I agree partially. Since microsoft doesn't control the supply chain nor the whole technology in OS's, it's called a market monopoly, insted of a full monopoly.
People still want, believe it or not, the best product. And microsoft has it. At least for the everyday consumer.
Still, my grandpa bought, by mistake, a Linux installed laptop. Can't say that he loved it. But the option was there.
If I had the same opportunities that were created by Microsoft over the years, I would do exactly the same thing. Create a market, develop it so that everyone relate to your product as the ultimate or the only way. That is just good business. And now, with PC prices getting in their lowest marks ever, you can realize that all the scare tactics used by windows haters don't really connect with reality, since they post them on blogs while running macs, linux or other OS's. It's ambiguous because microsoft made a lot of money on the way, not because the product is half baked or require months of research before even installing (like the first linuxes)
I'm not a microsoft lover, I'm a business man. And as a business man, I gotta respect them. They did a hell of a job well done.
they do that to the '07 engines in any foundry. Just clean them and throw them back into the oven, keeping a few bunch to sell as parts (MUCH more expensive).
that doesn't make any sense at all. so if I go to a retail store and ask for a 2007 corvette and all they have is a brand new, I should buy the new one and they would trade it for me?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. But it's their product and it's your choice. WINDOWS IS A PRODUCT, NOT A RIGHT!
Microsoft is in fact a company (And a big one). It's a company that provides products and services for money. People seem to think that's somehow a crime, forgetting that their own revenue come from selling services.
So if you are not happy with what you bought and ask something extra, you should be charged. If Microsoft doesn't charge you for it, talk to me and I'll receive something for their work (now that doesn't make any sense, right?)
if you consider an old article posted a few weeks ago that makes all scientific assumptions 10 to 100 times more innacurate than their first presumption only by being "possibily" based on false or wrong hypothesis, you will find that it's easier getting hummer sales back on track than finding the lord all mighty's particle
yeah, I already have. But my "jetpack" would run on wind, and it was bigger and colorfull. And it was made with no parts whatsoever, just plain fabric and ropes!
I even said "I can see my house from up here!" giggling and pointing randomly towards the horizon.
Those damn kids' ball went through my window and knocked off the router... now all internet contents regarding my participation in the vietnam war are down! I'm telling your parents!
taxpayers don't realise that everything comes with a price tag. The infra structure provided in those two states greatly exceeds the proporcional increase in one's tax pay.
basically, if you want to live in a city that has more job opportunities, higher GP per capita, culture and entertainment for the masses, better highways, subway systems, metropolitan trains, nightlife, health system, progressive education (creationism? really?), that normally comes with a price tag.
it's the collision crisis I mentioned in the other article (about the subs)
planes, subs, asteroids, lhc's little blackhole stove, satellites...
we are doomed. it's only getting worse. but you'll eventually collide to this conclusion
forget the credit crunch. it's the collision crisis that will doom us all. I can already predict people bumping one another on the streets, cows going to waste on the fields, large buildings tripping the little ones... it's the apocalypse.
sigh. i'm brazilian and I know that that means. Don't use your market logics on this one. There is a market of "generic drugs" here; we basically rip off the main components of the formula, the active principle, and rename it. It's funded by the governament and sometimes 90% cheaper than imported drugs. I used to be neighbours to the owner of one of these labs that made generics; reaaaally rich guy (go figure)
even so, Brazil is today a world reference in AIDS treatment and we have the best govt. coverage for it (US health system is really bellow us in this, but only this)
so there you go
economy in a nutshell
yeah
gosh, we are all so afraid of getting cought with our pants down.. newsflash dude, 99,9% of those situations are self inflicted.
grow a pair and stop bitching when you drunk ass gets to you.
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People still want, believe it or not, the best product. And microsoft has it. At least for the everyday consumer.
Still, my grandpa bought, by mistake, a Linux installed laptop. Can't say that he loved it. But the option was there.
If I had the same opportunities that were created by Microsoft over the years, I would do exactly the same thing. Create a market, develop it so that everyone relate to your product as the ultimate or the only way. That is just good business. And now, with PC prices getting in their lowest marks ever, you can realize that all the scare tactics used by windows haters don't really connect with reality, since they post them on blogs while running macs, linux or other OS's. It's ambiguous because microsoft made a lot of money on the way, not because the product is half baked or require months of research before even installing (like the first linuxes)
I'm not a microsoft lover, I'm a business man. And as a business man, I gotta respect them. They did a hell of a job well done.
I wouldn't want my cat being petted by those gigantic, thick hands.
they do that to the '07 engines in any foundry. Just clean them and throw them back into the oven, keeping a few bunch to sell as parts (MUCH more expensive).
that doesn't make any sense at all. so if I go to a retail store and ask for a 2007 corvette and all they have is a brand new, I should buy the new one and they would trade it for me? If you don't like it, don't buy it. But it's their product and it's your choice. WINDOWS IS A PRODUCT, NOT A RIGHT!
Microsoft is in fact a company (And a big one). It's a company that provides products and services for money. People seem to think that's somehow a crime, forgetting that their own revenue come from selling services. So if you are not happy with what you bought and ask something extra, you should be charged. If Microsoft doesn't charge you for it, talk to me and I'll receive something for their work (now that doesn't make any sense, right?)
oh everybody wants a funny score this days... even if it means overlooking interely the article
if you consider an old article posted a few weeks ago that makes all scientific assumptions 10 to 100 times more innacurate than their first presumption only by being "possibily" based on false or wrong hypothesis, you will find that it's easier getting hummer sales back on track than finding the lord all mighty's particle
yeah, I already have. But my "jetpack" would run on wind, and it was bigger and colorfull. And it was made with no parts whatsoever, just plain fabric and ropes! I even said "I can see my house from up here!" giggling and pointing randomly towards the horizon.
now we only need a drug that makes us afraid of things we want to forget
Those damn kids' ball went through my window and knocked off the router... now all internet contents regarding my participation in the vietnam war are down! I'm telling your parents!
taxpayers don't realise that everything comes with a price tag. The infra structure provided in those two states greatly exceeds the proporcional increase in one's tax pay. basically, if you want to live in a city that has more job opportunities, higher GP per capita, culture and entertainment for the masses, better highways, subway systems, metropolitan trains, nightlife, health system, progressive education (creationism? really?), that normally comes with a price tag.
it's the collision crisis I mentioned in the other article (about the subs) planes, subs, asteroids, lhc's little blackhole stove, satellites... we are doomed. it's only getting worse. but you'll eventually collide to this conclusion
forget the credit crunch. it's the collision crisis that will doom us all. I can already predict people bumping one another on the streets, cows going to waste on the fields, large buildings tripping the little ones... it's the apocalypse.
sigh. i'm brazilian and I know that that means. Don't use your market logics on this one. There is a market of "generic drugs" here; we basically rip off the main components of the formula, the active principle, and rename it. It's funded by the governament and sometimes 90% cheaper than imported drugs. I used to be neighbours to the owner of one of these labs that made generics; reaaaally rich guy (go figure) even so, Brazil is today a world reference in AIDS treatment and we have the best govt. coverage for it (US health system is really bellow us in this, but only this) so there you go economy in a nutshell
yeah gosh, we are all so afraid of getting cought with our pants down.. newsflash dude, 99,9% of those situations are self inflicted. grow a pair and stop bitching when you drunk ass gets to you.