Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 26 January 2008 14:41 : \____
>
>> Rondo Goldshlag <rondo@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:mf3q65-d8n.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Arland Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>> news:g5gp65-u5l.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Arland Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Linonut" <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:tOrlj.57961$vt2.21430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>>* Tiki Weatherbee peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yet another COLA idiot who spews made up bullshit as if it were
>>>>>>>>> fact.
>>>>>>>>> You
>>>>>>>>> and Roy Schestowitz are surely buddies.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061120132150.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [quote]
>>>>>>>>> Playstation 3 20-Gig:
>>>>>>>>> Manufacture cost = $805.85
>>>>>>>>> Sale price = $499
>>>>>>>>> Difference = $306.85 LOSS
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Playstation 3 60-Gig
>>>>>>>>> Manufacture cost = $840.35
>>>>>>>>> Sale price = $599
>>>>>>>>> Difference = $241.35 LOSS
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> XBox 360 20-Gig
>>>>>>>>> Manufacture cost = $323
>>>>>>>>> Sale price = $399
>>>>>>>>> Difference = $75.70 *PROFIT*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [-quote]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Odd. Sony pays $125 for an optical drive, MS pays $20.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One is a BluRay drive. The other is a commodity DVD drive.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nope, the figures above are utterly misleading, as they clearly show
>>>>>> zero comprehension of production economics.
>>>>>
>>>>> So you're an expert in production economics?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If an expert is defined as knowing more than those to whom one speaks,
>>>> then the answer is demonstrably yes, Gary, I do.
>>>>
>>>> How's the new nym going - fooled anyone yet? Gary?
>>>
>>> What I see
>>
>> Is that perhaps you are Scott Douglas and not Gary Stewart?
>>
>> Buy yourself a copy of the FT and a copy of the Economist. It'll help
>> you no end.
>
> You can drop everything from Teranews with the exception of Ghost. I think he's
> the only regular that posts from there.
>
I don't really like to do that... but it might be sensible. Ghost is
already marked up, anyway.
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