True, and there are already plenty of actual smartphones for $100 on the market. LG Optimus L3, Samsung Galaxy Pocket, Samsung Galaxy Wave Y to name a few.
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
no, they don't. if you use android for more than 10s you understand that you just switch to whatever app you want, and let the OS manage the lifecycle of the application. go back to windows if you feel you need to exit an application.
Except you know, all those applications that have incessant notifications and live a secret life when you're not looking, literally. Pou wants to be fed! Hey, I thought my kid exited that app...let me try...oh look, now it wants to play. Cute, Task Manager, kill kill kill. But why should I have to? Of course there isn't any way to disallow notifications per app either because that would go against the whole ad based ecosystem.
Here's a simple solution - get your company to upgrade from software that's over 6 years old. Exchange 2010 has been available since November 2009 and works perfectly on Chrome. Imagine that, even says so right in your linked wiki article.
I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood, but did you really just say most teens have a history of violence and justify it as being part of growing up? Seriously? If this is true where you live, you should move. The rest of the world is different.
Keep in mind this was 1969, a new house cost $25k, average wage was $8k, Pontiac Transam was $4k, Cadiallac deVille $6k. Refrigerators, washing machines and such were $150-$200, fruit cost about 10 cents/lb, etc.
Notwithstanding the great non-monetary loss to the family, $100k would be quite a lot more than "basic" back then.
It's thus. At least the 4 different devices our family has bought in the last two years have all come with a USB-microUSB cable and a wall charger with no cord but a USB socket.
All true and agreeable, except that in the real world, or the vast majority of it where cost IS an object, all of this doesn't matter. What good is 5 or 10GHz when it costs many times more than 3GHz? IBM's gear costs so much more than Sun gear which costs so much more than HP gear (initial purchase + support) that for anything but tech startups rolling in VC dough or Fortune500 giants don't usually give much consideration to IBM.
Nevermind that Oracle with its draconian license terms (e.g. have to license an entire VMware cluster if an Oracle DB is running inside a single virtual machine in that cluster) and ever increasing costs is probably doing most of the damage to its own server business on that aspect alone. IBM is probably going to have its mainframe-high end enterprise customers for the next 50 years as well, things just don't change much in large corporations where money is no object.
Just to clarify, that list isn't quite correct either. Different countries measure differently.
For example the 28 days (4 weeks) in Estonia is just that, 4 weeks vacation, not 28 working days (close to 6 weeks of vacation). You are supposed to take it in chunks of at least 1 week obviously, and by law you have to have one vacation of at least 2 weeks in length. For Canada however, the 10 days means 10 working days, so really 2 weeks.
Holidays - again quite a big difference. In Estonia, if a holiday falls on a weekend, it doesn't get carried over to the next week like it does in Canada. So hence some years you'll have more actual holidays than others. In 2010, 7 out of the 12 holiday days in Estonia fall on actual working days. In 2011, only 5.
Sick days - another difference maker. All depends on local labour law and how sick pay is legislated. In Estonia, the first 3 days are considered your "deductible", to use an insurance term, so you don't get paid anything by anyone. Days 4 through 8, your employer pays 70% of your calculated daily wage (calculated from your last 6 months of employment). From day 9 onwards, the state pays 70% of your calculated daily wage (calculated from your previous calendar year's income). In the province of Ontario, Canada, by law you are allowed up to 10 unpaid sick days per year, but most Canadian employers provide paid sick days, some even bankable and some allow it to be paid out if you leave the company.
So all in all, tables such as this are rather meaningless without an actual analysis of the labor laws and practices of each country.
Not to substantiate any parent's claims about PJ not existing, but your response is curious - the proof is supposed to be in a blog post written by a journalist who has firmly sided with PJ in his views, and 70 pages of legalese in PDF with no references to where the point is? This makes an intelligent person?
So, if it isn't fine Caribbean coral, it's not a plant? There's no plants in a sea that's an average of only 50 meters deep (about 170ft for you metrically challenged people)? Just because it isn't pretty doesn't mean it isn't there or important.
But anyway, the problem isn't so much destruction of plant or animal life, the area affected is relatively small, but the fact that the Baltic Sea floor is covered not only with regular ordnance from the Russians and Germans, but also with tons upon tons of chemical weapons from WWII era and probably even more significantly, with untold amounts of industrial chemical waste that was produced during the cold war era and was regularly dumped by the russians into the waters all over the sea.
Web servers aren't of course the only type of servers running out there. You know the whole big shut-off-the-light initiatives all over the world in office buildings? Well this is much of the same. You may not need terminal servers going 24/7, or even some databases that are only used during business hours for internal operations. Or you likely have development, test, live environments - why not shut down dev and test during hours where no one uses them? Or for larger operations, smart monitoring may shut down / start up cluster nodes as necessary, as demand falls or rises.
As other posters have mentioned, it all comes down to economics. If it there is no cost benefit to the server owner then there's no incentive other than goodwill to do any of the above. Currently, I don't know of any provider who separates the electric bill from the rest of your bill - as in if you keep your servers shut off the entire month, you pay nothing, if you draw huge power, well then you get walloped.
In cases of larger operations / data center owners who have their own dedicated data center, then other than the electric bill itself, the huge benefit would be the (un)necessity of upgrading the power infrastructure. Or in cases of capped power in an area (yes, there are some where extra power cannot be had from the utility because their own infrastructure would have to be upgraded and the resulting passed down cost would be unfeasible), the simple fact that you can still add more servers is also incentive enough.
And using a 3000 lb. box (the Prius for example) to carry that same person is a great and efficient idea?
How about a 130lb box, does that make more sense? It sure does, but your buddies are probably going to have a good laugh, nevermind the little pieces of you that are going to be all over the road if you hit anything bigger than a cat.
"Also: a Russian can not be a president of Latvia, also Russian language is _forbidden_ for certain things there. For example, it's against the law to send a bill in Russian (even if it is translated into Latvian)."
[citation needed]
"In Estonia you can say that "The best Russian is a dead Russian", but saying the same about Estonians will land you in the prison."
I can already tell you that is BS. But, again, [citation needed]:)
"Estonian committee on war crimes somehow overlooks all the war crimes committed by Estonians."
Which committee? Which war crimes were committed and by who? Which war crimes have which russians been convicted of there (since you seem to imply that they have)?
The atrocities russians perpetrated even AFTER the war in Estonia (and many many other countries), nevermind during it, should make any russian hang their head in shame. Germany acknowledged its role in the terrible fate of Europe in the 20th century, they've apologized, they've even paid real money to victims, but Russia to this day refuses to acknowledge any such thing. To this day, russians living in countries they happily occupied for 50 years gather to celebrate "victory day", which always comes as a slap in the face to the so called native population of those countries. Nothing like watching a bunch of babushkas celebrate the start of occupation, deportations, tortures, etc.
"But of course, that's a good thing! We can't let those stupid Russians maintain their culture. After all, USSR was the Evil Empire and the practice of Russification was universally condemned by the West. So it's a good thing that we preemptively destroy Russian culture."
Who is destroying russian culture? Nobody is outlawing russians speaking russian to one another, procuring russian language books isn't outlawed, travel to russia isn't restricted, etc. Unlike that which happened during the occupation and russification which you I guess don't condemn at all.
Funny how russians in the US, Canada, Australia, Britain, etc. don't demand that everyone speaks russian to them, don't cry about having to pass citizenship exams, don't yell discrimination when they can't become the president of the US because one has to be a natural born citizen there...Is it maybe because in those countries even the russians themselves would find such expectations ridiculous, but in their former "sphere of influence" it was and still is somehow expected?
"Do you know that it's not Edisson who's invented the lightbulb? And not Marconi who's invented the radio."
Let me guess, you'll next claim Popov invented the radio (not Marconi, not Tesla, not Hertz) and the light bulb was invented by Lodygin (not Edison, not Davy, not Swan):)
"Can you cite examples of unquestionably bad data from a recent (~15 years) Russian textbook?"
Not directly, no, which is why I posed the question. I do however have enough soviet era textbooks to draw a conclusion from though, from your posts I guessed you're going by those, but if not then I guess the propaganda didn't die with the union.
Is that really the russian school textbook version of the story? Because the rest of the world sure doesn't recognize it that way. But hey, no surprise, during the soviet times, all major discoveries were apparently also made by russians and "stolen" by the big bad capitalists in the west. Reading soviet era textbooks is half sad, half hilarious. Propaganda rules though right?
Oh, do tell. In which way are they mistreated and discriminated? Are the poor things being forced to pass a simple official language test as a part of becoming a citizen? Because you know, it's quite difficult to do so even after living in the country for the last N decades?
It always amazes me that when russians emigrate to say New York, they speak passable english within months, but in the formerly occupied countries were they've lived for decades, they still haven't come to grasp it.
In case anyone's wondering, the reason is that in those formerly occupied countries they were previously the "ruling elite" and everyone was forced to speak russian with them. Not so much anymore, and I guess that just hurts inside:)
Funny also that even when Mr. Putin offered a program for those poor repressed russians in other countries to come back home, with financial assistance and all, almost none took up the offer. Yet they still loudly complain about their "terrible treatment".
It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example), but it does very much care that there are russians in pretty much every country in the world - always a nice excuse to claim some sort of mistreatment, fund extremists, react to an inevitable crackdown by the foreign government with sanctions, etc.
So let's see, first Russia supplies weapons and finances to "rebels" within Georgia (ossetian and abkhazi) in the 1990s, because you know, rebels must be aided and such, Russia is so nice and supports minorities all over.
Then Russia has its own rebel problems in Chechnya, yet somehow these are not the good rebels, they must be murdered. So of course after accusing Georgia of harboring some of them, they conduct an air raid in Georgian territory in 2002 and then deny it (this is something of a recurring theme, as in the 2008 bombing of Georgia, Mr. Medvedev also at first claimed Russia didn't bomb anyone and if anything some eager pilots took matters into their own hands)
Then there's the matter of the Russian military. Georgia became independent again in 1991, yet it took 16 years (until 2007) for the Russian military to withdraw from a sovereign country. Now of course there's plans to reoccupy military bases on Georgian territory again, to establish a Black Sea presence. Coincides nicely with the fact that the Russian navy is finally getting kicked out of Ukraine, but then you'd know all about that mr. frustrated russian living in Ukraine:)
What kind of a useless tiny company do you work for that you don't have an employee number, and one that you have to provide in any conversation with HR?:)
Read the lawsuit, it says nothing about his jurisdiction other than to recount his submitted evidence. The sheriff is asking the court to grant a permanent injuction preventing Craigslist from "engaging in the conduct complained of herein". No mention of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, etc.
Further, in the next point, the lawsuit asks the court to order Craigslist to comply with federal, state and municipal laws related to facilitating prostitution. Fine and well, but what that would essentially mean is that for every country/state/city specific page that Craigslist has, they'd be required to specifically research what is allowed and what isn't. If you order them to do this regarding prostitution, why not regarding the sale of any service or good? After all, there are plenty of laws on the books regulating those as well, wildly different in different areas of the world/US/state.
A silly example could be made - we all know the antiquated laws different bodies of law have on the books, or even some very specific small-town regulations. Say Madeuptown, Madeupstate has a municipal law preventing someone from owning more than 1 horse. If that person now buys 2 horses on Craigslist, it would follow that Craigslist is in violation of the court order brought on by sheriff's lawsuit (assuming he had won).
In 2008, in the "Baltic" country of Estonia, some radio stations let drivers phone in the location of speed traps and the announcers let the listeners know in the form of "you can meet our fine patrols at.... and...." and several variations.
I thought this was standard everywhere?
Except they will buy from them again. The real world doesn't have the percentage of zealots that slashdot has, meaning in the real world, a statistically insignificant number of people care about who makes the game they want. They've heard about the game from somewhere, their friends are playing it and now they want it.
You really think someone who wants Unreal Tournament 2010 is going to go "ah crap, that's made by those Epic bastards who screwed me over, forget it, I'll not play that game even though my friends are playing it"
Completely agree with you, but 1 question - why do you want to be able to have the voting power of 2.4 EU citizens? (EU has 728 million, not 300 million+ people like the US)
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True, and there are already plenty of actual smartphones for $100 on the market. LG Optimus L3, Samsung Galaxy Pocket, Samsung Galaxy Wave Y to name a few.
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
no, they don't. if you use android for more than 10s you understand that you just switch to whatever app you want, and let the OS manage the lifecycle of the application. go back to windows if you feel you need to exit an application.
Except you know, all those applications that have incessant notifications and live a secret life when you're not looking, literally. Pou wants to be fed! Hey, I thought my kid exited that app...let me try...oh look, now it wants to play. Cute, Task Manager, kill kill kill. But why should I have to? Of course there isn't any way to disallow notifications per app either because that would go against the whole ad based ecosystem.
Here's a simple solution - get your company to upgrade from software that's over 6 years old. Exchange 2010 has been available since November 2009 and works perfectly on Chrome. Imagine that, even says so right in your linked wiki article.
I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood, but did you really just say most teens have a history of violence and justify it as being part of growing up? Seriously? If this is true where you live, you should move. The rest of the world is different.
Keep in mind this was 1969, a new house cost $25k, average wage was $8k, Pontiac Transam was $4k, Cadiallac deVille $6k. Refrigerators, washing machines and such were $150-$200, fruit cost about 10 cents/lb, etc.
Notwithstanding the great non-monetary loss to the family, $100k would be quite a lot more than "basic" back then.
It's thus. At least the 4 different devices our family has bought in the last two years have all come with a USB-microUSB cable and a wall charger with no cord but a USB socket.
All true and agreeable, except that in the real world, or the vast majority of it where cost IS an object, all of this doesn't matter. What good is 5 or 10GHz when it costs many times more than 3GHz? IBM's gear costs so much more than Sun gear which costs so much more than HP gear (initial purchase + support) that for anything but tech startups rolling in VC dough or Fortune500 giants don't usually give much consideration to IBM.
Nevermind that Oracle with its draconian license terms (e.g. have to license an entire VMware cluster if an Oracle DB is running inside a single virtual machine in that cluster) and ever increasing costs is probably doing most of the damage to its own server business on that aspect alone. IBM is probably going to have its mainframe-high end enterprise customers for the next 50 years as well, things just don't change much in large corporations where money is no object.
Just to clarify, that list isn't quite correct either. Different countries measure differently.
For example the 28 days (4 weeks) in Estonia is just that, 4 weeks vacation, not 28 working days (close to 6 weeks of vacation). You are supposed to take it in chunks of at least 1 week obviously, and by law you have to have one vacation of at least 2 weeks in length. For Canada however, the 10 days means 10 working days, so really 2 weeks.
Holidays - again quite a big difference. In Estonia, if a holiday falls on a weekend, it doesn't get carried over to the next week like it does in Canada. So hence some years you'll have more actual holidays than others. In 2010, 7 out of the 12 holiday days in Estonia fall on actual working days. In 2011, only 5.
Sick days - another difference maker. All depends on local labour law and how sick pay is legislated. In Estonia, the first 3 days are considered your "deductible", to use an insurance term, so you don't get paid anything by anyone. Days 4 through 8, your employer pays 70% of your calculated daily wage (calculated from your last 6 months of employment). From day 9 onwards, the state pays 70% of your calculated daily wage (calculated from your previous calendar year's income). In the province of Ontario, Canada, by law you are allowed up to 10 unpaid sick days per year, but most Canadian employers provide paid sick days, some even bankable and some allow it to be paid out if you leave the company.
So all in all, tables such as this are rather meaningless without an actual analysis of the labor laws and practices of each country.
Not to substantiate any parent's claims about PJ not existing, but your response is curious - the proof is supposed to be in a blog post written by a journalist who has firmly sided with PJ in his views, and 70 pages of legalese in PDF with no references to where the point is? This makes an intelligent person?
Actually Oracle charges per socket on Standard and Standard One licenses and per Core only on Enterprise licenses.
http://www.amazon.com/Adesso-WIRELESS-SLIMTOUCH-TOUCHPAD-WKB-4000US/dp/B00083Y0YG
Done! What's next?
FWIW, I have 2 of these, the one used further out is about 25 feet. Works great. Looks like it's the same thing, but mine are: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keysonic-ACK-540RF-Wireless-Keyboard-Touchpad/dp/B002WB1JYQ
So, if it isn't fine Caribbean coral, it's not a plant? There's no plants in a sea that's an average of only 50 meters deep (about 170ft for you metrically challenged people)? Just because it isn't pretty doesn't mean it isn't there or important. But anyway, the problem isn't so much destruction of plant or animal life, the area affected is relatively small, but the fact that the Baltic Sea floor is covered not only with regular ordnance from the Russians and Germans, but also with tons upon tons of chemical weapons from WWII era and probably even more significantly, with untold amounts of industrial chemical waste that was produced during the cold war era and was regularly dumped by the russians into the waters all over the sea.
Web servers aren't of course the only type of servers running out there. You know the whole big shut-off-the-light initiatives all over the world in office buildings? Well this is much of the same. You may not need terminal servers going 24/7, or even some databases that are only used during business hours for internal operations. Or you likely have development, test, live environments - why not shut down dev and test during hours where no one uses them? Or for larger operations, smart monitoring may shut down / start up cluster nodes as necessary, as demand falls or rises.
As other posters have mentioned, it all comes down to economics. If it there is no cost benefit to the server owner then there's no incentive other than goodwill to do any of the above. Currently, I don't know of any provider who separates the electric bill from the rest of your bill - as in if you keep your servers shut off the entire month, you pay nothing, if you draw huge power, well then you get walloped.
In cases of larger operations / data center owners who have their own dedicated data center, then other than the electric bill itself, the huge benefit would be the (un)necessity of upgrading the power infrastructure. Or in cases of capped power in an area (yes, there are some where extra power cannot be had from the utility because their own infrastructure would have to be upgraded and the resulting passed down cost would be unfeasible), the simple fact that you can still add more servers is also incentive enough.
And using a 3000 lb. box (the Prius for example) to carry that same person is a great and efficient idea?
How about a 130lb box, does that make more sense? It sure does, but your buddies are probably going to have a good laugh, nevermind the little pieces of you that are going to be all over the road if you hit anything bigger than a cat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_P50
"Also: a Russian can not be a president of Latvia, also Russian language is _forbidden_ for certain things there. For example, it's against the law to send a bill in Russian (even if it is translated into Latvian)."
[citation needed]
"In Estonia you can say that "The best Russian is a dead Russian", but saying the same about Estonians will land you in the prison."
I can already tell you that is BS. But, again, [citation needed] :)
"Estonian committee on war crimes somehow overlooks all the war crimes committed by Estonians."
Which committee? Which war crimes were committed and by who? Which war crimes have which russians been convicted of there (since you seem to imply that they have)?
The atrocities russians perpetrated even AFTER the war in Estonia (and many many other countries), nevermind during it, should make any russian hang their head in shame. Germany acknowledged its role in the terrible fate of Europe in the 20th century, they've apologized, they've even paid real money to victims, but Russia to this day refuses to acknowledge any such thing. To this day, russians living in countries they happily occupied for 50 years gather to celebrate "victory day", which always comes as a slap in the face to the so called native population of those countries. Nothing like watching a bunch of babushkas celebrate the start of occupation, deportations, tortures, etc.
"But of course, that's a good thing! We can't let those stupid Russians maintain their culture. After all, USSR was the Evil Empire and the practice of Russification was universally condemned by the West. So it's a good thing that we preemptively destroy Russian culture."
Who is destroying russian culture? Nobody is outlawing russians speaking russian to one another, procuring russian language books isn't outlawed, travel to russia isn't restricted, etc. Unlike that which happened during the occupation and russification which you I guess don't condemn at all.
Funny how russians in the US, Canada, Australia, Britain, etc. don't demand that everyone speaks russian to them, don't cry about having to pass citizenship exams, don't yell discrimination when they can't become the president of the US because one has to be a natural born citizen there...Is it maybe because in those countries even the russians themselves would find such expectations ridiculous, but in their former "sphere of influence" it was and still is somehow expected?
"[citation needed]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992%E2%80%931993)
"Do you know that it's not Edisson who's invented the lightbulb? And not Marconi who's invented the radio."
Let me guess, you'll next claim Popov invented the radio (not Marconi, not Tesla, not Hertz) and the light bulb was invented by Lodygin (not Edison, not Davy, not Swan) :)
"Can you cite examples of unquestionably bad data from a recent (~15 years) Russian textbook?"
Not directly, no, which is why I posed the question. I do however have enough soviet era textbooks to draw a conclusion from though, from your posts I guessed you're going by those, but if not then I guess the propaganda didn't die with the union.
Is that really the russian school textbook version of the story? Because the rest of the world sure doesn't recognize it that way. But hey, no surprise, during the soviet times, all major discoveries were apparently also made by russians and "stolen" by the big bad capitalists in the west. Reading soviet era textbooks is half sad, half hilarious. Propaganda rules though right?
Oh, do tell. In which way are they mistreated and discriminated? Are the poor things being forced to pass a simple official language test as a part of becoming a citizen? Because you know, it's quite difficult to do so even after living in the country for the last N decades?
It always amazes me that when russians emigrate to say New York, they speak passable english within months, but in the formerly occupied countries were they've lived for decades, they still haven't come to grasp it.
In case anyone's wondering, the reason is that in those formerly occupied countries they were previously the "ruling elite" and everyone was forced to speak russian with them. Not so much anymore, and I guess that just hurts inside :)
Funny also that even when Mr. Putin offered a program for those poor repressed russians in other countries to come back home, with financial assistance and all, almost none took up the offer. Yet they still loudly complain about their "terrible treatment".
It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example), but it does very much care that there are russians in pretty much every country in the world - always a nice excuse to claim some sort of mistreatment, fund extremists, react to an inevitable crackdown by the foreign government with sanctions, etc.
So let's see, first Russia supplies weapons and finances to "rebels" within Georgia (ossetian and abkhazi) in the 1990s, because you know, rebels must be aided and such, Russia is so nice and supports minorities all over.
Then Russia has its own rebel problems in Chechnya, yet somehow these are not the good rebels, they must be murdered. So of course after accusing Georgia of harboring some of them, they conduct an air raid in Georgian territory in 2002 and then deny it (this is something of a recurring theme, as in the 2008 bombing of Georgia, Mr. Medvedev also at first claimed Russia didn't bomb anyone and if anything some eager pilots took matters into their own hands)
Then there's the matter of the Russian military. Georgia became independent again in 1991, yet it took 16 years (until 2007) for the Russian military to withdraw from a sovereign country. Now of course there's plans to reoccupy military bases on Georgian territory again, to establish a Black Sea presence. Coincides nicely with the fact that the Russian navy is finally getting kicked out of Ukraine, but then you'd know all about that mr. frustrated russian living in Ukraine :)
What kind of a useless tiny company do you work for that you don't have an employee number, and one that you have to provide in any conversation with HR? :)
Read the lawsuit, it says nothing about his jurisdiction other than to recount his submitted evidence. The sheriff is asking the court to grant a permanent injuction preventing Craigslist from "engaging in the conduct complained of herein". No mention of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, etc.
Further, in the next point, the lawsuit asks the court to order Craigslist to comply with federal, state and municipal laws related to facilitating prostitution. Fine and well, but what that would essentially mean is that for every country/state/city specific page that Craigslist has, they'd be required to specifically research what is allowed and what isn't. If you order them to do this regarding prostitution, why not regarding the sale of any service or good? After all, there are plenty of laws on the books regulating those as well, wildly different in different areas of the world/US/state.
A silly example could be made - we all know the antiquated laws different bodies of law have on the books, or even some very specific small-town regulations. Say Madeuptown, Madeupstate has a municipal law preventing someone from owning more than 1 horse. If that person now buys 2 horses on Craigslist, it would follow that Craigslist is in violation of the court order brought on by sheriff's lawsuit (assuming he had won).
In 2008, in the "Baltic" country of Estonia, some radio stations let drivers phone in the location of speed traps and the announcers let the listeners know in the form of "you can meet our fine patrols at .... and ...." and several variations.
I thought this was standard everywhere?
Except they will buy from them again. The real world doesn't have the percentage of zealots that slashdot has, meaning in the real world, a statistically insignificant number of people care about who makes the game they want. They've heard about the game from somewhere, their friends are playing it and now they want it. You really think someone who wants Unreal Tournament 2010 is going to go "ah crap, that's made by those Epic bastards who screwed me over, forget it, I'll not play that game even though my friends are playing it"
Completely agree with you, but 1 question - why do you want to be able to have the voting power of 2.4 EU citizens? (EU has 728 million, not 300 million+ people like the US)