I like killing time at Best Buy. I never actually buy anything from them, way overpriced. But when I want to see if something looks like quality or crap it's a good place to go for a demo.
But then I become tempted to buy something.... A few weeks ago I wanted to get a new screen protector for my wife's Samsung Epic. "Can I help you sir?" "Yeah, do you have a screen film for this phone?" "Yes, we have this one with a lifetime warranty for 20 dollars."
Honest Abe. 20 bucks for a fancy piece of scotch tape.
Another brilliant example of not understanding your audience. Used games are part of the lifeblood of the hobby. Make me pay full retail for every game and I will skip the platform.
Yes, clearly a new Charlie Sheen sitcom is more artistically valid than a fan effort to bring an unseen script to the web.
After all, all stories older than 45 years are void of legitimate artistic merit. How about all those poor saps continually regurgitating authors like Dickens, Hugo, Homer, Shakespeare... so sad. What did they contribute to the 2012 pilot season?
Nothing can save that sugar-coated ending on the park bench with the Oracle and the children and the sunset.... It's like someone stole the movie I was watching and slipped in Micheal Jackson's 'Moonwalker' movie.
Matrix 2 and 3 are better forgotten. The first movie stands better alone.
The MPAA and RIAA have been playing the shell game of leasing and owning content with consumers for years. They might have finally stuck their foot in it.
The RIAA is currently going after digital music re-sellers with the argument that consumers licensed the music use and do not own the asset for re-sale. Recently musicians have taken notice of the case because they get a one time payment for each sale. Treating the sale as a license means they are being grossly underpaid.
Now Warner is going to legally re-define your DVD from a sale to a digital license. I have a feeling many of the hundreds of people involved in creating each film will have an opinion about this.
Correct. This would not be a mom and pop business model. Even a store like Walmart would not deploy such a thing across it's entire floor. But there are sections of the store (the grocery isles) where it would make sense.
The trade off and benefit to the store is with no customers in the isles they would be free to stock items all the way to the ceiling without fear of items falling and injuring shoppers. This doubles or triples floor and shelf space. A robot cart could use scissor lifts to elevate itself to the highest shelves. This means they could have MORE inventory and more brands. More brands and selection is a selling point customers will appreciate.
A Robot cart goes to the front of the store where the basket portion separates and be attached to more conventional cart wheels so you may wheel your items to your car. Then robot section gets a new basket and goes back to work.
Quite the opposite. It would allow for more detailed inventory and purchase records, leading to more informed bulk purchase decisions at the store management level. It would allow the store to do more "just in time" purchasing rather than maintain an expensive back stock of inventory that may spoil.
You can replace the upsell and cross-sell at the application or kiosk level. People will still find a way to impulse buy.
There are section of any store that would not be desirable to automate - Buying shoes or clothes for instance. But now a store can focus better on where to place it's staff to assist consumers and secure inventory.
Without much more difficulty they could automate the whole process:
1) voice recognition or remote interaction with the cart. - The shopper reads their grocery list to the cart and it goes on it's way. Your cart doesn't need to worry about colliding with people so it's free to move much faster on pre-programmed routes.
shopper: "Kellog's flakes" cart: "Returns three results. Frosted, unfrosted, and with raisins. Please state preference" or cart: "Our Great Values store brand costs 20% less. If you were to buy store equivalents today you would save $27.00 total."
The store apps for android and iphone are mostly spamware right now, but you could turn them into automated shopping cart list builders.
2) Shelves use automation to load items onto the cart in a hands free process. Delicate items are loaded in a dedicated area by store staff.
Shoppers wait in the front of the store in an expanded deli area. No checkout, just swipe your credit card and out the door. No more navigating around idiots in scooters. No more shoplifting. No more congested isles.
>> Apple releases iPod >> Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23 2001, @01:20PM >> from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
>> The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by.78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates".
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence."
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I like killing time at Best Buy. I never actually buy anything from them, way overpriced. But when I want to see if something looks like quality or crap it's a good place to go for a demo.
But then I become tempted to buy something.... A few weeks ago I wanted to get a new screen protector for my wife's Samsung Epic. "Can I help you sir?" "Yeah, do you have a screen film for this phone?" "Yes, we have this one with a lifetime warranty for 20 dollars."
Honest Abe. 20 bucks for a fancy piece of scotch tape.
"Oh, we're going broke!!!!" Good.
...Sony cooks up another draconian DRM scheme....
Another brilliant example of not understanding your audience. Used games are part of the lifeblood of the hobby. Make me pay full retail for every game and I will skip the platform.
Yes, clearly a new Charlie Sheen sitcom is more artistically valid than a fan effort to bring an unseen script to the web.
After all, all stories older than 45 years are void of legitimate artistic merit. How about all those poor saps continually regurgitating authors like Dickens, Hugo, Homer, Shakespeare... so sad. What did they contribute to the 2012 pilot season?
You spread your financial details all over the place in the real world. It's just as unavoidable over time on the web.
Use "AdAway" by Dominik Schurmann. Free in Google Market.
Also you could run "DroidWall" which allows you to white list what apps may connect to the web.
Since everyone else is mentioning their custom ROMs I'm running Blu Kuban on a Sumsung Galaxy S2 (Sprint Epic Touch version)
Ships and aircraft are commonly reffered to as 'she'. It's a long standing tradition. Don't get your panties in a wad.
A fantastic example of why the building blocks of human life should not be patentable and hidden away by pharmaceutical companies.
Nothing can save that sugar-coated ending on the park bench with the Oracle and the children and the sunset.... It's like someone stole the movie I was watching and slipped in Micheal Jackson's 'Moonwalker' movie.
Matrix 2 and 3 are better forgotten. The first movie stands better alone.
So get a bluetooth keyboard.
It's truthfully been ages since I've thought about Wine.
Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?
...until I wake up one day and it's not.
The MPAA and RIAA have been playing the shell game of leasing and owning content with consumers for years. They might have finally stuck their foot in it.
The RIAA is currently going after digital music re-sellers with the argument that consumers licensed the music use and do not own the asset for re-sale. Recently musicians have taken notice of the case because they get a one time payment for each sale. Treating the sale as a license means they are being grossly underpaid.
Now Warner is going to legally re-define your DVD from a sale to a digital license. I have a feeling many of the hundreds of people involved in creating each film will have an opinion about this.
Sprint data cap doesn't apply to smart phones yet.
You have rogue coupons. They are incompatible. Coupons will be punished with maximum deletion. Delete! Delete! Delete!
Correct. This would not be a mom and pop business model. Even a store like Walmart would not deploy such a thing across it's entire floor. But there are sections of the store (the grocery isles) where it would make sense.
The trade off and benefit to the store is with no customers in the isles they would be free to stock items all the way to the ceiling without fear of items falling and injuring shoppers. This doubles or triples floor and shelf space. A robot cart could use scissor lifts to elevate itself to the highest shelves. This means they could have MORE inventory and more brands. More brands and selection is a selling point customers will appreciate.
A Robot cart goes to the front of the store where the basket portion separates and be attached to more conventional cart wheels so you may wheel your items to your car. Then robot section gets a new basket and goes back to work.
Quite the opposite. It would allow for more detailed inventory and purchase records, leading to more informed bulk purchase decisions at the store management level. It would allow the store to do more "just in time" purchasing rather than maintain an expensive back stock of inventory that may spoil.
You can replace the upsell and cross-sell at the application or kiosk level. People will still find a way to impulse buy.
There are section of any store that would not be desirable to automate - Buying shoes or clothes for instance. But now a store can focus better on where to place it's staff to assist consumers and secure inventory.
Without much more difficulty they could automate the whole process:
1) voice recognition or remote interaction with the cart. - The shopper reads their grocery list to the cart and it goes on it's way. Your cart doesn't need to worry about colliding with people so it's free to move much faster on pre-programmed routes.
shopper: "Kellog's flakes"
cart: "Returns three results. Frosted, unfrosted, and with raisins. Please state preference"
or
cart: "Our Great Values store brand costs 20% less. If you were to buy store equivalents today you would save $27.00 total."
The store apps for android and iphone are mostly spamware right now, but you could turn them into automated shopping cart list builders.
2) Shelves use automation to load items onto the cart in a hands free process. Delicate items are loaded in a dedicated area by store staff.
Shoppers wait in the front of the store in an expanded deli area. No checkout, just swipe your credit card and out the door. No more navigating around idiots in scooters. No more shoplifting. No more congested isles.
BTW: I didn't mean to cut and paste the "Five years ago". Please don't flame my math.
Five years ago:
>> Apple releases iPod
>> Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23 2001, @01:20PM
>> from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
>> The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by .78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates".
>> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
...isn't worthy of respect or being listened to in the first place.
If I'm ever at a political rally where one of these is used that candidate will never get my vote.
"Were you an Android or an Apple?"
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence."
Bill Hicks - 1990
So all of Jack's old cosmic comics were right...
Next thing you know Stan Lee will be taking credit for buckyballs.