I think 3 oversimplifies it a bit, and it should read more like 3) they're only willing to staff up to a certain point for a free troubleshooting service.
I don't think they want lineups at the "here's where people stand in line for problems with our product" counter, I think they want them at the "here's where people stand in line to willingly hand over big cash for our cool shit" counter.
It's interesting. When I first bought CDs back in the '80s, they had actual copy on the cardboard package that said something very close to "this compact disk will, with proper care, last for a lifetime of listening pleasure". I think a couple of my earliest CDs also have the same text in the little paper insert pamphlet.
I am sure they would love to see one of those brought up as evidence in a court case to refute the quote in this summary.
Might work for many things, but I see a few problems for TV shows. Namely, actors or key production people that make the project what it is have to pay their bills in the mean time, and if the fundraising proceeds a little too slowly, they may have moved on, leaving the investors with a different product than what they were sold.
You could implement things like commitments and contracts, but I don't think it would solve the issue of this being too slow a system to preserve a production flow for something like a TV show.
MS doesn't care what you do with their products, as long as anywhere you spend money, it is on their products, and as long as they can derive a permanent income stream from what you do with their products.
Apple on the other hand, wants to control your experience completely so that they can make it as good as possible, enticing more and more people to prefer it.
I'll take the latter motivation any day, as it least it is focused on giving you something of value, rather than extracting all possible value from you.
You are correct. For the first film, they were octagonal blades with rotating motors and scotchlite paint, which reflected light back to the camera from a large light shooting from just behind it.
The effect was weak (see Vader's as he is walking towards the closing blast doors before they escape the deathstar) so they ended up animating over it in almost all the shots.
The rotation motor is the reason Obi-wan's saber has a white electric cord coming out of the hilt and going into his sleeve in the shot where he first energies it for his duel. Something I am at a loss to explain why they would not have digitally removed in one of the more recent editions. You can also see dust and chips from the impacts in the closeups during their duel.
So it is seriously your position that they set these fees at the level they do to discourage the behavior that generates these fees for them, and not at the highest level they think they can get away with without triggering government regulation spurred by public outcry?
These fees are the only way they make money off most low balance consumer accounts, and they use any means they can to increase them.
Do you also believe parking meters' time limits are set by cities to be slightly more than the average period needed by people performing their errands?
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I would say Vista's performance in fact proves the gp's first paragraph, which you have conveniently split into two parts.
Too right.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3505414.stm
A world where AOL is relevant to the internet? It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!
I had my dream job. Then I got promoted out of it.
I think 3 oversimplifies it a bit, and it should read more like 3) they're only willing to staff up to a certain point for a free troubleshooting service.
I don't think they want lineups at the "here's where people stand in line for problems with our product" counter, I think they want them at the "here's where people stand in line to willingly hand over big cash for our cool shit" counter.
Your lack of a funny mod speaks volumes. I have no mod points or I'd give you one.
We're just confused by the use of flux.
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It's interesting. When I first bought CDs back in the '80s, they had actual copy on the cardboard package that said something very close to "this compact disk will, with proper care, last for a lifetime of listening pleasure". I think a couple of my earliest CDs also have the same text in the little paper insert pamphlet.
I am sure they would love to see one of those brought up as evidence in a court case to refute the quote in this summary.
Then there will be a bunch of bodies lying around with only one good bite taken out of them. What a waste.
Might work for many things, but I see a few problems for TV shows. Namely, actors or key production people that make the project what it is have to pay their bills in the mean time, and if the fundraising proceeds a little too slowly, they may have moved on, leaving the investors with a different product than what they were sold.
You could implement things like commitments and contracts, but I don't think it would solve the issue of this being too slow a system to preserve a production flow for something like a TV show.
It can't fit in the chair in the oval office.
Unfortunately, your post will probably be factually correct without any changes for the next 100 years.
Yes please. The blond one.
I'm a rabbo, you insensitive clod!
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Well, yeah! Those things aren't gonna make themselves you know!
(checks over should, nope, wife not looking)
No rabid bias in you, is there?
MS doesn't care what you do with their products, as long as anywhere you spend money, it is on their products, and as long as they can derive a permanent income stream from what you do with their products.
Apple on the other hand, wants to control your experience completely so that they can make it as good as possible, enticing more and more people to prefer it.
I'll take the latter motivation any day, as it least it is focused on giving you something of value, rather than extracting all possible value from you.
So if microsoft released an update that deliberately degraded mac and linux access to windows shared files, you'd similarly agree that was legal.
Another one? Geez.
Your theory is aether right or wrong. I can't decide.
You are correct. For the first film, they were octagonal blades with rotating motors and scotchlite paint, which reflected light back to the camera from a large light shooting from just behind it.
The effect was weak (see Vader's as he is walking towards the closing blast doors before they escape the deathstar) so they ended up animating over it in almost all the shots.
The rotation motor is the reason Obi-wan's saber has a white electric cord coming out of the hilt and going into his sleeve in the shot where he first energies it for his duel. Something I am at a loss to explain why they would not have digitally removed in one of the more recent editions. You can also see dust and chips from the impacts in the closeups during their duel.
So it is seriously your position that they set these fees at the level they do to discourage the behavior that generates these fees for them, and not at the highest level they think they can get away with without triggering government regulation spurred by public outcry?
These fees are the only way they make money off most low balance consumer accounts, and they use any means they can to increase them.
Do you also believe parking meters' time limits are set by cities to be slightly more than the average period needed by people performing their errands?
I also found it pretty interesting that sperm quality can be improved by daily masturbation.
Why? Everything is improved by daily masturbation.
British Telephone or something like that.
Can you please explain the difference?
That was the only way I got time off to get married from my employer.