Divide the profits made from selling it by the developement costs of making an maintaining it. Or, is it probably you have no idea?
Its not over priced just because its more then you want to spend.
So what is the exact definition of overpricing? If it costs me $10 to make, and I sell it for $15, that item is overpriced becuase I could've sold it for $10. The idea of an overpriced item is when I take something that costs $.10 to make, ship, and box and then sell it for $50? Oh wait...that can't be overpriced due to the idea that usury is OK.
Expand your worldview, and challenge your own points.
Yes, it's true. Those who accomplish have no mercy or sympathy for those who don't think they can accomplish. The problem is that the average user (as in, average american idiot, although it is universal) has been taught throughout their life 2 fundimental things; Trust the vendor, and that there are some things they can't accomplish.
Linux is better, but then again, the idea of what's needed versus what's provided is always there; don't fix something that ain't broke.
Wanna know why I hate WinXP? It's simple, really. First, they ask you to activate your copy of windows by calling in and giving them all kinds of personal info. Then, they shove a bunch of applications down your throught you don't need; Do I want messanger integrated into my OS? Do I want IE integrated into my OS? Do I want a help system integreated into my OS? No, I don't, and nor do most users. Most people use their computers for browsing the net, checking e-mail, playing the occasional game, and chatting. They're perfectly capable of choosing between browsers, e-mail clients, games, and chat clients. But, MS doesn't give you a choice. Furthermore, they're showing that they want to go in the direction of locking down the OS and the machine itself, and changing the law, to further lock down the machine for themselves.
It's MS's policy of digital enslavement I don't agree with. Win2k Is a great OS, I use it all the time. But, if they ever ask me to upgrade to WinXP or any other OS, and begin pulling that crap, Win2K is going to become my gaming OS for as long as it'll run, then we're talking linux. And if I can't game on linux, then I guess I can't game on linux.
The only time Win2k crashes for me, is when it does the seppeku ritual and decides the winnt directiry, is in fact, a gif file. No virus or trojan here, just windows fscking up. All of the other crashes I have are hardware related, namely, Pirq's not playing nicely during games.
As for crash rates, I'd like to know if this is among everything, just users or just network admins. I'm also relitivally suprised they didn't include winME in there as some kind of normal. Frankly, if you're working for a big company, it's got company wide IDS, anti-virus, spy-ware, ect. Most of those crashes are probably caused by shotty hardware, unless it's win9x or me, inwhich case we're looking at shotty code.
As for the high failure rates of winxp machines, I don't think it's attributable so much to poor use by the workforce as it is to too many security bugs, and since winxp is new, all the machines are probably prebuilts like dell or HP, who cut corners. I simply don't like, nor will I ever use, Winxp because of the BS MS puts you through, hell I don't even like win2ksp4 becuase of the autoupdate feature. MS is showing more and more contempt for me and my ability to run and use my own machine and make choices for myself.
So, lemme get this straight, SCO takes money from MS to throw some dirt on linux so stupid corporate businesses think linux is made up of stolen ideas (now there's something that's fucked up), and when the judges say "where's the evidence?" they say "we need more time to find dirt"...
Sounds like to me they're trying to keep "sco loses case, linux legit" headline from hitting the news...
Well lets see, they won't take phone calls or listen to protestors, and they only reply to e-mail with lies, and we won't be let within 100 feet of their houses...and we're supposed to listen to laws because they order around police and military, most of whom agree with us.
Seems to me, that if gun sales in the U.S took a sharp incline, they'd get a bit freaked out but get hte message; america is of the people and for the people, not of the people and for the corporations. With that assualt weapons ban expiring soon...
Why should I care about what a leader did 30 years ago, when he isn't addressing what he'll do when he gets into power, and how he'll work to fix the war, taxation, poverty, and problems in america?
Look dude, if a hurricane can propel a multiton car a few miles from it's original resting spot, reallocate farm aminals into different pastures, impale sticks of straw in solid concrete and perform major house renovation on an epic scale, I think it can give a good roller coaster ride to a measly couple of hundred pound safe.
1: The good outcome. Gaming companies get an idea as to the reason why their games suck through overly expensive studies that could've easily been avoided by talking to people. Frankly, I don't quite understand why they give projects to people who don't play games because these people have no vision for creating games.
2: Much like how advertisers use certain kinds of mind control to get people to buy their products by programming people into fulfilling their needs with a companies products, companies will learn to use games to addict players further in some of the same, yet different, ways. Doom3 had a lot of scary stuff in it and if you really wanted to pick it apart, you could find they were using 3 or 4 different techniques (lighting, heartbeats, low hz backround noise, ect) throughout the game. Say they were to, in the same way, made a game that could use the same kinds of techniques to creat an extremly addictive environment. Say everquest 10x as addictive?
Hopefully, they'll go for number 1. Games can be fun and not addictive, or addictive and not fun.
This is one of the funniest examples of FUD I have read in quite a while. It's not even worth picking apart, it's so... wrong!
There's a difference between fud, and watching the direction of a force and seeing where it's going. Fud is "AN ASTEROID IS GOING TO HIT, AAAUUURRRGGGHHHHH, FREAKOUT!!!!!" or SCO bashing linux about patents SCO can't proove. MS is known for trying to dominate markets without regard for their userbase. Add to that their monopoly on OS's, which has been used many times to kill competition, and their willingness to bundle their software over compeditors software...
Mabye it won't happen, mabye it will. It's hardly fud though. People who see the trainwreck coming prepare, those who do not get nailed.
Where are all those wires going? Hmmmm? Sure, we can say they're going into local cop shops, but who really knows for sure? Lets say they're going into cop shops, where do they go from there? Lets hook those camera's up into facial, voice, and lisence plate recognition software. What then? Then, lets hook this massive database into a massive multipoint processing system; first process is updating the database, then a daily scoring and filing away, then a weekly complete scanning of entries to identify patterns and update a file, then another system to check those files against potential terrorists.
Then lets replace the word of terrorists, with say, protestors, or mabye those with motive to do crime and terror acts...ahh, poor people, libertarians, all those the elite need to get rid of in order to gain control, those who fight in their own countries for freedom from tyranny.
Ms getting into the content distrobution market is especially scary. If IE and a number of other windows apps are any testament, MS may very well throw DRM out there in their next version of WMP or just autoinstall it through some undocumented API on your machine when you visit their site for support. All of a sudden, the other music companies DRM becomes invalid, and MS's rules supreme on PC's with their DRM and their music store which is the only store from which you can buy music from which'll work.
Did I also mention they're adding in a virus scanner, and that virus scanner may decide to uninstall p2p apps or block websites deemed by MS as virus havens?
Then how many years/decades will it take the DOJ to kill the monopoly?
First, they've got money and if they're going to do something they might as well acquire something that's been successful.
Second, they're going to push this via the OS no doubt, and Joe 6 pack is going to be screwed out of making copies of his CD's. This won't, of course, stop pirates and IT people, much less those who want their systems hacked up so they're usable. I know if DRM comes out in the next version of longhorn there won't be a single computer in my house that'll run the DRM part.
Frankly, I don't buy nor listen to any RIAA affiliated music. Smaller bands using the internet as a distrobution channel are thankful for the money and I don't have to deal with the CD not working, or being sued for giving a friend a few songs.
Uh, yea, right. I spend $40 on the full halflife platinum package. Decided to try out some natural selection, and then decided not to play it for about 6 months as it got repeditive and pissed me off.
So, 6 months later I reinstall the game, patch it, install steam, try to login. Oh, waitasec, my account has been deleted. When I try to make a new account with a different name but same key, it says the key is registered to my deleted account. To make things worse, apparently they don't send e-mails to reactivate the account to hotmail accounts, the e-mail provider I used originally to sign up with, and what's worse, they also require a questionair which has 6 possible questions (things like what's the name if your dog, ect), I filled in jibberish because I figured, like 99.9% of the other authentaction systems, it wasn't going to ever get used and I might as well make sure the account never gets hacked.
Couple that with the client bsoding my machine and hosing the OS by locking it up, wasting 800megs of bandwidth to preload condition zero "just incase I might want it", hogging system resources like a motherfucker, and randomly deciding it's going to go down or update with extra "features" I don't want and thus becoming more bloated than an african elephant.
,br> In short, I'm never using steam again, and if half-life 2 uses steam, then I'm not buying it. I'm not dealing with fucked up partitions again, much less not being able to play for days at a time and dealing with it hogging memory.
"Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do like go after terrorists?"
Ahh, but you forget, the real terrorists don't brandish box cutters in the DOJ's eyes, they brandish MP3's. Mabye it's flamebait, but when the NYPD police chief is quoted as saying protestors are terrorists, there is much fear in wondering who's side the government is really on.
I'v been reading conspiracy theorist nuts for years, and these guys are *less* substantiated than most of those nuts. Most nuts will attempt to make their stories sensationalistic in order to arrest your intellect and instill fear into you, since they have no hard data and are batshit fucking crazy. The one's I read/listen to continuously challenge their version of reality.
At least the most of those nuts will challenge their version of reality and come up with some proof. These guys are just plain freggin idiots; it's one antivirus lab's word against another. Who want's to bet someone's lieing to make a quick buck?
No better than the sign in the military surplus store saying "THERE WILL BE ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK; LEADERS HAVE SAID SO. ARE YOU PREPARED?" with a BIG picture of Rumsfield and an obscure quote from him.
I guess the news media got what it wanted though; their sites have been slashdotted, their ad's filtered or never clicked, and their bills ub0r high. Much praise to the taco.
I'm not a programmer, but frankly I see no reason I'd want to install it on my system. To me, it's just another bulky piece of exploitable software, and thus, I have it disabled in IE and on a leash, so to speak, in firefox.
I'v also been asked on occasion to install the java runtimes so I can run java applications. After installing them, watching them use up a good 5 or 10 meg of memory, and seeing the applications run slow as hell, I decided to uninstall them and avoid java altogether.
"it does show that virus writers are looking toward the future"
Not to insult the journalistic talent that is Timothy, but seriously guy, you need to come up with a better introduction to an article that isn't full of utter stupidity. Nothing pisses me off, or makes me reel in laughter more than a muckraker introducing an article in the wrong manner.
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Insurance companies offer lower premiums to have devices placed in cars. People bite.
Insurance companies setup system to track people and log data to recoup costs of installing trackers/lowering rates.
FBI/CIA/NSA/TIA get ahold of upto the minute records. They then begin going around with a GPS tracker and taking signals from cars to find cars that don't have the devices installed, and thus, do not have insurance, and thus, can be confiscated or heavily ticketed.
FBI/NSA/CIA/SS/BATF takes pictures of protesters, which they make at protests, and runs them across their drivers lisence database to see who attends protests.
Some states begin marketing manditory car insurance as a super idea. They begin a campaign to put it in every car in every state, or mabye they'll try something federal.
Government/corporations then correlate data between where people go to shop and work to see who might be "dangerous". Then they begin harassing the extreme protesters; not renewing gun or drivers lisences on account of being terrorists, banks revoke them loans, ect. OR mabye they can pull them over, arrest them and throw em' into concentration camps.
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Divide the profits made from selling it by the developement costs of making an maintaining it. Or, is it probably you have no idea?
Its not over priced just because its more then you want to spend.
So what is the exact definition of overpricing? If it costs me $10 to make, and I sell it for $15, that item is overpriced becuase I could've sold it for $10. The idea of an overpriced item is when I take something that costs $.10 to make, ship, and box and then sell it for $50? Oh wait...that can't be overpriced due to the idea that usury is OK.
Expand your worldview, and challenge your own points.
Yes, it's true. Those who accomplish have no mercy or sympathy for those who don't think they can accomplish. The problem is that the average user (as in, average american idiot, although it is universal) has been taught throughout their life 2 fundimental things; Trust the vendor, and that there are some things they can't accomplish.
Linux is better, but then again, the idea of what's needed versus what's provided is always there; don't fix something that ain't broke.
Wanna know why I hate WinXP? It's simple, really. First, they ask you to activate your copy of windows by calling in and giving them all kinds of personal info. Then, they shove a bunch of applications down your throught you don't need; Do I want messanger integrated into my OS? Do I want IE integrated into my OS? Do I want a help system integreated into my OS? No, I don't, and nor do most users. Most people use their computers for browsing the net, checking e-mail, playing the occasional game, and chatting. They're perfectly capable of choosing between browsers, e-mail clients, games, and chat clients. But, MS doesn't give you a choice. Furthermore, they're showing that they want to go in the direction of locking down the OS and the machine itself, and changing the law, to further lock down the machine for themselves.
It's MS's policy of digital enslavement I don't agree with. Win2k Is a great OS, I use it all the time. But, if they ever ask me to upgrade to WinXP or any other OS, and begin pulling that crap, Win2K is going to become my gaming OS for as long as it'll run, then we're talking linux. And if I can't game on linux, then I guess I can't game on linux.
The only time Win2k crashes for me, is when it does the seppeku ritual and decides the winnt directiry, is in fact, a gif file. No virus or trojan here, just windows fscking up. All of the other crashes I have are hardware related, namely, Pirq's not playing nicely during games.
As for crash rates, I'd like to know if this is among everything, just users or just network admins. I'm also relitivally suprised they didn't include winME in there as some kind of normal. Frankly, if you're working for a big company, it's got company wide IDS, anti-virus, spy-ware, ect. Most of those crashes are probably caused by shotty hardware, unless it's win9x or me, inwhich case we're looking at shotty code.
As for the high failure rates of winxp machines, I don't think it's attributable so much to poor use by the workforce as it is to too many security bugs, and since winxp is new, all the machines are probably prebuilts like dell or HP, who cut corners. I simply don't like, nor will I ever use, Winxp because of the BS MS puts you through, hell I don't even like win2ksp4 becuase of the autoupdate feature. MS is showing more and more contempt for me and my ability to run and use my own machine and make choices for myself.
So, lemme get this straight, SCO takes money from MS to throw some dirt on linux so stupid corporate businesses think linux is made up of stolen ideas (now there's something that's fucked up), and when the judges say "where's the evidence?" they say "we need more time to find dirt"...
Sounds like to me they're trying to keep "sco loses case, linux legit" headline from hitting the news...
Well lets see, they won't take phone calls or listen to protestors, and they only reply to e-mail with lies, and we won't be let within 100 feet of their houses...and we're supposed to listen to laws because they order around police and military, most of whom agree with us.
Seems to me, that if gun sales in the U.S took a sharp incline, they'd get a bit freaked out but get hte message; america is of the people and for the people, not of the people and for the corporations. With that assualt weapons ban expiring soon...
Then it's the tree that impales itself on the piece of straw, then?
Why should I care about what a leader did 30 years ago, when he isn't addressing what he'll do when he gets into power, and how he'll work to fix the war, taxation, poverty, and problems in america?
Look dude, if a hurricane can propel a multiton car a few miles from it's original resting spot, reallocate farm aminals into different pastures, impale sticks of straw in solid concrete and perform major house renovation on an epic scale, I think it can give a good roller coaster ride to a measly couple of hundred pound safe.
example always given of somebody shooting a bullet across the boarder and killing someone does't work.
Gee, that sounds an auful lot like an act of war...
Or "barrowing" your wallet...
Unless it collides with a tree at 200mph+...
Now, if it were bolted down onto a slap of concrete and the drives were mounted directly into the safe itself...
1: The good outcome. Gaming companies get an idea as to the reason why their games suck through overly expensive studies that could've easily been avoided by talking to people. Frankly, I don't quite understand why they give projects to people who don't play games because these people have no vision for creating games.
2: Much like how advertisers use certain kinds of mind control to get people to buy their products by programming people into fulfilling their needs with a companies products, companies will learn to use games to addict players further in some of the same, yet different, ways. Doom3 had a lot of scary stuff in it and if you really wanted to pick it apart, you could find they were using 3 or 4 different techniques (lighting, heartbeats, low hz backround noise, ect) throughout the game. Say they were to, in the same way, made a game that could use the same kinds of techniques to creat an extremly addictive environment. Say everquest 10x as addictive?
Hopefully, they'll go for number 1. Games can be fun and not addictive, or addictive and not fun.
This is one of the funniest examples of FUD I have read in quite a while. It's not even worth picking apart, it's so... wrong!
There's a difference between fud, and watching the direction of a force and seeing where it's going. Fud is "AN ASTEROID IS GOING TO HIT, AAAUUURRRGGGHHHHH, FREAKOUT!!!!!" or SCO bashing linux about patents SCO can't proove. MS is known for trying to dominate markets without regard for their userbase. Add to that their monopoly on OS's, which has been used many times to kill competition, and their willingness to bundle their software over compeditors software...
Mabye it won't happen, mabye it will. It's hardly fud though. People who see the trainwreck coming prepare, those who do not get nailed.
Think ahead, my young tinfoil hat grasshopper.
Where are all those wires going? Hmmmm? Sure, we can say they're going into local cop shops, but who really knows for sure? Lets say they're going into cop shops, where do they go from there? Lets hook those camera's up into facial, voice, and lisence plate recognition software. What then? Then, lets hook this massive database into a massive multipoint processing system; first process is updating the database, then a daily scoring and filing away, then a weekly complete scanning of entries to identify patterns and update a file, then another system to check those files against potential terrorists.
Then lets replace the word of terrorists, with say, protestors, or mabye those with motive to do crime and terror acts...ahh, poor people, libertarians, all those the elite need to get rid of in order to gain control, those who fight in their own countries for freedom from tyranny.
Don't laugh too hard.
Ms getting into the content distrobution market is especially scary. If IE and a number of other windows apps are any testament, MS may very well throw DRM out there in their next version of WMP or just autoinstall it through some undocumented API on your machine when you visit their site for support. All of a sudden, the other music companies DRM becomes invalid, and MS's rules supreme on PC's with their DRM and their music store which is the only store from which you can buy music from which'll work.
Did I also mention they're adding in a virus scanner, and that virus scanner may decide to uninstall p2p apps or block websites deemed by MS as virus havens?
Then how many years/decades will it take the DOJ to kill the monopoly?
I'v got my tin foil hat, how bout you?
Your girlfriend installs quicken and stores ms word documents on your dink?
I don't suppose a user interface joke would be appropriate, or rather, headache inducing?
First, they've got money and if they're going to do something they might as well acquire something that's been successful.
Second, they're going to push this via the OS no doubt, and Joe 6 pack is going to be screwed out of making copies of his CD's. This won't, of course, stop pirates and IT people, much less those who want their systems hacked up so they're usable. I know if DRM comes out in the next version of longhorn there won't be a single computer in my house that'll run the DRM part.
Frankly, I don't buy nor listen to any RIAA affiliated music. Smaller bands using the internet as a distrobution channel are thankful for the money and I don't have to deal with the CD not working, or being sued for giving a friend a few songs.
Uh, yea, right. I spend $40 on the full halflife platinum package. Decided to try out some natural selection, and then decided not to play it for about 6 months as it got repeditive and pissed me off.
So, 6 months later I reinstall the game, patch it, install steam, try to login. Oh, waitasec, my account has been deleted. When I try to make a new account with a different name but same key, it says the key is registered to my deleted account. To make things worse, apparently they don't send e-mails to reactivate the account to hotmail accounts, the e-mail provider I used originally to sign up with, and what's worse, they also require a questionair which has 6 possible questions (things like what's the name if your dog, ect), I filled in jibberish because I figured, like 99.9% of the other authentaction systems, it wasn't going to ever get used and I might as well make sure the account never gets hacked.
Couple that with the client bsoding my machine and hosing the OS by locking it up, wasting 800megs of bandwidth to preload condition zero "just incase I might want it", hogging system resources like a motherfucker, and randomly deciding it's going to go down or update with extra "features" I don't want and thus becoming more bloated than an african elephant.
,br>
In short, I'm never using steam again, and if half-life 2 uses steam, then I'm not buying it. I'm not dealing with fucked up partitions again, much less not being able to play for days at a time and dealing with it hogging memory.
"Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do like go after terrorists?"
Ahh, but you forget, the real terrorists don't brandish box cutters in the DOJ's eyes, they brandish MP3's. Mabye it's flamebait, but when the NYPD police chief is quoted as saying protestors are terrorists, there is much fear in wondering who's side the government is really on.
I'v been reading conspiracy theorist nuts for years, and these guys are *less* substantiated than most of those nuts. Most nuts will attempt to make their stories sensationalistic in order to arrest your intellect and instill fear into you, since they have no hard data and are batshit fucking crazy. The one's I read/listen to continuously challenge their version of reality.
At least the most of those nuts will challenge their version of reality and come up with some proof. These guys are just plain freggin idiots; it's one antivirus lab's word against another. Who want's to bet someone's lieing to make a quick buck?
No better than the sign in the military surplus store saying "THERE WILL BE ANOTHER TERRORIST ATTACK; LEADERS HAVE SAID SO. ARE YOU PREPARED?" with a BIG picture of Rumsfield and an obscure quote from him.
I guess the news media got what it wanted though; their sites have been slashdotted, their ad's filtered or never clicked, and their bills ub0r high. Much praise to the taco.
I'm not a programmer, but frankly I see no reason I'd want to install it on my system. To me, it's just another bulky piece of exploitable software, and thus, I have it disabled in IE and on a leash, so to speak, in firefox.
I'v also been asked on occasion to install the java runtimes so I can run java applications. After installing them, watching them use up a good 5 or 10 meg of memory, and seeing the applications run slow as hell, I decided to uninstall them and avoid java altogether.
"it does show that virus writers are looking toward the future"
Not to insult the journalistic talent that is Timothy, but seriously guy, you need to come up with a better introduction to an article that isn't full of utter stupidity. Nothing pisses me off, or makes me reel in laughter more than a muckraker introducing an article in the wrong manner.
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Car insurance is required in certain states.
Insurance companies offer lower premiums to have devices placed in cars. People bite.
Insurance companies setup system to track people and log data to recoup costs of installing trackers/lowering rates.
FBI/CIA/NSA/TIA get ahold of upto the minute records. They then begin going around with a GPS tracker and taking signals from cars to find cars that don't have the devices installed, and thus, do not have insurance, and thus, can be confiscated or heavily ticketed.
FBI/NSA/CIA/SS/BATF takes pictures of protesters, which they make at protests, and runs them across their drivers lisence database to see who attends protests.
Some states begin marketing manditory car insurance as a super idea. They begin a campaign to put it in every car in every state, or mabye they'll try something federal.
Government/corporations then correlate data between where people go to shop and work to see who might be "dangerous". Then they begin harassing the extreme protesters; not renewing gun or drivers lisences on account of being terrorists, banks revoke them loans, ect. OR mabye they can pull them over, arrest them and throw em' into concentration camps.
It even goes with the blue smoke being released.