...is that SCO, using MS money under-the-table to start this mess is about to be pounded by Novell, who is now also using MS money, acquired through a legal action.
There really *is* balance in nature...
Not all that ironic. If you're already a conspiracy theorist re: SCO and MS, it's an easy leap to think that MS thought ahead to the eventuality that Novell might/probably would win its suit, and thought this would be a great way to bleed off the money again.
Would it be worth the money given to SCO to deprive its competitor of the benefit of that needed capital? There's the real irony. Even when SCO loses, MS wins.
What Microsoft should be doing is banning Xbox live accounts, which are more expensive to start up than to continue with, and open all Xbox live accounts by confirming the user's address by mailing them their initial password.
That's a good idea. I wonder why they don't? I mean, obviously it's the modding itself they're trying to prevent, but... well, all I can think of is that buying a new Xbox is still more expensive than starting a new account, and they want it to have more of a bite for people who do that. Also, people could probably lie and say that someone stole their Live account login information, etc. (I assume the login isn't tied to the one unit, but is a simple username/password?), whereas it's a bit harder to say "my roommate snuck a modchip/hard drive/etc. into my Xbox when I was out."
Let's say I go to Gamestop and buy a used unit. If I buy into the Live service, and find out the box is banned, does Gamestop have to replace with another unit? This is assuming that it was used with a removeable mod, of course, and that it was removed before Gamestop accepted it, etc., or that its EEPROM was used to reflash another unit.
Also, what good is the Live service if I don't play multi-player games? Do they do any kind of software updates, etc., through the service?
However, you need to add this to the end of that to be complete:...as long as how you make money has no negative impact on anyone including your competition.
This is also wrong. Let's say that a sandwich stand goes up on a street. It meets all the health codes, but the food quality isn't great, and it's somewhat wasteful of resources. It's also charging a premium because it's the only place nearby. A competing sandwich stand goes up, with better quality and better prices. It's also a more efficient user of resources, which means fewer negative externalities to the environment and society as a whole.
In this case, the second sandwich stand has a negative impact on the competition, by way of how it makes its money: providing better quality food at a lower price.
Your statement would limit public choice through the artificial barrier of right of first entry. It would certainly stifle creativity, forcing everyone to remain at the lowest common denominator of technologies, etc.
With me, so far? Okay, let's mix things up just a little bit more: the first stand is run by 5th-generation citizens who invented their regional accent and go to the local church, and the second one is run by recent immigrants who talk a bit funny and have prayer mats.
Should this have a bad impact on whether they are allowed to have that stand and push the others out of business because they can offer better quality at a lower price? No. Will it? You tell me.
Take this further, expanding it out to where the first stand uses local produce, and the second stand uses produce it gets from a farm it owns across the border... would that trigger the response that this sort of protectionism is good?
You're taking into account the moments we expressed the same idea, aka you before me, to establish that it is your theory and therefore that i barely proved it.
How coincidental is it that you guys are disagreeing over what essentially was an idea that occurred to each of you at about the same time (though is hardly original), when that's also the point of your idea?
You cannot go against nature, for if you do go against nature, that's a part of nature too.
It would be nice if you'd simply state in all your submissions that it's your work. I've complained to my friends about this, but I'd be perfectly understanding if you actually said you were behind the article - we do get "hey, I've written this over on our website" all the time from review sites.
Must be a nice job you have, btw, playing with toys and getting paid for it:) Show us a "behind the scenes" sometime - especially as you probably don't have a traditional central office-type arrangement. Do you actually get to work from the beach, etc.?
Thats just the thing. The basic idea of democracy is that you vote for the candidate that you think best represents your views.
If you do that this time, there's a chance that the person who represents your views LEAST might get elected. So, in my opinion, for the sake of getting at least some good things done, or fewer bad things done, pragmatism is better than strict ideology at least this once. Regardless of which way you lean.
As long as the readers know it's just first data and not worth much right now, I think it's fine.
Besides, maybe it will convince voters in certain states who were going to give their vote to a protest candidate, or not vote at all, that it's closer in some states that were expected to be solidly in favor of one candidate or another, and so maybe their vote might actually matter after all.
Sure would hate for it to come down to under a thousand votes again, and be someone who threw away my chance to change the outcome.
Of course, all this is theoretical - in my state, Texas, there's really no chance of it being close.
The article says these are microfossils, but still - if they're big enough to survive this long, much less be sliced open for more detailed examination soon, they can't be all that small, can they?
These would have been excellent little things to send in surprise care packages for the guys and gals serving overseas. Gotta imagine how much they'd love getting them, even if they don't have a lot of tv sets to plug into, just for the nostalgia factor. They're cheaper than Game Boys+games, too...
Why would you risk waiting until the last second to vote?
I'm in Texas, and I know my vote for president won't count anyway, but perhaps my votes for lesser offices can still make a difference. I'm worried, though, that the official at the church running the polling place will have some way of seeing the totals increment on the electronic system, and will void my votes as soon as I walk out. At least with a paper ballot system and sealed boxes there would be greater effort involved to lose my vote.
go here. Seems like they accidentally sent a copy to someone at a georgewbush.org email address, instead of.com..org is an anti-Bush site! This site's been printing a lot of other interesting misdirected letters, also.
Bonus: way at the bottom of this page is a discussion between staffers at the.com website basically comparing attractiveness of the Bush daughters.
Why not use your vote to vote for the guy who YOU agree with more? Why do people refuse to vote for a guy who, in their opinion, couldn't win.. but his views are the closest to the ones they agree with?
Because in that circumstance, if I vote for the guy I agree with most, the guy I agree with least will be more likely to win?
How hard is that to figure out? You have to go with the realistic alternatives.
Luckily(?), this time around I like who I'm voting for better than I like any third party candidate.
If you can, though, get a 50xx box instead of a 55xx, because then you can send shows to other units across the internet, not just streaming within your home network. (The 45xx boxes do this also, but the quality isn't as good, and they aren't compatible with 50xx, which is what most people have)
p.s. I found the replaytv remote to be a great fit, but I have big hands.
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Not all that ironic. If you're already a conspiracy theorist re: SCO and MS, it's an easy leap to think that MS thought ahead to the eventuality that Novell might/probably would win its suit, and thought this would be a great way to bleed off the money again.
Would it be worth the money given to SCO to deprive its competitor of the benefit of that needed capital? There's the real irony. Even when SCO loses, MS wins.
That's a good idea. I wonder why they don't? I mean, obviously it's the modding itself they're trying to prevent, but... well, all I can think of is that buying a new Xbox is still more expensive than starting a new account, and they want it to have more of a bite for people who do that. Also, people could probably lie and say that someone stole their Live account login information, etc. (I assume the login isn't tied to the one unit, but is a simple username/password?), whereas it's a bit harder to say "my roommate snuck a modchip/hard drive/etc. into my Xbox when I was out."
Let's say I go to Gamestop and buy a used unit. If I buy into the Live service, and find out the box is banned, does Gamestop have to replace with another unit? This is assuming that it was used with a removeable mod, of course, and that it was removed before Gamestop accepted it, etc., or that its EEPROM was used to reflash another unit.
Also, what good is the Live service if I don't play multi-player games? Do they do any kind of software updates, etc., through the service?
This is also wrong. Let's say that a sandwich stand goes up on a street. It meets all the health codes, but the food quality isn't great, and it's somewhat wasteful of resources. It's also charging a premium because it's the only place nearby. A competing sandwich stand goes up, with better quality and better prices. It's also a more efficient user of resources, which means fewer negative externalities to the environment and society as a whole.
In this case, the second sandwich stand has a negative impact on the competition, by way of how it makes its money: providing better quality food at a lower price.
Your statement would limit public choice through the artificial barrier of right of first entry. It would certainly stifle creativity, forcing everyone to remain at the lowest common denominator of technologies, etc.
With me, so far? Okay, let's mix things up just a little bit more: the first stand is run by 5th-generation citizens who invented their regional accent and go to the local church, and the second one is run by recent immigrants who talk a bit funny and have prayer mats.
Should this have a bad impact on whether they are allowed to have that stand and push the others out of business because they can offer better quality at a lower price? No. Will it? You tell me.
Take this further, expanding it out to where the first stand uses local produce, and the second stand uses produce it gets from a farm it owns across the border... would that trigger the response that this sort of protectionism is good?
It's called job security.
Pessimist!
I'm still disappointed that the two games tied to the movie A.I., that were scheduled for release when the Playstation2 was introduced, never shipped.
They probably would have been related to the ARG a lot more than the movie itself was.
How coincidental is it that you guys are disagreeing over what essentially was an idea that occurred to each of you at about the same time (though is hardly original), when that's also the point of your idea?
Bah. That sucks, then. Sorry I said you were astroturfing, then :)
It would be nice if you'd simply state in all your submissions that it's your work. I've complained to my friends about this, but I'd be perfectly understanding if you actually said you were behind the article - we do get "hey, I've written this over on our website" all the time from review sites.
:) Show us a "behind the scenes" sometime - especially as you probably don't have a traditional central office-type arrangement. Do you actually get to work from the beach, etc.?
Must be a nice job you have, btw, playing with toys and getting paid for it
If you do that this time, there's a chance that the person who represents your views LEAST might get elected. So, in my opinion, for the sake of getting at least some good things done, or fewer bad things done, pragmatism is better than strict ideology at least this once. Regardless of which way you lean.
As long as the readers know it's just first data and not worth much right now, I think it's fine.
Besides, maybe it will convince voters in certain states who were going to give their vote to a protest candidate, or not vote at all, that it's closer in some states that were expected to be solidly in favor of one candidate or another, and so maybe their vote might actually matter after all.
Sure would hate for it to come down to under a thousand votes again, and be someone who threw away my chance to change the outcome.
Of course, all this is theoretical - in my state, Texas, there's really no chance of it being close.
BTW, I'm metamoderating this, and I think "funny" was preselected, instead of being neutral. :)
That just made it even more funny.
The article says these are microfossils, but still - if they're big enough to survive this long, much less be sliced open for more detailed examination soon, they can't be all that small, can they?
These would have been excellent little things to send in surprise care packages for the guys and gals serving overseas. Gotta imagine how much they'd love getting them, even if they don't have a lot of tv sets to plug into, just for the nostalgia factor. They're cheaper than Game Boys+games, too...
You know, that SCOttish play?
"Aahhhhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends. Aaahh!"
Might want to take a peek here and see how it fits in with what you say.
I'm in Texas, and I know my vote for president won't count anyway, but perhaps my votes for lesser offices can still make a difference. I'm worried, though, that the official at the church running the polling place will have some way of seeing the totals increment on the electronic system, and will void my votes as soon as I walk out. At least with a paper ballot system and sealed boxes there would be greater effort involved to lose my vote.
go here. .com. .org is an anti-Bush site!
.com website basically comparing attractiveness of the Bush daughters.
Seems like they accidentally sent a copy to someone at a georgewbush.org email address, instead of
This site's been printing a lot of other interesting misdirected letters, also.
Bonus: way at the bottom of this page is a discussion between staffers at the
Because in that circumstance, if I vote for the guy I agree with most, the guy I agree with least will be more likely to win?
How hard is that to figure out? You have to go with the realistic alternatives.
Luckily(?), this time around I like who I'm voting for better than I like any third party candidate.
As the article pointed out, the boxes use credit or phone cards, etc., over there.
Not to mention, he can't spell.
Why would the granting of a technical specification certification be contingent upon a company's working environment?
P.S. The word is "coincidence."
Tell him or her to change the note for the FAQ to "still squashing bees," instead of bugs :)
If you can, though, get a 50xx box instead of a 55xx, because then you can send shows to other units across the internet, not just streaming within your home network.
(The 45xx boxes do this also, but the quality isn't as good, and they aren't compatible with 50xx, which is what most people have)
p.s. I found the replaytv remote to be a great fit, but I have big hands.