As someone in the newspaper archiving business I can tell you that it does cost quite a bit for the newspapers to handle the archiving, storage, and sales of archives online. Add to this that they usually aren't doing it as a feel good service to their readers, but as an additional revenue stream and you find the prices mentioned in the article are about average.
They also have to track usage and somtimes pay royalties to their article sources which is added into the price.
Don't forget that most people looking for older newspaper articles are doing research, not reading the news, and paying a small fee to get the one or two documents they really want doesn't bother them at all.
We've got around 40 sun boxes and they need more maintenance and parts replaced than any of our dell linux boxes. We pay more in service contracts than it would cost just to replace linux boxes, not to mention they run our software at about 1/4 the capacity of the linux boxes. People buy sun for the name recognition more than any actual quality. I'll be glad when SLOWaris is no longer on our server farm at all.
I'd gladly pay for a ringtone that actually sounded anything remotely like a telephone ringing. My phone seems to have more songs on it than I care to count, but not one ringtone that sounds remotely like a ringing phone. Unfortunately it's even hard to find good custom ringtones, all the ones I see are usually clips of songs, what happened to having custom sound effects or actual ringing sounds?
Or more likely those driving luxury cars are more likely to forget they are driving and have an accident, at least that's how it is around here with all the tourists driving luxury cars and getting into accidents that would have been avoidable if they had been paying attention to what they were doing.
That's not completely true, up until last year I had a cell phone with an area code and exchange that was used for land lines as well as cell phones. I'd still have that number had I stayed with the same cell provider.
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As someone in the newspaper archiving business I can tell you that it does cost quite a bit for the newspapers to handle the archiving, storage, and sales of archives online. Add to this that they usually aren't doing it as a feel good service to their readers, but as an additional revenue stream and you find the prices mentioned in the article are about average.
They also have to track usage and somtimes pay royalties to their article sources which is added into the price.
Don't forget that most people looking for older newspaper articles are doing research, not reading the news, and paying a small fee to get the one or two documents they really want doesn't bother them at all.
We've got around 40 sun boxes and they need more maintenance and parts replaced than any of our dell linux boxes. We pay more in service contracts than it would cost just to replace linux boxes, not to mention they run our software at about 1/4 the capacity of the linux boxes. People buy sun for the name recognition more than any actual quality. I'll be glad when SLOWaris is no longer on our server farm at all.
I'd gladly pay for a ringtone that actually sounded anything remotely like a telephone ringing. My phone seems to have more songs on it than I care to count, but not one ringtone that sounds remotely like a ringing phone. Unfortunately it's even hard to find good custom ringtones, all the ones I see are usually clips of songs, what happened to having custom sound effects or actual ringing sounds?
I work in the US about 5 hours from the Canadian border and I get paid about 40% less than the average US programmer.
Or more likely those driving luxury cars are more likely to forget they are driving and have an accident, at least that's how it is around here with all the tourists driving luxury cars and getting into accidents that would have been avoidable if they had been paying attention to what they were doing.
That's not completely true, up until last year I had a cell phone with an area code and exchange that was used for land lines as well as cell phones. I'd still have that number had I stayed with the same cell provider.