This "embrace and extend" strategy was exactly what the city of Geneva, Illinois discovered when AT&T was preparing to bring "Project Lightspeed" (now called U-Verse) to town. Apart from the issue of the ugly boxes, Geneva already had a cable TV franchisee in town. They successfully fought AT&T off.
They also prepared a guide for other towns to use, which was a brilliant move IMO. It's a great read.
In my area (Chicago), VoIP isn't worth the money because you can't get ADSL from AT&T without subscribing to a voice line. And a voice line isn't cheap. And now it looks the telcos might be blocking VoIP in other ways.
How about AT&T lobbying to block municipal Wifi networks?
Thankfully, some of the towns are biting back. There are three local governments here blocking the fiber expansion because they claim it violates the cable TV franchise agreements they have with the cable cos.
And do you REALLY think SBC is gonna let the unbundling happen without a fight? Doesn't matter what the Telecom Act of 1996 mandated, SBC and telcos like it are gonna lobby and fight it tooth and nail:
Just try getting an SBC DSL line without paying for a voice line. You can't do it. So goodbye vonage, skype, etc over SBC pipes, because it just becomes redundant.
The film is so good that Ebert convinced Warner to give the movie one more try, and do a set of test screenings here in Chicago over the weekend. Yet, somehow, Warner still hasn't gotten the message. Very sad.
When does Wedding Crashers 2 get funded? Oh wait, it probably has.
There are many little-fish sites out there that scrape Orbitz and put up their own travel pages based on the data.
It would make sense that this policy is to combat the scraper accounts that are out there. Like any of these slashdot kids were actually shopping for overseas airline tickets and mailing links to each other. They're all busy trying to mod the textures on their copy of DOA for Xbox.
Note that Sony isn't on the LCoS bandwagon. They're skipping the microdisplay technology and going right to grating light valve (GLV) tech. MEMS and lasers. Promises to be a bit more effective than LCD reflection.
Sony is in a joint venture with this company, Silicon Light Machines:
From reading the reports of the investor roadshow, the Google guys weren't even taking the whole process very seriously. (see WSJ last week).
So you decide to give the instutitions the finger with your prospectus, make a convoluted system to order shares, price it into the stratosphere, scare away the big dogs, then wonder if the little guys will show up in quantity to make the IPO happen?
I don't buy that this is entirely the fault of the institutions. Google seems to think they're better than the rest of us at times (check out the recruiting ads). I don't exactly frown when I read these stories.
Here's an example, but in the OPPOSITE direction. A relative of mine works for a large company that makes batteries (the one with the tinted hare).
They make alkaline cells for a myriad of companies. Walgreens, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Albertsons, the list goes on and on.
According to him (he used to work as a production manager in one of their large plants), the batteries made for other customers were actually tested MORE than their own name brand, since the potential damage was greater if they lost one of these big accounts due to excessive warranty claims.
So the cheaper generic batteries are actually slightly better quality than the big name ones, but not by much. Funny how that works out.
In some states if your employer expects you to be "on duty" after hours and respond to a situation/emergency within a certain time frame, then you are on the clock and need to be paid as such.
Of course if you're salaried/exempt then you're SOL. But that doesn't mean you're working 24 hours a day for the man.
Long before ICOS had the Cialis molecule in the pipeline they were working on a lot of other drugs. Gates was a big biotech investor in the late 80s and early 90s. He's still a big investor. Probably has to do more about longevitity than erectile dysfunction.
Of course a lot of you here probably weren't even reading the newspapers 10 years ago.
...and just put up every story when each new issue comes out? It would save us a lot of time here. Maybe one of the 5 people left with a subscription can volunteer to do it. I'm sure the Conde Nast people would happily cooperate.
As a stockholder, you're the reason companies need to show growth and increased profits every single quarter after quarter.
Look what happens when a tech company like Intel misses their "expected" earnings by a single penny a share. If you're a CEO, what do you do? When the stock price is a second derivative of the company's income, there is no other choice but to minimize costs at every turn.
Stockholders and daytrading crowd are what makes everyone look short-term instead of long term, and now we're all going to pay for it. Good job.
THE BOX COMES WITH THE FIRST 100 MOVIES PRELOADED. It's a 160GB drive. Read the article.
10 movies get swapped out every week on a trickle basis. You don't know a movie is available until it's been loaded on the drive and ready to go. There's no waiting for a movie since you don't know what's being transmitted next.
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This "embrace and extend" strategy was exactly what the city of Geneva, Illinois discovered when AT&T was preparing to bring "Project Lightspeed" (now called U-Verse) to town. Apart from the issue of the ugly boxes, Geneva already had a cable TV franchisee in town. They successfully fought AT&T off.
They also prepared a guide for other towns to use, which was a brilliant move IMO. It's a great read.
http://www.geneva.il.us/att/lightspeed.htm
In my area (Chicago), VoIP isn't worth the money because you can't get ADSL from AT&T without subscribing to a voice line. And a voice line isn't cheap. And now it looks the telcos might be blocking VoIP in other ways.
How about AT&T lobbying to block municipal Wifi networks?
Thankfully, some of the towns are biting back. There are three local governments here blocking the fiber expansion because they claim it violates the cable TV franchise agreements they have with the cable cos.
This whole article reads like a 6th grade book report on the Steven Kent book.
1 34956685/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3046164-8793630?n =507846&s=books&v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761536434/qid=1
Get the book, it's a better read and a lot more detailed.
And do you REALLY think SBC is gonna let the unbundling happen without a fight? Doesn't matter what the Telecom Act of 1996 mandated, SBC and telcos like it are gonna lobby and fight it tooth and nail:
n aked+DSL/2100-1034_3-5637790.html
http://news.com.com/FCC+unplugs+states+rules+on++
How much SBC lobbying do you think went into THAT decision?
Just try getting an SBC DSL line without paying for a voice line. You can't do it. So goodbye vonage, skype, etc over SBC pipes, because it just becomes redundant.
Will I be able to get VoIP through my SBC/Yahoo! service?
While Warner crows about the word-of-mouth success of Penguins, they're sitting on another fantastic G-rated movie for kids and won't let it out:
/ duma/index_np.html
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/08/04
(yeah, yeah, just skip the ad, it won't kill ya)
The film is so good that Ebert convinced Warner to give the movie one more try, and do a set of test screenings here in Chicago over the weekend. Yet, somehow, Warner still hasn't gotten the message. Very sad.
When does Wedding Crashers 2 get funded? Oh wait, it probably has.
There are many little-fish sites out there that scrape Orbitz and put up their own travel pages based on the data.
It would make sense that this policy is to combat the scraper accounts that are out there. Like any of these slashdot kids were actually shopping for overseas airline tickets and mailing links to each other. They're all busy trying to mod the textures on their copy of DOA for Xbox.
Note that Sony isn't on the LCoS bandwagon. They're skipping the microdisplay technology and going right to grating light valve (GLV) tech. MEMS and lasers. Promises to be a bit more effective than LCD reflection.
Sony is in a joint venture with this company, Silicon Light Machines:
http://www.siliconlight.com
Then add some audio
W00T!
...not enough business-minded people. Could that explain it?
From reading the reports of the investor roadshow, the Google guys weren't even taking the whole process very seriously. (see WSJ last week).
So you decide to give the instutitions the finger with your prospectus, make a convoluted system to order shares, price it into the stratosphere, scare away the big dogs, then wonder if the little guys will show up in quantity to make the IPO happen?
I don't buy that this is entirely the fault of the institutions. Google seems to think they're better than the rest of us at times (check out the recruiting ads). I don't exactly frown when I read these stories.
Here's an example, but in the OPPOSITE direction. A relative of mine works for a large company that makes batteries (the one with the tinted hare).
They make alkaline cells for a myriad of companies. Walgreens, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Albertsons, the list goes on and on.
According to him (he used to work as a production manager in one of their large plants), the batteries made for other customers were actually tested MORE than their own name brand, since the potential damage was greater if they lost one of these big accounts due to excessive warranty claims.
So the cheaper generic batteries are actually slightly better quality than the big name ones, but not by much. Funny how that works out.
In some states if your employer expects you to be "on duty" after hours and respond to a situation/emergency within a certain time frame, then you are on the clock and need to be paid as such.
Of course if you're salaried/exempt then you're SOL. But that doesn't mean you're working 24 hours a day for the man.
Long before ICOS had the Cialis molecule in the pipeline they were working on a lot of other drugs. Gates was a big biotech investor in the late 80s and early 90s. He's still a big investor. Probably has to do more about longevitity than erectile dysfunction.
Of course a lot of you here probably weren't even reading the newspapers 10 years ago.
15 years ago I had to work on my CS225 labs on the second floor of the old Woodshop. 1st floor, planing sanders! 2nd floor, AT&T 3b2s!
Amazing what a few bubbles can do to the campus.
It's bad enough trying to read slash or fark on April 1, but when the jokes are still coming in at the end of the day I'm just giving up.
...and just put up every story when each new issue comes out? It would save us a lot of time here. Maybe one of the 5 people left with a subscription can volunteer to do it. I'm sure the Conde Nast people would happily cooperate.
...when each new issue comes out? Just post every big story at once and be done with this nonsense.
All xbox2 devs will use dual G5s to build and test software. Sounds like ALL mac to me!
http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID108300.asp
Great set of columns, by the way. I've always been a fan of how some of the disney technology was invented and implemented.
As a stockholder, you're the reason companies need to show growth and increased profits every single quarter after quarter.
Look what happens when a tech company like Intel misses their "expected" earnings by a single penny a share. If you're a CEO, what do you do? When the stock price is a second derivative of the company's income, there is no other choice but to minimize costs at every turn.
Stockholders and daytrading crowd are what makes everyone look short-term instead of long term, and now we're all going to pay for it. Good job.
Getting tired of seeing Replay get passed up in these threads. Extraction and internet capability exist out of the box.
THE BOX COMES WITH THE FIRST 100 MOVIES PRELOADED. It's a 160GB drive. Read the article.
10 movies get swapped out every week on a trickle basis. You don't know a movie is available until it's been loaded on the drive and ready to go. There's no waiting for a movie since you don't know what's being transmitted next.
week, not month. sorry.