I am reading this from work on my day off. Niiiiiice!!!! Everyone must've gotten the memo but me, because I am here because we are short staffed and had people call in sick.
This is a 16-bit system? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the GBA in my hot little hands (Advance Wars 2 is the shiznit, btw) a 32-bit system? So why am I impressed again? Oh, I know, it's their content-free Flash website that took to long to download even with my trusty T3 line pumping into work. Spare me.
It is a loss of this self suffency which is going to cause the greatest problems in our society.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Very true, but unless you have a widescreen TV then the letter box format can be very poor.
Wouldn't the opposite be the case? Letterbox format lops off about 1 1/2" inches off the top and bottom of my 25" TV screen. If that happend on a widescreen TV (the cropping) I would expect that the image would be distorted...
Ham-Hams on the brain...
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I thought this was gonna be about hamsters. You see, the "male" hamster that my wife bought at Petsmart 3 weeks ago just had a litter. We have our own little Hamvention going on in our bedroom (grumble-grumble).
The United States will be managed as a wholly owned division of Microsoft. An initial public offering is planned for July of next year, and the federal government is expected to be profitable by "Q4 1999 at latest", according to Microsoft president Steve Ballmer.
Well, heck. Why not? I mean, if they can make the government profitable?? I say give 'em their shot, and maybe they'll leave the computers to us since they accomplished their objective anyway!
Thanks to that price drop ($300 -> $200) it costs Microsoft at LEAST $150 per xbox.
They still do not have the volume being made to counter that, primarily because they don't sell fast enough to justify increased production.
The volume is key here. What hurts MS worse...buying an Xbox for $200 (net cost to MS = $150) or not buying an Xbox at all (net cost to MS =? $250)??
why not burn karma...?
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the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound booming out from concealed speakers and whooshing, "Star Wars" noises emitted whenever new information comes onscreen or is e-mailed away.
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices," says group marketing manager Tom Gruver in leading a tour of the new facility.
Yeah, it comes in handy when you are watching bad movies instead of working...
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I am reading this from work on my day off. Niiiiiice!!!! Everyone must've gotten the memo but me, because I am here because we are short staffed and had people call in sick.
This is a 16-bit system? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the GBA in my hot little hands (Advance Wars 2 is the shiznit, btw) a 32-bit system? So why am I impressed again? Oh, I know, it's their content-free Flash website that took to long to download even with my trusty T3 line pumping into work. Spare me.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I thought this was gonna be about hamsters. You see, the "male" hamster that my wife bought at Petsmart 3 weeks ago just had a litter. We have our own little Hamvention going on in our bedroom (grumble-grumble).
C'mon yerselves! A vagina-shaped controller would SELL SELL SELL!!
Yeah.
If I like it, it won't be a hit.
Umm...actually, we do. I believe that you get that control every other year on November 5th. It's called voting.
Well, it sure beats my ACME power supply, I can never access Roadrunner on that damn thing!
Get it? ACME? Roadrunner? Time-Warner? Ahhhh...screw you guys, it was funny.
Ummmm...Bill Maher, not Bill Moyer.
Well, heck. Why not? I mean, if they can make the government profitable?? I say give 'em their shot, and maybe they'll leave the computers to us since they accomplished their objective anyway!
HEY!! You aren't suggesting that...well, it's just not true, darn it!
**slinks away, mumbling to self**
The volume is key here. What hurts MS worse...buying an Xbox for $200 (net cost to MS = $150) or not buying an Xbox at all (net cost to MS =? $250)??
First post! heh!
The key here is the developing countries bit. Is that Ethiopian kid gonna log into AOHell and get his doctorate? I think not.
So what neat sounds does it make when some script kiddie 0wnz your b0x3n??