The number of false positive searches would probably be somewhat low
I don't disagree with the gist of your post. But having just finished a rotation of family medicine, I couldn't resist commenting.. the number of people who come into the doctor's office thinking they have the "flu", "strep throat" etc but have nothing more than the common cold is ridiculous. The number of false positives is alarmingly high.
I would be on Fatwallet every day maxing out my credit card on Dell laptops. Excpet you're not actually saving money when you buy a lot of crap you don't want / need.
Sony is trying to force me into a "great" deal which I want no part of. Thanks Sony, you just made my decision on whether to get a 360 or a PS3 and easy one.
I don't actually know what I'm talking about, but if I had to guess... the users that will be lost in the next 6 months are probably the most important users that both MS and Sony will want to target.
I think many people, myself included, have been holding off on the 360 because we wanted to see what the PS3 would offer at a comparable price. But few of us want to pay $600 for a console (on general principle) and with the next generation library finally starting to mature, we aren't willing to wait until next year to jump on the next-gen bandwagon.
I owned all 3 consoles last gen, but like most people I know, I'm choosing sides this go round because it's just getting too expensive. Every one of us that Sony loses to MS is gone for the long haul. Whether or not the PS3 is appreciably better, every one of us will try to sell the 360 to our friends over the PS3 so that we'll be able to play together on Live.
The $600 price tag wouldn't be a problem if everyone already had an HD-TV. But most of us still have to shell big bucks for a TV to take advantage of the new systems. Once you start adding up the associated costs of tv stands, speaker components etc, the $200 price difference just pushes you over the edge.
Sony is going to lose this battle if they don't win over the regular Joes. Yes, most of us can technically afford it but we also have girlfriends and gas costs and mortgages we have to deal with.
Arguably, this is a move Microsoft should have employed when they first released the 360, because there were no other players in the market at that point.
Sony cannot afford to play this game. People who decide they can't afford the PS3 balk at the $600 tag and opt for a 360 will not also pick up a PS3 when the price drops. Sony has to keep the price competitive today to prevent them from "settling" for a 360.
Charging the initial adopters a premium may save Sony a few bucks in the short-term, but people everywhere are being turned off by the price today, 6 months before release. People can't assume Sony will lower their prices to something affordable in the near future, and in the meantime they will buy a 360 or a Wii or both. Once they've already committed to a 360, only a small percentage will opt for a PS3 as well.
I know I'm not an idiot. I went to top university and got almost perfect SATs (if that means anything). I graduated with a great gpa in computer science and work as a software engineer... and I think linux is annoying to work with.
Yes, I have worked and developed on Linux. I can get by. But I just don't want to have to remember a bunch of obscure command lines nor deal with searching for oddly named utilities. It is such a pain in the ass to install applications and what not...
If you think the "average" person can work with Linux, you're out of touch w/ reality... OS X on the other hand is a much friendlier OS...
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The number of false positive searches would probably be somewhat low
I don't disagree with the gist of your post. But having just finished a rotation of family medicine, I couldn't resist commenting.. the number of people who come into the doctor's office thinking they have the "flu", "strep throat" etc but have nothing more than the common cold is ridiculous. The number of false positives is alarmingly high.
I know people who know him, and he joined Google pretty early in the company as an engineer. So he's doing pretty damn well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBkQe_lwak
I would be on Fatwallet every day maxing out my credit card on Dell laptops. Excpet you're not actually saving money when you buy a lot of crap you don't want / need. Sony is trying to force me into a "great" deal which I want no part of. Thanks Sony, you just made my decision on whether to get a 360 or a PS3 and easy one.
I don't actually know what I'm talking about, but if I had to guess... the users that will be lost in the next 6 months are probably the most important users that both MS and Sony will want to target. I think many people, myself included, have been holding off on the 360 because we wanted to see what the PS3 would offer at a comparable price. But few of us want to pay $600 for a console (on general principle) and with the next generation library finally starting to mature, we aren't willing to wait until next year to jump on the next-gen bandwagon. I owned all 3 consoles last gen, but like most people I know, I'm choosing sides this go round because it's just getting too expensive. Every one of us that Sony loses to MS is gone for the long haul. Whether or not the PS3 is appreciably better, every one of us will try to sell the 360 to our friends over the PS3 so that we'll be able to play together on Live. The $600 price tag wouldn't be a problem if everyone already had an HD-TV. But most of us still have to shell big bucks for a TV to take advantage of the new systems. Once you start adding up the associated costs of tv stands, speaker components etc, the $200 price difference just pushes you over the edge. Sony is going to lose this battle if they don't win over the regular Joes. Yes, most of us can technically afford it but we also have girlfriends and gas costs and mortgages we have to deal with.
Arguably, this is a move Microsoft should have employed when they first released the 360, because there were no other players in the market at that point. Sony cannot afford to play this game. People who decide they can't afford the PS3 balk at the $600 tag and opt for a 360 will not also pick up a PS3 when the price drops. Sony has to keep the price competitive today to prevent them from "settling" for a 360.
Charging the initial adopters a premium may save Sony a few bucks in the short-term, but people everywhere are being turned off by the price today, 6 months before release. People can't assume Sony will lower their prices to something affordable in the near future, and in the meantime they will buy a 360 or a Wii or both. Once they've already committed to a 360, only a small percentage will opt for a PS3 as well.
- I made a site using AJAX- http://www.slackometer.com/
- It sucks.
QED
I know I'm not an idiot. I went to top university and got almost perfect SATs (if that means anything). I graduated with a great gpa in computer science and work as a software engineer... and I think linux is annoying to work with. Yes, I have worked and developed on Linux. I can get by. But I just don't want to have to remember a bunch of obscure command lines nor deal with searching for oddly named utilities. It is such a pain in the ass to install applications and what not... If you think the "average" person can work with Linux, you're out of touch w/ reality... OS X on the other hand is a much friendlier OS...
that's quite a bit of money they're giving away...
I'd definitely pay to see that. It'd be nice to have a good movie to look forward to every christmas.
at the very least lucas should concentrate on technical direction and outsource the script-writing to people with some talent.