Yet AT&T profited by $7.3 billion last year, which is enough to replace 2.3% of their assets (including buildings and wires).
Assuming those number are right, they could make more money by selling all their stuff and investing the money in 10-year treasury bonds. The yield there is a bit over 3%, and not quite as risky as operating a business.
gahh. a shortage in the market doesn't necessarily mean that there is a shortage of the substance to be tapped.
My point was that the current shortage of helium in the market is due to the lack of suppliers that are able and willing to pull it out of the natural gas wells. It is not because we have reached 'peak helium' where we want helium, but can't find any to pull out of the ground.
What the fine article fails to mention is how little helium is captured at wells. There is no point in figuring how much is in fraking wells since none of them capture any of it.
Which is why I called it an economic problem. You can damn well be sure that fracking wells would figure out a way to capture the helium if Joe Consumer's floating balloon budget started to approach his natural gas heat and appliances budget.
Probably wont, but it is win/win. They can "do something" about the pirates, and get a bump in revenue from the few pirates that will pay for an account to get around the restrictions.
There's something missing from the report, and that's Metropolitan speeds.
My broadband has about 5-10 mbps bandwidth if I transfer something from "general" Internet, but metropolitan speed is 100 mbps. My country-wide connection speed is about 50 mbps, tested with friends; http, p2p and ftp transfers are all equally fast.
What country is this. In the US, a connection like that would be seen as a rip-off. (I'm paying for a 100 Mbps connection, but only get 5-10 % of the speed when connecting to the actual Internet) I take it that most people are using a single ISP, and their internal network is much faster that their peering. There are enough different ISPs in the US, that that probably wouldn't work as well.
... I will never purchase one of these pieces of s*!t. I have a firm policy of refusal to support any vendor who utilizes DRM...
That said, I do purchase DVD's...
IF you think that you only see their (OpenDNS) ads a couple of times a year, you should look at the answer that they give out for www.google.com, and compare that with what the real nameservers for google.com hand out. You may be surprised.
can someone tell me what the hell is about Network Solutions/Verisign? Why do they still allow the kind of 5 days domain tasting even that caused so much problem? Their ICANN contract requires that they do it. ICANN has formed a committee to study this, so in a year or two, they will have decided if this is a problem, a couple of years after that they will decide what they should do about it, about a year after that they will agree on the verbiage of the new rule, and the problem will be solved when the contract is changed in 2013.
I know that it's hard to RTFA when the link is messed up, but http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3218 is pretty easy to find. It clearly states that the judge doesn't want the RAM turned over, but the data that is stored there.
The NH law says that All parties to the conversation must consent. If the article is accurate, this should be a pretty quick case, and the poor homeowner is screwed.
You don't get the point about suurring innovation. The question is "Without patents, would the inventor have bothered inventing?" I have a family and mouths to feed. I spend more time working toward that end, and trying to benefit humanity.
That might not be a completely bad thing. I remember the good old days when Computer Shopper magazine was huge. 16 in. x 9 in. format and two inches thick. It was 95 percent ads, and that's exactly why I bought it.
No, their problem is that they have a choice to make: a standards compliant website that doesn't look right in IE, or an IE compliant website that is not standsrds complaint, but looks good to 90 percent of their users.
It makes sense. TW Online can't seem to make money selling online advertisments. More users increase their costs (Bandwidth, Infrastrcture, etc.). By only allowing AOL users access, they save money, get the added bonus of being able to shitcan the online ad sales driods. Maybe they increase AOL subscriptions. The only risk is alienating the "let the Information be Free" crowd.
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Yet AT&T profited by $7.3 billion last year, which is enough to replace 2.3% of their assets (including buildings and wires).
Assuming those number are right, they could make more money by selling all their stuff and investing the money in 10-year treasury bonds. The yield there is a bit over 3%, and not quite as risky as operating a business.
gahh. a shortage in the market doesn't necessarily mean that there is a shortage of the substance to be tapped. My point was that the current shortage of helium in the market is due to the lack of suppliers that are able and willing to pull it out of the natural gas wells. It is not because we have reached 'peak helium' where we want helium, but can't find any to pull out of the ground.
What the fine article fails to mention is how little helium is captured at wells. There is no point in figuring how much is in fraking wells since none of them capture any of it.
Which is why I called it an economic problem. You can damn well be sure that fracking wells would figure out a way to capture the helium if Joe Consumer's floating balloon budget started to approach his natural gas heat and appliances budget.
The 'helium shortage' is more a problem with economics than it is with the abundance of the element.
Probably wont, but it is win/win. They can "do something" about the pirates, and get a bump in revenue from the few pirates that will pay for an account to get around the restrictions.
Yes, you're very safe running Linux. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/malicious-backdoor-in-open-source-messaging-apps-not-spotted-for-4-months/ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/082912-second-java-zero-day-found-time-262017.html etc.
So, basically, you're upset that an Americanized foreign show has been Americanized?
I'm confused, I thought you said you couldn't get max speed downloads outside of your metro area.
There's something missing from the report, and that's Metropolitan speeds.
My broadband has about 5-10 mbps bandwidth if I transfer something from "general" Internet, but metropolitan speed is 100 mbps. My country-wide connection speed is about 50 mbps, tested with friends; http, p2p and ftp transfers are all equally fast.
What country is this. In the US, a connection like that would be seen as a rip-off. (I'm paying for a 100 Mbps connection, but only get 5-10 % of the speed when connecting to the actual Internet) I take it that most people are using a single ISP, and their internal network is much faster that their peering. There are enough different ISPs in the US, that that probably wouldn't work as well.
There are no net neutrality laws.
... I will never purchase one of these pieces of s*!t. I have a firm policy of refusal to support any vendor who utilizes DRM ...
That said, I do purchase DVD's...
...ummm, Syntax error?
IF you think that you only see their (OpenDNS) ads a couple of times a year, you should look at the answer that they give out for www.google.com, and compare that with what the real nameservers for google.com hand out. You may be surprised.
Yeah, because all of that Due Process of the Law stuff is just a waste. It's better for the Gov't agents to just intimidate the private sector.
You realize that you're fucked up, right?
Inconceivable!
As an employed worker in the IT industry I want to make it clear: For the right price, I can start tomorrow.
I know that it's hard to RTFA when the link is messed up, but http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3218 is pretty easy to find. It clearly states that the judge doesn't want the RAM turned over, but the data that is stored there.
The NH law says that All parties to the conversation must consent. If the article is accurate, this should be a pretty quick case, and the poor homeowner is screwed.
You don't get the point about suurring innovation. The question is "Without patents, would the inventor have bothered inventing?" I have a family and mouths to feed. I spend more time working toward that end, and trying to benefit humanity.
That might not be a completely bad thing. I remember the good old days when Computer Shopper magazine was huge. 16 in. x 9 in. format and two inches thick. It was 95 percent ads, and that's exactly why I bought it.
Right! That means that MS is effectively flusshing the standard down the loo!
That's exactly my point. MS is making the W3C pointless. This is not a Good Thing.
No, their problem is that they have a choice to make: a standards compliant website that doesn't look right in IE, or an IE compliant website that is not standsrds complaint, but looks good to 90 percent of their users.
Sounds like a win/win situation to me.