You know that's all number games and mechanics at some level. It's obvious that the real price of those titles is way less then what they are selling them for.
The real price of those titles is closer to half of of their listed prices. It's about $10/game, if you agree that TF2 and HL2 are worth more then those are worth about $15 and the rest are worth about $6-7 each. Even marking them up unbundled so they are $19.95 and $9.95 it would be about $70. That's the price they really should be selling these games for.
I didn't buy Episode 1 because I thought it was a crap deal considering it's length. Remeber that with HL2 I got HL2 Deathmatch and CounterStrike Source and I figured when Episode Two came out I could get a great deal on a bundle of some sort...amazing what a little patience did for me.
Nah, it's more like going to the restaurant, ordering your dinner. The chef then goes out to the market, gets the ingredients, brings them back to the restaurant, does all the prep work and then cooks your dinner.
Usually they do the buying and prepping in advance:)
You'll realize that this is just a typical Microsoft "throw something out there" first effort. It was obviously never intended to be an iPod killer, or even to be successful at any particular level. However, you can bet your MP3 player (whatever it is) that there are a bunch of someones at Microsoft reading every public comment about the Zune that they can get their eyeballs on. It's just as important to know what customers think is stupid or otherwise dislike as it is to know what they do like (they need only look at the iPod for that information.) That's Marketing 101, and if nothing else Microsoft does know how to market.
Isn't this why they had a beta of the product, where many of the problems were already pointed out but ignored?
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To be fair, the material that Richard Cheese is covering is *already* vulgarity filled. It's not like he's adding vulgarity.
So...he says heres your $10k trade in on that "new" car I just sold you. But he doesn't tell you that the car he sold you has an even worse problem, and is going to explode or crash as soon as you get off the lot.
Ethics, obviously not just for car salesmen anymore:)
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Your allergy comments are interesting, but polio is still with us ravaging people in some of the poorest places in the world.
You know that's all number games and mechanics at some level. It's obvious that the real price of those titles is way less then what they are selling them for.
The real price of those titles is closer to half of of their listed prices. It's about $10/game, if you agree that TF2 and HL2 are worth more then those are worth about $15 and the rest are worth about $6-7 each. Even marking them up unbundled so they are $19.95 and $9.95 it would be about $70. That's the price they really should be selling these games for.
I didn't buy Episode 1 because I thought it was a crap deal considering it's length. Remeber that with HL2 I got HL2 Deathmatch and CounterStrike Source and I figured when Episode Two came out I could get a great deal on a bundle of some sort...amazing what a little patience did for me.
They already offer EC2 an elastic compute cloud, where they basically give you virtual servers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
I was going to moderate this comment, and then said to myself...how do you rate a strange analogy?
In some ways it's funnier that way though.
While the $4800 is nasty, my normal cel phone is no differnt, at a glance you can't tell if it's on, because it has a screensaver.
However pushing any button on the phone quickly tells me that it is on or off.
Nah, it's more like going to the restaurant, ordering your dinner. The chef then goes out to the market, gets the ingredients, brings them back to the restaurant, does all the prep work and then cooks your dinner.
:)
Usually they do the buying and prepping in advance
Singapore or Coppermine?
http://www.sgal.org/
http://coppermine-gallery.net/
You can put the lipstick on, but it's still a pig.
It'll be exactly like the Microsoft Zune then.
Funny post, but AAC existed before Apple.g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Codin
I'll take your unlimited dollar bills, but I want free shipping and handling thrown in too.
Thank you, 20 pages of barely readable text with 5 times more ads than story was not worth reading that.
Microsoft is in the habit of knowing about bugs but won't fix because if it's not out in the wild.
:)
They could turn in bugs they already know about
But he can give it away to his roommate/employee/boss/girlfriend/randomguy, who can then sell it?
Why not just skip the first step.
Although I didn't read all the encyclopedia, I feel related :)
And spell "you're" correctly the next time too :P
To be fair, the material that Richard Cheese is covering is *already* vulgarity filled. It's not like he's adding vulgarity.
So...he says heres your $10k trade in on that "new" car I just sold you. But he doesn't tell you that the car he sold you has an even worse problem, and is going to explode or crash as soon as you get off the lot.
:)
Ethics, obviously not just for car salesmen anymore
Unfortunately it is up to the customs guys what's appropriate.
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Canadian Bureaucracy at work.
They seize stuff all the time at customs that isn't illegal.
For instance like:
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.30.93/NEWS/
If this isn't a fluff piece I don't know what is.
"We developed a 125 rare earth magnetic eraser with self contained power source"
Interesting, but adding in this US spy plane angle has got to be simply PR.
Goodbye and thanks for all the phish .... ing attempts from Windows zombie computers.
Sure ebay has money, but ebay generally isn't a giant phone infrastructure that gives them new places to make calls from.
People I call on Skype get caller IDs from some very weird places.
Did Skype suddenly form a new partnership with someone to handle these calls?
Or is this some sort of grab for customers so that they can have more P2P nodes?
Just some initial thoughts.