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summary of Kodak downfall
Kodak failed to leverage a giant imaging media market into emerging
hardware and software markets and new media markets failed to leverage hardware and software into new media failed to leverage existing media into new hardware and software failed to develop emerging open systems hardware and software cheap labor competition cannot be an excuse, they had NAFTA and were making consumer digital cameras in Mexico, this could have been invested in more wasn't a lack of capital, they were Fortune 26 at one time wasn't a lack of intellectual property, in fact they failed to leverage the intellectual property they had in time so why? Rochester's nickname is "smug town" we are talking about entertainment technology for the most part, and entertainment oriented careers, if this was not a market of expendable income, the downfall would never have happened for the record I worked in R&D as a systems engineer the problem was the people existing connection circles prevailed over performance and even organizational responsibility there were all kinds of groups vying too do the new stuff film had the money, film people got the careers remember this is entertainment technology careers for the most part and entertaining work as opposed to necessity work, fun prevailed too the last job I had was hybrid systems integration on the film side we couldn't have the word integration in the name of our group, since there was an equipment group was responsible for integration,, but we got the budgets and careers, while the equipment people had "jobs" doing not much if it weren't an entertainment business that didn't really matter too much, in much cases, the money and performance would have prevailed they had NAFTA and a consumer camera plant in Mexico, they were right on time I tell you, it was not an accounting problem, or a strategic problem, it was a corporate culture problem there is your business case study want some verification? they tried George Fisher from Motorola as CEO with a BIG pay to shake things up, he left they tried Dan Carp from equipment side to shake up film probably, I don't know where he went might want to hear what these two have to say about their experience this was a publicly held company, public means socialism whether you think so or not, and the public suffered, there needs to be better law for socialized business private companies can set pecking orders however you want socialized companies have a trust, and pecking orders other than by performance should be called anti-trust, in fact I can't think of any other anti-trust that is worse corporate culture in USA has to change because a service industry economy lasts as long as EXISTING money, to have NEW money you need a manufacturing economy, you need fair trade and not free trade, just the right amount of Nationalism, another trust issue for socialized companies fair trade in USA/UN/WTO has to consider worker's rights and environmental investments, etc. I am not a CEO but I bet if you had a circle of accountants instead a circle of cronies things would work, just a little fascism is all you need let luxuries to competition, no socialism, and you will eventually have the demand for production, and eventually the production for a manufacturing economy, this will be held in place by the invisible hand of fascism if you legislate fair trade and not free trade socialize needs of the people and the commodity markets of those needs will eventually invest in returns, this will be held in place by the invisible hand of fascism if you legislate free trade here you don't need to enforce any thing free, in fact people will do whatever they want unless you give them something better to do, there should be anarchists rights to break the law with the understanding that not only do you face possible governmental societal repercussions, you enter the wild and may have repercussions there that are outside the realm of government so how do you enforce fair, one legislation kept in place and evolving as nations bond and if the laws are so complex that only the legal system can study their books of code and case law to use them, then only the legal system can be held accountable, ignorance is an excuse, if government doesn't teach law, they enter the wild themselves for people they cross -- Dale |
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On 02/10/2014 07:17 PM, Dale wrote:
to leverage just like Bob Marley said "We got to fulfill the book" Revelation 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. call it social Darwinism, call it social evolution, or if there IS a world order at any time call it social engineering you can't stop it, we live in the wild, eventually meritocracy wins and you have to base society on such, the beast of HOPE is only limited by a return of FEAR today I talked about solipsism and Freud, I said to him I thought in the kernel of our mind we can only know the ego, everything else is either part of the ego or not, but we cannot know I said the ego creates the id out of HOPE to enjoy the experience regardless, and then if reflection gets the better of you, then the ego creates a super-ego out of FEAR of the uncertainty which then kills the id there is a cycle of hope and fear I think, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer, but we do build a wall and end the id ourself, unless everything is not an extension of the ego then until there is peace the external ends the id by building a wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism there is Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) which coincides with solipsism and Dvaita Vedanta (dualism) which doesn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta -- Dale |
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summary of Kodak downfall
On 2/10/2014 6:17 PM, Dale wrote:
....snip... Which has what, specifically to do with Matlab so why are you polluting cs-sm? -- |
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On 02/10/2014 07:25 PM, Dale wrote:
just like Bob Marley said "We got to fulfill the book" "one day the bottom will fall out" Bob Marley we had production on this earth BEFORE a pyramid here, a pyramid there a Stonehenge a Stonehenge there an Easter Island statue here, some other kind of statue there HOW this PRODUCTION took place may be question, but WHETHER it took place CANNOT the USA is in 17 trillion debt, a lot due to sacrificing their manufacturing economy for a service industry economy as long as the USA is on the top of the pile they can print money and an order can be established but it needs to be a wise order a service industry economy lasts only as long as OLD money lasts you need production from manufacturing for NEW money from the looks of the pyramids the bottom has dropped out before and PRODUCTION will drop out again unless work-ethic knowing that luxuries come from labor and PRODUCTION and handouts come from labor and production TOO there may have even been a time of production before the pyramids that was less impressive, the pyramids required WORK we live in the wild, the USA may not always be on the top of the pile if there are patterns of debt not paid what kind of pattern of failure needs to occur before wisdom occurs? -- Dale |
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On 02/10/2014 08:09 PM, dpb wrote:
On 2/10/2014 6:17 PM, Dale wrote: ...snip... Which has what, specifically to do with Matlab so why are you polluting cs-sm? -- Kodak used to use Matlab for image processing, and Matlab used to be a member of the ICC, http://www.color.org I used to use Matlab, I wrote a script for calibrating color negatives on a film recorder until the film recorder was gone, but mostly edited other people's scripts, like I said I was a development systems engineer who only dabbled in research science I also used SAS does matlab have a good statistics library? -- Dale |
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"Dale" wrote in message ... On 02/10/2014 08:09 PM, dpb wrote: On 2/10/2014 6:17 PM, Dale wrote: ...snip... Which has what, specifically to do with Matlab so why are you polluting cs-sm? -- Kodak used to use Matlab for image processing, and Matlab used to be a member of the ICC, http://www.color.org I used to use Matlab, I wrote a script for calibrating color negatives on a film recorder until the film recorder was gone, but mostly edited other people's scripts, like I said I was a development systems engineer who only dabbled in research science I also used SAS does matlab have a good statistics library? -- Dale We think so. Check it out: http://www.mathworks.com/products/statistics/ -- --Loren http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren |
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On 2/11/14 2:44 PM, Loren Shure wrote:
"Dale" wrote in message ... On 02/10/2014 08:09 PM, dpb wrote: On 2/10/2014 6:17 PM, Dale wrote: ...snip... Which has what, specifically to do with Matlab so why are you polluting cs-sm? -- Kodak used to use Matlab for image processing, and Matlab used to be a member of the ICC, http://www.color.org I used to use Matlab, I wrote a script for calibrating color negatives on a film recorder until the film recorder was gone, but mostly edited other people's scripts, like I said I was a development systems engineer who only dabbled in research science I also used SAS does matlab have a good statistics library? -- Dale We think so. Check it out: http://www.mathworks.com/products/statistics/ To clarify a comment above: MathWorks, the maker of MATLAB, is still a member of the ICC. http://www.color.org/iccmembers.xalter Steve |
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summary of Kodak downfall
On 02/10/2014 07:17 PM, Dale wrote:
Kodak failed to leverage a giant imaging media market into emerging hardware and software markets and new media markets what if you applied the laws of supply and demand to labor? the work less people want gets paid more the work people want more gets paid less no harm done to meritocracy, more meritocracy since the demand of labor is satisfied better resulting in a more plausible production model, and more labor and wages giving demand for products and service for instance, a coal miner gets paid more than a schmoozer not applying laws of supply and demand to labor violates capitalism we do not have capitalism, we have only prestige, its like saying your title is more important than your pay, its like saying titles are more important than capitalism -- Dale |
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On 02/11/2014 09:06 PM, Dale wrote:
On 02/10/2014 07:17 PM, Dale wrote: Kodak failed to leverage a giant imaging media market into emerging hardware and software markets and new media markets what if you applied the laws of supply and demand to labor? the work less people want gets paid more the work people want more gets paid less no harm done to meritocracy, more meritocracy since the demand of labor is satisfied better resulting in a more plausible production model, and more labor and wages giving demand for products and service for instance, a coal miner gets paid more than a schmoozer not applying laws of supply and demand to labor violates capitalism we do not have capitalism, we have only prestige, its like saying your title is more important than your pay, its like saying titles are more important than capitalism we had production on earth before look at the pyramids all over the place, and other structures, etc. where did that production go? you can question how the production occurred, but can you really question whether it occurred did the bottom fall out before? if you fail to learn from history you may repeat the failures of history -- Dale |
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On 02/11/2014 03:24 PM, Steve Eddins wrote:
MathWorks, the maker of MATLAB, is still a member of the ICC. do they have a toolbox and does it contain a CMM? -- Dale |
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