...that people will not modify their behavior. All that may end up happening is that more people will use the roads once congestion is decreased, with the result that congestion may end up at similar levels. Or that people will choose to live farther away, and end up with a similar commute time. Cars have not decreased our transportation time as a society.
Anyone who read Superman comics in the sixties understands that you can go back in time and change things, but the results are always the same. Or, as Stewart Brand and David Byrne would say, the future wants to be the same as it ever was.
Excuse my ignorance, but does Google have to have a physical presence in China to serve the Chinese market? I can Google google.uk. Couldn't people in China do the same, and then it would be China's job to filter the results? Also, why can't Google move their Chinese headquarters to Hong Kong? My understanding is that the Chinese government takes a much more hands-off attitude there.
I imagine that there's very good reasons why none of this would work, or Google probably would have done it already, but I'm curious as to what those reasons might be.
Seriously, parent poster is right. I'm not a programmer, but I have doubts about "unbreakable" encryption. If quantum computing is so great at encrypting data, wouldn't it also be great at cracking it?
300 years, huh? That reminds me of a story I heard about how Michigan's trees all got chopped down. It seeems people did a study and determined that it would take about three hundred years to log all of Michigan's forests. Since the oldest trees in our state are only about three hundred years old, by the time they got done clearing the upper peninsula, the trees in the south would be as large as they were when logging began. So away they went.
Then came along an early technological innovation: the two-man saw. Trees could be cut down much faster than with axes. They then proceeded to chop everything down in a rather shorter timespan, and only about eighty or so acres of three hundred year old tree are left.
Isn't Google full of super-geniuses or something? Who do all sorts of clever things with computers? Something tells me somebody there already has this figured out.
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...that people will not modify their behavior. All that may end up happening is that more people will use the roads once congestion is decreased, with the result that congestion may end up at similar levels. Or that people will choose to live farther away, and end up with a similar commute time. Cars have not decreased our transportation time as a society.
Anyone who read Superman comics in the sixties understands that you can go back in time and change things, but the results are always the same. Or, as Stewart Brand and David Byrne would say, the future wants to be the same as it ever was.
Excuse my ignorance, but does Google have to have a physical presence in China to serve the Chinese market? I can Google google.uk. Couldn't people in China do the same, and then it would be China's job to filter the results? Also, why can't Google move their Chinese headquarters to Hong Kong? My understanding is that the Chinese government takes a much more hands-off attitude there.
I imagine that there's very good reasons why none of this would work, or Google probably would have done it already, but I'm curious as to what those reasons might be.
...in India. Yess!!!
Seriously, parent poster is right. I'm not a programmer, but I have doubts about "unbreakable" encryption. If quantum computing is so great at encrypting data, wouldn't it also be great at cracking it?
300 years, huh? That reminds me of a story I heard about how Michigan's trees all got chopped down. It seeems people did a study and determined that it would take about three hundred years to log all of Michigan's forests. Since the oldest trees in our state are only about three hundred years old, by the time they got done clearing the upper peninsula, the trees in the south would be as large as they were when logging began. So away they went.
Then came along an early technological innovation: the two-man saw. Trees could be cut down much faster than with axes. They then proceeded to chop everything down in a rather shorter timespan, and only about eighty or so acres of three hundred year old tree are left.
Isn't Google full of super-geniuses or something? Who do all sorts of clever things with computers? Something tells me somebody there already has this figured out.
If they're going to standardardise on one distribution, why don't they standardise on Redhat? No, Seriously.
In the long run, we're all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes didn't have children.
I meant now that that's over
I think it was the code fork. But you'd think not that that's over, they would be more concerned about the transition