Posts by Rodolfo

Getting animated about a 6,000 core Soho supercomputer

Which PR company wrote that for you?

So the movie is shit but hey they used a LOT OF TECHNOLOGY in it.

Slow day eh?

World of Warcraft upkeep costs only $200m

GG for investigative journalism

Only a fraction of those 10m customers pay a subscription, and that number is roughly 4.5 million, the remaining we already know they pay 66m USD in total (leaving aside the rest of Asia-Pac for a second). Diggin out the number of users (2m in EU and 2.5m in NA) adding their subscription* price and discounting it by 75% we end up with 738m USD in revenues per year (minus the rest of Asia-Pac)

* some pay with a game card

Green icon because we require more vespene gas

Furse should not resign, she should be sacked

Good, but why it's on The Register and not the FT?

Spot on. The decision not to invest enough in IT had a business impact. So why not the front page of the FT asking her head but instead El Reg on a weekend?

PS. anyway the board should be removed for the disastrous merger with the most useless stock exchange of the planet, the Milan Stock Exchange, hardly a world-class destination with blue-chip public companies.

Skull because "off with her head"