Obama is the most conservative president the US has had in the past 30 years, and possibly in all of time. This is exactly in line with everything else he has done to produce more money for the wealthiest Americans while under the conservative guise of "it's good for everyone else too". He has consistently chosen the kinds of fiscally conservative actions that Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Reagan, and Nixon all could only dream about.
It is not completely clear from the headline, but the summary and article would make me guess that this contract was issued by the District of Columbia government not the Obama administration.
This government and administration is the most corrupt, unpatriotic bunch of criminals to ever curse this country. This is even more proof they do not care about America and Americans, only what is cheaper to pass their projects. They will slowly start outsourcing everything while there are competent American firms who could do this even better. When will people wake up and storm the gates?
I think this is the health care exchange for the District of Columbia not one contracted by the federal government. According to the ACA the states (+D.C.) had flexibility on how to implement the state level exchanges.
My state (VA) deferred to the federal government to implement it.
In a free market economy(low barriers to entry) prices should trend towards the marginal cost to produce.
If prices are set too high more people will enter the market and price products below existing levels.
Willingness to pay plays more of a role in early markets and monopoly or price fixing situations.
The fact that ink prices have stayed so high for more than a decade indicates the free market/competition is not fully functional for inkjet printers.
The patents, trade secrets and chip protected cartridges that keep third party cartridges off the market provide barriers to entry preventing open competition.
MS took them to court but they ended up paying to have Lindows change its name. As far as I know that court case was settled with Microsoft paying and Lindows changing its name rather than taken to judgement. There was ample support of the term "windows" being used outside of an MS product with computers
Look at the ubiquity nanostation2. It is an access point/router with a built in directional antenna. Passive PoE.
They are a relatively new product with great specs and price.
http://ubnt.com/products/ns2.php
I have a couple of these and as well as a ubiquity powerstation. The powerstation is a great device but is heavier and more difficult to mount than the nanostation.
Retail is ~$80 each. 15km max range. ~1 lb. weight.
How else do you propose to allocate it? By handing it out to political cronies? By giving it to whichever special interest group squeals the loudest? By letting wireless spectrum be another kind of pork that representatives can fight over? Or you could just leave it unregulated, and give the spectrum to whoever wins the war to have the most powerful transmitter.
As recently as the early 90's spectrum was allocated by lottery not auction. Qualified bidders payed a minimum application and the winner was chosen at random(presumably). I worked for a company that was trying to acquire IVDS (interactive video and data services) spectrum during the transition, some markets went to lottery and some went to auction.
If budget is a concern re-usable cable ties are less expensive than velcro. Harbor freight used to sell a 500 piece box for $9.99.
Get color coded cables, get unique colors for internal network, DMZ, public interfaces, phone lines.
Get the right length cables. Buy them online from a reputable source before building out rack rather than buying off the shelf at the last minute.
Route power cables to one side of cabinet (unless you have redundant power supplies). If you are using a power strip in the rack get a vertical strip that is as tall as will fit in cabinet. Get outlets space 4 or 6 inch on center.
I have one around here somewhere that was made by kensington. Never did work real well under linux but I think it may be a hardware problem. I have not tested it under windows.
I have always been real dissappointed that bluetooth really didn't take over the short range wireless accessory market. Most of the wireless mice/keyboards/headsets I see in the stores come with their own proprietary dongle.
I worked for a company TVAnswer (renamed to Eon) that had wireless 2 way email working probably around 1993-4. It did not predate the NTP patents but it does show that it wasn't such a novel idea that other people did not think of it. It never went full production because the owners of the spectrum did not roll out base station in all markets but we did have very good connectivity in Reston Virginia a few sites in other states and several international cells. (Mexico City)
The Eon implementation used the IVDS spectrum, satellite based cell stations, a local rf link, connected to a handheld Casio Boss PDA (qwerty keyboard). We had direct Internet email addresses for all users.
Some things are worse for Hawaii because the native species are so specialized and evolved with a very limited set of predators. Most/all of the native bird population was ground nesting/dwelling. Rats and Mongoose decimated the native birds.
The climate is so hospitable almost everything introduced thrives. African Chameleons, american anoles, parrots etc all survive and prosper when released in the wild.
attacks on their intellectual property? Can you be more specific?
trademarks? patents? trade secrets?
IP is a broad term that encompasses several completely different things. It would help to understand your point if you used the appropriate term rather than an overbroad catch-all.
actually the remaining portion of the IBM case is mainly about contracts. The single copyright violation claim is about distributing AIX after license was rescinded.
"Number two, Apple is under no obligation to support ANYONE else's DRM, period."
Just like Ford was under no obligation to support someone else's repair shop to keep a car under warranty. That is until Congress realized that the consumers were getting gouged for service at the dealerships.
"Apple is doing nothing legally, technically, ethically, morally or wrong."
Legally maybe not, ethically debatable. You could make the case that it is unethical for a business to try to increase profits by forcing their customers to go back to them rather than provide a service/product that stands on its own merits as a value that consumers are willing to pay for.
They were not "supporting" someone else's DRM. They were not required to do anything else to support users playing Real songs. They probably went out of their way to engineer a a software release that broke a function of the player that was already purchased.(documented/supported or not).
Now their loyal customers are forced into a choice between getting other firmware updates and losing access to their archive of Real Music.
"I am particularly suspicious about this last figure. Do you suppose this is mostly SCOG stock bought in a desperate attempt to bolster the stock price (perhaps at an average price of US$10), grossly overvalued today and incapable of being translated into any significant amount of cash?"
I think the announced stock repurchase plan would only let them buy back from "insiders".
If so that cache of stock was a way to take money away out of the coffers of the company and into individuals pockets.
"In any case, for the near future if you want to run a 64 bit operating system you will either be using one of the free Linux versions"
There are supported linux versions available as well. I know Red Hat and SuSE have released versions supporting the amd64 and I think Mandrake does as well
They are pulling ELF in to court because they are desperate to avoid a ruling on IBMs tenth counterclaim scheduled to be heard on Aug 4th.
This may be a hard sell to the court since they were not a party to the original effort and they can't seem to find any of the documents transferring any rights from old SCO to Caldera/TSG.
We'll see if it staves off the inevitable for a while longer at the aug 4th hearing. The best part is that the more deperate they act the more chance the principals will end up in jail when all of this fraud is exposed.
Actually they also have developed their own programs and sponsored some events. They arranged the location and recovery of the liberty bell space capsule. They followed the search with updates (and chats, i think) on their website.
Maybe the original submitter should try to reach the discovery online people. See if they will follow you around and document it on their website. They could produce a film of the event afterwards.
if you figure it costs the ISP about $20/month/incoming line it is difficult to make money off someone who is online every night thoughout peak usage. When Dialup ISPs first started the rule of thumb was 20-25 customers per line. Not long after you needed 1 line per 8 customers. I would bet it got worse later.
The "abuse" is not the upstream bandwidth it is tying up the line.
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Obama is the most conservative president the US has had in the past 30 years, and possibly in all of time. This is exactly in line with everything else he has done to produce more money for the wealthiest Americans while under the conservative guise of "it's good for everyone else too". He has consistently chosen the kinds of fiscally conservative actions that Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Reagan, and Nixon all could only dream about.
It is not completely clear from the headline, but the summary and article would make me guess that this contract was issued by the District of Columbia government not the Obama administration.
This government and administration is the most corrupt, unpatriotic bunch of criminals to ever curse this country. This is even more proof they do not care about America and Americans, only what is cheaper to pass their projects. They will slowly start outsourcing everything while there are competent American firms who could do this even better. When will people wake up and storm the gates?
I think this is the health care exchange for the District of Columbia not one contracted by the federal government. According to the ACA the states (+D.C.) had flexibility on how to implement the state level exchanges.
My state (VA) deferred to the federal government to implement it.
I start looking here: http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/operators.html
It is a better resource for voice but you can find details on some data prepaid SIMs.
The last trip I took I was able to get a 3g data only SIM with 1gig data allowance good for a month for ~$20. This was Austria
In a free market economy(low barriers to entry) prices should trend towards the marginal cost to produce.
If prices are set too high more people will enter the market and price products below existing levels.
Willingness to pay plays more of a role in early markets and monopoly or price fixing situations.
The fact that ink prices have stayed so high for more than a decade indicates the free market/competition is not fully functional for inkjet printers.
The patents, trade secrets and chip protected cartridges that keep third party cartridges off the market provide barriers to entry preventing open competition.
MS took them to court but they ended up paying to have Lindows change its name. As far as I know that court case was settled with Microsoft paying and Lindows changing its name rather than taken to judgement. There was ample support of the term "windows" being used outside of an MS product with computers
Look at the ubiquity nanostation2. It is an access point/router with a built in directional antenna.
Passive PoE.
They are a relatively new product with great specs and price.
http://ubnt.com/products/ns2.php
I have a couple of these and as well as a ubiquity powerstation. The powerstation is a great device but is heavier and more difficult to mount than the nanostation.
Retail is ~$80 each. 15km max range. ~1 lb. weight.
If budget is a concern re-usable cable ties are less expensive than velcro. Harbor freight used to sell a 500 piece box for $9.99.
Get color coded cables, get unique colors for internal network, DMZ, public interfaces, phone lines.
Get the right length cables. Buy them online from a reputable source before building out rack rather than buying off the shelf at the last minute.
Route power cables to one side of cabinet (unless you have redundant power supplies).
If you are using a power strip in the rack get a vertical strip that is as tall as will fit in cabinet. Get outlets space 4 or 6 inch on center.
I have one around here somewhere that was made by kensington. Never did work real well under linux but I think it may be a hardware problem. I have not tested it under windows.
I have always been real dissappointed that bluetooth really didn't take over the short range wireless accessory market.
Most of the wireless mice/keyboards/headsets I see in the stores come with their own proprietary dongle.
I find it more likely that openlinux.org is a spoof site or it has been compromised.
TSG can't release a new version and avoid problems with IBM counterclaims.
I worked for a company TVAnswer (renamed to Eon) that had wireless 2 way email working probably around 1993-4. It did not predate the NTP patents but it does show that it wasn't such a novel idea that other people did not think of it. It never went full production because the owners of the spectrum did not roll out base station in all markets but we did have very good connectivity in Reston Virginia a few sites in other states and several international cells. (Mexico City)
The Eon implementation used the IVDS spectrum, satellite based cell stations, a local rf link, connected to a handheld Casio Boss PDA (qwerty keyboard). We had direct Internet email addresses for all users.
Chuck
Some things are worse for Hawaii because the native species are so specialized and evolved with a very limited set of predators. Most/all of the native bird population was ground nesting/dwelling. Rats and Mongoose decimated the native birds.
The climate is so hospitable almost everything introduced thrives. African Chameleons, american anoles, parrots etc all survive and prosper when released in the wild.
attacks on their intellectual property?
Can you be more specific?
trademarks?
patents?
trade secrets?
IP is a broad term that encompasses several completely different things. It would help to understand your point if you used the appropriate term rather than an overbroad catch-all.
EULA is not meaningless if you are in the US states, Maryland or Virginia which passed the stupid UCITA laws.
actually the remaining portion of the IBM case is mainly about contracts. The single copyright violation claim is about distributing AIX after license was rescinded.
"Number two, Apple is under no obligation to support ANYONE else's DRM, period."
Just like Ford was under no obligation to support someone else's repair shop to keep a car under warranty. That is until Congress realized that the consumers were getting gouged for service at the dealerships.
"Apple is doing nothing legally, technically, ethically, morally or wrong."
Legally maybe not, ethically debatable.
You could make the case that it is unethical for a business to try to increase profits by forcing their customers to go back to them rather than provide a service/product that stands on its own merits as a value that consumers are willing to pay for.
They were not "supporting" someone else's DRM.
They were not required to do anything else to support users playing Real songs. They probably went out of their way to engineer a a software release that broke a function of the player that was already purchased.(documented/supported or not).
Now their loyal customers are forced into a choice between getting other firmware updates and losing access to their archive of Real Music.
the cvs shows updates 4 weeks ago.p lanner /routeplanner/
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/route
Didn't see any tags on the files I looked at so I am not sure how the releases are managed but you might want to get this from cvs.
"I am particularly suspicious about this last figure. Do you suppose this is mostly SCOG stock bought in a desperate attempt to bolster the stock price (perhaps at an average price of US$10), grossly overvalued today and incapable of being translated into any significant amount of cash?"
I think the announced stock repurchase plan would only let them buy back from "insiders".
If so that cache of stock was a way to take money away out of the coffers of the company and into individuals pockets.
"In any case, for the near future if you want to run a 64 bit operating system you will either be using one of the free Linux versions"
There are supported linux versions available as well. I know Red Hat and SuSE have released versions supporting the amd64 and I think Mandrake does as well
keep in mind that they are Caldera/TSG not the old SCO that was one of the parties that released the ELF standard.
They are pulling ELF in to court because they are desperate to avoid a ruling on IBMs tenth counterclaim scheduled to be heard on Aug 4th.
This may be a hard sell to the court since they were not a party to the original effort and they can't seem to find any of the documents transferring any rights from old SCO to Caldera/TSG.
We'll see if it staves off the inevitable for a while longer at the aug 4th hearing. The best part is that the more deperate they act the more chance the principals will end up in jail when all of this fraud is exposed.
Cat5 is adequate for 100BT as well as 10BT.
Cat3 used to be the standard for phone lines and would only support 10BT.
At least Cat5e is required for GigE. (and requires all four pairs) Make sure you terminate it to spec.
They say that they are initiating a buyback because the stock is a good value.
This confilicts with the fact that ALL recent insider trades are sells.(after exercising options)
Actually they also have developed their own programs and sponsored some events. They arranged the location and recovery of the liberty bell space capsule. They followed the search with updates (and chats, i think) on their website.
Maybe the original submitter should try to reach the discovery online people. See if they will follow you around and document it on their website. They could produce a film of the event afterwards.
Chuck
if you figure it costs the ISP about $20/month/incoming line it is difficult to make money off someone who is online every night thoughout peak usage.
When Dialup ISPs first started the rule of thumb was 20-25 customers per line. Not long after you needed 1 line per 8 customers. I would bet it got worse later.
The "abuse" is not the upstream bandwidth it is tying up the line.