nazanne - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:MPG? (Score 1) 180

by nazanne on Tuesday June 14 2011, @11:12AM (#36437354) Attached to: Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed

It is very nice to drive. It seems like a normal economy car. If you put it in "eco mode" to squeeze more miles out of your batteries it becomes a real dog, but that makes logical sense. It is really nice to drive around without any engine noise.

Comment: Re:MPG? (Score 1) 180

by nazanne on Tuesday June 14 2011, @12:21AM (#36432676) Attached to: Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed

I've got a LEAF with the charger installed in a carport. It works very well. It is well protected in my carport, but the unit is waterproof so exposure to weather isn't a problem.

Comment: Re: For OS X try PhotoLinker (Score 1) 326

by nazanne on Monday June 14 2010, @01:12AM (#32561594) Attached to: A File-Centric Photo Manager?

On the Mac try PhotoLinker. http://www.earlyinnovations.com/ It has a very nice customizable metadata editor and is an excellent geotagger.

Former Exec Says Electronic Arts "Is In the Wrong Business" 180

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 15 2010, @06:18AM
from the inspiring-internet-outrage-is-a-bad-business-model dept.

Mitch Lasky was the executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts until leaving the publisher to work at an investment firm. He now has some harsh things to say about how EA has been run over the past several years, in particular criticizing the decisions of CEO John Riccitiello. Quoting: "EA is in the wrong business, with the wrong cost structure and the wrong team, but somehow they seem to think that it is going to be a smooth, two-year transition from packaged goods to digital. Think again. ... by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to 'grow their way through the transition' to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles. They honestly believed that they had a decade to make this transition (I think it's more like 2-3 years). Since the recurring-revenue sports titles were already 'booked' (i.e., fully accounted for in the Wall Street estimates) it fell to EA Games to make hits that could move the needle. It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt strategy."

Comment: DVDs arrived, but no notice (Score 5, Interesting) 239

by nazanne on Thursday August 14 2008, @06:58PM (#24608535) Attached to: Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments

I shipped back two DVDs on Tuesday then got the notice they were received on Wednesday. Today (Thursday) I got the notice from Netflix that shipments might be delayed, but I also received two DVDs in the mail (the correct DVDs that were next in my queue). What I did not get was the normal notice from Netflix that they had shipped me anything.