It always seems in the store near me that the staff just stands around and for the most part are really pretty ignorant about what they sell.
I second that. They have to be the most over-staffed store I've ever seen. Every time I go there, there is one guy running the register (with a long line), 3 or 4 walking around the store--and about 10-15 standing around the service desk just joking around and doing nothing. And they wonder why they're hemorrhaging money.
Every incident like this I've ever been involved with usually began with a staff meeting where everyone thought it would be a great idea to be young and hip by putting the young and hip guy in charge of some presentation. And it usually ended with said young and hip guy explaining why he honestly thought that having someone sing a rendition of "Cop Killer" to a backdrop of nude dancers would be appropriate for a presentation of of the company's annual shareholders' report.
Leave the musical numbers for the Oscars and the comedy skits for SNL. They already do them bad enough without you trying too.
could we see a renaissance in local computer shops as a result?
Best Buy's selection and markup were already bad enough. I can only imagine the piss-poor selection and crazy markup in a low-volume little storefront.
Best Buy is the last place left in my area where I can possibly find any computer parts or techie stuff locally. Their selection is for shit and their prices are often ridiculous (god help you if you're looking for cables). But when I absolutely need something TODAY, they're the only place to turn. If they go out of business, all I've got is Staples (and their blu-ray selection sucks).
You see, MS is so hip, so ahead of the curve, that they know already that COBOL is about to come back into style in the developer world. Soon everything will be in all caps, mainframes will be all the rage, and GUI's will be passe. Apple will be behind the times with their over-designed software, and MS will be out in front with their all caps, command-line interface only version of Windows 9--renamed "DOS 9 FOR TERMINALS."
Hey maybe someday we can have a Democratic President who will actually stand up to the Republicans instead of caving at every turn. Let me know when he runs and I'll vote for him. In the meanwhile, I'm not voting for any more weak pussies like Obama, though. Voting for politicians like him only encourages the Democrats to keep playing defense, with no offense whatsoever.
Well, I'm sure that removing the few restrictions that corporations have on them and letting them do whatever they want, with absolutely NO ONE to stop them will make everything better. Certainly that's a better idea that trying to actually fix the government so it's NOT owned by the corporations.
Good to know I'm not the only one who missed out on Palm being "the darling of International CES 2009." In fact, I don't remember hearing much of anything at all about WebOS until HP bailed on the tablet and Best Buy started selling their remaining stock off for next-to-nothing. They may have been the "darling" of the trade show (which is all just hype anyway), but they were certainly never the "darling" of the consumer (or even on anyone's radar).
I think LucasArts' idea of "mature" these days is having Han shoot first and not having some annoying kiddie character running around making fart jokes.
1) Reduced nuclear 2) Reduced coal, oil, and natural gas
Any third option for the foreseeable future is a hippie pipe dream (unless you count regular, sustained blackouts as an option). And if anyone thinks that solar panels and wind turbines are going to supply Tokyo with even a fraction of its power needs, you've obviously never been there.
I saw their presentation on G4 yesterday. It was a joke. All they have is some concept art and a vague idea about it following bounty hunters. They're barely in pre-production. They had so little information that I'm not sure why they were even at E3. I guess LucasArts wants to remind people that Star Wars still exists, since there hasn't really been a decent Star Wars game since the KOTOR/Battlefront days in the early 00's (unless you count The Old Republic, which seems to have burned out pretty fast).
Yeah, most of the best parts of college are not the classroom stuff at all. I feel sorry for people who miss out on that, as the social stuff is the one part of college you can't come back to 20 years later or even a few years earlier.
There are no hard sci fi movies, at least from the past 20 years
While I agree that soft scifi is much more popular than hard scifi, I would point out that there are still plenty of hard movies being made. Pitch Black, Moon, Gattica, Sunshine, and Prometheus are pretty hard science fiction. Even the new Battlestar Galactica was pretty hard (most of the time). You can still get a movie made in about any genre if you have a good story to tell. You're not going to get the same budget for a more serious story as a popcorn blockbuster, of course. But that comes with the territory.
Tell me do you live your entire life refusing to believe anything unless you have direct and conclusive evidence, completely unable to make any logical connections, assumptions, or predictions at all? When someone says the sun is going to rise tomorrow, do you jump up and say "You don't have any PROOF of that!" When someone jokes about unicorns being fictional, do you point out to everyone that there is no proof of the non-existence of unicorns? When someone jokes that Lindsay Lohan is probably going to fuck up again, are you the obnoxious asshole who refuses to make any connection between her pattern of previous behavior and any prediction of future behavior?
And, if so, what is the name of your disorder?
And also, what in your warped mind do you think the CIA and Mossad do, exactly? Do you think that their tens of thousands of employees and operatives (and even more contractors) just sit around all day starring blankly at walls? Are you in any way aware of their function and history? Do you think that the CIA has a long history of subversive activities, but then stopped all these activities immediately at the very edge of the era where declassification stops?
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It always seems in the store near me that the staff just stands around and for the most part are really pretty ignorant about what they sell.
I second that. They have to be the most over-staffed store I've ever seen. Every time I go there, there is one guy running the register (with a long line), 3 or 4 walking around the store--and about 10-15 standing around the service desk just joking around and doing nothing. And they wonder why they're hemorrhaging money.
Every incident like this I've ever been involved with usually began with a staff meeting where everyone thought it would be a great idea to be young and hip by putting the young and hip guy in charge of some presentation. And it usually ended with said young and hip guy explaining why he honestly thought that having someone sing a rendition of "Cop Killer" to a backdrop of nude dancers would be appropriate for a presentation of of the company's annual shareholders' report.
Leave the musical numbers for the Oscars and the comedy skits for SNL. They already do them bad enough without you trying too.
That's why the EU is making a case to return to the moon -- so somebody else will foot the bill for them.
Isn't that what most of Europe is best at?
could we see a renaissance in local computer shops as a result?
Best Buy's selection and markup were already bad enough. I can only imagine the piss-poor selection and crazy markup in a low-volume little storefront.
Best Buy is the last place left in my area where I can possibly find any computer parts or techie stuff locally. Their selection is for shit and their prices are often ridiculous (god help you if you're looking for cables). But when I absolutely need something TODAY, they're the only place to turn. If they go out of business, all I've got is Staples (and their blu-ray selection sucks).
You see, MS is so hip, so ahead of the curve, that they know already that COBOL is about to come back into style in the developer world. Soon everything will be in all caps, mainframes will be all the rage, and GUI's will be passe. Apple will be behind the times with their over-designed software, and MS will be out in front with their all caps, command-line interface only version of Windows 9--renamed "DOS 9 FOR TERMINALS."
GOOD JOB, MICROSOFT!
Hey maybe someday we can have a Democratic President who will actually stand up to the Republicans instead of caving at every turn. Let me know when he runs and I'll vote for him. In the meanwhile, I'm not voting for any more weak pussies like Obama, though. Voting for politicians like him only encourages the Democrats to keep playing defense, with no offense whatsoever.
Well, I'm sure that removing the few restrictions that corporations have on them and letting them do whatever they want, with absolutely NO ONE to stop them will make everything better. Certainly that's a better idea that trying to actually fix the government so it's NOT owned by the corporations.
Good to know I'm not the only one who missed out on Palm being "the darling of International CES 2009." In fact, I don't remember hearing much of anything at all about WebOS until HP bailed on the tablet and Best Buy started selling their remaining stock off for next-to-nothing. They may have been the "darling" of the trade show (which is all just hype anyway), but they were certainly never the "darling" of the consumer (or even on anyone's radar).
the NDAA which Congress passed by ~65% and Obama vetoed..... ooops, I mean signed.
Yeah, but he didn't WANT to sign it, see. Or, at least, that's what he says when he's running for reelection.
Everyone's a comedian these days.
The only thing dark about that movie was that it actually got made.
If real life were like a video game, everywhere would look like a warehouse or shipyard.
Sorry, but give me "Knights of the Old Republic" *ANY* day over "The Old Republic" MMO. If I wanted to play WoW, I would play WoW.
I think LucasArts' idea of "mature" these days is having Han shoot first and not having some annoying kiddie character running around making fart jokes.
1) Reduced nuclear
2) Reduced coal, oil, and natural gas
Any third option for the foreseeable future is a hippie pipe dream (unless you count regular, sustained blackouts as an option). And if anyone thinks that solar panels and wind turbines are going to supply Tokyo with even a fraction of its power needs, you've obviously never been there.
I saw their presentation on G4 yesterday. It was a joke. All they have is some concept art and a vague idea about it following bounty hunters. They're barely in pre-production. They had so little information that I'm not sure why they were even at E3. I guess LucasArts wants to remind people that Star Wars still exists, since there hasn't really been a decent Star Wars game since the KOTOR/Battlefront days in the early 00's (unless you count The Old Republic, which seems to have burned out pretty fast).
Why not graduate from consoles and move into PC gaming?
Oh no, I already spent way too many years of my life chasing THAT dragon, thank you very much.
How about you work on a next gen console, and stop adding useless crap to your tired console from 2005?
Even worse are team projects, where the A students get screwed and the D students get an easy grade that they didn't earn.
Yeah, most of the best parts of college are not the classroom stuff at all. I feel sorry for people who miss out on that, as the social stuff is the one part of college you can't come back to 20 years later or even a few years earlier.
There are no hard sci fi movies, at least from the past 20 years
While I agree that soft scifi is much more popular than hard scifi, I would point out that there are still plenty of hard movies being made. Pitch Black, Moon, Gattica, Sunshine, and Prometheus are pretty hard science fiction. Even the new Battlestar Galactica was pretty hard (most of the time). You can still get a movie made in about any genre if you have a good story to tell. You're not going to get the same budget for a more serious story as a popcorn blockbuster, of course. But that comes with the territory.
Tell me do you live your entire life refusing to believe anything unless you have direct and conclusive evidence, completely unable to make any logical connections, assumptions, or predictions at all? When someone says the sun is going to rise tomorrow, do you jump up and say "You don't have any PROOF of that!" When someone jokes about unicorns being fictional, do you point out to everyone that there is no proof of the non-existence of unicorns? When someone jokes that Lindsay Lohan is probably going to fuck up again, are you the obnoxious asshole who refuses to make any connection between her pattern of previous behavior and any prediction of future behavior?
And, if so, what is the name of your disorder?
And also, what in your warped mind do you think the CIA and Mossad do, exactly? Do you think that their tens of thousands of employees and operatives (and even more contractors) just sit around all day starring blankly at walls? Are you in any way aware of their function and history? Do you think that the CIA has a long history of subversive activities, but then stopped all these activities immediately at the very edge of the era where declassification stops?
If I need a pair of scissors to open your package...you have failed.
this isn't anything even close to offical
You waiting for the CIA to issue a formal press release on one of its secret wars? Good luck with that.