1/27/09
Editor-in-Chief
Alright, I have officially taken way too long to post, but for good reason. I just recently became (drum roll, please) the new Editor at the GWVault at IGN. This is a sub-site from IGN that is all about Guild Wars, and with Nightfall just beyond the horizon, I decided that I would jump on to the team and help out. Check out the site for any news about Guild Wars, and you might even see something from me on there. Who knows? Well, I will start posting again here on Work-Surfing, at least more often than I have been, so happy surfing!
1/17/09
1/12/09
Wii Announcement
Here it is.
November 19th the Wii will be released for $249.99, and will come packaged with one controller and Wii Sports.
No, it isn't a gigantic surprise, but at least it is finally set in stone. The games from Nintendo will cost $50.00, and third party titles have not been given a price. Wii-Motes are rather expensive, at $40.00, and the Nunchuck attachment for $20.00 more. I will be purchasing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Red Steel, and possibly Excite Truck on November 19th, and I will laugh at those trying to get a PS3 that has been sold out for two days. Wii rules.
November 19th the Wii will be released for $249.99, and will come packaged with one controller and Wii Sports.
No, it isn't a gigantic surprise, but at least it is finally set in stone. The games from Nintendo will cost $50.00, and third party titles have not been given a price. Wii-Motes are rather expensive, at $40.00, and the Nunchuck attachment for $20.00 more. I will be purchasing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Red Steel, and possibly Excite Truck on November 19th, and I will laugh at those trying to get a PS3 that has been sold out for two days. Wii rules.
1/7/09
1,000,000 Wii's: The Ultimate Awesomeness
Well, I've taken a break from my WPE weekend to tell you all that the president of Nintendo of Canada has announced that there will be 1 millions units of Wii shipped to North America at launch, the biggest amount of systems in years, if not ever. No shortages this time (cough*Xbox360*cough), just great games (30 at least before the year ends) and a good time!
1/2/09
Show prescription, take sex drugs, say chemists
After Surat gangrape, retailers decide not to sell sex drugs without proper prescription
The Surat gangrape and other incidents of crime against women in the state have made citizens more conscious. NGO's, political organisations and state government are demanding concrete actions and reforms to prevent such incidents in the future. Surat Medical Retailers Association in the city too has decided not to sell contraceptives and sex-enhancement drugs, such as Viagra, and Penegra to anyone without prescription.
Retailers say that youth in the city are the largest buyers of contraceptives and other medicines that enhance sex life.
"It will affect our sales, but the decision has been taken to prevent untoward incidents in the future. Youths buy medicines such as Levitra, Cialis, Zocorm, Hyzar, Tadafill and other drugs without prescription," Deepak Sharma, owner of Shanti Medical Store in Udhna said.
Sharma added that all medical retailers in the city will follow the norms set by the association, however official declaration will be made in coming days by the Surat Medical Retailers Association.
"The decision still personally depends upon the medical store owners. There is no such guarantee that the vendor would not sell medicines to known customers even if they do not have a prescription from a doctor. The medicines may also be sold illegally, but it is difficult to avoid it," Jayesh Pansuria, owner of Umiya Medical Stores in Varachha said.
Rather than making personal decisions, a concrete formula has to be framed involving state government, medical retailers and district administration. A governing authority is needed to check upon medical stores and punish them," Pansuria added. buying sildenafil online virginia
The Surat gangrape and other incidents of crime against women in the state have made citizens more conscious. NGO's, political organisations and state government are demanding concrete actions and reforms to prevent such incidents in the future. Surat Medical Retailers Association in the city too has decided not to sell contraceptives and sex-enhancement drugs, such as Viagra, and Penegra to anyone without prescription.
Retailers say that youth in the city are the largest buyers of contraceptives and other medicines that enhance sex life.
"It will affect our sales, but the decision has been taken to prevent untoward incidents in the future. Youths buy medicines such as Levitra, Cialis, Zocorm, Hyzar, Tadafill and other drugs without prescription," Deepak Sharma, owner of Shanti Medical Store in Udhna said.
Sharma added that all medical retailers in the city will follow the norms set by the association, however official declaration will be made in coming days by the Surat Medical Retailers Association.
"The decision still personally depends upon the medical store owners. There is no such guarantee that the vendor would not sell medicines to known customers even if they do not have a prescription from a doctor. The medicines may also be sold illegally, but it is difficult to avoid it," Jayesh Pansuria, owner of Umiya Medical Stores in Varachha said.
Rather than making personal decisions, a concrete formula has to be framed involving state government, medical retailers and district administration. A governing authority is needed to check upon medical stores and punish them," Pansuria added. buying sildenafil online virginia
12/11/08
12/4/08
since this blog is just starting out, let me bring you up to speed with a quick a quick recap "greatest hits" of retarded issues i've had to deal with in the passed month or so and what department asked me:
sales - they asked me, manufacturing dude, what price we sold a certain title to customers for. let me say that again, someone in sales askes someone in manufacturing, what price they, sales, we're supposed to sell a game for.
sales - a customer asked them on a collector's title we had, game disc and dvd, which disc was the game disc and which disc was the dvd. sales, not knowing their product (you see a pattern here?), asked the question of us. opening a sample had the two discs, one plainly labeled "dvd" and if anyone has ever seen a game disc, go ahead, go grab one off your shelf and look at the game disc, the other clearly labeld with whatever platform it was on.
everyone - this is an oldy but a goodie. i posed the question pre-release of a new title on if that game should have an online code. the game genre and the the franchise in which it was in made it CLEAR to me (a gamer) that this game absolutely required an online code; there is no way this title wouyldn't have one. my question went thru the channels, all the way up to the producer who said it didn't need one. needless to say, the day before ship, word came down that it did indeed require one. everyone just rolled over and buckled while i kept shouting. and who did this effect? who had to work late to make sure product was reworked in time? whose budget did it hit? yeah
finance - sitting down with finance and literally walking them thru simple arithmetic, explaining a rebate "if you make XX number of units and you pay YY dollars for each, when you surpass XX number of units, you get a rebate back of ZZ cents to be applied to YY dollars we paid on all XX units". it had to be one of the most anxiety filled meetings i've been in during my entire career.
more to come but for now, time to go home and cry myself to sleep in my beer
sales - they asked me, manufacturing dude, what price we sold a certain title to customers for. let me say that again, someone in sales askes someone in manufacturing, what price they, sales, we're supposed to sell a game for.
sales - a customer asked them on a collector's title we had, game disc and dvd, which disc was the game disc and which disc was the dvd. sales, not knowing their product (you see a pattern here?), asked the question of us. opening a sample had the two discs, one plainly labeled "dvd" and if anyone has ever seen a game disc, go ahead, go grab one off your shelf and look at the game disc, the other clearly labeld with whatever platform it was on.
everyone - this is an oldy but a goodie. i posed the question pre-release of a new title on if that game should have an online code. the game genre and the the franchise in which it was in made it CLEAR to me (a gamer) that this game absolutely required an online code; there is no way this title wouyldn't have one. my question went thru the channels, all the way up to the producer who said it didn't need one. needless to say, the day before ship, word came down that it did indeed require one. everyone just rolled over and buckled while i kept shouting. and who did this effect? who had to work late to make sure product was reworked in time? whose budget did it hit? yeah
finance - sitting down with finance and literally walking them thru simple arithmetic, explaining a rebate "if you make XX number of units and you pay YY dollars for each, when you surpass XX number of units, you get a rebate back of ZZ cents to be applied to YY dollars we paid on all XX units". it had to be one of the most anxiety filled meetings i've been in during my entire career.
more to come but for now, time to go home and cry myself to sleep in my beer
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