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Absolutely ridiculous. All these telecoms going bye-bye. Where the fsck did the people who ran these business get their degrees? I mean, for god's sake, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if your company is 2 billion in debt maybe you shouldn't pay like 50 million to liscense a stadium (titan's adelphia stadium). Or perhaps you shouldn't get those $100,000 sun boxen. Always a favourite of mine - listening to all this super expensive brand-new equipment these companies have. Ebay anyone?

It just boggles my mind that somehow these morons got put in charge of a company like this. Take starband - why in god's name would you ban something like P2P filesharing programs? These programs are like the #1 reason people (Especially younger people) want to get broadband - but you filter them out. Great business strategy. Gee, I wonder why you are going bankrupt?

It just pisses me off that these morons who ran the company will get to live off of 'only 50 million' like that b*tch from Enron while 1,000 or more employees will have to try and have to scrape together a living. Argggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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. I'd hold out hope for some competitor to emerge with a service that gets this balance right to blow them out of the water, but the anticompetitive climate of broadband doesn't leave much room for that to happen.

If you're very lucky, you're in an area where the cable companies haven't bought enough legislators to make laws forbidding this. I think the City of Alameda, California just came in under the wire on this law. The cable industry buys California state politicians, too.

If it's legal in your state and if your area is served by a public utilities district (my guess as to why private utilities companies don't do this is anti-compete clauses in the contracts for running TV cables on their poles) . why not push them about this?

http://www.theneteconomy.com/article/0,3658,s=902& a=22338,00.asp is a good starting point for more info.

When I met him, he was claiming that the desktop market had already been penetrated. I wonder why the switch in ideology.. Go figure.

At this mangled URL, you can see some "dismal" comments from very high up at Red Hat. Mr. Tiemann is CTO, and he has been issuing the "dismal line" (re: desktop markeshare) for at least several weeks now. What makes this really interesting is what Tiemann said early on.

When you consider the economic context, it's about the same message as before but more dismal (like the world around it).

BTW, this is my first uncowardly post. ::::taking deep bow:::: ;-) hehehe

Seems the 'media' isn't interested in covering the new napster.

I can't let this go unchallenged. I'm the "loser author" of the piece. The picture in question is Tiemann, not me, so I can't take credit for his teeth. If you want to see what I look like, go here. If you can tell anything about my teeth from this picture, you've got x-ray vision. For the record, I have vampire fangs. Yrs, Paul Coe

While the edge won't be affected until we have fiber to the curb, the core will stand to benefit from this.

We ran a story on optical switching a while back and what it comes down to is that any traffic under 2.5 Gbps is just to granular to be switched without electronic intervention.

What sounds cool about this technology is that it seems to have the medium direct the traffic by wavelength. If that's the case, then maybe it can take the place of tunable lasers or MEMS devices. I'm thinking it could work like one of those automated coin sorters. Wavelengths of a certain size get shunted to the right pipe. It's a passive, not an active solution.

While the edge won't be affected until we have fiber to the curb, the core will stand to benefit from this.

We ran a story on optical switching a while back and what it comes down to is that any traffic under 2.5 Gbps is just to granular to be switched without electronic intervention.

What sounds cool about this technology is that it seems to have the medium direct the traffic by wavelength. If that's the case, then maybe it can take the place of tunable lasers or MEMS devices. I'm thinking it could work like one of those automated coin sorters. Wavelengths of a certain size get shunted to the right pipe. It's a passive, not an active solution.

When Verizon reneged on the merger deal, Northpoints days were truly numbered.

I remember reading about it in a newsletter from the Net Economy and just being amazed. First Verizon (an incumbent) sabotages a CLEC, and then big Mama Bell scavenges the remains. Competition may not be dead, but the major players are sure doing a good job to incapacitate it.

When Verizon reneged on the merger deal, Northpoints days were truly numbered.

I remember reading about it in a newsletter from the Net Economy and just being amazed. First Verizon (an incumbent) sabotages a CLEC, and then big Mama Bell scavenges the remains. Competition may not be dead, but the major players are sure doing a good job to incapacitate it.

We are running a story on a federal bill to criminalize spam.

You'll notice something rather interesting. The bill passed in the House but just sort of languished in the Senate last year.

I'm careful who I send my email address to and have been pretty lucky in avoiding spam.

I don't want anyone going to jail for this kind of thing. And there is a legitimate first amendment issue here. People have the right to communicate with you, even about stupid stuff

Civil penalties are the only prudent way to deal with spam.

I guess I should be more strident, but I've got enough of a life so that I don't get too worked up over this stuff. When people do get all worked up they demand criminal penalties, which sends people to jail, which costs money, which either lowers spending on education or gets our taxes raised.

And that means I'll have less money to spend on booze and whores, but the whores will be cheaper because there will be a glut of them because education spending will go down so the whores won't be educated enough to get real jobs.

That, my friends, is an economic analysis of the situation.

We are running a story on a federal bill to criminalize spam.

You'll notice something rather interesting. The bill passed in the House but just sort of languished in the Senate last year.

I'm careful who I send my email address to and have been pretty lucky in avoiding spam.

I don't want anyone going to jail for this kind of thing. And there is a legitimate first amendment issue here. People have the right to communicate with you, even about stupid stuff

Civil penalties are the only prudent way to deal with spam.

I guess I should be more strident, but I've got enough of a life so that I don't get too worked up over this stuff. When people do get all worked up they demand criminal penalties, which sends people to jail, which costs money, which either lowers spending on education or gets our taxes raised.

And that means I'll have less money to spend on booze and whores, but the whores will be cheaper because there will be a glut of them because education spending will go down so the whores won't be educated enough to get real jobs.

That, my friends, is an economic analysis of the situation.

The Net Economy had an article on the new breed of switch fabrics back in October. The article talks about MEMS and has a link to The Sandia MEMS labs, which is very cool.

The Net Economy had an article on the new breed of switch fabrics back in October. The article talks about MEMS and has a link to The Sandia MEMS labs, which is very cool.

I hate pop-ups and ads when I'm surfing at home. That's why I use webwasher . It stops the banners but not most of the pop-ups (sigh).

But to pay for my computer and other things, like food and rent, I work for a website that makes money through advertising. These advertisers pay my bills. I want them to be happy. I have no wish to be so altruistic as to starve myself. I read that NYT article with an eye to increase advertiser satisfaction, while not annoying visitors to our site.

Now that funny-money stock options and IPOs are proving to be ineffective, websites have to find ways to generate revenues. The good ones use advertiser revenues to provide good content that brings in visitors that bring in page views that encourage more advertising. It is a virtuous circle. Sies that get greedy and make it hard to get to the content throught the advertising, like crazy pop-ups, lose visitors and thus revenue and go out of business, another virtuous circle.

I detest self-righteous asses, hiding in their basements and expecting the rest of us to give up our prosperity so that we can all be doctrinaire losers with no money.

Advertising is a pain in the ass. I try to avoid it when possible. But I can live with it. I'm all for any techniques that make advertising more effective in generating revenue while keeping them unobtrusive.

And yeah, Doubleclick scares the hell out of me.

I hate pop-ups and ads when I'm surfing at home. That's why I use webwasher . It stops the banners but not most of the pop-ups (sigh).

But to pay for my computer and other things, like food and rent, I work for a website that makes money through advertising. These advertisers pay my bills. I want them to be happy. I have no wish to be so altruistic as to starve myself. I read that NYT article with an eye to increase advertiser satisfaction, while not annoying visitors to our site.

Now that funny-money stock options and IPOs are proving to be ineffective, websites have to find ways to generate revenues. The good ones use advertiser revenues to provide good content that brings in visitors that bring in page views that encourage more advertising. It is a virtuous circle. Sies that get greedy and make it hard to get to the content throught the advertising, like crazy pop-ups, lose visitors and thus revenue and go out of business, another virtuous circle.

I detest self-righteous asses, hiding in their basements and expecting the rest of us to give up our prosperity so that we can all be doctrinaire losers with no money.

Advertising is a pain in the ass. I try to avoid it when possible. But I can live with it. I'm all for any techniques that make advertising more effective in generating revenue while keeping them unobtrusive.

And yeah, Doubleclick scares the hell out of me.

If the printing press was so important because of its ability to spread knowledge quickly and cheaply, then the Internet fits that bill. The technology that will allow the internet to grow to fill that role is optical networking. Joe McGarvey argued this point at the Net Economy in this article. There was also a decent New Yorker article on the subject but I don't know if that's available online. Hardware makers are more important than software coders in this current renaissance. Gutenberg didn't write any books himself but his invention allowed others' work to be more widely spread.

If the printing press was so important because of its ability to spread knowledge quickly and cheaply, then the Internet fits that bill. The technology that will allow the internet to grow to fill that role is optical networking. Joe McGarvey argued this point at the Net Economy in this article. There was also a decent New Yorker article on the subject but I don't know if that's available online. Hardware makers are more important than software coders in this current renaissance. Gutenberg didn't write any books himself but his invention allowed others' work to be more widely spread.