Cars do last a very long time, if properly maintained. My college car was an 1985 Toyota Corolla bare bones model. The car was as old as my girlfriend. Anyway, by the time I had the money to buy another car, the Corolla had well over 350,000 miles on it. I remember taking it in to a Toyota dealership to get the carburettor tuned up and the shop foreman being awestruck that the car was still functioning. He ended up doing all the work on the car because he had to see how I kept it going.
The moral here is that everything will last if you know how to take care of it. iPod batteries wear out just like every battery and just because it's not easy to replace doesn't mean you can't. Hell, they sell replacement batteries at Fry's.
So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards?
If I spend a lot of money on a car, different fuel grades will probably do actual damage to the vehicle however, with a digital camera, the memory card isn't going to damage anything. Yes, my picture taking will probably be slower and the memory card might crap out sooner but that's ok as the camera itself is just fine. I can always go out and replace a cheap memory card.
I have worked for both Office Max and Office Depot. One of the many things Office Max prided itself on (prior to being bought up by some bigger company) was how they had nearly NO DEBT. It makes it easier to be agile and do things like removing rebates when you're turning such a healthy profit. Office Depot on the other hand was doing stuff like getting employees to by their own uniforms, store using materials so they wouldn't have to buy longer lasting badges and so forth.
If I had some mod points, I'd defintely put you over the top. One of the key elements in selling a product is to get people to WANT your device MORE than the devices they currently love and enjoy. This becomes harder and harder to do as a particular product moves from consumer accessory to necessary tool.
Of course it's unnecessary. In order to get the most out of either the Blu-Ray players or the HDDVD ones, you need to have a television capable of producing the high end image these puppies are spitting out.
Looking at the costs (say three to four hundred) of the players, you need to add the cost of a brand new, high end TV plus a stand, plus a couch so you can sit down, plus one of those coffee tables so you can put stuff like food/drinks on, plus a house to put all this stuff in. I recommend you take a loan out as the next generation of content restriction will be very expensive.;)
That kind of imagination failure reminds me of a certain Richest Man on Earth (TM): "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer." - quoteth Bill Gates.
Yeah, I caught my mistake as well. Previewed it and everything. Goes to show when you know what you're trying to say, you tend to forget to look at how you are saying it.
They are selling an intangible product. There are no production, R&D, or distribution costs. I can see marketing and bandwidth charges but raising the purchase price by seven percent every four years just doesn't really add up.
By the time that happens, Google will already know you hate them and will start serving you little, unobtrusive text ads reminding you of how insignificant you are to them.;)
Well if we follow the logic used to say Apple had a monopoly digital music, you don't really need to stifle competition - you just need to be the most successful. Google isn't suing other web companies claiming stolen ideas or whatnot but since they are company most freely associated with the internet they must have monopoly on name recognition.
If you reduce your circles enough, you can find monopolies everywhere.
It's not just an Illinois thing. Living in Houston, I get to witness the trainwreck that is local politics as Tom DeLay looks likes he's going to be reelected. People don't really learn.
I thought about leaving a nice long addendum to your post but instead I'll go for the short version. The drive to do great things in space ended when going to the moon became routine. People stopped paying attention to what was happening.
The want from NASA to reclaim some of this old glory and expand on it still exists but its rather difficult to do so when your budget is cut year after year. The Apollo program had the benefit of having a near limitless budget whereas all the missions since then have had to make do with what they can afford. Granted this has led to some really remarkable advances from NASA with their robotic missions but nothing can really compare to sending humans to these distant places.
Really want to support NASA? Write your Congressmen/women and tell them to fight for space research and exploration funding.
I smoke quite a bit on a daily basis. Yes, I am well aware of my vice. This comes as pretty stellar news for me. Should, at some point in the future, this develop into a worthwhile treatment for cancers, I welcome it.
Here's to our new gene discovering overlords; may you use your powers for good and not to create a new race of super intelligent and immortal beings.
What are you talking about? According to the Book of Job 12:3-12:6 -
And He said unto those of the connections to He shall information be transferred from. The people, so close to illegal methods, cast down they're false idols and awaited His method. He said "Ninety nine cents shall be the market call. No more, no less."
See, divine proof the bible supports music downloads.
You've managed to completely miss one of the key factors in owning an iPod - Nearly every person who has purchased one is not trying to fill it up from iTunes alone. After I bought mine, I ripped all of my cds into mp3s (took about 4 days), and that was my start. Since then, I've purchased a few tracks from iTunes.
Now I'm with you on the cost of CD's. If the music industry decided that it wanted to blow an ass load of money on a glitzy marketing blitz to push twelve more copies of some one-hit band, I really don't feel the need to pay upwards of twenty dollars for the plastic disc.
Then again, if the recording industry hasn't learned yet, the best way to make lasting income is to nurture bands with staying power and not gouge on bands who we won't even remember existed next month.
Which is what I've really been waiting for; to be driving down the street and the car blaring nothing but bass in front of me to hit the right frequency and we all die.
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Cars do last a very long time, if properly maintained. My college car was an 1985 Toyota Corolla bare bones model. The car was as old as my girlfriend. Anyway, by the time I had the money to buy another car, the Corolla had well over 350,000 miles on it. I remember taking it in to a Toyota dealership to get the carburettor tuned up and the shop foreman being awestruck that the car was still functioning. He ended up doing all the work on the car because he had to see how I kept it going. The moral here is that everything will last if you know how to take care of it. iPod batteries wear out just like every battery and just because it's not easy to replace doesn't mean you can't. Hell, they sell replacement batteries at Fry's.
But will it guest star New Found Glory? http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/27
"As we all know, Democracy is the only known antidote for extremism." Thank you, Daily Show.
So will they be 3 Laws compliant and if so, for how long? ;)
I have worked for both Office Max and Office Depot. One of the many things Office Max prided itself on (prior to being bought up by some bigger company) was how they had nearly NO DEBT. It makes it easier to be agile and do things like removing rebates when you're turning such a healthy profit. Office Depot on the other hand was doing stuff like getting employees to by their own uniforms, store using materials so they wouldn't have to buy longer lasting badges and so forth.
Hmm... Shouldn't it be the Acura Axiom? :)
If I had some mod points, I'd defintely put you over the top. One of the key elements in selling a product is to get people to WANT your device MORE than the devices they currently love and enjoy. This becomes harder and harder to do as a particular product moves from consumer accessory to necessary tool.
Of course it's unnecessary. In order to get the most out of either the Blu-Ray players or the HDDVD ones, you need to have a television capable of producing the high end image these puppies are spitting out.
;)
Looking at the costs (say three to four hundred) of the players, you need to add the cost of a brand new, high end TV plus a stand, plus a couch so you can sit down, plus one of those coffee tables so you can put stuff like food/drinks on, plus a house to put all this stuff in. I recommend you take a loan out as the next generation of content restriction will be very expensive.
That kind of imagination failure reminds me of a certain Richest Man on Earth (TM): "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer." - quoteth Bill Gates.
Yeah, I caught my mistake as well. Previewed it and everything. Goes to show when you know what you're trying to say, you tend to forget to look at how you are saying it.
They are selling an intangible product. There are no production, R&D, or distribution costs. I can see marketing and bandwidth charges but raising the purchase price by seven percent every four years just doesn't really add up.
By the time that happens, Google will already know you hate them and will start serving you little, unobtrusive text ads reminding you of how insignificant you are to them. ;)
Well if we follow the logic used to say Apple had a monopoly digital music, you don't really need to stifle competition - you just need to be the most successful. Google isn't suing other web companies claiming stolen ideas or whatnot but since they are company most freely associated with the internet they must have monopoly on name recognition.
If you reduce your circles enough, you can find monopolies everywhere.
It's not just an Illinois thing. Living in Houston, I get to witness the trainwreck that is local politics as Tom DeLay looks likes he's going to be reelected. People don't really learn.
I thought about leaving a nice long addendum to your post but instead I'll go for the short version. The drive to do great things in space ended when going to the moon became routine. People stopped paying attention to what was happening.
The want from NASA to reclaim some of this old glory and expand on it still exists but its rather difficult to do so when your budget is cut year after year. The Apollo program had the benefit of having a near limitless budget whereas all the missions since then have had to make do with what they can afford. Granted this has led to some really remarkable advances from NASA with their robotic missions but nothing can really compare to sending humans to these distant places.
Really want to support NASA? Write your Congressmen/women and tell them to fight for space research and exploration funding.
Well hell, if that's the plan, I got some concrete leftover in my backyard and an eBay account just waiting for a piece of this.
Oh WoW, why can't I quit you?
I smoke quite a bit on a daily basis. Yes, I am well aware of my vice. This comes as pretty stellar news for me. Should, at some point in the future, this develop into a worthwhile treatment for cancers, I welcome it.
Here's to our new gene discovering overlords; may you use your powers for good and not to create a new race of super intelligent and immortal beings.
You've managed to completely miss one of the key factors in owning an iPod - Nearly every person who has purchased one is not trying to fill it up from iTunes alone. After I bought mine, I ripped all of my cds into mp3s (took about 4 days), and that was my start. Since then, I've purchased a few tracks from iTunes.
Now I'm with you on the cost of CD's. If the music industry decided that it wanted to blow an ass load of money on a glitzy marketing blitz to push twelve more copies of some one-hit band, I really don't feel the need to pay upwards of twenty dollars for the plastic disc.
Then again, if the recording industry hasn't learned yet, the best way to make lasting income is to nurture bands with staying power and not gouge on bands who we won't even remember existed next month.
I know there are some good intentions for this film but the article makes it sound like one long advertisement. Come work for us, we made a movie.
It's mostly single homer users affected.
Doh!
Futurama all ready provided the answer. All we need to do is launch all the trash from New York at it. Surely there's 20 tons lying around.
Which is what I've really been waiting for; to be driving down the street and the car blaring nothing but bass in front of me to hit the right frequency and we all die.