arstechnica.com— Google now says that it is preparing for a bid in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, but no one is yet sure just what the Big G has in mind. Our thoughts inside.
Nov 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
The difference is that contrary to teleco's and the RIAA, Google has always been driven by the customers. Many of the large Oligopolies in the country have lost track of the fact that the customer drives the market, we define the value of services and choose according to what we prefer. Google still responds to customers and market demand and it is the reason it is more successful.If the customers wants open access with minimal advertising, it is in a company's interest to figure out how to provide that service, instead many of these cartel's try to force the market to comply to what they can provide. They use their leverage in special interest groups to create laws that benefit their monopolies, limiting users in choice and forcing customers to use services that they would drop in a second if there was a viable alternative.It is in Google's best interest as a company to keep us happy, and we should be able to trust a company that responds to market pressure and provides customers with a service they demand.I'm not saying Google is perfect or altruistic, but they are much more aware of the basics of demand and market forces than the big cartels, and seem to support the free market theories that are being strangled by special interests.
You aren't a CIS major, are you? It's just not feasible. Even with route aggregation/summarization (basically abbreviated directions on where to send a packet on the internet) a full, universal mesh network just isn't feasible. This is one of the basics they teach you about networking. The bigger the routing table each router has to maintain, the bigger the mess gets.
This may be a stupid question. Why does it have to keep a huge routing table? Can't you maintain a map somewhere, say one for every hundred of these cheapie routers? Then the packet needs to be labeled with where it's going, and the router queries the map, and send it to the next node, that queries the map, so on and so forth? It probably wouldn't be ideal for gaming, but for something like torrents or email, where having minimum ping isn't a key feature, wouldn't it be good enough?
quetzatcoatlNov 17, 2007
The difference is that contrary to teleco's and the RIAA, Google has always been driven by the customers. Many of the large Oligopolies in the country have lost track of the fact that the customer drives the market, we define the value of services and choose according to what we prefer. Google still responds to customers and market demand and it is the reason it is more successful.If the customers wants open access with minimal advertising, it is in a company's interest to figure out how to provide that service, instead many of these cartel's try to force the market to comply to what they can provide. They use their leverage in special interest groups to create laws that benefit their monopolies, limiting users in choice and forcing customers to use services that they would drop in a second if there was a viable alternative.It is in Google's best interest as a company to keep us happy, and we should be able to trust a company that responds to market pressure and provides customers with a service they demand.I'm not saying Google is perfect or altruistic, but they are much more aware of the basics of demand and market forces than the big cartels, and seem to support the free market theories that are being strangled by special interests.
tyrghastNov 17, 2007
i almost feel as warm and fuzzy about google as I do about His Noodly Appendage. Can we get a state-sponsored google-based religion someday? plz?
digitalarcanumNov 17, 2007
You aren't a CIS major, are you? It's just not feasible. Even with route aggregation/summarization (basically abbreviated directions on where to send a packet on the internet) a full, universal mesh network just isn't feasible. This is one of the basics they teach you about networking. The bigger the routing table each router has to maintain, the bigger the mess gets.
tribalvirtueNov 17, 2007
This may be a stupid question. Why does it have to keep a huge routing table? Can't you maintain a map somewhere, say one for every hundred of these cheapie routers? Then the packet needs to be labeled with where it's going, and the router queries the map, and send it to the next node, that queries the map, so on and so forth? It probably wouldn't be ideal for gaming, but for something like torrents or email, where having minimum ping isn't a key feature, wouldn't it be good enough?
peaceninjaNov 17, 2007
clap. clap. clap. clap.
honestabeNov 19, 2007
Nope.