You do realize that you are emphasizing, not contradicting my point.
n previous topics on slashdot about this (I believe it was about Swedish or Finland broadband) and they had a better spread for broadband coverage. Believe it or not, not everyone in Europe lives beside each other. There are mountains and rural people and in fact there are naturally fewer people in these rural areas yet they're more likely to have decent broadband.
how is this different from me saying:
Well, I remember living in Austria 10 years ago, and many places charged per megabyte. Broadband penetration at the time was EXTREAMELY limited. Why? Because its freakin hard and expensive to run fiber through those mountains.
However, the entire country of Austria is the size of the state of Maryland, with half its population living in Vienna.
1) That was 10 years ago, 2) where do you think the other half of people in Austria live? The population of Austria is 8 million, half live in vienna. I can guarentee that the population of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Graz and Linz (sp?) do not make up the other 4 million.
My parents live less than a mile away from the last house with DSL. It's been that way for ages so they like everyone else are stuck with dial-up and on lines that verizon isn't all that bothered about maintaining so people can have reasonable dial-up connections.
EXACTLY my point, unless they live in the suburbs. I am sure that if your parents wanted to cough up several grand, Verizon would be happy to upgrade the lines in their area. Of course, at that point, it is much cheaper to just get HughesNet, although it looks like they cap out at 2mbps.
True, but this brings up another issue - population density on over-saturated lines. There is already fiber running down into the areas you mentioned, but the bandwidth is unable to keep up with the total number of users on the network. Now, the question is, does running ADDITIONAL fiber to double or triple the capacity over these distances equal the amount of users needed. While you need longer distances to stretch to North Dakota, you need a fatter pipe to go from New York to Boston or Chicago or DC. This also costs money.
Question is, does a company want to invest billions of dollars to increase bandwidth in these areas to offer 40+mbps speeds to more customers, when the average customer is happy with their $19.95 a month 768k DSL? Yes, if they offer higher bandwidth, quite a few people will jump on it, but will the increase in subscribers to higher speed tiers offset the costs of additional fiber?
That is really a bad example. 1/5th of the population of Finland lives in helsinki. I can guarentee you that not 1/5th the population of the US live in New York City, no matter what Hollywood has lead you to believe. The area of Finland is also 338k square kilometers. The state of Texas alone is 696k square kilometers - over TWICE the size of Finland. That is ONE STATE! So please do not state that population density has nothing to do with it when you are comparing a country that is not even as big as a state to the entire US. I can pretty much GUARENTEE that Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas are about the size of two or three Nordic countries, yet their combined population is not even that of one of your countries.
Well, I remember living in Austria 10 years ago, and many places charged per megabyte. Broadband penetration at the time was EXTREAMELY limited. Why? Because its freakin hard and expensive to run fiber through those mountains.
However, the entire country of Austria is the size of the state of Maryland, with half its population living in Vienna. Germany is the size of Montana, and Switzerland is just slightly bigger than Austria, but not as big as Germany. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland can all fit inside the state of Texas, and still have room for Luxemburg and a few other small countries.
Shoot, the entire CONTINENT of Europe is only 2/3rds the size of the CONTINENTAL US, yet the population is about equal to Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined.
What does this mean? The population of the US is way more spread out than the rest of the world.
Shoot, remember how I said that Germany was the size of Montana? Look at the population difference, Germany, roughly 80 million in 2000, Montana, roughly 500,000 in 2000.
Remember those costs that I mentioned earlier about Austria complaining about the costs of running fiber through those mountains? I wonder what the cost is to run fiber out to Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and how much it would cost to run broadband to each of those users homes. Pretty sure it won't be offset by paying $19.95 a month for service.
I am sorry, but there is a perfectly good reason that the AVERAGE speed of broadband in the US is not the same as the AVERAGE speed of broadband in the rest of the world.
In our defense, Russia is just barely above us, China, Canada, Mexico, India and Brazil are below us. What a concept - big countries with a lot of area rank low on the list! Gee, I wonder why?
People (and ISPs) are never going to switch to IPv6 if it does not affect them directly. If a major website, such as Yahoo, makes the move, then the ISPs will be forced to update, or loose customers. If only Youtube and Facebook would follow suit....
Why do places think they can work people 50-60 hour weeks and pay them like they are working 40 hour weeks? Ask for time and a half for all hours worked over 40 hours, double time if you go over 50 hours, and if you work more than ten hours a day, the company has to provide at least one meal a day to employees. You also need to ask for profit sharing or stock options. Worst case scenario is comp-time, but I would only bring that up if they shoot down everything else.
If you are asking your employees to work longer hours without compensation, you are going to get burned out employees, and you start experiencing the Law of Diminishing returns (if he is a business major, he will understand this concept). Shoot, you will get this even if you do compensate after a while. Burned out employees lead to stupid mistakes being made, and bugs poping into your products, which could lead to higher costs down the road during your debugging sessions.
True, but 1) no one else trademarked "Windows", and 2) the trademark would state that no one else could call their system Windows, but they can still use the generic word, as in "multiple windows on a desktop" or a "windowed graphical operating enviornment". Just because Microsoft has trademarked the word "Windows" doesn't mean that Apple tech support cannot tell a user to open a new window on their computer.
The question is, does the metal strip need to be there? I mean, it sounds like a quick fix would be to get out some handy-dandy metal cutter and cut the strip. Yeah, it might make the inside look like crap, but no one is going to see the inside, as the cover will be on the case. So, cut out the metal strip, leaving the hooks, and problem should go away.
'It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence.' "
Because you know the details on Google Street View are just SO good that we could even tell you had underwear on the line. Shoot, TFA says that she lived in an apartment building. I mean, was there a pixilated blur in the background or something? And if she REALLY had a problem with this, all she had to do was file a complaint with Google. TFA actually says that Google had already replaced the image by the time she filed the lawsuit.
Yeah, I combined with a few trees and am back to 121AD. Pretty darn good considering I only had info back to around 1750 on one side and 1850 on the other. Problem with Geni is, if your tree starts getting too large, it stops showing you the links you have with certain people unless you choose the pay option.
But I started out on Ancestory, attached all my records and stuff, so it only took me about a month, exported to GedCom, imported into GENI, and disabled my Ancestory account, then use Geni's social networking thingy to combine trees. Its awesome!
Basically, Ancestory got me started, Geni helped me to continue. Ancestory is a great place to start, though, and found them much more helpful than the Mormons.
Obviously you are not familer with what other companies charge for these speeds. Check around. Many companies charge anywhere from $300 a month up to $1000 a month or more for a business-fiber 100Mbps line (of course, that is 100 up as well). Shoot, T1s cost about that much in some areas. $195 a month for 150down/35 up is going to be a deal for many companies who need a lot of speed.
She also said Mass transit. Does this mean they are going to put a scanner and a security guard at every single bus stop and light rail stop along the way? Many cities I know already operate their mass-transit systems at a loss. And you would HAVE to put them on every stop on the line, otherwise, these would be pointless. So, stop six along the line that may have 20 people a day pass through it would need its own body scanner? Brilliant!
Now you could argue that you could actually put said scanner on the door of the bus / light rail. This might be cheaper, but still, I don't see how you could justify the cost.
And do you really want to pat down the crazy homeless man who is soaked in his own urine?
I might be the special need, but yes, I do. The reason is because I have my PC hooked into my entertainment center. The last time I bought a motherboard, I could not find one with the socket and memory type I wanted that also had a digital-output for the sound on the motherboard. I finally just picked up a used Turtle Beach off Amazon, and now I got surround from my computer again.
Let me get this straight, you want us to sacrifice valuable RAM slots, and more so, valuable RAM, to run an SSD device? What would make more sense would be to have a completely seperate 1U unit hooked up to the unit with nothing but SSD devices (or hard drives). Wait, don't they already have those?
Likely priced outside the realm for average consumers,
I also doubt the average consumer will want these. With most consumer motherboards only supporting two or four slots of RAM, I REALLY don't see sacrificing ram slots for SSD. Especially when they top out at, what, 128gig? I just bought a 2TB harddrive for $94. I mean, I guess I could put a single 4gig memory chip in my machine and three of these, but this gives me, what, like 378 gig of space?
The camera will take a still picture every minute for one year, and the best shots will be put on display at a new museum in Qatar. Visitors can also watch a live stream of images from the camera which has some NYU administrators and faculty worried about student privacy.
does this mean I have to go to the musuem to see the stream, or is there a website? Seriously, no uStream link?
Seriously, why does Verizon have an abuse department if they do not deal with, well, abuse? And I have seen this all to often, in Newsgroups, in forums, etc. It seems that all e-mail going to abuse@bigisp.net seems to go directly into a Delete All folder. I'm not asking ISPs to police their own networks, please don't, but if abuse of your network is brought to your attention, then the ISP should take action. Now, if the ISP refuses, than the website / service should block users from that ISP. Especially if its a big site, it could actually bring attention to this issue. Imagine if Wikipedia, Facebook and Youtube all blocked Verizon from accessing their sties because they will not address abuse.Customers would be leaving by the millions, which might force the ISP to take some action.
I'll take it one step futher - why get rid of Windows 7? You already have licenses, probably already have some patch deployment method in place, and your users are probably happy and familer with it. There is going to be a ZERO cost benefit of going from Windows to Linux because the company ALREADY HAS licenses. Now, if you are talking about bringing in future people, and in future computer purchaces, going open source, that is different.
All going from Windows to Linux is going to do is frustrate users, and going from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice is yet ANOTHER new Office product they have to use. You will have to incure a cost of training users, and suffer from a temporary loss in productivity while the users learn the new system. In other words, converting from Windows 7 to Linux will probably ADD costs, not save them. On top of that, you would have to incure the costs of reimaging your entire Windows user base, and backing up user data, then porting it over to Linux.
I say, stick with Exchange - your department has already sunk money into it, and leave your Windows users alone. Your solutions are going to COSTS money, not save it.
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You do realize that you are emphasizing, not contradicting my point.
n previous topics on slashdot about this (I believe it was about Swedish or Finland broadband) and they had a better spread for broadband coverage. Believe it or not, not everyone in Europe lives beside each other. There are mountains and rural people and in fact there are naturally fewer people in these rural areas yet they're more likely to have decent broadband.
how is this different from me saying:
Well, I remember living in Austria 10 years ago, and many places charged per megabyte. Broadband penetration at the time was EXTREAMELY limited. Why? Because its freakin hard and expensive to run fiber through those mountains.
However, the entire country of Austria is the size of the state of Maryland, with half its population living in Vienna.
1) That was 10 years ago, 2) where do you think the other half of people in Austria live? The population of Austria is 8 million, half live in vienna. I can guarentee that the population of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Graz and Linz (sp?) do not make up the other 4 million.
My parents live less than a mile away from the last house with DSL. It's been that way for ages so they like everyone else are stuck with dial-up and on lines that verizon isn't all that bothered about maintaining so people can have reasonable dial-up connections.
EXACTLY my point, unless they live in the suburbs. I am sure that if your parents wanted to cough up several grand, Verizon would be happy to upgrade the lines in their area. Of course, at that point, it is much cheaper to just get HughesNet, although it looks like they cap out at 2mbps.
True, but this brings up another issue - population density on over-saturated lines. There is already fiber running down into the areas you mentioned, but the bandwidth is unable to keep up with the total number of users on the network. Now, the question is, does running ADDITIONAL fiber to double or triple the capacity over these distances equal the amount of users needed. While you need longer distances to stretch to North Dakota, you need a fatter pipe to go from New York to Boston or Chicago or DC. This also costs money.
Question is, does a company want to invest billions of dollars to increase bandwidth in these areas to offer 40+mbps speeds to more customers, when the average customer is happy with their $19.95 a month 768k DSL? Yes, if they offer higher bandwidth, quite a few people will jump on it, but will the increase in subscribers to higher speed tiers offset the costs of additional fiber?
That is really a bad example. 1/5th of the population of Finland lives in helsinki. I can guarentee you that not 1/5th the population of the US live in New York City, no matter what Hollywood has lead you to believe. The area of Finland is also 338k square kilometers. The state of Texas alone is 696k square kilometers - over TWICE the size of Finland. That is ONE STATE! So please do not state that population density has nothing to do with it when you are comparing a country that is not even as big as a state to the entire US. I can pretty much GUARENTEE that Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas are about the size of two or three Nordic countries, yet their combined population is not even that of one of your countries.
Well, I remember living in Austria 10 years ago, and many places charged per megabyte. Broadband penetration at the time was EXTREAMELY limited. Why? Because its freakin hard and expensive to run fiber through those mountains.
However, the entire country of Austria is the size of the state of Maryland, with half its population living in Vienna. Germany is the size of Montana, and Switzerland is just slightly bigger than Austria, but not as big as Germany. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland can all fit inside the state of Texas, and still have room for Luxemburg and a few other small countries.
Shoot, the entire CONTINENT of Europe is only 2/3rds the size of the CONTINENTAL US, yet the population is about equal to Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined.
What does this mean? The population of the US is way more spread out than the rest of the world.
Shoot, remember how I said that Germany was the size of Montana? Look at the population difference, Germany, roughly 80 million in 2000, Montana, roughly 500,000 in 2000.
Remember those costs that I mentioned earlier about Austria complaining about the costs of running fiber through those mountains? I wonder what the cost is to run fiber out to Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and how much it would cost to run broadband to each of those users homes. Pretty sure it won't be offset by paying $19.95 a month for service.
I am sorry, but there is a perfectly good reason that the AVERAGE speed of broadband in the US is not the same as the AVERAGE speed of broadband in the rest of the world.
In our defense, Russia is just barely above us, China, Canada, Mexico, India and Brazil are below us. What a concept - big countries with a lot of area rank low on the list! Gee, I wonder why?
People (and ISPs) are never going to switch to IPv6 if it does not affect them directly. If a major website, such as Yahoo, makes the move, then the ISPs will be forced to update, or loose customers. If only Youtube and Facebook would follow suit....
http://livecams-iphone.com/
There are others, but I have found this one to be the best
Why do places think they can work people 50-60 hour weeks and pay them like they are working 40 hour weeks? Ask for time and a half for all hours worked over 40 hours, double time if you go over 50 hours, and if you work more than ten hours a day, the company has to provide at least one meal a day to employees. You also need to ask for profit sharing or stock options. Worst case scenario is comp-time, but I would only bring that up if they shoot down everything else.
If you are asking your employees to work longer hours without compensation, you are going to get burned out employees, and you start experiencing the Law of Diminishing returns (if he is a business major, he will understand this concept). Shoot, you will get this even if you do compensate after a while. Burned out employees lead to stupid mistakes being made, and bugs poping into your products, which could lead to higher costs down the road during your debugging sessions.
True, but 1) no one else trademarked "Windows", and 2) the trademark would state that no one else could call their system Windows, but they can still use the generic word, as in "multiple windows on a desktop" or a "windowed graphical operating enviornment". Just because Microsoft has trademarked the word "Windows" doesn't mean that Apple tech support cannot tell a user to open a new window on their computer.
Obviously you have never bought music by Ever Anime or Son May.
http://stason.org/TULARC/art/anime-music/24-Are-Son-May-Ever-Anime-Cds-Bootlegs.html
They were just about the only way to get Japanese CDs in the US for a while, but you can now order discs from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%83J%83%5E%83J%83i&url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=sailor+moon&x=0&y=0
Sadly, even with as much as Amazon discounts stuff, Ever Anime discs are usually still cheaper.
Wow, am I ever shopping at the wrong places! :-)
The question is, does the metal strip need to be there? I mean, it sounds like a quick fix would be to get out some handy-dandy metal cutter and cut the strip. Yeah, it might make the inside look like crap, but no one is going to see the inside, as the cover will be on the case. So, cut out the metal strip, leaving the hooks, and problem should go away.
'It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence.' "
Because you know the details on Google Street View are just SO good that we could even tell you had underwear on the line. Shoot, TFA says that she lived in an apartment building. I mean, was there a pixilated blur in the background or something? And if she REALLY had a problem with this, all she had to do was file a complaint with Google. TFA actually says that Google had already replaced the image by the time she filed the lawsuit.
Yeah, I combined with a few trees and am back to 121AD. Pretty darn good considering I only had info back to around 1750 on one side and 1850 on the other. Problem with Geni is, if your tree starts getting too large, it stops showing you the links you have with certain people unless you choose the pay option.
But I started out on Ancestory, attached all my records and stuff, so it only took me about a month, exported to GedCom, imported into GENI, and disabled my Ancestory account, then use Geni's social networking thingy to combine trees. Its awesome!
Basically, Ancestory got me started, Geni helped me to continue. Ancestory is a great place to start, though, and found them much more helpful than the Mormons.
Obviously you are not familer with what other companies charge for these speeds. Check around. Many companies charge anywhere from $300 a month up to $1000 a month or more for a business-fiber 100Mbps line (of course, that is 100 up as well). Shoot, T1s cost about that much in some areas. $195 a month for 150down/35 up is going to be a deal for many companies who need a lot of speed.
She also said Mass transit. Does this mean they are going to put a scanner and a security guard at every single bus stop and light rail stop along the way? Many cities I know already operate their mass-transit systems at a loss. And you would HAVE to put them on every stop on the line, otherwise, these would be pointless. So, stop six along the line that may have 20 people a day pass through it would need its own body scanner? Brilliant!
Now you could argue that you could actually put said scanner on the door of the bus / light rail. This might be cheaper, but still, I don't see how you could justify the cost.
And do you really want to pat down the crazy homeless man who is soaked in his own urine?
I might be the special need, but yes, I do. The reason is because I have my PC hooked into my entertainment center. The last time I bought a motherboard, I could not find one with the socket and memory type I wanted that also had a digital-output for the sound on the motherboard. I finally just picked up a used Turtle Beach off Amazon, and now I got surround from my computer again.
Let me get this straight, you want us to sacrifice valuable RAM slots, and more so, valuable RAM, to run an SSD device? What would make more sense would be to have a completely seperate 1U unit hooked up to the unit with nothing but SSD devices (or hard drives). Wait, don't they already have those?
Likely priced outside the realm for average consumers,
I also doubt the average consumer will want these. With most consumer motherboards only supporting two or four slots of RAM, I REALLY don't see sacrificing ram slots for SSD. Especially when they top out at, what, 128gig? I just bought a 2TB harddrive for $94. I mean, I guess I could put a single 4gig memory chip in my machine and three of these, but this gives me, what, like 378 gig of space?
The camera will take a still picture every minute for one year, and the best shots will be put on display at a new museum in Qatar. Visitors can also watch a live stream of images from the camera which has some NYU administrators and faculty worried about student privacy.
does this mean I have to go to the musuem to see the stream, or is there a website? Seriously, no uStream link?
Hence why you phase it in when you do refreshes and reimages.
Seriously, why does Verizon have an abuse department if they do not deal with, well, abuse? And I have seen this all to often, in Newsgroups, in forums, etc. It seems that all e-mail going to abuse@bigisp.net seems to go directly into a Delete All folder. I'm not asking ISPs to police their own networks, please don't, but if abuse of your network is brought to your attention, then the ISP should take action. Now, if the ISP refuses, than the website / service should block users from that ISP. Especially if its a big site, it could actually bring attention to this issue. Imagine if Wikipedia, Facebook and Youtube all blocked Verizon from accessing their sties because they will not address abuse.Customers would be leaving by the millions, which might force the ISP to take some action.
You are, of course, assuming that electric companies in said country are privately owned and not government ran.
Yes, but last I heard, the US was not a member of the world courts, therefore, what would they care what the Hague says.
I'll take it one step futher - why get rid of Windows 7? You already have licenses, probably already have some patch deployment method in place, and your users are probably happy and familer with it. There is going to be a ZERO cost benefit of going from Windows to Linux because the company ALREADY HAS licenses. Now, if you are talking about bringing in future people, and in future computer purchaces, going open source, that is different.
All going from Windows to Linux is going to do is frustrate users, and going from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice is yet ANOTHER new Office product they have to use. You will have to incure a cost of training users, and suffer from a temporary loss in productivity while the users learn the new system. In other words, converting from Windows 7 to Linux will probably ADD costs, not save them. On top of that, you would have to incure the costs of reimaging your entire Windows user base, and backing up user data, then porting it over to Linux.
I say, stick with Exchange - your department has already sunk money into it, and leave your Windows users alone. Your solutions are going to COSTS money, not save it.
Prior art in Mexico as well - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327515/posts Please don't tell me the US Military actually spent MONEY to DEVELOPE this technology.
Um, if you are at war with a country, do you really care if you are stealing electricity or now?