Where did writers of buisness publications get it into their heads that Google is trying to directly compete with Microsoft?
No doubt from the very public dick size contest they've got going on between them.
Where they get the idea that the subject is of any interest to anyone else is beyond me. Maybe business publications have gotten into a dick size contest with the National Inquirer or something.
But none of them are Vegas, even though I personally prefer Harbor Park in Boston (and I'm not entirely unaware of what goes on at 77 Mass Ave) to The Strip in Vegas.
Yes, but that's all about the DC area. My point was that my area is not only used to taking financial risks on technology, but is currently doing so. Tech people also move around here, the most famous case perhaps being Tesla's move from GE to Westinghouse.
We have a history of being at the forefront of technological development (until several years ago my city had the highest per capita density of PhDs and engineers in the world) and cannot even maintain that in the computer field against Silicon Valley.
It is similar to the grand failure of Flint Michigan's multimillion dollar convention center. If you build it, they will not come.
Because they're already going to Vegas and nothing exceeds like sucess.
I do think it is possible, in fact, I think it is probable that we will see similar places pop up in the world.
Despite my earlier post in this thread I agree with you. Just not in the US. It isn't easier to duplicate Silicon Valley in the US, it's harder, because. . .
It doesn't seem particularly realistic to go to a potential Silicon Valley if you can go to the real thing.
As I concluded that other post: "Why compete with what's easier to join?"
Now, foreign countries like China/Brazil/Hoboken have real reason to forge their own competing technology centers and one of these days one of them will pull it off. They always do. Once upon a time China was the only place to get china.
There is a massive influx of cash in this area because it is the seat of state government. State and local governments are actively promoting duplicating Silicon Valley here because we also have the nerds at RPI, GE, Lockheed-Martin, Plug Power, Intermagnetics and others and state and local governments are used to the idea of being at the heart of commercial technology and dislike the fact that we've lost that position we've held for more than a century.
And yet they are failing (not that they're really aware of this or anything. Self delusion is remarkably easy when you buy it with other people's money).
Why?
That's easy. There already is a Silcon Valley. Why compete with what's easier to join?
. ..they are perpetuating the idea that a childrens book written relatively recently is superceeding 150 years of SCIENCE fiction is what inspires stuff like this.
I was not addressing issues of bias, but basic content. Dr. Who is about the only thing I watch on the Sci-Fi channel right now, because it would be more accurately called the Horror Channel; and I'm not a horror fan. Could be worse, I suppose. For it's first year or two I called the History Channel the Boring Channel; and I'm a history geek.
National Geographic, on the other hand, was great for about the first year, but now has started running much the same drivel to be found on the other, Disney owned, "educational" channels. Watch any one of them for about a year and you've seen everything you're going to see on all of them combined for about five years.
Books are "on demand." If I want to learn about Alexander I can learn about Alexander without having to wait out half a day of infomercials and "ghost hunting" to get there.
If you prefer video most libraries these days are also pretty well stocked with the better science and history shows on tape/DVD; and you've already paid for them.
I spent some time living in Oaxaca and a couple months in Puerto Angel. I'm familiar with Mexican "roads." I also got to watch a presidential "election."
Like the song. I just might take the trouble to learn it.
When the American Federal income tax was enacted it was a 3% tax only the top 1% of earners; and we were told it would stay that way.
When the NYS Throughway was built it was made a toll road, but we were told "only until it is paid for."
It's paid for. The toll remains. Why?
We are told it is necessary to pay the salaries of the toll takers. No, I am not making that up.
The cynical might conclude that politicians are fucking liars and will always go for the money. I however, am not a cynical man. I am an emotionless realist. Therefore I know that . ..politicians are fucking liars and will always go for the money.
Yes, and shipping is cheaper than transport over land afaik.
By Asian rail, yes, it typically is, despite sea being more fuel efficient.
But thanks for the geography lesson:P
Especially since they're closer.
In any case the added shipping costs for an extra thousand miles or so per unit are essentially nil, the majority of the cost of transportion being in handling, not in the actual transport.
If I hand carry a small package for you 100 miles overnight my capital and fuel expenditures will be about five bucks. My labor will cost you $100.
Why did steam replace sail, even though the wind is free? Not because steam was faster, in the early days it wasn't, nor because it was more reliable, in the early days it wasn't, but because it cost more in labor to use wind than the fuel cost of steam. It takes more men to man a sail than an engine.
It's the teamsters that set the price of transporting goods, not the distance.
Dude, Europe is Asia, in the sense that it's a penninsula of the same landmass. About 7000 miles from Beijing to Paris, all overland. About 8000 miles from Beijing to NYC, much of it over water.
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Where did writers of buisness publications get it into their heads that Google is trying to directly compete with Microsoft?
No doubt from the very public dick size contest they've got going on between them.
Where they get the idea that the subject is of any interest to anyone else is beyond me. Maybe business publications have gotten into a dick size contest with the National Inquirer or something.
KFG
. . .as I understand it, prostitution is legal in the county of Las Vegas outside the city limits.
:)
Which would make it illegal in Vegas.
KFG
The other day I noticed some grafitti on an abandoned shop window:
"God is unreal"
I added under it:
"No he's not. He's just irrational"
Although I'd guess that few random people on the street will get it the way intended.
KFG
I have made no speculation on what makes up Silicon Valley and don't really care. It is a social phenomenon and thus beyond true analysis.
I have only noted that since it is there that's where it will remain for the time being.
By the way, prostitution is illegal in Vegas.
KFG
Gimme another and I'll juggle 'em.
And need I really point out that ducks are birds? I didn't mix metaphors, segued them.
Do you know how much a segues if you took all the geophysicts and laid them in a row?
I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
KFG
. . .to an extent it's even human readable... Unlike a binary file
Ya ever try reading an XML file by holding it up to the light?
KFG
. . .incapable of distinguishing between a document format and an application.
If you can get all the ducks in a row why not try to kill two of them with one stone?
KFG
People go places other than Vegas.
But none of them are Vegas, even though I personally prefer Harbor Park in Boston (and I'm not entirely unaware of what goes on at 77 Mass Ave) to The Strip in Vegas.
KFG
Yes, but that's all about the DC area. My point was that my area is not only used to taking financial risks on technology, but is currently doing so. Tech people also move around here, the most famous case perhaps being Tesla's move from GE to Westinghouse.
We have a history of being at the forefront of technological development (until several years ago my city had the highest per capita density of PhDs and engineers in the world) and cannot even maintain that in the computer field against Silicon Valley.
It is similar to the grand failure of Flint Michigan's multimillion dollar convention center. If you build it, they will not come.
Because they're already going to Vegas and nothing exceeds like sucess.
KFG
Don't try to say that the British or the American way is better, or makes more sense.
Please note that I did not.
KFG
I do think it is possible, in fact, I think it is probable that we will see similar places pop up in the world.
Despite my earlier post in this thread I agree with you. Just not in the US. It isn't easier to duplicate Silicon Valley in the US, it's harder, because. . .
It doesn't seem particularly realistic to go to a potential Silicon Valley if you can go to the real thing.
As I concluded that other post: "Why compete with what's easier to join?"
Now, foreign countries like China/Brazil/Hoboken have real reason to forge their own competing technology centers and one of these days one of them will pull it off. They always do. Once upon a time China was the only place to get china.
KFG
There is a massive influx of cash in this area because it is the seat of state government. State and local governments are actively promoting duplicating Silicon Valley here because we also have the nerds at RPI, GE, Lockheed-Martin, Plug Power, Intermagnetics and others and state and local governments are used to the idea of being at the heart of commercial technology and dislike the fact that we've lost that position we've held for more than a century.
And yet they are failing (not that they're really aware of this or anything. Self delusion is remarkably easy when you buy it with other people's money).
Why?
That's easy. There already is a Silcon Valley. Why compete with what's easier to join?
KFG
EVIL!!
The Shadow knows!
KFG
>>Do you study mathematic?
>>
>er no; CS.
Yeah, I've been bitching about that for years.
KFG
Do you study mathematic?
KFG
. . .they are perpetuating the idea that a childrens book written relatively recently is superceeding 150 years of SCIENCE fiction is what inspires stuff like this.
Welcome to the Age of Unenlightenment.
Have a happy.
KFG
Cloaking Device Plans
KFG
Keywords: "Waste of resources".
The cynical might phrase this as: "Proof of redundency."
KFG
Shopping for shoes is not a "slant" on cosmology.
I was not addressing issues of bias, but basic content. Dr. Who is about the only thing I watch on the Sci-Fi channel right now, because it would be more accurately called the Horror Channel; and I'm not a horror fan. Could be worse, I suppose. For it's first year or two I called the History Channel the Boring Channel; and I'm a history geek.
National Geographic, on the other hand, was great for about the first year, but now has started running much the same drivel to be found on the other, Disney owned, "educational" channels. Watch any one of them for about a year and you've seen everything you're going to see on all of them combined for about five years.
Books are "on demand." If I want to learn about Alexander I can learn about Alexander without having to wait out half a day of infomercials and "ghost hunting" to get there.
If you prefer video most libraries these days are also pretty well stocked with the better science and history shows on tape/DVD; and you've already paid for them.
KFG
I spent some time living in Oaxaca and a couple months in Puerto Angel. I'm familiar with Mexican "roads." I also got to watch a presidential "election."
Like the song. I just might take the trouble to learn it.
KFG
The History Channel and The Discovery Channel.
You mean the Hitler Channel and the Psychic, Obese, Midget, Undead, Alien Bigfoot gets a Makeover for Jesus Channel?
Go read a book.
KFG
When the American Federal income tax was enacted it was a 3% tax only the top 1% of earners; and we were told it would stay that way.
.politicians are fucking liars and will always go for the money.
When the NYS Throughway was built it was made a toll road, but we were told "only until it is paid for."
It's paid for. The toll remains. Why?
We are told it is necessary to pay the salaries of the toll takers. No, I am not making that up.
The cynical might conclude that politicians are fucking liars and will always go for the money. I however, am not a cynical man. I am an emotionless realist. Therefore I know that . .
KFG
Yes, and shipping is cheaper than transport over land afaik.
:P
By Asian rail, yes, it typically is, despite sea being more fuel efficient.
But thanks for the geography lesson
Especially since they're closer.
In any case the added shipping costs for an extra thousand miles or so per unit are essentially nil, the majority of the cost of transportion being in handling, not in the actual transport.
If I hand carry a small package for you 100 miles overnight my capital and fuel expenditures will be about five bucks. My labor will cost you $100.
Why did steam replace sail, even though the wind is free? Not because steam was faster, in the early days it wasn't, nor because it was more reliable, in the early days it wasn't, but because it cost more in labor to use wind than the fuel cost of steam. It takes more men to man a sail than an engine.
It's the teamsters that set the price of transporting goods, not the distance.
KFG
$x = £x would be a massive rip-off!
The ripoff has a name. It's called "VAT."
In England they increase the "value" of things by bundling taxes into the selling price.
KFG
Dude, Europe is Asia, in the sense that it's a penninsula of the same landmass. About 7000 miles from Beijing to Paris, all overland. About 8000 miles from Beijing to NYC, much of it over water.
KFG