My milage stats came from the U.S. Federal Department of Transportation
Your assumptions for gas milage are not based in reality, but rather the perfect world of milage tests. Also, see the comments about the major milage loss when the tires are changed out for safer ones.
The lifespan gas saving does not reflect resale value or price.
They are not going to "drop dead the instant the warranty expires". Rather it assumes that the battery will have to be replaced within 3-5 years after it expires. This is a safe assumption given previous performance.
You use and switch between two different currencies, then have numbers that don't indicate which currency you are using. This is confusings.
You choose an average annual driving distance that is around 12,000 miles, but the average in the U.S. is around 15,000 miles, per the USFDOT. Granted, you specify 20,000 km so you could mean the average in Canda, but then you shift over to the average age of a car in the U.S. as opposed to Canada.
I don't know what "rebates" or "financing" costs they're assuming, but their combination of rebates and financing seems to be approximately a net zero,
Rebates are pretty self-explanatory. Financing costs are interest, processing fees, and the other costs associated with an automobile loan. You do not support your contention that they seem to cancel each other out.
You make the assumption that the used Prius will be an excellent deal, but you do not support this and there is the specter of battery replacement. Most hybrids use a battery with a warranty around 8 years and between 80,000 to 100,000 miles. That is 10,000 to 12,000 miles a year. If one uses the U.S. average milage, the warranty will run out at around 7 years, leaving only 2 years left on the battery warranty even if the vehicle is well maintained. Currently battery packs will run one about US$5,000. That will have to be factored into the resale price. I have found nothing that would indicate that hybrids would hold their resale value any better than a conventional car and if I remember correctly, there was a recent article in the news about hybrids not holding their value as well over time.
PLEX is a way to fight "goldfarming". One buys a game time card for about $30, then one converts it into, usually, two PLEX. One can then sell the PLEX for ISK, the in-game currency. Or, one can keep the PLEX and use them for one's own accounts.
I want them stop trying to take over the world. I want them to pay a fair price for quality products. I want them to go back to what made them big in the U.S., their "Buy American" campaign.
Layoff millions of Chinese/Maxican/Indian workers and ship the jobs back to the US or EU?
Yes, that would be nice. Of course, that wouldn't be Walmarts doing, at least not most of it, because it is Walmart's suppliers who would do it. And, they could maintain some manufacturing jobs in other countries to serve the local markets.
Do you not care about those workers left to starve?
No, I don't care about them. I am too busy caring about myself, my family, my friends, and the people who are legally here in the United States. Why should I be more concerned with people in China, Mexico, or Indian than I am with people in the United States? I do not see people in China, Mexico, or India caring about us, do you?
If it is always wrong, why didn't anyone mention the problem when it was the left that was doing the burying? You know, back when Bush was in office and nothing even remotely positive about the administration would survive on Digg.
The only reason this is getting play here is because it is the right doing it to the left.
Well, aside from the fact that when I bothered to go to Digg, right-leaning articles and comments were buried by groups of "liberals" and "progressives", I would say you are right.
It is not a right/left, conservative/liberal thing. It is the pot calling the kettle black. Both sides do it.
The reason the goods are crap is because quality goods can not be manufactured for the money Walmart will pay. So, it is either make crap and be in the largest retailer in the world, or make quality goods and either lose money or be locked out of the largest market on the planet.
Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, stopped carrying their product. Fortunately, Snapper didn't screw over their other customers, as Walmart wanted, and so had another distribution channel.
And, meanwhile, Walmart is busy demanding lower prices from its suppliers, lowering quality and causing jobs to be shipped overseas which is destroying the American employment base. Just ask Snapper mowers, who stopped selling to Walmart when the "lower price" demands resulted in Snapper having to choose between jobs for Americans and being able to afford the price demanded by Walmart.
Walmart is helping to destroy America.
Why do you strive to deprive them of the opportunity?
For the same reason there are few manufacturing and textile jobs left in the United States and that service jobs (you know, those jobs that are making up more and more of the U.S. economy) are paying less and being shipped over seas as well and you see that their gain is our loss.
It is a zero sum game. When they gain opportunity, we lose opportunity. It is as simple as that.
Do you suggest that we hurt ourselves to help them?
Oh, and your description of American poor shows you have no experience with the American poor. I live right up the road from them, and was one of them, so I actually know what it means to be poor in America.
No, I don't think so. It would take to long and there are too many humans to "get our shit together". The best thing we could do for the planet is to get a large chunk of the population off it, in one way or another.
Once the human population is reduced to a reasonable level, the planet will take care of fixing itself.
Your mortgage and Comcast bill are not connected to how the taxes you pay are spent. If you feel you are spending too much money, turn off your cable and maybe sell or refinance your house.
Seeing as it is now August, it seems this story is a bit late. I don't see how it does anyone any good now besides being a slashvertisment for this tablet and K-mart.
No the question is "If they had used DRM, how many non-paying players would have been paying players vs. how many paying players would have been lost because of the DRM?"
You say DRM reduces the value of the product, but this article shows that not using DRM reduces the value of the product by 90%. As someone else has pointed out, if the DRM had caused 20% of the non-paying players to buy the game, then the value of the game with DRM would have doubled, even if all the current paying players would not have paid.
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My milage stats came from the U.S. Federal Department of Transportation Your assumptions for gas milage are not based in reality, but rather the perfect world of milage tests. Also, see the comments about the major milage loss when the tires are changed out for safer ones. The lifespan gas saving does not reflect resale value or price. They are not going to "drop dead the instant the warranty expires". Rather it assumes that the battery will have to be replaced within 3-5 years after it expires. This is a safe assumption given previous performance.
How many times will one have to replace the battery over those 100,000 and 320,000 miles?
You use and switch between two different currencies, then have numbers that don't indicate which currency you are using. This is confusings.
You choose an average annual driving distance that is around 12,000 miles, but the average in the U.S. is around 15,000 miles, per the USFDOT. Granted, you specify 20,000 km so you could mean the average in Canda, but then you shift over to the average age of a car in the U.S. as opposed to Canada.
Rebates are pretty self-explanatory. Financing costs are interest, processing fees, and the other costs associated with an automobile loan. You do not support your contention that they seem to cancel each other out.
You make the assumption that the used Prius will be an excellent deal, but you do not support this and there is the specter of battery replacement. Most hybrids use a battery with a warranty around 8 years and between 80,000 to 100,000 miles. That is 10,000 to 12,000 miles a year. If one uses the U.S. average milage, the warranty will run out at around 7 years, leaving only 2 years left on the battery warranty even if the vehicle is well maintained. Currently battery packs will run one about US$5,000. That will have to be factored into the resale price. I have found nothing that would indicate that hybrids would hold their resale value any better than a conventional car and if I remember correctly, there was a recent article in the news about hybrids not holding their value as well over time.
PLEX is a way to fight "goldfarming". One buys a game time card for about $30, then one converts it into, usually, two PLEX. One can then sell the PLEX for ISK, the in-game currency. Or, one can keep the PLEX and use them for one's own accounts.
Someone please explain to me how my comment is flamebait.
I want them stop trying to take over the world. I want them to pay a fair price for quality products. I want them to go back to what made them big in the U.S., their "Buy American" campaign.
Yes, that would be nice. Of course, that wouldn't be Walmarts doing, at least not most of it, because it is Walmart's suppliers who would do it. And, they could maintain some manufacturing jobs in other countries to serve the local markets.
No, I don't care about them. I am too busy caring about myself, my family, my friends, and the people who are legally here in the United States. Why should I be more concerned with people in China, Mexico, or Indian than I am with people in the United States? I do not see people in China, Mexico, or India caring about us, do you?
Because, it was supposed to be the good kind of censorship, i.e. getting rid of blogspam, regular spam, trolls, dupes, etc.
If it is always wrong, why didn't anyone mention the problem when it was the left that was doing the burying? You know, back when Bush was in office and nothing even remotely positive about the administration would survive on Digg. The only reason this is getting play here is because it is the right doing it to the left.
Well, aside from the fact that when I bothered to go to Digg, right-leaning articles and comments were buried by groups of "liberals" and "progressives", I would say you are right. It is not a right/left, conservative/liberal thing. It is the pot calling the kettle black. Both sides do it.
The reason the goods are crap is because quality goods can not be manufactured for the money Walmart will pay. So, it is either make crap and be in the largest retailer in the world, or make quality goods and either lose money or be locked out of the largest market on the planet.
Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, stopped carrying their product. Fortunately, Snapper didn't screw over their other customers, as Walmart wanted, and so had another distribution channel.
And, meanwhile, Walmart is busy demanding lower prices from its suppliers, lowering quality and causing jobs to be shipped overseas which is destroying the American employment base. Just ask Snapper mowers, who stopped selling to Walmart when the "lower price" demands resulted in Snapper having to choose between jobs for Americans and being able to afford the price demanded by Walmart. Walmart is helping to destroy America.
For the same reason there are few manufacturing and textile jobs left in the United States and that service jobs (you know, those jobs that are making up more and more of the U.S. economy) are paying less and being shipped over seas as well and you see that their gain is our loss. It is a zero sum game. When they gain opportunity, we lose opportunity. It is as simple as that. Do you suggest that we hurt ourselves to help them? Oh, and your description of American poor shows you have no experience with the American poor. I live right up the road from them, and was one of them, so I actually know what it means to be poor in America.
No, I don't think so. It would take to long and there are too many humans to "get our shit together". The best thing we could do for the planet is to get a large chunk of the population off it, in one way or another. Once the human population is reduced to a reasonable level, the planet will take care of fixing itself.
Your mortgage and Comcast bill are not connected to how the taxes you pay are spent. If you feel you are spending too much money, turn off your cable and maybe sell or refinance your house.
Seeing as it is now August, it seems this story is a bit late. I don't see how it does anyone any good now besides being a slashvertisment for this tablet and K-mart.
No the question is "If they had used DRM, how many non-paying players would have been paying players vs. how many paying players would have been lost because of the DRM?" You say DRM reduces the value of the product, but this article shows that not using DRM reduces the value of the product by 90%. As someone else has pointed out, if the DRM had caused 20% of the non-paying players to buy the game, then the value of the game with DRM would have doubled, even if all the current paying players would not have paid.
Sorry, but that is a non-starter. iPhone apps are not PC games so you are comparing oranges to bowling balls.