"John Kulp" wrote in message
news:47eaca34.78286319@news20.forteinc.com...
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:22:58 -0000, "William Black"
> wrote:
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>>"John Kulp" wrote in message
>>news:47ea8574.60686102@news20.forteinc.com...
>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:08:58 -0000, "William Black"
>>> wrote:
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>>>>You're refusal to engage on this one is interesting in itself.
>>>
>>> Engage on what? A complete unrealistic pipedream?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>The whole 'micropayments' thing has been the holy grail of the Internet
>>>>for
>>>>well over a decade now.
>>>
>>> Go look at Larry Ellison's network computer scheme. See where that
>>> holy grail got.
>>
>>Now the industry standard, called a 'thin client'.
>
> Completely wrong. Ellison's concept was a Citrix/MTS not a thin
> client. A thin client has no software at all on the client end and
> Ellison's would have. It's the thin client that became the industry
> standard, not Ellison's network computer concept.
It's a hell of a close call to tell the difference if you're sitting behind
one...
>>I didn't say they'd earn what Gates does, that was Mixi, who's bonkers.
>>I
>>said they'd be very rich indeed.
>
> True. I was addressing the Gate's one which is bizarre at best,
> though I think there is very little chance of anyone getting very rich
> (whatever that means) for 1 cent transactions.
It depends on how many billions of transactions you have.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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