Goodwill is an accounting term used by companies to place a value on patents, Intellectual Property Rights, Copyrights, Branding, etc.
So, apparently Microsoft is worried it will drop further into the negative than it is now.
Would be a bitch if they respawned on top of all of us during our victory dance.
Yeah, been playing too many MMOs lately, but that's the first thing that came to mind.
You do realize that not only are they losing because of titles and lack of them, but they were losing almost $300 per console before the price drop. Now, they lose $300-$400 per console, and aren't making it up in terms of software licensing fees, because who wants to launch exclusives on the Titanic?
If I were Konami and had tied my company's fortunes to the PS3, I'd be looking elsewhere fast also. The 360 is a solid gaming platform, and it's online component is solid. Wii, while many claim that it is going for the non-hardcore market, does have a healthy new market of people who are buying their first video game systems. What better way to get rid of some of the "gamers are evil" FUD that the media has put out, than to expose some of these new gamers (gamers in the most newbie aspect of the word, mind you) to solid, fun titles?
Not saying the Wii will match 360 or PS3 in graphics, by any stretch. But it does have a large, growing audience and they are hungry for games. A company looking to recover costs and not building just another mini-games title for the Wii might make a buck or two.
Just a reminder that March saw the release of the WII in Europe, so they obviously shipped more units there for the ramp up to launch day than to the US. I know, sucks for us, but as a company they made sure not to 'Sony' the launch in Europe.
Some rumblings in Japan about summer being more 'normal' in terms of stores having products in stock. Then again, Super Paper Mario came out recently and is only going to fuel more Wii seekers. I mean, c'mon. It is Mario.
I might be missing something, but wasn't SCO already slapped for trying to introduce evidence after the discovery process was ended and publically bitchslapped by the judge in the IBM case once for trying something like this?
Also, if you are going to depose someone for one case, unless you subpeona them for both cases, you cannot introduce their deposition for one unrelated case into another without a huge old objection being shouted by IBM. An objection the judge likely will sustain, seeing that adding witness testimony to introduce new evidence after discovery is often met with more than a little ire from the bench.
Oh well. Who wants to begin the "De-listing of SCOX" pool?
If I hire an undocumented day laborer to farm gold for me, do I still have to pay the tax? Or does that fall into the "Just don't run for Supreme Court" category, and I'm golden?
I mean, the old Mark Twain saying fits best: A man who tells the truth, has to remember nothing.
Each day that this drags out is one more day for them to confuse their stories, forget facts, change facts entirely, build up judge resentment, and basically undermine their case. Here is hoping that IBM does leave them a smoking crater, and then provides the blueprint for success to others who might be targets for such lawsuits. (Novell-MS vs Red Hat comes to mind.)
In my opinion, Sony is repeating history here. Anyone remember a $700 system that came out about 10 years ago called 3DO? No? That's because they tried to sell a base unit for $700 as well. Yeah, it looked good, but still flopped. And I don't care how many tax cuts you're getting from W, $700 is still a lot of money.
I'll take my Wii and 6 or so new games for that much cash.
Ole Timey Goodness:
1) M.U.L.E.
2) Wasteland
3) SSI's Pool of Radiance (In the gold box)
4) Anything from the Fallout series
5) Baldur's Gate. Any game that got my girlfriend to finally understand d20 jokes is gold.
The guns I've been shooting for years don't have the auto-aim function enabled. Does anyone know where you can download the mod for this so I can patch my guns?
It may have been said before, and it is painful to hear, but the laws against spam in Virginia were likely drafted by someone who worked in AOL's network group, at least in part. Being based in Virginia, and with former Governor Warner being from Northern Virginia, I'm sure the combined Dulles Corridor IT groups drafted the legislation for the state to rubber stamp.
I, for one, am glad they did.
Seeing a bunch of rednecks wrestling on SciFi the other night merely confirmed that it has sold out to the network morons.
Here's hoping some network moron is shown the door when this turns into just another 'Farscape/Firefly' SNAFU. Too bad the crew will have moved on to new things before SciFi realizes their ratings just tanked on Friday night.
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Does this mean they left town without voting on the Marijuana Bill??? Bastards.
Does this mean my new ARAX sites will be as reliable as Twitter? If so, I'm gonna need to extend the minutes on my on-call cellphone plan.
Goodwill is an accounting term used by companies to place a value on patents, Intellectual Property Rights, Copyrights, Branding, etc. So, apparently Microsoft is worried it will drop further into the negative than it is now.
Would be a bitch if they respawned on top of all of us during our victory dance. Yeah, been playing too many MMOs lately, but that's the first thing that came to mind.
You do realize that not only are they losing because of titles and lack of them, but they were losing almost $300 per console before the price drop. Now, they lose $300-$400 per console, and aren't making it up in terms of software licensing fees, because who wants to launch exclusives on the Titanic? If I were Konami and had tied my company's fortunes to the PS3, I'd be looking elsewhere fast also. The 360 is a solid gaming platform, and it's online component is solid. Wii, while many claim that it is going for the non-hardcore market, does have a healthy new market of people who are buying their first video game systems. What better way to get rid of some of the "gamers are evil" FUD that the media has put out, than to expose some of these new gamers (gamers in the most newbie aspect of the word, mind you) to solid, fun titles? Not saying the Wii will match 360 or PS3 in graphics, by any stretch. But it does have a large, growing audience and they are hungry for games. A company looking to recover costs and not building just another mini-games title for the Wii might make a buck or two.
...simply Windows ME in a new, metrosexual package.
Just a reminder that March saw the release of the WII in Europe, so they obviously shipped more units there for the ramp up to launch day than to the US. I know, sucks for us, but as a company they made sure not to 'Sony' the launch in Europe. Some rumblings in Japan about summer being more 'normal' in terms of stores having products in stock. Then again, Super Paper Mario came out recently and is only going to fuel more Wii seekers. I mean, c'mon. It is Mario.
I might be missing something, but wasn't SCO already slapped for trying to introduce evidence after the discovery process was ended and publically bitchslapped by the judge in the IBM case once for trying something like this? Also, if you are going to depose someone for one case, unless you subpeona them for both cases, you cannot introduce their deposition for one unrelated case into another without a huge old objection being shouted by IBM. An objection the judge likely will sustain, seeing that adding witness testimony to introduce new evidence after discovery is often met with more than a little ire from the bench. Oh well. Who wants to begin the "De-listing of SCOX" pool?
If I hire an undocumented day laborer to farm gold for me, do I still have to pay the tax? Or does that fall into the "Just don't run for Supreme Court" category, and I'm golden?
I mean, the old Mark Twain saying fits best: A man who tells the truth, has to remember nothing.
Each day that this drags out is one more day for them to confuse their stories, forget facts, change facts entirely, build up judge resentment, and basically undermine their case. Here is hoping that IBM does leave them a smoking crater, and then provides the blueprint for success to others who might be targets for such lawsuits. (Novell-MS vs Red Hat comes to mind.)
In my opinion, Sony is repeating history here. Anyone remember a $700 system that came out about 10 years ago called 3DO? No? That's because they tried to sell a base unit for $700 as well. Yeah, it looked good, but still flopped. And I don't care how many tax cuts you're getting from W, $700 is still a lot of money. I'll take my Wii and 6 or so new games for that much cash.
Ole Timey Goodness: 1) M.U.L.E. 2) Wasteland 3) SSI's Pool of Radiance (In the gold box) 4) Anything from the Fallout series 5) Baldur's Gate. Any game that got my girlfriend to finally understand d20 jokes is gold.
Yeah, but I bet they still will black out Christmas and New Years, bastards.
The guns I've been shooting for years don't have the auto-aim function enabled. Does anyone know where you can download the mod for this so I can patch my guns?
It may have been said before, and it is painful to hear, but the laws against spam in Virginia were likely drafted by someone who worked in AOL's network group, at least in part. Being based in Virginia, and with former Governor Warner being from Northern Virginia, I'm sure the combined Dulles Corridor IT groups drafted the legislation for the state to rubber stamp. I, for one, am glad they did.
Seeing a bunch of rednecks wrestling on SciFi the other night merely confirmed that it has sold out to the network morons.
Here's hoping some network moron is shown the door when this turns into just another 'Farscape/Firefly' SNAFU. Too bad the crew will have moved on to new things before SciFi realizes their ratings just tanked on Friday night.