Not only that...if you get confused on an IOS issue, open a TAC case and they will answer it for you. That is the reason why Cisco has the market share it does...
Ask your friendly local telephone company. Each carrier on each end of the call makes about $0.02/minute on each call...this leaves the LD carrier about $0.02-$0.05 to make on each call which has to cover billing, network montioring, regulatory, etc...
Hope you've got a few days...the fiber is buried in a conduit at least six feet deep. Above the dirt is a huge amount of rock laid so the railroad ties could be put down. Plus the added fact that the ground beneath those ties has been highly compressed due to trains running over it for the past several years.
Also add the fact that these carriers have guys who drive up and down the fiber everyday looking for the stupid farmers who wants to plant corn in the middle of a railway...
Easy...go there. Ask the teachers. Volunteer to help out when feasible. Make time for your kids and their friends. Personally, I couldn't give you an idea what my daughters do during a normal day at school, but my wife who volunteers can tell me all about their freinds, who whacked out on drugs, etc...
Bottom line, just because the Internet is conveinient doesn't mean it's a substitute for decent parenting...
Interesting stat: Average USWest customer response call wass around 5 days before the merger. Average Qwest response since the merger: 5 months.
Really...what I've seen is the exact opposite. The stats I saw put install delays at the lowest level in the past 3 years in Qwest areas while Ameritech has been dwindling downward for the past year.
This should be something the EFF and the ACLU should be tackling. A scientific review, that is not-for-profit, being censored by an industry that put out the challenge to the public to break it's code.
This would be in the same vein as Apple suing someone because they made their themes look as pretty as OS X. Oh wait, they did....nevermind...
Although I agree that that folks like Qwest will have to pay an arm and leg to replace existing cable
Acutally, they won't. Qwest has empty conduit buried above their existing fiber network.
While fiber is expensive in relative terms, the optoelectronics are often 20x more expensive.
One more problem is power, running two sets of photonics equipment that are not interchangeable as opposed to one standardized piece of equipment doesn't make sense. Comapnies like Notel (r omitted on purpose) Lucent and Corvis are dumping huge amounts of capital into DWDM as opposed to telling their largest clients that their existing fiber systems are useless.
Want to make a leap in optical technology, develop a box that will deploy dialtone/DSL to a neighborhood off of a four fiber system (eight for SONET)
Most companies are more worried about how many lambdas (wavelengths that are carrying 10GB/s each) they can squeeze down a pipe compared to deploying new fangled fiber systems. This is probably still vaporware, and right now it's a hell of a lot cheaper to keep cranking glass-core fiber out instead of some sort of air/vacuum-core fiber.
The nice thing about cutting fiber is that the contamination ends right at the cut, not 30 feet up the pipe.
Next dumb question, what type of equipment would you hook up to a 1,000GB line?
Actually, that is a good point. I work for a large fiber company and we can nail down where a fiber is cut by measuring where the refractivity of the cut takes place. Makes it a hell of alot easier when you have to go out into the middle of Indiana and figure out which farmer cut your fiber...
Trust me, it makes a difference. When you do bring up school shootings and you find out that most of these kids were made to be outsiders by the bullies in school, the principles take notice (unless they are on the All-State Basketball team, then it is a different story).
While there is the fact that the kid could have kept the bullying quiet for years, all it takes is a "Hey, what's going on?" once a day with your kid and the problem usually presents itself.
My Daughter was having issues at her school (obviously she's a bit younger) but we had a quiet talk with the teacher (who was clueless to the problem) and our daughter has reported that things ARE better (and so are her grades).
I think if China wanted to have an independent agency (Switzerland?) investigate the crash and determine whose fault it was, the US would agree to that.
And our people would come home sometime around the year 2017.
I sure as hell don't want us to go to war with them, but I also don't want to see us roll over and give them everything they want.
And we won't. Even though they have nuclear arms, they have what, 12 ICBM's? If they even THOUGHT about launching one, they would end up turning their country into the world's largest glass-bottomed, glow-in-the-dark parking lot.
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OK, I kind of stole the last quote from Clancy's book, but it's pretty damn appropriate.:-)
then it's our duty to enact confiscatory tax laws to take his money and put it to better uses. It's the moral thing to do...I'm guessing that you probably make more than most of the homeless people in this country. Let's enact a confiscatory tax on YOU.B
Hmm...but if you take a trip over to our friends in Russia, $1 million in US Currency will let you fly in a fighter or play submarine commander in the Barents Sea.
Bottom line, the Russians need cash and they have the toys that we would all like to play with. If the roles were reversed, I'm sure that you would see the damn "Ride the Stealth Bomber" booth at the local airshow.
Trust me, I've read Dragonfly and Crisis aboard Mir. While yes, some of the science is a bit skewed we still have learned laeps and bounds from their experiences (how to deal with fire, sudden decompression, etc) which would be extremely useful in future Mars missions.
NASA was extremely short-sighted in killing the Transhab module. That alone should have given us an economic way to launch larger structures into space. Most of the ideas that I've spoken of are in Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars", just slightly tweaked (adding a reusable 5 tons to LEO craft).
The one problem we have to look at is the ultimate ineffiecies of launching anything into LEO (Low Earth Orbit). 90% of the mass upon takeoff is usually fuel. While the shuttle was a great program in the 80's, it's usefulness has dwindled.
How often do we have the need to launch 20+ tons into LEO ALONG with 5 guys to strap it to the side of a bunch of pressurized tin cans? While the idea of having someone in orbit for the forseeable future is nice, what is the purpose? What is the science that is being doine (besides it being a duplicate of the science done by the Russians during the Salut/Mir missions in the 80's?)
If you are commited to keeping people in orbit, here's (IMHO) what needs to be done?
Develop a new HLV (Heavy Lift Vehicle) that could lob 100+ tons into LEO on a regular basis. This would have to be an expendable vehicle since the development costs of a reusable vehicle would probably exceed the costs of 20+ launches of any expendables we could build.
Develop a reusable vehicle that could put around 5 tons into LEO with a smaller turnaround time. That would be the perfect vehicle to do your basic crew-swaps and resupply missions. Make it easy/autonomous to fly thereby reducing the exposure of crew to flight failures.
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I am of German heritage and I found the remark to be pretty funny...
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Not only that...if you get confused on an IOS issue, open a TAC case and they will answer it for you. That is the reason why Cisco has the market share it does...
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Ask your friendly local telephone company. Each carrier on each end of the call makes about $0.02/minute on each call...this leaves the LD carrier about $0.02-$0.05 to make on each call which has to cover billing, network montioring, regulatory, etc...
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Hope you've got a few days...the fiber is buried in a conduit at least six feet deep. Above the dirt is a huge amount of rock laid so the railroad ties could be put down. Plus the added fact that the ground beneath those ties has been highly compressed due to trains running over it for the past several years.
Also add the fact that these carriers have guys who drive up and down the fiber everyday looking for the stupid farmers who wants to plant corn in the middle of a railway...
Hope you've got a good shovel!
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Easy...go there. Ask the teachers. Volunteer to help out when feasible. Make time for your kids and their friends. Personally, I couldn't give you an idea what my daughters do during a normal day at school, but my wife who volunteers can tell me all about their freinds, who whacked out on drugs, etc...
Bottom line, just because the Internet is conveinient doesn't mean it's a substitute for decent parenting...
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Agreed...Green Mars just started to suck eggs. Blue Mars was slightly better, but still stunk of "Leftist Utopia Propaganda".
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Interesting stat: Average USWest customer response call wass around 5 days before the merger. Average Qwest response since the merger: 5 months.
Really...what I've seen is the exact opposite. The stats I saw put install delays at the lowest level in the past 3 years in Qwest areas while Ameritech has been dwindling downward for the past year.
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This should be something the EFF and the ACLU should be tackling. A scientific review, that is not-for-profit, being censored by an industry that put out the challenge to the public to break it's code.
This would be in the same vein as Apple suing someone because they made their themes look as pretty as OS X. Oh wait, they did....nevermind...
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OTDR's...very cool when some backwards farmer or water company can't read the damn "FIBER BURIED HERE" signs.
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Why not put a giant mirror into geo sequences orbit and bounce lasers off of it.
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Even better, build a huge Tesla Coil and beam death rays to each subscribers home!!!
Oh sh*t, we did that already, it's called Radio...
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Although I agree that that folks like Qwest will have to pay an arm and leg to replace existing cable
Acutally, they won't. Qwest has empty conduit buried above their existing fiber network.
While fiber is expensive in relative terms, the optoelectronics are often 20x more expensive.
One more problem is power, running two sets of photonics equipment that are not interchangeable as opposed to one standardized piece of equipment doesn't make sense. Comapnies like Notel (r omitted on purpose) Lucent and Corvis are dumping huge amounts of capital into DWDM as opposed to telling their largest clients that their existing fiber systems are useless.
Want to make a leap in optical technology, develop a box that will deploy dialtone/DSL to a neighborhood off of a four fiber system (eight for SONET)
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Most companies are more worried about how many lambdas (wavelengths that are carrying 10GB/s each) they can squeeze down a pipe compared to deploying new fangled fiber systems. This is probably still vaporware, and right now it's a hell of a lot cheaper to keep cranking glass-core fiber out instead of some sort of air/vacuum-core fiber.
The nice thing about cutting fiber is that the contamination ends right at the cut, not 30 feet up the pipe.
Next dumb question, what type of equipment would you hook up to a 1,000GB line?
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Actually, that is a good point. I work for a large fiber company and we can nail down where a fiber is cut by measuring where the refractivity of the cut takes place. Makes it a hell of alot easier when you have to go out into the middle of Indiana and figure out which farmer cut your fiber...
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Trust me, it makes a difference. When you do bring up school shootings and you find out that most of these kids were made to be outsiders by the bullies in school, the principles take notice (unless they are on the All-State Basketball team, then it is a different story).
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While there is the fact that the kid could have kept the bullying quiet for years, all it takes is a "Hey, what's going on?" once a day with your kid and the problem usually presents itself.
My Daughter was having issues at her school (obviously she's a bit younger) but we had a quiet talk with the teacher (who was clueless to the problem) and our daughter has reported that things ARE better (and so are her grades).
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C'mon, there is no such thing as an airplane made out of concrete. Maybe a ship or two, but imagine the huge engines you would need to take off!!! :-)
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Of course, lots of people at NASA call the shuttle a "Flying Brick", so maybe this does have some merit...
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Anyone know of a good concrete company to dump my
That this happened on April Fools Day. And Mr. Wei, was the fool...
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I think if China wanted to have an independent agency (Switzerland?) investigate the crash and determine whose fault it was, the US would agree to that.
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And our people would come home sometime around the year 2017.
I sure as hell don't want us to go to war with them, but I also don't want to see us roll over and give them everything they want.
And we won't. Even though they have nuclear arms, they have what, 12 ICBM's? If they even THOUGHT about launching one, they would end up turning their country into the world's largest glass-bottomed, glow-in-the-dark parking lot.
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OK, I kind of stole the last quote from Clancy's book, but it's pretty damn appropriate.
Why am I the only one that think we should have told the Chinese...
"Hey, in 5 minutes, a GBU is going to hit what is left of that Orion and turn it into a scrap metal pile".
Then ship the Chinese a check for $20k for ruining their runway.
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Hey, pass over that crack pipe full of rice that your smoking!
Dude, read the book The China Threat and tell me that they don't have nationalistic tendancies...
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then it's our duty to enact confiscatory tax laws to take his money and put it to better uses. It's the moral thing to do...I'm guessing that you probably make more than most of the homeless people in this country. Let's enact a confiscatory tax on YOU.B
Here's my question, just how much time did the guys driving the Soyuz up there spend with the Expedition Two crew?
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Hmm...but if you take a trip over to our friends in Russia, $1 million in US Currency will let you fly in a fighter or play submarine commander in the Barents Sea.
Bottom line, the Russians need cash and they have the toys that we would all like to play with. If the roles were reversed, I'm sure that you would see the damn "Ride the Stealth Bomber" booth at the local airshow.
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Trust me, I've read Dragonfly and Crisis aboard Mir. While yes, some of the science is a bit skewed we still have learned laeps and bounds from their experiences (how to deal with fire, sudden decompression, etc) which would be extremely useful in future Mars missions.
NASA was extremely short-sighted in killing the Transhab module. That alone should have given us an economic way to launch larger structures into space. Most of the ideas that I've spoken of are in Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars", just slightly tweaked (adding a reusable 5 tons to LEO craft).
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How often do we have the need to launch 20+ tons into LEO ALONG with 5 guys to strap it to the side of a bunch of pressurized tin cans? While the idea of having someone in orbit for the forseeable future is nice, what is the purpose? What is the science that is being doine (besides it being a duplicate of the science done by the Russians during the Salut/Mir missions in the 80's?)
If you are commited to keeping people in orbit, here's (IMHO) what needs to be done?
Develop a new HLV (Heavy Lift Vehicle) that could lob 100+ tons into LEO on a regular basis. This would have to be an expendable vehicle since the development costs of a reusable vehicle would probably exceed the costs of 20+ launches of any expendables we could build.
Develop a reusable vehicle that could put around 5 tons into LEO with a smaller turnaround time. That would be the perfect vehicle to do your basic crew-swaps and resupply missions. Make it easy/autonomous to fly thereby reducing the exposure of crew to flight failures.
Just my $0.02.
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