"Big business doesn't like innovation. They like the semblance (sp?) of innovation to encourage you to buy "new" things, but completely and truly new things cost money, take away from the bottom line, and transition periods are where big companies tend to get replaced."
IBM spent 5 billion dollars last year on R&D. Microsoft just announced a boost to 5.2 billion dollars for next year.
A company like Ford would do anything they could to develop a substantial innovation over GM and DB.
Big business is always looking for an edge just like the next guy.
This has nothing to do with big business, it is about the leisure class gone amuck.
Teach them Wordperfect and IE and a little BASIC. Anything else is a bonus. A computer purchased 5 years ago would work fine, and with a little service will contine to work for another 3 years.
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
I believe the SOP at M$ is to take the result of the above and the run it through the optimizer again. Usualy this results in a 5-7% speedup.
According to most sources the plan for LongHorn is to at the end run it through the optimizer one more time. They think that this could net another 2-3%. We'll see.
Microsoft and Intel are finding that while they have a monopoly, it is a monopoly on a durable good. As such "the monopoly creates it's down competition and must take that into account in its production decisions" (nicholson)
In the extreme case the products are perfect substitutes, only the competitive price can prevail in the long-run i.e. price = marginal cost.
Am I the only one who prefers a clean minamalist desktop. I still haven't seen anything that would make me want to upgrade from 2000. Desktop themes are like kids hanging plastic effects on their cars because they think it makes them look better, it doesn't. It's just heavy crap that slows you down and gets in the way.
There's something else called supply which is what actually changes when a more aggressive supplier enters the market, moving the equilibrium price to a new spot on the same demand curve.
You are assuming that there will be new entry. That's a big assumption. What we've seen is that the Microprocessor design and manufacturing industry is a natural monopolory (ie declining marginal costs, increasing returns to scale) it is simply efficient for the market to be served by multiple firms.
What's more interesting is the appearant issue of a durable goods monopoly that intel (and MS) is facing; where they aren't competing against other firms, but rather they must compete with their own products. "Why should I upgrade, my 1.2Ghz runs just fine?" With a monopoly on a durable good, to the extent that the good is truly durable the price will approach marginal cost. (as if the market were competitive.)
Information asymmetry leads to inefficency, in this case through adverse selection. If my bank gets hax0r3d every other week their reputation should be tarnished. Also the article states that investigations by the federal government are exempt, not private investigations. This bill was constructed by consumer advocacy groups becasue it is good for consumers.
If I spend $50 on something I want to know exactly what I'm getting. If you spend $2000, and are this unimformed than you deserve what you get. You must not have read the specs very closely, or compared it with other models, or read many reviews. I guess you won't make the same mistake twice.
Give Taco a break. VA's stock is in the crapper and ad rates aren't what they used to be. So what if can't be bothered to read the article. They post like a dozen stories a day, times 5 minutes per article, and that's like AN HOUR OF WORK PER DAY! Those kind of numbers are uncalled for. Not all of us want to work for Spacely Sprockets.
And then it became a nominal charge. Now they've all been registered so you have to deal with a former soviet republic or an undiscovered island to get your own domain.
RH 8 is slick. Kudos to RH for raising the bard for other dists that claim to be for the desktop. RH has shown consistent improvement from release to release, that's all we can ask.
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"Big business doesn't like innovation. They like the semblance (sp?) of innovation to encourage you to buy "new" things, but completely and truly new things cost money, take away from the bottom line, and transition periods are where big companies tend to get replaced."
IBM spent 5 billion dollars last year on R&D. Microsoft just announced a boost to 5.2 billion dollars for next year.
A company like Ford would do anything they could to develop a substantial innovation over GM and DB.
Big business is always looking for an edge just
like the next guy.
This has nothing to do with big business, it is about the leisure class gone amuck.
Teach them Wordperfect and IE and a little BASIC. Anything else is a bonus. A computer purchased 5 years ago would work fine, and with a little service will contine to work for another 3 years.
I meet your Woz with a Clifford Stoll
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
I believe the SOP at M$ is to take the result of the above and the run it through the optimizer again. Usualy this results in a 5-7% speedup.
According to most sources the plan for LongHorn is to at the end run it through the optimizer one more time. They think that this could net another 2-3%. We'll see.
Microsoft and Intel are finding that while they have a monopoly, it is a monopoly on a durable good. As such "the monopoly creates it's down competition and must take that into account in its production decisions" (nicholson)
In the extreme case the products are perfect substitutes, only the competitive price can prevail in the long-run i.e. price = marginal cost.
Am I the only one who prefers a clean minamalist desktop. I still haven't seen anything that would make me want to upgrade from 2000. Desktop themes are like kids hanging plastic effects on their cars because they think it makes them look better, it doesn't. It's just heavy crap that slows you down and gets in the way.
You are assuming that there will be new entry. That's a big assumption. What we've seen is that the Microprocessor design and manufacturing industry is a natural monopolory (ie declining marginal costs, increasing returns to scale) it is simply efficient for the market to be served by multiple firms.
What's more interesting is the appearant issue of a durable goods monopoly that intel (and MS) is facing; where they aren't competing against other firms, but rather they must compete with their own products. "Why should I upgrade, my 1.2Ghz runs just fine?" With a monopoly on a durable good, to the extent that the good is truly durable the price will approach marginal cost. (as if the market were competitive.)
Thanks
Pitiful.
It looks like Java's days are numbered. F'd company
What has slashdot come to? Am I the only one who is sick of seeing most of the +5 comments being inane posts and rated Funny?
Information asymmetry leads to inefficency, in this case through adverse selection. If my bank gets hax0r3d every other week their reputation should be tarnished. Also the article states that investigations by the federal government are exempt, not private investigations. This bill was constructed by consumer advocacy groups becasue it is good for consumers.
Poindexter's conviction was overturned in 1990. He was not guilty. Federation of American Scientists
I think it's called ambition. Maybe that's why he's da man, and your still in your mom's basement?
If I spend $50 on something I want to know exactly what I'm getting. If you spend $2000, and are this unimformed than you deserve what you get. You must not have read the specs very closely, or compared it with other models, or read many reviews. I guess you won't make the same mistake twice.
Give Taco a break. VA's stock is in the crapper and ad rates aren't what they used to be. So what if can't be bothered to read the article. They post like a dozen stories a day, times 5 minutes per article, and that's like AN HOUR OF WORK PER DAY! Those kind of numbers are uncalled for. Not all of us want to work for Spacely Sprockets.
Even the best of these pulp sci-fi series equate to mediocre sci-fi novels and short stories.
I think I watched SG once, saw McGuyver and come big black guy with eyeliner, and realized that braincells are a terrible thing to waste.
Seems to me like it would have been a good idea to crannk the fan before the processor died.
Back in the day when Dynamat was used in car audio, it was tested by numerous magazines and found to have no signifigant impact on noise level.
The OED says:
Charged by way of, acquired by virtue of, usury; exorbitant, excessive. Freq. with interest.
Note frequently, but not necessarily.
From Websters [m-w.com]
an unconscionable or exorbitant rate or amount
Or from the OED:
Charged by way of, acquired by virtue of, usury; exorbitant, excessive.
And then it became a nominal charge. Now they've all been registered so you have to deal with a former soviet republic or an undiscovered island to get your own domain.
There go 1/2 of the dupe stories.
RH 8 is slick. Kudos to RH for raising the bard for other dists that claim to be for the desktop. RH has shown consistent improvement from release to release, that's all we can ask.
You know, simple things like reporting bugs, or documentation.
How the hell did it get modded up?