Ok, so lets think about this for a second. You pay for TV with commercials, You pay for the internet with what basically amounts to commercials, You paid to have an "electronic gizmo" installed in your car that will eventually serve up commercials while you are driving, but for some reason you won't pay for radio with commercials? Your argument makes absolutely no sense. It was pretty much a given that someone in the radio business would come to the conclusion to charge for service, just like television before it. This is no different than TV. On top of that Sirius's system is entirely commercial-free.
I'd say this service has quite a bit to offer anyone who regularly listens to the radio, and some that dont. 100 channels anywhere in the Nation is a lot better than the 20 channels we get here, I know that for sure, and with genre-divided channels, I won't have to worry about hearing any damned Backstreet Boys songs while I'm groovin to BT... oh wait, nevermind...
I believe the figure you are searching for refers to the 80/20 rule, which states that 20% of the American population controls somewhere around 80% of the nation's wealth
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Actually, the story was correct. A Megabyte ( 1,000,000 bytes ) is in fact a power of 10, or 10^6. And a mebibyte ( 1,048,576 bytes ) is 2^20...
Ok, so lets think about this for a second. You pay for TV with commercials, You pay for the internet with what basically amounts to commercials, You paid to have an "electronic gizmo" installed in your car that will eventually serve up commercials while you are driving, but for some reason you won't pay for radio with commercials? Your argument makes absolutely no sense. It was pretty much a given that someone in the radio business would come to the conclusion to charge for service, just like television before it. This is no different than TV. On top of that Sirius's system is entirely commercial-free.
I'd say this service has quite a bit to offer anyone who regularly listens to the radio, and some that dont. 100 channels anywhere in the Nation is a lot better than the 20 channels we get here, I know that for sure, and with genre-divided channels, I won't have to worry about hearing any damned Backstreet Boys songs while I'm groovin to BT... oh wait, nevermind...
I believe the figure you are searching for refers to the 80/20 rule, which states that 20% of the American population controls somewhere around 80% of the nation's wealth