When I was a kid "Made in Japan" meant it was something cheap and crappy. Now you can replace cheap with small *cough*Kei cars, Civics, Echos, Scions*cough*. Now if they allowed Europe to design them and get them to a tenth of $200000 level without involving Asia/Africa/Central & South America while retaining the performance, they might have a chance.
As for China, they still hold that title Japan once did to its fullest by the looks of the materials. Even on $3000 laptops or $10000+ servers the lack of quality shows- compared to hardware, steel, and plastic made in EU/US the hardware wouldn't be something I'd want to trust implicitly.
Maybe globalization is getting to be a bad idea when you allow companies to bypass domestic preference laws (CKD & rebrand of various electronics to hide actual manufacturer, Honda's bypasses of US/UK domestic preference laws via part percentage exploitation or factory building in target country), take jobs with no respect to the displacement(informal precedent set long before tech jobs went in 2003) , and lower quality across the board.
There are some ideas that economists will never understand. Those ideas also have the benefit of actually working.
Well, go figure what happens when proper regulation isn't in place for things like this - you have people going crazy when they can flip it. Just disregard the folks who cant seem to get the thing in the head regarding externalities such as that violence and think "opportunity cost".
Even if it is not a "necessary-to-life item", that chaos would be stemmed if you couldn't sell it off for cost+50 until such a time where there would be a loss to hold the item. It's worked for tickets (e.g. World Cup in scalping hostile territories), maybe they could be consulted to solve that problem.
I remember when electronics were made outside of Asia, well made and well-priced. Heck, even some were made in the US that actually still last. (HP's 28S for example - solid build quality, havent seen any of the trademark shortcuts in quality) These days, it'd probably be news if they made something outside of Taiwan from the ground up in mass amounts.
I'd like to know who doesn't ODM or manufacture in that region of the world (or even Eastern Europe).
Given that offshoring has impacted the displaced, it sure does qualify as a disaster to IT - and some people insist on compounding the problem instead of creating a solution.
If they're this optimistic about such, why not pull some build out that worked with sun4m and make it just as open as what exists today - even if it amounts only to being a olive branch to systems long since devalued by that move. That, and it gives a very compact/cheap option for SPARC that doesnt skimp on the hardware (unlike U5/U10's cheapened design).
Stuff like this announced this late should do quite well to deflate some flippers hopes. Hopefully a few major accounts get "stuck" in payment processing (read: paypal) long enough to discourage this kind of action. Given this, there's nothing like the sight of the legions of pwned scalpers in the morning having to do mass refunds, wondering if paypal will block them, along with getting a potential ratings hit on ebay marking the person as a known scalper.
Now if there could be some regulation that would effectively ban this kind of thing like how it has worked well with tickets? Heck, you could even give Sony an incentive of some sort to catch these flippers and create more units.
If anything, Gamestop should have announced it later so that flippers would be caught blindsided and having to deal with the buyers that end up putting a few bad actors in the red.
In short, Gamestop did a service to consumers knowing full well that the consoles will be flipped since nothing barred the action. They also at least gave the appearance of at least delaying employee purchases as well, so dont fault them.
Linus is cited in the 'Rebels & Leaders' category along with Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, and others." The lady that ended up doing the UK equivalent of PATCO firings somehow doesn't sound like it'd uplift society. Considering that those and Reagan's actions have created a very worker-hostile environment when they informally created a precedent that corporations could get away with misery.
They want you to buy one of THEIR systems. Deal with it. I did deal with it by buying one of these fine machines. OS X did work on it despite the software design against such. Durable, maintainable and well appointed.
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Really? The U.S. has one of the worst public education systems in the world, but the college system is a competitive one in terms of choice, and we have a fairly exceptional one (short of the cost of college, which comes directly out of government funding which made the costs go way up).
It's only exceptional at keeping citizens out. If you're from some despotic country, welcome to the country club. If you're a citizen, fork up a ton if you're "undesirable". Otherwise go work in some industry that will end up offshored someday. The concept is something that economists of your kind will never understand, as the math may be right, but the application of it wrong.
However, there is a decent solution - universal admissions for citizens to any place of higher education. If you cant build "prestige classes", get known for being the college with tons of immigrants of one specific race, or play funding games that go against citizens, they'd have more incentive to concentrate on quality of education. Yes, that means that your average citizen will be able to go to MIT, Stanford, or any Ivy regardless of educational background with no ability to refuse. Other universities would have to catch up, and in capacities to serve our citizens first, immigrants second.
Because you can pick your college, you can pick what you want/need/can afford.
Seen, shot down, picked up by the bird dog and cooked for dinner. The practical choice is driven by ability to pay, which would be well served to be removed from the equation altogether - then the others can be dealt with on terms of true choice of the person's interest. Otherwise it is not want/need at all, but mostly "can afford" and partially "will not refuse citizens". Picking your college is only for the top 10% in the current way of things - that never was true choice.
The situation is going to get to a point where it will end up that education will have to be universal admissions for citizens, mostly paid with redirected subsidies and shifting the burden to known job stealing countries. While that wouldn't be a problem for most countries, it would send a clear message that we want to build our own, not disregard them.
In some jurisdictions you're actually not allowed to sell electronic or mechanical goods without a warranty, period. Consider that they could just drop the warranty to a very low number of time or even provide for an exemption from that if the product is scalped.
The limit of Sony's fault in this matter is setting the price so far below what people are willing to pay that these scalpers could profit with little effort. If the price were higher, demand would come down until there isn't enough to be made by scalping, and the scalpers would go away.
Bind warranty service to first purchaser, and make sting purchases through enough of the larger setups, and nail the scalpers by publicly denying support to them (heck, even publish their contact details on the front of the site). If you cant even present proof of purchase, well, you're going to be sitting on a paperweight for a while. Any price increases from this would be small compared to the 2x-3x gouging.
Better then to include consoles in antiscalping laws. I'm sure they've got enough clout to make it happen, and the ability to penalize flippers and the buyers. Just void the warranty if receipts dont match in the first two years. Make a few buys from some high volume people, and have them call in who sold them the unit to take down the sellers. After that, publicly announce who these flippers are and how to contact them, telling that they (the flippers) are now ineligible for support for any further consoles they buy.
It'd be interesting to see what happens with the next console launch if they pulled this one off, especially if they have prices all flat at 30-50 plus MSRP on Ebay. Heck, you might even be able to generate more sales.
Works for tickets (e.g. World Cup where laws exist) with little complaint.
* The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' * The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. * The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
After 2003, it became this: * The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the company and I'm here to help.' * The best minds are not in the Midwest, much less the coasts. If any were present in significant quantity, business would push for increased college tuition and anti-citizen "competitive admissions". * If it prospers domestically, outsource it overseas. If it's unionized, bankrupt the domestic arm. And if it guts the middle class, invest in it.
While Glickman is someone who needs to be put in his place (and outed every time he attempts influence), those quotes are quite apt at why the US went hard left.
Indeed. My intent was to raise the cost of circumvention so high that it effectively eats time and money out of all involved, beyond which can be turned into a valid business expense.
Make a few buys, and start publicly voiding warranties(and other nasty things) of the rest that they can find of any that are north of MSRP + $30-50. If records don't match up with the original buyer in the first 2 years, no warranty service for you either.
This is where regulation brings back sanity. Besides, if you're stuck with it for 2 years (by which time there will be more than plenty) and cant flip it (Sony voids the warranty, 3rd party warranties get voided, or you get slapped with a ticket scalping statute), I bet the lines will be a LOT shorter and with perhaps more stock.
Given how they're running it now, the "Erudite Electronics Expo" and the "Show for the Masses" will have more of the same- they'll keep the "E3" as exclusive (and worthless) as ever. Expect the latter to be a mere shadow of itself, with no booth babes.
Looking closely at this bunch, they'll probably cut something quite valuable out from Java as done with Opensolaris and sun4m, where they cut that one just because they couldnt run dtrace. Never mention that it's been adapted to other architectures, or that it could be simply cut out. KCF is another matter. Never mind that only their competitor carried support for machines of longer timeframes and only recently dropped support, leaving something usable for those machines.
Sure it might be open, but you think there'd be some way to get more than just GPRS on these kind of phones? It's not as if GPRS is the only game in town for data, there's certainly no credible reason why it's omitted on these phones
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When I was a kid "Made in Japan" meant it was something cheap and crappy.
Now you can replace cheap with small *cough*Kei cars, Civics, Echos, Scions*cough*. Now if they allowed Europe to design them and get them to a tenth of $200000 level without involving Asia/Africa/Central & South America while retaining the performance, they might have a chance.
As for China, they still hold that title Japan once did to its fullest by the looks of the materials. Even on $3000 laptops or $10000+ servers the lack of quality shows- compared to hardware, steel, and plastic made in EU/US the hardware wouldn't be something I'd want to trust implicitly.
Maybe globalization is getting to be a bad idea when you allow companies to bypass domestic preference laws (CKD & rebrand of various electronics to hide actual manufacturer, Honda's bypasses of US/UK domestic preference laws via part percentage exploitation or factory building in target country), take jobs with no respect to the displacement(informal precedent set long before tech jobs went in 2003) , and lower quality across the board.
There are some ideas that economists will never understand. Those ideas also have the benefit of actually working.
...those of Stanford elitism couldnt stop the Ivory Tower's fall.
Well, go figure what happens when proper regulation isn't in place for things like this - you have people going crazy when they can flip it. Just disregard the folks who cant seem to get the thing in the head regarding externalities such as that violence and think "opportunity cost".
Even if it is not a "necessary-to-life item", that chaos would be stemmed if you couldn't sell it off for cost+50 until such a time where there would be a loss to hold the item. It's worked for tickets (e.g. World Cup in scalping hostile territories), maybe they could be consulted to solve that problem.
Apple has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer
Somehow I think that it's not going to be any better in terms of quality if not worse.
I remember when electronics were made outside of Asia, well made and well-priced. Heck, even some were made in the US that actually still last. (HP's 28S for example - solid build quality, havent seen any of the trademark shortcuts in quality) These days, it'd probably be news if they made something outside of Taiwan from the ground up in mass amounts.
I'd like to know who doesn't ODM or manufacture in that region of the world (or even Eastern Europe).
Given that offshoring has impacted the displaced, it sure does qualify as a disaster to IT - and some people insist on compounding the problem instead of creating a solution.
If they're this optimistic about such, why not pull some build out that worked with sun4m and make it just as open as what exists today - even if it amounts only to being a olive branch to systems long since devalued by that move. That, and it gives a very compact/cheap option for SPARC that doesnt skimp on the hardware (unlike U5/U10's cheapened design).
Stuff like this announced this late should do quite well to deflate some flippers hopes. Hopefully a few major accounts get "stuck" in payment processing (read: paypal) long enough to discourage this kind of action. Given this, there's nothing like the sight of the legions of pwned scalpers in the morning having to do mass refunds, wondering if paypal will block them, along with getting a potential ratings hit on ebay marking the person as a known scalper.
Now if there could be some regulation that would effectively ban this kind of thing like how it has worked well with tickets? Heck, you could even give Sony an incentive of some sort to catch these flippers and create more units.
If anything, Gamestop should have announced it later so that flippers would be caught blindsided and having to deal with the buyers that end up putting a few bad actors in the red.
In short, Gamestop did a service to consumers knowing full well that the consoles will be flipped since nothing barred the action. They also at least gave the appearance of at least delaying employee purchases as well, so dont fault them.
If they included Thatcher, I might as well give the requisite tag for her and her supporters.
Linus is cited in the 'Rebels & Leaders' category along with Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, and others."
The lady that ended up doing the UK equivalent of PATCO firings somehow doesn't sound like it'd uplift society. Considering that those and Reagan's actions have created a very worker-hostile environment when they informally created a precedent that corporations could get away with misery.
They want you to buy one of THEIR systems. Deal with it.
I did deal with it by buying one of these fine machines. OS X did work on it despite the software design against such. Durable, maintainable and well appointed.
Really? The U.S. has one of the worst public education systems in the world, but the college system is a competitive one in terms of choice, and we have a fairly exceptional one (short of the cost of college, which comes directly out of government funding which made the costs go way up).
It's only exceptional at keeping citizens out. If you're from some despotic country, welcome to the country club. If you're a citizen, fork up a ton if you're "undesirable". Otherwise go work in some industry that will end up offshored someday. The concept is something that economists of your kind will never understand, as the math may be right, but the application of it wrong.
However, there is a decent solution - universal admissions for citizens to any place of higher education. If you cant build "prestige classes", get known for being the college with tons of immigrants of one specific race, or play funding games that go against citizens, they'd have more incentive to concentrate on quality of education. Yes, that means that your average citizen will be able to go to MIT, Stanford, or any Ivy regardless of educational background with no ability to refuse. Other universities would have to catch up, and in capacities to serve our citizens first, immigrants second.
Because you can pick your college, you can pick what you want/need/can afford.
Seen, shot down, picked up by the bird dog and cooked for dinner. The practical choice is driven by ability to pay, which would be well served to be removed from the equation altogether - then the others can be dealt with on terms of true choice of the person's interest. Otherwise it is not want/need at all, but mostly "can afford" and partially "will not refuse citizens". Picking your college is only for the top 10% in the current way of things - that never was true choice.
The situation is going to get to a point where it will end up that education will have to be universal admissions for citizens, mostly paid with redirected subsidies and shifting the burden to known job stealing countries. While that wouldn't be a problem for most countries, it would send a clear message that we want to build our own, not disregard them.
In some jurisdictions you're actually not allowed to sell electronic or mechanical goods without a warranty, period.
Consider that they could just drop the warranty to a very low number of time or even provide for an exemption from that if the product is scalped.
The limit of Sony's fault in this matter is setting the price so far below what people are willing to pay that these scalpers could profit with little effort. If the price were higher, demand would come down until there isn't enough to be made by scalping, and the scalpers would go away.
Bind warranty service to first purchaser, and make sting purchases through enough of the larger setups, and nail the scalpers by publicly denying support to them (heck, even publish their contact details on the front of the site). If you cant even present proof of purchase, well, you're going to be sitting on a paperweight for a while. Any price increases from this would be small compared to the 2x-3x gouging.
Better then to include consoles in antiscalping laws. I'm sure they've got enough clout to make it happen, and the ability to penalize flippers and the buyers. Just void the warranty if receipts dont match in the first two years. Make a few buys from some high volume people, and have them call in who sold them the unit to take down the sellers. After that, publicly announce who these flippers are and how to contact them, telling that they (the flippers) are now ineligible for support for any further consoles they buy.
It'd be interesting to see what happens with the next console launch if they pulled this one off, especially if they have prices all flat at 30-50 plus MSRP on Ebay. Heck, you might even be able to generate more sales.
Works for tickets (e.g. World Cup where laws exist) with little complaint.
* The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
* The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
* The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
After 2003, it became this:
* The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the company and I'm here to help.'
* The best minds are not in the Midwest, much less the coasts. If any were present in significant quantity, business would push for increased college tuition and anti-citizen "competitive admissions".
* If it prospers domestically, outsource it overseas. If it's unionized, bankrupt the domestic arm. And if it guts the middle class, invest in it.
While Glickman is someone who needs to be put in his place (and outed every time he attempts influence), those quotes are quite apt at why the US went hard left.
Any word on what it thought what other parts of itself was(w/o any added intelligence that it is probing itself)?
Indeed. My intent was to raise the cost of circumvention so high that it effectively eats time and money out of all involved, beyond which can be turned into a valid business expense.
...now if you could show the scalpers the Dread Gazebo. Their last words they'd hear would be "Flip That!"
Make a few buys, and start publicly voiding warranties(and other nasty things) of the rest that they can find of any that are north of MSRP + $30-50. If records don't match up with the original buyer in the first 2 years, no warranty service for you either.
This is where regulation brings back sanity. Besides, if you're stuck with it for 2 years (by which time there will be more than plenty) and cant flip it (Sony voids the warranty, 3rd party warranties get voided, or you get slapped with a ticket scalping statute), I bet the lines will be a LOT shorter and with perhaps more stock.
Given how they're running it now, the "Erudite Electronics Expo" and the "Show for the Masses" will have more of the same- they'll keep the "E3" as exclusive (and worthless) as ever. Expect the latter to be a mere shadow of itself, with no booth babes.
Tagged: note3 due to it being as it is now.
How about sending Elaine Chao packing back to China and replacing her with someone less tainted?
The function of that court was to find him guilty, there was only a placeholder of innocence and a token acquittal.
Looking closely at this bunch, they'll probably cut something quite valuable out from Java as done with Opensolaris and sun4m, where they cut that one just because they couldnt run dtrace. Never mention that it's been adapted to other architectures, or that it could be simply cut out. KCF is another matter. Never mind that only their competitor carried support for machines of longer timeframes and only recently dropped support, leaving something usable for those machines.
Sure it might be open, but you think there'd be some way to get more than just GPRS on these kind of phones? It's not as if GPRS is the only game in town for data, there's certainly no credible reason why it's omitted on these phones