Japan has withdrawn from the display market before (CRTs) And has done so grudgingly, but smartly, each time. It is the chips and software where successful nations (Japan and USA among them) prioritize. Korea and Taiwan (which runs Shenzhen) are still in the game. I have been interviewing some of the display experts of the 1970s-90s. Panasonic's "arm-length" relationship with its display subcontractors in Indonesia deserves a book in itself.
Sanders: Corporations are sending your jobs to China and Mexico!
Trump: China and Mexico took away your jobs!
Competition hurts good. The back bench of the whites-only-basketball-team shit their pants when the NBA integrated. Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals probably "disemployed" some back up pitcher.
The theory is that 300M Americans who buy $18 jeans are better off than 300M Americans buying $65 blue jeans. Because if unemployment now is 5% despite losing the USA 65$-jeans-making-jobs loss, that if the jeans jobs were STILL here we'd be screwed. The noise from the people on the pitchers bench who lost their pitching jobs has been exaggerated via WWE.
I grew up in a fine big house where all my neighbors lived in fucking cardboard boxes. Now my neighbors have decent houses. Whaddya know, my home valuation went up!!
Vermont resident here. Best argument I heard against the labelling requirement was that it's TMI. Similar to the arguments about packaging being "recycled content" or "recyclable", or "made in USA", the opponents make the case that every additional disclosure requirement obfuscates ingredient and nutrition information, or dolphin-safe etc. If Vermont required companies put the number of women employed as a percentage of labor, or minority representation on company board of directors, or employee-owned stock, etc. etc., SOMEONE will always be in favor of "disclosing" it on the label. But there's a legitimate concern that the net effect is "noise". Consumers engage in a form of "moral licensing", giving more weight to "recyclable" than "carbs". T
here is a social cost to obfuscation and "Too Much Information" on labels.
Many in Vermont have a legitimate purpose in branding the state as more natural and organic because it's basically impossible to operate factory farming here. But while legitimate, it's also legitimate to argue Vermont's concerns are basically protectionism against milk and cheese made more cheaply in Ohio. My concerns over GMO has to do with monoculture and unintended consequences of reduced genetic diversity, and eventual loss of rights to plant your own seeds. And I feel strongly about it. But trying to make other people who are less educated, who think GMO is a health concern, share my agenda is a "poster child" technique which will produce fewer returns the more information is packed onto a label. If we put every "true" thing on a label, people will be deluged and stop reading labels. And THAT is the tactic I hope food labels don't embrace - EULA Agreement scale labels that provide so much "information" that the consumers are lost in politics, packaging, nutrition, ingredients, weight, volume, etc.
Eureka, retired people without a computer prefer direct mail, and young people who travel and change domiciles prefer PDF. Surely there is a Nobel Prize waiting somewhere.
They are trying to do what we wish all manufacturers would do, make devices repairable, upgradeable, and built of sustainable raw materials.
I truly hope they will succeed, but they have to make something competitive with manufacturers that don't tie a hand behind their backs, because cheaper phones make more profits, and more profits make better phones. I trade with the Good Enough Markets (Africa, South America, Asia) and the buyers of used phones want whatever is the best phone for the least cost. The minute they make some compromise that reduces quality and value, they will lose scaleability and traction. To achieve value, you must achieve scale of production, and that requires a wee bit of ruthlessness.
Good Luck, Fair Phone Guys. Don't try to be perfect, just be better.
Hire some ex-Apple employees to hack this phone. It's a job, and the government has every right to crack THAT phone. But Apple shouldn't be the only people in the world who can do it, and shouldn't be forced to. Surely if he government pays someone enough money, they can do whatever Apple would do half-heartedly
Mainly, they drop in price from scale of production (which makes the advance in tech investible). As more billions of people can afford the device, more devices are made, smaller and smaller margins on each device add up to greater total stock value (or if you prefer, profit). https://hbr.org/2007/09/the-ba...
I realize this is a News for Nerds site, and many nerds fear losing their jobs in the short term to places like India. But 15 years ago/. used to have a lot more vocal free trade thinkers. The concept is that India gets richer, China gets richer, and that leads to peace and more net jobs (for example, Hollywood movies earn much higher international sales, USA chicken and corn exports go through the roof, Buick triples its exports). If this makes Hertz rentals cheaper, that income goes to something else in the USA, probably.
I explain it to my kids this way. Your cell phone was assembled by Taiwanese owned companies in China. That alone 1) reduces chance of war between China and Taiwan, and 2) reduces the cost of your cell phone by 400%, so 3) Chinese people can now afford to buy the cell phones, and 4) the cost of the cell phone falls another 400% because of scale of manufacture (as Chinese can now afford them). Would you rather live in a USA where the cell phones are assembled in California and cost $8000 and the Chinese are working in rice fields? Sacrificing the 1000 California assembly line jobs creates about 10,000 Chinese jobs (from the increased production due to cheaper phones) and creates programming jobs for cell phones - in California.
The same people who got alarmed by outsourced phone assembly jobs now express alarm about the programming jobs. And they sound like the same people who were alarmed in the 1970s when Hertz started buying more Japanese cars, so the cost of cars went down and the quality came up and Japan became wealthy and peaceful and eventually opened Toyota and Honda factories in the USA.
Trump says China and Mexico stole your jobs, Bernie says corporations sent your jobs to China and Mexico. They are both old enough to remember how utterly stupid the anti-Japanese-car kerfluffle turned out to be, shame on both.
I think it was rational to go to the moon a limited number of times, and then give it a rest. Imagine if NASA had continued sending people to the moon into the 1990s, and it became an entitlement program. Edgar Mitchell is perfect in that he was brave, talented, and rare. A thousand more moonwalkers would have led to a backlash instead of nostalgia.
Foxconn's Terry Gou is every bit a genius as Wozniak, and Taiwan should be proud of him. Gou's Foxconn techs are at least half (if not more) of the Apple IPhone tech advance (the Taiwan Foxcon techs were already manufacturing and designing IPods, and were wicked good at touch display, before iPhone was manufactured by them... there is a quarrel whether Apple bought key Taipai techs and moved them to Vancouver). If you are 582462 on Slashdot you should be way too old to generate racist anti-Taiwan rants. Taiwan geeks are quite honorable, and I have no doubt they can make Sharp proud.
My org had dozens of videos housed at Viddler.com's "free hosting" while it lasted. Viddler had trouble being free a couple of years ago and sent a big bill we couldn't pay. When we asked were our videos deleted, Viddler tech support said they existed... somewhere... in Amazon.
The Nielsen ratings have never rally been without major sampling error, methodology and fallacy. If they really want the traffic numbers, they can get them from Comcast and other cable networks. And after reading the article, it's actually more just a complaint and response to a complaint than "escalation". Move along, nothing to see here.
What the heck. I was just flying my drone I got for Christmas, and it mysteriously stopped working and landed on my neighbor's Mercedes and his daughter was in it. The neighbor's attorney is asking for my insurance company, but they said I need to contact Airbus. Heck.
Some of the best journalism comes from Muckraking. Still, it's pretty easy to see that the main advantage of the internet is that it provides education / information to billions of people who never had access to it before, and the growth in that penetration is a bigger story than the limits to educating and informing people. The main disadvantage is when the internet provides miseducation / false information to billions of people. The nuance is that misinformation has been readily accessible to the billions of people for eons. The optimist thinks that misinformation will find it more difficult to compete with truth, and that attempts to curtail it will tend to blowback on churches, governments and corporations which try to wedge against it.
Contract manufacturers make most commodity appliances like PCs. The added value of Sony or Fujitsu that is necessary to negotiate with the contract manufacturers becomes a distraction at a certain point, and the "brand" is better off focusing on its core assets.
"Is Technology allowing us to improve ourselves, or allowing us to become lazy and complacent?" The answer is always it depends who and where and when and how. For example, if I'm outraged by Boka Haram, I could (per the article) tweet hashtags and think I accomplished something by venting my gossipy opinions. On the other hand, I can speak directly with Africans in the northern sahel who are online and have 80-90% cell phone teledensity about the problem and get information unfiltered by western media. Half assed opinions emerge and travel briskly, but so does research that snopes those halfassed opinions. Mass communications spreads information and disinformation very quickly, and what matters is how hard you try to get correct information (or to correct disinformation). BTW #freehurricanebenson #freejoebenson #ewastehoax
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Japan has withdrawn from the display market before (CRTs) And has done so grudgingly, but smartly, each time. It is the chips and software where successful nations (Japan and USA among them) prioritize. Korea and Taiwan (which runs Shenzhen) are still in the game. I have been interviewing some of the display experts of the 1970s-90s. Panasonic's "arm-length" relationship with its display subcontractors in Indonesia deserves a book in itself.
History of World War 2, if it had been recorded by Facebook
Sanders: Corporations are sending your jobs to China and Mexico!
Trump: China and Mexico took away your jobs!
Competition hurts good. The back bench of the whites-only-basketball-team shit their pants when the NBA integrated. Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals probably "disemployed" some back up pitcher.
The theory is that 300M Americans who buy $18 jeans are better off than 300M Americans buying $65 blue jeans. Because if unemployment now is 5% despite losing the USA 65$-jeans-making-jobs loss, that if the jeans jobs were STILL here we'd be screwed. The noise from the people on the pitchers bench who lost their pitching jobs has been exaggerated via WWE.
I grew up in a fine big house where all my neighbors lived in fucking cardboard boxes. Now my neighbors have decent houses. Whaddya know, my home valuation went up!!
Vermont resident here. Best argument I heard against the labelling requirement was that it's TMI. Similar to the arguments about packaging being "recycled content" or "recyclable", or "made in USA", the opponents make the case that every additional disclosure requirement obfuscates ingredient and nutrition information, or dolphin-safe etc. If Vermont required companies put the number of women employed as a percentage of labor, or minority representation on company board of directors, or employee-owned stock, etc. etc., SOMEONE will always be in favor of "disclosing" it on the label. But there's a legitimate concern that the net effect is "noise". Consumers engage in a form of "moral licensing", giving more weight to "recyclable" than "carbs". T
here is a social cost to obfuscation and "Too Much Information" on labels.
Many in Vermont have a legitimate purpose in branding the state as more natural and organic because it's basically impossible to operate factory farming here. But while legitimate, it's also legitimate to argue Vermont's concerns are basically protectionism against milk and cheese made more cheaply in Ohio. My concerns over GMO has to do with monoculture and unintended consequences of reduced genetic diversity, and eventual loss of rights to plant your own seeds. And I feel strongly about it. But trying to make other people who are less educated, who think GMO is a health concern, share my agenda is a "poster child" technique which will produce fewer returns the more information is packed onto a label. If we put every "true" thing on a label, people will be deluged and stop reading labels. And THAT is the tactic I hope food labels don't embrace - EULA Agreement scale labels that provide so much "information" that the consumers are lost in politics, packaging, nutrition, ingredients, weight, volume, etc.
Eureka, retired people without a computer prefer direct mail, and young people who travel and change domiciles prefer PDF. Surely there is a Nobel Prize waiting somewhere.
Wait, did they finish shutting down ISIS already?
A: They are hiring outside skills and labor to screw you, personally
B: IBM is identifying the best skill and labor, at the lowest cost, to lower price of product they manufacture (benefitting consumers)
Seems like only a politician can answer the question "correctlty"
..and no one heard it, did it make a noise?
They are trying to do what we wish all manufacturers would do, make devices repairable, upgradeable, and built of sustainable raw materials.
I truly hope they will succeed, but they have to make something competitive with manufacturers that don't tie a hand behind their backs, because cheaper phones make more profits, and more profits make better phones. I trade with the Good Enough Markets (Africa, South America, Asia) and the buyers of used phones want whatever is the best phone for the least cost. The minute they make some compromise that reduces quality and value, they will lose scaleability and traction. To achieve value, you must achieve scale of production, and that requires a wee bit of ruthlessness.
Good Luck, Fair Phone Guys. Don't try to be perfect, just be better.
And everyone screams to RTFA. I think /. has this covered.
Hire some ex-Apple employees to hack this phone. It's a job, and the government has every right to crack THAT phone. But Apple shouldn't be the only people in the world who can do it, and shouldn't be forced to. Surely if he government pays someone enough money, they can do whatever Apple would do half-heartedly
Mainly, they drop in price from scale of production (which makes the advance in tech investible). As more billions of people can afford the device, more devices are made, smaller and smaller margins on each device add up to greater total stock value (or if you prefer, profit). https://hbr.org/2007/09/the-ba...
I realize this is a News for Nerds site, and many nerds fear losing their jobs in the short term to places like India. But 15 years ago /. used to have a lot more vocal free trade thinkers. The concept is that India gets richer, China gets richer, and that leads to peace and more net jobs (for example, Hollywood movies earn much higher international sales, USA chicken and corn exports go through the roof, Buick triples its exports). If this makes Hertz rentals cheaper, that income goes to something else in the USA, probably.
I explain it to my kids this way. Your cell phone was assembled by Taiwanese owned companies in China. That alone 1) reduces chance of war between China and Taiwan, and 2) reduces the cost of your cell phone by 400%, so 3) Chinese people can now afford to buy the cell phones, and 4) the cost of the cell phone falls another 400% because of scale of manufacture (as Chinese can now afford them). Would you rather live in a USA where the cell phones are assembled in California and cost $8000 and the Chinese are working in rice fields? Sacrificing the 1000 California assembly line jobs creates about 10,000 Chinese jobs (from the increased production due to cheaper phones) and creates programming jobs for cell phones - in California.
The same people who got alarmed by outsourced phone assembly jobs now express alarm about the programming jobs. And they sound like the same people who were alarmed in the 1970s when Hertz started buying more Japanese cars, so the cost of cars went down and the quality came up and Japan became wealthy and peaceful and eventually opened Toyota and Honda factories in the USA.
Trump says China and Mexico stole your jobs, Bernie says corporations sent your jobs to China and Mexico. They are both old enough to remember how utterly stupid the anti-Japanese-car kerfluffle turned out to be, shame on both.
Call it as I see it.
I think it was rational to go to the moon a limited number of times, and then give it a rest. Imagine if NASA had continued sending people to the moon into the 1990s, and it became an entitlement program. Edgar Mitchell is perfect in that he was brave, talented, and rare. A thousand more moonwalkers would have led to a backlash instead of nostalgia.
Foxconn's Terry Gou is every bit a genius as Wozniak, and Taiwan should be proud of him. Gou's Foxconn techs are at least half (if not more) of the Apple IPhone tech advance (the Taiwan Foxcon techs were already manufacturing and designing IPods, and were wicked good at touch display, before iPhone was manufactured by them... there is a quarrel whether Apple bought key Taipai techs and moved them to Vancouver). If you are 582462 on Slashdot you should be way too old to generate racist anti-Taiwan rants. Taiwan geeks are quite honorable, and I have no doubt they can make Sharp proud.
My org had dozens of videos housed at Viddler.com's "free hosting" while it lasted. Viddler had trouble being free a couple of years ago and sent a big bill we couldn't pay. When we asked were our videos deleted, Viddler tech support said they existed... somewhere... in Amazon.
The Nielsen ratings have never rally been without major sampling error, methodology and fallacy. If they really want the traffic numbers, they can get them from Comcast and other cable networks. And after reading the article, it's actually more just a complaint and response to a complaint than "escalation". Move along, nothing to see here.
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."- B.F. Skinner
What the heck. I was just flying my drone I got for Christmas, and it mysteriously stopped working and landed on my neighbor's Mercedes and his daughter was in it. The neighbor's attorney is asking for my insurance company, but they said I need to contact Airbus. Heck.
You need to start with robot jurors.
Some of the best journalism comes from Muckraking. Still, it's pretty easy to see that the main advantage of the internet is that it provides education / information to billions of people who never had access to it before, and the growth in that penetration is a bigger story than the limits to educating and informing people. The main disadvantage is when the internet provides miseducation / false information to billions of people. The nuance is that misinformation has been readily accessible to the billions of people for eons. The optimist thinks that misinformation will find it more difficult to compete with truth, and that attempts to curtail it will tend to blowback on churches, governments and corporations which try to wedge against it.
Well, Wistron and Lenovo and Compal and Quanta, sure. More people know Foxconn, which makes more of the displays.
Contract manufacturers make most commodity appliances like PCs. The added value of Sony or Fujitsu that is necessary to negotiate with the contract manufacturers becomes a distraction at a certain point, and the "brand" is better off focusing on its core assets.
"Is Technology allowing us to improve ourselves, or allowing us to become lazy and complacent?" The answer is always it depends who and where and when and how. For example, if I'm outraged by Boka Haram, I could (per the article) tweet hashtags and think I accomplished something by venting my gossipy opinions. On the other hand, I can speak directly with Africans in the northern sahel who are online and have 80-90% cell phone teledensity about the problem and get information unfiltered by western media. Half assed opinions emerge and travel briskly, but so does research that snopes those halfassed opinions. Mass communications spreads information and disinformation very quickly, and what matters is how hard you try to get correct information (or to correct disinformation). BTW #freehurricanebenson #freejoebenson #ewastehoax