Actually, there are a lot of local cinemas which have proven "the greedy capitalists" wrong. They don't charge $4 for a coke. They serve well-priced beer and good, reasonably priced food. They show interesting movies. They have strong followings and stay in business for a long time. The one in my town has been around before any of the big corporate theatres came in, and will probably outlast them.
PS This is why I love, for example, non-corporate restaurants, particularly high-class ones. They show high class by, say, giving you a dessert or coffee for free. Or if you drop your meal, you don't have to pay for it, they'll make you a new one (sure, maybe McDonalds does that, but only because it's in their corporate handbook and is only defined because they think the good publicity will increase their profits).
My sincere, deep-down hope is that the nice mom&pop restaurant gives you a new meal not because they just want good publicity and increased profits, but because they truly care about people other than those listed on their bank statement. You know?
Maybe you don't know.
But I know and care about this difference. I think a lot of people do. And I sure hope someone running a cafe cares enough about enriching the environment and being happy, respectable citizens to treat their customers with respect and humanity, not just as dollar signs and statistics.
You seem to be defining "better off" as a purely profit-based. And you have a pretty decent point, there is surely a point between price and units sold that will maximize, at least mathematically, your profits.
All I'm saying is that it's not that simple. Maybe this guy -- maybe any business -- can make that work, but they won't be getting the love of their customers. I know that the movie theatre cokes are overpriced, and I know that the movie theatres might make less money if they charged less, but I want them to give up those profits in the interest of creating a good relationship with me... like they actually care about me and don't just want to rape my pockets for all they have.
I do not work for minimum wage. However, I also do not work for _maximum_ wage. I do favors. People I like to work with, people I want to build a relationship with, I will give a good deal. I'll occasionally even lose money by choosing to do a favor instead of some money-making activity. I am currently doing a $5,000 project for $3,000 worth of plane tickets to Europe.
I don't particularly care about maximizing on-paper mathematical profits, or even maximizing the number on my bank account today, 2 years from now, forever in the future. It's more important that I have good relationships, feel good about myself, enjoy what I'm doing, etc.
So my advice to the internet cafe guy is, if he wants to keep his store going for a long time (not just get maximum profits while he is in business selling $4 cokes), get repeat customers, steal customers from other overpriced places, then he should have non-jacked up coke prices. That's all.
There are a lot of view on this truth. Yours is the strictly objective, über-capitalist view. Mine is a little more humanistic. I'd rather live in a world where businesses did not try only to maximize their profits, but enhance the world. It seems many people share my preference -- look at the success and good-name companies like Google and Apple have. (And it's interesting, the more these two companies have neglected their old "high standard" and gone towards trying to bank more money, the lower their reputation has dropped). Or, see the RIAA and DRM for another example... their shitty business practice makes them more money in the short term. But damn, it's shitty.
Yeah, but I ("we") despise every bar, cinema, and stadium in the world. It annoys me to no end how they jack up prices. And I spend less because of it. The guy is talking about a gaming bar, where probably most people won't just have excess money. I'm sure they would really appreciate well-priced food & drink, buy more because of it, and come more often.
If you knew a bar that had tasty food and snacks for a reasonable price, would you go there more often than other bars? I sure would! If there was a cinema in town that had dollar cokes, that would be the ONLY cinema I ever went to. And I'd buy a coke every single time. Everybody would buy a coke every single time.
I'm no economist, I know there's a special point between the two competing factors of how much people will buy vs. how much you take in per purchase. You gotta maximize it. I have a sick feeling that maybe bars, restaurants,etc. have maximized their profits, but it's downright sick, and I wonder if the curve is shallower and you wouldn't lose much money even if you avoid inflation.
According to this report on the mosquito device and hearing aids, the mosquito emits a 17.8khz tone. That's one sine tone. Which is [well] above the average hearing threshold of a 30 year old.
This is not my area of expertise, but "harmonics" of a fundamental are HIGHER than that fundamental. So if the fundamental is 15kHz, the next harmonic is 30kHz. In radio they will surely be bandlimiting their signal, and I don't know what the top frequency it is, but it is surely below the first harmonic of 15kHz.
Something I know very little about, but have heard anecdotally about are harmonics BELOW a fundamental. In general, the people I've heard mentioning harmonics under a fundamental have known next to nothing about acoustics and audio, so I haven't really paid much attention.
A possibility is that the 15kHz tone they broadcast heretodyned with some other frequency to produce a lower difference tone. But since they were ostensibly only broadcasting a single sine tone, there would have been no heterodyning.
Think about radio and TV test tones that you've heard before. Those are pretty pure sine tones. I don't think broadcasting a sine tone is difficult or in danger of introducing other [noticeable] frequencies, particularly BELOW the sine tone's frequency. I welcome the radio broadcasting overloads who know more about this to clear it up.
That guy's blog is trash. Also, I am not "assuming" that the Mosquito is a sine wave. I know it's a sine wave. Have you done a fourier transform on the file linked to from that blog? If that's the mosquito ring tone, it is a 15kHz sine tone. nothing more, nothing less. Shall I send you a pic of a spectral analysis? Or have you figured out how to use Audacity yet?
How unthinking of you to assume what the contents of that audio file are without doing a spectral analysis
I think it's really funny that the guy or NYT thinks that file contains 17kHz, then this guy listens to actual 17kHz and obviously can't hear it, so then comes up with a crazy explanation for why he can hear the "17kHz" mosquito tone. Should have just checked his premises. The file contains a 15kHz tone. No noise. Just 15kHz sine wave
High frequencies are very directional. Try adjusting your soundsticks. Unless you've blown the tweeters in them, chances are they are reproducing 15kHz just fine.
CDs can reproduce signals up to 22.05kHz. It seems like you have some sort of audio background. How could you possibly think that CDs can't reproduce anything above 16kHz? Does Nyquist mean anything to you? CDs have a sample rate of 44.1kHz. They can thus encode tones up to 22.05kHz. This is a mathematical law. Whether or not all your gear in the signal chain AFTER the CD can reproduce up to 22.05kHz, that's their business. But the spectrum is there on the CD.
I call bullshit. Compressers and Expanders are dynamics processers. They only change levels of frequencies. They don't magically map one frequency to another frequency. That is a tough bit of work you're talking about, done by complicated algorithms like autotune. Compressers and expanders are relatively simple and only change the relative levels of frequencies, and that's if they are multiband. Usually they compress or expand the entire signal equally.
Dude, have you read any of the comments here? A single sine tone is losslessly encoded in MP3. There aren't any artifacts. It's 15kHz, period. The mosquito is not set to anything much higher, and there are in fact a million people who can hear well above 15k going into their 40s and 50s.
Actually, the speakers in your laptop probably are total crap. You've already alluded to the fact that they have no low range. And that's fine, because who would fit anything but a set of tweeters in a laptop shell... but let me tell you, those tweeters probably suck. Just cause they can make the frequencies doesn't mean they make them all evenly at the same level.
It is lower than a TV's whine. The tone is exactly 15kHz. As others have pointed out, TVs are 15.7kHz. So this tone is like the flat soprano version of TV tone. "Going sour" is a good way to put it.
I have serious doubts about anybody using these as their cell-phone ringer. Most of those cell speakers don't reproduce frequencies that high.
Oh god, dreaded typefingers. I can't believe you have described perfectly the phenomenon I used to experience pulling all nighters in the CS lab. Well, that and the experience of random gangstas coming up and banging on the windows and telling me to let them in or they would shoot me, then me having to turn off all the lights and hide under the desk. But that's totally unrelated (I am totally not making that up. Anybody else at Northwestern U ever have this happen to them?)
I don't know this guy's target audience, but a whole lot of people don't have an ISP but still get on the net at public terminals (library, school, net cafes). They rely on free email services to have a net presence, and I think it would be sad to discriminate against them for that.
I think it helps to think about this problem and identify some basic constraints: 1. You want to organize a great number of physical items. This means you simply need a proportional amount of space, unless you use a more efficient (i.e. physical volume per byte) storage medium 2. You want a system that allows for easy access and identification of these items. This will require even more space, unless you offload access and/or identification to magical computer land.
Just writing those two things out has led me to think of a number of possible solutions outside grappling for some magical panacea to CD storage:
As for constraint #1, consider buying a hard-drive and migrating CD contents to the drive. As for constraint #2, there are a couple of ways to go. You could buy/build some sort of system that stores and retrieves CDs for you. Then you wouldn't need a bulky jewel case, just a bar code. In a similar but simpler vein, just make a database of all your CDs. There is a surprising amount of information present in the cases, which is why you want full view of them. But get that information in a database and you can use a simple UID to identify CDs. Then you can store CDs in small cases or even a binder.
In fact, if you go to a UID system, you can put all your CDs in one of those big binders. If you keep them ordered by UID then you can access via binary search -- get your big O down to log(n)!
Well, I don't know much about the database end of things, and don't much have an opinion on the server-side things, but I would re-code the rest of those as:
- If all you want to do is create a simple program to do a one-off task, and are certain it will never have to see the light of day use Java.
- If you want to create a straightforward but fugly and nonstandard GUI for a database, use Java.
- If you want a mutlithread application that runs slow-as-shit, use Java.
- If you want a client-server app that hogs resources and is full of bloat, use Java.
- If you want a peer-to-peer app that won't run right on most of the peers, use Java.
- If you want to write a simple script that runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, or all of them, with a non-standard,slow, painful interface in all of them use Java.
- If you don't have time to debug and just want something that's easy to put together but hard to actually run and use, use Java.
- If you have an enormously complex project and need something maintainable but bloated, ugly, and slow, use Java.
There, that sounds a little better. Client-side java is the most heinous stinking thing that has ever seen the light of day.
Actually, I was really thankful my iRiver MP3 player had radio because I've had to tune into emergency broadcast several times these last few months. I never listen to radio (and don't have a TV), but quickly found the right station and could monitor while I sat in my closet waiting for a Tornado to eat me. I also didn't grow up in a place with tornados so I didn't know what to expect or what to do if it hit.
Why couldn't you extend this idea to other kinds of data? For example, you could think of text editing as starting with a blank document, and then record all the transformations done on that blank document (adding words, removing words, deleting this paragraph, changing word 2,etc).
If you represent the creation of your document like this, you could also go through the list of transformations as your complete document change history. You could remove transformations you didn't want (e.g., step 519: word #223 changed from "foo" to "bar") and have snapshots of what the document looked like at any point along the transformation process.
If you wanted a system like this to be pervasive, you would need a distinction between "source" data and transformed stuff, which might be confusing to end-users. E.g., you could start with two movie files, bring them in to your movie editing program, trim one, cross fade, and adjust color balance.
At this point you can quit and re-open your project and it's all there (no save required). On the other hand you can export all this to one new movie "source" file, which could be dragged into another movie editor or whatever, so you don't convey the list of transformations performed.
This distinction would allow for a robust versioning system, no need to save ever, just a need to "export". You could send your document with all its transformation list, then, to somebody who might need that. On the other hand, you could export it to a new source document, which would be smaller and only contain its current text, and you could send that to Joe Schmoe who only wants to glance at your file (or who you don't want to have access to your full transformation history)
On the other hand, if the Wright brothers had dreamed of a superb flying experience all about comfort, efficiency, and intuitiveness, then came back and saw the mess of bullshit that the airline industry is today, how would they feel?
I think a more appropriate analogy would be: they worked a bit on one of the first airplanes, had a lot of thoughts about the direction air travel should take, and helped direct a rapidly growing air company to excellence on that front. Now, they still fly the same company but it's inconsistent, slow, corporate (in the bad way), etc., and Wilbur and Orville have beef.
I do think the idea of tiered pricing makes sense, as long as the max is still the appropriate 99 cents. I personally would buy more music if it was priced as cheap as 25 cents! If I was browsing the iTMS, and saw some track that looked interesting, at 99 cents I'm unlikely to buy it (because I can't afford to just throw dollars away on frivolous purchases). On the other hand, if it's only 25 cents and by some indie artist, sure, I'll toss a quarter out to give it a shot.
Some people have mentioned that the price of microtransactions is too high for 25c pricing (the record label wouldn't get anything with a 25cent price). But if apple added up all your purchases, say, over a month, and then charged you one bill, all of a sudden the concerns over credit card transaction prices would go away. Since most people who buy from the iTMS buy more than once, I don't think this would be problematic.
Yeah, that would be nice, particularly if we could set our weighting preferences with respect to those flags (like we can comments). Then all the people who say they like dupes ("Maybe I didn't catch it the first time") could keep their dupes, the people who hate them could block them.
Similar with the the Piqueapafoisfelle (sp?!:) stuff, which I don't mind but really kills some other people. (although I have to say, don't think I've seen any stories with his name on it recently, i kind of miss it).
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Actually, there are a lot of local cinemas which have proven "the greedy capitalists" wrong. They don't charge $4 for a coke. They serve well-priced beer and good, reasonably priced food. They show interesting movies. They have strong followings and stay in business for a long time. The one in my town has been around before any of the big corporate theatres came in, and will probably outlast them.
PS This is why I love, for example, non-corporate restaurants, particularly high-class ones. They show high class by, say, giving you a dessert or coffee for free. Or if you drop your meal, you don't have to pay for it, they'll make you a new one (sure, maybe McDonalds does that, but only because it's in their corporate handbook and is only defined because they think the good publicity will increase their profits).
My sincere, deep-down hope is that the nice mom&pop restaurant gives you a new meal not because they just want good publicity and increased profits, but because they truly care about people other than those listed on their bank statement. You know?
Maybe you don't know.
But I know and care about this difference. I think a lot of people do. And I sure hope someone running a cafe cares enough about enriching the environment and being happy, respectable citizens to treat their customers with respect and humanity, not just as dollar signs and statistics.
You seem to be defining "better off" as a purely profit-based. And you have a pretty decent point, there is surely a point between price and units sold that will maximize, at least mathematically, your profits.
All I'm saying is that it's not that simple. Maybe this guy -- maybe any business -- can make that work, but they won't be getting the love of their customers. I know that the movie theatre cokes are overpriced, and I know that the movie theatres might make less money if they charged less, but I want them to give up those profits in the interest of creating a good relationship with me... like they actually care about me and don't just want to rape my pockets for all they have.
I do not work for minimum wage. However, I also do not work for _maximum_ wage. I do favors. People I like to work with, people I want to build a relationship with, I will give a good deal. I'll occasionally even lose money by choosing to do a favor instead of some money-making activity. I am currently doing a $5,000 project for $3,000 worth of plane tickets to Europe.
I don't particularly care about maximizing on-paper mathematical profits, or even maximizing the number on my bank account today, 2 years from now, forever in the future. It's more important that I have good relationships, feel good about myself, enjoy what I'm doing, etc.
So my advice to the internet cafe guy is, if he wants to keep his store going for a long time (not just get maximum profits while he is in business selling $4 cokes), get repeat customers, steal customers from other overpriced places, then he should have non-jacked up coke prices. That's all.
There are a lot of view on this truth. Yours is the strictly objective, über-capitalist view. Mine is a little more humanistic. I'd rather live in a world where businesses did not try only to maximize their profits, but enhance the world. It seems many people share my preference -- look at the success and good-name companies like Google and Apple have. (And it's interesting, the more these two companies have neglected their old "high standard" and gone towards trying to bank more money, the lower their reputation has dropped). Or, see the RIAA and DRM for another example... their shitty business practice makes them more money in the short term. But damn, it's shitty.
Yeah, but I ("we") despise every bar, cinema, and stadium in the world. It annoys me to no end how they jack up prices. And I spend less because of it. The guy is talking about a gaming bar, where probably most people won't just have excess money. I'm sure they would really appreciate well-priced food & drink, buy more because of it, and come more often.
If you knew a bar that had tasty food and snacks for a reasonable price, would you go there more often than other bars? I sure would! If there was a cinema in town that had dollar cokes, that would be the ONLY cinema I ever went to. And I'd buy a coke every single time. Everybody would buy a coke every single time.
I'm no economist, I know there's a special point between the two competing factors of how much people will buy vs. how much you take in per purchase. You gotta maximize it. I have a sick feeling that maybe bars, restaurants,etc. have maximized their profits, but it's downright sick, and I wonder if the curve is shallower and you wouldn't lose much money even if you avoid inflation.
According to this report on the mosquito device and hearing aids, the mosquito emits a 17.8khz tone. That's one sine tone. Which is [well] above the average hearing threshold of a 30 year old.
This is not my area of expertise, but "harmonics" of a fundamental are HIGHER than that fundamental. So if the fundamental is 15kHz, the next harmonic is 30kHz. In radio they will surely be bandlimiting their signal, and I don't know what the top frequency it is, but it is surely below the first harmonic of 15kHz.
Something I know very little about, but have heard anecdotally about are harmonics BELOW a fundamental. In general, the people I've heard mentioning harmonics under a fundamental have known next to nothing about acoustics and audio, so I haven't really paid much attention.
A possibility is that the 15kHz tone they broadcast heretodyned with some other frequency to produce a lower difference tone. But since they were ostensibly only broadcasting a single sine tone, there would have been no heterodyning.
Think about radio and TV test tones that you've heard before. Those are pretty pure sine tones. I don't think broadcasting a sine tone is difficult or in danger of introducing other [noticeable] frequencies, particularly BELOW the sine tone's frequency. I welcome the radio broadcasting overloads who know more about this to clear it up.
That guy's blog is trash. Also, I am not "assuming" that the Mosquito is a sine wave. I know it's a sine wave. Have you done a fourier transform on the file linked to from that blog? If that's the mosquito ring tone, it is a 15kHz sine tone. nothing more, nothing less. Shall I send you a pic of a spectral analysis? Or have you figured out how to use Audacity yet?
How unthinking of you to assume what the contents of that audio file are without doing a spectral analysis
I think it's really funny that the guy or NYT thinks that file contains 17kHz, then this guy listens to actual 17kHz and obviously can't hear it, so then comes up with a crazy explanation for why he can hear the "17kHz" mosquito tone. Should have just checked his premises. The file contains a 15kHz tone. No noise. Just 15kHz sine wave
High frequencies are very directional. Try adjusting your soundsticks. Unless you've blown the tweeters in them, chances are they are reproducing 15kHz just fine.
CDs can reproduce signals up to 22.05kHz. It seems like you have some sort of audio background. How could you possibly think that CDs can't reproduce anything above 16kHz? Does Nyquist mean anything to you? CDs have a sample rate of 44.1kHz. They can thus encode tones up to 22.05kHz. This is a mathematical law. Whether or not all your gear in the signal chain AFTER the CD can reproduce up to 22.05kHz, that's their business. But the spectrum is there on the CD.
I call bullshit. Compressers and Expanders are dynamics processers. They only change levels of frequencies. They don't magically map one frequency to another frequency. That is a tough bit of work you're talking about, done by complicated algorithms like autotune. Compressers and expanders are relatively simple and only change the relative levels of frequencies, and that's if they are multiband. Usually they compress or expand the entire signal equally.
See Wiki on Audio Compression
Dude, have you read any of the comments here? A single sine tone is losslessly encoded in MP3. There aren't any artifacts. It's 15kHz, period. The mosquito is not set to anything much higher, and there are in fact a million people who can hear well above 15k going into their 40s and 50s.
Actually, the speakers in your laptop probably are total crap. You've already alluded to the fact that they have no low range. And that's fine, because who would fit anything but a set of tweeters in a laptop shell... but let me tell you, those tweeters probably suck. Just cause they can make the frequencies doesn't mean they make them all evenly at the same level.
It is lower than a TV's whine. The tone is exactly 15kHz. As others have pointed out, TVs are 15.7kHz. So this tone is like the flat soprano version of TV tone. "Going sour" is a good way to put it.
I have serious doubts about anybody using these as their cell-phone ringer. Most of those cell speakers don't reproduce frequencies that high.
CRTs and TVs are around 15kHz. This device is well above that, I believe 18-19kHz.
Oh god, dreaded typefingers. I can't believe you have described perfectly the phenomenon I used to experience pulling all nighters in the CS lab. Well, that and the experience of random gangstas coming up and banging on the windows and telling me to let them in or they would shoot me, then me having to turn off all the lights and hide under the desk. But that's totally unrelated (I am totally not making that up. Anybody else at Northwestern U ever have this happen to them?)
I don't know this guy's target audience, but a whole lot of people don't have an ISP but still get on the net at public terminals (library, school, net cafes). They rely on free email services to have a net presence, and I think it would be sad to discriminate against them for that.
I think it helps to think about this problem and identify some basic constraints:
1. You want to organize a great number of physical items. This means you simply need a proportional amount of space, unless you use a more efficient (i.e. physical volume per byte) storage medium
2. You want a system that allows for easy access and identification of these items. This will require even more space, unless you offload access and/or identification to magical computer land.
Just writing those two things out has led me to think of a number of possible solutions outside grappling for some magical panacea to CD storage:
As for constraint #1, consider buying a hard-drive and migrating CD contents to the drive.
As for constraint #2, there are a couple of ways to go. You could buy/build some sort of system that stores and retrieves CDs for you. Then you wouldn't need a bulky jewel case, just a bar code. In a similar but simpler vein, just make a database of all your CDs. There is a surprising amount of information present in the cases, which is why you want full view of them. But get that information in a database and you can use a simple UID to identify CDs. Then you can store CDs in small cases or even a binder.
In fact, if you go to a UID system, you can put all your CDs in one of those big binders. If you keep them ordered by UID then you can access via binary search -- get your big O down to log(n)!
Well, I don't know much about the database end of things, and don't much have an opinion on the server-side things, but I would re-code the rest of those as:
- If all you want to do is create a simple program to do a one-off task, and are certain it will never have to see the light of day use Java.
- If you want to create a straightforward but fugly and nonstandard GUI for a database, use Java.
- If you want a mutlithread application that runs slow-as-shit, use Java.
- If you want a client-server app that hogs resources and is full of bloat, use Java.
- If you want a peer-to-peer app that won't run right on most of the peers, use Java.
- If you want to write a simple script that runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, or all of them, with a non-standard,slow, painful interface in all of them use Java.
- If you don't have time to debug and just want something that's easy to put together but hard to actually run and use, use Java.
- If you have an enormously complex project and need something maintainable but bloated, ugly, and slow, use Java.
There, that sounds a little better. Client-side java is the most heinous stinking thing that has ever seen the light of day.
yeah but it could heat up to 30C that inside the trunk of your car....
yeah, first gen is always buggy...
Actually, I was really thankful my iRiver MP3 player had radio because I've had to tune into emergency broadcast several times these last few months. I never listen to radio (and don't have a TV), but quickly found the right station and could monitor while I sat in my closet waiting for a Tornado to eat me. I also didn't grow up in a place with tornados so I didn't know what to expect or what to do if it hit.
Don't mess with Emergency Broadcasting, man
Why couldn't you extend this idea to other kinds of data? For example, you could think of text editing as starting with a blank document, and then record all the transformations done on that blank document (adding words, removing words, deleting this paragraph, changing word 2,etc).
If you represent the creation of your document like this, you could also go through the list of transformations as your complete document change history. You could remove transformations you didn't want (e.g., step 519: word #223 changed from "foo" to "bar") and have snapshots of what the document looked like at any point along the transformation process.
If you wanted a system like this to be pervasive, you would need a distinction between "source" data and transformed stuff, which might be confusing to end-users. E.g., you could start with two movie files, bring them in to your movie editing program, trim one, cross fade, and adjust color balance.
At this point you can quit and re-open your project and it's all there (no save required). On the other hand you can export all this to one new movie "source" file, which could be dragged into another movie editor or whatever, so you don't convey the list of transformations performed.
This distinction would allow for a robust versioning system, no need to save ever, just a need to "export". You could send your document with all its transformation list, then, to somebody who might need that. On the other hand, you could export it to a new source document, which would be smaller and only contain its current text, and you could send that to Joe Schmoe who only wants to glance at your file (or who you don't want to have access to your full transformation history)
On the other hand, if the Wright brothers had dreamed of a superb flying experience all about comfort, efficiency, and intuitiveness, then came back and saw the mess of bullshit that the airline industry is today, how would they feel?
I think a more appropriate analogy would be: they worked a bit on one of the first airplanes, had a lot of thoughts about the direction air travel should take, and helped direct a rapidly growing air company to excellence on that front. Now, they still fly the same company but it's inconsistent, slow, corporate (in the bad way), etc., and Wilbur and Orville have beef.
I think that's relevant.
I do think the idea of tiered pricing makes sense, as long as the max is still the appropriate 99 cents. I personally would buy more music if it was priced as cheap as 25 cents! If I was browsing the iTMS, and saw some track that looked interesting, at 99 cents I'm unlikely to buy it (because I can't afford to just throw dollars away on frivolous purchases). On the other hand, if it's only 25 cents and by some indie artist, sure, I'll toss a quarter out to give it a shot.
Some people have mentioned that the price of microtransactions is too high for 25c pricing (the record label wouldn't get anything with a 25cent price). But if apple added up all your purchases, say, over a month, and then charged you one bill, all of a sudden the concerns over credit card transaction prices would go away. Since most people who buy from the iTMS buy more than once, I don't think this would be problematic.
Yeah, that would be nice, particularly if we could set our weighting preferences with respect to those flags (like we can comments). Then all the people who say they like dupes ("Maybe I didn't catch it the first time") could keep their dupes, the people who hate them could block them.
:) stuff, which I don't mind but really kills some other people. (although I have to say, don't think I've seen any stories with his name on it recently, i kind of miss it).
Similar with the the Piqueapafoisfelle (sp?!