I'm sure this is also going to vary based upon the level of disability. A C1-2 Quad already has so many possible health risks that a tremendous increase in cancer actually represents an increase if life expectancy. I will leave the quality of life debate for someone else, too many variables and too many different levels of each condition.
I see your point, and creative work I do belongs to my employer. But lets look at this from another angle.
Lets say some teachers are better than others. They can only teach so many children, but they have dedication and produce excellent plans. Their students do very well.
The next teacher can't manage his/her time as well, or has a bunch of her own children and would rather spend weekends at soccer games rather than writing lesson plans. There is no reason she shouldn't be able to use her own money and buy an excellent plan. It lets her assign her own value to her time not in school.
As this goes the best teachers producing the best plans get the best compensation. The schools should still make sure that the students of every teacher are learning.
In large companies one department bills another. This is different with one teacher billing another, but not far off.
Now if the school districts start allocating funding to buy these plans, and some teachers make them and sell them it changes the economics A LOT. I think it should be a zero sum game (for the $, not quality) for the tax payers if it is to work at 100%.
I think the poster was saying that in a market with such high capital requirements, the competition can lead to higher costs for all the providers, such that the converging lower price ends up being higher.
I don't think that is the problem (I think we don't have enough competition, and that the small handful of national carriers abuse their power and keep prices high), but there is a possible point to be made.
In a car the dealership is not owned by BMW. Their service department is reimbursed by BMW USA to perform the service, parts and labor. The parent poster wanted to put in a different bulb he would pay for, reducing BMW's immediate cost and future liability (they obviously wouldn't be on the hook to replace it the next time around).
My suspicion is that it was about bureaucracy. The dealership can't be reimbursed for the labor without adding the part, and if they didn't install a part they billed BMW for it would be fraud. These restrictions make sense in a large warranty program.
If you want freedom you need to stop asking for the government to take care of you. Come to a small government state like Texas or New Hampshire.
And no, G. W. Bush was not a native Texan, and his record certainly shows he wasn't for a small government. Problem is that he ran on that platform in 2000, and in 2004 as the incumbent there wasn't a chance to kick him out in the primaries. So we were left with a big government fraud or an even bigger government liberal.
My 4 year old BMW m3 convertible has 40k miles on it. I got it last month for $26.5k. MSRP for the car with all the options was somewhere in the 65-70k range (nav, bluetooth, assist, Premium stereo, SMG), or at least not under 60k.
It should easily go to 150k miles, and I may keep it to 200k. I bought more than 2/3rds the car for less than 1/2 the price.
No, you generally have the same protections on debit card from the bank. The difference is you are without money while they investigate, so credit cards are far better for this.
And I guess with a CC if they find against you, you can sink your credit and refuse to pay, but with debit they have your money.
A battery that was already swelling and a known fire hazard?
I'm not sure on the law, but we know the fire suppression systems on aircraft can't handle lithium fires. I would think as long as it were shipped ground (as a return label usually is) it would be ok.
I hope the Dev 1 specs are different, but I doubt it. This leaves many of us out.
Earlier HTC phones supported quad band EDGE and tri band UMTS (W-CDMA). Quad band Edge seems to be sticking around (to allow people to talk everywhere),but UMTS has suffered (The number of bands has grown a bit quickly, we are at 5).
The UMTS bands in question are:
* Band I (2100) in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania (ITU Region 1) and Brazil (part of ITU Region 2)
* Band II (W-CDMA 1900) in North America and South America (ITU Region 2)
* Band IV (W-CDMA 1700 or Advanced Wireless Services) in the United States (T-Mobile USA)
* Band VIII (W-CDMA 900) in Europe, Asia, Oceania (ITU Region 1 and ITU Region 3), Australia
* Band V (W-CDMA 850) in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the USA, other parts of South America, parts of Asia (ITU Region 2 and ITU Region 3)
For AT&T Wireless we need II(1900) and V(850).
T-Mobile in the US uses IV(1700), and Europe uses I(2100) and now VIII(900).
HTC seems to be ignoring II(1900) and V(850) except on AT&T branded phones (Touch Pro compared to AT&T Fuze which has quad band UMTS, all but IV(1700)).
There are some people trying to get Andriod running on the TyTN II, but the G1 is a nicer piece of hardware.
I pay exactly 60 USD for 22 mbps in Texas. The US isn't being left behind, my inlaws just don't care to spend more than 20 USD and drive the median down.
No phone though, but that would open the bill up to ridiculous taxes in addition of the standard 8% sales tax.
We have had 1.5-6mbps DSL and 5 mbps cable without these.
Now these cabinets are designed to provide services in the 30mbps range. Our cable company is providing 22mpbs without so many of these, but I am sure they will come along to bring the speeds higher.
So if you want high speed services with multiple choices (that don't all go through the same phone company, whom is filtering and throttling traffic regardless of the resale provider, ahem, Canada), we have to put up with some infrastructure.
The HiPhone desktop at way2call works for what you want to do. They have a very good SDK as well.
Having used modems with Asterisk you really want a purpose built product, and even the HiPhone is pushing it. After a few years of use the HiPhone will develop hiss and the sound quality decreases.
We migrated to VoIP (I could get you a deal on the HiPhone having many many of them), but we keep all the IP on our Lan.
AT&T doesn't say unlimited on the laptop plans, they state 5GB.
p2p is a beast on a bandwidth limited network. It doesn't back off properly when there is congestion, and just hammers until things start to break.
3G wireless connections are NOT the place for p2p. As such we shouldn't be counting them when we count broadband availability. I have a Cable modem at home and work, and a T1 at work. Plenty of places to do p2p without clogging the 3G network.
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I'm sure this is also going to vary based upon the level of disability. A C1-2 Quad already has so many possible health risks that a tremendous increase in cancer actually represents an increase if life expectancy. I will leave the quality of life debate for someone else, too many variables and too many different levels of each condition.
I see your point, and creative work I do belongs to my employer. But lets look at this from another angle.
Lets say some teachers are better than others. They can only teach so many children, but they have dedication and produce excellent plans. Their students do very well.
The next teacher can't manage his/her time as well, or has a bunch of her own children and would rather spend weekends at soccer games rather than writing lesson plans. There is no reason she shouldn't be able to use her own money and buy an excellent plan. It lets her assign her own value to her time not in school.
As this goes the best teachers producing the best plans get the best compensation. The schools should still make sure that the students of every teacher are learning.
In large companies one department bills another. This is different with one teacher billing another, but not far off.
Now if the school districts start allocating funding to buy these plans, and some teachers make them and sell them it changes the economics A LOT. I think it should be a zero sum game (for the $, not quality) for the tax payers if it is to work at 100%.
I think the poster was saying that in a market with such high capital requirements, the competition can lead to higher costs for all the providers, such that the converging lower price ends up being higher.
I don't think that is the problem (I think we don't have enough competition, and that the small handful of national carriers abuse their power and keep prices high), but there is a possible point to be made.
In a car the dealership is not owned by BMW. Their service department is reimbursed by BMW USA to perform the service, parts and labor. The parent poster wanted to put in a different bulb he would pay for, reducing BMW's immediate cost and future liability (they obviously wouldn't be on the hook to replace it the next time around).
My suspicion is that it was about bureaucracy. The dealership can't be reimbursed for the labor without adding the part, and if they didn't install a part they billed BMW for it would be fraud. These restrictions make sense in a large warranty program.
If you want freedom you need to stop asking for the government to take care of you. Come to a small government state like Texas or New Hampshire.
And no, G. W. Bush was not a native Texan, and his record certainly shows he wasn't for a small government. Problem is that he ran on that platform in 2000, and in 2004 as the incumbent there wasn't a chance to kick him out in the primaries. So we were left with a big government fraud or an even bigger government liberal.
I purchased a bunch of commercially produced cables, and I swear they must not have tested them! about 1% didn't even make contact on one wire.
My 4 year old BMW m3 convertible has 40k miles on it. I got it last month for $26.5k. MSRP for the car with all the options was somewhere in the 65-70k range (nav, bluetooth, assist, Premium stereo, SMG), or at least not under 60k.
It should easily go to 150k miles, and I may keep it to 200k. I bought more than 2/3rds the car for less than 1/2 the price.
Spindles seem to destroy my media. The disks stick together (after being stored at room temperature) after 2-3 years.
I haven't tried yet, but some run wine on Playstation 3's using Qemu for the processor emulation.
No, you generally have the same protections on debit card from the bank. The difference is you are without money while they investigate, so credit cards are far better for this.
And I guess with a CC if they find against you, you can sink your credit and refuse to pay, but with debit they have your money.
I have had Blueray at 30mbit on mpeg4. I'm sure its overkill, but the stuff at 1.5-3 is sub par.
USENET, I thought the NY AG killed that...
They sell a tamper proof bit set at Fry's for about $17. Its only annoying when the tamper proof screw is recessed and a bit won't cut it.
A battery that was already swelling and a known fire hazard?
I'm not sure on the law, but we know the fire suppression systems on aircraft can't handle lithium fires. I would think as long as it were shipped ground (as a return label usually is) it would be ok.
BitPim doesn't seem to apply to the G1 in any way.
I hope the Dev 1 specs are different, but I doubt it. This leaves many of us out.
Earlier HTC phones supported quad band EDGE and tri band UMTS (W-CDMA). Quad band Edge seems to be sticking around (to allow people to talk everywhere),but UMTS has suffered (The number of bands has grown a bit quickly, we are at 5).
The UMTS bands in question are:
* Band I (2100) in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania (ITU Region 1) and Brazil (part of ITU Region 2)
* Band II (W-CDMA 1900) in North America and South America (ITU Region 2)
* Band IV (W-CDMA 1700 or Advanced Wireless Services) in the United States (T-Mobile USA)
* Band VIII (W-CDMA 900) in Europe, Asia, Oceania (ITU Region 1 and ITU Region 3), Australia
* Band V (W-CDMA 850) in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the USA, other parts of South America, parts of Asia (ITU Region 2 and ITU Region 3)
For AT&T Wireless we need II(1900) and V(850).
T-Mobile in the US uses IV(1700), and Europe uses I(2100) and now VIII(900).
HTC seems to be ignoring II(1900) and V(850) except on AT&T branded phones (Touch Pro compared to AT&T Fuze which has quad band UMTS, all but IV(1700)).
There are some people trying to get Andriod running on the TyTN II, but the G1 is a nicer piece of hardware.
Subversion 1.5 greatly improved merging.
I haven't used git, so I can't compare
What if we think economic collapse in inevitable, and propping it up only delays it so we crash harder?
Those would be kind words applied to the first one, but I enjoyed this one.
I pay exactly 60 USD for 22 mbps in Texas. The US isn't being left behind, my inlaws just don't care to spend more than 20 USD and drive the median down.
No phone though, but that would open the bill up to ridiculous taxes in addition of the standard 8% sales tax.
Define high speed, and how many companies?
We have had 1.5-6mbps DSL and 5 mbps cable without these.
Now these cabinets are designed to provide services in the 30mbps range. Our cable company is providing 22mpbs without so many of these, but I am sure they will come along to bring the speeds higher.
So if you want high speed services with multiple choices (that don't all go through the same phone company, whom is filtering and throttling traffic regardless of the resale provider, ahem, Canada), we have to put up with some infrastructure.
The HiPhone desktop at way2call works for what you want to do. They have a very good SDK as well.
Having used modems with Asterisk you really want a purpose built product, and even the HiPhone is pushing it. After a few years of use the HiPhone will develop hiss and the sound quality decreases.
We migrated to VoIP (I could get you a deal on the HiPhone having many many of them), but we keep all the IP on our Lan.
Good luck.
AT&T doesn't say unlimited on the laptop plans, they state 5GB.
p2p is a beast on a bandwidth limited network. It doesn't back off properly when there is congestion, and just hammers until things start to break.
3G wireless connections are NOT the place for p2p. As such we shouldn't be counting them when we count broadband availability. I have a Cable modem at home and work, and a T1 at work. Plenty of places to do p2p without clogging the 3G network.
I have free access and I haven't answered a question in years. Is this normal?
I live in Texas and have municipal power. Our rates have been flat for 3 years.
7.1 cents for the first 500 kwh
11.5 cents for the rest.