That's unfortunate. And I think it's possible to hurt innocent bystanders too, an annonymous person could just put someone else's phone number there and possibly no one would check first before harrasing them.
The question is, whether the Nigerian government really cares that much. The company in Nigeria probably cares more about their pockets than their own compatriots. I don't think that's unique to Nigeria though, every country has that kind of element.
Fiber propogates much longer distances and easier. Your 10/100 ethernet is only up to (IIRC) 100 meters. The same goes to gigabit, but that's even touchier.
POE is basically irrelevant. You may as well forget about it. It's not going to power anything but the lowest power devices. I do have a POE setup for the device from the ISP, the bandwidth from that device certainly isn't limited by the copper. POE will work for a wired VoIP phone though, but then, I think people favor cordless devices, neither really push enough to merit the use of fiber.
On the other hand, the content industry would probably be happy with the FCC getting more involved, because they could use the FCC as a tool for pushing DRM, unskippable advertising, etc., through the cable and into the consumer's face.
What? The cable industry is already doing that right now!
I'm not Russian, but Siberia is, as a whole, a beautiful region. There are some sizable cities there too, but not many compared to the size of the region.
I think that's where some of the gulags were - prison labor camps, and those are the ones referenced in some jokes and threats.
That's silly, Vista includes downgrade rights, doesn't it?
Now you've paid for a pretty computer but you'll now have to do a lot of unnecessary work to modify or replace the OS. I'd suggest installing Windows XP and be done with it.
There was evidence though, it's just that no instrumentation had directly detected the waves until recently. There was a Discovery channel show "Killer Waves" or the like that showed pictures of massive damage to several huge ships but the sailor testimonies were ignored despite the type and scope of damage to the ship.
"a leaked memo showed that Microsoft asked partners to influence the vote but had also offered to pay them to do so"
Is EDRI an amateur organization? Using "but" as a conjunction is supposed to join contrasting ideas. They should have used "and", otherwise that line makes no sense.
Amazon's pricing is $100 more than Sony's device, and Amazon's is reputed to use an older display, meaning lower component costs.
100pc. quantities aren't that out of line. It doesn't need to be a huge special-purpose assembly line, some plants can just read the layout files and their pick & place machine puts it all into place. I had a project of mine quoted for a 100pc run, and it wasn't too bad.
I don't think the manufacturing is the limit. If the device had to get FCC certification, then I think that can get expensive.
A shipping container isn't something that just any local four-fingered grunt can drive off with. I just don't see a whole lot of people being able to drive off with a shipping container without anyone noticing. There aren't many people with a crane, so narrowing down who took it is probably not that tough. I don't think cranes are cheap to rent. Some can, but I think it's not a much larger group of people that can sneak into a fixed data center and steal stuff.
I'd partly agree, it's easier to think of something in comparison to an object in equivalent volume than try to think of a 1m sphere without any context. A meter stick is just one dimension.
Do you honestly think that your competitor would have a location within 200m of a hog farm? Or is your competitor a chicken farm, cattle farm or just a field? Or did you just not read the article description?
It takes a while, but at a few albums a month, one can grow a pretty sizeable collection. It's not as if a whole lot of people spend that $5,000 in one year.
Podcasts (most are free), TV shows and movies can take the rest of the space.
And then there's the lossless encoding too, which would only fit maybe 500 CDs on that 160GB iPod.
I think it's funny that the very company that could benefit most from the telecommuting trend won't allow it for their own workers. I expect it to just be politics rather than a decision based on objective data.
There needs to be another DSL player in the US market...
There are plenty of DSL players in the US, it's just that the US market is set up such that you often only get one because the incumbent player isn't required to lease out the lines, despite being allowed to use public land to run those lines, and being given the monopoly for running those lines.
I can't say I'm surprised about the xenophobia claim with respect to Japan. I've heard it anecdotally from several angles, that a lot of Japanese history has ingrained xenophobia into some parts of the Japanese culture and psyche. Most people groups have it to some degree, it seems to be more marked than usual in Japan.
I would suggest that maybe this could have been a clever attempt on the DVD makers to manufacture an controversy. If it works, it's an easy way to get the word out about the product.
It is unfortunate, but I think houses are the one legitimate form of personal debt that I think is acceptable, though only within reason. I mean a regular house that you can pay for right away would be IMO better than getting a loan for a McMansion.
I really don't think it's that hard to build it, but this group probably wants more than what even the most ardent Trek fan is willing to pay. If a person is willing to some compromises, it might be reasonable in terms of material expenses. The ceiling is nice, but really doesn't need to be there, and might be pretty involved to do it well. The wooden arch in the back probably can't go, but it doesn't look easy to fabricate either.
Most of those criticisms seem empty in light of the TinyURL preview service. The other criticism, about "dick" example just seem to be by humorless people that refuse to understand the web.
I think it's unfortunate that TinyURL is even necessary. A lot of URLs are needlessly long, and the other strike is that email programs and web forums that do break up URLs shouldn't be breaking them into multiple lines or otherwise breaking them - it shouldn't be necessary.
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That's unfortunate. And I think it's possible to hurt innocent bystanders too, an annonymous person could just put someone else's phone number there and possibly no one would check first before harrasing them.
The question is, whether the Nigerian government really cares that much. The company in Nigeria probably cares more about their pockets than their own compatriots. I don't think that's unique to Nigeria though, every country has that kind of element.
Fiber propogates much longer distances and easier. Your 10/100 ethernet is only up to (IIRC) 100 meters. The same goes to gigabit, but that's even touchier.
POE is basically irrelevant. You may as well forget about it. It's not going to power anything but the lowest power devices. I do have a POE setup for the device from the ISP, the bandwidth from that device certainly isn't limited by the copper. POE will work for a wired VoIP phone though, but then, I think people favor cordless devices, neither really push enough to merit the use of fiber.
On the other hand, the content industry would probably be happy with the FCC getting more involved, because they could use the FCC as a tool for pushing DRM, unskippable advertising, etc., through the cable and into the consumer's face.
What? The cable industry is already doing that right now!
I'm not Russian, but Siberia is, as a whole, a beautiful region. There are some sizable cities there too, but not many compared to the size of the region.
I think that's where some of the gulags were - prison labor camps, and those are the ones referenced in some jokes and threats.
That's silly, Vista includes downgrade rights, doesn't it?
Now you've paid for a pretty computer but you'll now have to do a lot of unnecessary work to modify or replace the OS. I'd suggest installing Windows XP and be done with it.
Most of the anime music videos don't try to hide the original source of the video. Infringement or not, it's generally credited somewhere.
There was evidence though, it's just that no instrumentation had directly detected the waves until recently. There was a Discovery channel show "Killer Waves" or the like that showed pictures of massive damage to several huge ships but the sailor testimonies were ignored despite the type and scope of damage to the ship.
"a leaked memo showed that Microsoft asked partners to influence the vote but had also offered to pay them to do so"
Is EDRI an amateur organization? Using "but" as a conjunction is supposed to join contrasting ideas. They should have used "and", otherwise that line makes no sense.
Amazon's pricing is $100 more than Sony's device, and Amazon's is reputed to use an older display, meaning lower component costs.
100pc. quantities aren't that out of line. It doesn't need to be a huge special-purpose assembly line, some plants can just read the layout files and their pick & place machine puts it all into place. I had a project of mine quoted for a 100pc run, and it wasn't too bad.
I don't think the manufacturing is the limit. If the device had to get FCC certification, then I think that can get expensive.
A shipping container isn't something that just any local four-fingered grunt can drive off with. I just don't see a whole lot of people being able to drive off with a shipping container without anyone noticing. There aren't many people with a crane, so narrowing down who took it is probably not that tough. I don't think cranes are cheap to rent. Some can, but I think it's not a much larger group of people that can sneak into a fixed data center and steal stuff.
I'd partly agree, it's easier to think of something in comparison to an object in equivalent volume than try to think of a 1m sphere without any context. A meter stick is just one dimension.
Do you honestly think that your competitor would have a location within 200m of a hog farm? Or is your competitor a chicken farm, cattle farm or just a field? Or did you just not read the article description?
It takes a while, but at a few albums a month, one can grow a pretty sizeable collection. It's not as if a whole lot of people spend that $5,000 in one year.
Podcasts (most are free), TV shows and movies can take the rest of the space.
And then there's the lossless encoding too, which would only fit maybe 500 CDs on that 160GB iPod.
I think it's funny that the very company that could benefit most from the telecommuting trend won't allow it for their own workers. I expect it to just be politics rather than a decision based on objective data.
There needs to be another DSL player in the US market...
There are plenty of DSL players in the US, it's just that the US market is set up such that you often only get one because the incumbent player isn't required to lease out the lines, despite being allowed to use public land to run those lines, and being given the monopoly for running those lines.
The US case for iPhone is different. I hear that the German plan is more expensive than most competing plans.
I can't say I'm surprised about the xenophobia claim with respect to Japan. I've heard it anecdotally from several angles, that a lot of Japanese history has ingrained xenophobia into some parts of the Japanese culture and psyche. Most people groups have it to some degree, it seems to be more marked than usual in Japan.
Ohh, the melodrama, playing the race card too.
There are varying degrees of being treated like a criminal.
I would suggest that maybe this could have been a clever attempt on the DVD makers to manufacture an controversy. If it works, it's an easy way to get the word out about the product.
We don't even need Iraq. We can send our troops to clean up Detroit.
Yay for our debt-based society!
It is unfortunate, but I think houses are the one legitimate form of personal debt that I think is acceptable, though only within reason. I mean a regular house that you can pay for right away would be IMO better than getting a loan for a McMansion.
I really don't think it's that hard to build it, but this group probably wants more than what even the most ardent Trek fan is willing to pay. If a person is willing to some compromises, it might be reasonable in terms of material expenses. The ceiling is nice, but really doesn't need to be there, and might be pretty involved to do it well. The wooden arch in the back probably can't go, but it doesn't look easy to fabricate either.
Most of those criticisms seem empty in light of the TinyURL preview service. The other criticism, about "dick" example just seem to be by humorless people that refuse to understand the web.
I think it's unfortunate that TinyURL is even necessary. A lot of URLs are needlessly long, and the other strike is that email programs and web forums that do break up URLs shouldn't be breaking them into multiple lines or otherwise breaking them - it shouldn't be necessary.