Because tax payer money will be used to maintain this setup. I am quite sure the residents in these lower income areas could be better served by improving existing city services in their area, health clinics, and job training.
The first "bubble" is in a predominantly Latin neighborhood. From what I have seen, the people there don't need job training... They do the jobs "Americans Won't Do" and could work part time teaching foreign concepts like work ethics. We still have people here getting FEMA checks, and new arrivals in that neighborhood with no documentation, and no English can pay the rent on time. But yes, this will still come out poorly.
I don't think so. This is going into areas where the broadband providers don't tread.
All of the locations I have seen on the list are DSL capable. Many even have 2wire854 ssid's all over. My girlfriends brother had Juno DSL right in the middle of the "Gulfton Super Neighborhood." Cable modems are widely available in the homes, but not in all the apartments.
Since the 50s there have been auto show cars that drive by a joystick, but they never come out. Why? Because the current design works well. A sliding screen you can't adjust for glare? A keyboard with no feedback? To succeed it has to be more than cool, it has to be better. (Or at least not worse)
Until every app is encrypted. (https for web, ssl e-mail, vpn to the office... All legal) Then they throttle all my packets, and in the words of Rickie Ricardo, "Lucy... You got some splaining to do."
However many more have failed in places like Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Orlando, Tempe, Portland, and closer to home (for me) Grand Rapids and Oakland County. This list isn't complete, of course. You could ask Earthlink for a better one...
The project in Houston didn't fail, Earthlink did. They had open access to the power company to negotiate access rights on power line poles, and never even called them. Don't mistake bad business for bad technology.
The truly scary part of all this is that I listen to a lot of AM radio. I guess I am "old" by definition.:)
But I am sure that when the current old people were young, they bitched about the then old people holding them back. Now that they are old, they bitch about "kids today" as old people have been bitching for generations. But from a business standpoint, where there is more money to be made from WiMax than from AM radio, it will change. That may happen in 20 years, or there may be another source of ubiquitious net access, or "the net" may be crap that only "old people" use, and the real growth will be elsewhere.
Actually I'd suggest they play their strengths rather than their weakness. Disks are never going to compete with flash on seek times. They'd be better off dumping the entire 'speed' thing to flash and moving backwards to slower rotational speeds and vastly larger platter area. Can you imagine 5 1/4 inch disks with todays data density?
This sounds like the mythical "near line storage" that tapes ceased to be years ago... A 5.25 full hight 3200rpm drive would be reasonably cheap, very big, quiet and power conserving. Not all that fast, but that is the point of near line storage.
Probably because more people listen to AM radio and watch broadcast TV that would ever be WiMax customers. And they are generally a more consistent voting block then slashdotters, so you better hope they don't say "Let's get rid of all this internet wireless so it quits interfering with my Paul Harvey!"
Hotspots are a bit more sensible, but I still think those will eventually disappear with ubiquitous cell phone data coverage.
Everyone keeps talking about the death of the hotspot, but they are busier than ever. However, only as a value add... Look in any Panara Bread and tell me the hotspot is struggling. Any hotel. The hotspot is alive an well, but the paid model is struggling. Even Starbucks with the new AT&T is free for many people.
Sure... I will bet you money Verizon will find a way to make the requirement to "allow subscribers to use any compatible wireless device and run any software application they want" not a feasible option. Something like "With our stuff you get data discounted to 2 cents a byte. With yours it is the full price 2000 cents a byte..." Betcha money...
Description
As a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) (Screener):
You will perform a variety of duties related to providing security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft. You will be responsible for identifying dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and/or on passengers; and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft. You are required to perform various tasks such as: wanding, pat down searches, operation of x-ray machines, lift and carry baggage (weighing up to 70 pounds), and screening and ticket review using electronic and imaging equipment. As a TSO, you may perform passenger screening, baggage screening or both. You are expected to perform these duties in a courteous and professional manner.
* Communicate with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries in a professional and courteous manner.
* Maintain focus and awareness within an environment containing numerous distractions, people, and noise.
* Stand and remain standing for periods up to 4 hours without sitting.
* Repeatedly lift and carry an object weighing up to 70 pounds.
* Work within a stressful environment, which includes noise from alarms, machinery, and people, distractions, time pressure, disruptive and angry passengers, and the requirement to identify and locate potentially life-threatening devices and devices intended on creating massive destruction.
* Make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
Work Schedule: Full-time Split-Shift (40 hours per week). A Split Shift schedule is defined as any two shifts, lasting at least two (2) hours each, in one 24-hour period with a break of at least two (2) hours between shifts. Full-time work hours for this position consists of shift-work on any day from Sunday through Saturday, which may include irregular hours, nights, holidays, overtime, extended shifts and weekend shifts, changing shifts, and split shifts. Exceptions include additional shifts to support morning, midday, and afternoon or evening operations. Specific work shifts and schedules will be determined by the airport.
TSA will not pay any pre-employment travel expenses (e.g., travel to and from testing, medical examination facilities and assessment sites). As part of the evaluation process you will be required to travel to a TSA specified medical facility within commuting area of the airport for which you applied.
Qualifications
1. You must be a U.S.Citizen or U.S. National; AND
2. You must have a high school diploma, GED or equivalent; OR at least one year of full-time work experience in security work, aviation screener work, or x-ray technician work.
Possess the following job-related knowledge, skills, and abilities:
* English Proficiency (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, listening)
* Mental Abilities (e.g., visual observation and identification, mental rotation)
* Interpersonal Skills (e.g., customer service, dependability)
* Work Values (e.g., responsibility, honesty, integrity)
* Physical Abilities(e.g. repeatedly lifting and carrying baggage weighing up to 70 lbs, bending, reaching, stooping, squatting, standing, and walking and identifying objects by touch).
All TSOs must meet the following standards:
* Distant vision correctable to 20/30 or better in the best eye and 20/100 or better in the worse eye
* Near vision correctable to 20/40 or better binocular
* Color perception (e.g., red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black, white, gray) note: color filters (e.g., contact lenses) for enhancing color discrimination are prohibited.
* Hearing as measured by audiometry cannot exceed:
I was wondering if anyone would get this. When a big group of people that all have guns tell you to do something, you should do it. Admittedly, just redirecting the domain to a static page saying exactly what they were required to do by law, and linking to some news articles would have met the legal requirement with a lot more style...
Why does the whole Vista mess remind me of the end of a Benny Hill episode? They need to use the Ubuntu release cycle for a bit so people can move on to Vista +1.
Apple in the US and the BBC in the US are increasing the ISPs costs at no cost to themselves.
If Apple can get an OC-3 with unlimited bandwidth at no cost, I want one too!
at some point it'll hit critical mass - either the ISPs will start throttling video services, or they'll split the accounts allowing video download on only higher priced tariffs (much like the mobile phone companies have done from the start), or worst case they'll cut them off altogether.
You mean like Comcast, which Congress is looking at and the FCC is considering investigating? And this is for the geek protocol, bit torrent. Wait till the mess with momma's shows!
Even more reason to wait a few years before going to Blu-Ray. Wait a few years and we will have our players with 'debug' menus that were accidently left it:)
So I can wait for my grandmother to say "Why can't I watch your movie at Ethyl's house? Can you come and fix it?" I think I will pass...
Unless you have rediculously low bandwidth, very high morals (lack of legal online HD outlets), or simply a complete lack of tech savvy (in which case you wouldn't be reading this in all probability), download direct to player is THE way to go which makes any physical format a mere curiousity in the very near future.
My morals have taken a beating from the amoral media industry lately. That, combined with being called a Pirate for the last 5 years for using bit torrent to develop FOSS has me about ready to give in and join the tide. (To steal shit, I mean. I can't buy in to DRM, because I still have some principals!) And Comcast says I am already a dirty rotten Pirate, and I don't have any vast Video/Music collection to show for it!
1) There are 500 million dvd players versus maybe 12-15 million blu-ray of which 10 million are ps3
2) For most people for the time being, DVD is "cheap and good enough"
3) Cheapest blu-ray $250, cheapest dvd player $18
4) Since many "High Def" movies are just upscaled DVD video, a upscaling player does the same thing for a lot less. Blu-Ray just doesn't look that much better than a good software algorithm. (Other than a very few exceptions)
The purpose of business is to make money. Sony does this very well. They just don't make any of my money.
The first rootkit got me thinking about a boycott. The second rootkit made it solid. The format war just made sure that any trust I might have ever had for Sony is gone. I will not ever buy Blu-Ray DRM tech, and I will not every buy Sony. And I will damn sure never buy hardware that needs to phone home for permission to play. (A Toshiba Blu-Ray drive in my Linux box possibly...) If consumer predatory business fails to make money, it will stop immediately.
Commercial is not always bad. Some users do not have a clue, so they need to rent one from support. However, the pre-installed extortion-ware than does not cleanly remove is reason enough to boycott McAntic for life.
While I would not go as far as to say that was the cause only of the SCO downfall... A number of FOSS geeks are influential in a lot of purchasing decisions for both business and home users. And there are a LOT of good AV programs.
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Because tax payer money will be used to maintain this setup. I am quite sure the residents in these lower income areas could be better served by improving existing city services in their area, health clinics, and job training.
The first "bubble" is in a predominantly Latin neighborhood. From what I have seen, the people there don't need job training... They do the jobs "Americans Won't Do" and could work part time teaching foreign concepts like work ethics. We still have people here getting FEMA checks, and new arrivals in that neighborhood with no documentation, and no English can pay the rent on time. But yes, this will still come out poorly.
I don't think so. This is going into areas where the broadband providers don't tread.
All of the locations I have seen on the list are DSL capable. Many even have 2wire854 ssid's all over. My girlfriends brother had Juno DSL right in the middle of the "Gulfton Super Neighborhood." Cable modems are widely available in the homes, but not in all the apartments.
Since the 50s there have been auto show cars that drive by a joystick, but they never come out. Why? Because the current design works well. A sliding screen you can't adjust for glare? A keyboard with no feedback? To succeed it has to be more than cool, it has to be better. (Or at least not worse)
Until every app is encrypted. (https for web, ssl e-mail, vpn to the office... All legal) Then they throttle all my packets, and in the words of Rickie Ricardo, "Lucy... You got some splaining to do."
However many more have failed in places like Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Orlando, Tempe, Portland, and closer to home (for me) Grand Rapids and Oakland County. This list isn't complete, of course. You could ask Earthlink for a better one...
The project in Houston didn't fail, Earthlink did. They had open access to the power company to negotiate access rights on power line poles, and never even called them. Don't mistake bad business for bad technology.
The truly scary part of all this is that I listen to a lot of AM radio. I guess I am "old" by definition. :)
But I am sure that when the current old people were young, they bitched about the then old people holding them back. Now that they are old, they bitch about "kids today" as old people have been bitching for generations. But from a business standpoint, where there is more money to be made from WiMax than from AM radio, it will change. That may happen in 20 years, or there may be another source of ubiquitious net access, or "the net" may be crap that only "old people" use, and the real growth will be elsewhere.
Actually I'd suggest they play their strengths rather than their weakness. Disks are never going to compete with flash on seek times. They'd be better off dumping the entire 'speed' thing to flash and moving backwards to slower rotational speeds and vastly larger platter area. Can you imagine 5 1/4 inch disks with todays data density?
This sounds like the mythical "near line storage" that tapes ceased to be years ago... A 5.25 full hight 3200rpm drive would be reasonably cheap, very big, quiet and power conserving. Not all that fast, but that is the point of near line storage.
Probably because more people listen to AM radio and watch broadcast TV that would ever be WiMax customers. And they are generally a more consistent voting block then slashdotters, so you better hope they don't say "Let's get rid of all this internet wireless so it quits interfering with my Paul Harvey!"
Hotspots are a bit more sensible, but I still think those will eventually disappear with ubiquitous cell phone data coverage.
Everyone keeps talking about the death of the hotspot, but they are busier than ever. However, only as a value add... Look in any Panara Bread and tell me the hotspot is struggling. Any hotel. The hotspot is alive an well, but the paid model is struggling. Even Starbucks with the new AT&T is free for many people.
Sure... I will bet you money Verizon will find a way to make the requirement to "allow subscribers to use any compatible wireless device and run any software application they want" not a feasible option. Something like "With our stuff you get data discounted to 2 cents a byte. With yours it is the full price 2000 cents a byte..." Betcha money...
Looks like something that will run around the room yelling "Exterminate!" In a high squeaky voice. £10,000 for a custom cooled Skulltrail? Uhhh... No.
From https://tsacarrers.taleo.net/ Read to the end... I was not scared before I read this, but now...
1802-Transportation Security Officer (TSO) (Screener) - SUN107
Job Description
Apply Online
Description
As a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) (Screener):
You will perform a variety of duties related to providing security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft. You will be responsible for identifying dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and/or on passengers; and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft. You are required to perform various tasks such as: wanding, pat down searches, operation of x-ray machines, lift and carry baggage (weighing up to 70 pounds), and screening and ticket review using electronic and imaging equipment. As a TSO, you may perform passenger screening, baggage screening or both. You are expected to perform these duties in a courteous and professional manner.
* Communicate with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries in a professional and courteous manner.
* Maintain focus and awareness within an environment containing numerous distractions, people, and noise.
* Stand and remain standing for periods up to 4 hours without sitting.
* Repeatedly lift and carry an object weighing up to 70 pounds.
* Work within a stressful environment, which includes noise from alarms, machinery, and people, distractions, time pressure, disruptive and angry passengers, and the requirement to identify and locate potentially life-threatening devices and devices intended on creating massive destruction.
* Make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
Work Schedule: Full-time Split-Shift (40 hours per week). A Split Shift schedule is defined as any two shifts, lasting at least two (2) hours each, in one 24-hour period with a break of at least two (2) hours between shifts. Full-time work hours for this position consists of shift-work on any day from Sunday through Saturday, which may include irregular hours, nights, holidays, overtime, extended shifts and weekend shifts, changing shifts, and split shifts. Exceptions include additional shifts to support morning, midday, and afternoon or evening operations. Specific work shifts and schedules will be determined by the airport.
TSA will not pay any pre-employment travel expenses (e.g., travel to and from testing, medical examination facilities and assessment sites). As part of the evaluation process you will be required to travel to a TSA specified medical facility within commuting area of the airport for which you applied.
Qualifications
1. You must be a U.S.Citizen or U.S. National; AND
2. You must have a high school diploma, GED or equivalent; OR at least one year of full-time work experience in security work, aviation screener work, or x-ray technician work.
Possess the following job-related knowledge, skills, and abilities:
* English Proficiency (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, listening)
* Mental Abilities (e.g., visual observation and identification, mental rotation)
* Interpersonal Skills (e.g., customer service, dependability)
* Work Values (e.g., responsibility, honesty, integrity)
* Physical Abilities(e.g. repeatedly lifting and carrying baggage weighing up to 70 lbs, bending, reaching, stooping, squatting, standing, and walking and identifying objects by touch).
All TSOs must meet the following standards:
* Distant vision correctable to 20/30 or better in the best eye and 20/100 or better in the worse eye
* Near vision correctable to 20/40 or better binocular
* Color perception (e.g., red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black, white, gray) note: color filters (e.g., contact lenses) for enhancing color discrimination are prohibited.
* Hearing as measured by audiometry cannot exceed:
I was wondering if anyone would get this. When a big group of people that all have guns tell you to do something, you should do it. Admittedly, just redirecting the domain to a static page saying exactly what they were required to do by law, and linking to some news articles would have met the legal requirement with a lot more style...
I agree. After all, this worked so well for the American cell phone network.
Why does the whole Vista mess remind me of the end of a Benny Hill episode? They need to use the Ubuntu release cycle for a bit so people can move on to Vista +1.
Be very careful in how you request oral sex in that situation...
Apple in the US and the BBC in the US are increasing the ISPs costs at no cost to themselves.
If Apple can get an OC-3 with unlimited bandwidth at no cost, I want one too!
at some point it'll hit critical mass - either the ISPs will start throttling video services, or they'll split the accounts allowing video download on only higher priced tariffs (much like the mobile phone companies have done from the start), or worst case they'll cut them off altogether.
You mean like Comcast, which Congress is looking at and the FCC is considering investigating? And this is for the geek protocol, bit torrent. Wait till the mess with momma's shows!
Even more reason to wait a few years before going to Blu-Ray. Wait a few years and we will have our players with 'debug' menus that were accidently left it :)
So I can wait for my grandmother to say "Why can't I watch your movie at Ethyl's house? Can you come and fix it?" I think I will pass...
Unless you have rediculously low bandwidth, very high morals (lack of legal online HD outlets), or simply a complete lack of tech savvy (in which case you wouldn't be reading this in all probability), download direct to player is THE way to go which makes any physical format a mere curiousity in the very near future.
My morals have taken a beating from the amoral media industry lately. That, combined with being called a Pirate for the last 5 years for using bit torrent to develop FOSS has me about ready to give in and join the tide. (To steal shit, I mean. I can't buy in to DRM, because I still have some principals!) And Comcast says I am already a dirty rotten Pirate, and I don't have any vast Video/Music collection to show for it!
Reasons for DVD staying around for a long time...
1) There are 500 million dvd players versus maybe 12-15 million blu-ray of which 10 million are ps3
2) For most people for the time being, DVD is "cheap and good enough"
3) Cheapest blu-ray $250, cheapest dvd player $18
4) Since many "High Def" movies are just upscaled DVD video, a upscaling player does the same thing for a lot less. Blu-Ray just doesn't look that much better than a good software algorithm. (Other than a very few exceptions)
The purpose of business is to make money. Sony does this very well. They just don't make any of my money.
The first rootkit got me thinking about a boycott. The second rootkit made it solid. The format war just made sure that any trust I might have ever had for Sony is gone. I will not ever buy Blu-Ray DRM tech, and I will not every buy Sony. And I will damn sure never buy hardware that needs to phone home for permission to play. (A Toshiba Blu-Ray drive in my Linux box possibly...) If consumer predatory business fails to make money, it will stop immediately.
I guess "An Inconvenient Truth" can't be aired in Chine now... This is only half a joke.
For the record, I do not think GriSoft has sued anyone this week. And AVG is quite good in the enterprise.
Commercial is not always bad. Some users do not have a clue, so they need to rent one from support. However, the pre-installed extortion-ware than does not cleanly remove is reason enough to boycott McAntic for life.
While I would not go as far as to say that was the cause only of the SCO downfall... A number of FOSS geeks are influential in a lot of purchasing decisions for both business and home users. And there are a LOT of good AV programs.