That seems to happen a lot with these big east Asian electronics firms, they get so big they end up competing with themselves. Look at Sony, they used to(and maybe still do?) manufacture a lot of the parts that went into Apple computers such as the battery, while at the same time competing with Apple in both the laptop and the personal media player fields...... Though Samsung would be wise to make sure they don't end up going down the same path that Sony did, i.e. get so big and have so many conflicting goals that they end up losing a lot of their core business to smaller and more nimble competitors.
The reason for the delay is obvious, under the act Santa would be thrown in the slammer for allowing his elves to look up how to make toys online. No congressman wants to be responsible for arresting Santa the Christmas before an election year, even they aren't THAT evil.
Um, GP said Abrahamic religions, none of those are particularly "Abrahamic", unless maybe the FSM ordered an Italian chef to sacrifice his first born meatball.
I've lived in more countries than you could even point out on a map dumbshit, I also said "at least poverty in the first world". Maybe instead of being an arrogant dickhead, you go back to first grade and learn basic reading comprehension skills, k?
Um, yeah, my guess is that you have no understanding of poverty, at least poverty in the first world. Being able to search for housing, search for jobs, search for other necessities of life etc. is of utmost importance to poor people. And as all of that information is going online, people who cannot access the information often end up having to pay more for those same services because middle men will insert themselves between the poor and the providers of those services.
I guess the question I have is why monkeys?(other than monkeys are awesome of course:P) Is there any advantage to using monkeys over other types of animals, particularly since monkeys are quite social and thus tend to clump together in groups.... Unfortunately TFA doesn't explain why monkeys were chosen.
Laptops are getting cheaper all the time, but you don't even need a laptop to access the internet nowadays. Cheap smart phones that are more than capable of accessing the internet are getting more ubiquitous and cheaper every day. Even in some rich countries where everyone could probably afford a laptop, a large number of people access the internet exclusively from their phone. It may be cheaper, easier, and more useful for countries to provide their poorest citizens with smartphones instead of laptops
They did something similar when Clinton was in office too, their basic plan is to force the democratic president to either cut popular programs, thus costing him a lot of support, or to basically come out and say "I hate your grandchildren". Unfortunately Clinton was a much shrewder politician than Obama is and was able to corral the Republicans, for the most part.
The review sites certainly could make it easier. For instance fake book reviews are becoming a very common thing on amazon, esp. for books in the mid-range of demand. It's amazing to look at a book and see all these 5 star ratings and then note that 99% of the people who gave it 5 stars mysteriously only have 1 review....Amazon helps out a little bit by allowing you to look at only reviews from people who bought the item or are a "top reviewer", but that still doesn't really help that much.
They should be allowing me to customize my settings to block any reviews from "suspicious" reviewers, but they won't out of fear of offending someone and perhaps losing a sale as someone buys garbage then has to go back and get a better product.....
At least in my experience actual education is usually the last thing on school board members minds. You obviously have to have too much free time on your hands to run, and it seems that most of them are only interested in lowering taxes and forcing their religious beliefs on the school. Everything else is just "useless in everyday life"
Any actual evidence of this? Beyond rants of course. Take HIV for instance, big pharma is by not the only one working on the disease, not by a longshot. And yet nobody has found a cure. The big pharma you rant and rave about has also released a vaccine to prevent the most common forms of HPV, despite the fact that at least according to your model of the world they would be better off letting the women get cancer. Big Pharma does a lot of slimy things, but I have yet to find any hard evidence of this particularly popular/. meme being true.
I think what Miyamoto is doing is going to turn out really good for not only Nintendo, but the gaming industry as a whole. One can use their talents not only to create, but also identify who has the potential to create things. As companies and industries grow, they tend to get less flexible, esp. towards those at the "bottom rungs" of the corporate ladder. This is especially true in Japan, where seniority is everything(there are still Japanese companies that don't give out merit based pay raises). Miyamoto is almost 60, he realizes that he doesn't have a huge amount of time left before retirement, and rather than just continue to do what he has done, only to leave a huge void at the top, it looks like he is devoting his last years at Nintendo to giving younger developers the exact same opportunity he was given.
When he first started out, he was an employee at a relatively small company trying to break into a very small industry, and as such there were very few people to push back when he tried to push the boundaries. Now fast forward a few decades and you have this massive industry comprised of massive companies, there is going to be push back when you try to push the boundaries, and massive hurdles to clear if you do, esp. if you want to do so while working for an already established company. By becoming a mentor Miyamoto can use his prestige to help elevate some of the good ideas and people that otherwise might have otherwise been wasted toiling at the bottom rung. It's actually a shame that more visionaries aren't like Miyamoto and spend their last years working as advisors and cultivators of good ideas. While I'm sure his input will be missed at the top levels, he can do the company a lot more good spending his final years trying to identify and help the people that will one day take his place.
I think the thing to note is that it didn't do very well until after the price drop. Before the price drop it was more expensive than the cheapest iPod touch, now it's $30 cheaper. This of course makes it a more attractive for parents trying to decide between the two for their kid, plus parents don't have to worry about the 3DS being hooked up to their credit card..... you can of course disable in-app purchasing and app downloads etc on the iPod touch, but I'd be willing to bet there is a pretty decent % of parents who don't know that.
Well, a quick google search of the numbers may be helpful:
The list of biggest companies shows that Verizon and ATT&T combined for a total revenue of about 230 billion. Meanwhile the the biggest publisher in the US only had revenue of about 2.5 billion, and the industry as a whole is much smaller than the telecom market. So who do you think can buy more influence in Washington?
Well, they don't really say what they meant by "formatting", if the sticks were formatted as HFS+ then I doubt they had been plugged into Windows computers, or at the very least got the malware from the Windows machine as right now there is no tool that can write directly to an HFS+ disk..... It's possible that they picked them up through using shared folders with a Windows VM and had their USB shared, but that seems pretty unlikely
However, more than likely what they meant by that statement is that they found.DS_Store directories on the disk which indicates that they have been plugged into a Mac(those directories are how finder remembers how you had your icons organized etc.)
And it sort of sums up the American populace, on one side we have brilliant engineers and scientists able to create probes that can leave the solar system, but on the other hand we have yahoos that somehow think the human wang and vagina are just SOOOOOOO dirty(despite the fact that both are required for us to even be here in the first place) that they didn't want any depiction of them whatever, lest Jesus get a boner or something similarly terrible....
I would be willing to be geography has a lot to do with it. Most of the central part of Honshu(the main island) is incredibly mountainous. In order to run power from the west coast to Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures, you would have to run a lot of power lines through those mountains. This would be incredibly difficult as well as incredibly expensive, so my guess is that they try to keep the power generation on the same side of the island as the electricity is used on.
Price was not the only reason Apple lost out to the PC, not by a long shot. Gates seemed to be the only smart enough to figure out the whole familiarity factor to computing, people who use X computer at work will be much more likely to buy X computer for use at home as well. Knowing "how to use" such a computer puts the buyer at ease, and of course they can always take stuff from work home. Furthermore, there was a lot of stagnation in Mac OS after Jobs' ouster, pre-Mac OS sucked even worse than Windows, as hard as that is to believe.
If price was the only thing consumers considered, we would be seeing Linux everywhere and Apple wouldn't be gaining market share every year....
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That seems to happen a lot with these big east Asian electronics firms, they get so big they end up competing with themselves. Look at Sony, they used to(and maybe still do?) manufacture a lot of the parts that went into Apple computers such as the battery, while at the same time competing with Apple in both the laptop and the personal media player fields...... Though Samsung would be wise to make sure they don't end up going down the same path that Sony did, i.e. get so big and have so many conflicting goals that they end up losing a lot of their core business to smaller and more nimble competitors.
The reason for the delay is obvious, under the act Santa would be thrown in the slammer for allowing his elves to look up how to make toys online. No congressman wants to be responsible for arresting Santa the Christmas before an election year, even they aren't THAT evil.
Um, GP said Abrahamic religions, none of those are particularly "Abrahamic", unless maybe the FSM ordered an Italian chef to sacrifice his first born meatball.
I've lived in more countries than you could even point out on a map dumbshit, I also said "at least poverty in the first world". Maybe instead of being an arrogant dickhead, you go back to first grade and learn basic reading comprehension skills, k?
Um, yeah, my guess is that you have no understanding of poverty, at least poverty in the first world. Being able to search for housing, search for jobs, search for other necessities of life etc. is of utmost importance to poor people. And as all of that information is going online, people who cannot access the information often end up having to pay more for those same services because middle men will insert themselves between the poor and the providers of those services.
I guess the question I have is why monkeys?(other than monkeys are awesome of course :P) Is there any advantage to using monkeys over other types of animals, particularly since monkeys are quite social and thus tend to clump together in groups.... Unfortunately TFA doesn't explain why monkeys were chosen.
Laptops are getting cheaper all the time, but you don't even need a laptop to access the internet nowadays. Cheap smart phones that are more than capable of accessing the internet are getting more ubiquitous and cheaper every day. Even in some rich countries where everyone could probably afford a laptop, a large number of people access the internet exclusively from their phone. It may be cheaper, easier, and more useful for countries to provide their poorest citizens with smartphones instead of laptops
They did something similar when Clinton was in office too, their basic plan is to force the democratic president to either cut popular programs, thus costing him a lot of support, or to basically come out and say "I hate your grandchildren". Unfortunately Clinton was a much shrewder politician than Obama is and was able to corral the Republicans, for the most part.
I thought the whole point of KISS was the live shows, are there actually people out there who routinely listen to their music?
And you didn't invent it because....?
The review sites certainly could make it easier. For instance fake book reviews are becoming a very common thing on amazon, esp. for books in the mid-range of demand. It's amazing to look at a book and see all these 5 star ratings and then note that 99% of the people who gave it 5 stars mysteriously only have 1 review....Amazon helps out a little bit by allowing you to look at only reviews from people who bought the item or are a "top reviewer", but that still doesn't really help that much.
They should be allowing me to customize my settings to block any reviews from "suspicious" reviewers, but they won't out of fear of offending someone and perhaps losing a sale as someone buys garbage then has to go back and get a better product.....
Your self-righteousness about statistics while using an incredibly bad sample as proof proves that not only are you an ass, you are a dumbass.
Well, it was only a matter of time, those 26 hour days are killer.
At least in my experience actual education is usually the last thing on school board members minds. You obviously have to have too much free time on your hands to run, and it seems that most of them are only interested in lowering taxes and forcing their religious beliefs on the school. Everything else is just "useless in everyday life"
Furthermore after the floods they may be out of jobs too, a lot of factories may very well pick up and move elsewhere(most likely China)
Any actual evidence of this? Beyond rants of course. Take HIV for instance, big pharma is by not the only one working on the disease, not by a longshot. And yet nobody has found a cure. The big pharma you rant and rave about has also released a vaccine to prevent the most common forms of HPV, despite the fact that at least according to your model of the world they would be better off letting the women get cancer. Big Pharma does a lot of slimy things, but I have yet to find any hard evidence of this particularly popular /. meme being true.
I think what Miyamoto is doing is going to turn out really good for not only Nintendo, but the gaming industry as a whole. One can use their talents not only to create, but also identify who has the potential to create things. As companies and industries grow, they tend to get less flexible, esp. towards those at the "bottom rungs" of the corporate ladder. This is especially true in Japan, where seniority is everything(there are still Japanese companies that don't give out merit based pay raises). Miyamoto is almost 60, he realizes that he doesn't have a huge amount of time left before retirement, and rather than just continue to do what he has done, only to leave a huge void at the top, it looks like he is devoting his last years at Nintendo to giving younger developers the exact same opportunity he was given.
When he first started out, he was an employee at a relatively small company trying to break into a very small industry, and as such there were very few people to push back when he tried to push the boundaries. Now fast forward a few decades and you have this massive industry comprised of massive companies, there is going to be push back when you try to push the boundaries, and massive hurdles to clear if you do, esp. if you want to do so while working for an already established company. By becoming a mentor Miyamoto can use his prestige to help elevate some of the good ideas and people that otherwise might have otherwise been wasted toiling at the bottom rung. It's actually a shame that more visionaries aren't like Miyamoto and spend their last years working as advisors and cultivators of good ideas. While I'm sure his input will be missed at the top levels, he can do the company a lot more good spending his final years trying to identify and help the people that will one day take his place.
I think the thing to note is that it didn't do very well until after the price drop. Before the price drop it was more expensive than the cheapest iPod touch, now it's $30 cheaper. This of course makes it a more attractive for parents trying to decide between the two for their kid, plus parents don't have to worry about the 3DS being hooked up to their credit card..... you can of course disable in-app purchasing and app downloads etc on the iPod touch, but I'd be willing to bet there is a pretty decent % of parents who don't know that.
Well, a quick google search of the numbers may be helpful:
The list of biggest companies shows that Verizon and ATT&T combined for a total revenue of about 230 billion. Meanwhile the the biggest publisher in the US only had revenue of about 2.5 billion, and the industry as a whole is much smaller than the telecom market. So who do you think can buy more influence in Washington?
Well, they don't really say what they meant by "formatting", if the sticks were formatted as HFS+ then I doubt they had been plugged into Windows computers, or at the very least got the malware from the Windows machine as right now there is no tool that can write directly to an HFS+ disk..... It's possible that they picked them up through using shared folders with a Windows VM and had their USB shared, but that seems pretty unlikely
.DS_Store directories on the disk which indicates that they have been plugged into a Mac(those directories are how finder remembers how you had your icons organized etc.)
However, more than likely what they meant by that statement is that they found
And it sort of sums up the American populace, on one side we have brilliant engineers and scientists able to create probes that can leave the solar system, but on the other hand we have yahoos that somehow think the human wang and vagina are just SOOOOOOO dirty(despite the fact that both are required for us to even be here in the first place) that they didn't want any depiction of them whatever, lest Jesus get a boner or something similarly terrible....
I would be willing to be geography has a lot to do with it. Most of the central part of Honshu(the main island) is incredibly mountainous. In order to run power from the west coast to Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures, you would have to run a lot of power lines through those mountains. This would be incredibly difficult as well as incredibly expensive, so my guess is that they try to keep the power generation on the same side of the island as the electricity is used on.
Obligatory Futurama:
Amy: "Like the heaps of dead monkeys."
Professor: "Science can't move forward without heaps!"
The aw there was assuming that newly graduated students had any say whatsoever in which computers got used at work, they didn't.
Price was not the only reason Apple lost out to the PC, not by a long shot. Gates seemed to be the only smart enough to figure out the whole familiarity factor to computing, people who use X computer at work will be much more likely to buy X computer for use at home as well. Knowing "how to use" such a computer puts the buyer at ease, and of course they can always take stuff from work home. Furthermore, there was a lot of stagnation in Mac OS after Jobs' ouster, pre-Mac OS sucked even worse than Windows, as hard as that is to believe.
If price was the only thing consumers considered, we would be seeing Linux everywhere and Apple wouldn't be gaining market share every year....