Slashdot Mirror

Walmart.com has thirty OEM Vista systems on sale beginning at $498 for a Vista Basic laptop. Vista-Preloaded Computers Thirty times it's OEM Linux selection.

Every year, I see these "Linux is ready for the desktop" articles. But it never happens. Back in 2004, WalMart offered a $499 Linux laptop. They don't do that any more. Lenovo, HP, and Dell have fooled around with Linux laptops, but try to order one on line. Search for "linux laptop" on Dell, and you get back "Dell recommends Windows Vista(TM) Business." There are some off-brand Linux laptops available, but they're overpriced.

Linux on the desktop looked closer three years ago than it does now.

What if there existed some maniachal, penny-pinching company that felt it "made cents" to change its prices to land on *.97 after tax? They'd be making 2.5 cents per deal, which begins to stack up after millions of transactions.

Price: 50 USD. Compare to Magnavox DVD player, price: 30 USD.

You do realize that "In Soviet Russia, x y's you!" came from Family Guy...

It actually came from a guy named Yakov Smirnoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff but is parodied by many...

In response to PS3's avaliable in pockets, i could believe that, yet for me, ive yet to see one thats avaliable, unless it comes in a madatory packege that is well over my price range http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=553 134&fromPageCatId=413799&catNavId=413799

FYI, if anyone has a relitive in the military, there is plenty of Wii's and accesories at the military only stores, along with PS3's. Personaly, im waiting for a prce drop.

The Fry's in austin has had PS3s in stock for at least a week now. In fact, it's available at Fry's online still, while the Wii, is not, if it ever was. Couple this with the fact that more Wii's shipped than PS3s, and you can conclude that there is a higher demand for the Wii than PS3.

Also available at Walmart, though I'll grant you it's an expensive bundle.

couldn't you combat this by having a local NTP server for your server farm, and then setting the servers to update from that server at frequent intervals (say every 5 sec or so)? It would waste cycles on the machines and generate some extra load on the network, but it would keep the clocks from ever drifting far, and it would narrow the window in which you'd be able to detect drift to something pretty small.

> That is why OEM Linux has disappeared from Walmart.com.

Umm ... don't know where you're getting that from...

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=3762912

They have at least one other too, with Xandros. Both "In Stock" last I checked...

In some cases you can even cook with a light bulb. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=5030827

Wait. That would be treble use. Never mind.

It says that they think this game will sell, and that it won't offend their customers. Also, they do sell GTA.

here...

http://www.walmart.com/cservice/cu_commentsonline. gsp?cu_heading=8

Here's what I sent to them.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 006/12/12/MNG8TMU1KQ1.DTL

So you haven't received any complaints about this game?

Well here's one. I find this totally offensive. For a company with such a high profile to be peddling crap like this and feeding the fires of racial and religious intolerance is totally unacceptable and completely reprehensible.

You have to be out of your minds to think this is a good way to make money. You can be sure you're never going to see a single dollar from my wallet not for this product or any other that you might choose to sell from here on. I'm sure there's thousands more reading this article and your response to it that are reacting the same way.

Perhaps you can buy the rights to sell dvds of the OJ interview "if i did it" and package it with this game as the ultimate bad taste christmas gift set.

(Visitors under 13 years of age, please enjoy Walmart.com with a parent or guardian.)

Alright, how do you see producing 1,000 units as failure? Would not that be a sign of some success?

I believe there are a lot of sub $100 mp3 players, here is one.

I do not have enough information to verify the rest of your comment, but based on what I was able to verify, I have no good reason to believe your opinion. Do provide better supportive arguments if you wish to convince anyone here.

I disagree. All we need is one major desktop vendor to make a stripped down custom distro and sell it installed on their computers.

I disagree. All we need is one major desktop vendor to make a stripped down custom distro and sell it installed on their computers.

It's barely more capable than the Gamecube and the only two gimmicks it has going are the wireless controller and the virtual console. BOTH of these could have been released for the Gamecube, which already had a broadband adapter as well.

It's barely more capable than the Gamecube...

And now all of these games which look like budget titles (Wii sports, Excite Truck) are $60 just like all the other new consoles.

I saw this monstrosity set up at a walmart, Fully playable with the scan card laying about and though, I got a few minutes, apparently you need an hour to start playing, I left after 20 minutes without ever actually playing anything. (XMEN Fighting game, Graphics were late Genesis quality, Gameplay who knows)

You'd think it was loading off a cd rom drive from a 486 era machine instead of a 1 second scan.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=5012972

Parents BEWARE: Do not waste your kids xmas money on this piece of crap.

It is maybe a bit much to pick one specific chain out and say they are responsible for obesity, but I did only use them as an example rather than state that their the cause. However I do think they definitely have a lot to answer for, the Walmart business model involves encouraging people to buy food in larger quantities than they need. They (and others like Bestbuy) actively encourage people to "buy in bulk for a longer time frame", with the business model succeeding so well largely on the simple truth that most people won't then have the self-control to eat their super-economy sized tub of ice-cream over a period of 2 weeks like they had initially planned.

To use your analogy, it is like having a gun store which encourages criminal gun use and sells guns to criminals in an area with a high gun crime rate (Walmart encourage bad eating habits and has absolutely no problem selling super-sized ice-cream to obese people). Sure, you can't blame all the gun crime on that gun store but that doesn't mean it isn't a near certainty that the store is part of the problem and personally I think Walmart and BestBuy (along with their peers) also have a lot to answer for regarding the state of the nation's obesity problem. ...so what do they do? rather than change their business models and stop selling large quantities of fatty foods to already fat people, they start selling diabetic supplies (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=13 5355). Personally I think that is so immoral it's probably worse than the case of the gun store described above.

I have an independent label. We have interns manage getting the releases out to all of the major sites.
We track royalties and sales data from all of them.
in addition to iTunes store, the catalog is available on most pay sites:
http://www.playittonight.com/
http://www.dancerecords.com/artists/Synthique
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.emusic.com/artist/11616/11616213.html
http://www.napster.com/view/artist/index.html?id=1 1638090

I just noticed that I have stuff on the WalMart music site. That's disturbing, since I don't remember anyone contacting them..
http://musicdownloads.walmart.com/catalog/servlet/ ArtistServlet?id=36183 //teh evil

Well, you can already buy some pretty $$ diamonds at walmart like this $8K one http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=5273238

You're so wrong. Exclusive Analog [NTSC] tvs are still being sold. And will continue to be sold til analog is not broadcasted.

*Note: I said Exclusive Analog because many Digital [ATSC] sets have both tuners. The display doesn't make tvs digital. It is the tuner inside that makes it digital.

Everybody shops at Wal*Mart.

I've seen King Kong running on the XBox 360 on an LCD screen at Walmart and was underwhelmed. Everything looked "sharp but jaggy".

King Kong was a launch title, and also ported to many other platforms. As such, it's not a great indicator of 360 HD graphical prowess. From launch, take a look at PGR3 or Call of Duty 2. Or look at more recent games like Oblivion or Dead Rising.

We can't even get HD in our rural area, so I'm not even looking at HD televisions.

I bet you can, if you looked into it a little bit more. My parents live in a rural area and they can get several OTA HD channels. If all else fails, you can always get DirecTV.

That, and everything is either humungous (40"+) or small (20" LCD screens). I can't put the first set in my house, and I can't view the smaller ones. I'm sure they're out there, but where's the 27"-32" screens?

Indeed, where are they? Certainly a major retailer like Wal*Mart would have 26"-36" HD sets ...

Bravo to Nintendo on putting gameplay above graphics!

The flip side, boo to Nintendo for forcing my TV to have to upscale the 480p output from the Wii, which could potentially lead to lag in the gameplay! The Right Way(tm) to do this would've been for them to include an internal scaler that scales all output to a chosen resolution regardless of what resolution it was rendered. That's what the Xbox 360 does. Most games do render at 540p or 720p, but you can choose to output them at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and various other VGA resolutions (and soon 1080p). Gone are the days where each game gets to choose what resolution it supports. The games should render at whatever native resolution they want and let the console take care of scaling appropriately. (and the Xbox 360 has a very good scaler!)

I've seen King Kong running on the XBox 360 on an LCD screen at Walmart and was underwhelmed. Everything looked "sharp but jaggy".

King Kong was a launch title, and also ported to many other platforms. As such, it's not a great indicator of 360 HD graphical prowess. From launch, take a look at PGR3 or Call of Duty 2. Or look at more recent games like Oblivion or Dead Rising.

We can't even get HD in our rural area, so I'm not even looking at HD televisions.

I bet you can, if you looked into it a little bit more. My parents live in a rural area and they can get several OTA HD channels. If all else fails, you can always get DirecTV.

That, and everything is either humungous (40"+) or small (20" LCD screens). I can't put the first set in my house, and I can't view the smaller ones. I'm sure they're out there, but where's the 27"-32" screens?

Indeed, where are they? Certainly a major retailer like Wal*Mart would have 26"-36" HD sets ...

Bravo to Nintendo on putting gameplay above graphics!

The flip side, boo to Nintendo for forcing my TV to have to upscale the 480p output from the Wii, which could potentially lead to lag in the gameplay! The Right Way(tm) to do this would've been for them to include an internal scaler that scales all output to a chosen resolution regardless of what resolution it was rendered. That's what the Xbox 360 does. Most games do render at 540p or 720p, but you can choose to output them at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and various other VGA resolutions (and soon 1080p). Gone are the days where each game gets to choose what resolution it supports. The games should render at whatever native resolution they want and let the console take care of scaling appropriately. (and the Xbox 360 has a very good scaler!)

I've seen King Kong running on the XBox 360 on an LCD screen at Walmart and was underwhelmed. Everything looked "sharp but jaggy".

King Kong was a launch title, and also ported to many other platforms. As such, it's not a great indicator of 360 HD graphical prowess. From launch, take a look at PGR3 or Call of Duty 2. Or look at more recent games like Oblivion or Dead Rising.

We can't even get HD in our rural area, so I'm not even looking at HD televisions.

I bet you can, if you looked into it a little bit more. My parents live in a rural area and they can get several OTA HD channels. If all else fails, you can always get DirecTV.

That, and everything is either humungous (40"+) or small (20" LCD screens). I can't put the first set in my house, and I can't view the smaller ones. I'm sure they're out there, but where's the 27"-32" screens?

Indeed, where are they? Certainly a major retailer like Wal*Mart would have 26"-36" HD sets ...

Bravo to Nintendo on putting gameplay above graphics!

The flip side, boo to Nintendo for forcing my TV to have to upscale the 480p output from the Wii, which could potentially lead to lag in the gameplay! The Right Way(tm) to do this would've been for them to include an internal scaler that scales all output to a chosen resolution regardless of what resolution it was rendered. That's what the Xbox 360 does. Most games do render at 540p or 720p, but you can choose to output them at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and various other VGA resolutions (and soon 1080p). Gone are the days where each game gets to choose what resolution it supports. The games should render at whatever native resolution they want and let the console take care of scaling appropriately. (and the Xbox 360 has a very good scaler!)

I've seen King Kong running on the XBox 360 on an LCD screen at Walmart and was underwhelmed. Everything looked "sharp but jaggy".

King Kong was a launch title, and also ported to many other platforms. As such, it's not a great indicator of 360 HD graphical prowess. From launch, take a look at PGR3 or Call of Duty 2. Or look at more recent games like Oblivion or Dead Rising.

We can't even get HD in our rural area, so I'm not even looking at HD televisions.

I bet you can, if you looked into it a little bit more. My parents live in a rural area and they can get several OTA HD channels. If all else fails, you can always get DirecTV.

That, and everything is either humungous (40"+) or small (20" LCD screens). I can't put the first set in my house, and I can't view the smaller ones. I'm sure they're out there, but where's the 27"-32" screens?

Indeed, where are they? Certainly a major retailer like Wal*Mart would have 26"-36" HD sets ...

Bravo to Nintendo on putting gameplay above graphics!

The flip side, boo to Nintendo for forcing my TV to have to upscale the 480p output from the Wii, which could potentially lead to lag in the gameplay! The Right Way(tm) to do this would've been for them to include an internal scaler that scales all output to a chosen resolution regardless of what resolution it was rendered. That's what the Xbox 360 does. Most games do render at 540p or 720p, but you can choose to output them at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and various other VGA resolutions (and soon 1080p). Gone are the days where each game gets to choose what resolution it supports. The games should render at whatever native resolution they want and let the console take care of scaling appropriately. (and the Xbox 360 has a very good scaler!)

I've seen King Kong running on the XBox 360 on an LCD screen at Walmart and was underwhelmed. Everything looked "sharp but jaggy".

King Kong was a launch title, and also ported to many other platforms. As such, it's not a great indicator of 360 HD graphical prowess. From launch, take a look at PGR3 or Call of Duty 2. Or look at more recent games like Oblivion or Dead Rising.

We can't even get HD in our rural area, so I'm not even looking at HD televisions.

I bet you can, if you looked into it a little bit more. My parents live in a rural area and they can get several OTA HD channels. If all else fails, you can always get DirecTV.

That, and everything is either humungous (40"+) or small (20" LCD screens). I can't put the first set in my house, and I can't view the smaller ones. I'm sure they're out there, but where's the 27"-32" screens?

Indeed, where are they? Certainly a major retailer like Wal*Mart would have 26"-36" HD sets ...

Bravo to Nintendo on putting gameplay above graphics!

The flip side, boo to Nintendo for forcing my TV to have to upscale the 480p output from the Wii, which could potentially lead to lag in the gameplay! The Right Way(tm) to do this would've been for them to include an internal scaler that scales all output to a chosen resolution regardless of what resolution it was rendered. That's what the Xbox 360 does. Most games do render at 540p or 720p, but you can choose to output them at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and various other VGA resolutions (and soon 1080p). Gone are the days where each game gets to choose what resolution it supports. The games should render at whatever native resolution they want and let the console take care of scaling appropriately. (and the Xbox 360 has a very good scaler!)

Like a hooker needs another dose of clap.

I wonder if this will die as quickly as Walmart's effort seems to have. Probably not: the people going to this will be as dumb but have more money available.

I still prefer Windows to Linux because Windows is crappy in areas that are easier to understand and deal with than the areas in which Linux is crappy. If you don't want to spend an inordinate amount of your life learning computer stuff, you're better of with Windows or the Mac.

That being said, Microsoft is still in a real bind. The current versions of Windows are simply "good enough" for everything most people want to do. It's hard to imagine a really compelling reason to upgrade to Vista. Sure, new machines will come with it, but if the DRM, phoning home, forced upgrades and the like get too onerous even people who think Linux was the kid with the blanket in Peanuts are going to start asking if there are alternatives to Windows. As arcane and unfriendly as Linux is now, it will only get better over time. If Microsoft overplays its hand retailers like Walmart will revisit the idea of avoiding the Microsoft tax by selling machines with Linux pre-installed.

In related news, I just saw on the Walmart site that they've finally gotten hip to the idea that monitors outlive computers and that a lot of people want to buy a new computer without paying for a monitor they don't need. They're offering 16 machines with no monitors. Hmmm. Letting people buy computers without making them pay for things they don't want and don't need. What a concept!

I notice Gran Turismo isn't in the list of PSP games, will it ever come out? I bought the PSP for gran turismo which was suppose to be released when the PSP came out.

it's now been a year and a half and no gran turismo, yet you can pre-order the game online. Walmart has been taking pre-orders for psp gran turismo since last march, now it says it'll be released February 2007.

"...they already have a good enough machine to do the job?"

Because it's just "good enough". And that's marketed as a computer, this would be marketed as a tivo/dvd player, sitting next to the other tivo/dvd players at Walmart, a completely different marketing direction.

Walmart is the 800 lbs in the retail world. Walmart decides what games get made and which ones don't because if walmart doesn't carry your game you're losing millions of dollars and who wants to bother creating a game they know they're going to lose millions of dollars on? Walmart carries ipods. Walmart does not carry iMacs. However if Apple sold a dvd player it's likely that Walmart would sell it, just like they sell the iPod.

Besides, your arguement about "So why would they want to put something else at a $200 or $300 price point when people are willing to shell out $500-$800." doesn't pan out. Look at Tivos, they're basically little computers that do one thing and do it very well, record TV shows for later playback

Or the Xbox. Despite having games on PCs already Microsoft still made the Xbox using relatively standard PC components and although it's reported they were losing money on each Xbox sold when they first came out Xbox is now the second most popular gaming console.

"...they already have a good enough machine to do the job?"

Because it's just "good enough". And that's marketed as a computer, this would be marketed as a tivo/dvd player, sitting next to the other tivo/dvd players at Walmart, a completely different marketing direction.

Walmart is the 800 lbs in the retail world. Walmart decides what games get made and which ones don't because if walmart doesn't carry your game you're losing millions of dollars and who wants to bother creating a game they know they're going to lose millions of dollars on? Walmart carries ipods. Walmart does not carry iMacs. However if Apple sold a dvd player it's likely that Walmart would sell it, just like they sell the iPod.

Besides, your arguement about "So why would they want to put something else at a $200 or $300 price point when people are willing to shell out $500-$800." doesn't pan out. Look at Tivos, they're basically little computers that do one thing and do it very well, record TV shows for later playback

Or the Xbox. Despite having games on PCs already Microsoft still made the Xbox using relatively standard PC components and although it's reported they were losing money on each Xbox sold when they first came out Xbox is now the second most popular gaming console.

No, just THE ONLY OTHER CONSOLE THAT DOES HD

The XBox 360 Premium http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_ id=4103879#Features+%26+Specifications includes component cables which allows HD, I cannot find anything on Sony's website http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/about.html that says it will even include those cables. Also, there does not yet exist an HDMI cable for the 360 so it is not even an option while for the PS3 since it is a normal HDMI output they can easily include an HDMI cable. Another big difference is the the PS3 premium system is TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS more than the XBox 360 premium bundle, for that much of a price difference they should include the god damn cable. Cables are not expensive to make, but stores (and console makers) love to charge a shitload for them.

So you fail this argument, the 360 includes the best cable that is available while the PS3 doesn't.

EA or M$, give it to Wal-mart. You can buy and Xbox Live card...with cash...pretty much anywhere.

I'm sorry, I keep hearing this, but really, how many places are there in which WalMart is absolutely the ONLY store? I've never seen a place like that. I mean, I'm sure they exist, but I'm equally sure they are few and far between, and insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

I've always heard that this was part of Sam Walton's plan: sell to the consumers who didn't have a major department store nearby. By saturating the market, you can undercut your competitors because you can buy in bulk and they can't. You have a (theoretically) more impressive store front AND cheaper prices to boot. As soon as the small stores close, you've got the area by the balls.

An example might show how this works:

Enter in 52241 Iowa City, IA on http://www.walmart.com/. Now compare that listing to say Target. Target has 3 stores. Wal*Mart has 10. Notice the locations of those stores in correlation to the population.

Here, let's do my hometown: 62298. Waterloo, IL. Or go farther south: 62233 Chester, IL. Now we're talking literally hours of driving to get to a Target. Don't like Target? Try Best Buy, Circuit City, or EB. It all looks pretty much the same.

I agree that Wal*Mart can sell whatever it wants to sell. My point was that what Wal*Mart does really does matter in the big scheme of things.

Nor did I buy Dish PVR because, again monthly subscriptions. I think I should grab one of these Phillips DVRs while it is still on the shelves. Would TiVO go after these companies too?

...but with that plastic case and wheel-like buttons it says WalMart-chic all over it.

The article mentions using hair gel as a working solution. The main issue here is that there's no information about the kind of hair-gel being used. A quick search on Google Images shows hair gels from different manufacturers. If it turns out that you need to use a specific hair gel, then you've probably messed up your CD.

It's better to use commercial products to remove scratches as opposed to plopping random substances on your disk. If you need to use the commercial product more than once for a given CD, either you need to take better care of it, or you need to make a backup.

I highly doubt those three movies above are going to convince anyone.

I don't get what your "problem" is, actually.

He's just jealous because his parents force him to use Walmart's Hub.

http://schoolyourway.walmart.com/index.php/registe r

Holy hell, look at the required fields. They're worried about people getting EMAIL addresses of minors?

* First Name
* Last Name
* Email
* DOB
* Password
* Retype Password
* Address
* City
* State
* Zip Code

* Phone Number
*Gender: Male Female
* Security Question
* Security Answer
* I agree to the Contest Rules and Talent Release
* Parent or Guardian's Email
* Parent or Guardian's Consent

It looks like the goal of this is really a talent competition, but only an idiot (or the idiot's parent(s)) would actually agree to this:
"I represent that my Entry is my original creation and hereby grant to Sponsor the copyright and all other rights now known or hereafter existing to use my Entry throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in whole or in part, in edited, unedited or distorted form, in connection with this Contest, for any trade, advertising, or promotional purpose whatsoever, without review, approval, notification or payment from or to any person or entity, in all media now known or hereafter discovered. I understand and agree that Sponsor shall be entitled to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, license, create derivative works from and distribute or incorporate Entries into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe, for any purpose whatsoever."

Ouch. (1) Throughout the universe? What, are they afraid a competing alien civilization will try to infringe on the Sponsor's copyright? (2) Without payment, without approval, for any purpose, in any edited or distorted form? Erm.. so if I submitted a video of myself playing guitar, they could make an advertisement where I've been digitally inserted into Britney Spears music video, had a moustache drawn on my face, and use it as an advertisement to sell bull's-eye-targets with my head in the middle? If any kid is hoping to get famous this way, I have one suggestion: DON'T. It sounds like it's *worse* than getting the world's (err, universe's *grin*) worst record deal.

For almost everyone I've met, the ONLY thing they like about Wal-Mart is that you can get lots of stuff inexpensively and conveniently. (I've also heard once or twice that their employees get treated well, which, I have to admit, is admirable.) Their moral agenda, tendency to put local stores out of business (of course, in some cases it's just because it's hard to stay afloat when the giant that is Wal-Mart has sucked all the water out of the pool), policies about what they will and won't carry, and some of the ways I've seen customers treated...

[In some parts of the country, though (sometimes rural areas, economic ditches, etc.), it's the only way to buy some things without mail-ordering them... does that make it a necessary 'evil'?]

I didn't see it listed anywhere, so here's the actual site:

http://schoolyourway.walmart.com

(What, you thought they think with their heads? Hah!)

I just went to Wal-Mart's main site to look at this train-wreck of a marketing idea myself, and I couldn't see how to get to it.

Oh, incidentally, Amazon called--they want their page layout back. Wal-Mart's gettin' it ugly.

It's not at thehub.com; that site looks almost cool from a business perspective. (Any meeting space that serves sandwiches gets a nod from me.)

Finally, I had to fall back on Google (!!!) to find what subdomain they tucked it into, and ...ack. Unlike most train-wrecks, I could take my eyes off of it. I suppose it's a mercy that the "Hub" is buried that way; it won't suck in the gullible and stupid.

Mind you, this has given me a wonderful idea...

(What, you thought they think with their heads? Hah!)

I just went to Wal-Mart's main site to look at this train-wreck of a marketing idea myself, and I couldn't see how to get to it.

Oh, incidentally, Amazon called--they want their page layout back. Wal-Mart's gettin' it ugly.

It's not at thehub.com; that site looks almost cool from a business perspective. (Any meeting space that serves sandwiches gets a nod from me.)

Finally, I had to fall back on Google (!!!) to find what subdomain they tucked it into, and ...ack. Unlike most train-wrecks, I could take my eyes off of it. I suppose it's a mercy that the "Hub" is buried that way; it won't suck in the gullible and stupid.

Mind you, this has given me a wonderful idea...

From: schoolyourwayparentalconsent@walmart.com
Subject: Your child has registered at The HUB by Wal-Mart.

Your child has completed online registration and created a page at The HUB, Wal-Mart's "School Your Way" contest website.

If you would like to register at The HUB and view your child's page submission, you may do so by clicking the link below:

http://schoolyourway.walmart.com/index.php/user/do b?childId=

If you do not wish to have his/her submission included in the Hub, please reply to this email on or before August 27, 2006. Your kid's page will be removed from the Hub and the Contest promptly following our receipt of your email.
Thank you!

- The Wal-Mart Back-to-School Team

Please only reply to this e-mail if requesting your child's page be removed from the Hub.

Email Marketing, Walmart.com, 7000 Marina Blvd., Brisbane, CA 94005 ? 2006 Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC. All rights reserved.

From: schoolyourwayparentalconsent@walmart.com
Subject: Your child has registered at The HUB by Wal-Mart.

Your child has completed online registration and created a page at The HUB, Wal-Mart's "School Your Way" contest website.

If you would like to register at The HUB and view your child's page submission, you may do so by clicking the link below:

http://schoolyourway.walmart.com/index.php/user/do b?childId=

If you do not wish to have his/her submission included in the Hub, please reply to this email on or before August 27, 2006. Your kid's page will be removed from the Hub and the Contest promptly following our receipt of your email.
Thank you!

- The Wal-Mart Back-to-School Team

Please only reply to this e-mail if requesting your child's page be removed from the Hub.

Email Marketing, Walmart.com, 7000 Marina Blvd., Brisbane, CA 94005 ? 2006 Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC. All rights reserved.

Heres a link http://schoolyourway.walmart.com/index.php/

SO, WHAT CAN I DO HERE? There's tons of fun stuff to keep you entertained! Check out the latest fashion trends and make your own personalized page for a chance to win amazing prizes from Sony! If you're a little more ambitious, create your own video clip and send it in for a chance to have it turned into a TV commercial!

Entrants are asked to discuss, illustrate, express their individuality (any way within the provisions of these rules and the guidelines posted on the Web Site), how it is reflected in their personal style, taste in fashions / accessories, interests, activities, etc., and to consider how Wal-Mart helps support their personal style and self-expression through the depth and breadth of products Wal-Mart offers.

Page and/or Page and Video must be completed and submitted at the same time in a single online session.

Without limitation and in its sole discretion, Sponsor may disqualify any Entry that it deems to:... Contain any beverages, tobacco, drug paraphernalia, firearms, or any depiction or representation thereof; or

SO, WHAT CAN I DO HERE? There's tons of fun stuff to keep you entertained! Check out the latest fashion trends and make your own personalized page for a chance to win amazing prizes from Sony! If you're a little more ambitious, create your own video clip and send it in for a chance to have it turned into a TV commercial!

Entrants are asked to discuss, illustrate, express their individuality (any way within the provisions of these rules and the guidelines posted on the Web Site), how it is reflected in their personal style, taste in fashions / accessories, interests, activities, etc., and to consider how Wal-Mart helps support their personal style and self-expression through the depth and breadth of products Wal-Mart offers.

Page and/or Page and Video must be completed and submitted at the same time in a single online session.

Without limitation and in its sole discretion, Sponsor may disqualify any Entry that it deems to:... Contain any beverages, tobacco, drug paraphernalia, firearms, or any depiction or representation thereof; or