If your answer to that question is in the negative, then you are not playing music for the right reasons, and I suggest you quit.
Who the fuck do you think you are telling someone how and why they can create music?
I do not play music for monetary gain.
That much is pretty clear. Easy for some garage band asshole who no one wants to waste a penny on to say that full time musicians don't deserve fair compensation for something they've CREATED which brings their fans PLEASURE.
Is it ethical to deny these major labels a profit on something which can be so easily reproduced with such a miniscule amount of labor?
I honestly can't believe people even consider this an ethical question. Lots of stuff is made with miniscule effort, that doesn't mean the person who makes it doesn't deserve to be paid. Go take an economics class.
They only exist if you have a box from the cable company. If you read even the article summary you would see the point of this is to integrate the box into your TV set or other electronics equipment. That has a host of benefits...eliminates a piece of equipment, eliminates a monthly rental fee, makes it so you don't need a jerry-rigged system with high latency to switch channels with your DVR, etc.
Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a cruise missile from a US warship, this system is made to protect against cheap shoulder fired missiles/rockets. I don't know if it would be effective against the kind of missile that our warship used but I really doubt it.
In fairness to walmart it looks like you can pick any 6 games you want. But I still agree with you...I wouldn't want to buy 6 games up front with the console. Hell, I have a friend that bought a Wii right when it came out and he mostly plays his 360 now so I could just borrow his games. I might buy 6 games, but I doubt I'd want 6 from the existing library.
Try reading the last line of my post. It still is usually illegal, just as I said. Unless having a minimum price higher than market price somehow can be shown to not harm competition. Thats going to be a hard burden of proof to meet.
They've doubled production this year but demand is still increasing. There was a hard drive shortage a while back. Nintendo also is being careful about how they ramp production to ensure they don't end up with poor quality...if you ramp up too fast you'll end up with higher defect rates.
1. Why is the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) so close to the wholesale price?
2. Why doesn't the stores sell it for more than MSRP? The "S" does stand for "Suggested"
1) Because it makes MSRP effectively a price floor. Stores have little incentive to undercut each other if they're already making zero profit or a loss on the sale (still beneficial to sell em to get people through the door where they'll buy games and accessories).
2) Thats exactly what they're doing...selling em on eBay above MSRP.
Lots of manufacturers have reseller policies that dictate how you can sell a product and the minimum price you can charge. Nintendo could simply decide they won't be selling anymore Wii consoles to any stores not following their policy.
No, they don't. There are techniques to maintain minimum prices but they aren't in the form of the manufacturer dictating to the retailer what price they can sell at. Apple's a good example...Apple products wholesale for just 1-2% below the MSRP and retailers aren't permitted to advertise Apple products below a certain price. However if they WANT to sell them below MSRP they're welcome to. Since advertising iPods is a great way to get people into your store almost everyone accepts the MSRP.
Generally, manufacturers can't dictate a price to retailers. There was a supreme court case this past year that changed the situation somewhat though.
x86 is actually quite efficient and flexible. Variable length instruction sets have a lot of benefits, especially in embedded applications where memory is at a premium. You'll get a lot more data into your cache and memory with x86 code as opposed to a fixed length instruction set. Most of the disadvantages (complex decoders, etc) are borne by the chip designer. And for embedded there's no reason they need to support legacy stuff.
This common belief that x86 is the devil is simply absurd. It sounds good but it doesn't really match with reality. As long as the chip designers are willing to make them, they're a great choice for software and system developers.
Are they not allowed to do to sell them on eBay? Legally it's fine. Nintendo doesn't want them to, but they have to be very careful about cutting off shipments or Nintendo could get busted for price fixing.
There's no reason the police shouldn't be able to use the evidence. I also don't see any reason the guy shouldn't be able to sue Best Buy from jail for snooping on his computer if he can find a reason it wasn't legal. Good luck with your case buddy, you might even be technically right.
CD burning software commonly includes all kind of "media center" crap these days so the tech's explanation of looking for something to test the codec with is at least plausible. I don't think there's anything that requires them to test it a certain way. Maybe you'd prefer they test through a removable device or something but there was no law, regulation, contract, or company policy that said they'd do it that way.
A multifunction ink jet costs less than a third of your printer and an ultra basic ink jet is about 10% of the cost...it all depends on how much ink you buy. Those cartridges actually print quite a bit. Personally the only time I ever print anything is maps when I'm going somewhere new, an occasional letter or other small document, copying items for rebates, etc. That doesn't amount to much printing, maybe 5 pages a week on average. I've had my printer for over 3 years and I'm trying to remember if I've even had to replace the cartridge yet. Maybe once, possibly I haven't replaced it at all. And with a laser printer I couldn't copy/scan.
I somehow think that the $6700 extra per car is highly exaggerated.
Of course it is. It's a number self-reported by the auto companies. Even if they were giving a good estimate rather than a worst case scenario it would still be too high because once they HAVE to do it market forces take over and they'll start innovating ways to do it as cheaply as possible. This pattern has been seen before in other environmental regulations on things like power plant emissions....the actual costs of complying with regulations is substantially lower than the companies ever predicted it would be.
Are we saying that abuses of the copyright, trademark, and patent systems are not newsworthy now? If this is a joke, then more power to them, but I see no reason why those sorts of things shouldn't evoke outrage.
It's just an application. I can't think of any possible means by which you could prevent people from mailing in a piece of paper requesting a trademark on anything they want. Doesn't mean it will be granted.
The only reason this gets so much attention is because of the spastic crybaby melodrama. Anyone who paused for 5 seconds to consider what was happening rather than becoming a wailing reactionary would have just ignored it.
We do all make mistakes, and surgeons are no exception.
It always amazes me how resistant people are to this idea. Think about how many times it takes you to get some code working. Sure, you're not as worried about it working the first compile as a surgeon but we all know that little mistakes are inevitable. It's human nature. These kinds of systems are very sensible because they provide a mechanical way for staff to avoid a common medical error. It shouldn't even cost all that much once widely used.
I recently read a pretty interesting book called "Complications," sort of a blog style book about medical errors, mysterious ailments, etc. The author, who is a surgeon, recounts a list of medical errors that sound horrible...metal instruments left in a patient after surgery, incorrect dosages of medication given, etc. In some cases the patient in question died. The source of the mistakes? An informal survey of mistakes made in the past couple of months by his colleagues at Harvard.
Even cream of the crop doctors will screw up occasionally, and they see dozens of patients daily. One of the interesting points of the book was that there is very little scientific study on medical errors and how to best avoid them.
Yes, there was bad business practices and greed all around, but the root cause of the whole thing was bad interest rate manipulation by the federal reserve.
You act as though it was completely shocking and unpredictable that interest rates would rise above the historic lows from a few years ago. Do you really think bankers and financial gurus are that stupid? That they never considered that rates might rise on an ARM they were offering someone with no documentation, no income verification? The housing bubble has been talked about for at least 3 years now. A correction in housing prices was widely considered a strong possibility.
Give me a fucking break. The Fed did not cause the housing crisis. Interest rates are only up 1-2 percent from their lows. If you think that a small increase like that was so inconceivable that the banks couldn't help but make inappropriately risky laons you're mental. Mortgage brokers and real estate agents were telling anyone they could get to listen that they could afford anything, didn't need a down payment, didn't need any income, etc. The lender's job in that situation is to put rational underwriting criteria into place to ensure that they only lend to people who can afford their loans.
Paul's supporters organized a stunt where they coordinated new donors to wait for a while and all donate on the same day. Thus, he had the largest number of new contributors on a single day. Kind of meaningless, but it does get some press and fool people like the OP into thinking Paul has an unusually broad support base. Most of his ideas are sheer lunacy, I think it is like Ralph Nader...people want to vote "none of the above" and Ron Paul is a safe way to do that without actually risking him getting into office.
95% of people do not have a windows live CD handy and the knowledge of how to restore an overwritten boot.ini file. If the vast proportion of the population have to take their computer apart and bring it to a repair shop for a week, thats pretty bad.
In the FA it stated that most of the digitization was done in India and China. Low wage poverty-level workers, how dandy. Am I the only one who found it odd/sad that "we" digitized our knowledge with uneducated, underpaid slave labor? Maybe they were allowed to read some books and get educated? Nah.
In case you haven't noticed, the economies of India and China are booming...in large part because of the offshoring/outsourcing from more developed countries. The wages and employment opportunities only get better in India and China due to projects like this.
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Who the fuck do you think you are telling someone how and why they can create music?
I do not play music for monetary gain.
That much is pretty clear. Easy for some garage band asshole who no one wants to waste a penny on to say that full time musicians don't deserve fair compensation for something they've CREATED which brings their fans PLEASURE.
I honestly can't believe people even consider this an ethical question. Lots of stuff is made with miniscule effort, that doesn't mean the person who makes it doesn't deserve to be paid. Go take an economics class.
They only exist if you have a box from the cable company. If you read even the article summary you would see the point of this is to integrate the box into your TV set or other electronics equipment. That has a host of benefits...eliminates a piece of equipment, eliminates a monthly rental fee, makes it so you don't need a jerry-rigged system with high latency to switch channels with your DVR, etc.
Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a cruise missile from a US warship, this system is made to protect against cheap shoulder fired missiles/rockets. I don't know if it would be effective against the kind of missile that our warship used but I really doubt it.
In fairness to walmart it looks like you can pick any 6 games you want. But I still agree with you...I wouldn't want to buy 6 games up front with the console. Hell, I have a friend that bought a Wii right when it came out and he mostly plays his 360 now so I could just borrow his games. I might buy 6 games, but I doubt I'd want 6 from the existing library.
Nintendo clearly has market power in the gaming console industry.
Try reading the last line of my post. It still is usually illegal, just as I said. Unless having a minimum price higher than market price somehow can be shown to not harm competition. Thats going to be a hard burden of proof to meet.
They've doubled production this year but demand is still increasing. There was a hard drive shortage a while back. Nintendo also is being careful about how they ramp production to ensure they don't end up with poor quality...if you ramp up too fast you'll end up with higher defect rates.
2. Why doesn't the stores sell it for more than MSRP? The "S" does stand for "Suggested"
1) Because it makes MSRP effectively a price floor. Stores have little incentive to undercut each other if they're already making zero profit or a loss on the sale (still beneficial to sell em to get people through the door where they'll buy games and accessories).
2) Thats exactly what they're doing...selling em on eBay above MSRP.
You've got your terms all mixed up. MSRP != market price. The price on eBay is a market price, which is why the store is selling them there.
No, they don't. There are techniques to maintain minimum prices but they aren't in the form of the manufacturer dictating to the retailer what price they can sell at. Apple's a good example...Apple products wholesale for just 1-2% below the MSRP and retailers aren't permitted to advertise Apple products below a certain price. However if they WANT to sell them below MSRP they're welcome to. Since advertising iPods is a great way to get people into your store almost everyone accepts the MSRP.
Generally, manufacturers can't dictate a price to retailers. There was a supreme court case this past year that changed the situation somewhat though.
This common belief that x86 is the devil is simply absurd. It sounds good but it doesn't really match with reality. As long as the chip designers are willing to make them, they're a great choice for software and system developers.
Are they not allowed to do to sell them on eBay? Legally it's fine. Nintendo doesn't want them to, but they have to be very careful about cutting off shipments or Nintendo could get busted for price fixing.
AMD makes a whole line of embedded x86 processors. http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863,00.html
You find possession of child porn more acceptable than possession of teen porn? Under what possible criteria?
CD burning software commonly includes all kind of "media center" crap these days so the tech's explanation of looking for something to test the codec with is at least plausible. I don't think there's anything that requires them to test it a certain way. Maybe you'd prefer they test through a removable device or something but there was no law, regulation, contract, or company policy that said they'd do it that way.
A multifunction ink jet costs less than a third of your printer and an ultra basic ink jet is about 10% of the cost...it all depends on how much ink you buy. Those cartridges actually print quite a bit. Personally the only time I ever print anything is maps when I'm going somewhere new, an occasional letter or other small document, copying items for rebates, etc. That doesn't amount to much printing, maybe 5 pages a week on average. I've had my printer for over 3 years and I'm trying to remember if I've even had to replace the cartridge yet. Maybe once, possibly I haven't replaced it at all. And with a laser printer I couldn't copy/scan.
Of course it is. It's a number self-reported by the auto companies. Even if they were giving a good estimate rather than a worst case scenario it would still be too high because once they HAVE to do it market forces take over and they'll start innovating ways to do it as cheaply as possible. This pattern has been seen before in other environmental regulations on things like power plant emissions....the actual costs of complying with regulations is substantially lower than the companies ever predicted it would be.
It's just an application. I can't think of any possible means by which you could prevent people from mailing in a piece of paper requesting a trademark on anything they want. Doesn't mean it will be granted.
The only reason this gets so much attention is because of the spastic crybaby melodrama. Anyone who paused for 5 seconds to consider what was happening rather than becoming a wailing reactionary would have just ignored it.
Well you've certainly picked up the legendary surgeon asshole-ego in medical school. Well done!
It always amazes me how resistant people are to this idea. Think about how many times it takes you to get some code working. Sure, you're not as worried about it working the first compile as a surgeon but we all know that little mistakes are inevitable. It's human nature. These kinds of systems are very sensible because they provide a mechanical way for staff to avoid a common medical error. It shouldn't even cost all that much once widely used.
I recently read a pretty interesting book called "Complications," sort of a blog style book about medical errors, mysterious ailments, etc. The author, who is a surgeon, recounts a list of medical errors that sound horrible...metal instruments left in a patient after surgery, incorrect dosages of medication given, etc. In some cases the patient in question died. The source of the mistakes? An informal survey of mistakes made in the past couple of months by his colleagues at Harvard.
Even cream of the crop doctors will screw up occasionally, and they see dozens of patients daily. One of the interesting points of the book was that there is very little scientific study on medical errors and how to best avoid them.
You act as though it was completely shocking and unpredictable that interest rates would rise above the historic lows from a few years ago. Do you really think bankers and financial gurus are that stupid? That they never considered that rates might rise on an ARM they were offering someone with no documentation, no income verification? The housing bubble has been talked about for at least 3 years now. A correction in housing prices was widely considered a strong possibility.
Give me a fucking break. The Fed did not cause the housing crisis. Interest rates are only up 1-2 percent from their lows. If you think that a small increase like that was so inconceivable that the banks couldn't help but make inappropriately risky laons you're mental. Mortgage brokers and real estate agents were telling anyone they could get to listen that they could afford anything, didn't need a down payment, didn't need any income, etc. The lender's job in that situation is to put rational underwriting criteria into place to ensure that they only lend to people who can afford their loans.
Paul's supporters organized a stunt where they coordinated new donors to wait for a while and all donate on the same day. Thus, he had the largest number of new contributors on a single day. Kind of meaningless, but it does get some press and fool people like the OP into thinking Paul has an unusually broad support base. Most of his ideas are sheer lunacy, I think it is like Ralph Nader...people want to vote "none of the above" and Ron Paul is a safe way to do that without actually risking him getting into office.
95% of people do not have a windows live CD handy and the knowledge of how to restore an overwritten boot.ini file. If the vast proportion of the population have to take their computer apart and bring it to a repair shop for a week, thats pretty bad.
In case you haven't noticed, the economies of India and China are booming...in large part because of the offshoring/outsourcing from more developed countries. The wages and employment opportunities only get better in India and China due to projects like this.