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"More and more, Nintendo is looking like a lumbering, hubristic giant overconfident in their brand identity and almost unresponsive to industry trends and changes."

Nintendo reminds me a lot of Sony. A Japanese company used to winning by always doing things its own way. Wii was an incredible success, but it all seemed so random, the product of a cool novelty coinciding with an economic boom. Nintendo has coasted for a long time on the considerable goodwill/might of their brand and properties. The marketplace never really cared about a lack of genuine innovation or progress, so long as there was a new Mario or Zelda around the corner - consider that even now they are releasing a console whose tech will only be on par with consoles released 6 years before it. In a way it's refreshing because Nintendo is a game company that just cares about games.

But I really think Nintendo is in real trouble now. There are ridiculously cheap (and very good) mobile games for the smartphones everyone already has, while consoles now live and breathe with rich internet-based ecosystems (which Nintendo couldn't have cared less about with Wii). I'm very curious to see how Wii U will sell considering 9% unemployment and the Wii paperweights currently sitting in living rooms across America.
Hmm. I think my counter-point would be that in this particular case the interviewee has a direct incentive not to tell the truth and a plausible alternative story provided for them by GroupOn's PR machine. Plus they know that whatever they tell the journalist can't easily be checked: it's not as if the journalist is going to get access to the books, at least not until after any bankruptcy at which point the whole thing will be moot.

I would surmise that these properties don't usually apply to most journalistic interviews. In this particular case it becomes difficult to know whether you're getting a true picture from interviewing GroupOn client businesses because the alternative explanation put forward by the author of the original piece gives the SBO a strong incentive to lie about their motivations. (Whether to an interviewer or to themselves is an open question!)

Another thought occurs to me: As you say, a good journalist can often find a way round these problems but in this particular case, where we're talking about a whole business model, it seems to me that a few counter-anecdotes will not have much impact: Believers in the GroupOn story will (rightly) be able to say, "well of course there are a few people mis-using GroupOn in this way, but they're a tiny minority & the vast majority of GroupOn customers are very happy with their experience dot dot dot" (I'm sure you can fill in the rest of the PR guff yourself).
Having worked at Best Buy during college and for a few years after, this is what Best Buy has been trying to do for a while now.

They try to encourage solving problems, and building rapport instead of selling. However, the problem with Best Buy is follow through.

This kind of training comes down from corporate, but the district managers are allowed to run their districts like their own little fiefdom. Since most of the district managers (and store managers) got to where they are b/c they are great salesmen, they push the salesman attitude onto everyone else.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this, but the install script still returns the same error: "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".
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I don't know. I've had some of my best gaming experiences with the Wii, but they're all Nintendo games, and they are widely spaced. Too widely spaced in my opinion to really justify getting a Wii again. There really wasn't much of any other developer on the console.

It's sad that Nintendo is starting off the next generation by continuing with a disk based system. Every console now has an online store, why not keep it to that? Why not open up with an Apple like app store (but don't call it that) and get more developers involved?

Nintendo is just lumbering forward until AppleTV finally supports the app store and kills whatever Nintendo was thinking about.

All you need is an app store on the AppleTV and you can have a iPad or an iPhone controlling the system. What does Nintendo bring to it? The balance board?
In a market like the New York, Boston, or Seattle areas, with 5+ years of experience, a top tier software engineer should be able to pull down $100k salary plus 401(k), a good health insurance package (ie, something better than a high deductible plan plus HSA), and long term/short term disability insurance. Adjust the salary number for your local cost of living.
That answer didn't have a single dollar figure in it.

Perhaps you could tell us an average price (or median, which would be lower), or even just an example of a price someone paid.

If I can't tell what this is going to cost me to within a factor of 10, then I probably can't afford it. Based on what I see here, the entry level cost might be as cheap as $100, or as expensive as $50,000.
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Per my other reply, the word "default" means something, and I think we should resist the temptation offered by politicians to turn it into the semantic equivalent of a synonym for "bad... financial... thingy..." and then rush to apply it haphazardly to everything faintly resembling someone not receiving money they think they have a claim to.

It may certainly be the case that our creditors would not take kindly to us ramming into the debt ceiling and hard-cutting off services. But if you fall into the "default/not-default" "bad thingy.../not bad thingy..." semantic trap, you're not looking at the real situation. Our creditors may not take kindly to us simply raising the debt ceiling indefinitely, either. Resist the false dilemma the politicians are trying to offer us by collapsing the domain of discourse like that; there's much more than just "raise it" and "not raise it".
Have a "widget" that allows users to display their submissions (or recent number of submissions) on another site.
Hashes, timestamps, increments, random numbers, URL-a-likes.

Each has its advantages and disadvantages. None are pretty. Ultimately you often end up with a hybrid of more than one of them.
cz.cc is not a TLD, it's a SLD.
I'm sure John would appreciate the chance to correct an error. His email address is at the bottom of the page.
Are you saying that you can get HBO Go without cable? From what I can see of the signup, I need to pick my cable provider to sign up (something I don't have). I'd be willing to pay for HBO, but I'm not willing to pay for other cable as netflix satisfies my needs there.

I've got a Roku too if there's some integration there that I'm missing.
This is similar to a marketplace website I co-founded, Lifemall.com.

The relationship between social and commmerce is quite complicated i.e not everyone likes to share their shopping habits with their friends or people with similar tastes.

I think we've seen that with Amazon only recently investing in this space (and they have more commerce data than anyone online) that we're still in the early stages of this.

Which might suggest there's a big opportunity here.
Do you recommend any particular good (free preferably) ORMs to practice with? Never used one before in my day to day job :(
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If you suggested to a Starcraft 2 pro that they should stop using the keyboard shortcuts because they are slower, you would be laughed out of the building. Erik Naggum was on the ball with that one - it is impossible to acquire muscle memory for mouse movements because there is no base position from which all movement actions are performed.
Nintendo originally assumed that their slimmed down hardware would be attractive to 3rd parties because they wouldn't have to change their toolchains. Unfortunately the industry was already moving on and dropping the Wii meant less complication in the workflow.
It's a sanity check, not an absolute limitation. My bank DOES (as I detailed) require positive-feedback verification that any attempt to use more than "one account per access device" is in fact authorized by the account holder. Any time I use a new access device, they email/text to a known address/phone a verification code which I must feed back before the login proceeds. The sanity check is: if the account is being accessed from a device not used before, the legitimacy is suspect until confirmed.

This in contrast to the lead story, where some 200,000 accounts were accessed from a very small number of computers clearly not authorized by the account holders - achieved because not even a basic sanity check was performed. Heck, the servers didn't even notice that no login process was performed for the accounts, much less track which devices the account holders tended to use.
I interpreted "squandered potential" to the motion-based controls being relegated to cliche or uninspired gameplay.
This is one of the best articles on the subject of rapid learning that I've seen in years. The point about knowing is being able to teach is particularly important. It's great if you have a patient friend or partner who is willing to listen to your half-baked explanations qua explorations of a new subject; just be willing to honestly answer that you don't know if your listener poses a question that had not occurred to you. Even alone, visualizing yourself teaching or applying an idea is a very powerful technique.

Don't be afraid of moving slowly through dense material, even if that leads to multiple reinventions of the wheel during study. There are few things more satisfying than contemplating an idea, observing a problem or question arising from it, and developing your own solution - followed by finding that same issue examined in a subsequent page or lecture. Sure, you could have just kept reading and had the answer handed to you on a plate, but that's much less memorable.

The practice exam is just as important, though. You're probably familiar with the saying 'an engineer is someone who can do for ten cents what any fool can do for a dollar.' Learning is an enjoyable experience for smart and curious people, but without putting pressure on oneself to reproduce the information learned the practice can be self-indulgent, and in that case the material is not remembered as well as it might be otherwise. If we think of learning as a sort of knowledge engineering, then we can also think of time as the cost constraint that sets the skilled professional apart from the amateur. Constraints force compromises, and learning how to make efficient compromises is extremely important. Perfectionism is a luxury that few of us can afford.
Totally agree that his strategies are the key to mastering material in some types of course - but, it does suggest you have sufficient IQ in the first place to do things like "Learn it the first time, understand associations, etc..."

It should be noted, though, that there is a large array of course where pattern association and critical thinking aren't going to help you that much.

My Psyc180 Brain and Behavior course was basically identifying and recalling an ungodly number of neuro chemical pathways and elements. Anatomy 101 (which I did not take) enjoyed a week or three of "Let's learn what the 200+ Human bones are. Great, now we move onto muscles." And, I didn't even want to think about what it would be like to subject myself to the ultimate pain that Organic Chemistry is. I would _love_ to hear of a human being that can get through Organic Chemistry courses without the requisite X hours outside of class per hour of lecture. (For a 13 week semester consisting of 3 hours/week, that would typically suggest 80-120 hours of studying for the 39 hours of in-class time) - I've seen that course knock out many a pre-med candidate who decided that maybe this wasn't where they wanted to go in life.

Even more interesting would be to find a human who could simply cram all that information in the week before the final without having studied outside of class.

But - overall, great study suggestions for courses of a particular type.
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Before my experience this past weekend I would've agreed with you. However the same argument can be made for earthquake or flood insurance. Chances are you wont need it, but if you do need it you'll be glad to know you have it.

As far as Tattlr's complexity is concerned, I'm not sure it gets much simpler than 3 quick button presses on one's smartphone to alert theater staff of an issue.
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The seller also put it on sale about a week ago.

https://flippa.com/143250-15000-month-revenue-alexa-top500-2...

Looks like it did not sell.
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" so it's easy to have a great experience with reddit."

I've tuned it, more than once, and it's still not a great experience. Maybe if I tried harder I could get it there, but it's certainly not easy. At this point the only way to make it better is to turn off sub reddits about topics I am interested in, but that misses the point doesn't it?
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Terrible title. Should read "eye sales tax for online vendors" or similar.
Our default crawler obeys robots.txt and it looks like the /results URLs are not allowed. However.. I think you could start from a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzhOSbxMiI and then crawl to the linked videos from there...
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Actually in Windows the application specific shortcuts often start with Ctrl. In this case Ctrl+H takes you to the history tab. Doesn't something like that work on OS X?
To be clear, although only 3.5 hours were spent studying for the test, many hours were spent learning the course.
They seem to be trying to position themselves so that they're not viewed as competing with App Store games. Granted, they still, to some degree at least, have to compete over developer resources, and their attitude toward indie developers is incredibly ill-advised.

I really don't see the controller as gimmicky, though, at least in the sense that touch screens in general aren't really seen as a gimmick anymore, and other aspects of the controller have been done before. Moreover, someone upgrading this time would actually have to buy fewer peripherals than for previous systems.

Harsher things were said of the Wii, and it was ultimately pretty successful. I'd wager Nintendo will stay relevant precisely long as it continues to produce quality first party titles, but not a moment longer.
I would assume most people would view the bright light as far less abrasive than the guy being noisy talking on his telephone in the middle of a movie. Besides, 3 quick button presses ensures that most people will hardly notice the brief illumination in the theater you'd create with Tattlr.
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The problem I have with the subreddit system is that it's an all or nothing thing.

Let's say I like video games, and one of those games is Minecraft. If I subscribe to the Minecraft reddit, it seems that about 1/Nth of the posts on my front page will be about Minecraft (where N is the number of subreddits I have).

I'm pretty conservative with subreddits (added linux and apple, removed politics and atheism, that's pretty much it), so suddenly I have a lot of Minecraft.

Some sort of slider would make subreddits for specific games, programming languages, etc. much more appealing to me, so that I could say, "I really only want to see the best Python-specific stories, but I'll take all of the general programming stories".
I don't have time to find more relevant things for you now, but some of the techniques appear in this paper:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/HowHighTheMoon.pdf

In addition to that, early measurements were made by trying to compute the angle of the Sun to the horizon when the Moon was exactly at quarter. The angles involved are very small (or very close to 90 degrees) making the results very sensitive to errors. The wikipedia article gives a good overview of the ideas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit#History

This article also covers the basics:
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/gkas...

But you probably knew all that.
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Bitcoin has greater fungibility than oil, coal or gold and can be exchanged electronically with anyone in the World.

Is bitcoin competitive with the Dollar, the Euro or the Yen? No, it isn't competitive with those currencies or many other currencies. If, however, you abandon a developed country centric viewpoint, there are plenty of secondary and tertiary markets where bitcoin is competitive with the domestic currency.

If you've ever lived abroad you know that you simply don't have access to the same goods and services that people in the US and Europe enjoy. It's a huge pain to purchase US goods and services from abroad. The transaction costs are very high.

Increasingly individuals want to be able to trade as if the world is flat and it's very difficult and banks siphon off lots of money with unnecessarily high fees. This makes some goods entirely unpurchasable because the fees become a significant part of the cost.

That right there is a great example of a buy-side willing to spend bitcoins.

For bitcoin to gain traction in the US you need a buy-side here. This is where the US War on Drugs makes bitcoin attractive. Drugs will always be in demand. Always. Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it. You now have a medium of exchange which makes trade much much safer for individuals involved in clandestine activities.

Personally, I'm neither for or against these activities. I'm just making an observation. I actually and for a Portugal-style approach that treats drugs as a social problem and not a criminal problem. So long as drugs remain a criminal problem you will have a buy-side here in the US.

Now, if those at the top of the drug pyramid start seeing significant benefits from trading in bitcoin, they will start adopting it. Bitcoin is safer because it eliminates the money laundering risk from their business, which is pretty much the only activity that is truly centrally observable by a government. On top of that, money laundering is a significant cost of doing business and AFAIK is probably comparable to the fees Apple charges developers for in-app subscriptions.

If bitcoin demand moves down the drug distribution pyramid it only becomes a matter of time before dealers are going to start wanting to collect at least a portion of their costs in bitcoin.

As I said, I'm neither for or against these activities, but this is a sufficiently large and stable market to eventually help stabilize the value of bitcoins and make it tradable in other contexts in other countries.

If Square can be successful in helping individuals transact with other individuals, then so can bitcoin ... eventually.

The moment you abandon a Dollar or Euro centric viewpoint it become far more obvious how bitcoin can gain legitimacy in other contexts. As far as the US is concerned the bitcoin will probably remain a currency for illegal activities until it becomes so commonplace for those activities that it starts crossing over to the mainstream among drug purchasers. Keep in mind that 47.1% of the US have used illegal drugs.
So the malicious user lies about their location (and other "basic info") - trivial if you're at the point of having users enter their seating location, only slightly more difficult if you also use GPS to verify it. Yes, they have to be in the theater, but if you get bored during a movie and feel like messing with people, then there's nothing stopping them.
you're absolutely right that it's a spectrum. the myers-briggs assigns you're interovert/extrovert level as two ends of the spectrum. personally i got 99% introvert, 1% extrovert.

As for not being able to change however, I don't believe that's set in stone. I took the test about 7 years ago and since then I feel like I'm more like 65%i/35%e. The whole idea of charging however is strange. Though I felt back before the test that i could only recharge at home, alone. At one point while i was the most social I felt as if I had to charge at home, then go out to recharge to balance it out. The brain is a very strange thing.
"I suggest that while it's better to be Jeff than Reg, it's still better to be Reg than Unknown."

That depends on what you have to say, and on what your goals are.

If what you say is controversial enough, you could make more enemies than friends. Alternatively, you could just expose that what you have to say is worthless garbage, or that you're an idiot. (I'm not referring to you personally, of course, just to writers in general)

Of course, some believe bad publicity is better than no publicity, but I'm not so sure that's true.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

-- George Eliot

If a young writer can refrain from writing,
he shouldn't hesitate to do so.

-- André Gide

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers,
and for two reasons. First, to discourage the composer
from writing any more, and secondly to remind myself
how much I appreciate Beethoven.

-- Jascha Heifetz
You know what would be an interesting e-siganture method; QR Codes.

You would have an app that would have some special info from you, a password and a pin. The app would generate a unique QR code and URL for each signature. A scan of the QR code would send the reader to the URL that is specific to that document/signature such that it could be verified.
I'm pretty sure that Quake 3 is basically unplayable on my phone because I don't have a mouse. Your suggestion might work fine if you were just shooting stationary targets, but for moving objects, no way.
Positively wrong.

I would argue against the article in that Uniracers was a racing game. There were tracks, laps, and everything else you would expect to find in a racing game. What made it a trick game was the fact that doing a trick would make you go faster, and continuing to do tricks while racing was the key to victory in the later levels. The game also featured stunt levels where the focus was completely on doing stunts, usually in some type of half pipe level. However speed was also key here, because doing more successful tricks led to you moving faster, which gave you more air, which let you do more tricks, which let you get the gold medal.

Uniracers allowed you to enter your own name for your save file. There was a rudimentary profanity filter, however interestingly if you tried to enter Sega or Sonic as a name, "Not cool enough." One of the tours also featured a "Hedgehog Mode" which made the game unreasonably slow, slower than "Slow Motion" mode.
I didn't know there was a name for what I experienced. Energy drain. This is exactly how I feel it. There is no anxiety involved in it, at least not conscously. I sometime assumed it was like a very mild form of autism with the associated intelliegence excess in some domains. All the neurones we didn't waste on social processing are used in other competence.
Thanks a lot for your input. I'm struggling with the monetization issue though. Namely:

What type of pricing model can we offer movie theater companies? Monthly fee? One-time lump sum for each theater? I'm not sure how that would work.