Many book publishing executives say that e-book sellers like Amazon have a strong interest in heralding a new age of reading, because they must persuade skeptical publishers that a higher sales volume of e-books will offset the eventual loss of profit if the most popular digital editions continue to be sold for $9.99.
Similarly, a Silverlight-based Office product could be pushed down to Windows, Mac, and Linux users while adding collaborative business services that can be monetized to offset the eventual loss in licenses.
Digital distribution results in cost-savings for producers who can skip retail, skip shipping costs, and forego manufacturing the actual discs, but those savings need to be passed on (at least to some degree) to consumers to offset the eventual end of used games.
However, accumulating evidence is effortful, and this effort might offset the eventual gains resulting from correct choices.
This trade offends economic theorists, who assume the juicy yields Iceland offers will be offset by an eventual plunge in the value of its currency.
Conversely, Verizon made a calculated decision not to ally itself with a start-up because it figured that the federal subsidies would be more than offset by the eventual prices companies might pay to buy out their partners sometime in the future.
But the eventual payoff offsets these disadvantages, Hillis says.
Weaver expects that on the macro level, mortgage rates will begin to rise and offset some of the eventual improvements in the unemployment rate.
He said that an eventual repatriation of these funds could help offset governments' efforts to repair the human costs of the financial crisis.
However, even though the dilatation is a very robust observation for co-seismic static strain offset, we cannot rule out an eventual non-linear effect perturbing these near-field strain measurements.
