Good point, except that Ford shouldn't be allowed to make their radios part of the engine block, effectively preventing the end-user from choosing a pioneer radio instead.
Actually, one might consider the "good minds" to be the raw materials that poor countries export to info-industrialized nations. Consider all the students (==great minds) who come to the United States, get educations (==capital) in technical areas, then get greencards to work for companies that sell products (including software) back to those poorer nations. I've also heard of companies using coders in developing nations to write software that will be packaged and sold back to them with enormous mark-ups. The only capital required is the machine that puts shrink-wrap on.
One difference here is that the barrier to entry in software production is much lower than it is for manufacturing. So, software may not have the cyclic effects that other industries do.
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Deal with flow control by just sending data
really slow (28kbit/s, perhaps), and dropped
packets with forward error correction.
I seem to remember an old mbone tool that
did basically that, but only for still pictures.
(I don't remember what it was called, though.)
A more complex protocol might include reciviers
sending (unicast) requests to the source to
repeat parts of the multicast.
Good point, except that Ford shouldn't be allowed to make their radios part of the engine block, effectively preventing the end-user from choosing a pioneer radio instead.
Actually, one might consider the "good minds" to be the raw materials that poor countries export to info-industrialized nations. Consider all the students (==great minds) who come to the United States, get educations (==capital) in technical areas, then get greencards to work for companies that sell products (including software) back to those poorer nations. I've also heard of companies using coders in developing nations to write software that will be packaged and sold back to them with enormous mark-ups. The only capital required is the machine that puts shrink-wrap on.
One difference here is that the barrier to entry in software production is much lower than it is for manufacturing. So, software may not have the cyclic effects that other industries do.