Not only that, but unless the show sells out anyway, even at the inflated scalper prices, the band and the venue miss out on merchandising and refreshment sales.
So, ticket prices are subsidized by merchandising and refreshment sales? Well there's your problem.
It's like when Sony and Microsoft crack down on the homebrew community because they depend too much on overpriced games to make a profit.
Problem is, the band wants all 100 seats in the venue to be filled...This is part of why they don't "just raise prices".
Then sell all the tickets auction-style to allow the market to find the equilibrium price while eliminating the possibility for scalpers to make a profit.
The real reason people don't want dollar coins is because the coins do not fit with how people use cash. They're too big and too heavy to just carry around. They don't organized well in a pocket, wallet, or purse. They just don't work.
So then you must prefer bills for all coin denominations. Quarter dollar bills, 10 cent bills, 5 cent bills, 1 cent bills. Right?
No, the real reason people don't carry coins in the USA is because our coins have such little value. If we no longer had $1 bills, and if we had $2 coins, people would carry them around, I guarantee. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.
Except that it's blindingly obvious that nobody aside from some vending machine operators and a few outliers such as yourself want dollar coins.
The only reason people don't want dollar coins is because the $2 denomination isn't in wide circulation. If it were, the excuse that carrying a pocketful of $1 coins weighs you down would be invalid because you would never need to carry more than one at a time.
If we in the U.S. would more fully adopt the dollar coin, and also a $2 coin like the Toonie, even we could have such nice things. Until then, we'll have to keep digging out pocketfuls of quarters and trying our luck with the bill acceptor.
What I think they're saying is that advertised speed and bandwidth for "internet service" must be the minimum allowed for any Internet site.
So if your cable company's 38 Mbps network is shared among 500 subscribers, then they would have to advertise your connection as 76 kbps, even though you usually get 5+ Mbps and never see below 3 Mbps.
I'm afraid that would just confuse people even more.
In order not to have to ship an AC adapter, the manufacturer would have to be certain that a nearby device has a Dedicated Charging Port. Which device might this be?
Devices like media players should provide the full 500 mA for each port, ideally with two ports, so they will work with bus-powered USB 2.5" hard drives.
Standard USB doesn't provide enough power for a device like this, especially if the device itself is a USB host.
Standard USB allows for up to 1A. My Roku uses about 3W, which at 5V is 600 mA. That still leaves the Roku box with 400 mA (4 unit loads) left over to send through its own USB port.
Compared to a DVD remote, the Roku's is missing next and previous chapter buttons. When I'm watching a show, I like to jump past the opening credits, thank you.
And why are they still using an old-fashioned AC adapter? They ought to power the box through industry standard USB or PoE.
If I am paying for an unlimited plan with say 4GB/s - then I want an ultimated plan with 4GB/s. If I am 'saturating the network' in this manner - they should not have offered this plan at those speeds.
If your 4Mbps is oversubscribed at 100:1, then you're really only paying for a guaranteed data rate of 40 Kbps. If you want the full 4Mbps, you're going to have to pay a LOT more.
Since they don't want to advertise 40 Kbps when that's really only a theoretical worst-case scenario and you're usually going to get 4Mbps, it's easier for the ISP to do some traffic shaping to make sure you get your 4Mbps most of the time.
With "unlimited" data plans, the incentive for the ISP is to find ways to keep you from saturating the network connection. Making the network non-neutral is one way to accomplish this.
With pay-as-you-go data plans, the incentive for the ISP is to eliminate anything that prevents you from saturating your network connection. This means not slowing down traffic based on origin or destination (in other words, making the network completely neutral), and upgrading the infrastructure when it makes economic sense for them.
there is no competition and hence there are no market forces at play in this situation.
Perfect competition isn't required for market forces to work. Even with one seller and many buyers, price can be used to efficiently allocate limited supplies and to be used as a price signal to make more supply available.
So the claim that there are no market forces at play is an overstatement.
North Carolina's problem, like many states, is an over-reliance on state sales taxes. If they would reduce their sales tax to zero and increase other taxes to compensate, they would make their own businesses more competitive with Internet retailers like Amazon.com and eliminate the need to try to tax them. At the same time, this would encourage commerce and eliminate a regressive tax.
What do you have on your idle screen besides the date and time, reception indicator, battery indicator, audible/vibration indicator, and lock status indicator?
My phone has neither an e-Ink display nor a huge battery. It does this neat trick where if you aren't using it, it turns the backlight off to save energy.
Ideally, the screen would tell you, at all times, the number of minutes you have left on your plan. When you're on a call, this number will count down.
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So, ticket prices are subsidized by merchandising and refreshment sales? Well there's your problem.
It's like when Sony and Microsoft crack down on the homebrew community because they depend too much on overpriced games to make a profit.
Then sell all the tickets auction-style to allow the market to find the equilibrium price while eliminating the possibility for scalpers to make a profit.
..seems to have the same traffic jam effect.
So then you must prefer bills for all coin denominations. Quarter dollar bills, 10 cent bills, 5 cent bills, 1 cent bills. Right?
No, the real reason people don't carry coins in the USA is because our coins have such little value. If we no longer had $1 bills, and if we had $2 coins, people would carry them around, I guarantee. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.
The only reason people don't want dollar coins is because the $2 denomination isn't in wide circulation. If it were, the excuse that carrying a pocketful of $1 coins weighs you down would be invalid because you would never need to carry more than one at a time.
If we in the U.S. would more fully adopt the dollar coin, and also a $2 coin like the Toonie, even we could have such nice things. Until then, we'll have to keep digging out pocketfuls of quarters and trying our luck with the bill acceptor.
They say the same about us!
So if your cable company's 38 Mbps network is shared among 500 subscribers, then they would have to advertise your connection as 76 kbps, even though you usually get 5+ Mbps and never see below 3 Mbps.
I'm afraid that would just confuse people even more.
One example is a 5V 2.0A USB iPad charger.
Correction: 1.8 A.
from Wikipedia:
So if the Roku is given 1.8 A and uses 600 mA for itself and powers two USB ports at 500 mA each, that still leaves 200 mA left over.
Standard USB allows for up to 1A. My Roku uses about 3W, which at 5V is 600 mA. That still leaves the Roku box with 400 mA (4 unit loads) left over to send through its own USB port.
Compared to a DVD remote, the Roku's is missing next and previous chapter buttons. When I'm watching a show, I like to jump past the opening credits, thank you.
And why are they still using an old-fashioned AC adapter? They ought to power the box through industry standard USB or PoE.
An entrepreneur would call that an "opportunity."
Unless, of course, your neighborhood granted the cable company a monopoly. But that's partially your fault.
What are you attempting to prove?
#1 isn't an ad hominem, #2 is.
If your 4Mbps is oversubscribed at 100:1, then you're really only paying for a guaranteed data rate of 40 Kbps. If you want the full 4Mbps, you're going to have to pay a LOT more.
Since they don't want to advertise 40 Kbps when that's really only a theoretical worst-case scenario and you're usually going to get 4Mbps, it's easier for the ISP to do some traffic shaping to make sure you get your 4Mbps most of the time.
With "unlimited" data plans, the incentive for the ISP is to find ways to keep you from saturating the network connection. Making the network non-neutral is one way to accomplish this.
With pay-as-you-go data plans, the incentive for the ISP is to eliminate anything that prevents you from saturating your network connection. This means not slowing down traffic based on origin or destination (in other words, making the network completely neutral), and upgrading the infrastructure when it makes economic sense for them.
We can't have our cake and eat it, too.
What prevents Telnet from ever using Unicode?
Do you think language designers would really use both symbols and not make them interchangeable?
Why must they all be true for the parent to have a point? What if just one of the above were true?
Perfect competition isn't required for market forces to work. Even with one seller and many buyers, price can be used to efficiently allocate limited supplies and to be used as a price signal to make more supply available.
So the claim that there are no market forces at play is an overstatement.
North Carolina's problem, like many states, is an over-reliance on state sales taxes. If they would reduce their sales tax to zero and increase other taxes to compensate, they would make their own businesses more competitive with Internet retailers like Amazon.com and eliminate the need to try to tax them. At the same time, this would encourage commerce and eliminate a regressive tax.
No, it wasn't a co-op ISP, it was a municipal ISP.
That makes sense. What good is a cassette deck if not to make copies of music for your friends?
What do you have on your idle screen besides the date and time, reception indicator, battery indicator, audible/vibration indicator, and lock status indicator?
My phone has neither an e-Ink display nor a huge battery. It does this neat trick where if you aren't using it, it turns the backlight off to save energy.
Ideally, the screen would tell you, at all times, the number of minutes you have left on your plan. When you're on a call, this number will count down.