The content providers couldn't survive if there were no "eye balls" to look at the content and the access providers wouldnt survive if there was nothing for their "eye balls" to look at. They need each other.
Is this really about how much the consumer pays? Or is it about how the profits are shared between the telcos and the content providers?
Global Netoptex Inc. wanted to advertise that they have a high profile customer and consequently that other customers might find their service satisfactory; and BitTorrent wanted to remind their investors that they have an arrangement with Warner and consequently that potential investors might want to consider sending a little money their way. So they issued a joint press release. Don't read too much into the bandwidth - GigE comes with PC's these days and dont read too much into the re-announcement of the Warner thing. This is just cheap advertising and it would appear the/. fell for it.
When I was setting up my Skype account about 9 months ago, skype went through my Outlook contacts and sent off messages to Skype users with the same name as my contacts. I got a message back from this guy asking who I was and where did I get his contact details. Turns out he has the same name, works in the same industry and used to live in the same suburb as a friend of mine. I applogised profusely for thoughtlessly clicking "OK" during the installation, but to get back to topic, just because you can find something about someone on the net doesnt mean that they're the some one you're looking for dirt on.
I'll admit to be grammatically and spellingly challenged - and I blame those little red squiggles for half of that problem. However, I must admit that the little green squiggles have accomplished much more (grammatically speaking) than the ineffective public school system that shaped my language skills. Despite my mistrust of any near-monopoly, I do use MS Word as the editor of choice when attempting to communicate in the written form. But as you might expect from a/. reader I also have <strong>strong</strong> views on WW3 standards compliance and the HTML generated by MS Word and MS office in general make sewage smell sweet. Typically I create the text in Word and then copy in as raw text into an HTML editor to hand code the formatting. I am interested in how this turns out. But given their starting point they can only get better.
Um, I thought that yeast took in sugar and produced alcohol + carbon dioxide. So they aren't buring fossil fuels, but their still producing green house gasses anyway.
Not to mention that most people talk a lot of shit after a few too many beers and every one knows that methane is a more potent green house gas.
By hte way, I've had a "few" beers and right now, I dont really give a green house gas.
Any patents registered by a company (or individual) that goes Chapter 11 or all the way to bankruptcy should automatically become public domain. If the inventor isn't good enough to make money out of it then it should be open for all.
The patent trolls that run around gobbling up defunct businesses to exploit other peoples work do nothing to help inovation - they mostly stand in the way. Patents are there to protect the inovators not the scavengers.
I was just wondering what kind of reaction we would be seeing here if Bill was commenting on some foreign company's US subsidary agreeing to comply with some questionable US laws/regulations? Dont try to tell me that there aren't any.
Suggesting that a global company ignore the opportunites China represents or enter the market and then deliberately break the law is hardly useful.
Bring the debate back where it should be: on the laws/regulations in question.
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The content providers couldn't survive if there were no "eye balls" to look at the content and the access providers wouldnt survive if there was nothing for their "eye balls" to look at. They need each other.
Is this really about how much the consumer pays? Or is it about how the profits are shared between the telcos and the content providers?
Global Netoptex Inc. wanted to advertise that they have a high profile customer and consequently that other customers might find their service satisfactory; and BitTorrent wanted to remind their investors that they have an arrangement with Warner and consequently that potential investors might want to consider sending a little money their way. So they issued a joint press release. Don't read too much into the bandwidth - GigE comes with PC's these days and dont read too much into the re-announcement of the Warner thing. This is just cheap advertising and it would appear the /. fell for it.
When I was setting up my Skype account about 9 months ago, skype went through my Outlook contacts and sent off messages to Skype users with the same name as my contacts. I got a message back from this guy asking who I was and where did I get his contact details. Turns out he has the same name, works in the same industry and used to live in the same suburb as a friend of mine. I applogised profusely for thoughtlessly clicking "OK" during the installation, but to get back to topic, just because you can find something about someone on the net doesnt mean that they're the some one you're looking for dirt on.
I'll admit to be grammatically and spellingly challenged - and I blame those little red squiggles for half of that problem. However, I must admit that the little green squiggles have accomplished much more (grammatically speaking) than the ineffective public school system that shaped my language skills. /. reader I also have <strong>strong</strong> views on WW3 standards compliance and the HTML generated by MS Word and MS office in general make sewage smell sweet. Typically I create the text in Word and then copy in as raw text into an HTML editor to hand code the formatting.
Despite my mistrust of any near-monopoly, I do use MS Word as the editor of choice when attempting to communicate in the written form.
But as you might expect from a
I am interested in how this turns out. But given their starting point they can only get better.
Um, I thought that yeast took in sugar and produced alcohol + carbon dioxide. So they aren't buring fossil fuels, but their still producing green house gasses anyway. Not to mention that most people talk a lot of shit after a few too many beers and every one knows that methane is a more potent green house gas. By hte way, I've had a "few" beers and right now, I dont really give a green house gas.
The patent trolls that run around gobbling up defunct businesses to exploit other peoples work do nothing to help inovation - they mostly stand in the way. Patents are there to protect the inovators not the scavengers.
Suggesting that a global company ignore the opportunites China represents or enter the market and then deliberately break the law is hardly useful.
Bring the debate back where it should be: on the laws/regulations in question.