You can't follow the water fall method with games and gather all the requirements up front. This is because the number one requirement for a game is that it's fun to play and there's really no way to know how fun it will be early on. You need to get a large part of it working just to know what works well and what doesn't.
If it's no fun to play 1/2 way in something (requirements) needs to change. Maybe LOTS of things. True, they should have asked MS to support changes up front but if it starts costing so much that it's never going to break even it's probably best for everyone involved to just pull the plug.

Other option is to just ship a shitty game and hope to make some of the money back but that sucks too.

So progress would be to move in the direction of less negotiation. Where two people with the same BSCS and 3 years of experience are offered the exact same offer. That's not a random example btw. I was hired at the same time as a woman at my last job. We both had the same education and basic experience. For some reason my initial offer (I suck at negotiation so just took the first offer) was still 5k higher than hers.

$350 is expensive for a watch that will only last a few years.

Well said.

Short cuts make long delays.

What about wanting to use USB3 or other newer things that Win2k didn't know about?

This is why I only buy network hardware in person from a randomly selected retail establishment which I pay for with cash.

I believe it. He specifically claimed that Apple invented multitouch during the iPhone launch even though it had been around for a very long time. The media just refused to call him on his lies.

It's rare these days that a /. comment causes such a shift in my thinking.
Thank you quantaman. That makes so much more sense that trying to do Mars in one go.

Heck, for less than $10 a month you get infinite OneDrive storage.

I'd be happy to pay a small fee to get GoT. Looks like I'll just keep downloading it until HBO is willing to take my money.

Ha, that would be awesome but I was thinking more along the lines of a complete wipe of memory or something.

Or a phone that self-destructs if given a particular password.

Exactly so.
Thinking about in PC terms Android is the old Microsoft. Microsoft is Linux and Apple is still just Apple. Off doing there own thing and happy with there low double digit market share. They are a very influential niche player for sure.

The difference is MS can pay and pay to keep playing until they make it. Worked for xbox. Starting to work for Bing.