WallMart gets 8 or 9 dollars on a $50 title. Normal stores like EB get something like $4. I'm just saying that is not very good. The margin on ice Cream is better, and that's a little sad.:)
I've actually had experience working as a programmer on a video game too. We didn't get paid more depending on the retail success of the game.
So, I'm not coming from a place of misunderstanding. Besideds that, the person owning/working the store has overhead to take care of, and their time is worth something too.
We also want to make money, just like the development houses. It's a mutual agreement. Besides, the do get the biggest chunk of the money.
There is more to a product than just the creativity that goes into it. It's too much to go into...but suffice it to mention the business orientated aspects such as accounting, and marketing. These cost money. Game production houses sometimes hand off these massive responsibilities to other businesses. They do this because it is cost effective to do so.
Relax. There is not much difference. Some stores call their customers guests. A customer probably originally came from the root word custom which probably symbolized someone who frequented a shoppe. A consumer here just means someone who is buying something. Besides that, your attitude is kind of a bit harsh, and I would have a person like you take your business to another location.
Did you know that most retailers don't make hardly a dollar on the new video games, because of the cost of them shipped? (My wife and I are opening a store to sell games, and toys and such) This is a good compelling argument for stores to take back some profit by selling used games. Most of that money for new games goes directly back to the publisher. There is really not much incentive for a store to sell new games.
WallMart gets one of the best deals on video games, and they make under 2 dollars on a game after thier costs. This is because the margin starts out so low...like 7 or 8 dollars on a $50 title.
Anyway, just an FYI for all the high and mighty consumers out there.
You are the idiot. He is right. Gimp is an acronym that means nothing. Photo means something to do with pictures, and shop is a hold over phrase from when people editing their photographs in a more manual fashion. Are you representitive of a community of ignorant people, or are you just trying to make the community that you are representing look stupid.
It would cost MS 400 million dollars just to rewrite the internal code that uses vbscript and such. Unless Opera supports this wouldn't that be an issue. I guess MS could add that support to opera though.
To add to this, another good way to learn is to get involved with a special someone that speaks mostly that langauge. You can also learn a language very easily like this.
What's the deal with your companies stock? Is it a bad investment or what? It seems that it just keeps going down, causing me to lose more of that investment. Maybe you guys could get some penetration into the smaller sized markets, and increase some revenue so I could feel better about this investment.
I've written a couple of these (including one for an extremely large software company that I'm sure you've heard of), and I'm currently working on one right now on the side (for my own personal gain).
If you reply to this comment with your email address, then maybe we can work something out.
I need some help with testing my current project, and you need some data. It 's actually more work for me to have someone besides myself test the software but the quality should be higher and it could help you out.
It would probably take at least a few weeks of work on your end, but you would definately have your data at the end of it.
Thanks,
Brad
Same here, except I was held back a year. It's fascinating to me how others can mis-percieve the reality of a situation. Boredome can look like a lack of intelligence too. I think that a lot of people suffered from this problem.
Except for reformatting your hard drive. You might make your original drive a slave drive though, and use a new clean hard drive as the master and reinstall your OS on that. A live cd distro (as suggested) might help in a short term solution too.
Actually, no. Whenever something new comes out, people are like, "Oh my god, how is everyone going to be able to get it." You could still buy these coils at the "gas station." What's wrong with that?
I agree, accept I think object pascal (instead of C++) is better because it helps to keep people from mis-using pointers as much. C++ is really just a kludge on top of C.
What can I say? People did things that were unwise back then. You weren't forced to use a line editor were you? You could be using one now too, but it is a bad idea.
Jobs at some places have smart people in charge. It does make things a lot better.
Microsoft (on most teams), Google, perhaps IBM, Intel, and many, many small companies, especially were the founder of the company is still around to make sure that things get done correctly.
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WallMart gets 8 or 9 dollars on a $50 title. Normal stores like EB get something like $4. I'm just saying that is not very good. The margin on ice Cream is better, and that's a little sad. :)
I've actually had experience working as a programmer on a video game too. We didn't get paid more depending on the retail success of the game.
So, I'm not coming from a place of misunderstanding. Besideds that, the person owning/working the store has overhead to take care of, and their time is worth something too.
We also want to make money, just like the development houses. It's a mutual agreement. Besides, the do get the biggest chunk of the money.
There is more to a product than just the creativity that goes into it. It's too much to go into...but suffice it to mention the business orientated aspects such as accounting, and marketing. These cost money. Game production houses sometimes hand off these massive responsibilities to other businesses. They do this because it is cost effective to do so.
Relax. There is not much difference. Some stores call their customers guests. A customer probably originally came from the root word custom which probably symbolized someone who frequented a shoppe. A consumer here just means someone who is buying something. Besides that, your attitude is kind of a bit harsh, and I would have a person like you take your business to another location.
Did you know that most retailers don't make hardly a dollar on the new video games, because of the cost of them shipped? (My wife and I are opening a store to sell games, and toys and such) This is a good compelling argument for stores to take back some profit by selling used games. Most of that money for new games goes directly back to the publisher. There is really not much incentive for a store to sell new games.
...like 7 or 8 dollars on a $50 title.
Anyway, just an FYI for all the high and mighty consumers out there.
WallMart gets one of the best deals on video games, and they make under 2 dollars on a game after thier costs. This is because the margin starts out so low
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China is going to the moon too right. Let them use their criminals for the job. :)
C# is licensed by by Borland also.
You are the idiot. He is right. Gimp is an acronym that means nothing. Photo means something to do with pictures, and shop is a hold over phrase from when people editing their photographs in a more manual fashion. Are you representitive of a community of ignorant people, or are you just trying to make the community that you are representing look stupid.
You are an idiot. C# is standardized and the code for the whole .net framework is available.
It would cost MS 400 million dollars just to rewrite the internal code that uses vbscript and such. Unless Opera supports this wouldn't that be an issue. I guess MS could add that support to opera though.
To add to this, another good way to learn is to get involved with a special someone that speaks mostly that langauge. You can also learn a language very easily like this.
Stocks are a futures market, so (sometimes) this is exactly what they represent.
What's the deal with your companies stock? Is it a bad investment or what? It seems that it just keeps going down, causing me to lose more of that investment. Maybe you guys could get some penetration into the smaller sized markets, and increase some revenue so I could feel better about this investment.
Does anyone know what is the website link that has these code contributions?
I've written a couple of these (including one for an extremely large software company that I'm sure you've heard of), and I'm currently working on one right now on the side (for my own personal gain).
If you reply to this comment with your email address, then maybe we can work something out.
I need some help with testing my current project, and you need some data. It 's actually more work for me to have someone besides myself test the software but the quality should be higher and it could help you out.
It would probably take at least a few weeks of work on your end, but you would definately have your data at the end of it. Thanks, Brad
Not all windows updates require a reboot. Why does everyone think that they do? Maybe they all still run windows 98?
Same here, except I was held back a year. It's fascinating to me how others can mis-percieve the reality of a situation. Boredome can look like a lack of intelligence too. I think that a lot of people suffered from this problem.
Playing four square and video games mostly. Pretty much the same now, minus the four square.
This is actually really cool stuff. Here is the pdf. Hopefully the ftp server is still up. ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-13 5.pdf
209.3.171.52 Thanks in advance.
This is mostly good advice.
Except for reformatting your hard drive. You might make your original drive a slave drive though, and use a new clean hard drive as the master and reinstall your OS on that. A live cd distro (as suggested) might help in a short term solution too.
Actually, no. Whenever something new comes out, people are like, "Oh my god, how is everyone going to be able to get it." You could still buy these coils at the "gas station." What's wrong with that?
I agree, accept I think object pascal (instead of C++) is better because it helps to keep people from mis-using pointers as much. C++ is really just a kludge on top of C.
What can I say? People did things that were unwise back then. You weren't forced to use a line editor were you? You could be using one now too, but it is a bad idea.
Jobs at some places have smart people in charge. It does make things a lot better. Microsoft (on most teams), Google, perhaps IBM, Intel, and many, many small companies, especially were the founder of the company is still around to make sure that things get done correctly.