Your statement makes absolutely no sense. The only thing selling at a per unit loss in high volumes will get you is high losses.
Exactly. That's the point of the orginal joke; and what, I hope, made my joke on the joke funny. Because it's true.
Other poster has it pretty much right with his joke about the Xbox, we're talking pretty much the same sales model. The display makers are locked in a tech/market dominance war and have been bleeding cash for years, each hoping to make it up by being the last man standing. They can "afford" to do this because they have other, profitable, lines covering the losses. We're not talking garage businesses here. We're talking Samsung and the like.
This doesn't exactly suck for the consumer, but it does mean that the makers simply aren't in a position to deal with single unit sales of cutting edge stuff to experimenter/prototypers. They've got to move mass quantities for cash flow and to be the first to lock up corporate contracts, even though this means high losses. If they don't get whatever they're going to get in a hurry they're really fucked because of their high capital outlay.
So we've got to wait for it to hit Best Buy in some consumer gewgaw or other which we can gut for the bits, which costs us far less than the display maker could reasonably sell just the display for.
To me, the question is, will it be much cheaper than iPods?
In ten years you'll be picking up personal media player devices as an impulse buy while standing in line at the drugstore for about twenty bucks. Have patience my child.
I'd rather use a license system from Microsoft than Sony. ..
How about, oooooooooh, I don't know, refusing to support any encoding format that isn't free and open? It's a simple plan, but it just might work.
The combination of digital encoding and the Internet have freed the reproduction and distribution of "content." There are people who have been making a damned fine living from controling said reproduction and distribution.
You can't expect them to be happy about things. If they can't maintain a form of "natural" monopoly (given that copyright isn't actually natural) they'll take an artificial one through DRM.
What might be less obvious is that they aren't exactly thrilled with Apple's paying customers either. They aren't making much money on it and Steve is emerging as an outsider dictating terms to the industry that depends on control.
They'll be pefectly happy to play divide and conquer, playing Steve and Bill off against each other while they search for some form of DRM under the control of an industry entity, as per the DVD Forum.
. ..unless you consider "their market" to be the content industry. ..
That is exactly where Microsoft see their market.
This has nothing to do with products or services, Microsoft is waging war to be the default DRM source, to get a cut of every "media" sale from every source.
They want one big check from Time-Warner, not a godzillion little checks from those annoying consumers.
Thomas jefferson sent troops to defeat countries in the middle east.
Tripoli is no more the Middle East than is Rome or Berlin. Arab does not equal Middle East. Arab includes much of North Africa, including areas rather west of Portugal, once included most of Iberia and much of west Africa (hence Swahili). Arab does not include Iran.
You have to remember that in the US 20 years equals forever, thus "more than 40 years" equals more than twice forever, a rather abstract concept to deal with within a historical context.
Unless, of course, we're dealing with France. In that case only things that happened for a few years more than 60 years ago are remembered, through a glass darkly. "Lafayette, we are here." Wazzat supposed to mean?
Not to mention using a play on words to deny the validity of God/Devil in law; perhaps even call into question their very existence, which I thought my tag made rather obvious.
. ..after a cursory search for anyone losing a child for breastfeeding on account of it being "sexual abuse," I didn't find anything, so I question your story.
If you thought you would find a public record you do not understand how Child Protective Services work.
That is one of the dangers of a secret police operating without judicial oversight (no charges were ever even filed in this instance) and tribunals held in secret if it ever does come to judicial attention. When people ask you to prove things you have seen with your own eyes, you cannot. You may even risk jail yourself for even talking about them.
For instance in the case where my own wife found the body, where I myself visited the scene after the body was found and in which charges were actually filed, you will, after doing far more than a cursory search on the web, find no evidence of this body having ever existed, let alone the eventual disposition of the case.
In fact, I don't know the eventual disposition of the case myself, although I know most of the interested parties, including one of the lawyers. It "does not exist." You cannot research and prove what "does not exist."
But I was, nonetheless, there.
I used to have relatives in Romania. You'll have to take my word for it or not. After they were eliminated all records that they had ever existed were eliminated as well. Sounds like a tall tale, an urban myth, but I swear it really happened.
Perhaps I'm just over senstive to secret police and secret tribunals, or maybe not.
Slashdot Mirror
When is Leonid peaking?
'72, but fizzled out all together ten years later.
KFG
It was only known car to be hit.
:)
Well, Peekskill has a tradition of smashing up cars with rocks, don't it?
If I had a meteor
I'd hammer in the mornin'
I'd hammer in the evenin'
All over this car. . .
Everybody!
KFG
Somehow, reams of legalese just don't have the weight of... real problems.
As through this world I've rambled
I've seen lots of funny men
Some rob you with a six gun
Some with a fountain pen.
-Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Has it ever occured to you that those reams of legalese might be the source of your real problems?
KFG
Your statement makes absolutely no sense. The only thing selling at a per unit loss in high volumes will get you is high losses.
Exactly. That's the point of the orginal joke; and what, I hope, made my joke on the joke funny. Because it's true.
Other poster has it pretty much right with his joke about the Xbox, we're talking pretty much the same sales model. The display makers are locked in a tech/market dominance war and have been bleeding cash for years, each hoping to make it up by being the last man standing. They can "afford" to do this because they have other, profitable, lines covering the losses. We're not talking garage businesses here. We're talking Samsung and the like.
This doesn't exactly suck for the consumer, but it does mean that the makers simply aren't in a position to deal with single unit sales of cutting edge stuff to experimenter/prototypers. They've got to move mass quantities for cash flow and to be the first to lock up corporate contracts, even though this means high losses. If they don't get whatever they're going to get in a hurry they're really fucked because of their high capital outlay.
So we've got to wait for it to hit Best Buy in some consumer gewgaw or other which we can gut for the bits, which costs us far less than the display maker could reasonably sell just the display for.
Are we having fun yet?
KFG
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193820 &threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=1589403 7#15894071
KFG
The entire LCD display industry currently operates at a per unit loss, so they have to make it up in volume.
No, I am not making that up.
KFG
"you too can become rich if you work hard and play by our rules"....bullshit.
t m
Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get?
Boney fingers. Boney fingers.
-Hoyt Axton
This is because of the way our schools and news are used to bombard us as citizens and our children, to teach us to be "good little consumers"
Here's an interesting site I found after my last round of dissing our schools. I don't completely agree with him, but he's got the gist of it:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.h
KFG
In my day, we had 320x200, and 16 colors.
What's color?
KFG
That certain parts of the update required some sort of change to the EULA? Possibly a new feature or option that was not covered by the original?
" Microsoft has made me an unwilling zombie."
And thus we see how a newer generation blithely accepts as the normal status quo that which the previous generation finds abhorent.
And now you see how our "culture" has gotten where it is and how the next generation will accept that which the parent will find abhorent.
Ave Caesar!
KFG
How is this "non-toxic"?
What they are speaking of is chemical toxicity. Poisonous.
Lead, the final result of uranium decay, is no longer radioactive, but it is still poisonous.
KFG
. . . you can't have it both ways. . .
But Dude, I just did.
KFG
Oh won't someone please think of the bacteria!
I'm with ya, bro'. Just wait a mo' while I finish this yogurt.
KFG
To me, the question is, will it be much cheaper than iPods?
.
In ten years you'll be picking up personal media player devices as an impulse buy while standing in line at the drugstore for about twenty bucks. Have patience my child.
I'd rather use a license system from Microsoft than Sony. .
How about, oooooooooh, I don't know, refusing to support any encoding format that isn't free and open? It's a simple plan, but it just might work.
KFG
The combination of digital encoding and the Internet have freed the reproduction and distribution of "content." There are people who have been making a damned fine living from controling said reproduction and distribution.
You can't expect them to be happy about things. If they can't maintain a form of "natural" monopoly (given that copyright isn't actually natural) they'll take an artificial one through DRM.
What might be less obvious is that they aren't exactly thrilled with Apple's paying customers either. They aren't making much money on it and Steve is emerging as an outsider dictating terms to the industry that depends on control.
They'll be pefectly happy to play divide and conquer, playing Steve and Bill off against each other while they search for some form of DRM under the control of an industry entity, as per the DVD Forum.
Of course if any of them win you know who loses.
KFG
. . .unless you consider "their market" to be the content industry. . .
That is exactly where Microsoft see their market.
This has nothing to do with products or services, Microsoft is waging war to be the default DRM source, to get a cut of every "media" sale from every source.
They want one big check from Time-Warner, not a godzillion little checks from those annoying consumers.
KFG
. . it is almost as if we are watching some infomericals from some PR firm, not to scare the "terrorist,". . .
Almost as if? The government isn't even ashamed of using PR firms and do it right out in the open.
KFG
Thomas jefferson sent troops to defeat countries in the middle east.
Tripoli is no more the Middle East than is Rome or Berlin. Arab does not equal Middle East. Arab includes much of North Africa, including areas rather west of Portugal, once included most of Iberia and much of west Africa (hence Swahili). Arab does not include Iran.
KFG
You have to remember that in the US 20 years equals forever, thus "more than 40 years" equals more than twice forever, a rather abstract concept to deal with within a historical context.
Unless, of course, we're dealing with France. In that case only things that happened for a few years more than 60 years ago are remembered, through a glass darkly. "Lafayette, we are here." Wazzat supposed to mean?
Ah well, dozzint matter, it's prehistoric anyway.
KFG
I think he was quoting a Dylan lyric. . .
Not to mention using a play on words to deny the validity of God/Devil in law; perhaps even call into question their very existence, which I thought my tag made rather obvious.
KFG
. . . I'm not sure what I can do about it.
Fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
KFG
Well that one went right the hell over your head, didn't it?
KFG
Question of course becomes "What age was the child?".
Ahhhhhhh, someone finally asked the right question. Age was the relevant factor.
The child was 2.
KFG
Doesn't a 'Made in USA'-label scare buyers away?
Yes, but not as far away as Made in China, which is why most Chinese made violins labeled as Made in U.S.A. have fake Italian brand names.
KFG
Once upon a time I asked Van Ronk what the hell was with Bobby "finding Jesus."
He told me, "Don't worry, once the royalty checks cleared he found Moses again."
Yep, that's Bobby all over. He always could smell money.
KFG
. . .after a cursory search for anyone losing a child for breastfeeding on account of it being "sexual abuse," I didn't find anything, so I question your story.
If you thought you would find a public record you do not understand how Child Protective Services work.
That is one of the dangers of a secret police operating without judicial oversight (no charges were ever even filed in this instance) and tribunals held in secret if it ever does come to judicial attention. When people ask you to prove things you have seen with your own eyes, you cannot. You may even risk jail yourself for even talking about them.
For instance in the case where my own wife found the body, where I myself visited the scene after the body was found and in which charges were actually filed, you will, after doing far more than a cursory search on the web, find no evidence of this body having ever existed, let alone the eventual disposition of the case.
In fact, I don't know the eventual disposition of the case myself, although I know most of the interested parties, including one of the lawyers. It "does not exist." You cannot research and prove what "does not exist."
But I was, nonetheless, there.
I used to have relatives in Romania. You'll have to take my word for it or not. After they were eliminated all records that they had ever existed were eliminated as well. Sounds like a tall tale, an urban myth, but I swear it really happened.
Perhaps I'm just over senstive to secret police and secret tribunals, or maybe not.
KFG