The problem here is that this is a great idea for L60 players with nowhere else to go. But for someone new to the game just trying to level up, well you're just making it harder for them than for the established players. Maybe you need starter worlds (servers), each of which evolve over time into more challenging storylines that everyone can move to together.
Actually it received 106. The first 100 went to managers, employees, concubines, lifetime friends, and anyone else with an In. The whole reason that there were 6 left over is that most WalMart employees can't afford a PS3 on their salaries.
Okay, you already know that. Let's discuss where they're stupid today.
Sony is stupid today for selling PS3 at a significant (>$200) loss per console to people willing to pay more to have it first. Sony could have priced at cost, reverse-auctioned, or otherwise collected far more from early console sales, and likely had less fighting over them, by a more market-aware selling campaign for say the first 1M units. Instead they leave it all on the table -- in this case the auction table at eBay. Has this really gained them equivalent goodwill in return?
I don't know who will win, but I know a guy who lost! Well, he lost a PS3 chance, but is probably going to win a few 100 grand in a lawsuit.
That, and likely immortality in the next Jackass movie! Truth is, no one made him run for one of those chairs except himself. If you can win a lawsuit based on your own stupid actions, then the first lawyer has finally made it to Heaven!
I also had a StarTac, now have a RAZR, and had a V60i in-between. I have no trouble with my Verizon RAZR associating multiple numbers with a single name entry. Perhaps you just aren't entering them correctly.
My beef with the RAZR is its Voice Recognition. While it works, it doesn't understand my preferred terminology. With the V60i, I recorded my own voice tag for selected numbers. That let me refer to a telephone as Name Cell. RAZR only accepts NAME MOBILE. Also for business numbers I used Name Office. The RAZR only understands Name Work.
I am amazed by the number of ways Blizzard can abuse their customers, and still have the #1 on-line game. How many people will have to cancel with them to get them to changes some of their harsher ways?
Their Quad Core offering, Intel is claiming, is up to 80% faster than the dual-core Conroe released this past July.
Yeah, that much faster on carefully selected software. And slower on some single thread applications that rely most of all on clock-speed and uncontested memory bus access.
Would be nice for once to have headlines read something more honest like:
Speed improvements range from -20% for 50% of your software, up to +80% for 10% of your software.
There could even be a nice graph of how much software is improved (or degraded) at each 5% bin of performance. Otherwise it's no more honest than saying that your new Ferrari is capable of speeds up to 220mph, without mentioning that this can only be utilized during.01% of your driving.
Put two addresses on your form. The real one, and a decoy one. Customers are directed to the real one, while the harvester grabs both. Automatically delete any message to the real address that has also been sent to the decoy one.
using traditional photovoltaics requires a four-square-mile area of silicon...A concentrator system, he says, would replace most of the silicon with plastic or glass lenses or metal reflectors, requiring only as much semiconductor material as it would take to cover an area the size of a typical backyard.
Let's see, four square miles of sunlight focused onto my back yard. Conversion efficiency ~30%. Melting point of silicon 1414 deg C.
Unless I've got a backyard the size of Bill Gates, lifetime of new solar plant = one sunrise.
This headline can be recycled and reused into perpetuity. Chances are with continuing advancements it will always become more affordable than it was last week, month, year, decade, or century.
But when will it become truly affordable for the masses? That's what most of us want to know. Wake me when it's time to disconnect from the petroleum/nuclear fired grid.
Wireless sharing is the one big new idea -- and if the public seems to respond, Apple could always add that to the iPod.
Yeah? How quickly? At what increase in price (or decrease in profits)?
And oh, by the way, your shiny new iPod is now obsolete. Wanna buy a new one?
I'll bet this has Apple salivating already. Might even cause them to overlook the deal MS cut with UMG to pay royalty rights regardless of how the Zune is used for "stolen" music that might be loaded by some users.
Does this then mean that the RIAA can't sue you for sharing downloaded music from your Zune to any other Zune, since that music has now been paid for?
In Canada the CD levy was successfully argued in court that downloaders were protected since they'd already paid for the music on their overly taxed CD's.
This is like the auto unions have been. Each time contracts are up for renewal they pick the weakest company, or the one with the hottest car for sale who doesn't want the disruption, and strike them. When the contract terms are favorable enough to agree to, this becomes the model for all the other automakers to have to sign.
In the reach of short-term profits and obvious attempts to damage Apple, Microsoft has done a huge disservice to consumers overall. And they don't even fsking care!
Your problem is that you're so afraid of voting wrong, that you don't vote at all. And you're unwilling to listen to others (family) who may be better informed than you, or become better informed yourself, probably because that requires actual work on your part.
You're a disaster of a human being, the source of all your current problems, likely have a truly messed up life otherwise, and will never see this post because it is so very far down in this topic that already has more comments than almost any other topic I've seen recently on Slashdot that everyone has stopped reading long before reaching this point.
Slashdot finds humor in repetition. For example: I, for one, welcome our $SUBJECT overlords. All your base are belong to us. Imagine a beowulf cluster of $SUBJECT. In Soviet Russia, $SUBJECT $VERB you! No carrier. BSOD. Etc.
But are waves truly renewable? The energy comes from somewhere. I thought tidal generators were slowing down the rotation of the Earth until it someday becomes tidal-locked with the Moon. And while there is a lot of energy tied up in the rotation of the Earth, it's hardly limitless, nor renewable.
You think global warming is a concern now. Consider how bad it would get with 336 hour days!
I'm betting a lot of people download stuff that they'd never buy in the first place, P2P or no P2P. To call every instance of that a Lost Sale and value it at iTunes monopoly pricing is absolute Fraud!
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The problem here is that this is a great idea for L60 players with nowhere else to go. But for someone new to the game just trying to level up, well you're just making it harder for them than for the established players. Maybe you need starter worlds (servers), each of which evolve over time into more challenging storylines that everyone can move to together.
Actually it received 106. The first 100 went to managers, employees, concubines, lifetime friends, and anyone else with an In. The whole reason that there were 6 left over is that most WalMart employees can't afford a PS3 on their salaries.
Okay, you already know that. Let's discuss where they're stupid today.
Sony is stupid today for selling PS3 at a significant (>$200) loss per console to people willing to pay more to have it first. Sony could have priced at cost, reverse-auctioned, or otherwise collected far more from early console sales, and likely had less fighting over them, by a more market-aware selling campaign for say the first 1M units. Instead they leave it all on the table -- in this case the auction table at eBay. Has this really gained them equivalent goodwill in return?
That, and likely immortality in the next Jackass movie! Truth is, no one made him run for one of those chairs except himself. If you can win a lawsuit based on your own stupid actions, then the first lawyer has finally made it to Heaven!
(Hint: Most people have more Cents than Dollars. Usually 100X more.)
My beef with the RAZR is its Voice Recognition. While it works, it doesn't understand my preferred terminology. With the V60i, I recorded my own voice tag for selected numbers. That let me refer to a telephone as Name Cell. RAZR only accepts NAME MOBILE. Also for business numbers I used Name Office. The RAZR only understands Name Work.
Of course, there are already enough good reasons to avoid Zune, so it's rather a wash.
I am amazed by the number of ways Blizzard can abuse their customers, and still have the #1 on-line game. How many people will have to cancel with them to get them to changes some of their harsher ways?
If it's so darn simple, why has it taken them this long to find and synthesize it? After all, it's right in front of your teeth.
And how long before you're arrested for possessing saliva?
Only if you have 4 disc drives to feed the four cores simultaneously.
You can now sweep mines out of four oceans simultaneously.
Yeah, that much faster on carefully selected software. And slower on some single thread applications that rely most of all on clock-speed and uncontested memory bus access.
Would be nice for once to have headlines read something more honest like:
Speed improvements range from -20% for 50% of your software, up to +80% for 10% of your software.
There could even be a nice graph of how much software is improved (or degraded) at each 5% bin of performance. Otherwise it's no more honest than saying that your new Ferrari is capable of speeds up to 220mph, without mentioning that this can only be utilized during .01% of your driving.
Put two addresses on your form. The real one, and a decoy one. Customers are directed to the real one, while the harvester grabs both. Automatically delete any message to the real address that has also been sent to the decoy one.
Accomplishment #51: Building a robust enough server network to survive Slashdotting.
Let's see, four square miles of sunlight focused onto my back yard. Conversion efficiency ~30%. Melting point of silicon 1414 deg C.
Unless I've got a backyard the size of Bill Gates, lifetime of new solar plant = one sunrise.
This headline can be recycled and reused into perpetuity. Chances are with continuing advancements it will always become more affordable than it was last week, month, year, decade, or century.
But when will it become truly affordable for the masses? That's what most of us want to know. Wake me when it's time to disconnect from the petroleum/nuclear fired grid.
Pay people to buy it.
Or, under some definitions, sell below costs ala XBox360, PS3, Zune...
Or Dollars and Cents cheaper!
Yeah? How quickly? At what increase in price (or decrease in profits)?
And oh, by the way, your shiny new iPod is now obsolete. Wanna buy a new one?
I'll bet this has Apple salivating already. Might even cause them to overlook the deal MS cut with UMG to pay royalty rights regardless of how the Zune is used for "stolen" music that might be loaded by some users.
In Canada the CD levy was successfully argued in court that downloaders were protected since they'd already paid for the music on their overly taxed CD's.
In the reach of short-term profits and obvious attempts to damage Apple, Microsoft has done a huge disservice to consumers overall. And they don't even fsking care!
You're a disaster of a human being, the source of all your current problems, likely have a truly messed up life otherwise, and will never see this post because it is so very far down in this topic that already has more comments than almost any other topic I've seen recently on Slashdot that everyone has stopped reading long before reaching this point.
$RNDNUMBER $ANYTHING PROFIT!!!
You think global warming is a concern now. Consider how bad it would get with 336 hour days!
I'm betting a lot of people download stuff that they'd never buy in the first place, P2P or no P2P. To call every instance of that a Lost Sale and value it at iTunes monopoly pricing is absolute Fraud!