What I was talking about was a rational approach to reducing the cost of doing business in this country. What do I mean by that? Perhaps we should examine:
Well there's no proof, as you correctly pointed out. However, it is interesting to note that Baystar Capital claims (page 3) Microsoft as one of their top 10 investors in PIPE's (Private Investments in Public Equities). The investment in question is a PIPE, by the way. It may be a coincidence, but it would certainly be an interesting coincidence.
Most likely they are specifying case temperature. It's difficult to gauge local ambient accurately because of the large temperature gradients over short distances. Case temperatures are often cited because their measurements tend to be very repeatable.
That "Giving Campaign" encourages donations to charitable organizations with a 100% match by Microsoft of any employee donation. The only restriction is it can't be a purely religious organization [...]
MS may balk at matching funds when they find out about St. IGNUtius.
I've wished for something similar in the past. One solution that occurred to me would be to create an encrypted loopback filesystem under Linux (details here). For those not familiar with this scheme, it essentially encapsulates a filesystem in a regular file and [en|de]crypts it at the kernel level.
One potential way to access this from Windows would be using Namespace Extensions. I believe this is the way that "special folders" such as Control Panel and Scheduled Tasks are integrated into the Explorer. It would seem to be straightforward for someone knowledgable in the area to create a Namespace Extension that could mount an encrypted loopback filesystem created in Linux.
There was an interesting presentation at last year's OSCON by someone who developed something like what you describe in Perl/Tk for a quadriplegic friend.
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The best rebuttal I've seen to this argument asks: if incumbents must sell at below their cost, why do we not see one RBOC go into another RBOC's territory and compete with the second as a CLEC since this would ostensibly be cheaper than expanding their own network?
Of course not. I didn't claim that the Bells are paragons of virtue, and I'm well familiar with Isenberg's views (which have a lot of merit btw).
It seems that one's position in this debate is informed by the direction one looks in time. It used to be correct to characterize the Bells as monopolies; land-line telephony was effectively the only game in town, and this is why UNE-P was fitting in proper. But now there are more choices all the time and the incumbents are losing voice revenue left and right. Whether it's cable telephony, cellular/PCS, or even VoIP from your local fixed wireless ISP, consumers have choices. It's becoming clearer all the time that traditionally separate markets are rushing toward a common center: "the bits business." It doesn't matter what those bits represent. The FCC appears to be in agreement, correctly IMO. The satellite providers and MSO's are eating the incumbents' lunch and this rulemaking will at least give them a chance to fight back on a more level playing field.
Kevin J. Martin was sworn in as an FCC commissioner on July 3, 2001. He was a Bush aide, serving as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and also worked on the Bush campaign as Deputy General Counsel. He has an extensive legal background and is seen as the swing vote on the FCC
His recent comments ("Priority I: A Regulatory Environment that Encourages New Investment") imply that the deregulating the incumbents is largely a matter of degree: not "if" but "how much."
In the short term there will certainly be fallout as a result of this decision, as the marginal players benefiting from mandated low network access rates are squeezed out. In the longer term, I believe that this will spur innovation and create jobs at equipment suppliers (Alcatel, Lucent,...) -- as the incumbents' capital expenditures begin to increase because they're confident of reaping the benefits of their investments.
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It's happening today! Qwest has over 60k video subscribers in Phoenix and Denver. Qwest is supporting 3 video streams over a single settop box via VDSL. Up in Canada (Manitoba), MTS will be commercially rolling out video over VDSL in Winnipeg starting early next year. Our platform also supports video over ADSL, with the tradeoff that only 2 streams are supported rather than VDSL's 3 streams, though the reach is 11kft or more as opposed to VDSL's ~4kft from the remote terminal. Many of the independents have expressed interest in the ADSL platform, with SCRTC [this link doesn't work in Mozilla:(] having a few thousand subs online as of today I believe.
Basically the telcos are extremely motivated to find new revenue streams because their lunch (POTS) is being eaten by wireless providers and cable companies offering telephony. Unfortunately this desire is modulated by Wall St. taking an extremely dim view of CapEx spending with the economy in its present state.
The Internet Multicasting Service and Internet Software Consortium (as a team) are among the bidders for.org.
The IMS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by Carl Malamud, who was responsible for getting the SEC's EDGAR filings freely available online. There is more info here.
Check the nameplate labels on devices similar to the one you plan to build and look for the compliance verbiage. Two common certifications needed for consumer equipment in the US are UL and FCC. You can get these certifications at various third party testing laboratories, such as this one
On another note, this information is readily obtained with a simple Google query ("certification ul fcc safety"). Take the time to research easily answered questions yourself, and the answers may lead you to ask deeper questions that would be more interesting for readers here.
Your comment indicates an imperfect understanding of the economics of mass production.
Flex has manufacturing facilities all over the world. As is typical of large contract manufacturers, Flex operates NPI (new product introduction) facilities for new products which are typically located near engineering centers (e.g. San Jose, CA). Advantages of NPI facilities include a high level of interactivity with the designers, focusing on optimizing products for manufacturability, and tuning manufacturing processes. Disadvantages include low production capacity and very high costs.
As volumes increase and products become more robust from a manufacturing perspective, production moves to places like Mexico, eastern Europe, etc., and ultimately to China. If you aren't doing some serious volume, it just doesn't make sense to take production work to China. Flex moving XBox production to China is an indication that Microsoft is 1) increasing production of XBoxes beyond the volume cited in the article you linked, and 2) highly focused on cost-reduction.
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If your conscience is bothering you now, all of the Scott Adams series (the two titles you mentioned being private-labeled S.A. titles IIRC) is now shareware and Scott has a PayPal account as well.
On the other hand, the phone companies built most of their infrastructure out with financing partially based on taxes ("Universal service fees")
True enough.
and share infrastructure with the power and cable companies every day.
Can you elaborate on this?
Firstly, the telephone companies have not dragged their feet over any development where they had competition
We may be talking apples and oranges. I was speaking in the larger context of "the bits business," which encompasses voice, data, and video. My primary argument is that the MSO's are invading RBOC's core revenue stream (telephony) in an unregulated environment, but that regulation imposed on RBOC's puts them at a competitive disadvantage when they contemplate going after the cable companies by offering video programming -- even though the cost per subscriber to deploy is equivalent (according to recent statements by Qwest, which has a VDSL trial underway). Your points about RBOC's vs. CLEC's are well taken -- my original post was attempting to answer the question of what the FCC is thinking, which was posed by its parent post.
The FCC's scope is not limited to RBOC's and CLEC's. The reasoning behind this rulemaking is that it is unfair to impose more restrictive regulation on RBOC's than that imposed on their competitors for comparable services, i.e. MSO's (cable companies) and satellite operators.
In my neighborhood, I can buy video/data/voice from my cable operator (AT&T). They made a decision to invest the capital to be able to do this because they know they won't be forced to give up space in their cabinets for their competitors' equipment. On the other hand, equipmentexists to give telephone companies the ability to offer video programming (as well as voice and data) over their existing outside plant, but they have dragged their feet deploying it over concerns that they will not reap the full benefits of the substantial capital investment required.
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What I was talking about was a rational approach to reducing the cost of doing business in this country. What do I mean by that? Perhaps we should examine:
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well there's no proof, as you correctly pointed out. However, it is interesting to note that Baystar Capital claims (page 3) Microsoft as one of their top 10 investors in PIPE's (Private Investments in Public Equities). The investment in question is a PIPE, by the way. It may be a coincidence, but it would certainly be an interesting coincidence.
Most likely they are specifying case temperature. It's difficult to gauge local ambient accurately because of the large temperature gradients over short distances. Case temperatures are often cited because their measurements tend to be very repeatable.
...in San Francisco this Sunday: Power Tool Drag Races.
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That "Giving Campaign" encourages donations to charitable organizations with a 100% match by Microsoft of any employee donation. The only restriction is it can't be a purely religious organization [...]
MS may balk at matching funds when they find out about St. IGNUtius.That'll never work. You'll just end up dialling a negative number, and I don't know anyone with a negative phone number.
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I've wished for something similar in the past. One solution that occurred to me would be to create an encrypted loopback filesystem under Linux (details here). For those not familiar with this scheme, it essentially encapsulates a filesystem in a regular file and [en|de]crypts it at the kernel level.
One potential way to access this from Windows would be using Namespace Extensions. I believe this is the way that "special folders" such as Control Panel and Scheduled Tasks are integrated into the Explorer. It would seem to be straightforward for someone knowledgable in the area to create a Namespace Extension that could mount an encrypted loopback filesystem created in Linux.
There was an interesting presentation at last year's OSCON by someone who developed something like what you describe in Perl/Tk for a quadriplegic friend.
There is actually no Constitutional right to privacy.
There is in California...The best rebuttal I've seen to this argument asks: if incumbents must sell at below their cost, why do we not see one RBOC go into another RBOC's territory and compete with the second as a CLEC since this would ostensibly be cheaper than expanding their own network?
I'm sorry, are you kidding?
Of course not. I didn't claim that the Bells are paragons of virtue, and I'm well familiar with Isenberg's views (which have a lot of merit btw).
It seems that one's position in this debate is informed by the direction one looks in time. It used to be correct to characterize the Bells as monopolies; land-line telephony was effectively the only game in town, and this is why UNE-P was fitting in proper. But now there are more choices all the time and the incumbents are losing voice revenue left and right. Whether it's cable telephony, cellular/PCS, or even VoIP from your local fixed wireless ISP, consumers have choices. It's becoming clearer all the time that traditionally separate markets are rushing toward a common center: "the bits business." It doesn't matter what those bits represent. The FCC appears to be in agreement, correctly IMO. The satellite providers and MSO's are eating the incumbents' lunch and this rulemaking will at least give them a chance to fight back on a more level playing field.
His recent comments ("Priority I: A Regulatory Environment that Encourages New Investment") imply that the deregulating the incumbents is largely a matter of degree: not "if" but "how much."
In the short term there will certainly be fallout as a result of this decision, as the marginal players benefiting from mandated low network access rates are squeezed out. In the longer term, I believe that this will spur innovation and create jobs at equipment suppliers (Alcatel, Lucent, ...) -- as the incumbents' capital expenditures begin to increase because they're confident of reaping the benefits of their investments.
It seems to be under development
That's true. On the other hand, Morel was definitely a fun guy!
It's happening today! Qwest has over 60k video subscribers in Phoenix and Denver. Qwest is supporting 3 video streams over a single settop box via VDSL. Up in Canada (Manitoba), MTS will be commercially rolling out video over VDSL in Winnipeg starting early next year. Our platform also supports video over ADSL, with the tradeoff that only 2 streams are supported rather than VDSL's 3 streams, though the reach is 11kft or more as opposed to VDSL's ~4kft from the remote terminal. Many of the independents have expressed interest in the ADSL platform, with SCRTC [this link doesn't work in Mozilla :(] having a few thousand subs online as of today I believe.
Basically the telcos are extremely motivated to find new revenue streams because their lunch (POTS) is being eaten by wireless providers and cable companies offering telephony. Unfortunately this desire is modulated by Wall St. taking an extremely dim view of CapEx spending with the economy in its present state.
Sounds a little fishy to me.
But one of the most important questions is unaddressed: is the architecture big-Indian or little-Indian?
Here are several examples for you.
The IMS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by Carl Malamud, who was responsible for getting the SEC's EDGAR filings freely available online. There is more info here.
On another note, this information is readily obtained with a simple Google query ("certification ul fcc safety"). Take the time to research easily answered questions yourself, and the answers may lead you to ask deeper questions that would be more interesting for readers here.
Flex has manufacturing facilities all over the world. As is typical of large contract manufacturers, Flex operates NPI (new product introduction) facilities for new products which are typically located near engineering centers (e.g. San Jose, CA). Advantages of NPI facilities include a high level of interactivity with the designers, focusing on optimizing products for manufacturability, and tuning manufacturing processes. Disadvantages include low production capacity and very high costs.
As volumes increase and products become more robust from a manufacturing perspective, production moves to places like Mexico, eastern Europe, etc., and ultimately to China. If you aren't doing some serious volume, it just doesn't make sense to take production work to China. Flex moving XBox production to China is an indication that Microsoft is 1) increasing production of XBoxes beyond the volume cited in the article you linked, and 2) highly focused on cost-reduction.
If your conscience is bothering you now, all of the Scott Adams series (the two titles you mentioned being private-labeled S.A. titles IIRC) is now shareware and Scott has a PayPal account as well.
Easy payment straight to the artist!
True enough.
and share infrastructure with the power and cable companies every day.
Can you elaborate on this?
Firstly, the telephone companies have not dragged their feet over any development where they had competition
We may be talking apples and oranges. I was speaking in the larger context of "the bits business," which encompasses voice, data, and video. My primary argument is that the MSO's are invading RBOC's core revenue stream (telephony) in an unregulated environment, but that regulation imposed on RBOC's puts them at a competitive disadvantage when they contemplate going after the cable companies by offering video programming -- even though the cost per subscriber to deploy is equivalent (according to recent statements by Qwest, which has a VDSL trial underway). Your points about RBOC's vs. CLEC's are well taken -- my original post was attempting to answer the question of what the FCC is thinking, which was posed by its parent post.
In my neighborhood, I can buy video/data/voice from my cable operator (AT&T). They made a decision to invest the capital to be able to do this because they know they won't be forced to give up space in their cabinets for their competitors' equipment. On the other hand, equipment exists to give telephone companies the ability to offer video programming (as well as voice and data) over their existing outside plant, but they have dragged their feet deploying it over concerns that they will not reap the full benefits of the substantial capital investment required.