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Comment Google Franshise (Score 2) 248

It seems Google should restructure its operations. It should split it search buisness into sepperate legal entities for some regions. These Google franshise's would purchase index data from the parent company. The franshise would have there own servers and have control over there own site. That Canada franshise would have servers in Canada and would sell advertisments on the Google.ca site. The parent company would keep all its assest in CA.

Comment Re:Barnes and Nobles still lets you preorder (Score 1) 210

by ZombieBraintrust (#47216485) Attached to: Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order
Sure but in this specifc market is the opposite of a monopoly. Any consumer can purchase this product. Consumers have lots of choices for this product. They can get good prices and good service. You can get it online from serveral retailers. You can get it locally from Walmart, BestBuy, or Target. And consumers use those choices. Walmart isn't a niche place to buy dvds from. Amazon can only sell products like this if they have the low prices. No one would purchase from Amazon if they can get the same thing cheaper from Walmart. Price comparison takes a few minutes.

Comment Re:Now wait (Score 1) 210

by ZombieBraintrust (#47215875) Attached to: Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order

To be fair, WB is the one who put amazon in a crap situation in this one. They had a pre-order for a blue ray, for like $25....The move did exceptionally better than they anticipated, so WB decided NOT to produce the cheaper blu ray, and then put out a new $40 one. Amazon then had to cancel all the other cheaper pre orders, and deal with the legitimately pissed off customers. Amazon is doing some shady things, but they certainly aren't alone in it.

Is there a link to that story. Not finding anything in Google.

Comment Re:3DS (Score 1) 127

by ZombieBraintrust (#47198577) Attached to: Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales
... and vegas puts all of that to shame with its slot machines and blackjack.
but I do think phones are the future for mobile consoles. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tr... I would say Iphone is getting closer to console numbers. In the above artical they estimate mobile developers are making $21,000 a year on apple. ($6,000 a year on and Android). As the phones get better and the games get more complex those number will rise. Currently I don't think mobile could support all the developers and artists working in the console industry. If everything switched to mobile tommorow there would be huge layoffs.

Comment Re:Who bought them anyway? (Score 1) 127

by ZombieBraintrust (#47198423) Attached to: Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales
I think they may get more "sales" but less revenue. http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05... In the above some of the delelopers made more money on psn because they sold more games at full price. I think there may be a bit of an Apple/Android effect going on. Where console gamers are more willing to spend money than steam gamers. (generalization as many steam users are console users)

Comment Re:...but that doesn't explain... (Score 1) 584

The history of democracies suggest that violent reviolution is 90% going to happen over the next 100 years. The civil war was only 149 years ago. The riots of the civil rights movement was only 50 years ago. Human nature doesn't change. There will be a military coup or a revolution.

Comment Different Lines for different purposes. (Score 1) 203

You use location if your selling tourism. You use orbital velocity if you view it as a sport. The 50 mile point describes the line between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. The 100km point is a height that can't be reached using air as lift. This point is based on orbital velocity. There is also a 150km point where air no longer drags things out of orbit.
Virgin Galactic is not claiming suborbatal flight.. So I think it is unfair to use the second two measures.

Comment Re:PS+ and DLC (Score 1) 93

you don't need to be a trust to break "anti-trust" laws. The laws are not actually worded as "anti trust". That is just the common effect they have. You have the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commision Act. For example here is the sherman act

"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.

See the or otherwise part.

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