VOIP has to compete in the real world. Nothing is "free." It's not fair to the local telcos to have to bill us for 911 or e911 services and the VIOP companies don't.
If they're going to sell themselves as a replacement for traditional telephone services, they'll have to provide the same services and if they need to tack on $0.25 so be it.
Long distance companies in my market are calling with their new all inclusive local/long distance services. They quote this great rate that seems to be cheaper than my phone bill. What they want me look at is my current phone bill's bottom line.
What they fail to point out is that their quoted rate doesn't include the fee they must pay the local telco for use of the copper. They also don't point out that taxes and 911 fee. Add that stuff in and their rate doesn't look so good.
What it did do of prompt a decent price from the same package of service from my local telco. Competition is good as long as there is a level playing field.
VOIP is going to be good. It may even be what local telco providers are forced by pricing to adopt as their standard package. But then some things are goign to have to change. 911 and e911 is one.
Someone else pointed out that cell phones don't have 911. But they do! More and more dialing 911 one the cell phone will result in being patched through to the 911 operator for the location of the cell phone.
So are VOIP providers going to go beyond mapping my account to a single 10 digit emerency number? Curious question eh?
To those of us with Alphas, 64bit is old news. About tens years old. Those running OpenVMS know that those sneaky old OpenVMS engineers even devised a scheme such that 32bit applications run quite blissfully in the newer 64bit environment.
I heard Crayola used to add asbetos to crayons to make them stronger. All locked inside wax so not likely to cause the breathing problems, but it's there. Makes you think about those candles one used to make that were colored with crayons though...
I'm not happy with the ruling. However, this doesn't spell the end of competition. There are several manufactures of printers. Even if each where to be able to lock down all sales of cartridges for their own printers, it's still a long way from a monopoly. No monopoly, then I would also assert the situation's a long way from printer manufactures charging "whatever" they wnat. They do afterall have to compete against the total cost of ownersihp of the other makes of printer on the market.
Dell's supposedly bringing it's own printer to market, that should keep the other pretty honest.
My solution is to buy medium grade file drawers that are two high. Then buy solid core wood doors. The doors are blanks without cutouts for hinges or doorknobs, etc. I sand, stain and poly the doors. Depending on the file drawers' depth the door can be laid across the drawers or a block of wood anchored to the wall to support the back of the door.
Then a Hole saw can be used to drill the right sized hole for wires to be feed through the back ofhte doors. A couple of well placed screws allow a power strip to be mounted underneath the door. Large ladder hooks can be screwed in for cable runs. I even mount my keyboard drawers where I want them.
You're stuck. Can't fit much in a 10x10 2 dimensional space. Now if there were some height then you could:
1) Build a loft. A cube with a attic...
2) My cube space often has "dead" space at the very back underneath the desk. Assuming the space is not already occupied with system parts you could place selves there.
3) If multiple systems and monitors, get a Multi-PC contoller that switches the monitor/keyboard/mouse to your different systems.
4) Throw out the manuals you have looked at in five years. Particularly if there is an online version available. Serious do you really still use RUNOFF?
5) Sell trade those peices parts. That RP05 for the PDP11 looks great, but it take up a lot of space.
6) Replace hard copy manuals with online version if you use them less than once per week. How often do you really code your Postscript documents by hand?
7) All those little teepee keypad guides you look at once a year? Scan them, store the image in a well named place and pitch the hardcopy.
8) Do you really need 5 4 ft. stacks of 3.5" diskettes in salvaged from old software? Not to mention 5.25", 7", 9", etc. etc. etc.
9) Iris makes great filing drawers that roll under most desk tops. They come in different drawer configurations.
10) "Borrow" the extra shelf from the un occupied cube down the aisle.
11) While you're at it, those selves often fit on the wall on the outside of the cube. 4-7 of them can hold a lot of notebooks.;)
12) Convince your building coordinator that your team needs an MT cube for storage then forget to tell the rest of your team about it.
13) Convince your neighbor that that dusty dot matrix printer you're storing would be great attached to HIS/HER PC and served to the network.
14) Request to work from home. This works particularly well if the eigtheen-year-old with a 12x16 bedroom has just gone to college. Remember though, most work-from-home plans don't include adding extra electrical circuits for the four systems or more you take home with you.
RE: Secratary, nope not many people them. Now they are AAs (Admin. Assistants) or EA (Executive Assistants) Partners at place like Accenture (formerly know and Andersen Consulting) get EAs.
In my company several teams share one AA.
Todd
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VOIP has to compete in the real world. Nothing is "free." It's not fair to the local telcos to have to bill us for 911 or e911 services and the VIOP companies don't.
If they're going to sell themselves as a replacement for traditional telephone services, they'll have to provide the same services and if they need to tack on $0.25 so be it.
Long distance companies in my market are calling with their new all inclusive local/long distance services. They quote this great rate that seems to be cheaper than my phone bill. What they want me look at is my current phone bill's bottom line.
What they fail to point out is that their quoted rate doesn't include the fee they must pay the local telco for use of the copper. They also don't point out that taxes and 911 fee. Add that stuff in and their rate doesn't look so good.
What it did do of prompt a decent price from the same package of service from my local telco. Competition is good as long as there is a level playing field.
VOIP is going to be good. It may even be what local telco providers are forced by pricing to adopt as their standard package. But then some things are goign to have to change. 911 and e911 is one.
Someone else pointed out that cell phones don't have 911. But they do! More and more dialing 911 one the cell phone will result in being patched through to the 911 operator for the location of the cell phone.
So are VOIP providers going to go beyond mapping my account to a single 10 digit emerency number? Curious question eh?
To those of us with Alphas, 64bit is old news. About tens years old. Those running OpenVMS know that those sneaky old OpenVMS engineers even devised a scheme such that 32bit applications run quite blissfully in the newer 64bit environment.
I heard Crayola used to add asbetos to crayons to make them stronger. All locked inside wax so not likely to cause the breathing problems, but it's there. Makes you think about those candles one used to make that were colored with crayons though...
I'm not happy with the ruling. However, this doesn't spell the end of competition. There are several manufactures of printers. Even if each where to be able to lock down all sales of cartridges for their own printers, it's still a long way from a monopoly. No monopoly, then I would also assert the situation's a long way from printer manufactures charging "whatever" they wnat. They do afterall have to compete against the total cost of ownersihp of the other makes of printer on the market.
Dell's supposedly bringing it's own printer to market, that should keep the other pretty honest.
My solution is to buy medium grade file drawers that are two high. Then buy solid core wood doors. The doors are blanks without cutouts for hinges or doorknobs, etc. I sand, stain and poly the doors. Depending on the file drawers' depth the door can be laid across the drawers or a block of wood anchored to the wall to support the back of the door.
Then a Hole saw can be used to drill the right sized hole for wires to be feed through the back ofhte doors. A couple of well placed screws allow a power strip to be mounted underneath the door. Large ladder hooks can be screwed in for cable runs. I even mount my keyboard drawers where I want them.
Todd
You're stuck. Can't fit much in a 10x10 2 dimensional space. Now if there were some height then you could: 1) Build a loft. A cube with a attic... 2) My cube space often has "dead" space at the very back underneath the desk. Assuming the space is not already occupied with system parts you could place selves there. 3) If multiple systems and monitors, get a Multi-PC contoller that switches the monitor/keyboard/mouse to your different systems. 4) Throw out the manuals you have looked at in five years. Particularly if there is an online version available. Serious do you really still use RUNOFF? 5) Sell trade those peices parts. That RP05 for the PDP11 looks great, but it take up a lot of space. 6) Replace hard copy manuals with online version if you use them less than once per week. How often do you really code your Postscript documents by hand? 7) All those little teepee keypad guides you look at once a year? Scan them, store the image in a well named place and pitch the hardcopy. 8) Do you really need 5 4 ft. stacks of 3.5" diskettes in salvaged from old software? Not to mention 5.25", 7", 9", etc. etc. etc. 9) Iris makes great filing drawers that roll under most desk tops. They come in different drawer configurations. 10) "Borrow" the extra shelf from the un occupied cube down the aisle. 11) While you're at it, those selves often fit on the wall on the outside of the cube. 4-7 of them can hold a lot of notebooks. ;)
12) Convince your building coordinator that your team needs an MT cube for storage then forget to tell the rest of your team about it.
13) Convince your neighbor that that dusty dot matrix printer you're storing would be great attached to HIS/HER PC and served to the network.
14) Request to work from home. This works particularly well if the eigtheen-year-old with a 12x16 bedroom has just gone to college. Remember though, most work-from-home plans don't include adding extra electrical circuits for the four systems or more you take home with you.
RE: Secratary, nope not many people them. Now they are AAs (Admin. Assistants) or EA (Executive Assistants) Partners at place like Accenture (formerly know and Andersen Consulting) get EAs. In my company several teams share one AA. Todd