--- begin forwarded text Mailing-List: contact gold-silver-crypto-help@rayservers.com; run by ezmlm Reply-To: gold-silver-crypto@rayservers.com Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:41:47 -0400 From: Patrick Chkoreff <patrick@fexl.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) To: gold-silver-crypto@rayservers.com Subject: Re: [gsc] infinite space at Loom! Graham Kelly wrote:

On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:57:42 -0400, "Patrick Chkoreff"

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The Loom system only charges for "real estate" used in the Grid or Archive. There is no charge for moves.

Patrick, so you are charging real estate fees, on an infinite amount of space? LOL Gotta luv it!

Food for thought. The mathematical space is astronomically large. The physical disk space is very large. What are the costs? It's a mixed bag. Disk drives are cheap, but power, bandwidth, and human energy are not so cheap. I personally have spent countless hours on various prototypes, approaches, and philosophies, and so have my colleagues. Of course, the value of a thing is utterly unrelated to the cost of producing it. The value is determined solely by its appeal and utility to customers. So that's our job: to raise the market value of our product beyond the cost to ourselves. On that point, I think that the next turn of the screw will be the most important one yet: the addition of new asset types into a folder. -- Patrick --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'