I feel it's nuts. A webserver by nature must be waiting until contacted by a client. Unless we don't have always on cellphones it's pretty useless, unless for the phone company, of course.
Imagine a harp with only 1 string, but some 10'000 km long and the wind as a musician. There would be a huge tension in the cable (after all it carries all the weight of the lower part), but it wouldn't be straight either, somehow more parabolic, the earth rotating the cable through the universe. If the wind is able to destroy bridges by stimulating their resonance frequency, I'm sure that this cable would vibrate a lot (like the harp string, but oscilating kilometers instead of mere millimeters)
As a boy I used to play with a steel cable going up the Swiss mountains, a kind of cable car. The cable hung freely in the air for over 1 km. I pulled with all my weight and let it go. It took some seconds and the impulse came back, so strong impossible for me to hold the cable. It run up and down the mountain many times until it vanished. Imagine the wind pulling and pushing this very long cable and all the impulses running up and down. Forget a smooth ride up there.
Why are jobs exported from the US to the third world ? Because salaries are 20 times higher in the US. But to live in the US, this high salary is needed, since the living costs are as high. So what is the solution: Lower the exchange rate of the US dollar, 20 times if it has to be. The imports will stop and so will the export of your jobs.
Peter, Singapore
PS: Did it ever ocure to you guys that the high prices and salaries in the US are unfair for the third world ?
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I feel it's nuts. A webserver by nature must be waiting until contacted by a client. Unless we don't have always on cellphones it's pretty useless, unless for the phone company, of course.
Imagine a harp with only 1 string, but some 10'000 km long and the wind as a musician. There would be a huge tension in the cable (after all it carries all the weight of the lower part), but it wouldn't be straight either, somehow more parabolic, the earth rotating the cable through the universe. If the wind is able to destroy bridges by stimulating their resonance frequency, I'm sure that this cable would vibrate a lot (like the harp string, but oscilating kilometers instead of mere millimeters)
As a boy I used to play with a steel cable going up the Swiss mountains, a kind of cable car. The cable hung freely in the air for over 1 km. I pulled with all my weight and let it go. It took some seconds and the impulse came back, so strong impossible for me to hold the cable. It run up and down the mountain many times until it vanished. Imagine the wind pulling and pushing this very long cable and all the impulses running up and down. Forget a smooth ride up there.
Why are jobs exported from the US to the third world ? Because salaries are 20 times higher in the US. But to live in the US, this high salary is needed, since the living costs are as high. So what is the solution: Lower the exchange rate of the US dollar, 20 times if it has to be. The imports will stop and so will the export of your jobs.
Peter, Singapore
PS: Did it ever ocure to you guys that the high prices and salaries in the US are unfair for the third world ?
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