convincing is for the sales community to take care of. Open Source is technical only. We don't go out and get others to do it, we do it our selves. (as a community)
The only part of the equation that is missing from opensource is the sales people to take the movie execs out to lunch on a regular basses to get the deals signed.
1940 German citizen, "Hitler, it's time to reduce the size and scope of government, rounding people up and slaughtering them is overstepping government bounds." Hitler, "What you don't like roads?"
That'd be a nice story to tell to the other people in line at the unemployment office. You can even show them the printouts of the email you made before you were walked out.
great, you just wiped out the supply and demand chart and replaced it with a computer. sorry if your computer says the price is going to go up then more people are going to want to invest in it increasing the demand on a limited number of shares. If more people want to get in on it than are allowed then the price either raises more or people are denied access to it. Think of it like how healthcare is going to be in ~5 years. As prices for healthcare, and as a consequence salaries, are forced down there will be less available for the same number of people needing the service so more people will be denied. It might be nicer because there will be a bureaucrat (ie your computer) reviewing requests and determining who is in most need (allowed to buy), rather than who has the most mone , but there will still be denials.
Of course they are, that's the way the FCC works. Make a definition that everyone can follow then change it and put out a report that says 2/3rds of the vendors are wrong. Standard government regulation encroachment tactic.
except supply and demand factor in to this as well. The neighbor has already proven he's willing to pay $50 for his little bit of data so if his drops at all it'll be an insignificant amount to pretend they were doing him a favor. While they will be looking to stick it to anyone that is using more than the average, or curb their use down to the smaller amount.
You have to remember most ISPs in the high speed market are either monopoly or duopoly providers and don't have real competition to keep their prices competitive and features in line with what users want.
Of course it wouldn't be this way, but as it is you pay say $50 for unlimited bandwidth. If you go to a tiered system shouldn't ~$50 be the maximum?
If I'm downloading 5Tb a month for $50 and someone else is doing 50M a Month for $50 then perhaps I'm not getting it cheap perhaps the other person is just getting ripped off.
Even if you consider the low use subsidizing the higher use (often refereed to as niche users) then those niche users may be charged $75 instead of $50 and the others charged less.
Of course anyone with real technical understanding knows it's the connection that costs the most and the bandwidth is a comparative drop in the bucket.
I was in a car accident and broke two vertebra in 1997 had two surgeries paid by the other guys auto insurance. I was in college and hadn't purchased insurance for my self yet. Soon after I came down with a bone infection around the hardware that was put in. In 2000 I had little to no problem with my new insurance covering the pre-existing condition to the tune of $100k in costs for another surgery to remove the hardware and high dollar long term IV antibiotics to knock out the infection.
Exactly, this isn't the first time someone has tried to replace X. Every time they start to get around 5-10% of the feature set and realize that X isn't that bad and provides all the required features and more with little overhead.
Or just not tax that 1 trillion and let people buy what they want to with it. I can buy a gun if I'm afraid of terrerists or health insurance if I'm afraid of terrerbugs.
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My god!!! this text file, it's full of strings!!!!!!
I would, but it was deleted.
convincing is for the sales community to take care of. Open Source is technical only. We don't go out and get others to do it, we do it our selves. (as a community)
The only part of the equation that is missing from opensource is the sales people to take the movie execs out to lunch on a regular basses to get the deals signed.
Exactly, that should come from customer request.
I don't know about intelligence, but it would be entertaining.
Godwin time...
1940 German citizen, "Hitler, it's time to reduce the size and scope of government, rounding people up and slaughtering them is overstepping government bounds."
Hitler, "What you don't like roads?"
hmm,
That'd be a nice story to tell to the other people in line at the unemployment office. You can even show them the printouts of the email you made before you were walked out.
Individual people don't buy or eat bread every millisecond, but 6,800,000,000 people do.
great, you just wiped out the supply and demand chart and replaced it with a computer. sorry if your computer says the price is going to go up then more people are going to want to invest in it increasing the demand on a limited number of shares. If more people want to get in on it than are allowed then the price either raises more or people are denied access to it. Think of it like how healthcare is going to be in ~5 years. As prices for healthcare, and as a consequence salaries, are forced down there will be less available for the same number of people needing the service so more people will be denied. It might be nicer because there will be a bureaucrat (ie your computer) reviewing requests and determining who is in most need (allowed to buy), rather than who has the most mone , but there will still be denials.
So now floods and global warming are both myths?
Of course they are, that's the way the FCC works. Make a definition that everyone can follow then change it and put out a report that says 2/3rds of the vendors are wrong. Standard government regulation encroachment tactic.
that stung.
There's other countries? How quaint.
except supply and demand factor in to this as well. The neighbor has already proven he's willing to pay $50 for his little bit of data so if his drops at all it'll be an insignificant amount to pretend they were doing him a favor. While they will be looking to stick it to anyone that is using more than the average, or curb their use down to the smaller amount.
You have to remember most ISPs in the high speed market are either monopoly or duopoly providers and don't have real competition to keep their prices competitive and features in line with what users want.
Of course it wouldn't be this way, but as it is you pay say $50 for unlimited bandwidth. If you go to a tiered system shouldn't ~$50 be the maximum?
If I'm downloading 5Tb a month for $50 and someone else is doing 50M a Month for $50 then perhaps I'm not getting it cheap perhaps the other person is just getting ripped off.
Even if you consider the low use subsidizing the higher use (often refereed to as niche users) then those niche users may be charged $75 instead of $50 and the others charged less.
Of course anyone with real technical understanding knows it's the connection that costs the most and the bandwidth is a comparative drop in the bucket.
It's going to be "CR4P"
here as well...
Are you implying that the government should have rights?
The government is only there to protect citizens rights. Anything else is scope creep.
Unless it all shows up on wikileaks 2.0...
I was in a car accident and broke two vertebra in 1997 had two surgeries paid by the other guys auto insurance. I was in college and hadn't purchased insurance for my self yet. Soon after I came down with a bone infection around the hardware that was put in. In 2000 I had little to no problem with my new insurance covering the pre-existing condition to the tune of $100k in costs for another surgery to remove the hardware and high dollar long term IV antibiotics to knock out the infection.
Exactly, this isn't the first time someone has tried to replace X. Every time they start to get around 5-10% of the feature set and realize that X isn't that bad and provides all the required features and more with little overhead.
Or just not tax that 1 trillion and let people buy what they want to with it. I can buy a gun if I'm afraid of terrerists or health insurance if I'm afraid of terrerbugs.
Duffel bag full of red candles and an old alarm clock in the airport is always a good one.