If you think a duopoly propped up by government restrictions on spectrum is a free market then you obviously should have failed econ 101/high school civics. Because the government has created the current situation and it can be demonstrated that it is causing harm (significantly higher prices than the rest of the world) a statesman would say that the government has a responsibility to use reasonable remedies to correct the situation. Keeping the abusive duopolists from gaining further market advantage by not providing them the ability to further harm their competition by buying up assets they probably don't need (remember both parties did spectrum swaps to avoid the must use clauses in the last round auctions, they bought spectrum they obviously had no plans of actually developing) is objectively a reasonable measure.
Or carry a smartphone with a full 5 row keyboard, with swype I can probably do 10-20 wpm with corrections, with the hardware keyboard probably 30-40. I'm really quite perplexed by the fact that hardware keyboards aren't more popular considering that kids spend most of their time on the phone texting/IMing.
In case you didn't notice geeks make up a very high percentage of the high net worth individuals out there. Between tech, telecom, and the quants in the financial sector geeks are probably overrepresented in the top 1%.
If you're going to be integrating large racks of blades and storage systems you'll need a LOT of power and the needs will change from job to job so I seriously suggest you look at an overhead busway system. We use Starline, but there are a couple vendors out there. If you go Starline realize that the boxes often have a couple weeks leadtime (at least through our supplier) so buy 20% more of whatever flavors you think you'll use.
Flu where the primary disease vector is bird to human transmission, generally chickens and ducks raised by the poor to be used as food but which live in close proximity to the owner. They also have a nasty habit of infecting migratory bird species and transmitting the infection to the local bird population along their routes. This is in contrast to those that are primarily spread through pigs (swine flu).
That's interesting, though from what I've seen the hard part in making truly great fresh noodles is making the dough. Anthony Bourdain did a segment with a guy that still makes them from scratch in Hong Kong and he talked about permanent groin disfigurement from the pole used to pound out the dough! To me this looks like labor multiplication, you still need someone to do everything other than shaving the noodles, it will just allow a single chef to do the work of several, thus allowing folks who today can't afford to eat out to do so thus freeing up some of their time to do other labor.
The reason VL is up is that they raised prices pretty much across the board, about 8% above inflation from our last renewal. It won't take too many renewals like that before companies start to seriously look at alternatives.
I use this app on my smartphone when I'm just chilling on the couch and I have a wireless keyboard and optical trackball for when I need a more "full PC" experience. This works very well and nobody in the family has any problem using this setup.
Right now AWS compute costs about 2-3X as much as an in-house VM for me given a 5 year lifetime (we buy storage with 5 years support and hosts last 4-5 years with upgrades), it's when you need anything that needs serious storage performance that the ROI time starts to decrease sharply. Where AWS rocks is peak shaving, if you have a workload that only needs a few hours a day of powered on time then it's really easy to justify it, but for your run of the mill corporate IT systems that just kind of chug along and need to be available whenever it's definitely more expensive. The other one I can see is if you want geographic distribution and can't easily use a CDN.
Not really, for planned events you bring in a few cell on wheels carts per carrier and increase the cell density, this is done all the time for football games and other sporting and political events. Now I'm not sure what the average use rates are for those events, but I bet for something like the superbowl it's well over 50% (for many of the folks at the Superbowl it's more about being seen at the game then it is about the game itself).
Actually since we changed to packet switched networks it's 100% possible to have 100% activity, in fact today it would be trivial since voice takes so little bandwidth compared to modern networks. To give you an idea 150M people talking to 150M other people would only be 9.6Gbps which can be accommodated by a single peering link today.
I wasn't a donor until after he responded to several letters of mine with responses that were obviously not form letters because they addressed specific parts of my own correspondence. He actually articulated his own views very well and I found that I was drawn to him as he was one of the few voices of reason I had run into in national politics. He's since kind of pissed me off by cosponsoring SOPA which was counter to every position he had previously taken and counter to the views he expressed to me during our conversation. I wrote him regarding this troubling action and basically got a brushoff letter in response so I did not contribute to his most recent campaign. It's interesting because there's nothing in the public record that would indicate why he had the change of heart, my only guess is that he sees all the recent film work in Cleveland as some kind of economic driver that he wants to protect.
That may be true of many senators but I can tell you from personal experience that at least one former representative and current senator did. When attending a fundraiser for my former rep I talked to him about a variety of topics affecting the internet and technology and he recognized my arguments and commented on some letters I wrote him.
Agreed, Windows 8\2012 has some seriously good under the hood changes but I haven't been able to take advantage of them due to the training costs from Metro. Removing Metro from the equation will mean it's pretty much a certainty that we'll upgrade within a year of the next release instead of riding 7 until it's almost EOL.
The international version of the Galaxy 3S produces ~6400 BogoMIPS, about 20% more than a CoreDuo from 2006. Add in the fact that it has a pretty sweet GPU and the average users really can't tell the difference.
Usually it's because the trader has a set pot of money to trade with and certain risk limits he is supposed to adhere to but the actually trading system does not have business logic rules to enforce these limits because it would slow down trading too much. Basically the whole infrastructure of the big financial firms are setup to accommodate risky day trading instead of sound business investments like any other business would expect. Basically trader desks resemble video poker terminals more than they do the research desk at Berkshire Hathaway. It's a direct result of the focus on the immediate value of a commodity instead of the long term value of the company backing that commodity. Some economists say this is a good thing as it adds liquidity to the market and aids in price discovery, I think they're full of hogwash and need to look up from their textbooks and dissertations a bit more often.
Greece would be fine if they had their own monetary policy, look at other much more debt laden countries, they have a few years of hard times after the currency is devalued and then they bounce back, Greece is going to have a hard time for over a decade before this is over.
Maybe with perfect competition, in the real world a market with fewer than say 20 players is often non-competitive. Look at the DRAM market for a large cartel/oligopoly.
SMS actually take zero bandwidth on GSM networks, they use the ping packets that the phone must exchange with the tower every so often to send the message, it would otherwise be padded with zero's. That's why the message length on SMS is so short, it's limited by the difference between the header needed for a ping and the size of a timeslice. Some phones will opt to use the data network if available to ensure faster delivery but SMS was really a brilliant hack to take advantage of the nature of the network.
I've used the 9V and pot scrubber trick to start a fire when both my lighters failed on a camping trip (I wasn't going far enough away from society to pack the parafin encased bluetips which are my backups when my life depends on fire).
They've got teeny black bears, 300lb for the males and only 200 for the females on average. Compare that to Ursus americanus cinnamomum found in the yellowstone area where cubs can get to 165lbs. There's also only ~3,000 total for the state (up from ~300 in the 1970's). I'd be MUCH more worried about a crash caused by these snails blowing a tire than I would be of getting attacked by a Florida black bear.
And I wouldn't call LiFePO4 "widely used", it's hardly used at all in the west due to extremely high royalty rates charged by the patent holders. I'd actually love to use LiFePO4 cells for my camping solar setup but the only ones I can find are dodgy Chinese imports with questionable charge controllers.
You don't have your "friends" email address? Because I've had my main email account for 9 years, my account that's now my spam catcher for 13, and can still get email forwarded from my dads account that he's had for 19 years. All of those dwarf having to find someones facebook account in convenience.
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If you think a duopoly propped up by government restrictions on spectrum is a free market then you obviously should have failed econ 101/high school civics. Because the government has created the current situation and it can be demonstrated that it is causing harm (significantly higher prices than the rest of the world) a statesman would say that the government has a responsibility to use reasonable remedies to correct the situation. Keeping the abusive duopolists from gaining further market advantage by not providing them the ability to further harm their competition by buying up assets they probably don't need (remember both parties did spectrum swaps to avoid the must use clauses in the last round auctions, they bought spectrum they obviously had no plans of actually developing) is objectively a reasonable measure.
Or carry a smartphone with a full 5 row keyboard, with swype I can probably do 10-20 wpm with corrections, with the hardware keyboard probably 30-40. I'm really quite perplexed by the fact that hardware keyboards aren't more popular considering that kids spend most of their time on the phone texting/IMing.
In case you didn't notice geeks make up a very high percentage of the high net worth individuals out there. Between tech, telecom, and the quants in the financial sector geeks are probably overrepresented in the top 1%.
If you're going to be integrating large racks of blades and storage systems you'll need a LOT of power and the needs will change from job to job so I seriously suggest you look at an overhead busway system. We use Starline, but there are a couple vendors out there. If you go Starline realize that the boxes often have a couple weeks leadtime (at least through our supplier) so buy 20% more of whatever flavors you think you'll use.
Flu where the primary disease vector is bird to human transmission, generally chickens and ducks raised by the poor to be used as food but which live in close proximity to the owner. They also have a nasty habit of infecting migratory bird species and transmitting the infection to the local bird population along their routes. This is in contrast to those that are primarily spread through pigs (swine flu).
That's interesting, though from what I've seen the hard part in making truly great fresh noodles is making the dough. Anthony Bourdain did a segment with a guy that still makes them from scratch in Hong Kong and he talked about permanent groin disfigurement from the pole used to pound out the dough! To me this looks like labor multiplication, you still need someone to do everything other than shaving the noodles, it will just allow a single chef to do the work of several, thus allowing folks who today can't afford to eat out to do so thus freeing up some of their time to do other labor.
The reason VL is up is that they raised prices pretty much across the board, about 8% above inflation from our last renewal. It won't take too many renewals like that before companies start to seriously look at alternatives.
I use this app on my smartphone when I'm just chilling on the couch and I have a wireless keyboard and optical trackball for when I need a more "full PC" experience. This works very well and nobody in the family has any problem using this setup.
Right now AWS compute costs about 2-3X as much as an in-house VM for me given a 5 year lifetime (we buy storage with 5 years support and hosts last 4-5 years with upgrades), it's when you need anything that needs serious storage performance that the ROI time starts to decrease sharply. Where AWS rocks is peak shaving, if you have a workload that only needs a few hours a day of powered on time then it's really easy to justify it, but for your run of the mill corporate IT systems that just kind of chug along and need to be available whenever it's definitely more expensive. The other one I can see is if you want geographic distribution and can't easily use a CDN.
Not really, for planned events you bring in a few cell on wheels carts per carrier and increase the cell density, this is done all the time for football games and other sporting and political events. Now I'm not sure what the average use rates are for those events, but I bet for something like the superbowl it's well over 50% (for many of the folks at the Superbowl it's more about being seen at the game then it is about the game itself).
Actually since we changed to packet switched networks it's 100% possible to have 100% activity, in fact today it would be trivial since voice takes so little bandwidth compared to modern networks. To give you an idea 150M people talking to 150M other people would only be 9.6Gbps which can be accommodated by a single peering link today.
I wasn't a donor until after he responded to several letters of mine with responses that were obviously not form letters because they addressed specific parts of my own correspondence. He actually articulated his own views very well and I found that I was drawn to him as he was one of the few voices of reason I had run into in national politics. He's since kind of pissed me off by cosponsoring SOPA which was counter to every position he had previously taken and counter to the views he expressed to me during our conversation. I wrote him regarding this troubling action and basically got a brushoff letter in response so I did not contribute to his most recent campaign. It's interesting because there's nothing in the public record that would indicate why he had the change of heart, my only guess is that he sees all the recent film work in Cleveland as some kind of economic driver that he wants to protect.
That may be true of many senators but I can tell you from personal experience that at least one former representative and current senator did. When attending a fundraiser for my former rep I talked to him about a variety of topics affecting the internet and technology and he recognized my arguments and commented on some letters I wrote him.
Agreed, Windows 8\2012 has some seriously good under the hood changes but I haven't been able to take advantage of them due to the training costs from Metro. Removing Metro from the equation will mean it's pretty much a certainty that we'll upgrade within a year of the next release instead of riding 7 until it's almost EOL.
The international version of the Galaxy 3S produces ~6400 BogoMIPS, about 20% more than a CoreDuo from 2006. Add in the fact that it has a pretty sweet GPU and the average users really can't tell the difference.
Usually it's because the trader has a set pot of money to trade with and certain risk limits he is supposed to adhere to but the actually trading system does not have business logic rules to enforce these limits because it would slow down trading too much. Basically the whole infrastructure of the big financial firms are setup to accommodate risky day trading instead of sound business investments like any other business would expect. Basically trader desks resemble video poker terminals more than they do the research desk at Berkshire Hathaway. It's a direct result of the focus on the immediate value of a commodity instead of the long term value of the company backing that commodity. Some economists say this is a good thing as it adds liquidity to the market and aids in price discovery, I think they're full of hogwash and need to look up from their textbooks and dissertations a bit more often.
Greece would be fine if they had their own monetary policy, look at other much more debt laden countries, they have a few years of hard times after the currency is devalued and then they bounce back, Greece is going to have a hard time for over a decade before this is over.
Maybe with perfect competition, in the real world a market with fewer than say 20 players is often non-competitive. Look at the DRAM market for a large cartel/oligopoly.
SMS actually take zero bandwidth on GSM networks, they use the ping packets that the phone must exchange with the tower every so often to send the message, it would otherwise be padded with zero's. That's why the message length on SMS is so short, it's limited by the difference between the header needed for a ping and the size of a timeslice. Some phones will opt to use the data network if available to ensure faster delivery but SMS was really a brilliant hack to take advantage of the nature of the network.
I had T-Mobile last time I was in Boston and it worked just fine, it even worked in the underground other than when we went under the river.
I've used the 9V and pot scrubber trick to start a fire when both my lighters failed on a camping trip (I wasn't going far enough away from society to pack the parafin encased bluetips which are my backups when my life depends on fire).
Hell, they already eat big snails by the boatload in Florida, conch chowder is awesome!
They've got teeny black bears, 300lb for the males and only 200 for the females on average. Compare that to Ursus americanus cinnamomum found in the yellowstone area where cubs can get to 165lbs. There's also only ~3,000 total for the state (up from ~300 in the 1970's). I'd be MUCH more worried about a crash caused by these snails blowing a tire than I would be of getting attacked by a Florida black bear.
And I wouldn't call LiFePO4 "widely used", it's hardly used at all in the west due to extremely high royalty rates charged by the patent holders. I'd actually love to use LiFePO4 cells for my camping solar setup but the only ones I can find are dodgy Chinese imports with questionable charge controllers.
You don't have your "friends" email address? Because I've had my main email account for 9 years, my account that's now my spam catcher for 13, and can still get email forwarded from my dads account that he's had for 19 years. All of those dwarf having to find someones facebook account in convenience.