It means there were 3 versions of Halo for sale. Regular, collector's edition, and legendary (with the cat helmet). All 3 of those combined sales are reported in the figures.
So why not just say that sales were x Gazillion across all versions, or across all packages, or just say simply sales were x Gazillion. Your average person in the English speaking society I live in does not know or care what a SKU is. I know what a SKU, only from reading Slashdot. The only other time I've encountered the term was when I friend of mine, who works in retail, used it, correctly, in context to a STORE KEEPING UNIT.
What does across all SKU's mean? That across all stores that are selling it, the sum total of their individual inventory system and internal designations for the game equal the total number sold? Why not just say that the game sold X number of copies.
I must be new here. In Soviet Russia the state welcomes your new SKUlord masters. I should get out, onto a lawn.
How about using the term package? As in "The new Xbox360 package that Microsoft is selling contains the standard Xbox360, a memory card, 3 arcade? games, and a bunch of demos. It is called the Xbox Arcade package, not to be confused with the Xbox Elite (standard Xbox, harddrive of xGB, some controller or something, a game or whatever, Im not interested etc) or the XBOX poor mans version (standard Xbox, no HDD, no game, a controller maybe?)" If I was interested in buying an XBOX 360 I would do 2 minutes of research and pick the package that seemed best for me. (nothing wrong with the XBOX360 btw, I just dont want any next gen console yet, Im still playing all the PS2 games I missed, and am thinking of getting a plain Xbox).
I remember the 8-bit Nintendo (Nintendo Entertainment System) came in a few "packages" itself. First there was the one with Gyromite and Duck Hunt as included games, that came with a light gun and ROB the fucking unfun robot. Next (or maybe something was in between) came the mario/duck hunt, and If I remember correctly there was a package that had just mario with no duck hunt or light gun. I did not need to use the term SKU to keep them straight in my mind. I got the first one for christmas. But it sucked (duck hunt, gyromite????? and no friends to trade games with. My mom ended up exchanging it for a Sega 8-bit (Master System) because my cousins had one and we could swap games. On a side note, the Master system came in a few different packages. One with Hang-On and some light gun game, and then later one without, maybe more.
As a kid I never needed a new term that applied specifically to different inventory units to keep track of these. I used the flexibility of my language which enables me to extend the meaning of words and borrow them to hitherto unknown or uninvented concepts, which did not cause cognitive dissonance to me and my 7-year old mentality friends (literally, not figuratively). But I guess 7-year olds back then were smarter or more mentally apt than adults nowadays. Which I guess means I was smarter than I am. Whoah, I feel a lobe wrinkling. So ExSKUse me.
Yeah, because the UN's warnings to Saddam were just about to work. Only one more was needed. Get real. Oh, and in case you missed it in the news, the people doing most of the killing are Islamofascist from other middle-eastern countries.
Im glad we got in there and (while simultaneosly taking control of most of Iraq's major oil fields with lightning speed, like a lightning war) were able to confiscate all his "Weapons of Mass Destruction." It is kinda peculiar though, all those "Islamofascists from other middle-eastern countries" were not there to begin with. Alternatively if they were, they were not doing things to secular Saddam and his secular dictatorship. </sarcasm except for the taking oil fields part>
How do you differentiate Beethoven's 5th from noise based on a 5 ms sample? You're dealing with a very, very small sample size that has had multiple data processing passes applied to it.
Easy. You don't. You differentiate between 5ms of unordered information, or 5ms of orderdered information that resembles known ordered information likely to unintentionally occur when monitoring with the particular equipment you are using or because of uncontrolable shit in the environment (-noun 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.), and something else. In this case the scientists at present believe they found something else, and, as scientists are prone to do, are trying to explain it.
I have always felt like it was illegal for the rebate company to not mail you back the sales tax you paid on the rebated amount. (For non US type Americans out there sales tax is an amount imposed on every purchase at the merchant level, sort of like VITA I am told (but dont know for sure).
So lets say I buy an item advertised for $80 ($100 item with a $20 mail in rebate) and the sales tax in my state is 8%. I pay $108 dollars to the merchant, i get $20 dollars back if the rebate goes through, and the total cost to me is $88. Now $88 is not the advertised price plus sales tax. It is a little bit higher. I dont know what the law says, but this sure feels like im getting screwed. And I won't even mention the interest I could have earned if that $20 was invested somewhere for the 4-12 weeks it takes for a rebate to go through. It nickel and diming on multiple levels, which isnt much on the individual level but huge when taken as an aggregate sum of all consumers.
Because what it comes down to is that there are 26 million iraqis and many, many fewer US soldiers. 71,000 dead is a lot, a whole lot, but it's also.002% of the population, and claiming that.002% of any population isn't a claim I for one would dispute.
I assume you did the math 71,000 divided by 2,600,000. Well, the answer to that is about.0027, but to make it into a percentage you need to multiply by 100. The correct percentage of the Iraqi population that has been killed since the war started is about.3%, or rougly about one out of every 400 people.
I would use bnudle most of the time. It means the exact same thing, except when the term "configuration" or "hardware configuration" would be more appropriate.
For example, to quote from the post: "at which point the only bundle remaining in the states will be the $599 80GB + Motorstorm bundle." (Now you need to replace the last word in that sentence with something else, like say change it to $599 800GB + Motorstorm game). You now have avoided the temporary confusion that someone who is new to slashdot who has never seen the term SKU may experience after reading a sentence with SKU in it when another word, that is in common use, could have been substituted for it and have the same meaning.
For software developers that say they are coding a game for multiple SKU's, what you are really doing is coding for multiple hardware platforms. You don't quote a game differently for the XBOX360 core, elite, and the other one do you? You dont code a different game for the PS3 20gig, 60gig, and 80gig do you? You are just using the term SKU a little to broadly.
There's only 4,380,439 people in the UAE - 2,966,118 men and 1,414,321 women. By those numbers, over a quarter of the population would have to be male laborers to get that kind of imbalance. More likely is that you have the combination of male laborers and honor killings.
note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2007 est.)
Why so many non-nationals? If I remember I read an article about how effing rich they are and how they are in the middle of a huge economic boom as they shift the basis of their economy from oil to catering to the super rich of the world. Their standard of living for citizens is very very high so they import laborers to do the dirtier work. Mostly from the Philippines iirc.
Also they are not a very fundamentalist Muslim nation. One of the United State Military's favorite places to hang out during off time in the region is Dubai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai in the UAE because they are so western friendly. (Friends of mine that have been their say it is like one big American shopping mall). So, you may need to rethink part of your assertation, at least in regards to the UAE.
The Car Talk guys said that temperature should only make an insignificant difference. However, they're not really your neighborhood experts in fluid physics, either.
They may not be *experts in fluid physics but they aren't your garden variety mechanic either. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_talk
"Car Talk hosts, brothers Ray and Tom Magliozzi are long-time car mechanics. Ray Magliozzi has a degree in general science from MIT, while Tom has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from MIT, an MBA, and a DBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management."
Good ole English confusing things and people again. We need to define some terms here.
If an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an outside force and an object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.... Is this not by definition perpetual motion? It keeps on doing whatever until forever.... Pretty obvious folks.
English definition wise, yes, any object put into motion will remain in motion forever, or until acted on by an outside force. The problem is you cannot get anything useful like a source of energy out of it. Say you have a wheel you can start spinning with no outside forces on it. It will spin forever. Sounds great right? Now say you attach it to a shaft driving a generator. Free power forever right? No. Spinning the shaft to power the generator is now putting an outside force (resistance and all that) and your wheel will come to a stop eventually. Not too useful.
What perpetual energy/motion machines are supposed to do is provide more energy/motion than is being acted upon them from the outside force that is putting their motion/energy to work. Let me say it again another way, they create energy/motion out of nothing, and then the surplus is used for some kind of *work* (charge a battery, power a motor, etc. etc.) If they were creating energy/motion and you did not tap the power, then the device would speed up, and speed up, and continue to speed up to infinity.
What the inventor (and all inventor of perpetual motion devices claim) is that they have found some method of doing this. Creating something that creates energy out of nothing (as opposed to all other sources of energy, which require something. An engine requires fuel, a solar power requires sunlight (or other light) the light from the sun requires hydrogen and other elements to be spent or transformed in a nuclear reaction, etc, etc.
If a perpetual motion/energy machine is ever really devised, it will likely be found later on that the machine is simply running on an formerly unknown form of energy. (As mentioned on here in other posts).
As a former phone customer service person, and phone tech support person, Id like to let everyone know to STFU when you are placed on hold. If you don't hear hold music, (and sometimes even if you do) the phone tech has put you on mute while while he/she curses the series of life events that led him/her to have to *try* to help you (and/or just researches the issue). The phone tech can hear what you are saying, and one thing we are not fond of is people talking thrash about the tech support. This may lead to you not being helped out.
A general rule of thumb is that the nicer and more reasonable you are on the phone, the better the quality of support you will receive, and the faster you will be off the phone with your problem solved. Its fucked, but thats reality. Also, most call logging systems have a section for "Technician comments", which can be anything from "customer follows directions well" to "customer is an asshole". This can influence greatly the way you are treated by future technicians. Sometimes I've escalated calls for a callback (in 1-2 days for one company I worked at) just because I won't deal with a rude fuck. At one company, this was unoffical policy.
I have no hard numbers as none have been released, but its my guess that most EQ1 players, especially the hardcore players that probably form the core of EQ's subscription base, are reluctant to drop their up to 5 year investment in a 'uber' character with 'uber' gear and start from scratch as a level 1 nobody on EQ2.
I bet SOE is making more money off of EQ1 right now than EQ2, and as EQ2 seems to be somewhere in the 3rd 4th or 5th place spot in the "wow id like to try that" factor, behind WoW, CoH, and possibly some of the other upcoming new and newer games, I think it possible that EQ2 may not even make as much money per month as EQ1, ever. (If it is right now, my guess it that it will hemorrhage users the way Star Wars Galaxies did after its wow factor wore off and people came to the conclusion that the game is not as fun as they hoped, and not being fixed fast enough).
I know that if I start playing a MMO, WoW is my number 1 choice to try out, with EQ2 lower than EQ1 (I know lots of EverCrackheads that still play and would help me out, and I dont care about fancy graphics and sounds, and I have an older computer).
First Post! (My first post on/.)
"The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points. Locking down the access points does not help this problem, but actually makes it even worse."
Why not just configure your computer to only connect to the offical campus Access Point and not to automatically connect to the strongest signal? With the Windows XP built-in wireless client this is possible, and I imagine most manufacturer provided client software this is also possible.
I know interference may be the issue here, but the post on the University website makes it sound like the users don't know how to select their AP and that is the problem.
Also as an alternative solution, why not just reserve channels 1-6 for the University APs and then set them all to channel 1, leaving channels 2-6 as a kind of buffer range?
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So why not just say that sales were x Gazillion across all versions, or across all packages, or just say simply sales were x Gazillion. Your average person in the English speaking society I live in does not know or care what a SKU is. I know what a SKU, only from reading Slashdot. The only other time I've encountered the term was when I friend of mine, who works in retail, used it, correctly, in context to a STORE KEEPING UNIT.
I must be new here. In Soviet Russia the state welcomes your new SKUlord masters. I should get out, onto a lawn.
I remember the 8-bit Nintendo (Nintendo Entertainment System) came in a few "packages" itself. First there was the one with Gyromite and Duck Hunt as included games, that came with a light gun and ROB the fucking unfun robot. Next (or maybe something was in between) came the mario/duck hunt, and If I remember correctly there was a package that had just mario with no duck hunt or light gun. I did not need to use the term SKU to keep them straight in my mind. I got the first one for christmas. But it sucked (duck hunt, gyromite????? and no friends to trade games with. My mom ended up exchanging it for a Sega 8-bit (Master System) because my cousins had one and we could swap games. On a side note, the Master system came in a few different packages. One with Hang-On and some light gun game, and then later one without, maybe more.
As a kid I never needed a new term that applied specifically to different inventory units to keep track of these. I used the flexibility of my language which enables me to extend the meaning of words and borrow them to hitherto unknown or uninvented concepts, which did not cause cognitive dissonance to me and my 7-year old mentality friends (literally, not figuratively). But I guess 7-year olds back then were smarter or more mentally apt than adults nowadays. Which I guess means I was smarter than I am. Whoah, I feel a lobe wrinkling. So ExSKUse me.
Yeah, because the UN's warnings to Saddam were just about to work. Only one more was needed. Get real. Oh, and in case you missed it in the news, the people doing most of the killing are Islamofascist from other middle-eastern countries.
Im glad we got in there and (while simultaneosly taking control of most of Iraq's major oil fields with lightning speed, like a lightning war) were able to confiscate all his "Weapons of Mass Destruction." It is kinda peculiar though, all those "Islamofascists from other middle-eastern countries" were not there to begin with. Alternatively if they were, they were not doing things to secular Saddam and his secular dictatorship. </sarcasm except for the taking oil fields part>
How do you differentiate Beethoven's 5th from noise based on a 5 ms sample? You're dealing with a very, very small sample size that has had multiple data processing passes applied to it.
Easy. You don't. You differentiate between 5ms of unordered information, or 5ms of orderdered information that resembles known ordered information likely to unintentionally occur when monitoring with the particular equipment you are using or because of uncontrolable shit in the environment (-noun 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.), and something else. In this case the scientists at present believe they found something else, and, as scientists are prone to do, are trying to explain it.
So lets say I buy an item advertised for $80 ($100 item with a $20 mail in rebate) and the sales tax in my state is 8%. I pay $108 dollars to the merchant, i get $20 dollars back if the rebate goes through, and the total cost to me is $88. Now $88 is not the advertised price plus sales tax. It is a little bit higher. I dont know what the law says, but this sure feels like im getting screwed. And I won't even mention the interest I could have earned if that $20 was invested somewhere for the 4-12 weeks it takes for a rebate to go through. It nickel and diming on multiple levels, which isnt much on the individual level but huge when taken as an aggregate sum of all consumers.
I assume you did the math 71,000 divided by 2,600,000. Well, the answer to that is about .0027, but to make it into a percentage you need to multiply by 100. The correct percentage of the Iraqi population that has been killed since the war started is about .3%, or rougly about one out of every 400 people.
Then what term would you use in lieu of SKU?
I would use bnudle most of the time. It means the exact same thing, except when the term "configuration" or "hardware configuration" would be more appropriate.
For example, to quote from the post: "at which point the only bundle remaining in the states will be the $599 80GB + Motorstorm bundle." (Now you need to replace the last word in that sentence with something else, like say change it to $599 800GB + Motorstorm game). You now have avoided the temporary confusion that someone who is new to slashdot who has never seen the term SKU may experience after reading a sentence with SKU in it when another word, that is in common use, could have been substituted for it and have the same meaning.
For software developers that say they are coding a game for multiple SKU's, what you are really doing is coding for multiple hardware platforms. You don't quote a game differently for the XBOX360 core, elite, and the other one do you? You dont code a different game for the PS3 20gig, 60gig, and 80gig do you? You are just using the term SKU a little to broadly.
There's only 4,380,439 people in the UAE - 2,966,118 men and 1,414,321 women. By those numbers, over a quarter of the population would have to be male laborers to get that kind of imbalance. More likely is that you have the combination of male laborers and honor killings.
d -factbook/geos/ae.html
From The World CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worl
note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2007 est.)
Why so many non-nationals? If I remember I read an article about how effing rich they are and how they are in the middle of a huge economic boom as they shift the basis of their economy from oil to catering to the super rich of the world. Their standard of living for citizens is very very high so they import laborers to do the dirtier work. Mostly from the Philippines iirc.
Also they are not a very fundamentalist Muslim nation. One of the United State Military's favorite places to hang out during off time in the region is Dubai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai in the UAE because they are so western friendly. (Friends of mine that have been their say it is like one big American shopping mall). So, you may need to rethink part of your assertation, at least in regards to the UAE.
The Car Talk guys said that temperature should only make an insignificant difference. However, they're not really your neighborhood experts in fluid physics, either.
They may not be *experts in fluid physics but they aren't your garden variety mechanic either. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_talk
"Car Talk hosts, brothers Ray and Tom Magliozzi are long-time car mechanics. Ray Magliozzi has a degree in general science from MIT, while Tom has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from MIT, an MBA, and a DBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management."
Good ole English confusing things and people again. We need to define some terms here.
If an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an outside force and an object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.... Is this not by definition perpetual motion? It keeps on doing whatever until forever.... Pretty obvious folks.
English definition wise, yes, any object put into motion will remain in motion forever, or until acted on by an outside force. The problem is you cannot get anything useful like a source of energy out of it. Say you have a wheel you can start spinning with no outside forces on it. It will spin forever. Sounds great right? Now say you attach it to a shaft driving a generator. Free power forever right? No. Spinning the shaft to power the generator is now putting an outside force (resistance and all that) and your wheel will come to a stop eventually. Not too useful.
What perpetual energy/motion machines are supposed to do is provide more energy/motion than is being acted upon them from the outside force that is putting their motion/energy to work. Let me say it again another way, they create energy/motion out of nothing, and then the surplus is used for some kind of *work* (charge a battery, power a motor, etc. etc.) If they were creating energy/motion and you did not tap the power, then the device would speed up, and speed up, and continue to speed up to infinity.
What the inventor (and all inventor of perpetual motion devices claim) is that they have found some method of doing this. Creating something that creates energy out of nothing (as opposed to all other sources of energy, which require something. An engine requires fuel, a solar power requires sunlight (or other light) the light from the sun requires hydrogen and other elements to be spent or transformed in a nuclear reaction, etc, etc.
If a perpetual motion/energy machine is ever really devised, it will likely be found later on that the machine is simply running on an formerly unknown form of energy. (As mentioned on here in other posts).
As a former phone customer service person, and phone tech support person, Id like to let everyone know to STFU when you are placed on hold. If you don't hear hold music, (and sometimes even if you do) the phone tech has put you on mute while while he/she curses the series of life events that led him/her to have to *try* to help you (and/or just researches the issue). The phone tech can hear what you are saying, and one thing we are not fond of is people talking thrash about the tech support. This may lead to you not being helped out.
A general rule of thumb is that the nicer and more reasonable you are on the phone, the better the quality of support you will receive, and the faster you will be off the phone with your problem solved. Its fucked, but thats reality. Also, most call logging systems have a section for "Technician comments", which can be anything from "customer follows directions well" to "customer is an asshole". This can influence greatly the way you are treated by future technicians. Sometimes I've escalated calls for a callback (in 1-2 days for one company I worked at) just because I won't deal with a rude fuck. At one company, this was unoffical policy.
I have no hard numbers as none have been released, but its my guess that most EQ1 players, especially the hardcore players that probably form the core of EQ's subscription base, are reluctant to drop their up to 5 year investment in a 'uber' character with 'uber' gear and start from scratch as a level 1 nobody on EQ2.
/.)
I bet SOE is making more money off of EQ1 right now than EQ2, and as EQ2 seems to be somewhere in the 3rd 4th or 5th place spot in the "wow id like to try that" factor, behind WoW, CoH, and possibly some of the other upcoming new and newer games, I think it possible that EQ2 may not even make as much money per month as EQ1, ever. (If it is right now, my guess it that it will hemorrhage users the way Star Wars Galaxies did after its wow factor wore off and people came to the conclusion that the game is not as fun as they hoped, and not being fixed fast enough).
I know that if I start playing a MMO, WoW is my number 1 choice to try out, with EQ2 lower than EQ1 (I know lots of EverCrackheads that still play and would help me out, and I dont care about fancy graphics and sounds, and I have an older computer). First Post! (My first post on
"The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points. Locking down the access points does not help this problem, but actually makes it even worse."
Why not just configure your computer to only connect to the offical campus Access Point and not to automatically connect to the strongest signal? With the Windows XP built-in wireless client this is possible, and I imagine most manufacturer provided client software this is also possible.
I know interference may be the issue here, but the post on the University website makes it sound like the users don't know how to select their AP and that is the problem.
Also as an alternative solution, why not just reserve channels 1-6 for the University APs and then set them all to channel 1, leaving channels 2-6 as a kind of buffer range?