A monopoly is exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition and that esp. is developed willfully rather than as the result of superior products or skill.
Microsoft is a monopoly, because they did do both of those things.
I'll agree that Nintendo is not a "true" monopoly by definition, but it is a monopoly by the same definition that Microsoft is one. Microsoft did not have EXCLUSIVE control of the software or operating system market. Macintosh and unix combined even in the 90s was still over 5% of personal computers. Nintendo has pretty much held 95% of the portable gaming market, and as such could fix prices in the same way that Microsoft could fix prices....but neither really do. Microsoft has never had 100% exclusivity of any aspect of the software market...especially not in the same way that Standard Oil or AT&T had corners of their markets.
Just to be devils advocate, by your count Microsoft is not a monopoly, because these companies have tried to take a shot at what they do:
IBM
Apple
Lotus
Real
Sun
RedHat
etc...
Almost all of these systems were more powerful than the Game Boy, and some of them had extra features that the GB didn't have. Why did they fail?
Poor battery life and price. Sound familiar?
All these operating systems/application vendors had better features then Microsoft, and some of them had extra features that Microsoft didn't have. Why did they fail?
Poor developer and third party vendor support. Sound familiar?
Please don't pick apart what i said above on technicalities, my only argument is that having competition take an attempt at you doesn't mean your not a monopoly.
A server's up/down status has nothing to do with the programming language/framework used, and more to do with the http daemon and server load....they could be using just plain html and the servers would still be going down as often. I guess you could be making the case that ASP.NET is crashing the server because of high overhead or buggy code or something, but I have never had a.NET server (even high volume) crash because it was running ASP.NET...
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I like how everyone has to make this a versus thing...buy both! If you have to buy one, just look at the games, since that is the biggest "real" difference in my opinion. PSP can have graphics that make me feel i'm looking through pane-glass at the real world, but if none of the games interest me, i don't care. DS can have a plutonium battery but if it doesn't have any good games whats the difference? All the random specs only matter if they offer the same games, which they dont. As its stands now, DS is the only system of the two that has games that interest me...and its cool it still plays my old games. But thats all anyone needs to base it on, unless your just looking for "show off" appeal, which i think the psp wins hands down just cuz you can be like "look at me i'm watchin' spiderman 2!", but if you like Ridge Racer better then Mario buy a PSP, and vice versa.
Fox in America is trying this same thing already, they cancelled a reality show midseason, and as a consolation to fans they posted the final episodes online. Some TV you can't get for free because it just wasn't aired.
Something i learned while working in retail is write "check id" in the signature block...not everyone checks, but i usually get at least 60% of the people ask me for id...so it would at least slow down someone having a spending spree with my card.
Any Steinbeck is to be recommended, other greats are Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, and Cannery Row....however I don't think any Steinbeck is in the public domain since they were published in the 30's-60's, and I think thats all Google is doing
oh ho ho, just give it a few months and google will come out with a simplified looking version of a similar idea, and we will have a minimum of 50 slashdot articles talking about this ingenious new google product and how its so much better cuz it uses javascript and xml, and then 20 more articles talking about how they work their magic, and finally 10 more articles about how france is suing them for creating such a product because it allows unauthorized pictures of the eifel tower or something.
We've seen enough of Paul Graham's essays now slashdot that we can find his site now. You don't need to post EVERY essay he writes, which is about once a week or two. He wrote the Yahoo store, he didn't create cold fusion...I will scream if I see one more article from him about what people should do to be like him, when his advice always involves using the word "hack" 50 times, and his advice is more or less irrelevant anyways. People like he and Mark Cuban got really lucky when Yahoo was handing out mad dot com dollars, that doesn't make them all knowing business or coding oracles. Show me a person that started a sucessful company in the dot crash era of 2001-2002, and i'll listen more closely to their advice.
RTFA? There are no "tech stocks" mentioned here, and it in no way relates to the "real" stock market, which involves trading of securities. This is just a game that acts like the securities market in that you can buy and sell tech concepts based on their buzz level
The subject of the original post makes it sound like Yahoo is down and out and what can they do to possibly compete with the monster that is google....in reality Yahoo currently makes more money then Google...sure Google has a slightly higher Market Cap, but thats only cuz people havn't learned their dotcom stock evaluation lessons. Yahoo already has more tools to compete with Google, at least financially. Yahoo has many more "properties" that could bring in revenue, most of them being in the content arena. I've been using my.yahoo.com since the late 90s, and they continue to improve it...i dont need to go to mail for one thing, news.whatever for another, sports. whatever for something else, its all there, plus all my RSS feeds. But Google will surely have something like this soon and of course slashdot will post an article that Google has made a revolutionary breakthrough with a customizable portal page....sigh
The difference between housing prices and the dotcom bubble is that there never WAS a demand for most of the services the dotcom companies were offering. There will ALWAYS be a demand for housing. Especially in areas like DC, NY, and LA where the housing prices are growing the worst. I agree that the level of prices is getting rediculous (here in DC if you want a 3 bedroom single family home its $500,000 minimum, and you fight with six other people to win the bid). But more and more people keep coming to DC, so the demand will continue to be there unless the government (in the case of DC), the financial sector (in the case of new york) or the entertainment industry (LA) tanked. Either way, people have to live somewhere, so its not like your house will be worthless ever, you just may stop experiencing 300% returns on your investment.
It will be the most realistic game ever. All of your actions will have a consequence with everything you encounter...story arcs will be so vast you can't even fathom them. The amount of detail will be rediculous.
5 years later
Game comes out. You play for 3 hours. Your character looks evil. You put the game away and never play again.
I couldn't agree more! I used to be a huge PC gamer but I hated having to buy a video card that cost as much as my pc every year, and a processor/motherboard every other year....i've resigned myself to only play games on the consoles, despite the worse graphics, but now i'm loathing the fact that there are 3 consoles that each put out good games so i spend even more money buying console hardware...and now that i've caught up, the next gen ones are coming out....i miss the old days where EVERY game that mattered came out on just the NES.
Ground antennas are in regular contact with the spacecraft, which are expected to last until at least 2020 before giving out as their plutonium batteries decay.
Man i need to get some of these for my Wavebird controller.
sorry, i think i was thinking of when Bangladesh played India? It was some southeast asian team. As you may notice from my original post, i'm not a cricket fan.
The best part about this feature is maybe finally my front sports page for Yahoo will have American sports instead of Cricket, Euro league soccer, and whatever random sports are played elsewhere in the world that for some reason come up in the US version of the news portal. I remember the day after the Red Sox won the world series, it wasnt even on the front page cuz Indonesia beat India in a cricket match or something.
I think google should be concerned about a guaranteed customer base...a good article on thestreet.com pointed out today that some students in Shanghai could come up with a better search tommorow and we would switch (we all switched from Webcrawler, to alta vista to yahoo and then to google...i personally have no loyalty). All these new features they are putting out now are attempts to get people locked into their services. Not that an ISP would be the way they would go, but if it works for yahoo they may.
I know this redundant, but seriously MSN and Yahoo have had this since the late 90s. Google news's popularity despite having this functionality should have been the story.
Successful companies produce "profit" not necessarily "customer satisfaction". There are plenty of sucessful companies that produce a crappy product and have angry end users, but a company that makes everyone happy and doesnt collect a dime wouldn't be considered "sucessful" by many...
Unions usually start out with good intentions, and us coders would get better hours, better working conditions, fair wages etc...but eventually every union turns into a monster. Because once it has accomplished its primary goal, it doesn't know what to do...so it keeps pushing and pushing for more. Want your job to be outsourced quicker? Unionize. You've seen it in the automotive, airline, and sports teams unions that the union keeps pushing for higher and higher wages to the point where a guy that screws car seats in for a living makes $35 an hour, and an airline can no longer make a profit, or a hockey season gets cancelled. Unions make competition with other countries and non unionized companies extremely difficult. (Part of the reason Walmart makes so much profit). I know all the pro-union people may jump down my back, but this is coming from someone who's from 3 generations of union workers.
I have VOIP at work and its great...i've never once experienced any kind of break up, and calls sound as clear or clearer then normal. You also get lots of neat digital features on the phone itself that make VOIP even more useful.
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A monopoly is exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition and that esp. is developed willfully rather than as the result of superior products or skill.
Microsoft is a monopoly, because they did do both of those things.
I'll agree that Nintendo is not a "true" monopoly by definition, but it is a monopoly by the same definition that Microsoft is one. Microsoft did not have EXCLUSIVE control of the software or operating system market. Macintosh and unix combined even in the 90s was still over 5% of personal computers. Nintendo has pretty much held 95% of the portable gaming market, and as such could fix prices in the same way that Microsoft could fix prices....but neither really do. Microsoft has never had 100% exclusivity of any aspect of the software market...especially not in the same way that Standard Oil or AT&T had corners of their markets.
Just to be devils advocate, by your count Microsoft is not a monopoly, because these companies have tried to take a shot at what they do:
IBM
Apple
Lotus
Real
Sun
RedHat
etc...
Almost all of these systems were more powerful than the Game Boy, and some of them had extra features that the GB didn't have. Why did they fail?
Poor battery life and price. Sound familiar?
All these operating systems/application vendors had better features then Microsoft, and some of them had extra features that Microsoft didn't have. Why did they fail?
Poor developer and third party vendor support. Sound familiar?
Please don't pick apart what i said above on technicalities, my only argument is that having competition take an attempt at you doesn't mean your not a monopoly.
A server's up/down status has nothing to do with the programming language/framework used, and more to do with the http daemon and server load....they could be using just plain html and the servers would still be going down as often. I guess you could be making the case that ASP.NET is crashing the server because of high overhead or buggy code or something, but I have never had a .NET server (even high volume) crash because it was running ASP.NET...
I like how everyone has to make this a versus thing...buy both! If you have to buy one, just look at the games, since that is the biggest "real" difference in my opinion. PSP can have graphics that make me feel i'm looking through pane-glass at the real world, but if none of the games interest me, i don't care. DS can have a plutonium battery but if it doesn't have any good games whats the difference? All the random specs only matter if they offer the same games, which they dont. As its stands now, DS is the only system of the two that has games that interest me...and its cool it still plays my old games. But thats all anyone needs to base it on, unless your just looking for "show off" appeal, which i think the psp wins hands down just cuz you can be like "look at me i'm watchin' spiderman 2!", but if you like Ridge Racer better then Mario buy a PSP, and vice versa.
Fox in America is trying this same thing already, they cancelled a reality show midseason, and as a consolation to fans they posted the final episodes online. Some TV you can't get for free because it just wasn't aired.
Something i learned while working in retail is write "check id" in the signature block...not everyone checks, but i usually get at least 60% of the people ask me for id...so it would at least slow down someone having a spending spree with my card.
Any Steinbeck is to be recommended, other greats are Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, and Cannery Row....however I don't think any Steinbeck is in the public domain since they were published in the 30's-60's, and I think thats all Google is doing
oh ho ho, just give it a few months and google will come out with a simplified looking version of a similar idea, and we will have a minimum of 50 slashdot articles talking about this ingenious new google product and how its so much better cuz it uses javascript and xml, and then 20 more articles talking about how they work their magic, and finally 10 more articles about how france is suing them for creating such a product because it allows unauthorized pictures of the eifel tower or something.
We've seen enough of Paul Graham's essays now slashdot that we can find his site now. You don't need to post EVERY essay he writes, which is about once a week or two. He wrote the Yahoo store, he didn't create cold fusion...I will scream if I see one more article from him about what people should do to be like him, when his advice always involves using the word "hack" 50 times, and his advice is more or less irrelevant anyways. People like he and Mark Cuban got really lucky when Yahoo was handing out mad dot com dollars, that doesn't make them all knowing business or coding oracles. Show me a person that started a sucessful company in the dot crash era of 2001-2002, and i'll listen more closely to their advice.
RTFA? There are no "tech stocks" mentioned here, and it in no way relates to the "real" stock market, which involves trading of securities. This is just a game that acts like the securities market in that you can buy and sell tech concepts based on their buzz level
The subject of the original post makes it sound like Yahoo is down and out and what can they do to possibly compete with the monster that is google....in reality Yahoo currently makes more money then Google...sure Google has a slightly higher Market Cap, but thats only cuz people havn't learned their dotcom stock evaluation lessons. Yahoo already has more tools to compete with Google, at least financially. Yahoo has many more "properties" that could bring in revenue, most of them being in the content arena. I've been using my.yahoo.com since the late 90s, and they continue to improve it...i dont need to go to mail for one thing, news.whatever for another, sports. whatever for something else, its all there, plus all my RSS feeds. But Google will surely have something like this soon and of course slashdot will post an article that Google has made a revolutionary breakthrough with a customizable portal page....sigh
This idea was already implemented on GameCube (with gameboy advance), it just wasn't wireless.
The difference between housing prices and the dotcom bubble is that there never WAS a demand for most of the services the dotcom companies were offering. There will ALWAYS be a demand for housing. Especially in areas like DC, NY, and LA where the housing prices are growing the worst. I agree that the level of prices is getting rediculous (here in DC if you want a 3 bedroom single family home its $500,000 minimum, and you fight with six other people to win the bid). But more and more people keep coming to DC, so the demand will continue to be there unless the government (in the case of DC), the financial sector (in the case of new york) or the entertainment industry (LA) tanked. Either way, people have to live somewhere, so its not like your house will be worthless ever, you just may stop experiencing 300% returns on your investment.
I very much look forward to the result.
It will be the most realistic game ever. All of your actions will have a consequence with everything you encounter...story arcs will be so vast you can't even fathom them. The amount of detail will be rediculous.
5 years later
Game comes out. You play for 3 hours. Your character looks evil. You put the game away and never play again.
I couldn't agree more! I used to be a huge PC gamer but I hated having to buy a video card that cost as much as my pc every year, and a processor/motherboard every other year....i've resigned myself to only play games on the consoles, despite the worse graphics, but now i'm loathing the fact that there are 3 consoles that each put out good games so i spend even more money buying console hardware...and now that i've caught up, the next gen ones are coming out....i miss the old days where EVERY game that mattered came out on just the NES.
Ground antennas are in regular contact with the spacecraft, which are expected to last until at least 2020 before giving out as their plutonium batteries decay.
Man i need to get some of these for my Wavebird controller.
sorry, i think i was thinking of when Bangladesh played India? It was some southeast asian team. As you may notice from my original post, i'm not a cricket fan.
The best part about this feature is maybe finally my front sports page for Yahoo will have American sports instead of Cricket, Euro league soccer, and whatever random sports are played elsewhere in the world that for some reason come up in the US version of the news portal. I remember the day after the Red Sox won the world series, it wasnt even on the front page cuz Indonesia beat India in a cricket match or something.
I think google should be concerned about a guaranteed customer base...a good article on thestreet.com pointed out today that some students in Shanghai could come up with a better search tommorow and we would switch (we all switched from Webcrawler, to alta vista to yahoo and then to google...i personally have no loyalty). All these new features they are putting out now are attempts to get people locked into their services. Not that an ISP would be the way they would go, but if it works for yahoo they may.
I know this redundant, but seriously MSN and Yahoo have had this since the late 90s. Google news's popularity despite having this functionality should have been the story.
Successful companies produce "profit" not necessarily "customer satisfaction". There are plenty of sucessful companies that produce a crappy product and have angry end users, but a company that makes everyone happy and doesnt collect a dime wouldn't be considered "sucessful" by many...
Unions usually start out with good intentions, and us coders would get better hours, better working conditions, fair wages etc...but eventually every union turns into a monster. Because once it has accomplished its primary goal, it doesn't know what to do...so it keeps pushing and pushing for more. Want your job to be outsourced quicker? Unionize. You've seen it in the automotive, airline, and sports teams unions that the union keeps pushing for higher and higher wages to the point where a guy that screws car seats in for a living makes $35 an hour, and an airline can no longer make a profit, or a hockey season gets cancelled. Unions make competition with other countries and non unionized companies extremely difficult. (Part of the reason Walmart makes so much profit). I know all the pro-union people may jump down my back, but this is coming from someone who's from 3 generations of union workers.
It adds up to 15 cents by my calculator
I thought Apple only made $.01 on each song? Is that after administrative costs or something?
I have VOIP at work and its great...i've never once experienced any kind of break up, and calls sound as clear or clearer then normal. You also get lots of neat digital features on the phone itself that make VOIP even more useful.