No...I hate to break it to you, but Sony has not made one cent overall off of the PS2. Certain parts of the PS2 were profitable, but once you add up all of Sonys losses and profits with the PS2 it still comes out in the negative.
I fail to see where Nintendo made a mistake with the Gamecube. They made tons of money off of it from day one, while the competitors never made a profit off of their offerings.
Hes in buisness because he just causes a shitstorm every time he writes an article. No one really takes him seriously, but people goto his articles, give the site some ad revenue, and post about how hes a dipshit. Best way to get rid of him is to ignore him. Oh wait...neither of us are...
Oh they'll sell every last one. Ebay profiteers will make sure PS3 stays out of the stores throughout the Xmas season. Gota captialize on the blind Sony fanboys.
yeah...too bad the max you can get out of a Sony Memory Stick is 4 gigs at $150 a pop. $250 for a 30gig iPod is far better. Need more space? Think ahead and fork out an extra $100 for the 60gig version.
Remember...nukes DO serve a purpose, but not to the general sane part of the population. Bush belongs to the crazed Evangelical side that believes that armed conflicts + nukes = closer to Armageddon happening in their time. Nukes are the part where Armageddon sets in and they all get to go off to lala land and meet god. Flipping loons. They have the delusion that causing other's pain to bring about Armageddon is a GOOD thing.
Thank you...both posters have just proven even with, "group think" on/. it still, "just works." ANY form of posting infers group think. Get over it or live in a cave with your eyes closed, ears plugged, and your tounge cut off. Thats the only way group think can be averted.
It's called AC. If people post with a nick thats new that gets hit with negative mods much it'll be worth as much as an AC post. I think/. has some form of psuedo lameness filter too, but I'm possibly wrong there.
Is it just me or did anyone else get the feeling that these guys just want in essence, free money? All of the projects in the list would require MASSIVE ammounts of captial to begin with to get to them to the point that they would even look at them. By the time they'd put up money for your project you either have the cash needed or your going to fail anyways. The only people who would really benifit from these people are those with a product they themselves don't see selling verry well and just want money. Not to mention the ammount of money they are all willing to put up for the most part wouldn't cover operateing costs very long for the kind of projects they are talking about. I'm dealing with getting a startup going right now and a million bucks in VC really doesn't get you very far.
And all I can say is thank god for re-releases and Xbox emulators for keeping the price on games like Chrono Trigger down. Videogame speculators will always annoy the hell out of me, but I'm happy when games like Chrono Trigger fall in price. The game used to be worth $300-$400 on Ebay until it was re-released on the PSX.
And you do know Stewart doesn't actually grill anyone he interviews right? Hes had Clinton, Pervez Mucharraf (President of Pakistan), and others. He asks questions they may or may not expect a bit, but really it's a very laid back interview. Much like other news shows. However he does tend to ask questions that are more the type to show that the guests are human beings and not just polititians with a hand up thier ass. If he actually asked really hard questions they'd likely get far fewer guests. Why do you think Bush broke down and picked FOX when he finally decided to interview with someone when his poll numbers were in the shitter? Because FOX wasn't going to ask him anything you couldn't learn from a press release.
It is fairly obvious though that you watch FOX news however since the term, "softball interviewed Kerry" was coined by O'Riley I believe who is a schmuck.
Only problem is you use entirely too much power for such a turbine to make a dent really in your power bill. It'll produce roughly 400kWh a month (probably in a coastal high wind area) for you which leaves a ballance of 22440kWh for the power co still. You'd end up needing more than one to get "off the grid." Solar and evaluating your own power conservation still will remain the best ways to cut your power costs/getting off the grid.
Yeah...you first my friend. Animals that eat meat are anything but delicious. It's kind of like eating fish that live in a stagnant pond. You'll get sick fairly quickly if you eat much of it. That is if you can even manage to swallow the putrid meat.
Oh you mean lets eat vegetarians? I'm lookin for the BBQ sauce right now!
I hear you completely on what your saying. I've been starting up my own little consulting buisness and mostly having to go through startup pains of, "damn it's a bitch to get clients." Mainly I stick to real-estate agents, old ladies, non-profits, and buisnesses that want an IT person on call, but not someone who hounds them is attempting to lock them into a contract. The best thing on Earth you can do imo is kiss some ass, network, do good work for people who are likely to tell others about you (hence non-profits). From there things just spread. Word of mouth is better than any marketing imo.
Once you reach a critical point of where you are close to having scheduling issues you bring your pricing up. I started out at $30 an hour to get things off the ground, at $40 an hour now (2 hour minimum), and as my "free time" become a more rare commodity I bring the price up more. You lose clients in the process for sure, but you end up makeing the same once things level out. Once they do you can decide as to if you want to get more clients or ustilize your free time. Heck if you have friends doing the same throw them a bone and give the client their number if their price is within thier range. The client is usualy still happy and you end up with a friend who owes you at the very least a dinner;-)
And for gods sake...you don't want to look like a "geek" wearing a T-Shirt & jeans when your out meeting potential or even regular clients. Your projecting yourself as a buisnessowner essentialy. You have to look like you could at least impersonate one. You have to spend a little bit of money to make money as the saying goes. Me I won't go uptight (white shirt & slacks), but something that looks good on you. You do want to stand out a little. Next time you see someone who owns buisness thats successful look at how they dress. They generaly don't dress like those around them. You can be a geek. You just aren't allowed to look like one.
The Greenpeace article is a complete sham. Greenpeace's article had the investigative quality of a shitty High School English paper. It was discussed when it first came up that the whole thing was just taken from each companies website without actually contacting anyone within the company for specifics. Dell & Nokia are the best documented in these repects since both really have nothing better to do while a company like Apple really never thought to make up a sheet on thier environmental concerns. They have been too buisy making new products to think about it.
Not to mention anyone whos bought more than just an iPod can tell you that Apple computers last far longer than anything Dell or Nokia makes. Not to mention Apple's packaging has been far more recyclable and smaller than Dells. Kind of eaisy however when your products are usualy much smaller & lighter (LCDs instead of massive CRTs for instance).
A better example is flouride. Something that we KNOW to be damaging to the environment (why we make people pay money if they want dispose of it). Yet we seem completely ok with it getting into the environment as long as it goes through people first. Hell we'll even pay for it! Not to mention the damage it does to a person while it's going through them.
Sounds like your too concious about other people than yourself to be worried about what others are using to listen to music on the bus. I'm personaly game for Apple however making thier stuff smaller while doing incramental upgrades. Reason everyone jumps on something like video playback is because Apple ends up making it a standard item. When you own over 50% of the market whatever you do IS the standard. Until then it's not. Yes others do things often before Apple (Archos), but thier players were far too big for mass acceptance, had bad battery life, or other short-comings and as such the technology just wasn't ready. Remeber this about the Zune when it comes out. Hows it's battery life, hows it handle those Play for Sure files that don't work, it's interface, how big is it, etc.
WGA really doesn't shut you off from upgrades. I run quite a few legitimate licences and under Automatic Windows Update you just need to have it set to "notify" before downloading & installing. Uncheck WGA and you'll never be bothered with it again and still get all the normal updates unless you want to update form the Windows Update site. I personaly refuse to install that POS on any of my systems or allow it on client's systems. Just a matter of knowing what works and what doesn't.
And suddenly the troll exposes himself. You don't have nor ever want to buy an iPod yet your piss & moan about not being able to do something you can do allready. I wish I had mod points today. You know nothing about iPods given they play MP3s, MP4 video files, AAC, Apple Lossless. All of which you can rip from a CD or download and iTunes will rip to any without DRM. Before ou attempt to piss that you don't want to be tied to iTunes there are a number of apps out there on the PC and Mac (I'm fairly certain Lunix too) side that will handle music transfers.
Allready possible, but still a little hackish compared to what Google wants. PCs mounted in cars are running off a 12v line more and more that has to do very little conversion that sits on top of the ATX connector. There was an article about a year ago on one manufacturer of them during CES (best of show I think).
Only reason Sqeenix is really bothering with Sony at this point is due to Square saying, "give us money now" after FF the movie nearly tanked Square and Sony pretty much saying, "how much do you want?" It didn't save Square from needing to partner with Enix, but it kept them from going bankrupt. Writing that check was bout the last smart thing Sony has done.
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No...I hate to break it to you, but Sony has not made one cent overall off of the PS2. Certain parts of the PS2 were profitable, but once you add up all of Sonys losses and profits with the PS2 it still comes out in the negative.
I fail to see where Nintendo made a mistake with the Gamecube. They made tons of money off of it from day one, while the competitors never made a profit off of their offerings.
Hes in buisness because he just causes a shitstorm every time he writes an article. No one really takes him seriously, but people goto his articles, give the site some ad revenue, and post about how hes a dipshit. Best way to get rid of him is to ignore him. Oh wait...neither of us are...
Thank god for judicial review. Too bad it won't happen before the crackpot gets replaced.
Oh they'll sell every last one. Ebay profiteers will make sure PS3 stays out of the stores throughout the Xmas season. Gota captialize on the blind Sony fanboys.
Wow...I've been sooo burned. For the price of an 8gig memory stick I could pick up a 60gig iPod video.
yeah...too bad the max you can get out of a Sony Memory Stick is 4 gigs at $150 a pop. $250 for a 30gig iPod is far better. Need more space? Think ahead and fork out an extra $100 for the 60gig version.
Remember...nukes DO serve a purpose, but not to the general sane part of the population. Bush belongs to the crazed Evangelical side that believes that armed conflicts + nukes = closer to Armageddon happening in their time. Nukes are the part where Armageddon sets in and they all get to go off to lala land and meet god. Flipping loons. They have the delusion that causing other's pain to bring about Armageddon is a GOOD thing.
Thank you...both posters have just proven even with, "group think" on /. it still, "just works." ANY form of posting infers group think. Get over it or live in a cave with your eyes closed, ears plugged, and your tounge cut off. Thats the only way group think can be averted.
It's called AC. If people post with a nick thats new that gets hit with negative mods much it'll be worth as much as an AC post. I think /. has some form of psuedo lameness filter too, but I'm possibly wrong there.
Is it just me or did anyone else get the feeling that these guys just want in essence, free money? All of the projects in the list would require MASSIVE ammounts of captial to begin with to get to them to the point that they would even look at them. By the time they'd put up money for your project you either have the cash needed or your going to fail anyways. The only people who would really benifit from these people are those with a product they themselves don't see selling verry well and just want money. Not to mention the ammount of money they are all willing to put up for the most part wouldn't cover operateing costs very long for the kind of projects they are talking about. I'm dealing with getting a startup going right now and a million bucks in VC really doesn't get you very far.
And all I can say is thank god for re-releases and Xbox emulators for keeping the price on games like Chrono Trigger down. Videogame speculators will always annoy the hell out of me, but I'm happy when games like Chrono Trigger fall in price. The game used to be worth $300-$400 on Ebay until it was re-released on the PSX.
And you do know Stewart doesn't actually grill anyone he interviews right? Hes had Clinton, Pervez Mucharraf (President of Pakistan), and others. He asks questions they may or may not expect a bit, but really it's a very laid back interview. Much like other news shows. However he does tend to ask questions that are more the type to show that the guests are human beings and not just polititians with a hand up thier ass. If he actually asked really hard questions they'd likely get far fewer guests. Why do you think Bush broke down and picked FOX when he finally decided to interview with someone when his poll numbers were in the shitter? Because FOX wasn't going to ask him anything you couldn't learn from a press release.
It is fairly obvious though that you watch FOX news however since the term, "softball interviewed Kerry" was coined by O'Riley I believe who is a schmuck.
Only problem is you use entirely too much power for such a turbine to make a dent really in your power bill. It'll produce roughly 400kWh a month (probably in a coastal high wind area) for you which leaves a ballance of 22440kWh for the power co still. You'd end up needing more than one to get "off the grid." Solar and evaluating your own power conservation still will remain the best ways to cut your power costs/getting off the grid.
Yeah...you first my friend. Animals that eat meat are anything but delicious. It's kind of like eating fish that live in a stagnant pond. You'll get sick fairly quickly if you eat much of it. That is if you can even manage to swallow the putrid meat.
Oh you mean lets eat vegetarians? I'm lookin for the BBQ sauce right now!
You campin ass bitch =P
I hear you completely on what your saying. I've been starting up my own little consulting buisness and mostly having to go through startup pains of, "damn it's a bitch to get clients." Mainly I stick to real-estate agents, old ladies, non-profits, and buisnesses that want an IT person on call, but not someone who hounds them is attempting to lock them into a contract. The best thing on Earth you can do imo is kiss some ass, network, do good work for people who are likely to tell others about you (hence non-profits). From there things just spread. Word of mouth is better than any marketing imo.
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Once you reach a critical point of where you are close to having scheduling issues you bring your pricing up. I started out at $30 an hour to get things off the ground, at $40 an hour now (2 hour minimum), and as my "free time" become a more rare commodity I bring the price up more. You lose clients in the process for sure, but you end up makeing the same once things level out. Once they do you can decide as to if you want to get more clients or ustilize your free time. Heck if you have friends doing the same throw them a bone and give the client their number if their price is within thier range. The client is usualy still happy and you end up with a friend who owes you at the very least a dinner
And for gods sake...you don't want to look like a "geek" wearing a T-Shirt & jeans when your out meeting potential or even regular clients. Your projecting yourself as a buisnessowner essentialy. You have to look like you could at least impersonate one. You have to spend a little bit of money to make money as the saying goes. Me I won't go uptight (white shirt & slacks), but something that looks good on you. You do want to stand out a little. Next time you see someone who owns buisness thats successful look at how they dress. They generaly don't dress like those around them. You can be a geek. You just aren't allowed to look like one.
The Greenpeace article is a complete sham. Greenpeace's article had the investigative quality of a shitty High School English paper. It was discussed when it first came up that the whole thing was just taken from each companies website without actually contacting anyone within the company for specifics. Dell & Nokia are the best documented in these repects since both really have nothing better to do while a company like Apple really never thought to make up a sheet on thier environmental concerns. They have been too buisy making new products to think about it.
Not to mention anyone whos bought more than just an iPod can tell you that Apple computers last far longer than anything Dell or Nokia makes. Not to mention Apple's packaging has been far more recyclable and smaller than Dells. Kind of eaisy however when your products are usualy much smaller & lighter (LCDs instead of massive CRTs for instance).
A better example is flouride. Something that we KNOW to be damaging to the environment (why we make people pay money if they want dispose of it). Yet we seem completely ok with it getting into the environment as long as it goes through people first. Hell we'll even pay for it! Not to mention the damage it does to a person while it's going through them.
Sounds like your too concious about other people than yourself to be worried about what others are using to listen to music on the bus. I'm personaly game for Apple however making thier stuff smaller while doing incramental upgrades. Reason everyone jumps on something like video playback is because Apple ends up making it a standard item. When you own over 50% of the market whatever you do IS the standard. Until then it's not. Yes others do things often before Apple (Archos), but thier players were far too big for mass acceptance, had bad battery life, or other short-comings and as such the technology just wasn't ready. Remeber this about the Zune when it comes out. Hows it's battery life, hows it handle those Play for Sure files that don't work, it's interface, how big is it, etc.
WGA really doesn't shut you off from upgrades. I run quite a few legitimate licences and under Automatic Windows Update you just need to have it set to "notify" before downloading & installing. Uncheck WGA and you'll never be bothered with it again and still get all the normal updates unless you want to update form the Windows Update site. I personaly refuse to install that POS on any of my systems or allow it on client's systems. Just a matter of knowing what works and what doesn't.
Uh...no...GTA San Andreas wasn't even dual layer on the Xbox.
And suddenly the troll exposes himself. You don't have nor ever want to buy an iPod yet your piss & moan about not being able to do something you can do allready. I wish I had mod points today. You know nothing about iPods given they play MP3s, MP4 video files, AAC, Apple Lossless. All of which you can rip from a CD or download and iTunes will rip to any without DRM. Before ou attempt to piss that you don't want to be tied to iTunes there are a number of apps out there on the PC and Mac (I'm fairly certain Lunix too) side that will handle music transfers.
Allready possible, but still a little hackish compared to what Google wants. PCs mounted in cars are running off a 12v line more and more that has to do very little conversion that sits on top of the ATX connector. There was an article about a year ago on one manufacturer of them during CES (best of show I think).
Only reason Sqeenix is really bothering with Sony at this point is due to Square saying, "give us money now" after FF the movie nearly tanked Square and Sony pretty much saying, "how much do you want?" It didn't save Square from needing to partner with Enix, but it kept them from going bankrupt. Writing that check was bout the last smart thing Sony has done.