My 2011 Impreza cost me $20,000, and is a compact car. The only 4wd hybrids are large SUVs, which cost $30,000. Even at $4.00 a gallon, $10,000 buys a lot of gas. At 21 miles a gallon, $10,000 buys over 57,000 miles worth of gas!
Furthermore, Subaru service charges a lot less money then Honda service, and their accessories cost less. Honda charged me $400 for rubber floor mats, and Subaru charged me $100 for rubber floor mats.
Now, had I not wanted 4wd, I probably would have bought the Insight. I really prefer its quietness and smoothness over the Impreza. On the other hand, given that Honda service is expensive, regular mechanics won't work on Honda hybrids, and that the Insight would probably be worthless after 7 years, I'm probably going to spend less money owning the Impreza.
I like going to the theater: It's an excuse to go people watching and get out of the house. I'm also able to focus on the movie because it's rude to pull out my phone or laptop.
Granted, I like the fact that I can drink or smoke anything I want from the comfort of my own couch. I'm sure I'll go to the theater less often when I have kids.
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In this case, "mastered for iTunes" has to do with the fact that the artist / producer / studio encodes the AAC directly from the 24-bit master, using Apple's recommended algorithms for reducing sampling rate to 44.1 khz.
When you get a CD and go to FLAC, you've already lost quite a bit going from 24-bit to 16-bit. That loss isn't there in "mastered for iTunes."
I've been playing with this stuff for a few years when I take a 24 bit, 96khz wave file from a DVD-Audio disk, stick it into iTunes, and compress it to AAC. It still beats the pants off of stuff that I ripped from 16-bit CDs.
If you're going to ask for FLAC, at least make sure it's 24-bit. Otherwise, you're just wasting space to carry around the distortion created when decimating to 16-bit sound.
"Mastered for iTunes" is just a set of guidelines that ensure that the resulting AAC file is the highest quality possible when encoded directly from a 24-bit master. It's higher quality then most FLACs because they are usually 16-bit, whereas AAC is essentially 24-bit when the source material is 24-bit. In essence, compressing 24-bit audio to 256kbps AAC sounds better then going to 16-bit uncompressed audio.
If you're going to go FLAC, at least make sure that you're getting 24-bit.
Usually buying a new console costs less then a decent computer upgrade.
Assuming that transferring "stuff" from consoles is easy, and consoles are backwards-compatible, then "upgrading" a console could merely be buying a new one, and plugging it into the old HDMI cable.
American copyright law clearly grants the purchaser the right to resell. They are violating American copyright by withholding the right to resell a used game.
Capitalism says "charge what the market will bear." Clearly the market will not bear non-resell-able games.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.