...but those 10 years are in a Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison!!

This happens to any system of sufficient size and age.
Europe has been there for a while.
The US is getting there now.

People are never content to leave well enough alone.

This process of making a similar item with a different SKU also keeps pricematches from happening. It is not the same item if the SKU is different.

I got a 50" plasma about 6 months ago. I researched all the specs to make sure I got a great tv - and I did. But what I hadn't paid any attention to was power consumption. I was pretty surprised when I learned my new TV uses 690W.

If you look at the back of a plasma tv they have fans on the back. The screen itself gets warm enough you can feel the heat on the back of your hand 3" or 4" away.

Do LCD's of this size use this much power?

SequoiaView
Makes pretty boxes. The bigger the box, the bigger the file. The best way to see where the disk space went, IMHO.

Those SOB's took asprin when they had a fever! Get 'em!!!

I don't know the first thing about rocket science, so let me ask the crowd here.

How do you synchronize the firing of 12 solid fueled rockets?

I'm not sure I should believe you...

Grain?

Imagine how many people it must take to listen in to everyone's conversations. Now imagine all those poor people jobless. There's your problem.

I have friends who cannot afford some things as nice as mine. If you were to ask them why they don't have a nicer one, they would tell you a reason why they don't want it. People rarely admit that price is the issue, even when it is.

Hell it worked for the dtv converter boxes, right? They're worth about $20, but given the coupons they cost $60. Won't car dealerships just raise the price of the car you want by the same amount?

How can unions work in the era of the global market? Creating artificial scarcity of labor only results in pricing yourself out of the global market, right?

This is 100% SOP where I work. Exceptions are made for 1 or 2 days for "knowledge transfer". But nobody with high level infrastructure access will finish out their two weeks.