T-Mobile already has the "mini-tower" equipment to set up within any bulding that needs a signal or bandwith boost, and the fact that it's GSM-based rather than WiFi-based means that equipment works with their standard phones, which is better than a new WiFi solution which would require new tech inside the handsets.
If T-Mobile wanted to create a "coffee minutes" rate class for cheaper calls made within or arround a StarBucks where they have special equipment that gets the call onto landlines there instead of using their broader network, they can already... but if it's not worth doing with GSM technology, what makes it any better on WiFi?
Bandwith counting can be built into WiFi services in several ways... just because WiFi itself doesn't offer it doesn't mean somebody can't put something just downstream of the access point to do the counting.
WiFi is meant to cover a small area, like a house or an office, to link back to local resources. Celluar networks have nothing useful on them other than their connection back to the outside world.
Does anybody sane have a T3 that both starts and ends in their basement? There's no point, 100BaseT wires provide faster bandwidth on a cheaper wire in small-area situations. But you can't ask 100BaseT to go accross town, and that's what the T3 is useful for.
WiFi is for LAN use, cellular is for WAN use. Both have a place, and neither can fully replace the other.
SIM cards exist in the USA, the only problem is they can't be used to switch providers in most areas because in most parts of the country T-Mobile is the only provider in the area who uses GSM technology.
The reason why you can't use your old Cingular phone to sign up for Verizon's service is because in most markets Cingular uses TDMA while Verizon uses CDMA. Simply incompatible, and the providers love this because it makes it harder for you to switch when you want to. They can soak you on the rate plan you're already on rather than have to match the rate offer "the other guy" is offering new subscribers because there's a noticible cost associated with a switch of providers.
The tech side of this has been ready for a long time, it's the business side that wants to stall. Simply put, the cell phone operators like the fact that it's hard to switch from one operator to another, because competition is a two-way street. Ease in coming to Brand X also means easy in leaving Brand X. In order to retain customers, that means each provider has to work harder... providing a better service, lower prices, etc.
The big winner in all of this will be the consumer, because a more competitive environment is always good for the consumer... of course business always hates when that happens.
The Constitution gives patents to encurage inventors by giving them a monopoly on whatever they invent for a period of time, meaning that nobody can copy their idea to compete against them with it. Yes, this means that monopoly pricing power goes to the inventor's company... and that's their reward, but at least it comes with an expiration date.
Netflix says they've built something that nobody has built before. If that claim is true, then they've won the right to a limited-time monopoly fair and square.
Walmart is coming along and trying to duplicate them exactly while undercutting their prices, which would be perfectly legal to do if Netflix's distribution model isn't original. That's exactly what a patent monopoly is there to prevent... the inventor gets to soak the market for a few years as the reward, then competitors may jump in and throw him out.
BTW, this wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction to Walmart coming late to the party... Netflix has had their application in since Y2K, it's just now that the PTO finally stamped "Approved" on it...
Unfortunately, that's the nature of captialism. Those who can't afford a computer can't use the Internet and are shut out of all of the goodness the Internet brings to those who do have it.
Simple solution: If you win, when you claim the sticker you give the state the plate number of the vehicle the sticker will be on... If you don't know that number, you've wasted your money.
This actually is meant to cater to the very rich. The deal is you offer to fork over the most money, you get the sticker. Clearly, this is going to go to the rich executives rather than the entry-level salespeople.
I doubt they'll price further sales based on eBay auctions... they'll price the further sales on further eBay auctions too.
The state of Massachusetts solved this problem... anything greater than 95 MPH in a car is a felony called Driving to Endanger which gives the cop authorization to chase anybody clocked faster than that speed.
If there is any empty space in the carpool lane, think of it as unsold inventory. All of the carpools that are going to form naturally have formed, so why not let the state sell the unused bandwidth of the roadway?
You get to skip the buy-the-ticket line, it's the get-in-the-door line you don't.
The difference as far as the movie theater cares is that if you walk out of the buy-the-ticket line they don't get paid, they do however get to keep your money if you walk away from the get-in-the-door line.
Yeah, but the sign can't offer you a click-through way to buy your tickets without waiting in line. That's the reason why this is being developed, so that you can get content that relates to what you can buy at the places you happen to be walking by.
No need to move cash around, or even deal with the credit card industry, the charges show up on your celluar bill, which also means your wireless carrier takes a cut of the money.
The umpire's ball or strike calls are still going to be the ones that "count" for a long time. The use of this system will be to flag which umpires are no good ant making ball or strike calls to take them back in for more training or maybe worse...
For instance, what if I'm in a left turn lane drive directly toward a car in an oncoming left turn lane? We're not going to collide, but does my car know that?
First of all, at the start of the situation you and the other car are going to collide. That is to say, if you keep going at the speed you're going, and they keep going at the speed they're going, the two cars will eventually meet. We all hope that both cars are going to slow down, stop, and turn left without meeting.
Now, most likely you already have naturally put your foot on the brake. If that's true, then this system can relax because it knows that you're in control of the car. However, if you don't put your foot on the brake and you let that other car get too close to you, then the alarm goes off and it starts slowing down the car for you. If in response to that alarm you move your foot over to the break, then the system has done its job and can relax.
However, if you STILL haven't gotten the clue that you're on a collision course and really should be be slowing down here, then the system really has to take action, and hits the breaks even harder. The system could bring the car to a complete stop, but regulations presently prevent an automated system from doing so.
In order to be libel it has to be false. This would get very difficult to prove...
Their company's business model seems to be based on lawsuits, which means they're making a profession out of being litigious, and one of the definitions of "bastard" is "an offensive or disagreeable person", which SCOs operators most certainly are in the view of/.
SSH protects your traffic from being understood by anybody who intercepts it, but still results in traffic that is oviously encrypted. In this sitation, that'd be enough evidence to get you in trouble because you're hiding something even though they won't know what.
No stock market trader is using SSH on their desk machine, they want everything they do to be logged to cover their own ass.
You won't have to pay any more duties on them than normal... nobody's going to check your new laptop for Hynix-made parts. Afterall, they're such a small percentage of the overall device that skipping such a collection is nothing more than a small error compared to the grand scheme of things... the point of this is to tax the bulk shipments of chips, not individual chips that are already within a finished product.
If your new laptop was made in the USA or any of the EU contries, the tarrif was already collected when the chips were imported as chips there... no need to double-collect.
If the machine was made in Canada and the chips imported directly to Canada, then your answering machine is slipping through the cracks. However, it's not worth worrying about just one... so nobody does. Besides, in all likelyhood Canada's going to join the rest of the world and slap the same tariff against Hynix there too when they get around to it.
If a Canadian company were to start using untariffed Hynix chips to start sending large numbers of laptops accross the boarder undercutting competition because they have a cheaper source of RAM chips than the rest of the world, then they'd find a tarrif slapped on them too for dumping products....
Most courts tend to issue more guilty verdicts than not guilty verdicts... in part because the police tend to capture the right suspect more often than they capture a wrong one. We hear about the few times the police screw up, while the police bringing in the right defendant is a business-as-usual case that doesn't make very many headlines.
The WTO can't exactly overrule both the USA and the EU at the same time...
That's about the only reason why a government would want to tax its own people in order to provide a product at below cost to another market... to kill off all competitors in that area so that their company would have an unnatural monopoly. When the monopoly switches to abusive mode, no other company will dare compete with it because the government subsidy could instantly return and wipe them out too.
This was on the way to being an illegaly formed monopoly... Hynix was depending on South Korean government subsidy to exist, it would have gone bankrupt otherwise. That's not fair play, because it discurages American interests from even trying to compete in that industry without a matching subsidy that we're just not going to give them...
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T-Mobile already has the "mini-tower" equipment to set up within any bulding that needs a signal or bandwith boost, and the fact that it's GSM-based rather than WiFi-based means that equipment works with their standard phones, which is better than a new WiFi solution which would require new tech inside the handsets.
If T-Mobile wanted to create a "coffee minutes" rate class for cheaper calls made within or arround a StarBucks where they have special equipment that gets the call onto landlines there instead of using their broader network, they can already... but if it's not worth doing with GSM technology, what makes it any better on WiFi?
Bandwith counting can be built into WiFi services in several ways... just because WiFi itself doesn't offer it doesn't mean somebody can't put something just downstream of the access point to do the counting.
WiFi is meant to cover a small area, like a house or an office, to link back to local resources. Celluar networks have nothing useful on them other than their connection back to the outside world.
Does anybody sane have a T3 that both starts and ends in their basement? There's no point, 100BaseT wires provide faster bandwidth on a cheaper wire in small-area situations. But you can't ask 100BaseT to go accross town, and that's what the T3 is useful for.
WiFi is for LAN use, cellular is for WAN use. Both have a place, and neither can fully replace the other.
SIM cards exist in the USA, the only problem is they can't be used to switch providers in most areas because in most parts of the country T-Mobile is the only provider in the area who uses GSM technology.
The reason why you can't use your old Cingular phone to sign up for Verizon's service is because in most markets Cingular uses TDMA while Verizon uses CDMA. Simply incompatible, and the providers love this because it makes it harder for you to switch when you want to. They can soak you on the rate plan you're already on rather than have to match the rate offer "the other guy" is offering new subscribers because there's a noticible cost associated with a switch of providers.
The tech side of this has been ready for a long time, it's the business side that wants to stall. Simply put, the cell phone operators like the fact that it's hard to switch from one operator to another, because competition is a two-way street. Ease in coming to Brand X also means easy in leaving Brand X. In order to retain customers, that means each provider has to work harder... providing a better service, lower prices, etc.
The big winner in all of this will be the consumer, because a more competitive environment is always good for the consumer... of course business always hates when that happens.
The Constitution gives patents to encurage inventors by giving them a monopoly on whatever they invent for a period of time, meaning that nobody can copy their idea to compete against them with it. Yes, this means that monopoly pricing power goes to the inventor's company... and that's their reward, but at least it comes with an expiration date.
Netflix says they've built something that nobody has built before. If that claim is true, then they've won the right to a limited-time monopoly fair and square.
Walmart is coming along and trying to duplicate them exactly while undercutting their prices, which would be perfectly legal to do if Netflix's distribution model isn't original. That's exactly what a patent monopoly is there to prevent... the inventor gets to soak the market for a few years as the reward, then competitors may jump in and throw him out.
BTW, this wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction to Walmart coming late to the party... Netflix has had their application in since Y2K, it's just now that the PTO finally stamped "Approved" on it...
Unfortunately, that's the nature of captialism. Those who can't afford a computer can't use the Internet and are shut out of all of the goodness the Internet brings to those who do have it.
This is why we have a welfare program...
Simple solution: If you win, when you claim the sticker you give the state the plate number of the vehicle the sticker will be on... If you don't know that number, you've wasted your money.
This actually is meant to cater to the very rich. The deal is you offer to fork over the most money, you get the sticker. Clearly, this is going to go to the rich executives rather than the entry-level salespeople.
I doubt they'll price further sales based on eBay auctions... they'll price the further sales on further eBay auctions too.
The state of Massachusetts solved this problem... anything greater than 95 MPH in a car is a felony called Driving to Endanger which gives the cop authorization to chase anybody clocked faster than that speed.
If there is any empty space in the carpool lane, think of it as unsold inventory. All of the carpools that are going to form naturally have formed, so why not let the state sell the unused bandwidth of the roadway?
You get to skip the buy-the-ticket line, it's the get-in-the-door line you don't. The difference as far as the movie theater cares is that if you walk out of the buy-the-ticket line they don't get paid, they do however get to keep your money if you walk away from the get-in-the-door line.
Yeah, but the sign can't offer you a click-through way to buy your tickets without waiting in line. That's the reason why this is being developed, so that you can get content that relates to what you can buy at the places you happen to be walking by.
No need to move cash around, or even deal with the credit card industry, the charges show up on your celluar bill, which also means your wireless carrier takes a cut of the money.
No, it's because milk is a localized business. Milk would spoil in the time it would take to transport it internationally.
The umpire's ball or strike calls are still going to be the ones that "count" for a long time. The use of this system will be to flag which umpires are no good ant making ball or strike calls to take them back in for more training or maybe worse...
Sunday Night Baseball being the broadcast that uses the ESPN K-Zone system which is basically the same technology from a competing developer.
For instance, what if I'm in a left turn lane drive directly toward a car in an oncoming left turn lane? We're not going to collide, but does my car know that? First of all, at the start of the situation you and the other car are going to collide. That is to say, if you keep going at the speed you're going, and they keep going at the speed they're going, the two cars will eventually meet. We all hope that both cars are going to slow down, stop, and turn left without meeting. Now, most likely you already have naturally put your foot on the brake. If that's true, then this system can relax because it knows that you're in control of the car. However, if you don't put your foot on the brake and you let that other car get too close to you, then the alarm goes off and it starts slowing down the car for you. If in response to that alarm you move your foot over to the break, then the system has done its job and can relax. However, if you STILL haven't gotten the clue that you're on a collision course and really should be be slowing down here, then the system really has to take action, and hits the breaks even harder. The system could bring the car to a complete stop, but regulations presently prevent an automated system from doing so.
In order to be libel it has to be false. This would get very difficult to prove...
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Their company's business model seems to be based on lawsuits, which means they're making a profession out of being litigious, and one of the definitions of "bastard" is "an offensive or disagreeable person", which SCOs operators most certainly are in the view of
SSH protects your traffic from being understood by anybody who intercepts it, but still results in traffic that is oviously encrypted. In this sitation, that'd be enough evidence to get you in trouble because you're hiding something even though they won't know what.
No stock market trader is using SSH on their desk machine, they want everything they do to be logged to cover their own ass.
You won't have to pay any more duties on them than normal... nobody's going to check your new laptop for Hynix-made parts. Afterall, they're such a small percentage of the overall device that skipping such a collection is nothing more than a small error compared to the grand scheme of things... the point of this is to tax the bulk shipments of chips, not individual chips that are already within a finished product.
If your new laptop was made in the USA or any of the EU contries, the tarrif was already collected when the chips were imported as chips there... no need to double-collect.
If the machine was made in Canada and the chips imported directly to Canada, then your answering machine is slipping through the cracks. However, it's not worth worrying about just one... so nobody does. Besides, in all likelyhood Canada's going to join the rest of the world and slap the same tariff against Hynix there too when they get around to it.
If a Canadian company were to start using untariffed Hynix chips to start sending large numbers of laptops accross the boarder undercutting competition because they have a cheaper source of RAM chips than the rest of the world, then they'd find a tarrif slapped on them too for dumping products....
Most courts tend to issue more guilty verdicts than not guilty verdicts... in part because the police tend to capture the right suspect more often than they capture a wrong one. We hear about the few times the police screw up, while the police bringing in the right defendant is a business-as-usual case that doesn't make very many headlines. The WTO can't exactly overrule both the USA and the EU at the same time...
We subsidse our farmers because imported milk tends to taste funny...
That's about the only reason why a government would want to tax its own people in order to provide a product at below cost to another market... to kill off all competitors in that area so that their company would have an unnatural monopoly. When the monopoly switches to abusive mode, no other company will dare compete with it because the government subsidy could instantly return and wipe them out too.
This was on the way to being an illegaly formed monopoly... Hynix was depending on South Korean government subsidy to exist, it would have gone bankrupt otherwise. That's not fair play, because it discurages American interests from even trying to compete in that industry without a matching subsidy that we're just not going to give them...
You call Hynix droping the price of DRAM to a price that nobody, including themselves, could make it at a profit "free trade"?
Government subsidies are really bad, and even worse when they're not ours...