I think part of the issue here is also multiplexing. That is (in the case of fiber), sending data on multiple wavelegths of light on each fiber. Estimates vary, but most people are saying that the amount of data one fiber can carry doubles every year. Granted, you have to upgrade a lot of infrastucture (repeaters, etc.) along each fiber route, but this is a heck of a lot cheaper than digging new routes. After we fill up all that currently dark fiber telos will probably upgrade their multiplexing equipment on existing fiber, rather than adding fiber. (Until, of course, we hit some sort of multiplexing barrier)
1. Fresh Air has such light-weight interviews. It's the People Magazine of NPR.
2. It's such a slow paced show, yet they never seem to discuss the subjects in any depth.
3. So many of Gross's questions an comments seem self-aggrandizing.
To be fair:
1. She does do an excellent job preparing for the interviews.
2. It's not actually as "lite" as the real people magazine.
Just my stupid opinion. Time to put on my asbestos suit.
I don't think we have to guard this stuff until it decays of it's own accord; we only have to guard it until we have the technology to neutralize it ourselves. How long will that be? It probably depends on how much money we throw at the problem, but I'd guess its probably considerably less than even one half-life of whatever particular nasty substance we're talking about. Thus, spend less on storage safety and more on research.
>> SO If the company negotiates EXCLUSIVE access to the park, and THEN begins 'dynamically' raising prices, what would you call that ??
Monopoly with dynamic pricing. The soda vendor is going to try to maximize profits. If they are a monopoly, prices will be higher than if there is unrestrained competition.
The point here is that the monoply status is responsible for the high price of cola in this example, not the dynamic pricing aspect. Take the example where there are 100 vendors all with dynamic pricing; the machine with the highest price will never sell any soda, so they are all forced to lower prices until they make some minimum (positive) profit. Sure at any particular temperature in the day one vendor might have a higher than average price, but then they sell no sodas during that period.
Uh, actually I think supply is an issue. If there are soda machines from 100 vendors at the park prices will be much lower than if there are machines from only one vendor, regardless of whether the prices fluctuate in response to the temperature.
I think the reason DSL didn't grow very much in the quarter was that none of the small reseller ISPs wanted to sell it and get burned when Covad and Rhythms follow Northpoint's lead down the magical telecom toilet.
The demand, however, is still there on the consumer side. My neighborhood is serviced by a large RBOC with the deep pockets to absorb losses on DSL until the competitive position improves. In April they put two new DSLAMs in the local CO and sold them both out in a week (220 lines, I think they said). That's just one little anecdote, but it sounds like a pretty strong consumer demand picture to me.
>>I want to be free to raise my children without having to have them exposed to drugs.
Yes, but I want to be free to raise my childen without having them protected from drugs. Let's compromise, and take the government out of the picture and let individuals and families make their own choices.
Confiscation of personal property is not moral. If you would like to buy an office building and create a homeless shelter, by all means do so, but do it with your own money.
In Stewart Brand's, The Clock of the Long Now, chapter 16, he argues that over the short term things appear to be getting worse, but over the long term they are really getting better.
"Everything has been going to hell for as long as anyone can remember. Empires are always dying. Your friends are always dying. But in the long sweep of history, on average, life has been getting steadily better for as long as you care to look. Does anyone here really want to live in medieval times? Have rotten teath, eat turnips, and die at the age of twenty-seven of exhasustion?" (p 109)
While Brand is talking here about the human condition, I think the same applies to technology. Oh, sure GenericWebBrowser 2.0 isn't really any better than GenericWebBrowser 1.0, but its better than data interchange via: oral tradition, writting on clay tablets, monks copying data by hand, printing on paper from at central location, the telgraph, the Xerox, fax machines, etc... And how we get to wherever we're going next is to take small steps forward, backward, and sideways, dawdling down the road of progress.
You'll be working five to seven days a week, eight to sixteen hours a day, for the next twenty to fifty years of your life. Figure out what sort of lifestyle you want to have, and then find some work that you really love to do, that will accomodate it. Don't choose a major for your future employer; choose it for yourself.
There's a lot of pressure in this respect when you're 19, and you don't have to make all the correct choices the first time around, but its good to be aware that these are the issues you need to sort out over the next several years.
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I think part of the issue here is also multiplexing. That is (in the case of fiber), sending data on multiple wavelegths of light on each fiber. Estimates vary, but most people are saying that the amount of data one fiber can carry doubles every year. Granted, you have to upgrade a lot of infrastucture (repeaters, etc.) along each fiber route, but this is a heck of a lot cheaper than digging new routes. After we fill up all that currently dark fiber telos will probably upgrade their multiplexing equipment on existing fiber, rather than adding fiber. (Until, of course, we hit some sort of multiplexing barrier)
This would be an excellent /. poll:
o I live without a big screen tv
o I live without cable tv
o I live without tv
o I live without radio
o I live without CowboyNeal
I think a better analogy would be a nice neighborhood where someone new moves in and puts a rusty old junker car on blocks in their front yard.
I disagree with this. I hate this show because:
1. Fresh Air has such light-weight interviews. It's the People Magazine of NPR.
2. It's such a slow paced show, yet they never seem to discuss the subjects in any depth.
3. So many of Gross's questions an comments seem self-aggrandizing.
To be fair:
1. She does do an excellent job preparing for the interviews.
2. It's not actually as "lite" as the real people magazine.
Just my stupid opinion. Time to put on my asbestos suit.
So is there a lifetime warranty on this guy's device, or what?
I don't think we have to guard this stuff until it decays of it's own accord; we only have to guard it until we have the technology to neutralize it ourselves. How long will that be? It probably depends on how much money we throw at the problem, but I'd guess its probably considerably less than even one half-life of whatever particular nasty substance we're talking about. Thus, spend less on storage safety and more on research.
Perhaps, but I think he can pretty much kiss-off the catfish vote next election.
>> SO If the company negotiates EXCLUSIVE access to the park, and THEN begins 'dynamically' raising prices, what would you call that ??
Monopoly with dynamic pricing. The soda vendor is going to try to maximize profits. If they are a monopoly, prices will be higher than if there is unrestrained competition.
The point here is that the monoply status is responsible for the high price of cola in this example, not the dynamic pricing aspect. Take the example where there are 100 vendors all with dynamic pricing; the machine with the highest price will never sell any soda, so they are all forced to lower prices until they make some minimum (positive) profit. Sure at any particular temperature in the day one vendor might have a higher than average price, but then they sell no sodas during that period.
Uh, actually I think supply is an issue. If there are soda machines from 100 vendors at the park prices will be much lower than if there are machines from only one vendor, regardless of whether the prices fluctuate in response to the temperature.
If you've read and loved the book, why would you EVER want to go see a movie that will change the way the tale looks in your imagination forever?
I think the reason DSL didn't grow very much in the quarter was that none of the small reseller ISPs wanted to sell it and get burned when Covad and Rhythms follow Northpoint's lead down the magical telecom toilet.
The demand, however, is still there on the consumer side. My neighborhood is serviced by a large RBOC with the deep pockets to absorb losses on DSL until the competitive position improves. In April they put two new DSLAMs in the local CO and sold them both out in a week (220 lines, I think they said). That's just one little anecdote, but it sounds like a pretty strong consumer demand picture to me.
>>I want to be free to raise my children without having to have them exposed to drugs.
Yes, but I want to be free to raise my childen without having them protected from drugs. Let's compromise, and take the government out of the picture and let individuals and families make their own choices.
Confiscation of personal property is not moral. If you would like to buy an office building and create a homeless shelter, by all means do so, but do it with your own money.
How does MS's overseas marketing strategy differ from its American efforts, and why?
In Stewart Brand's, The Clock of the Long Now, chapter 16, he argues that over the short term things appear to be getting worse, but over the long term they are really getting better.
"Everything has been going to hell for as long as anyone can remember. Empires are always dying. Your friends are always dying. But in the long sweep of history, on average, life has been getting steadily better for as long as you care to look. Does anyone here really want to live in medieval times? Have rotten teath, eat turnips, and die at the age of twenty-seven of exhasustion?" (p 109)
While Brand is talking here about the human condition, I think the same applies to technology. Oh, sure GenericWebBrowser 2.0 isn't really any better than GenericWebBrowser 1.0, but its better than data interchange via: oral tradition, writting on clay tablets, monks copying data by hand, printing on paper from at central location, the telgraph, the Xerox, fax machines, etc... And how we get to wherever we're going next is to take small steps forward, backward, and sideways, dawdling down the road of progress.
How about a "Punch the guy who wrote the 'punch the monkey'" ad? Now THAT I'd click!
You'll be working five to seven days a week, eight to sixteen hours a day, for the next twenty to fifty years of your life. Figure out what sort of lifestyle you want to have, and then find some work that you really love to do, that will accomodate it. Don't choose a major for your future employer; choose it for yourself.
There's a lot of pressure in this respect when you're 19, and you don't have to make all the correct choices the first time around, but its good to be aware that these are the issues you need to sort out over the next several years.