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Comment I pay what my IT department asks for (Score 1) 420

by amishjt on Friday July 30, 2010 @06:00AM (#33080734) Attached to: Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay?

In any organization cost of each item/service is eventually recovered from cutomer directly or indirectly. So I am sure people high up put lot of time and energy in deriving these costs, as they are the ones responsible for answering to shareholders.

EA Boss Says Games Too Expensive 139

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, 2007 @05:24PM from the nice-of-you-to-notice dept.

EA's John Riccitiello has been shaking things up at EA lately, with everything from layoffs to the purchase of BioWare. Now he's suggesting the company take some really drastic measures: make their games less expensive. "Riccitiello says the $31 billion gaming industry will suffer if it doesn't start to reevaluate its business model. Game executives at Sony, Microsoft and Activision must answer some tough questions in the coming years, like how long they can expect consumers to pay $59 for a video game. Riccitiello predicts the model will be obsolete in the next decade. 'In the next five years, we're all going to have to deal with this. In China, they're giving games away for free,' he says. 'People who benefit from the current model will need to embrace a new revenue model, or wait for others to disrupt.' As more publishers transition to making games for online distribution, Riccitiello says he expects EA will experiment with different pricing models."

Submission + - Students assigned to write Wikipedia articles (physorg.com)

Submitted by openfrog on Thursday November 01, 2007 @05:16PM

openfrog writes: An inspired professor at University of Washington-Bothell, Martha Groom, made an interesting pedagogical experiment. Instead of vilifying Wikipedia as some academics are prone to do, she assigned the students enrolled in her environmental history course to contribute articles. The result has proven "transformative" to her students. They were no longer spending their time writing for one reader, says Groom, but were doing work of consequence in a "peer reviewed" environment, which enhanced the quality of their output. What do you fellow Slashdotters think of the idea that in our colleges and universities lies a potentially large and untapped resource for Wikipedia?

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