c k asked:


Please this is a warning to all persons buying cell phones, gaming, and electronics online, the latest website created by these con-artist is called
www.casuperdeals.com, I was a victim of www.smatless.com, they also have another website called www.storecadeals.com .. all these websites sell below cost and you will be tempted to buy from them, once you give them your personal information and try to order from any of these websites they direct you to an ofline page where they ask you to send a money gram to a person not the company and once you send the money gram you won’t hear back from them! If you google who is and type in the name of any of these websites you will see they are very new the newest is www.casuperdeals.com it was just created May 23/08. Please contact the FBI or the RCMP and report these website this is an international internet scam being operated in Canada and ripping consumers from the USA

Calvin

walther2004 asked:


Beauty & Style, Cars & Transportation, Computers & Internet, Consumer Electronics, Dining Out, Entertainment & Music, Food & Drink, Games & Recreation, Home & Garden, etc, are superficial subjects but considered top categories.

Why do you think religion is a subcategory?
is just a question, not sarcasm

Griffin

The Calm One asked:


Nintendo’s Family Computer (Famicom for short) hit Japan in 1983, and despite some early hardware quality issues, became an instant hit. It brought near-arcade quality gaming into the home, and actually cost less than the Japanese version of the Atari 2600. After such success in its home country, Nintendo began to cast its eye abroad, imagining the potential profits that could be reaped in the West. It didn’t, however, feel confident in its ability to distribute and market its products to foreigners, and so began looking for a partner to handle the Famicom’s worldwide distribution.

Atari, meanwhile, was still the biggest name in Western video games, but was hemorrhaging cash at a tremendous rate. In an effort to keep the company afloat, Atari Chairman, Ray Kassar, scoured the world for potential business opportunities. The result of one such effort was the licensing of Nintendo’s Donkey Kong for the Atari home computers. Remembering this transaction and impressed by Atari’s global marketing network, Nintendo President, Hiroshi Yamauchi, decided that Atari would be a suitable choice for handling the worldwide distribution of Nintendo products outside of Japan.

Even in this alternate universe Super Pitfall would have probably still sucked. Meetings were arranged, with Nintendo’s two top executives first visiting Atari’s Sunnyvale headquarters. After answering a litany of questions from Atari executives and lawyers, the Nintendo duo headed back to Seattle. Shortly thereafter, a group from Atari visited Nintendo’s headquarters in Kyoto, where they got their first look at the Famicom in action. Things went very well, and after much back-and-forth, a tentative agreement was reached. It was decided to sign the contracts one month later, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.

A funny (or horrifying, depending on whom you ask) thing happened at CES. Coleco was showing off its new (and ill-fated) ADAM computer system, and had decided to use Donkey Kong as the demo game. While Coleco did own the home console rights to Donkey Kong, it was Atari that had earlier secured the computer rights. Once Atari’s Ray Kassar caught wind of what was at the Coleco booth, he accused Nintendo of cheating and double-dealing behind Atari’s back. Utterly furious, he threatened to cancel the Famicom deal and sue Nintendo out of existence.

Nintendo did its best to rectify the situation, and was aghast when Kassar was ousted from Atari a month later. The contracts were still unsigned, and with Kassar seemed to go all hope of getting the Famicom marketed in the West. Atari’s corporate implosion accelerated, and soon it wasn’t able to afford the Nintendo deal anyway. Eventually, though, Nintendo decided to market the Famicom in America by itself, through its youthful American branch. The Nintendo Entertainment System finally debuted in 1985, and the rest, as they say, is history.

History that doesn’t include Atari.

Wesley

Ryan_D asked:


I am doing a research project on Teens. I haven’t been one for years and need some teen help. If you are a teen or know them well can you maybe answer a few of these questions.
1. What teen clothing brands are hot?
2. What/Where food/beverages do you consumer? (Coke, Starbucks, Subway….)
3. Health and/or Beauty/Grooming product brands teens use (both guys and girls)
4. Cool electronics - games, cell phones, computers?
5. What is cool for teens to do? (school activities, volunteer, mall)??
6. Anything Else about the new generation of teen?

Justus

tolicrah asked:


I would like to find a source with the average prices of consumer goods (electronics, games, etc.), sampled from across many retailers. Free would be nice, but willing to pay subscription fee.

Jonah

NORCAL_4 asked:


I have alot of electronics in my room like my tv, game consols, my stero, etc..and I’m thinking about putting an evaporative cooler in my room but I heard that it used humidity to cool down the room and I was Wondering that if this could dameg my electonics since theres humidity in the room.

Norman