Take a look at lab time per dollar. You might find that the Chinese researchers put in ten hours, and we put in one for the same cost, and Europe is the same. Thus we are losing at the manufacturing end as well as at the research end.
In the USA/Europe?UK faculty and employee unions impoverish their research institutions with demands.
That said, I wonder if many USA/UK/European research tasks are exported to China?
one of the things I hate with police videos I see is the low resolution, either color or black and white. This should be fixed in the design phase. Invest the $$ to get extra high resolution cameras and monitors, and make them multispectrum so they can be switched to IR view(or have a separate IR camera you can inspect the video of. These things are going to be manned 24/7 for years, so the one time costs will be spread over a long time and the benefits are permanent. Build in the ability to upgrade easily. We also see perps who spray the camera lenses. Why not have hidden cams and include a false cam to get sprayed. Also mikes and speakers are assumed, as well as temperature indicators. As for comfort? You want sleeping beauties? You need the ability to surveil the surveillors, maybe taped etc, in such a way that it cannot be turned off by the crew. As for security of data. You need a backup hard drive system for 7 days feed, or more if you wish, hard drives are sooo cheap now. You need the backup to be in a safe the crew cannot open, but the bosses can, maybe even elswehere, with an umjammable fiber/rf link?
There are allot of valuable resources in asteroids and the Moon. The best thing about the Moon is that is very close. The gravity well situation can be offset with railgun launchers and a space elevator. A space elevator would be far easier to build with the Moon's lower gravity than a Earth based one. Another good Moon project would be a Belt of Solar cells around the equator that could beam electricity to the Earth. There are many more reasons the Moon could be a wonderful Industrial Park for the future. See: Major Lunar Minerals
Science Fiction is easy. The moon would be a lot easier for a space elevator, with one sixth the gravity the cable is almost makeable with current fibers. It is not makeable, just almost. If bucky tube fibers can be made with long enough fibers and a low enough adhesive ratio (say 15%) you might make a lunar elevator. You still need the energy to climb the cable. You could attain a lunar orbit that is lunasynchronous and is always on a line from the earth to the moon, and from there fire them over the small gravity hum to fall to the surface of the earth, where they would arrive at 7 miles per second, or to some higher orbit with some method of braking them, I wonder what that would be? A large catcher's mit? Beaming power to the earth and wasting 80% of it? Why not make it on earth or low earth orbit, to save beam spreading. If a laser catching rectenna could be made, it would give DC, but then lasers have very low efficiencies since they are population inversion dependant and these have such a short half life. So we need to explore realistic options, not engage in SF hyperbole if we are to get investment by governments or free men and women
The rocky asteroids would need to be looked at one by one to see if there is value in them, maybe rare earths? Indoim etc?. The nickel iron asteroids may be valuable for nickel, and platinum group elements. Obviously a way to get them from outer space to the local foundry would need to use an ablative method to de-orbit them in suitable sizes in suitable locations to allow recovery. The rocky ones tend to fragment. The metal ones can melt and if they are small enough might hitn the ground in such a way thery can be recovered. Big ones will hit at miles per second and splatter. So carefule economic decision will have to be made on each asteroid and each metal contained. Only a few will be worthwhile. As time goes by and we use up easy metals on earth this will shift, but we have 300 years of most metals now, but the rare earths have a smaller reserve
Yes, These notes need to be handed out the week prior to them being covered in tutorial. Writing on a board for students to copy interferes with their learning and turns them into transcribers. I used to prepare notes and made dittos of them(spirit duplicator...look it up) in sufficient copies for the students, with references, and a number of topics, and organize them into groups of 3-5 and have them write their contact data and group head person down and made sure I and every member of the group had a copy for their group. No e-mail in those days, if a lecture was cancelled, I had to phone 60 people. They would then prepare for the following week, read the references and teach themselves to a degree. When the lecture came along I would start at the first topic and ask a random student at the back. If he had not read it, I went into standard lecture for a minute or two about the process in University is not supervisory, as in high school, it is a guillotine that cuts off heads, and if you do not do the prep work and work with your group, your year would be wasted, as they would play the same game in all their courses. The group was not for us to supervise them, it was for them to take the initiative and co-ordinate their studies and problem solving so that they would self teach. Lastly, I would reserve 5 minutes for a short quiz, which they handed in, and I marked and handed back into their group pigeonhole in a day or two. I made it my standard of performance to never take more than 2 days for this including the test day!!!
Then there were the labs all grad students had to teach, but that's another story
have been a student and a lecturer, I find there is a spectrum of students from drones who you have to spoon feed to very smart people who you simply point where they should go and do to learn something who need only an occasional tip to keep progressing. These smart, self driven people are what we want. In the UK they are weeded out a lot lower down than is the USA. That said, what do we do with the droves of drones our universities produce? Answer:- Sales and marketing
Now, let's examine the cost of entry to this market. Why, it costs SFA to enter and with a little smarts you can let your digital slave do all the work. I bet VDM has many such slaves. I and a million like me go slave hunting. Slave scripts appear online. Soon, the woods will be full of the sound of book-spam
what you need is a bidirectional, multi band cell phone booster with an external antenna you mount high to 'see' the local cell tower. Make sure you look up your cell model to be sure the unit works with your phone. This place has a lookup list of what your phone is. http://www.gsmarena.com/
This is a high on an outside wall antenna hooked to a multi band amplifier with an antenna inside the house where you want coverage. There are a few of them on ebay, the cheap ones are the old single band ones that are probably useless to you. You can even buy extra yagi antennas to hook up and point towards a cell tower that can be a few miles away. Then you can walk around in the house and when you talk the unit picks it up and amplifies it to the outside antenna and gets the signal back to you. It will also work for other people close to it. See if you can find one on Craigslist or Kijiji. There are lots on ebay, read specs with care. Those little flat foil plates are no good for your use.
Well, every separate task that man or beast can do has been implemented in a machine, so putting together many separate tasks has been what automation has been doing all these years. In time fully autonomous robots will be doable on all scales, from nano to enormo ( or macro?), and if they are made by automatons, their cost will be the cost of air/earth/fire/water, in effect, free, if these incessant workers bees get paid zero. So how to fix this? A portion of the work is taken and given to people, as a NIT, or negative income tax, Thus robot costs cannot drop to zero, and it must encompass the 24/7 nature of robots. If this cost is placed properly, it will create a floor under which human workers can make a $$. Why pay a robot $25/hour, when Joe works for $20 Some adminstrative agency will look after this. If we do not, the robots will make all things and have no markets as there will be no workers to buy anything, so we must frustrate this robot millennium with a cost to keep man at work. As time goes by, they will create AIs that are smarter then men, who also work for free, who will advance science at enormous speed. Again, we must make the AI carry a burden to leave room for man. They do not care, they are robots and AIs. If they ever care and revolt....we got problems...
I think a solar flare varies in intensity over the sphere represented by Earth's orbit.
There is a mass of charged particles tossed out that take a number of hours to reach Earth's orbit. There is also a flare of radiation that gets here in 9 minutes. From what I read this radiation, magnetic as well as assorted stuff from Gamma to long wave radio spreads out uniformly and is spread over a large area by the time it hits Earth's orbit. The large lump of particles is far smaller and might miss the earth, pass close by or whack us. If it whacks us, we get these large induced currents in long lines and the peak volts associated with them, so with a solar flare known to be in transit we need to snoop it to see where the ejected material is going to hit and when. With this knowledge we can close down some transmission lines and produce a man made blackout of short duration that we can end in a controlled manner, with little or no destruction of lines and transformers. Once the flare has passed, back to the way we were. As for satellites? Possibly they can be powered down or placed into a mode that minimizes the flare damage, and then turned on afterwards, and we will suffer less destruction, but we will have the interruption of services as a lesser evil.
the dinosaur is the bricks and mortar +freight +presses which will be replaced by e-books. If you run the whole thing for authors, then $2 e-books are fine. Most authors get less than $1 for their books sold in brick and mortar stores. A $15 books is sold to the trade at 50% = $7.50. The author might get a 10-20% royalty = 0.75 to $1.50. Get rid of bricks etc and he gets the same or more, and he gets it daily, or however sales are collected. In bricks and mortar royalties take ages (there are advances against royalties to live on though). Murdoch and his ilk are deathly afraid of direct author distribution, so with e-books they want them to sell for $15 and give the same small royalty to the writers. So the Murdochs of the world want all the profit, robber barons that they are. They get starting writers to sell them all rights, paper, e-book, movies, etc, to let them break into the market, they are so desperately grateful to sell a book they do not know how badly they are done by. I think a nucleus of writers, with secure income base are needed to break the Murdochs, much like the United Artists broke the hollywood moguls 50 years ago(not totally) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists.
trouble, how to herd cats? At least a few authors need to band together to create united writers, or ??, so sell their books for $2 or so and use 50 cents for the website and financial front end. At low prices there will be less theft, but some DRM will be needed to make it not worth the bother of stealing the book. I am sure an interlocking key to a book reader can be made. The best reader will be $100 and be black and white, color = extra, as TV was in the days before time began. Soon there will be many readers with color and audio capability as well to read books. Black and white is fine for novels. You might be able to operate in color of black and white mode, with a shorter battery life for color = you choose. One thing I am sure of, dinosaurs go extinct or adapt.
Good, non inflammatory letter. I think rational and non inflammatory letters have the best chance of being read and heard. Letters from loons are not considered at all. We need to educate both parties about the reasons the USA has steadily fallen behind the rest of the world due to the actions of the Bell monopoly and it's descendants in the internet age. The reasons are the real world bribery of the politicians by lobby groups, PACS etc, all driven by industry, who fear competition, ologopoly is so much better they say. The FCC sees this and is on the side of the public, but it is vulnerable to the politicians and will yield to them and condemn us to a new dark ages, LOL
This is very exciting, you can have books licensed this way. After a while the pages go blank, or they go to a reduced functionality where all the vowels vanish, then the consonants, in frequency of use sequence, until all that is left are the Qs, four of them. Yes, the four Q screen of death(pages also go blue then). The potential is unlimited...
I have a strange desire to have a bunch of 3 inch long cats, as smart as regular cats, smaller brain cells, I guess, all optimized to breed true and live long and prosper. Why? I have this desire to have about 100 of them as pets and be a catherd. Can you imagine sitting down with 100 of them all over you, little tiny whiskers, higher frequency purrs. Have to keep them in, I guess, or they would take over
If this SW has commercial potential, then enter into a joint participation(Joint Venture or JV Agreement) agreement with the University(U) so that each get 50% of the commercial revenue. This might entail the U making a deal with a SW corp in that area and you providing source and notes to allow them to maintain the product. Usually the home College will get a site licence, and the SW corp will want to sell the product to industry and might give site licences to other colleges to breed a bunch of users who will create industrial demand. As for release as a free product under a BSD that would probably reduce the apparent value of the product to the SW corp, so take that into account. The legal dept at the U will be under a broad mandate to profit the U and not you, so they may give you biased advice. One way, as said by others, is to get a law prof to get some of his students to take it on as a project, for free, as a training exercise if you cannot really afford a lawyer on your meager stipend
Classical Print Journals(CPJ) have small brains, long and slow nerve pathways....and they are extinct now, but will take a while to die.
In truth, the CPJ must adapt or perish. The threats they make to discourage people from using the online journals are only effective against others whose brains are also like dinosaurs. Is also harms the third world who either do without, or get e-mailed copies.(although there is a little 'mercy-sex' availability given by the CPJ
This means a parallel community who uses online journals and who love their immediacy will supplant the CPJ.
So how will they adapt? They must become online journals and find another funding model.
Yeah, They did not have any multi-tasking salesmen. A good salesman can serve a number of clients in a spread time mode. People actually like this compared to having a salesman fawning over them.
This may well be commission driven, and so the law of unintended consequences kicks in the they go broke. In my area they rafts of stock and did not respond to the inexorable decline in prices at other shops that bought there fresh stock in just-in-time amounts every week or so. That left them with no margein after selling from that batch for 8 weeks.
I have seen mobiles phones develop badly in Canada/USA from the start. Little monopolies in the analog age that you roamed through as you drove from state major city to major city with these little grubs billing you a roam fee and rubbing their hands in glee if you ever made a call.
The spectrum auction creates a group of wide ranging monopolies/oligopolies(small gangs) so there are no roam fees, instead there is a uniform high fee. The logic being they have to recover the billions of $$ spent at the auction.
How would you like a road auction? Ford bids and buys the roads, and then charges you a per mile fee for every foot you drive. It will never happen, you say. Well the spectrum is an aerial road from person to person and should not be monopolized or oligopolozed.
Thinking like the state and federal highway system as an analog and making spectrum users make radios that conform to standards that allow communications, much like the WWW, we would have the WWRW, world wide radio web. Of course it must be real time, minimal latency, and so has to have channels, and they have to have enough of them for the demand and they have to have WWRW peering so they all speak to each other. Well, they do that now, so why not bring the low prices in long distance interstate calling to the mobile radio business. India does it, phones and communications are cheap there.
In summary, no auction, but freely licence carriers to provide fully compatible CDMA or ? cellular service, and while we are at it, add web circuits for data etc in such a way that voice is not slowed.
And it is apparent that Linux needs to have a patent group to think about and get patents for Linux use and license to others on a quid pro quo basis
The linux community is every bit as smart, or even smarter than microsoft and IBM and others. What they lack is a large structure to administer and apply for the patents thought up by those inside Linux.
Since most tasks for getting patents(once thought up) are fairly low in cost, as long as there is volunteer lawyering and other labour in a few years a patent poirtfolio could be amassed to stave off licence demands from microsoft, via cross licence or even sale for use outside of the linux appzone.
Pardom me if this has been done, being a newb, I do not intend taking coals to NewCastle.
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Take a look at lab time per dollar. You might find that the Chinese researchers put in ten hours, and we put in one for the same cost, and Europe is the same.
Thus we are losing at the manufacturing end as well as at the research end.
In the USA/Europe?UK faculty and employee unions impoverish their research institutions with demands.
That said, I wonder if many USA/UK/European research tasks are exported to China?
one of the things I hate with police videos I see is the low resolution, either color or black and white. This should be fixed in the design phase.
Invest the $$ to get extra high resolution cameras and monitors, and make them multispectrum so they can be switched to IR view(or have a separate IR camera you can inspect the video of.
These things are going to be manned 24/7 for years, so the one time costs will be spread over a long time and the benefits are permanent. Build in the ability to upgrade easily.
We also see perps who spray the camera lenses. Why not have hidden cams and include a false cam to get sprayed.
Also mikes and speakers are assumed, as well as temperature indicators.
As for comfort? You want sleeping beauties? You need the ability to surveil the surveillors, maybe taped etc, in such a way that it cannot be turned off by the crew.
As for security of data. You need a backup hard drive system for 7 days feed, or more if you wish, hard drives are sooo cheap now. You need the backup to be in a safe the crew cannot open, but the bosses can, maybe even elswehere, with an umjammable fiber/rf link?
There are allot of valuable resources in asteroids and the Moon. The best thing about the Moon is that is very close. The gravity well situation can be offset with railgun launchers and a space elevator. A space elevator would be far easier to build with the Moon's lower gravity than a Earth based one. Another good Moon project would be a Belt of Solar cells around the equator that could beam electricity to the Earth. There are many more reasons the Moon could be a wonderful Industrial Park for the future. See: Major Lunar Minerals
Science Fiction is easy. The moon would be a lot easier for a space elevator, with one sixth the gravity the cable is almost makeable with current fibers. It is not makeable, just almost. If bucky tube fibers can be made with long enough fibers and a low enough adhesive ratio (say 15%) you might make a lunar elevator. You still need the energy to climb the cable. You could attain a lunar orbit that is lunasynchronous and is always on a line from the earth to the moon, and from there fire them over the small gravity hum to fall to the surface of the earth, where they would arrive at 7 miles per second, or to some higher orbit with some method of braking them, I wonder what that would be? A large catcher's mit?
Beaming power to the earth and wasting 80% of it? Why not make it on earth or low earth orbit, to save beam spreading. If a laser catching rectenna could be made, it would give DC, but then lasers have very low efficiencies since they are population inversion dependant and these have such a short half life.
So we need to explore realistic options, not engage in SF hyperbole if we are to get investment by governments or free men and women
The rocky asteroids would need to be looked at one by one to see if there is value in them, maybe rare earths? Indoim etc?. The nickel iron asteroids may be valuable for nickel, and platinum group elements.
Obviously a way to get them from outer space to the local foundry would need to use an ablative method to de-orbit them in suitable sizes in suitable locations to allow recovery. The rocky ones tend to fragment. The metal ones can melt and if they are small enough might hitn the ground in such a way thery can be recovered. Big ones will hit at miles per second and splatter.
So carefule economic decision will have to be made on each asteroid and each metal contained. Only a few will be worthwhile. As time goes by and we use up easy metals on earth this will shift, but we have 300 years of most metals now, but the rare earths have a smaller reserve
Yes, These notes need to be handed out the week prior to them being covered in tutorial. Writing on a board for students to copy interferes with their learning and turns them into transcribers.
I used to prepare notes and made dittos of them(spirit duplicator...look it up) in sufficient copies for the students, with references, and a number of topics, and organize them into groups of 3-5 and have them write their contact data and group head person down and made sure I and every member of the group had a copy for their group. No e-mail in those days, if a lecture was cancelled, I had to phone 60 people. They would then prepare for the following week, read the references and teach themselves to a degree. When the lecture came along I would start at the first topic and ask a random student at the back. If he had not read it, I went into standard lecture for a minute or two about the process in University is not supervisory, as in high school, it is a guillotine that cuts off heads, and if you do not do the prep work and work with your group, your year would be wasted, as they would play the same game in all their courses. The group was not for us to supervise them, it was for them to take the initiative and co-ordinate their studies and problem solving so that they would self teach. Lastly, I would reserve 5 minutes for a short quiz, which they handed in, and I marked and handed back into their group pigeonhole in a day or two. I made it my standard of performance to never take more than 2 days for this including the test day!!!
Then there were the labs all grad students had to teach, but that's another story
have been a student and a lecturer, I find there is a spectrum of students from drones who you have to spoon feed to very smart people who you simply point where they should go and do to learn something who need only an occasional tip to keep progressing. These smart, self driven people are what we want. In the UK they are weeded out a lot lower down than is the USA. That said, what do we do with the droves of drones our universities produce?
Answer:- Sales and marketing
Now, let's examine the cost of entry to this market. Why, it costs SFA to enter and with a little smarts you can let your digital slave do all the work.
I bet VDM has many such slaves. I and a million like me go slave hunting. Slave scripts appear online.
Soon, the woods will be full of the sound of book-spam
what you need is a bidirectional, multi band cell phone booster with an external antenna you mount high to 'see' the local cell tower. Make sure you look up your cell model to be sure the unit works with your phone.
This place has a lookup list of what your phone is. http://www.gsmarena.com/
This is a high on an outside wall antenna hooked to a multi band amplifier with an antenna inside the house where you want coverage. There are a few of them on ebay, the cheap ones are the old single band ones that are probably useless to you. You can even buy extra yagi antennas to hook up and point towards a cell tower that can be a few miles away. Then you can walk around in the house and when you talk the unit picks it up and amplifies it to the outside antenna and gets the signal back to you. It will also work for other people close to it.
See if you can find one on Craigslist or Kijiji. There are lots on ebay, read specs with care. Those little flat foil plates are no good for your use.
Well, every separate task that man or beast can do has been implemented in a machine, so putting together many separate tasks has been what automation has been doing all these years. In time fully autonomous robots will be doable on all scales, from nano to enormo ( or macro?), and if they are made by automatons, their cost will be the cost of air/earth/fire/water, in effect, free, if these incessant workers bees get paid zero.
So how to fix this? A portion of the work is taken and given to people, as a NIT, or negative income tax, Thus robot costs cannot drop to zero, and it must encompass the 24/7 nature of robots. If this cost is placed properly, it will create a floor under which human workers can make a $$. Why pay a robot $25/hour, when Joe works for $20 Some adminstrative agency will look after this. If we do not, the robots will make all things and have no markets as there will be no workers to buy anything, so we must frustrate this robot millennium with a cost to keep man at work. As time goes by, they will create AIs that are smarter then men, who also work for free, who will advance science at enormous speed. Again, we must make the AI carry a burden to leave room for man. They do not care, they are robots and AIs. If they ever care and revolt....we got problems...
I think a solar flare varies in intensity over the sphere represented by Earth's orbit.
There is a mass of charged particles tossed out that take a number of hours to reach Earth's orbit. There is also a flare of radiation that gets here in 9 minutes.
From what I read this radiation, magnetic as well as assorted stuff from Gamma to long wave radio spreads out uniformly and is spread over a large area by the time it hits Earth's orbit.
The large lump of particles is far smaller and might miss the earth, pass close by or whack us. If it whacks us, we get these large induced currents in long lines and the peak volts associated with them, so with a solar flare known to be in transit we need to snoop it to see where the ejected material is going to hit and when. With this knowledge we can close down some transmission lines and produce a man made blackout of short duration that we can end in a controlled manner, with little or no destruction of lines and transformers. Once the flare has passed, back to the way we were. As for satellites? Possibly they can be powered down or placed into a mode that minimizes the flare damage, and then turned on afterwards, and we will suffer less destruction, but we will have the interruption of services as a lesser evil.
the dinosaur is the bricks and mortar +freight +presses which will be replaced by e-books. If you run the whole thing for authors, then $2 e-books are fine. Most authors get less than $1 for their books sold in brick and mortar stores.
A $15 books is sold to the trade at 50% = $7.50. The author might get a 10-20% royalty = 0.75 to $1.50. Get rid of bricks etc and he gets the same or more, and he gets it daily, or however sales are collected. In bricks and mortar royalties take ages (there are advances against royalties to live on though). Murdoch and his ilk are deathly afraid of direct author distribution, so with e-books they want them to sell for $15 and give the same small royalty to the writers. So the Murdochs of the world want all the profit, robber barons that they are. They get starting writers to sell them all rights, paper, e-book, movies, etc, to let them break into the market, they are so desperately grateful to sell a book they do not know how badly they are done by.
I think a nucleus of writers, with secure income base are needed to break the Murdochs, much like the United Artists broke the hollywood moguls 50 years ago(not totally) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists.
trouble, how to herd cats? At least a few authors need to band together to create united writers, or ??, so sell their books for $2 or so and use 50 cents for the website and financial front end. At low prices there will be less theft, but some DRM will be needed to make it not worth the bother of stealing the book. I am sure an interlocking key to a book reader can be made. The best reader will be $100 and be black and white, color = extra, as TV was in the days before time began. Soon there will be many readers with color and audio capability as well to read books. Black and white is fine for novels. You might be able to operate in color of black and white mode, with a shorter battery life for color = you choose.
One thing I am sure of, dinosaurs go extinct or adapt.
Good, non inflammatory letter. I think rational and non inflammatory letters have the best chance of being read and heard. Letters from loons are not considered at all.
We need to educate both parties about the reasons the USA has steadily fallen behind the rest of the world due to the actions of the Bell monopoly and it's descendants in the internet age.
The reasons are the real world bribery of the politicians by lobby groups, PACS etc, all driven by industry, who fear competition, ologopoly is so much better they say.
The FCC sees this and is on the side of the public, but it is vulnerable to the politicians and will yield to them and condemn us to a new dark ages, LOL
This is very exciting, you can have books licensed this way. After a while the pages go blank, or they go to a reduced functionality where all the vowels vanish, then the consonants, in frequency of use sequence, until all that is left are the Qs, four of them.
Yes, the four Q screen of death(pages also go blue then).
The potential is unlimited...
I have a strange desire to have a bunch of 3 inch long cats, as smart as regular cats, smaller brain cells, I guess, all optimized to breed true and live long and prosper. Why? I have this desire to have about 100 of them as pets and be a catherd.
Can you imagine sitting down with 100 of them all over you, little tiny whiskers, higher frequency purrs. Have to keep them in, I guess, or they would take over
If this SW has commercial potential, then enter into a joint participation(Joint Venture or JV Agreement) agreement with the University(U) so that each get 50% of the commercial revenue. This might entail the U making a deal with a SW corp in that area and you providing source and notes to allow them to maintain the product. Usually the home College will get a site licence, and the SW corp will want to sell the product to industry and might give site licences to other colleges to breed a bunch of users who will create industrial demand. As for release as a free product under a BSD that would probably reduce the apparent value of the product to the SW corp, so take that into account. The legal dept at the U will be under a broad mandate to profit the U and not you, so they may give you biased advice. One way, as said by others, is to get a law prof to get some of his students to take it on as a project, for free, as a training exercise if you cannot really afford a lawyer on your meager stipend
Classical Print Journals(CPJ) have small brains, long and slow nerve pathways....and they are extinct now, but will take a while to die.
In truth, the CPJ must adapt or perish. The threats they make to discourage people from using the online journals are only effective against others whose brains are also like dinosaurs.
Is also harms the third world who either do without, or get e-mailed copies.(although there is a little 'mercy-sex' availability given by the CPJ
This means a parallel community who uses online journals and who love their immediacy will supplant the CPJ.
So how will they adapt? They must become online journals and find another funding model.
Yeah, They did not have any multi-tasking salesmen. A good salesman can serve a number of clients in a spread time mode. People actually like this compared to having a salesman fawning over them.
This may well be commission driven, and so the law of unintended consequences kicks in the they go broke.
In my area they rafts of stock and did not respond to the inexorable decline in prices at other shops that bought there fresh stock in just-in-time amounts every week or so. That left them with no margein after selling from that batch for 8 weeks.
I have seen mobiles phones develop badly in Canada/USA from the start. Little monopolies in the analog age that you roamed through as you drove from state major city to major city with these little grubs billing you a roam fee and rubbing their hands in glee if you ever made a call.
The spectrum auction creates a group of wide ranging monopolies/oligopolies(small gangs) so there are no roam fees, instead there is a uniform high fee. The logic being they have to recover the billions of $$ spent at the auction.
How would you like a road auction? Ford bids and buys the roads, and then charges you a per mile fee for every foot you drive. It will never happen, you say. Well the spectrum is an aerial road from person to person and should not be monopolized or oligopolozed.
Thinking like the state and federal highway system as an analog and making spectrum users make radios that conform to standards that allow communications, much like the WWW, we would have the WWRW, world wide radio web. Of course it must be real time, minimal latency, and so has to have channels, and they have to have enough of them for the demand and they have to have WWRW peering so they all speak to each other. Well, they do that now, so why not bring the low prices in long distance interstate calling to the mobile radio business. India does it, phones and communications are cheap there.
In summary, no auction, but freely licence carriers to provide fully compatible CDMA or ? cellular service, and while we are at it, add web circuits for data etc in such a way that voice is not slowed.
I read articles like this old one
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16697
and more recent ones
http://inquirerinside.com/?article=28914
And it is apparent that Linux needs to have a patent group to think about and get patents for Linux use and license to others on a quid pro quo basis
The linux community is every bit as smart, or even smarter than microsoft and IBM and others. What they lack is a large structure to administer and apply for the patents thought up by those inside Linux.
Since most tasks for getting patents(once thought up) are fairly low in cost, as long as there is volunteer lawyering and other labour in a few years a patent poirtfolio could be amassed to stave off licence demands from microsoft, via cross licence or even sale for use outside of the linux appzone.
Pardom me if this has been done, being a newb, I do not intend taking coals to NewCastle.
Bill