Posted on 02/02/2006 11:45:42 AM PST by presidio9
LOL! You're getting it a few dollars cheaper than I am.
Dang Iowa Democrats!
Remember the DiVX vs DVD fiasco? Look how well that turned out for the money-grubbers. And this is more of the same. Stupid, just stupid.
After all the flak we're hearing
about "eavesdropping" on international
phone calls and internets?
"permit them to operate Internet and other digital communications services as private networks, free of policy safeguards or governmental oversight...
never gonna happen!
QoS packet stamping tends to be a muddy area on the Internet. On one hand, it would be very nice if time sensitive traffic like video game packets or streaming video, could get expedited over regular email traffic, but there are problems with the idea. First and foremost, companies are going to be EXTREMELY tempted to use it as a profit model. Now, I don't have a problem with "pay an extra $5 a month for better video and gaming performance", but what happens when they try to DE-emphasize certain kinds of traffic? While we do have the market based solutions I pointed out above, I'd hate to see some kind of ala carte billing take over (pay $30 for your Internet connection, another $10 to enable video streaming, another $5 to enable UDP for online gaming...and so on).
Tuesday, January 22, 2002What the hell is going on at The Nation? The magazine published, then modified, then finally removed from its site an absurd article by Matt Bivens trying to link George W. Bush to Enron via Bush's failed ventures into baseball. The only problem with the article was that Bivens comes across as perhaps the only person in America dumber than the president.
Originally published on January 17, 2002, the article began,
When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron.The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto pointed out that Bush was a part owner of the Texas Rangers, not the Houston Astros. Someone at The Nation dutifully modified the lead of Bivens article to read,
When George W. Bush co-owned the Texas Rangers and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron.The only problem with this, of course, is that it is the Astros, not the Rangers, that play at Enron Field. The Rangers play at the Ballpark in Arlington. Taranto suggests that an accurate lead would have looked like this,
A year after George W. Bush sold his interest in the Texas Rangers, construction began on a new stadium for the Houston Astros, and Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the latter team's park after Enron.Sources:
The Enron Box. The Nation, Mike Bivens, January 17, 2002. (The Nation has removed this article from its web site, but here's a screenshot from their search engine showing the article).
Best of the Web. James Taranto, OpinionJournal.Com, January 21, 2002.
And why do you think that? These companies will scrtch anyone rear for a buck.
You see, I got this email and all I did was forward it and.....
Aren't these very same morons suing Philadelphia for providing free Wi-Max? This author needs to get a couple of clues.
Pay per click only applies to B-2-B use of the private channels. For C-2-C and B-2-C the same rules as today must continue to apply or else there will be a whole lot of receiverships going on. Gotta keep things mostly free or else the internet becomes just another fad.
..if there was any hope of content control, censorship or corporate content control, this daft publication, The Nation, would have been shut down long ago.
As it is, I put my trust in the free market.
"Actually, this is the end of the Internet."
Oh, I dunno about that. Do you have any rear-view pictures online of you in that Laura Croft getup?
8)
We should be ashamed for not pressing for their deaths. Do you have any links or articles on this?
Dad,
Is that you? ;^)
AT&T would get crushed like a 2000 year old cicada skin. I was thinking the same thing as I was reading this. If they tier the backbone, some competitor will come along with a backhaul to an unregulated international backbone link and kick their butts to bankrupcty.
What? Do you thing Google just went out and bought an $89.99/month DSL connection? The big players buy big pipes and get charged accordingly. AT&T is just complaining because they can't figure out how to make as much money as Google. They are in the same position as an asphalt company trying to get a cut of the tools paid on the PA Turnpike.
Somewhere along the line, I guess they didn't figure out that the business of selling bitrate is just not as profitable as the business of selling useful information, nor that they are really two different business.
Next thing you know, the taxi cabs will charge more to deliver you to Neimann Marcus than they do to deliver you to Target.
The Telco's aren't in the same business as Google, and Wall Street knows it, though the Telco's seem to be a bit confused about it. Selling pipes-n-lights (Telco term for selling access & bitrate) is a commodity business. Google is not in a commodity business.
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