The Wii also has the advantage of being hit with supply problems. Nothing makes the average consumer want something more than knowing they can't have it. It's affordable, has some pretty good games out there at release, and is in short supply. It's a trifecta!
I don't do IT, so maybe releasing 25 fixes at once can require 25 separate test cycles. Anybody care to enlighten me?
It all depends on the shop, but in general it does. The larger the company, the more likely you are to stage your roll out after a decent testing cycle...or at least that's been my experience. My experience has been that small shops tend to have more variety in the hardware that's out there, so it'd be tougher to get a really good test cycle built and running anyway. It's easier to test a patch, make sure nothing deal-breaking is broken with the patch, and then let it go and mop up afterwards. Large shops tend to have the same base hardware installed across the board (or at least across large segments) AND more places you'd have to personally touch if something breaks. Far better to have the patch in house, give it a decent test, then roll it out.
I can't even imagine why one person would want five PCs.
I can... One PC to act as my home theater, another PC acting as a big ol' server, a corporate approved box that I can use to work from home, a gaming rig, and another laptop to do normal computer-type stuff. And that's not even counting any machines that would be for other people in the house to use.
Probably neither. It's probably more about jurisdiction to pursue certain types of cases. Then again, anything with children gets top billing in the press, so it's possible the FBI releases dozens of "we caught someone who committed fraud" press releases that get ignored.
This is no different than preventing minors from purchasing tickets to R-rated movies
Except that no law prohibits minors from purchasing tickets to R-rated movies. And the only thing preventing poor little Johnny from turning the TV on in his room to watch some R-rated flick on TV is the same thing that would prevent him from playing M-rated games...good parenting.
Now that I can boot to Knoppix on a trash machine, I'd be tempted to look at it to see what happens. I suppose, for the truly paranoid, you'd have to provide power to it outside just to be sure... But a CD or DVD, that wouldn't be a problem.
It probably is a better target, or at least safer. There's nothing illegal (AFAIK) about selling accounts and gold, and I imagine it'd be tough to prove who actually stole the account. The worst thing most people who engage in this behavior have to look forward to is an account suspension, whether you're buying or selling.
Admittedly I probably don't know as much about the EU as I should, but the biggest question for me is what happens to all this money? Is it essentially garnered to ensure the bureaucracy lives on forever?
How long before we get a/. post about Jack Thompson taking personal credit for ousting the board in the form of some long-winded self righteous diatribe?
Microsoft shouldn't be too worried until Apple begins to sell OS X for installation on hardware besides theirs. When OS X can be put on all kinds of hardware, I will gladly purchase it and I'm sure many others will as well.
Sell their OS for standard hardware, even if they won't give the same warranty protection as if it were on their hardware AND court more game publishers to convince them to release more games for OSX, and I'd buy it.
Perhaps I'm getting too tin-foil-hatlike here... But you're overlooking the fact that, in my opinion at least, the two party system has an inherent interest in a system that can be fudged one way or the other. Even relatively sane, simple mandates like checking for a valid ID at the poling station get shut down. The less sinister thing that you're overlooking is that a majority of the citizens in the US don't seem to care that much. We've got small percentages of voter turn-outs, and I'm willing to bet a significant number of those people blindly vote a straight ticket.
However, without I.R.S. Records, probably nobody outside of Athens would have ever heard of them.
So without the backing of a large and successful label, which was being distributed by major corporate distributors (which include a few of the "big four" in the RIAA) and that had a show on MTV, they'd still be known mostly in Athens?
They're marketed as drop in replacements, currently built to notebook drive standards. The downside, as someone else mentions, is that they are flash based. While flash has gotten better recently, I'd be squeemish about having an OS that constantly writes to the drive even when nothing is (apparently) happening on it.
Even an English surname won't save you. There are lots of names on the list, including Congresspeople. The odd thing is that, apparently, a spending bill was passed to clear up the list, wonder if that'll help at all.
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The Wii also has the advantage of being hit with supply problems. Nothing makes the average consumer want something more than knowing they can't have it. It's affordable, has some pretty good games out there at release, and is in short supply. It's a trifecta!
When in doubt "Go with the centipede -- he's a tenured professor of religion!"
The irony is that the SEC couldn't do any more investigating during the outage because they had no email access!
I don't do IT, so maybe releasing 25 fixes at once can require 25 separate test cycles. Anybody care to enlighten me?
It all depends on the shop, but in general it does. The larger the company, the more likely you are to stage your roll out after a decent testing cycle...or at least that's been my experience. My experience has been that small shops tend to have more variety in the hardware that's out there, so it'd be tougher to get a really good test cycle built and running anyway. It's easier to test a patch, make sure nothing deal-breaking is broken with the patch, and then let it go and mop up afterwards. Large shops tend to have the same base hardware installed across the board (or at least across large segments) AND more places you'd have to personally touch if something breaks. Far better to have the patch in house, give it a decent test, then roll it out.
I can't even imagine why one person would want five PCs.
I can... One PC to act as my home theater, another PC acting as a big ol' server, a corporate approved box that I can use to work from home, a gaming rig, and another laptop to do normal computer-type stuff. And that's not even counting any machines that would be for other people in the house to use.
Probably neither. It's probably more about jurisdiction to pursue certain types of cases. Then again, anything with children gets top billing in the press, so it's possible the FBI releases dozens of "we caught someone who committed fraud" press releases that get ignored.
This is no different than preventing minors from purchasing tickets to R-rated movies
Except that no law prohibits minors from purchasing tickets to R-rated movies. And the only thing preventing poor little Johnny from turning the TV on in his room to watch some R-rated flick on TV is the same thing that would prevent him from playing M-rated games...good parenting.
Next on /., stories about how piracy is hurting MS!
Are they attempting a variation of the famed Chewbacca defense?
Now that I can boot to Knoppix on a trash machine, I'd be tempted to look at it to see what happens. I suppose, for the truly paranoid, you'd have to provide power to it outside just to be sure... But a CD or DVD, that wouldn't be a problem.
It probably is a better target, or at least safer. There's nothing illegal (AFAIK) about selling accounts and gold, and I imagine it'd be tough to prove who actually stole the account. The worst thing most people who engage in this behavior have to look forward to is an account suspension, whether you're buying or selling.
I see that your campaign promise to do something about the price of gas is really kicking in now.
They ARE doing something. Those gas prices won't increase themselves, you know!
Admittedly I probably don't know as much about the EU as I should, but the biggest question for me is what happens to all this money? Is it essentially garnered to ensure the bureaucracy lives on forever?
Because every other country traditionally caves in when the UN or WTO issues a ruling, right?
How long before we get a /. post about Jack Thompson taking personal credit for ousting the board in the form of some long-winded self righteous diatribe?
Microsoft shouldn't be too worried until Apple begins to sell OS X for installation on hardware besides theirs. When OS X can be put on all kinds of hardware, I will gladly purchase it and I'm sure many others will as well.
Sell their OS for standard hardware, even if they won't give the same warranty protection as if it were on their hardware AND court more game publishers to convince them to release more games for OSX, and I'd buy it.
Like making sure they regret buying your product when they did.
Now with swing by swing teleprompter markup!
Or am I over looking something here...?
Perhaps I'm getting too tin-foil-hatlike here... But you're overlooking the fact that, in my opinion at least, the two party system has an inherent interest in a system that can be fudged one way or the other. Even relatively sane, simple mandates like checking for a valid ID at the poling station get shut down. The less sinister thing that you're overlooking is that a majority of the citizens in the US don't seem to care that much. We've got small percentages of voter turn-outs, and I'm willing to bet a significant number of those people blindly vote a straight ticket.
However, without I.R.S. Records, probably nobody outside of Athens would have ever heard of them.
So without the backing of a large and successful label, which was being distributed by major corporate distributors (which include a few of the "big four" in the RIAA) and that had a show on MTV, they'd still be known mostly in Athens?
There's a free Power Card in it for everybody that buys from Dave Buster, so even if your WiFi goes out you can have fun!
Do you get enough of your suitably approved .edu type folks to ensure that no dissenting opinions make it on the "official" page?
They're marketed as drop in replacements, currently built to notebook drive standards. The downside, as someone else mentions, is that they are flash based. While flash has gotten better recently, I'd be squeemish about having an OS that constantly writes to the drive even when nothing is (apparently) happening on it.
Ever had a BIOS upgrade fail?
Even an English surname won't save you. There are lots of names on the list, including Congresspeople. The odd thing is that, apparently, a spending bill was passed to clear up the list, wonder if that'll help at all.