Any article which starts "despite the success of american music and movies in Japan" has got to be questionable. Japanese music and idols dominate the charts; a few foreign groups / singers hit a niche market.
Not only does this lead you to a face Adobe website (as the anonymous coward above pointed out) but the links to "adobe" software are, in fact, hosted on the same page...
Anyone want to try installing it to see what it does to their PC?
Scary
Um... unless I'm missing your point entirely, in Outlook 2002 - which happens to be open on my desktop right now - if you create a new rule in "rules wizard", check "sender is in specified address book" and choose "contacts" for the address book specified, you should be able to filter messages to wherever you like (or delete them)
Not that I'm a great Microsoft fan [obligitary/. disclaimer] - but I hope that helps you with your white list.....?
Works for my in Project64 v1.5 to an extent; once you reset with the cheat selected and select the first level (Dam) the test level will load instead.
Bond doesn't seem to be able to move away from ground level, however.
Looks like somebody at Nintendojo's taken marketing 101, then...
Levitt was insightful in the context of his time, and "Marketing Myopia" remains a classic text in the context of understanding professional marketing's roots. But marketing theory has moved on a hell of a lot since the 1960's.
The point of the text is more sophisticated that the idea that companies need to do "more things" in order to compete. Quite the contrary - the point is that to be competitive a company has to understand not what it does ("we're a train company"), but what its (current and potential) customers need. So rail companies' customers don't want trains as such; they want to be transported from A to B. Nintendo's customers want to be entertained interactively.
But that's as far as it goes. Whether "what customers want" is some kind of ill-defined "entertainment device" (second-rate DVDs attached to a console?) rather than high quality separates is debatable, to say the least.
It's also a hugely unoriginal idea - people have been saying that games consoles will somehow mutate into "entertainment devices" for years (everyone in marketing is familiar with Levitt - you can be sure that Nintendo's marketing department is too!) In fact, there's already am enormously popular device for non-specific electronic entertainment, including games, media, networking, messaging etc - and the majoriry of us reading this are sitting using it right now.
There's not one "marketing strategy" which all companies should blindly follow; expanding your market is often a good thing, but not always (AOL Time Warner?)
In my opinion, Nintendo would be exceptionally unwise to take on Sony directly - Sony are already in the "electronic equipment" game and could frankly squash Nintendo if they tried.
Not, of course, that I would ever admit to being in marketing on Slashdot...
I'd suggest that the reason there are so many people on your dorm with XBoxes is that teen to students are the XBox's core market, and isn't necessarily a reflection of overall coverage.
Oh what rubbish. Old music seems like it was crap because depending on the individual's taste, we remember just the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or the Ramones. We don't remember the crappy novelty records which actually filled up the charts. Likewise, we remember stuff like Pacman, Donkey Kong and Streetfighter and conveniently forget the Custer's Last Stands, ETs and games of that ilk.
As a few people pointed out in the debate on a gaming Canon earlier in the week, it's nice to be able to judge what's good and bad and retrospect allows us to do that. But I really don't think that games have somehow been polluted by commercialism which has made them bad - they were always commercial.
Likewise, the punk analogy is a poor one. Punk was by its nature underground and so of course deteriorated when it became mainstream! Saying games deteriorate when they become mainstream is just snobbery - rather like saying that music itself becomes inferior if it's mainstream - and precisely the attitude the artcle's arguing against.
Couldn't agree more, funnily enough.
I play around as much as I can with my home computers, but as I don't work in IT I was kind of horrified to find than I didn't have admin privellages on my work PC when I started there. I have what I need, and I only have to ask the IT support to install stuff I need, but it means I have to think about if I do need it or not before I go to the trouble. A year down the line, I've had to reinstall my home PC's OS to get rid of the mess I've made of it from installing anything and everything, but the work PC runs fine.
Sei Naru Protein Densetsu sounds if anything cheesier in Japanese. Certainly cheesy as fuck.
Dance Dance Revolution yadda yadda yadda sounds...well, like a game title. There's a whole (and well documented) culture of using English for effect in Japan which can lead to all sorts of strangeness which doens't sound like English as such to Japanese people, but fits within the vocabulary of decorative items / game titles etc. Can make for some weird language to Western ears (but then there's the whole issue of people in the west tatooing themselves with Chinese / Japanese characters they don't understand so who am I to badmouth Japanese use of English?)
That's pretty much on the money. Networking is key.
The only point I think you're missing is that businesses don't buy or commission due to high quality. What you've got to convince the company of is not the fact that the work you're going to do is higher quality than anyone else, but that their spending 30K rather than 1K will save them more than 30K - you've got to make the business case. Saying what you're going to do is high quality makes little difference if high quality isn't what's required or - more importantly - if the person comissioning the work doesn't understand why it might be. Simple point but easy to miss.
If you're like me, you've probably got a TV, VCR or other appliance you bought over 5 years ago which is still going strong -- but much of the stuff you've bought in the past 2-3 years is already giving trouble. ...well, no-one's likely to have a TV etc they bought five years ago which doesn't work anymore; the stuff they bought 2-3 years ago which is now giving them trouble will be replaced while the durable stuff will keep chugging along. I think perception and natural selection have a strong part to play here.
On the other hand, there is an argument that a lot of the Japanese / Korean companies are outsourcing to manufacturers in places like China where quality isn't always that good yet - the so-called "hollowing out of Japan", although I tend to think that the natural move from manufacturing to service industry is overlooked in discussion of the phenomenon. Hold on though; just as Japan used to be famous for cheap and shoddily made goods before the 70's/80's, the argument goes that as more manufacturing capability goes in to countries like China techniques will improve until there is a golden age of excellent, quality world-beating goods - up to the point where the economy improves, costs spiral and manufacturing once again chases low-cost labour elsewhere.
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Any article which starts "despite the success of american music and movies in Japan" has got to be questionable. Japanese music and idols dominate the charts; a few foreign groups / singers hit a niche market.
Not only does this lead you to a face Adobe website (as the anonymous coward above pointed out) but the links to "adobe" software are, in fact, hosted on the same page... Anyone want to try installing it to see what it does to their PC? Scary
Um... unless I'm missing your point entirely, in Outlook 2002 - which happens to be open on my desktop right now - if you create a new rule in "rules wizard", check "sender is in specified address book" and choose "contacts" for the address book specified, you should be able to filter messages to wherever you like (or delete them) Not that I'm a great Microsoft fan [obligitary /. disclaimer] - but I hope that helps you with your white list.....?
> Bond doesn't seem to be able to move away from ground level, however. Ah, as mentioned in the article - he's in "walk through walls" mode. Ahem.
Works for my in Project64 v1.5 to an extent; once you reset with the cheat selected and select the first level (Dam) the test level will load instead. Bond doesn't seem to be able to move away from ground level, however.
Looks like somebody at Nintendojo's taken marketing 101, then... Levitt was insightful in the context of his time, and "Marketing Myopia" remains a classic text in the context of understanding professional marketing's roots. But marketing theory has moved on a hell of a lot since the 1960's. The point of the text is more sophisticated that the idea that companies need to do "more things" in order to compete. Quite the contrary - the point is that to be competitive a company has to understand not what it does ("we're a train company"), but what its (current and potential) customers need. So rail companies' customers don't want trains as such; they want to be transported from A to B. Nintendo's customers want to be entertained interactively. But that's as far as it goes. Whether "what customers want" is some kind of ill-defined "entertainment device" (second-rate DVDs attached to a console?) rather than high quality separates is debatable, to say the least. It's also a hugely unoriginal idea - people have been saying that games consoles will somehow mutate into "entertainment devices" for years (everyone in marketing is familiar with Levitt - you can be sure that Nintendo's marketing department is too!) In fact, there's already am enormously popular device for non-specific electronic entertainment, including games, media, networking, messaging etc - and the majoriry of us reading this are sitting using it right now. There's not one "marketing strategy" which all companies should blindly follow; expanding your market is often a good thing, but not always (AOL Time Warner?) In my opinion, Nintendo would be exceptionally unwise to take on Sony directly - Sony are already in the "electronic equipment" game and could frankly squash Nintendo if they tried. Not, of course, that I would ever admit to being in marketing on Slashdot...
I'd suggest that the reason there are so many people on your dorm with XBoxes is that teen to students are the XBox's core market, and isn't necessarily a reflection of overall coverage.
Oh what rubbish. Old music seems like it was crap because depending on the individual's taste, we remember just the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or the Ramones. We don't remember the crappy novelty records which actually filled up the charts. Likewise, we remember stuff like Pacman, Donkey Kong and Streetfighter and conveniently forget the Custer's Last Stands, ETs and games of that ilk. As a few people pointed out in the debate on a gaming Canon earlier in the week, it's nice to be able to judge what's good and bad and retrospect allows us to do that. But I really don't think that games have somehow been polluted by commercialism which has made them bad - they were always commercial. Likewise, the punk analogy is a poor one. Punk was by its nature underground and so of course deteriorated when it became mainstream! Saying games deteriorate when they become mainstream is just snobbery - rather like saying that music itself becomes inferior if it's mainstream - and precisely the attitude the artcle's arguing against.
Couldn't agree more, funnily enough. I play around as much as I can with my home computers, but as I don't work in IT I was kind of horrified to find than I didn't have admin privellages on my work PC when I started there. I have what I need, and I only have to ask the IT support to install stuff I need, but it means I have to think about if I do need it or not before I go to the trouble. A year down the line, I've had to reinstall my home PC's OS to get rid of the mess I've made of it from installing anything and everything, but the work PC runs fine.
Sei Naru Protein Densetsu sounds if anything cheesier in Japanese. Certainly cheesy as fuck. Dance Dance Revolution yadda yadda yadda sounds...well, like a game title. There's a whole (and well documented) culture of using English for effect in Japan which can lead to all sorts of strangeness which doens't sound like English as such to Japanese people, but fits within the vocabulary of decorative items / game titles etc. Can make for some weird language to Western ears (but then there's the whole issue of people in the west tatooing themselves with Chinese / Japanese characters they don't understand so who am I to badmouth Japanese use of English?)
That's pretty much on the money. Networking is key. The only point I think you're missing is that businesses don't buy or commission due to high quality. What you've got to convince the company of is not the fact that the work you're going to do is higher quality than anyone else, but that their spending 30K rather than 1K will save them more than 30K - you've got to make the business case. Saying what you're going to do is high quality makes little difference if high quality isn't what's required or - more importantly - if the person comissioning the work doesn't understand why it might be. Simple point but easy to miss.
If you're like me, you've probably got a TV, VCR or other appliance you bought over 5 years ago which is still going strong -- but much of the stuff you've bought in the past 2-3 years is already giving trouble. ...well, no-one's likely to have a TV etc they bought five years ago which doesn't work anymore; the stuff they bought 2-3 years ago which is now giving them trouble will be replaced while the durable stuff will keep chugging along. I think perception and natural selection have a strong part to play here.
On the other hand, there is an argument that a lot of the Japanese / Korean companies are outsourcing to manufacturers in places like China where quality isn't always that good yet - the so-called "hollowing out of Japan", although I tend to think that the natural move from manufacturing to service industry is overlooked in discussion of the phenomenon. Hold on though; just as Japan used to be famous for cheap and shoddily made goods before the 70's/80's, the argument goes that as more manufacturing capability goes in to countries like China techniques will improve until there is a golden age of excellent, quality world-beating goods - up to the point where the economy improves, costs spiral and manufacturing once again chases low-cost labour elsewhere.