I can already get pretty much any new movie at WalMart for $17 for the first release week. I can see any movie I want via NetFlix for $17 per month. More than 5 and I'm doing better than pay-per-view. This new scheme saves me going to Walmart sometime in the week i want to see a new release DVD. Which for most people, you already know you want to buy that movie, so planning to get to a store in the next week isn't a great burden. Comparing Netfilx - I've had it for a year, I've purchased two movies that I didn't know I wanted to own until I saw them - Royal Tennenbaums and Robots.
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OK - was it really necessary to put links into four separate words in a phrase so we had to click on each of them to spin off to another site to find out that it was Konica, Fuji, Canon and Sony - I mean it's cute and techy and all but... huh?
If the trend continues, with people moving from landline POTS to cells (we could cover VOIP too) for their phone service, then the DPUCs could quite easily end up with the responsibility here.
If we felt it necessary to have a DPUC for land phones, why not cell too? Granted it was when there was a single provider that this all started, but the field is shrinking - we've gone from T-Mobile, ATT, Verizon, Nextel, Cingular, Sprint to just four of those in a year. That trend seems to indicate competition is narrowing. Prices are plateauing - the "offers" are mostly now thru rebates and a bunch of add-on goodies nobody needs anyway. Were we dying to take picutres with our phones? No. Were we foundering before we could watch TV on a 1" screen? Of course not - you can't GIVE pocket TVs away - they're a cute oddity at Radio Shack. The overall level of cell provider attitude is "lump it or leave it". Last month's cell shopping was interesting - holding the other carrier(s) over their heads no longer works - every sales person in the big 4 said essentiallty the same thing when I left store X by saying I needed to check out store Y - "You're not going to do any better there - it's about the same plan - but we have blah blah blah..."
Cell phone serice has essentially become a 'par' product - they're all really the same can of beans, and cutthroat pricing wars end up with everyone dead.
I know from shopping last month for a new plan, there's not a hair's breadth between their plans as far as actual usage goes - and this nonsense about needing lengthy contracts to pay off phone costs is specious - e.g., They'll charge me $50 for an LG 1400 that I can buy NIB from a discount dealer for $120. That's a $70 discount at retail. It certainly can't take 2 years' profit on sales of $60 per month to make that $70 back. And if they can still charge ANYTHING for a Motorola 180 with a straight face... they're laughing at us afterwards.
If this is going to be our basic connectivity, then yes - someone should ensure that we have a phone and a signal that works and does a basic core of service. After that, it's the consumer's choice. You want a gold-plated toilet to run your public utility water thru? great. You want to use public utility power to run your own carousel? Knock yourself out. You want a B&O phone every five feet in your home connected to the DPUC guaranteed land line? Boo-yah. A RAZR in every pocket? Sweet.
But let's get the basics done to the public good. Katrina and Rita showed us that cell is more flexible and adaptable than land lines when the chips are down (yes, I know a cell tower needs a T1, but that's one circuit to supply hindreds of lines - not hundreds of lines to supply hundreds of lines) then it should be
If you bought and got the original specs as advertised on the original box, YOU DIDN"T LOSE ANYTHING / YOU WERE NOT HARMED.
Next week people with the same bank account as me might get a free toaster. Next week some of those ruttin shoppers at Pick and Pay are going to get ICE CREAM 2-FOR-1! I paid the same money as they did and they got TWO!
The player that is - at least under Tiger on an original Dual USB G3. A/V syncing is perfect at "small" - all "sizes" play full screen anyway. The film is the bomb.
"Pyxis Supply Station" - hunh. Glad to see Sony's two pound, First Generation GPS receiver design is finally being put to use. Glad I held onto mine.
Early CD players had S/N in the 90s, though now it can be upward of 120, and IIRC analog FM radio is in the high 70s anyway. (Let's take AM radio off the table for now - it's down to baseball games and talk radio - neither of which concerns them.)
If they're looking at perceived quality - it's *mostly* impossible for *most* listeners in *most* mobile listening situations to know if they're listening to a good FM signal or CD Audio or MP3 or Digital Radio with out looking at the freaking dial. Especially with the top down. Anything beyond these conditions amounts to a tax on audiophiles.
Since they're trying to add another layer besides BMI and ASCAP, this is all about money to another part of the chain, certainly not the artists. They need to accept their buggy whip status and - oh, I dunno - INNOVATE?
I was a very early emusic customer - back when there was nothing else legal, their eclectic mix was a good starter.
Unfortunately, that "mainstream crap" is where 80% of the music business is - so they're never going to land many large catalogs from major labels - so eventually most people will find they spend lots of time hunting for something they would buy rather than just getting the stuff they want.
They did offer a free player and got me all my Rick Wakeman albums back!
Tom Laughlin claims Billy Jack is the most successful indie film of all time, and IIRC that it was the first film to have a national ad campaign. maybe the first indie to do so, I've lost the literature. But this was all his way of claiming he was a Marketing Wiz, and that you needed to invest $10K in a Billy Jack Video Franchise because it was Going To Be Huge.
His bright idea was that you'd buy a copy of a lot of videos - presumably through him - then you'd advertise and people who wanted videos wouldn't have to drive to the video store - instead they'd call *you* and *you'd* drive around the town delivering them like Domino's delivers pizza.
Except they never acted like a consumer through the whole transaction. They forgot that the typical call could go something like this: "Hi, Billy Jack Video. May we help you? - Sure. Can I get a copy of Star Wars? - Sorry - that's out - due back tomorrow. - OK - how about Blazing Saddles? -Oooh, that's in the car about to head so someone else's house. How about The Bear? - Erm, no - we don't carry that. - Bambi? - Never came back. - Beaches? - Nope. - Cool Hand Luke. - Out. - Screw you guys, I'm going to Blockbuster!"
Because nobody every went to a physical video store and didn't come back with *something* - even if what they wanted was out. Laughlin didn't think about this as a customer, and it failed miserably. By the time he gave up on this, francises were going for $100 or some ridiculous amount.
Ditto this, DivX, and anything else with a built-in dead end. This is where I think Apple got FairPlay right - there is a safety valve in burning and re-ripping. I never worry about my iTunes collection, as there's a way to make sure I can keep the songs even if iTMS ever goes away.
(What am I saying - it's not if but "when" - I'm at the mercy of my LaserDisc player's components, and I'll never get a Disc Camera enlargement again! I know, I know - but I headed overseas once sans camera thinking I could pop into Manhattan on my way to JFK and get a great new film camera at a low low price... except it was Yom Kippur... d'oh! So airport gift shop it is...)
I think you know what I was referring to - no business is bound to accept any offer.
Further, in 1996 she was president of that law firm - if the MS case was 1994 It's doubtful she was in a position to have a case dropped on her desk with a client like MS sight unseen, like it or lump it.
Additionally I would suggest that if she is forced to defend something she does not believe in - then yes. Give up that job. I'd rather a few choice people did that than simply did what they were told like the nice folks at Enron, WorldCom, etc...
BTW I agreed with you - people who don't like MS still shouldn't extend that to her competency. There can be different answers to "do you like the client" and "did she do her job". I'm not putting up a red herring - I'm agreeing that the two have nothing to do with each other. I don't care who she worked for, or who her clients were.
But many posts were skating close to "she worked for microsoft therefore she's evil". You were skating very close to "she had no choice". Neither of those is necessarily true.
Let's all get the economy of this correct - she offered her services to anyone who needs a lawyer. Someone offered to hire her. They must have given her at lease some of the details of what the case was, who the client was, etc. No lawyer takes a case without knowing at least the basics. She accepted their offer. As a business, she can refuse any offer for any reason, as long as it's not discriminatory. Now that she has done so in an informed manner, she is required to do her level best in court, and use the law to its fullest to represent her client. She was not hired by force, nor were the specifics of the case a surprise to her. Did she do her job? Yes. Did she do it well? Yes. Does everyone agree with the principles or the parties in this case? No.
When we use our solar, we're using non-fossil fuel electricity. When we sell it to the utility, that's less they will be generating with fossil fuels. If I charge at night, yes, I'm using fossil-fuel generated electricity.
We're almost even on kW load during a sunny september day on a full load, so we buy next to nothing during an 8 hour operational day. The daylength here is swinging from 9 to 15, and yes it's retail in, wholesale out, but selling much more than we're buying.
... only one of the PC World top ten is wintel dependent. Glad to see the blinders are off in this increasingly egalitarian tech world. Compare their 2000 list. And then there's this gem from 1998: "But you won't read much here about ADSL, Net PCs, or USB, among other hyped technologies." Yeah - glad to see we didn't get hoodwinked into that USB nonsense.
The article states the A-380 has four valves each slightly larger than a cabin window, ceiling of 43,000 ft.
So if you blew out four or five cabin windows simultaneously at ~40,000 ft (with air leaving the cabin at nearly the speed of sound) you'd be OK for upwards of a minute?
The numbers I get put useful conscousness at 15 sec at 40000, 20 sec at 35000. Sounds like "seconds" to me.
Enough to put on your O2 mask if your the actor in a demo video on a sound stage, but with 800 surprised and panicky people on board... Not sure I want to bet on that.
They need to demo that this is fixed to the satisfaction of the sharpest engineer they can find and a font of common sense.
"Don't you think we would do the right thing?" doesn't cut it. See "Challenger". Hell, I and a posse of passengers had to fight very hard to stop a Major Airline from flying our asses from Hartford to Cleveland (no jokes please) while staying under 9000 ft - turns out someone set the O2 generators going when they parked the plane the night before and they'd run out. Since cabins are pressurized to 9000 ft anyway, as long as they flew under that, no need for O2, problem solved!
Remember - if there is more than one way to do something, and one of those ways will result in catastrophic failure, someone will try to do it that way.
The baseline concentration of carbon 14 is from a 1950 measurement - C14 is atmospheric nitrogen bombarded by naturally occurring radiation, the C14 is incorporated metabolically into living organisms - but only as long as you're alive and respiring.
As to accuracy, there are calibration curves for it against other known counters - tree rings etc.
As to precision, there was also a recalculation of the half-life - but they were only off by a few percent.
They're not off by an integral factor, they're not off by an order of magnitude. But after ten or so half-lifes, the differences become too small to be practically useful.
Murdoc & Noodle do OK with their axes - dunno if you give Russel credit (are drumsticks tools?) but 2D's certainly learned to make the best with what he's lost...
I just exhausted the extras on the re-release DVD of Toy Story. Amazing. It's a brass tacks film school education in a can. Watch the round-the-coffee-table recap of their experiences. Disney was clueless at that time about how to do this. From the looks of the Chicken Little trailer, they still are. Chicken Little's finished trailer looks like the first rough concepts of Toy Story - the ones where you gasp and ask how they ever thought they could succeed with their first ideas. The fact is they didn't really. It's a place to start - you shape it in the directions that succeed and make your eyes light up a little more each time and you ignore everything that doesn't make it a great story and great characters. When Randy Newman calls your rough cut a trainwreck, you forget the fact that Disney Wants It That Way and you reshoot and recut.
You end up with something that's new and seems familiar - each of the Pixar movies have done that, and it works magic. Chicken Little takes familiar stuff and tries to make it new. The trailer and site - from the beating-us-over-the-head with "Signs" gag to the character names (OK, Ugly Duckling and Turkey Lurkey we remember, but Morkubine Porcupine? You have now officially run out of original ideas.)
They may have had to drag themselves into the digital age to do all the things they can't do with pen and paint, but they seem to not be able to do this and good story simultaneously. The last worthy Disney animated feature was Lilo & Stitch, before that was Emperor's New Groove. They were new, they were well written and character'd, they were smart and funny and endearing.
It's all about the story. Long way around - but here's the loop:
It's all about getting good music into my ears. It;s a new delivery system and player, but it's my good old familiar music. If I can press a button on my screen and minutes later I'm getting Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Let's Get It Started and Blame The Vain through a Shuffle I have to remind myself I'm carrying, I'll do it and maybe never set foot in a record store again. And 99 cents per experience is a sweet spot for a whole lot of people. Don't screw with the pricing. Make the experience better. If a sales floor full of jewel cases ends up being the next buggy whip shop, I think WalMart will find something to fill the floor space. They always do.
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I can already get pretty much any new movie at WalMart for $17 for the first release week.
I can see any movie I want via NetFlix for $17 per month. More than 5 and I'm doing better than pay-per-view.
This new scheme saves me going to Walmart sometime in the week i want to see a new release DVD.
Which for most people, you already know you want to buy that movie, so planning to get to a store in the next week isn't a great burden.
Comparing Netfilx - I've had it for a year, I've purchased two movies that I didn't know I wanted to own until I saw them - Royal Tennenbaums and Robots.
OK - was it really necessary to put links into four separate words in a phrase so we had to click on each of them to spin off to another site to find out that it was Konica, Fuji, Canon and Sony - I mean it's cute and techy and all but ... huh?
IIRC in the 60s Warner Brothers Cartoons got sick of storing everything and made a bonfire out of cels and storyboards in the parking lot.
If the trend continues, with people moving from landline POTS to cells (we could cover VOIP too) for their phone service, then the DPUCs could quite easily end up with the responsibility here.
If we felt it necessary to have a DPUC for land phones, why not cell too? Granted it was when there was a single provider that this all started, but the field is shrinking - we've gone from T-Mobile, ATT, Verizon, Nextel, Cingular, Sprint to just four of those in a year. That trend seems to indicate competition is narrowing. Prices are plateauing - the "offers" are mostly now thru rebates and a bunch of add-on goodies nobody needs anyway. Were we dying to take picutres with our phones? No. Were we foundering before we could watch TV on a 1" screen? Of course not - you can't GIVE pocket TVs away - they're a cute oddity at Radio Shack. The overall level of cell provider attitude is "lump it or leave it". Last month's cell shopping was interesting - holding the other carrier(s) over their heads no longer works - every sales person in the big 4 said essentiallty the same thing when I left store X by saying I needed to check out store Y - "You're not going to do any better there - it's about the same plan - but we have blah blah blah..."
Cell phone serice has essentially become a 'par' product - they're all really the same can of beans, and cutthroat pricing wars end up with everyone dead.
I know from shopping last month for a new plan, there's not a hair's breadth between their plans as far as actual usage goes - and this nonsense about needing lengthy contracts to pay off phone costs is specious - e.g., They'll charge me $50 for an LG 1400 that I can buy NIB from a discount dealer for $120. That's a $70 discount at retail. It certainly can't take 2 years' profit on sales of $60 per month to make that $70 back. And if they can still charge ANYTHING for a Motorola 180 with a straight face... they're laughing at us afterwards.
If this is going to be our basic connectivity, then yes - someone should ensure that we have a phone and a signal that works and does a basic core of service. After that, it's the consumer's choice. You want a gold-plated toilet to run your public utility water thru? great. You want to use public utility power to run your own carousel? Knock yourself out. You want a B&O phone every five feet in your home connected to the DPUC guaranteed land line? Boo-yah. A RAZR in every pocket? Sweet.
But let's get the basics done to the public good. Katrina and Rita showed us that cell is more flexible and adaptable than land lines when the chips are down (yes, I know a cell tower needs a T1, but that's one circuit to supply hindreds of lines - not hundreds of lines to supply hundreds of lines) then it should be
If you bought and got the original specs as advertised on the original box, YOU DIDN"T LOSE ANYTHING / YOU WERE NOT HARMED.
Next week people with the same bank account as me might get a free toaster.
Next week some of those ruttin shoppers at Pick and Pay are going to get ICE CREAM 2-FOR-1!
I paid the same money as they did and they got TWO!
Please.
Yes - Pyxis was a Sony GPS reciever - I have one sitting right here.t /Praktikum/Pyxis.jpg
Here's a picture of one http://ivvgeo.uni-muenster.de/Vorlesung/GPS_Scrip
It's also something else that was in the movie.
It was a joke.
The player that is - at least under Tiger on an original Dual USB G3. A/V syncing is perfect at "small" - all "sizes" play full screen anyway. The film is the bomb.
"Pyxis Supply Station" - hunh. Glad to see Sony's two pound, First Generation GPS receiver design is finally being put to use. Glad I held onto mine.
I like the voiceover version of Blade Runner better!
There - I've said it - let the pillory | hanging | pressing begin.
Early CD players had S/N in the 90s, though now it can be upward of 120, and IIRC analog FM radio is in the high 70s anyway. (Let's take AM radio off the table for now - it's down to baseball games and talk radio - neither of which concerns them.)
If they're looking at perceived quality - it's *mostly* impossible for *most* listeners in *most* mobile listening situations to know if they're listening to a good FM signal or CD Audio or MP3 or Digital Radio with out looking at the freaking dial. Especially with the top down. Anything beyond these conditions amounts to a tax on audiophiles.
Since they're trying to add another layer besides BMI and ASCAP, this is all about money to another part of the chain, certainly not the artists. They need to accept their buggy whip status and - oh, I dunno - INNOVATE?
... so desu - this is why you haven't been able to find a can of Pringles in Japan for the past two months!
I was a very early emusic customer - back when there was nothing else legal, their eclectic mix was a good starter.
Unfortunately, that "mainstream crap" is where 80% of the music business is - so they're never going to land many large catalogs from major labels - so eventually most people will find they spend lots of time hunting for something they would buy rather than just getting the stuff they want.
They did offer a free player and got me all my Rick Wakeman albums back!
Anyone remember Billy Jack Video?
Tom Laughlin claims Billy Jack is the most successful indie film of all time, and IIRC that it was the first film to have a national ad campaign. maybe the first indie to do so, I've lost the literature.
But this was all his way of claiming he was a Marketing Wiz, and that you needed to invest $10K in a Billy Jack Video Franchise because it was Going To Be Huge.
His bright idea was that you'd buy a copy of a lot of videos - presumably through him - then you'd advertise and people who wanted videos wouldn't have to drive to the video store - instead they'd call *you* and *you'd* drive around the town delivering them like Domino's delivers pizza.
Except they never acted like a consumer through the whole transaction. They forgot that the typical call could go something like this: "Hi, Billy Jack Video. May we help you? - Sure. Can I get a copy of Star Wars? - Sorry - that's out - due back tomorrow. - OK - how about Blazing Saddles? -Oooh, that's in the car about to head so someone else's house. How about The Bear? - Erm, no - we don't carry that. - Bambi? - Never came back. - Beaches? - Nope. - Cool Hand Luke. - Out. - Screw you guys, I'm going to Blockbuster!"
Because nobody every went to a physical video store and didn't come back with *something* - even if what they wanted was out.
Laughlin didn't think about this as a customer, and it failed miserably. By the time he gave up on this, francises were going for $100 or some ridiculous amount.
Ditto this, DivX, and anything else with a built-in dead end. This is where I think Apple got FairPlay right - there is a safety valve in burning and re-ripping. I never worry about my iTunes collection, as there's a way to make sure I can keep the songs even if iTMS ever goes away.
(What am I saying - it's not if but "when" - I'm at the mercy of my LaserDisc player's components, and I'll never get a Disc Camera enlargement again! I know, I know - but I headed overseas once sans camera thinking I could pop into Manhattan on my way to JFK and get a great new film camera at a low low price... except it was Yom Kippur... d'oh! So airport gift shop it is...)
I think you know what I was referring to - no business is bound to accept any offer.
Further, in 1996 she was president of that law firm - if the MS case was 1994 It's doubtful she was in a position to have a case dropped on her desk with a client like MS sight unseen, like it or lump it.
Additionally I would suggest that if she is forced to defend something she does not believe in - then yes. Give up that job. I'd rather a few choice people did that than simply did what they were told like the nice folks at Enron, WorldCom, etc...
BTW I agreed with you - people who don't like MS still shouldn't extend that to her competency. There can be different answers to "do you like the client" and "did she do her job". I'm not putting up a red herring - I'm agreeing that the two have nothing to do with each other. I don't care who she worked for, or who her clients were.
But many posts were skating close to "she worked for microsoft therefore she's evil".
You were skating very close to "she had no choice".
Neither of those is necessarily true.
Let's all get the economy of this correct - she offered her services to anyone who needs a lawyer.
Someone offered to hire her. They must have given her at lease some of the details of what the case was, who the client was, etc. No lawyer takes a case without knowing at least the basics.
She accepted their offer.
As a business, she can refuse any offer for any reason, as long as it's not discriminatory.
Now that she has done so in an informed manner, she is required to do her level best in court, and use the law to its fullest to represent her client.
She was not hired by force, nor were the specifics of the case a surprise to her.
Did she do her job? Yes. Did she do it well? Yes.
Does everyone agree with the principles or the parties in this case? No.
When we use our solar, we're using non-fossil fuel electricity.
When we sell it to the utility, that's less they will be generating with fossil fuels.
If I charge at night, yes, I'm using fossil-fuel generated electricity.
We're almost even on kW load during a sunny september day on a full load, so we buy next to nothing during an 8 hour operational day. The daylength here is swinging from 9 to 15, and yes it's retail in, wholesale out, but selling much more than we're buying.
... only one of the PC World top ten is wintel dependent. Glad to see the blinders are off in this increasingly egalitarian tech world. Compare their 2000 list. And then there's this gem from 1998: "But you won't read much here about ADSL, Net PCs, or USB, among other hyped technologies." Yeah - glad to see we didn't get hoodwinked into that USB nonsense.
The article states the A-380 has four valves each slightly larger than a cabin window, ceiling of 43,000 ft.
So if you blew out four or five cabin windows simultaneously at ~40,000 ft (with air leaving the cabin at nearly the speed of sound) you'd be OK for upwards of a minute?
The numbers I get put useful conscousness at 15 sec at 40000, 20 sec at 35000. Sounds like "seconds" to me.
Enough to put on your O2 mask if your the actor in a demo video on a sound stage, but with 800 surprised and panicky people on board... Not sure I want to bet on that.
They need to demo that this is fixed to the satisfaction of the sharpest engineer they can find and a font of common sense.
"Don't you think we would do the right thing?" doesn't cut it. See "Challenger". Hell, I and a posse of passengers had to fight very hard to stop a Major Airline from flying our asses from Hartford to Cleveland (no jokes please) while staying under 9000 ft - turns out someone set the O2 generators going when they parked the plane the night before and they'd run out. Since cabins are pressurized to 9000 ft anyway, as long as they flew under that, no need for O2, problem solved!
Remember - if there is more than one way to do something, and one of those ways will result in catastrophic failure, someone will try to do it that way.
The baseline concentration of carbon 14 is from a 1950 measurement - C14 is atmospheric nitrogen bombarded by naturally occurring radiation, the C14 is incorporated metabolically into living organisms - but only as long as you're alive and respiring.
As to accuracy, there are calibration curves for it against other known counters - tree rings etc.
As to precision, there was also a recalculation of the half-life - but they were only off by a few percent.
They're not off by an integral factor, they're not off by an order of magnitude. But after ten or so half-lifes, the differences become too small to be practically useful.
...back to the power company during the day. It's not the same electrons. The cash is just as green. We do it at our school. Works like a dream.
You're getting one of these.
Only bigger and redder.
Murdoc & Noodle do OK with their axes - dunno if you give Russel credit (are drumsticks tools?) but 2D's certainly learned to make the best with what he's lost...
You get a tax credit for the panels, do a grid tie and they have to buy excess, payback is on the order of 3-4 years...
I just exhausted the extras on the re-release DVD of Toy Story. Amazing. It's a brass tacks film school education in a can. Watch the round-the-coffee-table recap of their experiences. Disney was clueless at that time about how to do this. From the looks of the Chicken Little trailer, they still are. Chicken Little's finished trailer looks like the first rough concepts of Toy Story - the ones where you gasp and ask how they ever thought they could succeed with their first ideas. The fact is they didn't really. It's a place to start - you shape it in the directions that succeed and make your eyes light up a little more each time and you ignore everything that doesn't make it a great story and great characters. When Randy Newman calls your rough cut a trainwreck, you forget the fact that Disney Wants It That Way and you reshoot and recut.
You end up with something that's new and seems familiar - each of the Pixar movies have done that, and it works magic. Chicken Little takes familiar stuff and tries to make it new. The trailer and site - from the beating-us-over-the-head with "Signs" gag to the character names (OK, Ugly Duckling and Turkey Lurkey we remember, but Morkubine Porcupine? You have now officially run out of original ideas.)
They may have had to drag themselves into the digital age to do all the things they can't do with pen and paint, but they seem to not be able to do this and good story simultaneously. The last worthy Disney animated feature was Lilo & Stitch, before that was Emperor's New Groove. They were new, they were well written and character'd, they were smart and funny and endearing.
It's all about the story. Long way around - but here's the loop:
It's all about getting good music into my ears. It;s a new delivery system and player, but it's my good old familiar music. If I can press a button on my screen and minutes later I'm getting Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Let's Get It Started and Blame The Vain through a Shuffle I have to remind myself I'm carrying, I'll do it and maybe never set foot in a record store again. And 99 cents per experience is a sweet spot for a whole lot of people. Don't screw with the pricing. Make the experience better. If a sales floor full of jewel cases ends up being the next buggy whip shop, I think WalMart will find something to fill the floor space. They always do.
The male residents of Kashyyyk are probably just as disappointed that Jewel Staite looks nothing like a Wookiee.