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Ynot has a good article about the new coming XXX domains…

US Commerce Department Maintains Authority to Block XXX Domain Name Extension

PlayStation 3’s retail price will be $399.
However according to Gamespot’s coverage of the paper, the unit will cost $494 to manufacture.
So Sony will be taking an almost $1 Billion loss in the first year of the PS3.
They think it is normal for game companies to take a loss on hardware whenever a new console launches, since they typically focus on acquiring market share rather than generating a profit during the first year. During the second year and afterward, they can recover the losses with the savings that come from mass production and with licensing fees from publishers.

Link to Gamespot’s article

Ron’s comment:
So this show manufacturers’ pricing can be so different, even not to cover, the manufacturing cost. With different expectations, Sony accepts losses for the first year. However on a product like PS3, it will have a high demand from the gamers in the first year and ppl would buy PS3 even it is $500 or $600.
Balancing quick market penetration and future long term sales to today’s losses of a $1 billion should not be an easy decision even for Sony.

worths checking this Spell Checker

TAMPA, FL — When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” statement but followed it up with several remarks to the other astronauts and Mission Control.

Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, “Good luck Mr. Gorsky.” Many people at NASA thought it was a remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut.

However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years, many people questioned Armstrong as to what the “Good luck Mr. Gorsky” statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.

On July 5, 1995 at the University of Tampa in Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a student brought up the 36-year-old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded.

Armstrong explained, “When I was a kid, I was playing baseball [with a friend] in the backyard. He hit a fly ball that landed in the yard in front of my neighbor’s bedroom windows. My neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As I leaned down to pick up the ball, I heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at her husband, “You want oral sex?! You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”

At this remark, the audience - comprised primarily of college students - began laughing hysterically.

cool design

Reminds me of a blog page but their design is really cool.
Check Yahoo Search marketting home page and also their 50$ off page