roduction cost of 1st copy of software=very expensive. Production cost of 1,000,000th copy of software=almost nil.
This is where non-business people get confused. It doesn't work this way. You don't say that the first copy of software costs $1,000,000 to make and the last costs $0.01. They're called fixed and variable costs. The variable costs are low, but the fixed costs are very high, and are spread across each and every copy sold.
My girlfriend gets the same thing. She's a veterinarian. She does low cost spay/neuters all day. Some smarmy rescue group emailed her and said, "why does it still cost so much? I know that suture (sp?) only costs pennies per animal". Well, you have to factor in 4+ years of college, rent for the building, utilities, etc.
I know, redundant, redundant, but Christ. How in the hell is an article about "more cellphones, fewer land lines" news? Even a non-techie, Wal-Mart shopping, Nascar watching people would know that. Shit, I've seen migrant workers with cell phones.
I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down."
What the poster doesn't realize is that if these wires come down, so does the Net. The Net runs on the exact same lines as does telephone. A "T1" has been around a looooong time. A T1 carries 24 telephone lines.
reat it as you would most devices that store data and it will work fine.
I've always wondered about this. I don't buy anything with a portable hard drive, because my experience with hard drives since before they existed was not to:
1. Drop them.
2. Hit them.
3. Get them too hot.
4. Get them anywhere near magnets.
5. Move them while they're spinning.
It seems like all of these rules would be broken in an iPod. Do these things (iPods) last, or do the hard drive heads hit the platters the first time you drop it 6"?
They probably did that because they knew that they would get avalance of "My browser is spoofed, so please change your statistics accordingly" from hundreds of disaffected geeks (as can plainly be seen from your post and hundreds others). I'm sure that somebody up top just rolled his eyes and said "oh shit, here comes the geek email." when they got their first email about the article. He probablyt turned it off so his customer service people wouldn't have had to spend so much time answering emails about this.
And you think that this helps advertisers? Was this Google Adwords account approved? For advertisers, you have a bunch of relatively uesless impressions, with the potential of advertisers having to pay for bad traffic. This does NOT help advertisers.
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roduction cost of 1st copy of software=very expensive. Production cost of 1,000,000th copy of software=almost nil.
This is where non-business people get confused. It doesn't work this way. You don't say that the first copy of software costs $1,000,000 to make and the last costs $0.01. They're called fixed and variable costs. The variable costs are low, but the fixed costs are very high, and are spread across each and every copy sold.
My girlfriend gets the same thing. She's a veterinarian. She does low cost spay/neuters all day. Some smarmy rescue group emailed her and said, "why does it still cost so much? I know that suture (sp?) only costs pennies per animal". Well, you have to factor in 4+ years of college, rent for the building, utilities, etc.
Everything has fixed and variable costs.
I know, redundant, redundant, but Christ. How in the hell is an article about "more cellphones, fewer land lines" news? Even a non-techie, Wal-Mart shopping, Nascar watching people would know that. Shit, I've seen migrant workers with cell phones.
I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down."
What the poster doesn't realize is that if these wires come down, so does the Net. The Net runs on the exact same lines as does telephone. A "T1" has been around a looooong time. A T1 carries 24 telephone lines.
reat it as you would most devices that store data and it will work fine.
I've always wondered about this. I don't buy anything with a portable hard drive, because my experience with hard drives since before they existed was not to:
1. Drop them.
2. Hit them.
3. Get them too hot.
4. Get them anywhere near magnets.
5. Move them while they're spinning.
It seems like all of these rules would be broken in an iPod. Do these things (iPods) last, or do the hard drive heads hit the platters the first time you drop it 6"?
Most people sync with a Palm or other type of device.
Most people don't know what a PDA is and think a "Palm" is part of your hand.
They probably did that because they knew that they would get avalance of "My browser is spoofed, so please change your statistics accordingly" from hundreds of disaffected geeks (as can plainly be seen from your post and hundreds others). I'm sure that somebody up top just rolled his eyes and said "oh shit, here comes the geek email." when they got their first email about the article. He probablyt turned it off so his customer service people wouldn't have had to spend so much time answering emails about this.
And you think that this helps advertisers? Was this Google Adwords account approved? For advertisers, you have a bunch of relatively uesless impressions, with the potential of advertisers having to pay for bad traffic. This does NOT help advertisers.