Most of their costs are fixed. OS development, marketing, industrial design, etc. make up most of their costs, but remain fixed no matter how many units they ship. If they ship twice as many, they can cut their margins in half without being affected.
That is only true if exactly half the cost of the unit is fixed costs. Not very likely.
Its not a great picture, and I've wrapped the white cables with black cable holding tubes since then... but you don't have to build this stuff. Unless you want to. That's cool too.
I graduated from the U of I... I'm sure the author's are presenting this as a proof of concept. The ultimate goal, of course, is the integrate it with a mainstream browser. The interesting thing to me is that they picked Apple and Webkit to do the prototyping.
There is no way they'd let you get around the blackouts. They still know your local zip and would enforce the blackout on every channel. DirecTv does that now with packages like Sunday Ticket.
On the otherhand, if you want to give them a different zip for your service address and your billing address... then you're onto something. Go to http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ and search on "moving" (WITH the quotes) and you'll see how well this works.
In a couple of Larry Niven stories, they used lasers to launch an interstellar lightsailer, but to brake at the destination, it had to almost dive into the sun...
Why not bring along chemical (or nuclear, or whatever) rockets just for the breaking?
Conversation of momentum. Any push your sails get from your laser photons is cancelled by the push your laser photons gave the laser upon leaving the laser.
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So if I buy a book I should feel free to do anything I want to it - including making copies and selling them?
Your math skills are lacking. You say:
Most of their costs are fixed. OS development, marketing, industrial design, etc. make up most of their costs, but remain fixed no matter how many units they ship. If they ship twice as many, they can cut their margins in half without being affected.
That is only true if exactly half the cost of the unit is fixed costs. Not very likely.
Building one? Like this?
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http://itoph.no-ip.com/~toph/pictures/2006/iPod%2
Its not a great picture, and I've wrapped the white cables with black cable holding tubes since then... but you don't have to build this stuff. Unless you want to. That's cool too.
I graduated from the U of I... I'm sure the author's are presenting this as a proof of concept. The ultimate goal, of course, is the integrate it with a mainstream browser. The interesting thing to me is that they picked Apple and Webkit to do the prototyping.
Google has about 2,690,000 for flavor, and about 760,000 for flavour.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=flavour&sourceid
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I agree with you. A google search on stubear turned up this link.
Toph
Absolutely.
There is no way they'd let you get around the blackouts. They still know your local zip and would enforce the blackout on every channel. DirecTv does that now with packages like Sunday Ticket.
On the otherhand, if you want to give them a different zip for your service address and your billing address... then you're onto something. Go to http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ and search on "moving" (WITH the quotes) and you'll see how well this works.
Chris
If you do, it takes you back to this thread. That's going full circle.
Chris
Um, no.
Conversation of momentum. Any push your sails get from your laser photons is cancelled by the push your laser photons gave the laser upon leaving the laser.
Chris
Toph