Still it would have been cheaper not to have gotten involved in that war to begin with. One big mistake done back then was to consider all communist nations to be allied with each other when in fact the Sino-Soviet split had already happened.
Not to mention that Saudi Arabia has invaded Bahrain and funds international Islamic terrorists all around the world. Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Syria, you name it. Which countries has North Korea invaded this century?
Actually they need a new product. Their profits in the mp3 player market have basically evaporated and the smartphone market is getting commoditized as would be expected to happen in any mature market. They may grow for a couple of years more as they finally get contracts with telecoms operators in China and India but then its gonna go down. Especially when the competition can manufacture a superior products that costs less. I expect them to shrink to 10% of the market just like happened to them with PCs. The problem with a company with a leader like Steve Jobs is that when the leader dies it isn't easy to replace. There are just some things you can't teach someone to do. You have to BE someone. Their current CEO is a bean counter.
The difference is Apple did that with internal resources and minor acquisitions. Plus the products themselves were not that different from what they were used to building its still consumer electronics. To call a car a consumer electronics product is nonsensical.
IMO that works well when your strength is in manufacturing products. This is why Lenovo's aquisition of IBM worked. They are a vertically integrated company which can have much lower costs of manufacturing than IBM ever could all they needed was a brand to sell their own products. Apple is the complete opposite of that. For me it seems like utter nonsense to enter a different market like that.
One thing is to look at the next paradigm shift in your own industry. i.e. products that will replace your product at its target market application. Another wholly different thing is getting into a market which has *nothing* to do with your market. Then again this is Apple. Their current CEO is not a guy with any sort of college education or background into actually working in computer hardware or software products. He may actually try a dumbass ITT move like that.
FWIW it seems you need to increase the surface area of electrodes to increase battery capacity and this can be done with nanotechnology. The issue so far is reproducing some of these in mass production.
But I missed the part of the social contract whereby agreeing to pay someone what their labor is worth to me creates an obligation on my part to support their family.
No. The fact is a 16 year old or a college student shouldn't be working full time to begin with. If you are working full time the job should pay for living expenses. If it doesn't pay for living expenses perhaps you should carry your own damned golf clubs instead of having a manservant.
Elaborating some more. You have to pay the cost of an inverter and the manual labor installation costs. I often see fanciful price quotes that only include silicon PV cells. Sometimes even without the cells being encased into panels.
Sure. Give me a quote on that. I have heard that it takes that long to recover the energy on manufacturing right now. But not the total cost especially if you include solar panel installation cost which is easily as much as the solar panels themselves.
You make money on it within 15 years with tax subsidies. Solar makes sense in some applications like remote places with no electric grid nearby. If you have an electric grid nearby it makes no financial sense whatsoever. There is nothing technically preventing things like solar panels from being twice as efficient as they are today or a lot cheaper but the fact is they still are neither efficient nor cheap enough to compete with grid power.
You aren't allowed to. Unless someone paid for the patents. Either the hardware or software manufacturer. Did you pay for your playing device? If you didn't there's a good bet you aren't allowed to. The only exception I know of is Adobe Flash. It includes MPEG-4 decoding support and Adobe payed the license. Or whatever. That's why that cancer that is Adobe Flash doesn't seem to vanish from computers. Ever.
Just use MP4. That is the standard container for H264 AVC. If you want something fancy use MKV. MKV support is required in order for a video decoder to have the DivX logo on it so even standalone players usually support it. Quicktime is awful. Not the container format but the player software. Like the other guy said its a steaming pile of crap. Especially on Windows.
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Still it would have been cheaper not to have gotten involved in that war to begin with. One big mistake done back then was to consider all communist nations to be allied with each other when in fact the Sino-Soviet split had already happened.
AFAIK Iraq only started doing chemical-biological warfare after they started losing the war.
Pakistan is an US 'ally' which sends all the data on US military hardware they get their hands on to China.
Not its worse. Its a religion.
Not to mention that Saudi Arabia has invaded Bahrain and funds international Islamic terrorists all around the world. Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Syria, you name it. Which countries has North Korea invaded this century?
Dude. Saudi Arabia applies Sharia as the rule of law. People get stoned for being unfaithful and thieves get their hands cut off.
Actually they need a new product. Their profits in the mp3 player market have basically evaporated and the smartphone market is getting commoditized as would be expected to happen in any mature market. They may grow for a couple of years more as they finally get contracts with telecoms operators in China and India but then its gonna go down. Especially when the competition can manufacture a superior products that costs less. I expect them to shrink to 10% of the market just like happened to them with PCs. The problem with a company with a leader like Steve Jobs is that when the leader dies it isn't easy to replace. There are just some things you can't teach someone to do. You have to BE someone. Their current CEO is a bean counter.
The difference is Apple did that with internal resources and minor acquisitions. Plus the products themselves were not that different from what they were used to building its still consumer electronics. To call a car a consumer electronics product is nonsensical.
IMO that works well when your strength is in manufacturing products. This is why Lenovo's aquisition of IBM worked. They are a vertically integrated company which can have much lower costs of manufacturing than IBM ever could all they needed was a brand to sell their own products. Apple is the complete opposite of that. For me it seems like utter nonsense to enter a different market like that.
One thing is to look at the next paradigm shift in your own industry. i.e. products that will replace your product at its target market application. Another wholly different thing is getting into a market which has *nothing* to do with your market. Then again this is Apple. Their current CEO is not a guy with any sort of college education or background into actually working in computer hardware or software products. He may actually try a dumbass ITT move like that.
From what I've heard the 'physics limits' haven't been reached.
FWIW it seems you need to increase the surface area of electrodes to increase battery capacity and this can be done with nanotechnology. The issue so far is reproducing some of these in mass production.
But I missed the part of the social contract whereby agreeing to pay someone what their labor is worth to me creates an obligation on my part to support their family.
People are expected to have families.
Full time working teenagers? Hah.
How many supervisors do you think McDonalds has in a store anyway?
Not just that. Most people want more than you can get with bare minimum living standards.
No. The fact is a 16 year old or a college student shouldn't be working full time to begin with. If you are working full time the job should pay for living expenses. If it doesn't pay for living expenses perhaps you should carry your own damned golf clubs instead of having a manservant.
Elaborating some more. You have to pay the cost of an inverter and the manual labor installation costs. I often see fanciful price quotes that only include silicon PV cells. Sometimes even without the cells being encased into panels.
Sure. Give me a quote on that. I have heard that it takes that long to recover the energy on manufacturing right now. But not the total cost especially if you include solar panel installation cost which is easily as much as the solar panels themselves.
If you paid to get something with Microsoft Windows or iOS in it you paid for the patent royalties.
You make money on it within 15 years with tax subsidies. Solar makes sense in some applications like remote places with no electric grid nearby. If you have an electric grid nearby it makes no financial sense whatsoever. There is nothing technically preventing things like solar panels from being twice as efficient as they are today or a lot cheaper but the fact is they still are neither efficient nor cheap enough to compete with grid power.
You aren't allowed to. Unless someone paid for the patents. Either the hardware or software manufacturer. Did you pay for your playing device? If you didn't there's a good bet you aren't allowed to. The only exception I know of is Adobe Flash. It includes MPEG-4 decoding support and Adobe payed the license. Or whatever. That's why that cancer that is Adobe Flash doesn't seem to vanish from computers. Ever.
Just use MP4. That is the standard container for H264 AVC. If you want something fancy use MKV. MKV support is required in order for a video decoder to have the DivX logo on it so even standalone players usually support it. Quicktime is awful. Not the container format but the player software. Like the other guy said its a steaming pile of crap. Especially on Windows.
Because you don't have to pay patent royalties to use it.
there are platforms that don't have open source codecs installed by default, leaving the "average" user unable to view the videos
Google Chrome supports if by default. Which kind of platform are you using anyway?