I was reading the bill and it turns out that there is a requirement that the local Bells have 100% broadband coverage within 5 years of the bill being passed. A snip from the bill below:
`(a) DEPLOYMENT REQUIRED- Each Bell operating company and its affiliates shall deploy high speed data services in each State in which such company or affiliate is an incumbent local exchange carrier (as such term is defined in section 251(h)) in accordance with the requirements of this section.
This came right from Section 7 of the bill. The requirements are as follows:
`(A) Within one year after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 20 percent of such central offices in such State.
`(B) Within 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 40 percent of such central offices in such State.
`(C) Within 3 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 70 percent of such central offices in such State.
`(D) Within 5 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 100 percent of such central offices in such State.
IANAL, but there are definitely some portions of this bill that are in there to help consumers - but then also shaft CLECs in the process. Very strange piece of legislation, if you ask me.
I agree - 100%. That's why I work at a company that is the embodiment of managing by politics, and treasures the colleagues who try things they aren't qualified to do (we call this an 'entrepreurial spirit').
The true genious is this: I think we run the company this way so that when we work w/ our clients we have a huge base of experience to draw from. Spotting weak managers and incompetents is second nature to us!
Weird, huh? I know it sounds tongue-in-cheek but it's actually all true!
Just a friendly reminder that you can still write C++ (unmanaged) code and compile it to machine language under.NET . Using the CLR is just an (often useful) option.
No company can gp to Wall Street and say: I'm going to chop my annual revenues down from $8 billion to $500 million. Can you imagine what would happen to the Apple stock price if they announced this? It simply can't be done.
The solution, then, is simple. Just as consumers pay much higher prices for higher quality automobiles, so should be the case for OS X on Intel. Put it out of the reach of "average" technology consumers by charging a premium price tag - as much as twice as much as a full version of a Windows OS.
People will either bite the bullet and buy the expensive OS, or just buy the Apple hardware. Either way Apple wins.
A few points worth noting: I saw part of the phantom menace on one of those wide-screen hdtv's. Picture was so clear that it made the film's effects look even less realistic.
I'll agree with that - watched "The Fifth Element" on a friend's progressive-scan DVD with a Trinitron tubed TV. The special effects were laughable at best. Strange the way that works!
Actually, Fujitsu COBOLis part of the.NET framework. There's also Eiffel, and I think PERL too! Adding language support is easy, just build a compiler that can compile to MS's IL (Intermediate Language) instead of machine code.
And I notice you have been marked as a +4 Troll. Without divulging if I agree of disagree with that quote - I would most certainly say it is a political statement.
Plus, the news sites are only going to report what the law enforcement agencies tell them. Let's just hope they punish him for his actions and not his ideas. He's young, alarmist, disinfranchised, yadda yadda yadda. He'll be a little more articulate once he grows pubes.
Guys.....GUYS... listen: the MIPS chips are *not even close* to the same architecture as PowerPC or Intel/AMD.
The R14000 clock rates are expected to go up shortly, and at 500MHz the theoretical peak performance is 1 GigaFlop per second. They are much - much nicer chips than the mutts we run today.
Great - this letter reads like a pile of manure. I am in no way advocating M$'s practices here, but unless you can prove all of those wild allegations in the letter you've: 1) got nothing 2) are wasting important people's time and 3) are more than likely alienating them from the cause.
What exactly is the gripe here? Let's put some thought around that and formulate a halfway decent letter - maybe one we can edit and review here on Slashdot.
Sears-Roebuck has been doing the same damn thing for the last 100 years...
The Sears Roebuck Catalog also had two unorthodox uses which e-tailers cannot provide: 1) people used to read Sears Roebuck while in the outhouse 2) people used to wipe their ass with it when they were done (no lie!)
Behind the PowerPC G4's phenomenal performance is its aptly named Velocity Engine. The Velocity Engine processes data in huge 128-bit chunks, instead of the smaller 32-bit or 64-bit chunks used in traditional processors (it's the 128-bit vector processing technology used in scientific supercomputers -- except that we've added 162 new instructions to speed up computations). In addition, the PowerPC G4 can perform four (in some cases eight) 32-bit floating-point calculations in a single cycle -- two to four times faster than processors found in PCs.
Uhhhhh, guys - does this still qualify as a RISC microprocessor? I guess it depends if we're talking microcode or machine instructions...
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I was reading the bill and it turns out that there is a requirement that the local Bells have 100% broadband coverage within 5 years of the bill being passed. A snip from the bill below:
This came right from Section 7 of the bill. The requirements are as follows:
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`(A) Within one year after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 20 percent of such central offices in such State.
IANAL, but there are definitely some portions of this bill that are in there to help consumers - but then also shaft CLECs in the process. Very strange piece of legislation, if you ask me.`(B) Within 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 40 percent of such central offices in such State.
`(C) Within 3 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 70 percent of such central offices in such State.
`(D) Within 5 years after the date of enactment of this section, such company or affiliate shall attain high speed data capability in not less than 100 percent of such central offices in such State.
I've been visiting stores like Toys R Us. I'm very discouraged to see just how little creative building and thinking there is in kids toys anymore.
Thinking is dangerous. If we teach our children to think, they might realize how f-ed up the world is.
I agree - 100%. That's why I work at a company that is the embodiment of managing by politics, and treasures the colleagues who try things they aren't qualified to do (we call this an 'entrepreurial spirit').
The true genious is this: I think we run the company this way so that when we work w/ our clients we have a huge base of experience to draw from. Spotting weak managers and incompetents is second nature to us!
Weird, huh? I know it sounds tongue-in-cheek but it's actually all true!
I like how this article seems to want to tie a decline in music sales to Napster,
Well, "Time" is owned by AOL-Time Warner, who also has a huge amount of record labels under it. The connecton I draw is real.
Just a friendly reminder that you can still write C++ (unmanaged) code and compile it to machine language under .NET . Using the CLR is just an (often useful) option.
If they ported to x86, they would be in direct competition with MS, with all the drawbacks of the architecture.
That's a really good point - maybe they will enter the market once Wintel has finally shaken off x86....
No company can gp to Wall Street and say: I'm going to chop my annual revenues down from $8 billion to $500 million. Can you imagine what would happen to the Apple stock price if they announced this? It simply can't be done.
The solution, then, is simple. Just as consumers pay much higher prices for higher quality automobiles, so should be the case for OS X on Intel. Put it out of the reach of "average" technology consumers by charging a premium price tag - as much as twice as much as a full version of a Windows OS.
People will either bite the bullet and buy the expensive OS, or just buy the Apple hardware. Either way Apple wins.
It occurs to me that it is a sad thing that we have to rely on someone like Mr. Bemer to do the job of the government
WRONG! For the people, *BY* the people.
A few points worth noting: I saw part of the phantom menace on one of those wide-screen hdtv's. Picture was so clear that it made the film's effects look even less realistic.
I'll agree with that - watched "The Fifth Element" on a friend's progressive-scan DVD with a Trinitron tubed TV. The special effects were laughable at best. Strange the way that works!
What are you talking about? He had billions of those f-ers.
Actually, Fujitsu COBOL is part of the
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of:
well my name it is a number, it's on a piece of plastic film...
Look at the next to last picture from the first link (the bp6.com one). That platter is chipped all to hell around the edge!!!!!!!
Great! You rooned it for everybody else! j/k
Staples 110% Price Protection
We think we own it all, and that they should be happy to have our services, tailored to their needs, for free. Has anyone dealt with these issues?
What we've traditionally done: they jointly own the code. We retain the right to resell it, they do not.
Yes - it's basically honor system, but that's how it's done! It may not even be legal, but IANAL.
And I notice you have been marked as a +4 Troll. Without divulging if I agree of disagree with that quote - I would most certainly say it is a political statement.
Plus, the news sites are only going to report what the law enforcement agencies tell them. Let's just hope they punish him for his actions and not his ideas. He's young, alarmist, disinfranchised, yadda yadda yadda. He'll be a little more articulate once he grows pubes.
This guy contradicts himself nearly every opportunity he has! From your defaced server:
he New World Order has already begun.. It's already too late to stop it. However we can fight it and put an end to it.
So.. "stop" and "end" mean different things here. Hmm.
Which is damn clever of them indeed.
Yes - their use of the word "pedagogic" WAS quite clever...
Seriously, though it is pretty neat.
I wonder how it takes that sucker to Defrag...
Shoulda used a SCSI Controller...
Also: Athlon and Pentium 4 block diagrams for comparison. That P4 is one ugly S.O.B....
Guys.....GUYS... listen: the MIPS chips are *not even close* to the same architecture as PowerPC or Intel/AMD.
The R14000 clock rates are expected to go up shortly, and at 500MHz the theoretical peak performance is 1 GigaFlop per second. They are much - much nicer chips than the mutts we run today.
Great - this letter reads like a pile of manure. I am in no way advocating M$'s practices here, but unless you can prove all of those wild allegations in the letter you've: 1) got nothing 2) are wasting important people's time and 3) are more than likely alienating them from the cause.
What exactly is the gripe here? Let's put some thought around that and formulate a halfway decent letter - maybe one we can edit and review here on Slashdot.
Sears-Roebuck has been doing the same damn thing for the last 100 years...
The Sears Roebuck Catalog also had two unorthodox uses which e-tailers cannot provide:
1) people used to read Sears Roebuck while in the outhouse
2) people used to wipe their ass with it when they were done (no lie!)
Try and do *that* with Amazon.com...
From the Apple website (emphasis mine):
Behind the PowerPC G4's phenomenal performance is its aptly named Velocity Engine. The Velocity Engine processes data in huge 128-bit chunks, instead of the smaller 32-bit or 64-bit chunks used in traditional processors (it's the 128-bit vector processing technology used in scientific supercomputers -- except that we've added 162 new instructions to speed up computations). In addition, the PowerPC G4 can perform four (in some cases eight) 32-bit floating-point calculations in a single cycle -- two to four times faster than processors found in PCs.
Uhhhhh, guys - does this still qualify as a RISC microprocessor? I guess it depends if we're talking microcode or machine instructions...
You tell me. Readers?
Not to trash your impressive stats - but does your monitor display 1600x1200 @ 120Hz refresh?