Why would you update the phone if you knew that it wasn't compatable with what you've done to it?
The update is optional... Why should Apple make all thier updates work with your stuff?
That Bungee pulls in a little cheat that makes fun of Jack Thompson. The guy is definately going to be remembered as the industry clown/thorn that doesn't go away. I wonder what his Wiki says about him.
So what happens when we the populace start casually shooting the same thing back at them. Or, even worse, at each other. Could you imagine a group of teenagers roaming around town with one of these? Or sitting on a roof with a scope?
Don't expect this tech in the hands of police anytime soon.(God I hope not) Because if it gets there it'll be on the street in a matter of days/weeks after that. No one will be safe. It doesn't sound like good crowd control management because its effective at up 1/2 a mile a way. It sounds like something thats easily effective at causing riots, mobs, and panic within a crowd. Now, if it were limted as a short range weapon then it would be useful. Because the only way a non lethal weapon really works on crowds is when it's user is easily seen and close enough to give commands.
Actually I'm now tempted to buy this game specifically because of this lawsuit. I never bought the previous GTA games due to moral objections but because its got a lawyer in it this time. I'm all for it.:D
Only buy Microsoft products an none of the crap that the competitors try to push out on me.
The only reason the EU did this is because none of thier crap for developers could come out with something better. I hope Microsoft appeals this. Because by the time the appeals process comes out Apple will likely have taken a significant hold on the market and the EU will be going after them too. Why? Because they didn't think of it first and they want to profit from copying American ideas and work.
And, I created a solution. Called it ABSRG. or Alphabetize by section, rating, then Genre. Walmart currently uses it, and Target uses it on a limited basis.
Its nothing new! Been around for like 3 or 4 years.
It increases sales among games overall by upwards of 30 percent. I proved this in several Circuit City stores, a Gamestop, 3 Targets, and at least 2 Walmarts I have the pictures to prove it. I could have patented it. But I decided to just let it go open in order to increase game sales. Which have done wonders for my stock portfolio.:)
Alas, any store can now use it. Its been out on the market for over a year on its own( I think 3 years now) incremental sales increases based on placement of products is my specialty. If you are a manager, try it out in your game section.
A) you built your own PC and you aren't exactly the market that most PC makers shoot for.
B) Compare the difference of buying say an HP and a powermac. Yes, you'd likely spend more on the Mac. But if you open up the cases of the two systems. In the mac you'd find a higher quality system underneath. Better cooling, higher quality Ram, better components and so on. There is an overall prevailing reason that most macs rarely have hardware problems. Heck, ask your local Best buy that sells Apple hardware. Ask the geeksquad how often the Macs actualy do come back for service in comparison to say an HP. It's well known that desktops actually fail less than laptops do.
C) If I look around at my local college like San Jose State I'll find more PC than I do Apple among the Business students. But if I go over to the Arts, international studies, communications , and science sections of the campus the trend reverses. I'm not totally sure why!
It's definatly something to note in my observations that students who have a Mac laptop actually take down more notes than those with a PC do.
Oddly enough, the number one tool that students could use for notes. Microsoft's own Onenote 2007 has actually been on backorder for 12 months. No college bookstore can keep it in stock for more than a couple of days.
ntdoy.pk is the stock ticker here in the US. The foriegn investment fees aren't that high and you don't pay anything until you pull the money out anyways.
Also, the time to buy nintendo stock would've been about 2 months before launch at around 34 a share which I did. Then the time to sell was around the 60(hasn't really gone past that since) a share which I sold it at. Then of course, bought Apple at 120 and laughing all the way to the bank as it continues it's climb to 200 which I totally expect by the end of the year Based on the existing options and calls already purchased out there. I don't see Nintendo really getting past the price of say 73 by the end of the year from its current 58. Long term though, I could see it getting to 93 by this time next year in anticipation of things coming out.
Microsoft likely won't hit the numbers till service pack 1 hits the shelf and they bring some new people into thier marketing department (Channel marketing)Which needs vast improvements.
Why not just restore it and take it back under a different manager? Talk to them, they will usually be cool about things. Just don't give them a reason to deny you. Give them every reason to help you. Treat them nice and work with them.
Writing out problems, hypothesis' and ideas, then writing out the result of that. Sure its a pain in the ass. But if you learn Grammar out of it. You could easily learn to write out things right. I remember a Science teacher in college lowering my grade to a B from an A because I had one passive sentence in an 8 page essay. (I was pissed)
Macgyver was the coolest show to me as a kid, it always taught me that with a bit of effort and thinking outside of the box that pretty much anything was possible.
I guess what I'd like to see is a Tri core CPU setup with two proccessors and something akin to a graphics enhancement chip that could be combined with a GPU from either nvidia or ATI to increase graphics speeds by sharing specific parts of the graphics load and/or keep things in the laptop cool so us even casual gamers aren't burning vital organs when we leave it on our laps.
I think Nokia should continue focusing on building out thier camera phones. They had a very good thing going with it. Just needed to increase the reliability a bit to fix the poweroff issues.
Considering the kind of money that apple profits from the Iphone I don't really see them losing much money either way. But long term reasons state that they do need to do everything they can do maintain maximum profit for this.
Seriously, marketing the current operating system good???? If you want to market your product you need to make the whole organization from the field reps to the CEO, feel an internal respect for the product you are selling. Before I left I most certainly didn't feel that. Heck, the consistent cracks about Vista and other Microsoft related products was rather endless. Not to mention a tidelike flow of people leaving for jobs at other companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, ect. It's like the people in charge are really smart but have no idea of how to market a product. They need to go back to the basics again, rebuild thier marketing program. Don't use it to push defective products like Vista for the corporate suites ambitions show and glitz. Use it to push products within the Microsoft unbrella that currently work well. Also, use it to push for charities that would connect it to the very consumers that wouldn't otherwise buy the product.
It's a sad day in age when you can't even where a shirt that says Windows Vista in public without getting a "Vista sucks" comment. Hell, the people in IT at my new company nearly shot me for wearing that shirt one day. Microsoft's next release better be, AMAZING!!! Because, they have a lot of ground to makeup in IT departments, and companies everywhere.
You can program the system to look for other things. But at the same time, it's also good backup material for police departments and national databases to keep track of trends and directions. Heck, if you could program it to follow trends you could overlay it with a GIS to figure out where to buy land cheap and in 20 years retire because you'll have the most crime free land that you can sell at exorbant prices. You can also use it to predict budgets for the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
I think thats just one thing that showed up on the radar. Something that someone may intuitively know may not be listened to by others without data to back it up. Things like they don't need to enforce traffic as much during foggy days because traffic is going slower already.
I work with retail. So I talk about Sku's all the time, I thought it was funny when I talked to the salesperson and told him I want 2 sku's of nintendos gamestop sku even listing off the numbers. Getting the dumbfounded look before I remember he was a retail employee and I said nintendo wii.
As for stock it is and still is a rather large issue with the 360 Elite. Oddly enough the Wii is what I'm after these days. As for retail. Some places have a custom sku number thats usually 6-8 digits, others have model numbers of the same number of digits. Fry's calls them PLU's
Elite, still sells out in within a day of reciept in most areas. Pricing is actually pretty damn key. Look at the PS3 sales which have pretty much doubled and tripled since the price drop.
Heck, look at Xbox V1 when it dropped to 149. It sold like crazy, so well in fact that it was out of stock in the US for over 3 months. I think the same could be easily achieved with the 360 in coming holiday. I didn't expect any price drops until after the Halo version. Its nice that its here though. But, the price drop I think isn't enough that it will influence buyers enough to buy more. I think the only reason the price drop is so modest is that Microsoft didn't want to spark a price war with Nintendo whom could easily sell thier Wii for 200 a piece and still make significant money.
The only chance Microsoft has right now is to get those amazing games out this year before nintendo does it better. I almost considered getting an Elite Sku for my home system which is setup with pure HDMI hookups. Even more so when I worked with them. But at the time the failure rates I saw scared me greatly.
I suppose I should note though. The price decrease isn't enough to get me to buy one. The core needs to be 250 the premium around 325 and the Elite at 410 to even remotely have a chance at beating out Nintendo. Even better they just need the Elite to be in stock. The sku replenishment has sucked since launch on the Elite.
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Why would you update the phone if you knew that it wasn't compatable with what you've done to it? The update is optional... Why should Apple make all thier updates work with your stuff?
That Bungee pulls in a little cheat that makes fun of Jack Thompson. The guy is definately going to be remembered as the industry clown/thorn that doesn't go away. I wonder what his Wiki says about him.
Looks like he's been doing his own editing as of late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
And, the police aren't corruptable.
So what happens when we the populace start casually shooting the same thing back at them. Or, even worse, at each other. Could you imagine a group of teenagers roaming around town with one of these? Or sitting on a roof with a scope? Don't expect this tech in the hands of police anytime soon.(God I hope not) Because if it gets there it'll be on the street in a matter of days/weeks after that. No one will be safe. It doesn't sound like good crowd control management because its effective at up 1/2 a mile a way. It sounds like something thats easily effective at causing riots, mobs, and panic within a crowd. Now, if it were limted as a short range weapon then it would be useful. Because the only way a non lethal weapon really works on crowds is when it's user is easily seen and close enough to give commands.
I had moral objections to the original version in 2D. I played it and had to delete it. I had fun, but the wrongness of the game struck me.
Actually I'm now tempted to buy this game specifically because of this lawsuit. I never bought the previous GTA games due to moral objections but because its got a lawyer in it this time. I'm all for it. :D
Only buy Microsoft products an none of the crap that the competitors try to push out on me. The only reason the EU did this is because none of thier crap for developers could come out with something better. I hope Microsoft appeals this. Because by the time the appeals process comes out Apple will likely have taken a significant hold on the market and the EU will be going after them too. Why? Because they didn't think of it first and they want to profit from copying American ideas and work.
And, I created a solution. Called it ABSRG. or Alphabetize by section, rating, then Genre. Walmart currently uses it, and Target uses it on a limited basis.
:)
Its nothing new! Been around for like 3 or 4 years.
It increases sales among games overall by upwards of 30 percent. I proved this in several Circuit City stores, a Gamestop, 3 Targets, and at least 2 Walmarts I have the pictures to prove it. I could have patented it. But I decided to just let it go open in order to increase game sales. Which have done wonders for my stock portfolio.
Alas, any store can now use it. Its been out on the market for over a year on its own( I think 3 years now) incremental sales increases based on placement of products is my specialty. If you are a manager, try it out in your game section.
Here is the thing.
A) you built your own PC and you aren't exactly the market that most PC makers shoot for.
B) Compare the difference of buying say an HP and a powermac. Yes, you'd likely spend more on the Mac. But if you open up the cases of the two systems. In the mac you'd find a higher quality system underneath. Better cooling, higher quality Ram, better components and so on. There is an overall prevailing reason that most macs rarely have hardware problems. Heck, ask your local Best buy that sells Apple hardware. Ask the geeksquad how often the Macs actualy do come back for service in comparison to say an HP. It's well known that desktops actually fail less than laptops do.
C) If I look around at my local college like San Jose State I'll find more PC than I do Apple among the Business students. But if I go over to the Arts, international studies, communications , and science sections of the campus the trend reverses. I'm not totally sure why!
It's definatly something to note in my observations that students who have a Mac laptop actually take down more notes than those with a PC do.
Oddly enough, the number one tool that students could use for notes. Microsoft's own Onenote 2007 has actually been on backorder for 12 months. No college bookstore can keep it in stock for more than a couple of days.
ntdoy.pk is the stock ticker here in the US. The foriegn investment fees aren't that high and you don't pay anything until you pull the money out anyways. Also, the time to buy nintendo stock would've been about 2 months before launch at around 34 a share which I did. Then the time to sell was around the 60(hasn't really gone past that since) a share which I sold it at. Then of course, bought Apple at 120 and laughing all the way to the bank as it continues it's climb to 200 which I totally expect by the end of the year Based on the existing options and calls already purchased out there. I don't see Nintendo really getting past the price of say 73 by the end of the year from its current 58. Long term though, I could see it getting to 93 by this time next year in anticipation of things coming out. Microsoft likely won't hit the numbers till service pack 1 hits the shelf and they bring some new people into thier marketing department (Channel marketing)Which needs vast improvements.
Why not just restore it and take it back under a different manager? Talk to them, they will usually be cool about things. Just don't give them a reason to deny you. Give them every reason to help you. Treat them nice and work with them.
You think Bush did this??? At all? Damn, if he did I don't think anyone noticed. That whole Shock and awe thing ya know.
Writing out problems, hypothesis' and ideas, then writing out the result of that. Sure its a pain in the ass. But if you learn Grammar out of it. You could easily learn to write out things right. I remember a Science teacher in college lowering my grade to a B from an A because I had one passive sentence in an 8 page essay. (I was pissed)
Macgyver was the coolest show to me as a kid, it always taught me that with a bit of effort and thinking outside of the box that pretty much anything was possible.
I guess what I'd like to see is a Tri core CPU setup with two proccessors and something akin to a graphics enhancement chip that could be combined with a GPU from either nvidia or ATI to increase graphics speeds by sharing specific parts of the graphics load and/or keep things in the laptop cool so us even casual gamers aren't burning vital organs when we leave it on our laps.
I just thought I'd mention. Apple without the service makes roughly 70 percent margin on the Iphone.
Viva Pinata would be an amazing game on the Wii. and you know it. Especially with the superiro interface that you can get on the Wii. :)
I think Nokia should continue focusing on building out thier camera phones. They had a very good thing going with it. Just needed to increase the reliability a bit to fix the poweroff issues.
Considering the kind of money that apple profits from the Iphone I don't really see them losing much money either way. But long term reasons state that they do need to do everything they can do maintain maximum profit for this.
Seriously, marketing the current operating system good???? If you want to market your product you need to make the whole organization from the field reps to the CEO, feel an internal respect for the product you are selling. Before I left I most certainly didn't feel that. Heck, the consistent cracks about Vista and other Microsoft related products was rather endless. Not to mention a tidelike flow of people leaving for jobs at other companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, ect. It's like the people in charge are really smart but have no idea of how to market a product. They need to go back to the basics again, rebuild thier marketing program. Don't use it to push defective products like Vista for the corporate suites ambitions show and glitz. Use it to push products within the Microsoft unbrella that currently work well. Also, use it to push for charities that would connect it to the very consumers that wouldn't otherwise buy the product.
It's a sad day in age when you can't even where a shirt that says Windows Vista in public without getting a "Vista sucks" comment. Hell, the people in IT at my new company nearly shot me for wearing that shirt one day. Microsoft's next release better be, AMAZING!!! Because, they have a lot of ground to makeup in IT departments, and companies everywhere.
You can program the system to look for other things. But at the same time, it's also good backup material for police departments and national databases to keep track of trends and directions. Heck, if you could program it to follow trends you could overlay it with a GIS to figure out where to buy land cheap and in 20 years retire because you'll have the most crime free land that you can sell at exorbant prices. You can also use it to predict budgets for the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
I think thats just one thing that showed up on the radar. Something that someone may intuitively know may not be listened to by others without data to back it up. Things like they don't need to enforce traffic as much during foggy days because traffic is going slower already.
I work with retail. So I talk about Sku's all the time, I thought it was funny when I talked to the salesperson and told him I want 2 sku's of nintendos gamestop sku even listing off the numbers. Getting the dumbfounded look before I remember he was a retail employee and I said nintendo wii. As for stock it is and still is a rather large issue with the 360 Elite. Oddly enough the Wii is what I'm after these days. As for retail. Some places have a custom sku number thats usually 6-8 digits, others have model numbers of the same number of digits. Fry's calls them PLU's
Elite, still sells out in within a day of reciept in most areas. Pricing is actually pretty damn key. Look at the PS3 sales which have pretty much doubled and tripled since the price drop.
Heck, look at Xbox V1 when it dropped to 149. It sold like crazy, so well in fact that it was out of stock in the US for over 3 months. I think the same could be easily achieved with the 360 in coming holiday. I didn't expect any price drops until after the Halo version. Its nice that its here though. But, the price drop I think isn't enough that it will influence buyers enough to buy more. I think the only reason the price drop is so modest is that Microsoft didn't want to spark a price war with Nintendo whom could easily sell thier Wii for 200 a piece and still make significant money.
The only chance Microsoft has right now is to get those amazing games out this year before nintendo does it better. I almost considered getting an Elite Sku for my home system which is setup with pure HDMI hookups. Even more so when I worked with them. But at the time the failure rates I saw scared me greatly.
I wish the Halo sku came with the HDMI...
I suppose I should note though. The price decrease isn't enough to get me to buy one. The core needs to be 250 the premium around 325 and the Elite at 410 to even remotely have a chance at beating out Nintendo. Even better they just need the Elite to be in stock. The sku replenishment has sucked since launch on the Elite.
It's about the cost of a game thats been around. I wouldn't complain....