Malaria medication (prevention) is available in most super markets in the US and the rest of the world. Quinine, it's found in "Tonic Water"! I believe the quinine content has gone down since it's original inception, I wonder if it's sold (tonic water) at the local groceries I see in documentaries that always carry Coke products. I also wonder if the quinine content has been jacked up because of the need or reduced to promote the sale of the drugs...
I wonder how susceptible these would be to excess "similar" sounds around them. Old school television remotes didn't use infrared, they used higher pitched audio generated from something similar to tiny tuning forks. The problem was, a ring of keys jingling could mess with them completely.
Would these be using ultra or sonic frequencies? The latter would be cost prohibitive (speakers, etc..), the former probably the same for both the speakers and the microphones (read transmitters receivers).
What about contract buyouts? You know, "switch over to us and we'll buy out your old contract" type deals? The question may sound a little redundant, but I'd like it clearly defined if it's legal to unlock your phone under these circumstances.
Poor Oracle, they file a silly greed based lawsuit that may or may not even be valid. How stupid are they going to feel in court when the Jury, whose never heard of Oracle, but all love Google (read: helps them find pr0n, food, everything...) stare dumbly at them and wonder why they're picking on their friends!
But seriously, I highly doubt this is going to set Android back much, if at all. Even with an injunction (and however much time it would take them to get, sometimes quick, sometimes not at all), if what I've read is accurate (who knows?), they shouldn't stand a chance. As for Android, the lawsuit's gonna bring more attention to it, hurrays for free advertising!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could have gone completely different with this stuff. Arthur Dent might have just slept through the demolition of his planet, or at least woken up to a large crashing sound, followed by a much larger crashing sound. Or perhaps it would've gone on mostly the same, except the bit about his house would never have happened!
First off, to clarify what bait and switch is. Technically, it's advertising something (say a weekly ad, website, tv/radio commercial, whatever), then refusing to sell the item to someone and offering a different, regardless of the new item's price point. It's baiting a customer in with an ad and refusing to sell said item. If a store's out and they offer, it's not a bait 'n switch, if they offer another item, but do not refuse (refusal being blatant or sleight), it's still not bait and switch.
As for the second website, my guess is they're referring to the IntraNet version. If you log into BBY's employee toolkit and use it to goto the website instead of opening firefox or ie, you get the employee version. There are a few subtle differences. For example, when you mouse over a URL for an item or an item's pic, you get a rollover with the SKU number. You also do not get regional pricing information.
If you compare a BBY ad from New York and Cincinnati (where I live), you'll have different prices. If you look at the 'weekly ad' on the website, you punch in your zip, and you get your local ad. Otherwise, if we all click on random stereo b, that's not in the 'ad section' but just a normal click through via electronics, then audio, stereos, whatever, we get the same information, you, me, mr ny, and the employee on toolkit, except the emp gets sku numbers and information like that.
Weekly ads have a lot of disclaimer information. Limitations of rain checks, limited quantity, and even that the ad prices are only good for 'listed area'. Now while a BBY in NY MIGHT honor a Cincinnati ad (obviously our market is a bit more inexpensive on non-price locked items than NY), they are NOT obligated. Some offers are also internet only priced, advertised as such, but not in a paper ad.
I'm not sure if the store is obligated legally to price match their OWN.com site, however, the practice I saw in my stores and trained people to do, was, price match any verifiable current ad, for anyone,.com included (the register's pricematch option even includes a.com match option by default, as well as major competitors, and an 'other fill in' field).
If anyone has any information as to whether I'm off topic and discussing a DIFFERENT web page, please let me know, as I said earlier, this would simply be my guess.
I think more than just output has to be taken into account here. For example, how much garbage is outputted that is usable by either the marines, or people in general if it became that widespread. Sure oil may have a greater energy yield, along with wind and solar power (while wind and sunlight are very abundant of course), oil is limited, and while technically garbage is limited, it doesn't seem to be slowing down in it's output.
Anyone have any numbers on the amount of garbage outputted that could be used in this thing? (Assuming you can't stuff everything in, that we'd have to separate something out of it).
If they're smart about it, they'll plan to equip the newest system with whatever the newest/most likely to suceed/most cost efficient media reader in the next one. I for one am rather disappointed that they've planned on keeping the hd-dvd's functionality strictly to movies. If I recall correctly, one of the ways they said the Gamecube would fail was, it's inability to hold as much data as games would need/it's competition had, well, they've gone the same route by sticking to DVD. The Wii also could've gone another route, but I really expected more out of the company who really gave Nintendo hell about such a thing.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything on what colors they'll be available in at release. We can find the assortment of colors, but are they going to go the road of the gameboy and release a couple at a time to increase sales? Anyone think they'd do that with a console?
The current "rumor" going around the con is, he had an outstanding warrant in another state and his arrest was regarding that. Again, this is just what's been going around, we don't know what the real story is as of yet.
I wonder if you'll be able to pull the same ole trick w/ this method as you did with music. If you used lighter grooves, you able to pack more music in, it'd just be more quiet, deeper grooves was louder music, but less of them.
I definately dig the idea of competition helping to create and give us better technology, because, face it, if no one had anything to fight or work against, things wouldn't grow and develop as quickly as they do.
It's things like this that give us great computer technology especially, great choices as well, instead of a single brand for everything with one company controlling it all. I love choice after all...
The only problems this runs into, would be, the confusion that arises for the general populace. IE, is dvd+r or dvd-r better? what's the difference? Is AMD really better than Intel? Should I get an HP, Compaq, or Sony computer?
These are questions I hear daily, and while some are answered by gathering a little information and figuring out what the person really needs to use it for, others are not so easily answered.
Recordable media for example. Sure, I can tell someone, "Good luck finding a zipdisk anyone that's not online, why not get an inexpensive CD or DVD burner". However, whether or not DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs are better. And while we all have opinions and some facts, each one has their strengths.
Which leads me to this: How much confusion will your average non-geeky customer have once all this new-wave recordable technology hits the market? More storage capacity, faster burns, more compatibility, these could be easy answers, until you get to the point to where you have five (i picked a random number, however many it really will be/is) to choose from and compatibility starts slimming down to specific brand names.
Any thoughts or ideas on this would be appreciated.
I'm a technician at a best buy and from all the other techs in the company as well as at other stores, we never see Gamecubes come in as faulty, the returns simply come in as, "we didn't want this" or it simply needed a good blast of air to clean out the dust puppies.
Xboxs and PS2s however (PS1 way back when) come in constantly for more than just cleanings, bad hardware, brand new games no longer working, where a good dusting and cleaning doesn't do the trick.
I've had my Gamecube knocked over by my spawns of satan (cats) many times and it's never done anything but skip if it was running at the time (i got smart and have it only an inch off the floor back in a shelf now). I've had 5 PS1s, 3 PS2s, and now 3 Xboxs that have never had cat attacks and just stop working from CD/DVDrom malfunctions, video card failures, power and av hookup component failures, as well as overheating.
The Gamecube's real problem, is lack of quantity in games, they have some excellent 1st party games no one else ever gets, as does each platform, that appeal to the old school game geeks, as opposed to the MTV-hyped gamers of today, who never played Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc... but instead started out with the PS1 and up.
some kind of proxy helps prevent a lot. Proximitron is an easily configured proxy that helps cut down a LOT of the crap you run into.
that coupled with something like ad-aware + spybot + spysweeper (yes all three) works relatively well to keep most crap out. I recommend all three specifically because, having to remove spyware from 30ish computers a day as a Geek Squad Agent at Best Buy, I've discovered of the three, with the -1 day defintion updates, you still find things in each one that the other does not.
You might try finding some other spyware detection apps, NAV 2004/2005 detects and removes SOME (but to be quite honest, not as much as they claim), but the more the merrier. Easier? Less time consuming? Of course not, but removing as much as possible once a week usually leads to having to remove less daily (even in a corporate environment, this could be every 3 days instead of every single day, depending on how many porn/gambling addicts you guys have on your payroll;>).
I've been patching XFS into 2.4 kernels and have had nothing but great performance so far. It's been extremely fast. Recovery when my machine hasn't been shut down properly has been worlds faster than ext3 and reiser3x (i've yet to try reiser4).
I haven't run into a SINGLE problem at all and recommend it to all, as it's speedy and does a good job. It's also encouraged me to install GRUB which just rocks, plain and simple.
You guys are doing good to be able to modify the price that much. From employees at Best Buy I've spoken with, they are not allowed to change the price by even a penny, as they are price locked. If they do, Apple pulls their products from the store.
As for as "sales" you'd be suprised how many people think "as advertised" means "this is onsale" and don't realize it means, "hey, we put this in the paper for this much, sure, it was the same price last week, but this week, we've pointed it out to ya' buddy!"
On a P133 w/ 64MB of ram and 80MB of ram, reiserfs
proves to be loads faster, almost made me think the system was scsi based;>... now i have a p166mmx w/ 128mb of ram, and i'm sure reiserfs will be that much faster...
I have a hard enough time being intellectually stimulated by a lot of people around me and definately on irc as it is, if a movie will intellectually stimulate me i will blow the cash to go see it. Sure i love to have fun as much as the next guy, but for christ's sake, finding intelligent conversation now a days, especially on the internet will be the death of me =P
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Malaria medication (prevention) is available in most super markets in the US and the rest of the world. Quinine, it's found in "Tonic Water"! I believe the quinine content has gone down since it's original inception, I wonder if it's sold (tonic water) at the local groceries I see in documentaries that always carry Coke products. I also wonder if the quinine content has been jacked up because of the need or reduced to promote the sale of the drugs...
I wonder how susceptible these would be to excess "similar" sounds around them. Old school television remotes didn't use infrared, they used higher pitched audio generated from something similar to tiny tuning forks. The problem was, a ring of keys jingling could mess with them completely.
Would these be using ultra or sonic frequencies? The latter would be cost prohibitive (speakers, etc..), the former probably the same for both the speakers and the microphones (read transmitters receivers).
What about contract buyouts? You know,
"switch over to us and we'll buy out your old contract" type deals? The question may sound a little redundant, but I'd like it clearly defined if it's legal to unlock your phone under these circumstances.
Poor Oracle, they file a silly greed based lawsuit that may or may not even be valid. How stupid are they going to feel in court when the Jury, whose never heard of Oracle, but all love Google (read: helps them find pr0n, food, everything...) stare dumbly at them and wonder why they're picking on their friends!
But seriously, I highly doubt this is going to set Android back much, if at all. Even with an injunction (and however much time it would take them to get, sometimes quick, sometimes not at all), if what I've read is accurate (who knows?), they shouldn't stand a chance. As for Android, the lawsuit's gonna bring more attention to it, hurrays for free advertising!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could have gone completely different with this stuff. Arthur Dent might have just slept through the demolition of his planet, or at least woken up to a large crashing sound, followed by a much larger crashing sound. Or perhaps it would've gone on mostly the same, except the bit about his house would never have happened!
First off, to clarify what bait and switch is. Technically, it's advertising something (say a weekly ad, website, tv/radio commercial, whatever), then refusing to sell the item to someone and offering a different, regardless of the new item's price point. It's baiting a customer in with an ad and refusing to sell said item. If a store's out and they offer, it's not a bait 'n switch, if they offer another item, but do not refuse (refusal being blatant or sleight), it's still not bait and switch.
.com site, however, the practice I saw in my stores and trained people to do, was, price match any verifiable current ad, for anyone, .com included (the register's pricematch option even includes a .com match option by default, as well as major competitors, and an 'other fill in' field).
As for the second website, my guess is they're referring to the IntraNet version. If you log into BBY's employee toolkit and use it to goto the website instead of opening firefox or ie, you get the employee version. There are a few subtle differences. For example, when you mouse over a URL for an item or an item's pic, you get a rollover with the SKU number. You also do not get regional pricing information.
If you compare a BBY ad from New York and Cincinnati (where I live), you'll have different prices. If you look at the 'weekly ad' on the website, you punch in your zip, and you get your local ad. Otherwise, if we all click on random stereo b, that's not in the 'ad section' but just a normal click through via electronics, then audio, stereos, whatever, we get the same information, you, me, mr ny, and the employee on toolkit, except the emp gets sku numbers and information like that.
Weekly ads have a lot of disclaimer information. Limitations of rain checks, limited quantity, and even that the ad prices are only good for 'listed area'. Now while a BBY in NY MIGHT honor a Cincinnati ad (obviously our market is a bit more inexpensive on non-price locked items than NY), they are NOT obligated. Some offers are also internet only priced, advertised as such, but not in a paper ad.
I'm not sure if the store is obligated legally to price match their OWN
If anyone has any information as to whether I'm off topic and discussing a DIFFERENT web page, please let me know, as I said earlier, this would simply be my guess.
I think more than just output has to be taken into account here. For example, how much garbage is outputted that is usable by either the marines, or people in general if it became that widespread. Sure oil may have a greater energy yield, along with wind and solar power (while wind and sunlight are very abundant of course), oil is limited, and while technically garbage is limited, it doesn't seem to be slowing down in it's output.
Anyone have any numbers on the amount of garbage outputted that could be used in this thing? (Assuming you can't stuff everything in, that we'd have to separate something out of it).
If they're smart about it, they'll plan to equip the newest system with whatever the newest/most likely to suceed/most cost efficient media reader in the next one. I for one am rather disappointed that they've planned on keeping the hd-dvd's functionality strictly to movies. If I recall correctly, one of the ways they said the Gamecube would fail was, it's inability to hold as much data as games would need/it's competition had, well, they've gone the same route by sticking to DVD. The Wii also could've gone another route, but I really expected more out of the company who really gave Nintendo hell about such a thing.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything on what colors they'll be available in at release. We can find the assortment of colors, but are they going to go the road of the gameboy and release a couple at a time to increase sales? Anyone think they'd do that with a console?
The current "rumor" going around the con is, he had an outstanding warrant in another state and his arrest was regarding that. Again, this is just what's been going around, we don't know what the real story is as of yet.
I wonder if you'll be able to pull the same ole trick w/ this method as you did with music. If you used lighter grooves, you able to pack more music in, it'd just be more quiet, deeper grooves was louder music, but less of them.
I definately dig the idea of competition helping to create and give us better technology, because, face it, if no one had anything to fight or work against, things wouldn't grow and develop as quickly as they do.
It's things like this that give us great computer technology especially, great choices as well, instead of a single brand for everything with one company controlling it all. I love choice after all...
The only problems this runs into, would be, the confusion that arises for the general populace. IE, is dvd+r or dvd-r better? what's the difference? Is AMD really better than Intel? Should I get an HP, Compaq, or Sony computer?
These are questions I hear daily, and while some are answered by gathering a little information and figuring out what the person really needs to use it for, others are not so easily answered.
Recordable media for example. Sure, I can tell someone, "Good luck finding a zipdisk anyone that's not online, why not get an inexpensive CD or DVD burner". However, whether or not DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs are better. And while we all have opinions and some facts, each one has their strengths.
Which leads me to this: How much confusion will your average non-geeky customer have once all this new-wave recordable technology hits the market? More storage capacity, faster burns, more compatibility, these could be easy answers, until you get to the point to where you have five (i picked a random number, however many it really will be/is) to choose from and compatibility starts slimming down to specific brand names.
Any thoughts or ideas on this would be appreciated.
I'm a technician at a best buy and from all the other techs in the company as well as at other stores, we never see Gamecubes come in as faulty, the returns simply come in as, "we didn't want this" or it simply needed a good blast of air to clean out the dust puppies.
Xboxs and PS2s however (PS1 way back when) come in constantly for more than just cleanings, bad hardware, brand new games no longer working, where a good dusting and cleaning doesn't do the trick.
I've had my Gamecube knocked over by my spawns of satan (cats) many times and it's never done anything but skip if it was running at the time (i got smart and have it only an inch off the floor back in a shelf now). I've had 5 PS1s, 3 PS2s, and now 3 Xboxs that have never had cat attacks and just stop working from CD/DVDrom malfunctions, video card failures, power and av hookup component failures, as well as overheating.
The Gamecube's real problem, is lack of quantity in games, they have some excellent 1st party games no one else ever gets, as does each platform, that appeal to the old school game geeks, as opposed to the MTV-hyped gamers of today, who never played Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc... but instead started out with the PS1 and up.
some kind of proxy helps prevent a lot. Proximitron is an easily configured proxy that helps cut down a LOT of the crap you run into.
;>).
that coupled with something like ad-aware + spybot + spysweeper (yes all three) works relatively well to keep most crap out. I recommend all three specifically because, having to remove spyware from 30ish computers a day as a Geek Squad Agent at Best Buy, I've discovered of the three, with the -1 day defintion updates, you still find things in each one that the other does not.
You might try finding some other spyware detection apps, NAV 2004/2005 detects and removes SOME (but to be quite honest, not as much as they claim), but the more the merrier. Easier? Less time consuming? Of course not, but removing as much as possible once a week usually leads to having to remove less daily (even in a corporate environment, this could be every 3 days instead of every single day, depending on how many porn/gambling addicts you guys have on your payroll
just my two scratched up green pennies.
I've been patching XFS into 2.4 kernels and have had nothing but great performance so far. It's been extremely fast. Recovery when my machine hasn't been shut down properly has been worlds faster than ext3 and reiser3x (i've yet to try reiser4).
I haven't run into a SINGLE problem at all and recommend it to all, as it's speedy and does a good job. It's also encouraged me to install GRUB which just rocks, plain and simple.
You guys are doing good to be able to modify the price that much. From employees at Best Buy I've spoken with, they are not allowed to change the price by even a penny, as they are price locked. If they do, Apple pulls their products from the store.
As for as "sales" you'd be suprised how many people think "as advertised" means "this is onsale" and don't realize it means, "hey, we put this in the paper for this much, sure, it was the same price last week, but this week, we've pointed it out to ya' buddy!"
Unless I am completely insane, it seems they have forgotten to include a headphone jack on the unit I messed around with. Anyone else find it?
how utterly amusing... blade started out as a comic book, originally in the spiderman comicbook =P
On a P133 w/ 64MB of ram and 80MB of ram, reiserfs ;>... now i have a p166mmx w/ 128mb of ram, and i'm sure reiserfs will be that much faster...
proves to be loads faster, almost made me think the system was scsi based
I have a hard enough time being intellectually stimulated by a lot of people around me and definately on irc as it is, if a movie will intellectually stimulate me i will blow the cash to go see it. Sure i love to have fun as much as the next guy, but for christ's sake, finding intelligent conversation now a days, especially on the internet will be the death of me =P