Agreed, this feels just like the iPod release strategy they did. They release a completely new innovative product in the high end to a limited audience, build up the buzz, then they release the improved 2.0 product at a lower price and dominate. Will they be able to do the same thing in the phone industry? I don't think they will be able to dominate like they did in the mp3 market, the phone market is much more mature. But I think they will shake things up quite a bit. Right now I think Palm, Rim, MS, etc. are all on notice.
Anakin is the real story of 1-6 and that is one of the reasons that 1-3 failed for me. They don't really show the tragic hero that he was supposed to be, Anakin was f'ing evil, I fail to see how saving his son somehow redeems him of the billions of people he has murdered. I blame this mostly on the stupid black and white concept of the dark/light sides of the force that Lucas came up with.
OKCupid would be good if there were any half-way decent women on it. At least for me about 90% of the women who I "match" with in my area are fat and/or ugly. I found 3 women total I have even some interest in, all 3 did not respond. They definately need A LOT more subscribers for it to work, I checked back after 4 months and they were all the same women. I really want to like the site, but for me it is just an amusing way to pass the time by taking a goofy test.
They want the Jews out because they don't believe they have a right to be there.
I saw a news program several years ago about the Temple mount. I think it was a report on Sharon's visit back in late 2000. There is a lot of archeology that should be done there but is disallowed by the Islamic authorities. There was an interview with one of the muslim clerics, his general response to the location of the old Jewish temple was "show me where this temple was, it didn't exist". Of course you can't show him since no excavation is allowed there.
I am not sure why they believe this, it is a fairly recent belief according to the wiki on the Temple Mount. Doesn't really make much sense to me, Christian, Muslim and Jew all have the same god supposedly.
Really, what can they do? The only possible solution that I can even fathom is for a UN force to occupy Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and disarm the entire region. That is not going to happen, no side would allow it. The people there just hate each other too much and are too stubborn to compormise for their to be any reasonable solution.
Wow, what kind of crappy phone do you have? Even the super cheap virgin mobile phone I was using for a while (base model from ~3 yrs ago) had a usable sms system, you type out the message and click send, no webpage loading. T9 txt mode makes typing messages really quick, even on the super tiny samsung phone I am using now.
But I agree that people in the US generally don't use SMS. The only person I really SMS with on a regular basis is an immigrant from vietnam. I just call everyone else.
All the Dave and Buster's have ripped the pods out. I have no idea if the battletech center in Chicago still exists, but their website doesn't seem to be up at the moment.
Yeah, but the Chinese market is still pretty closed off, so there is potential, but it has a long way to go yet. Right now a company that releases a product in China has a very good chance of competing against that same product at a much lower price point in a few months after a chinese company copies it. Cars being the most obvious example right now. Just search for chinese car copies on google for more examples.
One can also play shadowrun from a few different angles - not everyone was a decker, remember
Ha, no one wanted to even play deckers in my group. I always had to throw in decker NPCs for hire to assist my play group. Eventually someone rolled up one, but I had a hard time keeping their character involved, everyone else were mages/samurai/shaman/mercs, they wanted to beat on all the security guards, not wait around while the decker disabled the security systems.
Guinness, Bass, Newcastle, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, John Boags, Tetley Bitters, various microbrews I can't remember, etc. yeah, I have explored the world of beers, how many brands do I need to try before I can convince people that I think beer tastes awful?
Nah, most people just prefer the crap, look at popular music, movies, etc. Can't really compare with cars, the price difference is too high, besides, I doubt many would choose a Z4 over a Camry, they are in very different markets (2 seat roadster vs 4 seat family sedan).
I never said I wanted to get drunk without tasting anything. I enjoy a nice glass of whiskey or bourbon when I go out, rarely to excess, because I am usually driving.
Haha, you know there is a reason that all the "drinkable" beers have a rather small market share compared to the giants, and it is not because people haven't tasted the drinkable beers.
Besides, there is no such thing as a drinkable beer, it all taste like swill.:)
Blah, honestly there have been very few viruses the past year, there really isn't much motivaiton to write them anymore. All the malware writers are focusing on spyware and bots, people have realized you can make money off of this stuff. Organized crime has started doing DDOS using botnets for extortion.
WTH are you talking about, this is Cupertino, not Los Angeles. I work right next to the current Apple campus, I live about 10 miles away from work, takes me ~10-15 minutes to commute.
I mostly agree that there is a large number of people here who just want stuff for free, but there is a valid complaint that too many commercials just plain suck.
I personally have rewound my TiVo to watch a commercial that looks interesting, usually a movie trailer or some other flashy thing which may catch my eye (usually T&A:P ). It is possible to make some clever commercials which are entertaining, for example I sometimes stop to watch the new VW GTI commercials because I think they are funny.
The real problem is that the commercials rarely change, they are the same thing over and over for months at a time. If they could possibly update the commercials on a weekly basis and keep them entertaining I would probably not be so hasty to fast forward through the commercial breaks. They should just make a 10 minute short then edit it into 30 seconds chunks, that is 20 commercials ready to go (go to the company site to see it in its entirety and buy their products).
Not overly impressive regardless of the distance, the only hard part is getting it off the campus, once it is off Caltech campus doesn't matter how far away you need to move it. It is just driving a truck cross country, I've done it before, not exactly rocket science.
Not much of a hack regardless, just simple theft. A for effort, F for creativity.
Don't worry too muich about NWN, it pales in comparison to BG 2 (as does BG 1 IMHO), it is fun, but really lacking storywise compared to BG 2. BTW, if you don't have it yet get the expansion for BG2. And make sure you keep Minsc in your party, he is awesome.:)
What? Those weren't the original versions of the sports either. Did you forget the awesome Basketball, Boxing, Hockey, etc. from the Atari 2600? The NES versions of the 80s are just "minor" graphic updates and another $XX.
It has recent quote and portfolio features, but you need to be logged into your gmail account, which kind of makes things a bit tricky since gmail is in perpetual beta and you need to get an invite to make an account.
The home page doesn't seem to be as customizable as yahoo yet, but I think it is a good first effort, it certainly looks better than yahoo once you start digging into the details.
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Agreed, this feels just like the iPod release strategy they did. They release a completely new innovative product in the high end to a limited audience, build up the buzz, then they release the improved 2.0 product at a lower price and dominate. Will they be able to do the same thing in the phone industry? I don't think they will be able to dominate like they did in the mp3 market, the phone market is much more mature. But I think they will shake things up quite a bit. Right now I think Palm, Rim, MS, etc. are all on notice.
Anakin is the real story of 1-6 and that is one of the reasons that 1-3 failed for me. They don't really show the tragic hero that he was supposed to be, Anakin was f'ing evil, I fail to see how saving his son somehow redeems him of the billions of people he has murdered. I blame this mostly on the stupid black and white concept of the dark/light sides of the force that Lucas came up with.
OKCupid would be good if there were any half-way decent women on it. At least for me about 90% of the women who I "match" with in my area are fat and/or ugly. I found 3 women total I have even some interest in, all 3 did not respond. They definately need A LOT more subscribers for it to work, I checked back after 4 months and they were all the same women. I really want to like the site, but for me it is just an amusing way to pass the time by taking a goofy test.
I have had better luck on match.
Mazan? I have played it at Dave and Buster's, the sword is made of styrofoam or something, weighs maybe 5 ounces, not 5lbs. Fun game.
They want the Jews out because they don't believe they have a right to be there.
I saw a news program several years ago about the Temple mount. I think it was a report on Sharon's visit back in late 2000. There is a lot of archeology that should be done there but is disallowed by the Islamic authorities. There was an interview with one of the muslim clerics, his general response to the location of the old Jewish temple was "show me where this temple was, it didn't exist". Of course you can't show him since no excavation is allowed there.
I am not sure why they believe this, it is a fairly recent belief according to the wiki on the Temple Mount. Doesn't really make much sense to me, Christian, Muslim and Jew all have the same god supposedly.
Really, what can they do? The only possible solution that I can even fathom is for a UN force to occupy Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and disarm the entire region. That is not going to happen, no side would allow it. The people there just hate each other too much and are too stubborn to compormise for their to be any reasonable solution.
Wow, what kind of crappy phone do you have? Even the super cheap virgin mobile phone I was using for a while (base model from ~3 yrs ago) had a usable sms system, you type out the message and click send, no webpage loading. T9 txt mode makes typing messages really quick, even on the super tiny samsung phone I am using now.
But I agree that people in the US generally don't use SMS. The only person I really SMS with on a regular basis is an immigrant from vietnam. I just call everyone else.
Verizon FIOS is only 15 Mbps, not 15 MBps. The /. summary is incorrect (shocking I know).
All the Dave and Buster's have ripped the pods out. I have no idea if the battletech center in Chicago still exists, but their website doesn't seem to be up at the moment.
Yeah, but the Chinese market is still pretty closed off, so there is potential, but it has a long way to go yet. Right now a company that releases a product in China has a very good chance of competing against that same product at a much lower price point in a few months after a chinese company copies it. Cars being the most obvious example right now. Just search for chinese car copies on google for more examples.
Guinness, Bass, Newcastle, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, John Boags, Tetley Bitters, various microbrews I can't remember, etc. yeah, I have explored the world of beers, how many brands do I need to try before I can convince people that I think beer tastes awful?
Nah, most people just prefer the crap, look at popular music, movies, etc. Can't really compare with cars, the price difference is too high, besides, I doubt many would choose a Z4 over a Camry, they are in very different markets (2 seat roadster vs 4 seat family sedan).
I never said I wanted to get drunk without tasting anything. I enjoy a nice glass of whiskey or bourbon when I go out, rarely to excess, because I am usually driving.
Haha, you know there is a reason that all the "drinkable" beers have a rather small market share compared to the giants, and it is not because people haven't tasted the drinkable beers.
:)
Besides, there is no such thing as a drinkable beer, it all taste like swill.
Blah, honestly there have been very few viruses the past year, there really isn't much motivaiton to write them anymore. All the malware writers are focusing on spyware and bots, people have realized you can make money off of this stuff. Organized crime has started doing DDOS using botnets for extortion.
Submit a complaint to THX, if they get enough they will check the theater and revoke their certification if things are not up to snuff.
http://www.thx.com/mod/cinema/survey.html
WTH are you talking about, this is Cupertino, not Los Angeles. I work right next to the current Apple campus, I live about 10 miles away from work, takes me ~10-15 minutes to commute.
TiVo and Replay settled long ago and did a bunch of cross-licensing.
I mostly agree that there is a large number of people here who just want stuff for free, but there is a valid complaint that too many commercials just plain suck.
:P ). It is possible to make some clever commercials which are entertaining, for example I sometimes stop to watch the new VW GTI commercials because I think they are funny.
I personally have rewound my TiVo to watch a commercial that looks interesting, usually a movie trailer or some other flashy thing which may catch my eye (usually T&A
The real problem is that the commercials rarely change, they are the same thing over and over for months at a time. If they could possibly update the commercials on a weekly basis and keep them entertaining I would probably not be so hasty to fast forward through the commercial breaks. They should just make a 10 minute short then edit it into 30 seconds chunks, that is 20 commercials ready to go (go to the company site to see it in its entirety and buy their products).
Not overly impressive regardless of the distance, the only hard part is getting it off the campus, once it is off Caltech campus doesn't matter how far away you need to move it. It is just driving a truck cross country, I've done it before, not exactly rocket science.
Not much of a hack regardless, just simple theft. A for effort, F for creativity.
Haha, I had a Commodore 1541 floppy drive and was able to load games in under 5 minutes!
Don't worry too muich about NWN, it pales in comparison to BG 2 (as does BG 1 IMHO), it is fun, but really lacking storywise compared to BG 2. BTW, if you don't have it yet get the expansion for BG2. And make sure you keep Minsc in your party, he is awesome. :)
What? Those weren't the original versions of the sports either. Did you forget the awesome Basketball, Boxing, Hockey, etc. from the Atari 2600? The NES versions of the 80s are just "minor" graphic updates and another $XX.
Err wait, looks like you can create an account without having gmail, need to dig around though, they kind of hide it.
It has recent quote and portfolio features, but you need to be logged into your gmail account, which kind of makes things a bit tricky since gmail is in perpetual beta and you need to get an invite to make an account.
The home page doesn't seem to be as customizable as yahoo yet, but I think it is a good first effort, it certainly looks better than yahoo once you start digging into the details.