Take a quick look at your "virtually unlimited" service and please tell me how complete these bands' catalogues are: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd ... if those aren't too obscure.
Maybe something more modern would be appropriate. Are The Faint, Ladytron and The Flesh on there? Heck, how about the large back catalogues of Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie?
If your list doesn't come to around 100 studio-released albums, it's limited.
If everything else in the music industry somehow grinds to a halt, I promise I will keep writing, recording and distributing music, and thus save music from its otherwise inevitable end.
District 9 wasn't quite as shoestring, but had a low budget too, and earned multiple times what it cost to make as a result. Meanwhile, 2012 looks like a 200 million dollar joke. Good writing and a unique take will generally make a good movie. The extra stuff only works in service to the story, not instead of it.
If they tried it with and without before, I would have to think they have some reason to bring it back. While Mike's argument makes sense, it would be interesting to know the relative numbers ... and how they fare this time around.
The real irony of his argument is in looking through the blog comments, he's sold a mess of copies of the audiobook as a direct result of this. I'd be curious to know just how many relative to the day before. That might not be a business model, but is an interesting data point.
Derek makes a really good point about the Android, Pre and some other options popping up in the wake of the iPhone as other companies had to make a big step forward in design.
I really don't know why anyone thinks this will substantially lower prices on either the iPhone or the service fees it carries. If people want a different carrier, they will change based on that, irrespective of price. It was the same when the RAZR (the last big "it" phone) came out on multiple carriers. Everyone offered the same plans with the same rates.
Levitt/Dubner didn't come up with it either, they were reporting it the same as Samuel Bowles (who wrote the article Masnick references). Masnick cited his (secondary+) source, but Bowles didn't cite his. While potentially useful, many news orgs don't explicitly list the studies they reference.
I don't know if you can "lift" the factual results of an experiment, but you're right that a lot of this was covered in a bestseller. Sadly, that doesn't mean lots of people learned the lessons it taught.
I think stuff like this should be taught in high school. I (who have an engineering degree) wasn't exposed to it until I read Freakonomics this year. The more people can learn about this, the better we'll all be.
It's a pointless law because everything is manipulated in one way or another these days. Everything will get tagged with an "image edited" label, and everyone will learn to ignore it like anything else that's ubiquitous. It would only add visual clutter.
People strive for ideals because they're ideals, not because that's how they think everyone looks.
She doesn't have to sell an infinite number of spaces. In fact, limiting the number to a degree would increase their value. Selling 5-10 spots would be an easy way to raise $5-10k when needed, and that's just one potential avenue.
Your definition of art is strange. By your logic, painting and sculpting marble aren't novel techniques in the craft, and haven't been reused for a long while, and thus wouldn't be art. Nor most blues music.
I haven't seen anyone ask what this would mean if the email was accidentally sent to a personally owned URL. While that makes it far less likely to occur (unless it was plainly choosing the wrong address from a list), it seems crazy that joe@joescarparts.com should be taken to court for receiving an improperly sent email.
Sorry to spoil your image of the piles of gold in TI's calculator empire, but calculators aren't discussed in the company's quarterly reports. The money is in selling chips. The calculators are a nice promotional tool.
This is completely ridiculous, and troubles me as a Gmail user, not that it's really Google's fault. That said, can't Google appeal the ruling before doing anything about it? Of course, that would further prove how pointless the order is.
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Maybe something more modern would be appropriate. Are The Faint, Ladytron and The Flesh on there? Heck, how about the large back catalogues of Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie?
If your list doesn't come to around 100 studio-released albums, it's limited.
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I really don't know why anyone thinks this will substantially lower prices on either the iPhone or the service fees it carries. If people want a different carrier, they will change based on that, irrespective of price. It was the same when the RAZR (the last big "it" phone) came out on multiple carriers. Everyone offered the same plans with the same rates.
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I think stuff like this should be taught in high school. I (who have an engineering degree) wasn't exposed to it until I read Freakonomics this year. The more people can learn about this, the better we'll all be.
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People strive for ideals because they're ideals, not because that's how they think everyone looks.
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