Negative. Daisy Cutter bombs are not FAE - Fuel Air Explosives.
"Contrary to some published reports, the BLU-82 is not a 'fuel air explosive,' a type of weapon that disperses an aerosol cloud of fuel and ignites a blast that can cause overpressure of 4,000 pounds per square inch. Fuel air munitions are made in sizes from 500 to 2,000 pounds."
While I certainly would not pay $2.50 to download a song onto my mobile phone, I suspect that Sprint Nextel is aiming this service at the minority of customers that are willing to pay a premium price for instant access to desired content. Certainly, there are people out there that will pay a higher price to get what they want, when they want it. If there aren't enough of these consumers out there, then Sprint will either have to lower the price or be content with a premium service that generates limited revenue. I suspect that competition from other carriers will also result in lower prices.
I think it's reasonable to ask, why is there a $1.50 premium versus purchasing (more or less) the same product on iTunes? To sell songs, Apple had to pay for a big freakin' webfarm, and some big fat pipes to the Internet. Maybe a couple million for the webfarm, and I think you can get an Internet OC3 for less than $15,000 per month. Not too bad.
Sprint Nextel, on the other hand, has much larger costs to support the delivery of this content to mobile phones. (All telecommunications services are traditionally very capital intensive.) Before they could even launch their CDMA network, Sprint Nextel had to pay billions of dollars for spectrum licenses in order to operate. For the CDMA network, Sprint has somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 cell towers. The equipment at all those towers had to be upgraded to support 3G 1xRTT data service, and it has to be upgraded again to support EV-DO high-speed data service. And since EV-DO is an overlay technology, each cell tower requires an additional T1 line (at a minimum) to support EV-DO data service.
I believe that Sprint Nextel currently spends about $4 billion per year on capital expenditures to support the voice and data services on the CDMA network. (This information is typically available in the quarterly presentations made to investors by the company). Divided by the approximately 25 million users of the CDMA network, this means that Sprint is currently spending about $160 per subscriber per year to upgrade the network. In addition to all of this cap-ex, Sprint also has to pay the monthly recurring charges on all those thousands of T1 lines, as well as pay interest on the billions of dollars of debt that was incurred by purchasing the original spectrum licenses.
We would all like for high-speed Internet access to be available everywhere, all the time, at low, low prices. Unfortunately, it currently takes a lot of money to make those types of services available to large numbers of people. Certainly technology improvements (and competition) will continue to drive down the cost of providing these services.
If you don't like the prices, don't use the service.
If we were to bash on any country for their WW2 record, it should be Italy. They lost to France (until ze Germans came in), they lost in Africa (until ze Germans came in), they lost in Greece (until ze Germans came in).
Italy didn't win anything in WW2 until they switched sides...
I thought the problem was the sonic booms, not the engine noise.
A little difficult to fly from New York to Tokyo in six hours if you've gotta go around South America, isn't it?
There is a Fortune 500 company whose largest data center is in Lee's Summit, MO. I believe they have over 70,000 square feet of raised-floor space in this facility.
Although it's difficult to turn office space into a top-notch data center, companies put data centers in the basements of office buildings all the time. Unless you're in the habit of driving around back and looking for diesel generators, how would you ever find them?
Currently, all of the Gigabit Ethernet in our network is over multimode fiber. We will probably start using Gigabit over copper (1000baseTX) in the next couple of months.
Does anyone have some first-hand experiences with Gig over copper (positive or negative) to share with/. ?
* sigh * Here goes a "me too" post.
If anyone has invites for Google G-mail, I'd like to have one. Thanks!!
I don't use my Yahoo! mail account very much, but I would like to compare/contrast.
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Here are some good MOAB links (be sure to check out the various links on these pages):
n itions/moab.htm
http://bbsnews.net/bw2003-03-11a.html
More technical details about MOAB on this page:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mu
And the biggest bomb of them all (other than Gigli):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_bomba
Negative. Daisy Cutter bombs are not FAE - Fuel Air Explosives.
7 -attack01.htm/
n itions/blu-82.htm/
n itions/dumb.htm/
"Contrary to some published reports, the BLU-82 is not a 'fuel air explosive,' a type of weapon that disperses an aerosol cloud of fuel and ignites a blast that can cause overpressure of 4,000 pounds per square inch. Fuel air munitions are made in sizes from 500 to 2,000 pounds."
From this article:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/01110
More information here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mu
Even more information here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/mu
(I think that perhaps I should spend less time on the intarwebs...)
While I certainly would not pay $2.50 to download a song onto my mobile phone, I suspect that Sprint Nextel is aiming this service at the minority of customers that are willing to pay a premium price for instant access to desired content. Certainly, there are people out there that will pay a higher price to get what they want, when they want it. If there aren't enough of these consumers out there, then Sprint will either have to lower the price or be content with a premium service that generates limited revenue. I suspect that competition from other carriers will also result in lower prices.
I think it's reasonable to ask, why is there a $1.50 premium versus purchasing (more or less) the same product on iTunes? To sell songs, Apple had to pay for a big freakin' webfarm, and some big fat pipes to the Internet. Maybe a couple million for the webfarm, and I think you can get an Internet OC3 for less than $15,000 per month. Not too bad.
Sprint Nextel, on the other hand, has much larger costs to support the delivery of this content to mobile phones. (All telecommunications services are traditionally very capital intensive.) Before they could even launch their CDMA network, Sprint Nextel had to pay billions of dollars for spectrum licenses in order to operate. For the CDMA network, Sprint has somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 cell towers. The equipment at all those towers had to be upgraded to support 3G 1xRTT data service, and it has to be upgraded again to support EV-DO high-speed data service. And since EV-DO is an overlay technology, each cell tower requires an additional T1 line (at a minimum) to support EV-DO data service.
I believe that Sprint Nextel currently spends about $4 billion per year on capital expenditures to support the voice and data services on the CDMA network. (This information is typically available in the quarterly presentations made to investors by the company). Divided by the approximately 25 million users of the CDMA network, this means that Sprint is currently spending about $160 per subscriber per year to upgrade the network. In addition to all of this cap-ex, Sprint also has to pay the monthly recurring charges on all those thousands of T1 lines, as well as pay interest on the billions of dollars of debt that was incurred by purchasing the original spectrum licenses.
We would all like for high-speed Internet access to be available everywhere, all the time, at low, low prices. Unfortunately, it currently takes a lot of money to make those types of services available to large numbers of people. Certainly technology improvements (and competition) will continue to drive down the cost of providing these services.
If you don't like the prices, don't use the service.
In the Cisco line, the GSR is not the most expensive of any.
That honor would belong to the Cisco CRS-1...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/
If we were to bash on any country for their WW2 record, it should be Italy. They lost to France (until ze Germans came in), they lost in Africa (until ze Germans came in), they lost in Greece (until ze Germans came in). Italy didn't win anything in WW2 until they switched sides...
I thought the problem was the sonic booms, not the engine noise. A little difficult to fly from New York to Tokyo in six hours if you've gotta go around South America, isn't it?
There is a Fortune 500 company whose largest data center is in Lee's Summit, MO. I believe they have over 70,000 square feet of raised-floor space in this facility. Although it's difficult to turn office space into a top-notch data center, companies put data centers in the basements of office buildings all the time. Unless you're in the habit of driving around back and looking for diesel generators, how would you ever find them?
Currently, all of the Gigabit Ethernet in our network is over multimode fiber. We will probably start using Gigabit over copper (1000baseTX) in the next couple of months. Does anyone have some first-hand experiences with Gig over copper (positive or negative) to share with /. ?
* sigh * Here goes a "me too" post. If anyone has invites for Google G-mail, I'd like to have one. Thanks!! I don't use my Yahoo! mail account very much, but I would like to compare/contrast.