One "benefit" to being in the Apple developer program is their monthly mailings of CDs (and now, quarterly, DVDs). Back in the old days (Anybody remember Phil and Dave's Excellent CD and all the other silly titles?) the CDs were incredibly useful, chocked full of sample code, SDKs, online documentation, system software, and so forth.
Today, these CDs/DVDs are totally useless. Every few months, I open one up and check out the contents. And you know, there's nothing there that I can't download from the Internet — and probably get a newer version, too. And I laugh when I get a "seed" version of whatever OS is currently in development; by the time it gets to me, I've already downloaded, burned, and installed a much newer version!
So part of my fees to the developer program goes to fund this completely wasteful endeavor that should have been phased out in the late nineties. So thirteen giant non-recyclable Tyvek envelopes get thrown away, along with twelve CDs and four quarterly DVDs that sit on my shelf and accumulate dust until I get sick of seeing them, too.
Does anybody with Internet access actually find these CDs useful?