Their markups are not "the worst you've ever seen," they're just "retail price."
Sorry about that, then. Considering it was the same lower price at CompUSA, Office Depot and the little corner shop I frequent for cable when I last went to that Apple Store looking for a tablet, I assumed it was a markup by Apple and not a uniform markdown by everyone else.
Most people aren't techies. If they all could or were inclined to build their own computer, they could do it for cheaper.
And I never said most people are techies. I said the summary claims Apple Stores are geared toward techies, and I agreed with you that other people would pay extra for the service. What I did say is that Apple Stores aren't geared to most techies because Apple Stores emphasize hand-holding service over price.
Tech savvy people shop at the boutiques/big boxes but buy at the online discounter.
Sorry, but I still don't. Am I really an oddball for just finding tons of reviews, videos and forum posts before buying a gadget or computer component -- even mice and monitors --without hands-on experience? Am I lucky that it hasn't backfired?
Brick-and-mortar retail sucks in general, and especially if you don't live close to a major city to take advantage of local competition. I was just saying the summary stated something that didn't make sense ("the New York Times seems to think Apple has designed the ideal techie retail store"), something that agrees with neither the article nor common sense.
Why would I shop with either the big boxes or the service boutiques when I get better prices and service at Newegg, anyway?
PS: The consumer's collective mind doesn't have to do shit. It's possible that markups for service and evil practices of big-box retail are both valid reasons to bitch. They're not exclusive.
When I can get the same Wacom tablet for $40 less at Office Depot, it isn't ideal for anyone but Steve Jobs and people who, if Apple charged for the service, would already spend $40 to use the Genius Bar to learn how to plug a USB device into a USB port. Notably, the actual article never says Apple Stores are ideal for techies --actually, it's pretty specific in how it caters to people who need their hands held every step of the way.
Those markups are service charges, money shoppers spend for good, in-person customer service. People with any sense of doing things themselves will never go for that, and I'd toss most techies into that group.
That said, like most everything else Apple, the stores execute many things so well that, even though they only make a miniscule-to-medium dent on the actual marketplace, others will imitate them mercilessly. I can't wait to see wireless checkouts everywhere, and the open-access model to their hardware makes so much sense. (That's particularly well described on TFA's second page, where a writer who couldn't afford a computer wrote a 300-page manuscript on Apple Store computers and was accommodated by the staff.)
Still, shoot me if you catch me buying something there at their markups of non-Apple products. Theirs are the worst I've ever seen retail, and that's saying a lot.
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If the German Wikipedia staff ran the English Wikipedia, it'd probably be more accurate. That's because there's no German Jimbo Wales, so the people who put the most work into the German WP got to set the tone -- not the founders, not the person with the most public face, but the best (or at least most present) editors. The effects trickle down throughout, with less of a sense of senior entitlement that a lot of English admins have and more of a meritocracy, of rewarding who does the most good and works the hardest.
Last point of this long mail: the impressive German projects like the printed wikireaders, the DVD, the writing contest with big media echo etc. In my opinion, these are due to several factors:
The independence of the German community from Jimbo and the Wikimedia Foundation. The English Wikipedia is very much a monarchy, with people looking to Jimbo for advice and guidance. The German Wikipedia had, and has, nobody with Jimbo's authority. People had to deal with the fact that there is no ultimate appeal. This has consequences for the social structure (which evolved to what I'd characterize as a meritocracy with a few prominent and influential editors) but also for the possibility to realize such projects. People had to act on their own, so they did it.
Personal dedication and leadership of individual Wikipedians. Most projects were team work, but there was usually one person who invested much more work than the others. The driving force behind the Wikipedia academy, a three day workshop at the university of Göttingen in June is one editor, Frank. The driving force behind many successful initiatives like the writing contest is Achim Raschka. The driving force behind the Wikipedia exhibition at the university library in Göttingen were Frank (who organized it) and me, who carried it out. The WikiReaders were produced by individuals. etc.
For the DVD and WikiPress: the luck to find a good partner company which is crazy enough to chance such a risky project, and whose bosses and employees "grok" the Wiki way. The first thing Vlado, one of the Directmedians and a Reggae expert, did after the first CD was finally ready for production was to expand the article "Riddim" to four times its size - at 2 o'clock at night. Just to relax...
That whole discussion that's linked above is really an enlightening read about the differences between the English and German Wikipedias.
(BTW: When I write "German Jimbo Wales", I can't help but think of mirror-universe Spock, except that German Jimbo would be the one to not have the evil beard.)
RTFA. There's no DNA; the fossilization process was fast enough to fossilize soft tissue. It's not organic material.
Although it is described as "mummified," the 65 million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur that scientists have named Dakota bears no similarity to the leather-skinned human mummies retrieved from ancient tombs in Egypt. Time long ago transformed Dakota's soft tissue into mineralized rock, preserving it for the ages.
"It's a dinosaur that was turned into stone, essentially," said Lyson, 24, now a graduate student in paleontology at Yale University.
Submitter sent in the wrong story, I'm assuming. The Associated Press ran a much more recent story yesterday about two things that have come to light since Ernie Ball:
1. The BSA does have a tip line now, with a $1 million reward for whistleblowers.
2. 90 percent of the BSA's $13 million in settlements came not from larger businesses with hundreds or thousands of employees, like Ernie Ball, but from much smaller firms that don't have the legal resources to even begin to fight the BSA, and who arguably don't have the legal representation to even understand the licenses to which they're agreeing.
$90,000 isn't as much to Ernie Ball as $67,000 is to the 10-employee architectural firm in that AP story. What's scary is that the BSA is going after pittances - one or two violated licenses - on anonymous employee tips. From the AP article:
BSA enforcement director Jenny Blank disputes the notion that her group is encouraging employees to exploit mere technicalities and "onesy, twosy random noncompliance." That's why, she said, it focuses on the worst offenders.
Yet in 2005, her group pursued Mediaport Entertainment Inc. of Salt Lake City, where an audit revealed just two unlicensed copies of Microsoft software. Retail value: $6,500. The BSA pressed for $16,500; the sides reached an undisclosed settlement.
Bottom line: Don't use BSA software, and don't trust your employees. Even if you do nothing but Linux, there's still ways some disgruntled employee can leave behind pirated, or even legal-but-mismanaged (shared folder, circumvented license administration) copies of a BSA program on a few systems, call the BSA, and get his $1 million while you try to get a $20,000 "fine" down to a $10,000 settlement.
The first is that parents ought to keep better track of what their kids (and their kids' friends) are doing on the family computer.
Or, if you work a full-time job, cook and clean for a family, and never had a chance to learn about fundamental computer security, then simply don't own a computer, and certainly don't give your children access to any computer brought into your household.
Better yet, raise your children to be completely computer illiterate. That way, they'll never know how to do this kind of damage to you or anyone else.
As was mentioned earlier, she could potentially sue the friend of her children for the money the RIAA will take from her. So if her children went to their friend's house and did the same, the friend's parents could sue her for damages.
The only way to prevent this is to have completely computer-ignorant children, because - as every parent knows - children do not do what you say, and you cannot track every action your children do. Something always slips through, and the RIAA does not care if you took every precaution or no precautions at all.
A university in the city where a catastrophic failure in civil engineering resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand people and destruction of billions of dollars of property - that university is cancelling its civil engineering program?
if you pluck those out, it'll overheat even easier
Not if you dunk it in oil.
Seriously, has anyone thought about disassembling a 360 and putting it into a standard, less-sexy case to improve airflow? Even a well-designed case isn't going to push that much heat out as quickly as a decently-vented Mini ATX case.
I said it in the last thread, I'll say it again:
Crap music will make the music I like cheaper! Steve Jobs is a FRICKIN' GENIUS.
GEE-NYUS, brother, GEE-NYUS. You pay your $3 for Hollaback Girl, the Diddy Remix with Christina Aguilera's husband! I'll get my goddamned Deerhoof for.50 frigign' cents now! THAT IS BRILLIANT.
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How many of those people would still suscribe if there were NO cartoons in the paper?
Way, way more than you think, which says more about how bad the rest of the content in a newspaper is than anything else.
Ours dropped a crossword puzzle and had more than 100 calls the next day to drop us. Our circ is ~25,000. That's a lot of readers for one stupid puzzle.
Report a grossly inaccurate story? Maybe one, two phone calls, if anyone notices. Mention that one comic strip might be dropped, or run the wrong puzzle one day? The phone doesn't stop ringing, and letters to the editor come in with language drenched the most rancid, seething hatred you can find.
I agree with you, and most everybody else - manga isn't going to save a damn thing. Being invaluable, or at least useful will, and few newspapers seem to realize that, much less want to change enough to do that.
If you're thinking about commenting with "HOOK 'EM HORNS," note that I have already patented the use of that phrase, as well as the raising of the index and pinky fingers while closing the rest, when referring to a university in the South in a celebratory manner.
You can still use it ironically without infringement, though. I promise
Many people who read newspapers don't read it for the news. They read it for classifieds and advertisements - when and where the sales are, what's on sale, what to get and what it looks like. Most of the rest read it for the crossword puzzle, the Jumble, that Japanese numbers game and comics.
For the Internet-connected middle-class, those functions of a newspaper are obsolete. eBay and craigslist are killing classifieds; online shopping is hurting retailers and makes print ads (which, in turn, hurts newspaper ads); and online games, webcomics and portable electronic games are slowly squeezing out newspaper games.
Those people probably don't give a damn about the news, except for what they watch on Fox/CNN while eating dinner, and what's in the newspaper was covered yesterday anyway.
The only exception is local news, and outside of high school sports, most of it is either local government news that is boring and/or goes over their head, or fluff nobody wants to read. (High school football alone, especially in the South, keeps some papers afloat.) The newspapers that succeed today - and there are several - have excellent local news reporting on topics that people care about, because local TV outlets are complete pushovers when it comes to in-depth reporting.
And then they turn around and post that content for free on the Web, where ads pay less, or they charge to access it, alienating their subscribers. Sucks to be print media.
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Sorry about that, then. Considering it was the same lower price at CompUSA, Office Depot and the little corner shop I frequent for cable when I last went to that Apple Store looking for a tablet, I assumed it was a markup by Apple and not a uniform markdown by everyone else.
Most people aren't techies. If they all could or were inclined to build their own computer, they could do it for cheaper.And I never said most people are techies. I said the summary claims Apple Stores are geared toward techies, and I agreed with you that other people would pay extra for the service. What I did say is that Apple Stores aren't geared to most techies because Apple Stores emphasize hand-holding service over price.
Sorry, but I still don't. Am I really an oddball for just finding tons of reviews, videos and forum posts before buying a gadget or computer component -- even mice and monitors --without hands-on experience? Am I lucky that it hasn't backfired?
Brick-and-mortar retail sucks in general, and especially if you don't live close to a major city to take advantage of local competition. I was just saying the summary stated something that didn't make sense ("the New York Times seems to think Apple has designed the ideal techie retail store"), something that agrees with neither the article nor common sense.
Why would I shop with either the big boxes or the service boutiques when I get better prices and service at Newegg, anyway?
PS: The consumer's collective mind doesn't have to do shit. It's possible that markups for service and evil practices of big-box retail are both valid reasons to bitch. They're not exclusive.
When I can get the same Wacom tablet for $40 less at Office Depot, it isn't ideal for anyone but Steve Jobs and people who, if Apple charged for the service, would already spend $40 to use the Genius Bar to learn how to plug a USB device into a USB port. Notably, the actual article never says Apple Stores are ideal for techies --actually, it's pretty specific in how it caters to people who need their hands held every step of the way. Those markups are service charges, money shoppers spend for good, in-person customer service. People with any sense of doing things themselves will never go for that, and I'd toss most techies into that group. That said, like most everything else Apple, the stores execute many things so well that, even though they only make a miniscule-to-medium dent on the actual marketplace, others will imitate them mercilessly. I can't wait to see wireless checkouts everywhere, and the open-access model to their hardware makes so much sense. (That's particularly well described on TFA's second page, where a writer who couldn't afford a computer wrote a 300-page manuscript on Apple Store computers and was accommodated by the staff.) Still, shoot me if you catch me buying something there at their markups of non-Apple products. Theirs are the worst I've ever seen retail, and that's saying a lot.
You don't watch TV, eh? NBC's been running commercials on the remake for weeks.
NBC's casting page:
That whole discussion that's linked above is really an enlightening read about the differences between the English and German Wikipedias.
(BTW: When I write "German Jimbo Wales", I can't help but think of mirror-universe Spock, except that German Jimbo would be the one to not have the evil beard.)
I don't disagree, but that's because I also read the article.
This is just yet another incorrect
RC pig?
Just spritz it with ice water and you'll have the other part.
The first is that parents ought to keep better track of what their kids (and their kids' friends) are doing on the family computer.
Or, if you work a full-time job, cook and clean for a family, and never had a chance to learn about fundamental computer security, then simply don't own a computer, and certainly don't give your children access to any computer brought into your household.
Better yet, raise your children to be completely computer illiterate. That way, they'll never know how to do this kind of damage to you or anyone else.
As was mentioned earlier, she could potentially sue the friend of her children for the money the RIAA will take from her. So if her children went to their friend's house and did the same, the friend's parents could sue her for damages.
The only way to prevent this is to have completely computer-ignorant children, because - as every parent knows - children do not do what you say, and you cannot track every action your children do. Something always slips through, and the RIAA does not care if you took every precaution or no precautions at all.
A university in the city where a catastrophic failure in civil engineering resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand people and destruction of billions of dollars of property - that university is cancelling its civil engineering program?
You're kidding! You can't be serious!
Are you sure we should expose kids to a program named "The GIMP"?
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Did anyone else notice something on that "Screenshot" link? "Taken with a Sony Cybershot."
if you pluck those out, it'll overheat even easier
Not if you dunk it in oil.
Seriously, has anyone thought about disassembling a 360 and putting it into a standard, less-sexy case to improve airflow? Even a well-designed case isn't going to push that much heat out as quickly as a decently-vented Mini ATX case.
I said it in the last thread, I'll say it again: Crap music will make the music I like cheaper! Steve Jobs is a FRICKIN' GENIUS. GEE-NYUS, brother, GEE-NYUS. You pay your $3 for Hollaback Girl, the Diddy Remix with Christina Aguilera's husband! I'll get my goddamned Deerhoof for .50 frigign' cents now! THAT IS BRILLIANT.
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PWNED!!!1!!!
The crap songs I don't buy will subsidize my purchases! JOBS IS GENIUS
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What, are they planning to change the kernel?
More than likely, yes. In fact, they'll probably have to in order to get it to run on the hardwar, which still hasn't been invented yet.
I'd be much, much more impressed if Jobs offered up Apple's UI designers to volunteer time and effort.
How many of those people would still suscribe if there were NO cartoons in the paper?
Way, way more than you think, which says more about how bad the rest of the content in a newspaper is than anything else.
Ours dropped a crossword puzzle and had more than 100 calls the next day to drop us. Our circ is ~25,000. That's a lot of readers for one stupid puzzle.
Report a grossly inaccurate story? Maybe one, two phone calls, if anyone notices. Mention that one comic strip might be dropped, or run the wrong puzzle one day? The phone doesn't stop ringing, and letters to the editor come in with language drenched the most rancid, seething hatred you can find.
I agree with you, and most everybody else - manga isn't going to save a damn thing. Being invaluable, or at least useful will, and few newspapers seem to realize that, much less want to change enough to do that.
Where are you from, Mars or something??
Commie-haters can't be from Mars, it's the Red Planet!
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You can still use it ironically without infringement, though. I promise
Many people who read newspapers don't read it for the news. They read it for classifieds and advertisements - when and where the sales are, what's on sale, what to get and what it looks like. Most of the rest read it for the crossword puzzle, the Jumble, that Japanese numbers game and comics.
For the Internet-connected middle-class, those functions of a newspaper are obsolete. eBay and craigslist are killing classifieds; online shopping is hurting retailers and makes print ads (which, in turn, hurts newspaper ads); and online games, webcomics and portable electronic games are slowly squeezing out newspaper games.
Those people probably don't give a damn about the news, except for what they watch on Fox/CNN while eating dinner, and what's in the newspaper was covered yesterday anyway.
The only exception is local news, and outside of high school sports, most of it is either local government news that is boring and/or goes over their head, or fluff nobody wants to read. (High school football alone, especially in the South, keeps some papers afloat.) The newspapers that succeed today - and there are several - have excellent local news reporting on topics that people care about, because local TV outlets are complete pushovers when it comes to in-depth reporting.
And then they turn around and post that content for free on the Web, where ads pay less, or they charge to access it, alienating their subscribers. Sucks to be print media.