The thing you should bear in mind in business it is supply and demand. Game coding schools will tend to flood the industry with a lot of hungry cheap, luckily for inexperienced coders. Your lucky for you they are inexperienced because that means you will draw a few more regular pay checks while you train them, after that of course comes the discounting.
The gaming market seems to be fairly stable at the moment, in terms of the number and quality of games suit the size of the market, I really don't see the need of attempting to dramatically increase the size of the of the game coding workforce, especially with India and China coming on line. Now can you take a zero out of your pay check and compete with them, because with out fail most employers will be quite content to take a zero out of their payroll whilst maintaining the same retail price.
The big catch with that logic is that M$ via ballmer, claimed they wanted to produce a new (P)OS every two years, which means that there never will be a copy of windows that actually has sufficient of the bugs removed to become at least somewhat reliable and secure. Instead of seeing SP2, which is of course is the (P)OS and SP1(with it's own range of new bugs) with a large number of the bugs removed, unwitting customers will be stuck with a new version of windows to beta test for M$ at their own expense.
So sometime in the next year or two you will see the new version of windows coming out, with even tighter more dysfunctional piracy controls, higher licensing fees, greater restrictions on the hardware that can function with it, even more content restrictions and likely the only thing it will do is make vista look good in comparison;).
Not only will it be blamed on piracy and peer to peer, this thing has the whole stink of being nothing but a publicity stunt in order to blame piracy and peer to peer. A music publishing idea that is designed to fail so that the RIAA and their corporate masters can start a renewed lobbying campaign, with clearly defined costs and losses and they can point to the music being available on the net, they will even likely pick tracks that are the most popular downloads.
I have found absense to be a pain as by far the majority of the time when it comes to doing searches I am not looking to buy something, and I defy any marketdroid to try to prove that the majority of times that people use search engines they are looking to buy something. Overall when it comes to the quality of companies using adsense I have found them to be at the low end of the quality and service spectrum, in line with the budget advertising venue, and I have never bought off an adsense advertiser and I have even stopped looking at them months ago.
Google's spreading of adds deeper and deeper and tacking up more and more screen space and bandwidth, smells of diminishing market share,and not being able to justify their current market value. As they become more desperate and start showing more and more adds so they will lose more and more market share, and as a result need to show more and more adds, which of course leads to...., a real problem going forward.
Evil is not just a moral judgement. You exist, you live, you have a built in survival instinct, you value you life. By extension that value you place in your life, as 'we' are not alone, becomes a shared value in life, we value our lives. So any act that circumscribes, limits, diminishes, denies pleasure in or extinguishes our lives, devalues them and is an act of 'evil', the opposite of being able to 'live', to enjoy in and share life.
So are you really alive, or is your carcase just a random bio-electric phenomena. Personally I can sense the value in my life and by extension the value in all the lives around me and just like any physics or mathematical formula, when I subtract from life, when I attempt sate my greed at the expense of other life, I know I diminish my own existence and commit an act of 'evil' and yes whole lot of little evils can quite readily add up to a big evil (well at least on balance I well take what in likely probability seems to be the safest least destructive path through life, live and let live).
So are adds evil, well of course they can be depending upon what they are promoting, the lies they are telling, and the truth they are obscuring. For google's budget, cheap, low end advertising, with little or no review of the quality or the accuracy of the add, and so should the add market evil acts (life diminishing, sorry folks it all 'adds' up) then google by providing a venue for that add is promoting evil.
Actually that is completely false, the use of the polygraph is pure to gain reactions to questions. The tester is only gauging the physiological reactions of the person being questioned to the questions being asked and has nothing to do with the answers.
Obviously a low stress question can be asked, like what colour is the sky and the person being question can lie, and the tester will get much the same response as if they told the truth. Much the same as asking a person a stressful question will generate a high response, whether the intend to lie or tell the truth.
The whole lie detector test is a charade, a performance, a measure of the ability of the person who conducts the test to convince the person being questioned that the test has some validity. Believe that the test is crap, and that the tester is a charlatan, and it will just be an enormous waste of time.
The other main problem is of course the performance artist, the snake oil salesman, the tester , has a vested interest in producing results that law enforcement will pay for, obviously a more successful tester will get called on more often.
What is amusing of course is how the corporate marketeers try and drive the idea of safety, how can a small rfid tag create cancer in something as large as a human being. How many human cells are required for a lethal cancer to develop, one, just one, snuggled up tight against those rfid tag, getting hit maybe 10 to 100 times a day, especially when the detectors are built in door frames.
Little tricky bits also happen inside the human body, what happens when a cell is near the end if it's life and more susceptible to DNA damage. When senior executives, the board of directors and the major share holders, get tagged, then and only then will I consider, laughing at them, because there is now way in hell, I am going to be tagged like some dumb animal who can't protest.
Well there in lies the lie. It is about paying multiple times to get your package to it's destination faster, it's about paying for it to get there faster only to find you paid for nothing because in fact it go there slower but that was somebody else's fault, it was your computer, it was their computer, it was your software, it was their software, it was a temporary fault.
In the transport analogy, lets dismantle your lie, it like paying for priority airmail, only to find that the truck on the way to the airport crosses a bridge owned by another corporation which inspect all other transport and if they are from competing companies and their clients have not paid an additional annual expediting fee, they take the packages off the truck and leave them by the side of the road for a week, when they can then be picked up and sent to the airport. Don't complain your package was still priority airfreighted you winger, you got what you paid for, if you were not so cheap you would have also paid for every other corporations annual transport blackmail fee, for every bridge, every tunnel and don't forget the tolls on all the various roads.
Now throw in electronic packet checking, and they can continually control and alter what you have paid for, limit it not only for destination, competing businesses but also for type of traffic, no matter how many times you pay for the same bandwidth still controlled, all buried in the B$ fine print.
The truth is you request the data, and you are paying for it to be sent to you, you have paid your transport company for the speed at which you want it sent, but now the major telecoms are trying to spread the total fabrication the complete and utter lie, that somehow not matter how much you spend for faster traffic, they are going to look you in the face and lie to you and say, because the supply company does not also pay an additional fee on top of your fee, regardless of how much you paid, your traffic will be slowed down.
Was that the DoJ or the DoiJ(in), it must be embarrassing to be an non-political employee there.
Rather pointless when I don't have a fixed IP address, pretty much the same as the majority of users. Of course well done on the quality representation of M$ corporation arrogance, we don't care whether or not you want to retain your privacy we will be invading one or the other. I really think you missed the whole point, ie. the search failure engine, where a marketed major search player's search engines breaks down due to faulty code and trying to stretch a cookie to far. Jamming live in with the rest will similarly cause expected failures. As far as live search is concerned http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/ makes more searches than I do, good luck with anal-ising them.
Conspiracy theorists will have a field day. Plot to smuggle out nuclear war heads for black flag terrorist operations foiled by 'break away' faction with in US Intelligence services opposed to the neocon plan for the implementation of martial law. Plot to takeover the country to be covered up as a, whoops. Gees, I have accidentally gone home with a companies pen in my pocket but how do you accidentally fly off with six live nuclear war heads;).
The real point is that like it's previous attempts, in combining too many bits together, if one bit fails, of if silly coding mistakes are made, other areas start to fail. Simple things like the same M$ "live' cookie being used all over M$ web services. I got sick of invasive record keeping searching so I killed the live cookie, no the first page of my live searches are Australian specific and the second page switches to UK specific, now that's really useful, not, but typical of poor M$ programming.
Of course because I killed the Live search cookie hotmail fails, oh well, it was only a dead letter box anyhow, so after 10 or more years of it, I am going to let it die it's graceless 90 day death. So to much linking together of services for privacy invasive marketing purposes, together with poorly thought out code, just leads to using other companies solutions or putting up with the faults, so, no cookies for you.
If you are really looking at the more viable method of food production, you are really looking at the genetic modification of algae to produce the various basic food groups. Algae with storage pods for the production of meat, dairy and grain substitutes. Algae with leaves, stems and fruit that would substitute for fruits and vegetables. You can specifically tailor the algae for human consumption, with every harmful element removed, basically algae that can't survive in the wild and can only be grown in controlled environments (all plants must have some degree of toxicity other wise they simply can't survive in the wild).
The vegans would be happy, the animal protectionists would be happy and the environment would be happy. A fairly complex and expensive exercise, perhaps a major charitable fund might get the ball rolling by injecting funds into the research, and provide a major service for the future of humanity. As a side benefit, this form of food production would be far more secure from extreme environmental changes and could even be readily adapted for space colonies.
Standards are not stationary documents but are renewed regularly to take into account new technology and knowledge. The Australian standards body wanted to update every standard every five years, a real pain, as you have to comply with the new standard on the day it comes out, before you have actually read it, let alone made all the required conformance changes.
So ISO similarly produces a lot more rewrites than actual new standards.
I understand only this, I am a customers, I want to use Linux, well, specifically Kubuntu, I will only select a graphics card that supports this. I do not buy products to make profits for other people, I buy products that fulfil my requirements, that is capitalism.
Of course there is the whole it is a lot more fun to play with the penguin that to get burnt by M$.
It will only be a matter of time until M$ starts contracting out their own range of 100% Vista compatible video cards produced under contract by an ODM and of course every other video card will only achieve partial compatibility unless they pay the Vista (or what ever the hell the next M$ (P)OS will be called) licence fee per unit installed.
The biggest problem with the whole concept is a excessive reliance on DNA evidence. When will they start supplying airtight suits so that you can ensure none of your cells are pilfered to be planted and then used in evidence against you or even transported accidentally by random contact with the true perpetrator. Every dead skin cell, every lost hair, every spit, each time you blow your nose, every stool and even taking a leak, all represent a moment where others can gain access to evidence that in the current system will instantly see you convicted of a crime.
So will identity theft take on a whole new meaning thanks to unthinking legislation like this. Prior to any crime, a random trip on public transport to pick up DNA samples to obfuscate the crime scene, perhaps even a black market that sells a random range of various types of random DNA samples. What crime will you dead cells be committing tomorrow, hmm?
Gees, you could do full featured spreadsheets, word processing, email and browsing the web with a Commodore 64 and an Atari XEGS, well I never knew that, perhaps, I from am alternate reality or perhaps you are. Most products and marketing have a time and a place, poor timing can cause a product to fail because other facilitators are not in place or the market is not yet ready for them. Internet sales on narrow band was a failure by your system of logic internet sales on broadband would also have to be a failure, perhaps you can think about the difference and then think about the difference in terms of a full featured computers at a discount in the current market and not a market from 20 years ago.
So basically I am advocating timing a product for a market that is ready for it, and not living in yesterday or in your case the previous millenium. The point is to try do reduce the impact of an over priced for it's market games console, increase the value or reduce the price, those are the choices.
Why is it that the opinion of the majority is group think when you don't agree with it. Technically group think is ascribed only to a particular lower range of intellect, which is outside the range of the majority of/.ers excluding of course the paid to post losers, be they government or private.
Over the years, I have seen/. opinion to be spread pretty wildly over an extended range of topics, there however are a few opinions which are more universally supported than others (apart from of course the opinions tainted by vested intrests, you know who you are, just because you profit by it does not mean we have to support it), those ones of course, reflect the wider introvert computer geek community, that just happens to be more represented on/.. Either you are a part of that community, enjoy/. the intellectual challenge and stay, or you leave because you don't enjoy it or you are just a boring paid to post pain (it wouldn't be quite so bad if they were any good).
Of course comparing the far more global/. general opinion to only one segment in one region is real apple and oranges stuff and pretty meaningless. The self deprecating stuff also gets a bit repetitive after a while, whilst posting on/. try substituting 'I' or 'my' for/. and reread your post. I know the marketdroids tend to wallow in it when the loose discussions and get all sulky, but it is really all rather silly that as a/.er you point all your imagined faults about/.ers.
Well come a little bit closer, and whoops I'll hit you on the head with a mallet, I'll say sorry, you'll eventually heal and all is OK, but don't stand to close in the future, cause, whoops, I'm, likely to do it again, whoops, and again, don't worry I'll say sorry each and every time so no harm done.
When individuals do it, they get sued and pay heavy penalties to companies, when companies do it they expect to say sorry to individuals, walk away from it and be free to do it again in the future.
I actually read though the diagram several times, as a rating system it makes no sense. Get the viewers to watch a program and then rate it to see whether or not the viewers will watch it, I would have thought it kind of defeats the purpose if you had to watch the program to rate it to decide whether or not you would watch it, either that or M$ has just patented http://www.stumbleupon.com/, go microsofties, the market leaders of patenting already public ideas that have not yet been patented.
Well actually the author is being facetious. Whilst the scientology executives did pathologically defend the little yarn with copyright and other legal and even illegal threats, it was never meant for public distribution, but only ever intended for the gullible, naive and those suffering from various psychological maladies,and only once they had achieved a specific level of mental suggestibility. So public distribution of it, is basically mocking it and a facetious use of it.
At least Belgium is looking to treat it for what it is a money making corporation and not a religion or even a cult. The cynicism of that corporation is beyond normal reason, they abhor psychiatrists and psychologists because apparently those professions directly threaten their main revenue source, by curing those individuals suffering from mental diseases, the preferred target of the scientology corporation.
So lateral thinking is the best option. It is not to late to throw in a remote keyboard and mouse and throw in sony open office, sony firefox and sony thunderbird, PS3 it is more than just a toy and of course M$ can never match it. Think of all those male juveniles trying to convince their parents that the PS3 will help them get better grades in school and the parents can use it to pay their bills and do email and stuff:D.
One thing to remember about your argument is intellectual appeal, what is the target audience for that recruitment effort, you are obviously not with in that that target group. For people who are 30 to 40 IQ points lower than you, the world they perceive and how they react to it is totally different to the world you perceive and how you react to it. The use of the game to attract impressionable youth was thought up by people with a similar intellect to you but they knowingly targeted it at the jock straps and not the geeks.
War is a game, a strategy game, when you command you play, when you are the zerg, the grunt on the battlefield, you fight, you get maimed and you die, you don't play, you are the playing piece.
When it comes to supporting the troops this only happens for as long as they are useful, and just like all other military equipment, when it is no longer of strategic value, it is dumped, junked, thrown away and hidden from sight, lest the young and naive perceive the difference between, 'playing the game' and being a 'zergling'.
Let the chicken hawk politicians fight amongst themselves in life and death battles and see how long wars last of whether they even start.
I would think that pretty well describes what the meant by white collar workers(sic), corporate executive types who lack any real intellect to play challenging games, just basically sitting at work killing time, until somebodies else's idea drops onto their desk, that they can then claim credit for, once of course somebody else has actually confirmed that it is a actually a good idea.
I shudder at the thought that there are now sufficient of them out there to be considered a worth while marketing segment beyond the accepted pretty but stupid upper management variety, the proud offspring of the rich and greedy.
What was I thinking, of course lying is perfectly acceptable as long as you toss in a throw away apology when you get caught, of course stealing is perfectly acceptable as long as you give it back when you get caught, of course trying to establish a monopoly and anti competitive practices are perfectly legal, oh wait, they are not, but then they haven't been prosecuted. Face M$ and it's vested interest cronies will just look people in the face and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie, nah I wont bother even typing in just one years worth of M$ lies.
Just get over it, most people define themselves by their morals, not juvenile what is illegal or legal, or when the penalties do not exceed the profits or when wont get caught, or they wont bother prosecuting us, or we will retract only once the go through the expense of initiating a class action law suit. M$ and it's marketing team are really just full of it, and it smells, and is the remainder of what was once edible, and has had most of the useful nutrients removed from it and only attracts blueys (for you non-Australians a particularly large noisy and annoying fly with a bright blue butt);).
See no axe to grind, M$ are boringly predictable, their opinion has no value and their facts are just marketing illusions and paid for biased consulting reports, but they are still fun to mock, and it is enjoyable experience to poke holes in their advertising, and it's always a laugh to dismantle the public statements made by their management. Damn, where are the usual billy goat rants and the monkey boy dances, developers, developers, developers, developers, it's been all rather quite over they last couple months, c'mon guys let ballmer out of his cage.
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The gaming market seems to be fairly stable at the moment, in terms of the number and quality of games suit the size of the market, I really don't see the need of attempting to dramatically increase the size of the of the game coding workforce, especially with India and China coming on line. Now can you take a zero out of your pay check and compete with them, because with out fail most employers will be quite content to take a zero out of their payroll whilst maintaining the same retail price.
So sometime in the next year or two you will see the new version of windows coming out, with even tighter more dysfunctional piracy controls, higher licensing fees, greater restrictions on the hardware that can function with it, even more content restrictions and likely the only thing it will do is make vista look good in comparison ;).
Not only will it be blamed on piracy and peer to peer, this thing has the whole stink of being nothing but a publicity stunt in order to blame piracy and peer to peer. A music publishing idea that is designed to fail so that the RIAA and their corporate masters can start a renewed lobbying campaign, with clearly defined costs and losses and they can point to the music being available on the net, they will even likely pick tracks that are the most popular downloads.
Google's spreading of adds deeper and deeper and tacking up more and more screen space and bandwidth, smells of diminishing market share,and not being able to justify their current market value. As they become more desperate and start showing more and more adds so they will lose more and more market share, and as a result need to show more and more adds, which of course leads to...., a real problem going forward.
So are you really alive, or is your carcase just a random bio-electric phenomena. Personally I can sense the value in my life and by extension the value in all the lives around me and just like any physics or mathematical formula, when I subtract from life, when I attempt sate my greed at the expense of other life, I know I diminish my own existence and commit an act of 'evil' and yes whole lot of little evils can quite readily add up to a big evil (well at least on balance I well take what in likely probability seems to be the safest least destructive path through life, live and let live).
So are adds evil, well of course they can be depending upon what they are promoting, the lies they are telling, and the truth they are obscuring. For google's budget, cheap, low end advertising, with little or no review of the quality or the accuracy of the add, and so should the add market evil acts (life diminishing, sorry folks it all 'adds' up) then google by providing a venue for that add is promoting evil.
Obviously a low stress question can be asked, like what colour is the sky and the person being question can lie, and the tester will get much the same response as if they told the truth. Much the same as asking a person a stressful question will generate a high response, whether the intend to lie or tell the truth.
The whole lie detector test is a charade, a performance, a measure of the ability of the person who conducts the test to convince the person being questioned that the test has some validity. Believe that the test is crap, and that the tester is a charlatan, and it will just be an enormous waste of time.
The other main problem is of course the performance artist, the snake oil salesman, the tester , has a vested interest in producing results that law enforcement will pay for, obviously a more successful tester will get called on more often.
Little tricky bits also happen inside the human body, what happens when a cell is near the end if it's life and more susceptible to DNA damage. When senior executives, the board of directors and the major share holders, get tagged, then and only then will I consider, laughing at them, because there is now way in hell, I am going to be tagged like some dumb animal who can't protest.
In the transport analogy, lets dismantle your lie, it like paying for priority airmail, only to find that the truck on the way to the airport crosses a bridge owned by another corporation which inspect all other transport and if they are from competing companies and their clients have not paid an additional annual expediting fee, they take the packages off the truck and leave them by the side of the road for a week, when they can then be picked up and sent to the airport. Don't complain your package was still priority airfreighted you winger, you got what you paid for, if you were not so cheap you would have also paid for every other corporations annual transport blackmail fee, for every bridge, every tunnel and don't forget the tolls on all the various roads.
Now throw in electronic packet checking, and they can continually control and alter what you have paid for, limit it not only for destination, competing businesses but also for type of traffic, no matter how many times you pay for the same bandwidth still controlled, all buried in the B$ fine print.
The truth is you request the data, and you are paying for it to be sent to you, you have paid your transport company for the speed at which you want it sent, but now the major telecoms are trying to spread the total fabrication the complete and utter lie, that somehow not matter how much you spend for faster traffic, they are going to look you in the face and lie to you and say, because the supply company does not also pay an additional fee on top of your fee, regardless of how much you paid, your traffic will be slowed down.
Was that the DoJ or the DoiJ(in), it must be embarrassing to be an non-political employee there.
Rather pointless when I don't have a fixed IP address, pretty much the same as the majority of users. Of course well done on the quality representation of M$ corporation arrogance, we don't care whether or not you want to retain your privacy we will be invading one or the other. I really think you missed the whole point, ie. the search failure engine, where a marketed major search player's search engines breaks down due to faulty code and trying to stretch a cookie to far. Jamming live in with the rest will similarly cause expected failures. As far as live search is concerned http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/ makes more searches than I do, good luck with anal-ising them.
Conspiracy theorists will have a field day. Plot to smuggle out nuclear war heads for black flag terrorist operations foiled by 'break away' faction with in US Intelligence services opposed to the neocon plan for the implementation of martial law. Plot to takeover the country to be covered up as a, whoops. Gees, I have accidentally gone home with a companies pen in my pocket but how do you accidentally fly off with six live nuclear war heads ;).
Of course because I killed the Live search cookie hotmail fails, oh well, it was only a dead letter box anyhow, so after 10 or more years of it, I am going to let it die it's graceless 90 day death. So to much linking together of services for privacy invasive marketing purposes, together with poorly thought out code, just leads to using other companies solutions or putting up with the faults, so, no cookies for you.
The vegans would be happy, the animal protectionists would be happy and the environment would be happy. A fairly complex and expensive exercise, perhaps a major charitable fund might get the ball rolling by injecting funds into the research, and provide a major service for the future of humanity. As a side benefit, this form of food production would be far more secure from extreme environmental changes and could even be readily adapted for space colonies.
So ISO similarly produces a lot more rewrites than actual new standards.
Of course there is the whole it is a lot more fun to play with the penguin that to get burnt by M$.
It will only be a matter of time until M$ starts contracting out their own range of 100% Vista compatible video cards produced under contract by an ODM and of course every other video card will only achieve partial compatibility unless they pay the Vista (or what ever the hell the next M$ (P)OS will be called) licence fee per unit installed.
So will identity theft take on a whole new meaning thanks to unthinking legislation like this. Prior to any crime, a random trip on public transport to pick up DNA samples to obfuscate the crime scene, perhaps even a black market that sells a random range of various types of random DNA samples. What crime will you dead cells be committing tomorrow, hmm?
Righto wolf boy ;D.
So basically I am advocating timing a product for a market that is ready for it, and not living in yesterday or in your case the previous millenium. The point is to try do reduce the impact of an over priced for it's market games console, increase the value or reduce the price, those are the choices.
Over the years, I have seen /. opinion to be spread pretty wildly over an extended range of topics, there however are a few opinions which are more universally supported than others (apart from of course the opinions tainted by vested intrests, you know who you are, just because you profit by it does not mean we have to support it), those ones of course, reflect the wider introvert computer geek community, that just happens to be more represented on /.. Either you are a part of that community, enjoy /. the intellectual challenge and stay, or you leave because you don't enjoy it or you are just a boring paid to post pain (it wouldn't be quite so bad if they were any good).
Of course comparing the far more global /. general opinion to only one segment in one region is real apple and oranges stuff and pretty meaningless. The self deprecating stuff also gets a bit repetitive after a while, whilst posting on /. try substituting 'I' or 'my' for /. and reread your post. I know the marketdroids tend to wallow in it when the loose discussions and get all sulky, but it is really all rather silly that as a /.er you point all your imagined faults about /.ers.
When individuals do it, they get sued and pay heavy penalties to companies, when companies do it they expect to say sorry to individuals, walk away from it and be free to do it again in the future.
I actually read though the diagram several times, as a rating system it makes no sense. Get the viewers to watch a program and then rate it to see whether or not the viewers will watch it, I would have thought it kind of defeats the purpose if you had to watch the program to rate it to decide whether or not you would watch it, either that or M$ has just patented http://www.stumbleupon.com/, go microsofties, the market leaders of patenting already public ideas that have not yet been patented.
At least Belgium is looking to treat it for what it is a money making corporation and not a religion or even a cult. The cynicism of that corporation is beyond normal reason, they abhor psychiatrists and psychologists because apparently those professions directly threaten their main revenue source, by curing those individuals suffering from mental diseases, the preferred target of the scientology corporation.
So lateral thinking is the best option. It is not to late to throw in a remote keyboard and mouse and throw in sony open office, sony firefox and sony thunderbird, PS3 it is more than just a toy and of course M$ can never match it. Think of all those male juveniles trying to convince their parents that the PS3 will help them get better grades in school and the parents can use it to pay their bills and do email and stuff :D.
War is a game, a strategy game, when you command you play, when you are the zerg, the grunt on the battlefield, you fight, you get maimed and you die, you don't play, you are the playing piece.
When it comes to supporting the troops this only happens for as long as they are useful, and just like all other military equipment, when it is no longer of strategic value, it is dumped, junked, thrown away and hidden from sight, lest the young and naive perceive the difference between, 'playing the game' and being a 'zergling'.
Let the chicken hawk politicians fight amongst themselves in life and death battles and see how long wars last of whether they even start.
I shudder at the thought that there are now sufficient of them out there to be considered a worth while marketing segment beyond the accepted pretty but stupid upper management variety, the proud offspring of the rich and greedy.
Just get over it, most people define themselves by their morals, not juvenile what is illegal or legal, or when the penalties do not exceed the profits or when wont get caught, or they wont bother prosecuting us, or we will retract only once the go through the expense of initiating a class action law suit. M$ and it's marketing team are really just full of it, and it smells, and is the remainder of what was once edible, and has had most of the useful nutrients removed from it and only attracts blueys (for you non-Australians a particularly large noisy and annoying fly with a bright blue butt) ;).
See no axe to grind, M$ are boringly predictable, their opinion has no value and their facts are just marketing illusions and paid for biased consulting reports, but they are still fun to mock, and it is enjoyable experience to poke holes in their advertising, and it's always a laugh to dismantle the public statements made by their management. Damn, where are the usual billy goat rants and the monkey boy dances, developers, developers, developers, developers, it's been all rather quite over they last couple months, c'mon guys let ballmer out of his cage.