Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps thinks that e-reader prices need to come down even more if the devices are going to become mainstream products, however. She suggested $99 as a price that would be much more likely to lure consumers.
She said people "have somewhat unrealistic expectations of how much consumer electronics in general, and e-readers in particular, should be."
Considering that every consumer gadget falls in price dramatically over time, I'll just wait for when I can get an ebook reader at Walmart or Target for $49 or less. I remember when the MP3 players came out for hundreds of dollars and now you can get them for under $50 and they play CDs too.
As these things become more popular, more factories will open up to produce the screens, the cost will drastically come down from its current $60.
It will happen. You just need to be patient and let the first adopters get killed and pay for the manufacturing expansion.
“Yet these currents will flow forever, even in the absence of an applied voltage.” is this some form of perpetual energy or am I a fool?
Try to harness it.
My guess, the force that's moving the current would be related to the force that keeps the electrons buzzing around the nucleus.
I'm sure there's going to be someone, sometime, who's going to "develop" some technology with some really good looking math, put wires perpendicular to the rings to get the "induced current" and sell it to Wall Street as a perpetual motion generator - doesn't violate the First Law of Thermodynamics because it's on the quantum level!
The licensing business models may include, for example, a non-renewable evaluation of a software product, a renewable trial of the software product, a one-time promotion of the software product, a subscription for use of the software product, or other licensing business models for use of the software product
What next, charge by the minute like in the old mainframe days?!
Actually 30 years ago, Gartner, as in the Gartner got a reputation as having extremely accurate predictions and knowledge of the IT industry - this was in the 70s and the 80s. Of course, there wasn't as much going on in the 70s as there is now. He built up a reputation and a business.
Now, he has a bunch of associates working there doing the actual predictions and analysis. For what that's worth.
Gartner himself, I believe, is on a tropical private island and surround by beautiful naked women.
Wow, so in your world affordable health care is "insane" but blowing billions of dollars on a war is business as usual? Where do you people come from?
Who says anything about it being affordable?
So far, from the bills being proposed, the money will come out of Medicare (the old people are pretty steamed about that! And THEY vote!) and other fancy Washington accounting gimmicks. Their numbers don't work. In other words, it won't be affordable. The money will taken from somewhere else and there will be more national debt - China can only bail us out so many times.
Why can't they expand Medicaid and Medicare? Nope, gotta create a whole new bureaucratic entity and all it's overhead for that!
Yes, something got to be done about health care, but the Government is going to do what it does best: fuck everything up more.
I agree that it may be too soon. But he has made some good changes so far. He's introduced a radical shift in US policy, going from a big stick diplomacy to one based on respect (even if the opposing country does not deserve it).
I don't like how he's handled everything, but as far as his international relations policy goes, I'm rather happy.
But to get the Peace Prize for it?
Do you honestly think what he's done is on the level with Martin Luther King? Or Mother Theresa? Or Linus Pauling?
Please, this prize is getting cheaper by the year.
AM and FM radio. Who listens to the radio anymore? It's either over the internet for "radio" or in the car use MP3s, iPods, or CDs for us old farts. Shortwave? Does anyone actually listen to it? I turned on a shortwave and between huge swaths of static, there was Cuba radio, Canadian News (that can be kinda cool), and a few folks praising Jesus and condemning non-believers (everyone who doesn't give them money).
In related news, our town had a trolley line from the city to about 30 miles out in the country, which was actually profitable back in the 60's or so. But Ford bought them out and shut them down in order to help promote car use...
That's what Chevy did with all the bus lines in San Fransisco.
And behind the those car companies and those dealings was the Illuminati. You wait, part of their plans was to jack the price of gold up to over a $1,000 US and then, BAM! they'll crash the price and in the process making billions! It'll happen soon - you'll see!
. Many mainframe customers would like to find cheaper alternatives, but IBM has prevented them from doing so, he said.
"There's a number of things they have done to numerous companies," he said. "In a time of economic troubles, government deficits and corporate problems, there's a lot of customers that [would find] a choice and lower costs really desirable."
Develop a "mainframe" computer - whatever that means these days, create an OS derived from Linux and develop a COBOL compiler and CICS system for it. I'm sure Websphere can be incorporated too.
Exactly, what's the big deal - technically?
Business: IBM's contracts run out, and move in with a cheaper alternative.
No, they're announcing it now so folks don't run to the competition. That way folks won't change OSes because they know that MS will eventually come out with a 128 bit solution.
It's an old trick in the software industry - IBM invented it.
It refers to a 128 bit filesystem ala ZFS, not the whole OS.
Either we're not reading the same article, or I suspect you didn't read it at all. At no point is a filesystem mentioned.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a pedant, but I was curious exactly who regulates the fisheries.
There are so many Government agencies that regulate shit, it's hard to keep track and it does occasionally come in handy - like when a bank screws you the folks that they are afraid of is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. occ.treas.gov
I think as far as the surveillance thing goes it's a non-issue to many people: something that paranoid people worry about or "if you do nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about mentality"
Even then, convenience, as the parent mentioned, is a huge factor. How many of you set up user accounts on family member's machines, telling them "Do not surf the net or do anything else with the admin account EXCEPT install software YOU choose or other administrative functions!" only to have them use the admin account anyway and catch one of those malware programs that installs behind the scenes - all because there's an app, and there's always at least one fucking app that cannot run unless it's run by an admin account!? (I'm looking at you Kodak!)
But why after a collision does all the material stay in the same plane? I would expect material to be splattered and the stuff that doesn't escape would settle into its own orbit of whatever degrees off of the original plane.
...and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane,...
That's something that amazes me. Why doesn't the stuff making up the rings just orbit the planet like a cloud instead of flat rings in a plane? And now this, a ring that's in it's own plane?! Was it at one time a single object orbiting and then broke up and that's why it's on its own plane - the orbital momentum keeps it in place?
It's times like these I wish I were smart enough to be an astrophysicist!
The Chinese leadership is fighting a losing battle and I believe they know this. When they opened up their country to the West and doing business with free countries, it is only a matter of time for their regime to weaken and for Western influences to take hold. Not doing business in China wouldn't do anything except maybe quiet your conscience.
The more Western entities in China there are, the more their regime weakens. It will take time - maybe a generation or more, but the Chinese people will be doing the changing on their terms instead by mandate from Westerners.
Telling others how to live and how to govern themselves has never worked.Notice that whenever the Chinese government is criticized, the Chinese people are right there backing their Government.
Real change will have to come from within and the Chinese people will have to do it and do it according to their values.
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AT&T also scored lower than any other U.S. carrier in a recent customer-satisfaction survey—the first time it has ever claimed last place.
That's not the iPhone users fault: that's AT&T fault.
What's this horseshit of blaming the customer for shitting customer service, or service for that matter?!
They sold a service and an amount of bandwidth and now that they can't deliver, they're blaming the customer.
Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps thinks that e-reader prices need to come down even more if the devices are going to become mainstream products, however. She suggested $99 as a price that would be much more likely to lure consumers. She said people "have somewhat unrealistic expectations of how much consumer electronics in general, and e-readers in particular, should be."
Considering that every consumer gadget falls in price dramatically over time, I'll just wait for when I can get an ebook reader at Walmart or Target for $49 or less. I remember when the MP3 players came out for hundreds of dollars and now you can get them for under $50 and they play CDs too.
As these things become more popular, more factories will open up to produce the screens, the cost will drastically come down from its current $60.
It will happen. You just need to be patient and let the first adopters get killed and pay for the manufacturing expansion.
“Yet these currents will flow forever, even in the absence of an applied voltage.” is this some form of perpetual energy or am I a fool?
Try to harness it.
My guess, the force that's moving the current would be related to the force that keeps the electrons buzzing around the nucleus.
I'm sure there's going to be someone, sometime, who's going to "develop" some technology with some really good looking math, put wires perpendicular to the rings to get the "induced current" and sell it to Wall Street as a perpetual motion generator - doesn't violate the First Law of Thermodynamics because it's on the quantum level!
Hmmmmmmmmm, I'm thinking....
The licensing business models may include, for example, a non-renewable evaluation of a software product, a renewable trial of the software product, a one-time promotion of the software product, a subscription for use of the software product, or other licensing business models for use of the software product
What next, charge by the minute like in the old mainframe days?!
The video of Balmer getting out of breath was worth it.
Balmer, you really need to get some exercise!
It looks for real and you can get a free version of Windows 7 Ultimate if you host a party!
Now, he has a bunch of associates working there doing the actual predictions and analysis. For what that's worth.
Gartner himself, I believe, is on a tropical private island and surround by beautiful naked women.
Feel free to filter out politics, noob.
Speaking of the site turning into Digg ....
I like Obama. I like much, not all, of what he's doing. But come on!
Wow, so in your world affordable health care is "insane" but blowing billions of dollars on a war is business as usual? Where do you people come from?
Who says anything about it being affordable?
So far, from the bills being proposed, the money will come out of Medicare (the old people are pretty steamed about that! And THEY vote!) and other fancy Washington accounting gimmicks. Their numbers don't work. In other words, it won't be affordable. The money will taken from somewhere else and there will be more national debt - China can only bail us out so many times.
Why can't they expand Medicaid and Medicare? Nope, gotta create a whole new bureaucratic entity and all it's overhead for that!
Yes, something got to be done about health care, but the Government is going to do what it does best: fuck everything up more.
I agree that it may be too soon. But he has made some good changes so far. He's introduced a radical shift in US policy, going from a big stick diplomacy to one based on respect (even if the opposing country does not deserve it). I don't like how he's handled everything, but as far as his international relations policy goes, I'm rather happy.
But to get the Peace Prize for it?
Do you honestly think what he's done is on the level with Martin Luther King? Or Mother Theresa? Or Linus Pauling?
Please, this prize is getting cheaper by the year.
AM and FM radio. Who listens to the radio anymore? It's either over the internet for "radio" or in the car use MP3s, iPods, or CDs for us old farts. Shortwave? Does anyone actually listen to it? I turned on a shortwave and between huge swaths of static, there was Cuba radio, Canadian News (that can be kinda cool), and a few folks praising Jesus and condemning non-believers (everyone who doesn't give them money).
In related news, our town had a trolley line from the city to about 30 miles out in the country, which was actually profitable back in the 60's or so. But Ford bought them out and shut them down in order to help promote car use...
That's what Chevy did with all the bus lines in San Fransisco.
And behind the those car companies and those dealings was the Illuminati. You wait, part of their plans was to jack the price of gold up to over a $1,000 US and then, BAM! they'll crash the price and in the process making billions! It'll happen soon - you'll see!
. Many mainframe customers would like to find cheaper alternatives, but IBM has prevented them from doing so, he said.
"There's a number of things they have done to numerous companies," he said. "In a time of economic troubles, government deficits and corporate problems, there's a lot of customers that [would find] a choice and lower costs really desirable."
Develop a "mainframe" computer - whatever that means these days, create an OS derived from Linux and develop a COBOL compiler and CICS system for it. I'm sure Websphere can be incorporated too.
Exactly, what's the big deal - technically?
Business: IBM's contracts run out, and move in with a cheaper alternative.
It's an old trick in the software industry - IBM invented it.
It refers to a 128 bit filesystem ala ZFS, not the whole OS. Either we're not reading the same article, or I suspect you didn't read it at all. At no point is a filesystem mentioned.
Apparently, neither did the mods.
I wish that the "Mythbusters" guys would fly the probe into the Moon with one of them screaming, "I wanna see something blow up!"
They spelled phish wrong - they spelled it with an 'F' - that's government for you!
Sorry, didn't mean to be a pedant, but I was curious exactly who regulates the fisheries.
There are so many Government agencies that regulate shit, it's hard to keep track and it does occasionally come in handy - like when a bank screws you the folks that they are afraid of is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. occ.treas.gov
Way to reel 'em in!
Even then, convenience, as the parent mentioned, is a huge factor. How many of you set up user accounts on family member's machines, telling them "Do not surf the net or do anything else with the admin account EXCEPT install software YOU choose or other administrative functions!" only to have them use the admin account anyway and catch one of those malware programs that installs behind the scenes - all because there's an app, and there's always at least one fucking app that cannot run unless it's run by an admin account!? (I'm looking at you Kodak!)
You forgot pedophiles! The internet is filled with old creepy men who want to have sex with young girls and boys! I saw it on the news!
But why after a collision does all the material stay in the same plane? I would expect material to be splattered and the stuff that doesn't escape would settle into its own orbit of whatever degrees off of the original plane.
That's something that amazes me. Why doesn't the stuff making up the rings just orbit the planet like a cloud instead of flat rings in a plane? And now this, a ring that's in it's own plane?! Was it at one time a single object orbiting and then broke up and that's why it's on its own plane - the orbital momentum keeps it in place?
It's times like these I wish I were smart enough to be an astrophysicist!
Until 2620, when astronomers change its name to Urectum, we're still stuck with that stupid joke.
No, there will be more!
Satellite crashes into Urectum. "Boy, Urectum wreck'em!" or something like that.
The more Western entities in China there are, the more their regime weakens. It will take time - maybe a generation or more, but the Chinese people will be doing the changing on their terms instead by mandate from Westerners.
Telling others how to live and how to govern themselves has never worked.Notice that whenever the Chinese government is criticized, the Chinese people are right there backing their Government.
Real change will have to come from within and the Chinese people will have to do it and do it according to their values.