So I was going to buy a new Black Mini this weekend. Was looking to spend no more than $500 so my target was the 32GB WiFi model.
Turns out a guy I work with has a Mini which he is now selling a he just got an iPhone 5 and he said he never uses the Mini anymore. Since it's been unused for a couple months and he knew I was going to buy one he offered it to me.
White 32GB iPad Mini Cellular + WiFi
Leather Case
Charge Cable
Currently jail broken
Price he offered to me was $400.
Considering I'd be paying $480 or more with tax here in Canada for the WiFi model this is very tempting, to the point where I don't so much care if I don't get a black model, I really dislike white especially the cellular version and the ugly strip on the back but that's nothing a case can't fix.
Is this a good deal? Anything I should be concerned with? I've never dabbed into jail breaking on any o my Apple devices so I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into or if there may be potential issues because of it. I will be restoring it none the less.
What about cellular, is it unlocked? Do I just walk into a carrier and get a SIM card and pay month by month. Someplace like Rogers maybe?
Thanks for anyone willing to help before I take the dive.
The research and development arm of Sony Computer Entertainment built a custom giant controller, some fifty per cent larger than a standard DualShock 3, to assess the difficulties children have playing games.
Mark Cerny, the PlayStation 4 system architect, revealed the strange R&D project during his keynote address at the Develop Conference in Brighton.
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Speaking to a gathering of gamers, developers and other industry professionals, Cerny explained that holding the giant pad made developers realise how difficult it was - for example - to reach the shoulder buttons across the roof of the controller.
Though Cerny has built the underpinning hardware architecture of the PlayStation 4, his giant controller experiment was used to help inform his other project - the PS4 launch title Knack.
"With Knack, I wanted to tap into the nostalgia of early PlayStation games," he said.
He said the children in the '90s started gaming on handhelds - systems with fewer buttons and a more basic layout - and this essentially trained them for home console controllers, which are far more exotic and complex.
"But these days young people are starting out on smartphones, and so we have this gulf between straightforward touch-screen gaming and hardcore triple-A titles," he said.
Knack, he said, exemplified his ambition to reconnect casual and hardcore gamers. He said the project, which is expected to be a PlayStation 4 launch title, has been built to be as user-friendly as someone's first console game.
Elsewhere in the Develop keynote, he said Sony has internally "had an epiphany" with how it deals with indie developers.
Sony "ended up radically simplifying" the way any indie developer can get their game published on PS4. The keystone policy here is self-publishing, allowing even bedroom coders to have the chance to deliver their content on PS4 or PS Vita.
"Indie to us is smaller, nimbler titles, whatever they may be," Cerny added.
"It's all about what the game developer wants to create. We feel it is essential to bring indie games to our platform because of the variety they bring."
How much money would they have to pay you to run the NCAA? Well, that's a question only you can answer for yourself, but if you're name is Mark Emmert the answer is about $1.7 million a year.
According to the NCAA's tax return, that's the total amount of compensation Emmert received from the NCAA for the calendar year of 2011 -- which actually runs from September 2011 to August 2012. The NCAA's tax return was filed last week.
But according to the return, which was acquired by USA Today, Emmert received $1,201,159 in base compensation. He also received $234,300 in retirement and deferred compensation, $214,947 in other reportable compensation and $23,689 in nontaxable benefits. Add it all up and it comes to a grand total of $1,674,095.
Being the president of an nonprofit organization that promotes amateurism sure pays well, doesn't it?
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Later this month the Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield plans to become the first course in the U.S. to two Neoteric Golf hovercrafts for use as golf carts.
Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez and LPGA player Paige Mackenzie will be on hand for the arrivals, along with Tim Rosaforte of NBC, Golf Channel and Golf Digest, who will serve as emcee for the news conference and dinner that follows the golf event that day.
?We wanted to be able to offer something no other course could,? said Pete Duffey, managing director. ?When we saw them on YouTube, we said ?We gotta have those!??
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