Last month the cinemas actually lowered prices, I think due to a fairly significant slump in viewing, espoused as one reason, anyway.
Presumably they are back up that $15 mark now.
Which does look crappy next to say, Quickflix, where you can watch lots of movies for $30 a month, happily. Even more if you live in a city they have a distribution centre in.
I have definitely been to less movies this year, as well. Especially at those prices. Almost not worth buying one of those books of 10 tickets where you get tickets for about 10 bucks, rather than 15, as with the six month time limit, there is a large danger of not using them up, even with two people!
Also, when I was one of those kid things, I am sure the child or student price was much less, relative to an adult. As in less than half, not the 2/3 or 3/4 or more that you can see now.
Anyone know why that happened? They start making lots of money from 13 year olds or something and put prices up?
Those fluorescent lights are selling plenty here, I see them all in all the shops, and have replaced all of my other crappy globes with them. Cheaper than 5 bucks, too.
Rising energy prices may have something to do with it, but I have not had to replace any of them, in a year and a half, could never say that for the other pieces of crap (last one we had went a few weeks ago).
How long does it take someone to read, say, a 300 page book, every single word, out loud?
I would imagine far far longer than reading the same thing if you read at an average speed, and several times that if you read at well above an average speed, which a lot of people here will do, I am sure.
As an example of faster than average reading speed, the 300 page novel would take me about 3 hours to read. How long for you to read it to me, by voice?
A fellower slashdotter suggested an older Palm M500 for this (8mb memory, can take 64MB cards). He was right. The battery last for ages, no problem in any sort of light. A Palm V would do as well I presume, just no card slot for it.
Might be cheap in some places. 20 bucks here, for new ones. More like 35, for those 'oversized' type that seem to be happening more and more. Just ridiculous prices. Almost seem to charge as if they had each copy Fed-Exed to them in its own individual bag, every time.
It is why I am more interested now, than before, in ebooks.
Or a one a year order from somewhere like bookcloseouts.com, which of course lets you see what a more realistic shipping charge may be.
Not sure about feel. Cardboard covers are nice enough, but cheap, crappy paper doesn't really feel nice to anyone does it? As in paperback style paper Particularly when it is yellow, crusty, and 25 years old?
A nice leather or brushed aluminium has to be better than that, in a lot of cases?
Yeah, 1.something MB a minute for your bog standard MP3 always seemed pretty reasonable to me (and looking at the ~40GB sample here, is (even with some at higher/lower bitrates.
Considering Australia close to the size of the USA, but a hell of a lot less people, think your vast areas must be pretty heavily populated, comparatively.
Of course, broadband even worse here though.
Major telco limits ADSL to 1.5 megabit, just because they can.
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Well, if Google invented Al Gore, instead, I hope they fired those guys already!
Last month the cinemas actually lowered prices, I think due to a fairly significant slump in viewing, espoused as one reason, anyway.
Presumably they are back up that $15 mark now.
Which does look crappy next to say, Quickflix, where you can watch lots of movies for $30 a month, happily. Even more if you live in a city they have a distribution centre in.
I have definitely been to less movies this year, as well. Especially at those prices. Almost not worth buying one of those books of 10 tickets where you get tickets for about 10 bucks, rather than 15, as with the six month time limit, there is a large danger of not using them up, even with two people!
Also, when I was one of those kid things, I am sure the child or student price was much less, relative to an adult. As in less than half, not the 2/3 or 3/4 or more that you can see now.
Anyone know why that happened? They start making lots of money from 13 year olds or something and put prices up?
How old do you mean by old?
www.irateradio.com
www.indy.tv
are a fun way to find some things
apart from justing looking explicitly on CDBaby, magnatune, garageband, mp3.com.au etc.
Oh, it definitely makes it feel different. :)
Also, unfortunately, age makes them a lot harder to read. Fading obscured print, annoying discolorations, all that sort of thing.
The chance that many mass market paperbacks from today last 30-40 years is quite slim, I would think.
A lot I have that are around 20 years old are starting to look decidedly dodgy as far as readability goes.
Those fluorescent lights are selling plenty here, I see them all in all the shops, and have replaced all of my other crappy globes with them. Cheaper than 5 bucks, too.
Rising energy prices may have something to do with it, but I have not had to replace any of them, in a year and a half, could never say that for the other pieces of crap (last one we had went a few weeks ago).
Audiobooks might be 'better' if you read slowly?
How long does it take someone to read, say, a 300 page book, every single word, out loud?
I would imagine far far longer than reading the same thing if you read at an average speed, and several times that if you read at well above an average speed, which a lot of people here will do, I am sure.
As an example of faster than average reading speed, the 300 page novel would take me about 3 hours to read. How long for you to read it to me, by voice?
Anyone called themselves the HALO corporation yet? If not, grab the name! :)
A fellower slashdotter suggested an older Palm M500 for this (8mb memory, can take 64MB cards). He was right. The battery last for ages, no problem in any sort of light. A Palm V would do as well I presume, just no card slot for it.
No problems in any sort of light.
Very cheap via ebay etc. too.
A pity you can't make paper out of rabbits or feral cats then, we could certainly use a solution for them!
Might be cheap in some places. 20 bucks here, for new ones. More like 35, for those 'oversized' type that seem to be happening more and more. Just ridiculous prices. Almost seem to charge as if they had each copy Fed-Exed to them in its own individual bag, every time.
It is why I am more interested now, than before, in ebooks.
Or a one a year order from somewhere like bookcloseouts.com, which of course lets you see what a more realistic shipping charge may be.
Not sure about feel. Cardboard covers are nice enough, but cheap, crappy paper doesn't really feel nice to anyone does it? As in paperback style paper Particularly when it is yellow, crusty, and 25 years old?
A nice leather or brushed aluminium has to be better than that, in a lot of cases?
If everyone will be extinct, no need to save money either?
http://www.rateyourmusic.com/
may let you discover some stuff after you rate some albums
http://www.indy.tv/
http://www.irateradio.com/
will let you discover Indy music, and will send you some you will like after doing some rating, again
no sounds like type stuff on these, but still definitely worthwhile
Tux and the Devil? Sounds like a dodgy cop show. ;)
Hellboy and Sin City were much later in oz, probably suffered for it too, I'd imagine?
Yeah, 1.something MB a minute for your bog standard MP3 always seemed pretty reasonable to me (and looking at the ~40GB sample here, is (even with some at higher/lower bitrates.
Good point, big enough drive you could put the 1000 albums of whatever of MP3s in a nicer format. At 500 MB an album, fills up pretty fast!
oh, plus the 1100 odd and growing tracks from Irateradio and Indy.tv
Hence the lack of space.
Even threw away the Yoko Ono album my mother in law bought the spousal unit many moons ago.
Same thing with a Chris Jagger a friend bought her as a (bad) joke.
Yep. Between my wife and I we have hundreds of LPS, hundreds of CDs and hundreds of tapes.
All been digitised.
I agree, my 40GB is full. 120 would be a nice upgrade. :)
Same argument applies though for someone that never leaves their small town, why should they pay for roads with their tax dollars?
Considering Australia close to the size of the USA, but a hell of a lot less people, think your vast areas must be pretty heavily populated, comparatively.
Of course, broadband even worse here though.
Major telco limits ADSL to 1.5 megabit, just because they can.
sounds like a good one to listen to at work while writing perl
:)
Thanks
iRiver