No Great Acclaim

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Will Acclaim Be Out-Juiced?

Will Acclaim Be Out-Juiced? 05/10/2004 02:40 PM
In the face of increasing competition, Juiced needs to make a splash at E3.

Game Over for Acclaim?

Game Over for Acclaim? 07/02/2004 02:54 PM
Acclaim Entertainment might be facing bankruptcy. But even if it survives this round, will it matter?

Acclaim Closes Offices?

Acclaim Closes Offices? 08/28/2004 11:52 AM

AC/DC on alleyway to acclaim (Reuters)

AC/DC on alleyway to acclaim (Reuters) 07/09/2004 12:05 AM
Reuters - Australian rock band AC/DC, well known for their hit "Highway to Hell", are to have a humble alleyway named in their honour.

Winning Critical Acclaim

Winning Critical Acclaim 06/16/2004 07:48 PM

Acclaim files for bankruptcy

Acclaim files for bankruptcy 09/03/2004 06:13 AM
Games up for sale

Rockers AC/DC on Alleyway to Acclaim
(Reuters)

Rockers AC/DC on Alleyway to Acclaim
(Reuters) 07/09/2004 10:25 AM
Reuters - Australian rock band AC/DC, well known for their hit "Highway to Hell," are to have a humble alleyway named in their honor.

Games firm Acclaim ceases ops

Games firm Acclaim ceases ops 09/02/2004 12:21 PM
Games maker and publisher Acclaim, famous for dino game Turok, has filed for bankruptcy in the US.

Acclaim facing bankruptcy liquidation

Acclaim facing bankruptcy liquidation 09/03/2004 08:35 AM
Videogame publishing Acclaim is to undergo bankruptcy liquidation. A dearth of popular titles and some odd choices along with high development costs spelled their end.

Acclaim Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
(Reuters)

Acclaim Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
(Reuters) 09/02/2004 06:08 AM
Reuters - Video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment Inc. on Thursday said it filed for bankruptcy after failing to line up new financing for a credit line that expired last week.

Game maker Acclaim files for bankruptcy

Game maker Acclaim files for bankruptcy 09/03/2004 10:02 AM
CNET News.com Sep 3 2004 2:26PM GMT

Acclaim goes bust after failing to find
new funding

Acclaim goes bust after failing to find
new funding 09/06/2004 06:59 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 6 2004 11:36AM GMT

Game publisher Acclaim on verge of
bankruptcy?

Game publisher Acclaim on verge of
bankruptcy? 09/01/2004 03:12 PM
CNET News.com Sep 1 2004 7:00PM GMT

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Acclaim Shows Just How Well Marketing
Gimmicks Work By Going Out Of Business

Acclaim Shows Just How Well Marketing
Gimmicks Work By Going Out Of Business 09/01/2004 03:14 PM
Video game maker Acclaim's most recent claims to fame have been much more about ridiculous promotions, rather than games that people actually want to buy. They wanted to adverti se on tombstones (some game involving death), pay your speeding tickets (some game involving car racing) and to get people to name their first baby Turok (some game involving characters with weird names). However, like IUMA, the company that asked parents to name their kids IUMA and quickly went out of business, it appears that the baby naming promotion curse has struck again. Acclaim has apparently laid everyone off, shut down their offices, and is declaring Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Hopefully, little baby Turoks and Iumas can now hang out and talk about their parents' bizarre behaviors in naming them after a company that couldn't last until they were at least out of diapers. If you absolutely must name you kid after a brand, you should at least pick one that can last.

Crowned by Popular Acclaim, Clintons
Return as Royalty to Spotlight

Crowned by Popular Acclaim, Clintons
Return as Royalty to Spotlight 07/27/2004 07:46 AM
Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton once again held court at the Democratic National Convention, their party in the palms of their hands.

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

Computer-Support Company “Geeks On Call”
Receives More National Acclaim

Computer-Support Company “Geeks On Call”
Receives More National Acclaim 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
America’s largest independent provider of on-site computer services, Geeks On Call®, has received copious recognition from Entrepreneur Magazine. Chief among these honors is being named to the annual “Franchise 500®,” which is a comprehensive listing of the nation’s most successful franchise companies. In addition, Geeks On Call® was ranked as the 48th fastest-growing franchise company in America. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2005]

Fujitsu LifeBook Notebooks Receive High
Acclaim for Reliability in PC Magazine
Survey

Fujitsu LifeBook Notebooks Receive High
Acclaim for Reliability in PC Magazine
Survey 08/20/2004 04:15 AM
NotebookReview.com Aug 20 2004 8:44AM GMT

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

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Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product. 07/26/2004 02:14 AM
David Hostetler, with a Master’s degree in Marketing, has been a successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal?

What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal? 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
A Great Portal, Great Links to Great websites has moved to a new website address, of http://www.agreatportal.com This is part of on-going improvements. The website has lots of links to various and interesting subjects as well as a Multi-search, a news headlines search and free website promotion. Is it a Portal and is it Great? See what you think. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

Cul de Sac is great

Cul de Sac is great 11/17/2003 07:48 PM
Sac-re-licious

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- 3G: Great. Great. Great

- 3G: Great. Great. Great 01/02/2005 09:33 PM
IT AsiaOne Jan 3 2005 12:51AM GMT

Can IBM Get Great Again?

Can IBM Get Great Again? 06/01/2004 02:00 PM
Fortune Jun 1 2004 5:51PM GMT

Well, that's just great.

Well, that's just great. 08/21/2004 10:46 PM
Child Pimp and Ho Costumes. That's... what it says.

Its great

Its great 08/20/2004 08:22 AM
TechTree Aug 20 2004 12:35PM GMT

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from? 02/05/2005 09:32 PM

Some more 'fun with numbers' today. A while ago I mentioned IdeaChampions' When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven't taken the survey already, you can still do so. But before you click to post your answers, write them down. Then you can use this article to create your Personal Creativity Profile, as I've done above. The Profile will tell you: When and where you get your best ideas How your sources of great ideas differ from others, and why How you can make more time and space for creative activities The chart above compares my scores on the 36 questions with the normalized* answers of other respondents. If you want to create your own chart like this, using Excel or a similar spreadsheet software, here's how to do it: From the IdeaChampions' survey page, copy the 36 questions, and paste them to the first column of your spreadsheet using Paste SpecialText. Copy your scores into the next column. Then copy the normalized average scores from the bottom of this post into the third column, using Paste SpecialText. Highlight the entire table you've created and sort it in ascending order by your scores. Then add a row at the top of the chart and type in column headings. Then highlight the entire table you've created and Insert a bar chart, which should look something like the chart above. Interpreting your Profile: In my case, brainstorming, creative thinking techniques, talking with customers, taking time just upon waking, taking breaks, and listening to music are my six 'sure-fire' ways to generate creativity, so I should learn to draw on one or more of them whenever creative thinking is needed. I should keep a pencil and paper beside the bed for waking-hour inspirations. And since I take a lot of breaks and walk around, I should get wireless headphones so my music goes with me. I should study creative thinking techniques so that they become second nature. And I should spend more time talking with, and listening to, current and potential customers. What's more, the last three of these six creativity sources are unusual to me, and not effective for most others, so if I'm in a group creativity setting I should be cautious about suggesting others take breaks or listen to music. I should be sensitive to the fact that happiness is an essential precondition to creativity for most people, though it isn't for me, and also that most others will be more creative if they take a walk, read books, talk with friends, or spend time thinking just before bed, even though those techniques don't work particularly well for me. There are some other interesting differences between my creative places and times, and those of most others. I find flying and commuting very stimulating -- perhaps it's the movement, and the fact that my commutes are off-rush-hour and hence fast-paced and relaxing. I find television stimulates my thinking more than it does for most others, but that's probably because of what I watch -- documentaries, mysteries, in-depth investigative reports and foreign programming. And the least effective three sources for me -- internet surfing, vacationing and exercising, are all fairly intense, focused activities for me, that don't leave many 'cycles of brainpower' for creative thinking, though I can appreciate that others who find these activities more recreational could also find them more creatively stimulating. Next I asked myself how I could find more time and space for the creative activities that work best for me. To answer this I added another column to the spreadsheet, and entered for each of the 36 activities the amount of time each week I currently spent on each. I again used a scale of 1-5 for this: Activities that consume >20 hours of time a week -- 5 Activities that consume 15-20 hours a week -- 4 Activities that consume 10-15 hours a week -- 3 Activities that consume 5-10 hours a week -- 2 Activities that consume <5 hours a week -- 1 Now I added one more column that showed, for each of the 36 activities, my rating (1-5), divided by the amount of time I spend at it each week (1-5, using the scale above). If you do this and re-sort the 36 activities in ascending order of this last 'Personal Score/Time Spent' column, the resulting chart looks like this: What this second chart reveals is what, ideally speaking, you should try to spend more time doing (the activities at the top of the chart, which you've rated as a source of great ideas, but which you spend relatively little time doing) and what you should try to spend less time doing (the activities at the bottom of the chart). In my case, I should 'get out more' -- spend more time brainstorming with others and just moving around, and less time in front of the computer. I also need to use creative thinking techniques more often. My 'catch-all' #36 'other source' answer was spending time in the hot tub, which I suppose must somehow work for me the way showers work for others. What is it about being in the water that gets us thinking creatively? No wonder dolphins are such imaginative creatures! Though to my surprise, others' top 'write-in' answer for question #36 was 'on the toilet', so perhaps we should see whether porcelain has some mysterious power to spark ideation. While others spend their time in airport lounges, airplanes and traffic either bored or fuming, I find these activities 'transport' me and get me thinking very creatively. Because it's dangerous to write while driving, I've learned to use mnemonic devices to capture and remember ideas that occur to me until I can safely write them down (works in the shower, too). If I could find a dictating machine that worked with my voice-recognition software I'd probably use it instead -- maybe even write a whole paper or blog post simply thinking out loud while I drive. It's quite possible, though, that since much of my travel is early-morning, it's actually that time of day that's responsible for the flurry of ideas, rather than the movement. Though since I'm a night-owl, usually miserable in the morning, I'm not sure that my body clock, or the ones around me, could handle it if I tried early-to-bed, early-to-rise. It hurts just thinking about it. What works for you, and why? Are there times and places and techniques that aren't on this list at all that seem to surface great ideas for you? In what ways does your ideal environment for idea generation differ from mine, and from the other survey respondents'? And are there ways you could be spending your time a little differently to allow your right brain to get some more exercise? * How I normalized the 'average' answers to the survey: First of all, I double-counted the '5' scores, the proportion of people who found each time or place a 'sure-fire' source of great ideas, because I think that's just as important as 'average' score. Then, because when you average scores you get most of them clustered around the 3 average, I 'stretched' the results so that the top-scoring source (brainstorming) received a normalized score of 5 and the lowest-scoring source (being sad or depressed) received a normalized score of 2. Finally, I rounded the results to the nearest 0.5. The results then more closely map, in standard deviation and distribution of results, an individual's scoring. Here are the normalized scores in order for the 36 questions (for copying and pasting into your own spreadsheet): 4.0 4.0 3.0 3.5 3.5 4.0 3.0 4.5 3.0 3.5 4.5 4.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 3.0 2.5 2.5 3.5 3.0 3.0 4.5 4.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 3.5 4.0

The Great CD Migration

The Great CD Migration 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
I’m beginning to think about migrating my CD collection to hard disk, and it’s starting to be feasible (even for a hard-core audiophile), but there are some interesting music-technology issues. [Update: Wow, did I ever get feedback; this area is action-packed.]...

Great IIS Site

Great IIS Site 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

This place saved our necks yesterday (at work, not Gadgetopia). If you ever find yourself working with an IIS box and run into this little monkey:

The server failed to load application '/blah'. The error was 'The server process could not be started because the configured identity is incorrect. Check the user name and password'.

The "Synciwam.vbs" script will actually work as advertised. We installed some software that hosed all the user accounts on our IIS box yesterday, and were left scratching our heads as to what the bloody hell happened.

Apparently, this script can cause problems of its own -- so be careful out there.

My apologies if this is a well-known thing, but I hadn't seen it prior to yesterday.

(Credit goes to Ryan for finding this one.)

Great ETCON pic

Great ETCON pic 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
I love this pic from ETCON. Link

From Good To Great (Maybe)

From Good To Great (Maybe) 01/04/2005 01:59 AM
Information Week Jan 4 2005 6:23AM GMT

"Great mess, A+"

"Great mess, A+" 01/03/2005 03:18 AM
Messy desks were submitted for a contest at bash.org. Most of them are n't that messy, but a few are unforgettable. If you would like to cut to the chase: here is the winner and here is the Honorable Mention (NSFW). (Many of the comment threads are also NSFW)
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No Great Acclaim

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