1) Continue to produce a less than optimally secure product. Symantex thrives, and the world still bashes MS for putting out an insecure OS. Except now since Symantec legally FORCED them to release an insecure OS which they KNEW to be Insecure they can be sued for producing a known faulty product.
2) Integrate better security to show you're trying to fix the problems in the OS (which is what Symantec has made it's livelihood doing for MS) and have Symantec sue you for being evil enough to produce a good product which makes theirs less needed or obsolete.
As for the Adobe part... If Adobe makes PDF an open standard, and MS implements the open standard then Adobe doesn't have a leg to stand on. Or will we see a new version of GPL licensing that says "anybody can use this, except Microsoft".
There was a time when companies made great money providing cup holders you could put into your car. In time, cars started having cup holders built into them.
The lesson here is. INNOVATE and make money, continue to INNOVATE to keep making it. Stop innovating and stop making money. If you can't innovate? LITIGATE!
Our brave US Attorney General is trying to get congress to make ISP's track every website you visit so you can go back to avoiding things you don't want others to know about.
You mean they're enjoying the concept of OWNING music they like. Dude.. You just can't do that, the music wants to be free!!! FREE I TELL YOU!!!..
Oh... um... wait... I just got a memo from the RIAA, they say that they had dinner with "Music" last night and after a few drinks Music agreed that it would much rather simply be rented.
Can we put something in vynil records that will make them dissolve after 30 or 60 days?
Burgulars and Rapists use CARS to get from place to place. We obviously need to have all gas stations track who fills up at them, and have all intersections have cameras on them that could.. oh.. um.. nevermind
What you fail to see here is that the reviewer apparently already had in mind what they wanted to say about MicroSoft and this project. That being "I'm underwhelmed and they could have done better." Then wrote the article. The article and what the author wanted to say dont have to strictly have any bearing on one another. You're trying to peddle your silly logic around here and sir, we simply aren't buying it!
This boggles my mind a little as I get over 20 MPG on my old 1995 olds. AND it has a 6 cylinder engine in it. I don't do anything incredible to the car, just regular (5k miles) oil changes and regular unleaded gas in it. Once a year I get the plugs changed and a tune up the day before I get it inspected.
I'm just one of those silly people who doesn't feel the compelling need to have a car so new I never see a month without a car payment. The wife and I have an agreement, she has a car with a car payment, when it's paid off we'll look at upgrading me. But even then ONLY if the olds has given out.
It's the one futures market most people encounter.
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Gas prices are driven because of the spot market on oil, and the way it's basically a "futures market".
American consumers don't have to deal with the extreme volatility that is involved with such a rampantly speculative market on a day to day basis, EXCEPT when it comes to gas prices. This makes them a lot more visible than other speculative swings.
Ahem.. Please refer to this previous comment involving how these numbers were already for the most part debunked. Exit polling is a very inexact science no matter what the people paid to do exit polling tell you.
I watched the trailer they put together with some samples. Whereas some of the effects look different and definitely more modern. For the purist the real perk is that they remastered all the episodes from the original filstock they were filmed on. Doing a half and half shot of the same scene you see one half which is sharp, clear, and the colors jump out well, and the other half looks like someone filmed it.. through lard.
You're obviously new around here... I'd like to welcome you to Slashdot. If you check by the registration page there should be a phamplet with the pre-requisite quick snappy responses such as..
"I blame Bush" "Windows blows" "I can't wait for the Wii to come out"
It's easy once you get in the hang of things.
As for the article and topic. The question becomes will there be some measure to defeat this legislation before it becomes law there. And is this an effort by Australia to prove it's more media cartel friendly than the US, or just a play by the media cartels to see if they can test the waters there before bringing that same legislation here to the US.
I think you're confusing the concept of "razor and blades" marketing to "Intellectual Property" controlled marketing.
"Razor and Blades" is the concept that you sell the base unit (i.e. console or razor) at a loss becuase you sell the consumable (games or blades) as enough or a markup to make the money back and then some. Because once they buy a razor from you they have to come back and buy blades every week. In the long run that can be more profitable by giving the razor away.
"Intellectual property control" marketing is the process of licensing others to produce goods which work with your platform. This is what Nintendo did with the chips in the nintendo cartridges. Sony and MC both do this to developers of games for their respective platforms. In effect this is like patenting your razor, then charging the blade companies royalties to make blades for your razor.
That won't be called a 3rd party improvement. It will on the other hand be called a "warranty voiding unauthorized modification to your device", i.e... a hack.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I can't wait to see that be possible, so that straight up MP3's can be beamed across. Of course the RIAA will not stand for that and try to have the technology declared a violation of the DMCA.
From the "how this could be used legally" department. Imagine being a local band, gigging around town. You have your little merch table where people can buy your CD's, shirts, g-strings, whatever. You also have your merch guy running a laptop which has a "zune distribution app" on it. Anybody with a Zune at the show get's a beep saying "Want to download a sample track of the latest CD for free?"
Which was echoed by Sean Connery in the Untouchables.
One must strive when fighting monsters to ensure that he not become the monster himself.
I think that applies to if Google is going to hire astroturfing firms to try to influence congress. Appropriately enough I think a good reference to the old "ends justifying the means" argument can be made here as well.
They are trying to push MS into a no win situation.
A) MS doesn't include as complete and inclusive security as possible. This leaves the doors open for third party security developers, it also leaves the door open to the OS for malevolent people who will take advantage of the fact that many people won't think to add a product later for security.
B) MS includes all the security they can, possibly making it so that people don't need third party software for security. BAM new anti-trust action because they aren't being fair to people who made a living covering bad MS security architecture in a previous version and aren't being given an equally bad architecture to help "protect" for a profit this go around.
People complain that MS releases insecure OS products, then complain when they want to include more security features?!? bah
I won't even get into how Apple is bundling everything they can under the sun into OS X when the same actions by MS would be tantamount to kicking the interwebs dog.
I have an ex who worked for Blockbuster for quite some time.
They were developing methods for on-line rentals and even on-demend video distribution back in about 1999 IIRC. Netflix was actually copying Blockbusters model , only doing it on line, until then. (Having late fees, etc, making people pay for postage).
They will be deperately hard pressed to prove they innovated many , if any, of these business practices, and I believe some of their patents could actually be thrown out because of being brought to the light of day like this.
I despise with a passion "business model patents" which basically say "we figured out how to do business, don't you dare try to compete with us!"
One would expect a lowest common demoninator cable to come with the box, and then fancier cables to be purchasable...
Unless of course one of your main selling points to the system was the high definition drive on it which would require a higher priced cable to get full utilization out of.. Of course nobody would do that, right?
Back on topic... I look forward to the glove, Especially with some of the potential combinations of glove + Wiimote. (i.e. KotR style game where you would have a glove to do force power gestures with your left hand while light sabering with your right. Possible geekgasm territory there.)
I would also really love to see some of the possibilities of a "DS as remote controller" options. Imagine football games where you could practice, create your playbook, store your playbook on your DS, then go to a friends house and play him with your DS as your coaches clipboard.
But I was mentioning this with a buddy at work. He came up with a completely Whedonesque explanation.
Early (from Objects in space) and the operative (from the movie) were clones from a batch. Take a wild guess who the original/prototype of the cloning would have been.
Good point about Book. But I am willing to place bets Book would have been the foreshadowed version of what would happen/become of the operative they sent after her in the movie. Basically Book is a glimpse 15 years into the future of the operative. (Whedon loves the occasional "it's all a big circle" story)
As a side note, it pissed my wife off to no ends with what happened to Book in the movie. I thought she was going to build a pipe bomb for Mr Whendon after the untimey demise of a certain other character...
I am thinking at this point they need something to come out with the Ps3 that really shakes up the community some. Something which will make people go to the PS3...
The problem is the more they delay, the higher the price, the bigger that "something" needs to be.
At this point I think it has to be a coupon redeemable for either a pony, or a years pass to a seedy massage parlour or you choice.
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Microsoft has two options.
1) Continue to produce a less than optimally secure product. Symantex thrives, and the world still bashes MS for putting out an insecure OS. Except now since Symantec legally FORCED them to release an insecure OS which they KNEW to be Insecure they can be sued for producing a known faulty product.
2) Integrate better security to show you're trying to fix the problems in the OS (which is what Symantec has made it's livelihood doing for MS) and have Symantec sue you for being evil enough to produce a good product which makes theirs less needed or obsolete.
As for the Adobe part... If Adobe makes PDF an open standard, and MS implements the open standard then Adobe doesn't have a leg to stand on. Or will we see a new version of GPL licensing that says "anybody can use this, except Microsoft".
There was a time when companies made great money providing cup holders you could put into your car. In time, cars started having cup holders built into them.
The lesson here is. INNOVATE and make money, continue to INNOVATE to keep making it. Stop innovating and stop making money. If you can't innovate? LITIGATE!
I can imagine it as some kinda of SNMP trap sent from the microwave to the toilet warning it of "abusive traffic headed your way"
Our brave US Attorney General is trying to get congress to make ISP's track every website you visit so you can go back to avoiding things you don't want others to know about.
You mean they're enjoying the concept of OWNING music they like. Dude.. You just can't do that, the music wants to be free!!! FREE I TELL YOU!!!..
Oh... um... wait... I just got a memo from the RIAA, they say that they had dinner with "Music" last night and after a few drinks Music agreed that it would much rather simply be rented.
Can we put something in vynil records that will make them dissolve after 30 or 60 days?
Burgulars and Rapists use CARS to get from place to place. We obviously need to have all gas stations track who fills up at them, and have all intersections have cameras on them that could.. oh.. um.. nevermind
What you fail to see here is that the reviewer apparently already had in mind what they wanted to say about MicroSoft and this project. That being "I'm underwhelmed and they could have done better." Then wrote the article. The article and what the author wanted to say dont have to strictly have any bearing on one another. You're trying to peddle your silly logic around here and sir, we simply aren't buying it!
This boggles my mind a little as I get over 20 MPG on my old 1995 olds. AND it has a 6 cylinder engine in it. I don't do anything incredible to the car, just regular (5k miles) oil changes and regular unleaded gas in it. Once a year I get the plugs changed and a tune up the day before I get it inspected.
I'm just one of those silly people who doesn't feel the compelling need to have a car so new I never see a month without a car payment. The wife and I have an agreement, she has a car with a car payment, when it's paid off we'll look at upgrading me. But even then ONLY if the olds has given out.
Gas prices are driven because of the spot market on oil, and the way it's basically a "futures market".
American consumers don't have to deal with the extreme volatility that is involved with such a rampantly speculative market on a day to day basis, EXCEPT when it comes to gas prices. This makes them a lot more visible than other speculative swings.
Ahem.. Please refer to this previous comment involving how these numbers were already for the most part debunked. Exit polling is a very inexact science no matter what the people paid to do exit polling tell you.
No sir... REpeat..
I watched the trailer they put together with some samples. Whereas some of the effects look different and definitely more modern. For the purist the real perk is that they remastered all the episodes from the original filstock they were filmed on. Doing a half and half shot of the same scene you see one half which is sharp, clear, and the colors jump out well, and the other half looks like someone filmed it.. through lard.
That this product in and of itself will not prosper.
On the other hand, someone will find a way to hack a better , more open OS onto it, using it's hardware capabilities. And they will have a hit.
Or MS will abandon it and whoever is doing the OEM manufacture of the hardware will sell it to a company wiloling to put an open OS on it.
I can always dream and hope.
You're obviously new around here... I'd like to welcome you to Slashdot. If you check by the registration page there should be a phamplet with the pre-requisite quick snappy responses such as..
"I blame Bush"
"Windows blows"
"I can't wait for the Wii to come out"
It's easy once you get in the hang of things.
As for the article and topic. The question becomes will there be some measure to defeat this legislation before it becomes law there. And is this an effort by Australia to prove it's more media cartel friendly than the US, or just a play by the media cartels to see if they can test the waters there before bringing that same legislation here to the US.
I think you're confusing the concept of "razor and blades" marketing to "Intellectual Property" controlled marketing.
"Razor and Blades" is the concept that you sell the base unit (i.e. console or razor) at a loss becuase you sell the consumable (games or blades) as enough or a markup to make the money back and then some. Because once they buy a razor from you they have to come back and buy blades every week. In the long run that can be more profitable by giving the razor away.
"Intellectual property control" marketing is the process of licensing others to produce goods which work with your platform. This is what Nintendo did with the chips in the nintendo cartridges. Sony and MC both do this to developers of games for their respective platforms. In effect this is like patenting your razor, then charging the blade companies royalties to make blades for your razor.
That first one there...
.. a hack.
That won't be called a 3rd party improvement. It will on the other hand be called a "warranty voiding unauthorized modification to your device", i.e.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I can't wait to see that be possible, so that straight up MP3's can be beamed across. Of course the RIAA will not stand for that and try to have the technology declared a violation of the DMCA.
From the "how this could be used legally" department. Imagine being a local band, gigging around town. You have your little merch table where people can buy your CD's, shirts, g-strings, whatever. You also have your merch guy running a laptop which has a "zune distribution app" on it. Anybody with a Zune at the show get's a beep saying "Want to download a sample track of the latest CD for free?"
I could see that being very pervasive.
Which was echoed by Sean Connery in the Untouchables.
One must strive when fighting monsters to ensure that he not become the monster himself.
I think that applies to if Google is going to hire astroturfing firms to try to influence congress. Appropriately enough I think a good reference to the old "ends justifying the means" argument can be made here as well.
It's a TRAP!
They are trying to push MS into a no win situation.
A) MS doesn't include as complete and inclusive security as possible. This leaves the doors open for third party security developers, it also leaves the door open to the OS for malevolent people who will take advantage of the fact that many people won't think to add a product later for security.
B) MS includes all the security they can, possibly making it so that people don't need third party software for security. BAM new anti-trust action because they aren't being fair to people who made a living covering bad MS security architecture in a previous version and aren't being given an equally bad architecture to help "protect" for a profit this go around.
People complain that MS releases insecure OS products, then complain when they want to include more security features?!? bah
I won't even get into how Apple is bundling everything they can under the sun into OS X when the same actions by MS would be tantamount to kicking the interwebs dog.
Any word on when this build will be on a Knoppmyth ISO?
Will it be interesting enough for some enterprising Dvd-Jon type person come up with a crack for their DRM.
Once cracked, THEN you could burn DVD's, and move the media to use as you see fit...
Then it would be a worthwhile way to purchase media IMHO. Which of course the media producing companies will have no part it.
I have an ex who worked for Blockbuster for quite some time.
They were developing methods for on-line rentals and even on-demend video distribution back in about 1999 IIRC. Netflix was actually copying Blockbusters model , only doing it on line, until then. (Having late fees, etc, making people pay for postage).
They will be deperately hard pressed to prove they innovated many , if any, of these business practices, and I believe some of their patents could actually be thrown out because of being brought to the light of day like this.
I despise with a passion "business model patents" which basically say "we figured out how to do business, don't you dare try to compete with us!"
One would expect a lowest common demoninator cable to come with the box, and then fancier cables to be purchasable...
Unless of course one of your main selling points to the system was the high definition drive on it which would require a higher priced cable to get full utilization out of.. Of course nobody would do that, right?
Back on topic... I look forward to the glove, Especially with some of the potential combinations of glove + Wiimote. (i.e. KotR style game where you would have a glove to do force power gestures with your left hand while light sabering with your right. Possible geekgasm territory there.)
I would also really love to see some of the possibilities of a "DS as remote controller" options. Imagine football games where you could practice, create your playbook, store your playbook on your DS, then go to a friends house and play him with your DS as your coaches clipboard.
I have dual replying....
But I was mentioning this with a buddy at work. He came up with a completely Whedonesque explanation.
Early (from Objects in space) and the operative (from the movie) were clones from a batch. Take a wild guess who the original/prototype of the cloning would have been.
Good point about Book. But I am willing to place bets Book would have been the foreshadowed version of what would happen/become of the operative they sent after her in the movie. Basically Book is a glimpse 15 years into the future of the operative. (Whedon loves the occasional "it's all a big circle" story)
As a side note, it pissed my wife off to no ends with what happened to Book in the movie. I thought she was going to build a pipe bomb for Mr Whendon after the untimey demise of a certain other character...
I am thinking at this point they need something to come out with the Ps3 that really shakes up the community some. Something which will make people go to the PS3...
The problem is the more they delay, the higher the price, the bigger that "something" needs to be.
At this point I think it has to be a coupon redeemable for either a pony, or a years pass to a seedy massage parlour or you choice.