Those hundreds of thousands of $0.99 e-books on Amazon can't possibly exist.
They can and do exit, but the problem with the problem often is that at that price point it isn't cost effective to have the book properly edited, copy checked and typeset. The result of that is a book with less polished writing, more mistakes and poor typesetting. These processes make more of a difference than you think. I've read plenty of books self published by the author, while great reads the difference in overall production quality was noticeable.
Badly typeset books with mistakes in are more difficult to read and even the best authors rely heavily on their editors to shape and refine the book before publication.
What are you referring to here? The only way I know of that a pressed DVD 'wears out' is the accumulation of scratches over time that may make it unplayable at some point. If that is what you are referring to then how is this different from any other product that you buy which wears out over time and needs replacing?
aren't going to bother reporting on it without some footage of an explosion site.
I'm sure that is exactly what they would run with, footage of *an explosion site*. Any explosion site would be good enough, why bother checking when you can just grab something from YouTube.
then you spend the rest of your life hoping nothing you do is remotely similar to anything said in that meeting,
Most NDAs are time limited. If asked to sign one that doesn't have a time limit then that is certainly the point where I would politely refuse until a suitable time limit was included. There is also a clear distinction between a Non Disclosure Agreenment and a Non Compete Agreement. The former stops you talking about details that are discussed with that client. It is a Non Compete Agreement where you have to worry about how it may affect other projects you take on in the future.
Of course in this situation a 360 would have had him pointing back at the woods, I assume he means a 180 which would have him turned back towards the road.
The low end Ikea furniture is squarely aimed at students and people who are just moving into their first unfurnished home. It is intended to be a cost effective way of furnishing a room or house cheaply. This allows people to furnish their house quickly and cheaply.
This is only one part of their offering though. Their mid and high end furniture is very well designed and hard wearing. It is almost all solid wood rather than MDF or particle board and certainly rivals much more expensive furniture offered elsewhere.
I believe the cost of providing electronic transactions should be decreasing.
I don't know what you are basing this belief on? The majority of the cost of being a payment provider like Visa or Mastercard isn't the process of taking the transaction it is covering the cost of fraudulent transactions which they take liability for. Credit card fraud costs them hundreds of millions each year. Credit card fraud in the UK amounts to over £500 million a year, and that cost is passed on to merchants and customers.
fill some god damn pot holes in the wee hours of the night.
That is fair enough if the pot holes aren't in a residential area but if there are any houses nearby then repairing potholes using extremely noisy equipment at 2am is not an option. It is bad enough when they are revving up circular saws or other machinery at 7am on a weekend morning let alone being woken up in the middle of the night by them.
I'm not sure if this is intended as a joke or not but saying that backwards compatibility is massively broken because a game that was released 16 years ago won't run is pretty funny. Especially as apparently you can actually play Civ 2 on Windows 7 if you have the gold edition (released in 1997)
A new copy of Windows 7 costs about £70 (including 20% UK Sales tax) , hardly an insurmountable amount of money.
OSX updates may be cheaper but they come out every year. New versions of Windows come out roughly every 3-5 years so the price difference averages balances out over time.
That would be reasonable except I can't imagine any insurance company would cover someone in this situation.
Giving someone insurance against fire damage when they have chosen to forego paying for fire protection would be a hugely irresponsible act for an insurance company.
So in your hypothetical situation the fire service would be in the position of trying to charge someone, who is already facing extensive costs in repairing fire damage, thousands of dollars for their services.
if you only eat natural whole food, you'll lose weight regardless of how much you eat.
Are you suggesting that no matter how much 'natural whole food' someone eats they still won't be consuming more calories than then are burning? You can talk all you like about the supposed qualities and effects of fats and carbohydrates and protein but at the end of the day the only way anyone loses weight is by eating fewer calories than they burn.
I'm not being funny but if the local government require everyone to pay $75 which funds the fire service (rather than just bundling it into local taxes as most places do) can you really complain if you didn't pay? When you say "Send a bill later" do you mean a bill for $75 or a bill of the actual cost of responding to and putting out a fire. That cost would certainly run to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.
I am sure that if anyone's life was at stake they would have saved them but protecting someone's property who specifically declined to pay for that service is very different.
I'm not saying it is a great system and it baffles me why they wouldn't just roll the cost of the fire service into local taxes like they do in most places but if you live in that area it would be madness to not pay for the fire protection. Apart from anything else I can't imaging any insurance company would give you house or contents insurance without proof that you had.
If you read the article you will see that they had the victim look through the photos of people who had liked the bar's facebook page on the basis that they were likely to be customers of the bar so may have been there on the night of the assault.
RBS than received a takeover offer from at least 1 other group, which it rejected.
It wasn't a case of RBS rejecting the takeover, they don't own GAME groups so they don't have the power to do that. They were stalling negotiations with purchasers because a 'takeover' in this case is a pre-pack administration deal. RBS wanted GAME to keep trading until the end of the week to bring in more revenue before going into to administration. More revenue means it would be able to pay more of the debt that it owes RBS.
Don't be so hasty to make out that all large organisations are evil and playing everything in such a way to cause maximum pain and suffering, it is rarely the case.
in the UK it is common to see Blacks and Millets next door to each other
While they are both Outdoor equipment/clothing retailers Blacks and Millets were aimed at very different markets. Millets was aimed squarely at family campers and casual hikers, whereas Blacks was more specialised and aimed at serious hikers, campers, climbers etc. The seperate stores allowed them to target their stock and marketing at their particular markets more successfully.
This kind of differentiation is important when you have very disparate groups of customers. Serious hikers/campers/climbers are pretty snobby about their gear so the product ranges they demand are higher end and higher price, the kind of stuff that puts off casual shoppers.
Of course in the end both stores have suffered from the prevalence of big warehouse style outdoor equipment stores that have cheaper prices and enough space to effectively service both markets. Millets is now effectively dead and Blacks is seriously struggling.
we have Tesco Express opposite Sainsburys Local - both "grocery convenience stores".
This is a deliberate marketing move. When Tesco started opening up Express stores all over the place Sainsburys had to fight back. The reason being that if you get used to nipping to a Tesco Express to buy convenience items you are more likely to shift your main weekly shop to Tesco due to the familiar product range, loyalty card etc. By opening Sainsburys Local stores right next to them they can pretty much guarantee that people who are already Sainsburys customers will choose their store instead of going into Tesco Express.
Even if the store loses money it is preserving 'mind share' and maintaining their customer base. It does have the side effect of killing off the small non-supermarket convenience shops as they can't compete with the branded presence of the supermarkets.
published evidence of the Conservative party's deputy treasurer admitting you could buy access to the prime minister and influence policy for a £250,000 party donation.
I'm not sure why this has been presented as a shocking expose. The list of donations and what access it gains you are on the Conservatives website.
Retail music sales for 2010 were $15.9billion. Are you really suggesting that the recorded music industry is dead? Yes there has been a decline in the revenue of music in recent years. There are many reasons for this including the ability to buy individual tracks online reducing album sales and the rise of streaming music services. Piracy has had an effect on music sales but to claim that it has completely destroyed the market for recorded music is rather naive.
You may be shocked but there are people who don't download their music illegally, not because it is inconvenient, but because it is illegal and they prefer to support the artist they like to listen to rather than screw them over.
Most people don't even think about pirating movies, they buy their DVDs from Play.com or in the supermarket for £5 and go away happy. To be honest at that kind of price who cares how easy it is to download a pirate copy.
You put a blu ray in, you wait a minute for it to pass the security check
I've never noticed this with blu ray. I put a disc in the player and it starts up as quickly as a DVD, ie a few seconds to spin the disc up. Un-skippable studio notices and copyright warnings are annoying but they certainly are 30 seconds max, certainly less time and hassle than downloading a pirate copy of the movie.
BBC iPlayer isn't comparable to Netflix, it is a catch up TV service which is paid for by the UK TV license fee. That is why it isn't offered overseas.
Also characterising the UK as somewhere with poor net speeds is a bit odd as 50MB cable or 2-24MB ADSL is available at fairly cheap prices throughout the majority of the UK.
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Except you haven't, you have paid for one copy of the book. You now have two copies of the book, one printed and a second digital copy.
They can and do exit, but the problem with the problem often is that at that price point it isn't cost effective to have the book properly edited, copy checked and typeset. The result of that is a book with less polished writing, more mistakes and poor typesetting. These processes make more of a difference than you think. I've read plenty of books self published by the author, while great reads the difference in overall production quality was noticeable.
Badly typeset books with mistakes in are more difficult to read and even the best authors rely heavily on their editors to shape and refine the book before publication.
What are you referring to here? The only way I know of that a pressed DVD 'wears out' is the accumulation of scratches over time that may make it unplayable at some point. If that is what you are referring to then how is this different from any other product that you buy which wears out over time and needs replacing?
I'm sure that is exactly what they would run with, footage of *an explosion site*. Any explosion site would be good enough, why bother checking when you can just grab something from YouTube.
Most NDAs are time limited. If asked to sign one that doesn't have a time limit then that is certainly the point where I would politely refuse until a suitable time limit was included. There is also a clear distinction between a Non Disclosure Agreenment and a Non Compete Agreement. The former stops you talking about details that are discussed with that client. It is a Non Compete Agreement where you have to worry about how it may affect other projects you take on in the future.
Of course in this situation a 360 would have had him pointing back at the woods, I assume he means a 180 which would have him turned back towards the road.
Press button on remote. Beer rolls out of slot in fridge, across floor to your chair.
Of course you would have to request them 20 mins in advance or they would explode everywhere upon opening, but you wouldn't have to get up!
The low end Ikea furniture is squarely aimed at students and people who are just moving into their first unfurnished home. It is intended to be a cost effective way of furnishing a room or house cheaply. This allows people to furnish their house quickly and cheaply.
This is only one part of their offering though. Their mid and high end furniture is very well designed and hard wearing. It is almost all solid wood rather than MDF or particle board and certainly rivals much more expensive furniture offered elsewhere.
I don't know what you are basing this belief on? The majority of the cost of being a payment provider like Visa or Mastercard isn't the process of taking the transaction it is covering the cost of fraudulent transactions which they take liability for. Credit card fraud costs them hundreds of millions each year. Credit card fraud in the UK amounts to over £500 million a year, and that cost is passed on to merchants and customers.
That is fair enough if the pot holes aren't in a residential area but if there are any houses nearby then repairing potholes using extremely noisy equipment at 2am is not an option. It is bad enough when they are revving up circular saws or other machinery at 7am on a weekend morning let alone being woken up in the middle of the night by them.
So your of the opinion that Banks and credit card companies should provide their services for free out of the kindness of their hearts?
I'm not sure if this is intended as a joke or not but saying that backwards compatibility is massively broken because a game that was released 16 years ago won't run is pretty funny. Especially as apparently you can actually play Civ 2 on Windows 7 if you have the gold edition (released in 1997)
A new copy of Windows 7 costs about £70 (including 20% UK Sales tax) , hardly an insurmountable amount of money.
OSX updates may be cheaper but they come out every year. New versions of Windows come out roughly every 3-5 years so the price difference averages balances out over time.
That would be reasonable except I can't imagine any insurance company would cover someone in this situation.
Giving someone insurance against fire damage when they have chosen to forego paying for fire protection would be a hugely irresponsible act for an insurance company.
So in your hypothetical situation the fire service would be in the position of trying to charge someone, who is already facing extensive costs in repairing fire damage, thousands of dollars for their services.
Are you suggesting that no matter how much 'natural whole food' someone eats they still won't be consuming more calories than then are burning? You can talk all you like about the supposed qualities and effects of fats and carbohydrates and protein but at the end of the day the only way anyone loses weight is by eating fewer calories than they burn.
I'm not being funny but if the local government require everyone to pay $75 which funds the fire service (rather than just bundling it into local taxes as most places do) can you really complain if you didn't pay? When you say "Send a bill later" do you mean a bill for $75 or a bill of the actual cost of responding to and putting out a fire. That cost would certainly run to thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.
I am sure that if anyone's life was at stake they would have saved them but protecting someone's property who specifically declined to pay for that service is very different.
I'm not saying it is a great system and it baffles me why they wouldn't just roll the cost of the fire service into local taxes like they do in most places but if you live in that area it would be madness to not pay for the fire protection. Apart from anything else I can't imaging any insurance company would give you house or contents insurance without proof that you had.
If you read the article you will see that they had the victim look through the photos of people who had liked the bar's facebook page on the basis that they were likely to be customers of the bar so may have been there on the night of the assault.
It wasn't a case of RBS rejecting the takeover, they don't own GAME groups so they don't have the power to do that. They were stalling negotiations with purchasers because a 'takeover' in this case is a pre-pack administration deal. RBS wanted GAME to keep trading until the end of the week to bring in more revenue before going into to administration. More revenue means it would be able to pay more of the debt that it owes RBS.
Don't be so hasty to make out that all large organisations are evil and playing everything in such a way to cause maximum pain and suffering, it is rarely the case.
While they are both Outdoor equipment/clothing retailers Blacks and Millets were aimed at very different markets. Millets was aimed squarely at family campers and casual hikers, whereas Blacks was more specialised and aimed at serious hikers, campers, climbers etc. The seperate stores allowed them to target their stock and marketing at their particular markets more successfully.
This kind of differentiation is important when you have very disparate groups of customers. Serious hikers/campers/climbers are pretty snobby about their gear so the product ranges they demand are higher end and higher price, the kind of stuff that puts off casual shoppers.
Of course in the end both stores have suffered from the prevalence of big warehouse style outdoor equipment stores that have cheaper prices and enough space to effectively service both markets. Millets is now effectively dead and Blacks is seriously struggling.
This is a deliberate marketing move. When Tesco started opening up Express stores all over the place Sainsburys had to fight back. The reason being that if you get used to nipping to a Tesco Express to buy convenience items you are more likely to shift your main weekly shop to Tesco due to the familiar product range, loyalty card etc. By opening Sainsburys Local stores right next to them they can pretty much guarantee that people who are already Sainsburys customers will choose their store instead of going into Tesco Express.
Even if the store loses money it is preserving 'mind share' and maintaining their customer base. It does have the side effect of killing off the small non-supermarket convenience shops as they can't compete with the branded presence of the supermarkets.
I'm not sure why this has been presented as a shocking expose. The list of donations and what access it gains you are on the Conservatives website.
The kit I'm using is a Sony BDVE280 5.1 surround system. All of Sony's recent Blu-ray players have similar load times though.
Retail music sales for 2010 were $15.9billion. Are you really suggesting that the recorded music industry is dead? Yes there has been a decline in the revenue of music in recent years. There are many reasons for this including the ability to buy individual tracks online reducing album sales and the rise of streaming music services. Piracy has had an effect on music sales but to claim that it has completely destroyed the market for recorded music is rather naive.
You may be shocked but there are people who don't download their music illegally, not because it is inconvenient, but because it is illegal and they prefer to support the artist they like to listen to rather than screw them over.
Most people don't even think about pirating movies, they buy their DVDs from Play.com or in the supermarket for £5 and go away happy. To be honest at that kind of price who cares how easy it is to download a pirate copy.
I've never noticed this with blu ray. I put a disc in the player and it starts up as quickly as a DVD, ie a few seconds to spin the disc up. Un-skippable studio notices and copyright warnings are annoying but they certainly are 30 seconds max, certainly less time and hassle than downloading a pirate copy of the movie.
BBC iPlayer isn't comparable to Netflix, it is a catch up TV service which is paid for by the UK TV license fee. That is why it isn't offered overseas.
Also characterising the UK as somewhere with poor net speeds is a bit odd as 50MB cable or 2-24MB ADSL is available at fairly cheap prices throughout the majority of the UK.