Not that I care for live sports, but can't you just get online season pass for your favourite sport which will have every game in the league, way more extra content than cable, and cost less for a whole season than you pay for a month of normal cable.
Plus every cent you pay goes to the league instead of cable where 99.99% of what you pay goes to cable execs salaries and to pay for 20,000 crappy shows by special interests that nobody is willing to watch or pay for.
I'm quite a bit older than millennials, and I sure don't have a 5-6 second attention span for ads. The reason I became a cord cutter was all the obnoxious ads exploding across the bottom on the screen for 5-6 seconds. If that's what they're going to do, I don't care to view their content for free much less pay for it.
Besides the fact that such a crappy machine is easily available for $260, what kind of idiot would buy a 128 gig SSD at any price in 2017? What kind of idiot would buy a machine with only 8 gig that can never be upgraded? For that matter, why would you buy a dual core i5. Quad core i7's are cheap cheap cheap these days. Laptops with 16 gig ram, 1TB HDD+ 512 gig SSD and a quad core i7-7700 are cheaper than that mac you think is so reasonably priced.
You really need those 2 TB3 useless ports? Well my $260 laptop has actual useful ports like USB3, HDMI, and an SD slot. So why to Apple idiots only want to compare to a machine spec for spec identical to their gimp junk while ignoring the 500 ways a cheap PC surpasses the mac. Hell, your SSD is soldered in. If your computer fails in any way, you can't even recover your data from a working SSD without paying Apple an obscene amount for data recovery. There are just no words for how stupid you have to be to buy such a machine.
I was in the market for a Skylake chip when MS announced their forced windows 10 scheme. I quickly went out and bought a Devil's Canyon i7. It's running windows 7, and I'm going to have this computer for a long, long, long time.
You make a lot of good points, but it's because when you buy a Macbook Pro, it has no ports that will work with the majority of hardware I can buy at Best Buy or NewEgg unless I get adapters and dongles.
That and they just look and feel cheap now. No keyboard travel, no magsafe, no light-up logo, no startup chime, no accessories in the box anymore. The machine just screams no frills budget cost cutting machine, yet costs 5 times as much as a comparable PC.
Norway, which is the largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East, is set to become the first country in the world to ban the use of gas to heat buildings. The country plans to pass legislation that will stop the use of both oil and paraffin to warm buildings from 2020 onwards. The Independent reports:
Top oil producers in the world are
Saudia Arabia
USA
Russia
China
Iran
Canada
UAE
Mexico
Brazil
Kuwait
So the submitter already has no clue what he's talking about.
Add to that, the title mentions oil, the first paragraph mentions oil and natural gas as being banned. The quote just talks about Oil. So TFS seems to be written by a fool.
To this guy, having marble floors and having seats on a flight is the same level of unneeded opulence. Standing on a flight to pack a plane is ridiculous. Affordability should not mean making it a miserable experience. Why not start loading people into coffen size boxes and transport them in a cargo plane? If it's only an hour flight, who cares, right?
My only mistake was saying Canada that way. Last flight I took was Detla from Canada to the US. $34US first bag, $47US for the second. Close enough to $50 and $75.
I guess technically not a Canadian carrier, but you're still an asshole.
The cruise industry makes most of the world reachable by sea. Cunard (who owned the Lusitania) has never stopped their transatlantic service for example. You can cross the atlantic in 5 hours crammed like a sardine in a tin can (after enduring hours of torture and a prostate exam at the airport) or in 7 days on a luxury ocean liner with all entertainment and food included.....For about the same price.
For most people, and obviously all business travellers, 7 days at sea is a deal breaker. For vacationers with plenty of time on their hands, it really isn't a bad option.
Also you sound pretty ignorant when you say not many steamship lines still in existence. The lines are still around, with modern Diesel ships that are every bit as sophisticated as an aircraft carrier.
The airlines at least around here (Canada) are now charging $50 for the first checked bag, $75 for each additional. EACH WAY. The level of packaging you're talking about would take up most of a checked bag.
Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep darkness weighing as much as 49 suns, some 3 billion light-years from here.
Pit of infinitely deep darkness, huh? There's some serious hyperbole.
Wrong too But why let facts get in the way of over the top hyperbole.
Epson and Canon currently sell consumer grade printers with built in continuous ink systems. All you do is pour ink from a bottle into the printer. Sure, the same printer that would cost $80 on the razorblade model is $250, but that's already a pretty good option for people who print enough to use refilled cartridges already.
If lexmark does what you suggest, it will destroy their printer business.
Apple is more focused on instant messaging stickers and second rate TV shows about women beaters and child rapists than they are in making computers. Of course they're teen driven.
It is not just the cost in physical printing (which has a significant labor component as well). You need a truck driver to physically move the books from the print facility to the store (which also costs fuel and the use of the truck). You have to pay for the physical space of the book store. You need someone to stock the shelves, someone to physically check out the customer. You have loss due to stolen books, loss due to books damaged too much on the shelves to sell. Unsold copies. A distribution network. And everyone needs to make their profit. When you buy a physical book off the shelf at a store, how much of the money you paid do you think the publisher actually nets on it? If you think it's more than 10 cents on the dollar, you don't know anything about commerce. Even with an online seller like Amazon, someone has to pay for shipping costs and you still have many costs dealing with physical objects.
If anything, the cost to edit a manuscript into an epub file is a negligible part of the cost of the finished product.
And then...when you pay $30 for a hardcover (or $10 for a paperback), you own the physical object and can do what you want with it. Give it to a friend, donate it, sell it to a used book shop, etc. I do buy print books and I frequently trade with friends. At work, we have several avid readers and we have a small bookshelf where people drop off books they've finished and help themselves to what looks interesting. The average number of readers per copy for a physical book is much higher than for an ebook just because they're so easy to pass around and used books have such a low perceived value.
That makes print books a much better deal, usually for the price of a single book you get to read a few.
Look at the audible audiobook business model. They have a lot of the drawbacks associated with ebooks, but they cost about 20% as much as a CD version and are more convenient. Book publishers could similarly drop the price of ebooks 80% from even the paperback copy price and still not hurt their profitability compared to the actual print copies.
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Not that I care for live sports, but can't you just get online season pass for your favourite sport which will have every game in the league, way more extra content than cable, and cost less for a whole season than you pay for a month of normal cable.
Plus every cent you pay goes to the league instead of cable where 99.99% of what you pay goes to cable execs salaries and to pay for 20,000 crappy shows by special interests that nobody is willing to watch or pay for.
Push notifications are ruining my life. Yours too, I bet.
You lose your bet. I don't give the apps permission to send push notifications. It's really that simple.
I'm quite a bit older than millennials, and I sure don't have a 5-6 second attention span for ads. The reason I became a cord cutter was all the obnoxious ads exploding across the bottom on the screen for 5-6 seconds. If that's what they're going to do, I don't care to view their content for free much less pay for it.
If Slackware is a millennial, it means it thinks renting software as a service is a good idea. We better be careful.
I started with slackware 2.3 some time in the mid 90's. I used it for a good 10 years.
Besides the fact that such a crappy machine is easily available for $260, what kind of idiot would buy a 128 gig SSD at any price in 2017? What kind of idiot would buy a machine with only 8 gig that can never be upgraded? For that matter, why would you buy a dual core i5. Quad core i7's are cheap cheap cheap these days. Laptops with 16 gig ram, 1TB HDD+ 512 gig SSD and a quad core i7-7700 are cheaper than that mac you think is so reasonably priced.
You really need those 2 TB3 useless ports? Well my $260 laptop has actual useful ports like USB3, HDMI, and an SD slot. So why to Apple idiots only want to compare to a machine spec for spec identical to their gimp junk while ignoring the 500 ways a cheap PC surpasses the mac. Hell, your SSD is soldered in. If your computer fails in any way, you can't even recover your data from a working SSD without paying Apple an obscene amount for data recovery. There are just no words for how stupid you have to be to buy such a machine.
I was in the market for a Skylake chip when MS announced their forced windows 10 scheme. I quickly went out and bought a Devil's Canyon i7. It's running windows 7, and I'm going to have this computer for a long, long, long time.
You make a lot of good points, but it's because when you buy a Macbook Pro, it has no ports that will work with the majority of hardware I can buy at Best Buy or NewEgg unless I get adapters and dongles.
That and they just look and feel cheap now. No keyboard travel, no magsafe, no light-up logo, no startup chime, no accessories in the box anymore. The machine just screams no frills budget cost cutting machine, yet costs 5 times as much as a comparable PC.
So some Middle East countries produce more oil than Norway. Many non Middle East countries produce more oil than Norway.
ie Norway is not the top producer outside the Middle East. And fwiw, Norway produces about 1/6th as much oil as the top non Middle East producer.
So the submitter already has no clue what he's talking about.
Add to that, the title mentions oil, the first paragraph mentions oil and natural gas as being banned. The quote just talks about Oil. So TFS seems to be written by a fool.
To this guy, having marble floors and having seats on a flight is the same level of unneeded opulence. Standing on a flight to pack a plane is ridiculous. Affordability should not mean making it a miserable experience. Why not start loading people into coffen size boxes and transport them in a cargo plane? If it's only an hour flight, who cares, right?
It's a universal law. Stupidity is a capital offence and there are no appeals.
The idiots who wrote this study are just regurgitating an obvious fact while making fun of Trump to whore for grant money. Sad.
1.44MB floppy -- 512 bytes/sector x 18 sectors/track x 80 tracks/side x 2 sides/disk.
That is 1,474,560 bytes or **exactly** 1.440000 Megabytes.
Every hard drive I ever owned up to 240 megabytes advertised correctly.
The lower tiers (welfare and minimum wage) break even, the rich win exactly as TFA says. The middle class is financially ruined...
So liberal politics at its finest.
Ontario has a $15 minimum wage coming in. Last time I was at Starbucks, all the employees were panicking they're going to lose their jobs.
Go f- yourself.
My only mistake was saying Canada that way. Last flight I took was Detla from Canada to the US. $34US first bag, $47US for the second. Close enough to $50 and $75.
I guess technically not a Canadian carrier, but you're still an asshole.
ROT-13 is plenty strong enough for the purpose. Heck, ROT-26 may actually be suitable.
The cruise industry makes most of the world reachable by sea. Cunard (who owned the Lusitania) has never stopped their transatlantic service for example. You can cross the atlantic in 5 hours crammed like a sardine in a tin can (after enduring hours of torture and a prostate exam at the airport) or in 7 days on a luxury ocean liner with all entertainment and food included.....For about the same price.
For most people, and obviously all business travellers, 7 days at sea is a deal breaker. For vacationers with plenty of time on their hands, it really isn't a bad option.
Also you sound pretty ignorant when you say not many steamship lines still in existence. The lines are still around, with modern Diesel ships that are every bit as sophisticated as an aircraft carrier.
The airlines at least around here (Canada) are now charging $50 for the first checked bag, $75 for each additional. EACH WAY. The level of packaging you're talking about would take up most of a checked bag.
Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep darkness weighing as much as 49 suns, some 3 billion light-years from here.
Pit of infinitely deep darkness, huh? There's some serious hyperbole.
Wrong too But why let facts get in the way of over the top hyperbole.
Epson and Canon currently sell consumer grade printers with built in continuous ink systems. All you do is pour ink from a bottle into the printer. Sure, the same printer that would cost $80 on the razorblade model is $250, but that's already a pretty good option for people who print enough to use refilled cartridges already.
If lexmark does what you suggest, it will destroy their printer business.
I'm in the market for a drone, though to be honest I probably won't buy until black friday.
I am now 100% sure it will not be a DJI product, even after they reverse this idiotic decision next week.
Apple is more focused on instant messaging stickers and second rate TV shows about women beaters and child rapists than they are in making computers. Of course they're teen driven.
You have been lied to.
It is not just the cost in physical printing (which has a significant labor component as well). You need a truck driver to physically move the books from the print facility to the store (which also costs fuel and the use of the truck). You have to pay for the physical space of the book store. You need someone to stock the shelves, someone to physically check out the customer. You have loss due to stolen books, loss due to books damaged too much on the shelves to sell. Unsold copies. A distribution network. And everyone needs to make their profit. When you buy a physical book off the shelf at a store, how much of the money you paid do you think the publisher actually nets on it? If you think it's more than 10 cents on the dollar, you don't know anything about commerce. Even with an online seller like Amazon, someone has to pay for shipping costs and you still have many costs dealing with physical objects.
If anything, the cost to edit a manuscript into an epub file is a negligible part of the cost of the finished product.
And then...when you pay $30 for a hardcover (or $10 for a paperback), you own the physical object and can do what you want with it. Give it to a friend, donate it, sell it to a used book shop, etc. I do buy print books and I frequently trade with friends. At work, we have several avid readers and we have a small bookshelf where people drop off books they've finished and help themselves to what looks interesting. The average number of readers per copy for a physical book is much higher than for an ebook just because they're so easy to pass around and used books have such a low perceived value.
That makes print books a much better deal, usually for the price of a single book you get to read a few.
Look at the audible audiobook business model. They have a lot of the drawbacks associated with ebooks, but they cost about 20% as much as a CD version and are more convenient. Book publishers could similarly drop the price of ebooks 80% from even the paperback copy price and still not hurt their profitability compared to the actual print copies.