Serendipity: The ability to have your book 'accidentally' run into while the customer is looking at another book of interest to him or her is very valuable.
Social function of limited network search: Each person has a mental network of exploitable functions, be they computer, intellectual, inter-personal. When individuals lack full ability to find everything whenever they want they employ these functions. Some have a cost of time, others have a cost of money, still others cost some amount of your moral swaysion.
Minimum standards set by the publisher: The trust necessary to spend money on data is increased when someone who has been known to do good work has looked over the work and passed it for publication.
Proper Classification and Identification: Imagine if books categories where chosen by the authors alone? Sense we know that each book can and does fit into multiple categories then without a store to keep things organized we would quickly see whatever system by which they are self-categorized go the way of the meta-tag in the early internet.
Easy review repository: Even if I am buying a product from somewhere else I often use the Amazon or Newegg reviews from users so that I can get a gist of weather people like or dislike the product and if the reason for negative reviews are systemic flaw or there the presence of a PFBKC (problem found between keyboard and chair).
I use PDFs as e-book content 4+ hours a day for my research, I have no trouble with it on my 42inch 1080P display, my 14inch 768 display my 10inc 1024 X 600 or my 3.5 420x380 display.
Having a set size with no ability to zoom in on text and out on graphs, on the other hand, makes for an entirely useless product no matter what document format is being used.
As a social scientist I can tell you that if he where to "boot strap" his data by sampling his small sample size different ways repeatedly he could come up with something:-)
p.s.
After 18 PHD level hours I would not trust a sociologist to tell me where, with any degree of certainty, the bathroom is.
"Wouldn't the Kindle be more analogous to the iPod?"
That IS what he said:
"I never used iTunes because it didn't run on my OS, and it had DRM...The Kindle is exactly analogous. It has a proprietary format, with DRM."
Hubbard also used it in apparently non-humorous contexts. On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled "RACKET EXPOSED," in which he denounced twelve people as "Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life," and ordered that "Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45."
Former Scientologist http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
>Bent Corydon wrote that in late 1967 at Saint Hill, he personally received a copy of an order naming four former Scientologists as enemies and "fair game" and ordering any Sea Org member who encountered them to use R2-45.
You tube should walk into a meeting with the Canadians, shuffle some papers around, look them seriously in the eye for a few seconds and give them the answer they deserve:
The social mores against female breast nudity are some of my favorite mores. With out it breasts would lose some of there excitement.
unless you are trying to explain how to get a baby to latch there is little reason to have pictures of a woman breast feeding.
You are one of these internet nutjobs that wants to repeal both the law against public indecency and go against our social norms, just because this one doesn't suit you.
Come up with something better or get over the fact that we hold breasts to be sacred so that we may profane them. This situation, by the way, benefits both males and females.
How difficult is it to get a simple breast-cloth to cover yourself out of respect for those around you? Sex is as beautiful and natural as breast feeding and should also not be performed in public.
Attaching the dollars spent to an amount that is falling makes it so that no further spending, or even spending cuts, can look like spending increases.
Almost all drugs have a pay off that is 1.) very insecure and 2.) about 16 years out which 3.) carry the risk that an unforeseeable combination with some other drug will cost the company billions in law suits.
With that kind of risk I have no problem with a drug company making as much money as it can off of developing the biotechnology necessary to extend life.
They should just be smart enough not to charge third world countries any more than cost.
Observing that England is socially bias against the middle east is racist to you? you are the kind of knee-jerk racism-seeker that makes awesome skits like this one impossible today.
I got screwed in a graduate course by turnitin because i used CIA world fact book to source my variables and instead of, after each variable, writing the exact same source I did so after all of the variables.
long story short, the stupid machine said i stole my stuff from some other web-page that mirrors fact-book and i got a C in the grad course.
You are totally off, installing MSOffice Photoshop and WoW are very common occurrences on OSX. If linux where supported at the same level by developers then it would be more than a sandbox for nerds.
The point is that the average smart computer user who does not program knows what you are talking about here but has no idea how to begin nor is his time worth figuring it out.
You should probably have chosen to follow Christ instead of whatever shitty religion you where a part of.
It does not matter what denomination, even if it is Christian, you felt was telling you to be against gay marriage. It is clear that Jesus would have nothing to do with hate and thus my suggestion you follow Christ.
Just because attacking the supply side of the issue does not eliminate the problem does not mean that it has no effect
Yours is the most shortsighted point of view I have seen on the subject, it is as if you are arguing that kiddy-porn should not be taken off the shelves of the 7/11 just because they are not the ones who took the pictures, It does not make sense. By making it harder to find and sellers harder to trust on line the demand is curtailed. Less demand means less supply.
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Serendipity: The ability to have your book 'accidentally' run into while the customer is looking at another book of interest to him or her is very valuable.
Social function of limited network search: Each person has a mental network of exploitable functions, be they computer, intellectual, inter-personal. When individuals lack full ability to find everything whenever they want they employ these functions.
Some have a cost of time, others have a cost of money, still others cost some amount of your moral swaysion.
Minimum standards set by the publisher: The trust necessary to spend money on data is increased when someone who has been known to do good work has looked over the work and passed it for publication.
Proper Classification and Identification: Imagine if books categories where chosen by the authors alone? Sense we know that each book can and does fit into multiple categories then without a store to keep things organized we would quickly see whatever system by which they are self-categorized go the way of the meta-tag in the early internet.
Easy review repository: Even if I am buying a product from somewhere else I often use the Amazon or Newegg reviews from users so that I can get a gist of weather people like or dislike the product and if the reason for negative reviews are systemic flaw or there the presence of a PFBKC (problem found between keyboard and chair).
I use PDFs as e-book content 4+ hours a day for my research, I have no trouble with it on my 42inch 1080P display, my 14inch 768 display my 10inc 1024 X 600 or my 3.5 420x380 display.
Having a set size with no ability to zoom in on text and out on graphs, on the other hand, makes for an entirely useless product no matter what document format is being used.
As a social scientist I can tell you that if he where to "boot strap" his data by sampling his small sample size different ways repeatedly he could come up with something :-)
p.s.
After 18 PHD level hours I would not trust a sociologist to tell me where, with any degree of certainty, the bathroom is.
"Wouldn't the Kindle be more analogous to the iPod?"
That IS what he said:
"I never used iTunes because it didn't run on my OS, and it had DRM...The Kindle is exactly analogous. It has a proprietary format, with DRM."
These games are much more than 5 years old, which means they do not fall in the range of 4-5 years.
Hubbard also used it in apparently non-humorous contexts. On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled "RACKET EXPOSED," in which he denounced twelve people as "Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life," and ordered that "Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45."
Former Scientologist http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt >Bent Corydon wrote that in late 1967 at Saint Hill, he personally received a copy of an order naming four former Scientologists as enemies and "fair game" and ordering any Sea Org member who encountered them to use R2-45.
-wikipedia
Now that, my friends, is hard core.
How is apple not competition?
We could save a lot of money by putting all that light-bulb heat to use.. to bad entropy makes these sorts of schemes uneconomical.
So the daily show would be illegal in Canada.
You tube should walk into a meeting with the Canadians, shuffle some papers around, look them seriously in the eye for a few seconds and give them the answer they deserve:
"Fuck Canada!"
The social mores against female breast nudity are some of my favorite mores. With out it breasts would lose some of there excitement.
unless you are trying to explain how to get a baby to latch there is little reason to have pictures of a woman breast feeding.
You are one of these internet nutjobs that wants to repeal both the law against public indecency and go against our social norms, just because this one doesn't suit you.
Come up with something better or get over the fact that we hold breasts to be sacred so that we may profane them. This situation, by the way, benefits both males and females.
How difficult is it to get a simple breast-cloth to cover yourself out of respect for those around you? Sex is as beautiful and natural as breast feeding and should also not be performed in public.
Attaching the dollars spent to an amount that is falling makes it so that no further spending, or even spending cuts, can look like spending increases.
Almost all drugs have a pay off that is 1.) very insecure and 2.) about 16 years out which 3.) carry the risk that an unforeseeable combination with some other drug will cost the company billions in law suits.
With that kind of risk I have no problem with a drug company making as much money as it can off of developing the biotechnology necessary to extend life.
They should just be smart enough not to charge third world countries any more than cost.
Observing that England is socially bias against the middle east is racist to you? you are the kind of knee-jerk racism-seeker that makes awesome skits like this one impossible today.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1477/saturday-night-live-word-association
I got screwed in a graduate course by turnitin because i used CIA world fact book to source my variables and instead of, after each variable, writing the exact same source I did so after all of the variables.
long story short, the stupid machine said i stole my stuff from some other web-page that mirrors fact-book and i got a C in the grad course.
You are totally off, installing MSOffice Photoshop and WoW are very common occurrences on OSX. If linux where supported at the same level by developers then it would be more than a sandbox for nerds.
Time is still the tax, the time it takes to be knowledgeable enough to know about what you just said.
The point is that the average smart computer user who does not program knows what you are talking about here but has no idea how to begin nor is his time worth figuring it out.
You should probably have chosen to follow Christ instead of whatever shitty religion you where a part of.
It does not matter what denomination, even if it is Christian, you felt was telling you to be against gay marriage. It is clear that Jesus would have nothing to do with hate and thus my suggestion you follow Christ.
It does not matter if it is right or wrong to the lawyers.
What matters is how much they can convince GS to pay them for the privilege of making GoldmanSachs look bad.
Just because attacking the supply side of the issue does not eliminate the problem does not mean that it has no effect
Yours is the most shortsighted point of view I have seen on the subject, it is as if you are arguing that kiddy-porn should not be taken off the shelves of the 7/11 just because they are not the ones who took the pictures, It does not make sense. By making it harder to find and sellers harder to trust on line the demand is curtailed. Less demand means less supply.
You Sr. have just given me the most ridiculous slippery slope argument I have ever heard:
"making child rape illegal leads to destroying political freedom"
nambla much?
"in exchange for dealing with the inexperience of the average undergrad."
THAT Sr. is an expensive proposition.
Fat free dairy is much better for you than said cows are bad for everyone.
Legalize prostitution then charge everyone for taxes they should have paid on sex they have for "free".