Tag: Marketing
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SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an “abuse of power”
MPAA, All I can do is a facepalm over this… The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow’s “Internet blackout” in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a “gimmick,” a “stunt,” “hyperbole,” “a dangerous and troubling development,” an “irresponsible response,” and an “abuse of power.” Wikipedia, reddit,…
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EA says offline Single-Player games are “Finished,” Online is the way forward
Well, now EA wants to convert to making games that have no ‘offline’ component, no true singleplayer mode. I have to wonder what’s up with this? First Blizzard with Starcraft II, and now EA wants to make online games. Yes I hear the ‘It allows us to reduce piracy’ argument, but it can lock a…
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Yet another great video by the nice folks at blender.org
I do have to say, Open Source is doing very well right now, This video appears to have been made by professionals. Who says that free stuff is worthless? The program that this was made in is free! I’m looking forward to seeing this 🙂 http://durian.blender.org http://blender.org Have a good … night! 🙂
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Microsoft says that Windows is cheaper than Linux
Well, I’ve seen this many times, Microsoft saying that their $200-$500 Operating system is cheaper than the $0.00 Linux. Their reasoning is because “Everyone uses Windows, You have to spend time to learn Linux, and if you’re in a Business environment, that time is lost money. Also Linux Administrators are more expensive in business.” I…
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Appeals Court Rules Some Software Can’t Be Bought
So when you buy software in the store, you are just paying for the license to use it. You don’t own anything, the program that gave you the license can revoke it at any time. As one person that pointed out, It’s not like any standard system of renting, in the end you don’t own…
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Microsoft has a new marketing campaign
Microsoft has started a marketing campaign against Apple, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx , and the Mac users don’t seem too happy. I, myself am a Linux Person, and I remember Microsoft’s ‘Get The Facts’ campaign, which did the exact same thing to Linux, annoying lots of Linux users. (Well they did have the top link on the Google…
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Microsoft gets Slapped, History of Web browsers
Texas Judge says Microsoft can’t sell MS Word Well that was surprising… good thing that I use OpenOffice ( http://openoffice.org ) Free, and has most of the features that Microsoft Office has. History of the Web Browser Neat to see the history of the web browsers that we use now.