Virgin Media is using a DOCSIS fibre/coax hybrid network. Fibre is run to the "street cabinet" which functions as the local fibre node which is in turn connected to the coax that runs to the home. Normally in the UK, the local node is only tens of metres away from the demarc at the premises.
The 50->100mb upgrade that they are doing right now is basically bumping up the channels available on DOCSIS3. I suspect they have reclaimed some channels from legacy cable technologies that had been phased out so they are using that for additional downstream and upstream bandwidth.
In a 1996 report based on Atomic Energy Commission and DOE data entitled Reported Incidents Involving Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipments, 1949 to Present, the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects documents 72 nuclear waste transportation accidents. Four involve accidental radioactive material contamination beyond the vehicle (Table 1); four involve contamination confined to the vehicle (Table 2); 13 involve traffic accidents with no release or contamination; 49 involve accidental container surface contamination; and two accidents include no description.
The US is a big country with a relatively low population density which does not depend on the export of natural resources on the functioning of its economy. Your homesteading argument makes no sense as mineral right is only a extremely small portion of the economy in the US. Furthermore, the government of Nauru did not directly invest the proceeds that it held on behalf of its people. It was held in a trust fund with a private trustees. This is the preferred way of handling such matters, as one would imagine that the resources mined from public land would benefit the entire population. If the money was given back to the people, it's unlikely they would of invested the majority of it. Look at the tax cut checks that Bush sent out, how many people took that money and invested it verses the number of people that went out and spent it at Wal-Mart?
Finally, what's wrong with giving good business to the Middle East? It helps everyone.
That is a very naive view of trade. Take for example the plight of the citizens of Nauru. Although different in scale, it parallels the situation we have in the Middle East.
The Republic of Nauru is a small island nation in the Pacific which had an economy that was based almost solely on phosphate mining which was plentiful once, but not any more. In the beginning, most of the money generate from this industry went to the Australian interests who were exploiting the mines, then gradually the islanders wised up and negotiated a better deal. This money was saved up in a trust fund, but ultimately corruption set in and the trust fund lost most of its value. At the same time, mining had stopped on the island as the phosphate ran out. Now the unemployment rate is near 90% the government failed in implementing reforms to encourage a diverse economy and the establishment of alternative industries.
Trade is not always good, and in some case (such as what's happening in the middle east), it is very exploitive to the people of the lands on which we are sucking the resources from. Many times, it only benefits a few at the top and the money never trickles down to the working population. That frequently causes political instability as the leaders has the resources from the mineral or oil wealth to establish an authoritarian regime. It often causes over-dependency on the export of the natural resources within the state. Once the resources are depleted, what results is a failed state.
I love Ubuntu. I don't use it on my desktop or notebook, but I love it nonetheless. I install it for friends and family that don't want Windows, the reasons why are numerous and not really relevant to this discussion.
The feedback from them is usually very good. Some get annoyed now and then that some program doesn't run as it's only available on Windows or OSX, but more and more, the application that people use is found online. The Internet is the great equalizer for operating systems. The platform has essentially moved onto the server side and the browser.
Google's majority of voting shares is still owned by the founders together with Eric Schmidt. As such, the company is a reflection of their wills as they effectively have tenure.
This will change eventually and there is a possibility that the whole corporate ethos may change for the worse. Cadbury ran a pretty ethical organization for over 180 years (partly derived from the founding family's Quaker roots), until Kraft bought them out. Especially despicable was Kraft's promise that the Keynsham factory was not to be closed if the merger went through. They reneged on that promise a few months after the acquisition was completed.
For me, the WP7 UI is the problem. It's ripped straight out of a graphic design ad. There is a reason why books aren't printed in bright colored paper with funny font and no margins.
Metro is a UI ripped out from a graphics design mag like "Wallpaper*", "GD USA" or "Print". It's basically something you would find on a MP3 player or game UI. Looks nice, but usability suffers when your interface starts to get busy.
In fact, many of SIIA's sources report that their primary reason for leaving the target company was the company's lack of ethical behavior related to software compliance.
It's a shock what people lose sleep over in this day and age.
HTC was never particularly successful in the mass market before Android. In the WinMo days, HTC phone targeted the poweruser that could live with WinMo's faults while it perfected the in-house hardware design and software customization skills. Basically, MS gave it a launching pad, but you have to give credit to HTC for their initiative, most Taiwanese WinMo partners wasn't able to see pass the fact that WinMo was a dead end. HTC saw this and tactically positioned itself in the Android camp, while paying lip service to Microsoft. The HD2 was the ultimate exercise in the futile attempt of polishing a turd.
In GSM markets, since the release of the Desire, things have been up and up for HTC. The Desire is the first real iPhone alternative for the casual smartphone user. It's easy to use, looks good, and can load apps from the Market fuss-free. Push email works well and you get to sync all of your important PIM details such as contacts and calendars for free. Navigation via Google Maps is not only free but ever improving.
The Pre3 and TouchPad was just announced by HP a few days ago. The hardware has caught up and the pair up between tablet and phone under webOS looks exciting.
The E71 is excellent hardware, let down by Symbian. That's not a problem if Meego finally got to the market, but it was never taken seriously within Nokia. I'm sure there was so much political bickering within Nokia between the Maemo/Meego and Symbian camps that MS just waited till it hit the fans and came in to swoop the prize.
*Most* regulations were enacted to correct market distortions. Food safety regulations was put in for a reason. Same for regulation in the medical and engineering professions. The reason is that there is a huge discrepancy in information between the people participating in the exchange. Given the circumstances it is unreasonable to expect a layperson dealing with a medical professional to be able to judge his or her competency on an individual basis. Often, if he is found to be incompetent, then it would already be too late. In these cases, regulation is there to ensure a standard of competency (or care) protecting society from substandard or unscrupulous vendors.
Barriers of entry tends to pop up when participants grow powerful in the market. Economies of scale, abuse of bargaining power, predatory pricing, use of financial muscle to instigate legal action, all stem from the market itself, and does not require state intervention. In fact, one of the most important functions of the state is to ensure the level of competition is healthy in a market.
*Some* regulations cause barriers of entries unnecessarily. Most of these are actually instigated by the powerful interests themselves - this intense lobbying usually pays off for current vendors by limiting supply in a market. What we can do is to put systems in place to ensure that this doesn't happen. There is no point throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Although they won't find many first-world countries where the government isn't significantly involved in the regulating society and running public services.
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Pro tip: read up on classical liberalism.
The US political arena is full of spin men manipulating public opinion by changing the meaning of words. George Orwell, rings a bell?
Socialism isn't the dirty word you seem to think it is.
Virgin Media is using a DOCSIS fibre/coax hybrid network. Fibre is run to the "street cabinet" which functions as the local fibre node which is in turn connected to the coax that runs to the home. Normally in the UK, the local node is only tens of metres away from the demarc at the premises.
The 50->100mb upgrade that they are doing right now is basically bumping up the channels available on DOCSIS3. I suspect they have reclaimed some channels from legacy cable technologies that had been phased out so they are using that for additional downstream and upstream bandwidth.
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From the article:
In a 1996 report based on Atomic Energy Commission and DOE data entitled Reported Incidents Involving Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipments, 1949 to Present, the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects documents 72 nuclear waste transportation accidents. Four involve accidental radioactive material contamination beyond the vehicle (Table 1); four involve contamination confined to the vehicle (Table 2); 13 involve traffic accidents with no release or contamination; 49 involve accidental container surface contamination; and two accidents include no description.
Resource exploitation on a grand scale is instrumented by trade (but, of course, not all trade is resource exploitation).
What do you think the Nauru did with all that phosphate? Dinner?
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Thanks for proving that given enough monkeys, a slashdot post will result. Come collect your banana.
You post is completely non sequitur.
The US is a big country with a relatively low population density which does not depend on the export of natural resources on the functioning of its economy. Your homesteading argument makes no sense as mineral right is only a extremely small portion of the economy in the US. Furthermore, the government of Nauru did not directly invest the proceeds that it held on behalf of its people. It was held in a trust fund with a private trustees. This is the preferred way of handling such matters, as one would imagine that the resources mined from public land would benefit the entire population. If the money was given back to the people, it's unlikely they would of invested the majority of it. Look at the tax cut checks that Bush sent out, how many people took that money and invested it verses the number of people that went out and spent it at Wal-Mart?
The oil markets are global. A demand and supply of oil in any one country will affect the spot price of oil around the world.
Finally, what's wrong with giving good business to the Middle East? It helps everyone.
That is a very naive view of trade. Take for example the plight of the citizens of Nauru. Although different in scale, it parallels the situation we have in the Middle East.
The Republic of Nauru is a small island nation in the Pacific which had an economy that was based almost solely on phosphate mining which was plentiful once, but not any more. In the beginning, most of the money generate from this industry went to the Australian interests who were exploiting the mines, then gradually the islanders wised up and negotiated a better deal. This money was saved up in a trust fund, but ultimately corruption set in and the trust fund lost most of its value. At the same time, mining had stopped on the island as the phosphate ran out. Now the unemployment rate is near 90% the government failed in implementing reforms to encourage a diverse economy and the establishment of alternative industries.
Trade is not always good, and in some case (such as what's happening in the middle east), it is very exploitive to the people of the lands on which we are sucking the resources from. Many times, it only benefits a few at the top and the money never trickles down to the working population. That frequently causes political instability as the leaders has the resources from the mineral or oil wealth to establish an authoritarian regime. It often causes over-dependency on the export of the natural resources within the state. Once the resources are depleted, what results is a failed state.
I love Ubuntu. I don't use it on my desktop or notebook, but I love it nonetheless. I install it for friends and family that don't want Windows, the reasons why are numerous and not really relevant to this discussion.
The feedback from them is usually very good. Some get annoyed now and then that some program doesn't run as it's only available on Windows or OSX, but more and more, the application that people use is found online. The Internet is the great equalizer for operating systems. The platform has essentially moved onto the server side and the browser.
Google's majority of voting shares is still owned by the founders together with Eric Schmidt. As such, the company is a reflection of their wills as they effectively have tenure.
This will change eventually and there is a possibility that the whole corporate ethos may change for the worse. Cadbury ran a pretty ethical organization for over 180 years (partly derived from the founding family's Quaker roots), until Kraft bought them out. Especially despicable was Kraft's promise that the Keynsham factory was not to be closed if the merger went through. They reneged on that promise a few months after the acquisition was completed.
That's why we should have a government should be accountable to us. Not to completely destroy it.
The system has been online since the middle of last year. Nice for you to drop by and dish out out your golden nuggets of wisdom tough.
For me, the WP7 UI is the problem. It's ripped straight out of a graphic design ad. There is a reason why books aren't printed in bright colored paper with funny font and no margins.
Metro is a UI ripped out from a graphics design mag like "Wallpaper*", "GD USA" or "Print". It's basically something you would find on a MP3 player or game UI. Looks nice, but usability suffers when your interface starts to get busy.
BGP dampening is designed to stop this. I don't know why this is getting any press at all.
In fact, many of SIIA's sources report that their primary reason for leaving the target company was the company's lack of ethical behavior related to software compliance.
It's a shock what people lose sleep over in this day and age.
HTC was never particularly successful in the mass market before Android. In the WinMo days, HTC phone targeted the poweruser that could live with WinMo's faults while it perfected the in-house hardware design and software customization skills. Basically, MS gave it a launching pad, but you have to give credit to HTC for their initiative, most Taiwanese WinMo partners wasn't able to see pass the fact that WinMo was a dead end. HTC saw this and tactically positioned itself in the Android camp, while paying lip service to Microsoft. The HD2 was the ultimate exercise in the futile attempt of polishing a turd.
In GSM markets, since the release of the Desire, things have been up and up for HTC. The Desire is the first real iPhone alternative for the casual smartphone user. It's easy to use, looks good, and can load apps from the Market fuss-free. Push email works well and you get to sync all of your important PIM details such as contacts and calendars for free. Navigation via Google Maps is not only free but ever improving.
The Pre3 and TouchPad was just announced by HP a few days ago. The hardware has caught up and the pair up between tablet and phone under webOS looks exciting.
The E71 is excellent hardware, let down by Symbian. That's not a problem if Meego finally got to the market, but it was never taken seriously within Nokia. I'm sure there was so much political bickering within Nokia between the Maemo/Meego and Symbian camps that MS just waited till it hit the fans and came in to swoop the prize.
Come on.. proper data structure design is stuff that they teach in first year at university in CS courses...
The point he made is that you could, if you want to live in Somalia, for example, which is apparently a libertarian paradise.
Selective cognition is selective.
*Most* regulations were enacted to correct market distortions. Food safety regulations was put in for a reason. Same for regulation in the medical and engineering professions. The reason is that there is a huge discrepancy in information between the people participating in the exchange. Given the circumstances it is unreasonable to expect a layperson dealing with a medical professional to be able to judge his or her competency on an individual basis. Often, if he is found to be incompetent, then it would already be too late. In these cases, regulation is there to ensure a standard of competency (or care) protecting society from substandard or unscrupulous vendors.
Barriers of entry tends to pop up when participants grow powerful in the market. Economies of scale, abuse of bargaining power, predatory pricing, use of financial muscle to instigate legal action, all stem from the market itself, and does not require state intervention. In fact, one of the most important functions of the state is to ensure the level of competition is healthy in a market.
*Some* regulations cause barriers of entries unnecessarily. Most of these are actually instigated by the powerful interests themselves - this intense lobbying usually pays off for current vendors by limiting supply in a market. What we can do is to put systems in place to ensure that this doesn't happen. There is no point throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
He said -
Although they won't find many first-world countries where the government isn't significantly involved in the regulating society and running public services.
You said -
Well, there's always the option of secession.
I say -
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FFS.. there are several typos in what is supposed to be a "print ad"...