Does anyone know the last time that Big Blue had a significant update? Has anyone gotten the 2014 edition? Anything new? Thanks.
Big Blue last update?
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Hi, Clutch959. I update Big Blue quite significantly each year. I ratchet down upon new key words, each requires from 1.5-3 hours to summarize, parse, write, re-parse, and re-write. With respect to key words I try to ask and ultimately reflect in BB, "What is an examiner likely to ask? What is fair, and how can I present that information in the very best way possible for someone to have it solidly in one's synapses on Gameday?" I also put in new ABA GAPs which more than 50% miss, as well as my summaries (which often take many hours of analysis of huge documents) of current ACLS, ACOG, ASRA and ACC/AHA guidelines. This having been said, I would not update your Big Blue until you are 2-3 editions behind (2-3 years), because if our roles were reversed I would want to know and hear that the differences may not be enough to justify the cost. Some live and die with Big Blue, as I did, and I know in my case I would still be taking the stupid test without such a rigorous key word, old question, remembered information, and GAP input. Still, many do much better on standardized tests and don't need this kind of rigor to pass. But know that I work every day to some extent doing something to try to make Big Blue more focused and ultimately more worthy of one's investment; updating and revising and refining these materials is time consuming, very time consuming, and if you are interested in my daily time logs please give me a shout sometime or simply email me at [email protected]. Thanks for your question, Niels F. Jensen.
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I shall miss his valuable input.
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The sad thing is that behind all the salesmanship and him having kittens about people reselling their old copies, the product isn't junk. It's just insanely expensive and needs some refinement to be all it could be.
If he comes back to see what people had to say, my advice to him would be:
- Take it easy with the military analogies. It's a test, not a war. If you fail, you are still alive and breathing.
- Relax about the used market. It's going to exist. Asking people to buy new instead of used, hey, why not - but threatening your own customers leaves a bad taste in a lot of mouths. Improve your product continuously so that customers will want to pay you market value for a new copy instead of buying used.
- For goodness' sakes, use normal paper. Pirate copies are already out there, so printing it on difficult-to-read watermarked anti-copying paper only serves to annoy the paying customers.
If he comes back to see what people had to say, my advice to him would be:
- Take it easy with the military analogies. It's a test, not a war. If you fail, you are still alive and breathing.
- Relax about the used market. It's going to exist. Asking people to buy new instead of used, hey, why not - but threatening your own customers leaves a bad taste in a lot of mouths. Improve your product continuously so that customers will want to pay you market value for a new copy instead of buying used.
- For goodness' sakes, use normal paper. Pirate copies are already out there, so printing it on difficult-to-read watermarked anti-copying paper only serves to annoy the paying customers.
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He has to mark up the books to make his car audio equipment so affordable.
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Wow, that takes me back. Jensen, Pyle Drivers, Urban Audio Works...
