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Warp wrote:
> Well, as technology advances it often quite ironically happens that
> the older some technology gets, the more expensive it becomes to purchase.
That was what I had intended to imply, yes. :-)
> (both because production costs are still high due to the lack of cheap
> production lines, and to capitalize on the eagerness of early adopters).
It's more that the technology requires a shake-down period. Yields are
tremendously low until every one of the hundreds of precise steps gets
adjusted just right. A 10% yield on early runs is a good number.
You're also paying off the design. I have a friend who designed RISC chips
for one of the big CPU companies before ARM bought them out, and he told me
about half the cost of a chip over its lifetime is design costs. That is, if
you sell a total of $100million worth of CPUs over its lifetime, it costs
about $50million to design them and $50million to manufacture and distribute
them.
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Oh, and if anyone cares, here's what the video from those glasses looks like:
http://darren.s3.amazonaws.com/PICT0001.AVI
http://darren.s3.amazonaws.com/PICT0003.AVI
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"How did he die?" "He got shot in the hand."
"That was fatal?"
"He was holding a live grenade at the time."
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