Maybe thinking about your question from the other side would help? Imagine you desired to make your living by producing new content, applications or services. Who and what would be the biggest recurring expenses? Are those costs prohibitive to your success?
Or another way to think about it, "What did the advent of inexpensive uprocessors (or MIPs) enable?"
I'll suggest "structural separation", decoupling bit distribution from content production, is a necessary component if a real broadband world is to enable new, and interesting, suppliers.
A customer-owned, fiber, "last-mile" and a carrier-neutral colo is as important as the technology itself. Otherwise the fiber loop will be prey to monopolistic behavior and society will lose.
Fortunately, the majority of our roads are not toll roads and they are not controlled by private monopolists. Our information links need to meet these same standards. Municipal or customer ownership of the last mile and a carrier-neutral colo are musts for progress.
Anybody believing cable MODEM or DSL is broadband is being sold a lie. For those that want to see how to build a real network, check out
http://www.glasgow-ky.com/papers
The RBOCs and the cable company will never deploy real broadband (100Mbs and beyond). They'll tell lies and feign competition in the name of preserving their monopolies.
The only way forward is for municipalities to build their own connectivity networks with carrier neutral colos. Use the power companies and their ROWs and connect each member in your community to the rest of the world at no less than 100Mbs and beyond.
It's past time we all stop paying ridiculous access fees to monopolists.
Humans are not trained elephants and can break free from a copper loop that holds back a giant.
I am interested in a case which *quietly* disipates heat from the internal components without cutting blow holes in the top of the case.
I would buy a new case that had a modular radiator (the heat exhange unit) which supported four exchangers and four liquid cooling blocks. The user could easily choose between parallel and serial piping configurations of the exchangers/blocks. The radiator (exchanger) would be mounted about 2" from the top of the case. Low speed (quiet) fans would blow air through the radiator in volume, hence the radiator should be as large as possible. A ridge vent, like on the top of a house, would be used to exhaust the heated air out the sides of the case leaving the top of the case a solid piece. Integrating the force fluid pump into the bottom of the case seems logical.
The quiet power supplies offerred today seem good enough and don't need to be liquid cooled.
And what happens if the software company goes out of business?
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This to me is the interesting question, though not w/the answer that the customer takes ownership, rather the original author(s) could maintain ownership even though they changed companys.
How do freelance writers make a living in the media industries? Would any of those models work for open source developers?
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TV was invented in 1923. It took a long time to develop the business due to its broadcast nature and the free loader problem.
The main mistake for the net rollout seems to have been assuming advertising revenue would support a unicast network. In hindsight it seems obvious the free loader burden should have been avoided.
Now its time to learn from our mistakes and start paying for the resources we all consume. Websites should follow the lead of the porn industry and only allow paying members access to their content. (Credits to those members who actually contribute value may further enhance the site while allowing for community.)
Otherwise we won't have a free market information economy for a long, long time.
Our information society would offer more interesting information if we paid for intangible goods. Limiting purchases to physical goods limits our potential. It also wastes the natural resources which nobody pays for but rather uses solely for exclusion.
The pring to is based on voice business models which haven't evolved to support data needs.
The web site industry basing their biz-models on advertising as the revenue source seems to have been the mistake we all are paying for now. Its going to take awhile to fix it as investors have been burned once.
Add a RF modulator and distribute the video signals via the cable to any TV in the house. The remote control becomes the next problem, where a wireless IPAQ acting as a client to the server comes in handy.
I saw some interesting products from Audioramp, http://www.audioramp.com about a year ago at a trade show. I don't know the status nor have I ever used their products.
AT&T didn't want the Northpoint customers because the contracts sold by the ISPs weren't profitable and because too many entities were getting a piece of the monthly bill. The ISPs were selling contracts at rates that didn't pay everyone, including themselves. First the ISPs went bankrupt and then the wholesale DSL providers went bankrupt.
The only thing with any value was the network assets which AT&T bought. Customers had a subsidized ride for awhile then the investors left.
In this case the value is the customer's unencumbered recurring monthly payments, and not so much the assets. The bondholders will eventually sell, even if though we may experience a rolling blackout, because something is better than nothing.
This is a money grab. AT&T had negotiated a selling price with @Home though this didn't mean much since @Home went bankrupt. The bondholders of @Home's debt want more money for this asset. The bondholders "turning off" the network is an attempt to raise the selling price, though if they keep everyone off the network for too long then their asset loses all its value. Kinda like a rolling blackout, but this time for network resources.
The strategic piece, besides the customers, seems to be the WAN (internet) link into the headend router. I had assumed @Home owned this connection, but I really don't know the original contract terms between them and the cable cos.
The ISP (@Home) does also provide the mail, news, dns, customer service, etc. and Excite was supposed to provide intersting content. These parts of the business seems to have been worthless (well maybe the email id is worth something).
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Maybe thinking about your question from the other side would help? Imagine you desired to make your living by producing new content, applications or services. Who and what would be the biggest recurring expenses? Are those costs prohibitive to your success?
Or another way to think about it, "What did the advent of inexpensive uprocessors (or MIPs) enable?"
I'll suggest "structural separation", decoupling bit distribution from content production, is a necessary component if a real broadband world is to enable new, and interesting, suppliers.
A customer-owned, fiber, "last-mile" and a carrier-neutral colo is as important as the technology itself. Otherwise the fiber loop will be prey to monopolistic behavior and society will lose.
Fortunately, the majority of our roads are not toll roads and they are not controlled by private monopolists. Our information links need to meet these same standards. Municipal or customer ownership of the last mile and a carrier-neutral colo are musts for progress.
PS. Connect our schools and libraries first.
Anybody believing cable MODEM or DSL is broadband is being sold a lie. For those that want to see how to build a real network, check out
http://www.glasgow-ky.com/papers
The RBOCs and the cable company will never deploy real broadband (100Mbs and beyond). They'll tell lies and feign competition in the name of preserving their monopolies.
The only way forward is for municipalities to build their own connectivity networks with carrier neutral colos. Use the power companies and their ROWs and connect each member in your community to the rest of the world at no less than 100Mbs and beyond.
It's past time we all stop paying ridiculous access fees to monopolists.
Humans are not trained elephants and can break free from a copper loop that holds back a giant.
I am interested in a case which *quietly* disipates heat from the internal components without cutting blow holes in the top of the case.
I would buy a new case that had a modular radiator (the heat exhange unit) which supported four exchangers and four liquid cooling blocks. The user could easily choose between parallel and serial piping configurations of the exchangers/blocks. The radiator (exchanger) would be mounted about 2" from the top of the case. Low speed (quiet) fans would blow air through the radiator in volume, hence the radiator should be as large as possible. A ridge vent, like on the top of a house, would be used to exhaust the heated air out the sides of the case leaving the top of the case a solid piece. Integrating the force fluid pump into the bottom of the case seems logical.
The quiet power supplies offerred today seem good enough and don't need to be liquid cooled.
And what happens if the software company goes out of business?
__________
This to me is the interesting question, though not w/the answer that the customer takes ownership, rather the original author(s) could maintain ownership even though they changed companys.
How do freelance writers make a living in the media industries? Would any of those models work for open source developers?
TV was invented in 1923. It took a long time to develop the business due to its broadcast nature and the free loader problem.
The main mistake for the net rollout seems to have been assuming advertising revenue would support a unicast network. In hindsight it seems obvious the free loader burden should have been avoided.
Now its time to learn from our mistakes and start paying for the resources we all consume. Websites should follow the lead of the porn industry and only allow paying members access to their content. (Credits to those members who actually contribute value may further enhance the site while allowing for community.)
Otherwise we won't have a free market information economy for a long, long time.
Our information society would offer more interesting information if we paid for intangible goods. Limiting purchases to physical goods limits our potential. It also wastes the natural resources which nobody pays for but rather uses solely for exclusion.
The pring to is based on voice business models which haven't evolved to support data needs.
The web site industry basing their biz-models on advertising as the revenue source seems to have been the mistake we all are paying for now. Its going to take awhile to fix it as investors have been burned once.
Add a RF modulator and distribute the video signals via the cable to any TV in the house. The remote control becomes the next problem, where a wireless IPAQ acting as a client to the server comes in handy.
I saw some interesting products from Audioramp, http://www.audioramp.com about a year ago at a trade show. I don't know the status nor have I ever used their products.
AT&T didn't want the Northpoint customers because the contracts sold by the ISPs weren't profitable and because too many entities were getting a piece of the monthly bill. The ISPs were selling contracts at rates that didn't pay everyone, including themselves. First the ISPs went bankrupt and then the wholesale DSL providers went bankrupt.
The only thing with any value was the network assets which AT&T bought. Customers had a subsidized ride for awhile then the investors left.
In this case the value is the customer's unencumbered recurring monthly payments, and not so much the assets. The bondholders will eventually sell, even if though we may experience a rolling blackout, because something is better than nothing.
This is a money grab. AT&T had negotiated a selling price with @Home though this didn't mean much since @Home went bankrupt. The bondholders of @Home's debt want more money for this asset. The bondholders "turning off" the network is an attempt to raise the selling price, though if they keep everyone off the network for too long then their asset loses all its value. Kinda like a rolling blackout, but this time for network resources.
The strategic piece, besides the customers, seems to be the WAN (internet) link into the headend router. I had assumed @Home owned this connection, but I really don't know the original contract terms between them and the cable cos.
The ISP (@Home) does also provide the mail, news, dns, customer service, etc. and Excite was supposed to provide intersting content. These parts of the business seems to have been worthless (well maybe the email id is worth something).