From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: employment with ada
Date: 9 May 2003 12:13:39 -0500
Date: 2003-05-09T12:13:39-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y6Gm+XUrPb15@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1052485899.462211@master.nyc.kbcfp.com
In article <1052485899.462211@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> people seem *less* willing to make investments with longer payoffs!
>
> The whole internet/telecommunications bubble was partly a result
> of people making investments with longer payoffs, so long, in fact,
> that they would never happen. The reaction to that has been a
> contraction to projects with more immediate and forseeable returns.
At least in the case of fiber optic networks, the problem was that there
were many people making the _same_ investments, counting on getting the
whole of whatever future market would evolve. Even in the face of the
outlandish pretensions we see, people just don't have that much valuable
data.
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2003-05-02 0:36 employment with ada tom
2003-05-02 0:41 ` Ed Falis
2003-05-02 8:51 ` John McCabe
2003-05-02 12:08 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-02 20:54 ` Bill Sheehan
2003-05-03 3:23 ` R. Srinivasan
2003-05-03 4:13 ` John R. Strohm
2003-05-03 5:03 ` anisimkov
2003-05-03 7:07 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-05-03 7:46 ` AG
2003-05-05 5:38 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-05-03 14:44 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-04 15:32 ` Mark Lorenzen
2003-05-05 11:47 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-03 14:37 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-03 16:03 ` DPH
2003-05-03 16:22 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-05-03 17:18 ` DPH
2003-05-03 20:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-05-03 19:17 ` Richard Riehle
2003-05-03 20:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-05-04 11:01 ` Simon Wright
2003-05-05 0:34 ` Richard Riehle
2003-05-05 2:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-05-05 3:33 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-05 12:30 ` Robert A Duff
2003-05-04 13:14 ` DPH
2003-05-05 1:20 ` Richard Riehle
2003-05-07 12:20 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-08 18:20 ` tmoran
2003-05-09 11:45 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-09 13:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-09 17:13 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2003-05-05 3:28 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-05 10:45 ` DPH
2003-05-05 12:47 ` Ed Falis
2003-05-05 20:19 ` DPH
2003-05-05 20:28 ` Ed Falis
2003-05-06 11:30 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-07 13:22 ` Stephen Leake
2003-05-08 12:21 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-05 17:12 ` Simon Wright
2003-05-04 13:20 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-05 17:19 ` Simon Wright
2003-05-06 12:07 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-04 18:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-05 1:24 ` Richard Riehle
2003-05-05 1:27 ` Richard Riehle
2003-05-10 20:29 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-05-11 3:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-11 4:25 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-05-11 16:43 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-11 23:04 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-05-11 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2003-05-11 17:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-11 19:24 ` Rod Chapman
2003-05-11 20:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-05-12 7:20 ` Rod Chapman
2003-05-04 0:25 ` John R. Strohm
2003-05-04 4:09 ` DPH
2003-05-04 19:37 ` P S Norby
2003-05-04 4:55 ` Steve
2003-05-04 12:55 ` DPH
2003-05-05 6:27 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-05-04 12:57 ` Marin David Condic
2003-05-04 16:45 ` tmoran
2003-05-04 13:45 ` Alex Gibson
2003-05-05 4:07 ` William J. Thomsa
2003-05-05 18:41 ` P S Norby
2003-05-05 20:26 ` DPH
2003-05-05 23:06 ` William J. Thomsa
2003-05-05 23:20 ` DPH
2003-05-06 9:24 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2003-05-07 1:25 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-07 13:23 ` Stephen Leake
2003-05-07 16:36 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-05-06 9:32 ` Preben Randhol
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-04 1:32 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-05-06 16:19 ` L. Siever
2003-05-07 13:35 ` Stephen Leake
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