Vista x32 shouldn’t give you any problems.

Vista 64 is a funny animal in regards to internet and media right now. The default browser and media player on the system are the 32 bit builds. The 64 bit builds are lacking in functional codecs, and certain common internet plugins (particularly Adobe Flash formerly Shockwave Flash) do not have a native 64-bit build yet.

I use Vista 64, and I like it, but comparing the two, you’re clearly better today (not necessarily a year down the line) with Vista 32 because of the current driver and codec situation.

As much as it pains me to say so, I might advise you to keep your product key and install XP on your new computer until the rest of the world catches on to the fact that modern PCs have multi-core 64-bit processors in them.

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Zach, are you suggesting that Zuffa should compromise the legitmacy of MMA as sport so that it can apease the Japanese market?

I don’t know where I stated that Zuffa should have doctors injecting pain killers into fighters or ask fighters to take drugs.

If marketing your product and doing angles is ‘compromising the legitmacy’ of your product, well… there’s not much I can say.

As far as McMahon’s business operations, he does well all over the world except in one market – Japan, which happens to be one of the largest fight markets in the industry. Or was. It has been damaged.

Also, I’m not sure how denying Cuban exiles temporary work visas constitutes “sticking it to Castro.” Then again, these are the same people who think the embargo is good policy.

The funny part is that all Hioki’s losses (and his draw against Quach) are a direct result of wanting to stand with opponents for no reason. He opted to stand against Takaya who put an epic beating on him in the Shooto rookie tournament way back when. He almost subbed Quach in the first round, then chose to get up and try to flex stand-up with him and got his nose broken.

He owned Carvalho on the ground in round one, and then chose to stand and trade on the feet in round two and three and lose a decision. Hioki is lightyears beyond Kim on the ground, and again, he lost a decision after trying to bang on the feet. Hioki is an amazing grappler, and yet would rather repeatedly lose decisions trying to strike than to take guys down and outgrapple then. It’s comical, actually.

I might be getting a new computer pretty soon. Does anybody know if UFC On Demand works with Windows Vista? The website says 2000 and XP, but sometimes things still work with the updated editions…..

According to Sherdog.com, Hatsu Hioki lost for the second straight time. Any momentum he had from beating Hominick (2X) and Curran is now completely lost. This might even knock him out of the Top 10.

Obviously, the Japanese market is a little harder to decode than we may think. Many MBAs have tried… I mean, what American companies has done well in Japan? McDonald’s?

I believe the Enthocentrism is not so much American, but perhaps it’s more Japanese than anything.

When you are breaking into a market, you MUST. Absolutely MUST, cater your product to the MARKET that you are breaking into.

You cannot possibly break into another market and retain exactly the same product, because different values and socialcultural differences abound.

This is exactly why Vince McMahon has never been able to sustain in another market. The same exact reason why UFC never will either. You CANNOT simply port over the product to another market without tweaking it. It doesn’t work. If you do not change the product during the expansion to fit the area, then you are doomed to fail.

and the way of thinking that “This way is the best way” is called Ethnocentrism. It means what you see, or feel is the best way regardless of the other peoeple’s beliefs or cultures. People with Ethnocentrism idealism also generally FAIL at market advancement.

Personally I don’t care about Lombard. He is a B level MMA guy so far. There is some internet speculation about Kos or Fitch stepping up to fight Karo. Either one would be much better than the original fight.