I'd be happy with freeMOO. That game was just fun, but I lost the manual and can only remember about 1/3 of the ship class names. At least with pirates you only have to choose from the captians and you only lose your cannon's if you get it wrong.
I just started playing pente, and it reminded me of othello, which was one of the better GPL games out there as a mindless time waster. Are there any pente projects?
The dollar has been weakening for a few months now. Foreigners are incrementally more nervous with Iraq, and the dismal performance in the US markets aren't stimulating investment.
Are you tired of not being able to play the piano or type as gracefully as you should be able to? Are your stubby fingers not as dexterious for those little jobs? You need our herbal finger lenghtener! When used over a five week period most test subjects lengthened their fingers by more than 20%.
It's all natural and quite inexpensive compared to the productivity increase you will have with longer more graceful fingers.
I was really hoping that everyone's favorite 19th century lawn game/summer courting activity had made it to the big time of 3d comptuer gameplay. Dibs on the black ball.
Your comment made me remember reading the cell phone manual. Have you ever read the FCC regulations for cell phone usage? You are not supposed to swear or use other obscene language on a cell phone. My hard line didn't come with a manual, but I would guess the rules are similar.
Normally yes, but I believe this was either preferred stock, which is more like a bond, or a special class of non voting common stock. This is the opposite of what the Ford family used to control Ford, they have a special class of stock that owns about 5% of the company but carries 40% of the votes. Microsoft was trying to prop up a competitor in the industry, they didn't want to have a decision making stake in the company.
On your link, while he is technically right, Black Scholes is not the best method to value the type of options given to company employees. It looks much worse for other tech companies. Cisco is one of the biggest users of the blue chip tech companies. The problems with Black-Scholes, are largely that it over values these options which cannot be sold, and are very long term. Black-Scholes was developed to price market options which are mostly used by large stock traders to cheaply hedge a position or speculators to bet heavily on small movents in a stock's price, but most of the volume is in the 1-3 month range. Employee stock options are generally issued in the 1-10 year range. The model is extremely sensitive to the assumption of volatility, and in the past five years there has been a huge pick up in volatility which greatly increases the cost of these options.
While options are being used by nearly every technology company to understate their employee cost, Microsoft is one of the more rational user of options. They generally buy back more shares than they issue with their current cash flow. Yes reform is coming, but it will take a very long time to get here.
If you want more details on black sholes or options please feel free to email me.
Game theory works very well when people don't expect to have to play the game again. It is less useful at predicting multipart games. Which is how the mob solves the prisoner's dilemna.
You know what I would dump quarters into at a prodigious pace? A well done arcade version of Gran Turismo, with multiple windows, a stick shift, nice steering wheel, and the like, I would probably have to own one to save money. Why is it that this has not been done? If I could race a few friends or bring my PS garage to the arcade, I would just begin cashing my paycheck in quarters.
I had a friend in high school who used to play the scratch tickets and ended ahead, since in the state at the time the wining tickets were generally printed in groups, so the cashier at his hangout would tell him when to buy from a roll that had had several large winners.
Apple was one of the early adopters of AAC (they call them mp4s for some reason), which I think sounds pretty darn close, at 192 kbps, it is certainly a whole lot better than mp3 or ogg at those bit rates. I haven't tried any classical music, but I would guess that you would need a pretty golden ear and system to tell the difference between the original and the encoded at 256 kbps. I'd pay a buck a track for good AACs.
Sound's like our experience, Montana State, they fired up the new one, and shut off the old one on the same day. It was pretty sad, professors weren't getting paid, sub organizations were bouncing checks, for lack of a final balance. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't so sad. I since learned that most of the integration money was spent making the new peoplesoft forms look and act exactly like the old mainframe based system, so the data entry people wouldn't get confused. It was also odd to get help desk calls about installing the very specific client, that was just certain telnet client, the user had used in training.
They usually do a pretty good job of telling their owners/shareholders, so IR usually isn't bad. Sometimes companies lie, like Enron and WorldCom, but most of the time they do a pretty good job of letting their owners know what is coming up as best they can.
You must have, I was too busy with MOO3 to check circulation, we'll send about 10 copies of the TPS report over, too. There are no changes to Tuesday and Friday, "We love the MPAA days".
The retailer's and wholesaler's cuts, which are probably about 20-25% of a game's price. The game's physical costs are likely to be less than 10% of a hit's price. Take Two specifically appears to be more of a distributor with a total payment to the Rockstar subsidiary, and doesn't do a very good job of breaking out that subsidiary's costs. But in EA's case, since EA does quite a bit more in house development, of the roughly $2 billion the company has gotten so far this year, development costs have been about $300 million, development costs will probably finish the year at about $350-$400 million, but revenues won't be much more than $2.2 for the whole year. Some of that $300 million goes to computers, buildings, and development executives, but I would guess that a significant chunk goes to the development staff. Other big expenses, are licensing, and purchase of outside developmed gaimes, in both cases its about 40% of each company's sales, and I can't tell how much their suppliers are spending on development, but would guess that it is probably 20% or so of sales. The executives, accountants, and any other general costs are about $100 million, and this does not include any payments from options. The last major cost is advertising and sales force costs, which are about $260 million in EA's case. The remaining pre-tax income of $400 million is ostensably owned by the shareholders, but is reinvested in the company for the promise of more income in the future. In unit terms, the developers probably get about $7.50-$10 per copy of an average selling game.
Battlecruiser 3000 AD, the developer, was it Derek Smart, went as far as to insult most of his potential customer's mothers, and could barely even get people to try the free version several years later. I guess something that was playable was finally released.
Yeah and the room full of sun rays just looks cooler too. They just look modern and expensive. I was surprised that he made the home users shell out for MS office, but let the Linux desktops use OpenOffice. A better comparison would have put open office on the windows desktops, too. It sure seems like there are significant cost savings to be had with a thin client model, and it surprises me that if they are really there, that almost everyone continues to purchase x86 desktops. But that is probably just my hardwired economics brain trying to paradigm shift without the clutch again.
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I'd be happy with freeMOO. That game was just fun, but I lost the manual and can only remember about 1/3 of the ship class names. At least with pirates you only have to choose from the captians and you only lose your cannon's if you get it wrong.
I just started playing pente, and it reminded me of othello, which was one of the better GPL games out there as a mindless time waster. Are there any pente projects?
The dollar has been weakening for a few months now. Foreigners are incrementally more nervous with Iraq, and the dismal performance in the US markets aren't stimulating investment.
Are you tired of not being able to play the piano or type as gracefully as you should be able to? Are your stubby fingers not as dexterious for those little jobs? You need our herbal finger lenghtener! When used over a five week period most test subjects lengthened their fingers by more than 20%.
It's all natural and quite inexpensive compared to the productivity increase you will have with longer more graceful fingers.
I was really hoping that everyone's favorite 19th century lawn game/summer courting activity had made it to the big time of 3d comptuer gameplay. Dibs on the black ball.
Your comment made me remember reading the cell phone manual. Have you ever read the FCC regulations for cell phone usage? You are not supposed to swear or use other obscene language on a cell phone. My hard line didn't come with a manual, but I would guess the rules are similar.
Normally yes, but I believe this was either preferred stock, which is more like a bond, or a special class of non voting common stock. This is the opposite of what the Ford family used to control Ford, they have a special class of stock that owns about 5% of the company but carries 40% of the votes. Microsoft was trying to prop up a competitor in the industry, they didn't want to have a decision making stake in the company.
Enterprise products makes a little bit of cash, but most of that is probably just Windows Server and possibly SQL server.
On your link, while he is technically right, Black Scholes is not the best method to value the type of options given to company employees. It looks much worse for other tech companies. Cisco is one of the biggest users of the blue chip tech companies. The problems with Black-Scholes, are largely that it over values these options which cannot be sold, and are very long term. Black-Scholes was developed to price market options which are mostly used by large stock traders to cheaply hedge a position or speculators to bet heavily on small movents in a stock's price, but most of the volume is in the 1-3 month range. Employee stock options are generally issued in the 1-10 year range. The model is extremely sensitive to the assumption of volatility, and in the past five years there has been a huge pick up in volatility which greatly increases the cost of these options.
While options are being used by nearly every technology company to understate their employee cost, Microsoft is one of the more rational user of options. They generally buy back more shares than they issue with their current cash flow. Yes reform is coming, but it will take a very long time to get here.
If you want more details on black sholes or options please feel free to email me.
Game theory works very well when people don't expect to have to play the game again. It is less useful at predicting multipart games. Which is how the mob solves the prisoner's dilemna.
Doesn't everyone have to steal techs from the Psilons to keep pace?
You know what I would dump quarters into at a prodigious pace? A well done arcade version of Gran Turismo, with multiple windows, a stick shift, nice steering wheel, and the like, I would probably have to own one to save money. Why is it that this has not been done? If I could race a few friends or bring my PS garage to the arcade, I would just begin cashing my paycheck in quarters.
You could also do a little better by heading over to the craps table and betting pass or no pass 10 times in a row.
I had a friend in high school who used to play the scratch tickets and ended ahead, since in the state at the time the wining tickets were generally printed in groups, so the cashier at his hangout would tell him when to buy from a roll that had had several large winners.
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Judge not lest ye be judged.
Apple was one of the early adopters of AAC (they call them mp4s for some reason), which I think sounds pretty darn close, at 192 kbps, it is certainly a whole lot better than mp3 or ogg at those bit rates. I haven't tried any classical music, but I would guess that you would need a pretty golden ear and system to tell the difference between the original and the encoded at 256 kbps. I'd pay a buck a track for good AACs.
Sound's like our experience, Montana State, they fired up the new one, and shut off the old one on the same day. It was pretty sad, professors weren't getting paid, sub organizations were bouncing checks, for lack of a final balance. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't so sad. I since learned that most of the integration money was spent making the new peoplesoft forms look and act exactly like the old mainframe based system, so the data entry people wouldn't get confused. It was also odd to get help desk calls about installing the very specific client, that was just certain telnet client, the user had used in training.
They usually do a pretty good job of telling their owners/shareholders, so IR usually isn't bad. Sometimes companies lie, like Enron and WorldCom, but most of the time they do a pretty good job of letting their owners know what is coming up as best they can.
Why is it that Burnt Sienna and Light Umber are the only two word color names that I can recall from my childhood box of crayola's.
You must have, I was too busy with MOO3 to check circulation, we'll send about 10 copies of the TPS report over, too. There are no changes to Tuesday and Friday, "We love the MPAA days".
That is all.
I forgot the console owner, in this case Sony, gets some of the product costs, probably about 20% of the wholesale price.
The retailer's and wholesaler's cuts, which are probably about 20-25% of a game's price. The game's physical costs are likely to be less than 10% of a hit's price. Take Two specifically appears to be more of a distributor with a total payment to the Rockstar subsidiary, and doesn't do a very good job of breaking out that subsidiary's costs. But in EA's case, since EA does quite a bit more in house development, of the roughly $2 billion the company has gotten so far this year, development costs have been about $300 million, development costs will probably finish the year at about $350-$400 million, but revenues won't be much more than $2.2 for the whole year. Some of that $300 million goes to computers, buildings, and development executives, but I would guess that a significant chunk goes to the development staff. Other big expenses, are licensing, and purchase of outside developmed gaimes, in both cases its about 40% of each company's sales, and I can't tell how much their suppliers are spending on development, but would guess that it is probably 20% or so of sales. The executives, accountants, and any other general costs are about $100 million, and this does not include any payments from options. The last major cost is advertising and sales force costs, which are about $260 million in EA's case. The remaining pre-tax income of $400 million is ostensably owned by the shareholders, but is reinvested in the company for the promise of more income in the future. In unit terms, the developers probably get about $7.50-$10 per copy of an average selling game.
Battlecruiser 3000 AD, the developer, was it Derek Smart, went as far as to insult most of his potential customer's mothers, and could barely even get people to try the free version several years later. I guess something that was playable was finally released.
Yeah and the room full of sun rays just looks cooler too. They just look modern and expensive. I was surprised that he made the home users shell out for MS office, but let the Linux desktops use OpenOffice. A better comparison would have put open office on the windows desktops, too.
It sure seems like there are significant cost savings to be had with a thin client model, and it surprises me that if they are really there, that almost everyone continues to purchase x86 desktops. But that is probably just my hardwired economics brain trying to paradigm shift without the clutch again.
So that is where clippy ended up, no wonder they waited so long to release it, Bob was much worse.