robinsoh

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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The eInk displays are more expensive because there is only one option to buy and the manufacturer is keeping a greater percentage as profit. Again. I keep asking. Your evidence for this appears to be your imagination.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Since again, the display tech is essentially what defines a Kindle Amazon is somewhat forced to use eInk displays despite their higher cost otherwise it would not be the same product. Since Again? Again. You didn't address any of
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> If there's multiple competitors for a product they compete and prices are lower overall? Sure, race to the bottom, but that's got nothing to do with OP's original claim of "expensive", nor the costs to actually
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> judging from the pictures can be tricky: the Waveshare WS-18295 as seen at https://www.waveshare.com/5.65inch-e-Paper-Module-F.htm seems to show many more colours than the seven full-discreet. I don't agree at all
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Why do you find "all of them" answer to be unsatisfactory? You're making a claim analogous to saying "Microsoft is causing operating system prices to be excessive because of their patents". And when someone ask
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I understand volume . Part of it is having competitors though. If there's literally 1 company making the display you want for your product they're only going to lower the price per unit so much. Where else are you going to go
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Eink has been around for several years now Several years? They've been around for 25 years! > but apparently they are unable to just make a big panel? Yes, that's how supply and demand works. Very few people are willing to
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Very few companies are making eInk like displays which is why prices are so high. Very few customers are buying electrophoretic displays because of their many limitations. That's the real reason why prices are so high. In 2006, a
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> IMO if this was the case with e-ink - we would see much better adoption and prices. It is unclear what you mean. I already asked which specific patent needs to be canceled for your belief (hope?) to become true. I hope you don't g
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Seems pretty obvious that it's expensive compared to the alternatives. That statement is not obvious to me. You are comparing electrophoretic panels to LCD panels. Both are display technologies. But that's where the similarit
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I notice downvotes on my comment. I wonder if the downvoters would explain why they feel my comment is somehow bad?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> won't also be generous with patent to make ROI work for other 3rd parties to make big investments. Which patent? Please help me understand by being specific. Which patent needs to expire or get canceled to enable something (which
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Eink is just really expensive I am curious what volumes you are buying and which panels and how you're judging whether something is expensive or not. > I believe that it’s heavily patented and only one or two places produces th
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> how would you compete with this? The implication of OP's question and perhaps the heart of the matter is whether Google is unfairly applying some impediment or anti-competitive behavior. My personal opinion is that they're no
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Have you seen the photo of an ACeP rendering? Where do the "extra" colours come from, full-pixel-level dithering? What do you mean "ACeP rendering"? Like artificial photo? I've seen ACeP at SID 2019 in real lif
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> consistent with previous details - that the dot switch in traditional B/W E-Ink uses 16 options (4bits - used 4 times it's 16 bits, all fits). What previous details are you referring to? B/W E-Ink and CMYK ACEP are not r
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> > ...has a color gamut ideally reaching 60,000 > given the rest of the text («four color pigments - cyan, magenta, yellow, and white - [are] used to achieve a full color gamut at each pixel»). What units did you think the 60,000
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> ACeP seems to handle 16 shades of ink for each ink, CMYW - like usual monochrome E Ink -, for a total of 16 bits for colour definition - 65536 options ("colours"). where do you see that stated?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
60000?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> they were already richer and technologically advanced compared to other regions. Citation needed, some evidence to back up such a grand claim would be good. The article doesn't show any data to substantiate such an extraordinary c
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Most of the stuff from the ancient would is quite easy to reproduce--throw hordes of people at it. The ancient world didn't have some fantastically superior knowledge. I don't find this type of explanation convincing at all.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> As the other comment here says, this isn't a mystery. It's just extremely labour-intensive. And as I said there, I don't find that kind of blaise response as convincing or substantial. Labour intensive way of lifting and
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> it’s just not economical to build modern structures with these labor-intensive and high-skill methods. Do you find that explanation convincing?
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by robinsoh 5y ago
It breaks my heart that till today we don't know how Inca (or possibly their predecessor civilization) constructed Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu. It is still unclear exactly how they achieved those structures. We're talking about
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I'm saying his claim doesn't match up with the data that is frequently reported on and therefore requested what corroborating data he was basing his claim on. If I had attempted a rebuttal, I would have directly said his claim was
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Geez, his metric is wonky - "made in $COUNTRY", but your rebuttal doesn't make sense either.. I did not attempt a rebuttal. I merely pasted a paragraph from a news article to point out that his claim doesn't seem to
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I think you're focussing on the wrong metric. I'm focussing on the claim made by OP which is contrary to what is commonly reported (I provided the paste from the news report). He stated "It explains why porn is mostly ma
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I don't see that conditional made in his claim. I'm asking for data to support his claim, if such data does not exist than it indicates the claim is unlikely to be valid. Would you like to clarify your meaning of "normal porn
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> It explains why porn is mostly made in low income regions like Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. Citation needed. Your claim doesn't match commonly reported data. --- The global leaders in porn are the U.S, taking a 60 per cent
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I notice that questioning the mainstream view here appears to be instantly responded with as "whataboutism". I fully understand when people don't want their faith questioned, but to then pretend it is consistent with verifiab

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