It feels like an updated version of Amiga Deluxe Paint to use. Although it's not as powerful as Photoshop, it's faster, cheaper and much nicer to use. Unfortunately, it's been discontinued apparently due to piracy.
I wonder how many billions (trillions?) of pounds everyone would save if we all used a reliable, fast, non-profit bank which worked universally, and with a single universal currency to boot. It would be so efficient, that payment transfer would be economical even at a fraction of a penny.
In this electronic age, this should be easy. Oh I forgot - UWS. Otherwise known as: "Unnecessary Work Syndrome".
Lower their prices. Opera moaned about how extortionate they are. It's reasonable that they should charge something, but make it small. They'll get a lot more cash in the long in the run, and everybody will be happy.
What I meant was that probably very few devices supported USB in the beginning, so it didn't seem such a great feature at first. However, with the giant Apple backing it, there's the promise that it will eventually become standard.
Now you: What advantages will early adopters of your scheme have?
No spam, and ability to receive less and better quality email by charging arbitrary amounts. Some people who otherwise may not be reachable at all (being super busy), suddenly become available by being able to pay them to read your email.
What advantage will early adopters have from joining your scheme?
What advantage did early adopters of computers with USB ports have of getting their PC? As I said, these things will be added to server installations, and will be available as an *option* to the end user. People can have a 'normal' email and a 'micropayment' email.
I think the main problem is transaction cost. Once companies figure out how to send and receive micropayments for the cost of transmitting normal information over the internet (i.e. virtually nothing), then we have a winner.
I like the humour in the first part of your post:) Though, I did 'find' the Mandelbulb - that was *my* once in a lifetime I think...;)
People can use both email types, until gradually the 'micropayment' emails become the norm, and the free, spam ones are ditched by more and more people. Not forgetting of course than even the 'micropayment' email can charge zero if that's what they really want. It 'subsumes' the old type in that sense.
If these kind of things didn't work, then we wouldn't have new connectors at the back of PCs. USB wouldn't exist for instance.
Micropayments. Yes I know it's been mentioned before, but one rarely hears of paying *each other* (rather than the host or government). It would be a good idea anyway even if spam didn't exist.
If we paid each other (say a penny or 1/10th of a penny), obviously the spam problem would be solved. (though some can charge nothing if they want) It also means that someone who gets a ton of email and hasn't got the time to read all of them will receive only the 'cream' of email. Only those who are willing to sacrifice say, a pound (or £10/£100 for super busy/famous people) would be able to email them.
As we know, Youtube has/is developing methods of payment to watch videos, and online papers are experimenting, so micropayments may be common sooner than we think.
Formats lead to acceptance. Acceptance leads to dominance. Dominance leads to a de facto standard. De facto standards lead to *compatibility, interoperability, commoditization, and precise design requirements, so that people don't waste time designing and taking into account lots of arbitrary specifications*.
[quote]Physics.. monitors cannot change fast enough and in the right way to do this. they simply don't work that way.[/quote] OLED TV will change that. LG have already brought out a 15" TV finally in Korea, so the tech is taking off...
Really high frame rates (say 100fps+) from the SOURCE and display are the only way that we're going to get rid of flicker and all type of blurring for good. Even a perfect display technology which has incredibly fast pixel refreshing will still either flicker or blur (depending on how much black is inserted between each frame), *unless* the source is higher than around 60fps. Future OLED tv will be in this position soon.
Disregarding flicker and blur, 60fps and especially 120fps rates provide silky smooth graphics which really improves over the horrid 30fps rates everyone has had to endure for so long. It bugs the heck out of me that films still only use 24fps. Yes I know each frame is a motion blur of the past 24th of a second, but it would be much nicer to just have a higher frame rate to begin with.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if a lack of standards for just about everything is the single biggest factor of wasted work or economy loss ever.
Every day, thousands of companies are reinventing the wheel for thousands of products and parts. Some need to be improved of course, but I bet the vast majority don't.
It's a horrible state of affairs and means millions or billions of wasted man hours, and a higher end price for the consumer.
Okay I suppose my question would then be; why don't we have the reverse situation, where laser printers are cheap, but the toner is expensive, and where inkjet printers are expensive, but where the ink is cheap?
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Has anyone ever used ArtGem here?
It feels like an updated version of Amiga Deluxe Paint to use. Although it's not as powerful as Photoshop, it's faster, cheaper and much nicer to use. Unfortunately, it's been discontinued apparently due to piracy.
Although patents can be bad, isn't adding a HDMI port to a device very cheap for manufacturers to do?
I wonder how many billions (trillions?) of pounds everyone would save if we all used a reliable, fast, non-profit bank which worked universally, and with a single universal currency to boot. It would be so efficient, that payment transfer would be economical even at a fraction of a penny.
In this electronic age, this should be easy. Oh I forgot - UWS. Otherwise known as: "Unnecessary Work Syndrome".
Opera etc. may have used it had it been cheap enough. In the end, the patents will eventually expire anyway.
Do you think they may still get into trouble for using FFMPEG at all? Or maybe the FFMPEG team will be taken down?
As much as I like everything open and open source, I like (quality) standards and unification even more.
Lower their prices. Opera moaned about how extortionate they are. It's reasonable that they should charge something, but make it small. They'll get a lot more cash in the long in the run, and everybody will be happy.
Isn't that leaning more into conspiracy theory territory though?
Is the primary cause of car scrappage because of rusty parts underneath?
Then why don't all cars use this?
Reply to this (my) post if you read it.
No need to be anon - I'm not going to get bitchy no matter how much I disagree.
What I meant was that probably very few devices supported USB in the beginning, so it didn't seem such a great feature at first. However, with the giant Apple backing it, there's the promise that it will eventually become standard.
Now you: What advantages will early adopters of your scheme have?
No spam, and ability to receive less and better quality email by charging arbitrary amounts. Some people who otherwise may not be reachable at all (being super busy), suddenly become available by being able to pay them to read your email.
Or get paid if they receive more email than they send. Of course it would all be negigible anyway if costs were $0.0001 per email sent anyway.
In the long term, it would balance out as they send and receive email.
What advantage will early adopters have from joining your scheme?
What advantage did early adopters of computers with USB ports have of getting their PC? As I said, these things will be added to server installations, and will be available as an *option* to the end user. People can have a 'normal' email and a 'micropayment' email.
I think the main problem is transaction cost. Once companies figure out how to send and receive micropayments for the cost of transmitting normal information over the internet (i.e. virtually nothing), then we have a winner.
I like the humour in the first part of your post :) Though, I did 'find' the Mandelbulb - that was *my* once in a lifetime I think... ;)
Well the way we handle transactions currently must be hopelessly inefficient. Computers are supposed to be good for this kind of thing.
People can use both email types, until gradually the 'micropayment' emails become the norm, and the free, spam ones are ditched by more and more people. Not forgetting of course than even the 'micropayment' email can charge zero if that's what they really want. It 'subsumes' the old type in that sense.
If these kind of things didn't work, then we wouldn't have new connectors at the back of PCs. USB wouldn't exist for instance.
Micropayments. Yes I know it's been mentioned before, but one rarely hears of paying *each other* (rather than the host or government). It would be a good idea anyway even if spam didn't exist.
If we paid each other (say a penny or 1/10th of a penny), obviously the spam problem would be solved. (though some can charge nothing if they want) It also means that someone who gets a ton of email and hasn't got the time to read all of them will receive only the 'cream' of email. Only those who are willing to sacrifice say, a pound (or £10/£100 for super busy/famous people) would be able to email them.
As we know, Youtube has/is developing methods of payment to watch videos, and online papers are experimenting, so micropayments may be common sooner than we think.
Or we could have flying vehicles avoiding each other by automatically 'repelling' according to a 3D sensor (whereby closer = repel harder).
Unless you want to remove the fun out of flying.
I'd rather pester the manufacturers or the government to make sure standyby power is decent. What are we - living in the stone age?
Formats lead to acceptance. Acceptance leads to dominance. Dominance leads to a de facto standard. De facto standards lead to *compatibility, interoperability, commoditization, and precise design requirements, so that people don't waste time designing and taking into account lots of arbitrary specifications*.
Fixed that for you.
[quote]Physics.. monitors cannot change fast enough and in the right way to do this. they simply don't work that way.[/quote]
OLED TV will change that. LG have already brought out a 15" TV finally in Korea, so the tech is taking off...
Really high frame rates (say 100fps+) from the SOURCE and display are the only way that we're going to get rid of flicker and all type of blurring for good. Even a perfect display technology which has incredibly fast pixel refreshing will still either flicker or blur (depending on how much black is inserted between each frame), *unless* the source is higher than around 60fps. Future OLED tv will be in this position soon.
Disregarding flicker and blur, 60fps and especially 120fps rates provide silky smooth graphics which really improves over the horrid 30fps rates everyone has had to endure for so long. It bugs the heck out of me that films still only use 24fps. Yes I know each frame is a motion blur of the past 24th of a second, but it would be much nicer to just have a higher frame rate to begin with.
Would there be a way to remove this sector/cluster business altogether, and operate on a bit by bit basis? Even theoretically?
Yeah, that needs fixing.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if a lack of standards for just about everything is the single biggest factor of wasted work or economy loss ever.
Every day, thousands of companies are reinventing the wheel for thousands of products and parts. Some need to be improved of course, but I bet the vast majority don't.
It's a horrible state of affairs and means millions or billions of wasted man hours, and a higher end price for the consumer.
Lol, that's classic :)
I now see their evil plan ;)
Okay I suppose my question would then be; why don't we have the reverse situation, where laser printers are cheap, but the toner is expensive, and where inkjet printers are expensive, but where the ink is cheap?