Calls don't do shit. Donate a large amount of money to his PAC and you will get his attention. He, like most of the others in DC, are nothing but whores.
How much of the time and supplies to do this where donated? A normal company can not get the most expensive parts for an entire production line just given to them, they have to pay.
Hell, if you use enron style account you can make ANYTHING look good.
Are you overcharging and overspecing the equiptment that is going into these schools like so many others have? Some e-rate 'contractors' have been installing gbit managed layer 3/4/5 switches into schools that only have t1's and CAT3 cable.
If it is anything like the Cyber Crime Unit in the area I live it will be a joke. You see the CCU requires 2-3 years of patrol experience before you can get own it. Computer experience comes AFTER time in a patrol car.
And if the GOP stayed true to what it says it believes it would allow others into the debate. It's that free market think they say the love so much.;-> And the DEMS would also agree because they say they are the ones that support the little guy.;->
Now, items like the ones below are "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". Funny how you do not see such articles being posted to/. any more.
Covad Communications is beginning technical trials of a DSLAM-based POTS offering that could allow its customers an alternative to the difficulties of unbundled network elements-platform and line sharing-based plans as soon as early next year.
Covad's DSLAM supplier, Nokia, debuted a new POTS line card for its D500 IP DSLAM at the Broadband World Forum show in Venice, Italy, last month. The new card provides analog voice service, freeing non-facilities-based service providers from relying on incumbents for dialtone. It will allow Covad's customers to migrate the 19 million or so lines served by UNE-P -- which are increasingly endangered by government regulation -- to UNE-L, in which competitors rely on the incumbent only for the physical copper loop itself.
"This allows us and a lot of wholesale partners to get into the ILEC voice-replacement business," said Jeff Ahlquist, Covad's vice president of product development, adding that Covad will deploy the new gear in success-based increments, rather than replacing all of its current DSLAMs.
In a speech to a Kaufman Brothers investor conference last month, Covad CEO Charles Hoffman said the company will conduct a technical trial of Nokia's POTS offering -- Covad calls it "line-powered voice" (LPV) -- with two partners this fall and will roll it out as a commercial service in the first quarter of next year. The move further strengthens Covad's presence in voice services when combined with its existing voice-over-IP (VoIP) offering, which the company already delivers in 42 markets. It expects to reach more than 100 markets by year's end. In fact, additional VoIP lines can be added to the LPV voice line using the high-frequency portion of the LPV loop.
"The 'V' in Covad now has teeth," Needham & Company analyst Vik Grover wrote in a mid-September research note, assuming that the "V" stands for voice. "As the technology proves itself out, we believe [Wall] Street will realize that Covad's star is rising as the only national non-RBOC switching fabric that enables competitors to offer customers either analog voice, DSL, VoIP or a migration plan from analog to broadband."
The new POTS cards don't share DSL's 18,000-foot distance limit, so Covad can use them to serve any customer wired to a Covad central office, which would boost the number of potential Covad customers by 40%. By Grover's calculations, that would give Covad about 80 million marketable homes for LPV in the U.S. LPV also works with the existing phones and inside wiring in homes today, which some VoIP platforms can't do. Being a line-powered DSLAM also has benefits.
"If the phone line is up, this product will be as well," Hoffman said.
"We already have the DSLAMs in place in all the markets," Hoffman told the Kaufman Brothers conference last month. "This is a new chassis and line card. It's pretty simple -- same DSLAM, same [DSLAM] provider. We're now working through all the provisioning and billing, and software necessary to support that. That's why it's a Q1 05 thing and not a today thing."
The LPV offering also gives Covad's ISP customers such as EarthLink a way to get voice and data service into homes without sharing the line with an incumbent, a feature that has become more relevant since line-sharing mandates were phased out in the FCC's triennial review order last year. Covad has forged its own private line-sharing agreements with some RBOCs, but they're not long lasting; the newest agreement signed by Covad and SBC last month expires in a year.
Yes. Those are his religious beliefs and he sticks to them. As for this law, you don't even know what the damn law really says, hell for all we know it could cause sites that use cookies to be made illegal.
You are basing your judgement of incomplete information, are you not? Don't forget most people thought the usa patriot act would be used only against terorrists. Opps.
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Now, since those that fund the whores in DC are being hurt by this, DC will do something about it.
Almost all election laws are a state matter. ;->
Why didn't they do something before now to change the damn laws they do not like?
The DEMS want it to be as messed up as 2000 was. If they didn't they would have already have hired all these lawyers and had the laws changed.
They didn't and the question you should ask is WHY they didn't.
Calls don't do shit. Donate a large amount of money to his PAC and you will get his attention. He, like most of the others in DC, are nothing but whores.
He will retire soon and he is making sure that he will be able to get a high paying job after he does.
No, it tells you an election is coming up and they don't want to be asked about this in the last 30 days before people vote.
That is all that has happened, nothing else.
That isn't what I mean, and I think you know that. I was talking about the death penality.
Yes I have. posts that are conservative in nature are almost always killed while posts praising the 9/11 terrorists are left alone.
Has he blamed the fact that he hasn't been invited to the debats on racism yet?
/. interview that seams to be what he blames almost everything else on.
From his
Isn't is amazing that the pro-life side is only pro life when it comes to kids while the pro-death side is only pro-death when it comes to kids?
The FBI and ATF have killed more innocent people in the past 20 years than all the insane anti-abortion groups have.
It is one of the sites where you can read about how Israel is behind EVERYTHING bad in the world...
Wish I was joking.
IBM makes billions each year from its patents.
How much of the time and supplies to do this where donated? A normal company can not get the most expensive parts for an entire production line just given to them, they have to pay.
Hell, if you use enron style account you can make ANYTHING look good.
It may have something to do with the fact that PHP changes too much between minor verions. Or at least it used to.
Are you overcharging and overspecing the equiptment that is going into these schools like so many others have? Some e-rate 'contractors' have been installing gbit managed layer 3/4/5 switches into schools that only have t1's and CAT3 cable.
Prior art will not stop them. Hell, expecting the USPTO to honor prior art is about as likely as a politician honoring his campaign promises. ;->
If it is anything like the Cyber Crime Unit in the area I live it will be a joke. You see the CCU requires 2-3 years of patrol experience before you can get own it. Computer experience comes AFTER time in a patrol car.
And if the GOP stayed true to what it says it believes it would allow others into the debate. It's that free market think they say the love so much. ;-> And the DEMS would also agree because they say they are the ones that support the little guy. ;->
Well, they do have a point. Why can't the DNC/RNC get the Fortune 500 to pay for it the same way they pay for the conventions?
Now, items like the ones below are "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". Funny how you do not see such articles being posted to /. any more.
Covad Communications is beginning technical trials of a DSLAM-based POTS offering that could allow its customers an alternative to the difficulties of unbundled network elements-platform and line sharing-based plans as soon as early next year.
Covad's DSLAM supplier, Nokia, debuted a new POTS line card for its D500 IP DSLAM at the Broadband World Forum show in Venice, Italy, last month. The new card provides analog voice service, freeing non-facilities-based service providers from relying on incumbents for dialtone. It will allow Covad's customers to migrate the 19 million or so lines served by UNE-P -- which are increasingly endangered by government regulation -- to UNE-L, in which competitors rely on the incumbent only for the physical copper loop itself.
"This allows us and a lot of wholesale partners to get into the ILEC voice-replacement business," said Jeff Ahlquist, Covad's vice president of product development, adding that Covad will deploy the new gear in success-based increments, rather than replacing all of its current DSLAMs.
In a speech to a Kaufman Brothers investor conference last month, Covad CEO Charles Hoffman said the company will conduct a technical trial of Nokia's POTS offering -- Covad calls it "line-powered voice" (LPV) -- with two partners this fall and will roll it out as a commercial service in the first quarter of next year. The move further strengthens Covad's presence in voice services when combined with its existing voice-over-IP (VoIP) offering, which the company already delivers in 42 markets. It expects to reach more than 100 markets by year's end. In fact, additional VoIP lines can be added to the LPV voice line using the high-frequency portion of the LPV loop.
"The 'V' in Covad now has teeth," Needham & Company analyst Vik Grover wrote in a mid-September research note, assuming that the "V" stands for voice. "As the technology proves itself out, we believe [Wall] Street will realize that Covad's star is rising as the only national non-RBOC switching fabric that enables competitors to offer customers either analog voice, DSL, VoIP or a migration plan from analog to broadband."
The new POTS cards don't share DSL's 18,000-foot distance limit, so Covad can use them to serve any customer wired to a Covad central office, which would boost the number of potential Covad customers by 40%. By Grover's calculations, that would give Covad about 80 million marketable homes for LPV in the U.S. LPV also works with the existing phones and inside wiring in homes today, which some VoIP platforms can't do. Being a line-powered DSLAM also has benefits.
"If the phone line is up, this product will be as well," Hoffman said.
"We already have the DSLAMs in place in all the markets," Hoffman told the Kaufman Brothers conference last month. "This is a new chassis and line card. It's pretty simple -- same DSLAM, same [DSLAM] provider. We're now working through all the provisioning and billing, and software necessary to support that. That's why it's a Q1 05 thing and not a today thing."
The LPV offering also gives Covad's ISP customers such as EarthLink a way to get voice and data service into homes without sharing the line with an incumbent, a feature that has become more relevant since line-sharing mandates were phased out in the FCC's triennial review order last year. Covad has forged its own private line-sharing agreements with some RBOCs, but they're not long lasting; the newest agreement signed by Covad and SBC last month expires in a year.
One again, how much does one of the slashvertizements cost? I have some clients that would love to buy one but I am unable to get a price from you.
Please let me know so we can do business together!
It wasn't an anti bush slant, I only dealt with the three people that the OP provided.
Clinton sold out as he kept professing how Christian and Religious he was, yet his actions proved otherwise.
Yes. Those are his religious beliefs and he sticks to them. As for this law, you don't even know what the damn law really says, hell for all we know it could cause sites that use cookies to be made illegal.
You are basing your judgement of incomplete information, are you not? Don't forget most people thought the usa patriot act would be used only against terorrists. Opps.