what you have here is a "natural monopoly". The thing is that you dont really need to have incentives for others to make their own infrastructure. Making ionfrastructure is very expensive, and doubling would just be an enourmous waste.
You just need companies to compete over the quality and price of services over this infrastructure.
Such an arrangement is not as strange as you say. It often happens with natural monopolies. for example when the electrticity market was being deregulated nobody seriously suggested that different power companies should build different powerlines.
wow as a tax payer i am glad those planes are kind of cheap.
Imean with such a low initial estimate by the time the contract is signed and Boeing does its usual trick on the US government those planes will probably cost us no more than $50 mil each!!!
Well it is nessesary for scientists to be able to rely on other scientists's published research. If everyone had to recreate experiments just to make sure a previously published result is correct we would never get anywhere.
So if i go to my local electronics department store, and i ask for a PC that does not have windows on it, and i insist that i dont pay for the cost of windows, what do you think will happen?
"Microsoft has developed some of the most successful marketing schemes in history"
I completely agree.
A merketing scheme were the customers are FORCED to buy your product is succesful indeed. It is much better than the marketing schemes based on customer satisfaction, many other companies imploy.
I completely agree. Anebody can see that that new online game network will be every bit as good for the consumer as MSN and that internet TV thingy were.
Yes i am being sarcastic.
I wonder if this new law was caused by Naom Chomsky. He went into turkey and gave a speech about the Kurds and the govt went haywire, and banned all his books. Well Chomsky is all over the net so I guess they took the next step.
BTW these laws dont have much effect. If you have:
1. a friend on the outside 2. use of good encryption 3. a personal computer that is free of surveilance
you can escape all internet cencorship schemes. All you do is set up your friend on the outside as a proxy (i am not sure if proxy is the exact tech term) and make sure all communications between him and you are encrypted.
There are many people that will setup those proxies to help others evade cencorship. I would if i could afford the bandwidth.
well when he said there is the I hate you virus going around the internet i interpreted as meaning that the internet is causing all this hate. It seemed like a reasonable interpretation.
Him comparing the internet to a sewer is quite telling as well. Technicaly a sewer is not a good analogy for large ammounts of unprocessed and unfiltered things. Its a bad metaphor to say the least but he obviously (to me) uses it to set a tone.
As you can see i dont hold too high opinion of him but my opinion of him is based entirely on his articles previous and no personal prejudices.
For the record i have never wanted to win the pulitzer prize neither am i a journalist. I would never wear a mustache either. Any other reason why i should envy Tom?
Why would you think i am trolling?
In any event it is completely possible that this post gets moded down by 5 pm. If that happens i hope that brings you a nice satisfactory feeling of justice.
ok so is he saying that the media are better at promoting truth?
That we should just forget about the internet because all those self centered people use it for their own purposes but listen to selfless journalists? Well that sounds very suspicious to me.
I can believe that many people will use the internet for their own selfish purposes. But the same is true about the press. And with the internet you can still be better informed, because you have access to more information, from different sources.
i read some of the pages they have on amazon.com. Honestly it does not impress me. Looks like an undergrad essay to me.
The insights are obvious and they are peppered with some really inane literary devices - "the equation for the cold war is e=mc2, but the equation for globalisation is moores law"... yep.
Well i see you like him so i guess everyone can have their opinions.
Seriously you should actually try to learn about islam.
In the last half century there has been an increase of hard core islamic religions, but that has to do with many things, and ironicaly its been mostly due to western policies.
But islam has not always been so extreme. and as far as extreme muslims go, you can always find an extreme hindu, christian or jew that is just as bad as them.
Here is why Tom doesnt like the internet - because it makes his job irrelevant.
See Tom has this really important job where he at the new york times tells people what to think and decides what information they should know.
But now the internet is here and people do not need to go to the new york times and their free fuscking registration to get information. And people can gasp form opinions on their own. Well then Tom's job is kind of useless then aint it? Running a ministry of truth while you have free information exchange is very pointless, noone will listen to you.
But the internet makes arabs angry and dangerous, because they see palestinians being beaten on cable!!! Now really, Tom dont you think that would be less of a problem if palestinians werent getting beaten by israelis soldiers all the time?
But its out of context!!! Well and what is the alternative? The New york times will provide the context? Of course not. The new york times will just not report it.
See thats the great think about the internet. People can provide their context. They dont need the official media to provide the context for them (ie tell them how to interpret the news).
but with the internet bad people find other bad people with like views. Big fing deal. I will always choose freedom of information over propaganda even if freedom of information provides speech to some bad people. It is not suprising that almost every oppressive and racist regime tightly controls information exchange, between its people. Cults and extreme groups also have real trouble keeping their memberships up when they cant control what information their members can access. In fact the best way to stop islamic fanaticism is to give internet access to most muslims (isnt ironic that Tom complains about muslims who are in general are not very likely to be hooked up to the net?).
Saying the internet spreads hate is stupid. Does he think that all this hate is due to the internet? Is it the gulf war with all its victims the internets fault? are the terrorist attacks and the bombing of afghanistan the internets fault? Were the israeli attacks on palestine the internets fault? How about terrorism?
There is adifference between the internet and the new york times that tom has to grasp. The internet will usually reflect the real world.
It depends how much energy those things will release inside your body. That basicly depends how much you slow it down.
If you slow it down even a litlle bit ud probably evaporate right then and there.
But maybe beceuse it is so damn small and fast and humans are nice and soft, it will just cut trough you without changing its speed at all and then you may get lucky. (of course you wil have to worry about the seismic event when it hits the ground).
As a way of comparison imagine cutting a tomato with a fast swing of a supper sharp japanese sword - the tomato wont be damaged much (aside from being cut in half) now if you try that with a dull knofe you will have one bruised up tomato.
But this is a very interesting question and i dont think the answer is trivial.
Now if a nuclear warhead gets hit by a strangelet, well then its the unluckiet way to die for some unlucky city, or state.
ok way to blame your problems on microsoft
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The story is quite simple - the guy had a loan from MS. The loan came due and he couldnt pay it back.
So he started offering delayed repayment plans. Microsoft accepted them for a while and then they stopped. Well nobody is required to accept delayed repayment plans. Its their money after all.
So that guy tries to hide the fact that his bussiness failed by saying that Ms refused to accept his "innovations". Well the market refused to accept his "innovations" too. His bussiness did not succeed.
And as far as the innovations go lets be realistic here. All he did was try to hijack domain names. I am actually glad he did not succeed. I dont want some private co connected to microsoft in control of the naming system. At least icann pretends to be community governed.
There is a very strong point in developing a bnet server for wc3.
Alternative starcraft servers were very useful for nonhackers.
Many starcraft communities were formed on non battlenet servers, many based on skill or country, and were very succesful.
The good players would choose to go to another server, where people had to apply for membership, because then they knew they could kick out the ones that use hacks or are just annoying.
Since most of the best warcraft players used to be starcraft players they will want to do the same thing.
I did this in college, (some 4 years ago). It was a lot of fun.
I designed a processor that had a stack for a register file. It worked like a charm. It was pretty serious design too with a pipeline of 4 or 5 stages and instruction forwarding etc.
It would have actually been usefull for an embedded processor that would be dedicated to run a stack based language, like Java.
Of course the next step is to design the whole thing on transistor level. And that is kind of a pain. Then you have to worry about having enough space to put everything etc, sizing all the transistors just right etc. Also you cant put that on FPGA, you have to be content with spice simulations.
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what you have here is a "natural monopoly". The thing is that you dont really need to have incentives for others to make their own infrastructure. Making ionfrastructure is very expensive, and doubling would just be an enourmous waste.
You just need companies to compete over the quality and price of services over this infrastructure.
Such an arrangement is not as strange as you say. It often happens with natural monopolies. for example when the electrticity market was being deregulated nobody seriously suggested that different power companies should build different powerlines.
wow as a tax payer i am glad those planes are kind of cheap.
Imean with such a low initial estimate by the time the contract is signed and Boeing does its usual trick on the US government those planes will probably cost us no more than $50 mil each!!!
Well it is nessesary for scientists to be able to rely on other scientists's published research. If everyone had to recreate experiments just to make sure a previously published result is correct we would never get anywhere.
So if i go to my local electronics department store, and i ask for a PC that does not have windows on it, and i insist that i dont pay for the cost of windows, what do you think will happen?
"Microsoft has developed some of the most successful marketing schemes in history"
I completely agree.
A merketing scheme were the customers are FORCED to buy your product is succesful indeed. It is much better than the marketing schemes based on customer satisfaction, many other companies imploy.
I completely agree. Anebody can see that that new online game network will be every bit as good for the consumer as MSN and that internet TV thingy were. Yes i am being sarcastic.
I wonder if this new law was caused by Naom Chomsky. He went into turkey and gave a speech about the Kurds and the govt went haywire, and banned all his books. Well Chomsky is all over the net so I guess they took the next step.
BTW these laws dont have much effect. If you have:
1. a friend on the outside
2. use of good encryption
3. a personal computer that is free of surveilance
you can escape all internet cencorship schemes. All you do is set up your friend on the outside as a proxy (i am not sure if proxy is the exact tech term) and make sure all communications between him and you are encrypted.
There are many people that will setup those proxies to help others evade cencorship. I would if i could afford the bandwidth.
also some emails just wont be junked even if you set them up to be. i think some domain names are unjunkable.
"Microsoft® .NET Passport was temporarily unable to complete your request. Please try again "
Well i guess their servers are too busy selling my information right now.
I should try later.
well when he said there is the I hate you virus going around the internet i interpreted as meaning that the internet is causing all this hate. It seemed like a reasonable interpretation.
Him comparing the internet to a sewer is quite telling as well. Technicaly a sewer is not a good analogy for large ammounts of unprocessed and unfiltered things. Its a bad metaphor to say the least but he obviously (to me) uses it to set a tone.
As you can see i dont hold too high opinion of him but my opinion of him is based entirely on his articles previous and no personal prejudices.
For the record i have never wanted to win the pulitzer prize neither am i a journalist. I would never wear a mustache either. Any other reason why i should envy Tom?
Why would you think i am trolling?
In any event it is completely possible that this post gets moded down by 5 pm. If that happens i hope that brings you a nice satisfactory feeling of justice.
ok so is he saying that the media are better at promoting truth?
That we should just forget about the internet because all those self centered people use it for their own purposes but listen to selfless journalists? Well that sounds very suspicious to me.
I can believe that many people will use the internet for their own selfish purposes. But the same is true about the press. And with the internet you can still be better informed, because you have access to more information, from different sources.
i read some of the pages they have on amazon.com. Honestly it does not impress me. Looks like an undergrad essay to me.
... yep.
The insights are obvious and they are peppered with some really inane literary devices - "the equation for the cold war is e=mc2, but the equation for globalisation is moores law"
Well i see you like him so i guess everyone can have their opinions.
Seriously you should actually try to learn about islam.
In the last half century there has been an increase of hard core islamic religions, but that has to do with many things, and ironicaly its been mostly due to western policies.
But islam has not always been so extreme. and as far as extreme muslims go, you can always find an extreme hindu, christian or jew that is just as bad as them.
But the spotlight is on the muslims.
Here is why Tom doesnt like the internet - because it makes his job irrelevant.
See Tom has this really important job where he at the new york times tells people what to think and decides what information they should know.
But now the internet is here and people do not need to go to the new york times and their free fuscking registration to get information. And people can gasp form opinions on their own. Well then Tom's job is kind of useless then aint it? Running a ministry of truth while you have free information exchange is very pointless, noone will listen to you.
But the internet makes arabs angry and dangerous, because they see palestinians being beaten on cable!!! Now really, Tom dont you think that would be less of a problem if palestinians werent getting beaten by israelis soldiers all the time?
But its out of context!!! Well and what is the alternative? The New york times will provide the context? Of course not. The new york times will just not report it.
See thats the great think about the internet. People can provide their context. They dont need the official media to provide the context for them (ie tell them how to interpret the news).
but with the internet bad people find other bad people with like views. Big fing deal. I will always choose freedom of information over propaganda even if freedom of information provides speech to some bad people. It is not suprising that almost every oppressive and racist regime tightly controls information exchange, between its people. Cults and extreme groups also have real trouble keeping their memberships up when they cant control what information their members can access. In fact the best way to stop islamic fanaticism is to give internet access to most muslims (isnt ironic that Tom complains about muslims who are in general are not very likely to be hooked up to the net?).
Saying the internet spreads hate is stupid. Does he think that all this hate is due to the internet? Is it the gulf war with all its victims the internets fault? are the terrorist attacks and the bombing of afghanistan the internets fault? Were the israeli attacks on palestine the internets fault? How about terrorism?
There is adifference between the internet and the new york times that tom has to grasp. The internet will usually reflect the real world.
its an interesting question.
It depends how much energy those things will release inside your body. That basicly depends how much you slow it down.
If you slow it down even a litlle bit ud probably evaporate right then and there.
But maybe beceuse it is so damn small and fast and humans are nice and soft, it will just cut trough you without changing its speed at all and then you may get lucky. (of course you wil have to worry about the seismic event when it hits the ground).
As a way of comparison imagine cutting a tomato with a fast swing of a supper sharp japanese sword - the tomato wont be damaged much (aside from being cut in half) now if you try that with a dull knofe you will have one bruised up tomato.
But this is a very interesting question and i dont think the answer is trivial.
yeah but stuff like that should not be patentable.
It is basicly a half thought out bussiness idea.
get hit by strangelet on the head.
Now if a nuclear warhead gets hit by a strangelet, well then its the unluckiet way to die for some unlucky city, or state.
The story is quite simple - the guy had a loan from MS. The loan came due and he couldnt pay it back.
So he started offering delayed repayment plans. Microsoft accepted them for a while and then they stopped. Well nobody is required to accept delayed repayment plans. Its their money after all.
So that guy tries to hide the fact that his bussiness failed by saying that Ms refused to accept his "innovations". Well the market refused to accept his "innovations" too. His bussiness did not succeed.
And as far as the innovations go lets be realistic here. All he did was try to hijack domain names. I am actually glad he did not succeed. I dont want some private co connected to microsoft in control of the naming system. At least icann pretends to be community governed.
What if you want to play with your friend next door. and there is no lan.
There is a very strong point in developing a bnet server for wc3.
Alternative starcraft servers were very useful for nonhackers.
Many starcraft communities were formed on non battlenet servers, many based on skill or country, and were very succesful.
The good players would choose to go to another server, where people had to apply for membership, because then they knew they could kick out the ones that use hacks or are just annoying.
Since most of the best warcraft players used to be starcraft players they will want to do the same thing.
research into geometry ???
i am not sure that all the damage will be the same.
smaller doses of radioactivity will probably cause disproportionally less damage.
MS not only had an agreement to use realnames they had a put a lot of capital in that company.
When they realized it wasnt gaining market share they decided to get out.
I did this in college, (some 4 years ago). It was a lot of fun.
I designed a processor that had a stack for a register file. It worked like a charm. It was pretty serious design too with a pipeline of 4 or 5 stages and instruction forwarding etc.
It would have actually been usefull for an embedded processor that would be dedicated to run a stack based language, like Java.
Of course the next step is to design the whole thing on transistor level. And that is kind of a pain. Then you have to worry about having enough space to put everything etc, sizing all the transistors just right etc. Also you cant put that on FPGA, you have to be content with spice simulations.
But the gate level design is fun.