Hush little baby don’t say a word

Hush little baby don’t say a word

I think netflix/amazon/itunes/hulu comes after Blu-Ray. Not if the ISPs continue with bandwidth caps and usage limitations. Greed: Stifling innovation and ensuring a shitty status-quo is kept as long as possible, Except when it doesnt. Its a bit of a double-edged sword. Everything is a double edged sword. Except for single edged mobius swords. I can picture a mobius sword in my head but do not have the capabilities to create one. Any help? I can picture a mobius sword in your head too. Looks like it hurts. I have no advice to give you, only encouragement. This would be awesome. Take a straight double-edged sword, put a twist in it and connect the ends. Simple! I wonder what Musashi would do with a mobius sword. Double-edged swords are double-edged swords. You realize that nobody would have created Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Blu Ray, or even run an ISP if it wasnt for profits, right? EDIT: Nice stealth edit. To anyone just reading this now, his post originally said profit, not greed. Telecom in a lot of countries was wholly or partly owned by the state at the time The Internet was invented. Not to mention that The Internet was created by the military and further developed by universities not with the purpose of profits. Look at Scandinavia. We actually invented things like GSM in Oslo. For the longest time, Telenor which was the old state telecom company, from more socialistic times had a deal with the government after it was sold to private owners to use a certain percentage of its budget on pure research as this was one of the original intentions. This, of course, was completely neglected as soon as private owners got their claws into the company. They sold out the research and most of the satellite business the moment they had the chance. ISPs, if the world hadnt been hell-bent on profit would have been developed out of need, instead of greed. Thats a greater discussion, though. No use discussing that here. Of course. I never said profits were inherently evil; just that in cases such as these, they tend to have negative consequences. You are right, we would probably have far superior systems all around. Yeah, just look at all the innovative telecommunications infrastructure thats been laid down by the non-profits. You cant have it both ways. The possibility of profit incentivizes companies to invest in infrastructure, hush little baby don’t say a word of course it also incentivizes other business changes that are thought to increase profits. If the general Internet-subscribing public decides they dont like the new ISP policies, then its well within their power to show the ISPs that their business decisions are bad for profits. The very notion of profit has done nothing wrong here. Uhm, in most countries it was the government which created the telecommunication network that is used by the internet today, and governments are non-profit by design more like loss-making actually. So the argument kind of goes both ways. Profit can be an incentive for good, but given a badly designed market banks anyone? it can also manifest as a destroying force. And reading on Reddit about the American telco-market, I get the impression that it is badly designed indeed. Until Google rolls their broadband service and make hush little baby don’t say a word cry. The movie companies do a deal with the ISP. The put streaming servers for the main movies at their hub and pay them 40c to stream it to the user at full rate, north of 20Mb per sec no net neutrality to get in the way. Anyone wanting to watch weird arthouse stuff is served from base but who cares about them really? You can quite easily compress a 1080p movie into a data rate of less than that. The movie doesnt hush little baby don’t say a word as part of your cap, and you pay the movie company, say, 3-5 a shot. Add in a little DRM to prevent copying, maybe compressed with a codec thats incompatible with existing standards and blows up into a horrible mess if you try to recompress, and youre home free.