Quoting: a0kami

Quoting: whizseI'd guess that's a fair criticism but I think it's more of a reference to Casablanca and the way life sometimes forces people apart.

Reading your previous comment made me feel unrespectful, I apologise for I may have taken a heavy subject lightly, been through my fair share of tough shit parting ways not that very long ago actually.
I seem to miss the reference there, colour me interested.

"We'll always have Paris" is what Bogey says to Ingrid Bergman as he's sacrificing himself and sending her off on the plane with Victor Laszlo. At the time, he's under the impression he's probably about to die,

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although thanks to the French police chief unexpectedly covering for him, he doesn't.
They'd had a highly romantic fling in Paris and parted in a way that had left him bitter and cynical, as she'd stood him up without explanation, but during the movie she finally explains her extremely altruistic and compelling reason why that happened, and they, ahem, reconcile. So then when he's sending her off he says, "We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night."

It's, like, totally moving. And while meeting in Paris for romance was certainly cliche even then, to be fair in the movie the main reason for that setting was to doom the romance with the Nazi invasion.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWell if you don't SPEND your billions you will eventually need to pay it to the tax man

That idea is so 20th century. Paying taxes is for us little people.

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Quoting: KimyrielleOther than that, geesh, did REALLY nobody in charge ever read a Economics textbook to realize that market concentration is bad? Will this stop only when there is only MS and Sony and their two consoles left? Does nobody realize that for a free-market economy to work, it takes a think called competition. And does nobody realize that if companies can spend that kind of money to buy all their competitors, we're not taxing corporations nearly high enough?

Well, for a free market economy to avoid one particular dysfunction takes competition. And over the last few decades, masses of mergers and acquisitions, plus network effects in the new rising tech sectors, have led to more and more areas of business with very few firms controlling them, which in turn is leading, more lately, to monopoly pricing and other nasty stuff. So I wholeheartedly agree there. And I absolutely agree about the tax thing.
So yeah, this is just one more example of a general bad trend.

However, I would want to argue that, first, there is no such thing as a free market economy and there really can't be one. And, to the extent that free market economies are approached, they suck in various other ways even if there is robust competition. So it's not like just killing the oligopolies would magically make everything great. Necessary but not sufficient.

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Sounds like exactly the kind of game I really don't want to play. There's enough of this kind of depression in real life.

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Quoting: jensFrom my own experience in software development: for the last 10% you’ll need 90% of the time. ;)

Of the time, yes . . . but probably not 90% of the calendar days. :wink: That's when people start frantically packing in the hours, like "But it should be done already!"

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Quoting: EikeThat's their personal date, not the general release date. Everybody preordering gets a personal prediction when their respective order might actually happen.

Is there anyone who already received? (common customers)

So the history of this is, the Steam Deck has been delayed once, as Eike said. They announced it. Initially, it was going to start shipping sometime in December, I believe. It was then delayed to February. So no, nobody has already received one because it's not February yet.

However, there were many, many pre-orders. The earlier you pre-ordered, the closer to launch your order would be expected to arrive, since you'd be at the front of the queue. And people who pre-ordered have a thing telling them when their particular machine would be expected to arrive. From almost the very beginning, the queue was long enough for people further down it to have expected dates quite a bit later than the date the Steam Deck is expected to start shipping. However, one's spot in the queue and how great the delay before one's particular machine arrives is quite distinct from whether the Deck beginning to ship has been delayed. That date has been delayed once; it has not been delayed repeatedly.

All this stuff is not really subject to discussion or argument, it's just the facts.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: slaapliedjeUhm, there has been one delay.

First was predicted to February 2022, now @Arehandoro said:

Quoting: ArehandoroMy order availability now says after Q2 2022.

The original release date was Christmas 2021.

That's their personal date, not the general release date. Everybody preordering gets a personal prediction when their respective order might actually happen.

Yeah. And lots of those were running way into 2022 even when the general release date was still Christmas. We were talking about that stuff in like the first couple of days of pre-order.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis shortage stuff has been lasting rather a long time now. I'm finding myself wondering if it's really about all the original causes any more, or if the situation brought it to the attention of certain corporations that they are an oligopoly and constraining supply some is collectively making them gigabucks in windfall profits.

From what I understand, building new factories is a long process and they'll be only ready by the end of this year to address the disbalance in demand and supply.

I think all of them are building new ones. TSMC, Samsung and Intel. At least the new TSMC one is expected to launch in 2022.

Guess I just have a nasty suspicious mind. I'm pretty sure it is happening in the grocery sector--the big grocery chains say they're jacking prices because of higher expenses and supply chain issues, which do exist--but they're jacking prices more than the increase in costs, which is why those companies are posting record profits. So I figured the same trick would work here, probably better . . . but if they're really working on beefing up supply, I guess not.

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This shortage stuff has been lasting rather a long time now. I'm finding myself wondering if it's really about all the original causes any more, or if the situation brought it to the attention of certain corporations that they are an oligopoly and constraining supply some is collectively making them gigabucks in windfall profits.

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Well, hurrah! I should shift over to it. Although I have to say, my current Mint desktop doesn't make me feel like I need to be changing anything.

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