Comment Re:They can't just declare this. (Score 1) 351
Vonnegut said it best with regards to that gem...
Vonnegut said it best with regards to that gem...
Is it bad form for the guy who made the joke to say WHOOSH?
I think he was saying she should go back to bagging groceries.
I studied astrophysics in college. What's an order of magnitude between friends?
Seriously, are you going to drive across town to listen to a cellist for even a $10 dollar cover plus drinks?
I MIGHT, depending on whose pants I'm trying to get into that week.
Point being, if women had better taste in music, cellists would be making bank.
Only if you care about the number of missiles penetrating defenses as a function of time, and, while I can think of a few situations where you MIGHT want that, in most cases you just care about the total which just requires subtraction.
No, but most people listen to the same 20 albums or so for their ENTIRE LIVES, with a smattering of whatever's current at the moment mixed in. At least everyone I know (none of them major audiophiles either) fits that profile. They all have 20-30 favorite go-to albums they're always listening to (usually concentrated in whichever decade they were in their early 20s, but not always), and then 4-5 other albums (or 4-5 albums worth of singles in many cases) they're currently listening to.
So, the same 20 songs for five years is extreme, but the basic principle still applies to most people.
...and there's Poe's Law.
Because no one could seriously cite Star Wars novels as 'real' science fiction.
I can't imagine WHY you'd buy one (no power outlet in a sealed room?), but it's certainly feasible to make one. It's not even too much of a stretch to imagine some marketing hack pushing one into production over the engineers protests of its pointlessness.
Woz wasn't saying it was evil, but he was definitely poking the hagiography balloon with a needle.
If he's taking a multi-day train trip, it's almost certainly not in the US (may God have mercy on his soul if it is).
I was thinking of submitter + editor(s), but since the editors are actually Mechanical Turks, I must concede your point that there was only a single entity involved.
Although the summary is inconsistent--in one sentence they use the Oxford comma, in another they do not. While the Oxford comma is debatable (DEATH TO THE INFIDELS WHO DENY ITS GLORY!), to be inconsistent about it is something that all grammar nazis can agree is wrong.
With ebooks, let's say I publish an ebook, sell it for $20 a piece, and sell 1000 of them during the first two weeks. Then, during the next two months, I sell 5. That means nobody is willing to pay $20 for my book anymore. But there could be another 1000 people willing to pay $10, giving me additional $10000 revenue, with only a little increase in cost. Then I can sell another 2000 of them for $5 a piece, and finally I let people name their own price and sell 1,000,000 for $1 each on average.
The problem with your scenario is a marketing/awareness one. Do sales drop off after two weeks because no one wants to pay $20, or because none of the people who want to know about it? If none of the people who want to know about it, are you really going to get those bumps in sales figures for each price drop?
I sense a new business opportunity: Raptor Rap.
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