You are Apple. What would it cost you to get as good a server internally? How can you leverage your iCloud threat-to-make in order to negotiate purchase price of the Buy? You are MS. What price do you set for a competitor with high volume and a possibly inferior product, who may decide to invest in making their product competitive with yours?
Over 50% of worldwide PC sales fit this price and description. "White box" manufacturing, aka the "Good enough" market, overtook name brands way back. This is news to the wealthy OECD nations, I guess, but sales in those countries are now less than half of worldwide sales, and white box PCs are about 35% of sales even in the USA.
It's already completely banned in CA and most other states with takeback systems. Europe is actively trying to enforce its bans on used computer exports, and Europol just announced a crackdown on "criminal enterprises" which are Africans sending back computers to their families and associates.http://resource-recycling.com/node/2036
New national legislation has been filed recently by Rep. Thompson and Green. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2011/06/planned-obsolescence-in-hindsight-green.html It kind or works like this: 1) Exaggerate risk, 2) Prohibition. Will work as well as it did for alcohol and marijuana - growth of internet in nations earning $3K per capita is ten times growth of internet in USA.
CBS 60 Minutes, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a lot of journalists have fallen for the trick of bringing cameras to the landfills (not the remanufacturing). It's like taking cameras to the morgue and drawing the conclusion that hospitals must be criminalized. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/07/60-minutes-wastelands-missing-minutes_17.html
....Made by Shah of Iran, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Stalin, Saddam... The people do indeed prefer
what they have, the system in place, to anarchy, violence, chaos, and disorder. They have been under the status quo for so long, they cannot imagine a world without the Party which isn't chaos, anarchy, and disorder.
Argument makes a lot of sense and works very well, except that you will be the first against the wall come the revolution.
Here's another idea... ALLOW USED COMPUTER EXPORTS. Europol (the Police of Europe) just announced that used computer exporting "criminals" have been discovered to be Africans sorting through stuff rich people throw away, and sending it back to their families. Major study just released, documenting 220,000 tons of electronics imported into Ghana, show 85% reuse or repair-and-reuse (15% failure, not much higher than new store returns). Reducing the restrictions on used computer exports would accomplish the same thing, and buyers overseas would be less beholden to junk dealers who ship lower quality. Exaggerate Risk + Prohibition leads to Mexican Marijuana cartels, Al Capone, and "solutions" like this which cost more and work less well than a 3 year old computer.
This is all Matt Groening's fault. Before the "Abe Simpson" character debuted, older Americans were treated with respect in every industry, from modelling to aeronautics, as they are in every other nation in the world.
KDQ (Kaddafy Ghadafi Qadafee) makes #2 on the list of all time badass African Dictators (Africanews.com http://www.africanews.com/site/Africas_top_10_dictators_of_all_time/list_messages/39642 ). Trying to control how oil rich African dictators spend their money has never been a solution. Ultimately, the Revolution 2.0 or "Arab Spring" is a sign that young people in these emerging markets/nations have caught on to the idea of "blaming colonialists" for the acts if dictator assholes. Trying to blame "multinationals" for their problems probably isn't going to fly any better.
By the way, most of these regimes are now seizing containerloads of working computers as "e-waste", blaming all the technology companies for "polluting" their landfills with internet cafes, err, "toxic computers". They'll be warning their people of contagious computer viruses next. So far, German media Bauerfiend is the only major media to catch on to the "ewaste" excuse for hardware censorship disguised as "stewardship". This program documents how I had 3 containerloads of Pentium 4s seized by Mubarak's "EPA" enforcement... http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1352178/E-Waste I think it's too late for these dictators to put the genie back in the bottle. The African "Geeks of Color" will triumph, and in 30 years I hope we'll be talking about "African Tiger" tech economies, and these dictators will be join General Custer, Stalin, and Hitler in the history books. You never saw stories like this in African magazines in the 1980s, they would have been seized and burned.
Having worked with China environmental industries for over a decade, I skimmed TFA and one thing jumps out immediately... These "violations" the report is built on are actual FINES and ENFORCEMENT of Chinese Environmetal Law. China EPA was NOT enforcing these laws ten years ago. This is actually what progress looks like. If you look up environmental fines and enforcements in the USA, you could write the same report. In the past, you could not have written this report about China.
On the flip side, I'm also bilingual, but sort of like an Apple "Power PC", speaking both languages seems to make me worse at either.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
This PC World article from 2003, http://www.pcworld.com/article/112199/why_do_ink_cartridges_cost_so_much.html, might actually have understated the mark up in the HP ink cartridges which, on the books, accounted for 50% of HP profits during some years. Taking something that costs as much as a pack of ball point pens and charging $22 for it was "visionary" for awhile, and Dell tried to follow HP into the giveaway-printers-to-sell-cartridges model. But the "Gillette" strategy - making money on the blades, not the razor - may not work fit the strategy of outsource to China. Did Gillette ever outsource their razor blade manufacturing?
Is it just me, or does/. has a real obsession getting to the bottom of Neanderthal Sex research? I search "Neanderthal sex" in the/. search and come up with 11 stories since 2005 (listed below). But when I search for conventional term "heterosexual marriage", all I find is a single story on "world of warcraft"... go figure.
Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans 56
Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations 406
New Ancient Human Identified 148
Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man 536
Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal 505
Neanderthals and Humans Diverged 660K Years Ago 128
Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? 579
Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man 188
Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years 765
I assume it would have springs, or more rubber, to compensate. Which would slightly increase a) the weight of the shoe, and b) the carbon "footprint" of making the shoe. It's the latter (b) that troubles me, and the latter that media/journalists often ignore. The amount of energy required to mine, refine, melt and mold a battery (like in a Prius) can be more than the battery holds or saves in its useful lifetime. Shoes wear out, and if these become like disposable tablets (whose batteries cannot be replaced), then it will be a net loss for society/carbon/energy. Visit the OK Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea on Google Earth to see where all the shiny copper we are using comes from (hint: rainforest with runoff of mine tailings into coral reefs).
You create a fake Facebook profile and mistag-yourself everywhere. You have a police department staff scan photos and mistag you. With a little more effort, Facebook could become the best thing that ever happened for people setting up false identities. But Facebook has to let you mis-tag yourself. I started a Facebook Group "Data Camouflage Anonymous" for the purpose of mis-tagging and mis-identifying photos (to water down the facial recognition database) and within a day found my "tagging" ability turned off by Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/151915044879668/ Facebook should be no more reliable at facial data than they are at birthday records (which are a joke).
Can't remember how I got on/., but its been more than ten years, and for the first few years I considered myself a wannabe geek who was crashing the slashdot party. It was a party with cooler and more interesting conversation than the one I should have joined. It was like when I sat down at the science geek nerd lunch table in high school cafeteria... the conversation was irresistibly more interesting and funny than the "cool kids" table others wanted to sit at. Now it's like one of the seniors at the head of the table is finally graduating and leaving school for the real world. Are you going to eat the rest of those fries?
Hey, as long as he's an "idiot", how about getting him to lose the case defending his patent, so badly that it sets court precedent? Most of the ruling precedents (on adapting and reusing and refurbishing something patented) go back to an 1800s cotton baler case. http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/48/gajarsa.pdf?rd=1 Please, defend your patent! Just try to do it hideously and incompetently.
I just had to replace a phone (canoe accident) and Sprint said the hardware replacement meant my previous unlimited data plan was no longer extended. I assume the phone companies are all watching to see what one another gets away with. At least there is competition. Most USA cell phone users give me a blank stare when I allude to "Ma Bell".
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You are Apple. What would it cost you to get as good a server internally? How can you leverage your iCloud threat-to-make in order to negotiate purchase price of the Buy? You are MS. What price do you set for a competitor with high volume and a possibly inferior product, who may decide to invest in making their product competitive with yours?
Over 50% of worldwide PC sales fit this price and description. "White box" manufacturing, aka the "Good enough" market, overtook name brands way back. This is news to the wealthy OECD nations, I guess, but sales in those countries are now less than half of worldwide sales, and white box PCs are about 35% of sales even in the USA.
It's already completely banned in CA and most other states with takeback systems. Europe is actively trying to enforce its bans on used computer exports, and Europol just announced a crackdown on "criminal enterprises" which are Africans sending back computers to their families and associates.http://resource-recycling.com/node/2036
New national legislation has been filed recently by Rep. Thompson and Green. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2011/06/planned-obsolescence-in-hindsight-green.html It kind or works like this: 1) Exaggerate risk, 2) Prohibition. Will work as well as it did for alcohol and marijuana - growth of internet in nations earning $3K per capita is ten times growth of internet in USA.
CBS 60 Minutes, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a lot of journalists have fallen for the trick of bringing cameras to the landfills (not the remanufacturing). It's like taking cameras to the morgue and drawing the conclusion that hospitals must be criminalized. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/07/60-minutes-wastelands-missing-minutes_17.html
....Made by Shah of Iran, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Stalin, Saddam... The people do indeed prefer
what they have, the system in place, to anarchy, violence, chaos, and disorder. They have been under the status quo for so long, they cannot imagine a world without the Party which isn't chaos, anarchy, and disorder.
Argument makes a lot of sense and works very well, except that you will be the first against the wall come the revolution.
Here's another idea... ALLOW USED COMPUTER EXPORTS. Europol (the Police of Europe) just announced that used computer exporting "criminals" have been discovered to be Africans sorting through stuff rich people throw away, and sending it back to their families. Major study just released, documenting 220,000 tons of electronics imported into Ghana, show 85% reuse or repair-and-reuse (15% failure, not much higher than new store returns). Reducing the restrictions on used computer exports would accomplish the same thing, and buyers overseas would be less beholden to junk dealers who ship lower quality. Exaggerate Risk + Prohibition leads to Mexican Marijuana cartels, Al Capone, and "solutions" like this which cost more and work less well than a 3 year old computer.
This is all Matt Groening's fault. Before the "Abe Simpson" character debuted, older Americans were treated with respect in every industry, from modelling to aeronautics, as they are in every other nation in the world.
KDQ (Kaddafy Ghadafi Qadafee) makes #2 on the list of all time badass African Dictators (Africanews.com http://www.africanews.com/site/Africas_top_10_dictators_of_all_time/list_messages/39642 ). Trying to control how oil rich African dictators spend their money has never been a solution. Ultimately, the Revolution 2.0 or "Arab Spring" is a sign that young people in these emerging markets/nations have caught on to the idea of "blaming colonialists" for the acts if dictator assholes. Trying to blame "multinationals" for their problems probably isn't going to fly any better.
By the way, most of these regimes are now seizing containerloads of working computers as "e-waste", blaming all the technology companies for "polluting" their landfills with internet cafes, err, "toxic computers". They'll be warning their people of contagious computer viruses next. So far, German media Bauerfiend is the only major media to catch on to the "ewaste" excuse for hardware censorship disguised as "stewardship". This program documents how I had 3 containerloads of Pentium 4s seized by Mubarak's "EPA" enforcement... http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1352178/E-Waste I think it's too late for these dictators to put the genie back in the bottle. The African "Geeks of Color" will triumph, and in 30 years I hope we'll be talking about "African Tiger" tech economies, and these dictators will be join General Custer, Stalin, and Hitler in the history books. You never saw stories like this in African magazines in the 1980s, they would have been seized and burned.
Some days you wanna read the NYT, some days the NY Post.
Having worked with China environmental industries for over a decade, I skimmed TFA and one thing jumps out immediately... These "violations" the report is built on are actual FINES and ENFORCEMENT of Chinese Environmetal Law. China EPA was NOT enforcing these laws ten years ago. This is actually what progress looks like. If you look up environmental fines and enforcements in the USA, you could write the same report. In the past, you could not have written this report about China.
Or so says Casey Schwartz of Brown University http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/07/why-it-s-smart-to-be-bilingual.html My three children were raised speaking their mother's tongue (French). And like the kids in the article, they seem smarter.
On the flip side, I'm also bilingual, but sort of like an Apple "Power PC", speaking both languages seems to make me worse at either.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
And, it's carbon neutral.
This PC World article from 2003, http://www.pcworld.com/article/112199/why_do_ink_cartridges_cost_so_much.html, might actually have understated the mark up in the HP ink cartridges which, on the books, accounted for 50% of HP profits during some years. Taking something that costs as much as a pack of ball point pens and charging $22 for it was "visionary" for awhile, and Dell tried to follow HP into the giveaway-printers-to-sell-cartridges model. But the "Gillette" strategy - making money on the blades, not the razor - may not work fit the strategy of outsource to China. Did Gillette ever outsource their razor blade manufacturing?
Is it just me, or does /. has a real obsession getting to the bottom of Neanderthal Sex research? I search "Neanderthal sex" in the /. search and come up with 11 stories since 2005 (listed below). But when I search for conventional term "heterosexual marriage", all I find is a single story on "world of warcraft"... go figure.
Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans 56
Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations 406
New Ancient Human Identified 148
Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man 536
Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal 505
Neanderthals and Humans Diverged 660K Years Ago 128
Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? 579
Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man 188
Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years 765
Hominids: The Neanderthal Parallax 132
This will lead to more and more .xx1, .xx2, .xx3 domain reservations.
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I assume it would have springs, or more rubber, to compensate. Which would slightly increase a) the weight of the shoe, and b) the carbon "footprint" of making the shoe. It's the latter (b) that troubles me, and the latter that media/journalists often ignore. The amount of energy required to mine, refine, melt and mold a battery (like in a Prius) can be more than the battery holds or saves in its useful lifetime. Shoes wear out, and if these become like disposable tablets (whose batteries cannot be replaced), then it will be a net loss for society/carbon/energy. Visit the OK Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea on Google Earth to see where all the shiny copper we are using comes from (hint: rainforest with runoff of mine tailings into coral reefs).
You create a fake Facebook profile and mistag-yourself everywhere. You have a police department staff scan photos and mistag you. With a little more effort, Facebook could become the best thing that ever happened for people setting up false identities. But Facebook has to let you mis-tag yourself. I started a Facebook Group "Data Camouflage Anonymous" for the purpose of mis-tagging and mis-identifying photos (to water down the facial recognition database) and within a day found my "tagging" ability turned off by Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/151915044879668/ Facebook should be no more reliable at facial data than they are at birthday records (which are a joke).
Can't remember how I got on /., but its been more than ten years, and for the first few years I considered myself a wannabe geek who was crashing the slashdot party. It was a party with cooler and more interesting conversation than the one I should have joined. It was like when I sat down at the science geek nerd lunch table in high school cafeteria... the conversation was irresistibly more interesting and funny than the "cool kids" table others wanted to sit at. Now it's like one of the seniors at the head of the table is finally graduating and leaving school for the real world. Are you going to eat the rest of those fries?
Oh, so close. It's "The light sees you".
..Welcome the new Foxconn Overlords. All these tablets are being made in the same bloody factory in Shenzhen, right? The one with 450,000 employees?
If Comcast or a cell phone company manages it, they could pay for the space station from the profits on bandwith!
It's just one less brick in the wall.
Hey, as long as he's an "idiot", how about getting him to lose the case defending his patent, so badly that it sets court precedent? Most of the ruling precedents (on adapting and reusing and refurbishing something patented) go back to an 1800s cotton baler case. http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/48/gajarsa.pdf?rd=1 Please, defend your patent! Just try to do it hideously and incompetently.
I just had to replace a phone (canoe accident) and Sprint said the hardware replacement meant my previous unlimited data plan was no longer extended. I assume the phone companies are all watching to see what one another gets away with. At least there is competition. Most USA cell phone users give me a blank stare when I allude to "Ma Bell".
Both rectangular.