The only thing predictable about Nintendo is that they will keep making great games. Any kind of detail predictions whether it be strategic, financial, software, hard ware, or whatever will always be way off the mark.
Oh and Nintendo will also always be profitable, as it has been for a very long time.
I wish they would have gone ahead and swallowed sega, their games portfolio would have been unmatched no matter the cost of sega (or just some of the pieces). Nintendo would have gotten a HUGE ROI on that purchase, that or they should have bought enix instead of letting square and enix merge,, but alas while Nintendo doesn't look at total market dominance as a factor in its decision it only looks at profits and it has been very good at producing profits in its long history.
I go to UT (but thanks for telling me, I rarely check out the labs, I do most of my work at the apartment, but now I wont try to sell those zip disks), but the school I was talking about was my high school
Great program we have going on there, and if anyone is interested in teaching in art, engineering, architecture, photography, 3d modeling/animation, web design, programming, or anything computer oriented in the San Antonio area you should visit that site and email the director Dr. Kelly Flieger.
Go here to get in touch with them, tell them David Grohmann sent you.
Thankfully we no longer have to guesswho will win the format war for the "next floppy disk" Now that USB key drives are here they are soo awsome.
Since they require no drive, only a USB port they can constantly be upraded in size.
The only thing they got going against them is price/size ratio but this is made up by the awsome portability of keychain/necklace.
I got one for christmas from my tech clueless Dad, how the hell did that happen???
And at 40 bucks for 256 MB offlash memory, why are digital cameras not using these, they are WAAAY cheaper than compact flash and all those other kinds at that size.
Unfortunately, my school went with zip and so I had to follow and now I have all these useless zip disks...
While the article was titled "Biggest Tech Flops" it clearly should have been title "Worst Tech Market Flops"
Marketing wise, Windows is the biggest success in the history of mankind. Bill Gates strategies and tactics, however illegal or immoral they might have been, led to the rise of this operating system over the much more powerful Macintosh of its day.
I know we all hate Microsoft, but as far as being a product that was marketed perfectly, windows gets that prize anyday.
While they were definitely late I would hardly call them a flop. I would never buy a whole album because I'm not a music lover, but occasionally I like a single song I hear and might be inclined to buy one for 79-99 cents.
People have been using these services even though there are restrictions, and they are almost all easily circumvent able, so quit whining, although there is certainly is a consumer convenience argument you could surely make, the market seems to be able to bear these inconveniences in exchange for cheap, "gimme what I want" per song downloads.
Nonetheless people are paying up even though they could get it for free right next door.
The music industry is slowly learning that if you build it, they will come.
So mark this one as a day late, but not a dollar short.
But didnt they prove Fermat's Last Theorem with some mathematics that werent available to himas far as we know. Yet he claimed ot have proven it, just "there wasnt enough room in the margins for the proof"
I wish as children that we would be tought 3 -5 languages in grade school.
Children of that age can easily pick up multiple languages.
It is sooo hard to learn foreign languages by the time you are a teeager and worse yet, our education system has mostly given up on teaching grammatical constructs more complicated than subject predicate until middle/high school.
I know more latin grammer than I do english because they actually teach it in latin class.
And once you get assusomted ot learning languages, other come to you more easily.
If it were up to me Everyone in american would learn English, Latin, German atleast, and possibly greek. Then we would know all the roots where out words come from. Once you know latin, the other romance languages become relativly easy.
Give it a few hundred years and there wont be an english, french, spanish, german. There will be just one language when people absorb the best constructs of each.
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Sorry that this is off topic, but I need some help.
A few days ago I found this site (memtest86) and wanted to run their program, However they have very few instructions on what you need to do, I have no floppy drive (good riddance)
So I downloaded their ISO and straight opened it up in Nero and burned it. I could never get the CD to boot.
"Opening this band is expected to boost the development of fixed wireless access services, such as low cost internet access in areas not currently reached by broadband services," said the DTI in a statement. "
Isn't fixed wireless in the states actually pretty expensive? How are they going to do it cheaply in the UK?
I thought the real selling point of fixed wireless was that these rural areas finally get to have access, and, being deprived of anything near as fast, would pay a relatively high price for it.
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Please remind me why a HINDU farmer would be crying for ALLAH???
Come on, atleast get your religions straight in your crappy troll post.
I dont remember reading about a mission that collected commet dust....
This mission has almost nothing to do with propulsion you twit.
It is merely a means to an end.
The point was to collect some physical material from a comet and see what we can learn from it. Which could be a whole lot, or very little.
Click here to disallow anyone or programon your computer to use messenger
Works for XP pro only I believe
No one needed to market oil or gasoline, there was an overwhelming demand, and no comparable substitutes even 100 years later.
The only thing predictable about Nintendo is that they will keep making great games. Any kind of detail predictions whether it be strategic, financial, software, hard ware, or whatever will always be way off the mark.
Oh and Nintendo will also always be profitable, as it has been for a very long time.
I wish they would have gone ahead and swallowed sega, their games portfolio would have been unmatched no matter the cost of sega (or just some of the pieces). Nintendo would have gotten a HUGE ROI on that purchase, that or they should have bought enix instead of letting square and enix merge,, but alas while Nintendo doesn't look at total market dominance as a factor in its decision it only looks at profits and it has been very good at producing profits in its long history.
Oops, yeah I've never shopped there myself, sorry about that, thanks for the correction.
The Design and Technology Academy (DATA)
Great program we have going on there, and if anyone is interested in teaching in art, engineering, architecture, photography, 3d modeling/animation, web design, programming, or anything computer oriented in the San Antonio area you should visit that site and email the director Dr. Kelly Flieger.
Go here to get in touch with them, tell them David Grohmann sent you.
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All the replies to this post rip up his claims, mod him over rated...
many new computer have front loading usb ports, bios can boot form usb, if you are working with dos, you arent working with USB anyways.
If a pen drive gets wet why would it stop working??? I would think if you let it dry off befoore hooking it up to a computer it should work fine.
f im wrong please explain what the water does? corrodes the metal or somethign? they are gold interconnects...
My dad bought it at Cosco
Are ther any statistics on Mac viruses? Obiously we never hear about them because their affect is much less noticable but I'm curious nonetheless.
Thankfully we no longer have to guesswho will win the format war for the "next floppy disk" Now that USB key drives are here they are soo awsome.
Since they require no drive, only a USB port they can constantly be upraded in size.
The only thing they got going against them is price/size ratio but this is made up by the awsome portability of keychain/necklace.
I got one for christmas from my tech clueless Dad, how the hell did that happen???
And at 40 bucks for 256 MB offlash memory, why are digital cameras not using these, they are WAAAY cheaper than compact flash and all those other kinds at that size.
Unfortunately, my school went with zip and so I had to follow and now I have all these useless zip disks...
Would have been a good mention if the title of the article was "Biggest Merger Flops"
Follow the URL and find out why , pr0n, and a clear flamebait for any Democrat/Dean supporter, and absoultely off topic for this discussion.
Here is the comment above
While the article was titled "Biggest Tech Flops" it clearly should have been title "Worst Tech Market Flops"
Marketing wise, Windows is the biggest success in the history of mankind. Bill Gates strategies and tactics, however illegal or immoral they might have been, led to the rise of this operating system over the much more powerful Macintosh of its day.
I know we all hate Microsoft, but as far as being a product that was marketed perfectly, windows gets that prize anyday.
Probably was skipped on purpose to avoid confusion with the codec.
That would have required another paragraph to be added just to explain the difference.
While they were definitely late I would hardly call them a flop. I would never buy a whole album because I'm not a music lover, but occasionally I like a single song I hear and might be inclined to buy one for 79-99 cents.
People have been using these services even though there are restrictions, and they are almost all easily circumvent able, so quit whining, although there is certainly is a consumer convenience argument you could surely make, the market seems to be able to bear these inconveniences in exchange for cheap, "gimme what I want" per song downloads.
Nonetheless people are paying up even though they could get it for free right next door.
The music industry is slowly learning that if you build it, they will come.
So mark this one as a day late, but not a dollar short.
I prefer posts of this size tobe broken down into bulleted like sectionn whe the enter key is used often... Especially when quotes are involved.
But didnt they prove Fermat's Last Theorem with some mathematics that werent available to himas far as we know. Yet he claimed ot have proven it, just "there wasnt enough room in the margins for the proof"
lol thats what I thought.... strange
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oops I said lol
I wish as children that we would be tought 3 -5 languages in grade school.
Children of that age can easily pick up multiple languages.
It is sooo hard to learn foreign languages by the time you are a teeager and worse yet, our education system has mostly given up on teaching grammatical constructs more complicated than subject predicate until middle/high school.
I know more latin grammer than I do english because they actually teach it in latin class.
And once you get assusomted ot learning languages, other come to you more easily.
If it were up to me Everyone in american would learn English, Latin, German atleast, and possibly greek. Then we would know all the roots where out words come from. Once you know latin, the other romance languages become relativly easy.
Give it a few hundred years and there wont be an english, french, spanish, german. There will be just one language when people absorb the best constructs of each.
UGH so fake the reg info! quit whining!
Sorry that this is off topic, but I need some help.
A few days ago I found this site (memtest86) and wanted to run their program, However they have very few instructions on what you need to do, I have no floppy drive (good riddance)
So I downloaded their ISO and straight opened it up in Nero and burned it. I could never get the CD to boot.
Was there a step I was missing????
Thank you to anyone who can provide assistance.
VBR works on computers that can handle 2 - 50x the avg bitrate....
DVD players and things like them are designed for a spec, they are just barely able to run everything to keep the prices low enough.
If VBR encoding was used then the hardware would have to be powerful enough for the highest possible bitrate even though it would rarely be used.
Isn't fixed wireless in the states actually pretty expensive? How are they going to do it cheaply in the UK?
I thought the real selling point of fixed wireless was that these rural areas finally get to have access, and, being deprived of anything near as fast, would pay a relatively high price for it.