Its not a gimmick if used properly. For example CGI could've been seen as a gimmick early on but two movies used it properly to enhance the story (Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park). When time is taken into putting an effect into a film it can greatly enhance the experience when its done last minute like "Clash of the Titans" its pulls you away from the story and you get garbage.
The problem today is that a studio will slap on "3D" and charge $12 a ticket instead of $7.
Knowing that Warren Buffet pledged to give billions to that charity (while refusing to put his own children in his will) is not good news for her..
Thats because Warren Buffet doesn't like the idea of transferring wealth from one generation to the next. Warren Buffet wants his children to be independent from him and make it on their own. Ever hear of those stories where the children of the highly succesful tend to be screw ups? Because they were handed everything and never understood the idea of making it on their own. Additionally, they weren't written out of his will, they just wont receive a large amount of wealth, same thing is happening with Bill Gates children.
The Californian startup claims that it had no other recourse, issuing a statement that it reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the makers of Top Gear and the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.
First, they tried setting the record straight 2 years ago. Then they attempted to contact Top Gear and BBC probably to avoid a legal mess and were ignored. So of course after two years of this they finally had to go through the legal system to the record straight.
Bill Gates always claimed that his stuff was cheaper than everyone elses, and he barely made any money at all. Thats why he has made the Forbes greediest list for such a long time, his priest-like oath to poverty. I heard the story about how Allen would be pale, vomiting, and shivering over a console, while Gates tells Ballmer, that if he doesn't put in a full 60 hours a week, and get the project done on time, he forfeits 80% of his stock. Gates didn't contribute any code, not much for ideas, but he did have the company. Oh, and he had more greed than any of the others. Some also described him as a sonofabitch. But you never heard that from me.
Are you describing Bill Gates or Steve Jobs here? Because I heard this same story from the Apple camp also just with different names.
Nintendo has probably the best customer service of all three major players in the console market. They were still repairing the NES up until about 5 years ago. I read a story where one guy called up their support but since he only lived 5 minutes from their corporate HQ he convinced them to have him come bring his dead Wii and they repaired it.
So Microsoft's goal is NOT to make money from new tech?
Probably not worth it at this point, most big players have already entered the market. Microsoft cancelled their tablet months ago because they probably figured by the time it was designed, developed, produced, and sold they would be in a saturated market with many competitors. Better off putting those resources to something else in the pipeline.
Even if it is a bubble Microsoft shows its corporate vision (or lack thereof) in this.
Or they don't want to go down the Zune path again. As from above, release a product into an already saturated market. How much more can you really improve on a tablet at this point? The tablet is like the Netbook, at first the competitors could have better battery life, better screens, better software, as time went on these factors didn't matter anymore. Now the Netbook is a commodity device, you can buy almost anyone and get the same features.
Kind of sad because this is the same company that made the Kinect not so long ago, showing that not everybody at Microsoft lacks vision.
Thats because the Kinect greatly improved on the existing motion sensing products and differentiated from the competitors. The two major players out there were Nintendo and Sony, both products they offered required you to hold onto a piece of hardware. Microsoft took a chance and removed the hand held component. If it indeed becomes highly successful, expect Nintendo and Sony to follow by removing the handheld part.
Microsoft knows it cant improve on the tablet anymore then its competitors can. Hell, I wouldn't doubt it if the only company making money off the tablet market a year from now is Apple.
I would like to just say that when Duke Nukem 3D came out I was 11. I managed to get my hands on the game through some older high school teens. I saw the strippers, killed the fake pig cops, saw the tied up women, saw the Duke defecate down the neck of his enemy. I didn't grow up screwed up or going crazy. I have a college degree and work as a software engineer. But you know who ended up screwed up? My friend who was sheltered from this and kept away from the reality of life. Now he has no job and does drugs, that's reality right there.
Its not as easy as you think. All those films they stream they need to get licensed from the distributors. Then depending on the release of the film, the popularity, they might only be able to stream X number of times or for X number of days. The mail service is a legal renting system, they purchased 100 dvds so they can send out 100 dvds to 100 renters. Streaming is a different area because they could technically buy 1 dvd, rip it, and stream it 100 times but this wouldn't be legal so they have to get permission and pay certain fees, etc, etc to get movies to be streamed. This is why the majority of the stuff they have on the streaming service is garbage.
Well they probably shouldn't have launched with that color in the first place. Your number one competition is a sleek white device and brown is the launch color you go with. The device itself is pretty nice though, I use mainly when I am flying because I can move my videos onto it. I also have a Fusion which allows the hookup through Microsoft sync which is a nice feature. For what I paid for it $60 its definitely the best media player I have ever owned and has lasted longer then my iPod. As for the software though, its kind of clunky and slow but Apple isn't much better in that field either.
So basically they didn't shield the components properly? Or they didn't take into account that Wifi is now offered as a service on planes so older designs were not updated?
I like the photo in the article of the plane crash from LOST. Nothing bad has happened so far because of this but lets show a crashed plane anyway.
I love Visual Studio and with the express editions its extremely easy to take up C# or C++. My only beef with Microsoft SDK is sometimes they limit your ability, for example with the Windows Phone SDK we still don't have access to the LED light. Now of course some of us found ways to get access but these were holes we found in the SDK and cause other issues.
Desperation. Just like when they changed from SciFi to SyFy for the publicity. It appears that whoever is in charge over there is looking at short-term revenue gains instead of long term growth which is what they really need. Although the CEO who is doing this will leave in a few years taking his severance package (he met his marks on revenue gains) and leave the problem for someone else.
You know what was an awesome leak? The Doom 3 alpha or the Half-Life 2 source release, two products we were not suppose to have hands on time with.
This is a freaking list of specs of a laptop that doesn't look that powerful and will cost an arm and a leg. Now the iPad update will probably have some feature that should have been released with the first generation but for whatever reason *cough* BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE BUY IT AGAIN *cough* was not included.
Everything is a leak today no matter how silly the information being leaked is.
Also, from my conversations with people who own businesses, Groupon's sales approach is very aggressive. They put dollar signs in the business owner's eyes. But eventually, they'll get found out.
And here is the fundamental flaw just like the dot com bubble burst, its a quick get in and get money strategy (the core problem with most major economys today). No long term plan to keep yourself profitable, once companies start to catch on that the deal is not that sweet (which is coming to light already) they will walk. Now this isn't so bad at first but the problem for Groupon is that most business owners talk to each other. Once the seed is planted that your deal is not so great, that seed grows and spreads and once your reputation is damaged its difficult to recover.
What will most likely happen is that over time Groupon will need to negotiate better deals with businesses, deals that net the business a larger profit margin, while netting Groupon a smaller piece of the pie. So now the profitability of Groupon falls, the overall evaluation falls, and finally you get the actual value of Groupon on a long term basis.
People from across the political spectrum are open to FUD. The only real difference is which buttons you have to push.
Exactly, he went to the other side of the aisle because it was easier to exploit. Before he went to Fox News his ratings on CNN were terrible, were talking 200-300k viewers a night (http://mediamatters.org/columns/200707310005), he was going to be let go it was only a matter of time. So he jumps ship, makes a highly conservative show and 18 months later he is speaking on the other side of the aisle, this is where the two clips on The Daily Show come into play. Now his new act is being the loud-mouth that spouts the most ridiculous statements so he can appeal to a certain market and by being a loud-mouth other people mention him and everyone knows him. Then his ratings balloon to 2+ million viewers a night from his pathetic 200-300k viewers a night on CNN. Now add in his speeches, books, appearances, etc, etc, and he went from being a man about to be fired on CNN, to a rich rich man.
That guy appears to be a mad nutjob but hes a marketing genius.
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Its not a gimmick if used properly. For example CGI could've been seen as a gimmick early on but two movies used it properly to enhance the story (Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park). When time is taken into putting an effect into a film it can greatly enhance the experience when its done last minute like "Clash of the Titans" its pulls you away from the story and you get garbage.
The problem today is that a studio will slap on "3D" and charge $12 a ticket instead of $7.
Knowing that Warren Buffet pledged to give billions to that charity (while refusing to put his own children in his will) is not good news for her..
Thats because Warren Buffet doesn't like the idea of transferring wealth from one generation to the next. Warren Buffet wants his children to be independent from him and make it on their own. Ever hear of those stories where the children of the highly succesful tend to be screw ups? Because they were handed everything and never understood the idea of making it on their own. Additionally, they weren't written out of his will, they just wont receive a large amount of wealth, same thing is happening with Bill Gates children.
So... Tesla waited 2 years before doing this when it could have set the record straight the moment it happened?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/12/tesla-cries-fou/#more
http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1057580_tesla-sues-top-gear-for-libel-against-all-electric-roadster
The Californian startup claims that it had no other recourse, issuing a statement that it reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the makers of Top Gear and the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.
First, they tried setting the record straight 2 years ago. Then they attempted to contact Top Gear and BBC probably to avoid a legal mess and were ignored. So of course after two years of this they finally had to go through the legal system to the record straight.
Bill Gates always claimed that his stuff was cheaper than everyone elses, and he barely made any money at all. Thats why he has made the Forbes greediest list for such a long time, his priest-like oath to poverty. I heard the story about how Allen would be pale, vomiting, and shivering over a console, while Gates tells Ballmer, that if he doesn't put in a full 60 hours a week, and get the project done on time, he forfeits 80% of his stock. Gates didn't contribute any code, not much for ideas, but he did have the company. Oh, and he had more greed than any of the others. Some also described him as a sonofabitch. But you never heard that from me.
Are you describing Bill Gates or Steve Jobs here? Because I heard this same story from the Apple camp also just with different names.
Nintendo has probably the best customer service of all three major players in the console market. They were still repairing the NES up until about 5 years ago. I read a story where one guy called up their support but since he only lived 5 minutes from their corporate HQ he convinced them to have him come bring his dead Wii and they repaired it.
The fiber Google owns is not owned by Comcast, Timer Warner, or Cox.
So Microsoft's goal is NOT to make money from new tech?
Probably not worth it at this point, most big players have already entered the market. Microsoft cancelled their tablet months ago because they probably figured by the time it was designed, developed, produced, and sold they would be in a saturated market with many competitors. Better off putting those resources to something else in the pipeline.
Even if it is a bubble Microsoft shows its corporate vision (or lack thereof) in this.
Or they don't want to go down the Zune path again. As from above, release a product into an already saturated market. How much more can you really improve on a tablet at this point? The tablet is like the Netbook, at first the competitors could have better battery life, better screens, better software, as time went on these factors didn't matter anymore. Now the Netbook is a commodity device, you can buy almost anyone and get the same features.
Kind of sad because this is the same company that made the Kinect not so long ago, showing that not everybody at Microsoft lacks vision.
Thats because the Kinect greatly improved on the existing motion sensing products and differentiated from the competitors. The two major players out there were Nintendo and Sony, both products they offered required you to hold onto a piece of hardware. Microsoft took a chance and removed the hand held component. If it indeed becomes highly successful, expect Nintendo and Sony to follow by removing the handheld part.
Microsoft knows it cant improve on the tablet anymore then its competitors can. Hell, I wouldn't doubt it if the only company making money off the tablet market a year from now is Apple.
Cutting costs? Preposterous!
I would like to just say that when Duke Nukem 3D came out I was 11. I managed to get my hands on the game through some older high school teens. I saw the strippers, killed the fake pig cops, saw the tied up women, saw the Duke defecate down the neck of his enemy. I didn't grow up screwed up or going crazy. I have a college degree and work as a software engineer. But you know who ended up screwed up? My friend who was sheltered from this and kept away from the reality of life. Now he has no job and does drugs, that's reality right there.
Because its the latest big buzz company to come around.
Its not as easy as you think. All those films they stream they need to get licensed from the distributors. Then depending on the release of the film, the popularity, they might only be able to stream X number of times or for X number of days. The mail service is a legal renting system, they purchased 100 dvds so they can send out 100 dvds to 100 renters. Streaming is a different area because they could technically buy 1 dvd, rip it, and stream it 100 times but this wouldn't be legal so they have to get permission and pay certain fees, etc, etc to get movies to be streamed. This is why the majority of the stuff they have on the streaming service is garbage.
Or they browse at work where IE is a standardized across all systems.
Well they probably shouldn't have launched with that color in the first place. Your number one competition is a sleek white device and brown is the launch color you go with. The device itself is pretty nice though, I use mainly when I am flying because I can move my videos onto it. I also have a Fusion which allows the hookup through Microsoft sync which is a nice feature. For what I paid for it $60 its definitely the best media player I have ever owned and has lasted longer then my iPod. As for the software though, its kind of clunky and slow but Apple isn't much better in that field either.
Come on Comrade! Chase me to CHASE!
So basically they didn't shield the components properly? Or they didn't take into account that Wifi is now offered as a service on planes so older designs were not updated?
I like the photo in the article of the plane crash from LOST. Nothing bad has happened so far because of this but lets show a crashed plane anyway.
Its also very hard to prove.
I love Visual Studio and with the express editions its extremely easy to take up C# or C++. My only beef with Microsoft SDK is sometimes they limit your ability, for example with the Windows Phone SDK we still don't have access to the LED light. Now of course some of us found ways to get access but these were holes we found in the SDK and cause other issues.
How does the solving of problems like these really help the world?
Because solving this problem can help solve another problem that impacts the world more than the original problem.
I'm a med student who has worked in several hospitals, and have yet to see one where HIPAA is rigorously followed.
Probably because no one was getting fined.
Now... wrestling? Really?
Desperation. Just like when they changed from SciFi to SyFy for the publicity. It appears that whoever is in charge over there is looking at short-term revenue gains instead of long term growth which is what they really need. Although the CEO who is doing this will leave in a few years taking his severance package (he met his marks on revenue gains) and leave the problem for someone else.
In other words, they're making money off the placebo effect.
Nope
It would also provide Apple and the music labels with an opportunity to 'upgrade' people's music collections, raising extra revenue in the process.
They're making money off selling the same product again to you.
You know what was an awesome leak? The Doom 3 alpha or the Half-Life 2 source release, two products we were not suppose to have hands on time with.
This is a freaking list of specs of a laptop that doesn't look that powerful and will cost an arm and a leg. Now the iPad update will probably have some feature that should have been released with the first generation but for whatever reason *cough* BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE BUY IT AGAIN *cough* was not included.
Everything is a leak today no matter how silly the information being leaked is.
Also, from my conversations with people who own businesses, Groupon's sales approach is very aggressive. They put dollar signs in the business owner's eyes. But eventually, they'll get found out.
And here is the fundamental flaw just like the dot com bubble burst, its a quick get in and get money strategy (the core problem with most major economys today). No long term plan to keep yourself profitable, once companies start to catch on that the deal is not that sweet (which is coming to light already) they will walk. Now this isn't so bad at first but the problem for Groupon is that most business owners talk to each other. Once the seed is planted that your deal is not so great, that seed grows and spreads and once your reputation is damaged its difficult to recover.
What will most likely happen is that over time Groupon will need to negotiate better deals with businesses, deals that net the business a larger profit margin, while netting Groupon a smaller piece of the pie. So now the profitability of Groupon falls, the overall evaluation falls, and finally you get the actual value of Groupon on a long term basis.
Maybe the Honda Civic was a way of throwing reporters off?
People from across the political spectrum are open to FUD. The only real difference is which buttons you have to push.
Exactly, he went to the other side of the aisle because it was easier to exploit. Before he went to Fox News his ratings on CNN were terrible, were talking 200-300k viewers a night (http://mediamatters.org/columns/200707310005), he was going to be let go it was only a matter of time. So he jumps ship, makes a highly conservative show and 18 months later he is speaking on the other side of the aisle, this is where the two clips on The Daily Show come into play. Now his new act is being the loud-mouth that spouts the most ridiculous statements so he can appeal to a certain market and by being a loud-mouth other people mention him and everyone knows him. Then his ratings balloon to 2+ million viewers a night from his pathetic 200-300k viewers a night on CNN. Now add in his speeches, books, appearances, etc, etc, and he went from being a man about to be fired on CNN, to a rich rich man.
That guy appears to be a mad nutjob but hes a marketing genius.