What the fuck is wrong with England? I mean, Orwell *showed* them in "1984" how bad it could be, but they keep moving towards it. It's very strange. It's only strange if you believe that government exists to serve the people.
Take a look at a map of it sometime, it's now heirarchical, it isn't a web any more and hasn't been for years. This is down to ISP control of routing, peering arrangements.
The heirarchical control of IP addressing and routing leads to heirarchical control of the whole Internet; a naturally authoritarian system.
It's simply a case of grouping people by their own choices. You put all the flat earthers together and sell them flat earth compasses and pretty crystals.
Those who actually go out and observe the real world will realise the truth, can if they wish, manufacture flat earth compasses and pretty crystals to sell to the flat earthers. Then head off for a cruise on their yacht knowing they aren't going to fall off the end of the world.
You see, you don't have to worry about who the experts are. Everyone has their own experts.
You do it every day. Do you manufacture your own bread? Butter? Do you manufacture your own hardware components? No, because someone else can do it better and cheaper.
He wants to know, generically, how you decide that what you're using is the wrong choice. Well, that's simple. It's when you are more than two standard deviations away from the mean.
Very very very expensive. Overground is cheap in comparison. Very very cheap and it's still very very expensive.
You'll notice we don't have a national network of underground roads or rail. Basically, not going to happen, not on a national scale anyway. Fully automated packetized transport for goods and people is pretty much going to happen one way or another though:
. It's interesting that it actually costs power but there's little doubt it costs money and productivity so it's a pointless exercise. But it allows politicians to look like they're doing SOMETHING. Therefore feel powerful and in control.
But for that to work the buyers needs to know which sellers are available that don't sell crap Oh wow. You mean buyers might want to research a little when they spend their money? Jeez who'd have thought.
Capitalism is just buyers and sellers. If the buyers keep on buying crap from the sellers, they'll just keep being sold it. Especially when there are alternatives available.
He said, posting from a pub in Berlin, using his Nokia e61.
it has sfa to do with free software.
There are three problems.
1. the american market is a fucking nightmare. American consumers are hopelessly naive and continue to allow the operators to run their little walled gardens.
2. Firefox is not renowned for it's ability to run in 16mb of ram. Opera can. Works great. Cut the bloat.
3. Naivete within mozilla org. Wtf would you start with the US.market? everyone in the mobile world knows it's sewn up. It's only 5% of the world. Look further afield people.
Because I thought to get 70% efficiency there would have to be a couple of thousand degrees C difference between the hot and cold sides. Or have AMD decided laptops are not their core market for the next generation of chips?
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The USA has control of the largest and second largest oil reserves in the world now.
There is only an unwillingness to pay enough money to hire the people with the skill set you want.
And what will they worry about when we can measure parts per trillion?
That's what you get for allowing multi gigabyte PST files.
Oh, the sweet irony.
Europe isn't a country...
Take a look at a map of it sometime, it's now heirarchical, it isn't a web any more and hasn't been for years. This is down to ISP control of routing, peering arrangements.
The heirarchical control of IP addressing and routing leads to heirarchical control of the whole Internet; a naturally authoritarian system.
It's simply a case of grouping people by their own choices. You put all the flat earthers together and sell them flat earth compasses and pretty crystals.
Those who actually go out and observe the real world will realise the truth, can if they wish, manufacture flat earth compasses and pretty crystals to sell to the flat earthers. Then head off for a cruise on their yacht knowing they aren't going to fall off the end of the world.
You see, you don't have to worry about who the experts are. Everyone has their own experts.
You do it every day. Do you manufacture your own bread? Butter? Do you manufacture your own hardware components? No, because someone else can do it better and cheaper.
With store and forward for email and Usenet.
Though we used to feed a couple of sites with 10Mb tapes...
If all you have is analog phones, or even tapes, you can still run email and get usenet.
Wow. Just think of the advertising opportunity. The screen saver would be an ideal platform.
Very very very expensive. Overground is cheap in comparison. Very very cheap and it's still very very expensive.
You'll notice we don't have a national network of underground roads or rail. Basically, not going to happen, not on a national scale anyway. Fully automated packetized transport for goods and people is pretty much going to happen one way or another though:
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7hgipbHBK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdF0FK-2io&feature=related
I fly a lot, and we're almost uniformly sitting waiting for the luggage to be loaded... On short haul anyway.
Capitalism is just buyers and sellers. If the buyers keep on buying crap from the sellers, they'll just keep being sold it. Especially when there are alternatives available.
More on 3.
windows mobile? Linux? Wtf? symbian epoc is the operating system on most phones now...
He said, posting from a pub in Berlin, using his Nokia e61.
it has sfa to do with free software.
There are three problems.
1. the american market is a fucking nightmare. American consumers are hopelessly naive and continue to allow the operators to run their little walled gardens.
2. Firefox is not renowned for it's ability to run in 16mb of ram. Opera can. Works great. Cut the bloat.
3. Naivete within mozilla org. Wtf would you start with the US.market? everyone in the mobile world knows it's sewn up. It's only 5% of the world. Look further afield people.
But we're quite happy to tax human work.
Because I thought to get 70% efficiency there would have to be a couple of thousand degrees C difference between the hot and cold sides. Or have AMD decided laptops are not their core market for the next generation of chips?
or it's fatigue characteristics.