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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to supergirl
Re: Japan is small, that's why..... The original AT&T couldn't take advantage of the transistor itself thanks to the government requiring it to limit its actual business activities on telephone service and telephone service only. If said regulations hadn't occurred, AT&T could theoretically have dominated not only U.S. local and long distance telephone, but Canadian telephone (since they would have kept Bell Canada), wireless, computers, and probably more... Super-Monopoly, here we come!
Most jobs are commutable, but most companies don't want their employees to commute for various reasons... and those that do are cutting back. You can't just add broadband and expect everyone to follow suit. And there are a lot of reasons to keep textbooks in their current form- the paper form is more readable, can be highlighted, and can be resold (the costs of textbooks being what they are, this is significant- eBooks could be slightly cheaper but almost certainly won't be, since there's no competition whatsoever) | |
| said by EPS:And there are a lot of reasons to keep textbooks in their current form- the paper form is more readable, can be highlighted, and can be resold (the costs of textbooks being what they are, this is significant- eBooks could be slightly cheaper but almost certainly won't be, since there's no competition whatsoever) No, textbooks should be free.
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Saving the world keeps me busy. However, I find Earth very primitive from my home planet of Krypton.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Making textbooks isn't free, though... who will pay for the production and effort that goes into making a textbook? (I am aware that many publishers game the system by releasing new editions that just rearrange the homework problems so you can't use used books, but the initial book still had costs) | |
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