There is no hardware solution to a socioeconomic problem. How can you charge $10k when the competition (your stolen software and/or Blender) is free?
By selling in volume at a smaller margin you produce the same net income and create a much larger user base, which increases your popularity and sells more copies. In the end it's a more profitable move.
How about you charge $500 for the full version, and $100 for the educational version with 50% of the features. Make a second revenue stream with training courses. Get some colleges & universities (esp film schools) to run courses in your software.
There's so many ways to judo your opponents instead of trying to punch them over the internet.
My point is that there's no market for mechanization when there's already a cheaper, faster, easier, and more reliable way to get needs met. I don't care if an indian company markets in my neighborhood or I get a robot to do it. I care about how much it will cost. The OP is suggesting that mechanizing everything is the solution and I'm saying in some cases this just isn't true. The false economy is in thinking a robot is cheaper than a human - it creates more problems than it solves. The false economy is in thinking that if I put the expertise in a robot I won't lose it in my company.
I don't believe most people will have to learn to code. It's an opinion I only see on/., which is obviously pro-coding biased. If programmers do their job right one day we won't need programmers at all, the software will rewrite itself. I mean, if I can replace a worker with a program, why not replace a programmer (who is just another worker)?
If we mechanize enough then the labor costs become irrelevant and we can bring the manufacturing home.
I told a friend about a robot I'd designed that could sew clothing tailored to fit. He said "why not send my measurements to india, have a suit fedex'd back the next day? I don't have to give up floor space, hire a programmer or worry about the thing breaking." Mechanization & automation is not a miracle pill.
If the economy collapsed tomorrow, people would still need bridges, roads, plumbing, and power. They could live without software.
It sounds like New Yorker is being deliberately contradictory for lulz.
Seriously, I'm really tired of your bullshit. Why are you spending money waxing poetic about a trip to Mars when you can barely keep the space station in orbit and have yet to land a 13th person on the moon? Does even one of your science geniuses know how to get shit done? You're talking about building a castle in japan when you can't even build a snow fort at the end of the block. You have the rockets, you have the parts, you have the people willing to go... and yet you don't. What's up with that? What's a matter, Mcfly? Are you CHICKEN?
In conclusion, go on being DARPA's bitch instead of hope for humanity. Fuck you guys and your poser bullshit.
Hell, now that I think of it if you've tracked your time and you know your hourly rate then is it possible to write it off as a charitable donation on your taxes?
Your software could make life easier for everyone on your team. Surely, this will trickle down to making your life easier, too.
You already know they won't buy the stuff. So why are you looking for profit in a place where you know there is none to be found?
If it's so great then prove it: Sell it online. If you sell enough copies it will pay for itself and then you can afford to give it to your school for free.
Not only does that help your career but - as a condition of sale - you can use it as a marketing ploy and the school becomes one of your test beds for updates.
Everybody wins.
The OS matters less every day. As long as the web browser is compliant and the OS is invisible, 99% of users are happy.
Since Linux utterly fails to be invisible (I have never had to 'man' anything in OSX) it is hindering its own acceptance
Only an organized group with a plan is ever going to make a difference. The kind of boys who want to work on linux are hard-headed, stubborn loners who want it their way. They will never worry about the end user's experience. They will only work with others as long as it suits them. This kind of selfish treachery is we can't have nice things.
The only people who crow about the year of the linux desktop are the people who get paid to write fluff pieces for tech blogs.
Stop it, already. You're embarrassing me as a member of the human race.
I am going to attend a Texas university. My masters thesis will be to study the theory that evolution happens when I sleep with the wives of politicians and university staff. Now, remember, you can't say no to my thesis or discriminate against me in any way. In fact, you should probably lend a hand in order to appear completely unbiased.
Music piracy doesn't affect you that much, right? What about when 3D printers are everywhere and all the best designs are locked up? This is a fight for the future and most people don't realize they're already losing.
It's my favorite holiday. All the plebs stay home and the admins get to all make the Big Changeover simultaneously. Big sales in survival gear, canned food, and backup drives.
I see a number of replies to OP akin to "oh great, now there will be a new legal group trying to stop me from printing sporks."
What do you think has been happening for the last decade? There's no money to be made in fighting music pirates. Legal groups are trying to stitch up the rights to digital media and digital rights, extending copyrights and patents, and generally trying to make sure that when 3d printers come they'll have all the associated actions, rights, and empowerment neatly sewn up. That is worth a hell of a lot more than some band's playlist.
It's like the writing's on the wall and we're standing around laughing at their caligraphy.
Worse than crotchety.
You're chastising someone for using every method at their disposal to learn what they need to know, while telling them they need to go figure it out for themselves.
Your answer is akin to saying "I have enough time to answer you and yet I don't want to help you."
Do you advocate building your own car instead of taking public transit?
Besides! All those spoon-fed tools will need your $250/hr consultation expertise when things go wonky, right? More experts means less money in your pocket. You're poopooing a great opportunity, here.
Oh, you miss the opportunity. Retro fitting all cars with a jammer AND OnStar with government mandated subscriptions. They'll go where your radio used to be and they'll still provide digital satellite radio, end-to-end user restric^H^H^H^H^H^Hdata integrity checking, two-way GSP, and a nice distracting touchscreen.
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There is no hardware solution to a socioeconomic problem. How can you charge $10k when the competition (your stolen software and/or Blender) is free?
By selling in volume at a smaller margin you produce the same net income and create a much larger user base, which increases your popularity and sells more copies. In the end it's a more profitable move.
How about you charge $500 for the full version, and $100 for the educational version with 50% of the features. Make a second revenue stream with training courses. Get some colleges & universities (esp film schools) to run courses in your software.
There's so many ways to judo your opponents instead of trying to punch them over the internet.
My point is that there's no market for mechanization when there's already a cheaper, faster, easier, and more reliable way to get needs met. I don't care if an indian company markets in my neighborhood or I get a robot to do it. I care about how much it will cost. The OP is suggesting that mechanizing everything is the solution and I'm saying in some cases this just isn't true. The false economy is in thinking a robot is cheaper than a human - it creates more problems than it solves. The false economy is in thinking that if I put the expertise in a robot I won't lose it in my company.
I don't believe most people will have to learn to code. It's an opinion I only see on /., which is obviously pro-coding biased. If programmers do their job right one day we won't need programmers at all, the software will rewrite itself. I mean, if I can replace a worker with a program, why not replace a programmer (who is just another worker)?
Sounds like you missed my point: a robot could be built to do the job. It wouldn't be cheaper than getting a human to do it so there's no market.
If we mechanize enough then the labor costs become irrelevant and we can bring the manufacturing home.
I told a friend about a robot I'd designed that could sew clothing tailored to fit. He said "why not send my measurements to india, have a suit fedex'd back the next day? I don't have to give up floor space, hire a programmer or worry about the thing breaking." Mechanization & automation is not a miracle pill.
If the economy collapsed tomorrow, people would still need bridges, roads, plumbing, and power. They could live without software. It sounds like New Yorker is being deliberately contradictory for lulz.
Seriously, I'm really tired of your bullshit. Why are you spending money waxing poetic about a trip to Mars when you can barely keep the space station in orbit and have yet to land a 13th person on the moon? Does even one of your science geniuses know how to get shit done? You're talking about building a castle in japan when you can't even build a snow fort at the end of the block. You have the rockets, you have the parts, you have the people willing to go... and yet you don't. What's up with that? What's a matter, Mcfly? Are you CHICKEN?
In conclusion, go on being DARPA's bitch instead of hope for humanity. Fuck you guys and your poser bullshit.
Hell, now that I think of it if you've tracked your time and you know your hourly rate then is it possible to write it off as a charitable donation on your taxes?
Your software could make life easier for everyone on your team. Surely, this will trickle down to making your life easier, too.
You already know they won't buy the stuff. So why are you looking for profit in a place where you know there is none to be found?
If it's so great then prove it: Sell it online. If you sell enough copies it will pay for itself and then you can afford to give it to your school for free.
Not only does that help your career but - as a condition of sale - you can use it as a marketing ploy and the school becomes one of your test beds for updates.
Everybody wins.
The programmers will put everyone out of a job. They'll be the last to go.
What does it mean to be wealthy in a world where no one need work for a living?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/14/1840224/throwable-36-camera-ball-takes-spherical-panoramas
Eh.... the vast majority did NOT elect him. stupid first past the post.
Why do you think Harper wants to implement online voting so much? :T
Would you like some help adjusting your seat?
Just what we need, the return of Clippy.
Stop it, already. You're embarrassing me as a member of the human race.
Frame the NSA for wiretapping senators on the intelligence committee.
Wait... was that was in V for Vandetta? Damnit.
Pihk-lee-wah?
Pie-klie-wah?
I prefer the first choice.
I am going to attend a Texas university. My masters thesis will be to study the theory that evolution happens when I sleep with the wives of politicians and university staff. Now, remember, you can't say no to my thesis or discriminate against me in any way. In fact, you should probably lend a hand in order to appear completely unbiased.
:P
Music piracy doesn't affect you that much, right? What about when 3D printers are everywhere and all the best designs are locked up? This is a fight for the future and most people don't realize they're already losing.
This movie had more plot holes than The Phantom Menace. Having said that... it was very pretty.
It's my favorite holiday. All the plebs stay home and the admins get to all make the Big Changeover simultaneously. Big sales in survival gear, canned food, and backup drives.
These days to save a book you have to burn it (to another medium).
If you'd spent 4200 years in a sealed pot... you'd be soup, too!
I see a number of replies to OP akin to "oh great, now there will be a new legal group trying to stop me from printing sporks."
What do you think has been happening for the last decade? There's no money to be made in fighting music pirates. Legal groups are trying to stitch up the rights to digital media and digital rights, extending copyrights and patents, and generally trying to make sure that when 3d printers come they'll have all the associated actions, rights, and empowerment neatly sewn up. That is worth a hell of a lot more than some band's playlist.
It's like the writing's on the wall and we're standing around laughing at their caligraphy.
Worse than crotchety.
You're chastising someone for using every method at their disposal to learn what they need to know, while telling them they need to go figure it out for themselves.
Your answer is akin to saying "I have enough time to answer you and yet I don't want to help you."
Do you advocate building your own car instead of taking public transit?
Besides! All those spoon-fed tools will need your $250/hr consultation expertise when things go wonky, right? More experts means less money in your pocket. You're poopooing a great opportunity, here.
Oh, you miss the opportunity. Retro fitting all cars with a jammer AND OnStar with government mandated subscriptions. They'll go where your radio used to be and they'll still provide digital satellite radio, end-to-end user restric^H^H^H^H^H^Hdata integrity checking, two-way GSP, and a nice distracting touchscreen.