When I was in boot camp, sometimes they would punish us by making us hold a pencil. We had to hold it with both arms held straight out. We were young kids in pretty decent shape and it didn't take long at all for it to get pretty painful. Just the weight of holding up your arms can get to be too much after a while.
We're working very hard to make sure that consumers are satisfied this holiday, but I can't guarantee that we're going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record we won't.
I guess I'm going to have to start trolling target, walmart and such on a regular basis.
Apparently I threw the off switch on your attempt. Or did I throw the on switch to your failure? Don't give up though skippy - you'll get there one day.
Toggle switches rule period. Batman used toggle switches in the batmobile. Fighter pilots flick toggle switches in the movies before they blow up bad guys. The Millenium Falcon probably had a couple hundred thousand toggle switches. Cool electric guitars? They've got a toggle switch. When I built my first model rocket launcher - I think it had 3 toggle switches. A good solid 'click' of the old toggle is just the thing - all other switches pale in comparison. Even the big red button.
I don't see the value in doing this for employees of companies like Boeing - and after every launch? And I'd love to see if it is worker bees. Probably what it is, is managers. I don't know that, but it would surprise me if it's not the case.
almonds were kind of like that. it was fun to watch the truck loads of laborers come in and pick them. and it wasn't too hard to build up enough cash to play around. get a crop duster and fly around, buy animals and let them go hungry until they broke out of their pens and caused trouble, etc.
sim city was great. sim city 2000 was awesome. sim ant was pretty fun, had some really humorous moments. sim farm was tough. every farm i built went bankrupt except almond farms. maybe it was too realistic. sim life was cool as far as i could tell, it really taxed my pc at the time.
i still have the floppys, manuals and boxes for all those games. top quality stuff, i don't think you see materials of that quality any more when it comes to games.
it's not the only thing - but not enough people care about this to bring other factors into play. you have an indifferent and predominately ignorant (on this issue among others) populace and a highly motivated, high profit industries that are willing to fork over truck loads of cash. that's quite an imbalance.
It is funny though - they see stuff on tv and tell me they want it. I explain that the commercials basically lie to get them to spend their money. Last year at Christmas time they bought some Floam and it was complete crap. And they learned. We saw an ad for aquadots a while back and my 4 year old says "I want that" and I asked his sisters - "What do you guys think?" and they said, "It's not like they show. They just want our money." Turns out to have come in extra handy this go round.
i don't know much about craters - but seeing the name of that journal, Terra Nova got me to thinking about Aldo Nova. I am enjoying Fantasy at full volume as I type this. Feel free to jump on the bandwagon and blast a little '80s virtuoso guitar work yourself.
yeah - it was just seeing the Frys name that made me think about how much I miss those stores. I could go to the one by my house and spend a couple hours without buying a thing. The first linux install I ever did was Suse and I bought it at Frys. (Had dial up at the time - so downloading wasn't really an option and I didn't know much about Linux. That got the ball rolling for me though.) Mostly I purchase stuff from Amazon - for a host of reasons. But sometimes it is fun to just wander aisles of tech and just browse. Or sometimes it is fun not to wait for something. Ah well, I'm not driving to Atlanta to do that and going to Best Buy makes me want to hurt myself, so I'll just have to live with the memories.
I really miss living by Frys. Closest to me is now an 8 hour drive away. That is close - little bit slower processor, lower cap on ram - but it is a decent deal, you are correct.
But the one at Walmart would have less ram, a smaller hard drive and I'm guessing not the nicest peripherals. So for the savvy geek shopper - an even nicer machine at the same price as Walmart's machine is within reach. I think that is pretty awesome myself.
I've been googling around and I can't find the same thing with a processor for close to it. Boards without a processor come close - but not with it already included. I think this may be my Christmas present to myself this year.
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wow - so this wasn't an exaggeration? interesting.
When I was in boot camp, sometimes they would punish us by making us hold a pencil. We had to hold it with both arms held straight out. We were young kids in pretty decent shape and it didn't take long at all for it to get pretty painful. Just the weight of holding up your arms can get to be too much after a while.
In this Mercury News interview with Reggie Fils-Aime he pretty much gaurantees that they still wont meet demand for the holidays. Here's the nugget:
We're working very hard to make sure that consumers are satisfied this holiday, but I can't guarantee that we're going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record we won't.
I guess I'm going to have to start trolling target, walmart and such on a regular basis.
yes they are - but apparently talking about the wii in an article about a use for the wii is a wii bit off topic. so i guess i should stop.
i'd like a video showing how to get a wii - and i'm not talking about buying a $400 bundle.
No wonder they were always having mechanical problems.
When you get one, be sure to buy the shirt also.
That's brutal. I'm not getting the 'planned maintenance' message any more either - just a blank screen.
you are correct and i do feel shame.
If it was the switch with the lock - they found the guy with the key - 'cause it is back up.
Apparently I threw the off switch on your attempt. Or did I throw the on switch to your failure? Don't give up though skippy - you'll get there one day.
Toggle switches rule period. Batman used toggle switches in the batmobile. Fighter pilots flick toggle switches in the movies before they blow up bad guys. The Millenium Falcon probably had a couple hundred thousand toggle switches. Cool electric guitars? They've got a toggle switch. When I built my first model rocket launcher - I think it had 3 toggle switches. A good solid 'click' of the old toggle is just the thing - all other switches pale in comparison. Even the big red button.
I don't see the value in doing this for employees of companies like Boeing - and after every launch? And I'd love to see if it is worker bees. Probably what it is, is managers. I don't know that, but it would surprise me if it's not the case.
But in the big picture, it's not that big a deal.
almonds were kind of like that. it was fun to watch the truck loads of laborers come in and pick them. and it wasn't too hard to build up enough cash to play around. get a crop duster and fly around, buy animals and let them go hungry until they broke out of their pens and caused trouble, etc.
sim city was great. sim city 2000 was awesome. sim ant was pretty fun, had some really humorous moments. sim farm was tough. every farm i built went bankrupt except almond farms. maybe it was too realistic. sim life was cool as far as i could tell, it really taxed my pc at the time.
i still have the floppys, manuals and boxes for all those games. top quality stuff, i don't think you see materials of that quality any more when it comes to games.
it's not the only thing - but not enough people care about this to bring other factors into play. you have an indifferent and predominately ignorant (on this issue among others) populace and a highly motivated, high profit industries that are willing to fork over truck loads of cash. that's quite an imbalance.
It is funny though - they see stuff on tv and tell me they want it. I explain that the commercials basically lie to get them to spend their money. Last year at Christmas time they bought some Floam and it was complete crap. And they learned. We saw an ad for aquadots a while back and my 4 year old says "I want that" and I asked his sisters - "What do you guys think?" and they said, "It's not like they show. They just want our money." Turns out to have come in extra handy this go round.
and how much did Public Knowledge give in campaign contributions this year? How much do they plan on 'donating' in 2008?
'Cause I'm thinking the industries that give millions might not be in favor of any legislation that would do any of this stuff.
And I'm thinking that the millions of dollars are gonna talk louder.
I've got 3 kids at home that would disagree with you. Just sayin'
i don't know much about craters - but seeing the name of that journal, Terra Nova got me to thinking about Aldo Nova. I am enjoying Fantasy at full volume as I type this. Feel free to jump on the bandwagon and blast a little '80s virtuoso guitar work yourself.
Apparently the ps3 is not the primary driver right now.
yeah - it was just seeing the Frys name that made me think about how much I miss those stores. I could go to the one by my house and spend a couple hours without buying a thing. The first linux install I ever did was Suse and I bought it at Frys. (Had dial up at the time - so downloading wasn't really an option and I didn't know much about Linux. That got the ball rolling for me though.) Mostly I purchase stuff from Amazon - for a host of reasons. But sometimes it is fun to just wander aisles of tech and just browse. Or sometimes it is fun not to wait for something. Ah well, I'm not driving to Atlanta to do that and going to Best Buy makes me want to hurt myself, so I'll just have to live with the memories.
I really miss living by Frys. Closest to me is now an 8 hour drive away. That is close - little bit slower processor, lower cap on ram - but it is a decent deal, you are correct.
But the one at Walmart would have less ram, a smaller hard drive and I'm guessing not the nicest peripherals. So for the savvy geek shopper - an even nicer machine at the same price as Walmart's machine is within reach. I think that is pretty awesome myself.
I've been googling around and I can't find the same thing with a processor for close to it. Boards without a processor come close - but not with it already included. I think this may be my Christmas present to myself this year.