And with most ppl who are still interested in the original NES being aware of roms and emulators it's hard to see to much profiteering at nintendo's expense, not gonna put em in the grave. though speaking of clones it reminds me of that christian game company selling unlicensed cartridges that nintendo wouldn't sue because of fear of bad publicity.
to have a growing conglomerate... despite still being profitable it's a dead-end for any potential buyers, the main thing they have going for them aside from their web portal stuff like AIM is a dwindling user base of 56k users when they could've been an expanding userbase of broadband users... I guess whoever buys them gets millions of $ in profit per month but if the price is something ridiculous like several years of profit at the current rates you gotto wonder how it can be made to grow enough to justify a high price.
next time they try something like this the public outrage will be more muted and eventually they'll get what they want even if it takes a few years, people will lose interest and it'll become as widespread as claria
The ironic thing is they could've achieved the same spying functionality from more traditional/subtle methods with software like Blizzard's anti-cheating software. They were inevitably going to get fried because they incorporated it into a rootkit which is blatantly a trojan and what's worse disabling it could fry your drive.
Remember Gator/Claria manufactors spyware and is on the government privacy board as I recall. Sony spyware is delivered through a rootkit instead and their admonished by the same administration... They could've used a different way to deliver and got away with it so they are just idiots at the end of the day.
realistically you can do any tests to say anything you want and all OS's are going to perform differently depending on the test. with an organisation as big as MS 99% are always going to say windows unequivically performs better but I Guess a few slip out sometimes.
Quake has always been successful even to technically superior games because it always had a high fun factor which many people considered higher than technically advanced games like Unreal. At the end of the day many people just wanted a fast on line game which doesn't require thought or much else other than killing.
It's important people learn more about vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them as it gives bad ammunition to the anti-linux crowd when high publicity things happen like spreadfirefox being hacked when generally and in this example proper patching would've prevented it from happening in the first place.
Support is probably the primary issue why Dell cant realistically start flogging Linux boxes to the general populace. When your selling the cheapest hardware at the cheapest price with low profit margins you cant really afford to lose any money because you have to support every clueless newbie whose never used anything other than Windows and cant understand why his bloody activex banking sites will never load on his new pc.
True though in the meantime their going to have huge legal costs with everything and it's unlikely their going to be capable of sending the likes of Barnes & Noble bankrupt (esp when they have a profitable physical infratructure and can also hire expensive lawyers) and then jack up their prices. I mean so far in Amazon's history you'd have to conclude that it would've been a better business model to put all their $$$ in a savings account than their situation right now unless they suceed in doing what you've mentioned and begin to reap huge profits to offset the past.
Anybody else get the idea Amazon has some sort of vision problem, they spend their time obsessing over one-click patents, mechanical turks and whatever else whilst at the end of the day their profit margins are terrible and only achieving any profit after wasting billions of $... their business model is to philanthropic as they now have even lower profits due to shipping books for flat yearly rates and their still obsessing over moronic patents... the fact that they even pursue such stupid things at great time and legal expense...
Seems with lots of scientific issues as recent news shows beaurocratic morons who know nothing seek useless regulation that will have little affect on anything and only hurt their own economy. I wonder if these guys who decided it'd a good idea to regulate this even have any backgrond in IT though it seems more likely they have no idea a) what they're doing b) what they're talkinga bout.
" Dell would begin to manufacture Apple clones "... presumably without the rights from Apple this would be illegal and is not something your going to see happen. Even in a worst case scenario that it's possible to run it on generic x86 boxes people downloaded bastardized isos of p2p probably aren't Apple's target market and most people aren't going to want that kind of unsupported untested stuff.
Well inflammatory is right but you have to expect that this would piss anyone off quite a lot if it's such a recurring theme and people have no intention to change their attitude some action had to be taken.
Some people associate cheaper price with lower quality so unless the price is so low that people would just buy it anyway it could backfire. Remember Beta was cheaper than VHS and didn't sell nearly as much.
Whilst frivolous patent are inherently bad and shows the system doesn't work in the real world it might be a necessary defence to avoid future legal problems. So just hope they can stay non-profit:)
It's unlikely one second-hand dealer is going to change Microsofts fortunes whilst it might be beneficial to him it'd be hard to imagine enough 2nd hand licenses being found to come anywhere close to the ammount of new licenses required daily in terms of volume.
"This is clearly going to take away revenue from the channel and from Microsoft,"
Yeah but how much? MS wouldnt've given the green light if they hadn't analyzed the situation and determined that it was very insignificant to them.
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And with most ppl who are still interested in the original NES being aware of roms and emulators it's hard to see to much profiteering at nintendo's expense, not gonna put em in the grave. though speaking of clones it reminds me of that christian game company selling unlicensed cartridges that nintendo wouldn't sue because of fear of bad publicity.
Couldn't they just shift their online resouces and reincorporate offshore otherwise ... it's not like their resouces cant be moved or something.
to have a growing conglomerate ... despite still being profitable it's a dead-end for any potential buyers, the main thing they have going for them aside from their web portal stuff like AIM is a dwindling user base of 56k users when they could've been an expanding userbase of broadband users ... I guess whoever buys them gets millions of $ in profit per month but if the price is something ridiculous like several years of profit at the current rates you gotto wonder how it can be made to grow enough to justify a high price.
next time they try something like this the public outrage will be more muted and eventually they'll get what they want even if it takes a few years, people will lose interest and it'll become as widespread as claria
The ironic thing is they could've achieved the same spying functionality from more traditional/subtle methods with software like Blizzard's anti-cheating software. They were inevitably going to get fried because they incorporated it into a rootkit which is blatantly a trojan and what's worse disabling it could fry your drive.
Remember Gator/Claria manufactors spyware and is on the government privacy board as I recall. Sony spyware is delivered through a rootkit instead and their admonished by the same administration... They could've used a different way to deliver and got away with it so they are just idiots at the end of the day.
realistically you can do any tests to say anything you want and all OS's are going to perform differently depending on the test. with an organisation as big as MS 99% are always going to say windows unequivically performs better but I Guess a few slip out sometimes.
Quake has always been successful even to technically superior games because it always had a high fun factor which many people considered higher than technically advanced games like Unreal. At the end of the day many people just wanted a fast on line game which doesn't require thought or much else other than killing.
It's important people learn more about vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them as it gives bad ammunition to the anti-linux crowd when high publicity things happen like spreadfirefox being hacked when generally and in this example proper patching would've prevented it from happening in the first place.
Support is probably the primary issue why Dell cant realistically start flogging Linux boxes to the general populace. When your selling the cheapest hardware at the cheapest price with low profit margins you cant really afford to lose any money because you have to support every clueless newbie whose never used anything other than Windows and cant understand why his bloody activex banking sites will never load on his new pc.
True though in the meantime their going to have huge legal costs with everything and it's unlikely their going to be capable of sending the likes of Barnes & Noble bankrupt (esp when they have a profitable physical infratructure and can also hire expensive lawyers) and then jack up their prices. I mean so far in Amazon's history you'd have to conclude that it would've been a better business model to put all their $$$ in a savings account than their situation right now unless they suceed in doing what you've mentioned and begin to reap huge profits to offset the past.
Anybody else get the idea Amazon has some sort of vision problem, they spend their time obsessing over one-click patents, mechanical turks and whatever else whilst at the end of the day their profit margins are terrible and only achieving any profit after wasting billions of $ ... their business model is to philanthropic as they now have even lower profits due to shipping books for flat yearly rates and their still obsessing over moronic patents ... the fact that they even pursue such stupid things at great time and legal expense ...
Seems with lots of scientific issues as recent news shows beaurocratic morons who know nothing seek useless regulation that will have little affect on anything and only hurt their own economy. I wonder if these guys who decided it'd a good idea to regulate this even have any backgrond in IT though it seems more likely they have no idea a) what they're doing b) what they're talkinga bout.
Learn to read .
" Dell would begin to manufacture Apple clones " ... presumably without the rights from Apple this would be illegal and is not something your going to see happen. Even in a worst case scenario that it's possible to run it on generic x86 boxes people downloaded bastardized isos of p2p probably aren't Apple's target market and most people aren't going to want that kind of unsupported untested stuff.
Well inflammatory is right but you have to expect that this would piss anyone off quite a lot if it's such a recurring theme and people have no intention to change their attitude some action had to be taken.
Some people associate cheaper price with lower quality so unless the price is so low that people would just buy it anyway it could backfire. Remember Beta was cheaper than VHS and didn't sell nearly as much.
Whilst frivolous patent are inherently bad and shows the system doesn't work in the real world it might be a necessary defence to avoid future legal problems. So just hope they can stay non-profit :)
It's unlikely one second-hand dealer is going to change Microsofts fortunes whilst it might be beneficial to him it'd be hard to imagine enough 2nd hand licenses being found to come anywhere close to the ammount of new licenses required daily in terms of volume. "This is clearly going to take away revenue from the channel and from Microsoft," Yeah but how much? MS wouldnt've given the green light if they hadn't analyzed the situation and determined that it was very insignificant to them.
Probably lust for gold. Gold motivates everything :)