My recollection is people fear stuff that is different, but in reality MS Office requires significantly more maintenance.
Fear is great in your cow-orkers! I've been told not to distribute Document.docm files because the Word2010 default is Document.docx and "people will be nervous about getting something different." The weird thing about that is most of these same people don't know how to tell WindowsOS to display document suffixes, so how would they even notice?
Authors get rather little relative to what the publisher gets. And your first question is invalid. Ebooks have no marginal cost and microscopically small cost of delivery, and AFAIK no inventory value (see FIFO vs. LIFO tax codes), and seeing as print books are generated from an electronic copy to begin with, they've got nearly no fixed cost either (assuming the publisher continues to produce hardcopies).
I understand -- and I rented a zillion library books in my youth as well. Now that I'm old and rich (:-) ) I can enjoy the luxury of paying a buck or two to 'rent' a book without having to leave my comfy chair & wolpies.
And their customers have stated that an eBook, without a dead tree version, should sell for whatever they're willing to pay. Who are Amazon to argue with their customers over this matter?
So now you know why I practically never ever pay for an ebook. Aside from the well-discussed problems of DRM (thanks again, ignoble*.py), I view the prices of e-books as drastically out of line with cost. No diff from the insane premium music CDs commanded over vinyl. So until ebook prices drop to maybe $5 or so, fuggedabadit. Heck, in all honesty, I'd probably drift over to a NetFlix-style rental system if such existed. Pay, say $1 or so to rent a book for a month or so. That's more or less equivalent, admittedly in my personal accounting, to supporting my local dead-tree library.
This could work very well for some of us. Like, say, Vermont, which could then apply for Provincehood with Canada. The United [somethings] of Maple Syrup!
Can someone explain to me why "try and" seems to have become so popular? It makes no logical sense as a replacement for "try to", and appears to be favored over the latter for purely euphonic reasons.
OTOH, if your logic tree isn't getting the results you expected, delete an OR and....
I've had a website devoted to alternative cancer treatments almost since the start of the Internet. I wonder if they will knock, or just kick the door in?
You have it exactly backwards. Polygraphs *and* "alternative [anything]" are the fakes. It's more like, if I published a book on why so-called alternative treatments were complete bunkum (which they are) and the Feds wanted to shut me down. As Iain whatsisname said, "If it worked, we'd call it a treatment. It's called 'alternative treatment' because it DOESN'T."
It's those cheapass parents who bought storebrand sodapops, which taste like santorum. The kids understandably went ballistic 'cause they wanted a drink with some reasonable taste quality.
It applies to any two encryption methods. I don't know why you would think it has to be the same cipher twice.
So you're saying that, in Soviet Russia, you use ROT-26 followed with ROT-52 ? (OK, I'm done beating every single resident bacterial cell in a dead horse to death)
It's like a guitarist who tries to sound like Brian May or a singer who wants to sound like Freddie Mercury. They might get all the notes right, but it will never be the same. I share Larry's doubts as to whether the company can survive without it.
Awww, c'mon now. You can buy a carbon-copy Deacy Amp online easily enough. Then all you need is the PhD in AstroPhysics.
It's pretty easy, actually. Just charge less for your product than it costs you to make, market and deliver it (including your pension, healthcare and other overhead costs), and demand will actually make you go bankrupt faster.
Milo Minderbinder would like a word with you concerning his prior art in this IP area.
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My recollection is people fear stuff that is different, but in reality MS Office requires significantly more maintenance.
Fear is great in your cow-orkers! I've been told not to distribute Document.docm files because the Word2010 default is Document.docx and "people will be nervous about getting something different." The weird thing about that is most of these same people don't know how to tell WindowsOS to display document suffixes, so how would they even notice?
Authors get rather little relative to what the publisher gets.
And your first question is invalid. Ebooks have no marginal cost and microscopically small cost of delivery, and AFAIK no inventory value (see FIFO vs. LIFO tax codes), and seeing as print books are generated from an electronic copy to begin with, they've got nearly no fixed cost either (assuming the publisher continues to produce hardcopies).
I understand -- and I rented a zillion library books in my youth as well. Now that I'm old and rich ( :-) ) I can enjoy the luxury of paying a buck or two to 'rent' a book without having to leave my comfy chair & wolpies.
And their customers have stated that an eBook, without a dead tree version, should sell for whatever they're willing to pay. Who are Amazon to argue with their customers over this matter?
So now you know why I practically never ever pay for an ebook. Aside from the well-discussed problems of DRM (thanks again, ignoble*.py), I view the prices of e-books as drastically out of line with cost. No diff from the insane premium music CDs commanded over vinyl. So until ebook prices drop to maybe $5 or so, fuggedabadit.
Heck, in all honesty, I'd probably drift over to a NetFlix-style rental system if such existed. Pay, say $1 or so to rent a book for a month or so. That's more or less equivalent, admittedly in my personal accounting, to supporting my local dead-tree library.
Amazing that in 2013, HTML still cannot perform even half the functions a PDF can do. This includes, for example, non-flow oriented precise layout.
It's amazing that in 2013, hammers still aren't good at screwing and unscrewing screws.
You're holding it wrong.
What's the phrase? Once is chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern
At least in Goldfinger, the third time is "enemy action." Got Mr. Bond James Bond in a little trouble.
The difference between ethical and legal is also called the "profit margin"
Love it. I think I'll drop that into my .sig , and maybe even put it on some of my campaign material.
How do you incrementally get from a horse to a motor car?
Well it clearly couldn't have happened through development, so it must have been...
"Intelligent Design" //rimshot
This could work very well for some of us. Like, say, Vermont, which could then apply for Provincehood with Canada. The United [somethings] of Maple Syrup!
How many people have died crashing into a telephone pole?
I think more then 10.
No need to bet. First Google search results show a report from NJ state gov't with the number 50 -60 deaths per year in that state alone.
Hey, at least they weren't killed by terrorists. The DHS+TSA+NSA has succeeded!
In all seriousness: they taste really really bad. Nothing like farm-raised geese which are among other things, a different species.
What? modded Insightful? WTFingF?
Can someone explain to me why "try and" seems to have become so popular? It makes no logical sense as a replacement for "try to", and appears to be favored over the latter for purely euphonic reasons.
OTOH, if your logic tree isn't getting the results you expected, delete an OR and....
try AND
. //rimshot
I've had a website devoted to alternative cancer treatments almost since the start of the Internet. I wonder if they will knock, or just kick the door in?
You have it exactly backwards. Polygraphs *and* "alternative [anything]" are the fakes. It's more like, if I published a book on why so-called alternative treatments were complete bunkum (which they are) and the Feds wanted to shut me down.
As Iain whatsisname said, "If it worked, we'd call it a treatment. It's called 'alternative treatment' because it DOESN'T."
It's those cheapass parents who bought storebrand sodapops, which taste like santorum. The kids understandably went ballistic 'cause they wanted a drink with some reasonable taste quality.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
Sorry, Kepler.
Hudson Hongo's http://leasthelpful.com/ has some pretty odd reviews. His are allegedly *not* intentionally absurd.
you should have brushed it at least twice a day
We're talking about battery life, not Bluetooth connections.
Well, someone had to say it.
It's like we're trying to figure out a five-dimensional-chess computer without actually knowing the rules of chess.
Naaah, that's easy: Queen to Queen's Level Five.
It applies to any two encryption methods. I don't know why you would think it has to be the same cipher twice.
So you're saying that, in Soviet Russia, you use ROT-26 followed with ROT-52 ?
(OK, I'm done beating every single resident bacterial cell in a dead horse to death)
Correlation does not imply causation.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/552/
Software responding to phrase - disable hard core porn and enable romantic comedy function.
Came to see if Rule34 was invoked in thread. Was not disappointed.
Meanwhile, just imagine how well this new device would work on /. threads!
It's like a guitarist who tries to sound like Brian May or a singer who wants to sound like Freddie Mercury. They might get all the notes right, but it will never be the same. I share Larry's doubts as to whether the company can survive without it.
Awww, c'mon now. You can buy a carbon-copy Deacy Amp online easily enough. Then all you need is the PhD in AstroPhysics.
It's pretty easy, actually. Just charge less for your product than it costs you to make, market and deliver it (including your pension, healthcare and other overhead costs), and demand will actually make you go bankrupt faster.
Milo Minderbinder would like a word with you concerning his prior art in this IP area.