As a poor college student without a car, this sounds like a great idea.
I can stock up on non-perishables at a discount and have USPS deliver them to my door. Then, I can walk down to the corner store (three corners away) and buy my eggs and milk and carry them back. Saves me money and reduces the amount of stuff I need to carry back from the store.
They have all the things I've been wanting which haven't been available at the corner store: sushi rice, nori, and Bengal Spice tea.
I think Amazon Grocery and I are going to be good friends.
That makes a great deal of sense, from an engineering standpoint.
But from a consumer standpoint, the xbox 360 is supposed to be a better version of the xbox, and so you should be able to treat it like an xbox and not be punished for it.
If I were the mother of a kid and I got him an xbox for christmas, I might not understand that it was different from an xbox, except that it plays a different type of game and my son wanted it. (That is exactly the understanding my parents have with regards to the PS, the PS2, and my brother.)
Consumers aren't engineers and shouldn't be expected to connect the dots.
Engineering view:
Better graphics => more information on disk => faster spinning of the disks => don't jostle the machine or else you'll wind up with a coaster.
Consumer view:
Xbox 360 => better version of Xbox => treat like an Xbox, but get better games.
I'm not trying to say that consumers are stupid, just that they shouldn't be expected to think about things. That sounds bad. I'm saying that you can't expect all consumers to think about whatever issue you think they should think about, and so you'll get scratched disks even though, if the consumer thought about the issue, scratched disks are easily avoidable.
I think what he's trying to say is that his xbox didn't have this problem, this sensitivity to angle, and he doesn't understand why the xbox 360 does. He believes they should exhibit the same behavior (not scratching disks) in the face of the same situation.
I'm an engineering student in the U.S. At my school, the professors use both metric and english units. Some use only metric, some use only english. Some use both.
The English system gives me a headache with its naming scheme. What's a kip, what's a psi, and how does a kip relate to a ksi? How do you know when someone is talking about a pound-force or a pound-weight? What exactly is a slug, why is it called a slug? What sort of ton were we talking about?
Really, the english system is confusing all around. I'm just glad my TI-89 can handle units for me.
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As a poor college student without a car, this sounds like a great idea. I can stock up on non-perishables at a discount and have USPS deliver them to my door. Then, I can walk down to the corner store (three corners away) and buy my eggs and milk and carry them back. Saves me money and reduces the amount of stuff I need to carry back from the store.
They have all the things I've been wanting which haven't been available at the corner store: sushi rice, nori, and Bengal Spice tea. I think Amazon Grocery and I are going to be good friends.
But from a consumer standpoint, the xbox 360 is supposed to be a better version of the xbox, and so you should be able to treat it like an xbox and not be punished for it.
If I were the mother of a kid and I got him an xbox for christmas, I might not understand that it was different from an xbox, except that it plays a different type of game and my son wanted it. (That is exactly the understanding my parents have with regards to the PS, the PS2, and my brother.)
Consumers aren't engineers and shouldn't be expected to connect the dots.
Engineering view:
Better graphics => more information on disk => faster spinning of the disks => don't jostle the machine or else you'll wind up with a coaster.
Consumer view:
Xbox 360 => better version of Xbox => treat like an Xbox, but get better games.
I'm not trying to say that consumers are stupid, just that they shouldn't be expected to think about things. That sounds bad. I'm saying that you can't expect all consumers to think about whatever issue you think they should think about, and so you'll get scratched disks even though, if the consumer thought about the issue, scratched disks are easily avoidable.
I think what he's trying to say is that his xbox didn't have this problem, this sensitivity to angle, and he doesn't understand why the xbox 360 does. He believes they should exhibit the same behavior (not scratching disks) in the face of the same situation.
I'm an engineering student in the U.S. At my school, the professors use both metric and english units. Some use only metric, some use only english. Some use both.
The English system gives me a headache with its naming scheme. What's a kip, what's a psi, and how does a kip relate to a ksi? How do you know when someone is talking about a pound-force or a pound-weight? What exactly is a slug, why is it called a slug? What sort of ton were we talking about?
Really, the english system is confusing all around. I'm just glad my TI-89 can handle units for me.