These will be huge in medical equipment if they're proven reliable. Imagine being able to monitor patients at home 24/7 over the web, or using these in hospitals for real time monitor and capture of medical monitors'data (EKG's etc.) over the Hospital LAN. Doctors could even use these to check up on patients from home without having to bother the nurses on duty.
And in terms of having one in your refrigerator, though you might not need/want one there, a supermarket chain or restaurant might! Why do you think that so many are stafffed 24 hours? To keep an eye on the refrigeration equipment.
I can also see these being used in process control devices, automation, and remote control units.
I can see these being used in cars for diagnostics, as opposed to the propritary interfaces now used. One of these and a wifi would allow car service places to check out your car without you having to actually come into the dealership. Just start up the car and let us have a look at all its parameters over the web.
The car could even tell them when something's going wrong or when routine service is coming due. They could also be used this way as/in a form of imbedded theft control device for the vehicle.
In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix.
"The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century" Chairman David Boies said today.
"We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and software Intellectual property"
Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue Microsoft for the use of the name "windows".
and it's use for networking.
"I came up with the idea of windows networking
30 years ago" Boies said. "When I was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In other words, Windows networking"
Sounds like the right thing to do to me.
SCO is just a lying sack of shit...They promised that they WOULDN'T do this, then they did!
They deserve to be put out of business....FOREVER!
B O I E S C O T T !!!
This is NEW?
Chicago producer Steve Albini and Front person for Hole, Courtney Love both did this analysis years ago! To quote Steve: "What each band member made is about what they would have made working at Dunkin Donuts".
Do I make myself clear to you? There's only so much POLE SPACE!!!!! The fact is that the wires that the telco's own were depreciated YEARS AGO!!!! Any $$ the telcos make from their wires is PURE GRAVY!
I suppose that you'll be HAPPY when cheap long distance goes by the wayside (in the next FCC decision that will unbundle Long distance) But HEY you won't mind...'cause they'll be only ONE HUGE CHECK to mail instead of TWO MUCH SMALLER ONES!!
Lobbyists: $1.5 million
Payment to RNC: $ 1 million
Payoffs to FCC Comms: $ 500K
Rewards: PRICELESS!
For the rich, there's richer. For the rest of us there's getting screwed!
Talk about a land grab! The FCC seems to want to use the Communications act of 1996 to DECREASE competition in the marketplace. First radio, now TV and telephone! What's next? BANNING VOIP???!!!
There are a few Commissioners who have fat swiss bank accounts because of this!!
I cannot believe this bad decision, whose ramifications will do more to hurt net that any single other decision ever made!
THIS IS BOGUS!!!
Sometimes I wonder if (the) Government and the courts have any engineers woking for them. These politicians are uninformed people who show their stupidity and ignorance every time they pass laws like this. How many times has politics gotten in the way of technology? Millions of times, I'm sure! This is yet another example of the Lawmakers saying: "Don't confuse me with (the) FACTS!"
"Matt French is a product specialist at Best Buy in Mishawaka. He says, "Tube TV's start at around $700. The projection televisions start at around $1100 for the square televisions and the 4x3. And about $1500 for wide screen TVs."
But that's not the total price. With that $700 model, you'll need a tuner, which will add another $400 to $700 plus about $150 for cables. That brings the total price in at least around $1300."
I paid $199.00 for my 27 inch Daewoo color TV at Fry's three years ago. For the amount of TV I watch, it serves me just fine! The deadline for DTV will be moved back several times. Just watch. The average person simply isn't going to shell out "At least $1300.00" for TV in this recession! Food and clothing are simply more iportant - though the Channel 13 weather girl here in L.A. who does the weather braless in her tank top and tight leather pants would sure look cool in HDTV!;-)
What defines a communications service? Normally, a service that is part of the PTSN (Public Telephone Switched Network). The FCC regulates the PTSN for the following reasons:
1. Interoperabliity: I should be able to take a phone that I bought in Massachusetts to California, plug it into a phone jack there,
and have it work. I should be able to connect to any other phone hooked up to the PTSN no matter what phone company the other phone is connected too (there are literally hundreds of phone companies in the United States).
2. Minimum quality (uniformity): There are technical standards with regards to frequency response, distortion, audio level, number of ringers allowed, echo in the call, etc. etc. These are to establish a minimum quality for the PTSN. There are also rules establishing area codes and LATAS, E-911, etc. Finally, there is a requirement that voice serice operate even when the local power is off.
3. Rates: The FCC, along with the various states set local phone rates. For example, The FCC mandates "lifeline service" a cheap measured service for low income families. This is based upon the premise that having a phone is in: "The public interest, convenience and necessity".
These and other things define what a phone company is. NOW....in the recent past, the FCC has waived many of these rules. For example, look at the difference in quality and reliability you can have with mobile phones. It's all over the place. This is because mobile phones are not considered part of the PTSN. Instead they kind of: "Hang off the edge" of it.
The FCC lets the marketplace decide how good the call needs to be. If a particular service has lousy quality, the belief is that the public will buy another service. AND (and this is an important point) Other services are available!
There is generally but one wired phone network, but there are plenty of wireless companies. Same thing with VOIP companies.
What the telcos are saying is: "Hey, you require US to follow these costly rules, but RCN, AT&T Cable, Vonage and others don't have to. This is unfair. RCN, AT&T cable et al are marketing their services as a replacement of the main phone line. In my opinion they should be regulated then. Why? Simple. Their service dies when the power goes out! What if you got sick during a storm or your house caught fire and you couldn't call for help because the power was out?
Vonage responds that they market their service as a 'second telephone service' rather then a primary one. However, lately they have been marketing themselves as: "The broadband phone company". If they want to follow this path, then they should be regulated too. Personally, I think it's GOOD that the FCC regulates the PTSN.
Now, should free world dialup be regulated. No.
Why? because it doesn't hook to the PTSN, nor is it marketed or intended as a replacement for it.
It's more like a big intercom system.
The FCC must really think this is important to assign it a docket number this quickly. They assigned one in less then two weeks! Usually, it takes 4-6 months for them to do that! They've also suspended their ex-parte rules insofar as comments are concerned to make it easier to file them. Be assured that I shall file comments.
Verizon told me that my company qualified for 7100/768 service, because we were only 6000 feet from the C.O. When it was installed, I was getting about half that. They came and tested and said "Well, there's too much 'hot stuff'
(T-1's, etc.) in the lines that run down the street, and all you can get is 1.5/386". When I reminded them that that was what I was UPGRADING FROM, their response was 'oh'.
Telcos in the U.S. have always been 20+ years behind the rest of the world. In Europe, they had ISDN in the mid 1970's. It wasn't available widely here until the late 90's (and it still has all the problems of a 'new' service here).
Up until ten years ago, the central office in my town used a Strowger step switch. That's right, technology from the late 1800s. Modeming through it was a nightmare! Most large cities had crossbar exchanges until at least the mid 1980's while they were pretty much gone in most european cities ten years earlier.
Phone service in Europe is pretty much a government thing, while here in the U.S. it's corporate, and those corporations are going to squeeze every last dime out of the old equipment until the cost of maintaining, repairing it etc. is higher then replacing it. Only then do they open the wallet. An attitude like that is based on 'old yankee thrift', which while it worked great 100 years ago, is outdated in today's world.
DALnet belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there?
IRC Belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there?
The INTERNET belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there?
The day that ANYONE thinks they OWN ANY PART of the 'net is the day that the 'net effectively DIES!
I guess it's well on its way to death then, isn't it?
Get it?
and I find it pathetic that I'm forced to scour the playlists of various radio stations in obscure markets around the country, then download the music to sample it and also find myself listening to Internet stations in small towns because radio in the LARGEST MEDIA MARKET in the world doesn't have a radio station I like!
The record industry should be HAPPY thay have a loyal customer like me who WORKS HARD to find titles to buy. Instead, they call me a CRIMINAL!
Is this their idea of giving the customer what they want?
Frankly, I'd love to own a record company. It's easy to make money. Even if you can't market yourself out of a paper bag, don't worry! Congress and the courts will help you be the ONLY GAME IN TOWN, because after all, this is how the marketplace is supposed to work!
If ever one member of Congress got voted out......
on
NARAS vs. the RIAA
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If even one member of Congress got thrown out because of his anti-consumer pro business stand (IE: corporations over constituants), you'd see things change 180 degrees. FEAR is what drives all this. The RIAA wants us to FEAR using P2P programs and uses the Congress and courts as their henchmen. Congressmen and senators have FEAR of not having a well oiled campaign machine to spread their lies about how much they do for the voters in TV ads.
If the voters got together as a group and threw out just one person, the FEAR that went through Congress would be monumental! It's not as hard as it seems: just look at the 2002 election. The anti abortionists and religious righters were able to successfully change control of the Senate. All it took was a few carefully chosen contests. If these clowns can figure it out, it should be a snap for smart people like ourselves...or we all a bunch of armchair whiners?
"we are in the customer relationship business.'
If that's so much the case, then how come the only "customers" you mainly market to are under 25 years of age? In case you haven't noticed, the largers demographic group in the world is now the 25-54 group. You know, the one you barely give lip service to, and when you do call us crooks and thieves!
Your industry is dying because you're still trying to market the equilavent of the buggy whip in the age of the Spece Shuttle.
Plus, you have the arrogance to actually believe that YOU make the music??!! Let me clue you in: artists and musicians make music, and all the blow you do every day doesn't give any of you one shread of musical talent!
Q: How many A&R (artist and repertoire, the ones who find and sign bands) persons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I don't know, what do you think?
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These will be huge in medical equipment if they're proven reliable. Imagine being able to monitor patients at home 24/7 over the web, or using these in hospitals for real time monitor and capture of medical monitors'data (EKG's etc.) over the Hospital LAN. Doctors could even use these to check up on patients from home without having to bother the nurses on duty. And in terms of having one in your refrigerator, though you might not need/want one there, a supermarket chain or restaurant might! Why do you think that so many are stafffed 24 hours? To keep an eye on the refrigeration equipment. I can also see these being used in process control devices, automation, and remote control units.
I can see these being used in cars for diagnostics, as opposed to the propritary interfaces now used. One of these and a wifi would allow car service places to check out your car without you having to actually come into the dealership. Just start up the car and let us have a look at all its parameters over the web. The car could even tell them when something's going wrong or when routine service is coming due. They could also be used this way as/in a form of imbedded theft control device for the vehicle.
In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix. "The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century" Chairman David Boies said today. "We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and software Intellectual property" Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue Microsoft for the use of the name "windows". and it's use for networking. "I came up with the idea of windows networking 30 years ago" Boies said. "When I was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In other words, Windows networking"
I'm sure that Michael Jackson has already bought his plane ticket to London for this one! Now, I wonder what (who'll?) he'll look like NEXT week?
Sounds like the right thing to do to me. SCO is just a lying sack of shit...They promised that they WOULDN'T do this, then they did! They deserve to be put out of business....FOREVER! B O I E S C O T T !!!
Sorry....we'll do our best to lock the barn door now that the cow's escaped!.......
This is NEW? Chicago producer Steve Albini and Front person for Hole, Courtney Love both did this analysis years ago! To quote Steve: "What each band member made is about what they would have made working at Dunkin Donuts".
Do I make myself clear to you? There's only so much POLE SPACE!!!!! The fact is that the wires that the telco's own were depreciated YEARS AGO!!!! Any $$ the telcos make from their wires is PURE GRAVY! I suppose that you'll be HAPPY when cheap long distance goes by the wayside (in the next FCC decision that will unbundle Long distance) But HEY you won't mind...'cause they'll be only ONE HUGE CHECK to mail instead of TWO MUCH SMALLER ONES!!
Lobbyists: $1.5 million Payment to RNC: $ 1 million Payoffs to FCC Comms: $ 500K Rewards: PRICELESS! For the rich, there's richer. For the rest of us there's getting screwed!
Talk about a land grab! The FCC seems to want to use the Communications act of 1996 to DECREASE competition in the marketplace. First radio, now TV and telephone! What's next? BANNING VOIP???!!! There are a few Commissioners who have fat swiss bank accounts because of this!! I cannot believe this bad decision, whose ramifications will do more to hurt net that any single other decision ever made! THIS IS BOGUS!!!
Sometimes I wonder if (the) Government and the courts have any engineers woking for them. These politicians are uninformed people who show their stupidity and ignorance every time they pass laws like this. How many times has politics gotten in the way of technology? Millions of times, I'm sure! This is yet another example of the Lawmakers saying: "Don't confuse me with (the) FACTS!"
and she gets to stand up as opposed to being on her back all night!
Black leather pants last night...I swear they either paint them on or pour her into them!
"Matt French is a product specialist at Best Buy in Mishawaka. He says, "Tube TV's start at around $700. The projection televisions start at around $1100 for the square televisions and the 4x3. And about $1500 for wide screen TVs."
;-)
But that's not the total price. With that $700 model, you'll need a tuner, which will add another $400 to $700 plus about $150 for cables. That brings the total price in at least around $1300."
I paid $199.00 for my 27 inch Daewoo color TV at Fry's three years ago. For the amount of TV
I watch, it serves me just fine! The deadline for DTV will be moved back several times. Just watch. The average person simply isn't going to shell out "At least $1300.00" for TV in this recession! Food and clothing are simply more iportant - though the Channel 13 weather girl here in L.A. who does the weather braless in her tank top and tight leather pants would sure look
cool in HDTV!
What defines a communications service? Normally, a service that is part of the PTSN (Public Telephone Switched Network). The FCC regulates the PTSN for the following reasons: 1. Interoperabliity: I should be able to take a phone that I bought in Massachusetts to California, plug it into a phone jack there, and have it work. I should be able to connect to any other phone hooked up to the PTSN no matter what phone company the other phone is connected too (there are literally hundreds of phone companies in the United States). 2. Minimum quality (uniformity): There are technical standards with regards to frequency response, distortion, audio level, number of ringers allowed, echo in the call, etc. etc. These are to establish a minimum quality for the PTSN. There are also rules establishing area codes and LATAS, E-911, etc. Finally, there is a requirement that voice serice operate even when the local power is off. 3. Rates: The FCC, along with the various states set local phone rates. For example, The FCC mandates "lifeline service" a cheap measured service for low income families. This is based upon the premise that having a phone is in: "The public interest, convenience and necessity". These and other things define what a phone company is. NOW....in the recent past, the FCC has waived many of these rules. For example, look at the difference in quality and reliability you can have with mobile phones. It's all over the place. This is because mobile phones are not considered part of the PTSN. Instead they kind of: "Hang off the edge" of it. The FCC lets the marketplace decide how good the call needs to be. If a particular service has lousy quality, the belief is that the public will buy another service. AND (and this is an important point) Other services are available! There is generally but one wired phone network, but there are plenty of wireless companies. Same thing with VOIP companies. What the telcos are saying is: "Hey, you require US to follow these costly rules, but RCN, AT&T Cable, Vonage and others don't have to. This is unfair. RCN, AT&T cable et al are marketing their services as a replacement of the main phone line. In my opinion they should be regulated then. Why? Simple. Their service dies when the power goes out! What if you got sick during a storm or your house caught fire and you couldn't call for help because the power was out? Vonage responds that they market their service as a 'second telephone service' rather then a primary one. However, lately they have been marketing themselves as: "The broadband phone company". If they want to follow this path, then they should be regulated too. Personally, I think it's GOOD that the FCC regulates the PTSN. Now, should free world dialup be regulated. No. Why? because it doesn't hook to the PTSN, nor is it marketed or intended as a replacement for it. It's more like a big intercom system.
Vonage is a VOIP service and believe me, it's quality and reliability does NOT suck!
The FCC must really think this is important to assign it a docket number this quickly. They assigned one in less then two weeks! Usually, it takes 4-6 months for them to do that!
They've also suspended their ex-parte rules insofar as comments are concerned to make it easier to file them. Be assured that I shall file comments.
Coincidence?
Verizon told me that my company qualified for 7100/768 service, because we were only 6000 feet from the C.O. When it was installed, I was getting about half that. They came and tested and said "Well, there's too much 'hot stuff' (T-1's, etc.) in the lines that run down the street, and all you can get is 1.5/386". When I reminded them that that was what I was UPGRADING FROM, their response was 'oh'.
Telcos in the U.S. have always been 20+ years behind the rest of the world. In Europe, they had ISDN in the mid 1970's. It wasn't available widely here until the late 90's (and it still has all the problems of a 'new' service here). Up until ten years ago, the central office in my town used a Strowger step switch. That's right, technology from the late 1800s. Modeming through it was a nightmare! Most large cities had crossbar exchanges until at least the mid 1980's while they were pretty much gone in most european cities ten years earlier. Phone service in Europe is pretty much a government thing, while here in the U.S. it's corporate, and those corporations are going to squeeze every last dime out of the old equipment until the cost of maintaining, repairing it etc. is higher then replacing it. Only then do they open the wallet. An attitude like that is based on 'old yankee thrift', which while it worked great 100 years ago, is outdated in today's world.
DALnet belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there? IRC Belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there? The INTERNET belongs to NO ONE! How DARE anyone tell ME what I can do there? The day that ANYONE thinks they OWN ANY PART of the 'net is the day that the 'net effectively DIES! I guess it's well on its way to death then, isn't it? Get it?
and I find it pathetic that I'm forced to scour the playlists of various radio stations in obscure markets around the country, then download the music to sample it and also find myself listening to Internet stations in small towns because radio in the LARGEST MEDIA MARKET in the world doesn't have a radio station I like! The record industry should be HAPPY thay have a loyal customer like me who WORKS HARD to find titles to buy. Instead, they call me a CRIMINAL! Is this their idea of giving the customer what they want? Frankly, I'd love to own a record company. It's easy to make money. Even if you can't market yourself out of a paper bag, don't worry! Congress and the courts will help you be the ONLY GAME IN TOWN, because after all, this is how the marketplace is supposed to work!
If even one member of Congress got thrown out because of his anti-consumer pro business stand (IE: corporations over constituants), you'd see things change 180 degrees. FEAR is what drives all this. The RIAA wants us to FEAR using P2P programs and uses the Congress and courts as their henchmen. Congressmen and senators have FEAR of not having a well oiled campaign machine to spread their lies about how much they do for the voters in TV ads. If the voters got together as a group and threw out just one person, the FEAR that went through Congress would be monumental! It's not as hard as it seems: just look at the 2002 election. The anti abortionists and religious righters were able to successfully change control of the Senate. All it took was a few carefully chosen contests. If these clowns can figure it out, it should be a snap for smart people like ourselves...or we all a bunch of armchair whiners?
"we are in the customer relationship business.' If that's so much the case, then how come the only "customers" you mainly market to are under 25 years of age? In case you haven't noticed, the largers demographic group in the world is now the 25-54 group. You know, the one you barely give lip service to, and when you do call us crooks and thieves! Your industry is dying because you're still trying to market the equilavent of the buggy whip in the age of the Spece Shuttle. Plus, you have the arrogance to actually believe that YOU make the music??!! Let me clue you in: artists and musicians make music, and all the blow you do every day doesn't give any of you one shread of musical talent! Q: How many A&R (artist and repertoire, the ones who find and sign bands) persons does it take to change a light bulb? A: I don't know, what do you think?
If it is, you just violated the DMCA by publishing an encrypted password. Off to jail for you can be as easy as: 1-2-3-4.