Because there's no way they could offer a rebate that would be both large enough to be appealing to conumers yet not be disastrous financially.
First, consider that the distributor markup is around 50%, maybe only 40%. Wizards is already only getting a $15 cut of that $30 book. They have to pay to print it, and they most certainly have overhead. Let's say that all of those costs will roll up into $5 a copy (which is pretty lowball since it's hard to find information on 244 page 4 color glossy print on good stock and I had to mostly guesstimate based on lower page count or poorer quality prints). Wizards is now making $10 a copy.
Now you want your rebate. Would a $5 rebate satisfy you? That's doubtful but let's say it would. Who's going to administer this rebate program? The retailers like Barnes & Noble? Your local hobby stores? What interest do they have in doing this? It doesn't make them any money. So Wizards has to pay them a bigger cut to run this program for them. Say another $1 a copy. Wizards is now making $4 a copy on that book rather than the $10 they would make without a rebate program. Less than half. Is a $5 rebate going to bring in over double the amount of sales they would normally get? Of course not. Financial disaster.
Nope, not in UA either. As for the DLA modules, I don't know but that wouldn't really count as they're not part of the rules.
P.S. Hi Doug, didn't know you had a slashdot account:)
So I guess you're not a "Real Geek" then? My 1e books are in storage but I have something better, the official ESD of the first edition PHB. OCR makes it quite trivial to settle this. The phrase THAC0 does not appear in the first edition PHB. The phrase "to hit AC" only appears twice in irrelevant contexts. First edition handled combat with "attack matrices." These basically worked out the same as THAC0 later would, but the term and concept of delegating that information directly to the players did not yet exist.
Or do those motel Bibles really say you can take them home if you want?
"Or, I have heard that the Bible gets distributed on these networks. Apart from the fact that we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited[...]"
Novice coders. You should either have some background in Python or have the fundamentals that allow you to treat languages as tools rather than being a " language X programmer."
You know, it's considered dishonest to leave out information that doesn't support your theory when debating. You'd have a lot more credibility if you simply mentioned the Dreamcast's high piracy and low success while attributing that lack of success to the many other factors that contributed to it.
Read the article? The one that refers to color printers running out of ink and refers to their capacity in milliliters? That article? There's more than one link in that submission, moron.
'll take your allergy, and you can have whatever it is about me that makes the mangy little buggers think I like them.
I only have to sit down in a room with a cat in it, and within five minutes I've got a lap full of annoying furry thing.
Not liking them is exactly what makes them like you. People who like cats usually pay attention to them. They talk to them, look at them, and make various sounds and motions to attract them. If the cat doesn't know you this generally freaks it out and it stays the hell away from you. People who don't like cats simply ignore them completely. This suits cats just fine as you're non-threatening and they can investigate you at their leisure. If you don't want cats on you, trying staring at them threateningly and waving your arms in their direction.
Is anyone still producing calculator watches? Where can I get a new one?
Just about everyone? Try, oh, any large retail store where you would normally buy a watch. In the US Target and Wal-Mart for example. Casio databanks are about $40.
Doesn't matter if you don't like it, or if it didn't work on your system, or what - if it's open, it's yours.
And what if you simply don't agree with the EULA? You must be be able to return it if you don't agree to the terms (the EULAs specifically tell you to do this). EB does not have the standing to change the terms of the contract set by the publisher, therefore they legally must accept the return and take it up with the publisher if they don't like it. But that's okay, they can take it up with the credit card company when it gets charged back to them. What, did EB think they had the ultimate power to deny returns at whim? Silly people. MasterCard 0wnz j00.
English is a Germanic language. It's only very distantly related to Latin, however, nearly half the vocabulary is Latin or French (romance) loan words (which is where your "partly based on" assumption probably came from). But English grammar is overwhelmingly Germanic, which betrays its true origins.
To see where English came from, look at Icelandic. It's a language that has changed very little in 1,000 years and is very, very close to Old English. The main Latin influence came in the first half of the last millenia, during the Norman invasion of Britain, and the English language was nearly wiped out under the French/Latin dominance. This is the period where all the Latin influence came from. But when English returned to prominance in the 15th century as Middle English it had become basically the language we know today. Vowel and consonant sounds have changed greatly, but the language has remained fundamentally the same for the past 400 years or so.
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Only if it knows about them. I've still had to play the lib hunt game far too many times with Mandrake.
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I can think of a couple reasons. First, they believe that all members of the horse family will hold about the same level of difficulty. In that case, why not also get another "first", that being the first cloned hybrid animal. Second, a major university benefactor is a mule racer/breeder/enthusiast. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to please him since there's no drawbacks.
How is this "not good" exactly? The shuttle was destroyed, that fact cannot be changed. How could finding the cause of that destruction possibly be considered "not good"?
Your friend is very wrong. With the TiVo "Live TV", which is also the Best Quality recording option is indistinguishable from digital cable over RCA jacks. If you have a higher quality setup you'll probably notice a difference. You can also choose from four recording levels (Live TV is always "Best" and there's also High, Medium and Low), and as you go down quality does suffer (video only, audio is always the same bitrate). I record most things on Medium Quality from digital cable and watch on a 27" TV. I definitely notice the difference, but it's entirely watchable for your typical dramas/comedies. Things like sports, high action and live concerts generally benefit most from the higher quality though. If you use coax (RF) as your input source, quality will suffer, so don't do that. And on the flip side if you have DirecTV and a DirecTiVo the TiVo will simply record the MPEG stream from the sat with no recompression whatsoever.
"See ID" is consider invalid. The merchant is not allowed to accept any card with "See ID" written on it. They're supposed to make you sign the card and then compare that signature with another piece of signed identification. If you refuse to sign the card, they're not allowed to accept it. They usually do, of course, due to poor training or apathetic cashiers, but they're completely liable for any chargebacks in that case.
The second sentence of the article itself actually reads, "...skywatchers across most of the Americas, Europe and Africa..."
It goes on later to say, "The total phase of the upcoming event will be visible across much of North America, all of South America, as well as central and western Europe and most of Africa (except the extreme eastern part)."
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First, consider that the distributor markup is around 50%, maybe only 40%. Wizards is already only getting a $15 cut of that $30 book. They have to pay to print it, and they most certainly have overhead. Let's say that all of those costs will roll up into $5 a copy (which is pretty lowball since it's hard to find information on 244 page 4 color glossy print on good stock and I had to mostly guesstimate based on lower page count or poorer quality prints). Wizards is now making $10 a copy.
Now you want your rebate. Would a $5 rebate satisfy you? That's doubtful but let's say it would. Who's going to administer this rebate program? The retailers like Barnes & Noble? Your local hobby stores? What interest do they have in doing this? It doesn't make them any money. So Wizards has to pay them a bigger cut to run this program for them. Say another $1 a copy. Wizards is now making $4 a copy on that book rather than the $10 they would make without a rebate program. Less than half. Is a $5 rebate going to bring in over double the amount of sales they would normally get? Of course not. Financial disaster.
Nope, not in UA either. As for the DLA modules, I don't know but that wouldn't really count as they're not part of the rules. P.S. Hi Doug, didn't know you had a slashdot account :)
So I guess you're not a "Real Geek" then? My 1e books are in storage but I have something better, the official ESD of the first edition PHB. OCR makes it quite trivial to settle this. The phrase THAC0 does not appear in the first edition PHB. The phrase "to hit AC" only appears twice in irrelevant contexts. First edition handled combat with "attack matrices." These basically worked out the same as THAC0 later would, but the term and concept of delegating that information directly to the players did not yet exist.
Or do those motel Bibles really say you can take them home if you want? "Or, I have heard that the Bible gets distributed on these networks. Apart from the fact that we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited[...]"
Novice coders. You should either have some background in Python or have the fundamentals that allow you to treat languages as tools rather than being a " language X programmer."
From an Estonian man quoted in the article. Try reading it.
You know, it's considered dishonest to leave out information that doesn't support your theory when debating. You'd have a lot more credibility if you simply mentioned the Dreamcast's high piracy and low success while attributing that lack of success to the many other factors that contributed to it.
Read the article? The one that refers to color printers running out of ink and refers to their capacity in milliliters? That article? There's more than one link in that submission, moron.
There's some Tetris clones out there for the Dreamcast, I have a couple of them. If they want to play it that badly pick up a cheap DC.
Not liking them is exactly what makes them like you. People who like cats usually pay attention to them. They talk to them, look at them, and make various sounds and motions to attract them. If the cat doesn't know you this generally freaks it out and it stays the hell away from you. People who don't like cats simply ignore them completely. This suits cats just fine as you're non-threatening and they can investigate you at their leisure. If you don't want cats on you, trying staring at them threateningly and waving your arms in their direction.
Just about everyone? Try, oh, any large retail store where you would normally buy a watch. In the US Target and Wal-Mart for example. Casio databanks are about $40.
Here's another article on it. Apparently Microsoft will be introducing a competing product soon.
And what if you simply don't agree with the EULA? You must be be able to return it if you don't agree to the terms (the EULAs specifically tell you to do this). EB does not have the standing to change the terms of the contract set by the publisher, therefore they legally must accept the return and take it up with the publisher if they don't like it. But that's okay, they can take it up with the credit card company when it gets charged back to them. What, did EB think they had the ultimate power to deny returns at whim? Silly people. MasterCard 0wnz j00.
until Monday Month+2 Day3+14, 2003 when I can grab that beta!
Well, let's see. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, for starters.
What does more damage, 167 Volvos or 1 Expedition? Hmm, going to have to say the Volvos...
And according to experts around the world, you'd be wrong.
Mandrake 9.1 defaults to postfix. I didn't look to see if sendmail was even an option.
English is a Germanic language. It's only very distantly related to Latin, however, nearly half the vocabulary is Latin or French (romance) loan words (which is where your "partly based on" assumption probably came from). But English grammar is overwhelmingly Germanic, which betrays its true origins. To see where English came from, look at Icelandic. It's a language that has changed very little in 1,000 years and is very, very close to Old English. The main Latin influence came in the first half of the last millenia, during the Norman invasion of Britain, and the English language was nearly wiped out under the French/Latin dominance. This is the period where all the Latin influence came from. But when English returned to prominance in the 15th century as Middle English it had become basically the language we know today. Vowel and consonant sounds have changed greatly, but the language has remained fundamentally the same for the past 400 years or so.
Only if it knows about them. I've still had to play the lib hunt game far too many times with Mandrake.
I can think of a couple reasons. First, they believe that all members of the horse family will hold about the same level of difficulty. In that case, why not also get another "first", that being the first cloned hybrid animal. Second, a major university benefactor is a mule racer/breeder/enthusiast. I'm sure they'd be more than happy to please him since there's no drawbacks.
But it wouldn't. The insulation material used has been changed before, and can be changed again.
How is this "not good" exactly? The shuttle was destroyed, that fact cannot be changed. How could finding the cause of that destruction possibly be considered "not good"?
Your friend is very wrong. With the TiVo "Live TV", which is also the Best Quality recording option is indistinguishable from digital cable over RCA jacks. If you have a higher quality setup you'll probably notice a difference. You can also choose from four recording levels (Live TV is always "Best" and there's also High, Medium and Low), and as you go down quality does suffer (video only, audio is always the same bitrate). I record most things on Medium Quality from digital cable and watch on a 27" TV. I definitely notice the difference, but it's entirely watchable for your typical dramas/comedies. Things like sports, high action and live concerts generally benefit most from the higher quality though. If you use coax (RF) as your input source, quality will suffer, so don't do that. And on the flip side if you have DirecTV and a DirecTiVo the TiVo will simply record the MPEG stream from the sat with no recompression whatsoever.
"See ID" is consider invalid. The merchant is not allowed to accept any card with "See ID" written on it. They're supposed to make you sign the card and then compare that signature with another piece of signed identification. If you refuse to sign the card, they're not allowed to accept it. They usually do, of course, due to poor training or apathetic cashiers, but they're completely liable for any chargebacks in that case.
Sounds like you still need a few more math drills.
It goes on later to say, "The total phase of the upcoming event will be visible across much of North America, all of South America, as well as central and western Europe and most of Africa (except the extreme eastern part)."
The submitter is merely an idiot.