How long ago did Nike move production overseas? And yet those manufacturing jobs have never come back. I suppose it may happen ONE day, just as soon as the US reaches economic parity with the Philippines, but I'm not sure I can look forward to that.
They do no know enough about how free markets work to see what the possible long-term out come could be. Time and time again free markets work and work well.
All this free market worship forgets one thing: the free market didn't invent the Internet! Sorry, but it's true. Government and academic researchers designed and implemented the Internet (which is strange because all they do is pick their butts and polish their ivory towers... right?) Only afterwards did market forces kick in to expand its reach.
The Internet totally wiped out the free market's contemporary offerings: GEnie Online, Prodigy, and a bunch of other crap proprietary networks that didn't interoperate, cost a fortune, didn't give people enough freedom to be useful.
I'll give you another reason not to trust the invisible hand to write QoS rulesets: because the rulesets are too opaque. ISP's will be constantly playing with complicated QoS rulesets, naturally *without* notifying customers. When I'm shopping around for an ISP, do you honestly think they'll volunteer the fact that they cripple Vonage to promote their own service? No way. The sheer complexity and unavailability of information from ISPs will make it difficult or impossible for consumers to really know what they're getting, and thus for corrective market forces to work.
I know people like to think that it's now so much more secure...
I don't think requiring IDs buys much security at all. As long as they check for weapons, that's the main thing IMHO. (I realize the 911 hijackers were (basically) unarmed, but they only succeeded because everybody thought it was safest to let hijackers take control).
Now, I'm not saying we should let known terrorists into the country, but granting Visas is a separate issue from Airport security, especially on domestic flights.
The second challenge there would be a power infrastructure capable of supporting many thousands of fast recharges like that.
The power supply to the gas station doesn't need to see the surges of power. The re-charging station could have an even bigger capacitor, which charges at a steady rate all the time. (Of course, even the average amount of electricity required would still be pretty big!)
I wonder what one of these big capacitors would do in a crash? At least they're not filled with so many chemicals as normal batteries, but what would happen?
I don't see titanium soda cans or anything on the horizon (bikes, probably. Planes... maybe partially.)
You gotta be joking. Titanium has been used in bicycles for years, and in aerospace for decades. So the question is not whether titanium will be used, but how much more widely it will be used.
Obviously you can't be a monopoly without being the most successful company in your field, and after establishing a monopoly you can hardly fail to be successful. A company would be foolish not to desire monopoly, which is exactly why the public would be foolish not to actively thwart them. Why, if you're not careful, you could get a company so "successful" their key divisions make 85% profit margins year after year without releasing a new major product for 5 years, which consistently "earns" billions of dollars they won't even return to their own shareholders. Which is fab if you happen to be them, but a drain on the economy as a whole.
I dont understand, why are you complaining? An ISP arms race is the most wonderful thing that could ever happen to residential bandwidth, and it is in fact a BIG deal. It's the perfect way to resolve this little HD-DVD/Blue-Ray dispute - chuck 'em both! And I think it'll be neat to see where video blogging might take us.
They should just forego batteries altogether for these types of machines. It would avoid comparison with normal laptop computers, and practically the only place for battery operation is on the plane anyways, which this thing is definitely not built for.
In addition to what everybody else said, Flash is very cheap, so you can have it in quantities beyond normal Cache sizes. The advantage of that is you don't have to spin up the hard disk itself so often.
Lots of great science is possible if you throw off the shackles of ethics. Medical research would be 100 times easier if you could use humans as guinea pigs, there's no doubt about it. People still debate whether to use Nazi data on subjects such as hypothermia, because they got the data nobody else was willing to get.
True, but the general CPU market cool-off doesn't account for Intel's erosion in market share. AMD now has 22% of the overall x86 market. That's still a strong lead for Intel, but on top of everything else, it sure doesn't help. If nothing else, significant AMD market share foiled Intel's plans to keep the party going by making everybody upgrade to Itanium.
IIRC this tale unfolded several years ago and was one of the reasons behind MS's big security push.
I don't think the story actually motivated the products. I think it's the other way around; they trot out the story to hype their new product which is more secure (the story goes). Remember, Microsoft's biggest competitor is whatever they sold everybody last year.
Well, considering the only guy quoted by both articles is a manager for a company that sells packet shaping systems...
Bummer. I would be much happier if it were astroturfing from a fiber or router company wanting to install more bandwidth, not traffic shaping. I want my ISP to spend my subscription money on building a faster network, not on implementing complex, opaque rationing schemes. Bandwidth is not a scarce natural resource, it's cheap.
Should singles who deliberately choose that lifestyle to be frugal receive less benefits?
Maybe. Japan, S. Korea, and many European countries are imploding because too few choose to pass along the investment (food, housing, education, time) they received as children. There is a large economic payoff to childless individuals, yet a high cost to society overall if too many take that route. Families are what keep society going, so society has a vested interest in promoting family. No reason to turn it into a religious debate, just look at the demographics.
No, I haven't ever flown Jet Blue, they don't fly from my home airport. Besides, my company rules require me to take the cheapest available flight. Every time somebody invents a way to make flying a little cheaper and a little more miserable, that's who I have to fly.
But to change course like that after a mere three months? Sounds expensive. There must be a story behind that, and plenty of disgruntled amployees. Who wants to spill the beans? (and get sued by Apple:)
You honestly believe the West would sacrifice access to Russia's oil for a few music download royalties? And then talk about others cutting off their noses to spite their faces?
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How long ago did Nike move production overseas? And yet those manufacturing jobs have never come back. I suppose it may happen ONE day, just as soon as the US reaches economic parity with the Philippines, but I'm not sure I can look forward to that.
I predict another Diakanta
The Internet totally wiped out the free market's contemporary offerings: GEnie Online, Prodigy, and a bunch of other crap proprietary networks that didn't interoperate, cost a fortune, didn't give people enough freedom to be useful.
I'll give you another reason not to trust the invisible hand to write QoS rulesets: because the rulesets are too opaque. ISP's will be constantly playing with complicated QoS rulesets, naturally *without* notifying customers. When I'm shopping around for an ISP, do you honestly think they'll volunteer the fact that they cripple Vonage to promote their own service? No way. The sheer complexity and unavailability of information from ISPs will make it difficult or impossible for consumers to really know what they're getting, and thus for corrective market forces to work.
Now, I'm not saying we should let known terrorists into the country, but granting Visas is a separate issue from Airport security, especially on domestic flights.
I wonder what one of these big capacitors would do in a crash? At least they're not filled with so many chemicals as normal batteries, but what would happen?
The guess (to which you are oblivious) is how you "knew" that 123 goes into 247 twice.
The other big thing I see here is a screen that works under sunlight. Why can't I have that on my $3500 Thinkpad?
Obviously you can't be a monopoly without being the most successful company in your field, and after establishing a monopoly you can hardly fail to be successful. A company would be foolish not to desire monopoly, which is exactly why the public would be foolish not to actively thwart them. Why, if you're not careful, you could get a company so "successful" their key divisions make 85% profit margins year after year without releasing a new major product for 5 years, which consistently "earns" billions of dollars they won't even return to their own shareholders. Which is fab if you happen to be them, but a drain on the economy as a whole.
I dont understand, why are you complaining? An ISP arms race is the most wonderful thing that could ever happen to residential bandwidth, and it is in fact a BIG deal. It's the perfect way to resolve this little HD-DVD/Blue-Ray dispute - chuck 'em both! And I think it'll be neat to see where video blogging might take us.
They should just forego batteries altogether for these types of machines. It would avoid comparison with normal laptop computers, and practically the only place for battery operation is on the plane anyways, which this thing is definitely not built for.
In addition to what everybody else said, Flash is very cheap, so you can have it in quantities beyond normal Cache sizes. The advantage of that is you don't have to spin up the hard disk itself so often.
Lots of great science is possible if you throw off the shackles of ethics. Medical research would be 100 times easier if you could use humans as guinea pigs, there's no doubt about it. People still debate whether to use Nazi data on subjects such as hypothermia, because they got the data nobody else was willing to get.
How about the 2nd gen (slimline) Playstation 2? I'll bet there's a lot of integration in there.
True, but the general CPU market cool-off doesn't account for Intel's erosion in market share. AMD now has 22% of the overall x86 market. That's still a strong lead for Intel, but on top of everything else, it sure doesn't help. If nothing else, significant AMD market share foiled Intel's plans to keep the party going by making everybody upgrade to Itanium.
I would never invest in a music collection that could only work with one brand of player. It amazes me how many people are willing to do so.
Japan, S. Korea, and many European countries are imploding because too few choose to pass along the investment (food, housing, education, time) they received as children. There is a large economic payoff to childless individuals, yet a high cost to society overall if too many take that route. Families are what keep society going, so society has a vested interest in promoting family. No reason to turn it into a religious debate, just look at the demographics.
No, I haven't ever flown Jet Blue, they don't fly from my home airport. Besides, my company rules require me to take the cheapest available flight. Every time somebody invents a way to make flying a little cheaper and a little more miserable, that's who I have to fly.
But to change course like that after a mere three months? Sounds expensive. There must be a story behind that, and plenty of disgruntled amployees. Who wants to spill the beans? (and get sued by Apple :)
You honestly believe the West would sacrifice access to Russia's oil for a few music download royalties? And then talk about others cutting off their noses to spite their faces?