But Dreamcast has another major trend to fight: really cheap, really powerful desktop PCs.
It's on the other side of the globe and it's really, really cheap.
You would pay more up front for the hardware, but then the cost of the individual books would be really cheap, right?
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Right now you can get really cheap magazine subscriptions because they can fill the magazines with ads and you can easily skip by them.
Or any other molecule: if quantum cascade lasers become really cheap, you might never be in danger of leaving the house with halitosis again.
"The thing about the really cheap prices, being able to decide on the day whether you went or not, is that it creates an addiction, " he says.
Because in a low-return world, stocks are really cheap.
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Before we go any further let me remind you what the E-Cat is: It is a really cheap device that consumes hydrogen and nickel and through the agency of some secret catalyst (hence the device name) produces copper and lots of heat.
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Specifically, I feel morally authorized to spend an entire year blasting the Red Hot Chili Peppers at maximum volume out of really cheap car-stereo speakers, the ones equipped with chintzy mega-bass, to make up for the 20 years of noise pollution I've had to endure.
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On the other hand, if it's much lower than 86%, I'm going to suspect either some chicanery on the part of the seller (he's renting out a bunch of rooms really cheap, to whoever, in an effort to manipulate his occupancy percentage), or that the hotel's marketing isn't being approached very intelligently.
While Jacobs framed this principle as being about old buildings, it was really about cheap buildings.
But when managements say they don't want to sell equity because the stock is too cheap, I don't really know what "cheap" means in this context.
Leonsis really got in cheap, paying 1.5 times revenues for the team.
In short, focus on operational excellence to be really fast and cheap.
They ate tacos because they were cheap, and that really sort of helped to transport them around the world.
Unfortunately, we don't have any word on specs or pricing yet, but these things had better be packing some serious heat for cheap if Palm is really planning to wait until September to launch them -- they'll be going head-to-head with the Xoom, the PlayBook, and presumably the iPad 2.
Or, the future may be cars powered by (now, very cheap and extraordinarily plentiful and really rather environmentally clean) natural gas.
Although the company has created a sustainability index, it still sells a lot of cheap, unnecessary stuff at really low prices.
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But UCG never really got invited to the ball, as cheap shale gas crashed the party and stuck around.
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You can generally find Metro 2033 on the cheap at your local GameStop and you really should.
For a lot of people, simple term coverage will suffice:It's cheap, and you buy it only when you really need it (until the kids are out of college).
But with vast and cheap supplies of gas and oil, few observers think Iran really needs nuclear energy.
"If you really want people to have access to books, they have to be cheap and of course this limits us producing the quantity we'd like to, " Ms Romay adds.
One unfortunate note on the LCD: we're not sure if Stantum didn't pick a high-quality part, had some trouble with the hand-built nature of this product, or is really impeding the LCD with its resistive overlay, but there was something cheap and pixelated to the display that we haven't noticed on standard Dell mini 10 LCDs.
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The really big payoffs could come with the B and C tranches, which are cheap now but might increase in value after United rejiggers its fleet.
Lastly (and this is really only a minor concern for pensions) the cost of such reviews is not cheap.
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"The lesson really that tourism destinations should learn from Spain is that they shouldn't sell cheap, " says Dr Font.
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