Really, you can have some of the best designers or game writers in the industry, but if you ship products (let alone your flagship product) with significant game play issues and bugs, well guess what...you probably will not recover from the bad publicity, even if your next products are better.
These guys have a lot of talent, I just wish they could have planned things better.
"Really what I tried to do was ride that train and make the most of that point in time...rather than just playing catch-up with everybody else, which is what we've traditionally done."
We were tired of being third to Nintendo and Sony all the time, so we just gave up and now produce rehashed versions of our old games on the new systems to make a living.
Too bad no one but/. was really interested in the dreamcast.
Swears he has never had any dropped calls or crappy connections since he has been using his iPhone and he keeps telling me that these stories are just all lies (ok he's a bit of a zealous nut) but honestly, other than the news I know three people with iPhones and they haven't mentioned any significant issue.
Every now and again I can go for some dark moddy gothic artwork, but in a game that type of style is really hard to pull off well because if you can't tell the difference between an exploding monster and a bashing monster and your friend's toon, then gameplay wise it just doesn't work.
Just because something may look nice as a still, doesn't mean it will look or function well as an animation.
I probably won't have the funds for whatever they will charge to take me into space, however if I did, I don't think I would trust their spaceline's maiden voyage. Maybe after their first year of operation I'd be tempted.
at least make sure all the links on YOUR SITE work. I tried clicking at the links on the top of their page and some of them were broken. On the FAQ page it had a link to their crawler for websiters, but that link is broken as well. Just bugs me.
Ya, the search results have a lot to be desired, but I'm sure as the site continues to crawl the web and they start taking submissions or whatever they will end up with better results, as the site looks nice and displays info well, it just doesn't have a lot of info...yet.
More like CL didn't care. They didn't care enough to show up to court, so they didn't care enough to fight about it.
The sad thing is, I'm not really surprised. They have warnings in their real estate section of housing wanted/for sale that states that if you post something like "Only Mexican People Can Buy/Live-in My House" you will get fined - so they must be down with sharing your info when asked for it.
Unfortunately no one outside of/. cares about linux.
I'll see my office embrace an OS X server for all it's OS X based Marketing/Graphics Users before I see Linux anywhere near this place, let alone replacing the sale and IT's Window boxes.
Lots of people complain about Ebay and it's freeze all accounts happy pet PayPal. Yet neither has a viable alternative. For Ebay you can go with either Overstock or Paypal, but while CL may have a huge following their isn't any of the benefits to a business such as sale tracking and record keeping that Ebay has somewhat of a capability to do. Also you have to deal with people or competitors flagging items and a system that automatically removes them after some time that just creates a lot of problems for companies (not so much individuals).
Overstock on the other hand is very similar to Ebay, but there is just nowhere near the consumer traffic - which isn't too surprising considering it was a middle aged blond lady who could be my mom telling me about the website in a dress that I suppose should have been sexy, but...it's like my mom.
As far as PayPal there seems to be no one who's even close to offering anything like it. And the alternatives on the anti-PayPal sites are all bullshit, because I've tried to use some of them and I either have to pay some type of monthly fee, on top of a transaction fee or it's a significant higher cost per transaction.
Oh well, maybe google will come up with a real answer soon.
that companies would actually give, let alone expect non-exempt employees to be in contact after hours. There are very few nob-exempt positions at the company I work for and they're relatively simple tasks. If you're actually someone who needs to be in contact with others on a regular basis, like myself, who gets calls at 10pm or 2am for "emergencies" then you're an exempt aka salaried position, which also means I get to leave when I want when it's dead...of course I have worked 14 days straight near deadlines.
But ya, if I was hourly and you called me at 10pm or 2am I'd put in for overtime, bill you or expect some type of compensation - if not I can see why this would be grounds for a big shit storm.
but only because they set the precedent... Ebay is constantly pulling auctions with little or no warning from people based on companies asking them too without really looking into "why". In some cases it's very legitimate, like say Blizzard not wanting people to sell their WoW accounts and so they work with Ebay to pull them down. On the other hand it can be something we see as silly as the case of LVHM not wanting their products sold by 3rd parties.
Name Brand, Designer items are expensive because their is a name and a service associated with them that can only be consistently offered if the company has a limited distribution channel it can accurately monitor. For example: I purchased a Louis Vuitton purse and matching wallet for my wife for a ridiculous amount of money. When I purchased it at the LV store they took my name, her name and a lot of other info. Now we've relocated three times since then (4 years later) and we can still go into any LV store to have the purse cleaned and treated for free just by giving them our names and info. Luxury items are not just expensive for the sake of being expensive, their is a service and expectation that comes with having them, otherwise there would be no difference between JC Penny and Coach.
Working with various Real Estate companies we maintained email/address lists of all the competing brokerage houses within our region. Most email blasts would go out to these lists. The lists were managed and maintained usually by our receptionist.
Now fast forward a bit and when one of our newer offices came aboard, they didn't have an existing list for their region. Typically, the easiest way to generate this list is to have your receptionist call each competing office and ask for the most current roster to be sent over. She then retypes it in excel and continues to add and update it every quarter.
However, this newer office didn't want to assign this task to our receptionist, so they would copy/save all addresses not BCC'd to them and create their own lists. This is not spam as all the email lists are brokers or people who have signed up to hear about commercial real estate in their area or are developers and investors who have already worked with some of our companies brokers in the past or presently.
I know the Real Estate business is a bit different, because you have people who want to represent the buyers, sellers and tenants, so it's common to work with competing company brokers on deals - however I know nothing about travel agencies so this tactic may not apply.
I like Google and the products/services it offers mainly because of their clean interfaces. Yahoo is everything I hate about the web, everything of theirs is about ADS ADS ADS, log into their mail - HERE ARE SOME ADS - use their chat program HERE ARE SOME ADS...sure Google has ads..but they are not in the chat window as well as they are usually text based and not popping up in my face like some purple ape trying to get me to click on him.
I figured I could become a career pirate if I had a house boat...you know, sail around raping and pilaging yacht owners in the south pacific and eventually make it big by becoming friends with some pacific islanders who would band together and terrorize the sees around asia and india. I'd never have to worry about paying taxes or paying for anything since I could always sail away. Of course my wife mentioned we could be shot and of course attacked by pirates ourselves, but I'm sure my plan would work in the long run...
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Why not combine Intel/Nvidia?
I read this question as: How do I prevent theft at a public event?
Answer: You can't. It's more than likely going to happen. All you can do is limit your liability.
Just because it's a LAN party and the majority of attendees will be "nerds/geeks" you can't expect them to be 100% honest. They're still people!
Really, you can have some of the best designers or game writers in the industry, but if you ship products (let alone your flagship product) with significant game play issues and bugs, well guess what...you probably will not recover from the bad publicity, even if your next products are better.
These guys have a lot of talent, I just wish they could have planned things better.
Who knew making a high quality product available at a reasonable price would entice people to purchase it?!
"Really what I tried to do was ride that train and make the most of that point in time...rather than just playing catch-up with everybody else, which is what we've traditionally done."
We were tired of being third to Nintendo and Sony all the time, so we just gave up and now produce rehashed versions of our old games on the new systems to make a living.
Too bad no one but /. was really interested in the dreamcast.
Swears he has never had any dropped calls or crappy connections since he has been using his iPhone and he keeps telling me that these stories are just all lies (ok he's a bit of a zealous nut) but honestly, other than the news I know three people with iPhones and they haven't mentioned any significant issue.
People don't like us...Sue until they have too!
I don't see what Kobol has to do with minimum wage, I mean, the planet is a waste and doesn't even have any life on it except for maybe a few cyclons.
Every now and again I can go for some dark moddy gothic artwork, but in a game that type of style is really hard to pull off well because if you can't tell the difference between an exploding monster and a bashing monster and your friend's toon, then gameplay wise it just doesn't work.
Just because something may look nice as a still, doesn't mean it will look or function well as an animation.
I probably won't have the funds for whatever they will charge to take me into space, however if I did, I don't think I would trust their spaceline's maiden voyage. Maybe after their first year of operation I'd be tempted.
ITT wee hav da bess sisstem n da unyvers, I do ok.
at least make sure all the links on YOUR SITE work. I tried clicking at the links on the top of their page and some of them were broken. On the FAQ page it had a link to their crawler for websiters, but that link is broken as well. Just bugs me.
Ya, the search results have a lot to be desired, but I'm sure as the site continues to crawl the web and they start taking submissions or whatever they will end up with better results, as the site looks nice and displays info well, it just doesn't have a lot of info...yet.
More like CL didn't care. They didn't care enough to show up to court, so they didn't care enough to fight about it.
The sad thing is, I'm not really surprised. They have warnings in their real estate section of housing wanted/for sale that states that if you post something like "Only Mexican People Can Buy/Live-in My House" you will get fined - so they must be down with sharing your info when asked for it.
You can buy stuff online, from online stores via devices that give you online access!!!1!
that someone in the coding department is going to be fired. If you're going to steal/use someone elses code - COVER YOUR TRACKS FOOL!
Why it's not always a good idea to post pictures of yourself online or talk about personal things in great detail.
Unfortunately no one outside of /. cares about linux.
I'll see my office embrace an OS X server for all it's OS X based Marketing/Graphics Users before I see Linux anywhere near this place, let alone replacing the sale and IT's Window boxes.
Ya competition is a big issue.
Lots of people complain about Ebay and it's freeze all accounts happy pet PayPal. Yet neither has a viable alternative. For Ebay you can go with either Overstock or Paypal, but while CL may have a huge following their isn't any of the benefits to a business such as sale tracking and record keeping that Ebay has somewhat of a capability to do. Also you have to deal with people or competitors flagging items and a system that automatically removes them after some time that just creates a lot of problems for companies (not so much individuals).
Overstock on the other hand is very similar to Ebay, but there is just nowhere near the consumer traffic - which isn't too surprising considering it was a middle aged blond lady who could be my mom telling me about the website in a dress that I suppose should have been sexy, but...it's like my mom.
As far as PayPal there seems to be no one who's even close to offering anything like it. And the alternatives on the anti-PayPal sites are all bullshit, because I've tried to use some of them and I either have to pay some type of monthly fee, on top of a transaction fee or it's a significant higher cost per transaction.
Oh well, maybe google will come up with a real answer soon.
that companies would actually give, let alone expect non-exempt employees to be in contact after hours. There are very few nob-exempt positions at the company I work for and they're relatively simple tasks. If you're actually someone who needs to be in contact with others on a regular basis, like myself, who gets calls at 10pm or 2am for "emergencies" then you're an exempt aka salaried position, which also means I get to leave when I want when it's dead...of course I have worked 14 days straight near deadlines.
But ya, if I was hourly and you called me at 10pm or 2am I'd put in for overtime, bill you or expect some type of compensation - if not I can see why this would be grounds for a big shit storm.
but only because they set the precedent... Ebay is constantly pulling auctions with little or no warning from people based on companies asking them too without really looking into "why". In some cases it's very legitimate, like say Blizzard not wanting people to sell their WoW accounts and so they work with Ebay to pull them down. On the other hand it can be something we see as silly as the case of LVHM not wanting their products sold by 3rd parties.
Name Brand, Designer items are expensive because their is a name and a service associated with them that can only be consistently offered if the company has a limited distribution channel it can accurately monitor. For example: I purchased a Louis Vuitton purse and matching wallet for my wife for a ridiculous amount of money. When I purchased it at the LV store they took my name, her name and a lot of other info. Now we've relocated three times since then (4 years later) and we can still go into any LV store to have the purse cleaned and treated for free just by giving them our names and info. Luxury items are not just expensive for the sake of being expensive, their is a service and expectation that comes with having them, otherwise there would be no difference between JC Penny and Coach.
Working with various Real Estate companies we maintained email/address lists of all the competing brokerage houses within our region. Most email blasts would go out to these lists. The lists were managed and maintained usually by our receptionist.
Now fast forward a bit and when one of our newer offices came aboard, they didn't have an existing list for their region. Typically, the easiest way to generate this list is to have your receptionist call each competing office and ask for the most current roster to be sent over. She then retypes it in excel and continues to add and update it every quarter.
However, this newer office didn't want to assign this task to our receptionist, so they would copy/save all addresses not BCC'd to them and create their own lists. This is not spam as all the email lists are brokers or people who have signed up to hear about commercial real estate in their area or are developers and investors who have already worked with some of our companies brokers in the past or presently.
I know the Real Estate business is a bit different, because you have people who want to represent the buyers, sellers and tenants, so it's common to work with competing company brokers on deals - however I know nothing about travel agencies so this tactic may not apply.
I like Google and the products/services it offers mainly because of their clean interfaces. Yahoo is everything I hate about the web, everything of theirs is about ADS ADS ADS, log into their mail - HERE ARE SOME ADS - use their chat program HERE ARE SOME ADS...sure Google has ads..but they are not in the chat window as well as they are usually text based and not popping up in my face like some purple ape trying to get me to click on him.
I figured I could become a career pirate if I had a house boat...you know, sail around raping and pilaging yacht owners in the south pacific and eventually make it big by becoming friends with some pacific islanders who would band together and terrorize the sees around asia and india. I'd never have to worry about paying taxes or paying for anything since I could always sail away. Of course my wife mentioned we could be shot and of course attacked by pirates ourselves, but I'm sure my plan would work in the long run...
Apparently IP spoofing still works.
There. I just saved you 7 pages of walled text.
I can use my cell phone on top of Halfdome cause that would be pretty nice.