I would agree with your thoughts up until the punitive costs. $261.57 is plenty a deterrent for sharing 3 (!!) songs.
One could see how sharing a thousand songs would still end up costing a few thousand in fees without the last punitive part. And that seems harsh enough.
Subsidized in that they bring in margins that are less than Apple's target margins...because Apple is able to get higher margins on the up sell to higher capacity models.
I have no idea why anyone would buy any game, from any publisher, that required an internet connection for online play. Mind-boggling.
Seems only natural that all games will require an internet connection for online play. I assume you mean offline play? Funny that it got modded informative and not funny.
It's hard to imagine that non-business users will pay for this. I imagine that most home users will shell out $120 for the Home version of Office every 6 yrs or so. That's 1/6 of the subscription cost over the same period. I could see MSFT charging $10/month for non-business licenses to ALL MSFT products (including windows).
Immortality through repair technology will be a ad supported life extending service, with the targeted ads that appear in your conscious being based your mind model which is continuously backed up to the cloud by the mind repair nano-bots.
I hear ya. I was just thinking that while I might be willing to work a 3 day wk and take $60K/yr; most people don't have that luxury because they can't make due with $18K/yr, let alone $30K/yr.
Some carriers will...but yea, it's pretty fucked up they way the carriers force you into overbuying in the USA. Typical consumerism.
You can create a manual discount (which I've done) by signing the 2 yr contract, getting the iPhone for $200, then selling it, unopened, on eBay for around $650. That $450 in profit is about $19/month discount off your 2 yr contract.
People are similarity stupid when calculating how much house/car they can afford. They don't look at the total cost of the home/car...they just look at how little downpayment they can make. When you pay between $200 to $400 up front for your phone...this is just a downpayment.
The iPhone 5 actually costs between $650 to $850 in the USA depending on model.
Yes...you can finance your phone by paying between $200 to $400 up front and paying the remaining $450 over a 2 yr period via a 2 yr contract...for between $80/month and $100/month with data + taxes/fees. But that adds up to about $2,000 + $200 = $2,400 for iPhone + 2 yrs of service.
But even at these costs...Android/Windows/RIM are not any cheaper.
I'm pushing 50 and have known many people and I've yet to see one.
Whoa, you simpletons are missing the subtleness of my joke. I'm not misinterpreting the metaphor...I'm playing with the ambiguity of the referred to object in the quoted sentence. Has he yet to see a person who doesn't harbor demons? Or has he yet to see a demon? The author's intent is clearly the first case, but the latter is also possible...and far more funny.
The law requires that an employer give you up to 12 wks/yr off for medical issues (FMLA) with a doctor's note. During this time you will get paid via insurance which most employers offer for free...but it's cheap to obtain if not. You are not guaranteed your same job when you come back...but most businesses will give it to you to avoid possible legal repercussions.
But we definitely have shitty vacation when compared to Europe and long work hours. There's no reason for us to have to work so hard. I'd take less pay and a European schedule any day.
But biologically speaking...I think teen pregnancy is the norm. It's only in very, very recent times have women begun to wait until their 20's to have children. So I suspect teen pregnancy is problematic today due to our social structures rather than anything inherently wrong with it.
Interesting that he didn't shoot himself in the head. I wonder if that was a calculated move so that scientists could examine his brain to find the cause of his debilitating brain injuries?
Crucial wouldn't confirm the write-erase limit of the m4's flash chips, but it does publish endurance specifications for the drive as a whole. According to the company, the m4 can write 72 terabytes of data over its lifetime. Amortize that over a five-year span, and you're looking at 40GB per day.
Just noticed that Crucial made the same claim on their m4 drives...only 72TB seems like a lot more when you're dealing with a 128/256GB drive.
To each his own...but I've got my OS and a huge amount of apps on my 256GB SSD and I've stil got 100GB free. The remainder of my data sits on an internal 500GB HD and a 2TB network drive.
I would think one of the best applications for a 1TB SSD is video/movie editing and data analysis...both of which would require swapping out HD contents on a regular basis.
Seems like this kind of drive is best suited for read only focused applications. Depending on what you're doing you could write 72TB pretty quickly on a 1TB drive.
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I would agree with your thoughts up until the punitive costs.
$261.57 is plenty a deterrent for sharing 3 (!!) songs.
One could see how sharing a thousand songs would still end up costing a few thousand in fees without the last punitive part. And that seems harsh enough.
Subsidized in that they bring in margins that are less than Apple's target margins...because Apple is able to get higher margins on the up sell to higher capacity models.
The 16GB version is the only good deal.
Although that low price point on the 16GB version is being subsidized by the higher margins on the 32/64/128GB versions.
I have no idea why anyone would buy any game, from any publisher, that required an internet connection for online play. Mind-boggling.
Seems only natural that all games will require an internet connection for online play. I assume you mean offline play? Funny that it got modded informative and not funny.
It's hard to imagine that non-business users will pay for this. I imagine that most home users will shell out $120 for the Home version of Office every 6 yrs or so. That's 1/6 of the subscription cost over the same period. I could see MSFT charging $10/month for non-business licenses to ALL MSFT products (including windows).
seems like we have immense productivity and wealth increases from the data revolution. is there evidence to the contrary?
Immortality through repair technology will be a ad supported life extending service, with the targeted ads that appear in your conscious being based your mind model which is continuously backed up to the cloud by the mind repair nano-bots.
you will be given a management job...to interface with foreign customers.
could easily be making six figures as well.
Hopefully some better college will offer him admission in light of him getting the boot from Dawson.
Outside the ISS seems like the last place you'd want to practice refueling.
I hear ya. I was just thinking that while I might be willing to work a 3 day wk and take $60K/yr; most people don't have that luxury because they can't make due with $18K/yr, let alone $30K/yr.
at which point the majority would say "hell, one more day a week and I can go from 40k/year to 60k/year!"
Um....you do realize that the average salary in the USA is around $30K/yr, right? So they will go from $12K to 18K with the extra day.
Now if you're talking about the average engineer/IT salary in the USA..it might be closer to $80K/yr.
Some carriers will...but yea, it's pretty fucked up they way the carriers force you into overbuying in the USA. Typical consumerism.
You can create a manual discount (which I've done) by signing the 2 yr contract, getting the iPhone for $200, then selling it, unopened, on eBay for around $650. That $450 in profit is about $19/month discount off your 2 yr contract.
People are similarity stupid when calculating how much house/car they can afford. They don't look at the total cost of the home/car...they just look at how little downpayment they can make. When you pay between $200 to $400 up front for your phone...this is just a downpayment.
The iPhone 5 actually costs between $650 to $850 in the USA depending on model.
Yes...you can finance your phone by paying between $200 to $400 up front and paying the remaining $450 over a 2 yr period via a 2 yr contract...for between $80/month and $100/month with data + taxes/fees. But that adds up to about $2,000 + $200 = $2,400 for iPhone + 2 yrs of service.
But even at these costs...Android/Windows/RIM are not any cheaper.
I'm pushing 50 and have known many people and I've yet to see one.
Whoa, you simpletons are missing the subtleness of my joke. I'm not misinterpreting the metaphor...I'm playing with the ambiguity of the referred to object in the quoted sentence. Has he yet to see a person who doesn't harbor demons? Or has he yet to see a demon? The author's intent is clearly the first case, but the latter is also possible...and far more funny.
I have also yet to see a demon...
with a significant exchange rate upon arrival!
No, we should be banning adverse prescription drug reactions.
In the USA....
The law requires that an employer give you up to 12 wks/yr off for medical issues (FMLA) with a doctor's note. During this time you will get paid via insurance which most employers offer for free...but it's cheap to obtain if not. You are not guaranteed your same job when you come back...but most businesses will give it to you to avoid possible legal repercussions.
But we definitely have shitty vacation when compared to Europe and long work hours. There's no reason for us to have to work so hard. I'd take less pay and a European schedule any day.
But biologically speaking...I think teen pregnancy is the norm. It's only in very, very recent times have women begun to wait until their 20's to have children. So I suspect teen pregnancy is problematic today due to our social structures rather than anything inherently wrong with it.
Interesting that he didn't shoot himself in the head. I wonder if that was a calculated move so that scientists could examine his brain to find the cause of his debilitating brain injuries?
Crucial wouldn't confirm the write-erase limit of the m4's flash chips, but it does publish endurance specifications for the drive as a whole. According to the company, the m4 can write 72 terabytes of data over its lifetime. Amortize that over a five-year span, and you're looking at 40GB per day.
Just noticed that Crucial made the same claim on their m4 drives...only 72TB seems like a lot more when you're dealing with a 128/256GB drive.
To each his own...but I've got my OS and a huge amount of apps on my 256GB SSD and I've stil got 100GB free. The remainder of my data sits on an internal 500GB HD and a 2TB network drive.
I would think one of the best applications for a 1TB SSD is video/movie editing and data analysis...both of which would require swapping out HD contents on a regular basis.
Seems like this kind of drive is best suited for read only focused applications. Depending on what you're doing you could write 72TB pretty quickly on a 1TB drive.
Some lux cars now have adaptive brightness headlights which sense ambient and oncoming lighting and adjust brightness to appropriate levels.