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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on December 15, 2001, 09:58:00 am
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... because im going to be designing, scripting and operating the website for Rapids Labs.
Last night my friends Chris and Farley - along with my self were up till 3:30 AM laying out a company. (between cracking obsenely hilarious jokes).
What we do is produce computers - Our Model Lines will be
at each level there are two systems - an AMD and Intel Processor of that level - Athlon XP and P4 at top, Athlon and PIII in middle, and Duron and Celeron at the bottoms
Top Level: Leopard and Jaguar
Medium Level: Panther and Tiger
Bottom Level: Cheetah and Cougar
Custom System: Siberian
[edit]Bobcat Renamed Cheetah[/edit]
[edit]Lynx Renamed Cougar[/edit]
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Who do you trust?
The Guy that wrote an operating system to sell
or the Guys that wrote an operating system to use
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"Why Climb it?" - "Because it's there."
"God is dead." - Nietzsche
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Alliance Productions (//"http://alliance.sourceforge.net")
[This message has been edited by Kazan (edited 12-15-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Kazan (edited 12-15-2001).]
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Spiffy
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Indeed! Best of luck with your venture - just don't p1mp it like you would a campaign - this isn't a public advertisment slot (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
As I said though - best of luck.
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that was the only p1mping i was going to do other than stick it in my siggy
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Good luck with your business venture, dude! What's your stock price, just out of curiosity? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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why are you even bothering with celarons?
Whass the spec of the top end one then? (not the P4) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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have you ANY idea of how much trouble you're in?
assault on a police officer.
Theft of police property.
Illegal possesion of a firearm.
FIVE counts of attempted murder.
That comes to...
twenty-nine dollars and 14 cents.
cash, cheque or credit card?
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Good Luck (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Top Gun:
Good Luck (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by wEvil:
why are you even bothering with celarons?
Some people (my dad for instance) simply don't need a raw powerhouse of a P4 or an Athlon, right now he's using a P2 350 (my old machine). However some people don't want a second hand computer - they might want a brand new one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and doesn't go as fast either.
Thats why (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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a duron?
arm and a leg?
£30 ?
eh?
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have you ANY idea of how much trouble you're in?
assault on a police officer.
Theft of police property.
Illegal possesion of a firearm.
FIVE counts of attempted murder.
That comes to...
twenty-nine dollars and 14 cents.
cash, cheque or credit card?
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so does each system come with a copy of FS2 instaled
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Bobboau, bringing you products that work.............. in theory
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FS2 Demo should be fine, though, if you can't find the funds for FS2 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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LOL on the demo part.
Good luck with the venture. I tried something like that a few years back, with websites rather than computers.
Try advertising with local newspapers and businesses, assuming your attempting to capture local audience only.
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Originally posted by Mad Bomber:
Good luck with your business venture, dude! What's your stock price, just out of curiosity? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
not issuing stock yet
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Originally posted by wEvil:
Whass the spec of the top end one then? (not the P4) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
interdeminate at this time, we will take suggestions.
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Originally posted by Thunder:
Some people (my dad for instance) simply don't need a raw powerhouse of a P4 or an Athlon, right now he's using a P2 350 (my old machine). However some people don't want a second hand computer - they might want a brand new one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and doesn't go as fast either.
Thats why (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
You missed wEvil's point - you see, on the current market (and for that matter, the market as far back as the Duron has ever existed), the Duron has been both significantly faster and cheaper than the Celeron. It just doesn't make sense for people to buy them, except for people who don't research and go with the Intel name because they 'know' it. So we people in the know (ie. Kaz who'll be selling the boxes) can help to nudge the people in the right direction... by not giving them a choice (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)
That's why. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Setekh - Doing The Right Thing and Making Money are two different things - We want to sell computers - so we give the most options - for example we will offer both windows AND linux
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I believe Kazan just made the point I was going to make, if you don't give people a choice then it's like a monopoly. Can you say Microsoft? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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oh if you want to watch the pregression of the beta site just watch allianceproductions.dhs.org
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wow wow! we already potentially have a $300K to $400K contract! about 200 systems
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Who do you trust?
The Guy that wrote an operating system to sell
or the Guys that wrote an operating system to use
---------------
"Why Climb it?" - "Because it's there."
"God is dead." - Nietzsche
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FreeSpace 2: The Babylon Project Effects Nerd and Programmer. ("http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon")
Alliance Productions ("http://alliance.sourceforge.net")
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Originally posted by Kazan:
Setekh - Doing The Right Thing and Making Money are two different things - We want to sell computers - so we give the most options - for example we will offer both windows AND linux
Heh, oh well. I guess I'd go for the former. Which is why I guess I don't think I'd make it very far in this business. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) But seriously... Celerons are pants. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif)
Oh, and congrats dude. How much profit you figure you'll make out of that 3/400k? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by Kazan:
wow wow! we already potentially have a $300K to $400K contract! about 200 systems
(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/eek.gif) Good to hear! Maybe now you'll have some funding for some more interesting FS2 mods. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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"You know you've played Freespace too much when you're driving along trying to use countermeasures to shake off pursuing highway police." - Top Gun
"Oh and Kazan - you have some nice rocks" - Thunder
"stapled myself to an office chair, forgot about it, and was stuck for 2 hours for one thing" - Stryke 9
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Hehehe, good luck with that. I know that's not easy.
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Yeah, I can give you business studies advice about that kind of thing now (we're doing it in class as I speak (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif))
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prolly netween $120,000 and $220,000 before taxes
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Who do you trust?
The Guy that wrote an operating system to sell
or the Guys that wrote an operating system to use
---------------
"Why Climb it?" - "Because it's there."
"God is dead." - Nietzsche
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FreeSpace 2: The Babylon Project Effects Nerd and Programmer. ("http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon")
Alliance Productions ("http://alliance.sourceforge.net")