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| 06:29.15 | lkcl | q1000? beh? |
| 06:29.19 | lkcl | what's a q1000? |
| 06:30.14 | lkcl | oh right - you mean qty 1000? yes - it could be something as high as a 20% drop. |
| 06:31.00 | lkcl | by the time you get to regular batches of qty 100k it could well be a 70% drop. |
| 06:31.28 | lkcl | pricing of single quantities for parts is usually designed to discourage people from bothering. |
| 06:32.12 | lkcl | i believe the pricing strategy of the ZMS08 was something like $45 for 1k, $30 for 10k and $15 for 100k+ |
| 06:32.22 | lkcl | which is a good strategy. |
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| 09:51.33 | CaCtus491 | puts his name down for a Mele A1000 |
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| 17:03.04 | billytwowilly | holy carp, this channle blew up in the several weeks since I was last here. |
| 17:10.21 | mnemoc | billytwowilly: maybe you joined #arm-netbooks (plural) last time |
| 17:11.14 | billytwowilly | lol. good catch. |
| 17:11.17 | billytwowilly | that is indeed what happened |
| 17:18.36 | billytwowilly | so, how goes the allwiner a10 eoma-68 development? raspberry pi going to have to start quaking in their boots any time soon? |
| 17:22.41 | toxicpsion | i don't know about the hardware side of things, but the software gusy are in for a treat with allwinners infernal SDK :( chaotic is a nice way to describe it. |
| 17:22.48 | toxicpsion | guys* |
| 17:24.35 | billytwowilly | well, I hope it comes together soon, it looks like it would be a killer xbmc machine. |
| 17:25.01 | toxicpsion | mhm.. you're near calgary? |
| 17:25.31 | billytwowilly | practically downtown calgary. Why? |
| 17:25.49 | toxicpsion | just nice to see anothe albertan on here... i'm up east of red deer. |
| 17:28.10 | billytwowilly | Nice. I have cousins in Red deer and the rest of the family is in Edmonton. I'm trying to get out of here though, I can't stand about 40 % of the population here. |
| 17:30.28 | toxicpsion | i bet... some of my fam is down there. (they probably make up some of that 40%) lol. |
| 17:32.15 | billytwowilly | If they are of the persuasion that thinks all the world is roses and house prices are reasonable (and it's reasonable to load up on debt because interest rates can only go down) then they probably are part of that 40 %. |
| 17:32.51 | toxicpsion | yup.. figured :P |
| 17:34.58 | billytwowilly | hehe. It's making me wish zombie trudeau would get elected and bring back the NEP just to stop all these guys out. |
| 17:35.40 | toxicpsion | *rofl* |
| 17:36.18 | billytwowilly | favorite saying: There's nothing wrong with Alberta that five years of 30 dollar oil and 2 dollar gas wouldn't solve. |
| 17:36.54 | billytwowilly | The smugness in Calgary is getting to the point that I can't really breathe... |
| 17:37.08 | toxicpsion | it's true. but then they might have to sell their trucks... *cry*. lol. |
| 17:37.38 | billytwowilly | yah, the pickup truck, one of the few sources of hilarity in the downtown parking garages. |
| 17:38.03 | toxicpsion | especially the big diesel units. :/ |
| 17:39.04 | billytwowilly | definitely classic. Yearly downtown parking stall costs: 6k yearly pickup bodywork costs: 8k |
| 17:39.21 | billytwowilly | pretending to be a cowboy: priceless |
| 17:48.13 | billytwowilly | sorry man, I don't mean to bring the negativeness on another Albertan, the stuff I see here just makes me want to shout out in bewilderment. I'm 29, I know so many people that have middle management/accounting type jobs getting paid 120-160k a year doing work that you can get someone with more experience to do in Denver, or Minneapolis, or Detroit, or Phoenix to do for 60-80 K a year and these same guys are loaded to the |
| 17:48.13 | billytwowilly | eyebrows with debt (house, boat, 2 cars). So, I'm sitting here going " you know at any moment someone who isn't a moron could come into power at your place of employment and replace the whole lot of you for a 50 % cost savings, and yet you're loaded with debt like you think your salary will double or interest rates will cut in half in the next 5 years. REALLY???" The utter recklessness shocks me... anyway, I'll be quiet now.. |
| 17:48.13 | billytwowilly | . |
| 17:48.22 | billytwowilly | feels a small bit better |
| 17:55.29 | toxicpsion | i totally get it tho... i'm only 31, but i was pretty careful to not load myself with debt. i do have a mortgage, but it's a reasonable payment - even if interest rates doubled. just seems prudent; but i have family with 60-70K in credit-card debt alone. It's a sense of entitlement for them i think. but that's what TV tells us - "you deserve it". makes me sick. |
| 17:57.41 | billytwowilly | if only more people had brains here. Oh well, they may get what is coming to them this year. residential investment passed 7 % of GDP in Canada just recently. Usually that is the signaller of a decent correction. |
| 17:58.38 | penguin42 | toxicpsion: In that case you should get yourself a little bit of debt - so the family can't come after you to pay their debts off! |
| 18:00.03 | toxicpsion | lol.. they know better than to ask. i've already been a little 'outspoken' to them about their choices. needless to say, we don't talk about it anymore :P |
| 18:00.47 | toxicpsion | "they made their bed" - so to say. |
| 18:00.58 | billytwowilly | meh. there's a headstones song you could point them to when they ask for money. That's my plan |
| 18:49.41 | penguin42 | http://cdn.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4236937/Huawei-claims-quad-core-chip-outguns-Tegra3 says it has it's own graphics core 'co-developed with an unnamed US chip designer' |
| 18:59.15 | A2Sheds | If AMD could get their act together they could make some nice ARM + GPU parts |
| 19:01.17 | A2Sheds | they run the place like the only reason they are around is to keep Intel from being a monopoly |
| 19:04.03 | A2Sheds | nvidia has been making more profit than AMD even after being pushed out of the chipset market |
| 20:29.10 | Gumboot | Funny... I was just googling for AMD SoCs (SoC implies small implies ARM). |
| 20:35.53 | mnemoc | there are x86 socs too |
| 20:37.04 | Gumboot | They're not important. |
| 20:46.46 | mnemoc | amd's geode was nice |
| 20:47.28 | Gumboot | Oh yeah... I kind of forgot that AMD did x86 for a moment. |
| 20:49.58 | toxicpsion | and you can't really discount atom. even if it is slow! lol. |
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