Hironobo Sakaguchi (ranked for his successful prolific outsourced development process)
So maybe that is why FFIV on the GBA was one of the buggiest console games I have ever played, and the buggiest Square game by far. It crashed on me at least once, battle timing was totally off(some characters would get two or more turns before another would even get one), and there were random pauses/slowdowns in battle. Come on, if you are going to outsource a port(a port! They weren't even creating original code) at least have the decency to do some testing before releasing it.....
Steve Jobs wanted to change the way cell phones are bought but ended up just making so many annoying restrictions, even for customers that want to use AT&T/T-mobile/Orange that he ended up destroying the "simple" experience he so desired. He wanted people to be able to buy the phones directly from Apple without having to sign anything in store and/or online. However, when people started to unlock the phones Apple put in place tons of walls even for buyers that plan to use Apple's carrier. For example, you cannot buy iPhones with cash or Apple gift cards(in the states anyway). They announced this right before Christmas and many potential iPhone buyers already let it be known that they wanted Apple gift cards for Christmas so they could buy the iPhone. Instead, Apple just kicked them in the teeth.
What I don't understand is why, when Apple dropped the price, they didn't just make the price drop a subsidy for AT&T customers instead. They could have offered $200 off AT&T service after the first month that wasn't applicible to cancellation fees, and could have extended it to early adopters so they wouldn't have felt burned. Would have allowed Apple to drop the price to AT&T users(well, it would take a few months to see all the savings I suppose), and would have given Apple 50% more revenue from unlockers. But I think Steve was just so set against "subsidies" that he decided to take the "I'll do anything to prevent you from getting an unlocked iPhone" route instead. I think that costed Apple not only customers and revenue, but a LOT of goodwill too.....
I was using the stalker site veromi.net the other day and came to a realization: now with search engines being ubiqutous, people with really common names seem to enjoy a better shield against employers googling information than those who have uncommon names. For example, there are probably a lot more "Tim Smiths" out there than there are "Mustafa Wenzel"s. Tim Smith is probably harder to find online, and if he did anything stupid as a teen(got caught shoplifting or whatever), the employer would have a much harder time finding it.
Then again, if you google my name, esp. my full name, without quotes, most of the results are porn..... I just happen to have the same last name as the stage name of a famous porn actress who frequently appears with a man whose stage first and last name is the same as my first and middle name respectively.
Yahoo finance isn't the greatest UI in the world, but they do have some good articles and my bet is that Microsoft will just make it ugly, propietary to IE, and take any sort of depth from the articles......Pretty much like they do with everything else.
Not to mention the DS has a great combo of innovative inputs while still having all the old-school inputs.(ie d-pad and plenty of well placed buttons). I think the DS, more than the Wii, has really opened up gaming to a much wider audience. When I'm at home, my mom uses my DS more than I do. She loves puzzles and can't get enough of the brain age games. My cousins cannot be pried away from theirs. Plus, the ability to go almost anywhere(save an airplane) and be able to play multi-player games is really great(the psp can do this too, but....)
I own both a DS and Wii, and I hardly touch the Wii, and am on my DS all the time. I can great 2-d RPG games, puzzles, fighting, and action games that are really easy to play in short intervals. DS is the best games console hands down.
That being said, my love for tactical games is tempting me to get a PSP, which has FF Tactics, Jean D'Arc, and Lord of the Rings tactics among others. All we have on the DS is Radiant Arc, which I cannot stand.
Look at the list(and pockets) of the companies that he thinks the blogger may work for. More than likely what he is hoping for is that the blogger works for big company X, and then he can sue big company X for a lot, and in order to avoid (potential) embarrassment and/or the potential for a huge loss, he assumes that big company X will settle out of court for a handsome sum.
No, the key difference is what the person getting the money uses it for. Grameen doesn't give out money so someone can buy a much bigger house than they need and can afford. They lend out money so that people can start businesses and increase their income. Ie they try to start a virtuous cycle of growth rather than a viscous cycle of debt. Actually, if you look at the United States, you will see that many of the richest people actually borrow lots of money for the same reason as the people who borrow from Grameen do, ie they borrow money to invest in things that will give them a net gain. Meanwhile, the poor tend to borrow for depreciating assets like consumer goods or housing that is pretty much guaranteed not to appreciate faster than inflation(not knocking home ownership, just the idea that amateurs can use their house as an investment).
Well, essentially he is looking for a device..... something he can input sperm into and get a baby as output, so probably/dev would be the best place to look. Though I don't know how many women have usb 2.0 compatible vaginas.
I use macs at home and at work, and they are great machines....most of the time. Maybe I'm a perfectionist, maybe I'm just expecting too much, but so many of Apple's tools are great most of the time. However they have flaws that make them annoying to unusable in certain situations, and at least the Apple of late seems unwilling to fix them.
Example: Airport extreme with airdisk. When the thing is working it is perfect, however, in my experience the disconnects are really annoying, and it disconnects much more than my airport express ever did. Also, when, out of the box, I tried to bridge it with said express it went into infinite reboot mode till I did a factory reset. Again, in theory a great product but when I pay a premium for Apple products I expect it work right 99% of the time, not 90%.
Their server products are another great example of how Apple's products, on the surface anyway, are great, but in practice it tends to fall apart. We are rolling out an LDAP system and it has been nothing but problems. Apple has done a seemingly good job of making a really slick open directory server tool, but there are just too many bugs to make it worth while. A particularly nasty one, that has been reported to Apple but Apple refuses to fix, is that for some international users certain actions will change the time zone to Cupertino, which can wreak havoc with systems. Come on Apple, we paid a lot of money for this system, the least you can do is get the time zones correct. The server also has almost no meaningful error messages(took me forever to figure out the effects I was observing was related to the time zone bug, the Workgroup manager went on its happy way, authenticated me, then didn't do anything afterwards, not a single error message). Similar problems with getting Remote Desktop to work with Directory authentication. All I get is a "Authentication failed" message with no additional information either on the target machine or the server! Come on Apple, you went through a lot of effort to develop this system, but all that is wasted if you don't give me proper error messages!
Ditto with iPhone content management, the system works great 90% of the time, but the inability to give the user more flexibility with content management can lead to frustration and hacks that require playlists of playlists......
I don't know why Apple refuses to address these issues. None of them seem like they would be incredibly hard/expensive to fix, but Apple just seems to have the attitude that if it works in the general cases, there is no need to investigate the extremes and fix whatever problems may arise.
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Iran is one of the few majority Shi'a states. this explains it nicely(It even mentions Iran directly).
Hironobo Sakaguchi (ranked for his successful prolific outsourced development process)
So maybe that is why FFIV on the GBA was one of the buggiest console games I have ever played, and the buggiest Square game by far. It crashed on me at least once, battle timing was totally off(some characters would get two or more turns before another would even get one), and there were random pauses/slowdowns in battle. Come on, if you are going to outsource a port(a port! They weren't even creating original code) at least have the decency to do some testing before releasing it.....
without my knowledge? Wonderful!
Steve Jobs wanted to change the way cell phones are bought but ended up just making so many annoying restrictions, even for customers that want to use AT&T/T-mobile/Orange that he ended up destroying the "simple" experience he so desired. He wanted people to be able to buy the phones directly from Apple without having to sign anything in store and/or online. However, when people started to unlock the phones Apple put in place tons of walls even for buyers that plan to use Apple's carrier. For example, you cannot buy iPhones with cash or Apple gift cards(in the states anyway). They announced this right before Christmas and many potential iPhone buyers already let it be known that they wanted Apple gift cards for Christmas so they could buy the iPhone. Instead, Apple just kicked them in the teeth.
What I don't understand is why, when Apple dropped the price, they didn't just make the price drop a subsidy for AT&T customers instead. They could have offered $200 off AT&T service after the first month that wasn't applicible to cancellation fees, and could have extended it to early adopters so they wouldn't have felt burned. Would have allowed Apple to drop the price to AT&T users(well, it would take a few months to see all the savings I suppose), and would have given Apple 50% more revenue from unlockers. But I think Steve was just so set against "subsidies" that he decided to take the "I'll do anything to prevent you from getting an unlocked iPhone" route instead. I think that costed Apple not only customers and revenue, but a LOT of goodwill too.....
the obvious choice is the Cowboy Neal option!
I was using the stalker site veromi.net the other day and came to a realization: now with search engines being ubiqutous, people with really common names seem to enjoy a better shield against employers googling information than those who have uncommon names. For example, there are probably a lot more "Tim Smiths" out there than there are "Mustafa Wenzel"s. Tim Smith is probably harder to find online, and if he did anything stupid as a teen(got caught shoplifting or whatever), the employer would have a much harder time finding it.
Then again, if you google my name, esp. my full name, without quotes, most of the results are porn..... I just happen to have the same last name as the stage name of a famous porn actress who frequently appears with a man whose stage first and last name is the same as my first and middle name respectively.
I've been to the zoo dozens of times and have never been mauled by any animals.
You are not going to the right zoos then.....
Let me say, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Yahoo finance isn't the greatest UI in the world, but they do have some good articles and my bet is that Microsoft will just make it ugly, propietary to IE, and take any sort of depth from the articles......Pretty much like they do with everything else.
Boba Fett's clones?
Not to mention the DS has a great combo of innovative inputs while still having all the old-school inputs.(ie d-pad and plenty of well placed buttons). I think the DS, more than the Wii, has really opened up gaming to a much wider audience. When I'm at home, my mom uses my DS more than I do. She loves puzzles and can't get enough of the brain age games. My cousins cannot be pried away from theirs. Plus, the ability to go almost anywhere(save an airplane) and be able to play multi-player games is really great(the psp can do this too, but....)
I own both a DS and Wii, and I hardly touch the Wii, and am on my DS all the time. I can great 2-d RPG games, puzzles, fighting, and action games that are really easy to play in short intervals. DS is the best games console hands down.
That being said, my love for tactical games is tempting me to get a PSP, which has FF Tactics, Jean D'Arc, and Lord of the Rings tactics among others. All we have on the DS is Radiant Arc, which I cannot stand.
Wow, an insightful post that was mocking a typo..... brilliant!
is DMR free, and I intend to keep it that way :P
Look at the list(and pockets) of the companies that he thinks the blogger may work for. More than likely what he is hoping for is that the blogger works for big company X, and then he can sue big company X for a lot, and in order to avoid (potential) embarrassment and/or the potential for a huge loss, he assumes that big company X will settle out of court for a handsome sum.
from "Horror at Party Beach" and thus needed....sodium! Someone should sing a song about it.
I don't have bluetooth limbs and yet get the impulse to kick people who use bluetooth headsets in the head....
Unless you knew you were getting a pink slip via email, in which case you might just want to pay them $50 to "lose" your email :P
The hosting costs crucified him
No, the key difference is what the person getting the money uses it for. Grameen doesn't give out money so someone can buy a much bigger house than they need and can afford. They lend out money so that people can start businesses and increase their income. Ie they try to start a virtuous cycle of growth rather than a viscous cycle of debt. Actually, if you look at the United States, you will see that many of the richest people actually borrow lots of money for the same reason as the people who borrow from Grameen do, ie they borrow money to invest in things that will give them a net gain. Meanwhile, the poor tend to borrow for depreciating assets like consumer goods or housing that is pretty much guaranteed not to appreciate faster than inflation(not knocking home ownership, just the idea that amateurs can use their house as an investment).
"Well turn SOMETHING on, I'm starting to think!"
ln -s /dev/random Jackson.Pollock
Ben Bernanke HATES America, he is doing everything in his power to destroy it.
Well, essentially he is looking for a device..... something he can input sperm into and get a baby as output, so probably /dev would be the best place to look. Though I don't know how many women have usb 2.0 compatible vaginas.
even though logic says my old age benefits have absolutely nothing to do with my ability to drive a car.
Wasn't there a South Park episode about that?
enough.
I use macs at home and at work, and they are great machines....most of the time. Maybe I'm a perfectionist, maybe I'm just expecting too much, but so many of Apple's tools are great most of the time. However they have flaws that make them annoying to unusable in certain situations, and at least the Apple of late seems unwilling to fix them.
Example: Airport extreme with airdisk. When the thing is working it is perfect, however, in my experience the disconnects are really annoying, and it disconnects much more than my airport express ever did. Also, when, out of the box, I tried to bridge it with said express it went into infinite reboot mode till I did a factory reset. Again, in theory a great product but when I pay a premium for Apple products I expect it work right 99% of the time, not 90%.
Their server products are another great example of how Apple's products, on the surface anyway, are great, but in practice it tends to fall apart. We are rolling out an LDAP system and it has been nothing but problems. Apple has done a seemingly good job of making a really slick open directory server tool, but there are just too many bugs to make it worth while. A particularly nasty one, that has been reported to Apple but Apple refuses to fix, is that for some international users certain actions will change the time zone to Cupertino, which can wreak havoc with systems. Come on Apple, we paid a lot of money for this system, the least you can do is get the time zones correct. The server also has almost no meaningful error messages(took me forever to figure out the effects I was observing was related to the time zone bug, the Workgroup manager went on its happy way, authenticated me, then didn't do anything afterwards, not a single error message). Similar problems with getting Remote Desktop to work with Directory authentication. All I get is a "Authentication failed" message with no additional information either on the target machine or the server! Come on Apple, you went through a lot of effort to develop this system, but all that is wasted if you don't give me proper error messages!
Ditto with iPhone content management, the system works great 90% of the time, but the inability to give the user more flexibility with content management can lead to frustration and hacks that require playlists of playlists......
I don't know why Apple refuses to address these issues. None of them seem like they would be incredibly hard/expensive to fix, but Apple just seems to have the attitude that if it works in the general cases, there is no need to investigate the extremes and fix whatever problems may arise.
I find that a hammer works well. Not so much for understanding the code, but it CAN help relieve computer-created stress!