Posts by MJI 6871 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009
Where I live the opposition party has gone down this route, she seems a bit useless, council manager, being really hyped up by her party.
Currently got a chap whose father was the MP in the 70s and is also the only political person to door to door in the last 5 years.
I would not say menial, possibly boring, but a good source of income for students and without insulting them people whose partner is the major wage earner (eg part time mums on tills.)
My wife always gets chatting with them, till staff appreciate it.
And they hate the till messages more than us!
Stupid idea - you just get the worst. Look at the so called Blair babes.
Make it open to best PERSON.
Just to annoy the inadequates who like these short lists, how come a woman became Prime Minister without them, and women chosen using them have been invariably useless.
I am very in favour of EQUAL opportunities as the best person not the best man / woman / alien / teapot ect
Horrible things, tried a few.
I was recommended to use one to save queueing.
Take your item and wave it, doesn't register or you have to put it in a certain spot, next item ignored because I hadn't done something else. Look stupid piece of junk I put item in front of scanner then the next, anything else I am not interested in.
I just abandoned and queued for a human - it was quicker.
Just get stuffed automatic till, much quicker to use a checkout person, their scanners just beep and let them get on with it. You can talk to them if you want.
Argos - would not let me order an item - had to go to till so why bother.
B&Q rejected my card, normal till took it.
I make a point now of NOT using them, if I want to buy something without human interaction I will buy on line
Your list is missing a powerful handheld with a few really good games. The Vita, I see you have the PSP.
OK I am playing PSP games on mine, but Unit13 is fun, as is UC GA.
We have a few here
Megadrive, SNES, Dreamcast, PS2, Wiiiiiiiii, PS3, Gameboy, DS x 2, PSP, Vita x 3.
Interesting that no-one is bothered about the Wiii-U
Ever jumped off a bike and into a car, put it this way it wasn''t until I drove one with a rev counter I found that I was revving high mileage 1300cc Astras to 8000rpm. It was still accelerating and was not revving too hard - for a biker.
When I got to cars I had an old push rod lumped thing 6000rpm red line, but when fitted with the correct cam and springs safe to about 7000rpm (sports model was known for this red line lower than maximum power). So I would happily take my ancient 1600cc hatch to 6500rpm, jumped into the same size engine Sierra, err why was the red line so low, I would have red lined it so easily?
Rev counters are usefull when driving vehicles with substantially lower rev bands than your own vehicle.
Sony engaged in a mass hack of consumer PCs and faced zero censure. If their execs were given a similar punishment as Mr. Ex-Lulz here; you can be others would take note.
As long as it is BMG staff go ahead, do what you want, just leave the rest alone, most people actually like Kaz and co.
BTW lets blame Simon Cowell, he will do.
No it isn't it is because the idiots in the music side did it over the heads of head office. Sony music needs culling not Sony corp.
Sony Computer Entertainment is totally different to the home of Simon Cowell, it is actually respected for a start.
Perhaps people are fed up of people having a go at SCE? (? = A E or J), for the crimes of BMG and Columbia. This is where greed beat the traditional quality thing.
BTW I have no BMG music. Yet I have Naughty Dog products.
Too many features have been removed from Vista and 7 from XP, for SOME users.
Full screen DOS support is important for SOME people (removed in Vista - WHY?), Netbios is important for SOME people. (removed in 7 - WHY?)
These are two I thought of without looking up.
DC did save a sheep a week or so ago!
IMB will be sorely missed, I have read most of the M books, Culture stories are very good, I like the anarchy in them, the humour, the orbitals, and the scentient ships. I haven't read any non M books though. I ought to but just haven't.
Too many good authors finishing too early.
One of my favourite quotes from him was about more SF fans go from M to non M than from non M to M.
I will buy some non M and try them out.
Sales
Actually I would put a big seller way ahead on Steam than a non-blockbuster seller on a console.
The sheep who have consoles always buy CoD and Fifa, never the decent games, you dare to suggest they buy a decent game they think you are mad. I have had the argument, told them the facts, they had not played so automatically not interested, I hate this type of gamer*. The really good games do tend to sell better on Steam than console, as an example a good PS3 exclusive will sell about a quarter of a CoD or Fifa but is so much better as a game.
Sheep on PC I would say get no further than Facebook.
So in sales I would say
Sheep console games top
Steam top sellers second
Decent console games third
Non Steam PC good sellers below that.
* They mentioned the 2 games I said quite simply you NEED to try other games, and listed Uncharted for PS3 and Halo for XBox as two series they should try, otherwise there was no point what so ever buying a console.
Have you actually tried them?
I have, I know what I can do with them, and I am only average, I know how good some other players are, in fact if there was cross platform play and the game was well enough set up, I would actually bet on on of a small number of players who are phenomemal with Move, against KBM players.
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