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Comment Re: Morale of the Story (Score 3, Interesting) 217

by svanstrom on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:11AM (#49171457) Attached to: How a Kickstarter Project Can Massively Exceed Its Funding Goals and Still Fail

I didn't refer to the paying people as investors!

It's a buy with a (bigger) risk of not getting the thing you paid for.

If you pay 100 USD each to 10 projects, but 1/10 fail to deliver; then your actual cost per delivered product is about 111 USD. You need to guesstimate costs like that before you "gamble" and buy stuff from sites like Kickstarter.

Feed Engadget: Wii shortages leave $1.3B on the table this holiday season (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday December 14, 2007 @06:12AM

Filed under: Gaming

If you read our comments or those from any gamer forum you're bound to stumble upon this flaming Wii, discussion nugget:

WiiGuy: The Wii rocks, Nintendo can't produce enough!
H8r: They're artificially limiting supply to drive up demand
WiiGuy: No they're not
H8r: You're a fanboi
WiiGuy: No you are!

Last month, Reg himself lamented, "A shortage benefits no one, we're disappointed. This was all about how we didn't accurately estimate demand." Indeed, Reggie. According to analysts, Nintendo is leaving about $1.3 billion on the table during this holiday season alone. A figure which doesn't include additional losses from game sales. Of course, this comes as a delight to Microsoft and Sony who are there to pick up the slack.

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Submission + - Google: Too late for OpenSocial? (news.com)

Submitted by DeeQ on Friday December 14, 2007 @06:02AM

DeeQ writes: Is the search king already too late to the party?

When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web. It's been over six weeks, and OpenSocial — which uses open-source code to allow any participating social media site to implement a common set of application program interfaces (APIs) and create "universal" applications — isn't finished, though developers believe it will be ready early in 2008. In the meantime, a number of partners have launched independent developer platform strategies, and Facebook has announced that other social networks will be able to use its own applications, rivaling what Google can offer.

Comment Re:Number of Cases (Score 1) 556

by svanstrom on Monday August 27, 2007 @01:06AM (#20368365) Attached to: System Admin's Unit of Production?

At least you now can get away with a lot more "that's not a softwareproblem, it's a hardwareproblem"s... which should free up enough time for you to be able to find a new job before the proverbial excrement goes fan shopping.

White Dolphin Functionally Extict 868

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @02:52PM from the gone-the-way-of-the-dodo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years."

Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? 365

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @01:32PM from the all-this-effort-could-have-gone-to-fixing-his-site dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An online business owner is threatening to sue blog owner Dean Hunt (DeanHunt.com) because he is upset that the blog owner is doing better than his business in the Google search rankings. After an initial threat, Dean received a follow-up threatening to take legal action against him. So far Dean has elected not to name and shame this business owner."

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