If Network Neutrality is legalized, it really means government regulation. The Internet regulated by the FTC/FCC, and we know how wonderful that won't be. Do we really think open market operations won't solve the issue? I mean if some ISP's are going to be double charging Google for access, I'm willing to bet Google can easily figure out a way around them.
If these telco's say it's ok for them to merge because they are no longer the sole provider of such services (i.e. VOIP, Fiber, etc...), then prove them right by jumping to said 3rd party providers.
Unfortunately, I find none of these are perfect. However, after scouting out the Open Source landscape and some Closed Source solutions, we've landed on BIRT, with the possibility of MS SQL Reporting Services. Our shop is about half and half Java or MS developers, which led us to support what best fits the developer (the primary creator of reports). As well, from our perspective, MS SRS or BIRT is free for us; if MS wasn't free we'd stick to BIRT.
What we liked about MS SRS was the powerful server backend with its own SQL server cache of reports; automated report generation and email; and an auto generated 'homepage' to navigate our collection of reports. Unfortunately to do report gen right, you need Visual Studio 2005 and some SQL tools, which can start eating upwards to 2-4GB on your box. As well the reports themselves I don't find to be as deep and powerful as say BIRT reports.
What we liked (and the one I'm sticking with) about BIRT was the creation of reports themselves is incredibly powerful, though the learning curve is a bit steep. As well, the community base growing behind BIRT and its current rate of growth has us excited that hopefully in the next year or two BIRT will grow into a much more mature platform. However, what I miss in BIRT that MS SRS has is the strong server backend, good strong caching of reports and the autogen 'homepage' for navigation of my report portfolio. To be fair, the server backend is lite and easy to scale in deployment if needed.
In the end, it's about the money and which trade-offs you are willing to stick with.
Miers argued for Microsoft and the new chief justice John Roberts argued for the states against Microsoft, so at least we know the discussions between the two will be lively behind the scenes of the courtroom.
NASA still aiming for Wednesday shuttle launch Hurricane Dennis isn't threatening the liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery, and NASA officials are still aiming for a liftoff next week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8503328&&CM=EmailThis& CE=1
hopefully the poster keeps up with the news, cuz Michael Dell isn't the CEO of Dell. There's a bunch of things Dell (the person) has said he'd love to do but we know Dell (the company) probably wouldn't do.
lets see here, $4.2million, ~$16billion nasa budget, ~$2trillion national budget, ~$10trillion gdp.. this would cost.026% of Nasa budget,.00021% of fed budget,.000042% of gdp, and a stamp on the letter to my congress reps would cost me.00049% of my own annual budget
yeah, i think this is nearly cost effective to tell people of my concern because it's even cost effective for them...
this time around.. though i'm still generally against such massive mergers, now you can ditch the Bells/POTS entirely, via a Cable or Satellite provider, and embrace VOIP. I work for a certain VOIP provider and what I've seen is the biggest thing freaking out the Bells is that they have to compete against cable companies on voice.
doesn't the slashdot crowd generally lean towards the idea that the whole system is broken, that neither bush nor kerry is the solution to the problem?
No, none, zip, zilch commercials, just music (at least with Sirus, they're getting there with XM). And your favorite station is the same station no-matter where you are in the country.
Slashdot Mirror
'Dumbass'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dunham#Walter
Brannigans Law
If Network Neutrality is legalized, it really means government regulation. The Internet regulated by the FTC/FCC, and we know how wonderful that won't be. Do we really think open market operations won't solve the issue? I mean if some ISP's are going to be double charging Google for access, I'm willing to bet Google can easily figure out a way around them.
monopoly, it was real fun...
come on.. just buy into level3 or other that have already done the pure fiber/ip networks...
If these telco's say it's ok for them to merge because they are no longer the sole provider of such services (i.e. VOIP, Fiber, etc...), then prove them right by jumping to said 3rd party providers.
..if it's not a google story, it must be a microsoft story.
Unfortunately, I find none of these are perfect. However, after scouting out the Open Source landscape and some Closed Source solutions, we've landed on BIRT, with the possibility of MS SQL Reporting Services. Our shop is about half and half Java or MS developers, which led us to support what best fits the developer (the primary creator of reports). As well, from our perspective, MS SRS or BIRT is free for us; if MS wasn't free we'd stick to BIRT.
What we liked about MS SRS was the powerful server backend with its own SQL server cache of reports; automated report generation and email; and an auto generated 'homepage' to navigate our collection of reports. Unfortunately to do report gen right, you need Visual Studio 2005 and some SQL tools, which can start eating upwards to 2-4GB on your box. As well the reports themselves I don't find to be as deep and powerful as say BIRT reports.
What we liked (and the one I'm sticking with) about BIRT was the creation of reports themselves is incredibly powerful, though the learning curve is a bit steep. As well, the community base growing behind BIRT and its current rate of growth has us excited that hopefully in the next year or two BIRT will grow into a much more mature platform. However, what I miss in BIRT that MS SRS has is the strong server backend, good strong caching of reports and the autogen 'homepage' for navigation of my report portfolio. To be fair, the server backend is lite and easy to scale in deployment if needed.
In the end, it's about the money and which trade-offs you are willing to stick with.
Miers argued for Microsoft and the new chief justice John Roberts argued for the states against Microsoft, so at least we know the discussions between the two will be lively behind the scenes of the courtroom.
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I think they hit 'other'.
latest launch news says they're not worried:
& CE=1
NASA still aiming for Wednesday shuttle launch
Hurricane Dennis isn't threatening the liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery, and NASA officials are still aiming for a liftoff next week.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8503328&&CM=EmailThis
hopefully the poster keeps up with the news, cuz Michael Dell isn't the CEO of Dell. There's a bunch of things Dell (the person) has said he'd love to do but we know Dell (the company) probably wouldn't do.
Dear FBI:
Get yourself a rack of these: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html/
I'll be expecting a check in the mail for $99million. You know where to find me.
Sincerly,
me
even less work for parents!
jeez...
If I remember correctly, Qwest had this out west (CO), anyone know what happened to it?
lets see here, $4.2million, ~$16billion nasa budget, ~$2trillion national budget, ~$10trillion gdp.. .026% of Nasa budget, .00021% of fed budget, .000042% of gdp, .00049% of my own annual budget
this would cost
and a stamp on the letter to my congress reps would cost me
yeah, i think this is nearly cost effective to tell people of my concern because it's even cost effective for them...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/21 33250&tid=123&tid=129
this time around.. though i'm still generally against such massive mergers, now you can ditch the Bells/POTS entirely, via a Cable or Satellite provider, and embrace VOIP. I work for a certain VOIP provider and what I've seen is the biggest thing freaking out the Bells is that they have to compete against cable companies on voice.
I hope they didn't use robosapien as their webserver as well, cuz man, after only ~30 posts it's already gone
doesn't the slashdot crowd generally lean towards the idea that the whole system is broken, that neither bush nor kerry is the solution to the problem?
No, none, zip, zilch commercials, just music (at least with Sirus, they're getting there with XM). And your favorite station is the same station no-matter where you are in the country.
They already do
"The interview Bush wouldn't like you to hear [indymedia.org]"
Why not? seemed like pretty standard stuff to be, some of your usual boiler plate, no big deal.
i wish we could delete these things
i've almost finished downloading all the new mandrake cd's and they're already out of date