We all know that the seller maximises profit at the intersection of supply/demand vs price curves (elasticity is the slope of the curve). However, for
any given price, there are people who are paying "too little". They would gladly pay more for the same product.
But there are also people who will "walk away". And the company would probably rather may a 50c profit than not make the $1 they were originally hoping for.
Of course, this brings us nicely back to the RIAA where people who are walking away are walking away to Napster. If the record companies lowered their prices, they would probably get a lot of these people to come back to purchasing but they may actually end up making less money because the hoards of Brittney fans would be paying slightly less each.
What they can't seem to understand though is that even if they could shut Napster and friends down, those "walk aways" still won't walk back.
Or more acurately, you are ignorant. Check out the AMD website. You'll see that the 3 year warranty is for boxed processors from them, the 1 year warranty is for unboxed processors from them and that they don't warranty chips provdided by vendors (OEM). From the website:
All warranty requests on microprocessors NOT purchased directly from AMD should not be directed to AMD, but should instead be presented to your point of purchase.
My receipt for it says a 30 day warranty. I should have checked but in the UK, most stuff is guaranteed a one year warranty by our consumer protecion laws. In defence, I'd just done a 8 hour drive from Florida leaving at 4am
In any case, the new CPU was 140UKP, not $500 and the inconvenience of not having a computer to use while it was shipped back to AMD would have outweighed that. But my original complaint was about the premature obsolescence of the slot-A processors, *not* AMD's return policy.
Now where I was stupid was buying a CPU from a stall at a computer fair that was in an open anti-static bag with a fan already attached (I didn't know that Athlons didn't come with them already). I suspect now (but have no proof) that it had already been returned as faulty. In case anyone's interested, that company was ATD Inc, now trading as Ameritech.
Darwin in action I guess. I can't think of any other explanation.
Well, I have one offspring already. I guess it just remains to be seen whether buying a CPU for 140UKP has made me infertile in some weird way. Or perhaps it's about time you asked your mummy how babies are made.
9 months ago, I bought an AMD Athlon 650 for $500. Turns out it was faulty and the problem showed up worse as the weather got warmer. Past couple of months, the system wouldn't run for 15 minutes without serious instability. Processor guarantee was only 30 days so I decided to bite the bullet and get a new one. Well, I was going to upgrade to 700 or 750MHz while I was about it but AMD has discontinued *all* slot A processors. Bear in mind that I bought the 650 shortly after the 700Mhz was announced (I wanted to get a 700 but couldn't get my hands on one). I was facing having to splash out for a new motherboard as well as the processor less than a year after I'd bought the originals. In the end, the best I could get was another 650 and that was the only slot A processor the place had left.
Indeed. And did you notice how miserable game sales on Linux were? And you can assume most of those sales were to people who wanted to
make a political statement.
Absolutely. I don't buy many games for any OS myself but I can recall a time when you could walk into a computer game shop and there's be rows and rows of Amiga and Atari games and maybe a couple of shelves for PC games. Everything has to start somewhere after all.
ISO 3166 assigns GB to "United Kingdom", and IE to Ireland. Either ISO or JANET screwed up pretty seriously, and
IANA didn't feel like fixing the problem.
Not quite. ISO is wrong to assign GB to the UK since they are logically different entities. Probably was decided by the French anyway.
But anyway, originally, Janet was not using TCP/IP or DNS and wasn't bound to use ISO. Computer names were of the form (for example) uk.ac.ukc.falcon. When Janet went over to tcp/ip and DNS, it was just simpler to switch it around the other way than to do renaming. Of course, hindsight probably shows it would have made more sense to go through the effort for the change.
OTOH, there are plenty of people in Norther Ireland who dont even want to be part of the UK. Having to be refered to as "GB" would probably send them into a fit.
The other interesting thing is that technically, neither UK nor GB are strictly speaking countries. England, Scotalnd and Wales are separate countries. That's how come we get to enter so many athletes into sporting events (and still do dismally at them).
Webmasters please bear that in mind next time you have drop down dialogue boxes for "country" which include "United Kingdom"
But instead, the satellite builders, designers and other people involved in the project got new cars.
In the end, all that was really wasted was the raw resources (which we won't get back) and the energy that went into the construction (and peoples' time of course but they were going to use that anyway).
Consumption is important to a healthy economy, waste allows consumption to be higher than it would be in an efficient system. To see this taken to it's extreme conclusion, check out "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (available in the Gutenberg project I believe) where the citizenry is encouraged to constantly purchase new playthings to keep consumption up. Then take a moment to consider how much that seems like the way things are today.
Of course, the problem is that resources are not infinite. Then again, the current mass-purchase items (music CDs and games) do not take that much resources to produce (especially in relation to their monetary cost)
This is good news for those of us looking forward to the day when we can say "I just hacked your refrigerator and put it
on defrost
The juxtaposition of this and your sig gave me an image of Bill Gates sitting at a terminal with an evil grin on his face while in a distant house, someone's refridgerator was reaching a nice glowing cherry red (K=Kelvin)
And your concept of a vacation is travelling down the road to stay with your parents? Or do you think that the rest of the world tunes into American networks?
The Martians probably figure they have a few months between missions to manufacture their surface to air (space?) missiles. This should catch them on the hop.
vector n 1Maths a variable quantity, such as force, that has magnitude and direction. 2 Pathol an animal, usually an insect, that carries a disease-producing microorganism from person to person. [Latin: carrier]
We bought a quad processor system from Compaq and two of the processors were set to run at a different speed from the other two. Caused weeks of fun tracking down what was causing the network to keep disappearing. Another machine had the processor card inserted incorrectly cauing random crashes. God know's what they'll get up to with 2,728 to screw up.
Hey, could the Guys at Slashdot get some kind of nightshift going?
There have been three articles posted since I went to bed 11 hours ago, one two hours ago, the other 4 hours before that. And the one before that was four hours earlier.
Failing that, can we have a European slashdot or something?
It's interesting to note that in the NT install docs, it says that you shouldn't use disk imaging programs to copy installs around as NT uses a unique id that's generated when it's installed for various things and "bad things can happen" if it's duplicated.
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Cept by the the MPAA will have DVD playback conditionally linked to the consumer identifier chip implanted in your head.
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But there are also people who will "walk away". And the company would probably rather may a 50c profit than not make the $1 they were originally hoping for.
Of course, this brings us nicely back to the RIAA where people who are walking away are walking away to Napster. If the record companies lowered their prices, they would probably get a lot of these people to come back to purchasing but they may actually end up making less money because the hoards of Brittney fans would be paying slightly less each.
What they can't seem to understand though is that even if they could shut Napster and friends down, those "walk aways" still won't walk back.
Anyway, I digress...
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Or more acurately, you are ignorant. Check out the AMD website. You'll see that the 3 year warranty is for boxed processors from them, the 1 year warranty is for unboxed processors from them and that they don't warranty chips provdided by vendors (OEM). From the website:
All warranty requests on microprocessors NOT purchased directly from AMD should not be directed to AMD, but should instead be presented to your point of purchase.
My receipt for it says a 30 day warranty. I should have checked but in the UK, most stuff is guaranteed a one year warranty by our consumer protecion laws. In defence, I'd just done a 8 hour drive from Florida leaving at 4am
In any case, the new CPU was 140UKP, not $500 and the inconvenience of not having a computer to use while it was shipped back to AMD would have outweighed that. But my original complaint was about the premature obsolescence of the slot-A processors, *not* AMD's return policy.
Now where I was stupid was buying a CPU from a stall at a computer fair that was in an open anti-static bag with a fan already attached (I didn't know that Athlons didn't come with them already). I suspect now (but have no proof) that it had already been returned as faulty. In case anyone's interested, that company was ATD Inc, now trading as Ameritech.
Darwin in action I guess. I can't think of any other explanation.
Well, I have one offspring already. I guess it just remains to be seen whether buying a CPU for 140UKP has made me infertile in some weird way. Or perhaps it's about time you asked your mummy how babies are made.
Rich
I used to believe this but my CPU runs about 4C hotter with the case closed than open. And yes, I have installed an extra case fan. Rich
9 months ago, I bought an AMD Athlon 650 for $500. Turns out it was faulty and the problem showed up worse as the weather got warmer. Past couple of months, the system wouldn't run for 15 minutes without serious instability. Processor guarantee was only 30 days so I decided to bite the bullet and get a new one. Well, I was going to upgrade to 700 or 750MHz while I was about it but AMD has discontinued *all* slot A processors. Bear in mind that I bought the 650 shortly after the 700Mhz was announced (I wanted to get a 700 but couldn't get my hands on one). I was facing having to splash out for a new motherboard as well as the processor less than a year after I'd bought the originals. In the end, the best I could get was another 650 and that was the only slot A processor the place had left.
Rich
Absolutely. I don't buy many games for any OS myself but I can recall a time when you could walk into a computer game shop and there's be rows and rows of Amiga and Atari games and maybe a couple of shelves for PC games. Everything has to start somewhere after all.
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Not quite. ISO is wrong to assign GB to the UK since they are logically different entities. Probably was decided by the French anyway.
But anyway, originally, Janet was not using TCP/IP or DNS and wasn't bound to use ISO. Computer names were of the form (for example) uk.ac.ukc.falcon. When Janet went over to tcp/ip and DNS, it was just simpler to switch it around the other way than to do renaming. Of course, hindsight probably shows it would have made more sense to go through the effort for the change.
OTOH, there are plenty of people in Norther Ireland who dont even want to be part of the UK. Having to be refered to as "GB" would probably send them into a fit.
Rich
www.tapeworm.com?
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Webmasters please bear that in mind next time you have drop down dialogue boxes for "country" which include "United Kingdom"
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GB=basically England, Scotland and Wales and is an island
UK includes Northern Ireland and some other bits and pieces scattered around the world.
Rich
No indication is given of which calculations for data density the tiny vial pictured would be able to hold that much
Or perhaps it would just be a good idea if articles were proofread before submission
Rich
In the end, all that was really wasted was the raw resources (which we won't get back) and the energy that went into the construction (and peoples' time of course but they were going to use that anyway).
Consumption is important to a healthy economy, waste allows consumption to be higher than it would be in an efficient system. To see this taken to it's extreme conclusion, check out "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (available in the Gutenberg project I believe) where the citizenry is encouraged to constantly purchase new playthings to keep consumption up. Then take a moment to consider how much that seems like the way things are today.
Of course, the problem is that resources are not infinite. Then again, the current mass-purchase items (music CDs and games) do not take that much resources to produce (especially in relation to their monetary cost)
Rich
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most) that you plug-in to a rack in the closet.. But this is where I came in. I believe the correct terminology is to "come out" of the closet ;)
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"Zigurat"?
(And the first person who says "no thanks, I'm trying to quit" gets a slapping)
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The juxtaposition of this and your sig gave me an image of Bill Gates sitting at a terminal with an evil grin on his face while in a distant house, someone's refridgerator was reaching a nice glowing cherry red (K=Kelvin)
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vector n 1 Maths a variable quantity, such as force, that has magnitude and direction. 2 Pathol an animal, usually an insect, that carries a disease-producing microorganism from person to person. [Latin: carrier]
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A.Nothing. Everyone knows you can't cross a vector with a scalar.
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There have been three articles posted since I went to bed 11 hours ago, one two hours ago, the other 4 hours before that. And the one before that was four hours earlier.
Failing that, can we have a European slashdot or something?
Rich (just about to lose his +1 bonus I think)
Yes, we said "Balls to that" too :)
Rich