"The cost of supporting additional platforms is next to nothing unless you have no fucking clue what you are doing."

Do you believe that the cost to support the Windows platform is anything like that of fixed-hardware platforms? Really?

I was indirectly pointing out the contractual agreement Microsoft made with regard to Call of Duty. They agreed to continue producing it for Sony platforms. It was necessary to get the acquisition approved. Otherwise they would not have agreed to it.

I also didn't say cross platform wouldn't be done. I just pointed out it needed justification.

Cost of development + cost of support + cost of dilution of hardware sales made on the basis of exclusivity...it's not cheap. There has to be a good reason to do the cross platform thing. Unless you trapped yourself into it justifying a major acquisition you need to make the case for it, rather than against.

Glad to be of service.

Although my wall of distain fractured slightly in this thread. I saw Micros~2 and I laughed. Damn it...

I think that policing the idea is a bad thing. I also think that the lazy-ass substitution, truncation, or combination of corporate names to borrow the cleverness of others should be punished.

Microslop, Winblows, MicroShit... pick your dumbing down phrase... you can almost always be assured that whatever idea surrounds it is going to be a regurgitation of some other person's unoriginal thought, and you can rest easy knowing that if you bail now, you won't have missed anything.

Trigger on it, stop reading. Never bad advice.

If you offered to reverse the price and pay me the going rate to sit in the seat I would still refuse.

I've got a comfortable dark room with plush furniture, a 65" LG C8, a Denon surround system that is as loud as I could want it to be, popcorn, a Whirley-Pop, coconut oil, and real butter.

There is nothing about the theatre that isn't a downgrade.

Throw on top of that the fact that I've had the enjoyment of sequels and franchises bludgeoned out if me, and you cannot lure me back.

As my reasonably but not excessively affluent retirement continues, there will probably be lots of times that I would like to throw money at a problem by hiring cheap, unskilled labor. This sort of thing helps keep that labor pool cost-effective and plentiful. If they self-selected, so much the better.

It's almost that since corporations are people, then much like demanding that they decorate a gay wedding cake, you shouldn't be able to demand they participate in something they find abhorrent.

Well, the last CPU I truly understood was the 6502. I wrote assembler for it. I knew exactly what it was doing every jiffy. Since then, other than a tiny handful of exceptions, my jobs involved only needing to understand coding to some level of abstraction. One could argue that this is just the next layer of abstraction.

I share my password with my retiree mother. We're on opposite sides of a major city with no effort made to hide our geographic separation. I have never heard one peep from Netflix about it. This leads me to suspect that they aren't really concerned with minor sharing, and perhaps 3 or more might be needed for it to bubble up to their concern. It would also reduce the possibility of anger due to false positives.

This is a problem as old as cable TV. I can't really say I blame them.

Please. The kill switch is a guaranteed feature. There is no way it isn't there. This is one if those times where only a stupid person believes otherwise.

The simple truth is that I am less valuable than I used to be.

Smartest thing I've read online this week. And that extends to the main point of great vs. good enough.

Too many folks are living in denial while their value proposition bottoms out.

I agree. I've been saying since the he was running his first bid that he is simple. He can't help himself. In a strange way he's as honest a politician as there is. But he surrounds himself with evil people, like shitty moths to a flame. They know better. But they are truly awful examples of humanity.

Whatever you suspect his motives to be at any given time... yeah. That's exactly what they are. Want to take the heat off one conspiracy? Throw the red meat of another to those same wolves. There's no subtlety or nuance to the mechanism. No deft sleight of hand or misdirection. Like his " I know you are but what am I?" approach, or the reliable way he accuses others of doing exactly what he is guilty of, the man's actions and defenses come straight out of the schoolyard.

It's actually one of his more endearing qualities - a kind of backhanded honesty in a way.

Why not indeed? Other than that one costs next to nothing and the other requires massive investment, coordination of emergency services.m, and an army of lawyers covering all sort of exposure...