It was a significant part of computer sales for a season, and Apple's first real stab into non-design for years.
The iMac is part of how Apple has been so profitable, market at every price point, but have your low end lack features, so nobody can make do that need a little more. The iPod shuffle for example has less features than the original MP3 player (no screen), yet it is Apple, and cheap.
If you want a real MP3 player, you need to buy the overpriced Nano (well it fluctuates between reasonable and overpriced, depending on where it is in life cycle).
The iPod already dominated before the color screens even, it was just better looking, and smaller. There essentially isn't even a competing HD based MP3 player market anymore.
I probably wasn't clear, but the $90 (3000 pages at.03/page) was over 12 months of printing for the both of us (I probably printed under 150 pages though). This was not just the final prints, but every draft the was marked up and reviewed, sometimes 2 or 3 a night. I got this number by printing a total life-time page when the toner ran out after a year of ownership (probably a month into the second year of classes actually).
I know that expenses can be tight, but $10/month is a very minor cost of college, and even the most desperate of students can probably come up with it. If not then they are struggling so much every day that it will probably not be what puts them over the top.
As long as it is not coin-op where it needs to be paid at the moment I think it would be fine.
Besides, if printing went down 70% I bet it reduced the cost of computer lab fees (or kept them down) tacked onto tuition as a separate line item. In that sense everybody wins (financially), because the cost of printing supplies just went down for every student.
Students are often expected to purchase and turn-in workbooks that cost $15-$30, this a budget tech college, if students can be expected to spend $15 on a workbook they find out about after the fact, can't they be expected to pay $6 for a couple drafts of a 30 page report, and some other stuff?
The explosion of information that computers allowed led to more being printed for a time.
The paperless thing is catching up though, and less paper is being consumed year on year (even before the economy started tanking hard, though not a trend yet).
Less letters being sent between places, and short memos in the office, was counteracted by 100 page power-point handouts at every meeting.
Yeah, because students are never required to spend extra money on projects.
My wife only printed 3000 pages in a year of her Master in French Literature. This is all drafts ect, not just final turn in.
The cost would only be $90.00
Compared to the cost of a single credit hour at even a cheap college or university it is not really all that much.
your talking about $3-$6 in a class that costs hundreds or more.
Additionally I assure graphic designers are required to get non-free work done at printers. And a lot of other classes may not have strictly required purchases, but damned close to it.
I can't think of one, but it seams feasible there is an experiment to test "atomic" theory that does not involve visibility.
Wasn't there a doctor/gravedigger that theorized invisible tubes connecting arteries to veins, and yet could not see them?
I would say that the test would be subdividing until non-existance (by ancient world standards) and devising tests if something fundamentally the same (perhaps flammability) was there.
But a new location can reduce cost if it increases volume of sales.
Look at Walmart's profit percentage is 3-3.5% (pathetically low), but their profits are huge. Similar (but obviously still way different) effects can be had by paying more for a higher volume of business. The increase in rent would then save every customer money.
Except, if I build a fast lane, and use it. The old fast lane is just as fast (in fact faster, I relieved my usage).
Building infrastructure closer to the destination decreases traffic, making everybody benefit, just me more, since it is my infrastructure.
Similar to the "private network backbone links" that google talks about too. Building an additional link to the ISP that I own will decrease usage of the other link, and improve my service.
Why is it my phones and minutes have both been so cheap if things are such a disaster?
I haven't been charged roaming in 6 years, I consistently pay less than friends in Europe, and my phones are usually free.
OK, I admit, when i was in Europe, I payed roaming, even on my own network (but kept my US number), and the furthest I've ever been without roaming is 2000 miles.
Special ed is a large part of the cost of a public school education, and an extreme part of the savings of a private one.
I was just trying to point out the government may not be as bad as you are implying. Private schools with a price that is attainable cater to middle class families, and vigilantly kick kids out/ask them to leave. They will not even consider a special ed case.
If the public schools could refuse special ed (or do it for free) and kick out students that were disruptive they would be better and cost less.
The private market for fuck ups and special ed (2 markets, not the same) would be cost prohibitive, and when the vouchers are adjusted accordingly the 75% of a private education per voucher becomes 50%, leaving families to struggle.
If 180 days into that year they gave a de-peer date (probably did) that was firm (probably wasn't), and then 90 days later they had to both notify all of their customers, it would have been different.
I bet people could live like the 50s on one income if they chose.
If I wanted to move into a 2 bedroom, or even a small 3 bedroom house (one of the built for returning soldiers family types), give-up cable and internet, the second car, and rely on the GI bill, or scholorships to send wee-ones through college it would be fairly simple to do so on one salary.
Limiting vacations to road trips would help a lot too.
Between a smaller home, saving on day care, cable and car-insurance it pretty much hits one take-home worth of pay.
My Wife and I each fall easily into the largest individual category in the chart on this page (25-50K) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Interestingly, it is the middle and upper-middle class are more likely to have 2 working members, because child care is so expensive, and jobs that let you take a day off are generally the better ones.
This makes the household incomes barely higher than the individual ones.
Because running a Trojan is something people do, downloading and installing malware usually is too.
The "this file came from the internet" warning could help, and the "enter your password" warning may also, but in the end, if someone wants to do it, you need AV software to stop them.
Life expectancy has greatly increased the cost, but it is not the largest problem
http://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html
13.5 years to 17.5 is significant.
I am also willing to bet the 4+ years not paying in for the larger college population may hurt too (though maybe the increased pay and health outweighs this, or the health issue makes it worse).
A little late, but the ask was about impressing customers on site visits, not bosses from what I gathered.
I'm glad all the customers where you work can instantly see you are doing a good job on a walk through, I find a lot of blinking lights on a screen that looks incomprehensible makes it look like I am on it.
This whole ask slashdot was about theater, not doing your job.
If the same amount of software is getting put into companies with less money spent it is a good thing for everyone not making money selling software. It either reduces the cost of end products for everybody, or frees up money for investment in better products.
Much the way that industrialization improved things for everyone not weaving by hand.
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Has she ever printed 3000 pages for a single course?
I was specifically responding to someone that said $.03/page was an unjust fee for students.
The iMac did a lot for Apple too.
It was a significant part of computer sales for a season, and Apple's first real stab into non-design for years.
The iMac is part of how Apple has been so profitable, market at every price point, but have your low end lack features, so nobody can make do that need a little more. The iPod shuffle for example has less features than the original MP3 player (no screen), yet it is Apple, and cheap.
If you want a real MP3 player, you need to buy the overpriced Nano (well it fluctuates between reasonable and overpriced, depending on where it is in life cycle).
The iPod already dominated before the color screens even, it was just better looking, and smaller. There essentially isn't even a competing HD based MP3 player market anymore.
Post script is 24 years old, I bet PDF keeps a similar track record.
I probably wasn't clear, but the $90 (3000 pages at .03/page) was over 12 months of printing for the both of us (I probably printed under 150 pages though). This was not just the final prints, but every draft the was marked up and reviewed, sometimes 2 or 3 a night. I got this number by printing a total life-time page when the toner ran out after a year of ownership (probably a month into the second year of classes actually).
I know that expenses can be tight, but $10/month is a very minor cost of college, and even the most desperate of students can probably come up with it. If not then they are struggling so much every day that it will probably not be what puts them over the top.
As long as it is not coin-op where it needs to be paid at the moment I think it would be fine.
Besides, if printing went down 70% I bet it reduced the cost of computer lab fees (or kept them down) tacked onto tuition as a separate line item. In that sense everybody wins (financially), because the cost of printing supplies just went down for every student.
Students are often expected to purchase and turn-in workbooks that cost $15-$30, this a budget tech college, if students can be expected to spend $15 on a workbook they find out about after the fact, can't they be expected to pay $6 for a couple drafts of a 30 page report, and some other stuff?
The explosion of information that computers allowed led to more being printed for a time.
The paperless thing is catching up though, and less paper is being consumed year on year (even before the economy started tanking hard, though not a trend yet).
Less letters being sent between places, and short memos in the office, was counteracted by 100 page power-point handouts at every meeting.
Yeah, because students are never required to spend extra money on projects.
My wife only printed 3000 pages in a year of her Master in French Literature. This is all drafts ect, not just final turn in.
The cost would only be $90.00
Compared to the cost of a single credit hour at even a cheap college or university it is not really all that much.
your talking about $3-$6 in a class that costs hundreds or more.
Additionally I assure graphic designers are required to get non-free work done at printers. And a lot of other classes may not have strictly required purchases, but damned close to it.
11 PIIs is not that much.
Better off to buy a laptop.
I can't think of one, but it seams feasible there is an experiment to test "atomic" theory that does not involve visibility.
Wasn't there a doctor/gravedigger that theorized invisible tubes connecting arteries to veins, and yet could not see them?
I would say that the test would be subdividing until non-existance (by ancient world standards) and devising tests if something fundamentally the same (perhaps flammability) was there.
True,
But a new location can reduce cost if it increases volume of sales.
Look at Walmart's profit percentage is 3-3.5% (pathetically low), but their profits are huge. Similar (but obviously still way different) effects can be had by paying more for a higher volume of business. The increase in rent would then save every customer money.
Except, if I build a fast lane, and use it. The old fast lane is just as fast (in fact faster, I relieved my usage).
Building infrastructure closer to the destination decreases traffic, making everybody benefit, just me more, since it is my infrastructure.
Similar to the "private network backbone links" that google talks about too. Building an additional link to the ISP that I own will decrease usage of the other link, and improve my service.
18 cents a minute is extraordinarily expensive.
Very quickly you get into the unlimited everything monthly rate plans other carriers offer.
Why is it my phones and minutes have both been so cheap if things are such a disaster?
I haven't been charged roaming in 6 years, I consistently pay less than friends in Europe, and my phones are usually free.
OK, I admit, when i was in Europe, I payed roaming, even on my own network (but kept my US number), and the furthest I've ever been without roaming is 2000 miles.
Yeah, but delete last hour is like distrust, but forgetting one.
I personally am more afraid of irresponsible anti-biotic use by my neighbors, than their hypothetical recreational drug-use.
So I would call it good policy.
Interesting,
Most people I've known to sell coke, sold coke, and the ones I've known to sell pot, sold pot.
I know it's anecdotal, but I thought the up-sell was simply to make better after-school specials.
Aren't Apples displays solidly mediocre?
Maybe on the better side, but not as good as Eizo for example?
Special ed is a large part of the cost of a public school education, and an extreme part of the savings of a private one.
I was just trying to point out the government may not be as bad as you are implying. Private schools with a price that is attainable cater to middle class families, and vigilantly kick kids out/ask them to leave. They will not even consider a special ed case.
If the public schools could refuse special ed (or do it for free) and kick out students that were disruptive they would be better and cost less.
The private market for fuck ups and special ed (2 markets, not the same) would be cost prohibitive, and when the vouchers are adjusted accordingly the 75% of a private education per voucher becomes 50%, leaving families to struggle.
Well they were peering without an agreement.
If 180 days into that year they gave a de-peer date (probably did) that was firm (probably wasn't), and then 90 days later they had to both notify all of their customers, it would have been different.
I bet the fact that private schools don't deal with special ed, or even bad students helps them too.
I bet by selectively kicking 10% of students out of school the public system could shine too.
They generally come in before you type your password.
Since installing game pack makes sense to need a password, a site that has been compromised by SQL injection can spread the bad.
But the Virus scanner will say: This installer has a virus, hopefully that will stop someone from entering their password.
Of course attempting to get porn, or illegally free games can lead to similar problems without the compromised site.
I guess the hope is that the AV software makes people realize they are doing something stupid/the site they were browsing was.
I bet people could live like the 50s on one income if they chose.
If I wanted to move into a 2 bedroom, or even a small 3 bedroom house (one of the built for returning soldiers family types), give-up cable and internet, the second car, and rely on the GI bill, or scholorships to send wee-ones through college it would be fairly simple to do so on one salary.
Limiting vacations to road trips would help a lot too.
Between a smaller home, saving on day care, cable and car-insurance it pretty much hits one take-home worth of pay.
My Wife and I each fall easily into the largest individual category in the chart on this page (25-50K)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Interestingly, it is the middle and upper-middle class are more likely to have 2 working members, because child care is so expensive, and jobs that let you take a day off are generally the better ones.
This makes the household incomes barely higher than the individual ones.
I assume the roof in that metaphor is the user?
Because running a Trojan is something people do, downloading and installing malware usually is too.
The "this file came from the internet" warning could help, and the "enter your password" warning may also, but in the end, if someone wants to do it, you need AV software to stop them.
Life expectancy has greatly increased the cost, but it is not the largest problem
http://www.ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html
13.5 years to 17.5 is significant.
I am also willing to bet the 4+ years not paying in for the larger college population may hurt too (though maybe the increased pay and health outweighs this, or the health issue makes it worse).
A little late, but the ask was about impressing customers on site visits, not bosses from what I gathered.
I'm glad all the customers where you work can instantly see you are doing a good job on a walk through, I find a lot of blinking lights on a screen that looks incomprehensible makes it look like I am on it.
This whole ask slashdot was about theater, not doing your job.
If the same amount of software is getting put into companies with less money spent it is a good thing for everyone not making money selling software. It either reduces the cost of end products for everybody, or frees up money for investment in better products.
Much the way that industrialization improved things for everyone not weaving by hand.