How exactly are you selling Blizzard's gold? Is it removed from the server? Is it taken from Blizzard? Don't they still have absolute control of their servers?
or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner. How could you hand over an item in a game unless you have that authorisation. The game producers are as close to omnipotent gods as you can get, if they want to stop it, they can.
Also, the U.S. inflation rate is currently about 2.5%, which, while not spectacularly good, is not that terrible either. By contrast, the U.K. inflation rate is at 2.7%. Maybe try waiting until you need to shave before doling out your stunning economic advice. LOL... Sorry.
The UK CPI jumped to 3% last month, but the real UK rate of inflation is running closer to 5%, as it also is in the US.
Housing is expensive because of supply and demand, not because of a lack of new construction. Surely if there's little new construction, the supply will be more limited than it would be if there were plenty of new construction... No?
And besides, 'inflation' isn't some phenomenon that makes prices get higher. Inflation is just what we call it when they do so.... Of course... The forces of supply and demand also act on money. If you supply too much money to the market...
Don't feel too bad, this is a feature of all government. Where you give government powers over something, that power is inevitably abused. The solution is to limit the responsibility of government. The more areas it becomes responsible for the more areas become corrupted.
Since bandwidth became so cheap. The same way road and rail made factories and supermarkets inevitable. Centralisation of services makes huge economic sense. Bye bye lots of developers and admins... We're seeing the end of the cottage industry. There are basically going to be four options for existing IT practitioners.
1: Get out there and compete with Google. Build your own data centres and application services. 2: Find a niche they aren't filling. 3: Build/write a Google killer. 4: Do something else entirely. Basket weaving or similar.
Yeah, won't happen, can't happen, people wan't personal service, don't trust data, blah blah blah... My counter argument? Walmart, Tesco etc. Bandwidth has made this inevitable.
Technically it's trivial to do. DNS was designed specifically for this sort of purpose. The problem is with the people who manage the domains, they're basically incompetent and exactly the same would be true of any whizzy new directory service which was created.
do result in better service for the consumer at less cost. Really... There are 25 regulatory bodies for each sector in the EU. One for each member country. Whether that leads to cheaper better service, I... doubt... However it does make it very difficult for one or three major players in the market to corrupt the regulators for their own purposes.
I'm inclined to suppose that a monopoly of government begets monopolies in commerce.
As a government body the people have an avenue for redress. Didn't you read the article? The FCC is being sued, and that's just to get hold of information. Information which sounds like is inaccurate or manipulated.
then all the airwaves would belong to the biggest private bully. Whereas today they belong to whomever provides the biggest backhander, what exactly is different? Regulatory capture removes the people from the equation even considering the naive belief that the government ever works for the benefit of the people.
Except people overestimated how many CO2 credits many plants needed, re-evaluated, and created a glut of CO2 credits on the open market. And the the solution to that is to abandon the market? Or to simply reduce the cap?
1: It's more of the same. How many times do you have to buy more of the same before you realise it isn't solving your problems? 2: Ubuntu. It's even free. 3: OSX was out in 2000, Vista is 6 years behind the state of the art. 4: Wired for DRM, your computer is no longer fully under your control... muses... Was it ever with Windows. 5: It costs money. See #2. 6: Massive monoculture bad juju. Perfect for virus/trojan/worm writers. Hell, even evolution produced sexuality to avoid monocultures, that's how good diversity is. 7: Retraining costs. See #2. 8: Bad for the environment. Requires another round of system purchases and junking of "old" systems.
Sell people permission to produce CO2, create a market for the trading of said permission. Require all energy producers to buy the requisite number of permits. Then put a limit on the amount of permits(CO2 production).
Problem solved. That may include nuclear, it may not, but the energy producers will decide what solution is best for them.
Think toll roads! I don't want the Internet to look like the Chicago freeway system... Right. Because you want someone else to pay for your usage instead. That's what happens with water, free roads etc. The light users or non users pay for the freeloaders.
There are smarter, more determined, more knowledgeable people out there than you. That's basically it.
If the ISPs choke off their neighbours, the said smarter/more determined people will become upset by poorer bandwidth and will come up with... something... which will make internet access faster, cheaper and more pervasive than it is now. What that something is, no idea but I'm sure it's out there.
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How exactly are you selling Blizzard's gold? Is it removed from the server? Is it taken from Blizzard? Don't they still have absolute control of their servers?
The UK CPI jumped to 3% last month, but the real UK rate of inflation is running closer to 5%, as it also is in the US.
Frankly... People still use scientific calculators?
However, and far more importantly... I got a free solar powered calculator today and I'm unaccountably pleased with it.
Don't feel too bad, this is a feature of all government. Where you give government powers over something, that power is inevitably abused. The solution is to limit the responsibility of government. The more areas it becomes responsible for the more areas become corrupted.
Since bandwidth became so cheap. The same way road and rail made factories and supermarkets inevitable. Centralisation of services makes huge economic sense. Bye bye lots of developers and admins... We're seeing the end of the cottage industry. There are basically going to be four options for existing IT practitioners.
1: Get out there and compete with Google. Build your own data centres and application services.
2: Find a niche they aren't filling.
3: Build/write a Google killer.
4: Do something else entirely. Basket weaving or similar.
Yeah, won't happen, can't happen, people wan't personal service, don't trust data, blah blah blah... My counter argument? Walmart, Tesco etc. Bandwidth has made this inevitable.
The Google Application Service... What do you reckon? $20 per month per seat? Something like that?
It just takes some organisation. Something ICANN is pathetically short of.
Imagine:
IBM.IT.services.com
localbloke.gardening.services.co.uk
penisland.sex.services.com
Technically it's trivial to do. DNS was designed specifically for this sort of purpose. The problem is with the people who manage the domains, they're basically incompetent and exactly the same would be true of any whizzy new directory service which was created.
You don't have "pumps", you have parking spaces with chargers instead.
I'm inclined to suppose that a monopoly of government begets monopolies in commerce.
Information which sounds like is inaccurate or manipulated. then all the airwaves would belong to the biggest private bully. Whereas today they belong to whomever provides the biggest backhander, what exactly is different? Regulatory capture removes the people from the equation even considering the naive belief that the government ever works for the benefit of the people.
It's called Regulatory Capture. And one of the reasons that the cry "the government should..." isn't the answer.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9069
1: It's more of the same. How many times do you have to buy more of the same before you realise it isn't solving your problems?
2: Ubuntu. It's even free.
3: OSX was out in 2000, Vista is 6 years behind the state of the art.
4: Wired for DRM, your computer is no longer fully under your control... muses... Was it ever with Windows.
5: It costs money. See #2.
6: Massive monoculture bad juju. Perfect for virus/trojan/worm writers. Hell, even evolution produced sexuality to avoid monocultures, that's how good diversity is.
7: Retraining costs. See #2.
8: Bad for the environment. Requires another round of system purchases and junking of "old" systems.
Bill Gates: Profit!
I'm sure there are more.
Sell people permission to produce CO2, create a market for the trading of said permission. Require all energy producers to buy the requisite number of permits. Then put a limit on the amount of permits(CO2 production).
Problem solved. That may include nuclear, it may not, but the energy producers will decide what solution is best for them.
There are smarter, more determined, more knowledgeable people out there than you. That's basically it.
... something ... which will make internet access faster, cheaper and more pervasive than it is now. What that something is, no idea but I'm sure it's out there.
If the ISPs choke off their neighbours, the said smarter/more determined people will become upset by poorer bandwidth and will come up with
Basically because they benefit from the other person. It's the same reason we see heroism as a great thing. Other person is heroic, we benefit.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just worth considering the motivation people have for encouraging altruism, heroism, patriotism etc etc.
It was electrochemists who didn't discover cold fusion.
MP3 player.
tungstenband@mytrashmail.com
There you go. Completely explained. Well, maybe not completely. Avoiding spam is easy. Trivial. If you do get lots of it, well...
Sure, why not.
tungstenband@mytrashmail.com
Which may be why I don't get any spam. Is it my fault that most people are as dim as a 5 Watt bulb?