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"Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that? What we did actually, on day one, we put that game immediately on all the torrent networks ourselves," revealed Virtala, during a panel discussion at Develop Liverpool yesterday.
So far, so good: Virtala said that the game has sold close to 150,000 copies since it was launched 18 months ago.
You're savvy enough to know that identity theft and illegal access to personal and financial data are real-world problems that you want to avoid. But what are you doing about it? Odds are, not much, says Andrew Jaquith, a computer security analyst at Forrester Research. "There are two classes of people; those who seem to care about the security of their accounts, and those who act as if they don't." Most people, he says, fall in the later category.
Which class do you fall into?
Cool hobbies and fun pastimes can recharge our weary work batteries. Thankfully, the iPhone is the ultimate tool for balancing work and life, and can help us get the most out of fleeting downtime.
Here's a look at ten intriguing options to help you recoup and recharge. And you never have to put your iPhone down.
Star Wars Moment: Several Empire commanders are either choked, threatened or murdered for challenging Imperial authority and/or failing on their respective missions. Real-World Lesson: If your company's chain-of-command allows for the somewhat indiscriminate sacking and/or killing of employees for speaking up or failing on business initiatives, find a job elsewhere.
What else? C-3PO's wisdom for dealing with customers. The Jedi Council's poor succession-planning strategies. And Luke and Leia's lessons on inter-office dating.
"We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex [Borstein] variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of 'Family Guy,' but after reviewing an early version of the variety show it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand."
C'mon...this deal had as likely a chance of actually happening as Meg Griffin has at getting invited to the prom.
No so long ago, the computer geek was confined to the back rooms and basements of companies everywhere. White dress shirts (sleeves optional), thin black ties and horn-rimmed glasses were standard issue. Mainstream social acceptance? Not so much.
But thanks to IBM mainframes, anarchist programmers, Steve Urkel, the Internet, Facebook, smartphones and other must-have tech, geeks reign supreme today."
"9. The Laptop Crowd at Starbucks and Panera. Wireless networking technologies have enabled a generation of do-nothings and posers to look busy in coffee shops and restaurants instead of finding themselves all alone in their dark basements.
A customer glances around the austere concrete-and-glass store, which offers two unoccupied HP PCs (with labels that read "For Power Users Only") and display case after display case filled with shimmering CDs, with names such as: Business Suite, NetWeaver, BusinessObjects Edge, Business ByDesign, Crystal Reports, Service-Oriented Architecture and lots more.
Clearly, Apple has little to fear."
Publicly, anyway, Nintendo executives don't appear to be fretting over an oversupply of Wiis. But they're not 100 percent sure of themselves, either. Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime told Fortune in early October that while the videogame industry has historically "weathered recessionary times fairly well, if we get into unchartered territories with stocks coming severely down and unemployment spikes, then all bets are off."
Experts weigh in on how Nintendo and others will cope with the unpredictability of the 2008 holiday shopping season."
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.