okay, find me david bowie, alan parsons project, rory gallagher, chemical brothers, the cure, velvet underground, radiohead, weezer, elvis costello, the pogues or the grateful dead on emusic and i'll start paying attention to it...
there are few things in life that i 'try' to be satisfied with. when it comes to something that is pulling cash from my wallet, i better be delighted with it...
also, the headline is quite misleading as it really only disables musicmatch's ipod sync functionality. musicmatch still works with itunes installed. hell i both of them and napster on the same machine and they all work fine...
geeze, that thing looks fragile. it's going to get broken in 5 minutes.
is sony designing this thing for executives or for kids?
if the specs on this thing are right, sony is going to take it up the ass on this thing if it doesn't sell *extremely* well if the price is as low as i've heard (or at least until a few years down the road when the specs aren't impressive any more and the tech is cheaper to produce).
saw an ad in the sale flyer this weekend for circuit city for the game. they are offering a $10 gift cert w/ the sale of the game in store. online it appears they are just doing free shipping (i suppose their page might change tomorrow when the game comes out)...
anyone else see it somewhere cheaper or w/ a better addon?
while you are correct in saying that there was voice acting in those cdi games, you might want to read the credits again as to who made those games. you won't find nintendo on the list...
btw, here are some tools that make this kind of stuff really really easy. pitstop makes editing pdf's a breeze. and quite imposing makes masking a breeze. of course, what i use them for on a daily basis is quite different (imposition and printing), but they are equally adept at creating or uncovering stuff like this...
go to nyc and visit the uss intrepid and you too can see and touch one. well, it's an a-12 blackbird, which is in the same family of aircraft and in fact were reclassified to the more commonly known sr71 later on after modifcations (most folks would assume they are one and the same anyway as they look nearly identical).
i second this notion. in fact, several years ago i was going to start up a/. like site that was specifically for BYO x. unfortunately, i didn't have the time to do it and i wasn't sure of the interest that others would have in it... now i find myself still w/o the time, but at least there's interest.:)
the new product is a voice memo recorder from belkin for the ipod. kinda weird looking, but pretty cool in that it requires no drivers and isn't terribly expensive (and syncs the memos when you sync your ipod).
the japanese aren't so akin to the idea of job hopping as we are. most folks in japan like the idea of working for a company for life... something we here used to like as well...
so are all of their employees bonded? this seems like a perfect way to commit fraud to the nth degree.
also, how the hell do they deal w/ things like bills where there are a zillion leaflets of various sizes etc.? from experience, this *can* be a very labor intensive task (meaning = costly).
if i remember correctly, the cube can't address that much memory via the memcard unless you were to do some clever tricks (llike bank switching or somesuch). i can't remember what the deal was, but there was some internal limit to card size.
you know what, it's retail stores that are half the problem. sorry, i don't know anything about your particular store or how you operate things so i don't mean to aim this directly at you, but please read on.:)
retailers pressure moms and dads into buying the more expensive system selling them on such things like "this one has better graphics" or "this one has more games" or simply "this one is better". then, they hammer on the gamers by feeding them fud like "yeah, you want to buy this system because that other system doesn't have any games for teenagers or adults".
i find it hardly fair to walk into a game store and find the crew all wearing xbox necklace-nametags, for instance, and assume that that person isn't going to try to upsell the customer to that product (or whatever product is going to net them the highest dollar sale they can get out of that person, even more so if that store is commission-based). also, i find it incredibly interesting that retailers place the gamecube in the back of their store in the corner next to the bargain bin stuff (from the gamecube's launch i've noticed this in many major retailers), where the ps2 and xbox are much more prominently placed. while i can reason the ps2 being promintently placed from a shear items-sold point of view, the xbox and the gamecube have very similar sales numbers.
isn't it also very interesting that in the ads in sunday newspapers that many of the big electronics stores (circuit city, best buy, compusa, etc.) will often highlight a certain system over another. in fact, they will often leave the gamecube out of their ads altogether. i noticed when zelda came out, a few of the stores would simply show zelda, but not feature a shot of the system at all. i'm not saying there's a conspiracy here, but jeeze... it seems awfully fishy.
sony and ms have spread so much fud about nintendo in the past few years that everyone is willing to believe any rant that comes out of their mouths. i won't be so naive to say that nintendo hasn't done similar in their past, but come on... most notably lately is all of the press that has been going on saying that gamecube is going down. the same kind of fud that's been said about apple for the past 20 years (sorry to use a tired example, but is it not true?). the more it is said, the more likely it may happen. we are talking about a difference between marketshare and mindshare. xbox and gamecube share very similar marketshare, but xbox seems to have won out highly on mindshare. how? i suppose the same way that windows has won out on linux mindshare (though i'd imagine the numbers are a lot closer marketshare wise if you were to consider *every* system and device that runs linux compared to windows).
if you aren't making money off the gamecube, then you aren't doing your job to sell gamecube. instead of sitting behind your counter and ignoring your customers (babbages, gamestop, software etc., etc. etc. etc.) try suggestion selling, try figuring out what it is that the customer wants and trying to find out what would best suit their needs. ps2 isn't for everyone, xbox isn't for everyone and of course, gamecube isn't for everyone.
and i'll say this (from being heavily entrenched in retail) if you simply sit back and assume that the products will sell themselves, then you don't belong in retail, you should be selling hotdogs on a hotdog stand because that doesn't require any communication or qualifying with the customer other than asking whether or not they want mustard.
that apple is going to push back the delivery of the dual-2giggers for us regular folk again so they can pump these things out to this university (like they did last week w/ their announcement about holding up orders for the dual-2giggers to ship them to highschools)...
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i'm keeping my eye out for signs of the 12 monkeys... how about you?
especially if you are a programmer... oy.
which you can then trade in for sco stock (which comes on a roll convenient for use in the bathroom).
okay, find me david bowie, alan parsons project, rory gallagher, chemical brothers, the cure, velvet underground, radiohead, weezer, elvis costello, the pogues or the grateful dead on emusic and i'll start paying attention to it...
there are few things in life that i 'try' to be satisfied with. when it comes to something that is pulling cash from my wallet, i better be delighted with it...
my win2k sp4 machine has itunes, napster, musicmatch, winamp2, winamp5beta2, and nero5 all on it and they all work fine together...
agreed.
also, the headline is quite misleading as it really only disables musicmatch's ipod sync functionality. musicmatch still works with itunes installed. hell i both of them and napster on the same machine and they all work fine...
huh. my thoughts were:
geeze, that thing looks fragile. it's going to get broken in 5 minutes.
is sony designing this thing for executives or for kids?
if the specs on this thing are right, sony is going to take it up the ass on this thing if it doesn't sell *extremely* well if the price is as low as i've heard (or at least until a few years down the road when the specs aren't impressive any more and the tech is cheaper to produce).
saw an ad in the sale flyer this weekend for circuit city for the game. they are offering a $10 gift cert w/ the sale of the game in store. online it appears they are just doing free shipping (i suppose their page might change tomorrow when the game comes out)...
anyone else see it somewhere cheaper or w/ a better addon?
while you are correct in saying that there was voice acting in those cdi games, you might want to read the credits again as to who made those games. you won't find nintendo on the list...
btw, here are some tools that make this kind of stuff really really easy. pitstop makes editing pdf's a breeze. and quite imposing makes masking a breeze. of course, what i use them for on a daily basis is quite different (imposition and printing), but they are equally adept at creating or uncovering stuff like this...
go to nyc and visit the uss intrepid and you too can see and touch one. well, it's an a-12 blackbird, which is in the same family of aircraft and in fact were reclassified to the more commonly known sr71 later on after modifcations (most folks would assume they are one and the same anyway as they look nearly identical).
gee... once again a company with an interesting idea fails to develop a real business plan and is now forced to face reality...
i second this notion. in fact, several years ago i was going to start up a /. like site that was specifically for BYO x. unfortunately, i didn't have the time to do it and i wasn't sure of the interest that others would have in it... now i find myself still w/o the time, but at least there's interest. :)
the new product is a voice memo recorder from belkin for the ipod. kinda weird looking, but pretty cool in that it requires no drivers and isn't terribly expensive (and syncs the memos when you sync your ipod).
it's available now. i've been downloading it for the past few minutes. 19.2 meg download...
does this mean that samba 3 is that much faster or that win2k3 is that much slower at the task?
the japanese aren't so akin to the idea of job hopping as we are. most folks in japan like the idea of working for a company for life... something we here used to like as well...
so are all of their employees bonded? this seems like a perfect way to commit fraud to the nth degree.
also, how the hell do they deal w/ things like bills where there are a zillion leaflets of various sizes etc.? from experience, this *can* be a very labor intensive task (meaning = costly).
if i remember correctly, the cube can't address that much memory via the memcard unless you were to do some clever tricks (llike bank switching or somesuch). i can't remember what the deal was, but there was some internal limit to card size.
ibm of couse didn't start out selling pc's and mainframes in 1888 either...
you know what, it's retail stores that are half the problem. sorry, i don't know anything about your particular store or how you operate things so i don't mean to aim this directly at you, but please read on. :)
retailers pressure moms and dads into buying the more expensive system selling them on such things like "this one has better graphics" or "this one has more games" or simply "this one is better". then, they hammer on the gamers by feeding them fud like "yeah, you want to buy this system because that other system doesn't have any games for teenagers or adults".
i find it hardly fair to walk into a game store and find the crew all wearing xbox necklace-nametags, for instance, and assume that that person isn't going to try to upsell the customer to that product (or whatever product is going to net them the highest dollar sale they can get out of that person, even more so if that store is commission-based). also, i find it incredibly interesting that retailers place the gamecube in the back of their store in the corner next to the bargain bin stuff (from the gamecube's launch i've noticed this in many major retailers), where the ps2 and xbox are much more prominently placed. while i can reason the ps2 being promintently placed from a shear items-sold point of view, the xbox and the gamecube have very similar sales numbers.
isn't it also very interesting that in the ads in sunday newspapers that many of the big electronics stores (circuit city, best buy, compusa, etc.) will often highlight a certain system over another. in fact, they will often leave the gamecube out of their ads altogether. i noticed when zelda came out, a few of the stores would simply show zelda, but not feature a shot of the system at all. i'm not saying there's a conspiracy here, but jeeze... it seems awfully fishy.
sony and ms have spread so much fud about nintendo in the past few years that everyone is willing to believe any rant that comes out of their mouths. i won't be so naive to say that nintendo hasn't done similar in their past, but come on... most notably lately is all of the press that has been going on saying that gamecube is going down. the same kind of fud that's been said about apple for the past 20 years (sorry to use a tired example, but is it not true?). the more it is said, the more likely it may happen. we are talking about a difference between marketshare and mindshare. xbox and gamecube share very similar marketshare, but xbox seems to have won out highly on mindshare. how? i suppose the same way that windows has won out on linux mindshare (though i'd imagine the numbers are a lot closer marketshare wise if you were to consider *every* system and device that runs linux compared to windows).
if you aren't making money off the gamecube, then you aren't doing your job to sell gamecube. instead of sitting behind your counter and ignoring your customers (babbages, gamestop, software etc., etc. etc. etc.) try suggestion selling, try figuring out what it is that the customer wants and trying to find out what would best suit their needs. ps2 isn't for everyone, xbox isn't for everyone and of course, gamecube isn't for everyone.
and i'll say this (from being heavily entrenched in retail) if you simply sit back and assume that the products will sell themselves, then you don't belong in retail, you should be selling hotdogs on a hotdog stand because that doesn't require any communication or qualifying with the customer other than asking whether or not they want mustard.
well said. the tramiels destroyed atari. a damn shame. now they are but a name and a patent portfolio...
that apple is going to push back the delivery of the dual-2giggers for us regular folk again so they can pump these things out to this university (like they did last week w/ their announcement about holding up orders for the dual-2giggers to ship them to highschools)...
throwing money at the problem is what ms knows how to do best. they should be in gov't. oh wait, they are...
;P
ms is a stranger in dodge city, and they don't like strangers... perhaps it's time for them to cut their losses and get the hell outta dodge.
whoever in the room finds this announcement a surprise please stand up. //*crickets*//
thought so.