Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 18:25 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Is Vista Microsoft's PS3?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Given the general anti-Vista sentiment appears to be rising, I wonder if
>>>| Windows Vista may be Microsoft?s PlayStation 3. Sony?s PS2 was the dominant
>>>| game console for many years. Even the Xbox really didn?t do much more than
>>>| dent its dominance.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/08/is_vista_microsofts_ps3_1.html
>>>
>>
>> Interesting - I think the PS3 is actually doing rather well, and its
>> fortunes are continuing to improve.
>>
>> Microsoft are out of the game, now, as the Xbox360 is too dangerous for
>> most people - I wonder how long before insurance companies stop paying
>> up for fires started by them?
>>
>> So, there're only two games in town.
>
> In the long term --- yes. Yesterday's price drop ($50) of the XBox360 is a sign
> of Microsoft "dumping" tactic (see
> http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html ), which means
> it will be losing even /more/ money just to regain chances of survival 3-5
> years down the line. Always remember how they sabotaged (yes, sabotaged as
> planned by _higher management_) Sony's PS3 'overseas parties'. is that
> ruthless or what? I sometimes wonder if they smoke Cubans cigars and go out to
> the casinos after work. A few days ago, a Microsoft employee rented his
> apartment (paorobably for free) to the French president. Shades of mafia
> culture and signs that the world as a whole is not much different than Russia.
>
The Russians just make less effort to deny it, that's all. This kind of
corruption is quite commonplace. I was truly disappointed that Segolene
Royale lost the election in France, I was watching the interview/debate
with Sarkozy, and it's true that she lost her cool a little, although
the whole thing was blown up out of proportion, to my mind. Still,
politics is absolutely ruthless - politicians use the same kind of
tactics we see here:
* answer a different question
* avoid any answer at all
* repeatedly misunderstand statements
* attribute statements to people which were never made
* discredit the messenger in any way possible
* undermine credibility in any way possible
* discount facts using any possible technique
* troll the opposition into saying something they shouldn't
... and so on. We hear this each day on the today programme!
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