The thing is, you aren't really paying for the channels themselves. What you are doing when you pay Cableco for basic is the cable infrastructure & maintainance, not the channels.
You can still get a la carte with analog C-band satellite. It's gradually going away as channels move to digital C-band, but as I said in another post, I paid $9.99 to get Comedy Central for a year. I do have to buy five options (channels or channel bundles) at a time, so that's about $50/yr.
The difference is that software can be replicated at negligible costs. Hardware costs money to produce each one.
I really don't think that applies as many other businesses "dump" the product but make a tidy profit on the parts and accessories that go with them. I won't state the colloquial phrase for that practice because I think that phrase is dumb and over used.
Yeah, MS is going the wrong way on this. It makes me wonder if they actually want customers if they are willing to burn them this badly. I really don't think the market should have to work under "buyer beware" principles, but the way this is going to burn people, they are going to learn the hard way and maybe that's the way it has to be.
I don't buy iTunes tracks, though I do take the freebies they give away. I don't have to worry about backing up "keys", I just back up media files. You can run those "keys" on five computers and an unlimited number of iPods, so long as they connect to one of those five authorized computers. And if you use up those authorizations because of dead computers, it's actually pretty easy to de-authorize them from Apple's web site so you can free up the authorizations for working computers.
There have already been doubts about the uniformity of brightness of a supernova. Some people think that non-polar and non-equatorial viewpoints are possibly less brigtht than polar or equatorial views.
The "offer" to replace songs bought from iTunes is still an unsubstantiated rumor that I am aware of. As it is, no one is sure it will play Microsoft's own Plays For Sure format, so why would they do anything for Apple's product? They can't use the iTunes purchased song files, unless they crack the key.
Yeah, I think it's unfortunate. I think Ralph Nader was perpetrating that statement. I think he was trying to shut down a mission to Saturn or something like that that had a nuclear reactor. The problem is that the general scientific consensus is that the nuclear reactor in the deep space probes would have survived the Challenger explosion intact.
I remember having a Kyosho radio controlled car. Seeing that video, it's very impressive, though doable with the technology that they have. A 100-page manual sounds like there may be a thousand steps to assembling this thing.
I agree, 40M units is a LOT. I wish I could make a product that is considered a market failure at 40M units. An installed base of 40M is anything but a failure unless you lose more money on them than you get back with game sales.
That's definitely a problem. Bundling all the wires together so tightly, with no slack, allows for no rearrangement and might not allow equipment substitution. It shouldn't be a rat's nest, but I don't think making it look like it was moulded in place makes it easier. Ideally, it should be neat, but making it accessible and easily changeable is more important.
The Rights in DRM is actually accurate. The problem is that it's a question of whose rights it is managing. It also has the unfortunate tendency to manage away some of the user's fair use rights too.
Frankly, for the music subscription services, I really don't have a problem with DRM, but I won't BUY any tracks with it.
Oxford American Dictionary doesn't make the distinction either.
I think this note in the entry was amusing: USAGE In the sense 'an abnormally small person,' dwarf is normally considered offensive. However, there are no accepted alternatives in the general language, since terms such as person of restricted growth have gained little currency.
Thankfully, the politically overcorrect hadn't commandeered everything, otherwise that would be awkward.
The problem is, being a consumer product, Sony consumer products at that, I don't expect the PS3 to be designed to operate non-stop like that. I would expect that the F@H software probably uses more of the Cell chip at any given instant than a game would.
You could probably pay a couple months' rent on an apartment with the setup and equipment costs for satellite internet.
The current deal with HNS is $400 for installation and equipment. If you pay $200/mo rent for an apartment in the US, I really don't want to visit that area.
They offer a plan to ammortize the setup and equipment over 16 months, and the interest rate is 0%, so it's $25/mo equipment costs.
For games, I would go with dial-up, my understanding is that game packets are very small and don't take much bandwidth.
That, and satellite internet stalls out a lot on me. A few times a day, I can't get connected for about five minutes. As if a 600ms ping doesn't hurt enough in a game, being offline five minutes means you lose much of a round, if not getting completely kicked off.
Assuming that there were 60 million iPods sold, that's 25 tracks bought per iPod, the equivalent of two or three CDs. I think it's fair to say there is plenty of shunning going on because that's not really a lot.
I don't even know if that 1.5B number counts the free tracks that they give away, I probably have 75 tracks that they gave away. They give away one to two a week for the favor of visiting their store. I haven't bought any iTunes tracks in over a year, but I've bought maybe a dozen CDs since then.
It may be that the technology was thought to be too expensive to make, some liability issue or other unforseen complication. The demands on a prototype are far different than they would be in a commercially available unit. The commercially available device will have to be able to accept many kinds of abuse without hurting anything, and must work well over much wider temperature and air pressure ranges than simple STP that the lab will have.
NTSC isn't a big deal, my understanding is that NTSC compatibility is so common in PAL sets that some of the lower selling titles aren't converted to PAL when exported to Europe.
Power is a bigger deal, though Nintendo usually uses removable or external power modules, so you might just put in the EU 220V 50Hz power supply and be done with it.
And in any case - why bother trying to protect an iPod when the battery will die in a year and you will throw it away and get the latest one
The batteries generally don't die that young. The batteries are also replacable, despite what people seem to assume. There are battery upgrade kits for most models. It's not that hard to get inside the iPod, I've done it with my first gen nano and my fourth gen iPod. I didn't upgrade or replace anything, I just did it to see how easy it is, it took less than a minute to get inside. I suppose if the only tool you have is a screwdriver, it might look hard, but it's not.
You linked to the wrong agreement. The older NAFTA is North American Free Trade Agreement, for Canada, US and Mexico, so it doesn't involve Australia. The New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement doesn't involve the US and isn't called that anymore. The agreement is the AUSFTA - Australia US Free Trade Agreement, according to the Australian Government, it was signed in 2006.
When I've been paying attention, when there is a major trade show going on, is when Apple announces some software closely related to the trade show's target industry, and hardware announced to support that software, though the hardware has more broad appeal. NAB2005, Final Cut Studio, Universal + 17" Mac Book Pro Core Duo notebook, actually, most Final Cut updates are announced at NAB. The next minor update announced at IBC2006 is possibly the lone exception for Final Cut updates in a long time, but I suppose the iMac updates pair up with that nicely. The photography show where Aperture was announced also had the Power Mac G5 Quad / dual core PowerMacs and updated PowerBooks.
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The thing is, you aren't really paying for the channels themselves. What you are doing when you pay Cableco for basic is the cable infrastructure & maintainance, not the channels.
You can still get a la carte with analog C-band satellite. It's gradually going away as channels move to digital C-band, but as I said in another post, I paid $9.99 to get Comedy Central for a year. I do have to buy five options (channels or channel bundles) at a time, so that's about $50/yr.
The Daily Show can be bought either $1.99 an episode or $9.99 for the next 16 new episodes., that's about $0.63/ep.
I paid $9.99 to get Comedy Central for a year.
The difference is that software can be replicated at negligible costs. Hardware costs money to produce each one.
I really don't think that applies as many other businesses "dump" the product but make a tidy profit on the parts and accessories that go with them. I won't state the colloquial phrase for that practice because I think that phrase is dumb and over used.
Yeah, MS is going the wrong way on this. It makes me wonder if they actually want customers if they are willing to burn them this badly. I really don't think the market should have to work under "buyer beware" principles, but the way this is going to burn people, they are going to learn the hard way and maybe that's the way it has to be.
I don't buy iTunes tracks, though I do take the freebies they give away. I don't have to worry about backing up "keys", I just back up media files. You can run those "keys" on five computers and an unlimited number of iPods, so long as they connect to one of those five authorized computers. And if you use up those authorizations because of dead computers, it's actually pretty easy to de-authorize them from Apple's web site so you can free up the authorizations for working computers.
There have already been doubts about the uniformity of brightness of a supernova. Some people think that non-polar and non-equatorial viewpoints are possibly less brigtht than polar or equatorial views.
The "offer" to replace songs bought from iTunes is still an unsubstantiated rumor that I am aware of. As it is, no one is sure it will play Microsoft's own Plays For Sure format, so why would they do anything for Apple's product? They can't use the iTunes purchased song files, unless they crack the key.
Yeah, I think it's unfortunate. I think Ralph Nader was perpetrating that statement. I think he was trying to shut down a mission to Saturn or something like that that had a nuclear reactor. The problem is that the general scientific consensus is that the nuclear reactor in the deep space probes would have survived the Challenger explosion intact.
We may have the 2nd most terror targets in the US
According to the DHS system of accounting for targets, that means you have the world's largest fair along side the world's largest petting zoo?
I remember having a Kyosho radio controlled car. Seeing that video, it's very impressive, though doable with the technology that they have. A 100-page manual sounds like there may be a thousand steps to assembling this thing.
I agree, 40M units is a LOT. I wish I could make a product that is considered a market failure at 40M units. An installed base of 40M is anything but a failure unless you lose more money on them than you get back with game sales.
That's definitely a problem. Bundling all the wires together so tightly, with no slack, allows for no rearrangement and might not allow equipment substitution. It shouldn't be a rat's nest, but I don't think making it look like it was moulded in place makes it easier. Ideally, it should be neat, but making it accessible and easily changeable is more important.
The Rights in DRM is actually accurate. The problem is that it's a question of whose rights it is managing. It also has the unfortunate tendency to manage away some of the user's fair use rights too.
Frankly, for the music subscription services, I really don't have a problem with DRM, but I won't BUY any tracks with it.
Oxford American Dictionary doesn't make the distinction either.
I think this note in the entry was amusing:
USAGE In the sense 'an abnormally small person,' dwarf is normally considered offensive. However, there are no accepted alternatives in the general language, since terms such as person of restricted growth have gained little currency.
Thankfully, the politically overcorrect hadn't commandeered everything, otherwise that would be awkward.
The problem is, being a consumer product, Sony consumer products at that, I don't expect the PS3 to be designed to operate non-stop like that. I would expect that the F@H software probably uses more of the Cell chip at any given instant than a game would.
You've succeeded, but the success was in not answering the question. The question wasn't about the IB so your reply was completely out of place.
It's also not very good for streaming media, or rather, it doesn't work at all, I don't know why they can't or don't do it.
You could probably pay a couple months' rent on an apartment with the setup and equipment costs for satellite internet.
The current deal with HNS is $400 for installation and equipment. If you pay $200/mo rent for an apartment in the US, I really don't want to visit that area.
They offer a plan to ammortize the setup and equipment over 16 months, and the interest rate is 0%, so it's $25/mo equipment costs.
For games, I would go with dial-up, my understanding is that game packets are very small and don't take much bandwidth.
That, and satellite internet stalls out a lot on me. A few times a day, I can't get connected for about five minutes. As if a 600ms ping doesn't hurt enough in a game, being offline five minutes means you lose much of a round, if not getting completely kicked off.
Assuming that there were 60 million iPods sold, that's 25 tracks bought per iPod, the equivalent of two or three CDs. I think it's fair to say there is plenty of shunning going on because that's not really a lot.
I don't even know if that 1.5B number counts the free tracks that they give away, I probably have 75 tracks that they gave away. They give away one to two a week for the favor of visiting their store. I haven't bought any iTunes tracks in over a year, but I've bought maybe a dozen CDs since then.
It may be that the technology was thought to be too expensive to make, some liability issue or other unforseen complication. The demands on a prototype are far different than they would be in a commercially available unit. The commercially available device will have to be able to accept many kinds of abuse without hurting anything, and must work well over much wider temperature and air pressure ranges than simple STP that the lab will have.
with an energy denisity that high you don't have a battery ...you have a bomb
So then it would be just like a gas tank, right?
NTSC isn't a big deal, my understanding is that NTSC compatibility is so common in PAL sets that some of the lower selling titles aren't converted to PAL when exported to Europe.
Power is a bigger deal, though Nintendo usually uses removable or external power modules, so you might just put in the EU 220V 50Hz power supply and be done with it.
And in any case - why bother trying to protect an iPod when the battery will die in a year and you will throw it away and get the latest one
The batteries generally don't die that young. The batteries are also replacable, despite what people seem to assume. There are battery upgrade kits for most models. It's not that hard to get inside the iPod, I've done it with my first gen nano and my fourth gen iPod. I didn't upgrade or replace anything, I just did it to see how easy it is, it took less than a minute to get inside. I suppose if the only tool you have is a screwdriver, it might look hard, but it's not.
I've seen Ive's name mentioned here several times. I don't think Steve Jobs ever claimed that the designs were his.
You linked to the wrong agreement. The older NAFTA is North American Free Trade Agreement, for Canada, US and Mexico, so it doesn't involve Australia. The New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement doesn't involve the US and isn't called that anymore. The agreement is the AUSFTA - Australia US Free Trade Agreement, according to the Australian Government, it was signed in 2006.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us.html
When I've been paying attention, when there is a major trade show going on, is when Apple announces some software closely related to the trade show's target industry, and hardware announced to support that software, though the hardware has more broad appeal. NAB2005, Final Cut Studio, Universal + 17" Mac Book Pro Core Duo notebook, actually, most Final Cut updates are announced at NAB. The next minor update announced at IBC2006 is possibly the lone exception for Final Cut updates in a long time, but I suppose the iMac updates pair up with that nicely. The photography show where Aperture was announced also had the Power Mac G5 Quad / dual core PowerMacs and updated PowerBooks.