Furthermore, as it says, they have sold 200k boxes in the U.S.
they sold 200k boxes to STORES. i.e. ebgames, babbages/gamestop etc. NOT TO PEOPLE.
which have spawned 100k subscriptions
so of those 200k boxes, 100k people have signed up for a playonline account.
(430k at the moment)
430k - 100k = 330k current Japanesse subscribers.
now what we are saying is of those 100k boxes ACTUALLY FREAKIN SOLD TO PEOPLE. we would expect 70% of them to NOT continue the subscription past 6 months. and if you look at the number from any other MMORPG that's not a bad estimate.
so lets pretend that all 100k people keep their subscription then to break 500k (which is what ever-crap has) we need 70k more subs. to get 70k more subs we need to buy 70k * 10/3 more boxes or 233k more boxes.
i hate to tell you but not everyone that buys the box plays the game for longer then the free month. i beta tested anarchy online, purchased the box and had stopped playing after 8 weeks. so saying they currently have 400k subscribers from japan and 100k boxes sold equalling 430k subscribes sounds like a decent estimate. what they basically are saying is that 70% of the people buying the boxed game will most likely not continue for longer then 1 month worth of play. MMORPG is not for everyone.
didn't lindows try this? granted lindows costs more money but it's still was built on OSS so why would i donate it to the FSF and possibly not get a freePC? other then the fact that all the free pcs are most likely given out but they haven't told you how many people used that option yet.....
2. hello i'm a student do i need to pay?
2.1 well wouldn't that turn students into spammers
3. do i need to pay if i'm only sending mail within my domain. i.e. me to my teacher
4. business replies, tech support etc. if businesses only will communicate through email for ordering stuff online and tech support for their products souldn't they have to pay for the email since they don't offer me a free alternative to contact them? would this law require them to have a free alternative to contact them? i.e. a phone number, or something similiar.
i bought a mac like 6 weeks before they announced the G5. needless to say i was pissed.
my advice is either to wait until the new hardware comes out and buy the old cheap or buy the new hardware as soon as it comes out. it'll give you the most band for your buck.
if you get the virtual windows software get the version that doesn't come with windows. it's like $100 and you can install your corporate site licensed version/warez version. same with office on the windows side.
also if you buy it from a physical apple store they wont support any hardware upgrades they didn't do but they will suppliment the apple care package if you haggle with them. in my case i got 200 worth of hardware and had it installed and got apple care for the cost of the apple care package 250
so 200 hw 100 install 250 apple care
for
250
your choice.
OS X kicks ass but i'd like a Mac version of Tweak UI (a windows util) 'cause i don't need a lot of the graphic options and i can't ever seem to turn them off. maybe i'm just too new of a mac newb.
i just remember going to a talk at gdconf last year where the lead AI programmer talked about decisions they made in neverwinter nights and said "please don't hurt me" when describing the AI system and problems they were having
well considering i have a Mac and no one offers Mac games anymore i buy consoles so i can continue to play games. although with the way games are today might as well buy the cheapest PC you can until you can't play games on it anymore then do the same.
actually thats my plan right now.
yes sourceforge is for sharing source code. publicly sharing source code. this project wanted to move to closed source model and Xlink noticed that they either forgot to close up or couldn't close up their public source on sourceforge. so Xlink could use the code for their product. nothing wrong with this in an opensource model however someone screwed up by leaving the source available on sourceforge.
Some people (not neccessarily me) don't consider Windows to be Linux's enemy. They are in fact targeting to different markets. However given the fact that you are now focusing on the enterprise level Linux environment, What other products do you feel is Linux/RedHat's enemy? Another way of saying it is, What products do you feel Linux/RedHat is competing against?
if they are truely smart they wont make it cost $200 not without offing a free game and extra controller and all TV connects like they did with the original NES. now that game cube is $100 people are going to expect quailty products at a quality price.
i actually would tend to believe that soon the console scene will have to drop down to $100-150 for the console like in the 80s. consoles are just too exspensive and offer too little games on launch to expect people to pay $300 for a second rate game that was put on the shelf to sell the $300 console.
Maybe they are doing what Sega did with the Genesis... I.E. they think if they get their system out before anyone else has their system out they can corner the system market.
i find all this eye candy cool and visual stimulating. however i need as many cycles open for other stuff beside making my windows prettier and XML-ifying all config files.
How highly configurable is this system? for example whenever i am forced to sit in front of a winXP machine i turn off all graphic eye candies so it look/feels/acts like win95.
some of us do like and use all the eye candy, however i prefer eyeless candy.
is there anything i could buy that i could carry around with me that i could use to see if things are actively transmitting a radio signal?
with everything being RFID enabled soon. i'd kinda like a little hand held GBA looking thing that scans for a transmission and disables it. or just something i can turn on and off that will emit a stronger signal blocking all 2.4ghz devices, cell phones, RFID, etc. from being able to receive/send info.
some musician (at least ones i know) when they want to spell out a word in music they basically start over at A after G so the alphabet essential gets a mod G so G = N mod G so if you wanted to spell out your favorite super hero name in music (Which my friend did)
GREEN LANTERN
GDEEG EAGFEDG
with movie reviews and i believe other reviews (books, games, etc) most critics either take it from a technical approach or from an artistic approach. while this is all well and good. movie, books, games, etc were ment to entertain. i have yet to find a critic who reviews based on entertainment value (i don't actively look however) of course with a large majority of games today being carbon copies of other games is there any real entertainment left?
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i'd be surprised if fifty cent has fifty minutes worth of material.
Furthermore, as it says, they have sold 200k boxes in the U.S.
they sold 200k boxes to STORES. i.e. ebgames, babbages/gamestop etc. NOT TO PEOPLE.
which have spawned 100k subscriptions
so of those 200k boxes, 100k people have signed up for a playonline account.
(430k at the moment)
430k - 100k = 330k current Japanesse subscribers.
now what we are saying is of those 100k boxes ACTUALLY FREAKIN SOLD TO PEOPLE. we would expect 70% of them to NOT continue the subscription past 6 months. and if you look at the number from any other MMORPG that's not a bad estimate.
so lets pretend that all 100k people keep their subscription then to break 500k (which is what ever-crap has) we need 70k more subs. to get 70k more subs we need to buy 70k * 10/3 more boxes or
233k more boxes.
put that in your freaking TI-81
i hate to tell you but not everyone that buys the box plays the game for longer then the free month. i beta tested anarchy online, purchased the box and had stopped playing after 8 weeks. so saying they currently have 400k subscribers from japan and 100k boxes sold equalling 430k subscribes sounds like a decent estimate. what they basically are saying is that 70% of the people buying the boxed game will most likely not continue for longer then 1 month worth of play. MMORPG is not for everyone.
well the article did say these would be the LONGest hours of your life. although for the /. crowd i would expect it to be LONGest milliseconds.
didn't lindows try this? granted lindows costs more money but it's still was built on OSS so why would i donate it to the FSF and possibly not get a freePC? other then the fact that all the free pcs are most likely given out but they haven't told you how many people used that option yet.....
1. where will the money go?
2. hello i'm a student do i need to pay?
2.1 well wouldn't that turn students into spammers
3. do i need to pay if i'm only sending mail within my domain. i.e. me to my teacher
4. business replies, tech support etc. if businesses only will communicate through email for ordering stuff online and tech support for their products souldn't they have to pay for the email since they don't offer me a free alternative to contact them? would this law require them to have a free alternative to contact them? i.e. a phone number, or something similiar.
i bought a mac like 6 weeks before they announced the G5. needless to say i was pissed.
my advice is either to wait until the new hardware comes out and buy the old cheap or buy the new hardware as soon as it comes out. it'll give you the most band for your buck.
if you get the virtual windows software get the version that doesn't come with windows. it's like $100 and you can install your corporate site licensed version/warez version. same with office on the windows side.
also if you buy it from a physical apple store they wont support any hardware upgrades they didn't do but they will suppliment the apple care package if you haggle with them. in my case i got 200 worth of hardware and had it installed and got apple care for the cost of the apple care package 250
so
200 hw
100 install
250 apple care
for
250
your choice.
OS X kicks ass but i'd like a Mac version of Tweak UI (a windows util) 'cause i don't need a lot of the graphic options and i can't ever seem to turn them off. maybe i'm just too new of a mac newb.
i just remember going to a talk at gdconf last year where the lead AI programmer talked about decisions they made in neverwinter nights and said "please don't hurt me" when describing the AI system and problems they were having
well considering i have a Mac and no one offers Mac games anymore i buy consoles so i can continue to play games. although with the way games are today might as well buy the cheapest PC you can until you can't play games on it anymore then do the same. actually thats my plan right now.
you noticed that but you didn't notice the
Just in case you didn't you didn't know, the OSDL is funded
let me highlight it more for you
you didn't you didn't know
my mistake. next time i will RTFA fully. the principal still applies AFAIK though.
yes sourceforge is for sharing source code. publicly sharing source code. this project wanted to move to closed source model and Xlink noticed that they either forgot to close up or couldn't close up their public source on sourceforge. so Xlink could use the code for their product. nothing wrong with this in an opensource model however someone screwed up by leaving the source available on sourceforge.
Some people (not neccessarily me) don't consider Windows to be Linux's enemy. They are in fact targeting to different markets. However given the fact that you are now focusing on the enterprise level Linux environment, What other products do you feel is Linux/RedHat's enemy? Another way of saying it is, What products do you feel Linux/RedHat is competing against?
if they are truely smart they wont make it cost $200 not without offing a free game and extra controller and all TV connects like they did with the original NES. now that game cube is $100 people are going to expect quailty products at a quality price.
i actually would tend to believe that soon the console scene will have to drop down to $100-150 for the console like in the 80s. consoles are just too exspensive and offer too little games on launch to expect people to pay $300 for a second rate game that was put on the shelf to sell the $300 console.
IMHO anyway
just buy records at garage sales. you can get thousands of sounds for just a couple of dollars.
Maybe they are doing what Sega did with the Genesis... I.E. they think if they get their system out before anyone else has their system out they can corner the system market.
funny thing is with the old mobsters paying protection money to mob A would stop mob B from doing the same.
what's to stop another DDoS group from doing the same?
as the movies teach never pay the protection money
i find all this eye candy cool and visual stimulating. however i need as many cycles open for other stuff beside making my windows prettier and XML-ifying all config files.
How highly configurable is this system? for example whenever i am forced to sit in front of a winXP machine i turn off all graphic eye candies so it look/feels/acts like win95.
some of us do like and use all the eye candy, however i prefer eyeless candy.
is there anything i could buy that i could carry around with me that i could use to see if things are actively transmitting a radio signal?
with everything being RFID enabled soon. i'd kinda like a little hand held GBA looking thing that scans for a transmission and disables it. or just something i can turn on and off that will emit a stronger signal blocking all 2.4ghz devices, cell phones, RFID, etc. from being able to receive/send info.
some musician (at least ones i know) when they want to spell out a word in music they basically start over at A after G so the alphabet essential gets a mod G so G = N mod G so if you wanted to spell out your favorite super hero name in music (Which my friend did) GREEN LANTERN GDEEG EAGFEDG
with movie reviews and i believe other reviews (books, games, etc) most critics either take it from a technical approach or from an artistic approach. while this is all well and good. movie, books, games, etc were ment to entertain. i have yet to find a critic who reviews based on entertainment value (i don't actively look however) of course with a large majority of games today being carbon copies of other games is there any real entertainment left?
if the games aren't on the shelf obviously they wont sell.
this will force more company to actually complete the localization process. a good move as far as i'm concerned.
i heard it was because of harry potter having a spider scene. they didn't want two spider scenes in two movies released right next to each other
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