The technologies of chips and fiber are racing toward infinite capabilities at zero cost.
"We allow private actors--your company, me, my family--to put pollution into the atmosphere in unlimited amounts at zero cost, " he said.
It will continue its merry dash toward infinite powers at zero cost.
Mr Varian argues that this overcomes the free-rider problem, a particular pain for makers of online content because it can often be reproduced at zero cost.
No joke--computation is racing toward infinite power at zero cost.
While a pioneer in prosthetics, and having served more than 1.2M individuals to date, Jaipur Foot is much more than an organization that fits high-quality limbs at zero cost to those living in poverty.
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Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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In those cases you gain the advantage of highly skilled technical and operational expertise at zero net cost.
Citigroup, and the domestic banks, will also be able to raise funds at practically zero cost indeed, their consumer-finance ventures will give them a lucrative place to park their yen deposits (given Japan's dismal investment environment, they have few attractive alternatives).
With information, the big change of course is that the stuff can be copied at near-zero cost.
Vincentric looks at the cost of zero-deductible, bumper-to-bumper extended-warranty claims to calculate the average cost owners can expect to pay for repairs.
These twin forces rise at exponential rates toward infinite capability and zero cost.
In an influential 1993 paper Narasimhan Jegadeesh, now a professor at Emory University, showed that a so-called zero cost strategy of buying stocks with the best six-month performance and shorting stocks with the worst six-month performance returned 12% a year.
Possibly partly at the cost of others (but remember: economics is not a zero-sum game).
Mippin is creating a series of vertical templates so that the production cost comes down to zero and the app publishing is charged at a monthly SaaS rate.
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When you finally sell the units or the cost basis drops to zero dollars, a portion of the capital gains are taxed at the special long-term capital gains tax rate.
At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.
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