[Am-info] XBox Economics

[Sujal Shah]

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 16:38, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.05.21 04:21 PM, Sujal Shah typed: ============
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> times over. It is enough to buy 23 space shuttles or every major 
> professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey team in America." 

It's funny.  I'm a huge Bond fan, and I used to always scoff at how
financially unrealistic some of the doomsday scenarios were.  The first
thing I thought of when I read the above line was "Moonraker."[1]

I mean, we now have a company with the financial means to do this.  I
guess I can't scoff at Bond villains anymore. 

Sujal

[1] I'm not sure if everyone here has seen the movie, but basically this
unbelievably wealthy guy who runs the company that builds the space
shuttle for NASA is apparently a eugenicist who wants to remodel the
world with a smaller population of the best of humanity.  Or something
like that.  Anyway, in the course of accomplishing this evil plan, he
needs 6 space shuttles.  Which I thought was ridiculous.  Microsoft
could almost afford to build 6 and their associated launch support
locations...  a real plot summary can be found at
http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0079574 .

> - http://money.cnn.com/2002/04/12/pf/agenda_msft/
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