actually, that was great. they were doing the personal pan pizza in 5 minutes or its free deal. they always ran late so we ate the entire summer for free (about 6 times if i remember correctly). i think i might still have the manual intact with the coupon.
Mark and Carrie still do the fanfest circuit thing, so i'd count on them particpating if asked. Ford said in an interview years ago that he'd at least cameo in it.
considering how bad sounding some voicemails i've gotten can be, i'd say the last thing i'd want to do would be another digital-analog-digital-(maybe)compressed digital conversion.
Its a good point, albiet a limited one. my job in '97 had a voicemail system with this function (it would drop a.wav file into your inbox if you requested it) so i doubt it'd be too difficult.
actually, i did the miniplug route about a year ago with a couple of radio shack devices and a sound card. sound quality was eh but the real pain was having to do it in real time...waiting for 40 minutes of voicemails to finish was quite tedious, considering i screwed up twice recording it.
$20K seems pretty reasonable, oh wait, nevermind. the hybrid it seems is $26,970 (4wd $28,595), with the 2.3L i4 as the gas powerplant. CVT transmission, so shifting is out - damn. 36 mpg is more than my damn focus gets. they claim a 400 mile range, so a 11 gallon fuel tank?
same situation, a hp 6110, starts not wanting to feed paper. so i call up support and have me jump through the hoops, until the fax started making this terrible grinding noise. the tech: "thats not right. I'll get you a replacement"
3 days later, the replacement arrives (we paid for 3+ day shipping). its remanufactured, and its doa. call back, explain, they ship another one, they pay for shipping this time.
2 days later, the replacement's replacement shows up. its dead too. call back. they overnight me a replacement.
finally, i got one that works (i had three of these in the office at the time). the rest get shipped out, end of story...right?
nope. last week (the adventure started back nearly a year ago) i got an email saying that my replacement has shipped to my Puerto Rico Address (oddly, i live in Missouri), so i call them and ask whats this about. seems that my business email is still attached to one of the machine's serial #. so i talk to about 2-3 different people and they thank me for pointing this out to them.
yesterday i got another shipping confirmation letter. i decided to just delete it and let them deal with it.
to be fair, does anyone know how much ticket prices have gone up in the same time? personally, i think this 'movie x made y million in its opening week' is kinda pointless, i'd rather see a tickets sold statistic.
that included the entire 7 year run of Buffy on a SINGLE DVD
$40 US per season times 7 seasons is $280. for one disc. don't scratch it. Star trek's (TNG and newer) even worse, they want $100+ per season. They might cut the price because you are basically buying in bulk, but i don't know if i'd bet on that.
They finally did show up, just not for at least a month after the promotion started. First one i found was in a gas station, a few weeks later a couple of the local supermarkets carried them, but only in the refrigerator cases in front of the store.
the odd find was the bottlecap for a summer promotion...meaning last summer.
depends...is internet explorer a product or part of a product? in order for ms to get it out there they had to give it away, then after 4 revisions did it finally get to be a decent product. at that point they couldn't sell it, no-one would buy what they expected for free. So now its not a product of itself, its a part of windows. and its arguably not the best browser anymore.
If you consider it a division of Windows, its probably profitable, but directly its still a loss.
The Victorinox Tinker (same size/feature level as the Wenger Basic) comes with a philips screwdriver in place of the corkscrew (an easy choice when i was younger, not so much now). I found mine for $20, although a few years ago i found a nearly identical Vic. model with a textured casing at a local home improvement store for $10.
I'll agree with the social atmosphere idea. here's a fun variant. Drink everytime someone lands on a railroad. (we use the simpsons monopoly version, so it's 'MONORAIL!!' - glug.) try that with e-monopoly.
"Well actually half hour of playing, 20 minutes of arguing, and 10 minutes looking shit up in books.) Filling in little damage circles with a pencil - bah!"
ha, i can beat that. try a total of FOUR hours of waiting for a player to get over to your house, then finding out that he's not ready whatsoever to the point of having to run to the local quickymart to make copies, then having to fill out all these sheets (who thought it was a good idea to use those little circles)
the new house rule was, play with what you bring. you leave it at home, you can't use it.
guess you missed these Hitman 2: Silent Assassin -59 Sims, The - 60 Sims: Busting Out, the -161 Fifa Soccer 2003 -54 NBA Live 2003 -103 NCAA Basketball 2k3 -143 NHL 2k3 -125 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 -50 SSX 3 -51
seems the rare sports game is the one that uses less than 20 slots.
there are some GC games that want a memory card all to themselves (madden 2004). Just remember, as games get more complex so do the saves for those games. I only played my ps1 rarely, and i collected 4 save cards.
no, they'll do it like dark forces. jedi knight was dark forces 2, jedi outcast was dark forces 3/jedi knight 2...i guess that makes jedi academy dark forces 4/jedi knight 3/jedi outcast 2.
its a decent little article, but they overuse the concept of 'not properly marketed'. seems to me most of the handhelds given that excuse had much bigger problems than a bad marketing campaign.
i'd also support this theory. Does Best buy have to pay royalties to advertise the individual cd's and dvd's (games too?) that it advertises in its circular?
The silliest part of this is that they advertised music that they were selling, and because of that probably generated more sales for the artist/publisher. and they are complaining about this?
a business prof once pointed out that most music you buy is a license to that particular recording on that particular media....at least, as long as the license states that. I checked a bunch of my cassettes once to find that the record companies had neglected to spell out any of the license terms whatsoever. so my question is, should i accept a best guess (this recording/this media) license, or should i consider that i have an unlimited license due to the fact that there where no limits provided to me?
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actually, that was great. they were doing the personal pan pizza in 5 minutes or its free deal. they always ran late so we ate the entire summer for free (about 6 times if i remember correctly). i think i might still have the manual intact with the coupon.
Mark and Carrie still do the fanfest circuit thing, so i'd count on them particpating if asked. Ford said in an interview years ago that he'd at least cameo in it.
well, he's already 60, so eventually he'll get old and feeble and start thinking of crappy ideas like making greedo shoot first and-
oh crap.
do you realize that an AC just got a +5 insightful?
considering how bad sounding some voicemails i've gotten can be, i'd say the last thing i'd want to do would be another digital-analog-digital-(maybe)compressed digital conversion.
.wav file into your inbox if you requested it) so i doubt it'd be too difficult.
Its a good point, albiet a limited one. my job in '97 had a voicemail system with this function (it would drop a
actually, i did the miniplug route about a year ago with a couple of radio shack devices and a sound card. sound quality was eh but the real pain was having to do it in real time...waiting for 40 minutes of voicemails to finish was quite tedious, considering i screwed up twice recording it.
ah, good, i was gonna ask how much.
$20K seems pretty reasonable, oh wait, nevermind. the hybrid it seems is $26,970 (4wd $28,595), with the 2.3L i4 as the gas powerplant. CVT transmission, so shifting is out - damn. 36 mpg is more than my damn focus gets. they claim a 400 mile range, so a 11 gallon fuel tank?
apologies to metric people.
wow, and i almost forgot i had something to add.
same situation, a hp 6110, starts not wanting to feed paper. so i call up support and have me jump through the hoops, until the fax started making this terrible grinding noise. the tech: "thats not right. I'll get you a replacement"
3 days later, the replacement arrives (we paid for 3+ day shipping). its remanufactured, and its doa. call back, explain, they ship another one, they pay for shipping this time.
2 days later, the replacement's replacement shows up. its dead too. call back. they overnight me a replacement.
finally, i got one that works (i had three of these in the office at the time). the rest get shipped out, end of story...right?
nope. last week (the adventure started back nearly a year ago) i got an email saying that my replacement has shipped to my Puerto Rico Address (oddly, i live in Missouri), so i call them and ask whats this about. seems that my business email is still attached to one of the machine's serial #. so i talk to about 2-3 different people and they thank me for pointing this out to them.
yesterday i got another shipping confirmation letter. i decided to just delete it and let them deal with it.
to be fair, does anyone know how much ticket prices have gone up in the same time? personally, i think this 'movie x made y million in its opening week' is kinda pointless, i'd rather see a tickets sold statistic.
i also found it odd that they counted every iteration of windows (and IE 5, 5,5 and 6) separately, yet theres one single entry for OSX.
I just checked out bestbuy.com...a settop dvd recorder is about $300 on average (non-harddrive). add a $200 tivo and a $150 ps2 and you've hit $650.
it's not a terrible price for a three-in-one device, considering that they want about $600 for a combo dvdr/pvr with a 80gig drive.
that included the entire 7 year run of Buffy on a SINGLE DVD
$40 US per season times 7 seasons is $280. for one disc. don't scratch it. Star trek's (TNG and newer) even worse, they want $100+ per season. They might cut the price because you are basically buying in bulk, but i don't know if i'd bet on that.
i'm not a big fan of the rock opera either, but the one i heard yesterday based on 'Tron'...i think i'd buy that.
except that it'll get crunched by a giant plant when it lands. If that wasn't the best arguement for turn out the lights...
They finally did show up, just not for at least a month after the promotion started. First one i found was in a gas station, a few weeks later a couple of the local supermarkets carried them, but only in the refrigerator cases in front of the store.
the odd find was the bottlecap for a summer promotion...meaning last summer.
Indesign 2 and CS already had the ability to import and work with pagemaker files. the Plug-in pack makes indesign ACT more like pagemaker.
depends...is internet explorer a product or part of a product? in order for ms to get it out there they had to give it away, then after 4 revisions did it finally get to be a decent product. at that point they couldn't sell it, no-one would buy what they expected for free. So now its not a product of itself, its a part of windows. and its arguably not the best browser anymore.
If you consider it a division of Windows, its probably profitable, but directly its still a loss.
The Victorinox Tinker (same size/feature level as the Wenger Basic) comes with a philips screwdriver in place of the corkscrew (an easy choice when i was younger, not so much now). I found mine for $20, although a few years ago i found a nearly identical Vic. model with a textured casing at a local home improvement store for $10.
I'll agree with the social atmosphere idea. here's a fun variant. Drink everytime someone lands on a railroad. (we use the simpsons monopoly version, so it's 'MONORAIL!!' - glug.) try that with e-monopoly.
"Well actually half hour of playing, 20 minutes of arguing, and 10 minutes looking shit up in books.) Filling in little damage circles with a pencil - bah!"
ha, i can beat that. try a total of FOUR hours of waiting for a player to get over to your house, then finding out that he's not ready whatsoever to the point of having to run to the local quickymart to make copies, then having to fill out all these sheets (who thought it was a good idea to use those little circles)
the new house rule was, play with what you bring. you leave it at home, you can't use it.
guess you missed these
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin -59
Sims, The - 60
Sims: Busting Out, the -161
Fifa Soccer 2003 -54
NBA Live 2003 -103
NCAA Basketball 2k3 -143
NHL 2k3 -125
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 -50
SSX 3 -51
seems the rare sports game is the one that uses less than 20 slots.
there are some GC games that want a memory card all to themselves (madden 2004). Just remember, as games get more complex so do the saves for those games. I only played my ps1 rarely, and i collected 4 save cards.
g e? board.id=gcbasic&message.id=165485
aha. this was entertaining:
http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/board/messa
no, they'll do it like dark forces. jedi knight was dark forces 2, jedi outcast was dark forces 3/jedi knight 2...i guess that makes jedi academy dark forces 4/jedi knight 3/jedi outcast 2.
damn, i hope my scumm games survived the move.
its a decent little article, but they overuse the concept of 'not properly marketed'. seems to me most of the handhelds given that excuse had much bigger problems than a bad marketing campaign.
i'd also support this theory. Does Best buy have to pay royalties to advertise the individual cd's and dvd's (games too?) that it advertises in its circular?
The silliest part of this is that they advertised music that they were selling, and because of that probably generated more sales for the artist/publisher. and they are complaining about this?
a business prof once pointed out that most music you buy is a license to that particular recording on that particular media....at least, as long as the license states that. I checked a bunch of my cassettes once to find that the record companies had neglected to spell out any of the license terms whatsoever. so my question is, should i accept a best guess (this recording/this media) license, or should i consider that i have an unlimited license due to the fact that there where no limits provided to me?