Price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand, and that is all. For online music, supply is fairly inelastic with respect to price. There should be no difference between tracks on the supply side, but user's tastes and preferences could dictate a different ( likely more expensive ) optimal price for more popular songs.
More often than not, newspapers are simply publishers of articles written and researched elsewhere.
Likewise, most news blogs are restatements of what the blogger read on some other page.
http://reuters.com/ is a fine web site. We now pay an ISP do to what we once payed the newspapers to do: deliver the news to us.
Slashdot has very little original content. It can be useful as a way to organize news from disparate sources, but the standards for review of submissions seem inconsistent.
Newspapers can be better than slashdot at filtering and organizing the news. Newspapers can survive in this way.
Longevity is not key. I don't run out of mana during the ragnaros fight. I don't run out of mana in Blackwing Lair either.
If my guild's main tank gets a 5 second lead on a mob, it is absolutely impossoble for me to take aggro, no matter what I do. In the high-end raiding game, over-aggro is much less of an issue because your tank isn't an idiot.
Actually what they do is just put a weight on the keyboard in Alterac Valley.
Epic gear overnight!
Pre-patch you could get to exalted status in a day with stormpike simply by being an insufferable ninja-looter.
Basically, if you reward players for looting horde bodies, they don't really have an incentive to kill the horde per se.
By the same token if you try to solve that problem by splitting up the faction with everyone you don't really encourage any sort of action at all.
Players are like electricty: they take the path of least resistance to phat loots. Blizzard needs to check and double check that their reward systems don't give players an incentive to be douchebags.
Alterac Valley is already ruined because too many people achieved exalted status without contributing at all.
Want to know how to get Grand Marshal? Just hang around WSG with nine of your friends and repeatedly join and leave the battleground until you're facing somebody you know you can beat easily!
I don't think end-game quality gear should be easy to get. There should be risk-vs-reward for raiding, and both the risk and the reward should be very real.
I think they have been more than generous with the stats on the PvP gear. The Grand Marshal staff, for example, is better than any other staff I know of for mages.
The gear that mages most covet, in case you didn't know, has nothing to do with intellect or any other stat. Stats aren't helping us compete with warriors in terms of damage at raids.
We want +damage gear.
What's really perplexing is that much of the best mage gear doesn't come from the toughest dungeons in the game. In terms of risk-vs-reward it doesn't make any sense at all.
Here's the gist: Do you really intend for a bunch of random crap picked up from all over to be better than Netherwind?
People die each year because of inadequate access to clean water. The real tragedy is that the technology to make clean drinking water is really cheap and simple. All you really need are some settling pools. It's the incompetence of these people's governments that allows so many to die unnecessarily.
Okay, I didn't even have to read the article to understand that you're misinterpreting it. I blame the editors.
The man wants to tax iTunes, sales of Half-Life through steam and that sort of thing. That is, if in his state you go buy Half-Life 2 at the store you have to pay a tax on it, but you can circumvent this tax by ordering it online.
It's silly, though. I don't think iTunes and Steam are such a big deal that the state can expect a reasonable amount of revenue from them.
Maybe it would be significant if they could tax pornography over the internet, but seeing as how porn consumers rarely pay on a per-boob basis, you'd have to extend the sales tax to monthly-fee transactions, which would be even more troublesome.
On the whole, not a bad idea, just a troublesome and completely unimplementable one.
I've seen a lot of printers like that, the ink cartidge contains not only the ink, but also the printer-head that actually interfaces with the printer.
There are some benefits to doing this, the printers I have had with this feature tend not to have as many printing problems, but I know the real reason.
While it might be anticompetetive and possibly illegal to flat-out prevent the use of third party ink, they can make great strides towards shutting out their competitors by requiring that heads be replaced.
We may have at one point had printers which just took ink, and the third party ink seller just kept selling what they already knew how to make.
The printer manufacturer could up the ante by requiring that ink be packaged in catridges, and now the ink sellers have to either spend money to develop the means to make cartridges or get out of the game.
Now, the part of the device that does the actual writing must be replaced. Regardless of the cost of the print head, the ink company must now develop the means to produce print heads if they wish to continue to compete. The ink companies practically have to turn themselves into printer companies just to sell ink to the consumer.
What if something about the print head is patented? Great news for the printer company, I guess.
Imagine the conveniance of a new design in cars in which some car company develops oil cartridges which could potentially make changing your oil literally a snap. They'd certainly deserve a patent, but how much sway should the car company have over who can and can not sell oil for these vehicles?
That would be okay, cameraphones are insidious. I doubt that cameras not disguised or hidden within other devices would be subject to this sort of rule.
This is the same rationale that forces the phones to make a shutter and film advance noise despite not having any shutters or film.
The technology to do this would require more computing power than a phone should ever have, though.
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Price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand, and that is all. For online music, supply is fairly inelastic with respect to price. There should be no difference between tracks on the supply side, but user's tastes and preferences could dictate a different ( likely more expensive ) optimal price for more popular songs.
More often than not, newspapers are simply publishers of articles written and researched elsewhere.
Likewise, most news blogs are restatements of what the blogger read on some other page.
http://reuters.com/ is a fine web site. We now pay an ISP do to what we once payed the newspapers to do: deliver the news to us.
Slashdot has very little original content. It can be useful as a way to organize news from disparate sources, but the standards for review of submissions seem inconsistent.
Newspapers can be better than slashdot at filtering and organizing the news. Newspapers can survive in this way.
Open Office likewise takes up a lot of my system's resources.
So how is the leech treatment going? Ill humors out of your system yet?
The headline should read, two women and one man. Slashdot editors don't earn their keep.
Longevity is not key. I don't run out of mana during the ragnaros fight. I don't run out of mana in Blackwing Lair either.
If my guild's main tank gets a 5 second lead on a mob, it is absolutely impossoble for me to take aggro, no matter what I do. In the high-end raiding game, over-aggro is much less of an issue because your tank isn't an idiot.
For PvE +damage is key.
Something is very off with the itemization in the game, I agree.
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I'll piggyback in hopes of being noticed.
I think the itemizers are trying to provide tempting gear, they just don't understand what the casters want.
Here's a big hint: for mages, it isn't mana regen or intellect!
$50 is all it costs to get another CD key.
Actually what they do is just put a weight on the keyboard in Alterac Valley.
Epic gear overnight!
Pre-patch you could get to exalted status in a day with stormpike simply by being an insufferable ninja-looter.
Basically, if you reward players for looting horde bodies, they don't really have an incentive to kill the horde per se.
By the same token if you try to solve that problem by splitting up the faction with everyone you don't really encourage any sort of action at all.
Players are like electricty: they take the path of least resistance to phat loots. Blizzard needs to check and double check that their reward systems don't give players an incentive to be douchebags.
Alterac Valley is already ruined because too many people achieved exalted status without contributing at all.
Want to know how to get Grand Marshal? Just hang around WSG with nine of your friends and repeatedly join and leave the battleground until you're facing somebody you know you can beat easily!
Honor system's already ruined, you know.
I'd really like the chance to gain faction with the scarlet crusade. Those guys are my heroes, even if they are (unwittingly!) being led by a demon.
I don't think end-game quality gear should be easy to get. There should be risk-vs-reward for raiding, and both the risk and the reward should be very real.
I think they have been more than generous with the stats on the PvP gear. The Grand Marshal staff, for example, is better than any other staff I know of for mages.
Where is itemization in this game going?
The gear that mages most covet, in case you didn't know, has nothing to do with intellect or any other stat. Stats aren't helping us compete with warriors in terms of damage at raids.
We want +damage gear.
What's really perplexing is that much of the best mage gear doesn't come from the toughest dungeons in the game. In terms of risk-vs-reward it doesn't make any sense at all.
Here's the gist: Do you really intend for a bunch of random crap picked up from all over to be better than Netherwind?
U.S. currency is fiat money. Any gold that is kept on hand is for the purpose of international trade.
You're an ass.
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1. The vapor phase of water.
2. A mist of cooling water vapor.
Ass.
To do that, he would have to read his posts before he posts them.
People die each year because of inadequate access to clean water. The real tragedy is that the technology to make clean drinking water is really cheap and simple. All you really need are some settling pools. It's the incompetence of these people's governments that allows so many to die unnecessarily.
I bet they stick with DirectX, so I really doubt that emulation will be any easier on an Apple.
Did NAFTA include services? I don't remember.
At any rate, I wonder what they mean by tariff, really. How wouild it be collected? Songs don't pass through customs on their way to your computer.
Poeple think phrases like "people say" and "people realize" usually prefix a weak argument.
I've had an account on Yahoo since the days when you had to bang two rocks together to get ones.
You had to bang one rock against the earth to get zeroes, and in this way you slowly filled out your account information.
Okay, I didn't even have to read the article to understand that you're misinterpreting it. I blame the editors.
The man wants to tax iTunes, sales of Half-Life through steam and that sort of thing. That is, if in his state you go buy Half-Life 2 at the store you have to pay a tax on it, but you can circumvent this tax by ordering it online.
It's silly, though. I don't think iTunes and Steam are such a big deal that the state can expect a reasonable amount of revenue from them.
Maybe it would be significant if they could tax pornography over the internet, but seeing as how porn consumers rarely pay on a per-boob basis, you'd have to extend the sales tax to monthly-fee transactions, which would be even more troublesome.
On the whole, not a bad idea, just a troublesome and completely unimplementable one.
I've always wondered who is so close to the center of the network that they don't have to pay anyone for bandwidth.
I guess that ISPs pay bigger ISPs and so on upwards, but who, in the end, owns the bandwidth?
More importantly, is there any way I can weasel my way into the trunk?
I've seen a lot of printers like that, the ink cartidge contains not only the ink, but also the printer-head that actually interfaces with the printer.
There are some benefits to doing this, the printers I have had with this feature tend not to have as many printing problems, but I know the real reason.
While it might be anticompetetive and possibly illegal to flat-out prevent the use of third party ink, they can make great strides towards shutting out their competitors by requiring that heads be replaced.
We may have at one point had printers which just took ink, and the third party ink seller just kept selling what they already knew how to make.
The printer manufacturer could up the ante by requiring that ink be packaged in catridges, and now the ink sellers have to either spend money to develop the means to make cartridges or get out of the game.
Now, the part of the device that does the actual writing must be replaced. Regardless of the cost of the print head, the ink company must now develop the means to produce print heads if they wish to continue to compete. The ink companies practically have to turn themselves into printer companies just to sell ink to the consumer.
What if something about the print head is patented? Great news for the printer company, I guess.
Imagine the conveniance of a new design in cars in which some car company develops oil cartridges which could potentially make changing your oil literally a snap. They'd certainly deserve a patent, but how much sway should the car company have over who can and can not sell oil for these vehicles?
That would be okay, cameraphones are insidious. I doubt that cameras not disguised or hidden within other devices would be subject to this sort of rule.
This is the same rationale that forces the phones to make a shutter and film advance noise despite not having any shutters or film.
The technology to do this would require more computing power than a phone should ever have, though.