But in economics, phone companies are what is known as a natural monopoly. This is because when laying cables to your house, it is more efficient to have one provider than 30. Especially if you don't want the other 29. It's like the water companies or gas companies. You don't have 10 sets of pipes, one from each company.
Why-ever not? A start up has to start up somewhere, and if the company does not require a fixed premises as such, these guys are free to meet in the park, in the high street, in coffee shops. It's really just an extreme example of how decentralised business is becoming these days.
I'll probably be accused of being a luddite, but wtf would anyone want a $10,000 toaster for? My $10 one does the job just fine, and probably would cost me less to run as well. I think if you want the best taste from bread, eat it fresh, but if you like toast it's gonna get burnt anyway so what's the point in fresh bread?
I don't know what you people are talking about! I just find that it's interesting that when I say 'chimp from Texas', you immediately jump to the conclusion that I'm talking about George W...
It all links to the reasons that smart kids are so unpopular at school. Maybe because being smart is seen as an attempt to suck up to the teachers, or picking on nerdy kids is a defence mechanism to cope with lack of ability, but Physics Expert = Geek in many people's eyes.
Or a soon-not-to-be-state-run.
Most people reckon they'll lose their charter.
Not that they were even state-run in the first place; they can collect license fees, but are just as critical of the state as many other TV and media outlets.
Wait a minute - and this has been modded informative???
Can we meta-moderate +1 Funny?
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The 100 million figure was reported widely, including in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, CNN, Newsweek and the U.K.'s Observer; but without much caution about how arbitrary it is.
...Once again showing that the media aren't really that smart. Sources should be check for accuracy in any case, especially where these people are misinforming hundreds of thousands. Maybe this sort of story isn't an issue, but what if something more important to the readership were to be published erroniously?
Even slashdot can make mistakes. But at least we subject our stories to critical opinion.
And why shouldn't it be TV watching being replaced by MMORPGs? I think most people would agree with me that although there is some educational content on TV, most of it is utter rubbish. Far better, then, to spend some time interacting with your choice of entertainment.
So a college student, who has programmed an operating system that everyone wants to use, is going to just give it out for free?
Okay, you are right; some people see their contributions to society as justification of their personal loss. But did Bill Gates?
I didn't intend to make any blanket statements. That sort of thing annoys and insults people, because not everyone falls under the blanket. I merely wished to express the point that unlike in communities such as this - which have the noble aim of promoting free and open source software and ideas, there are many examples of communities who are not so altruistic.
I'm not saying people won't do things for personal enjoyment, but people get paid for their novels, and if they dont they can take them many years, if not decades, to write. A game is a little different, and although someone might program a game for personal enjoyment (in fact, a good friend of mine is currently re-writing Konquest for Linux so that we can play it over our school network, which is windows based) they are not going to program something of the quality of, say, Doom 3 or GTA: San Andreas.
Won't simple economics dictate that one person will not spend a good portion of his life working on games, when he could be working on games for money? That will ensure that people have to pay for good(more complicated) games, and compensate these people for the staggering amount of effort that must surely go into designing a good game.
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No... real men use Notepad!
"I remain devoted full-time to the advancement of Firefox, the Mozilla platform and web browsing in general."
Don't Google employees have free time anyway? Or am I thinking of something else?
(Damn, there goes my Karma)
But in economics, phone companies are what is known as a natural monopoly. This is because when laying cables to your house, it is more efficient to have one provider than 30. Especially if you don't want the other 29. It's like the water companies or gas companies. You don't have 10 sets of pipes, one from each company.
Indeed. Though you would have thought whoever is screening the submissions would have picked that up. Or don't they read the articles?
Why-ever not? A start up has to start up somewhere, and if the company does not require a fixed premises as such, these guys are free to meet in the park, in the high street, in coffee shops. It's really just an extreme example of how decentralised business is becoming these days.
Why not use Wi-Fi? Why bother with USB at all?
I'll probably be accused of being a luddite, but wtf would anyone want a $10,000 toaster for? My $10 one does the job just fine, and probably would cost me less to run as well. I think if you want the best taste from bread, eat it fresh, but if you like toast it's gonna get burnt anyway so what's the point in fresh bread?
I don't know what you people are talking about! I just find that it's interesting that when I say 'chimp from Texas', you immediately jump to the conclusion that I'm talking about George W...
We can launch all the chimps from Texas into space... now who do we know like that?
It all links to the reasons that smart kids are so unpopular at school. Maybe because being smart is seen as an attempt to suck up to the teachers, or picking on nerdy kids is a defence mechanism to cope with lack of ability, but Physics Expert = Geek in many people's eyes.
Or a soon-not-to-be-state-run. Most people reckon they'll lose their charter. Not that they were even state-run in the first place; they can collect license fees, but are just as critical of the state as many other TV and media outlets.
Hmm. I'm thinking that might take a while. He's gonna need a lot of coffee...
It's like what I said... I've become a victim! Aggh!
Wait a minute - and this has been modded informative???
Can we meta-moderate +1 Funny?
The 100 million figure was reported widely, including in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, CNN, Newsweek and the U.K.'s Observer; but without much caution about how arbitrary it is.
...Once again showing that the media aren't really that smart. Sources should be check for accuracy in any case, especially where these people are misinforming hundreds of thousands. Maybe this sort of story isn't an issue, but what if something more important to the readership were to be published erroniously?
Even slashdot can make mistakes. But at least we subject our stories to critical opinion.
And why shouldn't it be TV watching being replaced by MMORPGs? I think most people would agree with me that although there is some educational content on TV, most of it is utter rubbish. Far better, then, to spend some time interacting with your choice of entertainment.
In that case those people are free to do what they want. If that grabs them a slice of immortality, then all kudos to them.
So a college student, who has programmed an operating system that everyone wants to use, is going to just give it out for free? Okay, you are right; some people see their contributions to society as justification of their personal loss. But did Bill Gates? I didn't intend to make any blanket statements. That sort of thing annoys and insults people, because not everyone falls under the blanket. I merely wished to express the point that unlike in communities such as this - which have the noble aim of promoting free and open source software and ideas, there are many examples of communities who are not so altruistic.
I'm not saying people won't do things for personal enjoyment, but people get paid for their novels, and if they dont they can take them many years, if not decades, to write. A game is a little different, and although someone might program a game for personal enjoyment (in fact, a good friend of mine is currently re-writing Konquest for Linux so that we can play it over our school network, which is windows based) they are not going to program something of the quality of, say, Doom 3 or GTA: San Andreas.
Won't simple economics dictate that one person will not spend a good portion of his life working on games, when he could be working on games for money? That will ensure that people have to pay for good(more complicated) games, and compensate these people for the staggering amount of effort that must surely go into designing a good game.
...you tell us what colour it should be! (with apologies to Mr. Adams)