Something tells me that if the ad execs knew whether we watched a specific commerical or not it would destablize the TV industry. That's what happend with Ads on the web. They saw the click through rates and thought it wasn't worth it and pulled out.
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Every South Park epsiode. Yes I know it's shot for TV but I can dream can't I. I don't post often so I'm making this short post seem longer.
How about Evil Dead 3, Blade 1&2, all my home movies and while they are at it the No Smoking and Locate the Exit clips we see in the front of every movie. Come on, let's put a little effort into making them look good.
I was looking at it from the number of possible players. Assuming the worse possible case, thousands of cable modem users taking up 56k+ a piece. I think the bottle neck will be the ISP and not the mega otherworld site MS created.
PS/2. I couldn't resist the price and the sheer amount of games available. My 6 year old wanted a PS/2 more than the Gamecube anyway. So much for demographics.
I got the PS/2, Spiderman game, memory card, controller, dvd remote and extension cable for $325.
My son spent the weekend beating the crap out of me in Virtual Fighter 4.
I understand EA not wanting to lessen the value of their own game servers. I also see MS desire to make as much $ as possible on their console business. Seems like a dead lock.
EA is taking the upperhand because they have it. MS can always throw the trump card and buy their a$$.
Buy a laser printer. The toner doesn't dry out or age.
Yep it can. Humidity is a toner killer and can get into the toner and causes it to lump together. Eventually makes it into little balls of toner that screw up the drum unit. Count your self the exception to the rule.
My credentials: I worked for a printer/fax company for 10 years, 5 of them tech support.
where Burns and Smithers goes through high security steel doors, scanning stations, gates and end up in the control room that has a old screen door to the outdoors in it allowing a stray dog in. Seems to me that sums up Microsoft's entire security structure.
bonus karma points to anyone who correctly identifies the show number.
"Oh for christ sake"- Montgomery Burns after discovering a stray dog in his XP like high security control room.
Shutting down the service won't pay for the infrastructure already in place. What are you saving?? electricty? support staff?
No more money coming in... hmmm sounds stupid to me.
I haven't read anyone talking up DirecPC. DSL is not in my area (New Jersey). I checked when I first heard @Home going belly up. I did read enough people are fed up with Comcast and going satellite.
I remember when Legos came out with their Space stuff. All grey. Between myself and 2 friends we filled half of my friend's room with a spacestation, buildings, ships all in grey.
Now my son has every Star Wars lego out except the pod racing set. He has all of the dinosaur kits and boats, and planes god know what else. With the exception of a few of the Star Wars legos all the rest are in 6-8 huge tubs of spare parts.
The one thing I noticed is that most of the new kits are only vehicles, no buildings. I think I'll buy him a couple of flat bases and start building tonight!
I'm a 6 year vet but I have been out of the trenches for 5 years. I still have flash backs.
My call center was never as bad as PA Bell but I can't see how he would have lastest 20 months in an environment like that.
Over heard in the call center.
We us RISC free processors in our printers.
Note: The spelling is correct, we used Reduced Instructiong Set processors. The agent was assuring the customer that the printer was very reliable.
A customer was so pissed at one of our printers that he literally threw the printer out the window. He took pictures and sent them in to back up his claim.
"...unfortunately, we won't see them on the shelves for about 20 years."
Even if there was one on a shelf, you'd need an electron microscope to see it....
I see the support calls now..
1. Where's the power switch?
2. Where do I put my 5 1/4" floppy disk?
3. Will it run my 1982 accounting program that runs in MS Basic?
4. MS Windows crashed again. Why?
and so on.
Of course Apple would come out with all sorts of cool colors that no one could see.
What about the publisher who went out of business? If someone owns the rights to the program, call them up and asked to be removed.
There will be a argument for every piece of softare he's got posted.
Publisher out of business = no copyright
Publisher sold rights = copyright
publisher won't support = ?
I have worked at two software stores back in the late 80's early 90's and the same thing was brought in PC MAG and other publications. People subconsciously go for the biggest most colorful box. Every game I have bought for myself or son has had %80 air in the damn thing. They use cardboard to stiffen it up. I catch my self doing it when looking for a new book to read too. It's not going to change because it works. A customer of mine just bought a billing program they downloaded and the company no longer sends out a CD or manual. Everything is downloaded and the company keeps track of who you are so if you ever need the application you can download it for free. While I like that setup for the environment I still like to have a hefty manual next to me as a backup or something I can browse on the train. If you can get 20/20 to generate awareness then change might occur. It has to be a conscience decision.
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Something tells me that if the ad execs knew whether we watched a specific commerical or not it would destablize the TV industry. That's what happend with Ads on the web. They saw the click through rates and thought it wasn't worth it and pulled out.
Sweet. Cool black and yellow color too.
I fondly remeber this game. I still have my AmigaHD and disks. hmmm maybe I'll dust them off soon.
The Home Land Security attitude is "Let's not wait until someone does it here." Yet, can I still go down to SC and pick up some m-100's if I want?
What flavor pez?
Every South Park epsiode. Yes I know it's shot for TV but I can dream can't I. I don't post often so I'm making this short post seem longer.
How about Evil Dead 3, Blade 1&2, all my home movies and while they are at it the No Smoking and Locate the Exit clips we see in the front of every movie. Come on, let's put a little effort into making them look good.
I was looking at it from the number of possible players. Assuming the worse possible case, thousands of cable modem users taking up 56k+ a piece. I think the bottle neck will be the ISP and not the mega otherworld site MS created.
Bill wants to live forever. Now he's looking for a telepathic child.
No mention of the bandwidth needed at the subscriber's end. I see flooded cable modem networks in the future.
PS/2. I couldn't resist the price and the sheer amount of games available. My 6 year old wanted a PS/2 more than the Gamecube anyway. So much for demographics.
I got the PS/2, Spiderman game, memory card, controller, dvd remote and extension cable for $325.
My son spent the weekend beating the crap out of me in Virtual Fighter 4.
Thank you Sony for this Father and son moment.
I understand EA not wanting to lessen the value of their own game servers. I also see MS desire to make as much $ as possible on their console business. Seems like a dead lock.
EA is taking the upperhand because they have it. MS can always throw the trump card and buy their a$$.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/020514/tech_sony_playstati on_5.html
Tuesday May 14, 6:20 am Eastern Time
Reuters Company News
Sony cuts price of PlayStation, PS2
Buy a laser printer. The toner doesn't dry out or age. Yep it can. Humidity is a toner killer and can get into the toner and causes it to lump together. Eventually makes it into little balls of toner that screw up the drum unit. Count your self the exception to the rule. My credentials: I worked for a printer/fax company for 10 years, 5 of them tech support.
As it happens I agree with you. It's a marketing gimick to give them names. It's easier to remember than a string of decimals.
Hammer sounds more sexy than P4.
It is messy. Ad-aware didn't see it so I had to remove a bunch of entries and dll's just like you said.
where Burns and Smithers goes through high security steel doors, scanning stations, gates and end up in the control room that has a old screen door to the outdoors in it allowing a stray dog in. Seems to me that sums up Microsoft's entire security structure.
bonus karma points to anyone who correctly identifies the show number.
"Oh for christ sake"- Montgomery Burns after discovering a stray dog in his XP like high security control room.
Shutting down the service won't pay for the infrastructure already in place. What are you saving?? electricty? support staff?
No more money coming in... hmmm sounds stupid to me.
I haven't read anyone talking up DirecPC. DSL is not in my area (New Jersey). I checked when I first heard @Home going belly up. I did read enough people are fed up with Comcast and going satellite.
Oh yeah, FU judge.
I remember when Legos came out with their Space stuff. All grey. Between myself and 2 friends we filled half of my friend's room with a spacestation, buildings, ships all in grey.
Now my son has every Star Wars lego out except the pod racing set. He has all of the dinosaur kits and boats, and planes god know what else. With the exception of a few of the Star Wars legos all the rest are in 6-8 huge tubs of spare parts.
The one thing I noticed is that most of the new kits are only vehicles, no buildings. I think I'll buy him a couple of flat bases and start building tonight!
I'm a 6 year vet but I have been out of the trenches for 5 years. I still have flash backs. My call center was never as bad as PA Bell but I can't see how he would have lastest 20 months in an environment like that. Over heard in the call center. We us RISC free processors in our printers. Note: The spelling is correct, we used Reduced Instructiong Set processors. The agent was assuring the customer that the printer was very reliable. A customer was so pissed at one of our printers that he literally threw the printer out the window. He took pictures and sent them in to back up his claim.
"...unfortunately, we won't see them on the shelves for about 20 years." Even if there was one on a shelf, you'd need an electron microscope to see it.... I see the support calls now.. 1. Where's the power switch? 2. Where do I put my 5 1/4" floppy disk? 3. Will it run my 1982 accounting program that runs in MS Basic? 4. MS Windows crashed again. Why? and so on. Of course Apple would come out with all sorts of cool colors that no one could see.
What about the publisher who went out of business? If someone owns the rights to the program, call them up and asked to be removed. There will be a argument for every piece of softare he's got posted. Publisher out of business = no copyright Publisher sold rights = copyright publisher won't support = ?
I have worked at two software stores back in the late 80's early 90's and the same thing was brought in PC MAG and other publications. People subconsciously go for the biggest most colorful box. Every game I have bought for myself or son has had %80 air in the damn thing. They use cardboard to stiffen it up. I catch my self doing it when looking for a new book to read too. It's not going to change because it works. A customer of mine just bought a billing program they downloaded and the company no longer sends out a CD or manual. Everything is downloaded and the company keeps track of who you are so if you ever need the application you can download it for free. While I like that setup for the environment I still like to have a hefty manual next to me as a backup or something I can browse on the train. If you can get 20/20 to generate awareness then change might occur. It has to be a conscience decision.