I remember growing up with Reader Rabbit. It was a great asset for when I was learning how to read and perform simple arithmetic. What's more, I enjoyed playing it everyday and I was able to leap ahead of the rest of my class in these subjects because the joy of playing the mini-games kept me involved in the studies daily.
Don't forget about games like Oregon Trail, Word/Number Munchers and Lemmings!
The Hadron collider builders should also play "It's the End of the World as We Know It" by REM the day it starts. Except if any of those three scenarios they described came true, I don't think you are going to "feel fine."
After doing some power gaming with Wii Sports, Zelda, Red Steel, and Super Monkey Ball (all of which are great games), my reaction the day after: my shoulders hurt like Hell. Maybe the Wii will get me back into shape?
Way back when, they use to shout the news to sell their papers. "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" anyone?
Of course, way back when, they also started a war to sell their papers...
Let's say I make a new food product - a new sugar-loaded cereal called ILuvsMahSugah Puffs. One grocery store displays my new cereal at the end of their cereal aisle; a lot of people who want some cereal may encounter mine first and decide to try it while others will ignore it and go to the cereal they like - the kind for which they were searching. Another grocery store decides to put my new cereal in the aisle itself, next to the other sugary cereals using a sort of "grouped" method. Another decides to throw it in randomly amongst the other cereals in their cereal aisle. Another decides to place it in the bread aisle, away from all the other cereals so that those who go searching for some cereal may not come across mine but those who are searching for bread may accidentally stumble upon it and decide to either try it or go get some other kind of cereal. The final grocery store decides not to even carry my new cereal in their store.
Naturally, I would like to see my new cereal displayed at the end of the cereal aisle in each store, so that all of those potential customers who want cereal will see mine first and will, hopefully, try it before entering the aisle to check out the other cereals past mine.
The question is: do I have the right to sue all of those other stores for not putting my cereal at the end of their cereal aisle where I want it? More importantly, should I have the right if it is promised to me? Is it my right for all of them to explain to me why they put my cereal where they did?
This "lawsuit" filed by KinderStart.com, who I have never heard of until I read this, seems as silly to me as my horribly long, drawn-out metaphor.
The film explores the MPAA's own film rating system and "its profound effect on American culture."
What better way to explore how MPAA rates movies then to show examples of past movies and discuss why these movies got their rating? I would imagine that the movie must cross basis with other NC-17 movies and because of the examples taken from these movies, it was promptly given an NC-17 rating. Don't they rate based on the worst part of the movie?
If you do or did work for Target, then you should also know that those IPods are kept under key lock and are handled by whomever is working in the Electronics Department from the moment they are taken out of the lock case to the moment for which they are paid. I held the position of Electronics Specialist at a local Target store; I would be quite furious if someone from my team would let an IPod leave the store at $4.99.
Quite frankly, I am baffled as to how this person could have managed to place a fake barcode on the IPod itself. For starters, the barcode on the IPod is a very slim one burried beside two other barcodes - the serial and one other one which I can't remember. When an IPod is taken out of the lock cases, they are either paid for at the department's registers or they are taken up to the front lanes and placed in a special location. The cashiers, or at the very least, the GSTL should have kept an eye on this IPod and whatever was left up there. The only way I can imagine this could be done is if the person asked for the IPod to be taken up front, managed to grab it without anyone noticing, placed the fake barcode on the device, then put it back and went to stand in one of the lane's lines to have the unfortunate cashier grab it and ring it up. But at this time of the year, my old store (and myself) would have made it a rule by now not to bring any locked merchandise up to the checklanes and force the guests to pay for it back in the department or hold on to it in a locked drawer by our "boat" or desk area where the registers are kept until the guest was ready to pay for it. There should have been no way for this person to place a fake barcode on the IPod without a Target Team Member noticing, let alone have it ring up at such a price and not fool the Team Member.
I'm also having a hard time trying to understand how the fake barcode was even detected by the systems. Target uses the DCPIs of the item, a 9 digit department-class-item relationship that looks like xxx-xx-xxxx. They don't use the UPCs; they match them to the DCPIs. All of these are kept in a system database; if you enter one that isn't on that database, it comes up on the registers saying "Item not on file." So he had to have used one that matched up with an existing DCPI at $4.99 which means the item description and even the department/class number should have been totally different from what the standard IPod's barcode comes up with.
I believe whatever Target store this was, their STL, ETL-AP, ETL-HL, and Electonics Team Lead should all be questioned about their neglegance, not just the person who rang it up at that price with a fake barcode and let them get away with it.
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I remember growing up with Reader Rabbit. It was a great asset for when I was learning how to read and perform simple arithmetic. What's more, I enjoyed playing it everyday and I was able to leap ahead of the rest of my class in these subjects because the joy of playing the mini-games kept me involved in the studies daily. Don't forget about games like Oregon Trail, Word/Number Munchers and Lemmings!
After doing some power gaming with Wii Sports, Zelda, Red Steel, and Super Monkey Ball (all of which are great games), my reaction the day after: my shoulders hurt like Hell. Maybe the Wii will get me back into shape?
Word on the street says former President Theodore Roosevelt strongly recommends this game! I'm not at liberty to disclose my sources. Sorry!
You will be assimilated. Soon, we will unlock your BMW.
Way back when, they use to shout the news to sell their papers. "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" anyone? Of course, way back when, they also started a war to sell their papers...
Let's say I make a new food product - a new sugar-loaded cereal called ILuvsMahSugah Puffs. One grocery store displays my new cereal at the end of their cereal aisle; a lot of people who want some cereal may encounter mine first and decide to try it while others will ignore it and go to the cereal they like - the kind for which they were searching. Another grocery store decides to put my new cereal in the aisle itself, next to the other sugary cereals using a sort of "grouped" method. Another decides to throw it in randomly amongst the other cereals in their cereal aisle. Another decides to place it in the bread aisle, away from all the other cereals so that those who go searching for some cereal may not come across mine but those who are searching for bread may accidentally stumble upon it and decide to either try it or go get some other kind of cereal. The final grocery store decides not to even carry my new cereal in their store.
Naturally, I would like to see my new cereal displayed at the end of the cereal aisle in each store, so that all of those potential customers who want cereal will see mine first and will, hopefully, try it before entering the aisle to check out the other cereals past mine.
The question is: do I have the right to sue all of those other stores for not putting my cereal at the end of their cereal aisle where I want it? More importantly, should I have the right if it is promised to me? Is it my right for all of them to explain to me why they put my cereal where they did?
This "lawsuit" filed by KinderStart.com, who I have never heard of until I read this, seems as silly to me as my horribly long, drawn-out metaphor.
Attach the freakin' lasers to their heads.
The film explores the MPAA's own film rating system and "its profound effect on American culture." What better way to explore how MPAA rates movies then to show examples of past movies and discuss why these movies got their rating? I would imagine that the movie must cross basis with other NC-17 movies and because of the examples taken from these movies, it was promptly given an NC-17 rating. Don't they rate based on the worst part of the movie?
If you do or did work for Target, then you should also know that those IPods are kept under key lock and are handled by whomever is working in the Electronics Department from the moment they are taken out of the lock case to the moment for which they are paid. I held the position of Electronics Specialist at a local Target store; I would be quite furious if someone from my team would let an IPod leave the store at $4.99.
Quite frankly, I am baffled as to how this person could have managed to place a fake barcode on the IPod itself. For starters, the barcode on the IPod is a very slim one burried beside two other barcodes - the serial and one other one which I can't remember. When an IPod is taken out of the lock cases, they are either paid for at the department's registers or they are taken up to the front lanes and placed in a special location. The cashiers, or at the very least, the GSTL should have kept an eye on this IPod and whatever was left up there. The only way I can imagine this could be done is if the person asked for the IPod to be taken up front, managed to grab it without anyone noticing, placed the fake barcode on the device, then put it back and went to stand in one of the lane's lines to have the unfortunate cashier grab it and ring it up. But at this time of the year, my old store (and myself) would have made it a rule by now not to bring any locked merchandise up to the checklanes and force the guests to pay for it back in the department or hold on to it in a locked drawer by our "boat" or desk area where the registers are kept until the guest was ready to pay for it. There should have been no way for this person to place a fake barcode on the IPod without a Target Team Member noticing, let alone have it ring up at such a price and not fool the Team Member.
I'm also having a hard time trying to understand how the fake barcode was even detected by the systems. Target uses the DCPIs of the item, a 9 digit department-class-item relationship that looks like xxx-xx-xxxx. They don't use the UPCs; they match them to the DCPIs. All of these are kept in a system database; if you enter one that isn't on that database, it comes up on the registers saying "Item not on file." So he had to have used one that matched up with an existing DCPI at $4.99 which means the item description and even the department/class number should have been totally different from what the standard IPod's barcode comes up with.
I believe whatever Target store this was, their STL, ETL-AP, ETL-HL, and Electonics Team Lead should all be questioned about their neglegance, not just the person who rang it up at that price with a fake barcode and let them get away with it.