So, this is the amazing play of the game from Jason Maxiell.
My description is “its the signature Tayshaun Prince block with a clear Maxiell flair”
Jason Maxiell Chases Down Kevin Garnett For the Huge Block
I ordered from them just once, and it was painless and great. Though I didn’t run into any problems. In fact, its due to their brand name that when I recently bought shoes (and for those who have tried to help me with this, know the ordeal) that I didn’t even check out other places. I plan on buying my next pair from them too.
I remember only a few years ago when newegg was a small website, but they were good. They built up a loyal following among the hardcore. Now they are a huge site. It all has to do with finding your niche and then never letting people down.
Still working on my secret project for MediaWhiz, will update with more on specifically customer service when I can reveal more.
Despite being the original headliner of the first Valleywag article, they were able to pull
out of the frontrunner position to finish out of the standings behind the likes of Facebook and DoubleClick.
The question now is, is there a difference? And if there is, is that large enough of a market to support two brands?
In short, their difference is a slight edge toward style over speed on XPS and a slight edge toward speed over style in Alienware.
So, I have noticed that the posts that are really useful, both when I do my own searches and when others have searched my site are the ones which expound on something that is hard to find on the net. I have looked up Google Ad tags, others have looked up the Chinese Farmers screenname on my site.
Now, instead of researching my problem, solving it, then forgetting all about it, I am going to post a quick blog on it. In hopes to help others in similar situations, I thought I’d make quick blog posts about my exact problem so that Google Search will pick it up, and next time someone runs into the same problem, they can read the post, try it and move on.
With the most recent patch (2.4.2) to World of Warcraft, my 132 errors (from 2.4.1) that happened anytime I was on a griffon became 134 errors anytime I moved.
Finally being fed up, I looked all around and there seems to be plenty of people who ran into this problem, with no real solution in sight.
So, for those who are like me and have a relatively old graphics card, the trick with the ATI Radeon (at least mine) was to go back to an OLD driver. I went back to 7.12 instead of using the 8.x series of drivers that they are currently at. So far, this has fixed my problem, and if in future it doesn’t, I will update.
UPDATE 06/15/2008 11:26am EST : It looks like the 7.12 still causes 134 crashes. I am going to try yet earlier version of drivers later today.
UPDATE 06/22/2008 4:05pm EST : Been using the Omega drivers version .252 which if I remember correctly is based on Catalyst 6.14. These stopped all crashing. Looks like X800 is too old to use newer drivers.
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/05/transparent_pos.php
Can you imagine how successful this product would’ve been back when books were significantly more ubiquitous.
I think they should try and sell this to college students. What better way to try and keep a used book new than to not leave any marks in it.
The losers of this product? Guys like me, who preferred their used books completely marked up for them. Its like Cliff notes on the cheap.
For those in the industry, this graph has been making the rounds today.
You can find Pubmatic’s own view of it here:http://www.pubmatic.com/adpriceindex/index.html
Everyone has their opinions of this; some say this is bad sign for Pubmatic, others say its a sign of the economic times.
So what is my opinion? I think the data just isn’t clear enough. You cannot convince me that the cratering of cpms from .38 to .18 in single month is actually a real drop. Do you really think that the large sites with the dedicated work force could not sell half of what they had been able to sell only the previous month? This just says to me there is something wrong with the data. My suspicion would be some new large users who are low performance sites. A single large publisher with low cpms using the system can easily cause this drop without adverse affects on others in the column.
The interesting piece is the 1.29 number. How is this coming about? Why is it so much higher than large sites? I don’t buy the idea that its because advertisers are buying niche. Quite frankly, 1) advertisers are still quite weary of small sites and more importantly 2) there is just not the capability for an advertiser to target niche sites they are looking for.
So, before people read into this graph too much. Remember, while 3,000 seems like a large number, it is a tiny fraction of the internet. To make anything other than broad judgments on this data is overreacting.
As those who I talk to regularly know, my current obsession is to buy myself a tablet PC. I keep telling myself that if I bought a tablet pc I will start drawing comics again, but even my heart knows the truth of the matter is that I wouldn’t be able to keep it up.
Quite frankly, tablet PC is just a gadget buy for me. The same as when I bought my first PDA (Toshiba) and my second pda (Dell Axim).
Still, since it is what i have gotten the most hits on, I thought I would put things into perspective for anyone else in my boat with a summary of the research I have done (most popular term to find my website seems to be tx2000).
The bottom of the barrel is the tx2000 from HP. This tablet can cost less than $1000 and if you are looking for something cheap and brand new, this seems to get decent reviews.
The middle of the road in my thoughts is the Toshiba M700. This table is in the $1500-1700 range. Its improvements over the HP is an intel processor (faster than the AMD in the HP) and its LED backlit screen (nicer looking and easier on the battery, doesn’t mean the laptop lasts longer, just LED backlight is easier on batter).
The top of the line is the Dell Latitude XT. Pinnacle of tablet pc’s right now and has a price to match at $2500+. For this money, you are getting a one of a kind LCD screen. The capacitive touch screen means it works more like the iphone than like your touchpad. It is also significantly smaller than other models using the small form processor. From all reviews, this thing can command such a price.
There are plenty of others I have not mentioned that are popular, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and Gateway in particular, but I didn’t really research much into those.
If I was going to choose one to buy right now, I would go with the M700, but I have decided to wait on it. Wacom press released a new capacitive touch screen as well, and I am going to wait to see what products come out using their new tablet interface. The expectation is that you will get the awesomeness that is found on the XT had a significantly reduced price.
http://deadspin.com/389337/osu-lacrosse-goalie-makes-sport-watchable-if-briefly
And for those who know lacross, this is sick.
The most amazing part is the score was still 0-0.
When I first read about Comcast’s plans to do a 250 GB cap, I was
upset. After all, I believe that a lot of the success that has come
from the internet has come from these unlimited plans. AOL back in the
day with unlimited dial-up, eventually broadband services also being
flat fee. These are all things which allowed the internet to grow at
the rate it has.
That being said, 250GB/ month is a LOT of
bandwidth. Right now, at home I average probably around 1 GB /day and
at MOST have hit 5 GB on any particular day. You can see perspective
from SAI here.
This
means the type of person to be affected isn’t me. In fact, at 250GB a
month, that’s practically business users (and i would not be surprised
by business’s which use less than that).
Some fears:
Still, the number seems quite fair. They should just have a higher dollar amount cost for unlimited. I prefer this significantly more than the Time Warner Cable version where they start charging by usage from beginning.