Well as I can't find the stock report, its possible they had $0 profits which would mean that the million they sold brought them from -$175 million. But I don't know..
Exactly, labor and the price of XP makes the difference here moot. Of course as I stated this is especially true for low end systems. You can get a decent low end system WITH 17 flat panel for 350 now. $100 labor (what I charge minimum to build a system (meaning a prebuild barebones and a few extras) and install an OS) plus XP home $81 would be half your cost. Leaving you $169 to buy the parts..
Don't believe me on $350 quote. Check out the newest deal on slickdeals.net
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Actually reading it shows that Wi just complained the most, the bug infact meant that anybodys whos name hashed to a small number go attacked more often. But I digress.
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Sony? Hire the guys that came out with Wega. No thanks I'd rather have Wii.
But seriously Japanese have no concept of what sounds good to an American. Hell even their color schemes are ugly (to us), lucikly they generally get Westerners to do the graphics for their games intended for the West. Though latly I've come around to actually liking some of the newer anime graphics.
Ok seriously if you building a high end system I agree. But if your building a system for your mom you simply can't beat some of their deals. I've given up building and selling low end systems to family and coworkers. Its just not possible to compete.
Thank you. Though I still can't imagine game studios happy about having to market to this. "Blood Rain Exclusivly for the Wii"
I know Nintendo isn't expecting many adult titles.. But there will and should be some, and with the special control system most titles will be exclusives.. This might not turn off fans or even buyers, I'm just afraid of it turning away the mature game producers.
Ok.. While I should strike the part about efficiency on the government part, generally local governments answer more directly to their local voters than federal governments. If the price of electricity might cost them the election, it will get lowered.
This may surprise you, but in many places the electric company is the government and/or a coop. These people aren't interested in profits as much as efficiency.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/27/commentary/game_ov er/nintendo/ CNN got this wonderful quote from Perrin Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America. "By letting the gaming community vent now about the name, they will be less distracted as launch titles for the system are announced and initial reports about what it's like to play the games begin to come in."
HAHA. So they know its bad, but feel that people will get over it..:(
individual discs are going to cost a shitload more to make than commodity CDs/DVDs Just so you know, the gamecube already uses a custom disc size 8cm and their games are resonably cheap. A 12cm disc isn't going to be that hard to produce. The slot loading player could possibly accomidate regular sizes CD/DVDs. The current speculation is simply a DVD player dongle like the xbox has now. No biggie really.
I'm watching and seeing no such things. If your refering to the balls it is throwing thats hardly a wifi reference.. More of a throwing the controller across the room reference!:)
I don't know... I can deal with Vista.. I can without embarrasement say I'm going to pick up a copy of Microsoft Vista. Saying your picking up a Nintendo Wii on the other hand sounds like you just got some virus..
Most people already have a DVD player. Adding DVD player capabilities will add atleast $20 to the cost of the Revoltion Wii (cost in licensing fees not hardware). If you really want it to play DVDs you can purchase a dongle.
Hardly... The savings is realized in two ways. 1. Less risk so the doctors insurance cost are less (SOME of this savings will be passed on to you) 2. Quicker recovery time so your hospital room stay will be shorter. This only means quicker turn around time so they can push for more surgeries.
Shrugs, I've created train based cities in sim city that worked pretty well. And implementing social programs in the sims in just silly they can only be expected to program so much.
Personally I think that there really is no need to worry. Even if HD-DVD wins as the standard movie format. People will buy blu-ray disc and burners for "backup" purposes. blu-ray may or may not ever make it in the movie scene, but that doesn't mean it will fizzle out either.
Well these use your existing legs and then enhance them. The robitic legs in the article carry your in a seated position. Completly different idea. And yes I agree that the leg enchacements are much more practicle for most uses, though they may not be usable in the the instance of someone whos legs are cut off at the hip. I do wonder how the robit suit for the quadriplegic http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/robot-suit- will-help-quadriplegic-scale-the-heights/2006/04/0 4/1143916503382.html maintains balance though, as the quadriplegic won't be able to exert his own muscle movement in order to do so.
See you've got to work on arguing one point at a time. I almost believed you untill you threw 9/11 in there. There are plenty of scientific studies to show how it went down without controlled exposives and whatnot. But I'm not disbeliving both parts of your story....
The Katrina story does show an interesting advantage our system has in combating these problems though. The fact that most of the military (the underlings atlest), especially the coast guard tried to do the best they could. The coast guard didn't wait for orders and went in immiediently. The other branches waited for orders and took their time. Hopefully they will do it differently next time. In times of crisis people often do disobey orders. Our volunteer soldiers hearts ultimatly belong to the people, and most will not turn and attack civilians. Sadly our army is being automated more and more, and this could turn into a problem.
Ok the only reason I could see Microsoft pushing gaming on Vista is that somehow they are going to be getting a cut from game publishers. If Microsoft could pull this off (get game publishers to pay them for Vista versions like they do for XBOX games) it would mean huge profit for Microsoft. But somehow I don't see game publishers buying into this.. Scary thought really. Maybe they are selling the XBOX network for publishers, kinda like how the gamespy network is pushed. Except publishers arn't paying gamespy..
Katrina was a dry run about how they would do things, about how they could get away with martial law and suspension of rights based on a "natural" disaster. HAHA if you call letting people die in the streets because you couldn't muster the forces fast enough to help them a dry run in suspension of rights.. The Katrina responce was wrong in many ways, but pretending that the government used it to institute and practice some sort of driconian marial law state is laughable.
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Well as I can't find the stock report, its possible they had $0 profits which would mean that the million they sold brought them from -$175 million. But I don't know..
Exactly, labor and the price of XP makes the difference here moot. Of course as I stated this is especially true for low end systems. You can get a decent low end system WITH 17 flat panel for 350 now. $100 labor (what I charge minimum to build a system (meaning a prebuild barebones and a few extras) and install an OS) plus XP home $81 would be half your cost. Leaving you $169 to buy the parts..
Don't believe me on $350 quote. Check out
the newest deal on slickdeals.net
Actually reading it shows that Wi just complained the most, the bug infact meant that anybodys whos name hashed to a small number go attacked more often. But I digress.
Sony? Hire the guys that came out with Wega. No thanks I'd rather have Wii.
But seriously Japanese have no concept of what sounds good to an American. Hell even their color schemes are ugly (to us), lucikly they generally get Westerners to do the graphics for their games intended for the West. Though latly I've come around to actually liking some of the newer anime graphics.
Ok seriously if you building a high end system I agree. But if your building a system for your mom you simply can't beat some of their deals. I've given up building and selling low end systems to family and coworkers. Its just not possible to compete.
Thank you. Though I still can't imagine game studios happy about having to market to this.
"Blood Rain Exclusivly for the Wii"
I know Nintendo isn't expecting many adult titles.. But there will and should be some, and with the special control system most titles will be exclusives.. This might not turn off fans or even buyers, I'm just afraid of it turning away the mature game producers.
Ok.. While I should strike the part about efficiency on the government part, generally local governments answer more directly to their local voters than federal governments. If the price of electricity might cost them the election, it will get lowered.
This may surprise you, but in many places the electric company is the government and/or a coop. These people aren't interested in profits as much as efficiency.
Exactly, hell NTFS presents identical challenges, especially if its encrypted. Does Vista encrypt by default?
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/27/commentary/game_ov er/nintendo/
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CNN got this wonderful quote from Perrin Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America.
"By letting the gaming community vent now about the name, they will be less distracted as launch titles for the system are announced and initial reports about what it's like to play the games begin to come in."
HAHA. So they know its bad, but feel that people will get over it..
individual discs are going to cost a shitload more to make than commodity CDs/DVDs
Just so you know, the gamecube already uses a custom disc size 8cm and their games are resonably cheap. A 12cm disc isn't going to be that hard to produce. The slot loading player could possibly accomidate regular sizes CD/DVDs. The current speculation is simply a DVD player dongle like the xbox has now. No biggie really.
I'm watching and seeing no such things. If your refering to the balls it is throwing thats hardly a wifi reference.. More of a throwing the controller across the room reference! :)
I don't know... I can deal with Vista.. I can without embarrasement say I'm going to pick up a copy of Microsoft Vista. Saying your picking up a Nintendo Wii on the other hand sounds like you just got some virus..
Most people already have a DVD player. Adding DVD player capabilities will add atleast $20 to the cost of the Revoltion Wii (cost in licensing fees not hardware). If you really want it to play DVDs you can purchase a dongle.
Find the people who just spent $600 bucks on the newest graphics card, and ask them that question..
Hardly... The savings is realized in two ways.
1. Less risk so the doctors insurance cost are less (SOME of this savings will be passed on to you)
2. Quicker recovery time so your hospital room stay will be shorter. This only means quicker turn around time so they can push for more surgeries.
Shrugs, I've created train based cities in sim city that worked pretty well. And implementing social programs in the sims in just silly they can only be expected to program so much.
We have always been at war with Terrorism. :)
Actually, as almost all wars are religious in nature.. We have!!
Personally I think that there really is no need to worry. Even if HD-DVD wins as the standard movie format. People will buy blu-ray disc and burners for "backup" purposes. blu-ray may or may not ever make it in the movie scene, but that doesn't mean it will fizzle out either.
Oh the lady is the quad. Sorry didn't read.
Well these use your existing legs and then enhance them. The robitic legs in the article carry your in a seated position. Completly different idea. And yes I agree that the leg enchacements are much more practicle for most uses, though they may not be usable in the the instance of someone whos legs are cut off at the hip. I do wonder how the robit suit for the quadriplegic http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/robot-suit- will-help-quadriplegic-scale-the-heights/2006/04/0 4/1143916503382.html
maintains balance though, as the quadriplegic won't be able to exert his own muscle movement in order to do so.
See you've got to work on arguing one point at a time. I almost believed you untill you threw 9/11 in there. There are plenty of scientific studies to show how it went down without controlled exposives and whatnot. But I'm not disbeliving both parts of your story....
The Katrina story does show an interesting advantage our system has in combating these problems though. The fact that most of the military (the underlings atlest), especially the coast guard tried to do the best they could. The coast guard didn't wait for orders and went in immiediently. The other branches waited for orders and took their time. Hopefully they will do it differently next time. In times of crisis people often do disobey orders. Our volunteer soldiers hearts ultimatly belong to the people, and most will not turn and attack civilians. Sadly our army is being automated more and more, and this could turn into a problem.
It was intended to classify scientific studies. Not articles.
Ok the only reason I could see Microsoft pushing gaming on Vista is that somehow they are going to be getting a cut from game publishers. If Microsoft could pull this off (get game publishers to pay them for Vista versions like they do for XBOX games) it would mean huge profit for Microsoft. But somehow I don't see game publishers buying into this.. Scary thought really. Maybe they are selling the XBOX network for publishers, kinda like how the gamespy network is pushed. Except publishers arn't paying gamespy..
Katrina was a dry run about how they would do things, about how they could get away with martial law and suspension of rights based on a "natural" disaster.
HAHA if you call letting people die in the streets because you couldn't muster the forces fast enough to help them a dry run in suspension of rights..
The Katrina responce was wrong in many ways, but pretending that the government used it to institute and practice some sort of driconian marial law state is laughable.