I wouldn't say they failed to anticipate the market. The problem was Apple changed the playing field. Pre-iPhone smart phones were about typing. Blackberry was king with there keyboard and pointer it made it a superior smart phone for the market however this keyboard sacrificed screen space. Apple giving a multitouch screen and no keyboard showed that they could allow useful communication with more screen space. This trade off from Apple could had bombed but it didn't making blackberry innovations seem out of date.
Well Good old economics 101. 750,000 in sales could be good however without the demand, it could mean making each unit at a loss. People are not going to spend thousands of dollars on a VHS where alternatives are much cheaper. So they will need to sell them at under $100 a pop. Then you have labor cost to make around 2,000 units a day. And parts that are getting more expensive. Having the building to keep operational... It all adds up If they could do 1 million it may be more justifiable.
It isn't always about growth. But you can't sell your units at a net loss.
All the VHS to DVD converters I have seen you just plug in the Analog Video and Audio out (Yellow, White Red) to a receiver then it converts it to a digital signal.
The real reason they buy VCR now is to watch their old VHS tapes. Some people still have a collection. And doesn't want to buy the DVD or BlueRay or streaming rights.
Still it isn't really AI, it is an adaptive system. Where it just calculates correlations from existing data and chooses what would be the more optimal solution. It is just more advanced than a simple workflow.
Some historians estimate the burning of the Library of Alexandria, had set back mankind 500 years of progress moving the power and influence of the dominant culture's influence away from an academic control to the more physical control of thoses who are the better warrior wins power.
As technology and knowledges advances our culture adapts to reflect these changes. The Library of Congress is considered a great wealth of knowledge. Is a way to show the angst that some people have with the changes in our culture. "We will show those Egg Heads!" Mantaility.
While this incident probably didn't do much. However if sparks more attacks against other sources of knowledge. Our Power source in the world would change back to the more the strongest wins mentality. As we can see with the Trump Supporters who feel that The United States has the Worlds most Powerful Army seems to put itself in its own disadvantage because we don't want to use it. And much rather setup trade deals and turn a blind eye to some things. When asked we give a complex answer because it is a complex situation. Where most people just wants a simple solution where you go agree with us or face the consequences. (Which often will have long term effects afterwords)
Much of our interpretation of the news is based on emotion. So a story about how Amazon is doing something scary to us. Is then quickly followed up by them doing something good or neutral, taints that story's tone, and makes it seem more worrisome.
We seem to forget that Organizations/Governments (especially large ones) do a lot of things with many different motives and sometimes they will do things that contradict itself. Because so much is going on there are many units running independent with each other, thus causing such confusion. Rarely do we have the Evil Corporation but sub units in such corporation doing bad things, while others are doing wonderful things. Granted such companies should have ways to stop the bad things from happening, and more often than not they will turn a blind eye, or reward them for hacking their metrics for success, encouraging such bad behavior. But for most of these things, there isn't Mr. Evil running everything with a devious purpose, but a bunch of people who are for the most part good, having to cut a corner or compromise to keep their jobs then it all adds up.
I need to agree, While Slashdot is a geeky site, and I am sure nearly all of us is able to do the Math to get the numbers. But still for a news summary the numbers do not help bring the point across. We see an article saying "Fastest Street Legal Electric Car" we want to know either Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour. As those are the standard unit for Land based human movement. As our walk rate is between 2-4 MPH, our Jog is 4-6, run 6-12 and sprint 12+. The neat thing about units is it allows us to understand them in aspects of other things we do in the same units.
The cool thing about computers is that they can organize and prioritize data. So that 1 inch thick of printed material can be checked quickly. The problem is most doctors are stuck in the Victorian era and refuse to use the technology properly or even admit that these guys who built the system had any brains at all. They are the doctor they must be right in all things. They went to medical school which was a lot of hard work. So they have to be experts in everything even if they didn't study it. As a side note medical school doesn't normally teach classes in business operations so they are not as well trained in how the organization works.
They may have. It isn't unheard of. In case of hardware shortage or a deal going south, they can quickly revamp and rebrand to another provider. That is why they went from the PowerPC to Intel. IBM just couldn't make their chips competitive so Apple dropped them when they realized that it wasn't worth it.
The iPhone could be in fact superior to the task that the Army needed the device to do.
Don't go all Android Fanboi! Android does many things better than iOS... However iOS does some things better. When designing a software there are tradeoffs that are needed. Sometimes those tradeoffs may enhance more people than they hinder, however the minority may find that missing ability to greatly improve that function they prefer.
I expect most of it is because Edge is already running in the background (Integrated web browser). So When running Chrome of Firefox it is using more power because you are running Edge and the other browser. If you could fully deIntegrate the web browser from Windows You may see Windows running with less power requirement. And when you kick off a third party browser you may not see such a drane.
Also I expect your other browsers are using the extra processing power to do things like properly rendering the page. And not the cheapo decade behind the times compatibility that Edge has to offer.
I remember a commercial back a few years from VW. Advertising their Clean Diesel cars. Two guys doing house work, one rather nice looking and the other kinda Dorky. The nice looking guy had the VW and the Dorky guy had a Prius. In general the point was the VW had nearly the same gas milage as the Prius with all the extra power of a Diesel.
However turning on this test mode reduces efficiency. So to get the same mileages they will need less power or keep the power for less gas mileage. So in general that Dorky looking guy still had the better deal, as his Prius had the environmental bonus he was looking for in his car, while the VW owner just got a false presence of getting the better deal.
We had a good run From 1995-1998 with the SVGA cards that did 1024x768 with 32bit color. Then that 3D acceleration came out and buying a good video card became much more difficult. With Displays going up to 4k we should be getting to a point where increase of resolution will not matter, And 3d performance on those displays should be quick enough. While Mores law is in effect our bodies are not adapting as fast as the technology, so there should be a point where the Video from a computer will meet a threshold where playing such upgrade games isn't going to be important.
Much like how we don't talk much about Sound cards.
Google is an American company anything they do will piss them off. Just as an European or Asian company will piss off the US if they are more successful than a US company. The political instinct when you are getting beaten is to say the other guy is cheating thus try to put rules in place to make the game more fair. Even if the reason why their success is just because they are better than the competition. This 500 million dollars is just showing while Google may win, it is being a good sport about it.
Well we also had such flops like. The Motion Picture, The Search for Spock The Final Frontier Voyager Generations Insurrection Nemesis Enterprise
Trek has been in a steady decline for a while. The problem is it was a show for the 1960's trying to reboot it for the new generation while keeping its nostalgic charm is getting harder and harder.
The successes in the list. Wrath of Kahn - Allowed a nostalgic response to an existing story, added with the character development of an older Kirk trying to retire. The Voyage Home - Wasn't a Star Trek movie, but a Romance Comedy with Star Trek Characters. The Undiscovered country - once again playing on the older Kirk who was to retire. First Contact - While popular at the time, I don't feel it will hold up. However that was more of an action flick than star trek. For the shows. TNG in essence ignored the TOS for most of the plots and created a show independant. The same with DS9 very different.
Voyager and Enterprise failed because they tried to remake the TOS and TNG with different characters with a decade apart.
Even for those Gen-X there was still that mythical job in the mail-room where you got to deliver mail to all the different groups and higher-ups and be able to make a personal connection to them, as well gaining experience on how the company operated. Allowing you to get promoted to different jobs and units. This is done by email now. So there is a gap between the labor jobs and the professional jobs. Making it hard for someone to work up the institution. Computers did a good job at automating many of those menial jobs that use to take manpower with some brains to accomplish.
Revenue is only part of a company's overall value. There is the Name Recognition. There is the customer base There is the physical assets building employees etc... There are existing contracts in place...
Also the point when a company buys another one, they feel that they can somehow do better than the current owner to make it more profitable. That is why they bid more than just the value of the company. Because you need to make the current owners an offer that will make it worth their while. Why offer 1 year of revenue, when they can earn that much more by keeping the company going?
I want to make a note. There haven't been many wide scale attacks on these closed devices. While security vulnerabilities have been found no where near the wide scale attacks like we had on on our PC's. The general purpose PC's while make us happy to play with... However for the standard user it is just a risk of failure.
So you want to go threw all that extra work to see porn in a public space? You sick bastard. Actually that would be a benifit where if you actually left your last visit site a porn location. When you start your device you get a blocked page vs whatever fetish you fashioned.
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I wouldn't say they failed to anticipate the market. The problem was Apple changed the playing field.
Pre-iPhone smart phones were about typing. Blackberry was king with there keyboard and pointer it made it a superior smart phone for the market however this keyboard sacrificed screen space. Apple giving a multitouch screen and no keyboard showed that they could allow useful communication with more screen space. This trade off from Apple could had bombed but it didn't making blackberry innovations seem out of date.
Well Good old economics 101.
750,000 in sales could be good however without the demand, it could mean making each unit at a loss.
People are not going to spend thousands of dollars on a VHS where alternatives are much cheaper. So they will need to sell them at under $100 a pop. Then you have labor cost to make around 2,000 units a day. And parts that are getting more expensive. Having the building to keep operational... It all adds up If they could do 1 million it may be more justifiable.
It isn't always about growth. But you can't sell your units at a net loss.
How do you DRM an Analog Recording?
All the VHS to DVD converters I have seen you just plug in the Analog Video and Audio out (Yellow, White Red) to a receiver then it converts it to a digital signal.
People whos old VHS player broke and wants a new one.
Some people still have quite a collection of VHS that they would like to watch.
The real reason they buy VCR now is to watch their old VHS tapes. Some people still have a collection. And doesn't want to buy the DVD or BlueRay or streaming rights.
Still it isn't really AI, it is an adaptive system.
Where it just calculates correlations from existing data and chooses what would be the more optimal solution.
It is just more advanced than a simple workflow.
Some historians estimate the burning of the Library of Alexandria, had set back mankind 500 years of progress moving the power and influence of the dominant culture's influence away from an academic control to the more physical control of thoses who are the better warrior wins power.
As technology and knowledges advances our culture adapts to reflect these changes. The Library of Congress is considered a great wealth of knowledge. Is a way to show the angst that some people have with the changes in our culture. "We will show those Egg Heads!" Mantaility.
While this incident probably didn't do much. However if sparks more attacks against other sources of knowledge. Our Power source in the world would change back to the more the strongest wins mentality.
As we can see with the Trump Supporters who feel that The United States has the Worlds most Powerful Army seems to put itself in its own disadvantage because we don't want to use it. And much rather setup trade deals and turn a blind eye to some things.
When asked we give a complex answer because it is a complex situation. Where most people just wants a simple solution where you go agree with us or face the consequences. (Which often will have long term effects afterwords)
For acceleration we normally use Meters/Second^2
or in car terms 0 to 60mhp in how many seconds.
So still this was lame use of representing the data.
Much of our interpretation of the news is based on emotion.
So a story about how Amazon is doing something scary to us. Is then quickly followed up by them doing something good or neutral, taints that story's tone, and makes it seem more worrisome.
We seem to forget that Organizations/Governments (especially large ones) do a lot of things with many different motives and sometimes they will do things that contradict itself. Because so much is going on there are many units running independent with each other, thus causing such confusion. Rarely do we have the Evil Corporation but sub units in such corporation doing bad things, while others are doing wonderful things. Granted such companies should have ways to stop the bad things from happening, and more often than not they will turn a blind eye, or reward them for hacking their metrics for success, encouraging such bad behavior. But for most of these things, there isn't Mr. Evil running everything with a devious purpose, but a bunch of people who are for the most part good, having to cut a corner or compromise to keep their jobs then it all adds up.
I need to agree, While Slashdot is a geeky site, and I am sure nearly all of us is able to do the Math to get the numbers. But still for a news summary the numbers do not help bring the point across. We see an article saying "Fastest Street Legal Electric Car" we want to know either Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour. As those are the standard unit for Land based human movement. As our walk rate is between 2-4 MPH, our Jog is 4-6, run 6-12 and sprint 12+. The neat thing about units is it allows us to understand them in aspects of other things we do in the same units.
The cool thing about computers is that they can organize and prioritize data. So that 1 inch thick of printed material can be checked quickly. The problem is most doctors are stuck in the Victorian era and refuse to use the technology properly or even admit that these guys who built the system had any brains at all. They are the doctor they must be right in all things. They went to medical school which was a lot of hard work. So they have to be experts in everything even if they didn't study it.
As a side note medical school doesn't normally teach classes in business operations so they are not as well trained in how the organization works.
They may have. It isn't unheard of. In case of hardware shortage or a deal going south, they can quickly revamp and rebrand to another provider.
That is why they went from the PowerPC to Intel. IBM just couldn't make their chips competitive so Apple dropped them when they realized that it wasn't worth it.
The iPhone could be in fact superior to the task that the Army needed the device to do.
Don't go all Android Fanboi! Android does many things better than iOS... However iOS does some things better.
When designing a software there are tradeoffs that are needed. Sometimes those tradeoffs may enhance more people than they hinder, however the minority may find that missing ability to greatly improve that function they prefer.
I expect most of it is because Edge is already running in the background (Integrated web browser). So When running Chrome of Firefox it is using more power because you are running Edge and the other browser. If you could fully deIntegrate the web browser from Windows You may see Windows running with less power requirement. And when you kick off a third party browser you may not see such a drane.
Also I expect your other browsers are using the extra processing power to do things like properly rendering the page. And not the cheapo decade behind the times compatibility that Edge has to offer.
I remember a commercial back a few years from VW. Advertising their Clean Diesel cars.
Two guys doing house work, one rather nice looking and the other kinda Dorky. The nice looking guy had the VW and the Dorky guy had a Prius.
In general the point was the VW had nearly the same gas milage as the Prius with all the extra power of a Diesel.
However turning on this test mode reduces efficiency. So to get the same mileages they will need less power or keep the power for less gas mileage. So in general that Dorky looking guy still had the better deal, as his Prius had the environmental bonus he was looking for in his car, while the VW owner just got a false presence of getting the better deal.
We had a good run From 1995-1998 with the SVGA cards that did 1024x768 with 32bit color. Then that 3D acceleration came out and buying a good video card became much more difficult.
With Displays going up to 4k we should be getting to a point where increase of resolution will not matter, And 3d performance on those displays should be quick enough.
While Mores law is in effect our bodies are not adapting as fast as the technology, so there should be a point where the Video from a computer will meet a threshold where playing such upgrade games isn't going to be important.
Much like how we don't talk much about Sound cards.
Google is an American company anything they do will piss them off. Just as an European or Asian company will piss off the US if they are more successful than a US company.
The political instinct when you are getting beaten is to say the other guy is cheating thus try to put rules in place to make the game more fair. Even if the reason why their success is just because they are better than the competition.
This 500 million dollars is just showing while Google may win, it is being a good sport about it.
Well I do, but I fully expect a weekend of rebuilding if it goes off. But that also means backing up my primary device to be restored as well.
Well we also had such flops like.
The Motion Picture,
The Search for Spock
The Final Frontier
Voyager
Generations
Insurrection
Nemesis
Enterprise
Trek has been in a steady decline for a while.
The problem is it was a show for the 1960's trying to reboot it for the new generation while keeping its nostalgic charm is getting harder and harder.
The successes in the list.
Wrath of Kahn - Allowed a nostalgic response to an existing story, added with the character development of an older Kirk trying to retire.
The Voyage Home - Wasn't a Star Trek movie, but a Romance Comedy with Star Trek Characters.
The Undiscovered country - once again playing on the older Kirk who was to retire.
First Contact - While popular at the time, I don't feel it will hold up. However that was more of an action flick than star trek.
For the shows.
TNG in essence ignored the TOS for most of the plots and created a show independant.
The same with DS9 very different.
Voyager and Enterprise failed because they tried to remake the TOS and TNG with different characters with a decade apart.
Is it globalization or automation?
Even for those Gen-X there was still that mythical job in the mail-room where you got to deliver mail to all the different groups and higher-ups and be able to make a personal connection to them, as well gaining experience on how the company operated. Allowing you to get promoted to different jobs and units.
This is done by email now. So there is a gap between the labor jobs and the professional jobs. Making it hard for someone to work up the institution.
Computers did a good job at automating many of those menial jobs that use to take manpower with some brains to accomplish.
Vs. Take over by the Rouge Hacker. Who it is in their best self interest to either destroy or hold hostage.
The mega-corp, having my data is troubling... However it is better them than a black market group who profit off of making us miserable.
I assume you dont care about your friends and family and legitimate business transactions.
Revenue is only part of a company's overall value.
There is the Name Recognition.
There is the customer base
There is the physical assets building employees etc...
There are existing contracts in place...
Also the point when a company buys another one, they feel that they can somehow do better than the current owner to make it more profitable. That is why they bid more than just the value of the company. Because you need to make the current owners an offer that will make it worth their while. Why offer 1 year of revenue, when they can earn that much more by keeping the company going?
I want to make a note. There haven't been many wide scale attacks on these closed devices. While security vulnerabilities have been found no where near the wide scale attacks like we had on on our PC's. The general purpose PC's while make us happy to play with... However for the standard user it is just a risk of failure.
So you want to go threw all that extra work to see porn in a public space? You sick bastard.
Actually that would be a benifit where if you actually left your last visit site a porn location. When you start your device you get a blocked page vs whatever fetish you fashioned.