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The short answer is almost certainly that the record label has placed significant restrictions on the price.

It's not just Beatles albums. Lots of albums are cheaper to buy used on Amazon than MP3s on Amazon. It's an imperfect marketplace. A few record labels control the supply of MP3s and Amazon places little control on used album sales. Also, MP3s are a better product for people who want MP3s. They have instant delivery, no need to rip the CD, and physical storage requirements. The advantages of a CD are resale value and collectability and better archival capability, but I don't think most people care to store FLACs.

My screenshot and canvas don't match, but I'm running Chrome. Same thing happens in Firefox, so it's probably the OS. I'm running Windows XP with two LCD monitors. ClearType was off so I turned it on, and that seems to have fixed it.

There's a bug when selecting items with a box when the cursor leaves the canvas. It would also be nice to set a new default font.

I was looking for a good web page mockup tool last weekend, but couldn't find one. I know HTML though and went with a good editor.

The problem with tagging is that it's a laborious process and prone to errors which accumulate over time to make the system very inaccurate.

I'm assuming it can load balance to paid EC2 instances also. Even if not, it would let potential customers learn how to use it.

The biggest difference I see is in the monospace font. Courier is serif and Cousine is not. Serif fonts are good for coding but my guess is that anybody coding has a better font than Courier.

Is there an implication that reading means reading books? Because I'd think that it's harder to raise a child who doesn't read in the internet age.

What I never got about this myth is why people thought that the razors should cost more than the blades. The razor is molded plastic and the blades are a bit of plastic holding a small bit of metal that are honed so they easily cut hair and have a hard time cutting skin. There's no reason to think that the plastic should cost more than the blades. My best guess as to why the blades are expensive would be to cover marketing costs and for patented technology.

Even when I was looking around, I could see that there were a lot of resources. I'd like to see a very short app - 50 lines of code - that shows off the main feature of the framework. More importantly, I need this to be one of the links on the top of the page if it's not on the home page.

NOLOH's tutorials are hard to find on that web site.

A dropdown box on Facebook would do, but nobody can put it there so some people decided to go with Plan B.

Microsoft says it only uses lawsuits as a last resort when a licensing agreement can't be reached. It sounds like they're trying not to be bad guys, but I read this as Microsoft using lawsuits to force companies to license their patents. I'm not under the illusion that any other company does differently, just commenting on their attempted PR spin.

Software developers are the perfect audience for a Q&A site because they do their job online. I think StackOverflow's biggest challenge is extending their audience to people who aren't already on the Internet.

I don't think this project is properly leveraging PHP's advantages. PHP code's ability to be run on almost any server with Apache is a big plus, but this project requires a JVM. It's different enough from PHP that the plethora of PHP programmers will need to learn a new language, which is another hurdle. It's not backwards compatible so existing PHP code will need to be rewritten. In fact, it looks very different from PHP except for the intended use of the PHP library, which is one of PHP's weakest points.

The project has a lot of great ideas but I don't think branding it as a PHP derivative is one of them.

It's possible that Facebook shut this guy down because they don't want competition when selling their data. The notion that this information is publicly and legally accessible may take away a revenue stream from them.

I think that's the point. The Japanese are great at making a product better, but not very good at innovating an existing product. They may have made a music player that has the same specs as the iPod years earlier, but they never would have made the mainstream version.

Physical goods have a higher perceived value because you can touch and resell it. PC games are on their way to essentially ending piracy with services like Steam. Some people may be willing to pay a higher price point, but games at discounted prices are still tremendously popular.

Those pirates perceive the work to have no value. Possible reasons include that the pirate has no money, doesn't expect to use the work for long, or doesn't think they'll enjoy the work very much. The copyright holder loses no money when these people pirate their work and should not complain when they do so.

It's difficult to recognize why a person is pirating. For all I know, copyright holders have priced their works correctly and are complaining about people like this.

Then the copyright holder's work get pirated and they don't get compensated.

That the producer doesn't have a way to stop the piracy is the crux of the issue. Because the black market exists, consumers have the power to place their own value on a product. This value is the price that they would pay for the product if it were legally available at that price.

The product's price is relative to the marginal cost of production because that's the cost on the black market. The producer is competing with the black market.

I believe the author would add that the pirate's perceived value of the product is also a function of piracy.

If incorrectly assume that a product's value is directly related to its cost, I believe it's true that people would be less willing to pirate the game that cost more. Which means they would be willing to pay more.

The copyright holder's problem occurs when they create work that has less value than what they spent on it, based on that equation. This, I believe, is the author's point. When the public sees your product as having less value than you do, they will be unwilling to pay the amount you charge, and will pirate your work.

People are willing to pay for creative work. The copyright holder should realize that rampant "theft" would indicate that their price is too high, and they should lower the price or create higher value work that people value at their desired price.

Copyright law may be outdated in that copyright holders are able to shout "piracy" instead of obeying the laws of economics, but I don't believe it is the main problem.

There's also the fixed costs (development) to consider. The point he's making is that people are willing to may for software, but there's an inherent price. If the vendor's price is higher than the inherent price, people will pirate.

The health benefits to losing weight could be incredible. For example, the risk of a heart attack would drop and there would be less stress on the knees and ankles.

Thanks for posting this. It looks like the server gets into that state by itself.

I agree. I really enjoyed optimizing my route, but it was somewhat frustrating when my route turned out to go down the Belt Parkway then make a u-turn because I placed the waypoint on the wrong side of the road, then make another u-turn to get to the next waypoint.

I really like the concept. A few suggestions for the UI:

1. Why make me choose a city at all? Start me at the US and let me enter an address and show all places on the map.

2. The map is very small. At the minimum it should take up the available area. Keep the same height / width ratio if that looks better.

3. The color codes should be visible from the start so I know what I'm looking at. I'd suggest moving it above the map and out of the tabbed part.

4. Make the Top Rated part into a table with columns and alternate colored rows. It looks messy.

5. The tags section is messy too. Give me a list of tags and the number of restaurants in each tag and let me click. And definitely don't show me tags that don't have restaurants.

6. Actually, dump the tags and categorize the restaurants. There's too much potential for an overabundance of tags.

7. The text in locality filter overlaps.

8. I'm not a fan of popups in general because it covers too much of the map and makes it very difficult to click another restaurant. Consider moving all of the info on the popup to the area below the map.

In general, figure out why people are coming to your website and engineer the UI to fit that purpose. I would think people are looking for where to go out to lunch because of your domain name (which looks it may change). So let them zoom into their office and see all of the places within a few miles. Colored pins are good but your customers have to know what they're looking at.

Here's a bug: I'm looking at Xbox 360 games and I click on "under $10" and the criteria to remove in the box on the top left says "under $25".

I clicked on Bargain Bin on the home page and couldn't find out how to restrict the listing to Xbox 360 games. The links I found removed the bargain bin restriction. When I clicked in Xbox 360, I immediately got a listing which started off with the systems, which I am definitely not interested in. A landing page with recent releases and recent top sellers would be more appropriate, especially if it made it easier to separate the systems and games.

I assume your business is a game-specific price comparison portal. It's not a bad idea, but you may need more content before you provide value over game store sites (ebworld.com) or game review sites (gamespot.com). Along those lines, why would I log in? There doesn't seem to be any community content that would require me to identify myself.