EricL, it bugged me too, but I gave it up as a lost cause. As far as I know, the theory that everything one puts into cyberspace is there forever, is not true, though perhaps the National Security Agency has it stashed away in their "Potential Terrorists" files.
There were of course extremely valuable posts made in that small time-frame. Though for some reason, the world has carried on regardless.
Meanwhile, here I am in Uzes, France and during a [very few] visits to cyberphone shops, I find that the Bleeding EDGE is doing very well and W-CDMA is going nowhere fast and where it is going seems to be more to do with cyberphone power to handle images and music than efficient spectrum management.
Until the greedy oligopolist "service" [giggle] providers start selling mobile cyberspace at prices comparable to India without their absurd "marketing" expenses and markups, I don't think we will be seeing a mass move to mobile cyberspace any time soon, even if problems like screen size and battery life weren't still issues, which add to the drawbacks.
I was amused to see that we had taken out the Toaster high and low on QCOM prices [with great irony apparently, I suppose because I'm supposed to be the super-maniacal bull and you are the doomster negativity exponent].
I am pleased to see that my prophecy that anti-"monopoly" lawyer mania would start to fester and that QUALCOMM would be under attack. It was obvious that the legal "profession", like the oldest "profession" is interested primarily in cash rather than love or the betterment of mankind and that when there was a hefty pile of cash to be attacked, they would discover a monopoly, bundling, abuse of pricing power, harm to the public interest, lack of payments to ... oops, no, not that one... and other drivel supposedly justifying envy attacks. I have to say that the hagfish guild is a pack of rank amateurs compared with the lawyers who are more like piranha. Put the smell of money in the water and an ox will disappear in seconds.
Mqurice
PS: I hasten to add that some of my best friends are lawyers and I'm not racist against lawyers. Nor bigoted. Some of them are honest over half the time. Unfortunately, which half is hard to tell. |
