Does anyone do any fact checking at all on/. ? Here's the current pricing which ranges from 1299 to 17000: http://www.sidefx.com/sales/pricing/index. html
At a place I used to work at, we had a pretty good system for XP on WinNT, Solaris, and Linux. For source control, we used Perforce. On Windows NT, we used Cygnus' Cygwin tools (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) for bash and other unix tools. For editing we used vim (and gvim) on all platforms. For building projects, we used the XP make replacement jam (http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html). All of these are great tools and worthwhile to use.
But I have a problem with a group getting (an almost certainly government granted) monopoly on production, and then charging prices that have no relation to the costs of production or anything else.
Well, according to economic theory, the monopolist won't charge the absolutely highest price that the market will bear so it will be lower than what people have been suggesting.
But they could still produce a crank who could do alot of damage with his privliged access to technology.
It's interesting to attempt to draw conclusions between nanite general assemblers with nuclear technology. If we equate the two, then it's very likely that very few will be allowed to have the full solution. Cost due to control would be another barrier for it.
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Does anyone do any fact checking at all on /. ? Here's the current pricing which ranges from 1299 to 17000:. html
http://www.sidefx.com/sales/pricing/index
At a place I used to work at, we had a pretty good system for XP on WinNT, Solaris, and Linux. For source control, we used Perforce. On Windows NT, we used Cygnus' Cygwin tools (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin) for bash and other unix tools. For editing we used vim (and gvim) on all platforms. For building projects, we used the XP make replacement jam (http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html). All of these are great tools and worthwhile to use.
But I have a problem with a group getting (an almost certainly government granted) monopoly on production, and then charging prices that have no relation to the costs of production or anything else.
Well, according to economic theory, the monopolist won't charge the absolutely highest price that the market will bear so it will be lower than what people have been suggesting.
But they could still produce a crank who could do alot of damage with his privliged access to technology.
It's interesting to attempt to draw conclusions between nanite general assemblers with nuclear technology. If we equate the two, then it's very likely that very few will be allowed to have the full solution. Cost due to control would be another barrier for it.