I've just switched to Vonage. We never used our land line, but wanted one for those international calls. Now we are paying $55 LESS a month for MORE features. And calling Mommy in California is local, and my husbands sister in Taz 3cents/min. When I called qwest to cancel my phone - I told them we could no longer afford to keep it. They offered us a free month. Still too expensive. I forsee the problem will be that for those who cannot use broadband/VoIP, their bills will go up. This is due to the fact that everyone who uses a baby bell is subsidizing those rural and hard-to-reach areas. Case in point: that parish in Lousiana where they finally got phone service last week.
In 1998 we finally got our broadband via AT&T. In 2000 AT&T promised us VOIP by 2001. Then in 2001 Comcast bought AT&Ts cable service in our area. NOW they're finally going to give it to us before 2006? About time.
I think the parent is refering to actual working demos/prototypes based on the actual design. Not the "smoke and mirrors" so commonly used to get funding. Most often, these are "built" just for the dog and pony show, and often have had no design/architecture in place. It is just for The Big Shew.
Good point. I didn't major in CS - I majored in Physics (a BA [yes that's an "A"], and an MS). In doing so, I had to learn to teach myself, figure out the actual problem, problem solve, design my algorithms, think logically, and even write lots and lots of code to solve these nice perplexing problems. I used mainframes, PCs, interfaced with microprocessors, this-and-that-meters, and all sorts of really, really cool equipment (read: toys). In actuality, a very nice degree program in Applied Software Development - but in a fun way with lots of egg heads:-D... and I still have my love of trying to figure out exactly WHY and HOW things work and happen.
Blogs are one of those things that I am absolutely shocked have gotten so much attention.
I agree. While some are useful/entertaining/etc the majority are just ramblings/contain misinformation/political rants/etc
I still prefer my news groups (am I too old fashioned?).
This would be nice - in an ideal world. Right now the 20% are paying for cable and phone companies to run the new trunk lines, purchase the servers, hire the people to support it and whatnot. In the US, as a metropolitan (or even in a town of more than 5,000) you pay a surcharge that pays for rural phone service. This is mandated by the government: we subsidize those places where it is just not economical for any phone company to support (phone co-ops and exchanges in rural areas get the subsidies). For broadband, we are in effect subsidizing those expensive-to-reach areas (although it seems like it's taking a long time to reach those areas).
Has anyone else made the association between biometrics and the Kurt Vonnegut story about the lady who is afraid of having her hands cut off, because she puts her prints on each official letter giving instructions for the Ramjack Corp? Or the retina of the "warden" in Demolition Man? Hmmmm. Perhaps I don't want biometric data associated as my "password"...
I've been happy with AT&T - because I tend to be traveling in the vast-towerless-expanse known as West of the Mississippi/East of the Sierra Nevadas in western USA. I always wonder *why* people have to deal with customer service (I've heard repeatedly people saying AT&T has horrid customer service). I have only had to call them once in 5 years: because we left a phone in the truck at the airport, suspended service until we got back, reinstated it just fine when we found the phone wasn't taken. What kinds of reasons do people need to call customer service for? Just curious...
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While at one of those jobs that I'd have to kill you if I told you what I did (even though I didn't know really), they had a nice "old" Cray on display in the lobby. They had got a Cray 2, so they were "obsoleting" the Cray. My thought: Awesome fishtank! Put a lavalamp in the middle, pull the boards and seal it up. It's already plumbed for hoses (liquid cooled). If only I had like $100,000 at the time to buy military surplus.... (sigh)
After 7 years in college getting fancy degrees in Math and Physics, there's still something I don't get: Thermodynamics. So my Favorite is my Nemesis: PV=nRT. I can only thank God I took statistical thermo instead of physical thermo, or that blessed C wouldn't have allowed me to postpone being a grown up for a few more years in grad school:-)
Yeah, I worked at ORNL and had to play alot at UT - UT had back in the EARLY 90's BITNET, USENET, email, web pages (what a new fangled idea when I was there), etc... Okay, so maybe their gopher server is no longer there, but why no web pages? I think the people who filled out these surveys were just a bunch of.... well, lets just say People Who Didn't Know...
Having taught programming to dotcom boom-i wanna highpaying job-history majors-now i wanna MSCS people with no math beyond Math 0100, I *wish* they would have stuck to your straightforward commenting methodology. At least. Actually, SOME commenting would be better than none. I often had to not only threaten, but actually fail programs because they did not comment at all. Just trying to get them in the practice.
Mr Cobb,
As a registered member of the Green Party for the past several elections, I am concerned about the verbage in party information I've received concerning the November 2004 election. It seems I am being encouraged (strongly) to vote for the Democratic ticket. Is the Green Party no longer holding to it's grass-roots past and is it abandoning the philosophy of presenting a viable third-party point of view and candidate?
Thank you.
In the end, tax money will be used to provide or subsidize those who cannot afford a digital converter with one. IMHO this is an issue that should be voted on by the proles, not discussed (read: spending even more of my tax dollars) ad nauseum in congress, et. al.
I no longer have a copy... but I'm sure it said something about me being able to "synergistically re-engineer convergent e-technology" or some such BS:-B
As a geek, and unable to understand "business-esse" AND looking for a job in the mid to late 90's, AND (most importantly) on a dare, I used one of the "BS Generators" to fluff up my "objective" on my resume. To my shagrin - it worked! I got more pegs/emails/phone calls on that particular resume than I ever have - previous or after. I truly think the "businessey-type" people really DO believe their own BS - and the "Mission Statements".
I try to stick with the W3C standards to make sure the sites are ADA/Section 508 compliant... DHTML, Flash, etc... make a website worthless when users are visually impaired... Stats for users: 74% IE 6 16% IE 5 10% Netscape/Mozilla Flavors (all over v. 4)
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They said "Deliver" and "Longhorn" in the same sentence.
I've just switched to Vonage. We never used our land line, but wanted one for those international calls. Now we are paying $55 LESS a month for MORE features. And calling Mommy in California is local, and my husbands sister in Taz 3cents/min. When I called qwest to cancel my phone - I told them we could no longer afford to keep it. They offered us a free month. Still too expensive. I forsee the problem will be that for those who cannot use broadband/VoIP, their bills will go up. This is due to the fact that everyone who uses a baby bell is subsidizing those rural and hard-to-reach areas. Case in point: that parish in Lousiana where they finally got phone service last week.
In 1998 we finally got our broadband via AT&T. In 2000 AT&T promised us VOIP by 2001. Then in 2001 Comcast bought AT&Ts cable service in our area. NOW they're finally going to give it to us before 2006? About time.
I think the parent is refering to actual working demos/prototypes based on the actual design. Not the "smoke and mirrors" so commonly used to get funding. Most often, these are "built" just for the dog and pony show, and often have had no design/architecture in place. It is just for The Big Shew.
Good point. I didn't major in CS - I majored in Physics (a BA [yes that's an "A"], and an MS). In doing so, I had to learn to teach myself, figure out the actual problem, problem solve, design my algorithms, think logically, and even write lots and lots of code to solve these nice perplexing problems. I used mainframes, PCs, interfaced with microprocessors, this-and-that-meters, and all sorts of really, really cool equipment (read: toys). In actuality, a very nice degree program in Applied Software Development - but in a fun way with lots of egg heads :-D ... and I still have my love of trying to figure out exactly WHY and HOW things work and happen.
Actually, they're still cool if they do their coding on a C64.
Blogs are one of those things that I am absolutely shocked have gotten so much attention.
I agree. While some are useful/entertaining/etc the majority are just ramblings/contain misinformation/political rants/etc
I still prefer my news groups (am I too old fashioned?).
This frightens me.
This would be nice - in an ideal world. Right now the 20% are paying for cable and phone companies to run the new trunk lines, purchase the servers, hire the people to support it and whatnot. In the US, as a metropolitan (or even in a town of more than 5,000) you pay a surcharge that pays for rural phone service. This is mandated by the government: we subsidize those places where it is just not economical for any phone company to support (phone co-ops and exchanges in rural areas get the subsidies). For broadband, we are in effect subsidizing those expensive-to-reach areas (although it seems like it's taking a long time to reach those areas).
Has anyone else made the association between biometrics and the Kurt Vonnegut story about the lady who is afraid of having her hands cut off, because she puts her prints on each official letter giving instructions for the Ramjack Corp? Or the retina of the "warden" in Demolition Man? Hmmmm. Perhaps I don't want biometric data associated as my "password"...
I'm not a gamer - but what is DS? I gather from the article, it's a hand-held game console? DS stands for...?
Some things, yes, there should be a funeral. Others: A bonfire! Yeah! Like on Guy Faulkes day!
ROESes? Now we have ROESes *and* Hobbits?
I've been happy with AT&T - because I tend to be traveling in the vast-towerless-expanse known as West of the Mississippi/East of the Sierra Nevadas in western USA. I always wonder *why* people have to deal with customer service (I've heard repeatedly people saying AT&T has horrid customer service). I have only had to call them once in 5 years: because we left a phone in the truck at the airport, suspended service until we got back, reinstated it just fine when we found the phone wasn't taken. What kinds of reasons do people need to call customer service for? Just curious...
While at one of those jobs that I'd have to kill you if I told you what I did (even though I didn't know really), they had a nice "old" Cray on display in the lobby. They had got a Cray 2, so they were "obsoleting" the Cray. My thought: Awesome fishtank! Put a lavalamp in the middle, pull the boards and seal it up. It's already plumbed for hoses (liquid cooled). If only I had like $100,000 at the time to buy military surplus.... (sigh)
After 7 years in college getting fancy degrees in Math and Physics, there's still something I don't get: Thermodynamics. So my Favorite is my Nemesis: PV=nRT. I can only thank God I took statistical thermo instead of physical thermo, or that blessed C wouldn't have allowed me to postpone being a grown up for a few more years in grad school :-)
Yeah, I worked at ORNL and had to play alot at UT - UT had back in the EARLY 90's BITNET, USENET, email, web pages (what a new fangled idea when I was there), etc... Okay, so maybe their gopher server is no longer there, but why no web pages? I think the people who filled out these surveys were just a bunch of .... well, lets just say People Who Didn't Know...
Having taught programming to dotcom boom-i wanna highpaying job-history majors-now i wanna MSCS people with no math beyond Math 0100, I *wish* they would have stuck to your straightforward commenting methodology. At least. Actually, SOME commenting would be better than none. I often had to not only threaten, but actually fail programs because they did not comment at all. Just trying to get them in the practice.
Yes we are. And you're going to like it. We welcome our new Google masters...
Mr Cobb, As a registered member of the Green Party for the past several elections, I am concerned about the verbage in party information I've received concerning the November 2004 election. It seems I am being encouraged (strongly) to vote for the Democratic ticket. Is the Green Party no longer holding to it's grass-roots past and is it abandoning the philosophy of presenting a viable third-party point of view and candidate? Thank you.
In the end, tax money will be used to provide or subsidize those who cannot afford a digital converter with one. IMHO this is an issue that should be voted on by the proles, not discussed (read: spending even more of my tax dollars) ad nauseum in congress, et. al.
The old one at dack.com (it's not there anymore?), and I mushed alot of the phrases together - my co-workers and I had a laugh about it.
I no longer have a copy... but I'm sure it said something about me being able to "synergistically re-engineer convergent e-technology" or some such BS :-B
As a geek, and unable to understand "business-esse" AND looking for a job in the mid to late 90's, AND (most importantly) on a dare, I used one of the "BS Generators" to fluff up my "objective" on my resume. To my shagrin - it worked! I got more pegs/emails/phone calls on that particular resume than I ever have - previous or after. I truly think the "businessey-type" people really DO believe their own BS - and the "Mission Statements".
I try to stick with the W3C standards to make sure the sites are ADA/Section 508 compliant... DHTML, Flash, etc... make a website worthless when users are visually impaired...
Stats for users:
74% IE 6
16% IE 5
10% Netscape/Mozilla Flavors (all over v. 4)