Amazon is most likely being handed a list of sellers by the publishing industry. Amazon on its own didn't go out on its own and investigate these book sellers.
Now some books may have a cover torn off them, intended for return as unsold copies. But did anyone investigate that this was the case, comparing a deliberately torn off cover versus an actual used book with wear and tear?
Also, some books make say "not for resale", but a label on a book is not necessarily enforceable legally. And there aren't enough "demo" books out there to really make a solid market out of them anyway.
You expection cases are not what is happening in this story. USED bookstores are not selling textbooks as brand new, and yet they get banished from Amazon, almost certainly at the request of book publishers.
Remember you people approved all this when you insisted that DRM in games was a good thing, that it was better to get the games online than to drive to the store. And the one and only purpose of DRM was to make used game sales effectively impossible. Now this gets applied to actual physical objects and people start complaining. If DRM was people getting a foot in your door, these people are now rummaging through your refrigerator.
So, 70 is great than 60 but the price difference is $150, so is that difference in HDR worth the cost or not? The numbers won't tell you if you're not an expert, and even for experts you can't really trust a manufacturer's own ratings.
Well, a biggest factor is that these televisions are sold to consumers. Consumers don't know about this stuff in general. This is not just a factor in HDR televisions, but in every product marketed tot he general public. Even the fine print of consumer products will leave out very vital details much of the time - ie, I was trying to find a USB 3.0 thumb drive last year but so many of those on the shelf just said "USB" or "high speed".
Besides, if you care about such stuff you need to actually see the product before buying. Buying expensive stuff online based only upon online descriptions or reviews means you don't really know what you're going to get. Plenty of physical stores will have these HDR TVs turned on and on display, so it's not difficult to get a real sense of what you'll get.
Not at all, those were the real-deal SparcStations. A friend at a company once got a bunch of Sun 386i's for the QA group and everyone hated those with a passion because they were so incredibly slow.
Not really in bed with the Republicans, but they do use arguments that a Republican legislator finds appealing. Such as "citizens in your state will be spending more tax money than if they had gone with the free enterprise model!"
When I was first job hunting, the idea of worrying about what students wanted in a job would have been thought of as silly. What we wanted was a paycheck. We may have had good ideas on the type of jobs we wanted but it never crossed our minds to think about office space layouts or what was stocked in the break room.
Back in 82 I saw a Sun monitor for Sun 1 workstations. That totally blew all other displays out of the water in terms of a crisp display, and the TTYs were so much better than a PC. Yes it cost a lot more but it a did such a good job.
Motorola kept going in the workstation market. The home and PC markets were mostly toys, for simplistic uses or light business. It wasn't until NT4 era that workstation use started declining, and the Pentium was the final nail.
When the Amiga was around, the PC clones were utterly lousy. You can't even say it had a bad architecture because it really had no architecture instead it had hacks. I remember later in early 90s graduate school that one student lobbied to get a 386 PC into the lab because he said it was the wave of the future, and once it showed up no one really used it except for games, even the person who lobbied for it did his work on the Suns.
The 500 was intended to be a cost reduced version, except that the stuff you gave up really wasn't worth the smaller cost. But remember that Apple made similar mistakes, not wanting upgradeability early on (similar to the NeXT).
I liked the Amiga 1000 best. It didn't look boxy like PCs or the A2000, and didn't look like a C64 or Apple II like the 500 did. I did get the A2000 later for more upgradeability and a hard drive. I do remember some major developers not wanting the hard drive and instead got more RAM and created a RAM-disk to really speed things up.
I haven't tried the other Google stuff, but Google+ seems a much better product than Facebook by far. If you grade it by market penetration then you're right that it's not a successful product, but if you grade by quality then it should be winning.
The American team wins with an impressive 13.4 seconds sprint, while the French are still in the overall lead after an impressive showing in the mixed doubles competition. The Canadian team was in a strong start but lost points with the judges for lack of style.
This actually reminds me of another thing that is a barrier to the Olympics - these are supposed to be amateurs and not professionals. That's the reason the got rid of those categories because they thought artists were professionals.
Sure, basketball screwed this up once they got pro players into the Olympics, but in general I would think that someone who gets paid to do e-sports (accepting prize money or promotional advertising) would not be allowed.
Can you have such an event while removing game companies from the equation? No, because currently these "e-sports" are essentially advertising for games. The participants are good at a very specific game, they don't sit down to a random game they've never seen before. Are there going to be rules about the equipment they use - like a fresh out-of-the-box logitech mouse? (no, sorry, these are all console kids who are promoted particular console brands). Most also seem to be competitive (PvP), so while they may correspond to things like boxing they aren't the same as the big Olympic events like figure skating or track and field. Do they even have e-sports for things that don't fit into the category of combat with other players? Is there an e-sport for text adventures or Tetris?
Now you get League Of Legends in the Olympics. 5 years down the road this is no longer cool to play and has fallen out of favor, then what? Is it left around for the next one hundred years as an oddity (like rhythmic gymnastics)? What if the servers shut down and you literally can't play the game anymore?
This stuff is better left to the game or console manufacturers to run on their own without any Olympic attachment, then let them die out on their own over time.
Meh, I was in a highschool in a rural town, no honors courses, no tiger moms, getting As wasn't that hard. Also I found that in college, the students who had AP credit and skipped the intro math classes actually had a more difficult time of things adjusting to the college level of difficulty cold turkey.
The problem still exists though, it is the idiot who thinks the problem goes away by renaming it. Ie, taking a pithy aphorism and treating it as literal truth rather than knowing what it means.
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Do used bookstores do this? And did Amazon VERIFY this of just rely upon accusations from publishers? It all feels fishy.
Amazon is most likely being handed a list of sellers by the publishing industry. Amazon on its own didn't go out on its own and investigate these book sellers.
Now some books may have a cover torn off them, intended for return as unsold copies. But did anyone investigate that this was the case, comparing a deliberately torn off cover versus an actual used book with wear and tear?
Also, some books make say "not for resale", but a label on a book is not necessarily enforceable legally. And there aren't enough "demo" books out there to really make a solid market out of them anyway.
You expection cases are not what is happening in this story. USED bookstores are not selling textbooks as brand new, and yet they get banished from Amazon, almost certainly at the request of book publishers.
Remember you people approved all this when you insisted that DRM in games was a good thing, that it was better to get the games online than to drive to the store. And the one and only purpose of DRM was to make used game sales effectively impossible. Now this gets applied to actual physical objects and people start complaining. If DRM was people getting a foot in your door, these people are now rummaging through your refrigerator.
So, 70 is great than 60 but the price difference is $150, so is that difference in HDR worth the cost or not? The numbers won't tell you if you're not an expert, and even for experts you can't really trust a manufacturer's own ratings.
Well, a biggest factor is that these televisions are sold to consumers. Consumers don't know about this stuff in general. This is not just a factor in HDR televisions, but in every product marketed tot he general public. Even the fine print of consumer products will leave out very vital details much of the time - ie, I was trying to find a USB 3.0 thumb drive last year but so many of those on the shelf just said "USB" or "high speed".
Besides, if you care about such stuff you need to actually see the product before buying. Buying expensive stuff online based only upon online descriptions or reviews means you don't really know what you're going to get. Plenty of physical stores will have these HDR TVs turned on and on display, so it's not difficult to get a real sense of what you'll get.
Not at all, those were the real-deal SparcStations. A friend at a company once got a bunch of Sun 386i's for the QA group and everyone hated those with a passion because they were so incredibly slow.
Not really in bed with the Republicans, but they do use arguments that a Republican legislator finds appealing. Such as "citizens in your state will be spending more tax money than if they had gone with the free enterprise model!"
When I was first job hunting, the idea of worrying about what students wanted in a job would have been thought of as silly. What we wanted was a paycheck. We may have had good ideas on the type of jobs we wanted but it never crossed our minds to think about office space layouts or what was stocked in the break room.
I keep going up to the curators and asking if they have any quests for me.
We were lucky in Silicon Valley, there was a store there that was essentially dedicated to the Amiga. (It's a KFC now)
Back in 82 I saw a Sun monitor for Sun 1 workstations. That totally blew all other displays out of the water in terms of a crisp display, and the TTYs were so much better than a PC. Yes it cost a lot more but it a did such a good job.
Motorola kept going in the workstation market. The home and PC markets were mostly toys, for simplistic uses or light business. It wasn't until NT4 era that workstation use started declining, and the Pentium was the final nail.
When the Amiga was around, the PC clones were utterly lousy. You can't even say it had a bad architecture because it really had no architecture instead it had hacks. I remember later in early 90s graduate school that one student lobbied to get a 386 PC into the lab because he said it was the wave of the future, and once it showed up no one really used it except for games, even the person who lobbied for it did his work on the Suns.
The 500 was intended to be a cost reduced version, except that the stuff you gave up really wasn't worth the smaller cost. But remember that Apple made similar mistakes, not wanting upgradeability early on (similar to the NeXT).
I liked the Amiga 1000 best. It didn't look boxy like PCs or the A2000, and didn't look like a C64 or Apple II like the 500 did. I did get the A2000 later for more upgradeability and a hard drive. I do remember some major developers not wanting the hard drive and instead got more RAM and created a RAM-disk to really speed things up.
Inconceivable!
I haven't tried the other Google stuff, but Google+ seems a much better product than Facebook by far. If you grade it by market penetration then you're right that it's not a successful product, but if you grade by quality then it should be winning.
The American team wins with an impressive 13.4 seconds sprint, while the French are still in the overall lead after an impressive showing in the mixed doubles competition. The Canadian team was in a strong start but lost points with the judges for lack of style.
Well you have to also include the coaches, trainers, and other staff.
This actually reminds me of another thing that is a barrier to the Olympics - these are supposed to be amateurs and not professionals. That's the reason the got rid of those categories because they thought artists were professionals.
Sure, basketball screwed this up once they got pro players into the Olympics, but in general I would think that someone who gets paid to do e-sports (accepting prize money or promotional advertising) would not be allowed.
Well, sculpture would work. You have a hammer, chisel, and a block of marble in front of you and then wait for the whistle to blow before you start.
Can you have such an event while removing game companies from the equation? No, because currently these "e-sports" are essentially advertising for games. The participants are good at a very specific game, they don't sit down to a random game they've never seen before. Are there going to be rules about the equipment they use - like a fresh out-of-the-box logitech mouse? (no, sorry, these are all console kids who are promoted particular console brands). Most also seem to be competitive (PvP), so while they may correspond to things like boxing they aren't the same as the big Olympic events like figure skating or track and field. Do they even have e-sports for things that don't fit into the category of combat with other players? Is there an e-sport for text adventures or Tetris?
Now you get League Of Legends in the Olympics. 5 years down the road this is no longer cool to play and has fallen out of favor, then what? Is it left around for the next one hundred years as an oddity (like rhythmic gymnastics)? What if the servers shut down and you literally can't play the game anymore?
This stuff is better left to the game or console manufacturers to run on their own without any Olympic attachment, then let them die out on their own over time.
Meh, I was in a highschool in a rural town, no honors courses, no tiger moms, getting As wasn't that hard.
Also I found that in college, the students who had AP credit and skipped the intro math classes actually had a more difficult time of things adjusting to the college level of difficulty cold turkey.
No thank you.
If your only tool is a hammer, then you just wack everything with it as hard as you can.
The problem still exists though, it is the idiot who thinks the problem goes away by renaming it. Ie, taking a pithy aphorism and treating it as literal truth rather than knowing what it means.
Possibly true. History seems to show that whichever party in power is always its own worst enemy.