Re: Great SWT Program

On Dec 27, 9:42 pm, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
The accumulated future benefit is as large as needed, if you look far
enough ahead.

No

YES ... IF, that is, you look far enough ahead.

Call the startup cost x and the net benefit per unit time y.

If we have x, y > 0 it is true that at some positive elapsed time t,
yt > x. In fact, when t > x/y, ty > x under these conditions.

If after t = 30-odd years we still have ty <= x, then y cannot exceed
0 by very much, if it is even greater than 0 at all. My guess is that
in this case y is negative. To top it off x is fairly large. Nasty!

Economics 101 is wrong

And we're back to Bent's astounding arrogance. If someone disagrees
with him, they're wrong.

[insult deleted]

None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at
all true.

Least of all the especially insidious suggestion that perhaps I
*admire you*. Shudder. No way! There are slime molds that I admire
more.

If fundamental tenets of a field of study
disagree with him, that entire field of study is wrong. I suppose
you're also a flat-earther and a creationist, Bent?

I don't know /what/ you guys are. I suggest you call a session between
Twisted, Bbound, Twerpinator and whoever else you have rummaging
around in there and try to reach some consensus.

We are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and we
foresee that you are heading for a dismal end in the near future, E-
Bent-neezer Scrooge!

Especially if you honestly believe that Economics 101 is wrong. The
last bunch of people to hold that belief had their little workers'
paradise implode under the growing strains of an inability to actually
achieve decent productivity, as I recall, and millions upon millions
starved before wise old Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on that
particular failed experiment in Bent-world economics.

[Bent reluctantly concedes my point, but also insults me]

Since I never said that there /was/ no web browser usage measuring
going on, there is of course nothing to concede. [implied insult
deleted]

But you'd said that no free software HAS such a thing as market share.
I furnished the one counterexample sufficient to blow your stupid and
ignorant claim right out of the water.

Damn near blew it into *orbit* for that matter.

Also, none of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me
are at all true.

Only in Bent-world does Bent's merely asserting something forcefully
without evidence qualify as "proving" it.

I proved it[remainder of bollocks deleted][implies I'm a liar]

You did not.

Go to hell, liar.

None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at
all true.
.

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