When is a market unfair? When is it unfair for a company to set a price for their products? If I offer to sell you a video game for $50 or for $100, then isn't it just a private transaction between the two of us?
Now, if I want to sell that game to someone in Britain for $50, and someone in Germany for $100, is there something wrong with that? After all, can't the German customer just call up someone in Britain and have them buy it for him and ship it to Germany, and pay him the $50 plus a bit for his troubles?
Perhaps the problem here isn't Nintendo. Perhaps the problem is government laws that prevent the free exchange of goods across borders, or government fees and taxes that discourage cross-border trade, and enable companies like Nintendo to pull stunts like this.
"He should see see it as enemy #1. It could very likely prove to be the source of Microsoft's demise."
As long as the free market isn't polluted by government intervention to 'save' Microsoft from open source software.
Favourite quote from article: "Microsoft marketers must rely on studies that show the cost of maintaining a Windows system is lower than that of Linux machines. "
Have a nice day with that one boys -- it never worked very well for Apple, no matter how many studies Apple could trot out showing lower TCO for Macs.
I predict that sometime in the next 12 months, someone will release software that lets Mac OS X users make perfect copies of DVDs. Since OS X is enough under the 'radar' of the MS-lovin' types, they don't notice until millions of people get a copy of the application.
You know what you two have just done? You've acted like someone from Generation X. We all like to think that we are doing our own thing, but it is shocking and kind of spooky to realize just how many people are doing the exact same things.
When my girlfriend and I decided to buy a house 2 1/2 years ago, we bought one that is a size or two up from a typical 'starter' home. When we were signing the final papers, the real estate agent mentioned that lately everyone our age seemed to be buying bigger houses. A month later, I read an article in the paper stating the same 'phenomon.' We thought we were the only ones!
When you refused to max out your mortgage, you are acting in a way that resembles people who lived through the depression, and not at all like a baby-boomer. I often feel that I have more in common with my grandparents than with my parents, and suspect that many Gen-Xers feel the same way.
When I graduated from university in 1992, the unemployment in my area was running around 10%, but for those under age 25 it was 45%! That's a hell of a kick in the teeth for a large group of people, and will cause us to live our lives differently than the previous generation.
Not even close. The USSR was a slide from one oppressive system, feudalism, to an even more oppressive and totalitarian system, communism. Give credit where credit is due.
I wrote a comment to this, but to save space on this server I will only post a link to it. I don't agree with the above poster. But I will let the details of this be presented by my diary entry. Comments welcome here or there.
I believe that your efforts to "save space" on this server are really just a ploy to profit from this tragedy by drumming up hits for your own site, so I choose not to follow your link. I might look tomorrow.
I fear the US will drag the world into a big fucking war in the middle east we'll live to regret.
There is no past precedence for your fear. The U.S. has dragged no one into a large scale war. Europe and Japan have dragged the U.S. into war, the U.S.S.R. initiated a long term arms buildup, but the U.S. has done nothing but defend itself and come to the aid of friends and enemies alike.
One year ago today the United States of America, or as we call it here in Canada, "The States," was attacked. The U.S. response was reasoned, intelligent, and graceful. Hats off to you.
The U.S. is often likened to a schoolyard bully, and nobody likes a bully. But what kind of bully only acts when provoked? What kind of bully sits on an offender just long enough to make them say "Uncle Sam," then picks them up, dusts them off, wipes their noses, and sends them on their way with an admonition to "play nice from now on."
No shoolyard bully that I know acts that way. That sounds more like a teacher.
Intel, though, can boast of research breakthroughs of its own, as well as far higher sales volumes.
Too many research breakthroughs to mention here, apparently. Also, how does sales volume figure into a discussion about a technological breakthrough? Wouldn't that be something like saying Unix is technically superior, but Windows outsells it. Oh wait, they say stuff like that all the time!
Despite the downturn in the PC industry, Intel remains the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.
The spin on that one is a little harder to spot, but it's there. Sales across the industry could increase or decrease without changing the relative market share of the various manufacturers, so why even mention it?
Because C|NET is owned partially by Intel, and is heavily biased towards both Intel and Microsoft. They never say anything positive about IBM or Motorola without getting in a quick mention about Intel, and they never say anything nice about Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X without a tip of the hat to Microsoft. It's kind of fun when you know what you are looking for.
<p><i>All I can say is welcome to the world of microsoft in 1995-1996.</i></p>
<p>Hey! I don't even want into the world of Microsoft in 2002!</p>
<p>Seriously, though. This is no big deal. The only people making a big deal about it are flame baiters. Apple has always done exactly this with their operating systems and hardware. Every new Mac released ships with and runs the current version of the OS, and nothing earlier.</p>
<p>The only difference now is that Apple institued a multi-year phase-in to OS X, in recognition of the fact that it was a far more dramatic change than from 6 to 7, 7 to 8, 8 to 9, etc.</p>
<p>Slashdotters are not giving Apple a lot of grief over this precisely because it is not a big deal.</p>
<p><i>It's just that Mac users got the shove alot later in the game.:-) welcome to the fun that is the Intel world!</i></p>
<p>Actually, there have been two momentous changes in Macintosh history. On the OS side, moving from OS 6 to OS 7 added all kinds of under-the-hood changes, such as multi-tasking. On the hardware side, moving from 68K to PPC was a change to a completely re-designed processor. The fact that Apple made those transitions so smoothly and gracefully is the reason that many people don't realize just how dramatic the changes were.</p>
(and yes there is classic mode, but that rather ruins the point of OSX)
How so? Mac OS X provides Classic mode for this very reason -- so that those old legacy applications can still run. The only things that balk at running in Classic are a few old games.
Actually, to be precise, (and we slashdotters like precise, no?) all previous versions of the Mac OS have recognized both a Creator code and a Filetype code for every single data file. Thus, a file can identify itself as a jpeg, and additionally identifies which application was used to create the file.
This allows for a fascinating and brilliant user interface device, which is so intuitive that most people will never even realize it exists. When you drag a data file icon to an application icon, the application icon only highlights if that particular application believes it can open that particular file type. (If you're lucky enough to be sitting in front of a Mac right now, give it a try by dragging a data file icon to the wrong application.)
Personally? Because I find that PHP is too powerful for an embedded language. You end up with this large chunks of code in the middle of your HTML making it really hard to maintain.
So don't put large chunks of code in the middle of your HTML. Sock the code away in another file and just call it where you want it.
Or, even better, do it up right and build code that generates html. A similar line is crossed in Perl when you move from providing teeny little CGIs that get called with EXEC CGI tags in html, to full-blown applications with a.cgi on the end.
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When is a market unfair? When is it unfair for a company to set a price for their products? If I offer to sell you a video game for $50 or for $100, then isn't it just a private transaction between the two of us?
Now, if I want to sell that game to someone in Britain for $50, and someone in Germany for $100, is there something wrong with that? After all, can't the German customer just call up someone in Britain and have them buy it for him and ship it to Germany, and pay him the $50 plus a bit for his troubles?
Perhaps the problem here isn't Nintendo. Perhaps the problem is government laws that prevent the free exchange of goods across borders, or government fees and taxes that discourage cross-border trade, and enable companies like Nintendo to pull stunts like this.
"Shake, partner!"
[stretches out hand]
"Psyche!"
[deftly runs hand through hair]
Mmmmm...modems.
How about letting it download while you sleep? That always worked good for me.
That's got to be the ultimate Mac/Unix combination -- QuickTime movies in ASCII! I love it!
I think that one of those guys was Canadian. At any rate, I liked the British guy best.
If Playboy publishes a "Girls of Tech Shows" issue, will you agree to pose nude?
"He should see see it as enemy #1. It could very likely prove to be the source of Microsoft's demise."
As long as the free market isn't polluted by government intervention to 'save' Microsoft from open source software.
Favourite quote from article:
"Microsoft marketers must rely on studies that show the cost of maintaining a Windows system is lower than that of Linux machines. "
Have a nice day with that one boys -- it never worked very well for Apple, no matter how many studies Apple could trot out showing lower TCO for Macs.
I predict that sometime in the next 12 months, someone will release software that lets Mac OS X users make perfect copies of DVDs. Since OS X is enough under the 'radar' of the MS-lovin' types, they don't notice until millions of people get a copy of the application.
You know what you two have just done? You've acted like someone from Generation X. We all like to think that we are doing our own thing, but it is shocking and kind of spooky to realize just how many people are doing the exact same things.
When my girlfriend and I decided to buy a house 2 1/2 years ago, we bought one that is a size or two up from a typical 'starter' home. When we were signing the final papers, the real estate agent mentioned that lately everyone our age seemed to be buying bigger houses. A month later, I read an article in the paper stating the same 'phenomon.' We thought we were the only ones!
When you refused to max out your mortgage, you are acting in a way that resembles people who lived through the depression, and not at all like a baby-boomer. I often feel that I have more in common with my grandparents than with my parents, and suspect that many Gen-Xers feel the same way.
When I graduated from university in 1992, the unemployment in my area was running around 10%, but for those under age 25 it was 45%! That's a hell of a kick in the teeth for a large group of people, and will cause us to live our lives differently than the previous generation.
Why don't you just give peace a chance?
The best way to avoid war is to disarm.
Oh yeah? Tell that to the frickin' laser-totin' trigger-happy whales!
Look out U.S./Canada/Japan! Is this the first of a flood of new products to come out of India?
Luckily for me, I believe in capitalism, and I say the more the merrier.
I think that the phrase "murder-suicide-bomber" is more accurate, and that if we have to shorten it, we should shorten it to "murder-bomber."
I already say "GNU/Linux" all the time, except the "GNU/" is silent.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...dangling participles.
"America was born in rebellion"
So was the Soviet Union. Duh.
Not even close. The USSR was a slide from one oppressive system, feudalism, to an even more oppressive and totalitarian system, communism. Give credit where credit is due.
Also, Russia was not a colony of a foreign power.
I wrote a comment to this, but to save space on this server I will only post a link to it. I don't agree with the above poster. But I will let the details of this be presented by my diary entry. Comments welcome here or there.
I believe that your efforts to "save space" on this server are really just a ploy to profit from this tragedy by drumming up hits for your own site, so I choose not to follow your link. I might look tomorrow.
I get out all the time, and rarely read American newsmedia, though from what I've seen of it, the American media agrees with you, not me.
You _really_ need to start thinking for yourself and realize that most U.S. bashing is misguided.
Your post is the most naive I've ever seen.
I always appreciate superlatives directed at my posts, but I must ask if there is anything more to your argument than personal attacks?
USA is the only nation ever to have been convicted of terrorism in an international court of law
Care to elaborate?
I fear the US will drag the world into a big fucking war in the middle east we'll live to regret.
There is no past precedence for your fear. The U.S. has dragged no one into a large scale war. Europe and Japan have dragged the U.S. into war, the U.S.S.R. initiated a long term arms buildup, but the U.S. has done nothing but defend itself and come to the aid of friends and enemies alike.
One year ago today the United States of America, or as we call it here in Canada, "The States," was attacked. The U.S. response was reasoned, intelligent, and graceful. Hats off to you.
The U.S. is often likened to a schoolyard bully, and nobody likes a bully. But what kind of bully only acts when provoked? What kind of bully sits on an offender just long enough to make them say "Uncle Sam," then picks them up, dusts them off, wipes their noses, and sends them on their way with an admonition to "play nice from now on."
No shoolyard bully that I know acts that way. That sounds more like a teacher.
Intel, though, can boast of research breakthroughs of its own, as well as far higher sales volumes.
Too many research breakthroughs to mention here, apparently. Also, how does sales volume figure into a discussion about a technological breakthrough? Wouldn't that be something like saying Unix is technically superior, but Windows outsells it. Oh wait, they say stuff like that all the time!
Despite the downturn in the PC industry, Intel remains the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.
The spin on that one is a little harder to spot, but it's there. Sales across the industry could increase or decrease without changing the relative market share of the various manufacturers, so why even mention it?
Because C|NET is owned partially by Intel, and is heavily biased towards both Intel and Microsoft. They never say anything positive about IBM or Motorola without getting in a quick mention about Intel, and they never say anything nice about Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X without a tip of the hat to Microsoft. It's kind of fun when you know what you are looking for.
Oops! I must have scrolly-moused the select box from 'formatted html' to 'plain old text'. Won't happen again.
Well, it might happen again.
<p><i>All I can say is welcome to the world of microsoft in 1995-1996.</i></p>
:-) welcome to the fun that is the Intel world!</i></p>
<p>Hey! I don't even want into the world of Microsoft in 2002!</p>
<p>Seriously, though. This is no big deal. The only people making a big deal about it are flame baiters. Apple has always done exactly this with their operating systems and hardware. Every new Mac released ships with and runs the current version of the OS, and nothing earlier.</p>
<p>The only difference now is that Apple institued a multi-year phase-in to OS X, in recognition of the fact that it was a far more dramatic change than from 6 to 7, 7 to 8, 8 to 9, etc.</p>
<p>Slashdotters are not giving Apple a lot of grief over this precisely because it is not a big deal.</p>
<p><i>It's just that Mac users got the shove alot later in the game.
<p>Actually, there have been two momentous changes in Macintosh history. On the OS side, moving from OS 6 to OS 7 added all kinds of under-the-hood changes, such as multi-tasking. On the hardware side, moving from 68K to PPC was a change to a completely re-designed processor. The fact that Apple made those transitions so smoothly and gracefully is the reason that many people don't realize just how dramatic the changes were.</p>
<p>Welcome to the world of Apple.</p>
(and yes there is classic mode, but that rather ruins the point of OSX)
How so? Mac OS X provides Classic mode for this very reason -- so that those old legacy applications can still run. The only things that balk at running in Classic are a few old games.
Actually, to be precise, (and we slashdotters like precise, no?) all previous versions of the Mac OS have recognized both a Creator code and a Filetype code for every single data file. Thus, a file can identify itself as a jpeg, and additionally identifies which application was used to create the file.
This allows for a fascinating and brilliant user interface device, which is so intuitive that most people will never even realize it exists. When you drag a data file icon to an application icon, the application icon only highlights if that particular application believes it can open that particular file type. (If you're lucky enough to be sitting in front of a Mac right now, give it a try by dragging a data file icon to the wrong application.)
Personally? Because I find that PHP is too powerful for an embedded language. You end up with this large chunks of code in the middle of your HTML making it really hard to maintain.
So don't put large chunks of code in the middle of your HTML. Sock the code away in another file and just call it where you want it.
Or, even better, do it up right and build code that generates html. A similar line is crossed in Perl when you move from providing teeny little CGIs that get called with EXEC CGI tags in html, to full-blown applications with a .cgi on the end.