According to my local stations 2007 financial report only ~$4.5M of their $42M annual budget came from all state and federal grants combined, so about 10%. If the CPB were to end tomorrow they would be hurting but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters.
According to my local stations 2007 financial report only ~$4.5M of their $42M annual budget came from all state and federal grants combined, so about 10%. If the CPB were to end tomorrow they would be hurting but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters.
According to my local stations 2007 financial report ~$4.5M of their $42M operating budget was all state and federal grants combined. So only about 10% was from governmental sources, they would be hurting without those funds but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters tomorrow if CPB was ended.
Sorry it formatted funky in my Firefox window, only saw the first row of those hence the $100B. Even still the PC industry is definitely MUCH bigger and they stand to lose a bunch of cash in potential profit due consumers just not wanting to deal with this crap and giving up on computers for general entertainment and turning back to the consumer electronics industry.
Cisco's will actually turn off peers even if STP is turned off, they see too many of the same packets coming over broadcast with decrementing TTL's and turn off the uplink port to that peer. I found this out after the ADD CEO at a former employer plugged one training room jack into another, it took out all of C row which was next to the training room but the rest of the company continued to run. Took me a bit of watching logs on adjacent switches to figure out the root cause and fix it but after I explained the problem and the fact that it was kept from spreading by the intelligent switches we were praised for our diagnostic skills and our equipment selection =)
There are a handful of peering hotels that if they were all taken out simultaneously would basically cripple the Internet as the other links would be completely overwhelmed even assuming BGP routes were updated to use them. We've moved beyond MAE-East and West but not by a whole lot.
I see $100B in net for an entire industry vs $50B for a single software company (admittedly a large one). Add in just HP and IBM and the computer industry dwarfs the media companies. (I just checked and HP had a $28B net quarter last year meaning they alone are about as big as the entire media industry). Again why is the tail wagging the dog?
It wasn't through fear, it was through careful design. When HP bought DEC/Compaq they had three very expensive legacy CPU platforms to combine and they didn't want to be in the chip business at all, so they were able to trick Intel into taking on almost all of the cost of designing the next generation chip for all three platforms. HP got a chip to use for Non-stop, VAX, and HPUX at a fraction of what maintaining any of the legacy chiplines would have cost. The features they needed were unlikely to make it into the desktop and small server x86 chiplines so this was the best way for them to get what they needed and maintain low overhead. The reason Intel went along is that they were tired of sharing their IP with AMD and thought if they could come up with a totally new architecture they could wrap up the IP more tightly and hence have total control of the market. AMD definitely outplayed them with x64, but Intel is so big that recovering didn't take them long and in the grand scheme of things the money spent on Itanium was a small hedge for the possibility of true monopoly status.
I think their real fear is that after the third world countries seize their patents that a large amount of those generics will find their way into the developed world much as the socialized drugs from Canada find their way into the US today. The fact that they can spin this for goodwill is just a bonus.
Thank you for mentioning Slacker! That's just what I was looking for, a Pandora like app with caching for the Blackberry, now I have no need for an ipod touch.
Again, you're wrong. Sure they can refuse cash. But they can also refuse cash when you're paying off a debt.
No, they can't. That's what the line on the bill stating "legal tender for all debts public and private" is about, you can ALWAYS settle a DEBT with cash, refusal to accept cash to repay a debt forfeits any further obligation on the debtors part. It all goes back to the early days of paper money where some merchants refused to accept US federal notes as payment due to a shortage of convertible gold and silver due to hoarding. Basically if you can show that you offered legal tender to pay off the debt and the other party refused it as payment the court is obligated to discharge the debt if the other party again refuses legal tender before the court.
Windows mobile is the only smartphone platform Adobe has seen fit to bless with flash so far, they demo'd it on Nokia and Android phones but I don't think there was ever an official release for either. I wish that the Mozilla team hadn't been so slow with SVG or perhaps we might be using SVG today for most simple animations and not Flash OR Silerlight.
Intel already sells most of what you want, it's just spendy. It's called the X25-e and it's an SLC based SSD that will do 170MB/s read and 150MB/s write even at 4KB block sizes. It costs ~$700 for a 32GB drive which is why they aren't all that popular with the ricer desktop set, but if you have a database server that can use a wicked fast log file drive and you don't already have a SAN then it's currently the way to go.
Unfortunately many restaurants have sites designed by web monkeys that require flash to function, this is bad because most mobile platforms don't have flash. I know I've skipped places that might have been good because I couldn't check out their menu from my Blackberry and chose another restaurant where I could.
Lots of places use fiber to exceed the 100m distance limit of copper ethernet and not for bandwidth reasons, I can't imagine a dealership has anything other than possibly training videos that would require much bandwidth at all.
I've also seen some companies link all their core switches together via very short fiber links (I'm not sure why, and this was a long time ago in computer time...;) ).
Both gig-e and 10gig-e were available for a significant amount of time in fiber flavor before their copper cousins came along. This mostly has to due with the significant amount of processing power needed to do the DSP work to push those signaling rates over copper.
He paid a LOT more than that if he bought it on ebay, think ebay fee, paypal fee, and credit card fee. The dealership probably would have haggled for 10-15% less than what he paid. I'm pretty good at negotiating with dealership, I'm the only person I know of who made money by crashing a car. I bought a used 2001 Mercury Sable for $6,500 and totaled it 31 days later, the KBB value was $8,000 so after deductible I netted $1,000. The best thing is my rates didn't go up so I really did make that money =)
The merchant cannot make showing an ID a requirement for processing the transaction, but they can ask to see it. (You can say no right back to them, which is fun).
Sure they can make showing ID a requirement, credit cards are NOT legal tender and so a merchant is free to put whatever restriction on their use they want. They may have a civil breach of contract tort coming at them from the credit card processor but they can't be forced to accept it.(they can also refuse cash at time of sale but if they allow you to take the item say on installments they must accept cash to fulfill that debt)
Wrong, he carries both, he has his Blackberry Curve for personal use AND he has the SME-PED for official use. It's VERY easy to tell which device he has in pictures as the SME looks like a Palm Treo 700W with blocky corners versus the smooth edges on the Curve.
Yes, anyone who's ever done an research on long term record retention realizes that the problems involved in physically storing digital records long term are significant as is format selection. On the other hand the retention of physical paper records is well understood and mechanically simple, the only basic requirement being low acid paper (and even that might not be needed for 7-10 year retention).
Some people have a requirement to keep certain documents for 7,10, or even 20+ years, digital isn't necessarily the best format to keep such documents.
It's not the SMTP MTA that's doing the bad thing here, it's the auto-decode of TNEF that's doing it hence why the email has to be viewed to invoke the bug. The interesting thing is that this is done server side instead of client side. I knew TNEF was decoded server side if you had your MTA preferences set correctly and are sending to a foreign (to the system) address (gets rid of the stupid winmail.dat attachments), but had no clue that the same code was invoked when a message was opened. My guess is the decode is done server side to support clients like OWA and POP3 that might not have a TNEF aware message parser.
My understanding is with regular patrols the local birds learn to leave the entire patrolled area, not sure what if anything it does for migratory birds (perhaps they see the predator a ways off and avoid the area completely?)
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According to my local stations 2007 financial report only ~$4.5M of their $42M annual budget came from all state and federal grants combined, so about 10%. If the CPB were to end tomorrow they would be hurting but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters.
According to my local stations 2007 financial report only ~$4.5M of their $42M annual budget came from all state and federal grants combined, so about 10%. If the CPB were to end tomorrow they would be hurting but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters.
According to my local stations 2007 financial report ~$4.5M of their $42M operating budget was all state and federal grants combined. So only about 10% was from governmental sources, they would be hurting without those funds but they would hardly have to turn off their transmitters tomorrow if CPB was ended.
Sorry it formatted funky in my Firefox window, only saw the first row of those hence the $100B. Even still the PC industry is definitely MUCH bigger and they stand to lose a bunch of cash in potential profit due consumers just not wanting to deal with this crap and giving up on computers for general entertainment and turning back to the consumer electronics industry.
Cisco's will actually turn off peers even if STP is turned off, they see too many of the same packets coming over broadcast with decrementing TTL's and turn off the uplink port to that peer. I found this out after the ADD CEO at a former employer plugged one training room jack into another, it took out all of C row which was next to the training room but the rest of the company continued to run. Took me a bit of watching logs on adjacent switches to figure out the root cause and fix it but after I explained the problem and the fact that it was kept from spreading by the intelligent switches we were praised for our diagnostic skills and our equipment selection =)
There are a handful of peering hotels that if they were all taken out simultaneously would basically cripple the Internet as the other links would be completely overwhelmed even assuming BGP routes were updated to use them. We've moved beyond MAE-East and West but not by a whole lot.
I see $100B in net for an entire industry vs $50B for a single software company (admittedly a large one). Add in just HP and IBM and the computer industry dwarfs the media companies. (I just checked and HP had a $28B net quarter last year meaning they alone are about as big as the entire media industry). Again why is the tail wagging the dog?
It wasn't through fear, it was through careful design. When HP bought DEC/Compaq they had three very expensive legacy CPU platforms to combine and they didn't want to be in the chip business at all, so they were able to trick Intel into taking on almost all of the cost of designing the next generation chip for all three platforms. HP got a chip to use for Non-stop, VAX, and HPUX at a fraction of what maintaining any of the legacy chiplines would have cost. The features they needed were unlikely to make it into the desktop and small server x86 chiplines so this was the best way for them to get what they needed and maintain low overhead. The reason Intel went along is that they were tired of sharing their IP with AMD and thought if they could come up with a totally new architecture they could wrap up the IP more tightly and hence have total control of the market. AMD definitely outplayed them with x64, but Intel is so big that recovering didn't take them long and in the grand scheme of things the money spent on Itanium was a small hedge for the possibility of true monopoly status.
I think their real fear is that after the third world countries seize their patents that a large amount of those generics will find their way into the developed world much as the socialized drugs from Canada find their way into the US today. The fact that they can spin this for goodwill is just a bonus.
Thank you for mentioning Slacker! That's just what I was looking for, a Pandora like app with caching for the Blackberry, now I have no need for an ipod touch.
Again, you're wrong. Sure they can refuse cash. But they can also refuse cash when you're paying off a debt.
No, they can't. That's what the line on the bill stating "legal tender for all debts public and private" is about, you can ALWAYS settle a DEBT with cash, refusal to accept cash to repay a debt forfeits any further obligation on the debtors part. It all goes back to the early days of paper money where some merchants refused to accept US federal notes as payment due to a shortage of convertible gold and silver due to hoarding. Basically if you can show that you offered legal tender to pay off the debt and the other party refused it as payment the court is obligated to discharge the debt if the other party again refuses legal tender before the court.
Windows mobile is the only smartphone platform Adobe has seen fit to bless with flash so far, they demo'd it on Nokia and Android phones but I don't think there was ever an official release for either. I wish that the Mozilla team hadn't been so slow with SVG or perhaps we might be using SVG today for most simple animations and not Flash OR Silerlight.
Intel already sells most of what you want, it's just spendy. It's called the X25-e and it's an SLC based SSD that will do 170MB/s read and 150MB/s write even at 4KB block sizes. It costs ~$700 for a 32GB drive which is why they aren't all that popular with the ricer desktop set, but if you have a database server that can use a wicked fast log file drive and you don't already have a SAN then it's currently the way to go.
Unfortunately many restaurants have sites designed by web monkeys that require flash to function, this is bad because most mobile platforms don't have flash. I know I've skipped places that might have been good because I couldn't check out their menu from my Blackberry and chose another restaurant where I could.
Lots of places use fiber to exceed the 100m distance limit of copper ethernet and not for bandwidth reasons, I can't imagine a dealership has anything other than possibly training videos that would require much bandwidth at all.
I've also seen some companies link all their core switches together via very short fiber links (I'm not sure why, and this was a long time ago in computer time... ;) ).
Both gig-e and 10gig-e were available for a significant amount of time in fiber flavor before their copper cousins came along. This mostly has to due with the significant amount of processing power needed to do the DSP work to push those signaling rates over copper.
He paid a LOT more than that if he bought it on ebay, think ebay fee, paypal fee, and credit card fee. The dealership probably would have haggled for 10-15% less than what he paid. I'm pretty good at negotiating with dealership, I'm the only person I know of who made money by crashing a car. I bought a used 2001 Mercury Sable for $6,500 and totaled it 31 days later, the KBB value was $8,000 so after deductible I netted $1,000. The best thing is my rates didn't go up so I really did make that money =)
The merchant cannot make showing an ID a requirement for processing the transaction, but they can ask to see it. (You can say no right back to them, which is fun).
Sure they can make showing ID a requirement, credit cards are NOT legal tender and so a merchant is free to put whatever restriction on their use they want. They may have a civil breach of contract tort coming at them from the credit card processor but they can't be forced to accept it.(they can also refuse cash at time of sale but if they allow you to take the item say on installments they must accept cash to fulfill that debt)
Hmm, he swapped from the Curve he had on election day, I wonder why?
Wrong, he carries both, he has his Blackberry Curve for personal use AND he has the SME-PED for official use. It's VERY easy to tell which device he has in pictures as the SME looks like a Palm Treo 700W with blocky corners versus the smooth edges on the Curve.
Yes, anyone who's ever done an research on long term record retention realizes that the problems involved in physically storing digital records long term are significant as is format selection. On the other hand the retention of physical paper records is well understood and mechanically simple, the only basic requirement being low acid paper (and even that might not be needed for 7-10 year retention).
Some people have a requirement to keep certain documents for 7,10, or even 20+ years, digital isn't necessarily the best format to keep such documents.
Wow, a relevant first post and VERY informative! I wish I had mod points.
It's not the SMTP MTA that's doing the bad thing here, it's the auto-decode of TNEF that's doing it hence why the email has to be viewed to invoke the bug. The interesting thing is that this is done server side instead of client side. I knew TNEF was decoded server side if you had your MTA preferences set correctly and are sending to a foreign (to the system) address (gets rid of the stupid winmail.dat attachments), but had no clue that the same code was invoked when a message was opened. My guess is the decode is done server side to support clients like OWA and POP3 that might not have a TNEF aware message parser.
My understanding is with regular patrols the local birds learn to leave the entire patrolled area, not sure what if anything it does for migratory birds (perhaps they see the predator a ways off and avoid the area completely?)