Everyone seems to be complaining that 35 phone models seem to be far too many. However Nokia has to offer phones for different providers to be able to compete. They've always offered one or two CDMA phones and they continue to do so, an increase here would likely account for the high number of new phones.
However, Nokia is a smart company. What do they care if they have 35 models? The average (not anyone reading slashdot) Cell phone user cares about two things: One, the phone looks good to them, and right now this means flip phones. And two, the phone has the features they want. That second request is going to be different for every person.
It is this diversity that can help nokia. A soccer mom who calls a max of 10 minutes a day and a corporate executive who needs a high capacity battery are two totally different segments of the market. However the Nokia brand can keep both by releasing phones taylored for each.
Lastly, you'd be surpirsed how many millions of people hate learning a "new" phone. I personally can't stand nokia phones, they're bulky, have features I never need, and I can't seem to get used to the menus. But I hear from everyone i know with one that "they're so easy to use." And if you know how to use one nokia, you know how to use them all. That's their best kept secret.
Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.
I believe he's refering to the fact that if the xbox has been produced and cost microsoft $X (lets say $200) then if you buy it at $150 they only lose $50, if it sits on a shelf forever they lose the whole $200. So you're helping reduce their losses by $150, even if they aren't ever going to break even on console sales alone.
I know everyone thinks friday night tv is some black hole that shows go to when they're ready to die, but this could be good. As it stands right now Enterprise is battling Smallville on Wednesday nights along with American Idol. At least friday's are faily wide open, so this might actually raise the total number of viewiers.
Yes, but the skills they learn could be used to design games of their own. I mean Bejeweled has made that little company quite a few million dollars, and its not the latest and greatest in 3d gaming.
With some vision and the needed knowelege someone in this program could go far. I understand that a degree in game design is overkill to create a game like bejeweled, but there's more to designing games than doom 3.
By remaining a (somewhat) independent third party in the whole buy/sell community ebay is able to keep impartiality. Many, many alternatives to ebay's policies have been discussed here on slashdot, and I feel nothing short of a complete escrow service, with ebay received money and goods and shipping out from their central location after each is received, will be enough. Of course if ebay were to move to such a model they would never be able to do the volume they do now, and seriously, its all about volume when it comes to making money in this situation.
Why wouldn't a slightly modified system work? Because as it stands now there is a decent enough balance between sellers and buyers to allow for an expectation of trust, swing it either way and one side will abuse the other. Making it too easy to withold payment, or return items, and buyers will either say they never got the items, say they unconditionally hate the items, or just plain don't like the items. Make buying too easy and people will bid and not pay.
Sure you can get ripped on ebay. But you can just as easily get ripped at the mall if you don't know the ropes. Three main ways to protect yourself. 1) If it seems too good to be true, it is! don't buy a $2000 laptop from anyone for $50 unless you don't care about the $50. 2)Always buy shipping insurance! it keeps you and the seller both protected. I'm amazed people will spend $600 and neglect the $5 insurance. 3)Don't pay cash. There's no trail and you'll be hosed if you are getting ripped off.
I've been doing just this for almost the last two years with my sony T665C. I paid $300 for it, but you could find one on ebay for $50-100 and it has a great screen, decent battery life, USB connectivity, and even plays mp3's. This way you can get more for your money. No need for overkill, a new PDA means wasted money if all you need is to read ebooks.
I'll second this. I've used Tax Act version dating back to 1998 and have been nothing but thrilled with their product. One of the best things they ever did was when I bought the 2002 version last year they sent the 2001 version with a note that said "here's a full version of last year's tax software in case you forgot to file or would like to compare our software to your previous year's software" I ended up needing to go back and do some 01 taxes, and the full version they sent was indeed just that, no strings attached.
I don't think shuffling music (and therefore not listening to music albums in order) is a problem caused by brain damage as much as by impatience. I don't know if you've seen the teenagers of this new generation, but they are even less able to hold a coherent though than I was at their age. Shuffling music is their way of keeping things new and intersting.
Secondly, albums that kids listen to suck. Shuffling means you get good songs all mixed up, and not a bunch of crappy ones and then a good one.
Well I hafta let you know the following always worked back in the day:
1) Blow in the cart, that long high pitched blow where you start at the top of the cart and move down vertically to the bottom.
2)When the cart is in the NES, push it a little to the left, try the power. Then try pushing it a little to the right, power on, then nudge it a little left or right of those and try that.
3)Last ditch effort: Jam another NES Game in on top of the other NES game over the metal bar holding the game down.
Used to work for all the kids on the block back in the day. Course your NES might just be dead.
why would it be a steal? You'd still have to find FFXI without the harddrive, or else you'd end up buying two harddrives. I guess someone might sell their used game if it turns out to suck.
While its not exactly reviewing all the latest and greatest, www.dansdata.com is my favorite "independent" web review site. He usually sticks to cameras, small computer parts, and other neat electronics, but he's a no BS kinda guy who will say something sucks when it does.
As stated this may lead down a dangerous path, as people enjoy consoles mostly because you put the game in, and it runs, everytime. This won't however be the first time games have shipped with flaws, See here for GT2's recall So the ability to download patches could save millions if a game was truly flawwed, but take it too far, and consoles lose their biggest edge.
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And by applying a little compression to this, it is quite possible to remember the full number, for example the entire first line can be remembered with:
1000, 0, 100, 1, 1000, 10, 0, 1
Fill in any missing digits with 0's and you're set, with a compression ratio of 53% I might add.
As an avid reader of macslash, and knowing how slow the site can be on a normal day of the week, do you really want a link on the frontpage of slashdot? I mean I know it came from macslash earlier this week, and so do you, I think for me thats enough.
I have an old cd I got in 1997 or so which is titled "Welcome to Rhapsody," it included a walkthrough of what the OS would look like and do, and makes me wish it had come out even to this day. OS8 was a decent upgrade, but nothing to compare it to.
And don't have much of an idea on what to do. Check
I hate to be the first one to tell you, but million dollar ideas aren't sitting around waiting to find you on slashdot. It's going to be up to you and your friend to decide what's best here. As a consultant I can tell you, with no idea what you want to do, you really should hire a consultant if you want this to be anything more than you making webpages for people you know over the summer.
You're going to be fighting an uphill battle, most businesses won't talk to you based purely on age and lack of business experience. The one thing I would suggest if you do this, do it right and get insurance, because if you're handling something worth thousands, you don't want to be held liable if you break it.
I believe this is what he has done, as it says "recommended" graphics card. More likely than not this is just business, ie. "here's X million dollars, recommend our graphics card." To write directly for a single graphics card platform would be crippling/pissing off your audience.
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However, Nokia is a smart company. What do they care if they have 35 models? The average (not anyone reading slashdot) Cell phone user cares about two things: One, the phone looks good to them, and right now this means flip phones. And two, the phone has the features they want. That second request is going to be different for every person.
It is this diversity that can help nokia. A soccer mom who calls a max of 10 minutes a day and a corporate executive who needs a high capacity battery are two totally different segments of the market. However the Nokia brand can keep both by releasing phones taylored for each.
Lastly, you'd be surpirsed how many millions of people hate learning a "new" phone. I personally can't stand nokia phones, they're bulky, have features I never need, and I can't seem to get used to the menus. But I hear from everyone i know with one that "they're so easy to use." And if you know how to use one nokia, you know how to use them all. That's their best kept secret.
Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.
Yea but then again inside edition "won two peabodies".
I believe he's refering to the fact that if the xbox has been produced and cost microsoft $X (lets say $200) then if you buy it at $150 they only lose $50, if it sits on a shelf forever they lose the whole $200. So you're helping reduce their losses by $150, even if they aren't ever going to break even on console sales alone.
I know everyone thinks friday night tv is some black hole that shows go to when they're ready to die, but this could be good. As it stands right now Enterprise is battling Smallville on Wednesday nights along with American Idol. At least friday's are faily wide open, so this might actually raise the total number of viewiers.
With some vision and the needed knowelege someone in this program could go far. I understand that a degree in game design is overkill to create a game like bejeweled, but there's more to designing games than doom 3.
These guys might sue.
Why wouldn't a slightly modified system work? Because as it stands now there is a decent enough balance between sellers and buyers to allow for an expectation of trust, swing it either way and one side will abuse the other. Making it too easy to withold payment, or return items, and buyers will either say they never got the items, say they unconditionally hate the items, or just plain don't like the items. Make buying too easy and people will bid and not pay.
Sure you can get ripped on ebay. But you can just as easily get ripped at the mall if you don't know the ropes. Three main ways to protect yourself. 1) If it seems too good to be true, it is! don't buy a $2000 laptop from anyone for $50 unless you don't care about the $50. 2)Always buy shipping insurance! it keeps you and the seller both protected. I'm amazed people will spend $600 and neglect the $5 insurance. 3)Don't pay cash. There's no trail and you'll be hosed if you are getting ripped off.
I've been doing just this for almost the last two years with my sony T665C. I paid $300 for it, but you could find one on ebay for $50-100 and it has a great screen, decent battery life, USB connectivity, and even plays mp3's. This way you can get more for your money. No need for overkill, a new PDA means wasted money if all you need is to read ebooks.
I'll second this. I've used Tax Act version dating back to 1998 and have been nothing but thrilled with their product. One of the best things they ever did was when I bought the 2002 version last year they sent the 2001 version with a note that said "here's a full version of last year's tax software in case you forgot to file or would like to compare our software to your previous year's software" I ended up needing to go back and do some 01 taxes, and the full version they sent was indeed just that, no strings attached.
Secondly, albums that kids listen to suck. Shuffling means you get good songs all mixed up, and not a bunch of crappy ones and then a good one.
yea I'm just waiting for Herman's Head to come out on DVD so the sales can make them rethink that one.
On a more serious note, Parker Lewis Can't lose would really be a good one on DVD.
And he donated the max ($2000) Geeze I guess times we're *that* tough this year.
1) Blow in the cart, that long high pitched blow where you start at the top of the cart and move down vertically to the bottom.
2)When the cart is in the NES, push it a little to the left, try the power. Then try pushing it a little to the right, power on, then nudge it a little left or right of those and try that.
3)Last ditch effort: Jam another NES Game in on top of the other NES game over the metal bar holding the game down. Used to work for all the kids on the block back in the day. Course your NES might just be dead.
why would it be a steal? You'd still have to find FFXI without the harddrive, or else you'd end up buying two harddrives. I guess someone might sell their used game if it turns out to suck.
To Stepford, you'll love it, your wife just might not.
Why not make it free with the purchase of three controllers? Or even three games?
While its not exactly reviewing all the latest and greatest, www.dansdata.com is my favorite "independent" web review site. He usually sticks to cameras, small computer parts, and other neat electronics, but he's a no BS kinda guy who will say something sucks when it does.
As stated this may lead down a dangerous path, as people enjoy consoles mostly because you put the game in, and it runs, everytime. This won't however be the first time games have shipped with flaws, See here for GT2's recall So the ability to download patches could save millions if a game was truly flawwed, but take it too far, and consoles lose their biggest edge.
1000, 0, 100, 1, 1000, 10, 0, 1
Fill in any missing digits with 0's and you're set, with a compression ratio of 53% I might add.
As an avid reader of macslash, and knowing how slow the site can be on a normal day of the week, do you really want a link on the frontpage of slashdot? I mean I know it came from macslash earlier this week, and so do you, I think for me thats enough.
I have an old cd I got in 1997 or so which is titled "Welcome to Rhapsody," it included a walkthrough of what the OS would look like and do, and makes me wish it had come out even to this day. OS8 was a decent upgrade, but nothing to compare it to.
And little money. Check
And you're young. Check
And don't have much of an idea on what to do. Check
I hate to be the first one to tell you, but million dollar ideas aren't sitting around waiting to find you on slashdot. It's going to be up to you and your friend to decide what's best here. As a consultant I can tell you, with no idea what you want to do, you really should hire a consultant if you want this to be anything more than you making webpages for people you know over the summer.
You're going to be fighting an uphill battle, most businesses won't talk to you based purely on age and lack of business experience. The one thing I would suggest if you do this, do it right and get insurance, because if you're handling something worth thousands, you don't want to be held liable if you break it.
I believe this is what he has done, as it says "recommended" graphics card. More likely than not this is just business, ie. "here's X million dollars, recommend our graphics card." To write directly for a single graphics card platform would be crippling/pissing off your audience.
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