It's even worse than that. People are increasingly aware that the middlemen take most of the profits. Even when the music is by the archetypal starving artist, there is a perception that buying their music won't make a difference to them, it will just make some record industry executive richer. I've heard anecdotally that bands who sell their own CDs and offer downloads with a donation link do reasonably well (not mega-wealth, but a fairly high ratio of income to number of fans), because people know that paying for the music will fund more music that they like.
I don't want to pay for music, but then I don't want to pay for anything else either and by now I've accepted that it's pretty much a requirement if I want stuff. One of the main advantages I see in paying for things (other than the instant gratification of getting the stuff I want) is that it promotes the creation of stuff that I want. The layers of indirection in the entertainment industry destroy this. This is especially true of things like TV shows. The only way I can directly pay for them is to buy or rent the DVD. By the time the DVD is available here, the shows have often been cancelled. If the industry wants to survive then it needs to start noticing that there are a lot of people like me who want to exchange money for their products.
At best, you'll have a latency of over 10 minutes for most of the trip. At worst, you'll have days of total communication blackout, depending on the orbit. I suppose taking a copy of the GOG.com archive with you would help (nothing too modern though, since electricity for the computers is likely to be at a premium). The real problem is muscle atrophy though. The longer the trip, the more important it is to exercise on route, and exercise facilities take a lot of space.
I've read it, but sadly the additions didn't live up to the quality of the rest. I laughed a lot while reading it, but mostly during the parts that were in the original. The dojo scene with Lady Catherine was entertaining, but most of the other new parts just left me wanting to skip on to the end of them. It seemed like a waste of a good concept. I keep meaning to pick up some of the others in the series and see if they were better executed.
On2 had a fairly large presence in the professional video market with a large turnover. Any company with valid patents could have easily made a decent amount of money from a lawsuit. It's not like they were a tiny startup with half a dozen customers, they were a company that had been around since the '90s and was eventually bought for over a hundred million dollars.
I was about to be really upset, until I remembered that pretty much every other TMNT film or TV series has been pretty terrible too. Maybe the original comics were good, but TMNT is one of the few things I doubt even Michael Bay can make any worse. Plus, it's been 5 years since the last remake, so it definitely needs a new one.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Michael Bay's series of Jane Austen movies. Pride and Prejudice just isn't complete without the alien invasion subplot.
The energy cost of getting to Mars can be relatively low, if you're willing to take a long time and use an efficient transfer orbit. The problem with that is that the longer you have the humans in the vehicle the bigger it needs to be, and that pushes the cost up again. A short trip that's accelerating hard all the way will minimise muscle wasting and the food requirements. It will also require a huge amount of energy. A very efficient trip will take a significant fraction of a year. You can't expect humans to be in something tiny for that long without going completely insane (unless you can make them hibernate for most of it somehow).
Try again. I specifically said that these words were in the official scrabble word list, to which he replied 'Fail: these words are in the official scrabble word list.'
On the one hand we have widespread access to information and educational content and a marketplace that allows individuals to benefit from globalisation for a change. On the other hand, we have 4chan and facebook. So, I'd say it's too close to call...
and even land undergoes supply changes: land is lost and gained from the sea, becomes unusable due to natural and man-made disasters, and has its use changed due to social and regulatory changes
Add to that: scarcity isn't just about supply, it's about the ability of supply to meet demand. With the global population doubling every n years, the ability of the supply of land to meet demand is obviously dropping because the amount of land per capita is dropping.
Inflation is not a given, and in fact there's no good reason for it to exist.
There are very good reasons for inflation to exist. You may disagree with the economic theories that say that (a moderate amount of) inflation is a good thing, but claiming that these reasons don't exist is just plain wrong.
Inflation gives you an incentive to invest your money, either directly or indirectly (in interest-earning bank accounts) rather than hoarding it. If people stop investing then you get a liquidity shortage and a recession.
The Android store that comes preinstalled with most new phones is hosted by a company that makes most of its money from advertising. For obvious reasons, it doesn't make it easy to differentiate free apps from adware.
You need to read the thread. I am saying that more Android devices than iOS doesn't mean that users care about things like swappable batteries and flashcards - it could equally mean that they care about cheap phones.
Set them back? Depends on what you mean. It will certainly prolong the period when a spinning bit of metal is the best choice for certain applications. My laptop has a 256GB SSD. The biggest hard disk that will fit in it is about 1TB and is a lot cheaper, but the performance difference is huge. I don't need masses of storage space on my laptop (although 256GB isn't exactly a small amount), but the lower power consumption and heat is nice and being able to hit over 100MB/s of random reads and random write at the same time makes a huge difference in a lot of cases (e.g. backups run in the background and I don't notice any performance hit from having something read the modification time of every file and copy every modified file). I also have a NAS with 3 2TB hard disks. I anticipate replacing them with larger disks over time. The hard drives weren't exactly cheap, but SSDs of the same capacity would be vastly more expensive. I mostly access it over WiFi, so disk speed isn't a major issue.
Not exactly. Sure, only a small percentage of people will service their dishwasher or washing machine themselves, but you're ignoring the market. If the schematics are public and replacement parts are available then anyone with the relevant skills can perform the repair. This is often a lot cheaper than getting the repair work done by the manufacturer.
And Android has surpassed iOS according to the latest stats, so apparently consumers do give a shit about these things
Those stats are somewhat misleading, because they include cheap Android phones that are eating the market segment that used to be filled with 'feature phones' and even some of the dumbphone market. All this really shows is that most users care about price. The cheapest iPhone I can buy here is £319 (3GS, 8GB). The cheapest Android phone I can buy new (according to a quick search on Amazon) is £45 (Samsung E2330), and you can get quite a reasonable one for about £150 - mine was £100, and is a couple of years old but still pretty reasonable.
Obviously, a lot more people will buy a £45 phone than a £320 phone, irrespective of their relative features. That is a useful statistic if you are designing a web site for mobile users (and possibly if you want to write mobile apps, although presumably people who spend less on a phone are also less willing to spend money on software for it). It isn't a very useful statistic when comparing what features people are willing to pay extra for.
If there were more £300+ Android phones being sold than £300+ Apple phones, then you'd have a point, but it seems that the people who are willing to pay a premium are still largely in the Apple camp. Whether this is because they prefer the UI, are more susceptible to marketing, or some other reason, I have no idea.
Then you are delusional. Google is acting in the interests of Google. The MPAA is acting in the interests of... no one actually, but they think they are acting in the interests of the MPAA. The interests of Google at the moment align vaguely with the interests of the population at large (actually, so do the interests of the MPAA members, they just haven't worked this out yet so keep fighting themselves), but there is nothing altruistic about either.
In the case of Apple, they're often the same. Their online store is often the cheapest place to buy Apple products (especially if you get an educational or similar discount).
We also have the Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) which says that goods must last a "reasonable length of time", which for things like computers and TVs is considered to be around six years. If the device fails before that time you are entitled to a partial refund based on how much use you had out of it, or of course the retailer can choose to replace the item.
I quoted the relevant part of SOGA at Apple when my laptop battery failed after four years. I pointed out that their advertising said it would last 300 complete discharge cycles, and therefore the legally mandated 'reasonable length of time' was 300 discharge cycles. I called them at 4pm and the (free) replacement battery turned up at 9am the next day. Somewhat depressingly, I got much better service from this than any of the repairs or replacements I've had from them under warranty...
You know that message you got where it said you had posted the exact same message before and that you should try to be more original? The message that made you change the topic of your post to get around it? Well, for future reference that message is there to stop you looking like a total retard for posting exactly the same post twice in a row.
Hmm, starting your post with 'Herp a derp' and quoting something that the post you replied to did not say (the summary did), while mocking the grandparent for saying it? I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there's a significant chance that you might be an idiot.
The official scrabble word list includes a lot of words that don't match the criteria in the rules and also quite a few that don't even appear in any English dictionary I've checked. I
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It's even worse than that. People are increasingly aware that the middlemen take most of the profits. Even when the music is by the archetypal starving artist, there is a perception that buying their music won't make a difference to them, it will just make some record industry executive richer. I've heard anecdotally that bands who sell their own CDs and offer downloads with a donation link do reasonably well (not mega-wealth, but a fairly high ratio of income to number of fans), because people know that paying for the music will fund more music that they like.
I don't want to pay for music, but then I don't want to pay for anything else either and by now I've accepted that it's pretty much a requirement if I want stuff. One of the main advantages I see in paying for things (other than the instant gratification of getting the stuff I want) is that it promotes the creation of stuff that I want. The layers of indirection in the entertainment industry destroy this. This is especially true of things like TV shows. The only way I can directly pay for them is to buy or rent the DVD. By the time the DVD is available here, the shows have often been cancelled. If the industry wants to survive then it needs to start noticing that there are a lot of people like me who want to exchange money for their products.
At best, you'll have a latency of over 10 minutes for most of the trip. At worst, you'll have days of total communication blackout, depending on the orbit. I suppose taking a copy of the GOG.com archive with you would help (nothing too modern though, since electricity for the computers is likely to be at a premium). The real problem is muscle atrophy though. The longer the trip, the more important it is to exercise on route, and exercise facilities take a lot of space.
I've read it, but sadly the additions didn't live up to the quality of the rest. I laughed a lot while reading it, but mostly during the parts that were in the original. The dojo scene with Lady Catherine was entertaining, but most of the other new parts just left me wanting to skip on to the end of them. It seemed like a waste of a good concept. I keep meaning to pick up some of the others in the series and see if they were better executed.
On2 had a fairly large presence in the professional video market with a large turnover. Any company with valid patents could have easily made a decent amount of money from a lawsuit. It's not like they were a tiny startup with half a dozen customers, they were a company that had been around since the '90s and was eventually bought for over a hundred million dollars.
I was about to be really upset, until I remembered that pretty much every other TMNT film or TV series has been pretty terrible too. Maybe the original comics were good, but TMNT is one of the few things I doubt even Michael Bay can make any worse. Plus, it's been 5 years since the last remake, so it definitely needs a new one.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Michael Bay's series of Jane Austen movies. Pride and Prejudice just isn't complete without the alien invasion subplot.
The energy cost of getting to Mars can be relatively low, if you're willing to take a long time and use an efficient transfer orbit. The problem with that is that the longer you have the humans in the vehicle the bigger it needs to be, and that pushes the cost up again. A short trip that's accelerating hard all the way will minimise muscle wasting and the food requirements. It will also require a huge amount of energy. A very efficient trip will take a significant fraction of a year. You can't expect humans to be in something tiny for that long without going completely insane (unless you can make them hibernate for most of it somehow).
Try again. I specifically said that these words were in the official scrabble word list, to which he replied 'Fail: these words are in the official scrabble word list.'
On the one hand we have widespread access to information and educational content and a marketplace that allows individuals to benefit from globalisation for a change. On the other hand, we have 4chan and facebook. So, I'd say it's too close to call...
and even land undergoes supply changes: land is lost and gained from the sea, becomes unusable due to natural and man-made disasters, and has its use changed due to social and regulatory changes
Add to that: scarcity isn't just about supply, it's about the ability of supply to meet demand. With the global population doubling every n years, the ability of the supply of land to meet demand is obviously dropping because the amount of land per capita is dropping.
Inflation is not a given, and in fact there's no good reason for it to exist.
There are very good reasons for inflation to exist. You may disagree with the economic theories that say that (a moderate amount of) inflation is a good thing, but claiming that these reasons don't exist is just plain wrong.
Inflation gives you an incentive to invest your money, either directly or indirectly (in interest-earning bank accounts) rather than hoarding it. If people stop investing then you get a liquidity shortage and a recession.
The Android store that comes preinstalled with most new phones is hosted by a company that makes most of its money from advertising. For obvious reasons, it doesn't make it easy to differentiate free apps from adware.
You need to read the thread. I am saying that more Android devices than iOS doesn't mean that users care about things like swappable batteries and flashcards - it could equally mean that they care about cheap phones.
Set them back? Depends on what you mean. It will certainly prolong the period when a spinning bit of metal is the best choice for certain applications. My laptop has a 256GB SSD. The biggest hard disk that will fit in it is about 1TB and is a lot cheaper, but the performance difference is huge. I don't need masses of storage space on my laptop (although 256GB isn't exactly a small amount), but the lower power consumption and heat is nice and being able to hit over 100MB/s of random reads and random write at the same time makes a huge difference in a lot of cases (e.g. backups run in the background and I don't notice any performance hit from having something read the modification time of every file and copy every modified file). I also have a NAS with 3 2TB hard disks. I anticipate replacing them with larger disks over time. The hard drives weren't exactly cheap, but SSDs of the same capacity would be vastly more expensive. I mostly access it over WiFi, so disk speed isn't a major issue.
Not exactly. Sure, only a small percentage of people will service their dishwasher or washing machine themselves, but you're ignoring the market. If the schematics are public and replacement parts are available then anyone with the relevant skills can perform the repair. This is often a lot cheaper than getting the repair work done by the manufacturer.
And Android has surpassed iOS according to the latest stats, so apparently consumers do give a shit about these things
Those stats are somewhat misleading, because they include cheap Android phones that are eating the market segment that used to be filled with 'feature phones' and even some of the dumbphone market. All this really shows is that most users care about price. The cheapest iPhone I can buy here is £319 (3GS, 8GB). The cheapest Android phone I can buy new (according to a quick search on Amazon) is £45 (Samsung E2330), and you can get quite a reasonable one for about £150 - mine was £100, and is a couple of years old but still pretty reasonable.
Obviously, a lot more people will buy a £45 phone than a £320 phone, irrespective of their relative features. That is a useful statistic if you are designing a web site for mobile users (and possibly if you want to write mobile apps, although presumably people who spend less on a phone are also less willing to spend money on software for it). It isn't a very useful statistic when comparing what features people are willing to pay extra for.
If there were more £300+ Android phones being sold than £300+ Apple phones, then you'd have a point, but it seems that the people who are willing to pay a premium are still largely in the Apple camp. Whether this is because they prefer the UI, are more susceptible to marketing, or some other reason, I have no idea.
I still see Google as the least evil in the crowd
Then you are delusional. Google is acting in the interests of Google. The MPAA is acting in the interests of... no one actually, but they think they are acting in the interests of the MPAA. The interests of Google at the moment align vaguely with the interests of the population at large (actually, so do the interests of the MPAA members, they just haven't worked this out yet so keep fighting themselves), but there is nothing altruistic about either.
In the case of Apple, they're often the same. Their online store is often the cheapest place to buy Apple products (especially if you get an educational or similar discount).
We also have the Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) which says that goods must last a "reasonable length of time", which for things like computers and TVs is considered to be around six years. If the device fails before that time you are entitled to a partial refund based on how much use you had out of it, or of course the retailer can choose to replace the item.
I quoted the relevant part of SOGA at Apple when my laptop battery failed after four years. I pointed out that their advertising said it would last 300 complete discharge cycles, and therefore the legally mandated 'reasonable length of time' was 300 discharge cycles. I called them at 4pm and the (free) replacement battery turned up at 9am the next day. Somewhat depressingly, I got much better service from this than any of the repairs or replacements I've had from them under warranty...
That's okay, they do that already.
make money off the adds
I can't tell if that's a typo for ads or you mean attention deficit disorder sufferers - it seems to work either way...
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Noooo! Now you've summoned APK!
You know that message you got where it said you had posted the exact same message before and that you should try to be more original? The message that made you change the topic of your post to get around it? Well, for future reference that message is there to stop you looking like a total retard for posting exactly the same post twice in a row.
Hmm, starting your post with 'Herp a derp' and quoting something that the post you replied to did not say (the summary did), while mocking the grandparent for saying it? I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there's a significant chance that you might be an idiot.
The official scrabble word list includes a lot of words that don't match the criteria in the rules and also quite a few that don't even appear in any English dictionary I've checked. I
Hint: If you read the whole post before replying, then you don't seem like such an idiot.