I have a 8Mbps down, 1Mbps cable modem. I've used a number of testing services before, and it performs well showing 5-7 down and 600-800k up on most testing services. Speed seems incredibly consistent over time.
However, the FCC test just told me it transferred data at 28Mbps down and 3Mbps up. I've never gotten numbers over 8Mbps anywhere else in the 3+ years I've had this service. There is also no where for me to indicate this is bogus. It would be nice if they also collected what people were told they had by the marketing folks so outliers could be identified, and we could compare actual rates to the marketing rates.
The laws vary state to state, but in all states the maximum legal height for a standard vehicle is specified. It ranges from 13'6" to 14'6". Higher heights require a permit.
That means you may, on any given day, see a vehicle (double decker bus, monster truck, whatever) that is just under the maximum legal height, with someone's head at best a couple of feet lower. Thus, if you don't want people to see into your back yard, I think you need a fence or other shield high enough that someone at up to 13'6" off the ground can't see in.
Still though, simply looking at most street view images will show you they aren't that high. I suspect most are taken in the 8' - 10' off the road level, probably under the level that most delivery truck drivers sit at in large trucks.
Because the 30mpg car and the 40 mpg hybrid can't carry a ton of much home from the home improvement center, tow the boat to the lake, or haul your looser buddy's furniture from his ex's place to his new efficiency.
People who get upset about a single person in an SUV or Pickup commuting to work are ignoring the larger picture. That same vehicle may be used for towing or hauling in the evening or on the weekend. Getting a little less gas milage on the weekend is far cheaper than buying a second car (e.g. that 40 mpg hybrid) just for the commute, and far more environmentally responsible than the energy and raw materials to build a second car.
The real issue here isn't companies, but the IRS itself. If it could computerize and provide pre-filled tax forms then the agency would need far fewer auditors, lawyers, data entry folks, and so on. No group, be it inside a company or in government likes to take actions that reduce their size and perceived importance even if it is the best thing to do.
The US greatly needs to simply its tax code, allowing things like pre-generated forms to be accurate for a much larger group of Americans. While this will save billions in costs at the IRS and in money spent preparing taxes, and thus is a net win for the economy in the long term it will have the effect to putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work in the short term. All our elected officials think about is the short term, so that trumps.
If you want to fix the root of the problem, then implement term limits. If our elected officials could only serve one or two terms then they would be much less incentivized to figure out how to make a career out of corporate contributions, and much more likely to do what is right for the future.
Evolved EDGE improves on EDGE in a number of ways. Latencies are reduced by lowering the Transmission Time Interval by half (from 20 ms to 10 ms). Bit rates are increased up to 1 MBit/s peak bandwidth and latencies down to 800 ms using dual carriers, higher symbol rate and higher-order modulation (32QAM and 16QAM instead of 8-PSK), and turbo codes to improve error correction.
These changes included the introduction of several new forward link data rates that increase the maximum burst rate from 2.45 Mbit/s to 3.1 Mbit/s. Also included were protocols that would decrease connection establishment time (called enhanced access channel MAC), the ability for more than one mobile to share the same timeslot (multi-user packets) and the introduction of QoS flags. All of these were put in place to allow for low latency, low bit rate communications such as VoIP.
In the United States, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel have migrated 100% of their EV-DO Rev.0 networks to EV-DO Rev. A.
In a survey (Gearlive) Verizon's 3G had an average download speed of 1,940 Kbits/sec (about 2Mbps/sec). Compare that to AT&T edge speed tests (Engadget) where AT&T's edge network ran 264Kbits/sec.
Thus, as far as I can tell from a theoretical perspective (based on the technology) Verizon's 3G is three times faster (3Mbps compared to 1Mbps) than AT&T's EDGE. In the real world the difference is worse though, with Verizon showing over 7 times faster performance (1940 Kbits compared to 264 Kbits). As someone who has used both, let me say that matches with my own personal experience.
I've seen quite a few places with this problem, and they all have one thing in common. They have promoted {coders, help desk folks, sysadmins} to be managers. In most cases these folks have no management training of any kind, and the company offers them no management support of any kind. Many times they don't even want to manage people, they went for the promotion as it was the only way to get a larger paycheck.
Management, at a high level, is simple. Set clear achievable objectives, get your team the resources they need to achieve those objections from other parts of the company, and set reasonable, but aggressive deadlines and have there be some reward for making them and consequence for missing them.
Without some training in project planning and people motivation setting objectives is actually quite hard. Indeed, one of the largest problems is managers set objectives that just don't make any sense to anyone, and so they don't work towards them. This is an area where real training is required, I believe everyone promoted to be a manager should be required to take a 5 day "management bootcamp" before they can start the job.
Getting resources from the rest of the company is interpersonal skills. You have to interact with other folks and figure out how to get what you need from them. For people who've worked the last 3-5 years head down in whatever they are doing, and are often thought of as socially awkward this is a very hard transition. Geeks simply aren't good at figuring out that dropping off a tin of cookies in finance will get your PO's out the door quicker.
And lastly, most new managers, regardless of where they come from, have major problems with rewarding people and disciplining people. They simply don't want to get involved in conflict, so they avoid it. Engineers quickly figure out they can get away with anything, because there is no consequence to not doing your job, and so they start to test how far they can go. Quickly the manager is being walked all over. When I've talked to the new managers they are always like "what am I supposed to do, fire them, I can't do that." It's another area where a management class could help. At the next team meeting give the plum assignment to the guy who worked hard, and single out the guy who goofed off the most with "Bob, you could have been doing this but you're not finished with your last project yet." Nine times out of ten Bob will work twice as hard next time. (And if he doesn't, you have deeper issues, and really need professional management training).
The fact that you've noticed the problems so quickly as a junior guy tells me that this particular place has these problems bad. Probably multiple levels of managers who don't want to be managers, have no training, and no one above them supporting them. There's very little you can do to fix this, and if you're already writing to slashdot about it the situation will probably drive you crazy. The only productive advice in that situation is to find a new job, ASAP, and take this one has a learning experience. You now know some of the things to look for at your next employer before you take the job.
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Apple's 17" MacBook Pro can be had with a 1920x1200 17" LED backlit panel, so clearly the technology is out there, and being mass produced.
Still, no one has a desktop display of the same specs, at least that I can find. I suspect a large part of the reason is you're generally expected to be sitting further from the display at your desktop, and the further you are from the display likely the larger the pixels you want.
I wold like higher DPI displays in all resolutions though. IBM used to make 200DPI displays, but I think they stopped.
The OP seems to think the crash rate might be different between the two choices. It may, but it may also be the case the rate of crashes is more or less the same; one choice leading to human error crashes, the other leading to computer failure crashes. Indeed, it seems if one was inherently superior to the other it would have come out by now, with the two major players choosing different paths. Airline crashes are some of the most studied crashes we have, a difference would have been noticed by now.
If she's old enough to ride a bus, she's old enough to remember a cell phone number and ask a responsible adult to call you when she's in the wrong place.
Teach her to take responsibility for herself, it will serve her better in the long run.
Direct burial cable is armored, that is surrounded by metal. This makes it less interesting to eat.
If they do eat it, under the first layer or two is a rather gross snot like substance. Depending on who you ask it is to keep water out, or there because rodents hate to eat it, or both.
Windows has a default set many years ago, and never updated. Most of the Free Unix variants update every release, and some new variants even have fancy auto-scaling code. Any time you want to get over 10Mbps/second across any real latency with a SINGLE TCP stream you probably need to do some tuning, for some OS's the limit is much lower.
ISP's run into this all the time. An uninformed admin buys a GigE in LA and NY, pops up an FTP server and wonders why he can only get a few megabits a second across the "crappy network". A few settings later and behold, the same hardware can saturate a full gigabit.
Note, don't just go set your values really high, there are performance (memory used) tradeoffs....
NTT/Verio has some of the best IPv6 support out there.
Hurricane Electric has made a point of being an aggressive IPv6 deployer.
Verizon Business (UUNet) now offers IPv6 on a "beta" basis.
Level 3 has some sort of offering, but I have no details on it.
It's true none of the consumer ISP's offer it to the consumer yet (Comcast, Cox, CableVision, Verizon FIOS), but then that may be premature at this point. Several of them have stood up in public forums and talked about the planning and prep they are doing, so its not like they are sitting around doing nothing.
If you have a "business" connection to a major ISP, ask them about IPv6. You may be surprised.
Districts didn't spend millions of dollars on these machines for students to post poorly-made self-portraits of themselves online.
Sure they did. Creating a myspace page is no more or less of a learning experience than a kid staying after school and using the dark room to develop some photos of kids being stupid at the mall; or going down to the shop class during a free period and using the tools to build his low rider bike (the pedal kind). I suppose its bad for kids to make a flyer for their band while learning desktop publishing, or to hone the short story in english class they will later post online to win a scholarship contest.
Students need to be prevented from having distractions during formal classroom education. I'm all down with no cell phones during class, shutting off the web during class, no IM during class, etc. However, students still have lunch, and free periods, and biology labs they finish in half the time allotted and are able to use the rest for whatever they want. Schools have a long history of encouraging children to explore safe, age appropriate things during these times using school provided equipment.
The problem is not that computers can access stuff, it's that we're teaching our children authority is not important, but rather technological controls which can be bypassed are the norm. In my day if I wanted to use the auto-shop to to disassemble all the pawnable parts out of "my friends" car which he "lost" the registration to the shop teacher would have caught on immediately. Today we put NetNanny on the computer and thus feel like we can go from 20 students per class to 35, and hire teachers with no computer experience to boot and little Johnny will be watched over just as much. Computers cannot fix the problem of a lack of knowledge by teachers and school administrators, nor can it fix the poor student teacher ratios preventing them from properly supervising and mentoring the children.
I think the real key here is that unless this "give everyone a computer" policy includes training for the teachers and administrators, hiring of several computer savvy teachers and administrators, and adding classes on computer use and safty then you're going to fail; not because of restrictions or the lack of them, but because you're giving someone a tool without teaching them to use it. No one would do that with a circular saw, why do we do it with computers?
We like to rent vacation homes in out of the way spots, but still want our connectivity. We've found our Verizon EV-DO card works in 99% of the locations, and where it doesn't an AT&T card will normally work; just at EDGE speeds rather than 3G. Even at 1xRTT or EDGE speeds they are still faster than dial up and with a small cheap router can be left on 24x7 and rebroadcast over WiFi. It's also easy to test, if a cell phone works a card will work; if it's a weak signal you may be able to get more speed with a small antenna pointed at the tower.
If those options really don't work, then Satellite may be your only option for high speed. If they are really that far out then I don't think the looks of a dish are really a big detractor if it's placed in a good location on the house. Often tucked behind a chimney or similar they are virtually invisible. Yes, you'll have to pay the installer more to put it there, but nothing is free. If you google "satellite dish camouflage" you'll get a bunch of ways to hide them too, fake plants, rocks, fabric covers, etc.
Many states have personal property tax, for instance Virginia taxes your car, boat, RV, and things like that every year.
However, I don't think the worry is about personally owned IP, but rather corporate. A very large number of business jurisdictions tax businesses based on their owned property. As one property tax official told me in one locale, "if it's necessary to run your business it must be listed, and we tax it." If that's the business attitude of the tax man, I think the editorial is spot on.
The current IPv4 burn rate is around 10-11/8's per year worldwide. You list 8/8's that might be recovered; that would be under 1 year of additional time at the current rate.
And, while those companies aren't using 100% of their blocks, they are using some of them, so it's not as trivial as just returning the unused block; they have to make sure they are numbered in a small subset of it and return the rest.
A lot of effort to go through to delay the inevitable by under a year.
I've seen more than a few TV shows documenting the great measures taken, at extreme expense, to "restore" old film footage that is about to turn to dust. While there is a lot of amazing work going on, it may illustrate that part of the problem is that they quite literally "toss the film in a warehouse and forget about it" for the next 50 years.
I believe to accurately represent the long term cost the film storage option needs to include the 10's or 100's of millions they have spent to restore old films that were degraded due to poor storage. At the price given I suspect it does not.
So the real news here is when you keep things on massive disk arrays the computer tells you each time a drive fails and someone goes out and replaces it. Where as when film turns to dust there's no warning; and often no one notices until it's too late.
I'm all for standing up for your rights, but the guy in this case was an idiot.
Most importantly, he picked two fights at once, and one was with the wrong people. If he wanted to show the store manager a lesson, he should have given the cop is drivers license. Did he have to? No, however he wanted the cop to help him. Cops spend so much time dealing every day with lying scumbags they have a very short fuse for people they feel are playing games with him. Had he just coughed up his license he probably could have got the store manager at least a ticket.
At a minimum, if you do not provide a government issued ID they police can detain you until they are sure you are who you say you are. You don't get to just tell the cop "I'm George Bush" and expect him to take your word for it.
So in his effort to make a point about circuit city, he called the cops on the emergency line. Rather than sticking to the issue of being prevented from leaving (his entire family, no less, so multiple counts) he pissed off the one guy who could have written a ticket and arrested people to try and make a second point that he may have been technically correct about, but not in principal.
In short, this is one of the worst examples of how to "fight the system" I have ever seen.
My TV supports CableCard, so I tried to use it. Before I moved I got it working. First trip, dead cable card. Second trip, tech brought an HD Box rather than a cable card. Third trip, bad cable card. Fourth trip tech brought two, one worked, one did not. The one that worked finally was set up and worked.
But of course, the Cable Company decided not to provide ANY guide info via the Cable Card interface, so the cable card showed nothing. But it worked.
For two months. When it died. They brought two more that didn't work, I told them no more.
So I moved to a new location, and a supposedly better cable company. When I got here they didn't have any, and I was told they had no eta. I called back three times, unable to even make an appointment to get one installed because "they don't have any".
Nevermind even if I wanted one I would have to take a day off work and wait for an "installer" to insert a PCMCIA card and phone in two numbers.
I am convinced of two things.
1) Cable card manufacturers, Motorola in particular, seem to make junk. Having multiple DOA cards (that are supposedly new) is just amazing in this day and age. Junk, junk and more junk.
2) Cable companies don't want to support it. Maybe #1 justifies a installer, I don't know. But I should be able to pick one up at my local store, install it myself, put the numbers in a web site and be good to go in a few minutes. I should get guide info. They don't do it because they want you to get their two way box, not because it's hard or expensive.
Cable companies didn't want cable card, so they have managed to kill it by making it as broken as possible while still offering it.
As part of the "deal" the phone companies made with the government a long time ago I thought POTS was one of the "Universal Services", which has a federal tariffed rate. My feeble understanding is that obligated the phone company to provide that service to anyone at the federal rate.
So, once the copper is cut, shouldn't you be able to order that service, and make the reinstall cost be on Verizon's nickel? If enough people did that, might they not find it unprofitable to cut the copper?
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I have a 8Mbps down, 1Mbps cable modem. I've used a number of testing services before, and it performs well showing 5-7 down and 600-800k up on most testing services. Speed seems incredibly consistent over time.
However, the FCC test just told me it transferred data at 28Mbps down and 3Mbps up. I've never gotten numbers over 8Mbps anywhere else in the 3+ years I've had this service. There is also no where for me to indicate this is bogus. It would be nice if they also collected what people were told they had by the marketing folks so outliers could be identified, and we could compare actual rates to the marketing rates.
How about everyone else? Accurate for you?
The laws vary state to state, but in all states the maximum legal height for a standard vehicle is specified. It ranges from 13'6" to 14'6". Higher heights require a permit.
That means you may, on any given day, see a vehicle (double decker bus, monster truck, whatever) that is just under the maximum legal height, with someone's head at best a couple of feet lower. Thus, if you don't want people to see into your back yard, I think you need a fence or other shield high enough that someone at up to 13'6" off the ground can't see in.
Still though, simply looking at most street view images will show you they aren't that high. I suspect most are taken in the 8' - 10' off the road level, probably under the level that most delivery truck drivers sit at in large trucks.
How do I do a burnout if I can't use the brake and gas at the same time?
Stupid nanny cars.
Because the 30mpg car and the 40 mpg hybrid can't carry a ton of much home from the home improvement center, tow the boat to the lake, or haul your looser buddy's furniture from his ex's place to his new efficiency.
People who get upset about a single person in an SUV or Pickup commuting to work are ignoring the larger picture. That same vehicle may be used for towing or hauling in the evening or on the weekend. Getting a little less gas milage on the weekend is far cheaper than buying a second car (e.g. that 40 mpg hybrid) just for the commute, and far more environmentally responsible than the energy and raw materials to build a second car.
Early on Steve Jobs said the iPhone didn't need an API because everything you wanted to do could be done with web apps.
Did Google just prove that for him?
The real issue here isn't companies, but the IRS itself. If it could computerize and provide pre-filled tax forms then the agency would need far fewer auditors, lawyers, data entry folks, and so on. No group, be it inside a company or in government likes to take actions that reduce their size and perceived importance even if it is the best thing to do.
The US greatly needs to simply its tax code, allowing things like pre-generated forms to be accurate for a much larger group of Americans. While this will save billions in costs at the IRS and in money spent preparing taxes, and thus is a net win for the economy in the long term it will have the effect to putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work in the short term. All our elected officials think about is the short term, so that trumps.
If you want to fix the root of the problem, then implement term limits. If our elected officials could only serve one or two terms then they would be much less incentivized to figure out how to make a career out of corporate contributions, and much more likely to do what is right for the future.
You sir, are just plain wrong.
Wikipedia: Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution
Wikipedia: Evolution-Data_Optimized
In a survey (Gearlive) Verizon's 3G had an average download speed of 1,940 Kbits/sec (about 2Mbps/sec). Compare that to AT&T edge speed tests (Engadget) where AT&T's edge network ran 264Kbits/sec.
Thus, as far as I can tell from a theoretical perspective (based on the technology) Verizon's 3G is three times faster (3Mbps compared to 1Mbps) than AT&T's EDGE. In the real world the difference is worse though, with Verizon showing over 7 times faster performance (1940 Kbits compared to 264 Kbits). As someone who has used both, let me say that matches with my own personal experience.
I've seen quite a few places with this problem, and they all have one thing in common. They have promoted {coders, help desk folks, sysadmins} to be managers. In most cases these folks have no management training of any kind, and the company offers them no management support of any kind. Many times they don't even want to manage people, they went for the promotion as it was the only way to get a larger paycheck.
Management, at a high level, is simple. Set clear achievable objectives, get your team the resources they need to achieve those objections from other parts of the company, and set reasonable, but aggressive deadlines and have there be some reward for making them and consequence for missing them.
Without some training in project planning and people motivation setting objectives is actually quite hard. Indeed, one of the largest problems is managers set objectives that just don't make any sense to anyone, and so they don't work towards them. This is an area where real training is required, I believe everyone promoted to be a manager should be required to take a 5 day "management bootcamp" before they can start the job.
Getting resources from the rest of the company is interpersonal skills. You have to interact with other folks and figure out how to get what you need from them. For people who've worked the last 3-5 years head down in whatever they are doing, and are often thought of as socially awkward this is a very hard transition. Geeks simply aren't good at figuring out that dropping off a tin of cookies in finance will get your PO's out the door quicker.
And lastly, most new managers, regardless of where they come from, have major problems with rewarding people and disciplining people. They simply don't want to get involved in conflict, so they avoid it. Engineers quickly figure out they can get away with anything, because there is no consequence to not doing your job, and so they start to test how far they can go. Quickly the manager is being walked all over. When I've talked to the new managers they are always like "what am I supposed to do, fire them, I can't do that." It's another area where a management class could help. At the next team meeting give the plum assignment to the guy who worked hard, and single out the guy who goofed off the most with "Bob, you could have been doing this but you're not finished with your last project yet." Nine times out of ten Bob will work twice as hard next time. (And if he doesn't, you have deeper issues, and really need professional management training).
The fact that you've noticed the problems so quickly as a junior guy tells me that this particular place has these problems bad. Probably multiple levels of managers who don't want to be managers, have no training, and no one above them supporting them. There's very little you can do to fix this, and if you're already writing to slashdot about it the situation will probably drive you crazy. The only productive advice in that situation is to find a new job, ASAP, and take this one has a learning experience. You now know some of the things to look for at your next employer before you take the job.
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2a is also a check for me.
You need to take up a sport.
She needs to get a cheerleading uniform.
Really, it will make you both happier.
Apple's 17" MacBook Pro can be had with a 1920x1200 17" LED backlit panel, so clearly the technology is out there, and being mass produced.
Still, no one has a desktop display of the same specs, at least that I can find. I suspect a large part of the reason is you're generally expected to be sitting further from the display at your desktop, and the further you are from the display likely the larger the pixels you want.
I wold like higher DPI displays in all resolutions though. IBM used to make 200DPI displays, but I think they stopped.
The OP seems to think the crash rate might be different between the two choices. It may, but it may also be the case the rate of crashes is more or less the same; one choice leading to human error crashes, the other leading to computer failure crashes. Indeed, it seems if one was inherently superior to the other it would have come out by now, with the two major players choosing different paths. Airline crashes are some of the most studied crashes we have, a difference would have been noticed by now.
If she's old enough to ride a bus, she's old enough to remember a cell phone number and ask a responsible adult to call you when she's in the wrong place.
Teach her to take responsibility for herself, it will serve her better in the long run.
For backbone trunks buy direct burial cable.
Direct burial cable is armored, that is surrounded by metal. This makes it less interesting to eat.
If they do eat it, under the first layer or two is a rather gross snot like substance. Depending on who you ask it is to keep water out, or there because rodents hate to eat it, or both.
It's the TCP implementations, and probably the TCP window size limits. Windows could turn in the same numbers if properly tuned.
You want to read this article for all the in-depth details: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/
Windows has a default set many years ago, and never updated. Most of the Free Unix variants update every release, and some new variants even have fancy auto-scaling code. Any time you want to get over 10Mbps/second across any real latency with a SINGLE TCP stream you probably need to do some tuning, for some OS's the limit is much lower.
ISP's run into this all the time. An uninformed admin buys a GigE in LA and NY, pops up an FTP server and wonders why he can only get a few megabits a second across the "crappy network". A few settings later and behold, the same hardware can saturate a full gigabit.
Note, don't just go set your values really high, there are performance (memory used) tradeoffs....
Many don't advertise well.
NTT/Verio has some of the best IPv6 support out there.
Hurricane Electric has made a point of being an aggressive IPv6 deployer.
Verizon Business (UUNet) now offers IPv6 on a "beta" basis.
Level 3 has some sort of offering, but I have no details on it.
It's true none of the consumer ISP's offer it to the consumer yet (Comcast, Cox, CableVision, Verizon FIOS), but then that may be premature at this point. Several of them have stood up in public forums and talked about the planning and prep they are doing, so its not like they are sitting around doing nothing.
If you have a "business" connection to a major ISP, ask them about IPv6. You may be surprised.
Sure they did. Creating a myspace page is no more or less of a learning experience than a kid staying after school and using the dark room to develop some photos of kids being stupid at the mall; or going down to the shop class during a free period and using the tools to build his low rider bike (the pedal kind). I suppose its bad for kids to make a flyer for their band while learning desktop publishing, or to hone the short story in english class they will later post online to win a scholarship contest.
Students need to be prevented from having distractions during formal classroom education. I'm all down with no cell phones during class, shutting off the web during class, no IM during class, etc. However, students still have lunch, and free periods, and biology labs they finish in half the time allotted and are able to use the rest for whatever they want. Schools have a long history of encouraging children to explore safe, age appropriate things during these times using school provided equipment.
The problem is not that computers can access stuff, it's that we're teaching our children authority is not important, but rather technological controls which can be bypassed are the norm. In my day if I wanted to use the auto-shop to to disassemble all the pawnable parts out of "my friends" car which he "lost" the registration to the shop teacher would have caught on immediately. Today we put NetNanny on the computer and thus feel like we can go from 20 students per class to 35, and hire teachers with no computer experience to boot and little Johnny will be watched over just as much. Computers cannot fix the problem of a lack of knowledge by teachers and school administrators, nor can it fix the poor student teacher ratios preventing them from properly supervising and mentoring the children.
I think the real key here is that unless this "give everyone a computer" policy includes training for the teachers and administrators, hiring of several computer savvy teachers and administrators, and adding classes on computer use and safty then you're going to fail; not because of restrictions or the lack of them, but because you're giving someone a tool without teaching them to use it. No one would do that with a circular saw, why do we do it with computers?
We like to rent vacation homes in out of the way spots, but still want our connectivity. We've found our Verizon EV-DO card works in 99% of the locations, and where it doesn't an AT&T card will normally work; just at EDGE speeds rather than 3G. Even at 1xRTT or EDGE speeds they are still faster than dial up and with a small cheap router can be left on 24x7 and rebroadcast over WiFi. It's also easy to test, if a cell phone works a card will work; if it's a weak signal you may be able to get more speed with a small antenna pointed at the tower.
If those options really don't work, then Satellite may be your only option for high speed. If they are really that far out then I don't think the looks of a dish are really a big detractor if it's placed in a good location on the house. Often tucked behind a chimney or similar they are virtually invisible. Yes, you'll have to pay the installer more to put it there, but nothing is free. If you google "satellite dish camouflage" you'll get a bunch of ways to hide them too, fake plants, rocks, fabric covers, etc.
This is not quite true.
Many states have personal property tax, for instance Virginia taxes your car, boat, RV, and things like that every year.
However, I don't think the worry is about personally owned IP, but rather corporate. A very large number of business jurisdictions tax businesses based on their owned property. As one property tax official told me in one locale, "if it's necessary to run your business it must be listed, and we tax it." If that's the business attitude of the tax man, I think the editorial is spot on.
Novell might get its money back!
The current IPv4 burn rate is around 10-11 /8's per year worldwide. You list 8 /8's that might be recovered; that would be under 1 year of additional time at the current rate.
For more information on the rate of IPv4 consumption, see http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/
And, while those companies aren't using 100% of their blocks, they are using some of them, so it's not as trivial as just returning the unused block; they have to make sure they are numbered in a small subset of it and return the rest.
A lot of effort to go through to delay the inevitable by under a year.
I've seen more than a few TV shows documenting the great measures taken, at extreme expense, to "restore" old film footage that is about to turn to dust. While there is a lot of amazing work going on, it may illustrate that part of the problem is that they quite literally "toss the film in a warehouse and forget about it" for the next 50 years.
I believe to accurately represent the long term cost the film storage option needs to include the 10's or 100's of millions they have spent to restore old films that were degraded due to poor storage. At the price given I suspect it does not.
So the real news here is when you keep things on massive disk arrays the computer tells you each time a drive fails and someone goes out and replaces it. Where as when film turns to dust there's no warning; and often no one notices until it's too late.
I'm all for standing up for your rights, but the guy in this case was an idiot.
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Most importantly, he picked two fights at once, and one was with the wrong people. If he wanted to show the store manager a lesson, he should have given the cop is drivers license. Did he have to? No, however he wanted the cop to help him. Cops spend so much time dealing every day with lying scumbags they have a very short fuse for people they feel are playing games with him. Had he just coughed up his license he probably could have got the store manager at least a ticket.
Also, the guy in this case wasn't completely right. For some interesting recent commentary there's this supreme court case http://freetotravel.org/hiibel.html, http://www.papersplease.org/hiibel/, http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonl
At a minimum, if you do not provide a government issued ID they police can detain you until they are sure you are who you say you are. You don't get to just tell the cop "I'm George Bush" and expect him to take your word for it.
So in his effort to make a point about circuit city, he called the cops on the emergency line. Rather than sticking to the issue of being prevented from leaving (his entire family, no less, so multiple counts) he pissed off the one guy who could have written a ticket and arrested people to try and make a second point that he may have been technically correct about, but not in principal.
In short, this is one of the worst examples of how to "fight the system" I have ever seen.
My TV supports CableCard, so I tried to use it. Before I moved I got it working. First trip, dead cable card. Second trip, tech brought an HD Box rather than a cable card. Third trip, bad cable card. Fourth trip tech brought two, one worked, one did not. The one that worked finally was set up and worked.
But of course, the Cable Company decided not to provide ANY guide info via the Cable Card interface, so the cable card showed nothing. But it worked.
For two months. When it died. They brought two more that didn't work, I told them no more.
So I moved to a new location, and a supposedly better cable company. When I got here they didn't have any, and I was told they had no eta. I called back three times, unable to even make an appointment to get one installed because "they don't have any".
Nevermind even if I wanted one I would have to take a day off work and wait for an "installer" to insert a PCMCIA card and phone in two numbers.
I am convinced of two things.
1) Cable card manufacturers, Motorola in particular, seem to make junk. Having multiple DOA cards (that are supposedly new) is just amazing in this day and age. Junk, junk and more junk.
2) Cable companies don't want to support it. Maybe #1 justifies a installer, I don't know. But I should be able to pick one up at my local store, install it myself, put the numbers in a web site and be good to go in a few minutes. I should get guide info. They don't do it because they want you to get their two way box, not because it's hard or expensive.
Cable companies didn't want cable card, so they have managed to kill it by making it as broken as possible while still offering it.
As part of the "deal" the phone companies made with the government a long time ago I thought POTS was one of the "Universal Services", which has a federal tariffed rate. My feeble understanding is that obligated the phone company to provide that service to anyone at the federal rate.
So, once the copper is cut, shouldn't you be able to order that service, and make the reinstall cost be on Verizon's nickel? If enough people did that, might they not find it unprofitable to cut the copper?