Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Wednesday, March 12, 2003Greetings, Sports Fans
Cablevision will carry the Yankees.
(BTW, Dave Winer, a diehard Mets fan, will be in Boston, at Harvard, to watch the Sox lose again.)
7:36:19 PM # Google It!
categories: Baseball
Hypothetical of the Day: Selling Shifted Data
Suppose a given item, an early CD from a famous band, sells on eBay for $1.00. eBay takes $0.37 for a listing fee. The mailer for the CD costs $0.50, and postage is $1.25. This leaves the seller without ($1.12), which he has paid to remove an unwanted disc from his collection.
Suppose further that in addition to offering the original CD, he also offered a disc containing fully tagged MP3 and Ogg versions of the album, playlists for the album's order and his preferred listening order, and redistributable players for each format.
- Would this increase the value of the offering sufficiently to cover the costs of shipping and handling?
- Would the transaction be legal?
10:03:11 AM # Google It!
Search and Destroy
Q: Why does Frontier suck as a development environment?
A: Because search and replace is unpredictable. It's more like search and destroy.
8:53:02 AM # Google It!
