Only if you care about the number of missiles penetrating defenses as a function of time, and, while I can think of a few situations where you MIGHT want that, in most cases you just care about the total which just requires subtraction.
No, but most people listen to the same 20 albums or so for their ENTIRE LIVES, with a smattering of whatever's current at the moment mixed in. At least everyone I know (none of them major audiophiles either) fits that profile. They all have 20-30 favorite go-to albums they're always listening to (usually concentrated in whichever decade they were in their early 20s, but not always), and then 4-5 other albums (or 4-5 albums worth of singles in many cases) they're currently listening to.
So, the same 20 songs for five years is extreme, but the basic principle still applies to most people.
I can't imagine WHY you'd buy one (no power outlet in a sealed room?), but it's certainly feasible to make one. It's not even too much of a stretch to imagine some marketing hack pushing one into production over the engineers protests of its pointlessness.
I was thinking of submitter + editor(s), but since the editors are actually Mechanical Turks, I must concede your point that there was only a single entity involved.
Although the summary is inconsistent--in one sentence they use the Oxford comma, in another they do not. While the Oxford comma is debatable (DEATH TO THE INFIDELS WHO DENY ITS GLORY!), to be inconsistent about it is something that all grammar nazis can agree is wrong.
With ebooks, let's say I publish an ebook, sell it for $20 a piece, and sell 1000 of them during the first two weeks. Then, during the next two months, I sell 5. That means nobody is willing to pay $20 for my book anymore. But there could be another 1000 people willing to pay $10, giving me additional $10000 revenue, with only a little increase in cost. Then I can sell another 2000 of them for $5 a piece, and finally I let people name their own price and sell 1,000,000 for $1 each on average.
The problem with your scenario is a marketing/awareness one. Do sales drop off after two weeks because no one wants to pay $20, or because none of the people who want to know about it? If none of the people who want to know about it, are you really going to get those bumps in sales figures for each price drop?
Actually it demonstrates the flaws (from the publisher's perspective) of the traditional bookselling business model. Books (dead-tree format) are sold on consignment. They are shipped to retailers, without payment, and money comes in as retailers sell them. Unsold copies get shipped back and destroyed (which costs money). Because returns are a cost it is sometimes cheaper to discount the book just to get rid of it (even at a slight loss) without having to return it. Ebooks don't have this flaw, so there is no reason to discount them.
Not that you should be sympathetic (I'm not), but it's a little more complicated than boundless greed.
Since we're talking about a small town that's over an hour from the nearest theatre, we're not talking about the average person. The average person would never live in a town like that.
Actually, he's accidentally right, and you're wrong.
Your basic point is right, but you're knocking down a strawman that has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
His point is that raising minimum wage DOES NOT raise the value of mopping floors. The floor mopper nominally gets paid more, sure, but prices rise so his pre-tax buying power is constant. However, his total tax-rate has risen, so his post-tax buying power has actually fallen.
If the floor mopper in question was given a raise in isolation and bumped into a higher tax bracket, you'd be right because his buying power would have increased more than his total tax rate did. However when all floor moppers get the same raise, and prices rise with them, buying power rises LESS than the total tax rate.
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Vonnegut said it best with regards to that gem...
Is it bad form for the guy who made the joke to say WHOOSH?
I think he was saying she should go back to bagging groceries.
I studied astrophysics in college. What's an order of magnitude between friends?
Seriously, are you going to drive across town to listen to a cellist for even a $10 dollar cover plus drinks?
I MIGHT, depending on whose pants I'm trying to get into that week.
Point being, if women had better taste in music, cellists would be making bank.
Only if you care about the number of missiles penetrating defenses as a function of time, and, while I can think of a few situations where you MIGHT want that, in most cases you just care about the total which just requires subtraction.
No, but most people listen to the same 20 albums or so for their ENTIRE LIVES, with a smattering of whatever's current at the moment mixed in. At least everyone I know (none of them major audiophiles either) fits that profile. They all have 20-30 favorite go-to albums they're always listening to (usually concentrated in whichever decade they were in their early 20s, but not always), and then 4-5 other albums (or 4-5 albums worth of singles in many cases) they're currently listening to.
So, the same 20 songs for five years is extreme, but the basic principle still applies to most people.
...and there's Poe's Law.
Because no one could seriously cite Star Wars novels as 'real' science fiction.
I can't imagine WHY you'd buy one (no power outlet in a sealed room?), but it's certainly feasible to make one. It's not even too much of a stretch to imagine some marketing hack pushing one into production over the engineers protests of its pointlessness.
Woz wasn't saying it was evil, but he was definitely poking the hagiography balloon with a needle.
If he's taking a multi-day train trip, it's almost certainly not in the US (may God have mercy on his soul if it is).
I was thinking of submitter + editor(s), but since the editors are actually Mechanical Turks, I must concede your point that there was only a single entity involved.
Although the summary is inconsistent--in one sentence they use the Oxford comma, in another they do not. While the Oxford comma is debatable (DEATH TO THE INFIDELS WHO DENY ITS GLORY!), to be inconsistent about it is something that all grammar nazis can agree is wrong.
With ebooks, let's say I publish an ebook, sell it for $20 a piece, and sell 1000 of them during the first two weeks. Then, during the next two months, I sell 5. That means nobody is willing to pay $20 for my book anymore. But there could be another 1000 people willing to pay $10, giving me additional $10000 revenue, with only a little increase in cost. Then I can sell another 2000 of them for $5 a piece, and finally I let people name their own price and sell 1,000,000 for $1 each on average.
The problem with your scenario is a marketing/awareness one. Do sales drop off after two weeks because no one wants to pay $20, or because none of the people who want to know about it? If none of the people who want to know about it, are you really going to get those bumps in sales figures for each price drop?
I sense a new business opportunity: Raptor Rap.
Alright, but every other format has the same problem. CDs are still higher quality than compressed files of the same track.
Actually it demonstrates the flaws (from the publisher's perspective) of the traditional bookselling business model. Books (dead-tree format) are sold on consignment. They are shipped to retailers, without payment, and money comes in as retailers sell them. Unsold copies get shipped back and destroyed (which costs money). Because returns are a cost it is sometimes cheaper to discount the book just to get rid of it (even at a slight loss) without having to return it. Ebooks don't have this flaw, so there is no reason to discount them.
Not that you should be sympathetic (I'm not), but it's a little more complicated than boundless greed.
homogenous literally means "no lumps"
No, it literally means "same kind". Homo genos, the Greek words for 'same' and 'kind or type.'
After all politics is more about appearance than substance these days.
I was with you until until the end there. Then I abandoned your myopic, amnesiac, alzheimer's afflicted ass.
I wasn't aware that anyone still went to that cancerous site until today.
It's because they read the date backwards.
Are you sure their first impulse was to EAT it? I mean...it's Japan.
For those who slept through high school and currently have a career as TSA agents...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht [wikipedia.org]
FTFY.
Since we're talking about a small town that's over an hour from the nearest theatre, we're not talking about the average person. The average person would never live in a town like that.
Actually, he's accidentally right, and you're wrong.
Your basic point is right, but you're knocking down a strawman that has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
His point is that raising minimum wage DOES NOT raise the value of mopping floors. The floor mopper nominally gets paid more, sure, but prices rise so his pre-tax buying power is constant. However, his total tax-rate has risen, so his post-tax buying power has actually fallen.
If the floor mopper in question was given a raise in isolation and bumped into a higher tax bracket, you'd be right because his buying power would have increased more than his total tax rate did. However when all floor moppers get the same raise, and prices rise with them, buying power rises LESS than the total tax rate.