Don't know about the rest of you, but I've long believed in the (admitted) stereotype that Europeans basically have no access to home broadband, and are charged on a per-minute basis for internet access (similar to telephone calls), and that this was what was keeping the European community from being front-line adopters.
Whether this is a bad thing or not, in light of the recent dot-com collapse, is up for debate, and I thought this article would shatter my preconceptions on this, but I was wrong.
I mean, these numbers track the number of active ISP accounts (if I'm not mistaken), which does nothing to indicate how many people actually USE the internet. As was mentioned in a previous comment, lack of hi-speed access, as well as punitive access rate$ is keeping these people down!
The infinite hotel is a standard problem in Number Theory, named after some famous Math geek whose name (conveniently) escapes me.
But what about appending an infinite number of infinite numbers together? That is, what if the above scenario (aleph-null) were to be repeated an infinite number of times (aleph one)?
All goes back to that other famous theory named after another forgettable math genius, that any space or surace contains an infinite number of mathematically measureable points (cartesian), regardless of it's size.
Thinking here that it's interesting that human beings as finite as we, are able even to conceive of infinity. Imagine what we could conceive of if we were infinite.
But that's philosophy. I'll go find another thread.
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Don't know about the rest of you, but I've long believed in the (admitted) stereotype that Europeans basically have no access to home broadband, and are charged on a per-minute basis for internet access (similar to telephone calls), and that this was what was keeping the European community from being front-line adopters.
Whether this is a bad thing or not, in light of the recent dot-com collapse, is up for debate, and I thought this article would shatter my preconceptions on this, but I was wrong.
I mean, these numbers track the number of active ISP accounts (if I'm not mistaken), which does nothing to indicate how many people actually USE the internet. As was mentioned in a previous comment, lack of hi-speed access, as well as punitive access rate$ is keeping these people down!
FREE OUR EUROPEAN BRETHREN!!!
But I thought the RIAA had BAD karma?
Well I guess it makes sense for them to stop publishing a magazine called "Smart Business".
It runs on Debian (x86)!
Frankly, if a 19" flat screen is all the iMac has to recommend it (and I'm not saying it is), I'll pass.
Does anyone know of any reasonably-priced ($2K or less) 19- or 21-inch flat-screen displays for the PC?
The infinite hotel is a standard problem in Number Theory, named after some famous Math geek whose name (conveniently) escapes me. But what about appending an infinite number of infinite numbers together? That is, what if the above scenario (aleph-null) were to be repeated an infinite number of times (aleph one)? All goes back to that other famous theory named after another forgettable math genius, that any space or surace contains an infinite number of mathematically measureable points (cartesian), regardless of it's size. Thinking here that it's interesting that human beings as finite as we, are able even to conceive of infinity. Imagine what we could conceive of if we were infinite. But that's philosophy. I'll go find another thread.