If they sell at a loss of $100 per console (just easy numbers), that means they sell it for $100 less than it cost to make. If the console gets made and no one buys it, instead of a net of $-100, it's a net of the entire cost to make. i.e. $400 sale price on a $500 console, so if it's not sold they have a net $-500 loss out of it all.
That being said, except for potential warranty costs, current 360's are sold at cost or at a slight profit. They haven't been under cost for a few months now, a little more than the Elite has been out.
I don't think longevity is a tracked metric for vendors trying to get their products onto the shelves at Wal-Mart.
My parents are Wal-Mart devotees. Just about everything they buy is from there. They always express frustration when their nearly-new food processor breaks, or bargain clothes start falling apart, or they find the automatic "disassemble" button on the lawn furniture. I try to explain to them that quality costs money but they just haven't made the connection yet.
According to this, the Sempron 2500+ runs at 1.4 GHz and had a thermal design profile of 59 W. I assume actual power consumption is greater than the thermal design.
How interesting. To me, the fun and quality of Sonic games are inversely proportional to how many characters they've added to its universe. So, the "Sonic universe," by it's very existance, makes me sad for the franchise.
Sonic didn't take on extra story baggage nearly as elegantly as, say, Zelda, Mario, or even Jak and Daxter. And it's not something to be proud of.
I guess it was just begging for an RPG, then. But with BioWare behind it, hopefully this could have the same splash that Super Mario RPG did.
Maybe it's a Canadian thing but I have never once in my life seen a TV with composite input on the front.
Probably. I've had a TV with a (mono) composite input on it, another with a stereo, another with stereo on the side, VCRs with inputs on the front. Hell, last dozen times I've been to a hotel they've had a TV with front inputs. My current TV has side composite + S-Video, which isn't much of an improvement but no complaints from me. Hell, my audio amp has front optical and 3.5mm on the front, too!
I swear I didn't intentionally seek those out, either. Dunno, maybe I just pay too much for my entertainment hardware.
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His point is that you can't PROVE it will run homebrew until they are in the hands of those who will try. Even if it's the same hardware, there's firmware to worry about. Given Sony's track record in the past with revisions of hacked systems, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if downgrading the firmware on the PSP Slim would brick it.
It's nothing about fanboi/non-fanboi and everything about spreading potentially false information. We'll know with PROOF if it plays nice with homebrew likely within a few hours of it hitting the streets.
If it winds up to run homebrew flawlessly that's a good thing, isn't it? Which sane people would be against that? No one. But some of us like hard facts instead of analysts and conjecture.
Uh, no. That's the model number sent to the FCC for approval. The marketed name is PSP Slim. I expect it to be pretty consistant in the Playstation model numbering scheme where the last number indicates the region.
So what if a hundred people have been where I'm going. 50 of them will be spam, 10 will be shillers from the Tourist advisory board, 15 will be from real estate something-or-other. What happens when you are review #101 and you don't like it?
Social Networking could easily fix that problem. You have a certain number of friends who automatically carry weight on the generated results. They, in turn, have friends who carry less weight and so on and so on. None of your friends or their friends or anyone else would willingly put Spamhouse accounts in their network so they can plant all they want and it wouldn't mess it up in the slightest.
Even if you do believe the Six Degrees of Separation thing that connects all strangers together, the curve could be user defined, too. If there's a lot of static (bad results), just lower the sensitivity so your first-degree friends have a lot of weight and it drops off faster the farther out you go than default. Not getting any results? Crank it up and your results might extend into 6, 36, or even farther degrees of influence.
Pricewise, the EU market's been getting the shaft anyway. So I'm pleased for those across the pond can get a better deal.
The thing is that there have been some loud voices from Konami and Capcom that say even a $100 cut is too little. Now there really it looks like it's still $600. Hasn't Hideo been kicking around the idea of going multiplatform on MGS4 if the price wasn't dropped?
I wonder if their plan included possibly forcing Microsoft to cut the price on the 360 (and announce that at e3) and rubbing salt in that wound since Microsoft's game division lost money and with that $1 billion warranty extention deal.
Didn't go that way, obviously, so, maybe my imagination for dark smoke filled conference rooms at Sony is running wild again.
Glancing at the paper, the most complicated things in it are limits and differentiation. They did have calculus back in the 18th century, didn't they? The founding fathers were educated men, weren't they?
Seems to me they just neglected to show their work. Tsk tsk, minus 5 points on that question for them.
Randal: I hope it feels good. Customer: You hope what feels good? Randal: I hope it feels so good to be right. There is nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?
Unfortunately, teaching computer graphics in Java3D locks the aspiring developer into the Java platform.
I'd say that if one's education in computer graphics ends with the first book one picks up, they deserve to be locked up. In a mental institution preferably.
Aside from the obvious idea of using this book to teach graphics to those who are already on friendly-terms with Java, it still teaches graphics. While the examples and code are in Java, a reader would (hopefully) learn good practices for graphics in general.
My critism is that the accessories are just gimmicks. I'll exclude the Advantage and Max since they featured turbo and are pretty much the one and only time Nintendo produced alternate controllers (ignoring the NES 2 redesign or multicolored functionally-identical ones) for any system.
R.O.B. supported 2 games. Zapper: about 5. Power Pad: 2. Mouse: 2. Super Scope: 1 (six I guess, if you're the type of person who would count Wii Sports as 5 games).
The accessories, almost by axiom, can't be used in a whole lot of different games because the system didn't come with it. And the system shouldn't come with it because all the games don't support it. So you get a catch-22 kind of thing. In the meantime all those accessories cost money and take up space.
Then again, I've got a nasty little rhythm game habit which results in owning a dance pad for only 2 PS2 titles, beatmania controller for one, guitar controller for two, maybe the slap in the face with peripherals makes me feel good in dirty dirty gamer kind of way.
So because he's got a lot of games, let him burn? How do you know all games were purchased retail? I have to say I might buy one or two full-price new releases per year and the rest hunted off ebay or the used game shops.
$2400 invested in a system already two and a half years in isn't even that bad, anyway, if you can afford it. Don't be jealous of others' prosperity.
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If they sell at a loss of $100 per console (just easy numbers), that means they sell it for $100 less than it cost to make. If the console gets made and no one buys it, instead of a net of $-100, it's a net of the entire cost to make. i.e. $400 sale price on a $500 console, so if it's not sold they have a net $-500 loss out of it all.
That being said, except for potential warranty costs, current 360's are sold at cost or at a slight profit. They haven't been under cost for a few months now, a little more than the Elite has been out.
I don't think longevity is a tracked metric for vendors trying to get their products onto the shelves at Wal-Mart.
My parents are Wal-Mart devotees. Just about everything they buy is from there. They always express frustration when their nearly-new food processor breaks, or bargain clothes start falling apart, or they find the automatic "disassemble" button on the lawn furniture. I try to explain to them that quality costs money but they just haven't made the connection yet.
For those who have more time than money, I guess.
According to this, the Sempron 2500+ runs at 1.4 GHz and had a thermal design profile of 59 W. I assume actual power consumption is greater than the thermal design.
...it's based in the Sonic universe!
How interesting. To me, the fun and quality of Sonic games are inversely proportional to how many characters they've added to its universe. So, the "Sonic universe," by it's very existance, makes me sad for the franchise.
Sonic didn't take on extra story baggage nearly as elegantly as, say, Zelda, Mario, or even Jak and Daxter. And it's not something to be proud of.
I guess it was just begging for an RPG, then. But with BioWare behind it, hopefully this could have the same splash that Super Mario RPG did.
Maybe it's a Canadian thing but I have never once in my life seen a TV with composite input on the front.
Probably. I've had a TV with a (mono) composite input on it, another with a stereo, another with stereo on the side, VCRs with inputs on the front. Hell, last dozen times I've been to a hotel they've had a TV with front inputs. My current TV has side composite + S-Video, which isn't much of an improvement but no complaints from me. Hell, my audio amp has front optical and 3.5mm on the front, too!
I swear I didn't intentionally seek those out, either. Dunno, maybe I just pay too much for my entertainment hardware.
His point is that you can't PROVE it will run homebrew until they are in the hands of those who will try. Even if it's the same hardware, there's firmware to worry about. Given Sony's track record in the past with revisions of hacked systems, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if downgrading the firmware on the PSP Slim would brick it.
It's nothing about fanboi/non-fanboi and everything about spreading potentially false information. We'll know with PROOF if it plays nice with homebrew likely within a few hours of it hitting the streets.
If it winds up to run homebrew flawlessly that's a good thing, isn't it? Which sane people would be against that? No one. But some of us like hard facts instead of analysts and conjecture.
Instead, the morons name it PSP-2000
Uh, no. That's the model number sent to the FCC for approval. The marketed name is PSP Slim. I expect it to be pretty consistant in the Playstation model numbering scheme where the last number indicates the region.
What should the model number have been?
So what if a hundred people have been where I'm going. 50 of them will be spam, 10 will be shillers from the Tourist advisory board, 15 will be from real estate something-or-other. What happens when you are review #101 and you don't like it?
Social Networking could easily fix that problem. You have a certain number of friends who automatically carry weight on the generated results. They, in turn, have friends who carry less weight and so on and so on. None of your friends or their friends or anyone else would willingly put Spamhouse accounts in their network so they can plant all they want and it wouldn't mess it up in the slightest.
Even if you do believe the Six Degrees of Separation thing that connects all strangers together, the curve could be user defined, too. If there's a lot of static (bad results), just lower the sensitivity so your first-degree friends have a lot of weight and it drops off faster the farther out you go than default. Not getting any results? Crank it up and your results might extend into 6, 36, or even farther degrees of influence.
I misread that then. I thought it had a 12 phaser power array to vaporize my enemies.
I thank you, good sir. :)
"That seems a rather foolish assumption."
/. for killing what little good time I was having.
Yikes, it's Friday folks.
Thank you
Except they bought it at $18 a share instead of $8 a share.
From TFA: "No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share."
.... "
/. news submission for making me laugh so hard. It's like it's right out of The Onion.
Next paragraph: "[Wild Oats management] clearly doesn't know what it is doing
And paragraph after that: "Earlier this year, his company agreed to buy Wild Oats for $565 million, or $18.50 a share."
I thank this
Pricewise, the EU market's been getting the shaft anyway. So I'm pleased for those across the pond can get a better deal.
The thing is that there have been some loud voices from Konami and Capcom that say even a $100 cut is too little. Now there really it looks like it's still $600. Hasn't Hideo been kicking around the idea of going multiplatform on MGS4 if the price wasn't dropped?
I wonder if their plan included possibly forcing Microsoft to cut the price on the 360 (and announce that at e3) and rubbing salt in that wound since Microsoft's game division lost money and with that $1 billion warranty extention deal.
Didn't go that way, obviously, so, maybe my imagination for dark smoke filled conference rooms at Sony is running wild again.
Glancing at the paper, the most complicated things in it are limits and differentiation. They did have calculus back in the 18th century, didn't they? The founding fathers were educated men, weren't they?
Seems to me they just neglected to show their work. Tsk tsk, minus 5 points on that question for them.
"SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING! Election of this individual may result in death and will increase the risk of the rest of the world hating you."
Oh sure. These things are ALWAYS after the fact.
Windex got a warning to not to use it to clean contact lenses a few years ago. Where was that one when I needed it, too!
Randal: I hope it feels good.
Customer: You hope what feels good?
Randal: I hope it feels so good to be right. There is nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?
Unfortunately, teaching computer graphics in Java3D locks the aspiring developer into the Java platform.
I'd say that if one's education in computer graphics ends with the first book one picks up, they deserve to be locked up. In a mental institution preferably.
Aside from the obvious idea of using this book to teach graphics to those who are already on friendly-terms with Java, it still teaches graphics. While the examples and code are in Java, a reader would (hopefully) learn good practices for graphics in general.
Power Glove was Mattel's disaster unleashed upon the world, wasn't it?
Looks like crappy 3rd party accessories have been around for ages.
My critism is that the accessories are just gimmicks. I'll exclude the Advantage and Max since they featured turbo and are pretty much the one and only time Nintendo produced alternate controllers (ignoring the NES 2 redesign or multicolored functionally-identical ones) for any system.
R.O.B. supported 2 games. Zapper: about 5. Power Pad: 2. Mouse: 2. Super Scope: 1 (six I guess, if you're the type of person who would count Wii Sports as 5 games).
The accessories, almost by axiom, can't be used in a whole lot of different games because the system didn't come with it. And the system shouldn't come with it because all the games don't support it. So you get a catch-22 kind of thing. In the meantime all those accessories cost money and take up space.
Then again, I've got a nasty little rhythm game habit which results in owning a dance pad for only 2 PS2 titles, beatmania controller for one, guitar controller for two, maybe the slap in the face with peripherals makes me feel good in dirty dirty gamer kind of way.
Provided cutting-edge graphics would be provided by PS3 hardware instead of removed PS2 hardware from the PS3, the big answer is yes.
It's not like they're using the Emotion Engine as a coprocessor while running PS3 games.
If you don't have a PS3 you might have to figure out how you're going to get one.
Um, walk into a store, grab one of the shelf, proceed to checkout counter, pay?
So because he's got a lot of games, let him burn? How do you know all games were purchased retail? I have to say I might buy one or two full-price new releases per year and the rest hunted off ebay or the used game shops.
$2400 invested in a system already two and a half years in isn't even that bad, anyway, if you can afford it. Don't be jealous of others' prosperity.
Only under Microsoft's model, all services are owned by them. ;)