And being a shithead is a great alternative to having an argument, isn't it? You didn't invalidate my point dumbass, Greenpeace would never, EVER let anyone get near the truth, so they would never do anything like release stats that prove what a bunch of self-righteous egotistical whiners they really are. So my experience is all I have to go on, and I've dealt with shitheads such as yourself and Greenpeace more than I care to. Greenpeace activists rarely have jobs, but always seem to have money, and rich parents.
It doesn't matter, they have set a precedent that is incredibly off-putting. If they didn't want to put it in future products, fine whatever, but the fact that they would go and intentionally disable a product I already paid money for is unforgivable. Imagine if you bought a swiss army knife then after you already paid money for it the company came and demanded that it be allowed to remove the screwdriver from the knife... yeah the knife still works for the most part, but now it does less than it did when you paid for it, and the company went out of its way to do so. So what is to prevent them from removing features in the future? Maybe they don't want to support the 3g modem on the vita in a few years, just push out an update that removes that functionality. No problem right?
I doubt Greenpeace would ever let you collect that data, but I knew a bunch of these people back in the day, spoiled little rich kids who had never actually worked a day in their life. These asshats are setting the whole environmental movement back decades.
Their rich mommies and daddies. Greenpeace "activists" tend to be spoiled little rich kids who have no qualms about taking the benefits of an industrial society while still condemning how "evil" it is.... perhaps so they don't feel as bad about living off of mommy and daddy.
Is it just me or do all the book covers from the "head first" series look like they were taken by a peeping tom taking cell phone pictures on an escalator?
Fortunately concerts in Europe are still (relatively) affordable I remember going to Rock Im Park in Germany and got a 3 day ticket for 150 euro, including camping, for some really big bands. Just seeing one of those bands in the states would probably set you back almost that much..... and of course now I live in Japan where it's even worse than the states, a 2 day festival roughly akin to Rock Im Park costs over 3x as much and doesn't include camping.....
I always thought this "should be run like a business" stuff was very hypocritical. Pretty much all the "run x like a business" (where x is Amtrak, USPS etc) politicians will then turn around and beg for fat subsidies for airports who often bleed cash like it was going out of style. I guess the difference is that poor people actually use Amtrak and the postal service, but rarely use airports......
I always found this argument hilarious, you complain endlessly about poor quality as the reason you won't pay, and yet you obviously still sit there and watch it. Um, you know there are other things to do besides watch shit, you are aware of this right? RIGHT? If the stuff sucks that badly, don't pirate it, go out for a walk, doodle on paper, read something etc.
But increased "sponsor time" is at least in part to blame for the declining quality, esp. of comedy shows in my opinion. When the Simpsons started, they had two and half minutes, or roughly 10% more show time per episode than they do now. The extra time gave the writers more of a chance to better pace out their jokes and had time for better B and C stories. Some of the funniest Simpsons moments are the B and C stories, but there is no way any of those could have stretched into a full story. Part of the reason I think they do some of the extended couch gags nowadays is that the A story isn't enough to fill the whole episode, but whereas in the past they would have had enough time to do a good B story, now they are forced to make up the gap using a couch gag as there is no way they could fit the B story into the time allotted.
In addition to watching shows online, the ability to easily connect the XBox 360 and PS3 to a computer monitor has to be having a dampening effect on TV sales, esp. among the young. For less than $200, I can get a 23" LCD monitor that I can connect to my laptop for computing and watching shows online, and can connect to my console for gaming. Why on earth then would I want a TV, especially if I am living in a dorm or small apartment where space is at a premium?
Well thats why you don't actually charge money you don't have(but are expecting you will), you can treat the credit card like a free 1 month loan, keep the cash you would have been spending otherwise in the bank and let it accrue interest(though right now you would be lucky to get 1%)
Not only does the immigration policy prevent talented people from coming in, it also hampers Americans selling stuff made in the USA abroad. For instance people wonder why Japan sells more on a per capita basis to China than the US does. To a certain degree there is the "well Japan makes stuff the Chinese want to buy", but it's more than that. Japan realizing what a vital economic partner China is going to be in the future, made arrangements with the Chinese government for a reciprocal visa-free entry of up to 15 days(technically I think the Chinese still require a visa, but it's merely a formality)
Now imagine you are a Chinese company looking to buy something from either the US or Japan. Everything else being equal, do you want to buy from a company where they can send almost any person on staff on-site to support the product within a day or two, or do you want to deal with the company that has cannot guarantee critical people will be able to go on-site to support the product for at least a week while they wait for their visas? Not a tough decision.
You are going to convince *talented* people to leave their country, their homes etc. to live on a boat for most of the year when they could very well do 99.9% of what you want them to do on the boat at home? Something tells me the "talent" you are looking for isn't that talented, and you aren't going to be attracting the highest caliber of people.
Isn't this pretty much what happened to that last tower in Final Fantasy 1? And didn't the robots go berserk? I guess people better start investing in magic cubes.
The currency is probably the most visible way of boosting exports, but the non-tariff barriers to trade are at least as bad, if not worse, than the currency. It is incredibly difficult for foreign companies to export anything to China in what the Chinese government calls "critical sectors". Those that do often find themselves forced to show the Chinese companies how to make the products, then the government transfers that knowledge to Chinese companies(both state-run and private) and pretty soon the companies find that not only cannot they compete in the Chinese market,they often lose out on business in the markets they previously sold things to. On top of that there are import quotas, laws that say X% of certain products have to be made in China, laws that prevent Chinese companies from sourcing parts abroad in certain sectors etc. And whats worse is that since China is a dictatorship, the laws pretty much change on whatever whims the communist party officials are feeling that day. While the currency manipulation doesn't help, it's only a small part of the problem.
This is especially true in China, during the cultural revolution academics were often dragged out of their houses and put on trials in kangaroo courts for being part of the bourgeoisie. Part of the reason China's university system is still pretty weak is that they literally killed off most of their academics and installed party shills instead.
Actually their English(well at least the English of a certain percentage of the population) is so good that the Japanese English conversation industry is starting to outsource teaching jobs to the Philippines. You can do a Skype lesson with someone in the Philippines for less than 1/3 what it would cost to do a face-to-face lesson with a native speaker in Japan.
I think the picture is a little more complicated than that. Supplies in certain segments of the hard drive industry may never recover because SSDs do a better job. One such segment is really high performance drives(15k RPM). Given SSDs higher density when compared to 15k rpm drives, the total cost of ownership is already favoring SSDs, so any plant that made parts for the 15k rpm drives may never be rebuilt. The remaining factories will probably only produce enough product to produce spares parts and thus the price will probably never fall back down to pre-flood levels.
I also think that Nintendo either didn't predict, or chose to ignore, the emerging smart phone/social network gaming trends. They basically put all their effort into trying to win the "casual games" market, only to lose that market to iOS, Android, and Facebook, competitors that basically didn't exist when the Wii and DS were first released.
Well to be fair, Nintendo's problems aren't only game sales, they are also the insanely strong yen which is basically at an all time high. Unlike Sony Nintendo really hasn't done a very good job of spreading it's costs around geographically and thus is still beholden to the strength of the yen much more than Sony is. Also Sony can wait for the yen to drop off or can take it's Euros or dollars and invest them in other divisions, Nintendo being much smaller does not have this luxury.
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And being a shithead is a great alternative to having an argument, isn't it? You didn't invalidate my point dumbass, Greenpeace would never, EVER let anyone get near the truth, so they would never do anything like release stats that prove what a bunch of self-righteous egotistical whiners they really are. So my experience is all I have to go on, and I've dealt with shitheads such as yourself and Greenpeace more than I care to. Greenpeace activists rarely have jobs, but always seem to have money, and rich parents.
It doesn't matter, they have set a precedent that is incredibly off-putting. If they didn't want to put it in future products, fine whatever, but the fact that they would go and intentionally disable a product I already paid money for is unforgivable. Imagine if you bought a swiss army knife then after you already paid money for it the company came and demanded that it be allowed to remove the screwdriver from the knife... yeah the knife still works for the most part, but now it does less than it did when you paid for it, and the company went out of its way to do so. So what is to prevent them from removing features in the future? Maybe they don't want to support the 3g modem on the vita in a few years, just push out an update that removes that functionality. No problem right?
I doubt Greenpeace would ever let you collect that data, but I knew a bunch of these people back in the day, spoiled little rich kids who had never actually worked a day in their life. These asshats are setting the whole environmental movement back decades.
Their rich mommies and daddies. Greenpeace "activists" tend to be spoiled little rich kids who have no qualms about taking the benefits of an industrial society while still condemning how "evil" it is.... perhaps so they don't feel as bad about living off of mommy and daddy.
Is it just me or do all the book covers from the "head first" series look like they were taken by a peeping tom taking cell phone pictures on an escalator?
Fortunately concerts in Europe are still (relatively) affordable I remember going to Rock Im Park in Germany and got a 3 day ticket for 150 euro, including camping, for some really big bands. Just seeing one of those bands in the states would probably set you back almost that much..... and of course now I live in Japan where it's even worse than the states, a 2 day festival roughly akin to Rock Im Park costs over 3x as much and doesn't include camping.....
I always thought this "should be run like a business" stuff was very hypocritical. Pretty much all the "run x like a business" (where x is Amtrak, USPS etc) politicians will then turn around and beg for fat subsidies for airports who often bleed cash like it was going out of style. I guess the difference is that poor people actually use Amtrak and the postal service, but rarely use airports......
Why wouldn't they just buy a new sim instead of a whole new phone?
I always found this argument hilarious, you complain endlessly about poor quality as the reason you won't pay, and yet you obviously still sit there and watch it. Um, you know there are other things to do besides watch shit, you are aware of this right? RIGHT? If the stuff sucks that badly, don't pirate it, go out for a walk, doodle on paper, read something etc.
But increased "sponsor time" is at least in part to blame for the declining quality, esp. of comedy shows in my opinion. When the Simpsons started, they had two and half minutes, or roughly 10% more show time per episode than they do now. The extra time gave the writers more of a chance to better pace out their jokes and had time for better B and C stories. Some of the funniest Simpsons moments are the B and C stories, but there is no way any of those could have stretched into a full story. Part of the reason I think they do some of the extended couch gags nowadays is that the A story isn't enough to fill the whole episode, but whereas in the past they would have had enough time to do a good B story, now they are forced to make up the gap using a couch gag as there is no way they could fit the B story into the time allotted.
In addition to watching shows online, the ability to easily connect the XBox 360 and PS3 to a computer monitor has to be having a dampening effect on TV sales, esp. among the young. For less than $200, I can get a 23" LCD monitor that I can connect to my laptop for computing and watching shows online, and can connect to my console for gaming. Why on earth then would I want a TV, especially if I am living in a dorm or small apartment where space is at a premium?
Well thats why you don't actually charge money you don't have(but are expecting you will), you can treat the credit card like a free 1 month loan, keep the cash you would have been spending otherwise in the bank and let it accrue interest(though right now you would be lucky to get 1%)
Even without a plane or weapons I bet he still gets more kills than Slippy.
And it didn't work in France....
Not only does the immigration policy prevent talented people from coming in, it also hampers Americans selling stuff made in the USA abroad. For instance people wonder why Japan sells more on a per capita basis to China than the US does. To a certain degree there is the "well Japan makes stuff the Chinese want to buy", but it's more than that. Japan realizing what a vital economic partner China is going to be in the future, made arrangements with the Chinese government for a reciprocal visa-free entry of up to 15 days(technically I think the Chinese still require a visa, but it's merely a formality)
Now imagine you are a Chinese company looking to buy something from either the US or Japan. Everything else being equal, do you want to buy from a company where they can send almost any person on staff on-site to support the product within a day or two, or do you want to deal with the company that has cannot guarantee critical people will be able to go on-site to support the product for at least a week while they wait for their visas? Not a tough decision.
You are going to convince *talented* people to leave their country, their homes etc. to live on a boat for most of the year when they could very well do 99.9% of what you want them to do on the boat at home? Something tells me the "talent" you are looking for isn't that talented, and you aren't going to be attracting the highest caliber of people.
Isn't this pretty much what happened to that last tower in Final Fantasy 1? And didn't the robots go berserk? I guess people better start investing in magic cubes.
I wonder if this dude has been buying a lot of abandoned mineshaft property recently......
If you don't want to take chances with your seafood then you shouldn't be playing "Wheel of Fish". Come on people, this isn't rocket science.
The currency is probably the most visible way of boosting exports, but the non-tariff barriers to trade are at least as bad, if not worse, than the currency. It is incredibly difficult for foreign companies to export anything to China in what the Chinese government calls "critical sectors". Those that do often find themselves forced to show the Chinese companies how to make the products, then the government transfers that knowledge to Chinese companies(both state-run and private) and pretty soon the companies find that not only cannot they compete in the Chinese market,they often lose out on business in the markets they previously sold things to. On top of that there are import quotas, laws that say X% of certain products have to be made in China, laws that prevent Chinese companies from sourcing parts abroad in certain sectors etc. And whats worse is that since China is a dictatorship, the laws pretty much change on whatever whims the communist party officials are feeling that day. While the currency manipulation doesn't help, it's only a small part of the problem.
This is especially true in China, during the cultural revolution academics were often dragged out of their houses and put on trials in kangaroo courts for being part of the bourgeoisie. Part of the reason China's university system is still pretty weak is that they literally killed off most of their academics and installed party shills instead.
Actually their English(well at least the English of a certain percentage of the population) is so good that the Japanese English conversation industry is starting to outsource teaching jobs to the Philippines. You can do a Skype lesson with someone in the Philippines for less than 1/3 what it would cost to do a face-to-face lesson with a native speaker in Japan.
I think the picture is a little more complicated than that. Supplies in certain segments of the hard drive industry may never recover because SSDs do a better job. One such segment is really high performance drives(15k RPM). Given SSDs higher density when compared to 15k rpm drives, the total cost of ownership is already favoring SSDs, so any plant that made parts for the 15k rpm drives may never be rebuilt. The remaining factories will probably only produce enough product to produce spares parts and thus the price will probably never fall back down to pre-flood levels.
I also think that Nintendo either didn't predict, or chose to ignore, the emerging smart phone/social network gaming trends. They basically put all their effort into trying to win the "casual games" market, only to lose that market to iOS, Android, and Facebook, competitors that basically didn't exist when the Wii and DS were first released.
Well to be fair, Nintendo's problems aren't only game sales, they are also the insanely strong yen which is basically at an all time high. Unlike Sony Nintendo really hasn't done a very good job of spreading it's costs around geographically and thus is still beholden to the strength of the yen much more than Sony is. Also Sony can wait for the yen to drop off or can take it's Euros or dollars and invest them in other divisions, Nintendo being much smaller does not have this luxury.