Post #247,225
3/8/06 12:49:54 PM
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No contradiction, merely lack of implication
In economist's terms, CPUs are not a [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition|competitive market]. There is lots of competition, but that competition has glaring imperfections. Due to that fact, the price set will not necessarily be close to anyone's costs. Furthermore given the dynamics of the CPU industry, costs are not so simple to figure out. (For a start you need to price in risk since CPU companies regularly make huge investments that only pay off after many years in a quickly changing market.)
Therefore my first and second statements did not contradict each other. There merely was no implication.
My wording wrongly indicated that there was implication. That's wrong. What is true, though, is that the principle behind why the first statement is true also is behind why the second is true.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #247,243
3/8/06 4:31:43 PM
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Dunno what to admire more;the sophistry or the condescension
Hey, mr Mathematician-PerlHacker, you don't pay too much attention to what the rest of us say when we talk about ourselves and what we do, do you?
Maybe you could explain big terms like competition and such in even smaller words for me... After all, I am only -- as I have mentioned here now and then -- an economist.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #247,270
3/8/06 7:31:20 PM
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When?
[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/board/search/?field_searchUser=28&field_searchSubject=&field_searchContent=economist&field_searchSignature=&field_searchForum=-1&field_boardid=1&submit_ok%3Amethod=Search|http://z.iwethey.org...k%3Amethod=Search]
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Post #247,274
3/8/06 8:23:30 PM
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is that the fancy word for cheapskate? :-) yes you have
mentioned your background. Economics and geopolitics are hobbies of mine but you have had the formal training. As has a few others on this board.
thanx,
bill
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Post #247,275
3/8/06 8:30:04 PM
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Point me to the link
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Post #247,280
3/8/06 8:55:56 PM
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google is your friend
[link|http://www.bepress.com/snde/vol9/iss4/art5/|http://www.bepress.c...e/vol9/iss4/art5/]
thanx,
bill
gwan pull my finger
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Post #247,285
3/8/06 9:09:56 PM
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Did somebody port the postmodernism generator?
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Post #247,292
3/8/06 10:03:26 PM
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No, show me the link in IWETHEY.
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Post #247,306
3/9/06 2:16:57 AM
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No no, not the university of Mannheim!
Haven't I also mentioned that I am from [link|http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=388519|Tübingen]?
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #247,365
3/9/06 2:23:44 PM
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Abstract views 153, dowmloads 0.
The paper is not a money maker. :)
T\ufffdbingen is also were you were born and is one of my daughter's adopted German town. She spent the junior year at the university there on an exchange program with UNC Chapel Hill. I drove through town during Gulf War in 1991 and the recall the "NO BLOOD FOR OIL!" (in German) signs put up by the students.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #247,441
3/10/06 4:29:51 AM
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Yeah, I recall you mentioned her trip.
That's how you got your Spätzle machine.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #247,513
3/10/06 5:30:35 PM
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Yep! But no Sp\ufffdtzle for me until the wife gets off her...
low carb diet.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #247,442
3/10/06 4:34:31 AM
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BTW, Bill, that wasn't *quite* as funny as I thought.
Seeing as how, on a closer look, it seems it's the same guy.
He's just relocated from Tübingen to Mannheim, but is apparently still associated with the TÜ University.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #247,288
3/8/06 9:36:25 PM
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When he said it I knew that I'd heard it once...
but I'd forgotten about it.
He certainly doesn't say it very often (as broomberg pointed out) and I am not about to worry myself too much about the fact that I didn't remember it.
As for Google, if I tried to figure out what Christian did via Google I'd probably think that he was a [link|http://www.nctc.net/~hazard/conrad/ranger/|movie star].
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #247,289
3/8/06 9:50:06 PM
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he takes after his uncle, william
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Post #247,307
3/9/06 2:22:54 AM
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So where's my Mk VII Coup'e...?
It's only my figure I've got from uncle Bill; my character is from uncle Mike.
Now[link|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175700/| ]let's[link|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175700/| ]be[link|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175700/| ]careful[link|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175700/| ]out[link|http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175700/| ]there!
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]
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Post #247,308
3/9/06 2:25:31 AM
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A) Search sucks; & B) "here" includes previous incarnations.
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Post #247,332
3/9/06 10:29:35 AM
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So you're saying that...
you said this several years ago. And now you're pissed off at me because you think that I knew it and was being condescending to you.
Can you accept that I really didn't remember this fact about you? And accept that it is reasonable that I didn't remember? And accept that no condescension was intended?
Regards,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #247,336
3/9/06 10:48:20 AM
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I had no idea what your profession is.
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Post #247,344
3/9/06 11:56:15 AM
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I knew.
But then, I remember all sorts of useless stuff.
Peter
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Post #247,352
3/9/06 12:32:38 PM
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Well, that sure explains your taste in music.
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Post #247,353
3/9/06 12:41:34 PM
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Ba-DOOM-tish!
jb4
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Post #247,359
3/9/06 1:49:23 PM
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Same here. I was surprised too, based on his ex-employer.
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