I think landmass is definitely one of the factors that affect boradband penetration, but it's definitely not the only reason. I took a look through the paper the ITU site has for Korea and I was really surprised and impressed (http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/promotebroadband/ca sestudies/japan.pdf).
Here are some interesting points to take from the research:
- Literacy rate of 97.6 percent - 80% of the korean population lives in rural areas and 48% live in apartments so that simplifies networking tasks. - Government is incredibly involved in nurturing tech as well as making sure consumer is protected. it spends money in education as well as subsidizing efforts to decrease the "digital divide". - Per capita income is not very high, so the internet broadband rate isn't really related that. - A third of exports are from ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Korea makes a lot of tech equipment and they've made an effort to marry that with internet access for its citizens. - The introduction of a competitive cable market helped spur broadband growth. - 26.3 million (55% of population) internet users in 2002, whereas in 1997 it was 1 million. - Goverment licensing fees for infrastructure such as from ISP's (who must be properly licensed to operate) are pumped back into ICT. - The government and the private sector cooperate to improve technolgy within the country. - It's estimated that ecommerce will make up 18% of the economy in 2004 at $200 billion, a jump from $9 billion in 2001. Most of that ecommerce will be in B2B.
I sent Redmond the thirty bucks because:
1. I didn't feel like downloading then burning the cd.
2. I want to support Linux.
The Linux elitism is getting a little too much for me. I think it's cool that Lycoris looks and feels like XP - I think it's a nice slap in the face. Who cares that it looks and acts like MSFT? It's still Linux underneath. Isn't that what people are always arguing about? Substance? Who cares what it looks like? Or are all Linux users the same as MSFT users? They just care what it looks like.
First of all, I think this would work if everyone had one of these devices and if everyone was sharing. Next, I don't think that these devices should ever save anything. Data should be passing from one handheld to another. The only reason your device exists is so that it can relay data to another device. If you want to listen to a song, you search for it, the device streams it, destroys it from your ram as it streams it to another device. What's the point of all this storage if you jsut want to share it anyway?
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I think landmass is definitely one of the factors that affect boradband penetration, but it's definitely not the only reason. I took a look through the paper the ITU site has for Korea and I was really surprised and impressed (http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/promotebroadband/ca sestudies/japan.pdf).
Here are some interesting points to take from the research:
- Literacy rate of 97.6 percent
- 80% of the korean population lives in rural areas and 48% live in apartments so that simplifies networking tasks.
- Government is incredibly involved in nurturing tech as well as making sure consumer is protected. it spends money in education as well as subsidizing efforts to decrease the "digital divide".
- Per capita income is not very high, so the internet broadband rate isn't really related that.
- A third of exports are from ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Korea makes a lot of tech equipment and they've made an effort to marry that with internet access for its citizens.
- The introduction of a competitive cable market helped spur broadband growth.
- 26.3 million (55% of population) internet users in 2002, whereas in 1997 it was 1 million.
- Goverment licensing fees for infrastructure such as from ISP's (who must be properly licensed to operate) are pumped back into ICT.
- The government and the private sector cooperate to improve technolgy within the country.
- It's estimated that ecommerce will make up 18% of the economy in 2004 at $200 billion, a jump from $9 billion in 2001. Most of that ecommerce will be in B2B.
I sent Redmond the thirty bucks because: 1. I didn't feel like downloading then burning the cd. 2. I want to support Linux. The Linux elitism is getting a little too much for me. I think it's cool that Lycoris looks and feels like XP - I think it's a nice slap in the face. Who cares that it looks and acts like MSFT? It's still Linux underneath. Isn't that what people are always arguing about? Substance? Who cares what it looks like? Or are all Linux users the same as MSFT users? They just care what it looks like.
First of all, I think this would work if everyone had one of these devices and if everyone was sharing. Next, I don't think that these devices should ever save anything. Data should be passing from one handheld to another. The only reason your device exists is so that it can relay data to another device. If you want to listen to a song, you search for it, the device streams it, destroys it from your ram as it streams it to another device. What's the point of all this storage if you jsut want to share it anyway?