Who makes the screens in the iPad? Who is begging who to please supply them with more screens?
Apple seems to want to have a government-enforced monopoly in its product areas. The problem for suppliers is that Apple has quite a bit of volume. But, the suppliers supply more than just Apple. If the choices are between an Apple-only market volume and an everybody-but-Apple market volume, they'd probably chose to drop Apple as a customer.
we're definitely smarter than the average joe that doesn't have a good understanding of anything.
And what sorts of 'average' joes are those? The guy who fixes your car, your HVAC system, finds you the right kind of insurance, keeps the supply lines operating to your grocery store, does the lighting for the TV show you're watching, or does the hiring for your local hospital?
If you mean 'hamburger flippers and grocery store clerks', fine, but they're well below average. The middle class is what keeps a society running, makes up the vast majority of the area under the bell curve, and is described by specialization for division of labor.
You get cheap 1080p, fine. But want any more? Pay twice the price just to go to 1920x1200, and $1k+ to go anywhere beyond that.
That's true, but I think part of this is that there are displays now that are really much cheaper than used to be available. I bought one of those 1080p's for home, 22" or so, and it was about $160. The color and contrast are so damn awful, I can barely do anything with it besides check e-mail unless I'm working in the dark. My work monitor is a 24" 1920x1200 that I bought in '07 for $399. That's about the price they are now, despite the rapid decline of the US Dollar (12% per year or so) so even they've gotten cheaper. The $160 monitors would have been $99 a few years ago, accounting for inflation, and a few years ago I would have expected a crap monitor if it was 22" and $99. Which is what I got.
So, there is a hollowing-out of the market, but I think it's because there used to be a mid-grade version available. Now it's either junk or a decent S-IPS panel, and relatively speaking the S-IPS panels have come down in price.
I think next time I'll buy a very high-end monitor - I spent $700 on a flat 17" monitor in 1993, and that was in 1993 Dollars and with an employee discount. And I was making $10/hr then. So, today I really ought to be spending over a thousand for something I stare at 40+ hours a week. That's right were an Eizo 21.5" 4:3 display is today. If I use it for 5 years, the cost per hour is so low that any increase in productivity is a positive return on investment.
I'm sick of seeing my interactive options through a narrow slit.
Rotate your display 90 degrees. No, seriously.
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1920x1200 is around 500EUR. 1920x1080 is around 200EUR. So for the same price I can have 2 monitors and still have money left. 2560x1600 is around 1200EUR.
That 500EUR 1920x1200 display probably has an S-IPS panel because it's made for discerning customers. I too bought a $140 22" TN display (ASUS), and I want to put my eyes out if I'm trying to do anything with color on it. Hell, I can barely tell apart the ad region colors from the regular links on a Google search.
If you use it to make money, buy a decent display. Cripes, I spent $700 on a 17" CRT in 1993 when I was making $10/hr. Inflation-adjusted I could probably buy an Eizo for that.
I've have Pakistani friends here in the US and a nice lady makes Pakistani food at our farmers' market. Of course, our government probably has the visa thing completely screwed up at this point - try Canada, they're still sane.
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
â" General Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superiure de Guere, 1911.
All this proves is that Foch was an idiot. Military strategists have known the advantage of the high-ground for thousands of years. "Portable, instant high-ground? Genius," I'm sure was uttered within a year of Kitty Hawk.
There aren't mass-drivers in LEO only because of lift-costs.
Actually, several books and many studies have been conducted which indicate modern plastics can be used to replace most of the metal used on cars today
how's the longevity? My truck is a '96 (utility work, 3000 miles per year max) has all kinds of plastic trim on it, and a new piece falls apart every week now. Turns out they covered up a chrome bumper with the plastic, so not an entire loss, but at least the body panels are in decent shape.
I think Oracle would sooner can SPARC than not get a distributed database patents cross-licensing deal with Google. Java is just a club to beat Google over the head with.
I once had a heck of a time installing an Oracle product for a client. I finally figure out that the install script had a developer's home directory hard-coded into it. When I googled this path, I found an Oracle messageboard thread that had started almost three years earlier on the problem.
I had downloaded the package from Oracle that day.
What makes you think nuclear fusion will be wholly developed and funded by the private sector without recourse to public funds? It certainly never worked for nuclear fission.
What makes you think I suggested it would be? Tax revenues are a fraction of economic output. Depress economic output, depress taxation. Some proposals are equal to eliminating 15 years of human productivity over the next 50.
People who care about global warming should be pushing economic growth as hard as possible, ignoring the fuel sources required to get there. And opposing senseless wars, corporate bail-outs, and everything else that drains funds away from researchers.
I believe in the science of cosmology, but I lack the hubris to claim there wasn't some sort of intelligence behind it. I don't believe there was, but I can't prove or disprove it, nor can anyone else.
And there are interesting conjectures (e.g. the Simulation Argument) that it's more likely for there to be that sort of intelligent design than not.
The fact that "something has worked just fine for Red Hat for years now" only reflects the fact that Red Hat doesn't focus anywhere other than x86.
Even at that, one of the hardest linux sysadmin things I've done has been to upgrade live systems from i686 to x86_64, allowing for only one quick reboot. Having proper coexistence would make this task much more straightforward.
I like Fedora-derived distributions, but Debian is making an improvement here. I hope Fedora follows suit.
nuclear fusion. There needs to be sufficient economic surplus to fund that until it's ready, so ramming taxes down energy's throats will have the opposite of the desired income.
And the implied threat of government violence is what keeps people from creeping into your home and murdering you while you sleep.
That's silly on at least three fronts: 1) people do get murdered in their sleep - fat lot of good that did. 2) sometimes people get murdered by psychopaths. They don't care about consequences. 3) knowing I'm probably armed is the best deterrent. 4) moral people don't go around murdering
The subset of people who would go a-murdering but decide not to because the cops might catch them is fleetingly small.
What's your point?
That it's not worth the human sacrifice of five million people a year to ensure that a dead guy's drawings can't be re-used because that might potentially risk some revenue stream to a corporation that holds a license.
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Who makes the screens in the iPad? Who is begging who to please supply them with more screens?
Apple seems to want to have a government-enforced monopoly in its product areas. The problem for suppliers is that Apple has quite a bit of volume. But, the suppliers supply more than just Apple. If the choices are between an Apple-only market volume and an everybody-but-Apple market volume, they'd probably chose to drop Apple as a customer.
we're definitely smarter than the average joe that doesn't have a good understanding of anything.
And what sorts of 'average' joes are those? The guy who fixes your car, your HVAC system, finds you the right kind of insurance, keeps the supply lines operating to your grocery store, does the lighting for the TV show you're watching, or does the hiring for your local hospital?
If you mean 'hamburger flippers and grocery store clerks', fine, but they're well below average. The middle class is what keeps a society running, makes up the vast majority of the area under the bell curve, and is described by specialization for division of labor.
Ask the GPL Compliance Lab. That's what they do.
Maybe it's just that you're at a competitive disadvantage with sharing and caring against selfishness and ruthlessness?
A happy balance wins the day, as having this conversation on Slashdot on the Internet proves.
You get cheap 1080p, fine. But want any more? Pay twice the price just to go to 1920x1200, and $1k+ to go anywhere beyond that.
That's true, but I think part of this is that there are displays now that are really much cheaper than used to be available. I bought one of those 1080p's for home, 22" or so, and it was about $160. The color and contrast are so damn awful, I can barely do anything with it besides check e-mail unless I'm working in the dark. My work monitor is a 24" 1920x1200 that I bought in '07 for $399. That's about the price they are now, despite the rapid decline of the US Dollar (12% per year or so) so even they've gotten cheaper. The $160 monitors would have been $99 a few years ago, accounting for inflation, and a few years ago I would have expected a crap monitor if it was 22" and $99. Which is what I got.
So, there is a hollowing-out of the market, but I think it's because there used to be a mid-grade version available. Now it's either junk or a decent S-IPS panel, and relatively speaking the S-IPS panels have come down in price.
I think next time I'll buy a very high-end monitor - I spent $700 on a flat 17" monitor in 1993, and that was in 1993 Dollars and with an employee discount. And I was making $10/hr then. So, today I really ought to be spending over a thousand for something I stare at 40+ hours a week. That's right were an Eizo 21.5" 4:3 display is today. If I use it for 5 years, the cost per hour is so low that any increase in productivity is a positive return on investment.
So, why not buy a non-widescreen display, then?
Here's a calculator I wrote a while back to help compare relative areas.
Yeah, I understand Pixar used to be cool and hip. But Wheezy was named after Disney bought them out.
I'm sick of seeing my interactive options through a narrow slit.
Rotate your display 90 degrees. No, seriously.
1920x1200 is around 500EUR. 1920x1080 is around 200EUR. So for the same price I can have 2 monitors and still have money left.
2560x1600 is around 1200EUR.
That 500EUR 1920x1200 display probably has an S-IPS panel because it's made for discerning customers. I too bought a $140 22" TN display (ASUS), and I want to put my eyes out if I'm trying to do anything with color on it. Hell, I can barely tell apart the ad region colors from the regular links on a Google search.
If you use it to make money, buy a decent display. Cripes, I spent $700 on a 17" CRT in 1993 when I was making $10/hr. Inflation-adjusted I could probably buy an Eizo for that.
Get out while you still can?
I've have Pakistani friends here in the US and a nice lady makes Pakistani food at our farmers' market. Of course, our government probably has the visa thing completely screwed up at this point - try Canada, they're still sane.
For most truck and SUV owners, its a way to compensate for penis envy
So, just install TSA nude-o-vision in the car showrooms?
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
â" General Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superiure de Guere, 1911.
All this proves is that Foch was an idiot. Military strategists have known the advantage of the high-ground for thousands of years. "Portable, instant high-ground? Genius," I'm sure was uttered within a year of Kitty Hawk.
There aren't mass-drivers in LEO only because of lift-costs.
Actually, several books and many studies have been conducted which indicate modern plastics can be used to replace most of the metal used on cars today
how's the longevity? My truck is a '96 (utility work, 3000 miles per year max) has all kinds of plastic trim on it, and a new piece falls apart every week now. Turns out they covered up a chrome bumper with the plastic, so not an entire loss, but at least the body panels are in decent shape.
why the hell didn't they postpone the release?
You know the open source motto: Never show weakness to your enemies. Oh, no, wait, that's not how it works.
Which is true, you can't simply dump the disc and extract the fragments by hand if necessary if encrypted.
If you have a properly layered solution (e.g. LUKS), you can open the crypto volume, and then dump the unencrypted block device for manual recovery.
Oracle/Sun hardware? Say hello to Google!
I think Oracle would sooner can SPARC than not get a distributed database patents cross-licensing deal with Google. Java is just a club to beat Google over the head with.
Thwack.
So well known for product "quality"
I once had a heck of a time installing an Oracle product for a client. I finally figure out that the install script had a developer's home directory hard-coded into it. When I googled this path, I found an Oracle messageboard thread that had started almost three years earlier on the problem.
I had downloaded the package from Oracle that day.
What makes you think nuclear fusion will be wholly developed and funded by the private sector without recourse to public funds? It certainly never worked for nuclear fission.
What makes you think I suggested it would be? Tax revenues are a fraction of economic output. Depress economic output, depress taxation. Some proposals are equal to eliminating 15 years of human productivity over the next 50.
People who care about global warming should be pushing economic growth as hard as possible, ignoring the fuel sources required to get there. And opposing senseless wars, corporate bail-outs, and everything else that drains funds away from researchers.
I believe in the science of cosmology, but I lack the hubris to claim there wasn't some sort of intelligence behind it. I don't believe there was, but I can't prove or disprove it, nor can anyone else.
And there are interesting conjectures (e.g. the Simulation Argument) that it's more likely for there to be that sort of intelligent design than not.
After all Disney has done for cultural freedom, it's nice to see Debian is still honoring their properties with its OS names.
The fact that "something has worked just fine for Red Hat for years now" only reflects the fact that Red Hat doesn't focus anywhere other than x86.
Even at that, one of the hardest linux sysadmin things I've done has been to upgrade live systems from i686 to x86_64, allowing for only one quick reboot. Having proper coexistence would make this task much more straightforward.
I like Fedora-derived distributions, but Debian is making an improvement here. I hope Fedora follows suit.
ad-targeting (EVIL)
You take the tampon ads, I'll sign up for targeting so I get CPU's, tablesaws, and rifle scopes.
Solution?
nuclear fusion. There needs to be sufficient economic surplus to fund that until it's ready, so ramming taxes down energy's throats will have the opposite of the desired income.
And the implied threat of government violence is what keeps people from creeping into your home and murdering you while you sleep.
That's silly on at least three fronts:
1) people do get murdered in their sleep - fat lot of good that did.
2) sometimes people get murdered by psychopaths. They don't care about consequences.
3) knowing I'm probably armed is the best deterrent.
4) moral people don't go around murdering
The subset of people who would go a-murdering but decide not to because the cops might catch them is fleetingly small.
What's your point?
That it's not worth the human sacrifice of five million people a year to ensure that a dead guy's drawings can't be re-used because that might potentially risk some revenue stream to a corporation that holds a license.
In the absence of political power to constrain it, economic power fills the void
What are the largest economic powers that you can think of that haven't had a government charter behind them?
Bakunin advocated violent overthrow, so his philosophy is not in alignment with mine. Satyagraha has proven to be the more successful path.