Journals still offer a critical service by at least partially blinding the review process. If I know your reviewing the paper, and you know that I know that you are reviewing my paper then large social pressures can come into play.
For this reason, the idea of decentralized publishing seems less appealing to me than modifying the metric by which scientific impact is measured.
Am I missing something? Why the hell would you need carrier's okay for this? It doesn't use their network. It seems like all you need is the electronics manufactuer and the credit card company, which have very compatible business models.
One time pay for electronics for providing a secure platform and hardware, and then either fee based or interest based income for credit cards for maintaining the network and handeling the individual payments.
It really shouldn't be that hard. If the carriers are being annoying just cut out the middle man.
yeah, and for pretty much any game that wants access to China's market.
Although, there is always the danger of removing too many sources of entertainment from their own population at once. Gamer's of the world revolt?
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Journals still offer a critical service by at least partially blinding the review process. If I know your reviewing the paper, and you know that I know that you are reviewing my paper then large social pressures can come into play. For this reason, the idea of decentralized publishing seems less appealing to me than modifying the metric by which scientific impact is measured.
Am I missing something? Why the hell would you need carrier's okay for this? It doesn't use their network. It seems like all you need is the electronics manufactuer and the credit card company, which have very compatible business models. One time pay for electronics for providing a secure platform and hardware, and then either fee based or interest based income for credit cards for maintaining the network and handeling the individual payments. It really shouldn't be that hard. If the carriers are being annoying just cut out the middle man.
yeah, and for pretty much any game that wants access to China's market. Although, there is always the danger of removing too many sources of entertainment from their own population at once. Gamer's of the world revolt?