Red Pointy Tail - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Educate the public? (Score 1) 587

by Red Pointy Tail on Thursday May 10, @11:58PM (#39962983) Attached to: DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings

In Malaysia (where I live, also a pirate heaven), the dominant pirate gang have for years inserted their own unskippable 10 second video, asking viewers to buy their 'gold-color-plated' pirated DVD instead of some rival gang's 'blue-color-plated' DVD disc (prob some DVD-R), with a short video comparison clip over why their quality is better. So yeah, the pirates are one-up on the game years ago.

Comment: This is nothing... (Score 1) 34

by Red Pointy Tail on Thursday April 05, @05:53AM (#39582627) Attached to: MIT Wants You To Print Your Own Paper Robots

... compared to printable pets, available soon from GeneDupe!

Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 06 2010, @10:40PM
from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

Comment: Re:They all write the same stupid article..... (Score 1) 450

by Red Pointy Tail on Friday February 05 2010, @03:32AM (#31032136) Attached to: How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft

Maybe it is your sort of attitude (that is the way it works!!- stfu, loser! we are making tons of profit aren't we? we don't need great products, just need to be less painful than the rest!) that is contributing to the malaise.

Comment: Re:Product dumping (Score 1) 476

by Red Pointy Tail on Monday January 12 2009, @09:04PM (#26425827) Attached to: How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools

The thing is their products are agile in price since they have high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Airlines are classic example of this.

Um... airlines have low marginal costs? Where did you get that from? I think what you are getting at is the ability to execute price differentiation. Having a low marginal cost of course helps you execute this because you can drop all the way to zero, but I don't think you can call running flights low-cost!