I hear ya there, While I did the Brick and Mortor route, I paid for quite a big chunk of my college experience, 40+ hours a week at work and around 18 hours a semester makes for a intense experience. Mostly I leared how to figure out what is importent and what needs to get done when.
"I'll stick with buying the vinyl and downloading the audio from [semi-] illicit services, thanks."
Dude that's exactly what I do. I love the turntable sitting on top of the stero set, and I've grown to love the sound of vinyl. I also love how I can get Vinyl as low as 50 cents an album! (think used record stores clearence section). Vinyl is the coolest thing for me since mp3's.
Same here, I've been running ubuntu for a while now and would never *ever* go back to the nightmare which is windows. That said, I've been using mac's since the late 80's and can't wait till the budget allows for a new MacBook!
"You missed my point. If a store sells 100 DVDs at 10 bucks and 10 digital cameras at 100 bucks with the same overall profit markup from the manufacturer for each, the DVDs are not as efficient a money-maker than the cameras.
Of course, the problem has always been that it's not a simple matter of just scratching the dvds and ordering 20 cameras -- it just doesn't work that way."
It depends on the cost structure. Shipping is part of the Variable Cost of a Good (Marginal Cost of a good). So selling more increasces your Variable Cost, true. It also helps scale away Fixed Costs (think of the costs of management, utilities to keep the store running, etc) which is a *good* thing. This helps create an economy of scale which pushes prices lower. Say you have to spend 5 cents on the dollar on fixed costs, if you ship 2x as many units then your fixed costs might drop to 3cents on the dollar (of revenue). High sales volume is almost always a good (really good) thing.
no clue man, one day a couple years ago I got an email, from a friend, that was almost 3 years old. Weirdest thing as he was talking about stuff that had previously happend and everything. Kinda creepy actually
As much of a troll as you are. I admit it would be an intresting thing to watch someone from another country (in which it is legal to violate the gpl) actually do it, and see the community reaction, and results of it.
"but that is arguably AT MOST valid only in Russia"
Even if that's true couldn't it be argued that the servers that the transaction is taking place in russia, then the radio broadcast is being delivered from russia? I am recieveing it in another country sure but then again via shortwave I can recieve broadcasts from other countries as well. I can even pay to recieve sat. broadcasts from another country if I so choose.
True, but when you consider how much money each launch costs relative to thier budget (not sure of the %tage) I'm betting that the people who run that dog and pony show don't want to waste their budget dollars on a failed launch.
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woah calm down there, I never said reverse engineering skype wasn't
ya know that that was legal right?
I hear ya there, While I did the Brick and Mortor route, I paid for quite a big chunk of my college experience, 40+ hours a week at work and around 18 hours a semester makes for a intense experience. Mostly I leared how to figure out what is importent and what needs to get done when.
ya....then I guess it'd work
Well that...and all the other landing sites
Ha! nice one, I havn't seen that movie in a while
Harvey Danger!! Rockon!
"de-evolution"
Yeay for more Devo!!!
(believe it or not that's where they got their name)
"the chance to 'think different' might be exactly what we need to find a New Way to live."
;)
So we all need to buy Mac's??
"I'll stick with buying the vinyl and downloading the audio from [semi-] illicit services, thanks."
Dude that's exactly what I do. I love the turntable sitting on top of the stero set, and I've grown to love the sound of vinyl. I also love how I can get Vinyl as low as 50 cents an album! (think used record stores clearence section). Vinyl is the coolest thing for me since mp3's.
Same here, I've been running ubuntu for a while now and would never *ever* go back to the nightmare which is windows. That said, I've been using mac's since the late 80's and can't wait till the budget allows for a new MacBook!
"how can I expect something significant going from Tiger to Leopard?"
About as much as from say
"Warty Warthog
Hoary Hedgehog
Dapper Drake
Grumpy Groundhog"
you get the idea...
To be fair Sun makes some pretty nice x86 workstations that ship with Solaris...not that anyone outside of business uses them...
I remember Copland too...Sad times they were
Dude I used to love those games!
I'm going to have to hunt down my install floppies and my old powerbook tonight!
Obviously you've never seen Texas mosquito's
p g
Here's what we use to catch them
http://www.paulsslides.com/images/mosquito-trap.j
"Name one PC manufacturer (I mean IBM PC compatibles) that offers a product to the home desktop market without Microsoft Windows installed."
Apple?? (Speaking of boot camp and all)
"You missed my point. If a store sells 100 DVDs at 10 bucks and 10 digital cameras at 100 bucks with the same overall profit markup from the manufacturer for each, the DVDs are not as efficient a money-maker than the cameras.
Of course, the problem has always been that it's not a simple matter of just scratching the dvds and ordering 20 cameras -- it just doesn't work that way."
It depends on the cost structure. Shipping is part of the Variable Cost of a Good (Marginal Cost of a good). So selling more increasces your Variable Cost, true. It also helps scale away Fixed Costs (think of the costs of management, utilities to keep the store running, etc) which is a *good* thing. This helps create an economy of scale which pushes prices lower. Say you have to spend 5 cents on the dollar on fixed costs, if you ship 2x as many units then your fixed costs might drop to 3cents on the dollar (of revenue). High sales volume is almost always a good (really good) thing.
"The world now dreams American dreams."
That's an amazing statement to really think about. Awe inspriring actually, though quite politically loaded.
Well I always said the Ford Falcon was a kick-butt car
"As it stands, NASA is little more than an inefficient sinkhole for taxpayer dollars."
Some would counter that NASA is a very efficient sinkhole for taxpayer dollars...however I think that's along the same lines as your point.
no clue man, one day a couple years ago I got an email, from a friend, that was almost 3 years old. Weirdest thing as he was talking about stuff that had previously happend and everything. Kinda creepy actually
As much of a troll as you are. I admit it would be an intresting thing to watch someone from another country (in which it is legal to violate the gpl) actually do it, and see the community reaction, and results of it.
"but that is arguably AT MOST valid only in Russia"
Even if that's true couldn't it be argued that the servers that the transaction is taking place in russia, then the radio broadcast is being delivered from russia? I am recieveing it in another country sure but then again via shortwave I can recieve broadcasts from other countries as well. I can even pay to recieve sat. broadcasts from another country if I so choose.
True, but when you consider how much money each launch costs relative to thier budget (not sure of the %tage) I'm betting that the people who run that dog and pony show don't want to waste their budget dollars on a failed launch.