Glad to hear you don't have a problem paying a little extra for it. I'm from France, see, and my grandfather invented French Toast (TM). The recipe is licensed strictly on a per-meal basis. I'm afraid you owe me a hell of a lot of Euros for all the French Toast (TM) you've pirated over the years. You have to understand, if my grandfather had not been compensated for his innovative work creating French Toast (TM) he would have starved (although I'm not sure why he couldn't just eat his invention). Furthermore, his "cost of doing business" included providing a sizeable legacy for his heirs in order to keep them living in the manner to which a wealthy IP holder grows accustomed. Bon appetit!
Cute. However you will notice that my post did not address IP protection. All I was addressing was the relationship between total cost of manufacture (not just ingredient cost), and price per unit.
I'm not going to comment on Intel's earning or cashflow, since I don't have the numbers handy. However you can think of this in the abstract. Back in a micro-economics class I came across the following rule-of-thumb (that has generally been confirmed by my experience), a software company must make about $150K per employee per year to break even. This covers salarys, capital equipment, benefits, taxes, etc.
So take a small software company, saw about 10 people. That means they must make about $1.5M pery year, just to stay in business. So the price of their product must been seen against the cost of doing business (balanced against what the market will accept). So if the make software for a vertical market with expected sales of a thousand units per year, then they need to charge $1500 per unit just to break even. Not to profit, not to grow the company, not to put money in the bank against hard times, but to break even. If the market won't accept that price then they'll need to reevaluate their business plan, and if the product makes sense.
It doesn't make sense to me to judge the cost of a product against the cost of printing the manual and pressing a CD, but to judge it against the total cost of doing business. The raw ingredients of french toast cost about $0.50 but I don't have a problem paying $5 for it at a restraunt.
Word processors predate MS Word by a LONG time. Ever hear of.nroff?
Minor nit, but nroff (or any of the other *roff) isn't a word processor, if is a page formatter. A word process lets you edit and format in the same application.
Grafitti and the Xerox unistroke patents cover a bit more than being simply a replacement alphabet (though that is a hugh part), the other important factor is that recognition is done on the stylus release. The are some trick issues in making suck a system sork smoothly.
Also to qualify as prior art, it must have been published, not just "I knew this guy"
Graffiti isn't shorthand it is an alternative alphabet (Shorthands are phonetic and take fewer strokes to render a word). We take it for granted now, but it was a truly innovate creation. It (along with the form factor) was a primary reason for Palm dominating the market. Not only did it make stylus input work, it made it practical since you could finally enter data at a rapid rate.
I'm not crazy about software patents, but I'm not going to say that unistrokes weren't innovative either.
This is horrible advice. Since the companies you are working for will file 1099s for what they pay you, failing to report a significant chunk will very likely trigger an automatic review (between 3 to 5 years after you file), by the system. The burden of proof will then be on you to prove you didn't earn the income.
The Zarus that was demoed at JavaOne was running Embeddix+AmigaDE. Somewhere along the line they dropped AmigaDE, now it is running Embeddix+QT+Jeode. Still very cool though...
MS did run a Canadian BBS. You could call MS and have the patch snailmailed to you (yes that cast money, about $7 US). You could go to a MS user group. MS didn't take an ad out, but WinSock2 was reasonably promoted by the company.
Around the same time as all of this was going on, I was running into a major bug in Word Perfect, I was paying for a support contract, and it cost me a lot more than the amount you are talking about to get the fix. I'm unsympathetic.
Fine I'll trump that. For those who remember, MS also ran a BBS that you could download such files from. Yes you had to own a modem, and pay for the call, but there are limits to how far I'm willing to argue this point...
Toshiba did make a nice StrongARM laptop called the Confolio (I kid you not). It was a mobile network computer, and ran a untetherd version of JavaOS. I have one in my closet, I keep hoping that the ARM Linux guys will make a port to it, or that one day I might actually have time to do it myself...
My point is that had Cleopatra not aligned herself with the Roman empire, then Rome would have taken Egypt by force. Cleopatra was able to forstall that.
Octavian/Augustas attacked Egypt for the same reason Julius Caesar would have. Egypt was too powerfull a neighbor to have so close.
If Cleopatra had not aligned herself and Egypt with the Roman empire, they would have taken it by force. Through diplomacy she was able to keep the country's sovernty and identity.
Slashdot Mirror
Glad to hear you don't have a problem paying a little extra for it. I'm from France, see, and my grandfather invented French Toast (TM). The recipe is licensed strictly on a per-meal basis. I'm afraid you owe me a hell of a lot of Euros for all the French Toast (TM) you've pirated over the years. You have to understand, if my grandfather had not been compensated for his innovative work creating French Toast (TM) he would have starved (although I'm not sure why he couldn't just eat his invention). Furthermore, his "cost of doing business" included providing a sizeable legacy for his heirs in order to keep them living in the manner to which a wealthy IP holder grows accustomed. Bon appetit!
Cute. However you will notice that my post did not address IP protection. All I was addressing was the relationship between total cost of manufacture (not just ingredient cost), and price per unit.
Now call me cheap, but $5 for french toast?
What does French Toast cost at the average restraunt in your area?
I'm not going to comment on Intel's earning or cashflow, since I don't have the numbers handy. However you can think of this in the abstract. Back in a micro-economics class I came across the following rule-of-thumb (that has generally been confirmed by my experience), a software company must make about $150K per employee per year to break even. This covers salarys, capital equipment, benefits, taxes, etc.
So take a small software company, saw about 10 people. That means they must make about $1.5M pery year, just to stay in business. So the price of their product must been seen against the cost of doing business (balanced against what the market will accept). So if the make software for a vertical market with expected sales of a thousand units per year, then they need to charge $1500 per unit just to break even. Not to profit, not to grow the company, not to put money in the bank against hard times, but to break even. If the market won't accept that price then they'll need to reevaluate their business plan, and if the product makes sense.
It doesn't make sense to me to judge the cost of a product against the cost of printing the manual and pressing a CD, but to judge it against the total cost of doing business. The raw ingredients of french toast cost about $0.50 but I don't have a problem paying $5 for it at a restraunt.
shut up timothy - the DMCA doesn't apply when the copyright holder asks you to break the encryption.
It is worth pointing out that Timothy isn't the one who made that comment. It was the submitter, Kallahar...
Word processors predate MS Word by a LONG time. Ever hear of .nroff?
Minor nit, but nroff (or any of the other *roff) isn't a word processor, if is a page formatter. A word process lets you edit and format in the same application.
There are a lot more CompactFlash cards out there then there are SpringBoards...
MacOS X cannot be used on existing hardware
I run OS X on my G3 Powerbook. This was pre-iBook. In fact, OS X runs on most G3 macs (and with the right Darwin kernal, it runs on most PCI PPC macs)
Moderators for univerties? What happens when they reach max karma?
Yes, but they aren't shorthands. Typically there is a distinction made between shorthands and other forms of speedwriting.
Mea culpa the last sentance should have read:
making SUCH a system WORK smoothly
I forgot to preview first. My bad...
Grafitti and the Xerox unistroke patents cover a bit more than being simply a replacement alphabet (though that is a hugh part), the other important factor is that recognition is done on the stylus release. The are some trick issues in making suck a system sork smoothly.
Also to qualify as prior art, it must have been published, not just "I knew this guy"
Graffiti isn't shorthand it is an alternative alphabet (Shorthands are phonetic and take fewer strokes to render a word). We take it for granted now, but it was a truly innovate creation. It (along with the form factor) was a primary reason for Palm dominating the market. Not only did it make stylus input work, it made it practical since you could finally enter data at a rapid rate.
I'm not crazy about software patents, but I'm not going to say that unistrokes weren't innovative either.
This is horrible advice. Since the companies you are working for will file 1099s for what they pay you, failing to report a significant chunk will very likely trigger an automatic review (between 3 to 5 years after you file), by the system. The burden of proof will then be on you to prove you didn't earn the income.
I found out the hard way though a stupid mistake.
The Zarus that was demoed at JavaOne was running Embeddix+AmigaDE. Somewhere along the line they dropped AmigaDE, now it is running Embeddix+QT+Jeode. Still very cool though...
MS did run a Canadian BBS. You could call MS and have the patch snailmailed to you (yes that cast money, about $7 US). You could go to a MS user group. MS didn't take an ad out, but WinSock2 was reasonably promoted by the company.
Around the same time as all of this was going on, I was running into a major bug in Word Perfect, I was paying for a support contract, and it cost me a lot more than the amount you are talking about to get the fix. I'm unsympathetic.
Fine I'll trump that. For those who remember, MS also ran a BBS that you could download such files from. Yes you had to own a modem, and pay for the call, but there are limits to how far I'm willing to argue this point...
Yes you would have to pay for the internet connection to download WinSock2, but that is no different than today. I don't see your point.
A fair number of comercial products shipped with the WS2 installer as well, so many users were upgraded as a part of that.
Yes and you could download and install WinSock2 from the MS site, which fixed that problem.
The full version of WindowsXP Home is $199, the upgrade price is $99. The full version of MacOS X is $130...
NeXTSTEP had calls to allow you to bypass the DisplayPS and directly access the screen buffer.
Toshiba did make a nice StrongARM laptop called the Confolio (I kid you not). It was a mobile network computer, and ran a untetherd version of JavaOS. I have one in my closet, I keep hoping that the ARM Linux guys will make a port to it, or that one day I might actually have time to do it myself...
My point is that had Cleopatra not aligned herself with the Roman empire, then Rome would have taken Egypt by force. Cleopatra was able to forstall that.
Octavian/Augustas attacked Egypt for the same reason Julius Caesar would have. Egypt was too powerfull a neighbor to have so close.
She did not hand Egypt over to Rome.
If Cleopatra had not aligned herself and Egypt with the Roman empire, they would have taken it by force. Through diplomacy she was able to keep the country's sovernty and identity.
It supports both MP3 and WMA.
Well it's so nice to see the torture that is the hallmark of high-school can extend to the work place...