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March 30, 2006
New production
Licensing product designs is the way to go. Well, not now but in the fututre when we have cheap ways to produce consumer goods. 3d printers? maybe.
Imagine if you will a black box to produce objects based on a CAD blueprint supplied by and licensed from Nike, Coca Cola whatever - no secret formulas anymore but everybody has to pay a penny (or whatever) every time they want to use it.
This works out great because Reebok, Hilfiger etc. dont have to produce goods anymore. They dont have to worry about JIT resource planning, they dont have to build factories and pay insurance and all that crap that goes with producing consumer goods. They just R&D and market their crap.
The pressure is put on the owners and licensors of the designs - the owners of the 3d printers.
They pay a pittance every time they use the design to produce an object. They pay for their raw materials, the rent of the printer (if..), their own advertising, delivery and all that.
This means that the price of the final product is dependent on the costs of the raw materials, distribution etc. in the local area. The cost of the consumer product automatically stabilises around a point that the local consumers can pay.
And the Nikes, Reeboks, Hilfigers, Apple, Epson etc. of this world get a kickback from every product that someone else takes the time and trouble to make for them.
Pure. Profit.
If the consumer goods manufacturers of this world were clever they would pour every spare cent they had into the research and production of 3d printers, of Star Trek like matter condensers.
Essentially what we are talking about is turning their current income for which they have to work hard at every point into a passive income.
Plus, we the people get an easy way to produce things like farm tools, water sanitisers, shelters, furniture, TV's, computers and even more 3d printers!
And guns. There will always be guns of course.
Posted by dottie at 4:48 PM | Comments (0)
March 29, 2006
How cool is this?
SOme mad lunatic has ripped the guts out of an old boombox and shoehorned in a PC to use as his protable MP3 player.
Madness!
I want one!
Posted by dottie at 4:22 PM | Comments (0)
March 21, 2006
La mes de los muertos
This last 30 or so days has been a bit morbid for me. First Adam's mum passes suddenly. Then a friend, and great guy, Herb Dade passes after a short illness (as a result of being HIV positive for many years..). Then my sister-in-laws father passes - although that was in a way a relief as he had severe demetia for years and was all but dead to his family, now they have some closure and can begin the grieving process.
March is a month with two large milestones - the anniversary of Cormac and my fathers anniversary, which is today.
My mind has been full of thoughts and morbid dread, regret, sadness and a small amount of panic at the future and my own mortality. This melange of thoughts combined with the pressure of servicing a mortgage has in some weird way helped to keep me fairly focussed these last few weeks.
I would prefer to be focussed without all the drama however...
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emmet
Thought of Jim too, and of course Cormac. Every funeral we attend further drives home a sense of mortality - you're not alone on that front Mark. We just have to max-out on good times while we're here and FTB!
Posted by dottie at 11:20 AM | Comments (1)