Cell phones use a variety of technologies (CDMA, TDM, and newer ones) to coordinate what device is transmitting and which is receiving at any given moment. That way you don't have to do the "wait for the air to be clear before transmitting" style, which is too slow for duplex voice communications. The cell towers are the 'master' of the frequencies and coordinate when the devices can broadcast. Without the tower, the devices will start to skew their time and will not be able to communicate between eachother.
There is also the issue of authentication and authorization. Having unauthenticated devices be able to communicate with others can cause another world of issues that can lead to undesirable results (spamming, info hijacking, etc).
Wait. So, now two people have full backups at their houses? I really, really hope that you don't deal with any data or servers that touch PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FERPA or other controlled data sets. I also hope you and your employee are never in a situation where you get laid off or fired. Having ALL that data in a personal residence will cause nothing but problems and could be extremely damaging to the company.
I used to fly with a flare gun all the time in my checked luggage. Flare guns are allowed in every state (and even traveling to Canada), require no permits and allow you to follow the TSA "gun" policy. My lock, hard-sided case, fully real-time traceable, and if the airline looses it, they get fined $250,000 -- so they make sure they actually keep track of it. It takes an additional 5 minutes to check-in, and most of the time your luggage will be first off with somebody waiting with it (except for the smallest airports, where you have to go to the luggage office to sign for it). No additional cost to do it except for Spirit.
Many of the US carriers have started charging for international flights. United, Spirit, Frontier, US Air are all doing it now. Delta the last flight I took with them a few months ago, but if everybody else is doing it, they usually follow suite. And these are for business class and below. First class still has free luggage all the way through,
The main reason why telcos don't want copper anymore is that their copper infrastructure is regulated. The Telecom Act of 1996 requires that the line owners open up the copper to competitors for a reasonable rate (reasonable is defined and calculated by the FCC). It turns out that wireless and fiber are essentially unregulated and listed as "information services" rather than as utility services. Pretty much, the phone companies don't have to share their last mile infrastructure with competitors.
And you should be asking "why?" is it rising faster than any other category.
A large part of the 'cost' of education rising so fast is that public schools are being increasing defunded from public sources -- putting the cost of education to the student rather the state or fed. In 1996, the State of Michigan supported on average 85% of the total budget of the largest three research schools -- today they support less than 15%. Similar stories in most other states. The actual cost of schooling somebody at a public school, taking into account all funding sources has been flat or has gone down in most cases. That accounts for the rising cost of health care, energy, etc. that have been rising as well.
Private schools, however, have been increasing the price to match the apparent increase to students in the public sector. Since most private schools's students are eligible for federal loans, there is no incentive to keep the costs down.
In my office, Green would be "I'm OK to be bothered right now". Lots of times, this would be if I'm waiting for a meeting, not doing programming, etc. Yellow is "Don't bother, unless it is absolutely necessary". For example, when there is a blocker issue or something that does require my attention, but not chit-chat. Red is "Don't bother me unless the building is on fire". This is when I'm really trying to concentrate on something and really can't be bothered for any reason.
It won't stop working today, but quickly things will become deprecated and unusable. Things like the web browser will stop rendering pages correctly as standards move on. Things like the app stores will start blocking the device. Things like Bing Maps and other utilities that are tied to the device will stop supporting it. Eventually other APIs will move on and no longer work with the device (like ActiveSync). Of course, somewhere in between IT departments will block it form checking email and syncing calendars/contacts. If Blackberries are of any predictor, this could happen all in the course of a couple of years. You will be left with a smart phone that can do phone calls and text messages.
T-Mobile has had this for years as well. Their current plan actually offers/free/ roaming to most countries. I travel to Canada and Mexico on a regular basis, and voice and data at LTE speeds are included in the base package for free. In Europe, roaming is also free, but not always high speed.
Started learning with SmartBASIC on an Adam/Coleco. Moved up to Apple's Basic on the Apple IIGS, then Apple Assembler.
When I got a PC, I did some BASIC, then moved on to PASCAL (and took some formal PASCAL classes in high-school), then C++ in college. Learned Perl along the way. Picked up Java at my first job out of college. My second job out of college I learned ActionScript. Now days I do mostly Java and C++.
I really hope they continue to teach a typeful language. Learning things like memory management, threading, etc. are all important in CS classes. These are the things that will make a developer much more rounded -- instead of chasing the latest hot language.
If you honestly think that there would still be a Tower Records, Virgin Records, etc. if Amazon wasn't around then you are mistaken. Those businesses didn't change with the time and were selling a product that people didn't really want anymore. Let alone the price (the last time I stepped into a Tower Records, they were selling a CD for well over $13, when even the local record store was selling them for $10).
Tower left our college town the same time that digital music became popular. They didn't pivot, so they lost out. All the other stores that relied on selling physical medium music died the same way. Best Buy survived because they pivoted. The local music stores that survived did so because they pivoted to something else as their primary sales. You can't blame Amazon on that, they only exacerbated the issue.
So, lets say you do some amount of cleaning. You use this bucket once a month over a 10 year period.
The Walmart bucket, due to these engineered defects lasts 2 years. It cost $5 The Home Depot bucket, which looks similar, lasts 8 years. It costs $7
The cost of ownership for 10 years for the Walmart bucket is $25, the HD bucket is $14. Plus the aggravation of having the bucket fail 5 times over that time. You've probably switched brands because you know the original one didn't last.
The bucket example is simplistic. In computers or electronics it is often more severe. HP, for example, would ship nearly empty print cartridges with their printers. Canon would ship printers that had less tolerance on print heads and nozzles. HP's computers would have 30 day warranty(vs. 1 or 3 years) and be missing some components like cooling fans or use super-cheap power supplies. For TVs, Westinghouse would not license the MPEG decoder required to watch digital cable (QAM), and would force users to purchase it separately, even though it wasn't noted on the box.
VMWare 5.x and 6.x does a pretty good job at it. The hardest part is getting the network card emulation to work correctly, but there are drivers out there that make it work.
That is it. The videos did not have descriptive text, nor captioning or a transcript. Berkley was relying on the automated captioning available from YouTube, which had an accuracy of less than 50%.
The problem was that the closed-captioning on YouTube was really, really poor. Less than 40% accuracy (due to some of the technical nature of the captioning). That isn't good enough for somebody who depends on the captioning to use the content.
Michigan sued IBM over their Secretary of State (DMV) system in 2015. They actually went with milestone payments, but IBM refused to release to source code of the last signed-off milestone . The state still hasn't rolled out the new system yet.
Apache has over 300 projects now that they maintain. Tomcat, Jetty, Open Office, Flex, Cordova, ANT, CouchDB, Maven, Luceen, etc. are all Apache projects that are some of the more popular open-source projects out there. They started accepting projects in addition to httpd in the late 90's.
It's a response to the environment. People were complaining that software was only being released in 12, 18 or 24 month release cycles. And this forced people to buy new versions of stuff and upend their entire workflow because everything required replacements of everything else. Now the world has moved to an iterative development environment, where small changes are pushed out much faster. The world is constantly changing and people are able to adapt to the smaller changes versus re-learning all the things that changed in the last 18 months.
So, your complaint is that software you bought 8 - 10 years ago won't run on the most modern operating system without a bit of fidgeting? Oh, and you are pissed at the company you haven't bought anything from in that amount of time won't make it instantly compatible for you? You do realize that version is 6 version behind now, and it was designed for an OS that is now 7 versions behind now too.
I need to try calling up Microsoft to see how well IE 6 installs on Windows 10. I'm sure it will work just as well. Or maybe Apple with the older version of Final Cut...
Other than the money grab of reoccuring licensing, there's another reason why they can't do a "rent" and "own" on the same product line is because of Sarbanes-Oxley. Essentially, when you create a software version, you book R&D costs against that version. So, you make version 11.0, and it takes you three years to make that version, you book all of your costs against that version. You then identify features and push it out. When people buy that new version, you then report revenue against that version and you start to book new R&D against the future version. What that means is you need to create demarcations in the sand of what features ship with which versions, and generally you have to set timetables against those versions.
With the way Adobe is doing the cloud versions, they changed their revenue model. They are able to book R&D against current monthly income and book revenue against current product. This allows them to do continual development and continual deployment on their products. People don't have to wait for the next version to get the next feature, and there isn't a huge rush to get new features in by X date in order to ship. It stabilizes the workload of R&D across the year, and makes it so you don't have huge pushes every 18 months to get everything done.
Now, Adobe could make two product lines like Microsoft does (Office vs. Office 365 for example) that share a common code base, but that does make it harder, to book development costs correctly.
You can thank Enron and Worldcom for these rules....
That wasn't really the case here. The IT shop apparently had a crew of a dozen or so people. They all had admin rights on the Google domain plus some root admin account. When they fired Williams, (according to the court docs), the laptop was sent back with the root account set to auto-login. Apparently the company they had outsourced the IT to either wiped the machine or did something to it where the root account got locked out or the password changed. The only other account that had admin access was William's personal google account (which was supposed to be removed from admin rights).
He didn't want to work with them anymore to help them recover their admin account, which they screwed up. They ended up suing him. He ended up losing because he didn't show up to all the court dates, because he couldn't travel to Indiana because he was not able to take his kid with him to Indiana (because of a ruling from family court).
If he would have shown up to court, he actually would have won. It was the school's responsibility to secure their property before firing him (including logins, etc.) They didn't, and they can't expect him to even answer his phone after they separated. He was actually in the right, by law, to ask for compensation for working with them, as a new contract work for hire. This is pretty standard case law, and the LRB has postings about it all the time. Now, he could have been in the wrong if there was a policy about not associating the domain admin account with your personal account, but that clearly wasn't the case since it was well known that it was done and they didn't bat an eyelash about it.
Because AT&T has been given a defacto monopoly status (or really, participating in an oligopoly) by them being granted gobs of wireless spectrum in an exclusive manner. They aren't being told what they need to set their prices at, they are simply being told that they can't price them differently between them and their competitors. In the case of AT&T, they are not charging the customer or their subsidiary DirecTV for bandwidth, but for anybody who is using any of their competitors, they are charging the customer. This means that the customer is incentivized to use AT&T's product rather than a competitor, because while using the (T) service might cost $35 a month for unlimited streaming, it could cost in the hundreds or thousands for their competitors.
Essentially, if you stream from Netflix, Youtube etc. they will only send 480p or 720i video, instead of full HD. When the providers agree to do this for TMO users, TMO zero-rates the bandwidth for the end user. The same goes for certain audio providers (Pandora, etc.).
TMO offers users three options in their control panel -- opt out of the zero rating (meaning you get the full HD videos, but the bandwidth goes against your cap), you can pay for the zero rating to cover the full HD (you get full HD video, and it's zero rated), or you can stay on the zero-rating, no HD package.
For an additional fee, you can also get the full-speed tethering (this includes the zero-rating full HD). It's just not included in their base package.
I really don't see what the big deal is. Even if you want full-speed tethering, it's still cheaper than VZW and (T). And the fact they give you the ability to opt-out of the new options is good. Again, the other guys are doing similar things with no ability to opt out.
I've been able to keep my old TMO plan from 2007, which included some limited minutes, but unlimited data + tethering. It's $70/month, so pretty much the same as the One plans, with those exceptions. TMO has been really good about grandfathering plans and keeping them as is, unlike (T) and VZ.
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Cell phones use a variety of technologies (CDMA, TDM, and newer ones) to coordinate what device is transmitting and which is receiving at any given moment. That way you don't have to do the "wait for the air to be clear before transmitting" style, which is too slow for duplex voice communications. The cell towers are the 'master' of the frequencies and coordinate when the devices can broadcast. Without the tower, the devices will start to skew their time and will not be able to communicate between eachother.
There is also the issue of authentication and authorization. Having unauthenticated devices be able to communicate with others can cause another world of issues that can lead to undesirable results (spamming, info hijacking, etc).
Wait. So, now two people have full backups at their houses? I really, really hope that you don't deal with any data or servers that touch PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FERPA or other controlled data sets. I also hope you and your employee are never in a situation where you get laid off or fired. Having ALL that data in a personal residence will cause nothing but problems and could be extremely damaging to the company.
I used to fly with a flare gun all the time in my checked luggage. Flare guns are allowed in every state (and even traveling to Canada), require no permits and allow you to follow the TSA "gun" policy. My lock, hard-sided case, fully real-time traceable, and if the airline looses it, they get fined $250,000 -- so they make sure they actually keep track of it. It takes an additional 5 minutes to check-in, and most of the time your luggage will be first off with somebody waiting with it (except for the smallest airports, where you have to go to the luggage office to sign for it). No additional cost to do it except for Spirit.
Many of the US carriers have started charging for international flights. United, Spirit, Frontier, US Air are all doing it now. Delta the last flight I took with them a few months ago, but if everybody else is doing it, they usually follow suite. And these are for business class and below. First class still has free luggage all the way through,
The main reason why telcos don't want copper anymore is that their copper infrastructure is regulated. The Telecom Act of 1996 requires that the line owners open up the copper to competitors for a reasonable rate (reasonable is defined and calculated by the FCC). It turns out that wireless and fiber are essentially unregulated and listed as "information services" rather than as utility services. Pretty much, the phone companies don't have to share their last mile infrastructure with competitors.
And you should be asking "why?" is it rising faster than any other category.
A large part of the 'cost' of education rising so fast is that public schools are being increasing defunded from public sources -- putting the cost of education to the student rather the state or fed. In 1996, the State of Michigan supported on average 85% of the total budget of the largest three research schools -- today they support less than 15%. Similar stories in most other states. The actual cost of schooling somebody at a public school, taking into account all funding sources has been flat or has gone down in most cases. That accounts for the rising cost of health care, energy, etc. that have been rising as well.
Private schools, however, have been increasing the price to match the apparent increase to students in the public sector. Since most private schools's students are eligible for federal loans, there is no incentive to keep the costs down.
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In my office, Green would be "I'm OK to be bothered right now". Lots of times, this would be if I'm waiting for a meeting, not doing programming, etc. Yellow is "Don't bother, unless it is absolutely necessary". For example, when there is a blocker issue or something that does require my attention, but not chit-chat. Red is "Don't bother me unless the building is on fire". This is when I'm really trying to concentrate on something and really can't be bothered for any reason.
It won't stop working today, but quickly things will become deprecated and unusable. Things like the web browser will stop rendering pages correctly as standards move on. Things like the app stores will start blocking the device. Things like Bing Maps and other utilities that are tied to the device will stop supporting it. Eventually other APIs will move on and no longer work with the device (like ActiveSync). Of course, somewhere in between IT departments will block it form checking email and syncing calendars/contacts. If Blackberries are of any predictor, this could happen all in the course of a couple of years. You will be left with a smart phone that can do phone calls and text messages.
T-Mobile has had this for years as well. Their current plan actually offers /free/ roaming to most countries. I travel to Canada and Mexico on a regular basis, and voice and data at LTE speeds are included in the base package for free. In Europe, roaming is also free, but not always high speed.
Started learning with SmartBASIC on an Adam/Coleco. Moved up to Apple's Basic on the Apple IIGS, then Apple Assembler.
When I got a PC, I did some BASIC, then moved on to PASCAL (and took some formal PASCAL classes in high-school), then C++ in college. Learned Perl along the way. Picked up Java at my first job out of college. My second job out of college I learned ActionScript. Now days I do mostly Java and C++.
I really hope they continue to teach a typeful language. Learning things like memory management, threading, etc. are all important in CS classes. These are the things that will make a developer much more rounded -- instead of chasing the latest hot language.
If you honestly think that there would still be a Tower Records, Virgin Records, etc. if Amazon wasn't around then you are mistaken. Those businesses didn't change with the time and were selling a product that people didn't really want anymore. Let alone the price (the last time I stepped into a Tower Records, they were selling a CD for well over $13, when even the local record store was selling them for $10).
Tower left our college town the same time that digital music became popular. They didn't pivot, so they lost out. All the other stores that relied on selling physical medium music died the same way. Best Buy survived because they pivoted. The local music stores that survived did so because they pivoted to something else as their primary sales. You can't blame Amazon on that, they only exacerbated the issue.
So, lets say you do some amount of cleaning. You use this bucket once a month over a 10 year period.
The Walmart bucket, due to these engineered defects lasts 2 years. It cost $5
The Home Depot bucket, which looks similar, lasts 8 years. It costs $7
The cost of ownership for 10 years for the Walmart bucket is $25, the HD bucket is $14. Plus the aggravation of having the bucket fail 5 times over that time. You've probably switched brands because you know the original one didn't last.
The bucket example is simplistic. In computers or electronics it is often more severe. HP, for example, would ship nearly empty print cartridges with their printers. Canon would ship printers that had less tolerance on print heads and nozzles. HP's computers would have 30 day warranty(vs. 1 or 3 years) and be missing some components like cooling fans or use super-cheap power supplies. For TVs, Westinghouse would not license the MPEG decoder required to watch digital cable (QAM), and would force users to purchase it separately, even though it wasn't noted on the box.
VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor... It doesn't run on Windows and is completely free (just not open source)...
VMWare 5.x and 6.x does a pretty good job at it. The hardest part is getting the network card emulation to work correctly, but there are drivers out there that make it work.
That is it. The videos did not have descriptive text, nor captioning or a transcript. Berkley was relying on the automated captioning available from YouTube, which had an accuracy of less than 50%.
The problem was that the closed-captioning on YouTube was really, really poor. Less than 40% accuracy (due to some of the technical nature of the captioning). That isn't good enough for somebody who depends on the captioning to use the content.
Michigan sued IBM over their Secretary of State (DMV) system in 2015. They actually went with milestone payments, but IBM refused to release to source code of the last signed-off milestone . The state still hasn't rolled out the new system yet.
Apache has over 300 projects now that they maintain. Tomcat, Jetty, Open Office, Flex, Cordova, ANT, CouchDB, Maven, Luceen, etc. are all Apache projects that are some of the more popular open-source projects out there. They started accepting projects in addition to httpd in the late 90's.
It's a response to the environment. People were complaining that software was only being released in 12, 18 or 24 month release cycles. And this forced people to buy new versions of stuff and upend their entire workflow because everything required replacements of everything else. Now the world has moved to an iterative development environment, where small changes are pushed out much faster. The world is constantly changing and people are able to adapt to the smaller changes versus re-learning all the things that changed in the last 18 months.
So, your complaint is that software you bought 8 - 10 years ago won't run on the most modern operating system without a bit of fidgeting? Oh, and you are pissed at the company you haven't bought anything from in that amount of time won't make it instantly compatible for you? You do realize that version is 6 version behind now, and it was designed for an OS that is now 7 versions behind now too.
I need to try calling up Microsoft to see how well IE 6 installs on Windows 10. I'm sure it will work just as well. Or maybe Apple with the older version of Final Cut...
Other than the money grab of reoccuring licensing, there's another reason why they can't do a "rent" and "own" on the same product line is because of Sarbanes-Oxley. Essentially, when you create a software version, you book R&D costs against that version. So, you make version 11.0, and it takes you three years to make that version, you book all of your costs against that version. You then identify features and push it out. When people buy that new version, you then report revenue against that version and you start to book new R&D against the future version. What that means is you need to create demarcations in the sand of what features ship with which versions, and generally you have to set timetables against those versions.
With the way Adobe is doing the cloud versions, they changed their revenue model. They are able to book R&D against current monthly income and book revenue against current product. This allows them to do continual development and continual deployment on their products. People don't have to wait for the next version to get the next feature, and there isn't a huge rush to get new features in by X date in order to ship. It stabilizes the workload of R&D across the year, and makes it so you don't have huge pushes every 18 months to get everything done.
Now, Adobe could make two product lines like Microsoft does (Office vs. Office 365 for example) that share a common code base, but that does make it harder, to book development costs correctly.
You can thank Enron and Worldcom for these rules....
That wasn't really the case here. The IT shop apparently had a crew of a dozen or so people. They all had admin rights on the Google domain plus some root admin account. When they fired Williams, (according to the court docs), the laptop was sent back with the root account set to auto-login. Apparently the company they had outsourced the IT to either wiped the machine or did something to it where the root account got locked out or the password changed. The only other account that had admin access was William's personal google account (which was supposed to be removed from admin rights).
He didn't want to work with them anymore to help them recover their admin account, which they screwed up. They ended up suing him. He ended up losing because he didn't show up to all the court dates, because he couldn't travel to Indiana because he was not able to take his kid with him to Indiana (because of a ruling from family court).
If he would have shown up to court, he actually would have won. It was the school's responsibility to secure their property before firing him (including logins, etc.) They didn't, and they can't expect him to even answer his phone after they separated. He was actually in the right, by law, to ask for compensation for working with them, as a new contract work for hire. This is pretty standard case law, and the LRB has postings about it all the time. Now, he could have been in the wrong if there was a policy about not associating the domain admin account with your personal account, but that clearly wasn't the case since it was well known that it was done and they didn't bat an eyelash about it.
Because AT&T has been given a defacto monopoly status (or really, participating in an oligopoly) by them being granted gobs of wireless spectrum in an exclusive manner. They aren't being told what they need to set their prices at, they are simply being told that they can't price them differently between them and their competitors. In the case of AT&T, they are not charging the customer or their subsidiary DirecTV for bandwidth, but for anybody who is using any of their competitors, they are charging the customer. This means that the customer is incentivized to use AT&T's product rather than a competitor, because while using the (T) service might cost $35 a month for unlimited streaming, it could cost in the hundreds or thousands for their competitors.
Essentially, if you stream from Netflix, Youtube etc. they will only send 480p or 720i video, instead of full HD. When the providers agree to do this for TMO users, TMO zero-rates the bandwidth for the end user. The same goes for certain audio providers (Pandora, etc.).
TMO offers users three options in their control panel -- opt out of the zero rating (meaning you get the full HD videos, but the bandwidth goes against your cap), you can pay for the zero rating to cover the full HD (you get full HD video, and it's zero rated), or you can stay on the zero-rating, no HD package.
For an additional fee, you can also get the full-speed tethering (this includes the zero-rating full HD). It's just not included in their base package.
I really don't see what the big deal is. Even if you want full-speed tethering, it's still cheaper than VZW and (T). And the fact they give you the ability to opt-out of the new options is good. Again, the other guys are doing similar things with no ability to opt out.
I've been able to keep my old TMO plan from 2007, which included some limited minutes, but unlimited data + tethering. It's $70/month, so pretty much the same as the One plans, with those exceptions. TMO has been really good about grandfathering plans and keeping them as is, unlike (T) and VZ.