And doing each one of those things equally poorly, lol.
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Are you seriously expecting an eInk reader to be the price of a novel? Because that will never happen, one of the reasons being that you'll still have to buy the novel. In such a case, they'd have to be giving those things out for free to match your price expectation.
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Some of us could use some of that constraint. I bought a non-wifi Sony eInk reader knowing that had I gotten a tablet -- with videos, and a browser, and music, and games -- I'd be more likely to drift over to one of the entertainment apps while on the subway, going home after work, rather than reading something. My nonexistent attention span was the reason I started reading more.
Don't use the word Kindle, because that simply puts a commercial label on the technology. The Kindle uses the same Pearl eInk screen that most eReaders do these days, and it is a disservice to other manufacturers of these readers and to the consumers to just label everything a Kindle.
I don't think it's absurd. There are numerous studies that found that people are almost compulsive about checking email, reloading news pages, spending hours on reddit. It's almost an addiction, and a device that can do all of that, for someone that's weaker in that respect, would be awful. I just know I'd be browsing/r/aww all day instead of finishing up a book or newspaper.
It isn't as simple as assuming a conspiracy. Go and prove in a court of law that something was done illicitly. That a lender was talked into an ARM they didn't understand. That the CEO had intimate knowledge of what his underlings were up to. You don't think there is an AG out there that would love to put away a few bad CEOs and become hero of the every man and boost his career?
All this talk of being employed and having integrity, and the OP hadn't even asked his boss or HR department about what's allowed. Wouldn't it be funny if all the people here recommending lugging around 10 pounds of laptop stuff found out that the company had no problem with them browsing the web and such.
I'm not terribly sure what you wrote above:) but the likely case is that the VPN software is set to reconnect automatically, over any network it finds, so the machine that's being used to access various sites could gain privileged access to the corporate network from any connection.
I don't see browsing cnn.com while waiting on hold for a conference call or something as abusing their property.
If concerned, ask them what is allowed. If you want to keep everything separate, install a VM and use that so that nothing on their system is affected.
You don't need a lot of torque to move four people, and smaller wheels are lighter, affecting mileage more than if you lost the same amount of weight from inside the car.
Just like the claimed range of a Prius that dropped by 40-50% in cold temperatures. Honestly, who believes company estimates? Do you also take at face value battery life claims from laptop manufacturers?
I don't know. Giving people 3 weeks to try to pull this off? Seems to me like they were trying to stack the odds in their favor.
Maybe they wanted to give an appearance of oppenness, assuming no one could get it done in that short of a time, and it backfired on them a bit. They can still fall back on the openness angle.
Except that Apple and other manufacturers doing business in China have always had labor issues hanging over their heads, and the amount of cash and lack of a dividend are legitimate issues if you are an investor in apple.
But you don't have to find a "fool" because market makers are always there to facilitate liquidity. And if there's a good amount of volume, you won't have trouble selling at the price you want.
The only mention of morality I saw in this thread was somewhere towards the middle of all the posts about "price fixing." Do you honestly think "price fixing" is what happened here?
Do you mean to say that a company isn't allowed to charge whatever they want for their product? Especially a song? This isn't natural gas we are talking about.
I'm also fairly certain that there are laws about taping other people when they have an expectation of privacy, and laws against instigating violence, just like there are laws against screaming 'fire' in a movie theater. Nothing on the books about you losing market share by overcharging for your product, though. That's left up to your business acumen.
You're free to boycott Sony all you want. I'm not saying I agree with what they did. This was a black eye for them. All I'm saying is that no one can dictate what price they charge for their product, and that what they are doing here is not "price fixing."
> There is no added cost for Sony to reproduce the digital album once it's on iTunes
Isn't "free" the logical end? I don't even think that iTunes charges you for the bandwidth, and even if they do, it's a pittance. So it doesn't cost Sony anything after a certain number of "units sold." Ergo, how can they charge for their units?
I see, so we're just going to ignore "No, but there was dickishness on an epic scale" as a response to the legality of setting a price on your own product, and what it really means to fix prices.
As there are other pop stars that look/sound more or less like WH. They're not exact copies, but then again, neither are the sneakers. And besides, people have different tastes.
And I can't believe that people still hold on to the idea of big business' control of music with all the choices of distributing music. No one listens to broadcast any more. It's boring and repetitive and filled with payola. There are so many services for people to establish themselves, services providing hosting for your music, marketing via fb, twitter, word of mouth, etc. It will take more time, but big labels' control will ebb, and it will happen naturally.
As far as signing up with a "real" label, well, that's where the real money is, isn't it. Are those labels forcing those artists to sign, especially in light of their lessening grip over media outlets?
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And doing each one of those things equally poorly, lol.
Are you seriously expecting an eInk reader to be the price of a novel? Because that will never happen, one of the reasons being that you'll still have to buy the novel. In such a case, they'd have to be giving those things out for free to match your price expectation.
Some of us could use some of that constraint. I bought a non-wifi Sony eInk reader knowing that had I gotten a tablet -- with videos, and a browser, and music, and games -- I'd be more likely to drift over to one of the entertainment apps while on the subway, going home after work, rather than reading something. My nonexistent attention span was the reason I started reading more.
"breathe"
Sounds like you spend more time smelling your books than reading them! :)
Don't use the word Kindle, because that simply puts a commercial label on the technology. The Kindle uses the same Pearl eInk screen that most eReaders do these days, and it is a disservice to other manufacturers of these readers and to the consumers to just label everything a Kindle.
I don't think it's absurd. There are numerous studies that found that people are almost compulsive about checking email, reloading news pages, spending hours on reddit. It's almost an addiction, and a device that can do all of that, for someone that's weaker in that respect, would be awful. I just know I'd be browsing /r/aww all day instead of finishing up a book or newspaper.
It isn't as simple as assuming a conspiracy. Go and prove in a court of law that something was done illicitly. That a lender was talked into an ARM they didn't understand. That the CEO had intimate knowledge of what his underlings were up to. You don't think there is an AG out there that would love to put away a few bad CEOs and become hero of the every man and boost his career?
The point is that you're making assumptions, castigations, and recommendations based on possibly false premises.
All this talk of being employed and having integrity, and the OP hadn't even asked his boss or HR department about what's allowed. Wouldn't it be funny if all the people here recommending lugging around 10 pounds of laptop stuff found out that the company had no problem with them browsing the web and such.
I'm not terribly sure what you wrote above :) but the likely case is that the VPN software is set to reconnect automatically, over any network it finds, so the machine that's being used to access various sites could gain privileged access to the corporate network from any connection.
I don't see browsing cnn.com while waiting on hold for a conference call or something as abusing their property.
If concerned, ask them what is allowed. If you want to keep everything separate, install a VM and use that so that nothing on their system is affected.
You don't need a lot of torque to move four people, and smaller wheels are lighter, affecting mileage more than if you lost the same amount of weight from inside the car.
Just like the claimed range of a Prius that dropped by 40-50% in cold temperatures. Honestly, who believes company estimates? Do you also take at face value battery life claims from laptop manufacturers?
Selling close to 8000 vehicles where your projections were 10000 isn't that far off the target, and not enough to call it 'barely any demand'.
I don't know. Giving people 3 weeks to try to pull this off? Seems to me like they were trying to stack the odds in their favor.
Maybe they wanted to give an appearance of oppenness, assuming no one could get it done in that short of a time, and it backfired on them a bit. They can still fall back on the openness angle.
2007? So the OSX based TiBook I got in ~2003 wasn't made by him?
Except that Apple and other manufacturers doing business in China have always had labor issues hanging over their heads, and the amount of cash and lack of a dividend are legitimate issues if you are an investor in apple.
But you don't have to find a "fool" because market makers are always there to facilitate liquidity. And if there's a good amount of volume, you won't have trouble selling at the price you want.
The only mention of morality I saw in this thread was somewhere towards the middle of all the posts about "price fixing." Do you honestly think "price fixing" is what happened here?
Do you mean to say that a company isn't allowed to charge whatever they want for their product? Especially a song? This isn't natural gas we are talking about.
I'm also fairly certain that there are laws about taping other people when they have an expectation of privacy, and laws against instigating violence, just like there are laws against screaming 'fire' in a movie theater. Nothing on the books about you losing market share by overcharging for your product, though. That's left up to your business acumen.
You're free to boycott Sony all you want. I'm not saying I agree with what they did. This was a black eye for them. All I'm saying is that no one can dictate what price they charge for their product, and that what they are doing here is not "price fixing."
> There is no added cost for Sony to reproduce the digital album once it's on iTunes
Isn't "free" the logical end? I don't even think that iTunes charges you for the bandwidth, and even if they do, it's a pittance. So it doesn't cost Sony anything after a certain number of "units sold." Ergo, how can they charge for their units?
I see, so we're just going to ignore "No, but there was dickishness on an epic scale" as a response to the legality of setting a price on your own product, and what it really means to fix prices.
I'd bet that every eBook that someone might give to someone else cost them twice what a library paid for the physical book.
Some of whose comments? Whose argument? I was responding to GamemakerSupreme.
As there are other pop stars that look/sound more or less like WH. They're not exact copies, but then again, neither are the sneakers. And besides, people have different tastes.
And I can't believe that people still hold on to the idea of big business' control of music with all the choices of distributing music. No one listens to broadcast any more. It's boring and repetitive and filled with payola. There are so many services for people to establish themselves, services providing hosting for your music, marketing via fb, twitter, word of mouth, etc. It will take more time, but big labels' control will ebb, and it will happen naturally.
As far as signing up with a "real" label, well, that's where the real money is, isn't it. Are those labels forcing those artists to sign, especially in light of their lessening grip over media outlets?