I'm guessing you never ordered anything outside of the USA.
For us Canadian, ordering from the USA usually results in our order being hold by customs, delayed for a day or two, then having UPS charge us brokerage fees of 35$ on top of customs fees of 10$ and UPS own 25$ shipping cost.
Yes it may be cheaper online, but don't forget to add the shipping cost. Not all places offer free shipping and sometimes there's a minimum amount to spend to get the free shipping, etc. Don't forget cross-border delays and charges or you'll be shockingly sorry. Especially those brokerage fees, which often are more than the shipping cost added with the customs fees.
But where the physical retail stores still have the advantage is in how fast you're getting what you want, if they have it in stock.
With these two things in mind, the only difference is that you can compare prices with other nearby physical stores without actually having to drive there to check the prices. The real competition is still the other stores, nothing really changed if you want something "right now".
Why is this thing a tower? What if the system controlling the mirrors fails and suddenly they melt the tower, causing the molten salt to crash down on everything below?
Wouldn't it be safer to have that molten salt at ground level?
They want access to the personnal and credit card data? If I buy a magazine at a kiosk, the guy takes my money, period. Apple is just a digital kiosk.
If their business model requires both to sell me the magazine AND have access to my data to be able to get money from ads on top of that, too bad for them.
The worst part is, I bet that even if someone managed to make a safe, portable nuclear reactor the size of an AA battery, companies wouldn't use it because it's not thin enough.
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I'm guessing you never ordered anything outside of the USA.
For us Canadian, ordering from the USA usually results in our order being hold by customs, delayed for a day or two, then having UPS charge us brokerage fees of 35$ on top of customs fees of 10$ and UPS own 25$ shipping cost.
Going from 100 to 50 means a "50% discount" while going from 1000 to 950 only means a "5% discount".
So I guess they're thinking "I'm not driving across town for a 5% discount".
Yeah, what's next? Movie theaters banning bringing food and drinks from your home? Hollywood telling us that we can't format-shift the DVDs we buy?
Yes it may be cheaper online, but don't forget to add the shipping cost. Not all places offer free shipping and sometimes there's a minimum amount to spend to get the free shipping, etc. Don't forget cross-border delays and charges or you'll be shockingly sorry. Especially those brokerage fees, which often are more than the shipping cost added with the customs fees.
But where the physical retail stores still have the advantage is in how fast you're getting what you want, if they have it in stock.
With these two things in mind, the only difference is that you can compare prices with other nearby physical stores without actually having to drive there to check the prices. The real competition is still the other stores, nothing really changed if you want something "right now".
I tried, man, I tried. But there's so many dependencies...
Home use? Sure, here's your order of molten french fries...
Why is this thing a tower? What if the system controlling the mirrors fails and suddenly they melt the tower, causing the molten salt to crash down on everything below?
Wouldn't it be safer to have that molten salt at ground level?
I guess it just couldn't stand up to all the requests.
The downloads and uploads are added together for the monthly cap of 35 GB.
http://www.telebec.com/english/magasinage_ligne/asp/internet/sympatico_hv.asp
You mean the legitimate publisher who wants to leech my limited monthly cap for their own purposes?
I'm glad Blizzard gives us the option to disable that in their games.
Also ask for Arduinos. Lots and lots of Arduinos.
I don't need your low resolution and puke-inducing color palettes, I'd rather use Hercules!
No, dumbass, that's celsius coordinates.
Bang, zoom, straight to the Moon!
Does that mean they have a super sense of humor?
Then you should use AMD instead.
He posts a lot on Slashdot. Does that count?
They want access to the personnal and credit card data? If I buy a magazine at a kiosk, the guy takes my money, period. Apple is just a digital kiosk.
If their business model requires both to sell me the magazine AND have access to my data to be able to get money from ads on top of that, too bad for them.
This proves, objectively, with 100% accuracy, that software piracy does zero economic harm and is actually beneficial to everyone involved.
You know what else is made of wood?
A WITCH!
I figured that by using only one and zero, we should be able to build what I like to call a "central processing unit" and "random access memory".
Unfortunately, at best, I don't see more than a dozen of machines built on this design to be used worldwide.
That's the beauty of this phone! If you don't have anyone to call you can play game online with your friends!
Oh, never mind.
The worst part is, I bet that even if someone managed to make a safe, portable nuclear reactor the size of an AA battery, companies wouldn't use it because it's not thin enough.
Well, at least they will have video proof that it happened, unlike us who are stuck with written words gathered from hearsay.
And is it going to cost over 9000 million to build it?