My experiance with women and games can be summend up in three words.
Women Hate Losing
They still like a challenge but they seem to be even more frustrated and unhappy with a game when they lose. So if I were going to build a game that I would have larger appeal to women, I would tend to stick to more open ended games with less clear winners and losers. The sims fits this target and everquest on the nerf serves fits this, but I can't think of a whole hell of a lot else that does.
I had a freind who worked a circuit city when the whole DivX thing had a chance to be hot. and it worked like this the DivX (not Divx which is a rather nice codec) was a normal DVD with a unique code imprented in its first few bytes. The DivX player would upon having a new DivX Dvd inserted call a central server to see if: A: This disk had never been viewed before. B: You had sent a certain amount of money to the company to make this disk permenatly available to you. If either of these were true it let you watch the disk. If not it brought up billing options to watch the disk. It was a clever system and if it could have gotten support from say blockbuster video could have been successful. Annoying and not supported by me but still success could have been had
As an engineering major I would love it if cars came prerated with their engines in kW. We can't rate cars in kW becausee in this country (USA) kW has a strong electrical connotation. If I told you that my Jeep out puts 75kW (about 100hp) most would assume I have an electric jeep. I don't, but it would take too long to educate all of the morons on what the meanings of units are. Oh and I wish we could use the metric system for everything else too.
Are they going to find a way to make the computer automatically generate that tele-type "clickety-clack" sound everytime a key is pressed... as is so popular in movies today to show how "advanced" the laptop the hero's using is?;)
Funny My keyboard has been making that same clicky clack noise since I spilled the can of code red on it
My girlfreinds parents bock all of the withheld numbers. Unfortuanly that also includes all phone numbers that the local telco doesn't have a name attached to it, So our old line in the tiny little town I used to live in could not successfully call her parents on the other side of the country. We moved to a larger town and no longer have this problem, but remeber some of these plans have side effects
Telemarketing is a shit job that pays fairly well with no real skills required. The only reason it pays so well is that it has to to get folks in the door in the first place. So the worse we are to the individual telemarketers the harder it is for the telemarketing companies to find employees, The more the telemarketers must be paid. So flame on and make it hurt baby
I have often suspected that items did not used to be better than things are today. In fact I suspect that in many cases they were worse. What has happened is that as each year passes everything that is crap gets thrown away and we are left with only the best of what came before. Thus regrettable cars from the 50's are long gone and only the stylish or well engineered cars remain. This pretty much goes for all products.
He is not acusing them of pandering to librel left, but instead as pandering to a political idea, in this case that the RIAA is being heavy handed and mean. IF you want to assign a political party that is being attacked it would be the democrats (albeit very indirectly) with their strong music and movie industry ties. This is well within fox news's usual spin pattern
For us it was our router that was cleverly not plugged into the UPS so all of our machines were thundering along nicley connected to nothing, when we lost power.
The neat thing about doing this over the ocean is the minimal liability. There just isn't much to crash into out there. 11 lbs may not seem like much but it will put a hell of a dent in your car (or your roof.. or your dog, etc.) You hit the ocean you lose your plane. You hit a house you lose your plane and gain a lawsuit.
Were I moderating today I would give karma. Instead Today I give you thanks for such a great resource.
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It's not so much how tight I hold the wheel its that my palms tend to sweat... a lot. It sucks but I keep a towel handy and life goes on
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It hese work and it looks like they could. I think I would rather have this tech in my steering wheel on my car. I know that after about four hous driving my hands start to hurt from the moisture build up
Concerns about the NWO and a belief that your vote just ges into a box to ignored at the politions leasure is only a factor in a small number of peoples not voting. The fact is, most folks are fat dumb and relitivly happy. They can't be bothered with who is running for what office (or even what mst of these offices are supposed to do) and if they knew it is very hard to tell what major canidate is most likley to vote the way you would like them. As long as the wolf is not at their door and they can still spend money they don't care who is in office. To be fair at this point in the game the politions are so crooked and the parties so close in what they say (and more so in what they do) that it may really not matter. So I throw my vote away on third party canidates in protest, but I do show up.
Then selling legal drugs would pay as well as a: Pharmisist or more likely a pharmisists assistant or maybe a liquir store clerk. Prostitutes however would make out much better
If the gov't legalized drugs the bottom would drop out of the market and the kid slinging rock on the corner could no more affored a 'benz than jim working the register at the liquer store
movies these days are hidoeously expensive to produce and even more expensive to promote. suppose they wanted to recieve the same profits from you seeing it in a theater once on a DVD sale. how much ould it cost? lets say they make $3 off every one who walked into a theater and they would like to make the same off each DVD. The cost of production on a DVD is higher than a cd and they generaly contain a lot of high quality printing and packaging so the price per unit may be as high as $2. This gives us a sitting on the ware house floor price of $5 a copy doable and afforadable, but we have to ship it to thestore and as much as we pretend that this isn't a major pain it is and its expensive. This jacks its price to around $7 for popular titles that get shipped in bulk or 10 for unpopular titles. We drop it on the floor of our local mega store who doubles the price to cover their costs and the costs of the shit that gets stolen. So now we sit at around 14 to 20 bucks a DVD which really is pretty reasonable when you think that 1 you arely watch these things alone 2 you watch them as often as you would like 3 they frequently have features (that I enjoy) that add to the value of the DVD. Now you want to do this over the net. they still want their $3 band width I have heard prices around $.50 per gig so for 6 gigs (aprox dvd size) we need $3 more and we need to process your credit card another 30-75 cents depending on the bank. I come up with a minimum over the internet price of around $6.50. Its cheaper than a dvd but you get nothing you can touch
Frequently the ad server is slow as shit. My internet connection isn't blazing to begin with and this stupid adserver is tying it up. I dumped the banner ads and suddenly the internet moves at usable speeds again. And to be fair I don't block all ads just the ones not hosted on the same sever as the website (thank you for such a great brouser Moz team).
I say interesting and the more I played the more I realized that this is in many ways better than the stuff that I had to read in english class. Another advantage is that no teacher could ever ask; What was the authors motivation in writing this particular poem? I hate that Question
While i am sure hundres of folks are saying yay somethng new and pretty for mozilla, I say boo hiss, because I see annoying floating adds cruising accross the text of an article I want to read. I see websites with "original" navigation schemes that make no sense. Of course if no body uses SVG then this was all just a waste of time. I started using Moz to avoid this shit that kept happening in IE and stayed with it because it works (and tabbed brousing rules)
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They still like a challenge but they seem to be even more frustrated and unhappy with a game when they lose. So if I were going to build a game that I would have larger appeal to women, I would tend to stick to more open ended games with less clear winners and losers. The sims fits this target and everquest on the nerf serves fits this, but I can't think of a whole hell of a lot else that does.
I had a freind who worked a circuit city when the whole DivX thing had a chance to be hot. and it worked like this the DivX (not Divx which is a rather nice codec) was a normal DVD with a unique code imprented in its first few bytes. The DivX player would upon having a new DivX Dvd inserted call a central server to see if :
A: This disk had never been viewed before.
B: You had sent a certain amount of money to the company to make this disk permenatly available to you.
If either of these were true it let you watch the disk. If not it brought up billing options to watch the disk.
It was a clever system and if it could have gotten support from say blockbuster video could have been successful. Annoying and not supported by me but still success could have been had
And no it didn't say
As an engineering major I would love it if cars came prerated with their engines in kW.
We can't rate cars in kW becausee in this country (USA) kW has a strong electrical connotation.
If I told you that my Jeep out puts 75kW (about 100hp) most would assume I have an electric jeep. I don't, but it would take too long to educate all of the morons on what the meanings of units are.
Oh and I wish we could use the metric system for everything else too.
Funny My keyboard has been making that same clicky clack noise since I spilled the can of code red on it
My girlfreinds parents bock all of the withheld numbers. Unfortuanly that also includes all phone numbers that the local telco doesn't have a name attached to it, So our old line in the tiny little town I used to live in could not successfully call her parents on the other side of the country. We moved to a larger town and no longer have this problem, but remeber some of these plans have side effects
Telemarketing is a shit job that pays fairly well with no real skills required. The only reason it pays so well is that it has to to get folks in the door in the first place. So the worse we are to the individual telemarketers the harder it is for the telemarketing companies to find employees, The more the telemarketers must be paid. So flame on and make it hurt baby
I have often suspected that items did not used to be better than things are today. In fact I suspect that in many cases they were worse. What has happened is that as each year passes everything that is crap gets thrown away and we are left with only the best of what came before.
Thus regrettable cars from the 50's are long gone and only the stylish or well engineered cars remain. This pretty much goes for all products.
He is not acusing them of pandering to librel left, but instead as pandering to a political idea, in this case that the RIAA is being heavy handed and mean. IF you want to assign a political party that is being attacked it would be the democrats (albeit very indirectly) with their strong music and movie industry ties.
This is well within fox news's usual spin pattern
and I like my tea lik my ex. Ice cold and bitter
For us it was our router that was cleverly not plugged into the UPS so all of our machines were thundering along nicley connected to nothing, when we lost power.
The neat thing about doing this over the ocean is the minimal liability. There just isn't much to crash into out there. 11 lbs may not seem like much but it will put a hell of a dent in your car (or your roof.. or your dog, etc.) You hit the ocean you lose your plane. You hit a house you lose your plane and gain a lawsuit.
"we can expect to receive our checks in "late-summer or early-fall 2003."
or as I like to call it just after Duke Nukem Forever comes out
Were I moderating today I would give karma.
Instead Today I give you thanks for such a great resource.
It's not so much how tight I hold the wheel its that my palms tend to sweat... a lot. It sucks but I keep a towel handy and life goes on
It hese work and it looks like they could. I think I would rather have this tech in my steering wheel on my car. I know that after about four hous driving my hands start to hurt from the moisture build up
Concerns about the NWO and a belief that your vote just ges into a box to ignored at the politions leasure is only a factor in a small number of peoples not voting.
The fact is, most folks are fat dumb and relitivly happy. They can't be bothered with who is running for what office (or even what mst of these offices are supposed to do) and if they knew it is very hard to tell what major canidate is most likley to vote the way you would like them. As long as the wolf is not at their door and they can still spend money they don't care who is in office. To be fair at this point in the game the politions are so crooked and the parties so close in what they say (and more so in what they do) that it may really not matter.
So I throw my vote away on third party canidates in protest, but I do show up.
Or feel really good... quick text me war and peace
Then selling legal drugs would pay as well as a:
Pharmisist or more likely a pharmisists assistant or maybe a liquir store clerk.
Prostitutes however would make out much better
If the gov't legalized drugs the bottom would drop out of the market and the kid slinging rock on the corner could no more affored a 'benz than jim working the register at the liquer store
movies these days are hidoeously expensive to produce and even more expensive to promote.
suppose they wanted to recieve the same profits from you seeing it in a theater once on a DVD sale. how much ould it cost? lets say they make $3 off every one who walked into a theater and they would like to make the same off each DVD.
The cost of production on a DVD is higher than a cd and they generaly contain a lot of high quality printing and packaging so the price per unit may be as high as $2. This gives us a sitting on the ware house floor price of $5 a copy doable and afforadable, but we have to ship it to thestore and as much as we pretend that this isn't a major pain it is and its expensive. This jacks its price to around $7 for popular titles that get shipped in bulk or 10 for unpopular titles. We drop it on the floor of our local mega store who doubles the price to cover their costs and the costs of the shit that gets stolen. So now we sit at around 14 to 20 bucks a DVD which really is pretty reasonable when you think that
1 you arely watch these things alone
2 you watch them as often as you would like
3 they frequently have features (that I enjoy) that add to the value of the DVD.
Now you want to do this over the net.
they still want their $3
band width I have heard prices around $.50 per gig so for 6 gigs (aprox dvd size) we need $3 more
and we need to process your credit card another 30-75 cents depending on the bank.
I come up with a minimum over the internet price of around $6.50.
Its cheaper than a dvd but you get nothing you can touch
Frequently the ad server is slow as shit. My internet connection isn't blazing to begin with and this stupid adserver is tying it up. I dumped the banner ads and suddenly the internet moves at usable speeds again.
And to be fair I don't block all ads just the ones not hosted on the same sever as the website (thank you for such a great brouser Moz team).
What poet was that?
Damn near all of them
(or at least the ones who wern't getting laid)
I say interesting and the more I played the more I realized that this is in many ways better than the stuff that I had to read in english class.
Another advantage is that no teacher could ever ask;
What was the authors motivation in writing this particular poem?
I hate that Question
While i am sure hundres of folks are saying yay somethng new and pretty for mozilla, I say boo hiss, because I see annoying floating adds cruising accross the text of an article I want to read. I see websites with "original" navigation schemes that make no sense. Of course if no body uses SVG then this was all just a waste of time.
I started using Moz to avoid this shit that kept happening in IE and stayed with it because it works (and tabbed brousing rules)