Yes, all things we buy are metered. From their listed costs per cabinet, it appears they bought current gear, and current gear is upgradeable via slide in replacement trays.A cursory search shows plenty of competitions. A small co-op would need advice, or they might get suckered.
A rural co-op is owned by the subscribers - is it not? There is no corporate profit. Just the equipment and cost of wages and wiring and tech stuff. 1057 customers, and a build cost of about $3 million = $3000 per customer. This stuff gets obsolete in 5 years or less = buy more, scrap the old = $600 per customer per year = $50 per month each. Thed add electricity, maintenance, tech support, new installs.
They then get the FCC grants which have shrunk a bit (Since 2009, he says, the FCC has decreased access charges by $285,004 and Universal Funding by $282,228, for a total of $566,232 or $531.68 per customer. The decrease is expected to continue. During the same timeframe internet demand has grown by 1,000 percent.) (He goes on to explain that EBTC has 1,057 customers as of Dec. 31, 2013, and serves a 165- mile area. That means customer density is roughly seven customers per square mile.)
This looks like the typical problem that Canada, Australia and a lot of rural America face = low density of subscribers.
Do they share all cost equally?, or do they try to charge proportionally?
They have the classic small town bind.
If you get a densely built area of apartment houses that can be fully fibered, costs per megabyte can be very low, but not here. If they want the high speed, they must make some overpay (those who use only 5 meg per month), or get some proportional pricing.
With a large corporation, they could over charge the dense cities and subsidize the country sides.
Someone in another country can easily setup a multivariate look-up grid of the kind 23andMe uses to show how various genetic patterns correlate to various aspects of your health or intelligence.. In fact 23andMe can open source their method and many people will provide this service, some for free, some for fee.
I assume a cable hangs from the tray to the desktop? I suggest adding some climbing vines, with pots, so it looks natural. You can also add a few spider monkeys to go up and down the cables, and their poop will fertilize the vines after you scrape it off everything??
The basic problem with trays is the cable from tray to desk. If you used a dropped ceiling (aka ceiling plates), you could have a high BW bidirectional infra-red network from overhead to desk. In fact, with a few bidirectional emitters you might cover the office very well with even less intrusion, http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2012/october/wireless-data-at-top-speed.html
With IR reflectivity on all surfaces, coverage will come easy. The surface could look different at visible wavelengths for aesthetic reasons.
We pay a varied tax per mile in gas taxes. Larger cars use more gas = more tax. All this will do is make every mile cost the same in tax and remove any incentive to more efficient cars, and electric cars? They can mandate this be built into the car computer with an antenna built into the plastic of the dash. You could cover the antenna area with tinfoil, but then the conflict between the traditional odometer and the GPS one would make them wonder how you were able to travel so far underground?
All part of the same voracious tax grab mentality that has been wrecking Europe for decades
Back in the 1800's, in the USA/Canada you could stake a 16 hectare claim(more or less, acres etc) and it was your patent land surface a mineral rights forever. The land cost nothing to keep, so craft people staked and staked and staked and in time had all the good land. They did nothing, but if you worked it, you earned half the gold etc. This egregious abuse led to a renewal fee and work requirement. In Quebec, the 16 hectares costs $53 to stake and every 2 years you pay the $53 again (this fee escalates with inflation). Before the 2 years elapses, you must perform $1200 worth of work. If you fail to do the work or pay the fee, the land reverts to the government and in 30 days they allow it to be staked again - you must wait 60 days.
So if they do this, for the same 16 hectare plots and the same work, if Bigelow grabs large tracts = large fees, and he is nor rich enough to grab the whole moon which 37.9 million square KM or 3,790 Billion Hectares or 237 billion 16 Hectare claims times $1200 = $284 trillion to renew every 2 years (choke). So let him stake a little land, and others can stake other areas
They did a reasonable job in making a movie just under 2 hours. Those who have read the book know how it has been reduced - as it would take about 20 hours to do a good job in a movie. That said, those that have read the book can see the film in an understandable manner. Those who have not read the book will have large gaps in their comprehension.
Twas ever thus, in making films from books. If you have ever read a James Bond text only movie script, you will see a 30-40 page book, while the source novels are a lot larger - but not huge.
I think the problem is film is limited to a pace of human scale and time frames, books are not.
I would like to see the time period for free access go to zero, as fast as it can by government edict. After all, they started at 12 months in 2008 - why not decrease the wait time from 2008 by one month per year = now 7 months to zero.
Yes, new technology at the time. WW1 resulted in a huge effort to stamp out radio amateur use. Before radio, countries controlled borders to control spies. Then along comes radio - a spy can site in the middle of France and send data to his German spymaster, so all countries in europe brought out draconian controls on radio. Licences, fees, radio permits etc.
These controls killed a lot of radio research and amateur radio in the UK and Europe. Even colleges had to have years in applications etc to get to set up labs and teach it.
So this was not done in the USA, because then the Atlantic was a barrier you could not cross. So the USA was far less regulated, and by 1925 it had passed Europe and the UK and became the world leaders in radio, and never lost it.
Ah, but they do not broadcast. They have been asked to mount an antenna within the free broadcast field of the station. That signal is then received by the client, AND NO ONE ELSE.
No, it is you that do not get it. This much like the so called 'gray market' laws where companies make stuff in China and sell in the USA for $10 each and in India for $1 each - same stuff. An Indian imports to the USA with his $1 buy and sells below the 'official' product.
They want to say that the product we gave away for free over here can not be seen by someone who comes here - via Aireo antennas - I think not.
As I understand it, Aereo erects grids of small antennas in a strong signal area, each antenna belongs to one subscriber who is the onkly one who watches that feed. Americans have, for well over 100 years erected antennas on high points so people in the radi0/TV shadow, or out of range by distance can hear/see the radio and TV transmissions. Many of these were group efforts for towns to get reception over mountains etc. The courts have seen this and ruled on it, so now they are asked to make illegal a practice with well over 100 years of legal use? I think not
Yes, easy meat, low hanging fruit as they say - I say it is an officer not doing his duty. The law is an ass in this case, the guiding principal is that people should not drive cars AND use these phones. These people have come to a full stop = they are not driving.
Microsoft, and Blackberry saw the Apple train start 5 years ago, not going my way they said, and ignored it. They both should have started crash programs to understand and catch up.
Then they heard a noise, looked up, and the train was aimed at them and they could not get out of the way, and the 5 years was wasted.
Apple seems to have a better way of making decisions early in the game, of allowing ideas to gather resources internally and have groups kick ideas around and build them up until they can become a viable product. This is not easy. Apple might have had hundreds of ideas that they think-tanked and killed off, but at least they had the ideas. Google is a lot like this as well.
I get the impression that new ideas have a hard time gathering headway in Microsoft, that petty corporate politics determines if an idea is good or bad and not the intrinsic merits of the idea, so good ideas are starved of resources and destroyed and the bad ideas of the favorites are fed resources, which go to waste.
How can Microsoft change? Hard to say?, those in power will cling to it. They need a new board that does not cling to useless cronies for too long - look how long that drone Ballmer stayed on top, killing one good idea after another. How do I know this? I do not know for sure, but since all the ideas that came out of their stable were duds, the good ones must have been head shot early on.
I am going to patent a screw-your-buddies software package that divides the bill up among me and my friends in such a way that I pay zero, and they do not know it...;)
What happens if 7 of a group of 8 people have the software ?, would the one guy paying the whole bill plus tip figure it out?
Can this be applied to votes? Oh, it already is....
That reminds me of the sign Wile E Coyote - Super Genius.... I feel comments have great potential value in allowing the topic to evolve and can take it in new superiors directions. That said, comment moderation is needed to eliminate trolls. Troll IP addresses should be tracked and once a troll is confirmed, he can get auto deleted or even barred from the topic as long as it is confirmmed he/she authors only crap. It takes a smart moderator to winnow the wheat from the chaff. Some entry creds are needed to weed out trollmods - volunteers who crave power. This means a parallel to the normal academic process of publication followed by letters to the writer and follow on publication, but on a vastly accelerated form that can only be done online. It may be labor intensive? Where will valuable volunteers come from? Journals already have trouble getting learned critical commentators - will it work online?
Read the V-K test is a story artifact, there is no such test, nor has there been need for one. That said, and method to test made people from real people is a natural step, assuming 9 nines DNA copying so DNA tests will not figure them out? In addition, it is becoming obvious that the mind of man is a hierarchical arrangement of various mental centers. There may be ways to test these by vocal or physical stimulus. In addition, to find out what makes a brilliant person - each one of these tuned to that end result, bear in mind that a tuned athlete will differ from a trained physics guy.
Of course, if you implant 16 fertilized human eggs in a cows uterus - will there be enough mammalian similarity that they will implant and grow into humans with no detrimental aspects coming from the cow via nutrition, hormones and DNA switches not set right? Might be a good way to raise armies?
Yes, the concept of an inhibitory race is an elegant way for this to work. As a retired engineer, outside of my area, I am not familiar with many of these terms, however, I see the emergence of a functional basic AI capable of passing the Turing test as imminent. The test procedure envisioned in Blade Runner is a discerning Turing Test, and I am sure the AI deniers will emerge to try and put humans first?
How does the circuit discriminate? I have seen the auditory time delay used to locate a direction in direction finding - this allows an animal to look at a sound source and use head angle change to create intersectin arcs to locate in both polar and horizontal directions.
If we have two(for simplicity) levels that are a decision point, with more impulses coming to one than the other, if both axon potentials are the same, how does one input have the greater weighting?
not as we know FM radio. It seems that the initial signal decays and if another one arrives before it has decayed to zero, then the baseline is raised and with more and more frequent inputs that level is raised until it reaches the required level to trigger the next stage of the process. I have read that these processes all vary in their decay time and the level needed - I imagine that critical survival items would have a lower threshhold - fly flies, frog leaps, man balances etc. I suspect that all these links are slowly examined by detailed research on assorted animal nerves, with occasional chances to confirm in the human model through accidents etc.
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Yes, all things we buy are metered.
From their listed costs per cabinet, it appears they bought current gear, and current gear is upgradeable via slide in replacement trays.A cursory search shows plenty of competitions. A small co-op would need advice, or they might get suckered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer
https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=cr&ei=gYbcUvnGHIbhyQGO7oAg#q=DSL++cabinet+provisioning+
http://www.zhone.com/products/MALC/
ftp://ftp.zyxel.nl/SAM1316-22/datasheet/SAM1316-22_4.pdf
http://www.ecitele.com/OurOffering/Products/Pages/DSL-Voice-Access.aspx
A rural co-op is owned by the subscribers - is it not? There is no corporate profit. Just the equipment and cost of wages and wiring and tech stuff.
1057 customers, and a build cost of about $3 million = $3000 per customer. This stuff gets obsolete in 5 years or less = buy more, scrap the old = $600 per customer per year = $50 per month each. Thed add electricity, maintenance, tech support, new installs.
They then get the FCC grants which have shrunk a bit (Since 2009, he says, the FCC has decreased access charges by $285,004 and Universal Funding by $282,228, for a total of $566,232 or $531.68 per customer. The decrease is expected to continue. During the same timeframe internet demand has grown by 1,000 percent.)
(He goes on to explain that EBTC has 1,057 customers as of Dec. 31, 2013, and serves a 165- mile area. That means customer density is roughly seven customers per square mile.)
This looks like the typical problem that Canada, Australia and a lot of rural America face = low density of subscribers.
Do they share all cost equally?, or do they try to charge proportionally?
They have the classic small town bind.
If you get a densely built area of apartment houses that can be fully fibered, costs per megabyte can be very low, but not here. If they want the high speed, they must make some overpay (those who use only 5 meg per month), or get some proportional pricing.
With a large corporation, they could over charge the dense cities and subsidize the country sides.
Well, you must be seated. Move around and the time will settle to a value...
China bought the vacuum stage, no wonder they look similar....;)
These hydrates or clathrates are not ionic or co-valently bonded.
They are looser associations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_compound
$300 million? Looks like payola to me, how can they possibly spend that much?
Someone in another country can easily setup a multivariate look-up grid of the kind 23andMe uses to show how various genetic patterns correlate to various aspects of your health or intelligence.. In fact 23andMe can open source their method and many people will provide this service, some for free, some for fee.
I assume a cable hangs from the tray to the desktop? I suggest adding some climbing vines, with pots, so it looks natural. You can also add a few spider monkeys to go up and down the cables, and their poop will fertilize the vines after you scrape it off everything??
The basic problem with trays is the cable from tray to desk.
If you used a dropped ceiling (aka ceiling plates), you could have a high BW bidirectional infra-red network from overhead to desk. In fact, with a few bidirectional emitters you might cover the office very well with even less intrusion, http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2012/october/wireless-data-at-top-speed.html
With IR reflectivity on all surfaces, coverage will come easy. The surface could look different at visible wavelengths for aesthetic reasons.
We pay a varied tax per mile in gas taxes. Larger cars use more gas = more tax. All this will do is make every mile cost the same in tax and remove any incentive to more efficient cars, and electric cars?
They can mandate this be built into the car computer with an antenna built into the plastic of the dash. You could cover the antenna area with tinfoil, but then the conflict between the traditional odometer and the GPS one would make them wonder how you were able to travel so far underground?
All part of the same voracious tax grab mentality that has been wrecking Europe for decades
Back in the 1800's, in the USA/Canada you could stake a 16 hectare claim(more or less, acres etc) and it was your patent land surface a mineral rights forever.
The land cost nothing to keep, so craft people staked and staked and staked and in time had all the good land. They did nothing, but if you worked it, you earned half the gold etc.
This egregious abuse led to a renewal fee and work requirement.
In Quebec, the 16 hectares costs $53 to stake and every 2 years you pay the $53 again (this fee escalates with inflation). Before the 2 years elapses, you must perform $1200 worth of work. If you fail to do the work or pay the fee, the land reverts to the government and in 30 days they allow it to be staked again - you must wait 60 days.
So if they do this, for the same 16 hectare plots and the same work, if Bigelow grabs large tracts = large fees, and he is nor rich enough to grab the whole moon which 37.9 million square KM or 3,790 Billion Hectares or 237 billion 16 Hectare claims times $1200 = $284 trillion to renew every 2 years (choke). So let him stake a little land, and others can stake other areas
They did a reasonable job in making a movie just under 2 hours. Those who have read the book know how it has been reduced - as it would take about 20 hours to do a good job in a movie.
That said, those that have read the book can see the film in an understandable manner. Those who have not read the book will have large gaps in their comprehension.
Twas ever thus, in making films from books. If you have ever read a James Bond text only movie script, you will see a 30-40 page book, while the source novels are a lot larger - but not huge.
I think the problem is film is limited to a pace of human scale and time frames, books are not.
I would like to see the time period for free access go to zero, as fast as it can by government edict.
After all, they started at 12 months in 2008 - why not decrease the wait time from 2008 by one month per year = now 7 months to zero.
That will give journals time to adjust.
Yes, new technology at the time. WW1 resulted in a huge effort to stamp out radio amateur use. Before radio, countries controlled borders to control spies. Then along comes radio - a spy can site in the middle of France and send data to his German spymaster, so all countries in europe brought out draconian controls on radio. Licences, fees, radio permits etc.
These controls killed a lot of radio research and amateur radio in the UK and Europe. Even colleges had to have years in applications etc to get to set up labs and teach it.
So this was not done in the USA, because then the Atlantic was a barrier you could not cross. So the USA was far less regulated, and by 1925 it had passed Europe and the UK and became the world leaders in radio, and never lost it.
Ah, but they do not broadcast. They have been asked to mount an antenna within the free broadcast field of the station. That signal is then received by the client, AND NO ONE ELSE.
No, it is you that do not get it. This much like the so called 'gray market' laws where companies make stuff in China and sell in the USA for $10 each and in India for $1 each - same stuff. An Indian imports to the USA with his $1 buy and sells below the 'official' product.
They want to say that the product we gave away for free over here can not be seen by someone who comes here - via Aireo antennas - I think not.
BTW, who pays your salary?
As I understand it, Aereo erects grids of small antennas in a strong signal area, each antenna belongs to one subscriber who is the onkly one who watches that feed. Americans have, for well over 100 years erected antennas on high points so people in the radi0/TV shadow, or out of range by distance can hear/see the radio and TV transmissions. Many of these were group efforts for towns to get reception over mountains etc.
The courts have seen this and ruled on it, so now they are asked to make illegal a practice with well over 100 years of legal use?
I think not
Yes, easy meat, low hanging fruit as they say - I say it is an officer not doing his duty. The law is an ass in this case, the guiding principal is that people should not drive cars AND use these phones. These people have come to a full stop = they are not driving.
Microsoft, and Blackberry saw the Apple train start 5 years ago, not going my way they said, and ignored it.
They both should have started crash programs to understand and catch up.
Then they heard a noise, looked up, and the train was aimed at them and they could not get out of the way, and the 5 years was wasted.
Apple seems to have a better way of making decisions early in the game, of allowing ideas to gather resources internally and have groups kick ideas around and build them up until they can become a viable product. This is not easy. Apple might have had hundreds of ideas that they think-tanked and killed off, but at least they had the ideas. Google is a lot like this as well.
I get the impression that new ideas have a hard time gathering headway in Microsoft, that petty corporate politics determines if an idea is good or bad and not the intrinsic merits of the idea, so good ideas are starved of resources and destroyed and the bad ideas of the favorites are fed resources, which go to waste.
How can Microsoft change? Hard to say?, those in power will cling to it. They need a new board that does not cling to useless cronies for too long - look how long that drone Ballmer stayed on top, killing one good idea after another. How do I know this? I do not know for sure, but since all the ideas that came out of their stable were duds, the good ones must have been head shot early on.
I am going to patent a screw-your-buddies software package that divides the bill up among me and my friends in such a way that I pay zero, and they do not know it...;)
What happens if 7 of a group of 8 people have the software ?, would the one guy paying the whole bill plus tip figure it out?
Can this be applied to votes? Oh, it already is....
That reminds me of the sign Wile E Coyote - Super Genius....
I feel comments have great potential value in allowing the topic to evolve and can take it in new superiors directions. That said, comment moderation is needed to eliminate trolls. Troll IP addresses should be tracked and once a troll is confirmed, he can get auto deleted or even barred from the topic as long as it is confirmmed he/she authors only crap. It takes a smart moderator to winnow the wheat from the chaff. Some entry creds are needed to weed out trollmods - volunteers who crave power.
This means a parallel to the normal academic process of publication followed by letters to the writer and follow on publication, but on a vastly accelerated form that can only be done online. It may be labor intensive? Where will valuable volunteers come from? Journals already have trouble getting learned critical commentators - will it work online?
Microsoft = Kodak, died a long time ago, but scattered brains kept it moving until the rot made it fall down and the flies got at it...
Read the V-K test is a story artifact, there is no such test, nor has there been need for one. That said, and method to test made people from real people is a natural step, assuming 9 nines DNA copying so DNA tests will not figure them out? In addition, it is becoming obvious that the mind of man is a hierarchical arrangement of various mental centers. There may be ways to test these by vocal or physical stimulus. In addition, to find out what makes a brilliant person - each one of these tuned to that end result, bear in mind that a tuned athlete will differ from a trained physics guy.
Of course, if you implant 16 fertilized human eggs in a cows uterus - will there be enough mammalian similarity that they will implant and grow into humans with no detrimental aspects coming from the cow via nutrition, hormones and DNA switches not set right? Might be a good way to raise armies?
Yes, the concept of an inhibitory race is an elegant way for this to work.
As a retired engineer, outside of my area, I am not familiar with many of these terms, however, I see the emergence of a functional basic AI capable of passing the Turing test as imminent.
The test procedure envisioned in Blade Runner is a discerning Turing Test, and I am sure the AI deniers will emerge to try and put humans first?
How does the circuit discriminate? I have seen the auditory time delay used to locate a direction in direction finding - this allows an animal to look at a sound source and use head angle change to create intersectin arcs to locate in both polar and horizontal directions.
If we have two(for simplicity) levels that are a decision point, with more impulses coming to one than the other, if both axon potentials are the same, how does one input have the greater weighting?
not as we know FM radio. It seems that the initial signal decays and if another one arrives before it has decayed to zero, then the baseline is raised and with more and more frequent inputs that level is raised until it reaches the required level to trigger the next stage of the process. I have read that these processes all vary in their decay time and the level needed - I imagine that critical survival items would have a lower threshhold - fly flies, frog leaps, man balances etc.
I suspect that all these links are slowly examined by detailed research on assorted animal nerves, with occasional chances to confirm in the human model through accidents etc.