hm.. i'm by no means a MS fan, but what exactly is wrong with "president bill gates" ?
MS is the most successful software company and one of the most successful companies ever... and their employees are quite happy in the full-pockets department.. how many Americans dislike that?.. true, MS generates quite a lot of hate, but it's not like the US is very much loved nowadays.
in fact, what MS is now between software companies, US is between the world countries - it's the most well known country, most talked about and in-your-face everywhere you go, most hated and definitely the way to go if all you care about is TheMoney !
and there is no way b.g. will be worst than that "iq black hole" you have now.
Plus, a 30 game attach rate to break even? That is mind-boggling and cannot be possible. Sony could not be that stupid.
that 30 games / console figure is such an oversimplification... few things you forgot there:
blue ray disk sales
online gaming revenue
accessories revenue
revenue from selling their devkits
(possible) revenue if they connect the console with their online music/video shop(s)
all the publicity they get from having a console which ppl want so badly, they pay ~double the price on ebay
counting all the above, they prolly need only 2-3 games / console... plus, they do need 30 games / console NOW... as the component prices are goingf down they wont need that much... and i guess the fact that they lose so much money on each console now has quite a lot to do with the small numbers of available units
and guess what: most preachers were trying to spread the word of communism
Are you from a communist country? Because that would be very hard to believe in America.
actually that would be hardest to believe in a communist country... communism and religion never liked each other, some communist countries/leaders went as far as banning religion altogether
What is reincarnated however is the negative karma, the suffering you have caused yourself and others is reincarnated into the cycle of birth and death. The good karma is 'absorbed' into the Cosmic Buddha.
so... the negative karma comes back, the positive stays with Buddha... if only the negative returns, that means the humans should be worst and worst with every re-incarnation cycle... and if only the bad karma comes back, where is the good karma coming from?
i don't know much about Buddhism and i have no idea if your post is true.. but this stuff sounds even worst than the classic fallacies of the Christianity.
This is the Microsoft from Redmond, WA we are talking about?... The same ones who lose money on everything they do except Windows, Office, Exchange, and SQL?
so what? i hear Google loses money on everything except search, but noone complains about them being bad and incompetent and...
plus, MS still counts their profit in billions per year and they have an amazing profit margin.
i'm far from being a MS fan, but that was gratuitous & useless bashing
shaving one's pubic hair is just plain perverted.
The only reason people are doing it is to appeal the the paedophile side of their partner.
So if your guy/girl demands a hairless crotch, report his/her pervie ass to the police before they molest some kids. Or at least inform his/her parents, neighbours, pastor, and employer.
i actually enjoy havin my balls shaved all the time...and u know why? when i show my shaved balls to a RighteousIdiot like you, the look on his face is simply Priceless.
P.S. for your own good, i hope that msg was only a troll
very good argumentation.. perfect logic.. fair and everything
unfortunaltelly u kind of forgot about TheFacts.. your whole argument is based on a Fairy Tale.. one about a supernatural "being" his son and their adventures on earth.
next time i'll make an argument based on cinderella facts and if anyone does not believe it as i do, i'll call them sinners
that company has a very interesting history they started in pure DotComBubble 1.0 style around 2000 with an 100 million investment.. and refused another 200 millions or so... i bet a lot of people had bad dreams about that decision:)
their product was a better laser (cheaper and less enerygy) for long-haul fiber optic networks... when ppl stopped investing in those nets, they "shortened" their product to support metro-area fiber optic netwoks.
looks like now they shortened that laser a bit more:)
at least for the stubborness and that never-give-up attitude, i wish them all the luck
responding to your first reply was kind of fun, trying to do the same for this one would be a waste of time.. i'm not gonna even read such a huge rant.
and it's not like anyone could convince a stubborn englishman that his island-mentality may be wrong... that "thinking on an island" is same as "thinking in a box"... same as u cannot convince a bunch of kids that their block is not better than the entire neighbourhood/country/continent/etc
The UK has adopted the metric system in pretty much all things
yeah sure, ~100 later than almost everyone else did it.. which of course proves they are not stubborn at all;)
The reason they haven't changed to kilometres is the same as the reason they haven't adopted right-hand-side driving - as an island nation there was no need to integrate their road systems with the rest of Europe
that only proves lack of vision
- note that you'll find a similar situation in many island nations: see Japan, Australia.
yes u do have a similar situation there.. because the japanese train system was built by the english and i dont have to tell u who build the australian one.
Modifying their entire road system, signage etc would be a monumentally expensive and disruptive task, with very little real benefit.
it could be a monumental task now, it would have been a small one when the other countries did it... and at the time, UK had a single reason not to do it - stubborness
The benefits of converting the imperial monetary and scientific measurement systems to metric are obvious, however, and the cost was not so outrageous, so they went ahead and converted.
the benefits of converting to EURO now are also obvious but the UK still doesnt do it, although almost everyone else in the EU did it.. stubborness again
To suggest that these decisions were made out of "stubbornness"
umm.. sorry.. i'm not making a Suggestion i am stating a Fact!
is like suggesting that they maintained a large navy out of pride.
nice fallacy
It's just a matter of practicality, and attributable to geographic isolation. It's all a case of analysing the relative cost/benefits of any proposed change, and making rational decisions, which seems to have been the case in the UK.
your "rational decisions" sound more like a bunch of kids on the playground with the good old "we just dont wanna do it"
They didn't refuse Napoleon's standard out of pride - they repelled any attempts of invasion, so no attempt to impose a standard has been made since Roman times.
yes there were a lot other attempts.. and even more, a lot of them succeeded.. like the french invasion from 1066 and so on
The original reason for adopting left-hand-side driving is irrelevant when deciding whether or not to adopt a different standard.
Does that mean we have to start calling it "Freedom Format" in the U.S.?
u may have to welcome your new freedom overlords too;)
and if u study a bit of history, u will realize that wont be the first time either.. just check the connections between the founding fathers and the french revolutionaries, remember where the statue of liberyty is coming from, etc...
u may be right that the french like standards... and a lot of the standards used today have french originsd or connotations... like the metric sytem which afaik was set at a conference in paris and some french museum has the honour of keeping THE meter... and the circulation on the right side of the road which afaik was set by napoleon
but your "french attitude" is a bit missplaced.. if u want a sample of stubborness in applying standards, u better look at the UK.
they are quite funny in that respect too... they "proudly" refused napoleon's standard and kind of forgot they use the left side of the road because the romans imposed that on them... they refused the metric system and also forgot that their system was imposed by another conqueror (the measurement system based on multiples of 3, 4 and the dozen is actually germanic)
history is quite funny sometimes;)
Just who are you to question The People's desire for football stadiums?
A few hundred years ago, a guy named Galilei came and said "it is round"... and *they* asked him a question quite like yours... in fact, they almost killed him for going against People's desire for "a flat one".
ThePeople is not the answer to everything and Democracy is far from being perfect.
I'm sure there's plenty of insane things in your country, too. Got a king? We think that's crazy. Rulership should never be passed on like money. It should go to someone qualified for the situation for real reasons.
are you expecting authors to employ and manage editors, designers, printers, pr and marketing people, advertisers, a nation-wide system of sales reps, sales managers, shipping companies, and so on? NO
Or are you suggesting that these roles aren't necessary? YES
That's the same thing as saying that books should only be digital from here on out. no it's not, u little fallacy-loving troll
Besides, the author would still need to employ the editing, pr, marketing & advertising people anyway, no, he doesnt
because if you don't know about a book, why would you buy it? ever heard of Word-of-Mouth ? it worked very fine for thousands of years.. and the result: you got hundreds of literary masterpieces and almost no crap.. why so?.. simple:good things sell themselves, crap doesnt.. it's utter crap on paper that needs all the advertising that u advocate above.
and guess what, in the era of internet & blogs & amazon we can talk about word-of-mouth-on-steroids.
anyway, i can go on and on about this stuff but this discussion is too big for this small forum.. just stop trolling your crap about the benefits of having publishers and advertising.. your beloved publishing-system brings absolutely no benefit for the customer.. on the contrary, it throws loads of well-advertised & idiotic "literature" down everybody's throat
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MS is the most successful software company and one of the most successful companies ever... and their employees are quite happy in the full-pockets department
in fact, what MS is now between software companies, US is between the world countries - it's the most well known country, most talked about and in-your-face everywhere you go, most hated and definitely the way to go if all you care about is TheMoney !
and there is no way b.g. will be worst than that "iq black hole" you have now.
so .. again.. what's wrong with "president b.g." ?
that 30 games / console figure is such an oversimplification ... few things you forgot there:
counting all the above, they prolly need only 2-3 games / console ... plus, they do need 30 games / console NOW... as the component prices are goingf down they wont need that much... and i guess the fact that they lose so much money on each console now has quite a lot to do with the small numbers of available units
10x more insightful than the whole agile crap you find in 20 useless books
Are you from a communist country? Because that would be very hard to believe in America.
actually that would be hardest to believe in a communist country ... communism and religion never liked each other, some communist countries/leaders went as far as banning religion altogether
so ... the negative karma comes back, the positive stays with Buddha ... if only the negative returns, that means the humans should be worst and worst with every re-incarnation cycle ... and if only the bad karma comes back, where is the good karma coming from?
i don't know much about Buddhism and i have no idea if your post is true.. but this stuff sounds even worst than the classic fallacies of the Christianity.
this looks pretty good
some of my brain cells are also sleepin right now ... and that is an obvious +5 informative, thank u very much
so what? i hear Google loses money on everything except search, but noone complains about them being bad and incompetent and...
plus, MS still counts their profit in billions per year and they have an amazing profit margin.
i'm far from being a MS fan, but that was gratuitous & useless bashing
i actually enjoy havin my balls shaved all the time...and u know why? when i show my shaved balls to a RighteousIdiot like you, the look on his face is simply Priceless.
P.S. for your own good, i hope that msg was only a troll
very good argumentation.. perfect logic .. fair and everything
.. your whole argument is based on a Fairy Tale .. one about a supernatural "being" his son and their adventures on earth.
unfortunaltelly u kind of forgot about TheFacts
next time i'll make an argument based on cinderella facts and if anyone does not believe it as i do, i'll call them sinners
although this one may have been wildly exagerated
i just sensed a sudden disturbance in TheForce ... sounded like 98% of the computer users got together in sayin "so what"? ;)
that company has a very interesting history .. and refused another 200 millions or so ... i bet a lot of people had bad dreams about that decision :)
... when ppl stopped investing in those nets, they "shortened" their product to support metro-area fiber optic netwoks.
:)
they started in pure DotComBubble 1.0 style around 2000 with an 100 million investment
their product was a better laser (cheaper and less enerygy) for long-haul fiber optic networks
looks like now they shortened that laser a bit more
at least for the stubborness and that never-give-up attitude, i wish them all the luck
toshiba and cannon did already show working prototypes for SED ... some reviewers said the SED image is "photographic film" quality
and it's not like anyone could convince a stubborn englishman that his island-mentality may be wrong... that "thinking on an island" is same as "thinking in a box"
but i can wish u a lot of happiness ;)
and you couldn't be more wrong ;)
yeah sure, ~100 later than almost everyone else did it .. which of course proves they are not stubborn at all ;)
that only proves lack of vision
yes u do have a similar situation there.. because the japanese train system was built by the english and i dont have to tell u who build the australian one.
it could be a monumental task now, it would have been a small one when the other countries did it... and at the time, UK had a single reason not to do it - stubborness
the benefits of converting to EURO now are also obvious but the UK still doesnt do it, although almost everyone else in the EU did it .. stubborness again
umm.. sorry .. i'm not making a Suggestion i am stating a Fact!
nice fallacy
your "rational decisions" sound more like a bunch of kids on the playground with the good old "we just dont wanna do it"
yes there were a lot other attempts .. and even more, a lot of them succeeded .. like the french invasion from 1066 and so on
and who said that's relevant ?
someone pls mod this guy "+1 british stubborn" ;)
u may have to welcome your new freedom overlords too ;)
.. just check the connections between the founding fathers and the french revolutionaries, remember where the statue of liberyty is coming from, etc...
and if u study a bit of history, u will realize that wont be the first time either
but your "french attitude" is a bit missplaced .. if u want a sample of stubborness in applying standards, u better look at the UK.
... they "proudly" refused napoleon's standard and kind of forgot they use the left side of the road because the romans imposed that on them ... they refused the metric system and also forgot that their system was imposed by another conqueror (the measurement system based on multiples of 3, 4 and the dozen is actually germanic)
;)
they are quite funny in that respect too
history is quite funny sometimes
Just who are you to question The People's desire for football stadiums?
A few hundred years ago, a guy named Galilei came and said "it is round" ... and *they* asked him a question quite like yours... in fact, they almost killed him for going against People's desire for "a flat one".
ThePeople is not the answer to everything and Democracy is far from being perfect.
quite an insight u posted there ... now i'm sorry i just wasted my mod points on some funny crap
Yeah, someone like GWB ;)
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looks like things are already going in that direction - European Computer Driving Licence
NO
Or are you suggesting that these roles aren't necessary?
YES
That's the same thing as saying that books should only be digital from here on out.
no it's not, u little fallacy-loving troll
Besides, the author would still need to employ the editing, pr, marketing & advertising people anyway,
no, he doesnt
because if you don't know about a book, why would you buy it? .. and the result: you got hundreds of literary masterpieces and almost no crap .. why so? .. simple:good things sell themselves, crap doesnt .. it's utter crap on paper that needs all the advertising that u advocate above.
ever heard of Word-of-Mouth ? it worked very fine for thousands of years
and guess what, in the era of internet & blogs & amazon we can talk about word-of-mouth-on-steroids.
anyway, i can go on and on about this stuff but this discussion is too big for this small forum .. just stop trolling your crap about the benefits of having publishers and advertising .. your beloved publishing-system brings absolutely no benefit for the customer .. on the contrary, it throws loads of well-advertised & idiotic "literature" down everybody's throat
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe