This is the *average* American, not the mythical middle class that the media pushes. Average American lives in a flat, barely paid for, paycheck to paycheck. $250/week take home is way above average. He's pinching pennies to *EAT*.
Uhm. The median household income in the United States for the year of 2000 was $42,148. The median single male income is $37,339 for the same period.
The average income (not quite as useful as median) is around $36,000.
This is hardly pinching pennies given the cost of living for most urban areas of the United States.
Do Europeans have a massive inferiority complex and fears of inadequacy?
Yes, the world wide web was created by CERN. Yes, the people on the other side of the Atlantic do know how to invent things.
News flash for you. Most Americans were originally from Europe. The only thing that keeps us ahead is our culture and corporate laws, not some mutation that makes hyper-intelligent beings the second they step onto US (or Canadian) soil.
Wait... you mean address books don't have a physical parallel in real life? Sure it isn't a piece of electronics, but I'm pretty sure leather clad address books do exist.
I hardly an average of 0.08 millisieverts of radiation a catastrophe. That's about what a chest x-ray is.
The maximum radiation a single person was known to be exposed to was 1 millisievert during three mile island. That's about one years worth of background radiation received by each person in the US.
There was no abnormal health problems, no cancer, nothing caused by three mile island and frankly a whole lot more health problems are caused by "safe" coal burning plants.
Of course no one mentions that the more than 100 nuclear plants in the United States just hum along nor that nuclear power plant technology has been improved considerably. Or how about the entire country of France running off of one of the most environmentally friendly power sources in existence?
Costs under 10k. I mean, if you take a lot of parts out of something, and reduce its weight a lot, shouldn't it cost less? Electric cars are greatly simplified in many cases - hell most of them dont even need transmissions.
Batteries are currently expensive. You'll have to wait quite a while.
Can be charged/refilled in many ways - including a fast charge at some type of service station. Also, a fold out/attachable solar array (maybe folds out of trunk, or from underneath the car). It must be able to be charged to at least 2 hrs worth of driving in the same amount of time as a normal "fill up". Absolute longest is five minutes.
Why not go a different route? How about putting automatic charging stations in every parking lot in the nation? The charging stations themselves aren't all that complicated, but it would need something special to do it automatically (induction?, some robotics under the car that finds the charging socket on the parking stall?.)
This way the average use for a car is taken care of. You won't be able to go traipsing across the country, but a lot of us don't do that anyway.
3. It must not look like a plastic toy. Make it look like any other car I've owned. I dont want people to look at my car and say "hey, look at the guy in an electric car". I don't want a piece of molded plastic with four tiny wheels. I want a normal 4-door sedan.
Seriously, think outside the box. With polymer batteries that can conform to many shapes, there is no reason why a car manufacturer needs to have that really big front end where the motor used to be. You don't need an axle, so you can stick the driver in the middle instead of off to the left (or right for your backwards countries.:)
As it stands, cars aren't exactly the most aerodynamic peices of equipment out there after all.
In fact, GM is doing exactly this with their fuel cell platform. It will be neat if they actually go ahead and fully back the project.
I read in Microsoft's "networking essentials " that, if you made every man women and child on earth write a 2,000 page novel, you would barely equal a terrabyte! You can fit it all one of these new disks.
Something is either wrong with their math or the quote:
1 TiB / 6 billion people = 183 bytes/person
Even with 100:1 compression, you'd only have enough space for 9 characters per page to create a 2000 page novel for every person on the planet.
You'd require well over a petabyte of storage to store 2000 small book pages worth of text for every person on the planet.
You gotta love people that dont have a clue, PURE electrics are responsible for the generation of more polution than comprable hybrid vehicles.
No ? Just look around at EV sites and it wont take you long to realized that generating electricity at a plant ??? miles away, transmission loss and all the fun add up to MORE FRIGGING polution in the generation of that electricity than a hybrid creates.
You do realize that oil isn't pulled from the ground at your local gas station and there is considerable amount of pollution involved in transporting it to said gas station right?
The type of power plant that generates your electricity is also a factor.
In California (the largest market for EVs in the US), air polluting power constitutes 62.6% (CA 2001 power mix numbers) of the power used. However, 50% of that are natural gas power plants and are more efficient than your gas based car. 11% of that is coal, but that is down several percent over the year 2000 numbers.
The rest of the power, 37.4% is clean and that number keeps going up every day.
So no, EV cars in fact do not pollute as much as traditional gas cars or even diesel and fuel cell based electrics look even more promising.
Just a note ahead of time. Some of the cars listed below are only available in certain parts of California and are only available in relatively low numbers.
Religions that do not believe in god are by definition, atheists.
A theist is simply someone who believes in a deity or supreme being, nothing more, nothing less.
Most Buddhists for instance should be considered atheists since Buddha (or Buddhas depending on the sect) was not a god but a man who reached nirvana. (Note many Buddhist are also Taoists.)
Shinto on the other hand does believe in deities known as Kami, but they aren't omnipowerful. Whether or not Shinto is theist or atheist is up for debate.
There are many atheist religions out there. The idea that atheists are without a value system (essentially what religions such as Confusionism and Buddhism are) is silly.
Here in San Francisco I can go grab nearly any phone on the planet, bring it here and use nearly every single feature available (exceptions being some older single-band GSM and all two 3G phones) using Cingular or AT&T. That includes WAP, GPRS, SMS (though I'm unsure about MMS), GSM, silly ringtones, even sillier games, and even i-mode (called m-mode.)
Not only that but Sprint and Verizon are both rolling out 3G 1x this year (Sprint's rollout is nearly complete, though phones for 3G are scarce.)
Cell phone penetration nation-wide is around 53% which is far shy of Europe's 74%, but out here in California the picture looks a whole lot more like Europe.
There are many reasons why people don't go buying cell phones every 6 months here, but features not working isn't one of them. A cheap wired phone system (compared to Europe), phones that are a little more substantial than Japanese counterparts (DoCoMo phones cost, look and feel like plastic toys and one doesn't feel bad about tossing one), an immense computer/laptop penetration rate (compared to Japan for instance) and just plain culture differences are probably the biggest reasons.
The idea of tossing out two hundred dollar (or in the case of Nokia 8910, near thousand dollar) devices every six months just seems wrong.
Before Darwin, Apple had a true UNIX® variant known as A/UX A/UX or 'Apple UNIX' is a derivative of AT&T Unix System V.2.2 with some newer code thrown in to make it modern.
A/UX was developed when the Single UNIX® Specification was still being written whereas Darwin was created a couple years after the last revision was completed, so it may very well be that Apple's name is there with respects to A/UX, not Darwin.
Once upon a time, AT&T was UNIX®. They shifted the trademark inside the company to a dozen different subsidiaries (Unix Support Group, Unix System Laboratories, etc.) AT&T then sold UNIX® to Novell who donated it to X/Open. X/Open then became The Open Group.
Simply following the Single UNIX® Specification doesn't not entitle you to use the UNIX® trademark, you must be certified or have been granted a license to use the trademark from one of the AT&T companies.
As it stands, Darwin doesn't follow the Single UNIX® Specification. It is missing a number of commands in the specifcation (fuser, gencat, hash, etc.), several missing API calls (poll, pthread_rw*, etc.) and even some headers (utmpx.h, wchar.h, strops.h, etc.)
More importantly, all software except for that which is released to the public domain is copyrighted, including things like the Linux kernel. Just because something is under copyright doesn't make it commercial.
In a study of 1,026 Web users released Wednesday, the group found that 57 percent of respondents never or seldom pay for copyrighted works they download.
This could very well mean that people are downloading shareware, free software or otherwise and simply decided not to pay for it.
I always hated this argument because old movies that are no longer in theaters are also put on region locked discs.
Examples of region locked discs (from IMDB):
* The Wizard of Oz (1939) * Gone with the Wind (1939) * Snow White (1937) * Tron (1982) * Star Trek 1 (1979) * Casablanca (1943) * The Maltese Falcon (1941)
I could go on and on and on.
The real reason for region control is price fixing, plain and simple.
I saw it last night (12:01) in San Francisco and have to say I was impressed by the lack of artifacts on the screen. I was sitting pretty far back, but not seeing dust and other film related problems was nice.
The Matrix 2 trailer at the beginning was also a nice surprise.
Not to fan the flame or anything, but statistics from 2000 show a different picture (sorry, no access to newer UN numbers.)
Population of EU: 379 million Population of US: 278 million
US GDP: $9.983 trillion (~$36,200 per capita) EU GDP: $8.5 trillion (~$22,427 per capita) Difference: $1.483 trillion or 14% (~13,773 per capita or 38%)
There is a difference however between GDP vs GNP. GDP is gross product produced within national borders while GNP also includes net income received from abroad, but getting accurate GNP data is difficult given how well businesses can hide profits gained outside country borders.
You could also pull statistics for purchasing power parity (GDP adjusted for purchasing power within national borders), but it isn't a useful statistic when comparing countries international buying power since no one sells major goods adjusted for it internationally.
There is software you can use to control the 4000 series Replay boxes in this way as well. Heck, there is even a little cgi script included on 4000 series replay boxes to quite litterly imput remote control sequences if you want to (ReplayTV boxes have a built-in webserver for accessing data over the network.)
I actually went to a presentation where they had a fully interactive presentation done in Macromedia Director (Flash's big brother.)
Director apparently has a feature to import PowerPoint presentations so they may be jazzed up with interactivity (a mock of an application in the presentation I was present at) and all the other neat Director features.
The only problem I could see is the ability to print out a presentation, something PowerPoint allows with ease, may prove difficult with Flash or Director.
I believe this came out of a program started by Los Alamos called the Zero Emission Coal Alliance (ZECA), a project to turn coal burning power plants into environmentally friendly plants.
Basically, they combine coal, water and calcium oxide to produce hydrogen, calcium carbonate and ash. Hydrogen is used directly as the source of power (fuel cells.) The byproduct of the fuel cells is water and heat that it uses to separate the calcium carbonate back into calcium oxide with a byproduct of CO2.
The CO2 is then combined with powdered soapstone to create magnesium carbonate. Since magnesium carbonate is inert, it can be disposed of easily.
Apparently this entire process works at something like two times the efficiency of standard coal burning plants and has zero emissions into the air.
1. If you photocopy a whole book it takes a lot longer than the 9 minutes it takes for a cd.
You know... comments like these get me thinking that people haven't seen what an industrial copier can do. You do realize that they make 120+ ppm copiers with book scanners attached to them right? (though unbinding the book is better.)
Not only that, but some of these photocopiers have document binders attached to them and they will fold, stitch and trim your finished work.
I hope you also realize that since the bulk of the time is spent scanning, the second copy you decide to make doesn't take nearly as long.
2. If you photocopy a book, you don't get a near perfect copy, whereas if you copy a cd you do.
Actually, current photocopier technology is a bit beyond that office copier you use. Color is a bit harder and more expensive, but your average book doesn't typically have much color.
Say you are student and instead of spending $125 on a book, you decide to borrow one from someone and get it copied. At 800 pages, you are looking at roughly 10 minutes (with binding.) Your total costs (assuming you can use the high-end copier at-cost, ie. no kinkos) is in the $30 range.
The end result is similar to that of a copied CD. No cover art, slightly lower quality medium and one hell of a cost savings.
So the question becomes, why doesn't everyone do it?
First, it's somewhat hard to find Xerox 8900 series copiers (or equivilent) that can be used without questions by the attendant, though certainly not impossible. Most copy shops will copy whatever you ask them to using their industrial copiers instead of those dinky self-serve ones. I'm not particularly sure of the legality of making a 'backup copy' of a book, but the argument could be made in the face of a head strong attendant.
People like having the real physical medium and the average person has no problem paying for someone they feel is worth the money.
There is also the resale value to think about... copied goods being rather shady aren't an asset to be sold off at a later time.
All in all, the photocopy analogy is pretty accurate. The real difference is what you can do at home easily. While there are book scanner adapters, it takes quite a bit loner to print and then you have to bind it yourself, but the savings involved is substanially higher than what you get by copying CDs.
Actually... it isn't per cell but per channel (1.25 MHz for 1x and 3x uses 3 channels.) The number of channels you can have is dictated by the frequency spectrum a provider bought at auction.
Needless to say, some providers have more than one channel of bandwidth allocated.
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This is the *average* American, not the mythical middle class that the media pushes. Average American lives in a flat, barely paid for, paycheck to paycheck. $250/week take home is way above average. He's pinching pennies to *EAT*.
Uhm. The median household income in the United States for the year of 2000 was $42,148. The median single male income is $37,339 for the same period.
The average income (not quite as useful as median) is around $36,000.
This is hardly pinching pennies given the cost of living for most urban areas of the United States.
Do Europeans have a massive inferiority complex and fears of inadequacy?
Yes, the world wide web was created by CERN. Yes, the people on the other side of the Atlantic do know how to invent things.
News flash for you. Most Americans were originally from Europe. The only thing that keeps us ahead is our culture and corporate laws, not some mutation that makes hyper-intelligent beings the second they step onto US (or Canadian) soil.
Shesh.
Wait... you mean address books don't have a physical parallel in real life? Sure it isn't a piece of electronics, but I'm pretty sure leather clad address books do exist.
I hardly an average of 0.08 millisieverts of radiation a catastrophe. That's about what a chest x-ray is.
The maximum radiation a single person was known to be exposed to was 1 millisievert during three mile island. That's about one years worth of background radiation received by each person in the US.
There was no abnormal health problems, no cancer, nothing caused by three mile island and frankly a whole lot more health problems are caused by "safe" coal burning plants.
Of course no one mentions that the more than 100 nuclear plants in the United States just hum along nor that nuclear power plant technology has been improved considerably. Or how about the entire country of France running off of one of the most environmentally friendly power sources in existence?
Sigh.
Costs under 10k. I mean, if you take a lot of parts out of something, and reduce its weight a lot, shouldn't it cost less? Electric cars are greatly simplified in many cases - hell most of them dont even need transmissions.
:)
Batteries are currently expensive. You'll have to wait quite a while.
Can be charged/refilled in many ways - including a fast charge at some type of service station. Also, a fold out/attachable solar array (maybe folds out of trunk, or from underneath the car). It must be able to be charged to at least 2 hrs worth of driving in the same amount of time as a normal "fill up". Absolute longest is five minutes.
Why not go a different route? How about putting automatic charging stations in every parking lot in the nation? The charging stations themselves aren't all that complicated, but it would need something special to do it automatically (induction?, some robotics under the car that finds the charging socket on the parking stall?.)
This way the average use for a car is taken care of. You won't be able to go traipsing across the country, but a lot of us don't do that anyway.
3. It must not look like a plastic toy. Make it look like any other car I've owned. I dont want people to look at my car and say "hey, look at the guy in an electric car". I don't want a piece of molded plastic with four tiny wheels. I want a normal 4-door sedan.
Seriously, think outside the box. With polymer batteries that can conform to many shapes, there is no reason why a car manufacturer needs to have that really big front end where the motor used to be. You don't need an axle, so you can stick the driver in the middle instead of off to the left (or right for your backwards countries.
As it stands, cars aren't exactly the most aerodynamic peices of equipment out there after all.
In fact, GM is doing exactly this with their fuel cell platform. It will be neat if they actually go ahead and fully back the project.
I read in Microsoft's "networking essentials " that, if you made every man women and child on earth write a 2,000 page novel, you would barely equal a terrabyte! You can fit it all one of these new disks.
Something is either wrong with their math or the quote:
1 TiB / 6 billion people = 183 bytes/person
Even with 100:1 compression, you'd only have enough space for 9 characters per page to create a 2000 page novel for every person on the planet.
You'd require well over a petabyte of storage to store 2000 small book pages worth of text for every person on the planet.
The type of power plant that generates your electricity is also a factor.
In California (the largest market for EVs in the US), air polluting power constitutes 62.6% (CA 2001 power mix numbers) of the power used. However, 50% of that are natural gas power plants and are more efficient than your gas based car. 11% of that is coal, but that is down several percent over the year 2000 numbers.
The rest of the power, 37.4% is clean and that number keeps going up every day.
So no, EV cars in fact do not pollute as much as traditional gas cars or even diesel and fuel cell based electrics look even more promising.
Just a note ahead of time. Some of the cars listed below are only available in certain parts of California and are only available in relatively low numbers.
Pure Electric:
2002 The Nissan Altra EV (pilot?)
2002 Ford Thi!nk City
2002 Toyota Rav4-EV
2002 Lido Motors Lido
2002 Ford Ranger EV (fleet only?)
2002 Nissan HyperMini (pilot only?)
Selectria Force (out of production?)
Hybrids:
2003 Honda Civic Hybrid
2002 Honda Insight
2002 Toyota Prius
Web Sites of Interest:
EV World
US DoE Alternative Fuel Car Buying Guide (many listed)
US DoE Alternative Fuel Vehicle Listing (many listed)
California ZEV Buyers Guide
Sure, you *could* go that route... or you could have a conversation akin to:
Telemarketer: Hi, I'm Joe from Work Hard Industries, I'd like to talk to you about our Wang Big Supermower!
You: Sure Joe, I'd be happy to hear about your Wang Big Supermower if I can first talk to you about Jesus.
Unfortunately there are instances where that doesn't work. Some people apparently like to talk about Jesus... go figure.
Surely you mean imaginary and not negative numbers. I can't imagine someone completing high school without knowing what negative numbers are.
I know public schools are bad, but they aren't that bad, are they?
Religions that do not believe in god are by definition, atheists.
A theist is simply someone who believes in a deity or supreme being, nothing more, nothing less.
Most Buddhists for instance should be considered atheists since Buddha (or Buddhas depending on the sect) was not a god but a man who reached nirvana. (Note many Buddhist are also Taoists.)
Shinto on the other hand does believe in deities known as Kami, but they aren't omnipowerful. Whether or not Shinto is theist or atheist is up for debate.
There are many atheist religions out there. The idea that atheists are without a value system (essentially what religions such as Confusionism and Buddhism are) is silly.
I'm surprised the idea of changing our coins hasn't come up. The US doesn't print arabic numerals on their coins, but instead force people to read:
One Cent
Five Cents
One Dime
Quarter Dollar
The dime in particular probably doesn't make much sense to people outside the US.
Whoah back up there sparky.
Here in San Francisco I can go grab nearly any phone on the planet, bring it here and use nearly every single feature available (exceptions being some older single-band GSM and all two 3G phones) using Cingular or AT&T. That includes WAP, GPRS, SMS (though I'm unsure about MMS), GSM, silly ringtones, even sillier games, and even i-mode (called m-mode.)
Not only that but Sprint and Verizon are both rolling out 3G 1x this year (Sprint's rollout is nearly complete, though phones for 3G are scarce.)
Cell phone penetration nation-wide is around 53% which is far shy of Europe's 74%, but out here in California the picture looks a whole lot more like Europe.
There are many reasons why people don't go buying cell phones every 6 months here, but features not working isn't one of them. A cheap wired phone system (compared to Europe), phones that are a little more substantial than Japanese counterparts (DoCoMo phones cost, look and feel like plastic toys and one doesn't feel bad about tossing one), an immense computer/laptop penetration rate (compared to Japan for instance) and just plain culture differences are probably the biggest reasons.
The idea of tossing out two hundred dollar (or in the case of Nokia 8910, near thousand dollar) devices every six months just seems wrong.
From the article:
Before Darwin, Apple had a true UNIX® variant known as A/UX A/UX or 'Apple UNIX' is a derivative of AT&T Unix System V.2.2 with some newer code thrown in to make it modern.
A/UX was developed when the Single UNIX® Specification was still being written whereas Darwin was created a couple years after the last revision was completed, so it may very well be that Apple's name is there with respects to A/UX, not Darwin.
Once upon a time, AT&T was UNIX®. They shifted the trademark inside the company to a dozen different subsidiaries (Unix Support Group, Unix System Laboratories, etc.) AT&T then sold UNIX® to Novell who donated it to X/Open. X/Open then became The Open Group.
Simply following the Single UNIX® Specification doesn't not entitle you to use the UNIX® trademark, you must be certified or have been granted a license to use the trademark from one of the AT&T companies.
As it stands, Darwin doesn't follow the Single UNIX® Specification. It is missing a number of commands in the specifcation (fuser, gencat, hash, etc.), several missing API calls (poll, pthread_rw*, etc.) and even some headers (utmpx.h, wchar.h, strops.h, etc.)
More importantly, all software except for that which is released to the public domain is copyrighted, including things like the Linux kernel. Just because something is under copyright doesn't make it commercial.
In a study of 1,026 Web users released Wednesday, the group found that 57 percent of respondents never or seldom pay for copyrighted works they download.
This could very well mean that people are downloading shareware, free software or otherwise and simply decided not to pay for it.
I always hated this argument because old movies that are no longer in theaters are also put on region locked discs.
Examples of region locked discs (from IMDB):
* The Wizard of Oz (1939)
* Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Snow White (1937)
* Tron (1982)
* Star Trek 1 (1979)
* Casablanca (1943)
* The Maltese Falcon (1941)
I could go on and on and on.
The real reason for region control is price fixing, plain and simple.
I saw it last night (12:01) in San Francisco and have to say I was impressed by the lack of artifacts on the screen. I was sitting pretty far back, but not seeing dust and other film related problems was nice.
The Matrix 2 trailer at the beginning was also a nice surprise.
Not to fan the flame or anything, but statistics from 2000 show a different picture (sorry, no access to newer UN numbers.)
Population of EU: 379 million
Population of US: 278 million
US GDP: $9.983 trillion (~$36,200 per capita)
EU GDP: $8.5 trillion (~$22,427 per capita)
Difference: $1.483 trillion or 14% (~13,773 per capita or 38%)
There is a difference however between GDP vs GNP. GDP is gross product produced within national borders while GNP also includes net income received from abroad, but getting accurate GNP data is difficult given how well businesses can hide profits gained outside country borders.
You could also pull statistics for purchasing power parity (GDP adjusted for purchasing power within national borders), but it isn't a useful statistic when comparing countries international buying power since no one sells major goods adjusted for it internationally.
There is software you can use to control the 4000 series Replay boxes in this way as well. Heck, there is even a little cgi script included on 4000 series replay boxes to quite litterly imput remote control sequences if you want to (ReplayTV boxes have a built-in webserver for accessing data over the network.)
I actually went to a presentation where they had a fully interactive presentation done in Macromedia Director (Flash's big brother.)
Director apparently has a feature to import PowerPoint presentations so they may be jazzed up with interactivity (a mock of an application in the presentation I was present at) and all the other neat Director features.
The only problem I could see is the ability to print out a presentation, something PowerPoint allows with ease, may prove difficult with Flash or Director.
I believe this came out of a program started by Los Alamos called the Zero Emission Coal Alliance (ZECA), a project to turn coal burning power plants into environmentally friendly plants.
Basically, they combine coal, water and calcium oxide to produce hydrogen, calcium carbonate and ash. Hydrogen is used directly as the source of power (fuel cells.) The byproduct of the fuel cells is water and heat that it uses to separate the calcium carbonate back into calcium oxide with a byproduct of CO2.
The CO2 is then combined with powdered soapstone to create magnesium carbonate. Since magnesium carbonate is inert, it can be disposed of easily.
Apparently this entire process works at something like two times the efficiency of standard coal burning plants and has zero emissions into the air.
More information is available at http://www.zeca.org/
You know... comments like these get me thinking that people haven't seen what an industrial copier can do. You do realize that they make 120+ ppm copiers with book scanners attached to them right? (though unbinding the book is better.)
Not only that, but some of these photocopiers have document binders attached to them and they will fold, stitch and trim your finished work.
I hope you also realize that since the bulk of the time is spent scanning, the second copy you decide to make doesn't take nearly as long.
Actually, current photocopier technology is a bit beyond that office copier you use. Color is a bit harder and more expensive, but your average book doesn't typically have much color.
Say you are student and instead of spending $125 on a book, you decide to borrow one from someone and get it copied. At 800 pages, you are looking at roughly 10 minutes (with binding.) Your total costs (assuming you can use the high-end copier at-cost, ie. no kinkos) is in the $30 range.
The end result is similar to that of a copied CD. No cover art, slightly lower quality medium and one hell of a cost savings.
So the question becomes, why doesn't everyone do it?
First, it's somewhat hard to find Xerox 8900 series copiers (or equivilent) that can be used without questions by the attendant, though certainly not impossible. Most copy shops will copy whatever you ask them to using their industrial copiers instead of those dinky self-serve ones. I'm not particularly sure of the legality of making a 'backup copy' of a book, but the argument could be made in the face of a head strong attendant.
People like having the real physical medium and the average person has no problem paying for someone they feel is worth the money.
There is also the resale value to think about... copied goods being rather shady aren't an asset to be sold off at a later time.
All in all, the photocopy analogy is pretty accurate. The real difference is what you can do at home easily. While there are book scanner adapters, it takes quite a bit loner to print and then you have to bind it yourself, but the savings involved is substanially higher than what you get by copying CDs.
Actually... it isn't per cell but per channel (1.25 MHz for 1x and 3x uses 3 channels.) The number of channels you can have is dictated by the frequency spectrum a provider bought at auction.
Needless to say, some providers have more than one channel of bandwidth allocated.