While that would make sense to you or me, Lego is not in the business of selling anything cheaply. Selling official lego cheaper, would just make them lose money.
As with anything else, there are two types of people, those who are willing to buy generics and those who aren't.
Megablocks are great in the larger (duplo, quantro style) sizes. The smaller lego size is where they suck. The tolerances don't need to be as good on the larger sizes, and megablocks are a lot easier to find in stores than duplo and quantro blocks.
According to one interview I read somewhere, the most expensive Lego parts to manufacture are the mini-figs. I believe they cost something like a little over $1 US to manufacture.
I seriously doubt that. They'd be selling them at a loss otherwise. http://shop.lego.com/
I know of several stores where the $7/hr cashiers are authorized to change prices. From the customer's point of view, it doesn't matter if they are authorized by their boss or not anyway.. as far as the customer is concerned, the person taking their money is an agent of the business. If the cashier is not an agent of the business, they have no business entering into a contract on behalf of that business by accepting your money in consideration of the items you are taking home.
There is no conflicting information, the negotiated price is what the buyers authorized their credit card to pay on the check out screen.
Amazon is really stupid trying to retroactively charge more since they could easily lose their merchant accounts with the cc companies from all the charge back complaints.
Having one guaranteed unique number so we can distinguish John Smith from John Smith without needing personal details is a very good thing.
Not really.. its just an easy way for the government to track you through several private db's. All any given business needs to be able to do is keep you unique from their other customer's. They have no need to ensure that they are able to uniquely identify you from every person in the population.
Java isn't the reason it is slow, being poorly written in java is the reason it is slow. There are many java programs that are larger and do more intense work that run just fine.
Does Notes even run on linux? I believe AIX is the primary server environment for it. They make a port that runs on windows servers, but it doesn't work very well and doesn't scale as well as it should.
When we bought a house a while back, my dad bought me a lawn mower from wal-mart (most likely sams club but that is the same thing), I've been quite happy with it.
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Lego needs to start selling bulk pieces cheaply.
While that would make sense to you or me, Lego is not in the business of selling anything cheaply. Selling official lego cheaper, would just make them lose money.
As with anything else, there are two types of people, those who are willing to buy generics and those who aren't.
Megablocks are great in the larger (duplo, quantro style) sizes. The smaller lego size is where they suck. The tolerances don't need to be as good on the larger sizes, and megablocks are a lot easier to find in stores than duplo and quantro blocks.
According to one interview I read somewhere, the most expensive Lego parts to manufacture are the mini-figs. I believe they cost something like a little over $1 US to manufacture.
I seriously doubt that. They'd be selling them at a loss otherwise.
http://shop.lego.com/
how exactly do you get an extinct animal back by interbreeding its modern day ancestors, clearly you aren't going to get the exact same traits?
I'm just waiting for someone to reply back talking about how great .nsf is for email :)
quick someone call Philip Pullman, I think he might have some ideas about this Dust.
impeachment in this case means proving that he's lying, not removing him from office.
anytime you try to catch someone lying it's impeaching them.
I know of several stores where the $7/hr cashiers are authorized to change prices. From the customer's point of view, it doesn't matter if they are authorized by their boss or not anyway.. as far as the customer is concerned, the person taking their money is an agent of the business. If the cashier is not an agent of the business, they have no business entering into a contract on behalf of that business by accepting your money in consideration of the items you are taking home.
no, you cannot have a contract without consideration.
consideration doesn't have to be a physical thing.
There is no conflicting information, the negotiated price is what the buyers authorized their credit card to pay on the check out screen.
Amazon is really stupid trying to retroactively charge more since they could easily lose their merchant accounts with the cc companies from all the charge back complaints.
If you consider it a hobby and not a job, its not too bad.
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This needs to be modded up, its the only informative response that i've seen on this topic.
If you look at his blog, its clear that this guy buys lots of dvd's. I'd assume he's telling the truth.
Actually, assuming the isp is also a phone company, the PUC public utiliy commission would be better at getting them a reaction.
I wouldnt be suprised if they already had some in house version of WoS.
It would be fairly trivial to hack up WoW to make it I'd imagine.
does his old job own the trademark or something?
I would love to see something like a distributed 2nd life.. sl:// or something.
Having one guaranteed unique number so we can distinguish John Smith from John Smith without needing personal details is a very good thing.
Not really.. its just an easy way for the government to track you through several private db's. All any given business needs to be able to do is keep you unique from their other customer's. They have no need to ensure that they are able to uniquely identify you from every person in the population.
Advice for Building a Multi-Platform Lyrics Database?
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How can you have a sco v ibm story and not link to groklaw?
and I'm certain that Freenet in native code could be orders of magnitude better than what it is now.
And I'm fairly certain that Freenet in java could be orders of magnitude better than what it is now. Any program can be badly written in any language.
Java isn't the reason it is slow, being poorly written in java is the reason it is slow.
There are many java programs that are larger and do more intense work that run just fine.
Does Notes even run on linux? I believe AIX is the primary server environment for it. They make a port that runs on windows servers, but it doesn't work very well and doesn't scale as well as it should.
When we bought a house a while back, my dad bought me a lawn mower from wal-mart (most likely sams club but that is the same thing), I've been quite happy with it.