OK, they don't directly change the prices now. But there are so many ways that stores change the price you pay - frequent shopper cards, manufacturer's coupons, sales, those "Catalina" printables at the register that print out coupons based on what you buy - that consumers pay many different amounts for the same items.
Personally, that's fine with me, as I've gotten pretty good at working coupons and sales
I have a 5060, from back in August when Amazon was running a promo with a $50 rebate and a $50 Amazon gift certificate with purchase. I bought the RePlay over the Tivo because of the deal, as well as the fact that it has built in networking (I use my roomate's DSL but I don't have a phone line, I'm all cellular). My roomate has one too, and it's great being able to send shows to him or watch shows from his over the network.
I'm not all that impressed with commercial advance though - it works well some of the time, but I watch some shows that cut to black (like Law and Order with those black screens with the location in white text) that seem to confuse it.
A $25 discman that holds 10 gigs of music and can double as a hard drive, in half the space of a cd player, then I'll trade in my iPod.
Plus, I bought mine on clearance, so I only paid $200.
Sure, if you very rarely listen to music, a discman is fine, but if you listen to a lot, or want to be able to take your collection around, the iPod rocks.
Nobody would read Tom's. It's geared towards gamers with more money than common sense, who are convinced they need to spend as much as possible, and want to impress all their lamer, I mean gamer, friends, with their big shiny bright green case.
The Page 2 of his "Microsoft is misunderstood" article contains a few things that made me say "huh"?
The one I really noticed was "Don't copy entire software images from old PCs to new ones; leave that to the hardware OEMs, who have testing and procedures in place to make sure the imaging is done right"
If he is saying we should use factory images, that makes no sense, and would hurt security, since the from the factory images I've seen usually 1)do not have up to date patches/service packs and 2)don't have antivirus software.
He also says never to upgrade memory, which would majorly increase costs. Where I work we have P2 and P3 boxes still running with 2K or XP on them, and they would be useless if we hadn't upgraded the RAM, since they probably shipped with 64 or 128.
I'm guessing you are referring to this machine. And it does look like a nice machine. But if you intended it as a dig at Apple's pricing (which I'm not sure you did) keep in mind that TigerDirect's own ad says it sells for $3400 from HP/Compaq. TigerDirect regularly buys random closeouts cheap from various sources (ie custom builds for companies that changed their minds) and sell them cheap. So saying a limited time/quantity closeout is cheaper than another company's retail price seems like an unfair/invalid arguement.
almost every school does some form of this. Either they don't allow P2P at all, or they throttle bandwidth. The only difference is that UF has a nifty automated tool to do it. So if you pick another school based on this, you probably are going to be in the same boat.
As an employee of a college's tech support department, I have mixed feelings about the P2P blocking, but the virus blocking is great - especially with fun worms like Welchia and Blaster that spread superfast with no user action.
Hey, I consider it useful that Trinkaus discovered that woman in vans don't stop for stopsigns. I've never liked those minivan driving soccer moms.
Observations were made at the same 4 T-junction intersections in a residential community in the suburbs of a large northeastern city. Two characteristics were selected for viewing: type of vehicle and sex of driver. Data for 8 90-min observations suggest an overall compliance rate of about 6% with stop signs in a residential community. Women driving vans were the least compliant--approximately 1%.
At the same time, theaters owners have taken a stance against the long-held practice of providing free admittance to members of these guilds and associations.
So until they stop that practice, viewers can go to the movies and still not pay. Although I guess they do have to pony up for popcorn.
The article also mentions that studios will set up screenings sometimes too, which I'm sure are free
when you mistype that domain name, you get a few suggestions. You also get a list at the bottom of the box for "popular searches". Click on them and you get "sponsored results for:" listings. Sponsored results means they are making money off of this via their "monopoly" on the fact that they run the DNS.
Of course, it's a messy fight, because VeriSign wants to make money off people clicking on the links that display because of their position of power, while the companies suing like Netster want to make money by buying mistyped domain names, then inflicting 18 popups, a homepage redirect, and a copy of Gator on you. So no matter who wins, we lose
A few days ago, I was looking to kill off a $50 Amazon promo certificate. I decided to buy a new multi-tool, and searched for "leatherman wave". The listings included two adwords... linking to www.all-leatherman-4-less.com and stagg-tools.com. Amazon probably gets money per link, or maybe an affiliate commission, so even if they don't make the sale they win.. they get money, and don't have to worry about inventory or shipping or anything.
The other interesting thing is right now those adwords come from a little search engine called, well, Google. So Amazon basically figures they can do the same thing they are doing now in regards to getting paid when competitiors get paid, but they won't have to go thru the google middlemen to do it.
Remember the MP3 search engines? Before Napster, college students and dotcommers were filesharing by putting MP3s on their webpages for download through good ol' http.
I remember back in the day, late '98 and early '99, when I was a college freshman, before Napster and it's P2P bretheren were invented. I didn't get my pirated music from HTTP websites. I got it from 2 sources. The first was a site called Scour.net, which searched in an HTTP page, but downloaded from FTP sites and Windows shares, mostly windows shares. It had a little application, the Scour dowloader or something, that helped you download stuff linked from the page. The other way I obtained illegal music was FTP sites. In fact, I ran one off of my college dorm connection, and the funny thing is back then nobody at the school really cared.
This looks sort of like an old IBM product that I don't think they make anymore, the IBM Netvista X41 all-in -one desktop. True, this one folds up as a laptop, but unfolded the form factor looks the same. I guess IBM likes that form factor.
We have a couple of the X41's at the helpdesk I work at.. I'm not a big fan, partly because I hate things that are all-in-one, and also because we've had several harddrive failures on them.
Well, they don't want to hurt current sales...
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If they were like, "the G5 Powerbooks will be coming out in 6 months", they would have a hard time selling any full-priced G4 laptops. So they wait as long as possible. It's the same reason car companies disguise their prototypes.
I bought a Powerbook 12" right before they announced additional price cuts for education users back in May... but if they announced it too early, it hurts sales. Of course, I bought 2nd gen iPod for 50% off after the 3rd gen ones came out, so when knowledge is out their, buyers can win - but then apple loses.
P2P programs like Kazza usually automatically find media on your drive, share it, and set themselves up to automatically load when you start your computer. I've seen a ton of students at the college I work at with Kazaa running in the system tray, and when I mention it to them they say they have no idea how to get rid of it.
So I would say that there is more intent between someone with the knowledfge to be running Freenet or an FTP server than someone who can't figure out how to disable Kazaa from startup. Although I don't know if that has any legal bearing.
It freaks my brain that they WEREN'T required before
From the sounds of the article, there was no prior rulings on the issue either way. This is just the first time the issue has ever come before the courts, and possibly one of the first times the technology has been used in a case like this.
And it's state, not federal, so you can't blame Ashcroft.
Apple Store has previous generation ten gigs for as low as $170
I actually bought a second-gen 10 gig from Target for $199.99 when they clearenced them when the 3rd-gerneration ones came out.. Drove around to 3 targets until I found one that had several, bought all 5, resold the other 4 for a profit. I love iPods.
who built an RJ-11 to electrical outlet cable. Use of it, I hear, is a good way to get a dead piece of hardware so that you can take advantage of the Best Buy Purchase Protection Plan and get it replaced with a new model
An account implies that my name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card number are stored on file. No thanks.
So you think they aren't going to store this info ina database if you don't have an account? Of course they are, since they need the info in case you need to return something, for tax records, inventory purposes, rebate verification, and a host of other reasons. Of course, part of it is so they can send you catalogs, emails, ect, but they would do that if you have an account or not.
I buy hundreds of dollars of equiptment a month from the 'net, much for resale, so this is usually a plus for me because I don't have to reenter info. But they would have my info anyway, and I would have to reenter it without an account.
Well, they are doing business in the US, which gives them the right to use the US legal system. And as far as taking "legal action", they haven't actually used the courts or sued anyone - they just sent a letter threatening to if their demands were not met, which they were.
there's more money in them. If you have a casual gamer, they may buy one or two games a year- hardly enought to make up for the loss many companies take on the hardware. Your hardcore gamer will buy a ton of games, plus spend money on extra controllers, memory cards, online services like XBox live, ect. So it makes sense to concentrate on the hardcore gamers.
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OK, they don't directly change the prices now. But there are so many ways that stores change the price you pay - frequent shopper cards, manufacturer's coupons, sales, those "Catalina" printables at the register that print out coupons based on what you buy - that consumers pay many different amounts for the same items.
Personally, that's fine with me, as I've gotten pretty good at working coupons and sales
hasn't apple been dead, or dying, since the early 1980's?
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I have a 5060, from back in August when Amazon was running a promo with a $50 rebate and a $50 Amazon gift certificate with purchase. I bought the RePlay over the Tivo because of the deal, as well as the fact that it has built in networking (I use my roomate's DSL but I don't have a phone line, I'm all cellular). My roomate has one too, and it's great being able to send shows to him or watch shows from his over the network.
I'm not all that impressed with commercial advance though - it works well some of the time, but I watch some shows that cut to black (like Law and Order with those black screens with the location in white text) that seem to confuse it.
A $25 discman that holds 10 gigs of music and can double as a hard drive, in half the space of a cd player, then I'll trade in my iPod.
Plus, I bought mine on clearance, so I only paid $200.
Sure, if you very rarely listen to music, a discman is fine, but if you listen to a lot, or want to be able to take your collection around, the iPod rocks.
Nobody would read Tom's. It's geared towards gamers with more money than common sense, who are convinced they need to spend as much as possible, and want to impress all their lamer, I mean gamer, friends, with their big shiny bright green case.
The Page 2 of his "Microsoft is misunderstood" article contains a few things that made me say "huh"?
The one I really noticed was "Don't copy entire software images from old PCs to new ones; leave that to the hardware OEMs, who have testing and procedures in place to make sure the imaging is done right"
If he is saying we should use factory images, that makes no sense, and would hurt security, since the from the factory images I've seen usually 1)do not have up to date patches/service packs and 2)don't have antivirus software.
He also says never to upgrade memory, which would majorly increase costs. Where I work we have P2 and P3 boxes still running with 2K or XP on them, and they would be useless if we hadn't upgraded the RAM, since they probably shipped with 64 or 128.
I'm guessing you are referring to this machine. And it does look like a nice machine. But if you intended it as a dig at Apple's pricing (which I'm not sure you did) keep in mind that TigerDirect's own ad says it sells for $3400 from HP/Compaq. TigerDirect regularly buys random closeouts cheap from various sources (ie custom builds for companies that changed their minds) and sell them cheap. So saying a limited time/quantity closeout is cheaper than another company's retail price seems like an unfair/invalid arguement.
that a datum is like lay's potato chips... it's hard to have just one. So everyone has more then one datum, hence they have data.
the iBooks would normally cost $1500, but every other week would be on sale for $799, or $699 with bonus card, limit 4
almost every school does some form of this. Either they don't allow P2P at all, or they throttle bandwidth. The only difference is that UF has a nifty automated tool to do it. So if you pick another school based on this, you probably are going to be in the same boat.
As an employee of a college's tech support department, I have mixed feelings about the P2P blocking, but the virus blocking is great - especially with fun worms like Welchia and Blaster that spread superfast with no user action.
Hey, I consider it useful that Trinkaus discovered that woman in vans don't stop for stopsigns. I've never liked those minivan driving soccer moms.
Observations were made at the same 4 T-junction intersections in a residential community in the suburbs of a large northeastern city. Two characteristics were selected for viewing: type of vehicle and sex of driver. Data for 8 90-min observations suggest an overall compliance rate of about 6% with stop signs in a residential community. Women driving vans were the least compliant--approximately 1%.Link
At the same time, theaters owners have taken a stance against the long-held practice of providing free admittance to members of these guilds and associations.
So until they stop that practice, viewers can go to the movies and still not pay. Although I guess they do have to pony up for popcorn.
The article also mentions that studios will set up screenings sometimes too, which I'm sure are free
when you mistype that domain name, you get a few suggestions. You also get a list at the bottom of the box for "popular searches". Click on them and you get "sponsored results for:" listings. Sponsored results means they are making money off of this via their "monopoly" on the fact that they run the DNS.
Of course, it's a messy fight, because VeriSign wants to make money off people clicking on the links that display because of their position of power, while the companies suing like Netster want to make money by buying mistyped domain names, then inflicting 18 popups, a homepage redirect, and a copy of Gator on you. So no matter who wins, we lose
A few days ago, I was looking to kill off a $50 Amazon promo certificate. I decided to buy a new multi-tool, and searched for "leatherman wave". The listings included two adwords... linking to www.all-leatherman-4-less.com and stagg-tools.com. Amazon probably gets money per link, or maybe an affiliate commission, so even if they don't make the sale they win.. they get money, and don't have to worry about inventory or shipping or anything.
The other interesting thing is right now those adwords come from a little search engine called, well, Google. So Amazon basically figures they can do the same thing they are doing now in regards to getting paid when competitiors get paid, but they won't have to go thru the google middlemen to do it.
Remember the MP3 search engines? Before Napster, college students and dotcommers were filesharing by putting MP3s on their webpages for download through good ol' http.
I remember back in the day, late '98 and early '99, when I was a college freshman, before Napster and it's P2P bretheren were invented. I didn't get my pirated music from HTTP websites. I got it from 2 sources. The first was a site called Scour.net, which searched in an HTTP page, but downloaded from FTP sites and Windows shares, mostly windows shares. It had a little application, the Scour dowloader or something, that helped you download stuff linked from the page. The other way I obtained illegal music was FTP sites. In fact, I ran one off of my college dorm connection, and the funny thing is back then nobody at the school really cared.
This looks sort of like an old IBM product that I don't think they make anymore, the IBM Netvista X41 all-in -one desktop. True, this one folds up as a laptop, but unfolded the form factor looks the same. I guess IBM likes that form factor.
We have a couple of the X41's at the helpdesk I work at.. I'm not a big fan, partly because I hate things that are all-in-one, and also because we've had several harddrive failures on them.
If they were like, "the G5 Powerbooks will be coming out in 6 months", they would have a hard time selling any full-priced G4 laptops. So they wait as long as possible. It's the same reason car companies disguise their prototypes.
I bought a Powerbook 12" right before they announced additional price cuts for education users back in May... but if they announced it too early, it hurts sales. Of course, I bought 2nd gen iPod for 50% off after the 3rd gen ones came out, so when knowledge is out their, buyers can win - but then apple loses.
P2P programs like Kazza usually automatically find media on your drive, share it, and set themselves up to automatically load when you start your computer. I've seen a ton of students at the college I work at with Kazaa running in the system tray, and when I mention it to them they say they have no idea how to get rid of it.
So I would say that there is more intent between someone with the knowledfge to be running Freenet or an FTP server than someone who can't figure out how to disable Kazaa from startup. Although I don't know if that has any legal bearing.
It freaks my brain that they WEREN'T required before
From the sounds of the article, there was no prior rulings on the issue either way. This is just the first time the issue has ever come before the courts, and possibly one of the first times the technology has been used in a case like this.
And it's state, not federal, so you can't blame Ashcroft.
Apple Store has previous generation ten gigs for as low as $170
I actually bought a second-gen 10 gig from Target for $199.99 when they clearenced them when the 3rd-gerneration ones came out.. Drove around to 3 targets until I found one that had several, bought all 5, resold the other 4 for a profit. I love iPods.
who built an RJ-11 to electrical outlet cable. Use of it, I hear, is a good way to get a dead piece of hardware so that you can take advantage of the Best Buy Purchase Protection Plan and get it replaced with a new model
An account implies that my name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card number are stored on file. No thanks.
So you think they aren't going to store this info ina database if you don't have an account? Of course they are, since they need the info in case you need to return something, for tax records, inventory purposes, rebate verification, and a host of other reasons. Of course, part of it is so they can send you catalogs, emails, ect, but they would do that if you have an account or not.
I buy hundreds of dollars of equiptment a month from the 'net, much for resale, so this is usually a plus for me because I don't have to reenter info. But they would have my info anyway, and I would have to reenter it without an account.
to the fact that the mac destruction video was in QuickTime
Well, they are doing business in the US, which gives them the right to use the US legal system. And as far as taking "legal action", they haven't actually used the courts or sued anyone - they just sent a letter threatening to if their demands were not met, which they were.
there's more money in them. If you have a casual gamer, they may buy one or two games a year- hardly enought to make up for the loss many companies take on the hardware. Your hardcore gamer will buy a ton of games, plus spend money on extra controllers, memory cards, online services like XBox live, ect. So it makes sense to concentrate on the hardcore gamers.