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Comment Re:Prices compared to retail? (Score 1) 286

by Adradis on Friday October 09, 2009 @07:59PM (#29700485) Attached to: Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive?

The overly high prices in Europe (Which I'm assuming your from, based on the money-type shown in the post) is something that Valve did a while back. No one has gotten an answer from them, but in the US end of things, the prices are fairly decent.

The Best Burglar Alarm In History 137

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:07PM from the suck-it-Edison dept.

Sportsqs writes "When Nikola Tesla got creative with transformers and driver circuits at the turn of the 20th century he probably had no idea that others would have so much fun with his concepts over a hundred years later. One such guy is an Australian named Peter who runs a website called TeslaDownUnder, which showcases all his wacky Tesla ways, or rather electrickery, as Peter calls it." Very cool stuff, I wish I would have had something like this to protect my comic books from my little brother when I was a kid.

Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 907

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, 2008 @04:31PM from the don't-forget-special-reserve-windows-xp dept.

ozmanjusri writes "Dell has tripled the charge to upgrade Vista PCs to XP. Under current licensing 'downgrade' agreements, system builders can install XP Pro instead of Vista Business or Vista Ultimate; however, Dell has opted for a surcharge of $150 over the price of Vista for the older but more popular XP Professional operating system. Rob Enderle says the downgrade fees could potentially be disastrous for Microsoft: 'The fix for this should be to focus like lasers on demand generation for Vista but instead Microsoft is focusing aggressively on financial penalties," says Enderle. 'Forcing customers to go someplace they don't want to go by raising prices is a Christmas present for Apple and those that are positioning Linux on the desktop.'"

Comment Re:Bad console players! (Score 1) 157

by Adradis on Friday December 12, 2008 @02:03PM (#26093977) Attached to: <em>Left 4 Dead</em> Bug Patched Quickly, <em>EVE</em> Exploit Takes 4 Years

PC side, cheats are controlled by the hosting server, and can only be turned on/off (sv_cheats 1/0) by an administrator of the server. If it's 0, NO client side console commands marked as 'cheats' can be used.

Submission + - Bank Julius Baer issues statement re WikiLeaks (dantynan.com)

Submitted by

dtwood

on Thursday February 28, 2008 @12:45PM

dtwood writes: "Julius Baer finally hired a PR agency and issued a press release filled with half truths and non statements. Tynan on Tech has it, along with some brief commentary. Worth a look."

Submission + - RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:17PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement, damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act, one which William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law, called the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

Submission + - Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @05:30AM

netbuzz writes: Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General's Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon's statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20981

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