You can do multiple angles on the satellite images on google maps. It is not as intuitive as Bing, but you have to drag 'N" that surrounds the Pan tool to the different cardinal directions to get it to rotate. I will agree with you though that Bing's aerial images are better (at least in my experience).
while every version was in its development stage, they would always say that it was going to include damage. Then when it was released, of course it didnt. This is my biggest problem with the game.
Thats what I was thinking. It looks like they are trying to steal some of the PC crowd. People spend 1000-3000 bucks on a new computer pretty much to be able to play the newer games. Now you may say that a computer serves more purpose than just gaming( internet, email, word processors, etc). But the machines these people are replacing do those just fine. So they are spending that money for the ability to play newer games. In the past, consoles graphics have been sub par to PC's. When xbox came out, they made the gap a little closer, but still wasnt there (IMO). Now with these newer consoles, that gap is almost gone. So im assuming they think that people will fork over the higher prices. If the PS3 has some good exclusive launch titles (GTA, GT5 (better have car damage this time)) I think people will piss and moan about the price, but still pay it. Gamers piss and moan about everything, but they still deal with it.
We have a e-commerce site and got hit pretty bad from competition on click fraud. So we set up tracking on all paid advertising links. We also set it up so that if an IP came in on the same PPC ad more than 6 times in a week, they would get a landing page describing click fraud. We found that a lot of actual customers were tripping this. In the process of shopping around, they couldnt remember our URL or company name, but they could remember what they searched for to get to our site. They would click on that ad 10 times in some cases while doing comparisons to other sites. Its not click fraud, but its still pretty expensive to get that one customer.
I dont understand this argument. How would they have 'extra' phone calls? They are not going to get any phone calls from the original owner. If its a defect issue, they would get that phone call from the original owner anyway. If its a problem with the customer not understanding something about the product, they would get that phone call if the person would have bought the product new. Now I can see problems with non-console games that have product keys for activation, or registration. But im assuming BB isnt selling used PC games.
and stay there. For the games that I play, I find a couple of servers that are almost always full and have PLENTY of admins. So when you play, there is a good chance of an admin to be on. Once you find a server you like, stick it in your favorites and play there often.
I was guessing that they both would be around 499.00. With the hardware they have, I dont see how they could sell them at a 299.00 pricetag. You can only take so much a hit on hardware. I would assume that they would market these as "multimedia" machines very heavily. So parents get the illusion that they would use these things for more than video games. Im sure the usual "family photos / pictures, mp3, HD " will be the words they use to justify the higher price.
After all the time you spend cleaning it, its probably faster to just backup his important files and re-install. And tell him to browse his porn with opera or firefox.
I work for a smaller company that does online sales. As the business grows and more orders that come in during a day, bottlenecks start to show. We identified the bigger bottlenecks and instead of throwing people at them, we decided to automate with computers. I sat at the desk of each person and watched them work for an hour. As a programmer, you can easily see things that you can script, store, and transfer using computers. Even little things can make the world of difference when people do the same thing over and over.
Now this is with a small company that had almost no automation what so ever. Everything was done by hand, everything was printed, everything was passed around the office. You may have it different where bottlenecks dont show themselves so easily. My advice would be to sit at peoples desk and watch them work.
So you wont be able to find a DVD-R, but you will be able to find the OEM disc because its in a box????
Personally, I like the idea that all I need is a login to get my games. I have a couple of games that I have lost the CDKEY's or the discs are scratched. Now it is my fault for this, but im still SOL. I believe that you can actually just copy the valve file for each game (Its one file per game) and your set. Just download/install steam, and copy that file into its respective folder and your set to play. No downloading involved except for updates if needed.
For me, DM gets boring very quickly. Its fun every once in a while for short periods. Ive always been a fan of team based and class based games. I really wish someone would make a CS:CTF with classes. Would almost eliminate the many one sided maps in CS (not starting an argument).
reassurance that I will be able to play it years down the road.
I am the opposite. I have many old games that I can not play anymore because of scratched discs or lost manuals with Keys printed on them. Yes this is my fault for letting the discs get scratched, losing the manual, or misplacing the CD. Tribes 2 had the best of both worlds. You could install from the CD, and not have the CD KEY. All you needed was your username/password. For myself, steam is the way I want to buy games.
If people dont like this, just program your remote to do a 30 second skip instead of the 30 minute skip or whatever it is defaulted to. A couple of clicks and your past all the commercials. The other skip button will let you skip back 10 seconds if you happen to go too far into the show. It is instant and no chance of ads coming up (i guess until tivo disables it in newer versions).
If memory serves me right, Select -> Play -> Select -> 30 -> Select
There is also the flip side to this where the reviewer isnt very good at games and thinks the game is too hard or the learning curve is too high.
I would think a review of a good gamer would be better. Good gamer meaning they are good with a variety of games(not just one type game that they are really good at). Focusing on winning from a good gamer will bring out any imbalances in the game. Yea, you cant expect them to do the tedious tasks in some games so you wont get a very fully detailed review.
I find that too many reviews just kind of gloss over the different things in the game to let you know what you can do. They never actually disects them and say "you can do X in the game, but it really doesnt do you any good to get you anywhere in the game".
Yea the benchmarks are about the same as Intels. But the thing that makes this special is that you can use 2 different types of ram (not at the same time of course) and two different types of video cards (same time im assuming, I just looked at the pretty pictures in the article). That makes this board much more appealing to people in the MB/upgrading market. Buy this and buy the DDR and AGP video card relatively cheaply. In most cases, people already have these items in their current computer and they only need to upgrade the CPU and MB. Then later when DDR2, and PCIE hardware comes down in price, upgrading is an option without having to upgrade your MB (~150-200 bucks) to support your shiny new DDR2, and PCIE cards.
There are some very nice low cost mono laser printers from Konica Minolta (Pagepro 1350) and from Oki Data ( B4100 - 4350N). There are deals to be found for the 1350 for ~130.00. The Oki 4350n is networked and can be found for ~300.00. They say that lasers are cheaper in the long run. That is the problem with most consumers, they look at the bottom line when they are buying. Like you said, it takes them a huge amount of hassle to figure out that inks just plain suck.
Right now, color lasers are coming down in price for very good printers. They are trying to compete with color inkjets. Konica Minolta is coming out with a Magicolor 2400, replacing the 2300(which is very nice). Both of them are under 400.00.
Slashdot Mirror
You can do multiple angles on the satellite images on google maps. It is not as intuitive as Bing, but you have to drag 'N" that surrounds the Pan tool to the different cardinal directions to get it to rotate. I will agree with you though that Bing's aerial images are better (at least in my experience).
Some schools do have text books as part of the class costs so there is no added fee for them.
If it is added to the class cost, your still paying for the book.
Maverick et-73. Best wireless thermometer out there.
while every version was in its development stage, they would always say that it was going to include damage. Then when it was released, of course it didnt. This is my biggest problem with the game.
Thats what I was thinking. It looks like they are trying to steal some of the PC crowd. People spend 1000-3000 bucks on a new computer pretty much to be able to play the newer games. Now you may say that a computer serves more purpose than just gaming( internet, email, word processors, etc). But the machines these people are replacing do those just fine. So they are spending that money for the ability to play newer games. In the past, consoles graphics have been sub par to PC's. When xbox came out, they made the gap a little closer, but still wasnt there (IMO). Now with these newer consoles, that gap is almost gone. So im assuming they think that people will fork over the higher prices. If the PS3 has some good exclusive launch titles (GTA, GT5 (better have car damage this time)) I think people will piss and moan about the price, but still pay it. Gamers piss and moan about everything, but they still deal with it.
Samsung makes all Dell LCD's.
I have no idea how 'true' this timeline is, but I found it somewhere a while ago and thought it was a pretty interesting read.
http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm
We have a e-commerce site and got hit pretty bad from competition on click fraud. So we set up tracking on all paid advertising links. We also set it up so that if an IP came in on the same PPC ad more than 6 times in a week, they would get a landing page describing click fraud. We found that a lot of actual customers were tripping this. In the process of shopping around, they couldnt remember our URL or company name, but they could remember what they searched for to get to our site. They would click on that ad 10 times in some cases while doing comparisons to other sites. Its not click fraud, but its still pretty expensive to get that one customer.
I dont understand this argument. How would they have 'extra' phone calls? They are not going to get any phone calls from the original owner. If its a defect issue, they would get that phone call from the original owner anyway. If its a problem with the customer not understanding something about the product, they would get that phone call if the person would have bought the product new. Now I can see problems with non-console games that have product keys for activation, or registration. But im assuming BB isnt selling used PC games.
and stay there. For the games that I play, I find a couple of servers that are almost always full and have PLENTY of admins. So when you play, there is a good chance of an admin to be on. Once you find a server you like, stick it in your favorites and play there often.
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/669 .html
I was guessing that they both would be around 499.00. With the hardware they have, I dont see how they could sell them at a 299.00 pricetag. You can only take so much a hit on hardware. I would assume that they would market these as "multimedia" machines very heavily. So parents get the illusion that they would use these things for more than video games. Im sure the usual "family photos / pictures, mp3, HD " will be the words they use to justify the higher price.
After all the time you spend cleaning it, its probably faster to just backup his important files and re-install. And tell him to browse his porn with opera or firefox.
I work for a smaller company that does online sales. As the business grows and more orders that come in during a day, bottlenecks start to show. We identified the bigger bottlenecks and instead of throwing people at them, we decided to automate with computers. I sat at the desk of each person and watched them work for an hour. As a programmer, you can easily see things that you can script, store, and transfer using computers. Even little things can make the world of difference when people do the same thing over and over.
Now this is with a small company that had almost no automation what so ever. Everything was done by hand, everything was printed, everything was passed around the office. You may have it different where bottlenecks dont show themselves so easily. My advice would be to sit at peoples desk and watch them work.
So you wont be able to find a DVD-R, but you will be able to find the OEM disc because its in a box????
Personally, I like the idea that all I need is a login to get my games. I have a couple of games that I have lost the CDKEY's or the discs are scratched. Now it is my fault for this, but im still SOL. I believe that you can actually just copy the valve file for each game (Its one file per game) and your set. Just download/install steam, and copy that file into its respective folder and your set to play. No downloading involved except for updates if needed.
If a company doesnt have a flat shipping fee and the person isnt ordering just one item, how do you expect the website to show the total price?
And I have noticed looking at Best Buy that those UMD movies are 20-40 dollars. 40 bucks for a movie is pretty expensive.
isnt CTF team based? :-)
For me, DM gets boring very quickly. Its fun every once in a while for short periods. Ive always been a fan of team based and class based games. I really wish someone would make a CS:CTF with classes. Would almost eliminate the many one sided maps in CS (not starting an argument).
reassurance that I will be able to play it years down the road.
I am the opposite. I have many old games that I can not play anymore because of scratched discs or lost manuals with Keys printed on them. Yes this is my fault for letting the discs get scratched, losing the manual, or misplacing the CD. Tribes 2 had the best of both worlds. You could install from the CD, and not have the CD KEY. All you needed was your username/password. For myself, steam is the way I want to buy games.
If people dont like this, just program your remote to do a 30 second skip instead of the 30 minute skip or whatever it is defaulted to. A couple of clicks and your past all the commercials. The other skip button will let you skip back 10 seconds if you happen to go too far into the show. It is instant and no chance of ads coming up (i guess until tivo disables it in newer versions).
If memory serves me right, Select -> Play -> Select -> 30 -> Select
The screensavers should be renamed "Useless crap we found on the internet" They have slowly taken out any useful information on anything "Tech".
There is also the flip side to this where the reviewer isnt very good at games and thinks the game is too hard or the learning curve is too high.
I would think a review of a good gamer would be better. Good gamer meaning they are good with a variety of games(not just one type game that they are really good at). Focusing on winning from a good gamer will bring out any imbalances in the game. Yea, you cant expect them to do the tedious tasks in some games so you wont get a very fully detailed review.
I find that too many reviews just kind of gloss over the different things in the game to let you know what you can do. They never actually disects them and say "you can do X in the game, but it really doesnt do you any good to get you anywhere in the game".
Yea the benchmarks are about the same as Intels. But the thing that makes this special is that you can use 2 different types of ram (not at the same time of course) and two different types of video cards (same time im assuming, I just looked at the pretty pictures in the article). That makes this board much more appealing to people in the MB/upgrading market. Buy this and buy the DDR and AGP video card relatively cheaply. In most cases, people already have these items in their current computer and they only need to upgrade the CPU and MB. Then later when DDR2, and PCIE hardware comes down in price, upgrading is an option without having to upgrade your MB (~150-200 bucks) to support your shiny new DDR2, and PCIE cards.
There are some very nice low cost mono laser printers from Konica Minolta (Pagepro 1350) and from Oki Data ( B4100 - 4350N). There are deals to be found for the 1350 for ~130.00. The Oki 4350n is networked and can be found for ~300.00. They say that lasers are cheaper in the long run. That is the problem with most consumers, they look at the bottom line when they are buying. Like you said, it takes them a huge amount of hassle to figure out that inks just plain suck.
Right now, color lasers are coming down in price for very good printers. They are trying to compete with color inkjets. Konica Minolta is coming out with a Magicolor 2400, replacing the 2300(which is very nice). Both of them are under 400.00.
a. confirm your address
Wouldnt they be able to confirm an address by not getting a bounce back?