the only less noticebale means i can think of is plain old psychology using something to get it to em when their not in front of you ( say mabey a phone)
anyone got some credible proof of these claims?
a peer reviewed journal article refference would be nice.
Google is an exelent example of a low margin model i think... since i dont know their finances i cant say for sure but based on the principles its still a valid thory as to the long term profitability of google.
They do as much as they can to get as much buisness as possible. All they need is to make 1c or 0.5c profit on each "peice of buisness" they do... and then the costs incured in performing billions of them are outweighed by the fact they will have the money add up to a significant sum through volume of buisness as opposed to profit margin per unit sold (of whom intel is a prime example despite their large monopolistic sales margins as well. A chip costs them $40 to make. they can then artificaly price the chips based on the existing user understanding of how things work and make rediculously large sums on them)
Its got the cojones to be my best linux box ever in fact so hurray for MS Building something worth buying... as a PC not as a console... tri core 3Ghz g5 based ppc goodness from the lovely folk at IBM:)
as much as id love it if they bypassed the network stations, who quite usualy can shows or shift em to late night timeslots, so i could just download the new stuff when its out and im reading bout it as opposed to waiting 12 months or so.
i dont think that they could get away with it though:(
but if they do it for movies. hell yeah. No more wating till the movies are on frigging dvd in the US before they even turn up here god damn it.
it took freaking 4 years for hellboy to coem out over hear at the movies after the US got the DVD... and they did it cause they didnt percive there to be a market for it. then when it was released it scored big. morons.
number two. Enlightenment has the worst compatibility ive ever seen, add extra ideas then implement them in an awkward way so theyre supposed to look good != good
I liked it i realy did. untill i wanted something more than a very pretty looking background and nice little water effect at the bottom of my screen, like mabey a way to work with it other than that fugly menu driven garbage. at the very least that.
thats one of the fortunate things im looking forward to in freebsd. the manufactureres of wireless hardware are very happily supplying not only help but paying some people to be writing drivers for wireless hardware for FreeBSD 6.0...
Ill be mean and throw the grenade now. Its cause its BSD not GPL. They can benifit more from the BSD liscence than they can from the GPL. Dont flame me bout it im just pointing out an example. And im happy with it, it means that theres going to be open source drivers, and they can change them for their own purposes without hassles of releasing their changes. Think about what that means if your writing drivers for hardware... a windows driver derived from a gpl one would need to be redistributed as source wouldnt it, a BSD one wouldnt.
feel free to correct me if im wrong bout that.
on the side note this is one thing that will mean i never use Debian. bunch of GNU freaks they are, bitch slapping the OpenSolaris kernel and not supporting or even helping building a GNU userland for it purely because its licence. *grumbles*
"And, of course, these are the clever ideas that will sustain our ability, a hundred years from now, to compete internationally on the basis of being smarter than anyone else, not working for less."
And here i had hopes that just mabey in a hundred years the whole international thing would seem a tad less important. What with all the problems it causes already i dont see much point to it all. After religion id say Nationalism ("we people who occupy this clump of dirt are better than those people who occupy that clump of dirt cause we occupy THIS clump of dirt and this one is ours and thats why its better... etc) is the second biggest cause of death in human history.
Man would i love to be there. Pff its costing me 3 grand every half year and im studying full time in a place where the demand for undergrad comp sci students is Nil. My job prospects consist of pizza delivery if i get a drivers licence (and that looks less and less profitable with the price of fuel these days) $7000 per quater. where do i sign?
or is it just that im a comp sci student at a regular university instead of a physics undergrad at a more "serious" university that does old style research... round here i think only post grad students do research, ever. Undergrads are unpaid guinea pigs or one off payment unskilled helpers.
The result isnt gonna be anything, since the Execs are already freinds with the congressmen, give them donations etc, they wont jepoardise the funding or if they do, theyll be eliminated fast (think blackmail, or other soloutions)
Congressman like Execs and CEOs more than regular people probably by a factor of 10000 to one or more (the likely difference in money they get from them). so the numbers mean nothing.
CSS isnt Copy Protection, as those magical asian dvd press owning pirates know. doesnt stop you making a copy of the disk at all. just stops you playing it back. its playback control. dont belive the FUD.
Ive been trying to steal one of these templates off an executive for years in the hope of making a movie and then retiring with enough in my bank account to allow me to just tinker with my projects for personal interest rather than being a 9-5 code monkey.
to translate this to coding for the overly technical. under pressure i rewrote an app 1 hour before the deadline when i failed to find a soloution to the use of a custom data type for the input, rewriting the data input, and handling for the program in a very rapid time rather than pressing on, So it worked, didnt fail, and came in on time. The clunkyness was regretable but everything fitted and i got no complaints from the users. they were pleased with it especialy since i had put effort into other aspects that made the clunkyness less obvious.
In spiderman they deliberatly chose a relatively unknown actor for the specific reason that they wanted someone without any form of typecasting in the audiences minds when they saw the movie. So they wouldnt have to deal with it and could shape the whole thing better, no one thinking "oh this is better than his last film"... just people going "wow this movies good"
Im sorry but the "Movies" (*cough* read trash for $ *cough*) ive seen coming up recently are stale and the last one i saw on a whim, before that a couple of weeks ago i hadnt seen a movie since star wars episode 3 and it had been nearly 6 months before that again. the next movie im going to see.... Doom... But only cause its going to suck and i want to be there to complain having actualy SEEN how bad it was since i hate people complaining with no idea. If it doesnt ill change my tune but till then all signs point to Golf Ball through Garden Hose levels of Suckage.
ANd worse... the people that decided it was a bright idea to make the movie use some crap about a virus have tainted the good people at iD with ideas about changing the plot line of the doom games. All i can say is thats just evil.
At the moment movies seem to be being made either as pet projects and being interesting if not fantastic, to make loads of the $_$ for the producers and others financing them, or to hawk cheezy merchandice. Its rather sad realy.
ahh well ill get off my soapbox now and go back to watching my eclectic mix of western and eastern movie classics such as 2001 A space oddessy and Spirited Away,
Id like to hit you in the face with the dvd of a little Academy Award winning Japanese Anime Film called "Spirited Away"... Id like to hit you with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And finaly id like to hit you with something made in europe but i cant think of one due to my limited exposure to european film as opposed to Asian due to my global proximity being much closer to asia, and the imports beign much cheaper.
id like to point out that just cause he acted like a machine in the terminator movies doesnt mean thats a good performance. the movie may be a cultural icon but not for his portrayal of the cyborg, but for the whole man vs machine struggle it illustrates. He was a part of the movies success but id hardly say that the "acting" performed was realy of any great difficulty. The other non acting things where probably more hard to find in anyone else, such as the physical build for the role.
ill politely add something to the end of that list.
You live where your lucky enough to have ISPs no longer speedcap, shape or charge per meg or plain cut off your connection one you pass a specific transfer quota. I live in a country of 45 million well educated people that doesnt. the majority of ISP plans here are still marked with a quota, the ones that dont seem to be the exception.
what good is HitMovie.avi if downloading it means youve just used a tenth of your monthly download quota that affects your regular browsing when it runs out.
But on the bright side: the technology is coming of age, and prices will continue to drop.
Unfortunatly this isnt going to be the case As proof you have the iPod. With its financialy stylish feature creep they creat excuses to maintain the price while only adding small features that cost less in comparison to their total cost per unit each time around when factored with technology maturation.
In short, in theory the prices 'should' drop. But its likely they will just make "bigger and better/newer" things that cost the same/less available.
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the only less noticebale means i can think of is plain old psychology using something to get it to em when their not in front of you ( say mabey a phone)
anyone got some credible proof of these claims?
a peer reviewed journal article refference would be nice.
Google is an exelent example of a low margin model i think... since i dont know their finances i cant say for sure but based on the principles its still a valid thory as to the long term profitability of google.
They do as much as they can to get as much buisness as possible. All they need is to make 1c or 0.5c profit on each "peice of buisness" they do... and then the costs incured in performing billions of them are outweighed by the fact they will have the money add up to a significant sum through volume of buisness as opposed to profit margin per unit sold (of whom intel is a prime example despite their large monopolistic sales margins as well. A chip costs them $40 to make. they can then artificaly price the chips based on the existing user understanding of how things work and make rediculously large sums on them)
Its got the cojones to be my best linux box ever in fact so hurray for MS Building something worth buying... as a PC not as a console... tri core 3Ghz g5 based ppc goodness from the lovely folk at IBM :)
is there an RFC for the slashcode ? id like to submit a proposal for a +1 (or mabey even +2) Enlightened Mod
Ive seen the light!
Damn it if i had mod points theyd be on your post so fast!
Someone mod this up damn it!
yet these people cant even find one of the evil countrys people always talk about like North Korea...
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002454.html
*submits a pirate copy of his geek card for confiscation*
actualy im making a small reference to this clip
:P
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002454.html
note the replacement of Australia with the word North Korea and that no one noticed
as much as id love it if they bypassed the network stations, who quite usualy can shows or shift em to late night timeslots, so i could just download the new stuff when its out and im reading bout it as opposed to waiting 12 months or so.
:(
i dont think that they could get away with it though
but if they do it for movies. hell yeah. No more wating till the movies are on frigging dvd in the US before they even turn up here god damn it.
it took freaking 4 years for hellboy to coem out over hear at the movies after the US got the DVD... and they did it cause they didnt percive there to be a market for it. then when it was released it scored big. morons.
Number one the parent is now modded troll again.
number two. Enlightenment has the worst compatibility ive ever seen, add extra ideas then implement them in an awkward way so theyre supposed to look good != good
I liked it i realy did. untill i wanted something more than a very pretty looking background and nice little water effect at the bottom of my screen, like mabey a way to work with it other than that fugly menu driven garbage. at the very least that.
thats one of the fortunate things im looking forward to in freebsd. the manufactureres of wireless hardware are very happily supplying not only help but paying some people to be writing drivers for wireless hardware for FreeBSD 6.0...
Ill be mean and throw the grenade now. Its cause its BSD not GPL. They can benifit more from the BSD liscence than they can from the GPL. Dont flame me bout it im just pointing out an example. And im happy with it, it means that theres going to be open source drivers, and they can change them for their own purposes without hassles of releasing their changes. Think about what that means if your writing drivers for hardware... a windows driver derived from a gpl one would need to be redistributed as source wouldnt it, a BSD one wouldnt.
feel free to correct me if im wrong bout that.
on the side note this is one thing that will mean i never use Debian. bunch of GNU freaks they are, bitch slapping the OpenSolaris kernel and not supporting or even helping building a GNU userland for it purely because its licence. *grumbles*
"And, of course, these are the clever ideas that will sustain our ability, a hundred years from now, to compete internationally on the basis of being smarter than anyone else, not working for less."
And here i had hopes that just mabey in a hundred years the whole international thing would seem a tad less important. What with all the problems it causes already i dont see much point to it all. After religion id say Nationalism ("we people who occupy this clump of dirt are better than those people who occupy that clump of dirt cause we occupy THIS clump of dirt and this one is ours and thats why its better... etc) is the second biggest cause of death in human history.
Man would i love to be there. Pff its costing me 3 grand every half year and im studying full time in a place where the demand for undergrad comp sci students is Nil. My job prospects consist of pizza delivery if i get a drivers licence (and that looks less and less profitable with the price of fuel these days) $7000 per quater. where do i sign?
or is it just that im a comp sci student at a regular university instead of a physics undergrad at a more "serious" university that does old style research... round here i think only post grad students do research, ever. Undergrads are unpaid guinea pigs or one off payment unskilled helpers.
The result isnt gonna be anything, since the Execs are already freinds with the congressmen, give them donations etc, they wont jepoardise the funding or if they do, theyll be eliminated fast (think blackmail, or other soloutions)
Congressman like Execs and CEOs more than regular people probably by a factor of 10000 to one or more (the likely difference in money they get from them). so the numbers mean nothing.
unfortunate isnt it.
CSS isnt Copy Protection, as those magical asian dvd press owning pirates know. doesnt stop you making a copy of the disk at all. just stops you playing it back. its playback control. dont belive the FUD.
Ive been trying to steal one of these templates off an executive for years in the hope of making a movie and then retiring with enough in my bank account to allow me to just tinker with my projects for personal interest rather than being a 9-5 code monkey.
Corea... where is this new country... ive never heard of it... i must check it out.
to translate this to coding for the overly technical. under pressure i rewrote an app 1 hour before the deadline when i failed to find a soloution to the use of a custom data type for the input, rewriting the data input, and handling for the program in a very rapid time rather than pressing on, So it worked, didnt fail, and came in on time. The clunkyness was regretable but everything fitted and i got no complaints from the users. they were pleased with it especialy since i had put effort into other aspects that made the clunkyness less obvious.
In spiderman they deliberatly chose a relatively unknown actor for the specific reason that they wanted someone without any form of typecasting in the audiences minds when they saw the movie. So they wouldnt have to deal with it and could shape the whole thing better, no one thinking "oh this is better than his last film" ... just people going "wow this movies good"
Success is not always dependent on the actor.
Im sorry but the "Movies" (*cough* read trash for $ *cough*) ive seen coming up recently are stale and the last one i saw on a whim, before that a couple of weeks ago i hadnt seen a movie since star wars episode 3 and it had been nearly 6 months before that again. the next movie im going to see.... Doom ... But only cause its going to suck and i want to be there to complain having actualy SEEN how bad it was since i hate people complaining with no idea. If it doesnt ill change my tune but till then all signs point to Golf Ball through Garden Hose levels of Suckage.
ANd worse... the people that decided it was a bright idea to make the movie use some crap about a virus have tainted the good people at iD with ideas about changing the plot line of the doom games. All i can say is thats just evil.
At the moment movies seem to be being made either as pet projects and being interesting if not fantastic, to make loads of the $_$ for the producers and others financing them, or to hawk cheezy merchandice. Its rather sad realy.
ahh well ill get off my soapbox now and go back to watching my eclectic mix of western and eastern movie classics such as 2001 A space oddessy and Spirited Away,
Id like to hit you in the face with the dvd of a little Academy Award winning Japanese Anime Film called "Spirited Away"... Id like to hit you with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And finaly id like to hit you with something made in europe but i cant think of one due to my limited exposure to european film as opposed to Asian due to my global proximity being much closer to asia, and the imports beign much cheaper.
id like to point out that just cause he acted like a machine in the terminator movies doesnt mean thats a good performance. the movie may be a cultural icon but not for his portrayal of the cyborg, but for the whole man vs machine struggle it illustrates. He was a part of the movies success but id hardly say that the "acting" performed was realy of any great difficulty. The other non acting things where probably more hard to find in anyone else, such as the physical build for the role.
ill politely add something to the end of that list.
You live where your lucky enough to have ISPs no longer speedcap, shape or charge per meg or plain cut off your connection one you pass a specific transfer quota. I live in a country of 45 million well educated people that doesnt. the majority of ISP plans here are still marked with a quota, the ones that dont seem to be the exception.
what good is HitMovie.avi if downloading it means youve just used a tenth of your monthly download quota that affects your regular browsing when it runs out.
As proof you have the iPod. With its financialy stylish feature creep they creat excuses to maintain the price while only adding small features that cost less in comparison to their total cost per unit each time around when factored with technology maturation.
In short, in theory the prices 'should' drop. But its likely they will just make "bigger and better/newer" things that cost the same/less available.
I pity a bank running OS/2 instead of something more serious like AIX, zOS or OpenVMS