Yes but they are calculating that "optimal price" under the assumption everyone else follows that price. That is it is optimal only under the assumption of no defectors competing. that is when you fix the price by any means it is price "fixing".
I was also thinking it is probably important to check out the guy in line in front of you and maybe switch places if it looks like psycho active or hormone replacement case.
So someguy writes a blog post about a reddit thread about an an anecdotal observations on mac storage management. It goes on the slashdot front page. Worse the article itself doesn't discuss how this works or even how well it works.
From the reddit page, it says that several people observed 2 to 3 gigabytes of recovered space. It did not come from any one place but some came from caches. Random speculators suppose Itunes has large caches.
Golly.
I'd be interestd in hearing some comments about language efficiency on Android and iphones. My experience with java has led me to believe that it's likely that android phones have a severe Ram, cache, and energy efficiency handicap, and to a much lesser extent a flash memory handicap. The reason I suspect this is because Java program seem to use a lot more space than C based programs, their interpreter also has to be loaded, and their garbage collection creates memory overhead. As a result one has less available ram, more paging, and less efficient instructions. Now for the flash memory it's likely the case that media chews up more space than programs themselves so I suspect this is less of an issue. If all this is actually true it seems that comparing apple and android phones based on Ram obfuscates the fact that andorids need more ram to do the same job. Furthermore benchmarks using tight algorithmic loops are not seeing the cramped ram nor the overhead of JIT compilation of interpreted code to native that some interpreters impose. Thus one might expect these things to show up on app context switches, how apps are managed in the background, notifications/polling and shared data management--- all things that real users would see but automated test suites ignore in benchmarks.
Because it is price fixing? I can't see how you can't see this is what price fixing is. Please give me an example where independent agents setting a price by agreement is not price fixing
Not quite Damming with faint praise. More like announcing the Osboure 2 they are about to design will smoke this beta product. That's a death curse for companies with negative cash flow. My feeling is the hype machine is strong in this one and it will be like the iPod. Cost not a problem for the early adopter. The booger in that analogy pudding is ipod had suck for rivals both in terms of ease of use, music price ecosystem and coolness. Will the VR gear be the rio player to the occulus iPod. If the gear VR doesn't suck then the analogy may be Windows 95 versus Imac or vhs versus beta.
Maybe this attempt to virtual Osboure themselves is a kamikaze attack on the Samsung.
How is it possible this story fails to use the word "netflix"? Redbox is nice and I use it when I want burst mode on my DVDs that I can't get from Netflix but it so far has few things netflix doesn't and netlfix is cheaper. Redbox also get expensive when you screw up, and indeed that happens. Netflix is slowly calving off it's DVD from its streaming service. I assume there is a financial logic here but at face value that's dumb. Integrate them. They open the door for Redbox more by doing that. BUT, here's why I'm pretty sure they are splitting them. If they are separate then the content producers can't charge them more for a DVD than it's face value, and they can even negotiate for less than face value. But if they are integrated the producers can hold the streaming service hostage to claw even more cash for the DVD rentals. Redbox is opening themselves up to this blackmail on their core rental bussiness if they make streaming and rentals combined.
1) undervalued 2) fair 3) expensive 4) Profit$$$$$ 5) Shiller shits pants 6) can this keep going up? I better get in before the fools do 7) Tulips 8) it's different this time.
I think that in the long run the killer app for the smart phone is health and maybe biometrics. it's a fledgling thing now but in the next 5 years health monitoring capabilities are going to explode. A lot of that will be clinical and it will take some time to figure out how to use the data. But the watch is an unprecedented thing. Specifically when you go to the ICU they hook you up to the cardiac and blood pressure and blood oxygen monitors. These things take measurements all day long on you the sick person. The doctor comes in 2 times a day, glaces at the heart beat monitor, and writes down 6 numbers. All the data on that is collected goes in the bit bucket. But in 5 years that won't be the case. it will all be monitroed by google or whomever to mine it for subtle health signatures. More will be learned about how an injured persons cicadian rythms affect recover, treatments will be given over time and monitored with feedback. e.g. the level of antibiotic in your blood might possibly be observable. The number of white cells at an infection might be monitored. Lots of spectrocopic posibilities. But what you won't have is data on healthy people at this level. Sure test subjects but not population data. Not data that shows everyone in a classroom is getting sick. etc.. And that's what watches will do. not too sophisticated at first of course.
The other thing that may happen is your watch may become your interface or passcode for all the IOT things in your house. As these proliferate you need a device that can authenticate you and control devices that you don't have to fetch from your pocket every time you want to dim the lights or change the channel or open the garage door.
Both of those are 5 years out. But both will come.
Lots of speculation here in social issues so I'll just take a stab at the possibility there's a technical issue. When I program I have to get into a fugue zone. I have a picture in my head of the whole landscape of the program not just the few lines on the file on screen. That is I'm really visualizing it. It's really a landscape. And there's some reason to think that due to our hunter ancestors that makes _May_ be better at navigating landscapes.
Other studies show that women also check out and checkin differently. Women coders tend to work on larger tasks that are less urgent such as refactoring code rather than bringing up a system quickly. The latter is frequently more financially impactful though we all thank goodness for the dedicated souls that refactor things in the end.
Thus my guess is women pick problems they are good at just like men do and if those are different areas they might get paid differently too or at least get promoted differently.
Finally as demonstrated by trump being hostile works well as a male strategy but not a female one. Perhaps there are fewer women who can manage makes as there are males. Everyone already knows that make dominated environments are hostile to women.
Science Math Engineering Graphics Money Acronyms...err I mean Art
Joking aside, I'd substitute "Making" for the M. Spending time in your grandpas workshop is probably the best educational experience you can get. It's not new but the words have changed. It used to be called "Yankee ingenuity". At the moment however it seems Money works better. You can outsource the ingenuity to the widget builders in Shanghai. That will work till things hollow out. Then we'll need to get edisonian again.
A typical nuclear plant produces 1GW (typical range: 0.5GW to 5GW). Last time I looked, been a while, I think the estimate was china needed more than 10 new nuke plants per year for sustained growth. So in context this is an enormous advance. Of course that's not 24/7 power. But with enough excess capacity they could even pump water upstream of the Dams or desalinate water.
the unit of measure here is power not energy. it's not a battery.
A styrofoam cup is as good a beer vessel as a ceramic stein or a pub glass but which one feels nicer in your hand and do you enjoy more. Since enjoyment is what you seek, sometime luxury goods are not about optimizing cheapness. I was passing through the electronics store the other day and fiddled with the pads they had on display. The ipad was clearly the smoothest and most beautiful interface. it just lept out of the line of generic looking rectangles. touch it and the response just seemed lively. If I were buying a dozen then price would matter. but i'm buying one. Why would I not want the funnest one for an extra couple hundred? It's a nice thing.
Revenue on ipads is 7 billion and that's just last quarter. So yeah it's down from 8 billion. boo hoo. It's only several times Tesla's revenue. The difference being it's profitable and Tesla isn't.
I'll sell the used Discs for 50% of what I paid easily on craigslist. and I get cash and the game sold within minutes.
Perhaps they are thinking about changing the DRM to deny second sales. If people think 10% if fair then they aren't using your method now or find it too much hassle.
What i'd like is you pay 10% more, but get the right of second sale.
While newer kindles are getting a newly formated home screen the ancient ones are getting just a single change to (/opt/usr/java/lib/security/cacerts).
So evidently there must be a stolen cert out there that the machine trusts.
Why does amazon care so particularly in this case that they make it manadatory. My speculation goes in several possible directions. 1. Customer protection. If there's a security threat with regard to hijacking my internet connect and perhaps stealing my amazon credentials 2. Publisher protection. Perhaps there's some way to share books because older DRM is cracked and they can't move to new DRM if there any legacy device OS they need to serve. 3. Amazon protection. Perhaps they want to foreclose people from using the devices in unintended ways. Say as readers for sideloaded apps or PDFs they didn't get a chance to screen for copyright infringment. 4. Altruism. Making everyones device truly better and more interoperable will benefit the community as a whole.
Is there some other rationale here for such a strict requirement? Admittedly if there is a security hole that would lead to credential stealing, even though it's the customer's responsibility, few would see it that way if they get robbed. It would be reasonable for amazon to force the issue for th customer and for amazon's benefit. So I'm sort of hoping the reason is #1. But I'md suspecting it's #2 and #3 combined. Those cheapo amazon kindles are mighty tempting for use as IOT control panels if only there was a rock solid way to crack them open and keep them cracked while still allowing system updates. If they are loss leaders, amazon might not appreciate their non intended use, and they might even be scared of customers losing their passwords to evil apps on rooted machines. Given amazon'e customer freindly purchase protections they could have a lot at stake.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but they are calculating that "optimal price" under the assumption everyone else follows that price. That is it is optimal only under the assumption of no defectors competing. that is when you fix the price by any means it is price "fixing".
Okay, that was really funny.
I was also thinking it is probably important to check out the guy in line in front of you and maybe switch places if it looks like psycho active or hormone replacement case.
So someguy writes a blog post about a reddit thread about an an anecdotal observations on mac storage management. It goes on the slashdot front page. Worse the article itself doesn't discuss how this works or even how well it works.
From the reddit page, it says that several people observed 2 to 3 gigabytes of recovered space. It did not come from any one place but some came from caches. Random speculators suppose Itunes has large caches.
Golly.
I'd be interestd in hearing some comments about language efficiency on Android and iphones. My experience with java has led me to believe that it's likely that android phones have a severe Ram, cache, and energy efficiency handicap, and to a much lesser extent a flash memory handicap. The reason I suspect this is because Java program seem to use a lot more space than C based programs, their interpreter also has to be loaded, and their garbage collection creates memory overhead. As a result one has less available ram, more paging, and less efficient instructions. Now for the flash memory it's likely the case that media chews up more space than programs themselves so I suspect this is less of an issue. If all this is actually true it seems that comparing apple and android phones based on Ram obfuscates the fact that andorids need more ram to do the same job. Furthermore benchmarks using tight algorithmic loops are not seeing the cramped ram nor the overhead of JIT compilation of interpreted code to native that some interpreters impose. Thus one might expect these things to show up on app context switches, how apps are managed in the background, notifications/polling and shared data management--- all things that real users would see but automated test suites ignore in benchmarks.
Maybe I'm wrong about this. I'd like to know.
Because it is price fixing? I can't see how you can't see this is what price fixing is. Please give me an example where independent agents setting a price by agreement is not price fixing
For the school kids safety did they leave live gasoline in the engine compartment too?
No I'm not kidding. 3 days from now Samsung is going to announce they will release Duke Nukem VR FREE with every headset. Just wait.
Not quite Damming with faint praise. More like announcing the Osboure 2 they are about to design will smoke this beta product. That's a death curse for companies with negative cash flow. My feeling is the hype machine is strong in this one and it will be like the iPod. Cost not a problem for the early adopter.
The booger in that analogy pudding is ipod had suck for rivals both in terms of ease of use, music price ecosystem and coolness. Will the VR gear be the rio player to the occulus iPod. If the gear VR doesn't suck then the analogy may be Windows 95 versus Imac or vhs versus beta.
Maybe this attempt to virtual Osboure themselves is a kamikaze attack on the Samsung.
How is it possible this story fails to use the word "netflix"? Redbox is nice and I use it when I want burst mode on my DVDs that I can't get from Netflix but it so far has few things netflix doesn't and netlfix is cheaper. Redbox also get expensive when you screw up, and indeed that happens. Netflix is slowly calving off it's DVD from its streaming service. I assume there is a financial logic here but at face value that's dumb. Integrate them. They open the door for Redbox more by doing that. BUT, here's why I'm pretty sure they are splitting them. If they are separate then the content producers can't charge them more for a DVD than it's face value, and they can even negotiate for less than face value. But if they are integrated the producers can hold the streaming service hostage to claw even more cash for the DVD rentals. Redbox is opening themselves up to this blackmail on their core rental bussiness if they make streaming and rentals combined.
Tequila and OJ
I wish someone would petition for open carry of whip cream pies at all political events.
when was the last time you saw someone drink 32 oz of OJ at once. But Coke? yes.
sugar in your OJ is not OJ either.
Okay the internet bubble has reached stage Tulip.
1) undervalued
2) fair
3) expensive
4) Profit$$$$$
5) Shiller shits pants
6) can this keep going up? I better get in before the fools do
7) Tulips
8) it's different this time.
I think that in the long run the killer app for the smart phone is health and maybe biometrics.
it's a fledgling thing now but in the next 5 years health monitoring capabilities are going to explode. A lot of that will be clinical and it will take some time to figure out how to use the data. But the watch is an unprecedented thing. Specifically when you go to the ICU they hook you up to the cardiac and blood pressure and blood oxygen monitors. These things take measurements all day long on you the sick person. The doctor comes in 2 times a day, glaces at the heart beat monitor, and writes down 6 numbers. All the data on that is collected goes in the bit bucket. But in 5 years that won't be the case. it will all be monitroed by google or whomever to mine it for subtle health signatures. More will be learned about how an injured persons cicadian rythms affect recover, treatments will be given over time and monitored with feedback. e.g. the level of antibiotic in your blood might possibly be observable. The number of white cells at an infection might be monitored. Lots of spectrocopic posibilities. But what you won't have is data on healthy people at this level. Sure test subjects but not population data. Not data that shows everyone in a classroom is getting sick. etc.. And that's what watches will do. not too sophisticated at first of course.
The other thing that may happen is your watch may become your interface or passcode for all the IOT things in your house. As these proliferate you need a device that can authenticate you and control devices that you don't have to fetch from your pocket every time you want to dim the lights or change the channel or open the garage door.
Both of those are 5 years out. But both will come.
An amusing spell checker choice indeed!
Lots of speculation here in social issues so I'll just take a stab at the possibility there's a technical issue. When I program I have to get into a fugue zone. I have a picture in my head of the whole landscape of the program not just the few lines on the file on screen. That is I'm really visualizing it. It's really a landscape. And there's some reason to think that due to our hunter ancestors that makes _May_ be better at navigating landscapes.
Other studies show that women also check out and checkin differently. Women coders tend to work on larger tasks that are less urgent such as refactoring code rather than bringing up a system quickly. The latter is frequently more financially impactful though we all thank goodness for the dedicated souls that refactor things in the end.
Thus my guess is women pick problems they are good at just like men do and if those are different areas they might get paid differently too or at least get promoted differently.
Finally as demonstrated by trump being hostile works well as a male strategy but not a female one. Perhaps there are fewer women who can manage makes as there are males. Everyone already knows that make dominated environments are hostile to women.
Science
Math
Engineering
Graphics
Money
Acronyms...err I mean Art
Joking aside, I'd substitute "Making" for the M. Spending time in your grandpas workshop is probably the best educational experience you can get. It's not new but the words have changed. It used to be called "Yankee ingenuity". At the moment however it seems Money works better. You can outsource the ingenuity to the widget builders in Shanghai. That will work till things hollow out. Then we'll need to get edisonian again.
A typical nuclear plant produces 1GW (typical range: 0.5GW to 5GW). Last time I looked, been a while, I think the estimate was china needed more than 10 new nuke plants per year for sustained growth. So in context this is an enormous advance. Of course that's not 24/7 power. But with enough excess capacity they could even pump water upstream of the Dams or desalinate water.
the unit of measure here is power not energy. it's not a battery.
Good one!
Then the flatline model
And yet ipad sales are in a slump.
Revenue was 7 billion last quarter, twice what Tesla rakes in a whole year. Nice slump.
A styrofoam cup is as good a beer vessel as a ceramic stein or a pub glass but which one feels nicer in your hand and do you enjoy more. Since enjoyment is what you seek, sometime luxury goods are not about optimizing cheapness. I was passing through the electronics store the other day and fiddled with the pads they had on display. The ipad was clearly the smoothest and most beautiful interface. it just lept out of the line of generic looking rectangles. touch it and the response just seemed lively.
If I were buying a dozen then price would matter. but i'm buying one. Why would I not want the funnest one for an extra couple hundred? It's a nice thing.
Revenue on ipads is 7 billion and that's just last quarter. So yeah it's down from 8 billion. boo hoo. It's only several times Tesla's revenue. The difference being it's profitable and Tesla isn't.
I'll sell the used Discs for 50% of what I paid easily on craigslist. and I get cash and the game sold within minutes.
Perhaps they are thinking about changing the DRM to deny second sales. If people think 10% if fair then they aren't using your method now or find it too much hassle.
What i'd like is you pay 10% more, but get the right of second sale.
While newer kindles are getting a newly formated home screen the ancient ones are getting just a single change to
(/opt/usr/java/lib/security/cacerts).
So evidently there must be a stolen cert out there that the machine trusts.
Why does amazon care so particularly in this case that they make it manadatory.
My speculation goes in several possible directions.
1. Customer protection. If there's a security threat with regard to hijacking my internet connect and perhaps stealing my amazon credentials
2. Publisher protection. Perhaps there's some way to share books because older DRM is cracked and they can't move to new DRM if there any legacy device OS they need to serve.
3. Amazon protection. Perhaps they want to foreclose people from using the devices in unintended ways. Say as readers for sideloaded apps or PDFs they didn't get a chance to screen for copyright infringment.
4. Altruism. Making everyones device truly better and more interoperable will benefit the community as a whole.
Is there some other rationale here for such a strict requirement? Admittedly if there is a security hole that would lead to credential stealing, even though it's the customer's responsibility, few would see it that way if they get robbed. It would be reasonable for amazon to force the issue for th customer and for amazon's benefit. So I'm sort of hoping the reason is #1. But I'md suspecting it's #2 and #3 combined. Those cheapo amazon kindles are mighty tempting for use as IOT control panels if only there was a rock solid way to crack them open and keep them cracked while still allowing system updates. If they are loss leaders, amazon might not appreciate their non intended use, and they might even be scared of customers losing their passwords to evil apps on rooted machines. Given amazon'e customer freindly purchase protections they could have a lot at stake.