Maybe the game publishers should start including a netflix style envelope with their games. When you're done with the game, send the disc back for a $15-20 discount on a new title. The discount would need to be more than the gamestops are willing to pay to compensate for the lack of instant gratification you get from trading games in at gamestop and for the fact that you'd be limited to selecting a game from the publisher's catalog. However, I do think that the company would win in the long run by getting used copies of their games off the shelves.
"People buy the console that has the best games, not the one that might." So is the Nintendo Wii the exception that proves this rule? Because I'm pretty sure Nintendo quit trying to make good games after the Wii launched.
You're exactly right. Programming for the N64 was nearly impossible. No independent developers could match Super Mario 64 and they quickly fell away from Nintendo and turned to Sony's Playstation. If you look at the history, the Super Nintendo's main competition was the Sega Genesis. With the introduction of the N64, Nintendo should have owned that generation with no new Sega on the market. Instead, Nintendo made an impossible to program for system and Sony pounced. As a nintendo turned xbox 360 fanboy, I'm loving the PS3's failure.
I thought the Little Big Planet people said that little big planet would be impossible on the Xbox 360 because it was technologically inferior? And the PSP isn't? At this point, Sony deserves the whooping they're getting from Nintendo and to a lesser extent Microsoft. Innovate or die, Sony.
My experience with federal consolidation was fantastic. I was able to consolidate 80K+ at less than 3% fixed. But as it turns out there is help on the way beyond consolidation. It's called Income-Based Repayment and it begins this year. http://www.ibrinfo.org/ This program has the potential to solve both the consolidation problem and the bankruptcy problem.
I know from firsthand experience that the perceived problem is that you did indeed settle with the help desk job. You may have had a world of reasons to do so, but that's not the employers problem. By your last year of school (at the latest) you should have been aggressively seeking out internship and externship opportunities in the field you wanted to work in.
Having failed to do so, you still lack that experience and will have to be just as aggressive now that you have your degree. It will probably mean taking a position that is beneath your degreed self and you may encounter resistance now that you're degreed self is over-qualified but it beats the help desk.
Because the astronauts dialogue will have to be translated into English, they can take whatever liberties they want. I'm sure whatever they actually say will translate exactly how the Chinese government wants it to. So really, where's the story here?
As a slashdot reader, I do not believe that I am the intended target of these ads. Therefore I'm not going to pass judgment so much as critque them. For starters I laughed at the first few "I'm a Mac" commercials and have yet to laugh at any of the PC commercials.
I have to question the wisdom of using celebrities. The minute i see a spice girl in your commercial, I instantly wonder how much she's being paid and that starts me wondering how much all the other people in your commercial are being paid.
This highlights an important distinction between the Apple and Microsoft commercials. Apple's commercials are about their products. The supposed superiority of Apple's products are emphasized in a humorous way. The Microsoft commercials are about who Microsoft can pay to say how good their products are.
Microsoft never addresses the issues raised in Apple's commercials.
This is great because the earlier article entitled "Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards" concerns a Utah couple (they are both attorneys) who presumably brought their patent suit in Utah, which is a part of the 10th Circuit. All of which means they should have known better.
What this article is unaware of is that both James and Marguerite Driessen are attorneys. She is a former Brigham Young University Law School professor and he attended the law school while she was teaching there. With that in mind it is difficult to know precisely what is going on here. She is not licensed to practice law in Utah, although that would have no effect on this pro se case. Either way, it doesn't seem like they know their patent law very well; and she didn't teach patent or intellectual property law at BYU.
http://driessenlaw.com/
First of all, he got trashed in a race against olympic caliber sprinters earlier this year. Second, as one of the previous posts pointed out, his cyborg legs were disqualified not him. If he grows new legs, he's in. Third, there are at least two problems that led to the disqualification of the prosthetics, 1. the prosthetics provide less air resistance and second, they enable the wearer to reverse his energy efficiency; meaning that he is faster at the end of the race than at the beginning. Human sprinters are usually slower at the end of the race.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=2937538http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=2938043
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Maybe the game publishers should start including a netflix style envelope with their games. When you're done with the game, send the disc back for a $15-20 discount on a new title. The discount would need to be more than the gamestops are willing to pay to compensate for the lack of instant gratification you get from trading games in at gamestop and for the fact that you'd be limited to selecting a game from the publisher's catalog. However, I do think that the company would win in the long run by getting used copies of their games off the shelves.
With the naked lady silhouette.
Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Frink
"People buy the console that has the best games, not the one that might." So is the Nintendo Wii the exception that proves this rule? Because I'm pretty sure Nintendo quit trying to make good games after the Wii launched.
You're exactly right. Programming for the N64 was nearly impossible. No independent developers could match Super Mario 64 and they quickly fell away from Nintendo and turned to Sony's Playstation. If you look at the history, the Super Nintendo's main competition was the Sega Genesis. With the introduction of the N64, Nintendo should have owned that generation with no new Sega on the market. Instead, Nintendo made an impossible to program for system and Sony pounced. As a nintendo turned xbox 360 fanboy, I'm loving the PS3's failure.
I thought the Little Big Planet people said that little big planet would be impossible on the Xbox 360 because it was technologically inferior? And the PSP isn't? At this point, Sony deserves the whooping they're getting from Nintendo and to a lesser extent Microsoft. Innovate or die, Sony.
Do you know where I can apply for one of these thug positions? In this economy free food sounds great.
I'd love to see the original US release of dragon warrior remade with polished graphics but retaining its old world charm.
Shouldn't you be working on the next Zelda title? Wii = Epic Fail
Good for the Robert Jordan fans. I'm personally waiting out Bill Waterson to get me some officially licensed Calvin peeing on stuff merchandise.
My experience with federal consolidation was fantastic. I was able to consolidate 80K+ at less than 3% fixed. But as it turns out there is help on the way beyond consolidation. It's called Income-Based Repayment and it begins this year. http://www.ibrinfo.org/ This program has the potential to solve both the consolidation problem and the bankruptcy problem.
I know from firsthand experience that the perceived problem is that you did indeed settle with the help desk job. You may have had a world of reasons to do so, but that's not the employers problem. By your last year of school (at the latest) you should have been aggressively seeking out internship and externship opportunities in the field you wanted to work in. Having failed to do so, you still lack that experience and will have to be just as aggressive now that you have your degree. It will probably mean taking a position that is beneath your degreed self and you may encounter resistance now that you're degreed self is over-qualified but it beats the help desk.
Because the astronauts dialogue will have to be translated into English, they can take whatever liberties they want. I'm sure whatever they actually say will translate exactly how the Chinese government wants it to. So really, where's the story here?
As a slashdot reader, I do not believe that I am the intended target of these ads. Therefore I'm not going to pass judgment so much as critque them. For starters I laughed at the first few "I'm a Mac" commercials and have yet to laugh at any of the PC commercials. I have to question the wisdom of using celebrities. The minute i see a spice girl in your commercial, I instantly wonder how much she's being paid and that starts me wondering how much all the other people in your commercial are being paid. This highlights an important distinction between the Apple and Microsoft commercials. Apple's commercials are about their products. The supposed superiority of Apple's products are emphasized in a humorous way. The Microsoft commercials are about who Microsoft can pay to say how good their products are. Microsoft never addresses the issues raised in Apple's commercials.
Right, but it is $10K US, so not nearly as much as it sounds.
I guess that's why no one ever threatens to move to Australia.
This is great because the earlier article entitled "Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards" concerns a Utah couple (they are both attorneys) who presumably brought their patent suit in Utah, which is a part of the 10th Circuit. All of which means they should have known better.
What this article is unaware of is that both James and Marguerite Driessen are attorneys. She is a former Brigham Young University Law School professor and he attended the law school while she was teaching there. With that in mind it is difficult to know precisely what is going on here. She is not licensed to practice law in Utah, although that would have no effect on this pro se case. Either way, it doesn't seem like they know their patent law very well; and she didn't teach patent or intellectual property law at BYU. http://driessenlaw.com/
Because existing international law is more that adequate for regulating conventional warfare.
Yesterday.
"The dream is over." John Lennon, God, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_(John_Lennon_song)
First of all, he got trashed in a race against olympic caliber sprinters earlier this year. Second, as one of the previous posts pointed out, his cyborg legs were disqualified not him. If he grows new legs, he's in. Third, there are at least two problems that led to the disqualification of the prosthetics, 1. the prosthetics provide less air resistance and second, they enable the wearer to reverse his energy efficiency; meaning that he is faster at the end of the race than at the beginning. Human sprinters are usually slower at the end of the race. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=2937538 http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=2938043
I flew for business on the 01/02/08 and I wholeheartedly agree.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=is-there-really-an-autism-epidemic&print=true AND http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1576829,00.html
This is the worst idea since they started letting people drive.