Having a plan in place that encourages a large number of signups and disconnects ("churn") as you suggest with "no contract" does nothing but make each subscriber more expensive to provision and creates a situation where system planners can never accurately perform capacity planning. Believe it or not the call detail records for both voice and data are quite expensive to maintain.
Also "bringing your own phone" can cause a customer service nightmare where people expect to use their POS phones they brought 10 years ago, for which Reps cannot all be fully trained to answer questions. This then leads to all sorts of industry analysts claiming customer satisfaction is garbage when it's really the customer's shooting themselves in the foot.
I work in IT within the Wireless industry. On average it takes about 1 year and a half to break even on each mobile subscriber and get to the point of making any money. Most of this is because the wireless companies are heavily subsidizing the cost of the hardware to get you in as a paying customer.
You can rant and rave all you like about the cost of wireless service, but it's the B2B sales that make the most money, not cheap joe the consumer.
Ether-channel may provide additional bandwith on each pipe that's being used to connect two switches, but it doesn't solve the issue of each session deciding only once which of the multiple pipes to use.
I work as a Storage Architect at a large telco. For moving massive quantities of data from point-a to point-b SAN's still rule the day for us and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Ethernet has several major deficiencies that make it less attractive for being the dump truck of data movement. I'm writing this while thinking of the large enterprise Backup and Recovery environments out there but there are other applications that involve moving massive (think 100+ terabytes nightly) amounts of data around that SAN's are still better suited for.
First of all SAN's by inherent design have the ability to aggregate data across multiple ISL's (trunks) in real-time. If you have 2 pipes between switches your I/O's will be evenly distributed across the links adjusting in real time as needed to fully utilize both links. Need more bandwith? Simply plug in another ISL, done.
Ethernet routing isn't quite as intelligent. Being that data transfers are session based, you can have a completely flooded trunk with the other sitting there idle for endless hours.
While true the next session that starts may choose the 2nd under-utilized path, your pretty much SOL on performance with the first one if it becomes saturated.
This isn't quite as painful if your data transfers involve a vast number of relatively "quick" transactions such as FTP's but with NFS/CIFS mounts these may not be re-evaluated for days, weeks or months. So once a route has been picked you are essentially stuck with that routing decision across your trunk until the session has been re-established.
SAN's were designed for large scale data movement and high IOPs from the beginning. Ethernet on the other hand needs quite a bit of tweaking and still comes up short for some large enterprise applications.
It sounds to me like you are more of a libertarian than a Republican.
The fiscal conservatives within the Republican party are all but
a sub-minority these days. The GOP of today is all about being aligned with the, "Moral Majority".
That isn't always the case. While your salary may remain the same, chances are if your new employer can do the same job for less you are loosing benefits.
I worked for AT&T back in the 90's. When we were outsourced to IBM-GS we were giving crappy health care plans, and lost many of our other benefits.
Don't believe the hype.
I think what is keeping the standard American car buyer from purchasing smaller cars is the lack of luxury features available in the smaller vehicles.
Almost every smaller car sold in the United States is targeted at the Entry-Level in most vehicle lineups. i.e - First car buyers, college kids, etc..
Give us a small car with an option of something other than cheap cloth seats, GPS navigation, keyless entry, and other options that are already available in Europe and on the high-end luxury segment, and I believe many people would be all over it.
I drove a BMW 5 series for the last several years. When gas prices went up I sold it and now have a Honda Fit. It's not as prestigious, yet I couldn't be happier. It's just a shame that all of the upgrades had to come from the after-market.
My parents who are diabetics clued me into an artificial sweetner called Splenda (http://www.splenda.com) that was recommended by the ADA. It is basically a modified sugar molecule so it has a taste almost identical to real sugar with no aspartame after-taste but the body does not covert it as such.
Unfortunately for some unknown reason there are few products that use this sweetner. My favorite however is Diet Rite cola (http://www.dietritecola.com/) It's incredibly inexpensive (compared to real coke) and tastes very much like the real thing.
Look for it at your grocery store, it's great stuff !!
Getting rid of sugary cola's from my diet combined with light cardio has allowed me to drop from 185lbs to 165lbs without much effort.
It's really brillant that you reduce an entire population of people to nothing more than people "assfucking" each other. Someone needs to send you back to the civil war era or wherever it is your close minded arse belongs.
I don't know what you consider "something positive" but I make over a 6 figures salary a year, own my own home and live a very productive and happy life. I've been with the same person for 7 years while my straight friends have pushed out babies and divorced numerous times.
If you had even a grain of compassion in your empty soul you would know that being gay isn't just about deciding one day, "Ohh it would be cool to fuck someone of the same sex. Let me pencil that in for Saturday at noon."
For many people it's primarily about falling in love with someone and eventually realizing that your relationship isn't any less valid than next.
When we have this realization we want the same rights and priviledges that afforded to us that straight couples have. It's really is that simple.
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Having a plan in place that encourages a large number of signups and disconnects ("churn") as you suggest with "no contract" does nothing but make each subscriber more expensive to provision and creates a situation where system planners can never accurately perform capacity planning. Believe it or not the call detail records for both voice and data are quite expensive to maintain.
Also "bringing your own phone" can cause a customer service nightmare where people expect to use their POS phones they brought 10 years ago, for which Reps cannot all be fully trained to answer questions. This then leads to all sorts of industry analysts claiming customer satisfaction is garbage when it's really the customer's shooting themselves in the foot.
I work in IT within the Wireless industry. On average it takes about 1 year and a half to break even on each mobile subscriber and get to the point of making any money. Most of this is because the wireless companies are heavily subsidizing the cost of the hardware to get you in as a paying customer. You can rant and rave all you like about the cost of wireless service, but it's the B2B sales that make the most money, not cheap joe the consumer.
I believe a loosely coupled string of IF statements could have governed better than Bush.
Ether-channel may provide additional bandwith on each pipe that's being used to connect two switches, but it doesn't solve the issue of each session deciding only once which of the multiple pipes to use.
I work as a Storage Architect at a large telco. For moving massive quantities of data from point-a to point-b SAN's still rule the day for us and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Ethernet has several major deficiencies that make it less attractive for being the dump truck of data movement. I'm writing this while thinking of the large enterprise Backup and Recovery environments out there but there are other applications that involve moving massive (think 100+ terabytes nightly) amounts of data around that SAN's are still better suited for.
First of all SAN's by inherent design have the ability to aggregate data across multiple ISL's (trunks) in real-time. If you have 2 pipes between switches your I/O's will be evenly distributed across the links adjusting in real time as needed to fully utilize both links. Need more bandwith? Simply plug in another ISL, done.
Ethernet routing isn't quite as intelligent. Being that data transfers are session based, you can have a completely flooded trunk with the other sitting there idle for endless hours.
While true the next session that starts may choose the 2nd under-utilized path, your pretty much SOL on performance with the first one if it becomes saturated.
This isn't quite as painful if your data transfers involve a vast number of relatively "quick" transactions such as FTP's but with NFS/CIFS mounts these may not be re-evaluated for days, weeks or months. So once a route has been picked you are essentially stuck with that routing decision across your trunk until the session has been re-established.
SAN's were designed for large scale data movement and high IOPs from the beginning. Ethernet on the other hand needs quite a bit of tweaking and still comes up short for some large enterprise applications.
The fiscal conservatives within the Republican party are all but a sub-minority these days. The GOP of today is all about being aligned with the, "Moral Majority".
I'm waiting for Virtual Bush Presidency. Hopefully re-living the economic horror of the past 8 years will be therapeutic.
Could it be? The lost city of Atlanta!
That isn't always the case. While your salary may remain the same, chances are if your new employer can do the same job for less you are loosing benefits. I worked for AT&T back in the 90's. When we were outsourced to IBM-GS we were giving crappy health care plans, and lost many of our other benefits. Don't believe the hype.
Almost every smaller car sold in the United States is targeted at the Entry-Level in most vehicle lineups. i.e - First car buyers, college kids, etc..
Give us a small car with an option of something other than cheap cloth seats, GPS navigation, keyless entry, and other options that are already available in Europe and on the high-end luxury segment, and I believe many people would be all over it.
I drove a BMW 5 series for the last several years. When gas prices went up I sold it and now have a Honda Fit. It's not as prestigious, yet I couldn't be happier. It's just a shame that all of the upgrades had to come from the after-market.
My parents who are diabetics clued me into an artificial sweetner called Splenda (http://www.splenda.com) that was recommended by the ADA. It is basically a modified sugar molecule so it has a taste almost identical to real sugar with no aspartame after-taste but the body does not covert it as such. Unfortunately for some unknown reason there are few products that use this sweetner. My favorite however is Diet Rite cola (http://www.dietritecola.com/) It's incredibly inexpensive (compared to real coke) and tastes very much like the real thing. Look for it at your grocery store, it's great stuff !! Getting rid of sugary cola's from my diet combined with light cardio has allowed me to drop from 185lbs to 165lbs without much effort.
I don't know what you consider "something positive" but I make over a 6 figures salary a year, own my own home and live a very productive and happy life. I've been with the same person for 7 years while my straight friends have pushed out babies and divorced numerous times. If you had even a grain of compassion in your empty soul you would know that being gay isn't just about deciding one day, "Ohh it would be cool to fuck someone of the same sex. Let me pencil that in for Saturday at noon." For many people it's primarily about falling in love with someone and eventually realizing that your relationship isn't any less valid than next. When we have this realization we want the same rights and priviledges that afforded to us that straight couples have. It's really is that simple.
As homophobic as this guy is I'd vote for, "deeply repressed homosexual".