That site looks good but one reservation I have is how long it takes to find people to swap with. As they don't use points (they advertise this as a plus) the person you "sell" to has to have something you want to "buy".
I imagine if you only buy and sell the newest games within a single genre it probably isn't hard to find a match. However, I have quite a few older games and I have eclectic tastes in games (how often are the people who want to buy my old FPS Dreamcast game also the same people wanting to sell the Wii puzzle game I'm looking for?). For this reason, I think Goozex is a better match for me, although I can see how Gametz might be better for some people. To each their own.
I've found that for online game trading Goozex beats everything else by a mile. Buyers and sellers get the same price with only a $1 transaction fee to Goozex (plus you pay shipping if you're the seller--but free shippinig for buyers). Goozex then acts as an arbiter to resolve disputes (though I've yet to ever have one and from what I can tell by the forums, it seems pretty rare for everyone else too). If you try out a game and decide it's not your style (or if you simply beat it) you can get full money back minus the $1 fee and shipping as long as you didn't hold onto it so long that the value of the game has gone down.
To top it off, when you first start they give you a free $5 game (or $5 toward a more expensive game). Every other online site I've tried practically gives you peanuts for a game that they resell for much more.
Okay, so I went to apple.com and typed in 'safari' into the search engine there. I got the same site as the top result: 'http://www.apple.com/safari/'
Maybe it's the next result down...that one says, "What is Safari" I click on it and it advertises Safari 4 Beta 'http://www.apple.com/safari/what-is.html'
The next is a download page... 'http://www.apple.com/safari/download/' for Safari 4 Beta... or Safari 4 Beta+Quicktime. But no Safari 3.
Skimming through, I honestly couldn't find Safari 3 in the later results (plugin pages, iphone pages, etc.). I'm sure if I looked long enough I'd find something but for this Windows user, if I was going to try out Safari, there's no way I'd hunt long enough to find anything but the Beta.
Obviously there are government jobs that stick around. He's talking about the government jobs that are created by a supposedly one time stimulus package. Unless Obama plans to have more stimulus bills or increase the budget permanently, the newly created jobs by a single boost aren't going to stick around (particularly if it's in the government sector, as they tend to not find funding from other sources).
I'm on a windows machine. When I googled 'apple safari' I came up with http://www.apple.com/safari/. When I go there it says: "Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world's fastest web browser." in huge letters and a link to download Safari 4 Beta with no mention of Safari 3. I'm sure if I clicked around I could find the non-beta but it's nowhere clear on this first page.
It flashes a few times and then changes color (and stops flashing). It used to just flash a few times (4 I think) and people complained that they'd leave for a bit and not realize their app was finished doing something. So now they are making it so that it flashes a few more times (7) and then change to a different color. I thought that was a reasonable compromise.
It's possible that audiobook-to-ebook conversions will happen before quality ebook-to-audiobook.
It seems like it might be easier. Sure, it might not always get the punctuation correct (e.g. periods instead of exclamation points or question marks) and there might occasionally be a misspelling...but I think that'd be more bearable than the poor inflection of computer generated voice.
It's not just advanced features. I have a printer/scanner/copier from HP that won't even print on vista. Vista refuses to even try the driver. I thought I could find a work-around on the net somewhere but I have yet to find anything that allows me to print over a network.
This change will make it so that candidates will only preach to the choir.
The way things are now, candidates spend a lot of time in swing states where there are more swing voters who could go either way and they ignore states where they've got it in the bag.
So with this change, the republican candidates who used to largely ignore Texas will go to the largest cities there now to motivate their base to get out to the polls big time.
Liberal candidates will now go to specific large cities in California, Massachusetts, Vermont, etc. that were otherwise ignored except for fund raising time.
The smaller cities and towns full of people on the fence won't attract much attention from candidates anymore. Why bother trying to win them over when you can get 10 times as many voters to the polls by going to places where they already like you?
I predict this will further polarize candidates and they will work much harder to please their masses of "dittoheads" than the center. Some might think that's a good thing, but I'm afraid of what would happen when there's an incentive to focus on the largest population of groupthink.
Do you realize your entire argument could have been based around a backstage pass, having your boxed CD or Vinyl Record, and being glad that they signed it and vowing to never turn that in for one of those new-fangled iPod thingies with the same basic effect, right?
While I agree with you on the autograph part, that wasn't his entire argument. There is quite a bit of value in being able to write notes in the margins of a book that doesn't translate easily to music. I remember in college looking for used textbooks that were marked (intelligently). They cost less than new textbooks and they were often more useful in class.
Scriptures is another example that many people like to mark up by highlighting and cross-referencing certain passages.
Adding a touch screen and the ability to write in notes or highlight text (ideally with multiple colors) would be a great addition that would add a lot of utility to the device.
Sometimes I think those pushing for the legalization of marijuana and prostitution (two separate, though sometimes overlapping groups) may not like what they get if it ever came to pass.
I was required to fill out questions and a telephone survey. For that, I was paid 50$, plus the product.
I agree that if MS required it's beta users to provide feedback then MS should compensate them for it in some way (money, free product, etc.). Even lots of finished products have easy mechanisms for providing feedback if the user so desires. They don't pay them for it, though.
If developers really try to fine tune their wii games well so the game-play rocks and the reviews come back awesome I imagine that could sway quite a few people. Heck, all I'd need to read is, "this plays like a game made by Nintendo" and I'd perk up my ears. Where are the third party Metroid style games? If a game review came out that said, "Wow, this is along the lines of Metroid (or Zelda)" it would sell like hotcakes even if it weren't ported to the PS3 or 360 (perhaps especially if it weren't). A third party developer could pull it off. Obviously it would take a bit of a marketing as Nintendo has developed a reputation for solid games on its platform and people go wild for their big titles while a third party would have a bit of an uphill battle getting that sort of a frenzy but if the game is well-made and the genre is one the install base is known to love (similar to zelda, metroid?) then it's hard for me to see the game being a flop. Putting it solely on the wii could actually be a smart marketing move to get quite a bit of attention (and perhaps comparison to Nintendo made games).
The problem has been that developers have too often felt the ONLY safe game on the wii was the party game (are they really that scared of Nintendo?). When other games are put on the wii, it seems their weakest programmers are put on the job and the controls are weak and not fine tuned properly. Well, the weak controls come out in reviews and of course that ends up reflecting in sales.
Don't get me wrong. I recognize that people who have all systems are going to TEND to buy the game for the system it looks the prettiest on. However, I think a lot of games could potentially be more fun to play on finely tuned wii controls. I recognize that Nintendo has had the advantage in creating games with great control on their own system...I just think that third parties ought to be able to catch up by now (or soon).
I don't think it's smart to assume that the subset of the wii's demographics that likes Metroid and Zelda type games is small.
The article doesn't claim otherwise. It states that "Silverman's organization actually invented Cyber Monday in late 2005 as a gimmick to jump-start online sales in the holiday season. The media soon hyped it, and while it's not the biggest online shopping day of the year, it has certainly caught on among e-tailers."
In the article, a TigerDirect rep claims that at least for them, "Cyber Monday was the biggest day of the year for us last year--bigger than Black Friday,"
I always thought the biggest day for brick and mortar stores, at least, was much closer to Christmas.
This MSNBC article suggests filing a complaint with the FTC to stop the calls. Apparently the bulk of the warranty scams are coming out of St. Louis and the Missouri Attorney General is currently investigating many of the companies selling these warranties in his state.
I'd be curious to find out if anyone's actually been successful in doing the gummi bear thing. When using the fingerprint reader you have to smear your finger across it. It's not placing it down or rolling it across the way they do with ink on paper. I would imagine the smearing could easily ruin anything the gummi might have picked up if you aren't VERY careful.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done...I'm tempted to go buy some gummi bears and try it out myself. I am just skeptical that a typical person without any skills or practice could pull it off in any reasonable amount of time. I think it might be similar to picking locks. I've been told it's not really all that hard to pick many many kinds of locks with simple tools like paper clips and credit cards. But personally? I don't think I could inconspicuously pull off a break in to most doors without some practice and assurance that I'd have some time without anyone looking. I doubt many principals would have to worry about their laptop in the few brief minutes their student was left alone in their office. But maybe someone's tested this and could speak more authoritatively on the subject?
Of course, once the laptop is stolen or otherwise in someone else's hands for a longer period of time you'll need more than a fingerprint reader or a standard password to protect your data anyway.
You can't at first. What they are referring to is when you want to pause the game to go to the bathroom or something. When you return, you are watching a slightly delayed game while the live game continues to be recorded. You can then fast forward (a bit) past commercials, for instance, equal to the amount you've paused or rewound in the past (up until you hit live). It is a pretty neat feature. I would think that newscasts that show a slight delay of something live in case something horrible happens that they don't want to show the public (a beheading on prime time TV or something) could be considered prior art although they probably use different technology to do it.
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That site looks good but one reservation I have is how long it takes to find people to swap with. As they don't use points (they advertise this as a plus) the person you "sell" to has to have something you want to "buy".
I imagine if you only buy and sell the newest games within a single genre it probably isn't hard to find a match. However, I have quite a few older games and I have eclectic tastes in games (how often are the people who want to buy my old FPS Dreamcast game also the same people wanting to sell the Wii puzzle game I'm looking for?). For this reason, I think Goozex is a better match for me, although I can see how Gametz might be better for some people. To each their own.
I've found that for online game trading Goozex beats everything else by a mile. Buyers and sellers get the same price with only a $1 transaction fee to Goozex (plus you pay shipping if you're the seller--but free shippinig for buyers). Goozex then acts as an arbiter to resolve disputes (though I've yet to ever have one and from what I can tell by the forums, it seems pretty rare for everyone else too). If you try out a game and decide it's not your style (or if you simply beat it) you can get full money back minus the $1 fee and shipping as long as you didn't hold onto it so long that the value of the game has gone down.
To top it off, when you first start they give you a free $5 game (or $5 toward a more expensive game). Every other online site I've tried practically gives you peanuts for a game that they resell for much more.
Okay, so I went to apple.com and typed in 'safari' into the search engine there. I got the same site as the top result: 'http://www.apple.com/safari/'
Maybe it's the next result down...that one says, "What is Safari" I click on it and it advertises Safari 4 Beta 'http://www.apple.com/safari/what-is.html'
The next is a download page... 'http://www.apple.com/safari/download/' for Safari 4 Beta... or Safari 4 Beta+Quicktime. But no Safari 3.
Skimming through, I honestly couldn't find Safari 3 in the later results (plugin pages, iphone pages, etc.). I'm sure if I looked long enough I'd find something but for this Windows user, if I was going to try out Safari, there's no way I'd hunt long enough to find anything but the Beta.
Obviously there are government jobs that stick around. He's talking about the government jobs that are created by a supposedly one time stimulus package. Unless Obama plans to have more stimulus bills or increase the budget permanently, the newly created jobs by a single boost aren't going to stick around (particularly if it's in the government sector, as they tend to not find funding from other sources).
I'm on a windows machine. When I googled 'apple safari' I came up with http://www.apple.com/safari/. When I go there it says: "Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world's fastest web browser." in huge letters and a link to download Safari 4 Beta with no mention of Safari 3. I'm sure if I clicked around I could find the non-beta but it's nowhere clear on this first page.
It flashes a few times and then changes color (and stops flashing). It used to just flash a few times (4 I think) and people complained that they'd leave for a bit and not realize their app was finished doing something. So now they are making it so that it flashes a few more times (7) and then change to a different color. I thought that was a reasonable compromise.
It's possible that audiobook-to-ebook conversions will happen before quality ebook-to-audiobook. It seems like it might be easier. Sure, it might not always get the punctuation correct (e.g. periods instead of exclamation points or question marks) and there might occasionally be a misspelling...but I think that'd be more bearable than the poor inflection of computer generated voice.
It's not just advanced features. I have a printer/scanner/copier from HP that won't even print on vista. Vista refuses to even try the driver. I thought I could find a work-around on the net somewhere but I have yet to find anything that allows me to print over a network.
Forget 2-3 CDs. I think it was King's Quest IV that had something like 9 five and a quarter inch floppies. I'm glad there was an end to that.
Perhaps Microsoft will find the most obscure buggy browsers to include as options if people don't want IE.
This change will make it so that candidates will only preach to the choir.
The way things are now, candidates spend a lot of time in swing states where there are more swing voters who could go either way and they ignore states where they've got it in the bag.
So with this change, the republican candidates who used to largely ignore Texas will go to the largest cities there now to motivate their base to get out to the polls big time.
Liberal candidates will now go to specific large cities in California, Massachusetts, Vermont, etc. that were otherwise ignored except for fund raising time.
The smaller cities and towns full of people on the fence won't attract much attention from candidates anymore. Why bother trying to win them over when you can get 10 times as many voters to the polls by going to places where they already like you?
I predict this will further polarize candidates and they will work much harder to please their masses of "dittoheads" than the center. Some might think that's a good thing, but I'm afraid of what would happen when there's an incentive to focus on the largest population of groupthink.
While I agree with you on the autograph part, that wasn't his entire argument. There is quite a bit of value in being able to write notes in the margins of a book that doesn't translate easily to music. I remember in college looking for used textbooks that were marked (intelligently). They cost less than new textbooks and they were often more useful in class.
Scriptures is another example that many people like to mark up by highlighting and cross-referencing certain passages.
Adding a touch screen and the ability to write in notes or highlight text (ideally with multiple colors) would be a great addition that would add a lot of utility to the device.
Sometimes I think those pushing for the legalization of marijuana and prostitution (two separate, though sometimes overlapping groups) may not like what they get if it ever came to pass.
I agree that if MS required it's beta users to provide feedback then MS should compensate them for it in some way (money, free product, etc.). Even lots of finished products have easy mechanisms for providing feedback if the user so desires. They don't pay them for it, though.
What if I lived there first? They are free to move when/if I decide to put up my satellite dish and they decide they don't like it.
MacGuyver's a lover, not a fighter. He doesn't even us guns, does he? Although he might make a bomb out of a chocolate bar if you lock him up.
If developers really try to fine tune their wii games well so the game-play rocks and the reviews come back awesome I imagine that could sway quite a few people. Heck, all I'd need to read is, "this plays like a game made by Nintendo" and I'd perk up my ears. Where are the third party Metroid style games? If a game review came out that said, "Wow, this is along the lines of Metroid (or Zelda)" it would sell like hotcakes even if it weren't ported to the PS3 or 360 (perhaps especially if it weren't). A third party developer could pull it off. Obviously it would take a bit of a marketing as Nintendo has developed a reputation for solid games on its platform and people go wild for their big titles while a third party would have a bit of an uphill battle getting that sort of a frenzy but if the game is well-made and the genre is one the install base is known to love (similar to zelda, metroid?) then it's hard for me to see the game being a flop. Putting it solely on the wii could actually be a smart marketing move to get quite a bit of attention (and perhaps comparison to Nintendo made games).
The problem has been that developers have too often felt the ONLY safe game on the wii was the party game (are they really that scared of Nintendo?). When other games are put on the wii, it seems their weakest programmers are put on the job and the controls are weak and not fine tuned properly. Well, the weak controls come out in reviews and of course that ends up reflecting in sales.
Don't get me wrong. I recognize that people who have all systems are going to TEND to buy the game for the system it looks the prettiest on. However, I think a lot of games could potentially be more fun to play on finely tuned wii controls. I recognize that Nintendo has had the advantage in creating games with great control on their own system...I just think that third parties ought to be able to catch up by now (or soon).
I don't think it's smart to assume that the subset of the wii's demographics that likes Metroid and Zelda type games is small.
The article doesn't claim otherwise. It states that "Silverman's organization actually invented Cyber Monday in late 2005 as a gimmick to jump-start online sales in the holiday season. The media soon hyped it, and while it's not the biggest online shopping day of the year, it has certainly caught on among e-tailers."
In the article, a TigerDirect rep claims that at least for them, "Cyber Monday was the biggest day of the year for us last year--bigger than Black Friday,"
I always thought the biggest day for brick and mortar stores, at least, was much closer to Christmas.
Half of American patients report their prescriptions are ineffective.
and then you'd likely be rickrolled to it again and again. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
This MSNBC article suggests filing a complaint with the FTC to stop the calls. Apparently the bulk of the warranty scams are coming out of St. Louis and the Missouri Attorney General is currently investigating many of the companies selling these warranties in his state.
I'd be curious to find out if anyone's actually been successful in doing the gummi bear thing. When using the fingerprint reader you have to smear your finger across it. It's not placing it down or rolling it across the way they do with ink on paper. I would imagine the smearing could easily ruin anything the gummi might have picked up if you aren't VERY careful.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done...I'm tempted to go buy some gummi bears and try it out myself. I am just skeptical that a typical person without any skills or practice could pull it off in any reasonable amount of time. I think it might be similar to picking locks. I've been told it's not really all that hard to pick many many kinds of locks with simple tools like paper clips and credit cards. But personally? I don't think I could inconspicuously pull off a break in to most doors without some practice and assurance that I'd have some time without anyone looking. I doubt many principals would have to worry about their laptop in the few brief minutes their student was left alone in their office. But maybe someone's tested this and could speak more authoritatively on the subject?
Of course, once the laptop is stolen or otherwise in someone else's hands for a longer period of time you'll need more than a fingerprint reader or a standard password to protect your data anyway.
You can't at first. What they are referring to is when you want to pause the game to go to the bathroom or something. When you return, you are watching a slightly delayed game while the live game continues to be recorded. You can then fast forward (a bit) past commercials, for instance, equal to the amount you've paused or rewound in the past (up until you hit live). It is a pretty neat feature. I would think that newscasts that show a slight delay of something live in case something horrible happens that they don't want to show the public (a beheading on prime time TV or something) could be considered prior art although they probably use different technology to do it.
And an NES emulator