...I do agree with a lot of it. I have never had a rebate rejected - although all of the rebates I've done in recent memory have been from Circuit City. Maybe their rebate fulfillment centers are more on the ball? Anyway, my last rebate deal was a 120GB hard drive for $50 after two rebates. I got my pre-printed at the register rebate forms (and got copies, just in case), asked them to make a copy of the barcode for me (even two, no problem!) and went home and assembled all the paperwork - after I checked out the drive and made sure it was functional, of course! I mailed in both rebates (including my "junk" email address - the address I give where I don't really care if I get junk mail - on both the forms), and maybe a week later got an unexpected email from Seagate. Your rebate form has been received, and is processing! That was pretty exciting. I had an online tracking thing for Circuit City's rebate, too. I think they may have also sent me an e-mail, but I can't remember. Anyway, I was able to track both rebates, and both companies kept me up-to-date - when it was received, when it was being processed, when it was accepted, and when a check was mailed. Got them both, no problem - and much quicker than the stated 6-8 weeks; I think I had them both 3-5 weeks after I mailed stuff. And except for the emails and web tracking, this is not a new experience for me. Maybe I'm just extra-careful, but I have never had rebate issues. Having also worked in retail, I understand why they need proof of purchase, too - you would not believe the incredible scams people try to pull!! If you can't return the item without the barcode, and if the rebate requires the barcode - well, no double-dipping for you! So anyway, I think it's kind of nice to see a positive spin on rebates for once. To those who whine about "just take the price off at the register already!!" - would you rather just not see those items on sale? Or have less than 15% of the rebate savings taken off at the register instead? i.e. Instead of $100 in rebates, just take $10-$20 off that $600 item? Think about it...:-)
From the article:
Palaeontologist Dr David Penney, of the University of Manchester, found the 4cm long by 2cm wide fossil during a visit to a museum in the Dominican Republic.
Since the discovery two years ago, he has used droplets of blood in the amber to reveal the age of the specimen.
Um, if he "found" it in a museum, doesn't that mean someone ELSE discovered it?
A good portion of your argument makes sense. I absolutely agree that my taxes should not go to morally ambiguous activities - like war. Or prisons for POW's that allow torture and ignore basic human rights. But I don't get that choice, so it doesn't work here, either. I think it would be great if we all got a checklist for taxes that said where exactly we wanted our money to go. That would eliminate a lot of programs that people don't want to fund. However, it would probably also eliminate programs that are helping people but nobody's heard of or understands them. So too bad there.
Second, while this research is not illegal, it seems like the funding thing is pushing to make it that way. I mean, private funding only happens if a) you attract someone with a big enough pocketbook to not care if you make money; or b) you find some way to make it obscenely profitable - more so, than, say, cosmetic surgery, which people pay a LOT for. It still doesn't mean the research is dead, but you may not be able to hire enough staff, or pay for new equipment, depending on how you get your funding. It also may impact other areas of research in a facility that decides to do the non-funded research - their funds for other projects may be pulled because of it! The thing that concerns me, though, is that the government can't seem to keep its hand out of debates like this recently. Not supporting it may be just the first step. Who knows?
What could be cool is a clone with a 'blank brain' and a method of trasferring all my memories into it. Especially if they could create the clone after I had died rather than having some creepy blank person in a cooler for years and years. And especially if I could put in my will what age I wanted to start at. Still a little creepy, but also intriguing.
Whoa, how was the poster implying that behavior? Maybe she has sex with her husband, and gets pregnant, but doesn't know it, and is on some diet or something that lacks a nutrient that is vital to the fetus's development. Or goes out to play tennis and her partner accidentally hits her in the lower abdomen on a back swing, causing damage. Or there is something about her body that just isn't going to let anything develop - overactive immune system or something. There are a number of ways to accidentally miscarry that don't require promiscuity or drug/alcohol abuse. I think that was more the point.
Offtopic?!?!? That movie is ABOUT CLONING HUMANS FOR PARTS!!!!
But anyway, it's a weird thought, having a clone of yourself in case you need organs harvested. I think I'd rather they just grow the one organ for me, wouldn't you? The article doesn't seem to provide any clues as to which of these he is working towards. Either that, or I'm too tired to read it carefully.:)
There's a movie coming out, The Island, about a bunch of clones being kept just for that purpose, but nobody's telling them that's what they are there for. Having a clone of myself for spare parts would be creepy. Handing over some skin or an egg and getting a new heart or whatever grown on its own would be great! No more waiting for months or years for a donor, and no more feeling vaguely guilty because the only reason you're alive is because someone else died in some horrible accident.
I activated my Vonage 911 service back in February. I haven't had to use it yet, but when I read their 911 pre-activation e-mail and the related terms, I immediately programmed my local fire and police department emergency numbers into the phones I have connected through Vonage. For those of you who are curious, this is what Vonage sends you when you first register for their 911 service (my personal details removed, of course):
Subject: 911 DIALING NOT YET ACTIVATED-IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ
Thank you for requesting 911 Dialing for phone number 1-(***)-***-****. Please read the following information carefully.
DIALING 911 IS NOT YET ACTIVATED ON YOUR PHONE LINE. THIS PROCESS MAY TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. DO NOT DIAL 911 FROM THIS PHONE LINE UNTIL YOU GET A CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM US.
Please review these steps to better understand how Vonage 's Dialing 911 feature works.
- Using the information you provided, we will map your address and telephone number to your area's nearest Public Safety Answering Point ("PSAP").
- This process will be completed within several days.
- We will email you a CONFIRMATION LETTER as soon as the 911 Dialing feature has been activated for 1-(***)-***-****. (Note that if you have multiple Vonage numbers you MUST activate 911 Dialing for each number separately.)
- When you dial 911 from your Vonage phone, your call is routed from the Vonage network over the Public Switch Telephone Network ("PSTN") to your PSAP's general number, where a trained professional will provide you with assistance.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT 911 DIALING IS DIFFERENT THAN TRADITIONAL 911. We encourage you to login to your Vonage account and click on Features in your Account Dashboard to learn more.
Please contact us by:
Email: customercare@vonage.com
Toll Free Phone: 1-VONAGE-HELP (1-866-243-4357)
Fax: 1732-333-1353
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Thank You.
Vonage Customer Care
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When you follow the instructions that I put in bold, you get their 911 FAQ. I don't want to list all of them in a post(I'll put a link at the bottom for the interested), but the FAQ's that seem to be relevant are:
Do I need to test 911 Dialing?
You do not need to test 911 dialing. If you have received an email confirmation from Vonage stating that your 911 dialing has been activated, then 911 dialing will work should you ever need it. If you do choose to test 911 Dialing, please test it only one time. When you call, you must inform the emergency response personnel that it is not an emergency and that you are testing your alternative emergency service to make sure it's working. If they ask why you are testing the system, explain that you are using an Internet phone service that operates differently than the traditional phone company. If the PSAP operator tells you to dial another number, please inform Vonage Customer Care at 1-VONAGE-HELP (1-866-243-4357) or 1-732-650-6699.
The state of Minnesota encourages Minnesota residents to test Vonage 911 Dialing once.
How is this different from dialing 911 on a regular landline?
Vonage routes your call to the Public Service Answering Point (PSAP), which provides emergency services in your area. The appropriate PSAP is determined by the physical address you supplied when you configured 911 on your web account. Therefore, if we do not have the correct address, your call cannot be routed to the corresponding PSAP for your area. Another difference between Vonage 911 Dialing service and traditional 911 service is that the Vonage call will be routed to the PSAP's general access line, which is different from the 911 Emergency Response Center. You will need to state the nature of your emergency promptly and clearly, including your
I don't know about everybody else, but when I signed up for Vonage in December, there was TONS of information and paperwork included with my adaptor. When I read them and saw that calls aren't necessarily routed correctly yet, I put the police and fire departments into speed dial on my phone. You know, like it used to be before 911 was an option? I think it sucks that people have been injured or killed, but I also think that there is a huge amount of warning from Vonage - and that it's not too much to ask for someone to program emergency numbers into their speed dial as a backup. Heck, I put them on my cell phone months ago, in case my regular phone service went out and I was in trouble!!! Am I smart, or paranoid?:-)
Someone should grab the next 'popular' bill and attach something that, once everybody approves the big bill, makes it illegal, or impossible, or something, to attach unrelated things to bigger bills. Ha! Take THAT, system!
Maybe they should sneak something in there about making the online 'searches' for bills last longer than two seconds, too....
At my store, we have a (giant) binder with warranties from all of the manufacturers so that we can provide the info on request. I would love to have a EULA binder as well. How hard could this be?!?!? If they are all sending us their warranties, why can't they send EULA's, too? That's my gripe.:)
After all, we're not the ones sealing the EULA's inside the packaging. We are simply supposed to follow the rules set by the software manufacturers which state that we absolutely cannot return opened software - because there's no way for us to know whether it's been installed or copied. It's simply not possible. I agree one hundred percent that EULA's need to be publicly available before the packaging is opened, and if I were given access, I would most certainly make sure they were accessable in my store to customers. Hopefully this lawsuit will result in access to those agreements and we will be encouraged/required to have them on hand, as we have manufacturer warrenties on hand from each company. I am reminding all of you that this is not a fault of the retailer (although my personal feelings towards Best Buy are extremely negative), but a fault of the manufacturer. There are so many simple solutions to the problems of software theft (or copying), and making those agreements available outside the packaging would be a great step towards protecting the retailers, the consumers, and even the software manufacturers, as they wouldn't have to worry about people making fake returns claiming that they didn't agree with the EULA. I know a lot of you are anti-retail, but consider how little power we have in these situations. Also pity us during the holiday season when we're all worked to the bone.:) Thank you all.
I just found out yesterday that we're going to carry those (Circuit City), and that I get to wear them as a demo and share them with customers. I think it's going to be funny, but fun. I'm actually looking forward to the holiday season this year!
Is it just the Linux drivers that are new? Because I have owned this mouse for like 4 months now (and the keyboard) and I don't see a newer one on the site. And it's 99.99, not 119.95, and you can get just the mouse for 79.99 from CC. Oh, and it's an awesome mouse, but I can't use it for games. I need the control a regular optical mouse offers. The rechargable batteries work really well, too. Now that there are Linux drivers, I guess I'll try it on my new box, too!
....but if the batteries really WERE that expensive (many of you pointed out they are most certainly NOT), yeah, that would suck. Fortunately for me, I spent an extra 55 bucks and got a replacement plan that gives me my 500 back plus tax (as a gift card to the store, Circuit City) if the performance of my iPod suffers. So I'll just buy whatever they've come out with by then if mine stops working! Hooray! I LOVE the CC replacement plan....
I'm sick and gross feeling, but I feel a little better now....:)
I hope Nintendo's losing money, because the retailers that sell the consoles are. Right now, if you just buy a console without any accessories or games, my store loses money. One accessory or two games will break us even, and one controller, one memory card, and three $40-50 games will make us enough of a profit to pretend it actually does something for the store.... Not a high-profit industry at store level.:) So if Nintedo's selling it to us at a price higher than we have to sell it for but they're making money, I'll be mad.:)
Yes, if a store is lucky, they make about $8 (US) off a game. If they're lucky. A lot of good game sales you see are under cost, and are used to hopefully draw people to the store. For instance, Simpsons Hit & Run PS2 is on sale for $37.99 this week at Circuit City, and we are losing about six dollars on every copy. The stores are not making the killing you think they're making, people. When LOTR: TTT came out on DVD, we had a first week sale of $14.99 for a copy. We lost (JUST my store) over $1000 on that the very first day (we had a lot of copies). Food for thought!
Considering that every other person who buys a DVD burner from me (or a computer with a DVD burner built in) asks me how to copy PS2 or XBox games, I don't think it's that extreme for us to not turn into a free copy facility. If people don't know whether they'll like a game, they should rent it from a rental place first before buying it. Or, do like I do, and buy it, and if you don't like it, say, "Rats, I just wasted some money. Oh well, off to Gamespot!" I mean, come on, be reasonable about this. Stores are sick of "renting" laptops, camcorders, digital cameras, etc. to people who are too cheap to pay rental fees. Games, etc., would be too much. There are a lot more dishonest people out there than you would think.
BTW, no, I am not one of those anti-P2P people. I just think that it would be a pretty bad move to sell people products that can be copied, and then take it back as a return.
The printer companies can start selling ink for really cheap - they'll just have to charge us an extra $200 or so for the printer! Wow, nobody would whine about that! People LOVE it when the initial purchase is huge!
Seriously, though, here's my ideal model: cartridges should be at least 25% cheaper, printers should cost 15% more, and people should stop throwing away USB cables (they do it ALL THE TIME, it's really annoying). Also the companies that make the printers should have some sort of exchange program wherein you can drop off your old cartidges somewhere and get a '10% off your next ink cartridge purchase' coupon or something. There. Things are cheaper, people are still making money, and there's less waste. But I know nothing about business, just like the rest of you, so now I'm going to sleep.:P
This is bizarre, because all of the listed Playstation One games at work (electronics retailer) are under the three-letter abbreviation PSX, so I always think of PSX as the first one. So this seems old, not new!!
Does anyone else find it weird that Sony is super protective of all its copyrighted stuff, and yet keeps coming out with mp3 players, DVD burners, and more and more ways to share multimedia files?
...is trying to explain to customers that MVP 2003 and MLB Slugfest 2004 came out at about the same time. And for those of you who think the average consumer is intelligent, work in retail sales for six months and see how you feel then.:)
My job is only easy when you aren't doing it right....
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...I do agree with a lot of it. I have never had a rebate rejected - although all of the rebates I've done in recent memory have been from Circuit City. Maybe their rebate fulfillment centers are more on the ball? Anyway, my last rebate deal was a 120GB hard drive for $50 after two rebates. I got my pre-printed at the register rebate forms (and got copies, just in case), asked them to make a copy of the barcode for me (even two, no problem!) and went home and assembled all the paperwork - after I checked out the drive and made sure it was functional, of course! I mailed in both rebates (including my "junk" email address - the address I give where I don't really care if I get junk mail - on both the forms), and maybe a week later got an unexpected email from Seagate. Your rebate form has been received, and is processing! That was pretty exciting. I had an online tracking thing for Circuit City's rebate, too. I think they may have also sent me an e-mail, but I can't remember. Anyway, I was able to track both rebates, and both companies kept me up-to-date - when it was received, when it was being processed, when it was accepted, and when a check was mailed. Got them both, no problem - and much quicker than the stated 6-8 weeks; I think I had them both 3-5 weeks after I mailed stuff. And except for the emails and web tracking, this is not a new experience for me. Maybe I'm just extra-careful, but I have never had rebate issues. Having also worked in retail, I understand why they need proof of purchase, too - you would not believe the incredible scams people try to pull!! If you can't return the item without the barcode, and if the rebate requires the barcode - well, no double-dipping for you! So anyway, I think it's kind of nice to see a positive spin on rebates for once. To those who whine about "just take the price off at the register already!!" - would you rather just not see those items on sale? Or have less than 15% of the rebate savings taken off at the register instead? i.e. Instead of $100 in rebates, just take $10-$20 off that $600 item? Think about it... :-)
Palaeontologist Dr David Penney, of the University of Manchester, found the 4cm long by 2cm wide fossil during a visit to a museum in the Dominican Republic.
Since the discovery two years ago, he has used droplets of blood in the amber to reveal the age of the specimen.
Um, if he "found" it in a museum, doesn't that mean someone ELSE discovered it?
Just curious.
As the daughter of a librarian, I'm kind of offended by that... but I won't hold it against you.
Second, while this research is not illegal, it seems like the funding thing is pushing to make it that way. I mean, private funding only happens if a) you attract someone with a big enough pocketbook to not care if you make money; or b) you find some way to make it obscenely profitable - more so, than, say, cosmetic surgery, which people pay a LOT for. It still doesn't mean the research is dead, but you may not be able to hire enough staff, or pay for new equipment, depending on how you get your funding. It also may impact other areas of research in a facility that decides to do the non-funded research - their funds for other projects may be pulled because of it! The thing that concerns me, though, is that the government can't seem to keep its hand out of debates like this recently. Not supporting it may be just the first step. Who knows?
What could be cool is a clone with a 'blank brain' and a method of trasferring all my memories into it. Especially if they could create the clone after I had died rather than having some creepy blank person in a cooler for years and years. And especially if I could put in my will what age I wanted to start at. Still a little creepy, but also intriguing.
Whoa, how was the poster implying that behavior? Maybe she has sex with her husband, and gets pregnant, but doesn't know it, and is on some diet or something that lacks a nutrient that is vital to the fetus's development. Or goes out to play tennis and her partner accidentally hits her in the lower abdomen on a back swing, causing damage. Or there is something about her body that just isn't going to let anything develop - overactive immune system or something. There are a number of ways to accidentally miscarry that don't require promiscuity or drug/alcohol abuse. I think that was more the point.
But anyway, it's a weird thought, having a clone of yourself in case you need organs harvested. I think I'd rather they just grow the one organ for me, wouldn't you? The article doesn't seem to provide any clues as to which of these he is working towards. Either that, or I'm too tired to read it carefully. :)
There's a movie coming out, The Island, about a bunch of clones being kept just for that purpose, but nobody's telling them that's what they are there for. Having a clone of myself for spare parts would be creepy. Handing over some skin or an egg and getting a new heart or whatever grown on its own would be great! No more waiting for months or years for a donor, and no more feeling vaguely guilty because the only reason you're alive is because someone else died in some horrible accident.
That reminds me of something that I saw in a preview before Star Wars. What was it? Oh, now I remember!
Subject: 911 DIALING NOT YET ACTIVATED-IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ
Account Number: **********
Telephone Number: 1-(***)-***-****
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY, STATE ZIP
Dear NAME,
Thank you for requesting 911 Dialing for phone number 1-(***)-***-****. Please read the following information carefully.
DIALING 911 IS NOT YET ACTIVATED ON YOUR PHONE LINE. THIS PROCESS MAY TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. DO NOT DIAL 911 FROM THIS PHONE LINE UNTIL YOU GET A CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM US.
Please review these steps to better understand how Vonage 's Dialing 911 feature works.
- Using the information you provided, we will map your address and telephone number to your area's nearest Public Safety Answering Point ("PSAP").
- This process will be completed within several days.
- We will email you a CONFIRMATION LETTER as soon as the 911 Dialing feature has been activated for 1-(***)-***-****. (Note that if you have multiple Vonage numbers you MUST activate 911 Dialing for each number separately.)
- When you dial 911 from your Vonage phone, your call is routed from the Vonage network over the Public Switch Telephone Network ("PSTN") to your PSAP's general number, where a trained professional will provide you with assistance.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT 911 DIALING IS DIFFERENT THAN TRADITIONAL 911. We encourage you to login to your Vonage account and click on Features in your Account Dashboard to learn more.
Please contact us by:
Email: customercare@vonage.com
Toll Free Phone: 1-VONAGE-HELP (1-866-243-4357)
Fax: 1732-333-1353
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Thank You.
Vonage Customer Care
------------------
When you follow the instructions that I put in bold, you get their 911 FAQ. I don't want to list all of them in a post(I'll put a link at the bottom for the interested), but the FAQ's that seem to be relevant are:
Do I need to test 911 Dialing?
You do not need to test 911 dialing. If you have received an email confirmation from Vonage stating that your 911 dialing has been activated, then 911 dialing will work should you ever need it. If you do choose to test 911 Dialing, please test it only one time. When you call, you must inform the emergency response personnel that it is not an emergency and that you are testing your alternative emergency service to make sure it's working. If they ask why you are testing the system, explain that you are using an Internet phone service that operates differently than the traditional phone company. If the PSAP operator tells you to dial another number, please inform Vonage Customer Care at 1-VONAGE-HELP (1-866-243-4357) or 1-732-650-6699.
The state of Minnesota encourages Minnesota residents to test Vonage 911 Dialing once.
How is this different from dialing 911 on a regular landline?
Vonage routes your call to the Public Service Answering Point (PSAP), which provides emergency services in your area. The appropriate PSAP is determined by the physical address you supplied when you configured 911 on your web account. Therefore, if we do not have the correct address, your call cannot be routed to the corresponding PSAP for your area. Another difference between Vonage 911 Dialing service and traditional 911 service is that the Vonage call will be routed to the PSAP's general access line, which is different from the 911 Emergency Response Center. You will need to state the nature of your emergency promptly and clearly, including your
I don't know about everybody else, but when I signed up for Vonage in December, there was TONS of information and paperwork included with my adaptor. When I read them and saw that calls aren't necessarily routed correctly yet, I put the police and fire departments into speed dial on my phone. You know, like it used to be before 911 was an option? I think it sucks that people have been injured or killed, but I also think that there is a huge amount of warning from Vonage - and that it's not too much to ask for someone to program emergency numbers into their speed dial as a backup. Heck, I put them on my cell phone months ago, in case my regular phone service went out and I was in trouble!!! Am I smart, or paranoid? :-)
Someone should grab the next 'popular' bill and attach something that, once everybody approves the big bill, makes it illegal, or impossible, or something, to attach unrelated things to bigger bills. Ha! Take THAT, system!
Maybe they should sneak something in there about making the online 'searches' for bills last longer than two seconds, too....
At my store, we have a (giant) binder with warranties from all of the manufacturers so that we can provide the info on request. I would love to have a EULA binder as well. How hard could this be?!?!? If they are all sending us their warranties, why can't they send EULA's, too? That's my gripe. :)
After all, we're not the ones sealing the EULA's inside the packaging. We are simply supposed to follow the rules set by the software manufacturers which state that we absolutely cannot return opened software - because there's no way for us to know whether it's been installed or copied. It's simply not possible. I agree one hundred percent that EULA's need to be publicly available before the packaging is opened, and if I were given access, I would most certainly make sure they were accessable in my store to customers. Hopefully this lawsuit will result in access to those agreements and we will be encouraged/required to have them on hand, as we have manufacturer warrenties on hand from each company. I am reminding all of you that this is not a fault of the retailer (although my personal feelings towards Best Buy are extremely negative), but a fault of the manufacturer. There are so many simple solutions to the problems of software theft (or copying), and making those agreements available outside the packaging would be a great step towards protecting the retailers, the consumers, and even the software manufacturers, as they wouldn't have to worry about people making fake returns claiming that they didn't agree with the EULA. I know a lot of you are anti-retail, but consider how little power we have in these situations. Also pity us during the holiday season when we're all worked to the bone. :)
Thank you all.
I just found out yesterday that we're going to carry those (Circuit City), and that I get to wear them as a demo and share them with customers. I think it's going to be funny, but fun. I'm actually looking forward to the holiday season this year!
Is it just the Linux drivers that are new? Because I have owned this mouse for like 4 months now (and the keyboard) and I don't see a newer one on the site. And it's 99.99, not 119.95, and you can get just the mouse for 79.99 from CC. Oh, and it's an awesome mouse, but I can't use it for games. I need the control a regular optical mouse offers. The rechargable batteries work really well, too. Now that there are Linux drivers, I guess I'll try it on my new box, too!
I'm sick and gross feeling, but I feel a little better now.... :)
I hope Nintendo's losing money, because the retailers that sell the consoles are. Right now, if you just buy a console without any accessories or games, my store loses money. One accessory or two games will break us even, and one controller, one memory card, and three $40-50 games will make us enough of a profit to pretend it actually does something for the store.... Not a high-profit industry at store level. :) So if Nintedo's selling it to us at a price higher than we have to sell it for but they're making money, I'll be mad. :)
Yes, if a store is lucky, they make about $8 (US) off a game. If they're lucky. A lot of good game sales you see are under cost, and are used to hopefully draw people to the store. For instance, Simpsons Hit & Run PS2 is on sale for $37.99 this week at Circuit City, and we are losing about six dollars on every copy. The stores are not making the killing you think they're making, people. When LOTR: TTT came out on DVD, we had a first week sale of $14.99 for a copy. We lost (JUST my store) over $1000 on that the very first day (we had a lot of copies). Food for thought!
BTW, no, I am not one of those anti-P2P people. I just think that it would be a pretty bad move to sell people products that can be copied, and then take it back as a return.
...it reminds me of something.... Now I remember! Heh. And off we go.
The printer companies can start selling ink for really cheap - they'll just have to charge us an extra $200 or so for the printer! Wow, nobody would whine about that! People LOVE it when the initial purchase is huge!
:P
Seriously, though, here's my ideal model: cartridges should be at least 25% cheaper, printers should cost 15% more, and people should stop throwing away USB cables (they do it ALL THE TIME, it's really annoying). Also the companies that make the printers should have some sort of exchange program wherein you can drop off your old cartidges somewhere and get a '10% off your next ink cartridge purchase' coupon or something. There. Things are cheaper, people are still making money, and there's less waste. But I know nothing about business, just like the rest of you, so now I'm going to sleep.
Ah, thank you for the info. I knew that at some point, but my brain just backfired on a Wednesday morning. :) Still is funny, though.
This is bizarre, because all of the listed Playstation One games at work (electronics retailer) are under the three-letter abbreviation PSX, so I always think of PSX as the first one. So this seems old, not new!! Does anyone else find it weird that Sony is super protective of all its copyrighted stuff, and yet keeps coming out with mp3 players, DVD burners, and more and more ways to share multimedia files?
...is trying to explain to customers that MVP 2003 and MLB Slugfest 2004 came out at about the same time. And for those of you who think the average consumer is intelligent, work in retail sales for six months and see how you feel then. :)
My job is only easy when you aren't doing it right....