Include sales tax, and you'll need to have the charging station installed in your house if you don't want to have to wait 10 hours between charges. Most dealers were charging markup over and above MRSP for them as well. (though after much lower than anticipated sales, maybe that is no longer true.)
It's not perceived as crap, it's perceived as a poor value because it takes longer than the life of a normal car to gain back the premium price you paid.
Gas mileage != economy. Total cost of ownership = economy.
Nokia's problem with all their Windows phones (and MSFT's problem with Windows Phone in general) is that they can't get retailers to push the phones.
Nobody comes into a store wanting to look at a Windows phone, so immediately the hurdle is that you've got to change their minds about what they want. Some articles posted here have even said that salespeople are not willing to push it because the return rate on Windows Phones had been high, and they lose their time for zero commission, when they could be across the room selling someone an iPhone and being safe with their commission.
They've already been massively cheaping out by churning out these games that are basically just unreal clones.
Make a few maps and a few weapons, corral a server or two, you're done. No need to invest in an actual story or developing an expensive single player campaign. Force everyone into online play.
Online play also has the bonus effect of making a game useless after most people have moved on to the next big game, thus encouraging the player of the current game to buy something new.
Console makers realize people aren't going to go for required always-on internet, lockout of online play beyond the original owner, or the various other schemes they have tried to keep people other than the original purchaser from using physical media.
It won't be long before they make games download-only, and linked to your user account only. I'm sure they would sacrifice their firstborn to implement this today, but internet connection speeds simply aren't there yet. Sure, it'll be marketed as being done out of 'convenience' to the user, but it's out of convenience to their profit margins.
On behalf of the rest of the world I say to them - if you want to make more money just raise game prices. Don't require internet connections. Don't continue to try to destroy the secondard market. We aren't going to buy all the games new that we are currently buying used, we'll just play less games. If $60 isn't enough then try $75. If your product is good, the market will bear it.
No sense being a dog in the manger about it. (not that they are listening)
The burden on the consumer to protect themselves is not high. All you have to do is what you should already be doing, looking over your statement and reporting anything you have questions about.
Why should I be doing this? I make dozens, perhaps hundreds of transactions each month. My looking over my statement is easily subject to human error.
Why should you look after your own finances? I wouldn't think higher critical reasoning would be required to convince you to do so.
I had a Citi mastercard which had some fraudulent charges posted to it... two different charges for Italian dresses, about $300 each. (what the heck?)
I called and reported it. I had to sign an affidavit of fraud and fax it back to them. They canceled my old card and overnighted me a new one, and the charge came off the account about a week later. It was really pretty easy.
The burden on the consumer to protect themselves is not high. All you have to do is what you should already be doing, looking over your statement and reporting anything you have questions about.
Aside from this, it seems likely they will notify the people who were affected and issue them new cards if they can identify who they were. It may not be possible to tell which numbers were stolen, only which were exposed.
Dumbphones compete against land-line telephones and VOIP home phones largely for the business of the elderly.
Among the rest of us, smartphones compete with smartphones. When the original iPhone came out, Blackberry never responded (and still has not, 5 years later) and that's why they are suffering.
It's like they're trying to sell us laptops without wifi. Well, it's a business tool, so it'll always be used in our narrow use case, right?
I'm sure that ABC Newspaper loves when you comment on an article, and their name and a link to the site gets posted on your profile, and on everyone you know's timelines. (200 people? 500 people?)
They can't pay for that kind of personal advertising.
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Include sales tax, and you'll need to have the charging station installed in your house if you don't want to have to wait 10 hours between charges. Most dealers were charging markup over and above MRSP for them as well. (though after much lower than anticipated sales, maybe that is no longer true.)
It's not perceived as crap, it's perceived as a poor value because it takes longer than the life of a normal car to gain back the premium price you paid.
Gas mileage != economy. Total cost of ownership = economy.
I am agape at people bragging that they only go to the gas station once a month or so.
Yeah, you buy less gas than me, but you paid nearly $50,000 for a glorified Cavalier.
Nokia's problem with all their Windows phones (and MSFT's problem with Windows Phone in general) is that they can't get retailers to push the phones.
Nobody comes into a store wanting to look at a Windows phone, so immediately the hurdle is that you've got to change their minds about what they want. Some articles posted here have even said that salespeople are not willing to push it because the return rate on Windows Phones had been high, and they lose their time for zero commission, when they could be across the room selling someone an iPhone and being safe with their commission.
More like, make another attempt at imitating Apple by building their own phones to go with the mobile OS
Same. Always-on is a dealbreaker for me.
If both Sony and MSFT implemented always-on, I simply wouldn't buy either.
Not to worry, the friendly and benevolent folks of the internet develop cracks for these games!
And none of them would even *think* of doing anything malicious, so just go ahead and execute their code on your machine, Administrator.
They've already been massively cheaping out by churning out these games that are basically just unreal clones.
Make a few maps and a few weapons, corral a server or two, you're done. No need to invest in an actual story or developing an expensive single player campaign. Force everyone into online play.
Online play also has the bonus effect of making a game useless after most people have moved on to the next big game, thus encouraging the player of the current game to buy something new.
Only one thing you can be sure of, when they are done you'll be transferring more money to them than you were before for the same thing.
Console makers realize people aren't going to go for required always-on internet, lockout of online play beyond the original owner, or the various other schemes they have tried to keep people other than the original purchaser from using physical media.
It won't be long before they make games download-only, and linked to your user account only. I'm sure they would sacrifice their firstborn to implement this today, but internet connection speeds simply aren't there yet. Sure, it'll be marketed as being done out of 'convenience' to the user, but it's out of convenience to their profit margins.
On behalf of the rest of the world I say to them - if you want to make more money just raise game prices. Don't require internet connections. Don't continue to try to destroy the secondard market. We aren't going to buy all the games new that we are currently buying used, we'll just play less games. If $60 isn't enough then try $75. If your product is good, the market will bear it.
No sense being a dog in the manger about it. (not that they are listening)
More generally - is there anything they aren't blaming autism on these days?
Why should I be doing this? I make dozens, perhaps hundreds of transactions each month. My looking over my statement is easily subject to human error.
Why should you look after your own finances? I wouldn't think higher critical reasoning would be required to convince you to do so.
I had a Citi mastercard which had some fraudulent charges posted to it... two different charges for Italian dresses, about $300 each. (what the heck?)
I called and reported it. I had to sign an affidavit of fraud and fax it back to them. They canceled my old card and overnighted me a new one, and the charge came off the account about a week later. It was really pretty easy.
We give trucker cap. Look good for ladies.
The burden on the consumer to protect themselves is not high. All you have to do is what you should already be doing, looking over your statement and reporting anything you have questions about.
Aside from this, it seems likely they will notify the people who were affected and issue them new cards if they can identify who they were. It may not be possible to tell which numbers were stolen, only which were exposed.
What's blackberry's competitor to the iPhone 4S?
I think 80% of Blackberries keep themselves out of the trash can because some corporate policies haven't yet caught up to BOYD.
Dumbphones compete against land-line telephones and VOIP home phones largely for the business of the elderly.
Among the rest of us, smartphones compete with smartphones. When the original iPhone came out, Blackberry never responded (and still has not, 5 years later) and that's why they are suffering.
It's like they're trying to sell us laptops without wifi. Well, it's a business tool, so it'll always be used in our narrow use case, right?
Suck it, Tri-State Area!
FWIW, that article was stupid and a waste of time anyway. It's blatantly obvious stuff they teach college freshmen.
I notice that as well, Safari isn't good with youtube. iOS is actually a lot better.
I use AdBlock for Safari and it works just as well as the Chrome version I use at work. It's virtually the same.
I don't bother with NoScript at home, so I can't comment on that.
I'm sure that ABC Newspaper loves when you comment on an article, and their name and a link to the site gets posted on your profile, and on everyone you know's timelines. (200 people? 500 people?)
They can't pay for that kind of personal advertising.
I think just about every Chrome user is a former Firefox user.
How long before Safari passes Firefox as well?
I thought about it...but it has no 3G, 4G or the like capability...no bluetooth...only wifi.
Not sure what it would be that good for.....
I think my rooted nook color is more useful than the kindle fire if it was rooted....nook as external microSD slot..more memory...etc.
Am I missing something here?
"Houston, Tranquility base here. The Kindle Fire has no 3G." *crackle*