I don't think they care how many are in your queue - they care how long you hold them.
For example, last month I was busy, then took a trip out of town, so I didn't watch a single netflix rental. They made a lot more off me than a normal month, where I return probably 8 discs. Each rental probably costs them $1.50 or so in postage alone (counting them mailing it to me and me mailing it back).
I've had two movies lost on their way to me, and one damaged on the way to me. I suspect it just depends on how good the postal service is in your area.
They don't track it by that, it's by email. I have let my netflix account lapse twice now, and restarted twice. One time I started with a different email address and made a new login, and it didn't "know" about any of my old rentals. The other time I used my old email and login and it did know about them.
Most trees used to make paper are grown for that purpose. Ever heard of a tree farm?
Old growth trees are used for furniture and building materials, mostly. Wood of that age and sturdiness is too expensive to use on paper, and probably would not be the best wood to make paper from, anyway.
Those books would still cost if you wanted a printed copy. If you print those out, the cost in paper and toner, and a binder to put it all in would add up.
Let me see here, I can buy a Tivo and pay for it once, or I can rent an inferior service and pay every month forever?
It seems like the Tivo is a much better deal.
And yes, I know Tivo has some sort of subscription service for the show listings, but most of the features work with out it, don't they? The pausing live TV is the feature I would use most, if I had one, anyway.
Actually the industry has mostly phased out the single. This dates back to when Ice Ice Baby became a hit song and the record company actually _pulled_ the single from the shelves, because they knew that was the only song anyone wanted, and they would make more if people who wanted it were forced to buy the whole Vanilla Ice album, not just the single.
If I am selling my car, does that give you any right to say- "Hey, I wasn't interested in the entire car, I only wanted the leather seats out of it for my tricked out Ford Escort. Since you were unwilling to sell it them separately, I took the liberty of just taking them. If I like them enough, I might just buy the whole car"
I agreed with a lot of your points, but this is just a bad analogy.
If someone downloads a song, the person they are downloading it from, and the artist, still have it. However, if you steal a car (or parts of it), the person you take it from no longer has it. MP3 pirating is more like pirating cable... Even that is not a perfect fit. But it's a much better fit then your car theft analogy.
Actually, the best comparison I can think of is probably to pirating DirectTV. (Which is still illegal, I'll add, before you label me some sort of anarchist.)
Are you seriously trying to argue that EA isn't one of the biggest developers in video games? In fact, I believe the are THE biggest development house...
Hahahaha Two Biggest Developers!!.. Hahaha... Sega 2K serious is far superior to EA sports games
This may be true. However, EA Sports games outsell Sega Sports games by huge margins.
Documentaries are just cheaper to make than films. No special effects, no actors, no catering, no location fees, etc. The Matrix probably has a crew of several hundred people (if not a thousand). A "Making of the Matrix" documentary would probably have a crew 5 or 6 people. That's a big price difference.
Also, you can shoot a documentary on DV and it's fine - this also lowers the price, big-time.
Documentaries are vastly cheaper to make than feature films. Often young (but talented) filmmakers will do them for free, or sometimes the director of a film will get a friend or "apprentice" to do one, paying out of pocket.
Yeah, I had the same experience. Powell's books might be able to do it, i think that's just powells.com. They are a good book store in California, SF I believe.
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If Amazon decides not to carry the book, *poof* it ceases to exist if we rely on it as a means of archiving records of books.
Well, no. There are lots of books on there that they don't carry. In fact, there are lots of books on there that they have NEVER carried.
The do this because they will send a request to a rare book dealer for you and then take a commission from the sale if the dealer can find it for you.
That said, I think a non-commercial DB is better...
Indeed, you did say that. Which raises quite an interesting question: Was your landlord breaking the law by not asking for proof of your ID, or was he not ? (I'm not trolling, I really don't know what the law says about that...)
I don't know either, but I doubt he was. My current residence I was never asked for ID, either. But I don't have a lease here, I rent month to month.
I actually don't think you should be required (by law) to show ID to rent property. It should be up to the property owner, though, if they want to check up on you.
I agree with your sentiments totally. I actually wish they couldn't even offer you the cards over the mail.
I'm not sure about credit cards, but I know you don't need to fax people anything to get a unsecured loan for sure, because I got my Dell loan over the phone - I faxed them nothing, mailed them nothing, had a computer about a week or so later.
But then you would still need access to the mailbox of the address you suplied, or else how are you gonna retrieve those mailed documents ?
If you have access, chances are good you can be traced back to it.
True, but like I said - when I rented that apartment my landlord simply trusted I was who I said I was. I could have just lied, gotten the apartment in someone else's name, then signed up for cards in that same persons name. Or even other people's names - the mailmain doesn't care what name is on the box, just what the address is.
By the time the people who I'm screwing find out, I've moved on.
For example, if you want to set up a bank account, you need something with your address.
How hard is it to get something with an address on it, though? For example, when I leased my last apartment, the owner didn't require me to show ID, then he put the name I told him (which HAPPENED to be my real name) on the lease agreement and any other paperwork he would mail me. I could have just as easily lied...
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I don't think they care how many are in your queue - they care how long you hold them.
For example, last month I was busy, then took a trip out of town, so I didn't watch a single netflix rental. They made a lot more off me than a normal month, where I return probably 8 discs. Each rental probably costs them $1.50 or so in postage alone (counting them mailing it to me and me mailing it back).
I've had two movies lost on their way to me, and one damaged on the way to me. I suspect it just depends on how good the postal service is in your area.
They don't track it by that, it's by email. I have let my netflix account lapse twice now, and restarted twice. One time I started with a different email address and made a new login, and it didn't "know" about any of my old rentals. The other time I used my old email and login and it did know about them.
Huh? HL was a huge bestseller and game of the year in many game magazines before CS was even released.
Most trees used to make paper are grown for that purpose. Ever heard of a tree farm?
Old growth trees are used for furniture and building materials, mostly. Wood of that age and sturdiness is too expensive to use on paper, and probably would not be the best wood to make paper from, anyway.
I'm also not aware of any acts that have gotten RichAndFamous without a label behind them.
Ani Difranco, to name one.
Fugazi, to name another. They _do_ have a label behind them, but it's half-owned by one of the guys in the band, so I'd say that counts.
Smaller labels that give you more control are now able to do pretty well... Such as Saddle Creek or Doghouse.
Those books would still cost if you wanted a printed copy. If you print those out, the cost in paper and toner, and a binder to put it all in would add up.
In the recent rallys in DC, the media gave a figure significantly less than the police estimate.
Let me see here, I can buy a Tivo and pay for it once, or I can rent an inferior service and pay every month forever?
It seems like the Tivo is a much better deal.
And yes, I know Tivo has some sort of subscription service for the show listings, but most of the features work with out it, don't they? The pausing live TV is the feature I would use most, if I had one, anyway.
It fits in your pants pocket, the Nomad Jukebox does not... unless you have some bigass pants.
The reality is that if you offer a valued service at a price people are willing to pay, they will do so.
If you offer a service that seems to be too expensive to people, they won't pay for it. If there is an alternative, they will pursue that instead.
$10 a year in exchange for all those comics seems to be a good value for comics fans, so they pay the money. Simple as that.
OR there is likely a mid priced single.
Actually the industry has mostly phased out the single. This dates back to when Ice Ice Baby became a hit song and the record company actually _pulled_ the single from the shelves, because they knew that was the only song anyone wanted, and they would make more if people who wanted it were forced to buy the whole Vanilla Ice album, not just the single.
If I am selling my car, does that give you any right to say- "Hey, I wasn't interested in the entire car, I only wanted the leather seats out of it for my tricked out Ford Escort. Since you were unwilling to sell it them separately, I took the liberty of just taking them. If I like them enough, I might just buy the whole car"
I agreed with a lot of your points, but this is just a bad analogy.
If someone downloads a song, the person they are downloading it from, and the artist, still have it. However, if you steal a car (or parts of it), the person you take it from no longer has it. MP3 pirating is more like pirating cable... Even that is not a perfect fit. But it's a much better fit then your car theft analogy.
Actually, the best comparison I can think of is probably to pirating DirectTV. (Which is still illegal, I'll add, before you label me some sort of anarchist.)
Hahahaha Two Biggest Developers
Are you seriously trying to argue that EA isn't one of the biggest developers in video games? In fact, I believe the are THE biggest development house...
Hahahaha Two Biggest Developers!!.. Hahaha... Sega 2K serious is far superior to EA sports games
This may be true. However, EA Sports games outsell Sega Sports games by huge margins.
The only people who don't like it are those who were gulled by the book into believing fascism could be OK.
Or the people, like myself, who never read the book, but found the movie to be very, very boring.
I don't care if a movie skewers it's source material, or is trying to make a "statement". If it makes me fall asleep, I don't like it.
Bladerunner was a good movie on it's own merits. It is completely different from the book, however. It's really more "inspired by" than "based on."
Documentaries are just cheaper to make than films. No special effects, no actors, no catering, no location fees, etc. The Matrix probably has a crew of several hundred people (if not a thousand). A "Making of the Matrix" documentary would probably have a crew 5 or 6 people. That's a big price difference.
Also, you can shoot a documentary on DV and it's fine - this also lowers the price, big-time.
Documentaries are vastly cheaper to make than feature films. Often young (but talented) filmmakers will do them for free, or sometimes the director of a film will get a friend or "apprentice" to do one, paying out of pocket.
Yeah, I had the same experience. Powell's books might be able to do it, i think that's just powells.com. They are a good book store in California, SF I believe.
If Amazon decides not to carry the book, *poof* it ceases to exist if we rely on it as a means of archiving records of books.
Well, no. There are lots of books on there that they don't carry. In fact, there are lots of books on there that they have NEVER carried.
The do this because they will send a request to a rare book dealer for you and then take a commission from the sale if the dealer can find it for you.
That said, I think a non-commercial DB is better...
Indeed, you did say that. Which raises quite an interesting question: Was your landlord breaking the law by not asking for proof of your ID, or was he not ? (I'm not trolling, I really don't know what the law says about that...)
I don't know either, but I doubt he was. My current residence I was never asked for ID, either. But I don't have a lease here, I rent month to month.
I actually don't think you should be required (by law) to show ID to rent property. It should be up to the property owner, though, if they want to check up on you.
I agree with your sentiments totally. I actually wish they couldn't even offer you the cards over the mail.
I'm not sure about credit cards, but I know you don't need to fax people anything to get a unsecured loan for sure, because I got my Dell loan over the phone - I faxed them nothing, mailed them nothing, had a computer about a week or so later.
Again, it might surprise some of you ;-), but this is exactly the reason you can only apply for a credit card (loan, mortgage, etc) IN PERSON.
You sure you can only apply for a credit card in person? (a credit card is a lot different from a mortgage, BTW)
I wish that was the case here - I hate all those letters they send me, wanting me to sign up.
But then you would still need access to the mailbox of the address you suplied, or else how are you gonna retrieve those mailed documents ?
If you have access, chances are good you can be traced back to it.
True, but like I said - when I rented that apartment my landlord simply trusted I was who I said I was. I could have just lied, gotten the apartment in someone else's name, then signed up for cards in that same persons name. Or even other people's names - the mailmain doesn't care what name is on the box, just what the address is.
By the time the people who I'm screwing find out, I've moved on.
For example, if you want to set up a bank account, you need something with your address.
How hard is it to get something with an address on it, though? For example, when I leased my last apartment, the owner didn't require me to show ID, then he put the name I told him (which HAPPENED to be my real name) on the lease agreement and any other paperwork he would mail me. I could have just as easily lied...