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Submission + - Sony PS3 Unit Sales Flat Lining and Trending Down (bnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15, 2009 @09:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: The latest numbers from Sony show not only that the company's game division is losing money, but that the trend for PS3 unit sales is flattening and actually turning down through the rest of this year. Sony still loses money on every unit, and software sales aren't enough to push the division into profitability, as Sony projects another loss in games through the coming fiscal year that ends in March 2010. That raises the question of how long Sony can afford to stay in the game console business.

Comment Re:Apparantly (Score 1) 410

by Praeluceo on Thursday May 14, 2009 @03:07PM (#27954789) Attached to: Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital

It would seem that I shouldn't toss my 2 cents in if I'm going to watch a show Season-by-Season on DVD. Especially not if I'm only on Season 3 out of a potential 5. Shoot, I guess I've gotta get busy with watching more television!

Comment Re:Apparantly (Score 1) 410

by Praeluceo on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @03:24PM (#27942229) Attached to: Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital

Surely you meant to say Dunder Mifflin Paper Company? Heaven forbid Michael Scott ever become anything more than middle management!

Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @03:21PM from the go-tell-it-on-the-internet dept.

In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."

Comment Similar Issue (Score 1) 501

by Praeluceo on Thursday April 09, 2009 @11:53PM (#27527857) Attached to: Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux?

I was actually researching a very similar problem earlier today. I have a bunch of copies of DVDs that I own, and made in Linux using a combination of xine & dd, xine to grab the css keys, and dd to copy /dev/hdd. I lost one of my original DVDs and wanted to burn the DVD image to a new DVD-R DL so I can play it on a regular DVD player. Of course I realized too late that the CSS keys weren't copied with the rest of the title, and after many discussions and searches have found that what I'm now looking for is a CLI tool for removing region encoding, CSS, and disabled user options. I haven't found anything yet but I'm looking into the options DVD::RIP provide. Does anyone else have any software we can look at for removing these hindrances from our DVD images while leaving the actual content unmolested and suitable for burning as an iso back onto a DVD disc?

Comment Well Then (Score 1) 1582

by Praeluceo on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @03:55PM (#27422995) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

I guess I am achievement whoring then, because I can't let April 1st pass by without actually getting anything out of the deal, right? So here goes, please no-one mod me, I just want to disappear into the background! At least this is better than ponies, I still suffer from partial blindness in my left eye when I accidentally looked at Slashdot in the ponies theme before I turned away.

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