This has only worked because there have been more young working people than old people. The problem that is coming is that all of the babyboomers are going to be reaching retirement age soon and with the expected life expectancy going higher and higher there will not be enough young working people to support them all.
Right, please check out Social Security Privatization. Of course, you don't want to be in stocks for the 10-15 years before you retire!
See, thats the thing. We assume that this was done to enrich executives. This is not probably true.
For instance, earlier this year there was the discovery of massive sales commission fraud at WCOM, done by salespeople.
A friend of mine was interviewing at WCOM for a sales position in February. The people there were saying "Sure, base is only $40k, but we make up to $150k with commission..." On his second interview, the people who were going to hire him were gone.
The VCR flummuxes her -- it has flashed 12:00 for three years.
Many new VCRs have a feature that sets the clock based on an XDS signal broadcast by PBS stations. Maybe the blinking clock will be forgotten in a few years...
Tablet PCs make good near-wearable computers (i.e. see this webcam).
Not having to deal with the weight and required protection of a keyboard is a big win. You can wrap them up in neoprene with a see-through thin plastic window and use a stylus to interact with the screen.
Many developing countries have a lack of well defined property rights. The book notes that the poor in under-developed countries have assets, but that their real property is often owned informally, and thus cannot be used to generate capital. As a result, the crucial role of real property is simply absent in under-developed countries.
TRV50E has a built-in web browser and mail client in the camera and 3,5 inch touch-screen. I can now take 1300x1024 stills with the video camera, or 320x240 MPEG-2s, and write normal e-mails and attach the stills or video clips as email attachments, using the cell phone as a modem.
Don't you pay by the MB for GPRS? Isn't that like a $1 email?
less than half of a penny goes into supporting both public radio and television
I'm not sure you are counting all the money...according to the Corproration for Public Broadcasting, state governments pay 13.9% ($280 mil), federal government pays 14% ($300 mil). Another $75 mil comes from local governments and public colleges.
NEVER peer into powered waveguides or loaded gun barrels !! Microwave heating can especially damage the eyes and testes.
Important notice: Eyes fry up like egg whites...clear at first, then they turn white.
During a UHF/Microwave amateur radio contest, a poor fellow on the top of the tower was working in front of a waveguide when someone at the bottom turned on the transmitter.
One of the things we have to look forward to once broadcast television has gone fully digital is the give-back of the VHF TV spectrum.
I think you have it backwards - TV stations are leaving the upper UHF (channels 52-69) for the "Core TV Channels" 2-51.
New DTV allocations are being made in the "Core Channels", and then at the great analog turn-off in 2007, channels 52-69 will be cleared and returned to the FCC.
Why can't press releases say 'VERY FAST!' instead of quoting fake numbers?
You really can't take x GHz and convert it into x Gbps, because you are missing the modulation mechanism, that is, how many bits per Hertz.
And you don't know the modulation mechanism until you know the signal to noise ratio, which will depend on your signal strength (which depends on the gain of your antenna) and the noise (which depends on your antenna type, receiver type, etc.) The modulation type will be the fastest you can do given your signal to noise ratio.
For example, DVB satellite systems with 1m receive dishes use QPSK (four bits per symbol), whereas I am playing with 6m receive dishes that can do 8PSK (8 bits per symbol) at the same bit error rate because of enhanced signal gain.
I've been a CEO...it is very tough. You need to have incredible social skills and a perfect memory for faces and a good golf game to really make it, in addition to excellent management skills and a complete understanding of business. I've only met a handful of people in my life who I think would make a good CEO. I'm not there...yet.
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People said the 80's were decadent at the time...I'm sure the 2010's will make the 90's look non-decadent.
If people want to yell at the government about lack of competition, they should complain about handouts of huge chunks of spectrum to broadcast networks for HDTV while there's no decent wireless ISP.
1) While TV stations will get extra bandwidth during the DTV transition, in 2007 all analog activities must cease, and existing analog channels will be returned. The FCC will then auction off cleared spectrum in the upper UHF band.
2) No one is watching DTV, so it isn't like there is a cash cow there yet.
Anyone remember "g-philes," little instruction books on hacking/phreaking/applied chemistry? I believe the term came from "general files" text file listings on RBBS's.
What is funny is that they are still out there, stuff me and my friends wrote back in 1986, probably on a handful of BBS's. And let's not forget about Phrack.
Williams Communications was a gas and petroleum pipeline company with 100,000 miles of right-of-way. In 1985, they started putting fiber in decommissioned pipelines.
They now have the "largest fully-lit, U.S. next-generation network with local-to-global connectivity, linking 125 cities and reaching five continents."
I doubt it since life in America virtually requires you to have a phone.
Why is that? I don't really need a landline, I only have it for DSL. I mainly use my cellphone, which has far less regulated rates. While I'd take a big hit on quality of life without my cell, I could get much real communication done by email anyway.
Broadband in Japan and Canada is much cheaper - how can they do it?
Unbundling has not played a major part in Canadian broadband. BCE (Bell Canada and others) are a near monopoly on the telco side, but got into DSL early because of competition from cable companies. Cable modems came out in Canada in 1996. During 2000, service problems with cable modems then lead to a growth in DSL access in Canada. There are about 2.6 million broadband users in Canada at end-of-year 2001.
But recently"Industry Minister Allan Rock Bell Canada shot an arrow at the heart of the Internet, levying a $3-5 toll on a streaming movie and a $2.50 surcharge on a regular radio listener. They raised their basic rates 13 percent, and tacked on a surcharge of $7.90 (Canadian) a gig after 5 gigabyte."
In addition, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) charges 4.5% of Canadian telco revenues for a fund to subsidize service in high-cost areas (i.e. rural ones).
Other countries have it easier because of population concentration. Korea has 15% of its population (7.5 million people) connected to broadband. This is because 70% of Koreans live in 7 largest cities, and 40% of urban apartments are served by DSL. I know average local loop lengths are smaller in Europe due to its smaller area and higher urbanization, and I believe Japan has the same situation as well.
The Korean government has also financed a 22,000 km intercity backbone, is distributing satellite receivers in rural areas, and provides low-interest loans to providers.
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This has only worked because there have been more young working people than old people. The problem that is coming is that all of the babyboomers are going to be reaching retirement age soon and with the expected life expectancy going higher and higher there will not be enough young working people to support them all.
Right, please check out Social Security Privatization. Of course, you don't want to be in stocks for the 10-15 years before you retire!
I work for one of the telcos, fortunately not worldcom. But these clowns are going to bury the whole market
Heh, you'll soon be able to buy a lot of fiber and routers on sale, cheap!
See, thats the thing. We assume that this was done to enrich executives. This is not probably true.
For instance, earlier this year there was the discovery of massive sales commission fraud at WCOM, done by salespeople.
A friend of mine was interviewing at WCOM for a sales position in February. The people there were saying "Sure, base is only $40k, but we make up to $150k with commission..." On his second interview, the people who were going to hire him were gone.
802.11b drinking game!
Drive past closed node- 1 drink
Drive past WEP node - 2 drinks
Drive past open node - 3 drinks
Drive off road in drunken stupor - oops!
The VCR flummuxes her -- it has flashed 12:00 for three years.
Many new VCRs have a feature that sets the clock based on an XDS signal broadcast by PBS stations. Maybe the blinking clock will be forgotten in a few years...
"And Moby, you can get stomped by Obie"
"...You don't know me, you're too old let go its over, nobody listens to techno"
Sort of how OGG took over the MP3 world?
Yeah, all those people blatently breaking copyright laws trading MP3s are really going to be upset about breaking patent laws...
Tablet PCs make good near-wearable computers (i.e. see this webcam).
Not having to deal with the weight and required protection of a keyboard is a big win. You can wrap them up in neoprene with a see-through thin plastic window and use a stylus to interact with the screen.
The problem with most developing countries is not directly tied to technology or infrastructure, it is law and legal/political culture. See The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
Many developing countries have a lack of well defined property rights. The book notes that the poor in under-developed countries have assets, but that their real property is often owned informally, and thus cannot be used to generate capital. As a result, the crucial role of real property is simply absent in under-developed countries.
TRV50E has a built-in web browser and mail client in the camera and 3,5 inch touch-screen. I can now take 1300x1024 stills with the video camera, or 320x240 MPEG-2s, and write normal e-mails and attach the stills or video clips as email attachments, using the cell phone as a modem.
Don't you pay by the MB for GPRS? Isn't that like a $1 email?
If you want a mobile webcam that works on CDPD today, check this out.
less than half of a penny goes into supporting both public radio and television
I'm not sure you are counting all the money...according to the Corproration for Public Broadcasting, state governments pay 13.9% ($280 mil), federal government pays 14% ($300 mil). Another $75 mil comes from local governments and public colleges.
NPR is not a government organization, although state and federal funds find their way there.
NEVER peer into powered waveguides or loaded gun barrels !! Microwave heating can especially damage the eyes and testes.
Important notice: Eyes fry up like egg whites...clear at first, then they turn white.
During a UHF/Microwave amateur radio contest, a poor fellow on the top of the tower was working in front of a waveguide when someone at the bottom turned on the transmitter.
I'm not familiar with how the FCC auctions off the EM spectrum.
Check this out: FCC Auction Site.
One of the things we have to look forward to once broadcast television has gone fully digital is the give-back of the VHF TV spectrum.
I think you have it backwards - TV stations are leaving the upper UHF (channels 52-69) for the "Core TV Channels" 2-51.
New DTV allocations are being made in the "Core Channels", and then at the great analog turn-off in 2007, channels 52-69 will be cleared and returned to the FCC.
The lower 700 MHz Auction begins tommorow!. This is for UHF channels 52-59.
Why can't press releases say 'VERY FAST!' instead of quoting fake numbers?
You really can't take x GHz and convert it into x Gbps, because you are missing the modulation mechanism, that is, how many bits per Hertz.
And you don't know the modulation mechanism until you know the signal to noise ratio, which will depend on your signal strength (which depends on the gain of your antenna) and the noise (which depends on your antenna type, receiver type, etc.) The modulation type will be the fastest you can do given your signal to noise ratio.
For example, DVB satellite systems with 1m receive dishes use QPSK (four bits per symbol), whereas I am playing with 6m receive dishes that can do 8PSK (8 bits per symbol) at the same bit error rate because of enhanced signal gain.
I've been a CEO...it is very tough. You need to have incredible social skills and a perfect memory for faces and a good golf game to really make it, in addition to excellent management skills and a complete understanding of business. I've only met a handful of people in my life who I think would make a good CEO. I'm not there...yet.
People said the 80's were decadent at the time...I'm sure the 2010's will make the 90's look non-decadent.
If people want to yell at the government about lack of competition, they should complain about handouts of huge chunks of spectrum to broadcast networks for HDTV while there's no decent wireless ISP.
1) While TV stations will get extra bandwidth during the DTV transition, in 2007 all analog activities must cease, and existing analog channels will be returned. The FCC will then auction off cleared spectrum in the upper UHF band.
2) No one is watching DTV, so it isn't like there is a cash cow there yet.
3) DTV may provide opportunities for high-speed Internet service
My suggestion, a Constitutional Amendment:
Congress shall make no law regarding telecommunications.
Anyone remember "g-philes," little instruction books on hacking/phreaking/applied chemistry? I believe the term came from "general files" text file listings on RBBS's.
What is funny is that they are still out there, stuff me and my friends wrote back in 1986, probably on a handful of BBS's. And let's not forget about Phrack.
Williams Communications was a gas and petroleum pipeline company with 100,000 miles of right-of-way. In 1985, they started putting fiber in decommissioned pipelines.
They now have the "largest fully-lit, U.S. next-generation network with local-to-global connectivity, linking 125 cities and reaching five continents."
I doubt it since life in America virtually requires you to have a phone.
Why is that? I don't really need a landline, I only have it for DSL. I mainly use my cellphone, which has far less regulated rates. While I'd take a big hit on quality of life without my cell, I could get much real communication done by email anyway.
Broadband in Japan and Canada is much cheaper - how can they do it?
Unbundling has not played a major part in Canadian broadband. BCE (Bell Canada and others) are a near monopoly on the telco side, but got into DSL early because of competition from cable companies. Cable modems came out in Canada in 1996. During 2000, service problems with cable modems then lead to a growth in DSL access in Canada. There are about 2.6 million broadband users in Canada at end-of-year 2001.
Meanwhile, ISPs have accused Bell Canada of anti-competitive DSL pricing. I can believe this, because Verizon played a similar game versus the CLECs (and I got cheap DSL...)
But recently "Industry Minister Allan Rock Bell Canada shot an arrow at the heart of the Internet, levying a $3-5 toll on a streaming movie and a $2.50 surcharge on a regular radio listener. They raised their basic rates 13 percent, and tacked on a surcharge of $7.90 (Canadian) a gig after 5 gigabyte."
In addition, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) charges 4.5% of Canadian telco revenues for a fund to subsidize service in high-cost areas (i.e. rural ones).
Check out the Canadian Broadband Task Force that wants to spend over CA$4 billion on broadband.
Other countries have it easier because of population concentration. Korea has 15% of its population (7.5 million people) connected to broadband. This is because 70% of Koreans live in 7 largest cities, and 40% of urban apartments are served by DSL. I know average local loop lengths are smaller in Europe due to its smaller area and higher urbanization, and I believe Japan has the same situation as well.
The Korean government has also financed a 22,000 km intercity backbone, is distributing satellite receivers in rural areas, and provides low-interest loans to providers.