If color is in the $75-150 range... what are all the other costs which go into the price? Shipping, handling, shelf space, inventory, the store's price is half that range.
The parts cost of the manufacturer is no more than 1/4 to 1/3 of that 1/2 price. When down to $10 - $20 in manufacturer's parts cost, why leave out color?
It would probably cost more in inventory and other costs all the way up the line to the buyer than the parts left out.
Homo Sap began leaving Africa while the last Ice Age was in progress and North Africa through Arabia was verdant grasslands.
The first to leave spread east through India on to China.
The glaciers retreated and later leavers of Africa could find new land to the north and follow the glacial retreat into Europe and Siberia. Genetic studies show something like 13 men and 6 women fostered all of Europe. Maybe they didn't like speaking Arabic;)
15,000 years after that, Egyptians built the first pyramid.
We know so little about this subject to date that speculative revisions can be made almost yearly such is the rate of discovery.
When Ellison writes, remember he is a writer, a professional one and rather good at it in the opinion of most.
When he screams remember he can produce something like this against motherhood and apple pie -- and I think he did do one against the flag in the 70s.
Reading something into Ellison's writings is like saying Stephen King writing about the government being spooky is any more than Ellison.
Ellison is the proverbial little guy, by that I do mean short, with a chip on his shoulder. His first famous public confrontation was with Asimov at a Worldcon where Asimov suggested he stand on a chair so he could be seen.
This guy is a pro at the polemic of outrage. That said, lets look at the content.
No new content in this on the current issue. Ellison has been raving about this sort of thing since I first met him at a Worldcon in DC in the 70s -- he spoke to me for reasons I attribute to a liquid lunch. There he interrupted a panel discussion by several minor pulp magazine publishers with a speech on how they were delaying and even not paying their writers they published. I also remember a similar diatribe published in the early 80s.
This could be a rehash of that speech with the context updated. It is old material for him. At times I suspect his mother died because the publisher of his writer father didn't pay on time to buy the medicine or some equally formative childhood event.
When Roddenbery was in charge the Ferengi really were a different species. Bab5 actually had some different species. Not in looks but in actual motivation and behavior.
With the original ST we got dumb stereotypes like Kirk wearing a fancy uniform identifying as a member of the secret police and Romans trying to act decadent. In both ST and B5 we get the absurd stereotype of WWII Nazi stereotypes just to teach us poor benighted science type that sentients are all the same and equal even though they have to be farther apart than chickens and snails.
Rather than another regurgitated juvenile morality play about something that happened last century to Europeans in Europe which was at most a footnote to WWII, I'd prefer something which really built upon ST as TNG started out trying to do.
Since we are talking Hollywood we can be certain of one thing. It won't happen.
As soon as Roddenberry was too sick to maintain creative control TNG got all sickly liberal. Even the Ferengi turned into cute Munchkins. So is there hope it will go back to the original idea and maybe, just maybe, actually kill the bad guys instead of understanding them? Is the creative talent of Hollywood actually creative?
Maybe it will be before they have a prime directive to circumvent as a plot gimmick every other episode. Maybe there will be "insensitive" ear jokes about the Vulcans and vice versa. Maybe there will be pre-catastrophe Klingons who still look like humans.
NASA was created by recruits from the Department of Defense.
The DOD is notorious for being the best prepared to fight the last war.
Once again NASA/DOD demonstrates its intention to go the B-52 route by keeping a fleet of shuttles in existance which were built before the pilots were born.
There is a difference though. The B-52 was optimized from nearly two decades of war time development starting from the B-17. The Shuttle is our B-17.
It is only a component but I also have a line so 6V devices and I have a market share. So my new and mandated resistor goes to infinite resistance upon the application of 12V.
All 12V power supplies will not be obsolete. I also happen to have the corner on power supplies with only 6 and no 12 Volt power supplies.
Pardon. I love voluntary but when voluntary just happens to coincide with private interests I cannot say it is involunary but I can say it is not in the public interest.
No private interest can possibly speak for the public interest. If the public agrees with the RIAA then the public can voluntarily institutes its own controls on itself.
If the public wished RIAA to exist there would be no Napster.
The law can not be used by individuals to control their private gains which people do not want them to have.
If RIAA vanishes and there is a dearth of new music then people will demand copy protection. Frankly I can not imagine people demanding boy bands and more Madonnas but I happen to prefer Mozart.
Outline every complaint you have. Harp on your privacy being invaded and you being exposed to vile pornagraphy and hint it can not be an accident with such great software.
Play up the profiteering on the invasion of your privacy.
Then email the website URL to everyone on the school board, the local newspapers, radio and TV, local political and social leaders, and anyone who likes to get their face on TV.
Then repeat the email exercise at the state and federal level.
Next week repeat then entire exercise to all three levels again. And the next week do it again.
Slashdot Mirror
Now we can get energy with zero temperature difference neatly circumventing the laws of thermodynamics. There is no end to the possibilities.
Almost bit my tongue on that one.
If color is in the $75-150 range ... what are all the other costs which go into the price? Shipping, handling, shelf space, inventory, the store's price is half that range.
The parts cost of the manufacturer is no more than 1/4 to 1/3 of that 1/2 price. When down to $10 - $20 in manufacturer's parts cost, why leave out color?
It would probably cost more in inventory and other costs all the way up the line to the buyer than the parts left out.
Is the monochrome market there?
Where can I get a monochrome CRT these days?
Homo Sap began leaving Africa while the last Ice Age was in progress and North Africa through Arabia was verdant grasslands.
The first to leave spread east through India on to China.
The glaciers retreated and later leavers of Africa could find new land to the north and follow the glacial retreat into Europe and Siberia. Genetic studies show something like 13 men and 6 women fostered all of Europe. Maybe they didn't like speaking Arabic ;)
15,000 years after that, Egyptians built the first pyramid.
We know so little about this subject to date that speculative revisions can be made almost yearly such is the rate of discovery.
I thought the entire WWW was for the purpose of file sharing. Silly me. I guess I am just a newbie.
Ada(r) by DOD(!r)
To bad they didn't convert a DeLorean.
An ex-IBMer once described having a document signed by a VP. He was at the sacred HQ. He is finally ushered into the VP's office.
It was huge. At the far end was the VP. There was nothing but a telephone and a pen and pencil on her equally huge desk.
She took the document and signed it without saying a word. And he left.
She was wearing a blue business suit.
But what an impression!
Not the sportscaster hype but about as bad.
And then Nixon claimed to own the tapes ...
No joke.
Would you like plastic or paper?
When he screams remember he can produce something like this against motherhood and apple pie -- and I think he did do one against the flag in the 70s.
Reading something into Ellison's writings is like saying Stephen King writing about the government being spooky is any more than Ellison.
Ellison is the proverbial little guy, by that I do mean short, with a chip on his shoulder. His first famous public confrontation was with Asimov at a Worldcon where Asimov suggested he stand on a chair so he could be seen.
This guy is a pro at the polemic of outrage. That said, lets look at the content.
No new content in this on the current issue. Ellison has been raving about this sort of thing since I first met him at a Worldcon in DC in the 70s -- he spoke to me for reasons I attribute to a liquid lunch. There he interrupted a panel discussion by several minor pulp magazine publishers with a speech on how they were delaying and even not paying their writers they published. I also remember a similar diatribe published in the early 80s.
This could be a rehash of that speech with the context updated. It is old material for him. At times I suspect his mother died because the publisher of his writer father didn't pay on time to buy the medicine or some equally formative childhood event.
With the original ST we got dumb stereotypes like Kirk wearing a fancy uniform identifying as a member of the secret police and Romans trying to act decadent. In both ST and B5 we get the absurd stereotype of WWII Nazi stereotypes just to teach us poor benighted science type that sentients are all the same and equal even though they have to be farther apart than chickens and snails.
Rather than another regurgitated juvenile morality play about something that happened last century to Europeans in Europe which was at most a footnote to WWII, I'd prefer something which really built upon ST as TNG started out trying to do.
Since we are talking Hollywood we can be certain of one thing. It won't happen.
Maybe it will be before they have a prime directive to circumvent as a plot gimmick every other episode. Maybe there will be "insensitive" ear jokes about the Vulcans and vice versa. Maybe there will be pre-catastrophe Klingons who still look like humans.
Maybe there will be only one plot per episode.
Progress is such a wonderous thing.
The DOD is notorious for being the best prepared to fight the last war.
Once again NASA/DOD demonstrates its intention to go the B-52 route by keeping a fleet of shuttles in existance which were built before the pilots were born.
There is a difference though. The B-52 was optimized from nearly two decades of war time development starting from the B-17. The Shuttle is our B-17.
With microwave weapons, aluminum foil is all you need.
Once a Marine, always a jarhead.
All 12V power supplies will not be obsolete. I also happen to have the corner on power supplies with only 6 and no 12 Volt power supplies.
Pardon. I love voluntary but when voluntary just happens to coincide with private interests I cannot say it is involunary but I can say it is not in the public interest.
No private interest can possibly speak for the public interest. If the public agrees with the RIAA then the public can voluntarily institutes its own controls on itself.
If the public wished RIAA to exist there would be no Napster.
The law can not be used by individuals to control their private gains which people do not want them to have.
If RIAA vanishes and there is a dearth of new music then people will demand copy protection. Frankly I can not imagine people demanding boy bands and more Madonnas but I happen to prefer Mozart.
Lessee
Napster provides a stupid "encryption" layer like CSS and does not persue infringement.
In fact Napster uses exactly the same method and hides behind it.
Or Napster says you can not add one bit as that is the encryption algorithm.
I love it. This can go on forever.
Play up the profiteering on the invasion of your privacy.
Then email the website URL to everyone on the school board, the local newspapers, radio and TV, local political and social leaders, and anyone who likes to get their face on TV.
Then repeat the email exercise at the state and federal level.
Next week repeat then entire exercise to all three levels again. And the next week do it again.
Post the URL to Slashdot and Declan of Wired.
The greatest threat to the American Way is free air. We must act quickly before Canada steals it all and Americans are left gasping.
So much for the high tech image of Israel. I always thought it was BS.
Why will it not work?