if 3d is not complex, then why do you think it's somehow not going to raise the price of tv's enormously? or as the old concept goes "why does the red one cost more than the green one? it's the same thing."
Go look at a specific size and/or brand of TV for the last 30 years. Go watch how little has actually changed. like I said, small resolution leaps, and such. Meanwhile, the price has remained very consistent with inflation regardless of things being cheaper to produce. Oh you will notice one thing though. The TV's actually got smaller when switched from a standard measurement to widescreen.
There is no smaller company with feature creep. Do you know what happens to them? Go look at sanyo, for an example of that.
Compete, and you get bought out, even if it's unintentional. Companies are milked by being bought out regularly and left to dry. It's quite legal and common.
We have a TV, with an antenna. Let's sell a new one at a higher premium, the feature is "it's antenna-less!". X years later, lets sell a new one, the feature is "it has better reception due to an improved/new antenna!". Tv manufacturers have done this for years. Go find someone who works for any TV manufacturer and they can tell you this firsthand. You'll also find out there are a total of about 3 actual companies, and the rest is just subsidiaries. Everyone's parts come from the same manufacturer, just someone different puts it together.
Replace any feature with the antenna concept and you'll see what has happened to certain electronics ever year for the last 20 years. This happens in many industries. It's always things hard for people to document, always things verbal. The answer is, it's not about 3d. It's about keeping the price higher than 3d costs, and not by accident. Or do you not remember the price fixing scandal? That was just one facet.
don't you know why this is done? TV manufacturers are running out of ways for being able to insulate the price barrier.
This has nothing to do with 3d being good or bad, it has to do with how every manufacturer has an agreement on artificially insulating price with a new technology. Same was done with flat panel, then LCD, then high def, then hz wars(120! 240!).
All marginal technologies that should normal drive the price down. Instead they'll be able to have 52" TV's be in the many thousands of dollars amount for years to come due to raising it back up for 3d.
Think of it like apple's feature creep, it's the same idea and same reasons, to force price to an arbitrary amount before it eats into their margins.
not every phone with wifi can do uma or any other "call over wifi" equivalent either. Mostly blackberries, I think? I don't see a lot of alternatives for gsm phones.
actually, on the flip side this will make encrypting every p2p download standard procedure - thus people who use encryption on their normal downloads will be doing SOP as well - it'll make it that much harder for the MAFIAA to identify people as "filesharers" when everyone's doing it.
I still the patent is retarded and there should be prior art, though. At this point I'd like to see our patent office refuse all patents at this point until they start focusing on quality again.
I consider EA/Activision on the same boat. Their policies seem almost identical too. If they both were gone, we'd be in a LOT better shape for pc gaming.
casual gaming has only enabled the market to grow - however, casual gaming is it's own separate part of the market - to say that it has replaced pc gaming, or "hardcore gaming" when each of those are their own markets, is disingenuous.
Each has it's own place, and trying to say casual is taking over is exactly what companies like EA are trying to do to be able to drop PC market and have DRM hardware side built-in (aka consoles) as opposed to software side on PC's where it is easily cracked. Not that the hardware DRM can't be cracked either, as it usually is quite quickly. So they provide shoddy support for PC games and then declare that PC gaming is over, etc. It's about a 5 year cycle that people say PC gaming is dead, or hardcore gaming. Yet I don't see those starcraft tournaments going away anytime soon, or gaming for sport.
ever waved your hand so fast back and forth that it creates a blur? Ever seen those little things that go back and forth back enough to display an image?
Reality is indeed inherently blurry. It's just hard to accurately portray blur when you're staring at something that's not moving.
actually about the nexus they said or implied that "down the road" they'll be getting apps2SD in some kind of legitimate supported version.
In the meantime, I don't care. We all have cyanogenmod and basically every android phone has a port of cyanogenmod with apps2SD to take care of the rest.
Meanwhile, I think apps alone take up over 100MB for me on my SD card, last I recall. so yeah, 170MB (which is the nexus amount, or is it 250MB?) minus the 100MB = back to the same memory my G1 has, but a faster processor.
I think the issue is not that there isn't a gig available to us (as it's in total), but more that they simply haven't upped it to 2 gigs. Really, that memory has to be the cheapest part of the whole setup, and yet they won't add the probably $5 manufacturing to double the memory and have 0 issues from anyone?
nevermind, it is 100% gone now. Holy crap, that is 100% bogus. To think tmobile went from the cheapest provider to the most expensive because of that. Sad.
You can still do a myfaves plan. Those "more plus" and "even more plus" plans don't get rid of myfaves, they just add more options if I recall correctly (I could be wrong)
If you want to live within "Safe" levels, go to another planet. Last I checked, we get a ton of radiation on earth in tons of forms that cannot be avoided. If we were to leave earth, in fact, it'd actually get less safe as most places don't have atmospheres to protect against the amount of radiation we *do* get.
Bingo. I can hardly believe the anon article poster is complaining about people doing things to remain productive. Maybe they think the workplace is a vacuum or something.
Do I really need to pull up the studies for them about how taking mental breaks is important at work?
wha? Since when has Microsoft given away actual code without a patent threat?
GPL = you can't give it away unless you really give it away. The only restrictions are that you may not add restrictions. BSD = you can give it away, but with restrictions (and no definition of what those have to be).
no. there are tolerances of all forms of radiations. 0 does not exist in any environment for radiation. What do you think any electrical source gives off, your monitor gives off, the sun gives off? do you think you're magically immune by being indoors or underground? I'll let the "parents basement" joke slide here. Pushpins are physical and that is not accurate. Compare this more to "what is the risk of cancer from tanning beds versus being outside", etc.
However, this milimeter wave/terahertz scanner stuff has not been tested to find an actual government sanctioned "this amount is safe".
android 2.1 (along with TTS) will come to everyone. the processor on the droid is 800mhz, where this is 1ghz.
I don't know if text to speak will work well enough for most people as opposed to a keyboard. I love my G1, but I'm not getting a nexus - because it lacks a keyboard. I'll wait for another android phone to come out for Tmo with a keyboard and 1Ghz snapdragon.
BSD licenses are horrible. Really, it enables anyone to make your code proprietary at your choosing. At least with GPL if you give someone an apple they can't take away that apple and turn it into a turd.
not really. Iphone is wearing off in it's popularity and android is picking up bigtime with community support. Unless iphone starts actually letting people enjoy the same features across all phones, they're not going to pick up squat this time, dependent on how much of their marketshare/steam is taken away by android.
currently on an android phone whether a manufacturer allows a feature or not it can basically be guaranteed on the phone due to open source work on the phone. Bluetooth file transfer? A2dP? wireless tethering? exchange server sync?
the only things left is blackberry sync, and once that's gone, RIM will lose massive marketshare too.
Lots of the technology is still nascent and is really the only reason it hasn't picked up further.
nah, I agree with you that apache does good work, but it doesn't speak well for the foundation and/or does indeed fall in line with traditional microsoft methods of subverting something they dont' like.
So different, apache itself isn't bad, but MS trying to subvert it = everyone has their eyes on where it could potentially go.
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if 3d is not complex, then why do you think it's somehow not going to raise the price of tv's enormously? or as the old concept goes "why does the red one cost more than the green one? it's the same thing."
Go look at a specific size and/or brand of TV for the last 30 years. Go watch how little has actually changed. like I said, small resolution leaps, and such. Meanwhile, the price has remained very consistent with inflation regardless of things being cheaper to produce. Oh you will notice one thing though. The TV's actually got smaller when switched from a standard measurement to widescreen.
There is no smaller company with feature creep. Do you know what happens to them? Go look at sanyo, for an example of that.
Compete, and you get bought out, even if it's unintentional. Companies are milked by being bought out regularly and left to dry. It's quite legal and common.
Okay, lets see.
Here's an example.
We have a TV, with an antenna. Let's sell a new one at a higher premium, the feature is "it's antenna-less!". X years later, lets sell a new one, the feature is "it has better reception due to an improved/new antenna!". Tv manufacturers have done this for years. Go find someone who works for any TV manufacturer and they can tell you this firsthand. You'll also find out there are a total of about 3 actual companies, and the rest is just subsidiaries. Everyone's parts come from the same manufacturer, just someone different puts it together.
Replace any feature with the antenna concept and you'll see what has happened to certain electronics ever year for the last 20 years. This happens in many industries. It's always things hard for people to document, always things verbal.
The answer is, it's not about 3d. It's about keeping the price higher than 3d costs, and not by accident. Or do you not remember the price fixing scandal? That was just one facet.
it's already been cited by other slashdot comments in the article. The idea should be refused under bilski but then again, I'm not the patent office.
Just because something is lacking documented prior art doesn't mean it's a good patent.
don't you know why this is done? TV manufacturers are running out of ways for being able to insulate the price barrier.
This has nothing to do with 3d being good or bad, it has to do with how every manufacturer has an agreement on artificially insulating price with a new technology. Same was done with flat panel, then LCD, then high def, then hz wars(120! 240!).
All marginal technologies that should normal drive the price down. Instead they'll be able to have 52" TV's be in the many thousands of dollars amount for years to come due to raising it back up for 3d.
Think of it like apple's feature creep, it's the same idea and same reasons, to force price to an arbitrary amount before it eats into their margins.
not every phone with wifi can do uma or any other "call over wifi" equivalent either. Mostly blackberries, I think? I don't see a lot of alternatives for gsm phones.
actually, on the flip side this will make encrypting every p2p download standard procedure - thus people who use encryption on their normal downloads will be doing SOP as well - it'll make it that much harder for the MAFIAA to identify people as "filesharers" when everyone's doing it.
I still the patent is retarded and there should be prior art, though. At this point I'd like to see our patent office refuse all patents at this point until they start focusing on quality again.
I consider EA/Activision on the same boat. Their policies seem almost identical too. If they both were gone, we'd be in a LOT better shape for pc gaming.
casual gaming has only enabled the market to grow - however, casual gaming is it's own separate part of the market - to say that it has replaced pc gaming, or "hardcore gaming" when each of those are their own markets, is disingenuous.
Each has it's own place, and trying to say casual is taking over is exactly what companies like EA are trying to do to be able to drop PC market and have DRM hardware side built-in (aka consoles) as opposed to software side on PC's where it is easily cracked. Not that the hardware DRM can't be cracked either, as it usually is quite quickly. So they provide shoddy support for PC games and then declare that PC gaming is over, etc. It's about a 5 year cycle that people say PC gaming is dead, or hardcore gaming. Yet I don't see those starcraft tournaments going away anytime soon, or gaming for sport.
or you can get a PC, which has been able to decode blu ray without even having a blu ray player.
So maybe you don't want to overbuy.
Again as usual, it's still easier to download than buy legit.
ah, I see what you mean.
my bad on the argument here.
what are you talking about?
ever waved your hand so fast back and forth that it creates a blur? Ever seen those little things that go back and forth back enough to display an image?
Reality is indeed inherently blurry. It's just hard to accurately portray blur when you're staring at something that's not moving.
actually about the nexus they said or implied that "down the road" they'll be getting apps2SD in some kind of legitimate supported version.
In the meantime, I don't care. We all have cyanogenmod and basically every android phone has a port of cyanogenmod with apps2SD to take care of the rest.
Meanwhile, I think apps alone take up over 100MB for me on my SD card, last I recall. so yeah, 170MB (which is the nexus amount, or is it 250MB?) minus the 100MB = back to the same memory my G1 has, but a faster processor.
I think the issue is not that there isn't a gig available to us (as it's in total), but more that they simply haven't upped it to 2 gigs. Really, that memory has to be the cheapest part of the whole setup, and yet they won't add the probably $5 manufacturing to double the memory and have 0 issues from anyone?
nevermind, it is 100% gone now. Holy crap, that is 100% bogus. To think tmobile went from the cheapest provider to the most expensive because of that. Sad.
You can still do a myfaves plan. Those "more plus" and "even more plus" plans don't get rid of myfaves, they just add more options if I recall correctly (I could be wrong)
If you want to live within "Safe" levels, go to another planet. Last I checked, we get a ton of radiation on earth in tons of forms that cannot be avoided. If we were to leave earth, in fact, it'd actually get less safe as most places don't have atmospheres to protect against the amount of radiation we *do* get.
Thus, your point is 100% moot.
Bingo. I can hardly believe the anon article poster is complaining about people doing things to remain productive. Maybe they think the workplace is a vacuum or something.
Do I really need to pull up the studies for them about how taking mental breaks is important at work?
I guess they need more profit, and putting to spite their existing customers is certainly not in the way of their attempts to make more profit.
Then again, when you hear about EA's policies towards developers, is it surprising?
The first time a company screws up, is not it's last. Companies don't change their spots, and EA is no exception.
wha? Since when has Microsoft given away actual code without a patent threat?
GPL = you can't give it away unless you really give it away. The only restrictions are that you may not add restrictions.
BSD = you can give it away, but with restrictions (and no definition of what those have to be).
no. there are tolerances of all forms of radiations. 0 does not exist in any environment for radiation. What do you think any electrical source gives off, your monitor gives off, the sun gives off? do you think you're magically immune by being indoors or underground? I'll let the "parents basement" joke slide here. Pushpins are physical and that is not accurate. Compare this more to "what is the risk of cancer from tanning beds versus being outside", etc.
However, this milimeter wave/terahertz scanner stuff has not been tested to find an actual government sanctioned "this amount is safe".
android 2.1 (along with TTS) will come to everyone. the processor on the droid is 800mhz, where this is 1ghz.
I don't know if text to speak will work well enough for most people as opposed to a keyboard. I love my G1, but I'm not getting a nexus - because it lacks a keyboard. I'll wait for another android phone to come out for Tmo with a keyboard and 1Ghz snapdragon.
just use google voice along with their myfave plan. every call comes through on your myfave #, both inbound and outbound, thus = unlimited minutes.
Remember that tmobile lets you change plans anytime. You can sign on with a 2 year contract at a set plan, and change the plan right away.
aren't these the scanners known to have health risks and/or not work?
BSD licenses are horrible. Really, it enables anyone to make your code proprietary at your choosing. At least with GPL if you give someone an apple they can't take away that apple and turn it into a turd.
BSD is a "give away and pray" license.
not really. Iphone is wearing off in it's popularity and android is picking up bigtime with community support. Unless iphone starts actually letting people enjoy the same features across all phones, they're not going to pick up squat this time, dependent on how much of their marketshare/steam is taken away by android.
currently on an android phone whether a manufacturer allows a feature or not it can basically be guaranteed on the phone due to open source work on the phone. Bluetooth file transfer? A2dP? wireless tethering? exchange server sync?
the only things left is blackberry sync, and once that's gone, RIM will lose massive marketshare too.
Lots of the technology is still nascent and is really the only reason it hasn't picked up further.
nah, I agree with you that apache does good work, but it doesn't speak well for the foundation and/or does indeed fall in line with traditional microsoft methods of subverting something they dont' like.
So different, apache itself isn't bad, but MS trying to subvert it = everyone has their eyes on where it could potentially go.