. When Wheel was introduced, it was touted as book 1 of a 9 part series. The first few books were fantastic. Then Jordan decided to stretch out the series so as not to kill his money maker. Book 13 came and went with no conclusion to the story in sight, and Jordan seemed to be milking descriptions of everything in his world for all they were worth in order to extend the series.
I'm sure if you go back and look closely, you could probably determine the exact chapter he was writing when he found out that from that point on, he was going to be paid by the word.
The real kicker? Advertisement, merchandising, future investing costs, etc., are listed as expenses. The individual companies have no incentive to cut back on these things, as the money will leaving them in some fashion, either to the artists, or to the advertising.
"No incentive" is putting it mildly. What happens in reality is that they go out and create / buy advertising, merchandising and distribution companies as wholly owned subsidiaries, sign exclusive deals with them, and then ramp up costs exponentially.
LMAO. So, wait, someone who was doing the tree spiking, and recommended against certain forms of it due to the risk of injury, is your source for countering this? Since you're using Wikipedia semantics, allow me to throw one back at you: NPOV (that's Neutral Point Of View)...
He addressed that too - like the man said, what percentage of the population would be in a position where they had to purchase a FULL version of Windows 7? Who had a computer that didn't have XP or Vista on it, but yet was capable of running Windows 7? Survey says probably a fraction of a per cent.
Do you also say that most people will be paying $129 for OS X Snow Leopard, when, because it's Intel only, everyone who has a Mac capable of running it has at least Leopard, and therefore would be able to purchase the $29 upgrade option?
Because if one is valid, then so is the other. Difference is, one is realistic, one is not. And if you purchase a full copy when you're eligible for upgrade pricing, that's your fault and yours alone.
"UI revision" != (and was never claimed to ==) "extensive rewrite of graphics engine", per your claim. But if you've actually seen Windows 7, you'll see "extensive UI revision". You may wish to review this, amongst other articles, but to say "some tweaks and pretty graphics" is the extent of the changes in Win7 is disingenuous at best.
a) $200-$300? The most expensive upgrade is $219. The Home Premium upgrade, which 95%+ (conservatively) of people will use would be a $119 upgrade. b) "what is essentially an improved TCP stack and a bunch of new drivers"? Yeah, I guess that's the main thing. It's not like extensive UI revision (I for one love the new taskbar), Aero Peek, new networking APIs, improved color depth support for HD video and digital cameras, virtual XP for compatibility, video support for remote desktop, multi-PC integrated libraries for media would have absolutely any interest to anyone, right?
But no, you go ahead claiming that people will be paying $300 for an improved TCP stack, and get modded Insightful by the drones...
You miss my point - the GP comment said "So what about Win 7... there's almost nothing new from XP that I couldn't get from either third party software or 'core'." - my remark was merely that based on that logic, there's "almost nothing that you couldn't get from Snow Leopard that you couldn't somehow get from Jaguar with third party software".
And what do I actually get from it, that wasn't available in XP? (either in the core of from third party programs) Just about nothing.
You could easily say the same of many of the upgrades in OS X point releases. Many of those features (with notable exceptions) had programs that mimicked the same functionality, now gone the way of the dodo or other obsolescence due to Apple including the feature in OS X.
Actually, they spent most of their time denying that such a problem existed, to him and other customers, and only when he came back with a disc that he was prepared to ruin to demonstrate in front of them did they concede a problem.
This is also pretty par for the course for Apple. Logic board problem? Deny deny deny. Case discoloration? Deny deny deny. Screen high pitched noises? Deny deny deny.
Only when faced with either a mounting groundswell of bad publicity and discontent, or faced with undeniable arguments do they concede and do something right.
To put it briefly - most people who believe they are "uninsured" are actually eligible for government programs like Medicare, COBRA, and SCHIP.
LMAO. There's a difference between being technically eligible, and being realistically able. When I changed my last job, I was told about COBRA coverage - not that I needed it but nonetheless. I was told that if my wife and I elected to use COBRA, our monthly insurance payment would be $1190.
I'm sure I'm not alone in pondering where someone laid off from their job is going to come up with $1190 a month for health insurance alone, but maybe you could enlighten me.
MEP Daniel Hannan said in early August, "The worst thing to be is elderly under the UK Health System..... you will be denied care and left starving in wards."
You mean the conservative politician who is so conservative that even his own party leader immediately tried to distance the party from him, saying that Hannan "has some rather eccentric points of view"?
Anecdotally, my grandmother in Scotland would disagree with him. She was transported by ambulance to hospital recently, and stayed 14 days, with a case of bronchitis / pneumonia. Whilst there they not only treated her for that, but said that since she was already in the facility, they would get her help to quit smoking, and also arranged a physical therapist to spend considerable time with her in regards to an ailing hip, and took diagnostic imagery 'in case in the future they might need to look at it in more detail'.
Certain people (particularly Chribba and most EBank directors, past and present)
Chribba, sure. But I think at this point most people involved in management of the growing fiasco that is EBank have been tainted, and rightfully so, with the dirty brush here.
Those that weren't skimming one way or another, or outright stealing, were absolutely asleep at the helm of oversight. When I started my account there, unsecured loans were nigh on unheard of, but apparently nearly half a trillion ISK (at least, that we know of) have gone to BAD unsecured loans. How many of these are to management's friends and alts?
Wikia, Inc. Jimmy Wales for-profit Wiki company. A company that shares board members with the non-profit WMF. That shares office space, at pretty nice rental rates (the for-profit company rents space, internet connectivity, and facilities from the non-profit at discounted rates, remember that next time you donate). That shares employees.
Wikia also has the privilege of being an "inter wiki link", and at the behest of many within, literally tens of thousands of articles were shunted from Wikipedia to Wikia, often without wide discussion. This had two implications: 1) Wikia now had tens of thousands of links from Wikipedia, sucking down its GoogleJuice, and got a correspondingly huge page rank, and 2) Wikia got a huge ad revenue from these page views being moved from WP to there.
And most of us can afford the average of $75/year to keep up to date with all versions of OS X since 10.0. And some of us are willing to spend that extra $75... Wait, extra? XP, Vista and now 7 all retail for over $200. To have purchased every copy of OS X as it was released would run $674. Windows Premium would run over $800.
I love how you are aware of the fact that OS X is an "upgrade", but then insist on using the full retail cost of Windows, rather than significantly discounted upgrade editions.
According to Amazon, that math would be, XP, $199. Vista Upgrade to Home Premium, $86. Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade: $118.
Total cost? $403. NOT your claim of "over $800". Not a single of those instances was "over $200", and I find it pretty hard to believe you are totally unaware that Windows offers upgrades, so I'd have to conclude you were being deceptive.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, some of us are trying to save money. We care about using systems like OS X which help save some cash...
Except that to have every version of OS X would cost you 2/3 more than to have every version of Windows over the same time, so I'm not really seeing your logic. And, btw, I feel compelled to note that I'm writing this in Firefox on my Mac...
Even Windows service packs change the OS internals enough so that old software won't run on it. For example, iTunes 32-bit for Windows requires "Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, or 32-bit editions of Windows Vista."
Cause, of course, it's not like Apple has a motive for making Windows appear less user-friendly... Oh wait...
Face it, iTunes on Windows is a HORRIBLE PIECE OF SHIT, and EXCEPTIONALLY LITTLE of that has anything to do with Microsoft whatsoever.
No, healthcare in America is the furthest bastard stepchild from insurance you can find. And I write claims adjudication software for the insurance industry. Have a heart attack, but the insurer finds that you forgot to mention that when you were 12 you had an appendectomy? Denial of coverage. Insurer decides that the treatment, available in every Trauma I in the country, is 'experimental'? Denial of coverage.
Change insurer for non-medical reasons (premium, employer change, so on)? Welcome to waitlist hell, and scrutinization for pre-existing conditions, even though the populace's preponderance for a given condition didn't change as a result of your enrollment.
It's a bastardized, one sided situation, and where health insurance is your ONLY realistic option, because collusion and collaboration between insurance providers has ensured that most healthcare rates are jacked up way out of the realm of ordinary affordability, it's very delineating, you either have, or you have not.
Pop Quiz: Do you really think your overnight stay in emergency had an actual cost of $12,000? Do you wonder why the same chiro treatment costs $50 without insurance, but they bill the insurance provider $165 for it? Do you think that the insurance carrier is covering that $115 out of the grace of their heart, or because they employ such amazingly stellar investment gurus that they can do so on the return from the dividend from your premiums?
A high MP photo of that Cisco management blade that costs over $10,000 would have revealed it was a clone built in China and not authentic.
Apropos of the value of your other thoughts, this I doubt. Many of those Cisco fakes will be third shift type fakes. Built in the same factory, from the same equipment, just maybe with some defective parts, and no warranty, etc.
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I'm sure if you go back and look closely, you could probably determine the exact chapter he was writing when he found out that from that point on, he was going to be paid by the word.
Sure. He said that - but I also recall that he added the caveat, "even if it means it's 2,000 pages +"
"No incentive" is putting it mildly. What happens in reality is that they go out and create / buy advertising, merchandising and distribution companies as wholly owned subsidiaries, sign exclusive deals with them, and then ramp up costs exponentially.
Wow. What an asset you'd make to the detective force. "I'd start by looking for the items that were stolen"...
LMAO. So, wait, someone who was doing the tree spiking, and recommended against certain forms of it due to the risk of injury, is your source for countering this? Since you're using Wikipedia semantics, allow me to throw one back at you: NPOV (that's Neutral Point Of View)...
Do you also say that most people will be paying $129 for OS X Snow Leopard, when, because it's Intel only, everyone who has a Mac capable of running it has at least Leopard, and therefore would be able to purchase the $29 upgrade option?
Because if one is valid, then so is the other. Difference is, one is realistic, one is not. And if you purchase a full copy when you're eligible for upgrade pricing, that's your fault and yours alone.
"UI revision" != (and was never claimed to ==) "extensive rewrite of graphics engine", per your claim. But if you've actually seen Windows 7, you'll see "extensive UI revision". You may wish to review this, amongst other articles, but to say "some tweaks and pretty graphics" is the extent of the changes in Win7 is disingenuous at best.
But no, you go ahead claiming that people will be paying $300 for an improved TCP stack, and get modded Insightful by the drones...
New features get added when you go from 10.3 to 10.4 - to which they most certainly do charge for.
I fail to see your point.
You miss my point - the GP comment said "So what about Win 7... there's almost nothing new from XP that I couldn't get from either third party software or 'core'." - my remark was merely that based on that logic, there's "almost nothing that you couldn't get from Snow Leopard that you couldn't somehow get from Jaguar with third party software".
You could easily say the same of many of the upgrades in OS X point releases. Many of those features (with notable exceptions) had programs that mimicked the same functionality, now gone the way of the dodo or other obsolescence due to Apple including the feature in OS X.
This is also pretty par for the course for Apple. Logic board problem? Deny deny deny. Case discoloration? Deny deny deny. Screen high pitched noises? Deny deny deny.
Only when faced with either a mounting groundswell of bad publicity and discontent, or faced with undeniable arguments do they concede and do something right.
They'll lead as two kings?
Do you have any citation whatsoever for this, or did you forget that minor detail in your haste to rush to Apple's defense?
Wow. Just wow. "You guys tried to screw me over and deny a valid warranty claim, but in your defense.
There are no words ...
LMAO. There's a difference between being technically eligible, and being realistically able. When I changed my last job, I was told about COBRA coverage - not that I needed it but nonetheless. I was told that if my wife and I elected to use COBRA, our monthly insurance payment would be $1190.
I'm sure I'm not alone in pondering where someone laid off from their job is going to come up with $1190 a month for health insurance alone, but maybe you could enlighten me.
You mean the conservative politician who is so conservative that even his own party leader immediately tried to distance the party from him, saying that Hannan "has some rather eccentric points of view"?
Anecdotally, my grandmother in Scotland would disagree with him. She was transported by ambulance to hospital recently, and stayed 14 days, with a case of bronchitis / pneumonia. Whilst there they not only treated her for that, but said that since she was already in the facility, they would get her help to quit smoking, and also arranged a physical therapist to spend considerable time with her in regards to an ailing hip, and took diagnostic imagery 'in case in the future they might need to look at it in more detail'.
Chribba, sure. But I think at this point most people involved in management of the growing fiasco that is EBank have been tainted, and rightfully so, with the dirty brush here.
Those that weren't skimming one way or another, or outright stealing, were absolutely asleep at the helm of oversight. When I started my account there, unsecured loans were nigh on unheard of, but apparently nearly half a trillion ISK (at least, that we know of) have gone to BAD unsecured loans. How many of these are to management's friends and alts?
For better or worse, this is almost entirely accurate. "Nigeria, In Space... With Lasers"
No, Ricdic's actions amounted to what seems more by the day to that of a Madoff, rather than a Bernanke.
A bonus is also subject to taxation. Reimbursement is not.
Wikia, Inc. Jimmy Wales for-profit Wiki company. A company that shares board members with the non-profit WMF. That shares office space, at pretty nice rental rates (the for-profit company rents space, internet connectivity, and facilities from the non-profit at discounted rates, remember that next time you donate). That shares employees.
Wikia also has the privilege of being an "inter wiki link", and at the behest of many within, literally tens of thousands of articles were shunted from Wikipedia to Wikia, often without wide discussion. This had two implications: 1) Wikia now had tens of thousands of links from Wikipedia, sucking down its GoogleJuice, and got a correspondingly huge page rank, and 2) Wikia got a huge ad revenue from these page views being moved from WP to there.
I love how you are aware of the fact that OS X is an "upgrade", but then insist on using the full retail cost of Windows, rather than significantly discounted upgrade editions.
According to Amazon, that math would be, XP, $199. Vista Upgrade to Home Premium, $86. Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade: $118.
Total cost? $403. NOT your claim of "over $800". Not a single of those instances was "over $200", and I find it pretty hard to believe you are totally unaware that Windows offers upgrades, so I'd have to conclude you were being deceptive.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, some of us are trying to save money. We care about using systems like OS X which help save some cash...
Except that to have every version of OS X would cost you 2/3 more than to have every version of Windows over the same time, so I'm not really seeing your logic. And, btw, I feel compelled to note that I'm writing this in Firefox on my Mac...
Cause, of course, it's not like Apple has a motive for making Windows appear less user-friendly... Oh wait...
Face it, iTunes on Windows is a HORRIBLE PIECE OF SHIT, and EXCEPTIONALLY LITTLE of that has anything to do with Microsoft whatsoever.
That goes for QuickTime, too.
This just might be the most insightful comment ever written by an A.C...
Change insurer for non-medical reasons (premium, employer change, so on)? Welcome to waitlist hell, and scrutinization for pre-existing conditions, even though the populace's preponderance for a given condition didn't change as a result of your enrollment.
It's a bastardized, one sided situation, and where health insurance is your ONLY realistic option, because collusion and collaboration between insurance providers has ensured that most healthcare rates are jacked up way out of the realm of ordinary affordability, it's very delineating, you either have, or you have not.
Pop Quiz: Do you really think your overnight stay in emergency had an actual cost of $12,000? Do you wonder why the same chiro treatment costs $50 without insurance, but they bill the insurance provider $165 for it? Do you think that the insurance carrier is covering that $115 out of the grace of their heart, or because they employ such amazingly stellar investment gurus that they can do so on the return from the dividend from your premiums?
Where's that bridge and that "for sale" sign?
Apropos of the value of your other thoughts, this I doubt. Many of those Cisco fakes will be third shift type fakes. Built in the same factory, from the same equipment, just maybe with some defective parts, and no warranty, etc.