So if they're not making much profit from the readers buying the paper than they are making profit from people reading the paper - IE advertisers. Then it would still benefit them to reduce the price to almost cost or even below to get more advertisers. Actually it sounds like the Google model where they don't charge but make a little income from the advertisers.
Could you tell me how you got that (sic 4.20 per year) out of the article?
Come-on now I don't have an MBA it is simple math though....
All right I'll explain, just from the article text: Wall Street Journal is in the news reporting business; therefore, can be used as a simple benchmark for profitability in the line of business.
The comparison between print and online is that the print is making a given profit and the online is making a given profit. They are in the same business yet the online is making 20 times the profit of print. Take the online subscription fee of $84 per year / 20 times the profit = $4.20 per year is the expected price for subscriptions.
If you wanted to compete, I suspect that you could charge $4.20 per year and be competitive. Therefore, there will be a lot of online news reporting sources in the future that will drive competition to the $4.20 mark.
The real information gathered from the story is that consumers buying Wall Street Journal online are paying 20 times too much. They should be paying $4.20 a year.
At least competition will help as if there is so much money in something then everyone will be doing it.
Hmm, there are a few things that a company might be able to do. For example, I would like to store all my Mozillla preferences on a server that is backed up. I could do this on my own machine at home but companies like Yahoo and Google have a better data retention history than what I have.
Most states require phone companies to maintain dial tone for 911 on any line connected to them.
It's good that most states have such a law. It will help when the backhoe operator hits a gas line right after he cut through the telephone line. While the flames are shooting twenty feet high I will not worry as the mystical powers of the law keeps 911 working.
I think the 911 situations are starting to look more like FUD. Larger municipals have had 911 starting back in 1968; however, a large segment of rural America didn't get 911 finalized until late 1990s (had to look that up on wikipedia). I remember where I lived it did get come about really late too.
Get this; America now has 911 since 1990 but there is a small problem with addresses. In rural America a lot of places don't (didn't?) have simple things like a street sign so for the last few years a names has had to be labeled to all streets just for 911. So the lets look at it this way; we have survived a large time without 911 as we know it and 911 dispatchers haven't been able to send emergency assistance to the right location; yeah were working on it but if there is an emergency you'll figure out something even if you don't have a phone.
I don't disagree with you on the freedom mattering part but you do have to realize that it is their product and their right to do what ever they feel. Basically everyone is in a pickle; first you have a company that wants to survive buy selling a service or product and second you have a developer wanting to be productive.
You really can't blame anyone for this, its just business.
Contributions: Both spacecraft are still going strong and are returning valuable science data. Each Voyagers' cosmic ray detector, magnetometer, plasma wave detector and low-energy charged particle detector all still operational. In addition, the Ultraviolet Spectrometer on Voyager 1 and the Plasma Science instrument on Voyager 2 continue to return data. Both spacecraft are expected to continue to operate and send back valuable data until at least the year 2020.
The mission currently employs the equivalent of about 10 full-time people at JPL.
Screeeech - Math time. 4 mil a year and 10 employees lets say they're using really good equipment and replacing it like crazy plus utilities making the total 3 mil a year. 1 mill / 10 != "research for the love of it".
Like a poster said one time: google knows all who knows all; therfore, a quick google search for Radiation King reveals
In episode 2F07, Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy. In it, Homer finds himself in his childhood home, and the living room wall has a shadow of Homer as a child burned into it by the Radiation King TV set. The scene then shifts to his memory of watching it in the refulgent radiation of TV the set in the process of creating that distinctive shadow on the wall.
Thus, we have answered your questions: USE LCD until such time it is determined to produces some other kind of Sexual Inadequacy Radiation.
On the web page it is currently about 1400mb. It is counting up to 2gb but it is going to take a few days. I bet I wont be able to tell the difference in storage space between now and then anyway.
You are correct. I was fast-forwarding and accidentally hit pause and this screen *poop*ed up. I forgot about it but it was ingrained in my mind as a Fast Forward popup.
During Christmas I was 30 second skipping commercials and it gave a pop up and said to enter the 20 digit number on the Replay web page to be entered for a drawing of some cash (cant remember exactly). I did it - foolishly. I think it was a marketing study to evaluate the rate of capturing attention so commercials could be inserted for revenue.
I have seen the Tivo commercial "thumbs up" but it is really non intrusive and you have only a half second to press the button the get the ad. It is just a matter of time until the commercials are back in your face though. Since I use both Tivo and Replay for comparisons. I am fortunate to pay per month instead of forking of the case for a lifetime subscription. I bet the people that have lifetime memberships will have more popups in the future. My rate of revenue/return via popup ads will approach zero if the become too intrusive.
Apple needs to produce a PVR and start an image of being "the" media center. I know I think of graphic artist when someone talks about using an apple. Now with iPod and that little Mini Mac the circle would be complete with a media center Mac. I would think of Mac as being the elite of home entertainment.
The small ones that I used aren't online. Here is a big one but it'll give you an idea of what I tore appart. Go to the store inperson to see the size of the small one that put out like 400cmfs with virtually no noise. Keep in mind that most of these are thermally protected but I bet you cant get years of contiuous duty out of them.
All the money I have spent on quieting a noisy computer can be saved by accepting simple facts that moving object cause noise. Accept that and you are in the first phase on knowing what to do. You have to isolate the moving components from the room you are in.
For me the best solution is having the cases in the desk cabinet. In the cabinet you can isolate the vibration of a blower(squirrel cage fan) and use dryer vent tubing to suck in cool air and blow out hot air from the case. The blower I got is a dismantled desktop fan from Wally World that has two squirrel cages I picked up for 10 bucks. It runs on 110v so I have to turn it on when I use it. One day I'll get fancy and have a relay to automatically turn it on and it has 3 speeds via a turn nob that I could hook up a temperature senor to automatically select the correct speed. This doesn't totally isolate the noise from the room but I can add baffling to help. And it is so cheap.
Let the State Tax what it wants. It isn't a national law and the people of the state elected these official into office. The people of the state, therefore, think it is a good idea so let that state's people voluntarily pay extra tax to the local government. Taxing downloads will further whittle down the power of the federal government that regulates interstate commerce. If the federal government steps in and says the tax isn't part of the ratification the state accepted then the state could impose a (stupid) use tax. The could also implement a law like the ebay license that eff.org is all over forcing internet users to obtain license to download.
I bet the long run, the result in any of the situations isn't what you would like them to be.
I was going to reply to the block pricing above but you asked a legitimate question so let me reply to yours:
First block pricing: is the first stage of the theory but it doesn't account for other hard to analyze costs. It takes a stab at how many pencils can I sell at a given price and make a few bucks instead of analyzing returns on customer transactions. If I have a widget that sells for $100 and you have the same widget for $60 dollars, the consumer may see my product as superior one because of price alone. That is why I think CDs cost more than DVDs; the music industry is trying to appear as a superior product but they are loosing their death grip.
Now your questions on profit/price curve in law of supply and demand: Any product you sell will have a fixed cost on every transaction. If you can analyze the transaction and while you have them ready to commit to fork over money than anything you extract above that price/cost curve for that transaction is more profit. Back to the Pizza Hut thing; why shouldn't they sell pizza for $5? Well the customer already want the product and they are willing to pay $10. I have increased the price on both single point & total transaction sales and didn't impact demand by actually raising the price but reducing the price for the next pizza. I have extracted further returns from the transaction that already covered the fixed costs. These few little paragraphs can't cover 9 hours of college credit but I hope it enlightens a few on cost theory.
As you increase price, you decrease volume. There is always a sweet spot that maximizes profit.
Well if you would take Marketing 101 you would learn a couple of other formulas too. You notice at Pizza hut that they sell pizza for $10 dollars for the first one and say $7 for the second one. There is a profit point during the transaction that you can maximize returns buy adding another one to a product that you are already going to buy. Now you have $10 for the 1st $7 for the 2nd and 5$ for the third. Well as you eat more and more pizza there becomes a point where you wont buy another no matter what the price is and then you have reached saturation at that price point. Therefore even though you have saturated the market you can still gather further funds from a fixed sale/profit point.
With the corrected 24-hour scan time at 1 frame per second and full featured films being on average of 2 hours than your still looking at 24 hours per film having two reels. That is a lot of work to ensure that every frame was correctly captured.
It reminds me of using a scripting language mangling large files; one little mistake and you correct it and wait 24 hours to ensure it works lots and lots of work and hoping for no mistakes.
Whoops, I should have looked up the rates per second first.
Is film usually stored in the reel-to-reel configuration (on a reel) or is stored in individual frames? If you wanted to use multiple scanners than you would have to physically cut the film. I think it would be easier to have an automated machine to read from the reel rather than cutting and scanning.
IIRC - I read someplace that 35mm film has the effective resolution of 4000p; therefore, scanning at 4000 lines would extract all the possible information from that kind of film. Yes I bet looking at the crystal might yield a little better results but I imagine that is slightly beyond the capabilities today. Remember 26 frames a second * 60 seconds * 60 minutes = 93,600 frames an hour. If you can scan 1 frame a second using the quick method of using the arbitrary max resolution of 4000p then it will still take 26 hours to scan 1 hour of film. If it took 1 minute to look at the pixel alignment than you're looking at 1560 hours per hour of film. Is it worth it?
Initially InfiniBand Technology will be used to connect servers with remote storage and networking devices, and other servers. It will also be used inside servers for inter-processor communication (IPC) in parallel clusters. Customers requiring dense server deployments, such as ISPs, will also benefit from the small form factors being proposed. Other benefits include greater performance, lower latency, easier and faster sharing of data, built in security and quality of service, improved usability (the new form factor will be far easier to add/remove/upgrade than today's shared-bus I/O cards).
Additionally, InfiniBand Architecture reduces total cost of ownership by focusing on data center reliability and scalability. The technology addresses reliability by creating multiple redundant paths between nodes (reducing hardware that needs to be purchased). It also moves from the load-and-store-based communications methods used by shared local bus I/O to a more reliable message passing approach.
Scalability needs are addressed in two ways. First, the I/O fabric itself is designed to scale without encountering the latencies that some shared bus I/O architectures experience as workload increases. Second, the physical modularity of InfiniBand Technology will avoid the need for customers to buy excess capacity up-front in anticipation of future growth. Instead, they will be able to buy what they need at the outset and 'pay as they grow' to add capacity without impacting operations or installed systems.
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I have to concede. You are correct, as I couldn't find the revenue per customer.
So if they're not making much profit from the readers buying the paper than they are making profit from people reading the paper - IE advertisers. Then it would still benefit them to reduce the price to almost cost or even below to get more advertisers. Actually it sounds like the Google model where they don't charge but make a little income from the advertisers.
Could you tell me how you got that (sic 4.20 per year) out of the article?
Come-on now I don't have an MBA it is simple math though....
All right I'll explain, just from the article text:
Wall Street Journal is in the news reporting business; therefore, can be used as a simple benchmark for profitability in the line of business.
The comparison between print and online is that the print is making a given profit and the online is making a given profit. They are in the same business yet the online is making 20 times the profit of print. Take the online subscription fee of $84 per year / 20 times the profit = $4.20 per year is the expected price for subscriptions.
If you wanted to compete, I suspect that you could charge $4.20 per year and be competitive. Therefore, there will be a lot of online news reporting sources in the future that will drive competition to the $4.20 mark.
The real information gathered from the story is that consumers buying Wall Street Journal online are paying 20 times too much. They should be paying $4.20 a year.
At least competition will help as if there is so much money in something then everyone will be doing it.
Hmm, there are a few things that a company might be able to do. For example, I would like to store all my Mozillla preferences on a server that is backed up. I could do this on my own machine at home but companies like Yahoo and Google have a better data retention history than what I have.
Most states require phone companies to maintain dial tone for 911 on any line connected to them.
It's good that most states have such a law. It will help when the backhoe operator hits a gas line right after he cut through the telephone line. While the flames are shooting twenty feet high I will not worry as the mystical powers of the law keeps 911 working.
I think the 911 situations are starting to look more like FUD. Larger municipals have had 911 starting back in 1968; however, a large segment of rural America didn't get 911 finalized until late 1990s (had to look that up on wikipedia). I remember where I lived it did get come about really late too.
Get this; America now has 911 since 1990 but there is a small problem with addresses. In rural America a lot of places don't (didn't?) have simple things like a street sign so for the last few years a names has had to be labeled to all streets just for 911. So the lets look at it this way; we have survived a large time without 911 as we know it and 911 dispatchers haven't been able to send emergency assistance to the right location; yeah were working on it but if there is an emergency you'll figure out something even if you don't have a phone.
I don't disagree with you on the freedom mattering part but you do have to realize that it is their product and their right to do what ever they feel. Basically everyone is in a pickle; first you have a company that wants to survive buy selling a service or product and second you have a developer wanting to be productive.
You really can't blame anyone for this, its just business.
Your Rights Offline
No, you'll have to go online to get a good fake passport.
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Contributions:
Both spacecraft are still going strong and are returning valuable science data. Each Voyagers' cosmic ray detector, magnetometer, plasma wave detector and low-energy charged particle detector all still operational. In addition, the Ultraviolet Spectrometer on Voyager 1 and the Plasma Science instrument on Voyager 2 continue to return data. Both spacecraft are expected to continue to operate and send back valuable data until at least the year 2020.
The mission currently employs the equivalent of about 10 full-time people at JPL.
Screeeech - Math time. 4 mil a year and 10 employees lets say they're using really good equipment and replacing it like crazy plus utilities making the total 3 mil a year. 1 mill / 10 != "research for the love of it".
Like a poster said one time: google knows all who knows all; therfore, a quick google search for Radiation King reveals
In episode 2F07, Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy. In it, Homer finds himself in his childhood home, and the living room wall has a shadow of Homer as a child burned into it by the Radiation King TV set. The scene then shifts to his memory of watching it in the refulgent radiation of TV the set in the process of creating that distinctive shadow on the wall.
Thus, we have answered your questions: USE LCD until such time it is determined to produces some other kind of Sexual Inadequacy Radiation.
On the web page it is currently about 1400mb. It is counting up to 2gb but it is going to take a few days. I bet I wont be able to tell the difference in storage space between now and then anyway.
You are correct. I was fast-forwarding and accidentally hit pause and this screen *poop*ed up. I forgot about it but it was ingrained in my mind as a Fast Forward popup.
During Christmas I was 30 second skipping commercials and it gave a pop up and said to enter the 20 digit number on the Replay web page to be entered for a drawing of some cash (cant remember exactly). I did it - foolishly. I think it was a marketing study to evaluate the rate of capturing attention so commercials could be inserted for revenue.
I have seen the Tivo commercial "thumbs up" but it is really non intrusive and you have only a half second to press the button the get the ad. It is just a matter of time until the commercials are back in your face though. Since I use both Tivo and Replay for comparisons. I am fortunate to pay per month instead of forking of the case for a lifetime subscription. I bet the people that have lifetime memberships will have more popups in the future. My rate of revenue/return via popup ads will approach zero if the become too intrusive.
Apple needs to produce a PVR and start an image of being "the" media center. I know I think of graphic artist when someone talks about using an apple. Now with iPod and that little Mini Mac the circle would be complete with a media center Mac. I would think of Mac as being the elite of home entertainment.
gas prices are up 50% for the last 12 months
That just shows you how cheap gas really is. We are not paying historically high prices if you would adjust for inflation.
The small ones that I used aren't online. Here is a big one but it'll give you an idea of what I tore appart. Go to the store inperson to see the size of the small one that put out like 400cmfs with virtually no noise. Keep in mind that most of these are thermally protected but I bet you cant get years of contiuous duty out of them.
All the money I have spent on quieting a noisy computer can be saved by accepting simple facts that moving object cause noise. Accept that and you are in the first phase on knowing what to do. You have to isolate the moving components from the room you are in.
For me the best solution is having the cases in the desk cabinet. In the cabinet you can isolate the vibration of a blower(squirrel cage fan) and use dryer vent tubing to suck in cool air and blow out hot air from the case. The blower I got is a dismantled desktop fan from Wally World that has two squirrel cages I picked up for 10 bucks. It runs on 110v so I have to turn it on when I use it. One day I'll get fancy and have a relay to automatically turn it on and it has 3 speeds via a turn nob that I could hook up a temperature senor to automatically select the correct speed. This doesn't totally isolate the noise from the room but I can add baffling to help. And it is so cheap.
Let the State Tax what it wants. It isn't a national law and the people of the state elected these official into office. The people of the state, therefore, think it is a good idea so let that state's people voluntarily pay extra tax to the local government. Taxing downloads will further whittle down the power of the federal government that regulates interstate commerce. If the federal government steps in and says the tax isn't part of the ratification the state accepted then the state could impose a (stupid) use tax. The could also implement a law like the ebay license that eff.org is all over forcing internet users to obtain license to download.
I bet the long run, the result in any of the situations isn't what you would like them to be.
I was going to reply to the block pricing above but you asked a legitimate question so let me reply to yours:
First block pricing: is the first stage of the theory but it doesn't account for other hard to analyze costs. It takes a stab at how many pencils can I sell at a given price and make a few bucks instead of analyzing returns on customer transactions. If I have a widget that sells for $100 and you have the same widget for $60 dollars, the consumer may see my product as superior one because of price alone. That is why I think CDs cost more than DVDs; the music industry is trying to appear as a superior product but they are loosing their death grip.
Now your questions on profit/price curve in law of supply and demand:
Any product you sell will have a fixed cost on every transaction. If you can analyze the transaction and while you have them ready to commit to fork over money than anything you extract above that price/cost curve for that transaction is more profit. Back to the Pizza Hut thing; why shouldn't they sell pizza for $5? Well the customer already want the product and they are willing to pay $10. I have increased the price on both single point & total transaction sales and didn't impact demand by actually raising the price but reducing the price for the next pizza. I have extracted further returns from the transaction that already covered the fixed costs. These few little paragraphs can't cover 9 hours of college credit but I hope it enlightens a few on cost theory.
As you increase price, you decrease volume. There is always a sweet spot that maximizes profit.
Well if you would take Marketing 101 you would learn a couple of other formulas too. You notice at Pizza hut that they sell pizza for $10 dollars for the first one and say $7 for the second one. There is a profit point during the transaction that you can maximize returns buy adding another one to a product that you are already going to buy. Now you have $10 for the 1st $7 for the 2nd and 5$ for the third. Well as you eat more and more pizza there becomes a point where you wont buy another no matter what the price is and then you have reached saturation at that price point. Therefore even though you have saturated the market you can still gather further funds from a fixed sale/profit point.
With the corrected 24-hour scan time at 1 frame per second and full featured films being on average of 2 hours than your still looking at 24 hours per film having two reels. That is a lot of work to ensure that every frame was correctly captured. It reminds me of using a scripting language mangling large files; one little mistake and you correct it and wait 24 hours to ensure it works lots and lots of work and hoping for no mistakes.
Whoops, I should have looked up the rates per second first. Is film usually stored in the reel-to-reel configuration (on a reel) or is stored in individual frames? If you wanted to use multiple scanners than you would have to physically cut the film. I think it would be easier to have an automated machine to read from the reel rather than cutting and scanning.
IIRC - I read someplace that 35mm film has the effective resolution of 4000p; therefore, scanning at 4000 lines would extract all the possible information from that kind of film. Yes I bet looking at the crystal might yield a little better results but I imagine that is slightly beyond the capabilities today. Remember 26 frames a second * 60 seconds * 60 minutes = 93,600 frames an hour. If you can scan 1 frame a second using the quick method of using the arbitrary max resolution of 4000p then it will still take 26 hours to scan 1 hour of film. If it took 1 minute to look at the pixel alignment than you're looking at 1560 hours per hour of film. Is it worth it?
Google knows all.
Intell talks about Infiniband Architecture
Initially InfiniBand Technology will be used to connect servers with remote storage and networking devices, and other servers. It will also be used inside servers for inter-processor communication (IPC) in parallel clusters. Customers requiring dense server deployments, such as ISPs, will also benefit from the small form factors being proposed. Other benefits include greater performance, lower latency, easier and faster sharing of data, built in security and quality of service, improved usability (the new form factor will be far easier to add/remove/upgrade than today's shared-bus I/O cards).
Additionally, InfiniBand Architecture reduces total cost of ownership by focusing on data center reliability and scalability. The technology addresses reliability by creating multiple redundant paths between nodes (reducing hardware that needs to be purchased). It also moves from the load-and-store-based communications methods used by shared local bus I/O to a more reliable message passing approach.
Scalability needs are addressed in two ways. First, the I/O fabric itself is designed to scale without encountering the latencies that some shared bus I/O architectures experience as workload increases. Second, the physical modularity of InfiniBand Technology will avoid the need for customers to buy excess capacity up-front in anticipation of future growth. Instead, they will be able to buy what they need at the outset and 'pay as they grow' to add capacity without impacting operations or installed systems.