____/ 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.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Hack to learn, don't learn to hack"
http://Schestowitz.com | Open Prospects | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Tasks: 105 total, 1 running, 104 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
http://iuron.com - knowledge engine, not a search engine
|
|
