a mental image. Are those the ones who cheer on the West Palm Beach shuffleboard team?
Did you click on the link that says "Consumer Alert"? Under Win2K the hijack works on both IE 6.0 and Firebird 0.6 (yeah, I know, I should upgrade). I haven't tried under Linux.
I'm also going back to school to eventually get an MBA because US companies aren't going to outsource the executive managment positions...
Another one lost to the dark side.
If US economy collapses it will always take the world down with it.
And all roads lead to Rome, and the sun never sets on the British empire. Collapse doesn't happen in a day or week, and the world adjusts.
Hotlines etc. are not outsourced as far as I know . . .
New Jersey offshored the hotlines for their welfare department to India. Talk about adding insult to injury.
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Is that the shredded newspaper you put in the cat box?
'See this photo gallery'
Now that we have successfully slashdotted the Russian photo center, we can expect retaliation any minute.
This just smells of bullshit.
It smells of money - lots of it. Does MS have a separate UK division?
Unlike the US, India (and many other countries) have a "radical" approach to medical treatment: You get sick, you visit a doctor or hospital in your price range immediately and they treat you!
Ah, yes. I'll have the K-Mart diagnosis, and the Sam's Club discounted surgery please -- to go -- I can't afford the inpatient stay. Just dump me in the alley after the operation. Certainly, U.S. health care has problems, but selecting your treatment based on your "price range" is flying in the face of you-get-what-you-pay-for.
Well, I'm a nomad and all I can say is:
1. nomads have no need for pets.
2. nomads don't posess much. things posess you, take only what you need.
How sad. It sounds so sterile. No pets. No home. No community to support and receive support from. No traditions. No family heirlooms or property. No place to call your own. I've read a number of your comments in this discussion, and you can have your nomadic existence. I would not willingly give up the things that make life enjoyable and satisfying.
I figure they'll drop ten mil just making the movie "File Sharing Madness." History shows that that sort of thing works like a charm.
:) Now, that brings back memories. I think Reefer Madness probably had exactly the opposite effect from what was intended.
Who wants to be a GPL giant is welcome to do so, but why should we take away the right of non-GPL giants to collect some fees for their work?
What right? You're not supposed to be able to patent a list of instructions, which is what a software patent is.
Because it's only available on VHS?
No, because it's Beta software.
where did it say that they were going after TurboExcel?
From TA: "TurboExcel, of course, runs on Linux, and MS just sent Savvysoft a cease-and-desist letter to stop using the mark."
Actually, Bill Gates said that they would settle these things when it made sense, but they're not going to be a patsy.
That would be when the opposing principals involved are all dead or in nursing homes and there is no longer any first-person evidence? Why else delay settlement when you're already a convicted monopolist with more money than Croesus?
WP was good- back before 1996. They failed to make a Windows version, even though their customers were asking for one. Then they failed to provide one which wasnt a piece of shit.
In '96, WordPerfect was still far superior to Microsoft's Windows-based word processor. In '96, most MS users were still launching Windows by typing "win" at the DOS prompt.
IIRC, That's because someone already had a PC word processor called "Word", so Microsoft trademarked "Microsoft Word" instead.
Given that logic, Microsoft should not be rallying the lawyers to attack someone making a product called TurboExcel.
That's some dark humor, but actually true. You get to the lame sort-of-end of the game, and it has *shipping deadline* written all over it.