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Comment: Re:Hopeless (Score 5, Funny) 292

by jd2112 (#43683593) Attached to: Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous"

Also, what happens if the country in question falls apart and someone decides they want to give it back to you later in the form of a dirty bomb?

I don't think there are many vitrification plants in Kreplakistan. It's far more likely the waste would be sent somewhere like France or Canada. Are you really that worried about the Canucks?

They sent us Celiene Dion and Justin Beiber. I think that counts as a hostile country.
And don't get me started on Canadian bacon...

Comment: Re:Licenses sold... (Score 1) 536

by jd2112 (#43661967) Attached to: Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8

We have several dozen windows 7 machines running windows xp. Each of those I suppose was a 7 license reported as a satisfied customer. My main windows machine runs 7 because it is a good OS, and XP is a bit long in the tooth. But my windows machine is to run specific applications for work, and even if I wanted to 8 is not an option.

Back when Vista came out Microsoft issued a press release stating that all of the 100K+ desktops at the company I worked for had been migrated to Vista. Of course that is completely ignoring the fact that the corporate desktop engineering team had just started the Vista evaluation process a few weeks earlier and didn't expect to have a pilot in place for another 6-9 months. (Lots of custom mission critical apps that could barely be coaxed to run under XP let alone Vista)

Comment: Re:waste of money (Score 1, Funny) 155

by jd2112 (#43630033) Attached to: In Sandy-Struck NJ Town, Verizon Goes All Wireless, No Copper

But who says yhou put in voice grade copper? I think Verizon shpuld be required to replace the downed copper. That's what the maintenence fees the customers have been paying forever were to cover.

You are mistaken. The maintenance fees are for the maintenance of the bank accounts of the board of directors.

Comment: Re:Need DRM Labeling Law (Score 2) 256

by jd2112 (#43620601) Attached to: Today Is International Day Against DRM

Simple solution that politicians would have a hard time saying no to. All products that have DRM should be forced to display a DRM warning message on the outside of the packaging in print, TV and on line advertising. The message should explain in simple terms what the DRM does. IE - requires on line connection all the times, Requires Disk in drive all the time, prevents back up copies...etc. There should be stiff fines for selling products with DRM and no warning label. Then let the market decide. DRM is toxic to computers and users. So the proper warning is the right thing to do.

So it will end up like those 'this product contains substances known to cause cancer by the state of California' warning labels that are ignored because they are on everything.

Comment: Re:The only winning move.... (Score 2) 435

by jd2112 (#43567181) Attached to: New Console Always-Online Requirements and <em>You</em>

The new games market is about 22 billion vs a 2.5 billion used game market. While Gamestop may make most of its money on used games, but the used game market is pretty trivial. Very, very, very few people make their game purchases based on how much they will be able to sell them for.

Yet the game publishers seem to be unreasonably concerned about used game sales.
I think the much bigger threat is the mobile phone game market. Your hard core gamers are still going to shell out $70 for a title to run on a console, but that isn't a big enough of an audience to sustain the game industry. The casual gamers are going to shell out $1.99 (or put up with adds and pay nothing) to play games on their mobile phone or tablet.

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