One way to get broadband deployed is to give out grants to Michigan counties through legislation. You may or may not be familiar with Michigan Gov. John Engler's plan, LinkMichigan. It was recently bashed in the Wall Street Journal, but it looks as though this legislation will soon become law. If and when it does, I will be working with people in six NorthEastern Michigan counties to develop a Request For Proposal (RFP) to get broadband available.
Some of the problems that this legislation will deal with is the problem of the LEC's and right's of way. This will lower the barrier to entry by establishing a single, statewide right-of-way authority with one uniform, statewide application process and fee. With help from government, broadband providers will be able to come in and provide the much needed service.
However, I do think that if this is to succeed, simply allowing more people to subscribe to DSL in rural areas is not the answer. I'm sorry, but DSL is NOT broadband. DSL is simply a faster version of a 56K modem. Broadband of the future will be receiving all of your telecommunication services over one medium... fiber optics. By laying fiber to the home, you will be able to get phone service, internet service, video on demand, and all the channels on tv that you could dream of. If all that this legislation produces is Ameritech offering DSL to a larger subscriber base, then this will simply be misguided ambition and a lot of poorly spent tax dollars.
One interesting sidenote.... In the last few years, enough money has been invested into failed CLEC's to lay fiber optics to every home in America. Just because its an open market, it doesn't mean that people invest wisely.
I feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I had to transfer some domains for a few websites that I was taking over when the last webmaster quit and the host went bankrupt. I've done this before and never had any problems, BUT there were two emails set up to allow changes to the domains, and neither email was active anymore. So I made some phone calls, and I'm pretty sure that verisign has all of their tech support done in call centers in India. I was listening to the BBC a while back and they were talking about how its a big business over there to have call centers for US companies since it's so much cheaper for them rather than having it in the continental US.
Anyway, I appreciate the hard work phone tech support people do, they have a tough job, but I could not understand anyone from their end. I called back every other day for 4 weeks because nothing was done to make changes, and everyone gave me the same story.... "wait for 2 days, the system just takes a little while to get everythign through" Talking to their supervisors did nothing to expedite this either. It took over 1 month to finally change all of the DNS settings, and the sites were down in the meantime which meant lost business (and a lot of explaining on my part). My advice is to make sure you know that email address and it's active, give verisign plenty of time to make any changes, and just hope your host doesnt go out of business, because if you have to call Verisign to make changes, you're in for a big headache.
hey Taco, remember when the Holland 7 was the Quad? also, I'd say the crappiest theatre in holland is actually the Knickerbocker, although they don't actually play new releases like this, which IMO makes it an even crappier theatre
About an hour ago, I officially turned 22. I know I'm by no means "old", but I started reminiscing about all the hours that I spent playing with my legos when I was a kid. People complain about all the new fancy pieces in today's legos saying it won't allow kids to have an imagination.
Remember the castle (the one that split apart in the back) with the gray wall pieces that had such weird shapes? Once I had played with it for a few days, I took it apart and started building other stuff with it. All those crazy pieces took a serious imagination to build them into other creations, but that was the fun part. Why is it that people keep saying that all these fancy new pieces will take away a kid's imagination? If anything it will make them be more creative, and have more fun in the process. I know I loved it whenever I got a new set of legos, it made building other things that much more fun.
I don't know if Michael knew this and was making a joke, but the Dept. of Agriculture actually has a lot of workers there who don't technically work there- they actually work for another branch of government (security- CIA and whatnot) and they use this Dept. as something of a front. I don't know if this is still true to this day, but it used to be someone's family members didn't even know that they didn't really work for that Dept., and when they called them at their office, the phone rang to what they thought was actually the Agriculture Dept., but they were really calling a completely different building. No conspiracy theories here, just an interesting side note.
http://mambo.fiberio.net/ has quite a bit of both TV captures, personal pics, and video of whats been happening. It still amazes me how quickly news, pictures, and video can spread today thanks to our little friend, the internet.
Dvorak said the TiVo systems cost $500 which isn't completly false. The newest ones with larger hard disks do cost that much, and when you add on the subscription they can be quite expensive and definetly not an impulse buy.
I don't think we should get too upset by what Dvorak has to say, after all he does write for magazines which do have advertising as one of their major sources of income. Do you think he would write a column about how great it is to be able to get by without advertising? No, because a large part of his salary is based on advertising, and without it he wouldn't he would obviously make much less money. True journalism is unbiased, and there is no way this piece can fall into that category.
what if i want to transfer this a desktop? most usb ports are in the back, and getting back through that tangled mess of wires is not easy. maybe i'm just lazy...
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One way to get broadband deployed is to give out grants to Michigan counties through legislation. You may or may not be familiar with Michigan Gov. John Engler's plan, LinkMichigan. It was recently bashed in the Wall Street Journal, but it looks as though this legislation will soon become law. If and when it does, I will be working with people in six NorthEastern Michigan counties to develop a Request For Proposal (RFP) to get broadband available.
Some of the problems that this legislation will deal with is the problem of the LEC's and right's of way. This will lower the barrier to entry by establishing a single, statewide right-of-way authority with one uniform, statewide application process and fee. With help from government, broadband providers will be able to come in and provide the much needed service.
However, I do think that if this is to succeed, simply allowing more people to subscribe to DSL in rural areas is not the answer. I'm sorry, but DSL is NOT broadband. DSL is simply a faster version of a 56K modem. Broadband of the future will be receiving all of your telecommunication services over one medium... fiber optics. By laying fiber to the home, you will be able to get phone service, internet service, video on demand, and all the channels on tv that you could dream of. If all that this legislation produces is Ameritech offering DSL to a larger subscriber base, then this will simply be misguided ambition and a lot of poorly spent tax dollars.
One interesting sidenote.... In the last few years, enough money has been invested into failed CLEC's to lay fiber optics to every home in America. Just because its an open market, it doesn't mean that people invest wisely.
I feel your pain. A couple of months ago, I had to transfer some domains for a few websites that I was taking over when the last webmaster quit and the host went bankrupt. I've done this before and never had any problems, BUT there were two emails set up to allow changes to the domains, and neither email was active anymore. So I made some phone calls, and I'm pretty sure that verisign has all of their tech support done in call centers in India. I was listening to the BBC a while back and they were talking about how its a big business over there to have call centers for US companies since it's so much cheaper for them rather than having it in the continental US.
Anyway, I appreciate the hard work phone tech support people do, they have a tough job, but I could not understand anyone from their end. I called back every other day for 4 weeks because nothing was done to make changes, and everyone gave me the same story.... "wait for 2 days, the system just takes a little while to get everythign through" Talking to their supervisors did nothing to expedite this either. It took over 1 month to finally change all of the DNS settings, and the sites were down in the meantime which meant lost business (and a lot of explaining on my part). My advice is to make sure you know that email address and it's active, give verisign plenty of time to make any changes, and just hope your host doesnt go out of business, because if you have to call Verisign to make changes, you're in for a big headache.
hey Taco, remember when the Holland 7 was the Quad? also, I'd say the crappiest theatre in holland is actually the Knickerbocker, although they don't actually play new releases like this, which IMO makes it an even crappier theatre
About an hour ago, I officially turned 22. I know I'm by no means "old", but I started reminiscing about all the hours that I spent playing with my legos when I was a kid. People complain about all the new fancy pieces in today's legos saying it won't allow kids to have an imagination.
Remember the castle (the one that split apart in the back) with the gray wall pieces that had such weird shapes? Once I had played with it for a few days, I took it apart and started building other stuff with it. All those crazy pieces took a serious imagination to build them into other creations, but that was the fun part. Why is it that people keep saying that all these fancy new pieces will take away a kid's imagination? If anything it will make them be more creative, and have more fun in the process. I know I loved it whenever I got a new set of legos, it made building other things that much more fun.
I don't know if Michael knew this and was making a joke, but the Dept. of Agriculture actually has a lot of workers there who don't technically work there- they actually work for another branch of government (security- CIA and whatnot) and they use this Dept. as something of a front. I don't know if this is still true to this day, but it used to be someone's family members didn't even know that they didn't really work for that Dept., and when they called them at their office, the phone rang to what they thought was actually the Agriculture Dept., but they were really calling a completely different building. No conspiracy theories here, just an interesting side note.
http://mambo.fiberio.net/ has quite a bit of both TV captures, personal pics, and video of whats been happening. It still amazes me how quickly news, pictures, and video can spread today thanks to our little friend, the internet.
Dvorak said the TiVo systems cost $500 which isn't completly false. The newest ones with larger hard disks do cost that much, and when you add on the subscription they can be quite expensive and definetly not an impulse buy.
I don't think we should get too upset by what Dvorak has to say, after all he does write for magazines which do have advertising as one of their major sources of income. Do you think he would write a column about how great it is to be able to get by without advertising? No, because a large part of his salary is based on advertising, and without it he wouldn't he would obviously make much less money. True journalism is unbiased, and there is no way this piece can fall into that category.
what if i want to transfer this a desktop? most usb ports are in the back, and getting back through that tangled mess of wires is not easy. maybe i'm just lazy...