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Agreed. Microsoft proper is a long way from going red on any individual product. They can certainly afford to take huges losses (if they want to, and if the courts will let them) on a console system to destroy competitors and claim the entire market for themselves. They won't though, since doing so would clearly make them guilty of using unfair, anti-competitive, monopolistic practices designed to do, well, exactly what they want to do -- eliminate all competition and maximize their profit.
I wouldn't count on MS tooperate "in the red" on the 360, but they will likely slash prices once the PS3 is launched. They'll use every trick in the book to encourage development for their system while keeping their hardware prices at least equal to the lowest in the industry. MS will learn from its mistakes in the Xbox v. PS2 war, and will use its overall strong financial standing to dominate as much as possible without operating what can be inferred to be a monopoly. They've plenty of though into this (beating the PS3 to market is key) and really do not want to lose this round.
Napoleon Dynamite is a very funny movie. However, Napoleon is not a geek, he is a friggin retard. You can not argue with this statement; Napoleon defies explanation, other than that of "retard". Some might argue that he is a freak, or perhaps a spaz or goober, though he is most certainly not a geek or nerd, and most likely is a retard, or perhaps even a fruitloop or yo-yo. End of thread.
If computers were as well-evolved as some of us like to think they are, you wouldn't need to be an expert to use on for simple day-to-day tasks. Most people just want to be able to do their banking/news reading/pr0n viewing/email online and be able to type a letter when needed and have no desire to learn about linux or how to protect themselves from every new type of malicious attack.
It really shouldn't be so hard or time consuming to operate a simple home PC. I enjoy being informed, but most people just want a machine that works. Maybe the end users are not the idiots, so much as the designers are. How many years of development have gone into these machines/operating systems that are so vulnerable to so many threats? Maybe the average PC shouldn't be capable of playing Halflife5 or BF4 at 1192FPS at a resolution of 23902 x 9856, but why can't it run a browser, a word processor and an email app without fear of it becoming a zombie?
Sean
just my opinion
>(*) I truly have no idea how one backs up a petabyte
Okay, you know how those flash keystick thingies are starting to look really cheap? You just get about....
"I actually wonder about some of those -stan prefixed former Russian countries...do they exist?"
Actually, most of them have been discovered by our traders recently. Afghanistan and Kyrgystan are roughly near Russia, India and Iran, which are well know. They are also located among Tajikistan, Krzyzewskistan, Qwertyuiopistan, Khakistan. Make note, these "stan"-suffixed countries are entirely desolate and uninhabited, except for large numbers of foreigners.
"The Associated Press is reporting that the small European nation of Estonia has conducted large-scale voting over the internet."
Isn't it incorrect to use "Estonia" and "large-scale" in the same sentence?
I'm sure this would work REALLY uber-well in the poor neighborhoods of the US that have the problems with long lines at polling places. Internet voting should also work great to keep folks in all the tiny outlying villages in the interior of Africa from having to walk three days to get to polling places. Now if these folks would only stop wasting their money on frivolous items like food medicine and instead buy modern computers capable of running XP and IE, we'd be set! Until they do that, they must not really want to vote, anyway.
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Agreed. Microsoft proper is a long way from going red on any individual product. They can certainly afford to take huges losses (if they want to, and if the courts will let them) on a console system to destroy competitors and claim the entire market for themselves. They won't though, since doing so would clearly make them guilty of using unfair, anti-competitive, monopolistic practices designed to do, well, exactly what they want to do -- eliminate all competition and maximize their profit. I wouldn't count on MS tooperate "in the red" on the 360, but they will likely slash prices once the PS3 is launched. They'll use every trick in the book to encourage development for their system while keeping their hardware prices at least equal to the lowest in the industry. MS will learn from its mistakes in the Xbox v. PS2 war, and will use its overall strong financial standing to dominate as much as possible without operating what can be inferred to be a monopoly. They've plenty of though into this (beating the PS3 to market is key) and really do not want to lose this round.
Napoleon Dynamite is a very funny movie. However, Napoleon is not a geek, he is a friggin retard. You can not argue with this statement; Napoleon defies explanation, other than that of "retard". Some might argue that he is a freak, or perhaps a spaz or goober, though he is most certainly not a geek or nerd, and most likely is a retard, or perhaps even a fruitloop or yo-yo. End of thread.
If computers were as well-evolved as some of us like to think they are, you wouldn't need to be an expert to use on for simple day-to-day tasks. Most people just want to be able to do their banking/news reading/pr0n viewing/email online and be able to type a letter when needed and have no desire to learn about linux or how to protect themselves from every new type of malicious attack. It really shouldn't be so hard or time consuming to operate a simple home PC. I enjoy being informed, but most people just want a machine that works. Maybe the end users are not the idiots, so much as the designers are. How many years of development have gone into these machines/operating systems that are so vulnerable to so many threats? Maybe the average PC shouldn't be capable of playing Halflife5 or BF4 at 1192FPS at a resolution of 23902 x 9856, but why can't it run a browser, a word processor and an email app without fear of it becoming a zombie? Sean just my opinion
>(*) I truly have no idea how one backs up a petabyte
Okay, you know how those flash keystick thingies are starting to look really cheap? You just get about....
"I actually wonder about some of those -stan prefixed former Russian countries...do they exist?"
Actually, most of them have been discovered by our traders recently. Afghanistan and Kyrgystan are roughly near Russia, India and Iran, which are well know. They are also located among Tajikistan, Krzyzewskistan, Qwertyuiopistan, Khakistan. Make note, these "stan"-suffixed countries are entirely desolate and uninhabited, except for large numbers of foreigners.
"The Associated Press is reporting that the small European nation of Estonia has conducted large-scale voting over the internet." Isn't it incorrect to use "Estonia" and "large-scale" in the same sentence? I'm sure this would work REALLY uber-well in the poor neighborhoods of the US that have the problems with long lines at polling places. Internet voting should also work great to keep folks in all the tiny outlying villages in the interior of Africa from having to walk three days to get to polling places. Now if these folks would only stop wasting their money on frivolous items like food medicine and instead buy modern computers capable of running XP and IE, we'd be set! Until they do that, they must not really want to vote, anyway.