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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2011, 04:42:34 am »
It's for manipulating and doing things to existing programs that weren't designed to do it.

Also, the 32-bit version is free, I think through version 2.1.

I was using it to hook the network functions to a game to block an exploit that crashes you from reaching my client(I was bored. :P)

Oh, and this isn't a joke, I don't think.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2011, 05:22:01 pm »
Y'all should see the pricetag on some military equipment sometime its kinda sad at points.
50 thousand dollar usa circuit boards
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2011, 05:27:44 pm »
Woah, are they all by Microsoft?
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2011, 02:43:27 pm »
Nah I'm pretty sure they are made by a defense contractor.
But they use a lot of windows based apps
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2011, 03:06:11 pm »
Quote from: lordofthegeeks on May 12, 2011, 05:22:01 pm
Y'all should see the pricetag on some military equipment sometime its kinda sad at points.
50 thousand dollar usa circuit boards

Yeah, 10 year old circuit boards at that. However, the military a) Has no sense of "market price" and b) puts everything through a billion tests, which is most of the cost.

At least in the American military's case, the latest gaming consoles have more advanced chips  than even our latest missiles :P
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2011, 04:19:21 pm »
It reminds me how our government wants to pay $15 billions for 65 new planes, while they could simply buy older ones from other countries for cheaper. I mean we could even get more for a lower price, plus Canada isn't in constant danger of being invaded or involved in massive wars.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2011, 06:19:05 pm »
The US is in danger of that, but we still use very outdated techology.

The Most recent version of the "Abram" Tank came out(entered general production) about 5 years ago and still only one base in the US has them
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2011, 06:59:11 pm »
And $7,600 coffee makers for military planes :P

But wtf ... even M$ software can't be that expensive, can it? $999995 is the kind of price you put on software to prevent anyone except criminal hackers from buying it.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2011, 07:00:14 pm »
It legitimately costs that much, mostly because there are very few places where it's worthwhile to use. Basically, you're using it for anti-virus or viruses.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2011, 07:01:47 pm »
wait, but isn't lower demand supposed to lower the cost?
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2011, 07:05:30 pm »
Supply and Demand kinda falls apart when your supply is near-infinite.

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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2011, 07:06:53 pm »
I still don't get why this should cost more because it has limited uses
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #27 on: May 13, 2011, 07:10:58 pm »
They're highly specific limited uses that MS has spent a long time developing for, they need to recoup their development costs somehow.

Basically, it takes highly skilled labor to produce, therefore they spend a large chunk of change. There are few buyers, so they must charge a lot to make their investment back.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #28 on: May 13, 2011, 07:13:06 pm »
OK that makes sense.
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Re: I hope this is a joke...
« Reply #29 on: May 13, 2011, 07:14:22 pm »
Those few buyers are places like McAfee and Symantic, too, so  they are willing to shell out the large sums of money for it.
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