If I'm going to do a direct conversion from Dollars to Euros, like I just did, it comes out I'll be paying over 60 bucks more than you, and that's why I curse.
Oh well, maybe Nintendo will call bullshit on the bullshit pricing schemes just as they did on the gfx? Whenever I see a product priced $99.99, I think $70 value, $20 profit margin plus $9.99 idiot price penalty. If I see $100 or even $93.62, I'm more likely to buy.
Of course they could sue him for slander. And an independent body, like a court would decide who is right. You must take responsiblity for what you say. But it should never be up to the one who feels offended to serve justice. Now they are exactly bullying and threatening him.
Know what? I agree. Not entirely of course, I mean sure, education, third world and stuff. But if I can get one for $300, I really don't care if 2/3 of that goes to fund education or nukes or terrorism, I just want one.
Having one 50-strips wide fully packed freeway instead of 15 different narrower roads, in case of a single slightly more serious collision will result in escalation of crashes, totally blocking the whole width, no matter how wide the road, and leaving you with no way to get around the jam.
If everyone was running the same distro of Linux in the same config.
If I pick Qmail, I'm immune to Sendmail holes. If I pick KOffice, screw OOo bugs. Many Apache exploits hit my webserver running on Boa. If Firefox is compromised, I can pull out Galleon. If I get a Thunderbird exploit, Pine ignores it.
Microsoft is a very deep-reaching monoculture. Not just Windows. You can expect the Windows computer will run MS Office, cooperate with Exchange through Outlook or Outlook Express, use MSIE for the web, the webserver will be IIS, the database will be MSSQL or Access (and predictable which where), so you get lots of machines running all the same software. In case of Linux, thanks to multitude of choices the users have, there is no monoculture, each install is custom-made.
[i]Also, predicting a security vulnerability in ANY piece of software is like predicting rain. It is *going* to happen, it is not impressive at all, and proves nothing when it happens.[/i]
Predicting a security vulnerability is like predicting rain. It's going to happen. Some will get wet. But this is more like predicting a storm resulting in catastrophic landslides killing millions, as result of mass replacing natural varied environment with monoculture plantations on slopes of mountains over cities. It's not about a fact of a vulnerablity found, it's about the enormous impact of the vulnerablity because of the monoculture.
There were very few such "landslides" in the history of Unixes. Lots and lots of holes, but almost always no impact. The one big I can remember, the worm that used a BIND vulnerablity, was directly the result of a monoculture; DNS=BIND.
The employees instead of typing the admin password will actively look for holes to get the admin rights, spot them and eventually later patch them. Things like "cancel" button in Win98 login screen won't get overlooked:)
If you don't remember, the original was widespread and generally loved and applauded both by rebellious Poles and anticommunist Americans: "What's the difference between Constitution of Poland and of USA? Polish grants you freedom of speech, American - freedom after speech". Funny to see this turn of events and Americans defending the new matter of things and opposing criticism, just the same as polish Party activists would do back then.
If you like acme, check out wmii, a window manager inspired by acme (amongst other things). It is incredibly innovative, and version 3 was just released.
One of the new features: You can move blocks of text by waving your mouse in air in specific manner, throwing the block of text a specific distance in the file depending on the strenth you swing the mouse.
Well, all the time I see "360 sucks this way." "PS3 disappointed in that way" "360 screwed up again" "PS3 fails again". Lots of these. And then from time to time, rarely, quietly: "Wii will beat them." "Wii rules."
Would that be the Microsoft where you don't get punished for using modded xbox? Court persecution is not the only possible form of repression.
I can watch for you to cross a street in illegal place and smash you with my car crippling you for life. I did so legally because you crossed the street in illegal place, I didn't even have to brake. But oh, I'm so saint, I didn't sue you!
So I didn't say they did it illegally. They just punished whoever they found guilty within limits of their internal law (THE terms of service). Claiming they are good, sweet and tollerant because they didn't take you to court is just false.
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>Should Nintendo take a loss so they can sell you a console that is only 1/4 of your salary?
Would it really hurt them that much if I paid just what an average American pays instead?
If I'm going to do a direct conversion from Dollars to Euros, like I just did, it comes out I'll be paying over 60 bucks more than you, and that's why I curse.
No, I didn't. I live in Poland, and 225 Euro is about 2/3 of my salary (the salary being above average...)
"How much are the suckers willing to pay?"
Gas Prices -- Kingman, AZ $2.959 -- Barstow, CA $3.699 -- Needles, CA $3.999 -- Venezuela $0.12
Oh well, maybe Nintendo will call bullshit on the bullshit pricing schemes just as they did on the gfx?
Whenever I see a product priced $99.99, I think $70 value, $20 profit margin plus $9.99 idiot price penalty. If I see $100 or even $93.62, I'm more likely to buy.
Google calculator:
225 Euros = 288.13500 U.S. dollars
One word.
Shit.
I want my "Thieves Den" mod for Oblivion! The pirate ship STILL hasn't docked in the Bay!
Of course they could sue him for slander. And an independent body, like a court would decide who is right. You must take responsiblity for what you say. But it should never be up to the one who feels offended to serve justice. Now they are exactly bullying and threatening him.
Know what? I agree.
Not entirely of course, I mean sure, education, third world and stuff. But if I can get one for $300, I really don't care if 2/3 of that goes to fund education or nukes or terrorism, I just want one.
Why me? Isn't that Microsoft's work? Shouldn't THEY have done it? Or maybe even never place the cancel button on that dialogue instead?
It's a half-assed workaround to a ridiculously dumb security hole.
Having one 50-strips wide fully packed freeway instead of 15 different narrower roads, in case of a single slightly more serious collision will result in escalation of crashes, totally blocking the whole width, no matter how wide the road, and leaving you with no way to get around the jam.
If everyone was running the same distro of Linux in the same config.
If I pick Qmail, I'm immune to Sendmail holes. If I pick KOffice, screw OOo bugs. Many Apache exploits hit my webserver running on Boa. If Firefox is compromised, I can pull out Galleon. If I get a Thunderbird exploit, Pine ignores it.
Microsoft is a very deep-reaching monoculture. Not just Windows. You can expect the Windows computer will run MS Office, cooperate with Exchange through Outlook or Outlook Express, use MSIE for the web, the webserver will be IIS, the database will be MSSQL or Access (and predictable which where), so you get lots of machines running all the same software. In case of Linux, thanks to multitude of choices the users have, there is no monoculture, each install is custom-made.
[i]Also, predicting a security vulnerability in ANY piece of software is like predicting rain. It is *going* to happen, it is not impressive at all, and proves nothing when it happens.[/i]
Predicting a security vulnerability is like predicting rain. It's going to happen. Some will get wet.
But this is more like predicting a storm resulting in catastrophic landslides killing millions, as result of mass replacing natural varied environment with monoculture plantations on slopes of mountains over cities. It's not about a fact of a vulnerablity found, it's about the enormous impact of the vulnerablity because of the monoculture.
There were very few such "landslides" in the history of Unixes. Lots and lots of holes, but almost always no impact. The one big I can remember, the worm that used a BIND vulnerablity, was directly the result of a monoculture; DNS=BIND.
ponies. lots of. a must.
The employees instead of typing the admin password will actively look for holes to get the admin rights, spot them and eventually later patch them. Things like "cancel" button in Win98 login screen won't get overlooked :)
If you don't remember, the original was widespread and generally loved and applauded both by rebellious Poles and anticommunist Americans: "What's the difference between Constitution of Poland and of USA? Polish grants you freedom of speech, American - freedom after speech". Funny to see this turn of events and Americans defending the new matter of things and opposing criticism, just the same as polish Party activists would do back then.
Can't take a leak without getting persecuted.
Seems currently in the USA the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but not freedom after speech...
If you like acme, check out wmii, a window manager inspired by acme (amongst other things). It is incredibly innovative, and version 3 was just released.
One of the new features: You can move blocks of text by waving your mouse in air in specific manner, throwing the block of text a specific distance in the file depending on the strenth you swing the mouse.
I for one welcome our beowulf overlords.
yep, but the games will run faster and be harder as result ;)
Well, all the time I see "360 sucks this way." "PS3 disappointed in that way" "360 screwed up again" "PS3 fails again". Lots of these.
And then from time to time, rarely, quietly: "Wii will beat them." "Wii rules."
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/15
Would that be the Microsoft where you don't get punished for using modded xbox?
Court persecution is not the only possible form of repression.
I can watch for you to cross a street in illegal place and smash you with my car crippling you for life. I did so legally because you crossed the street in illegal place, I didn't even have to brake. But oh, I'm so saint, I didn't sue you!
So I didn't say they did it illegally. They just punished whoever they found guilty within limits of their internal law (THE terms of service).
Claiming they are good, sweet and tollerant because they didn't take you to court is just false.