Dead on. What I'm saying though, is that they want to "announce to the market" that they're done increasing megapixels basically. It's total deception to consumers of the reality of where things are at. I would compare this to saying that 50 megapixel = the equivalent of modern day 2.8ghz processors (prior to dual core). Figure a 10MP is equivalent to the first 1.2ghz processors, so to speak. There is still quite a bit of headroom for advancement of megapixels alone prior to getting to issues that are relevant as well.
I agree with you. We had this huge jump of megapixels right away, and the rest of the advancement will slow down, sure. As I said, current technology shows that about 20 megapixels for consumers. However, there are professional cameras far in excess of 50MP. I suspect this will take about 5 years for consumer cameras that aren't at obscene costs to get to that point (20+ MP). We're not talking DSLR, I'm talking pocket cameras that people carry. It's not that the companies want it to get that cheap though, because they are trying to milk the market.
However, 10MP is not it. I agree that the other aspects of cameras need more improvement than megapixels at this point. Panasonic might actually start to take a lead in the camera industry high end if things keep going the way they have lately. Yes, not Canon Sony or Nikon. Doesn't help to mention that all 4 companies I have just mentioned all produce parts for eachother anyway. This is significant because all these companies produce parts for other markets/products that have begun to dry up - tvs, monitors, video cameras, cd/dvd drives. So they want to gain somewhere and many are positioning for cameras.
The megapixel market isn't running to a close at all.
All this means is "we want to extort people more putting the same CCD into a product and adding new features, maybe adding a megapixel here and there"
Be on the watch for a federal price fixing lawsuit as there are a lot of under the table agreements on price here.
The real "megapixel war" end is around 22 megapixels after which it currently becomes more expensive exponentially, with current technology. Up until that point, don't believe a word about this stuff. By next year for example, that megapixel threshold will go up a megapixel or two. Not that this means they'll try to extort people any less for the same 9-10MP cameras.
I do agree better quality CCD's and soforth are far more important than megapixel, but this "slowdown" by makers of cameras is voluntary.
Well, it's potentially far more efficient than other current methods but how far is to be determined. Magnetic charges do not tend to hold forever, and are limited by certain mechanical aspects that can make it more difficult to harness long term too.
However, both of those are just small engineering issues and should be things that can be resolved through working out the magnetics.
Actually, this is the problem with the logic of many shows that the arc doesn't stop. People love a show with a clear and ending arc. What it really opens up for is a chance to make a new show to build off where that arc ended. Even if it's completely closed/end of show you now know for certain what is a popular story that can be redesigned/recreated.
It's just as much lazy execs as always. Easy money vs hard work + more money, easy money is chosen every time.
This was the idea that came in my mind as to a method of locking down desktops. I mean really, it's not that hard considering they won't be able to run a.deb or.rpm or whatever package they attempt once it's locked like that anyway.
It honestly surprises me this is a slashdot article asking for an answer that is as simple as you wrote.
So how's last year's season of movies and independent music artists who are not crap, working out for you? Can't find them on the streaming websites? Enjoying your guns n roses, aerosmith, metallica etc? I'm not saying those are great artists but just easy examples.
The only way to get the stuff at the real cost of distribution is to instead get it at completely scam-worthy prices online (10$ for a digital CD? 4$ for a movie?) simply because you didn't record it yourself and/or get it off filesharing networks for free, which is what it's truly worth: 0$. Honestly why should you pay later for something that you could have recorded yourself for free?
whoops.
Guess you can't do that, because they're all taken down or removed due to licensing issues, or label you a pirate for daring to fileshare.
Didn't you hear about the last missile strike to hit the US? No? We didn't either. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live in jail cells in nuclear bunkers with no electricity just to be safe./sarcasm
In the end, stuff like this amounts to a revolution across many countries, and the UK could certainly be the one to incite one. A global depression is absolutely enough to be a tipping point.
I think the question is whether the world "violent" will come before the revolution or not, and whether it will have to be, for that matter.
Nope. There are no studies that show that this is the case. So no, they are not costing the companies money. The companies are costing themselves money by not lowering prices to a level that people would be willing to buy.
If the other were true, then that argument would be a different spin on music as well. However, download does not = lost sale. Not ever.
This is the misunderstanding: downloads and sales are just not linked. It's not a "if they couldn't get it illegally they'd buy it", it's just not correlated.
I was suspecting a possibility of something like that, but since this works with the old tech I don't think they will be able to bring in anything new. I'll be watching out for stuff like this too.
This is more like a solution in search of a problem, really.
I saw that bundle, I got a vibe that the puzzle game would be the only good one and that the reduced pricing is probably where they should have started before cutting it 50%.
I would have bought the entire pack for 5$, but they did not appear worth more than that.
I agree with you completely, but the problem is exactly what you say in the last statement, and that is my biggest concern, and this has been happening with an excess of technologies, policies, etc.
I think the real reason is a bunch of politicians doing a completely shitty jobs in general by being willing to violate their own ethics has translated to businesses doing a shitty job and violating their own ethics, and so forth down the road. I have a feeling every generation has dealt with this, we are not the last, and certainly not the first if history has anything to say about it.
I don't know what the cure is for that, since there is clearly enough nepotism for people to stretch their political career beyond retirement and beyond death, into their own children etc. I think this has been covered far more than enough already.
However, on the flip side in favor of being too careful is just as bad as not being careful in that both result in undesired change/errors/mistakes/people thrown to the wayside as innocent victims. There just isn't a balance at all, and this is evident in many cultures worldwide. It's just becoming more apparent because of the internet, or maybe it's just as apparent as it's always been. I don't know.
At this point I'm just grateful that people read my own replies as opposed to how I misread everything, and so I've gotten plenty of "you misread" posts but not to a malicious extreme. People can be pretty damn vicious if you make a statement, are totally in the wrong, and don't notice that you're talking out your ass in 10secs. I mean I posted a reply in what, 4 minutes?
There are like 5 direct and 17 or so total replies already.
I thought I misread it there, thank you for confirming.
I completely agree with your second statement.
What is the purpose, to charge more per CD? Is it me, or does this seem to be a way to try to avoid the price fixing scandals involving existing cd prices?
Not to mention why should people care to replace the standard CD players that have functioned for years? If this format doesn't work for them, this is not going to take off anywhere. I sure as hell am not jumping to blu ray just to play existing cds and dvds.
I play cello (15 yrs). I've never gotten cello scrotum. Do people really play their cello against their scrotum? Most people call that a "guitar". However, if you are unsecure about your manliness, your penis could recede into your scrotum as a result of playing especially emotional music or repeated watching of sixteen candles, etc. I think they call it emasculitis.
Uh, what? You just made a broad and inaccurate generalization, near flamebait-y. There's some good and bad coverage in general and that's smack dab in the midwest. Did you even bother to look at their coverage map? As with any coverage, rural areas have worse and cities have better. You know, logical buildouts, etc. Verizon, Sprint, I don't care who you have. If you live in farmland, you're just not going to be priority for cellphones nor for internet. This style of building is typical of all service providers. I never said this is ethical and its certainly not great, but business sense and all that.
Meanwhile, I've never heard of a phone being unavailable in the US if it's available in the US. That's pretty contradictory as a concept.
I'm guessing there are legal implications. I would love to see blackberry suite/equivalent on my G1, my work would too. However, I'm guessing that in general blackberry is not very open-source friendly among other things.
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Dead on. What I'm saying though, is that they want to "announce to the market" that they're done increasing megapixels basically. It's total deception to consumers of the reality of where things are at. I would compare this to saying that 50 megapixel = the equivalent of modern day 2.8ghz processors (prior to dual core). Figure a 10MP is equivalent to the first 1.2ghz processors, so to speak. There is still quite a bit of headroom for advancement of megapixels alone prior to getting to issues that are relevant as well.
I agree with you. We had this huge jump of megapixels right away, and the rest of the advancement will slow down, sure. As I said, current technology shows that about 20 megapixels for consumers. However, there are professional cameras far in excess of 50MP. I suspect this will take about 5 years for consumer cameras that aren't at obscene costs to get to that point (20+ MP). We're not talking DSLR, I'm talking pocket cameras that people carry. It's not that the companies want it to get that cheap though, because they are trying to milk the market.
However, 10MP is not it. I agree that the other aspects of cameras need more improvement than megapixels at this point. Panasonic might actually start to take a lead in the camera industry high end if things keep going the way they have lately. Yes, not Canon Sony or Nikon. Doesn't help to mention that all 4 companies I have just mentioned all produce parts for eachother anyway. This is significant because all these companies produce parts for other markets/products that have begun to dry up - tvs, monitors, video cameras, cd/dvd drives. So they want to gain somewhere and many are positioning for cameras.
Damn you, that was exactly what I was thinking of.
Maybe they can have a "fix it" button that causes it to self destruct?
The megapixel market isn't running to a close at all.
All this means is "we want to extort people more putting the same CCD into a product and adding new features, maybe adding a megapixel here and there"
Be on the watch for a federal price fixing lawsuit as there are a lot of under the table agreements on price here.
The real "megapixel war" end is around 22 megapixels after which it currently becomes more expensive exponentially, with current technology. Up until that point, don't believe a word about this stuff. By next year for example, that megapixel threshold will go up a megapixel or two. Not that this means they'll try to extort people any less for the same 9-10MP cameras.
I do agree better quality CCD's and soforth are far more important than megapixel, but this "slowdown" by makers of cameras is voluntary.
Well, it's potentially far more efficient than other current methods but how far is to be determined. Magnetic charges do not tend to hold forever, and are limited by certain mechanical aspects that can make it more difficult to harness long term too.
However, both of those are just small engineering issues and should be things that can be resolved through working out the magnetics.
Depends. Do they start with politicians, or civilians/citizens?
I think we know the answer, and thus, is the corruption inherent in the system.
Actually, this is the problem with the logic of many shows that the arc doesn't stop. People love a show with a clear and ending arc. What it really opens up for is a chance to make a new show to build off where that arc ended. Even if it's completely closed/end of show you now know for certain what is a popular story that can be redesigned/recreated.
It's just as much lazy execs as always. Easy money vs hard work + more money, easy money is chosen every time.
This was the idea that came in my mind as to a method of locking down desktops. I mean really, it's not that hard considering they won't be able to run a .deb or .rpm or whatever package they attempt once it's locked like that anyway.
It honestly surprises me this is a slashdot article asking for an answer that is as simple as you wrote.
So how's last year's season of movies and independent music artists who are not crap, working out for you? Can't find them on the streaming websites? Enjoying your guns n roses, aerosmith, metallica etc? I'm not saying those are great artists but just easy examples.
The only way to get the stuff at the real cost of distribution is to instead get it at completely scam-worthy prices online (10$ for a digital CD? 4$ for a movie?) simply because you didn't record it yourself and/or get it off filesharing networks for free, which is what it's truly worth: 0$. Honestly why should you pay later for something that you could have recorded yourself for free?
whoops.
Guess you can't do that, because they're all taken down or removed due to licensing issues, or label you a pirate for daring to fileshare.
Didn't you hear about the last missile strike to hit the US? No? We didn't either. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live in jail cells in nuclear bunkers with no electricity just to be safe. /sarcasm
In the end, stuff like this amounts to a revolution across many countries, and the UK could certainly be the one to incite one. A global depression is absolutely enough to be a tipping point.
I think the question is whether the world "violent" will come before the revolution or not, and whether it will have to be, for that matter.
Nope. There are no studies that show that this is the case. So no, they are not costing the companies money. The companies are costing themselves money by not lowering prices to a level that people would be willing to buy.
If the other were true, then that argument would be a different spin on music as well. However, download does not = lost sale. Not ever.
This is the misunderstanding: downloads and sales are just not linked. It's not a "if they couldn't get it illegally they'd buy it", it's just not correlated.
You can "design" until you are blue in the face but in the end of the day a 2 pound bag of shit with a pink bow tie is still a 2 pound bag of shit.
People's feelings will not change just because you changed your name from Diebold to Premier Election services or whatever they're called now.
She's the only one with the balls for the job.
I was suspecting a possibility of something like that, but since this works with the old tech I don't think they will be able to bring in anything new. I'll be watching out for stuff like this too.
This is more like a solution in search of a problem, really.
I saw that bundle, I got a vibe that the puzzle game would be the only good one and that the reduced pricing is probably where they should have started before cutting it 50%.
I would have bought the entire pack for 5$, but they did not appear worth more than that.
I agree with you completely, but the problem is exactly what you say in the last statement, and that is my biggest concern, and this has been happening with an excess of technologies, policies, etc.
I think the real reason is a bunch of politicians doing a completely shitty jobs in general by being willing to violate their own ethics has translated to businesses doing a shitty job and violating their own ethics, and so forth down the road. I have a feeling every generation has dealt with this, we are not the last, and certainly not the first if history has anything to say about it.
I don't know what the cure is for that, since there is clearly enough nepotism for people to stretch their political career beyond retirement and beyond death, into their own children etc. I think this has been covered far more than enough already.
However, on the flip side in favor of being too careful is just as bad as not being careful in that both result in undesired change/errors/mistakes/people thrown to the wayside as innocent victims. There just isn't a balance at all, and this is evident in many cultures worldwide. It's just becoming more apparent because of the internet, or maybe it's just as apparent as it's always been. I don't know.
At this point I'm just grateful that people read my own replies as opposed to how I misread everything, and so I've gotten plenty of "you misread" posts but not to a malicious extreme. People can be pretty damn vicious if you make a statement, are totally in the wrong, and don't notice that you're talking out your ass in 10secs. I mean I posted a reply in what, 4 minutes?
There are like 5 direct and 17 or so total replies already.
who cares? what's the difference of the sources until it's proven in court.
This throws that whole "is it legal" argument out the window in favor of screwing anyone the industry doesn't like.
I thought I misread it there, thank you for confirming.
I completely agree with your second statement.
What is the purpose, to charge more per CD? Is it me, or does this seem to be a way to try to avoid the price fixing scandals involving existing cd prices?
Not to mention why should people care to replace the standard CD players that have functioned for years? If this format doesn't work for them, this is not going to take off anywhere. I sure as hell am not jumping to blu ray just to play existing cds and dvds.
*WHOOOSH*
I don't suppose you've ever heard of emasculitis either, then? :D
Bwuh?
I play cello (15 yrs). I've never gotten cello scrotum. Do people really play their cello against their scrotum? Most people call that a "guitar". However, if you are unsecure about your manliness, your penis could recede into your scrotum as a result of playing especially emotional music or repeated watching of sixteen candles, etc. I think they call it emasculitis.
Uh, what? You just made a broad and inaccurate generalization, near flamebait-y. There's some good and bad coverage in general and that's smack dab in the midwest. Did you even bother to look at their coverage map? As with any coverage, rural areas have worse and cities have better. You know, logical buildouts, etc. Verizon, Sprint, I don't care who you have. If you live in farmland, you're just not going to be priority for cellphones nor for internet. This style of building is typical of all service providers. I never said this is ethical and its certainly not great, but business sense and all that.
Meanwhile, I've never heard of a phone being unavailable in the US if it's available in the US. That's pretty contradictory as a concept.
I'm guessing there are legal implications. I would love to see blackberry suite/equivalent on my G1, my work would too. However, I'm guessing that in general blackberry is not very open-source friendly among other things.