The bill passed the Indiana Senate, as a resident of the city of Indianapolis, we'd prefer not to be lumped into the martians that surround our fair city.
glad at least one person on this post understands how business works. I don't think anyone here actually realizes that choice is what drives business. People choosing to use a service, and in order to have that you need competition, and in order to have that you need local government contracts that go out to more then one company for things like laying wire, using public roads etc etc. If you want net neutrality you want your city to have as many different providers as possible, then watch them scramble to create a better service.
i'm glad that just because some dude that graduated from harvard is having an identity crisis he can somehow get a post on slashdot saying how useless his job is
Van Smith lists DEC as being defeated by Intel for CPU dominance. One only needs to reference the out of court settelment paid by Intel for their patent enfringements of the ALPHA processor to realize how under informed Mr. Smith is on this matter. Intel paid heavily to prevent severe problems and loses. They were in such a bad position with the future of the pentium II and future products based on pirated technology that they had to buy DEC's whole IC manufacturing plant in NH to obtain use rights at a very great price. And gaurantee low fixed production costs to make the ALPHA chip for DEC for ten years. A price that made DEC cash heavy and a great buy for Compaq. Such statements from Mr. Smith indicate a very low level on internal knowlege and a desire to be a revisionist of historical facts. Intel still can't make a 64bit cpu. And as far as AMD being dominant as a inovator of CPU, DEC's engineering of Pipeline tech has yet to be matched by anyone and has been the basis of all new "inovations"? Yes I know that they are no more, but I never said they were great at marketing. But anyone who has any knowledge of Bill Gates knows it was not engineering that got him there!
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The bill passed the Indiana Senate, as a resident of the city of Indianapolis, we'd prefer not to be lumped into the martians that surround our fair city.
glad at least one person on this post understands how business works. I don't think anyone here actually realizes that choice is what drives business. People choosing to use a service, and in order to have that you need competition, and in order to have that you need local government contracts that go out to more then one company for things like laying wire, using public roads etc etc. If you want net neutrality you want your city to have as many different providers as possible, then watch them scramble to create a better service.
i'm glad that just because some dude that graduated from harvard is having an identity crisis he can somehow get a post on slashdot saying how useless his job is
Wasn't the StrongArm a DEC product that was 'aquired' by Intel? Humm?
Van Smith lists DEC as being defeated by Intel for CPU dominance. One only needs to reference the out of court settelment paid by Intel for their patent enfringements of the ALPHA processor to realize how under informed Mr. Smith is on this matter. Intel paid heavily to prevent severe problems and loses. They were in such a bad position with the future of the pentium II and future products based on pirated technology that they had to buy DEC's whole IC manufacturing plant in NH to obtain use rights at a very great price. And gaurantee low fixed production costs to make the ALPHA chip for DEC for ten years. A price that made DEC cash heavy and a great buy for Compaq. Such statements from Mr. Smith indicate a very low level on internal knowlege and a desire to be a revisionist of historical facts. Intel still can't make a 64bit cpu. And as far as AMD being dominant as a inovator of CPU, DEC's engineering of Pipeline tech has yet to be matched by anyone and has been the basis of all new "inovations"? Yes I know that they are no more, but I never said they were great at marketing. But anyone who has any knowledge of Bill Gates knows it was not engineering that got him there!