On the Value of Advertisements...

[kinnerc]

I had a completely surreal experience this afternoon during lunch.

I realized that my subscription to Linux Journal had expired. I went to fix that. For the last year I'd been getting the digital subscription - cheaper, and I'd been able to literally save on "disk" in .pdf format all the Linux Journals since issue one, including the one so many

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[mhaithaca]

Importantly, ads also help to subsidize the cost of many of our forms of entertainment. Going to the movies? Yes, $11 seems expensive, but it's really not -- and it's being subsidized by the ads you're shown before the film starts. Watching TV? Much of it is still free (though we may be paying a carrier to bring it to our house) and paid for by ads. Newspapers and magazines have offered ads for centuries. Yes, they're partly to show you something that might appeal to you, but they're largely to keep the cost of the publication down.

[kinnerc]

Perhaps, Mark, perhaps, but I think that the best way of driving the costs of movies down would be to pay Tom Cruze (SP) and his colleagues $220K per movie, maximum!

Same for sports tickets!