sid-azureus

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didnt know which link you mean html link : http://www.greenarraychips.com/ conceptual link : chuck moore and green arrays' philosophy has always been that you cant simply scale the cpu, you have to scale the whole computer. Make them smaller and slower and less power hungry, but REALLY parallelise the computer itself: VLSI cluster computing basically. i increasingly believe that taking this philosphy forward is the right way to go, not intels "more than moore" or whatever ARM/MIPS has up their sleeve, they are bound to hit the same walls. Yes, the flagship greenarrays product the GA144 is not really a competitor yet, just a DSP, but its 144 complete computers squeezed onto a 1cm sq chip with a 180nm process. There is a lot of potential there imho.

sid-azureus

14 anni fadiscuss

Two words (Combined as one) : GreenArrays

sid-azureus

15 anni fadiscuss

A) Price comes first, not cost. In the real world clearing prices are justified based on how much the buyer is finally willing to pay for something, not how much it cost the seller to make it. If no one wants to buy a photograph for 6000$, then the market does not exist at that price. If the seller believes his cost is greater than the price quoted by his buyer, he should move to another more profitable business venture.

B) that said, digital technology has reduced the cost of entry and the cost of repeat production greatly, had ansel adams to take that very shot, the "replacement cost" of that photograph would have been much much higher. The cost of continuing to take photographs is also fairly minimal compared to earlier. The buyers price flexibility has not changed while your ability to produce at a lower cost has improved considerably.

C) You cannot equate yourself with a restaurant or a secretary or a writer in these companies, they unlike you are paid to continue working on a daily basis, whereas you're expecting to be paid for work that is already done. once. When you order your lunch today it costs the chef x $, order the same lunch tomorrow costs him another x $. But regardless of how many prints someone buys of your work, the cost to you does not increase. In other words, the legitimate product is not "one print", it is the whole set of prints that you expect it to sell over its lifetime. If you can guarantee that a print is exclusive, then you can legitimately expect the kind of amount conventional economic calculation leads you to value your photograph at ( im not talking about 6612$, thats insane )

D) The true comparison is to that of a restaurant that comes up for one day, makes an innovate dish, and then exits the business the next day and expects to be paid whenever someone else makes the dish elsewhere. No one does this because you can not run a profitable venture or even make up your costs based on this mindset - based on one sessions sales. And draconian IP laws aside, the only way to make a profit in that venture is to stay in business and keep at producing that dish over and over again, and more over, innovating with new standout dishes. And as a photographer you should learn to treat yourself, like the restaurant above, as a service industry, not just a product industry.

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