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Comment Re:no other OS ports planned? (Score 1) 220

by bjackson on Monday November 27, 2006 @08:38PM (#17009990) Attached to: The Warhammer Online Team Responds

I believe that Blizzard touts a 6 million user base for WoW - say that only 1% of those are Mac users.

6,000,000 * .01 = 60,000 users

60,000,000 * 19.99 (price of game) = $1,199,400 for just buying the game

Say each user only plays for 7 months (1 month free + 6 months)

6 * 14.95 = $89.70 per user * 60,000 = $5,382,000

I bet these are very conservative numbers - and look at the cash flow - I believe that's the reason that Blizzard (and other companies) should cater to Mac users. Even a low % is earning them some significant $$ (note that they do have operational and capital costs to maintain the servers / staff - but you can see the scope of a few % points)

Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported 742

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @02:38PM from the go-vote dept.

Neovanglist writes "CNN, FOX, and MSNBC are reporting that voting machines in three states (Ohio, Indiana, and Florida) have already been showing issues, both in the machines themselves and in the training of poll attendants, causing many districts to switch to paper ballots." From the article: "Voters put the Republican congressional majority and a multitude of new voting equipment to the test Tuesday in an election that defined the balance of power for the rest of George W. Bush's presidency. Both parties hustled to get their supporters out in high-stakes contests across the country, Democrats appealing one more time for change, and appearing confident the mood was on their side. Republicans conceded nothing as their vaunted get-out-the-vote machine swung into motion." If you're in the U.S., and you haven't voted already, go do it!

The $899 Educational iMac 483

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 05, 2006 @08:32PM from the cheap-machines dept.

Valthan writes "Macsimum news has just released news about a new version of the iMac that is being touted as an educational machine. It seems to be a nice setup, and has the cheapness that us university students strive on, I think they just may have a winner here to get people on the Mac. Now if only JCreator worked on it ..." From the article "Featuring a 17-inch widescreen LCD display, the iMac for education includes a Combo drive for burning CDs and reading DVDs, 512MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable up to 2GB and hard drive storage capacity up to 160GB. Every iMac also includes a built-in iSight video camera, built-in 10/100/1000 BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking, built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11g WiFi for up to 54Mbps wireless networking, a total of five USB ports (three USB 2.0) and two FireWire 400 ports."

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