Broadly speaking, the cheapest non-LTH discs are usually going to be at least twice as expensive as the most expensive LTH discs. Of course, you might always get lucky and trip over a liquidation sale or something, but most of the time, you can just ignore the cheapest discs entirely and take for granted that they're going to be LTH. [...] Likewise, store-brand and non-major brand discs are almost ALWAYS going to be LTH.
This hasn't been my experience at all. I've bought several packs of the cheapest generic discs available on Amazon (Optical Quantum, Plexdisc, ValueDisc...), and all were definitely HTL. LTH discs seem to be rather uncommon and, strangely enough, more expensive (at least on Amazon). I guess it could be different in retail stores.
Huh? $403.99 is for the Design and Web Premium Student and Teacher Edition while the $49.99/month cloud service gets you the Master Collection for commercial use (currently ~$2100).
While it certainly isn't a better deal for everyone (students, those that rarely upgrade or only want a few of the apps), it looks like a great deal for current non-academic master collection users.
That said, it seems backwards to substantially lower the price for the customers that can most afford it (commercial master collection users) and jack up the price on students and casual users. I don't blame them for trying the cell phone model though. It's amazing how much people will throw away if the cost is amortized over a long period.
It seems the founding fathers wanted to put private citizens on a relatively even playing field with the government -- understandable considering they had just fought long and hard to free themselves from tyranny. Isn't the risk government oppression still very much a relevant issue today?
I don't get the technology argument at all. Technology certainly has advanced, but if everyone is armed with the latest technology, there's no relative difference from everyone being armed with muskets. Besides, it's simply not true that the only weapons in the late 18th century were single shot. The Girandoni Air Rifle, actively used in the Austrian army for over a decade at the time the Second Amendment was adopted, had a 22 round magazine that could be emptied in about a minute. It even had usable accuracy (could place ten shots into a group the size of a quarter at 50 feet).
The Kraken reportedly consumes about 2.8 megawatts of power, so assuming your figures are accurate, the power alone would cost about $6,720/day (at $0.10/kWh) for a "profit" of $1730/day. Factor in the fact that it's a $30 million machine with a very short usable lifespan (i.e. massive depreciation), and they'd be losing a ridiculous amount of money.
1. Offer users a relatively tiny cut to boost traffic, hurt the competition and look generous/progressive at the same time.
2. Increase advertising to far more than make up for #1 ("The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film").
"Microsoft Corp. plans to announce as early as next week that it is ready to ship a Windows 2000 Update Rollup, the final security patch for the 5-year-old operating system."
The final security patch? Microsoft will provide security-related patches for Windows 2000 until 2010. Heck, even eWeek's own site basically says that here.
Check out Altigen's AltiServ. http://www.altigen.com/AltiServ_SmallOffice.htm
"The AltiServ SmallOffice solution is a fully converged PBX telephone system that uses the LAN, the internet and the public telephone network to enable an array of applications that take advantage of the convergence of voice and data communications.
The AltiServ SmallOffice supports both traditional and IP telephones as well as Voice over IP functionality, Contact Center capabilities, AltiWeb applications, T1-PRI interface, IP networking and interoffice trunking."
It has tons of features including e-mail integration.
"This allows AltiGen to support unified messaging giving the user the option of having their voice mail delivered to any POP3 e-mail server. Now you can access your voice mail without changing at all how you retrieve your e-mail now."
Not sure how much it costs, but it sure looks cool. =)
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Broadly speaking, the cheapest non-LTH discs are usually going to be at least twice as expensive as the most expensive LTH discs. Of course, you might always get lucky and trip over a liquidation sale or something, but most of the time, you can just ignore the cheapest discs entirely and take for granted that they're going to be LTH. [...] Likewise, store-brand and non-major brand discs are almost ALWAYS going to be LTH.
This hasn't been my experience at all. I've bought several packs of the cheapest generic discs available on Amazon (Optical Quantum, Plexdisc, ValueDisc...), and all were definitely HTL. LTH discs seem to be rather uncommon and, strangely enough, more expensive (at least on Amazon). I guess it could be different in retail stores.
Might want to change the title...
Huh? $403.99 is for the Design and Web Premium Student and Teacher Edition while the $49.99/month cloud service gets you the Master Collection for commercial use (currently ~$2100). While it certainly isn't a better deal for everyone (students, those that rarely upgrade or only want a few of the apps), it looks like a great deal for current non-academic master collection users. That said, it seems backwards to substantially lower the price for the customers that can most afford it (commercial master collection users) and jack up the price on students and casual users. I don't blame them for trying the cell phone model though. It's amazing how much people will throw away if the cost is amortized over a long period.
It seems the founding fathers wanted to put private citizens on a relatively even playing field with the government -- understandable considering they had just fought long and hard to free themselves from tyranny. Isn't the risk government oppression still very much a relevant issue today?
I don't get the technology argument at all. Technology certainly has advanced, but if everyone is armed with the latest technology, there's no relative difference from everyone being armed with muskets. Besides, it's simply not true that the only weapons in the late 18th century were single shot. The Girandoni Air Rifle, actively used in the Austrian army for over a decade at the time the Second Amendment was adopted, had a 22 round magazine that could be emptied in about a minute. It even had usable accuracy (could place ten shots into a group the size of a quarter at 50 feet).
The Kraken reportedly consumes about 2.8 megawatts of power, so assuming your figures are accurate, the power alone would cost about $6,720/day (at $0.10/kWh) for a "profit" of $1730/day. Factor in the fact that it's a $30 million machine with a very short usable lifespan (i.e. massive depreciation), and they'd be losing a ridiculous amount of money.
In the video, it couldn't even run what appears to be a low-res mpeg4 video smoothly?
lol
1. Offer users a relatively tiny cut to boost traffic, hurt the competition and look generous/progressive at the same time.
2. Increase advertising to far more than make up for #1 ("The system would be rolled out in a couple of months, he said, and use a mixture of adverts, including short clips shown ahead of the actual film").
3. Profit!
Hmm. It actually looks like a pretty good plan...
This article is just flat out wrong.
From the article:
"Microsoft Corp. plans to announce as early as next week that it is ready to ship a Windows 2000 Update Rollup, the final security patch for the 5-year-old operating system."
The final security patch? Microsoft will provide security-related patches for Windows 2000 until 2010. Heck, even eWeek's own site basically says that here.
Am I missing something?
Does anyone else find it incredibly funny (and perhaps a bit disturbing) that this comment was modded +4 funny? ;)
Sheesh. The mods around here are too easy.
$5 for a blank DVD-R?! I see them on pricewatch for a mere 75 cents with case which would make this much more attractive. =)
Check out Altigen's AltiServ.
http://www.altigen.com/AltiServ_SmallOffice.htm
"The AltiServ SmallOffice solution is a fully converged PBX telephone system that uses the LAN, the internet and the public telephone network to enable an array of applications that take advantage of the convergence of voice and data communications.
The AltiServ SmallOffice supports both traditional and IP telephones as well as Voice over IP functionality, Contact Center capabilities, AltiWeb applications, T1-PRI interface, IP networking and interoffice trunking."
It has tons of features including e-mail integration.
"This allows AltiGen to support unified messaging giving the user the option of having their voice mail delivered to any POP3 e-mail server. Now you can access your voice mail without changing at all how you retrieve your e-mail now."
Not sure how much it costs, but it sure looks cool. =)