Oh how I miss Columbia. I would get calls from AcIS all the time about my bandwidth usage..It got to the point that I knew them pretty well and who would be able to restore it for me quickly..
On a related note, a while back Columbia was at the top of the Wired list for worse bandwidth policies at college.
You're probably talking about a different thing. Internet2 is a consortium of industry and universities that are linked together by a high speed [usually OC-42] connection. Regular consumers will not be able to get on this.
What I meant was that a large company as of now, without VOIP will buy excess bandwidth than their daily usage. Typically, corporate entities use on an average day 25-30% of their available bandwidth. They've already paid for much of it and it's just sitting there sucking up money.
You're right that they'd probably need lots of POTS lines as backup. But by routing the calls through VOIP, they eliminate/reduce the long distance charges. So basically the point here is, maximize the use of current resources [bandwidth that they already own], reduce the amount of long distance charges.
Personally, I don't know..I'm just speculating here.
The revenue for these TelCos from Mr. and Mrs Smith is pocket change compared to the revenues from corporate entities. No matter what, companies still need to have telephones. By offering companies this VOIP service, these companies may be able to win over some business from the baby bells, et al.
I just had a thought.. A large company usually buys a lot bigger bandwidth than it actually uses for the "just in case" periods. I wonder if there's a technology out there that will switch between VOIP to POTS and/or back again when the available bandwidth crosses a threshold. This would eliminate a lot of cost and maximize the use of currently available resources.
Well..true..but no... Saudis and Kuwaitis get royalty/dividends from the government from the sale of the oil. It is enough that many of them do not need to work or are not willing to do some of the jobs in the country, so they import them from India.
By definition, unemployment is the number of people seeking work but that can't get a job. So you can't really claim that they have high unemployment if they are not really seeking work [or have a need to seek work]
How much money are you receiving from the production of oil?
But the people that are in this industry are getting a boatload of money. According to your argument, we should all go back to wood burning stoves and steamed powered automobiles.
Like every major project, it's going to government subsidized, but eventually privatized. So in effect, tax payers will be paying so that other people get rich.
That idea is vulnerable to a whole number of issues. First of all, on the internet, no node is trusted. So if routers in between are sending back something and claiming to be from the destination, that router pretty much has hijacked that transaction between the user and the server.
So basically you're saying if I start sending out spam advertising this website called http://www.batkins.com, it would be reasonable for the government to go after the owner of that site? There is no way of knowing for sure whether the spam is used to attack a company by making them liable or whether it is sourced from the company itself.
The problem with DC [and the reason it wasn't implemented] was that it has a problem travelling long distances. After a certain distance, voltage drops off. So you would need a transmission station every couple of miles. Which will be very costly.
Doubt it. From what it reads like, it seems like you need to put just as much of energy in as what you get out. The only difference is that the amount of rate of energy release is an incredible amount [ie explosion]. It's like when you overfill a balloon and it explodes.
Chances are this will not hold up in US courts. In most places that you are employeed, you sign a contract giving up all claims that you may have on the IP of anything you develop on "company time." In paying you a salary, the company has fulfilled it's end of the contract. The IP and source code should then belong to the company.
I don't remember specificly, [it's been over 2 years since Comp Architecture class].. But i thought program code grow downwards and data/memory space grows upwards. That way you have plenty of room for each...but not really sure...
Apple can't strike a deal directly with the artists. First of all, in almost all circumstances, the artists do not own the copyrights to the song, the labels do.
Secondly, Apple isn't there to provide a cheaper alternative to buying an album, they are providing and alternative way to buy a single. I mean if you look at it this way: there is one song that you really like on this album, would you spend $15 just to get that one song or 99 cents to get that one song?
Yup...it's a screwed up world when the artist do not own their own songs. By signing the contract, they give up this right in exchange for an advance on their album sales, radio play time, and marketting.
If they don't do this, there is no possible way they can get anything out there.
unlike on earth, there is no atmosphere in space. Once you give something a little momentum, it keeps spinning until a counter force. Now all you need is very short/small burst of power to get it started. And using the centrifugal force, the outside spins faster than the center.
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Handspring was not a Palm spinoff. I think a bunch of Palm employees decided to go off and start Handspring, but it was not an official split off. There was no relationship between the two other than those early employees.
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There are a couple others, but I don't remember them offhand... So in other words, these characters are unusable for a reason.
You mean something like the space elevator?
Oh how I miss Columbia. I would get calls from AcIS all the time about my bandwidth usage..It got to the point that I knew them pretty well and who would be able to restore it for me quickly..
On a related note, a while back Columbia was at the top of the Wired list for worse bandwidth policies at college.
You're probably talking about a different thing. Internet2 is a consortium of industry and universities that are linked together by a high speed [usually OC-42] connection. Regular consumers will not be able to get on this.
What I meant was that a large company as of now, without VOIP will buy excess bandwidth than their daily usage. Typically, corporate entities use on an average day 25-30% of their available bandwidth. They've already paid for much of it and it's just sitting there sucking up money.
You're right that they'd probably need lots of POTS lines as backup. But by routing the calls through VOIP, they eliminate/reduce the long distance charges. So basically the point here is, maximize the use of current resources [bandwidth that they already own], reduce the amount of long distance charges.
Personally, I don't know..I'm just speculating here.
The revenue for these TelCos from Mr. and Mrs Smith is pocket change compared to the revenues from corporate entities. No matter what, companies still need to have telephones. By offering companies this VOIP service, these companies may be able to win over some business from the baby bells, et al.
I just had a thought.. A large company usually buys a lot bigger bandwidth than it actually uses for the "just in case" periods. I wonder if there's a technology out there that will switch between VOIP to POTS and/or back again when the available bandwidth crosses a threshold. This would eliminate a lot of cost and maximize the use of currently available resources.
You forgot stock options... or is the company too cheap to give out stock options
Well..true..but no... Saudis and Kuwaitis get royalty/dividends from the government from the sale of the oil. It is enough that many of them do not need to work or are not willing to do some of the jobs in the country, so they import them from India.
By definition, unemployment is the number of people seeking work but that can't get a job. So you can't really claim that they have high unemployment if they are not really seeking work [or have a need to seek work]
Yeah, I installed DeadAIM thinking that it would remove it, but it only removed the visual, but not the audio.
Haha...I'm glad I AM NOT the only one to think this when I first saw the headline...
I noticed this too. It is from the new AIM client. The ads that they show have sound now. Very annoying, and I don't know how to cancel/stop it.
How much money are you receiving from the production of oil?
But the people that are in this industry are getting a boatload of money. According to your argument, we should all go back to wood burning stoves and steamed powered automobiles.
Like every major project, it's going to government subsidized, but eventually privatized. So in effect, tax payers will be paying so that other people get rich.
That idea is vulnerable to a whole number of issues. First of all, on the internet, no node is trusted. So if routers in between are sending back something and claiming to be from the destination, that router pretty much has hijacked that transaction between the user and the server.
So basically you're saying if I start sending out spam advertising this website called http://www.batkins.com, it would be reasonable for the government to go after the owner of that site? There is no way of knowing for sure whether the spam is used to attack a company by making them liable or whether it is sourced from the company itself.
BTW: Cingular is GSM and TDMA at least in the tristate area...
But I agree with what you are saying about the locked phones...
The problem with DC [and the reason it wasn't implemented] was that it has a problem travelling long distances. After a certain distance, voltage drops off. So you would need a transmission station every couple of miles. Which will be very costly.
AC vs DC debate
Doubt it. From what it reads like, it seems like you need to put just as much of energy in as what you get out. The only difference is that the amount of rate of energy release is an incredible amount [ie explosion]. It's like when you overfill a balloon and it explodes.
Yeah, I agree. Those deep sea divers bother me a lot too. :-)
also ruins your credit even more b/c that loan request and the denial will be in the report for the future...
Chances are this will not hold up in US courts. In most places that you are employeed, you sign a contract giving up all claims that you may have on the IP of anything you develop on "company time." In paying you a salary, the company has fulfilled it's end of the contract. The IP and source code should then belong to the company.
I don't remember specificly, [it's been over 2 years since Comp Architecture class].. But i thought program code grow downwards and data/memory space grows upwards. That way you have plenty of room for each...but not really sure...
Apple can't strike a deal directly with the artists. First of all, in almost all circumstances, the artists do not own the copyrights to the song, the labels do.
Secondly, Apple isn't there to provide a cheaper alternative to buying an album, they are providing and alternative way to buy a single. I mean if you look at it this way: there is one song that you really like on this album, would you spend $15 just to get that one song or 99 cents to get that one song?
Yup...it's a screwed up world when the artist do not own their own songs. By signing the contract, they give up this right in exchange for an advance on their album sales, radio play time, and marketting.
If they don't do this, there is no possible way they can get anything out there.
unlike on earth, there is no atmosphere in space. Once you give something a little momentum, it keeps spinning until a counter force. Now all you need is very short/small burst of power to get it started. And using the centrifugal force, the outside spins faster than the center.
Handspring was not a Palm spinoff. I think a bunch of Palm employees decided to go off and start Handspring, but it was not an official split off. There was no relationship between the two other than those early employees.