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This price index would attempt to show how much it costs the
average consumer to watch 1 hour of his favorite shows. It
would be created by multiplying average cost per show per
viewer by the percentage of each kind of show that consumer
is watching, averaged across the entire spectrum of audio-
visual
content.
We can then recognize that cost as
what needs to be covered by a mix of payment by the
consumer and advertising. A comfortable mix of percentage
of advertising time and direct payment can be arranged with
some people choosing to pay for all of their content up front
and others choosing to watch ads for a great percentage of
their time and pay nothing directly for their shows.
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This idea is predicated on the assumption
that consumers of media are capable of
making an informed choice on the basis of
simple, easily comprehended numerical data,
and is therefore intrinsically foredoomed to
immediate, spectacular and disastrous
failure. |
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(From the title, we construed that this was
something to do with the cost of producing
software, which would allow us to make the
commment that one hour of bad
programming can be infinitely more
expensive than many hours of good
programming) |
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//some people choosing to pay for all of their content up
front and others choosing to watch ads for a great
percentage of their time and pay nothing directly for their
shows// |
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And this is different from the current system how exactly?
When I want to watch TV now, I just stream it. Some is
included with my various services (Amazon, Netflix, etc.)
and some I pay for directly. I think the last time I had to
watch commercials was during the Olympics, which I had to
go out and buy an antenna just to watch, since I haven't
gotten ad-supported TV (i.e. cable or satellite) in years. |
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// but without it they become an unknown
rband over time. // |
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Not necessarily. IG Farben are still suffering
from their association with Zyklon-B. You
don't get many leaflets advertising
Kalashnikov falling out of your Sunday
newspaper; and with an advertising budget of
nothing, Semtex-H has become remarkably
well known … |
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// Is this what is commonly known as semtex
?// |
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// Should any buyers of the previous 7
iterations be worried about defects ? // |
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No, because (a) it's always been called that
apart from by ignorant journos, and (b)
anyone who buys cheap, nasty rubbish like
that is not the sort to bother about quality of
product. |
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I think Sun was a much better candidate for
continued dedication to quality (and contributions
to humanity) than Apple. |
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(Recycled joke, because I thought the same as [8th]: |
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Q. Did you hear about the man who programmed in
his sleep? |
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A. He had a code in his doze. |
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// I wonder if anyone can name a brand whose
standards haven't dramatically dropped in the last 10
years ?// |
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Rolls Royce? they use to make cars that few could
afford and didn't really work, now they make cars
that few can afford and work really well. |
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// I wonder if anyone can name a brand
whose standards haven't dramatically
dropped in the last 10 years ?// |
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Microsoft. Because when you're already
down at the bedrock, the only way is up. |
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Sadly, they seem to have missed that option,
so they're still utterly crap. |
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I was hoping this idea would be an app that programmers could use to
calculate how much their opportunity cost is for each TV show episode
they view. |
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