Every profit maximizing firm will produce at the quantity such that Marginal Revenue minus Marginal Costs = 0. The chip market is a monopolisticaly competitive industry. (few players simmilar but not distinguishable goods).
Since Intel has effectively lowered their marginal costs by increasing capital investment, their optimum quantity will be greater. In addition since their demand curve (and marginal revenue curve) are downward sloping the new equilibrium quantity comes at a lower price.
Basicaly they made x profit at price P and quantity Q. Because of innovations they can sell more at a lower price to make even higher profits.
In addition their demand curve may have shifted in a bit due to the attractiveness of AMD's offerings.
They think the studios are acting out of malice by not letting them see all of the Anime that they want.
This whole thread is based on a false premise and has descended downward.
Anyone thats taken basic microeconomics can could tell you that region encoding is price descrimination in action. Some countries will pay more than others for a DVD, so lets charge them more.
The SonicBlue CEO and Plantifs attorney were on TV the other day. Appearantly the manual for the device says that they reserve the right to collect information. The plantifs only wanted anonymous usage stats.
I'm more worried about the rate that we're chewing through our oil reserves
Probably because you've never taken a look at the real numbers.
Never mind the economics. Take a look at something called the theory of the mine. Price is a measure of scarcity. If oil was becoming scarce the price would be going up. It isn't.
I'll be as happy as anybody. But try this analogy. Say you were Chris Columbus trying to reach the other side of the world. But you don't have a sea worthy ship, only an old rowboat. Do you waste your time with the rowboat and try to make it, or do you just wait till you get a real ship?
When/if a real form of interstellar travel arrives we will use it. However we are nowhere close to discovering warp drives. They just aren't coming anytime soon. Even the vaunted Ion/Plasma/Scram/Ramjets that are going to take me to Tokyo in two hours, that have been 5 years away for 25 years, are still experimental.
Give me one link to a scientist who is anywhere close to demonstrating FTL propulsion for a ship and I'll eat my words.
Don't you realize that? What companies do the work for NASA? TRW, Lockheed.... These are the same companies that sell you 2 Billion dollar stealth bombers and other such nonsense.
My original observation was too broad. You are correct. My real gripe is with manned space exploration. Satellite imagery is very usefull, I love Microsoft Terraserver, but the usefullness of manned exploration is rather limited. Geology experiments on Mars would be fascinating to the Geologists amoung us, but would it really be worth 200 billion dollars. You can't get around the fact that the companies that stand to benefit from continued space spending are the same companies who drive up the military budget each year. These companies are wrought with fraud and mismanagement, yet people want to give them billions so than we can go to mars and do soil analysis.
I am not familliar with the correlation to fluid dynamics. I would only ask what would be more efficient: Giving the money to a government buracracy and hope a usefull breakthrough occurs, or give the money to a reasearcher at a university who is already doing work in this field?
What pure science is involved in the Shuttle program? Was Dennis Tito doing pure science? Is the NSync guy going to do science? Please. NASA is WELFARE for NASA engineers.
Nuclear never paid off on the claims of "too cheap to meter". It's very expensive. There are all of the technical reasons, such as tedious maintenance, and the fact that the technicians can only work for a few hours at a time.
For Nuclear to be efficient it has to be run as a base load generator, however coal is so much cheaper it isn't even funny. The nuclear industry is subsidized by the Government, yet it still produces power that's twice as expensive per kilowatt hour than the alternatives.
Nuclear is a shinning example of how the scientists said you could do it, but in the long run it didn't work as planned.
NASA is a vestige of the Cold War. The US and Russia had a gigantic pissing contest in space to show of Marxism vs Freedom. Freedom won 10 years ago but the people who have jobs in the space program (just like military contractors) want us to waste out money to continue the nonsense.
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Since Intel has effectively lowered their marginal costs by increasing capital investment, their optimum quantity will be greater.
In addition since their demand curve (and marginal revenue curve) are downward sloping the new equilibrium quantity comes at a lower price.
Basicaly they made x profit at price P and quantity Q. Because of innovations they can sell more at a lower price to make even higher profits.
In addition their demand curve may have shifted in a bit due to the attractiveness of AMD's offerings.
This whole thread is based on a false premise and has descended downward.
Anyone thats taken basic microeconomics can could tell you that region encoding is price descrimination in action. Some countries will pay more than others for a DVD, so lets charge them more.
RIAA - Audio.
The RIAA had nothing to do with developing tthe DVD format.
/. just cotinues to go down the tubes.
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Really Alan? Please direct me to a commercialy available DVD->DVD copier, or a DVD->VHS unit?
Just try to sell a tractor and call it a deer or a cat and see how far you get.
I thought the worst part was the kiss between Jar Jar and Yoda. I just about hurled.
The SonicBlue CEO and Plantifs attorney were on TV the other day. Appearantly the manual for the device says that they reserve the right to collect information. The plantifs only wanted anonymous usage stats.
Big Blue was once thought invinceable. How could anyone compete with a company that large weilding so much market power?
Probably because you've never taken a look at the real numbers.
Never mind the economics. Take a look at something called the theory of the mine. Price is a measure of scarcity. If oil was becoming scarce the price would be going up. It isn't.
Look up the Economics of Elasticity when you get a chance.
When you can't steal everything you want. Whoever came up with this intellectual property stuff anyway.
Might not mean much to you, but to some of us such things are why life exists.
My point exactly. This is an ego trip, not anything rational. That's fine, I just wish more space advocates would admit it.
Why don't you climb everest or scuba dive? Why must you pick a hobby that requires spending billions of other peoples dollars?
I'll be as happy as anybody. But try this analogy. Say you were Chris Columbus trying to reach the other side of the world. But you don't have a sea worthy ship, only an old rowboat. Do you waste your time with the rowboat and try to make it, or do you just wait till you get a real ship?
When/if a real form of interstellar travel arrives we will use it. However we are nowhere close to discovering warp drives. They just aren't coming anytime soon. Even the vaunted Ion/Plasma/Scram/Ramjets that are going to take me to Tokyo in two hours, that have been 5 years away for 25 years, are still experimental.
Give me one link to a scientist who is anywhere close to demonstrating FTL propulsion for a ship and I'll eat my words.
Don't you realize that? What companies do the work for NASA? TRW, Lockheed .... These are the same companies that sell you 2 Billion dollar stealth bombers and other such nonsense.
NASA is welfare for California Georgia and Texas.
My original observation was too broad. You are correct. My real gripe is with manned space exploration. Satellite imagery is very usefull, I love Microsoft Terraserver, but the usefullness of manned exploration is rather limited. Geology experiments on Mars would be fascinating to the Geologists amoung us, but would it really be worth 200 billion dollars. You can't get around the fact that the companies that stand to benefit from continued space spending are the same companies who drive up the military budget each year. These companies are wrought with fraud and mismanagement, yet people want to give them billions so than we can go to mars and do soil analysis.
I am not familliar with the correlation to fluid dynamics. I would only ask what would be more efficient: Giving the money to a government buracracy and hope a usefull breakthrough occurs, or give the money to a reasearcher at a university who is already doing work in this field?
We already produce way more food than we can consume, and we pay farmers to not to produce any more.
Food shortages will be alleviated by companies like Monsanto who geneticly engineer basketball sized tomatoes, and arm sized yams.
As soon as some scientist comes up with a warp drive let me know. Until then space travel is just an exercise in futility.
What pure science is involved in the Shuttle program? Was Dennis Tito doing pure science? Is the NSync guy going to do science? Please. NASA is WELFARE for NASA engineers.
Nuclear never paid off on the claims of "too cheap to meter". It's very expensive. There are all of the technical reasons, such as tedious maintenance, and the fact that the technicians can only work for a few hours at a time.
For Nuclear to be efficient it has to be run as a base load generator, however coal is so much cheaper it isn't even funny. The nuclear industry is subsidized by the Government, yet it still produces power that's twice as expensive per kilowatt hour than the alternatives.
Nuclear is a shinning example of how the scientists said you could do it, but in the long run it didn't work as planned.
NASA is a vestige of the Cold War. The US and Russia had a gigantic pissing contest in space to show of Marxism vs Freedom. Freedom won 10 years ago but the people who have jobs in the space program (just like military contractors) want us to waste out money to continue the nonsense.
The Penguin, comprising of black and white, shows us that the two can get along!
I'll take the proven achiever every time.