Sometimes the cost of repairing something easily fixed is higher than just getting a new one. Two examples: at one point in time certain printers were cheaper to buy again with included ink cartridges than getting separate new ink cartridges, and a pocket calculator actually cost less than the batteries that it needed when the originals ran out.
"...because most people don't have... thirty thousand dollars extra to purchase a car in cash?"
I think you mean:...because most people aren't willing to drive a beater and save the money they would be spending on a lease for a nice car until they can afford to buy it in cash?
Funny you should say that. I have only one piece of debt: my house. I paid for my (very new 2ndhand, but small) car in cash.
The printing costs of a book are negligible in comparison with the editorial, typesetting, proof-reading and other costs associatd with releasing a book. Go and read Charlie Stross's essays on common misconceptions about publishing to discover WHY it's impractical.
It doesn't matter though. The cost of all that overhead stuff is sunk once you have the book ready for publishing - all you can do at that point is try to maximize price * sales. If people are not prepared to pay as much for an eBook than for a physical one then it may have to be priced lower in order to maximize that function, regardless of the actual cost involved. The eBook presumably has a (much?) lower marginal cost and a totally different MC curve to a physical book - therefore it shouldn't be sold with the same assumptions as physical books.
It's worth it just for the subtitles - I often switch on the beeb and immediately turn Ceefax/teletext to page 888 for those in the living room that aren't comfortable enough with native English to be able follow the shows by audio only.
I venture a guess that's because you can't recharge them, they have to be bought at markets which is kinda dumb since if you go to market to buy those you might as well always bring your credit/debit card and use that. If there would be a simple system of transferring money on a prepay card online it would be very useful.
No, you could recharge them just fine. It was actually on the same chip as the regular debit card. But indeed no talking back to the server - that was it's supposed "strong point" - no connectivity needed to pay with one of those.
It failed because there's no need for it. If you want to pay with cash, you use cash, because they accept that *everywhere*. Everything else you use the debit card (and that truly works for almost everything here these days).
Not gonna blame in on W, but I would *mightily* impressed if someone could provide reasonable arguments of how his administration did anything to improve the situation.
I think you were in cryogenic stasis since ~2007, which is ironically the last time Nokia made a phone worth owning. Everything since has been a slow and steady erosion of what was once an invaluable brand and that is now worthless beyond it's name.
I'm the proud owner of a Nokia C1. So are a lot of people I know. We're not all into smartphones you know.
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This is getting dangerously close to the super high end crap they sell audiophiles.
No, not even slightly close. Yes, that's a POWER cable.
Sometimes the cost of repairing something easily fixed is higher than just getting a new one. Two examples: at one point in time certain printers were cheaper to buy again with included ink cartridges than getting separate new ink cartridges, and a pocket calculator actually cost less than the batteries that it needed when the originals ran out.
With HTML5, write an app once and you're done.
It worked so well for regular old webpages with CSS and stuff across multiple browser versions and platforms and screen sizes :D.
And I have no idea why the title says the software has 'started humming'.
Daiiiisy.
Daaaiiiiiisy.
"...because most people don't have ... thirty thousand dollars extra to purchase a car in cash?"
I think you mean: ...because most people aren't willing to drive a beater and save the money they would be spending on a lease for a nice car until they can afford to buy it in cash?
Funny you should say that. I have only one piece of debt: my house. I paid for my (very new 2ndhand, but small) car in cash.
The printing costs of a book are negligible in comparison with the editorial, typesetting, proof-reading and other costs associatd with releasing a book. Go and read Charlie Stross's essays on common misconceptions about publishing to discover WHY it's impractical.
It doesn't matter though. The cost of all that overhead stuff is sunk once you have the book ready for publishing - all you can do at that point is try to maximize price * sales. If people are not prepared to pay as much for an eBook than for a physical one then it may have to be priced lower in order to maximize that function, regardless of the actual cost involved. The eBook presumably has a (much?) lower marginal cost and a totally different MC curve to a physical book - therefore it shouldn't be sold with the same assumptions as physical books.
That's what happens when you take the programmer who worked on Windows progress bars and tell him to use his talents on Excel graphs.
I hear he's still working on it, but he's about 90% done.
I've been on sites where they've told me that my chosen password was too long. Left there quickly without giving them any more details.
Or for the confusion around branches of government.
Summary contains 2008 data, article contains current data. C is awesome incarnate: lean, readable and full of low level goodness.
Yeah, really!
It's worth it just for the subtitles - I often switch on the beeb and immediately turn Ceefax/teletext to page 888 for those in the living room that aren't comfortable enough with native English to be able follow the shows by audio only.
This article is going to spawn about 40 attempts at +1 Funny and another 40 Troll results.
Yeah, the article stinks.
I venture a guess that's because you can't recharge them, they have to be bought at markets which is kinda dumb since if you go to market to buy those you might as well always bring your credit/debit card and use that. If there would be a simple system of transferring money on a prepay card online it would be very useful.
No, you could recharge them just fine. It was actually on the same chip as the regular debit card. But indeed no talking back to the server - that was it's supposed "strong point" - no connectivity needed to pay with one of those.
It failed because there's no need for it. If you want to pay with cash, you use cash, because they accept that *everywhere*. Everything else you use the debit card (and that truly works for almost everything here these days).
We had this for a while in Belgium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_%28bank_card%29) - it failed.
Because some of these systems might be mission-critical but in places that are NOT readily accessible to the support staff.
Because of the thousands of potentially great programmers that are not working in the field?
And perhaps that is because they *don't want to*... not because they are discriminated against.
Not gonna blame in on W, but I would *mightily* impressed if someone could provide reasonable arguments of how his administration did anything to improve the situation.
They went away.
What do I win?
I hope you die an utterly painful death for that HORRENDOUS pun. I had a little vomit in my mouth after reading that one.
You're welcome :)
Curious: do you plan to dual wield 2 Win-Phones now?
That's obviously a win-win situation.
I think you were in cryogenic stasis since ~2007, which is ironically the last time Nokia made a phone worth owning. Everything since has been a slow and steady erosion of what was once an invaluable brand and that is now worthless beyond it's name.
I'm the proud owner of a Nokia C1. So are a lot of people I know. We're not all into smartphones you know.
I am Clamman! I was bitten by a radioactive clam and developed mutant powers such as sitting around doing nothing underwater!
Whatever gets us out of mom's basement!
They allow the government to precisely target which sections of the population to ignore.
You mean "all of them except the big contributors to my slush fund"?
Indeed.
Lets take a little look at the history of Microsoft and clearly understand what we're getting into before we blindly adapt one of their standards.
They even called it HTTP Sadism & Masochism, it's not like we aren't warned.
Surely the amount of metallic elements required to form a planet is an absolute value and not simply relative to other stars at that point in time?
That depends. I hear Magrathea accepts plastic too.