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Rip-off artists
That sums up the entire industry. The prices aren't coming down. The
prices have remained the same for the past six months. They pay cheap laborers in Asia a few cents an hour to manufacture this hardware, and then turn around and make a 1000% profit. I'd love to see this turned on them. (e.g. mass produced hardware flood the market via Asia) One look at the prices they're charging for video cards is all you need to realize this. |
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"aether" wrote in message oups.com... That sums up the entire industry. The prices aren't coming down. The prices have remained the same for the past six months. They pay cheap laborers in Asia a few cents an hour to manufacture this hardware, and then turn around and make a 1000% profit. I'd love to see this turned on them. (e.g. mass produced hardware flood the market via Asia) One look at the prices they're charging for video cards is all you need to realize this. What about R&D? If we follow your logic all semi-conductor products should be free becuase the raw material is "sand". |
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John Russell wrote:
What about R&D? If we follow your logic all semi-conductor products should be free becuase the raw material is "sand". Exactly. It's like saying that software should be free, 'cos you can get it online using electrons that are recyclable. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Ben Pope" wrote in message ... John Russell wrote: What about R&D? If we follow your logic all semi-conductor products should be free becuase the raw material is "sand". Exactly. It's like saying that software should be free, 'cos you can get it online using electrons that are recyclable. That's right. The manufacturing cost of software is naff all, the price of a cd! What your paying for is a "share" of the interlectual effort required to "design" the software. |
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VIdeo cards? The newer video cards are, in fact, a very powerful computer-on-a-board. The GPU is actually more powerful than most current CPUs. Video cards are one of the better bargains to be had today. You wanna carp about prices? Start with memory. No reason in the world that vanilla DDR should cost what it does. "aether" wrote in message oups.com... That sums up the entire industry. The prices aren't coming down. The prices have remained the same for the past six months. They pay cheap laborers in Asia a few cents an hour to manufacture this hardware, and then turn around and make a 1000% profit. I'd love to see this turned on them. (e.g. mass produced hardware flood the market via Asia) One look at the prices they're charging for video cards is all you need to realize this. |
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"aether" wrote:
That sums up the entire industry. The prices aren't coming down. The prices have remained the same for the past six months. They pay cheap laborers in Asia a few cents an hour to manufacture this hardware, and then turn around and make a 1000% profit. I'd love to see this turned on them. (e.g. mass produced hardware flood the market via Asia) One look at the prices they're charging for video cards is all you need to realize this. Okay, comrade. Jon |
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:00:53 -0800, "Jon Danniken"
wrote: Okay, comrade. Jon Ya, every home will have a CBJ10 model computer installed at the price of ten Copeks per year. Oh, and Government agency logging software is freely installed too. |
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aether wrote:
That sums up the entire industry. The prices aren't coming down. The prices have remained the same for the past six months. They pay cheap laborers in Asia a few cents an hour to manufacture this hardware, and then turn around and make a 1000% profit. I'd love to see this turned on them. (e.g. mass produced hardware flood the market via Asia) One look at the prices they're charging for video cards is all you need to realize this. Fab plants start at $1 billion. $50 Graphics cards are faster than supercomputers of 20 years ago. If you dont like capitalism move to North Korea. gtoomey |
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It's bound to happen, anyway. Massive importation via Asia countries
will bring down the prices, eventually. PC prices, the price of components, memory, etc.. are not falling. They are at a standstill, or increasing. A top-flight video card will cost you nearly $1,000. If that's not a form of larceny, what is? For a video card that will be obsolete in less than three, perhaps two, years. The reason for this, mostly, is shareholders and the stock market. They must increase their profit every quarter to please them. This results in overpricing. (e.g. theft) |
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"aether" wrote in message...
A top-flight video card will cost you nearly $1,000. If that's not a form of larceny, what is? If you don't want to pay that amount of money, there are plenty of cheaper products. If you want to live on the bleeding edge, and have the absolute fastest, you will have to pay top dollar for it. That's market forces. For a video card that will be obsolete in less than three, perhaps two, years. The video card market is only turning over at the rate it is because there are plenty of gamers and benchmark ******s out there prepared to pay for the latest and greatest. If you don't want to pay, nobody's forcing you. The reason for this, mostly, is shareholders and the stock market. No, it's primarily because of customers. They must increase their profit every quarter to please them. This results in overpricing. ....but if they price the products out of the market, nobody buys the merchandise, no profits, and no stock value. (e.g. theft) Rofl, get a life. It's hardly theft if the buyer willingly hands over the money. It's a transaction is what it is, and if there are people willing to pay that sort of money for a graphics card, there's no reason why companies shouldn't satisfy that demand. -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace nospam with pipex in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com |
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