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a nice article on the new nintendo gaming systems taking on
competition from the competing consoles, taken from the motley fool
news letter.

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From: The Motley Fool <Fool@foolsubs.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2006 3:13 AM
Subject: Save Us, Nintendo
To: sarinsuares@gmail.com

Save Us, Nintendo
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick)

When you're in third place, nobody takes you seriously. In the case of
Nintendo (OTC BB: NTDOY.PK) and its risky Wii console, things are only
made worse by the fact that you are putting out a console that lacks
the DVD gadgetry of its larger competitors and is being marketed
around quirky controllers and motion-activated gameplay.

Oh, and don't get me started on that ridiculous name. Wii? As in "Wii"
couldn't think of a better name? As in "Wii" know that owners are
going to be hit with size and overflowing bladder jokes?

However, if you take the time to do more than just laugh at the tea
leaves, this may actually be Nintendo's best chance to matter on the
console side. Quite frankly, it may be its last chance, too.

Three's company, so who's the Tripper?
Over the years, the industry has shown a knack for granting no more
than two consoles a fighting chance at any given time. Atari and
Intellivision were doing fine in the early 1980s until ColecoVision
crashed the party. Then you had Nintendo and Sega own the next few
console generations, easily vanquishing systems like 3DO and Atari's
Jaguar.

The elasticity of that theory was stretched when Microsoft (Nasdaq:
MSFT) rolled out its Xbox in 2001. At that point, Sony (NYSE: SNE)
owned the market with its PlayStation and had introduced the
PlayStation 2 a year earlier. Nintendo was the distant silver
medallist in the process of upgrading its gamers to the GameCube
platform.

Microsoft's introduction came at Nintendo's expense as Sony was able
to own two-thirds of the global market. However, with Microsoft and
Nintendo running neck and neck domestically, the industry was able to
absorb all three players as legitimate standards. Game publishers were
left with little choice but to service all three systems, even though
both Microsoft and Nintendo made sure that they had their own
proprietary "must have" franchises to keep their owners loyal.

Four years ago, I suggested that Nintendo drop out of the console race
and stick to its handheld and software strongholds. I don't see it
that way anymore. In fact, even though Nintendo is taking some pretty
risky chances in launching a revolutionary system, I think the climate
couldn't be better for Nintendo.

However, before digging into the prospects of Nintendo, it's important
to explore why the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are vulnerable.

Even giants see their game screens freeze from time to time
I'm one unhappy camper when it comes to my Xbox 360. I had to ship it
out to McAllen, Texas, two weeks ago when I got the dreaded "three red
flashing lights" hardware failure error.

It's a common flaw. Microsoft even has an entire page devoted to it,
and it's also one of the prompts on its customer service line. I've
owned just about every major console since I was old enough to earn an
allowance, and this is the first one that went bonkers on me within
the first year of ownership. Thanks to what I see as a pretty skimpy
warranty -- and my boneheaded ways for not looking into an extended
warranty -- I'm out $139 plus shipping. I still don't know if I'll be
getting my original unlucky machine back or some other refurbished
reject, but at this point, my faith in Microsoft is about as buggy as
my 360.

Naturally, I reserve the right to change my mind once Halo 3 hits
stores next year. Until then, I'll just gripe about seeing red
(literally) and feeling gypped after overpaying for software titles
that don't offer a whole lot more than their sixth-generation
versions.

Then we have the PS3. The company has teased gamers with product
delays. Now, a problem with its Blu-ray drive finds the company nearly
halving the number of units it expects to have on the market in time
for this year's holiday selling season. The price tag -- at $499 to
$599 -- is also steep given the limited resources of younger gamers.

In short, there's a reason why many of the companies presenting at the
Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment Conference earlier this month
expressed a surprising healthy market for the PS2.

"Sony has talked about this PlayStation 2 cycle having -- I don't know
-- five more years to it," Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) CFO Warren
Jenson said during the conference. "It's going to be around for a long
time."

In other words, the PS3 is going to be a slow gainer. It really
doesn't have much of a choice given its production snafus, but the
high price is going to make it appealing more to upscale celluloid
junkies than actual gamers for another year or two when the price
starts to drop.

At half the price of the PS3, and ready to fill the retail channels
with nearly twice as much product, Nintendo has the perfect chance to
matter again.

Wii the people
So are couch potato gaming fiends ready to get moving to make the most
out of their new games? It's an odd proposition until you walk into
the arcade and see folks playing Dance Dance Revolution. That can
sometimes rival even the most ardent of aerobic workouts.

Even though folks will be able to enjoy their Wii games in the more
conventional vegetative state, won't the active gameplay elements win
over parents who worry that their kids aren't getting enough exercise
by spending way too much time staring at their television screens and
computer monitors?

You bet. Childhood obesity is the real deal. Even McDonald's (NYSE:
MCD) is feeling a guilty conscience these days as it seeks to motivate
the Happy Meal crowd to embrace physical fitness.

Even if you're jaded and argue that kids will rebel against their
parents, there's got to be something in a new parental mindset that
will encourage video game playing and the guilt-free purchase of new
software titles.

Nintendo has already proven that it can rework the market with the
success of the touch screen and voice-activated Nintendo DS. It has
opened up the portable market to the cerebral with Brain Age and Big
Brain Academy, as well as the pet-loving Nintendogs set.

Nintendo won't catch up to Sony, but it can certainly help close the
gap with a successful Wii rollout. Because the PS2 is in ample supply
at the $129 price point, the Wii marketing message shouldn't be based
on the value proposition relative to the PS3 and Xbox 360. In reality,
the Wii will be duking it out over the holidays with PS2 and
second-hand systems being sold at GameStop (NYSE: GME) more than the
scarce and pricey PS3. That's where Nintendo needs to pitch its
revolutionary controller and evolutionary gameplay.

If this is Nintendo's last hurrah in the console market, it couldn't
ask for better playing conditions. If it plays its cards right and the
competition continue to play theirs wrong, Nintendo may very well
overcome its ill-advised name.

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check out this shocking picture of ms. sherawat..... quite unexpected i must say... :-P


so there's a huge controversy over Malika Sherawat's age, but i guess, if she's willing to bare even at such an age, there's hardly much i'd hold against her... or rather, i'd love to hold everything against her. :-P


http://ww3.mid-day.com/hitlist/2006/august/142950.htm

so the company (not D-company, but bharti) decided to provide some good entertainment for employees and family by showing Lage Raho Munna Bhai. definitely a great comedy film, with excellent reviews from everyone - and it still managed to exceed expectations.

i think this is perhaps one of the best ways to convey a social message - through laughter and tounge-in-cheek comedy. i'm sure more people would remember what's preached, though i doubt many will practice it any more than if they hadn't heard about gandhi's high thinking.

if you ask me, for non-violence to work, there needs to be a conscience that can be affected - and to such an extent that soothing the conscience will over ride the physical gains that otherwise would accrue.

in the case of the indian freedom struggle, the east india company was reigned in by the british common folk (through the parliament) - some of whom had begun to have ties with indian and in general who had nothing significant to gain personally from the continued plundering of the indian sub-continent.

if anyone is aware of a case where a single person - i.e. a dictator or king or ruler, has bowed down before a non-violence movement, i'd be more amenable to agreeing to such a hypothesis.

personally, if i had to gain from a situation where the other person were to react through peaceful opposition, i doubt i would give the man much regard. and i doubt that its worth much showing peaceful resistance to people in the Indian govt. who really don't care much except for how much they can take under the table, and back home as their black money.

this joke that came in one of the mailers to me got me thinking about the paperless world that we're approaching...

 

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WORKING as a computer instructor for an adult-education program at a community college, I am keenly aware of the gap in computer knowledge between my younger and older students. My observations were confirmed the day a new student walked into our library area and glanced at the encyclopedia volumes stacked on a bookshelf. "What are all these books?" he asked. Somewhat surprised, I replied that they were encyclopedias. "Really?" he said. "Someone printed out the whole thing?"

--Contributed to "All In a Day's Work"

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looking around me, i find it quite hard to believe that India is making much progress towards it. definitely bharti ain't doing much - though we have paper conservation brochures splashed all over the office... and the photo copiers and printers are working over time trying to keep up with the demands being placed on them.

 

the biggest plus on convserving paper would definitely have to be the internet - with so much porn out there, i wonder how much sales of playboy/penthouse paper edition would have dipped - though i'm sure it would have made it all up in the online edition anyway.

 

guess with india also moving towards online submission of tax returns, we can hope that soon the government will adopt a more digital way of working.

spotted a link to this piece of philosophy while going through dibyo's blog...

must say, i whole heartedly support the inclusion of hot-looking women into everything under the sun... and this cartoon should explain why it would be quite beneficial...



i'm sure that the media also has this in mind, since i do recall that the main picture that showcased the AIIMS students protests was of some gal (though i think it would be pushing the definition to include her as a babe) being hit by the water canon...

i think this is what the traders of seelampur missed out on... from the image below, you can clearly see the missing link - babes :-P


if you ask me, its quite ridiculous how people can go on the rampage when they are clearly in the wrong - i guess mob mentality overrides the conscience anyway... but its quite similar to the way people decide to drive the wrong way on a road, and will then abuse you in case you try and stop them and point out that they are in the wrong.

how an older woman can solve a mid life crisis... ;-)

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After I had been married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day
and said, "Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap apartment, a cheap
car, slept on a sofa bed, and watched a 10" black-and-white TV; but I
got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old blonde.

Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed, and plasma screen TV;
but I'm sleeping with a 50-year-old woman. It seems to me you're not
holding up your side of things."

My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a
hot 25-year-old blonde, and she would make sure that I would once
again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, and
sleeping on a sofa bed.

Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve your mid-life crises.

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hi people... i believe i will be on the television tonight.... so turn
on to CNN-IBN at 10:30 p.m. ... and you might spot me giving gyaan :-)

too funny... if only my pet had dog food... i'd be in a position to
play this prank... alas, pepsi only eat's "man" food. :-P

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I have a Labrador retriever.

I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out.

A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

On impulse, I told her that no, and that I was starting The Purina
Diet again. Although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the
hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in
an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices
and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way
that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and
simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is
nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by
now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall, black guy who was
behind her.

Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog
food poisoned me.

I told her no; I'd been sitting in the street licking my balls and a
car hit me.

I thought the black guy was going to have to have help as he
laughingly staggered to the door.

a lovely story....

The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets
trimmed in black thread and snaps up the front. It was faded from
years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I
was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of
clothes Mom intended to give away. "You're not taking that old thing,
are you?" Mom said when she saw me packing the yellow shirt. "I wore
that when I was pregnant with your brother in 1954!"

"It's just the thing to wear over my clothes during art class, Mom.
Thanks!" I slipped it into my suitcase before she could object. The
yellow shirt be came a part of my college wardrobe. I loved it. After
graduation, I wore the shirt the day I moved into my new apartment and
on Saturday mornings when I cleaned.

The next year, I married. When I became regnant, I wore the yellow
shirt during big-belly days. I missed Mom and the rest of my family,
since we were in Colorado and they were in Illinois . But that shirt
helped. I smiled, remembering that Mother had worn it when she was
pregnant, 15 years earlier.

That Christmas, mindful of the warm feelings the shirt had given me,
I patched one elbow, wrapped it in holiday paper and sent it to Mom.
When Mom wrote to thank me for her "real" gifts, she said the yellow
shirt was lovely She never mentioned it again.

The next year, my husband, daughter and I stopped at Mom and Dad's to
pick up some furniture. Days later,when we uncrated the kitchen table,
I noticed something yellow taped to its bottom. The shirt!

And so the pattern was set.

On our next visit home, I secretly placed the shirt under Mom and
Dad's mattress. I don't know how long it took for her to find it, but
almost two years passed before I discovered it under the base of our
living-room floor lamp. The yellow shirt was just what I needed now
while refinishing furniture. The walnut stains added character.

In 1975 my husband and I divorced. With my three children, I prepared
to move back to Illinois . As I packed, a deep depression overtook me.
I wondered if I could make it on my own. I wondered if I would find a
job. I paged through the Bible, looking for comfort. In Ephesians, I
read, "So use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy whenever
he attacks, and when it is all over, you will be standing up."

I tried to picture myself wearing God's armor, but all I saw was the
stained yellow shirt. Slowly, it dawned on me. Wasn't my mother's love
a piece of God's armor? My courage was renewed.

Unpacking in our new home, I knew I had to get the shirt back to
Mother. The next time I visited her, I tucked it in her bottom dresser
drawer.

Meanwhile, I found a good job at a radio station. A year later I
discovered the yellow shirt hidden in a rag bag in my cleaning closet.
Something new had been added Embroidered in bright green across the
breast pocket were the words "I
BELONG TO PAT."

Not to be outdone, I got out my own embroidery materials and added an
apostrophe and seven more letters. Now the shirt proudly proclaimed,
"I BELONG TO PAT'S MOTHER." But I didn't stop there. I zig-zagged all
the frayed seams, then had a friend mail the shirt in a fancy box to
Mom from Arlington ,VA. We enclosed an official looking letter from
"The Institute for the Destitute," announcing that she was the
recipient of an award for good deeds. I would have given anything to
see Mom's face when she opened the box. But, of course, she never
mentioned it.

Two years later, in 1978, I remarried. The day of our wedding, Harold
and I put our car in a friend's garage to avoid practical jokers.
After the wedding, while my husband drove us to our honeymoon suite, I
reached for a pillow in
the car to rest my head. It felt lumpy. I unzipped the case and found,
wrapped in wedding paper, the yellow shirt. Inside a pocket was a
note:"Read John 14:27-29. I love you both, Mother."

That night I paged through the Bible in a hotel room and found the
verses: "I am leaving you with a gift: peace of mind and heart. And
the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So
don't be troubled or afraid. Remember what I told you: I am going
away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you
will be very happy for me, for now I can go to the Father, who is
greater than I am. I have told you these things before they happen so
that when they
do, you will believe in me."

The shirt was Mother's final gift. She had known for three months
that she had terminal Lou Gehrig's disease. Mother died the following
year at age 57.

I was tempted to send the yellow shirt with her to her grave. But I'm
glad I didn't, because it is a vivid reminder of the love-filled game
she and I played for 16 years. Besides, my older daughter is in
college now, majoring in art. And every art student needs a baggy
yellow shirt with big pockets.

It was time for Father John's Saturday night bath, and the young nun,
Sister Magdalene, had prepared the bath water and towels just the way
the old nun had instructed. Sister Magdalene was also instructed not
to look at Father John's nakedness if she could help it, do whatever
he told her to do, and pray.

The next morning the old Mother Superior asked Sister Magdalene how
the Saturday night bath had gone.

"Oh, sister," said the young nun dreamily, "I've been saved."

"Saved? And how did that come about?" asked the Mother Superior.

"Well, when Father John was soaking in the tub, he asked me to wash
him, and while I was washing him he guided my hand down between his
legs where he said the Lord keeps the Key to Heaven."

"Did he now?" said the old nun evenly.

Sister Magdalene continued, "And Father John said that if the Key to
Heaven fit my lock, the portals of Heaven would be opened to me and I
would be assured salvation and eternal peace. And then Father John
guided his Key to Heaven into my lock."

"Is that a fact?" said the old nun even more evenly.

"At first there was some pain, but Father John said the pathway to
salvation was often painful and that the glory of God would soon swell
my heart with ecstasy. And it did, it felt so good being saved."

"That wicked old bugger" said the old nun. "He told me it was
Gabriel's Horn, and I've been blowing it for 7 years."

Poor doggie :-(

What not to do on a beach....

And this is what reminds me of when i'm standing in line at mcdonald's waiting to get a burger ;-)

[1] BULL MARKET: A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
[2] BEAR MARKET: A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
[3] VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
[4] P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
[5] BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
[6] STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
[7] STOCK ANALYST! -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
[8] STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
[9] MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
[10] CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
[11] INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
[12] MOMENTUM INVESTING - The fine art of buying high and selling low.
[13] INVESTOR - Sucker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke

especially the way

what can students come up with in creative writing.. check it out at http://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/analog.htm

make the right choice... don't get in line and accept whats given to you : check it out at http://www.screwthescrew.com/video.php?video_id=286


:-)

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three of which who were deaf, and two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?

Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.

Question 2:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.

Candidate A -

Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B -

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C -

He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife. Studying to go to a prestige art school.

Which of these candidates would be your Choice?

Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Candidate A: is Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Candidate B: is Winston Churchill.

Candidate C: is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Never be afraid to try something new.

Remember:

Amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

post the happy teachers day :-)

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check out Avery Storm as he wears the male + denim version of capri's at: http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/08/fug_storm.html

now why didn't i think of these rather simple solutions???

See the day and night at same time..

The photograph was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day.
The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting.
Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities' lights.
The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert .
Note that the lights are already on in Holland , Paris , and Barcelona, and that's it's still daylight in Dublin , London , Lisbon , and Madrid.
The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar . The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness.
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands ; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further South, close to the farthest western point of Africa , are the Cape Verde Islands.
Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during day time and night time.
To the left, on top, is Greenland , totally frozen believed to be clean