AFAIK if you're a real CLEC they still need to share the pair. It also doesn't really matter because the ILECs have discovered it's more profitable to share the pair and then not have to deal with any customer service than it is to do it all in-house. My understanding is they make more actual profit (after you subtract customer service costs) on the shared lines. The reason they don't drop service and strictly become a wholesaler is none of the CLECs (even together) are big enough to handle the volume.
I think it's because the domain of technical knowledge is so great that it's really quite difficult to grasp it all. If you're a small or medium sized company you may not have someone who really understands Kerberos and LDAP. Your sysadmins may know everything in the world about mailservers, webservers, DNS servers, DHCP servers and database servers but very little about AAA servers, Kerberos and LDAP. Look at the security community which is still farily young. People are already starting to specialize into wireless secuirty, WAN security, LAN security, etc. What you need the turnkey solutions for are the areas you are still learning but don't grasp.
If you have a 250 person company you may have three sysadmins, six developers and two managers in IT. I've worked at companies like that and they're pretty common. The three sysadmins need to keep the phones, network, servers, printers and any other hardware running. Chances are they aren't experts at running every kind of server and might have some difficulty with getting a non-turnkey solution for the areas they're less famailiar with up and running. It also needed to be up and running last week. One of the realities of buisness is that you often need to make do with the staff and their existing knowledge which means a lot of turnkey solutions which usually means Microsoft.
The theaters charging $100 per ticket are the big Broadway shows that are well known and usually corporate backed anyway (Wicked is produced by Universal Studios, Lion King by Disney, etc.) Heck, the Ford foundation even owns a theater on Broadway. Producing a play is extremely expensive compared to the number of tickets sold. Plus, you might have several flops between hits. The whole thing is an expensive proposition. That's all beside the point, funding a show that's already a hit is like sponsoring research that's alreay proven. The real art (and real science) is found in untested avant garde theater usually done by nonprofit regional and University theaters many of which rely on corporate sponsorship to keep it going. For more background on theater funding you should probably watch PBS' "Broadway, The American Musical" especially part three "Hey, Mr. Producer" where they go into some detail about the expenses involved in getting a show off the ground.
The same goes for arts. Good theater is very expensive to produce. The only way these places survive is on corporate sponsorship, there just aren't enough people who care about arts and sciences to keep them financially afloat. Your choice is to close the vast majority of museums in this country or to accept corporate sponsorship. I doubt the US would go the European route where the government pours big money into arts and sciences, most of the country would never stand to see thier tax dollars used that way.
I think once upon a time there was a similar revelation that running a black marker around the edge would do the same thing. Really you're just interfering with the drive reading the data portion of the disc so it appears just as an audio disc. The parent is correct, the shift key or turning off autorun works just as well. They don't make headlines though.
As someone who has excellent credit I would suggest that when buying a car, which depreciates rather quickly you are almost always better off buying a used vehicle that you can pay cash for rather than a new vehicle that you need a loan for. I find that it's generally a bad idea to take out a loan for the purchase of something that depreciates so quickly. Indeed many people are paying off auto loans on vehicles they no longer have use of which is really a bad place to be. This is really about living within your means which most people today seem to have no concept of.
FYI Rockapella is a real group and is actually quite popular overseas (Japan I think) they have several CDs out. I do wish someone would replay the PBS game show series though...
I agree the river needs to be fixed, but that means allowing it to flood naturally which will still displace a lot of people who built on flood plain. Building on a flood plain is just a bad idea. Sooner or later you're bound to get wet.
Scientists will tell you that the leevees caused the problem in the first place. The Mississippi is supposed to flood naturally which builds up the marshes that protect the city from the ocean. Settlers have been building leevees to stop the flooding for hundreds of years, this is just what happens when you do that. It's the cost of doing business when you mess with nature.
You could do that but it would add quite a bit of latency and decrease call volume quite a bit. Bottom line is that it's not needed nor is it profitable so it's unlikely you'll see cell companies doing this.
Before someone points out that the power is out so the point is moot let me say that the power is out in this area but these RF communications are going out to receiveing stations where the power is NOT out and where interference would be a problem. Hams are generally supportive of new technologies such as BPL and would no doubt enjoy seeing it work out but the providers need to show a way to do it without creating interference on existing communications channels.
This is why you decide to give emergecy RF service to people who need it to do their jobs (eg. law enforcement and search and rescue) and leave everyone else to wait until regualr service is restored. As mentioned elsewhere this is where the Red Cross and amateur radio volunteers come into play. There is really no need for everyone in the effected area to have telecommunications service immediately following a disaster and their is plenty of RF bandwidth for those who do need it to get it.
Someone correct me if you know otherwise but the Red Cross puts in satellite (and other RF) communication for use by law enforcement and search and rescue, they do not provide general cell service in any way shape or form.
Let me point out that this is one of those times when battery operated amateur radio provides one of the best ways to get messages in and out of an affected area. In fact, this story at the ARRL has some information on how hams are helping in the recovery effort.
I know that you didn't mean to suggest that taxes should not be raised to pay for education, but in case it came off that way I think it should be clear that it is in the interest of society as a whole to have well educated students.
Cell phones did not support real 911 for quite a long time and people died then too. Just because we have a new technology (square peg) doen't mean we should try and make it fit within our exiting infrastructure (round hole). I would have preferred to see it required that providers EITHER make their service 911 aware OR put a warning label on bills, sign up forms and equipment that warns Joe Sixpack he may not be able to dial 911.
Exactly, there's a reason those old PBXs are lying around and it' because they don't support VoIP, are generally a PITA to manage and require very expensive phones with limited features. Once you work with a flexable VoIP system you'll hate going back.
This is exactly what he wants. A T1 channel bank is exactly what they want. As the parent mentioned you then connect it to your VOIP server as you would a standard T1 voice line.
I think they actually meant Photoshop Elements, which is the slimmed down consumer version of Photoshop CS, but is still quite usable. Photoshop Album is actually a really terrible piece of software you often see bundled for free with digital imaging devices.
This is not unusual. When cell networks were originally designed they were to cover wide areas where you could call from outdoors or your car (with an external antenna of course). This limited the number of towers and antennas/tranmitters required. It also means that you need a lot more towers to cover in the typical wood framed house and even more to cover in metal framed commercial buildings. In fact, a common early problem with cell phone stores in malls was there was no service! That has been remedied in many commercial buildings by putting in in-building cell repeaters. If it's really a problem for you they make cell repeaters you can put in your house too. The alternative is to lobby for more towers in your area, but your neighbors probably won't like that too much.
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AFAIK if you're a real CLEC they still need to share the pair. It also doesn't really matter because the ILECs have discovered it's more profitable to share the pair and then not have to deal with any customer service than it is to do it all in-house. My understanding is they make more actual profit (after you subtract customer service costs) on the shared lines. The reason they don't drop service and strictly become a wholesaler is none of the CLECs (even together) are big enough to handle the volume.
I think it's because the domain of technical knowledge is so great that it's really quite difficult to grasp it all. If you're a small or medium sized company you may not have someone who really understands Kerberos and LDAP. Your sysadmins may know everything in the world about mailservers, webservers, DNS servers, DHCP servers and database servers but very little about AAA servers, Kerberos and LDAP. Look at the security community which is still farily young. People are already starting to specialize into wireless secuirty, WAN security, LAN security, etc. What you need the turnkey solutions for are the areas you are still learning but don't grasp.
If you have a 250 person company you may have three sysadmins, six developers and two managers in IT. I've worked at companies like that and they're pretty common. The three sysadmins need to keep the phones, network, servers, printers and any other hardware running. Chances are they aren't experts at running every kind of server and might have some difficulty with getting a non-turnkey solution for the areas they're less famailiar with up and running. It also needed to be up and running last week. One of the realities of buisness is that you often need to make do with the staff and their existing knowledge which means a lot of turnkey solutions which usually means Microsoft.
The theaters charging $100 per ticket are the big Broadway shows that are well known and usually corporate backed anyway (Wicked is produced by Universal Studios, Lion King by Disney, etc.) Heck, the Ford foundation even owns a theater on Broadway. Producing a play is extremely expensive compared to the number of tickets sold. Plus, you might have several flops between hits. The whole thing is an expensive proposition. That's all beside the point, funding a show that's already a hit is like sponsoring research that's alreay proven. The real art (and real science) is found in untested avant garde theater usually done by nonprofit regional and University theaters many of which rely on corporate sponsorship to keep it going. For more background on theater funding you should probably watch PBS' "Broadway, The American Musical" especially part three "Hey, Mr. Producer" where they go into some detail about the expenses involved in getting a show off the ground.
The same goes for arts. Good theater is very expensive to produce. The only way these places survive is on corporate sponsorship, there just aren't enough people who care about arts and sciences to keep them financially afloat. Your choice is to close the vast majority of museums in this country or to accept corporate sponsorship. I doubt the US would go the European route where the government pours big money into arts and sciences, most of the country would never stand to see thier tax dollars used that way.
I was not talking about the green marker BS. This was a seperate deal see this article for one example, for more.
I think once upon a time there was a similar revelation that running a black marker around the edge would do the same thing. Really you're just interfering with the drive reading the data portion of the disc so it appears just as an audio disc. The parent is correct, the shift key or turning off autorun works just as well. They don't make headlines though.
As someone who has excellent credit I would suggest that when buying a car, which depreciates rather quickly you are almost always better off buying a used vehicle that you can pay cash for rather than a new vehicle that you need a loan for. I find that it's generally a bad idea to take out a loan for the purchase of something that depreciates so quickly. Indeed many people are paying off auto loans on vehicles they no longer have use of which is really a bad place to be. This is really about living within your means which most people today seem to have no concept of.
FYI Rockapella is a real group and is actually quite popular overseas (Japan I think) they have several CDs out. I do wish someone would replay the PBS game show series though...
I agree the river needs to be fixed, but that means allowing it to flood naturally which will still displace a lot of people who built on flood plain. Building on a flood plain is just a bad idea. Sooner or later you're bound to get wet.
Scientists will tell you that the leevees caused the problem in the first place. The Mississippi is supposed to flood naturally which builds up the marshes that protect the city from the ocean. Settlers have been building leevees to stop the flooding for hundreds of years, this is just what happens when you do that. It's the cost of doing business when you mess with nature.
You could do that but it would add quite a bit of latency and decrease call volume quite a bit. Bottom line is that it's not needed nor is it profitable so it's unlikely you'll see cell companies doing this.
Before someone points out that the power is out so the point is moot let me say that the power is out in this area but these RF communications are going out to receiveing stations where the power is NOT out and where interference would be a problem. Hams are generally supportive of new technologies such as BPL and would no doubt enjoy seeing it work out but the providers need to show a way to do it without creating interference on existing communications channels.
This is why you decide to give emergecy RF service to people who need it to do their jobs (eg. law enforcement and search and rescue) and leave everyone else to wait until regualr service is restored. As mentioned elsewhere this is where the Red Cross and amateur radio volunteers come into play. There is really no need for everyone in the effected area to have telecommunications service immediately following a disaster and their is plenty of RF bandwidth for those who do need it to get it.
Someone correct me if you know otherwise but the Red Cross puts in satellite (and other RF) communication for use by law enforcement and search and rescue, they do not provide general cell service in any way shape or form.
As has already been pointed out cell sites on wheels do exist. The problem is cell sites still need landlines hooked up to them to provide service.
Let me point out that this is one of those times when battery operated amateur radio provides one of the best ways to get messages in and out of an affected area. In fact, this story at the ARRL has some information on how hams are helping in the recovery effort.
I know that you didn't mean to suggest that taxes should not be raised to pay for education, but in case it came off that way I think it should be clear that it is in the interest of society as a whole to have well educated students.
Cell phones did not support real 911 for quite a long time and people died then too. Just because we have a new technology (square peg) doen't mean we should try and make it fit within our exiting infrastructure (round hole). I would have preferred to see it required that providers EITHER make their service 911 aware OR put a warning label on bills, sign up forms and equipment that warns Joe Sixpack he may not be able to dial 911.
Usually even if your local phone service has been disconnected you can call 911.
Exactly, there's a reason those old PBXs are lying around and it' because they don't support VoIP, are generally a PITA to manage and require very expensive phones with limited features. Once you work with a flexable VoIP system you'll hate going back.
This is exactly what he wants. A T1 channel bank is exactly what they want. As the parent mentioned you then connect it to your VOIP server as you would a standard T1 voice line.
I think they actually meant Photoshop Elements, which is the slimmed down consumer version of Photoshop CS, but is still quite usable. Photoshop Album is actually a really terrible piece of software you often see bundled for free with digital imaging devices.
You still have phonebooths? Get with the program, a payphone is becoming a rarity around here, much less a phonebooth!
This is not unusual. When cell networks were originally designed they were to cover wide areas where you could call from outdoors or your car (with an external antenna of course). This limited the number of towers and antennas/tranmitters required. It also means that you need a lot more towers to cover in the typical wood framed house and even more to cover in metal framed commercial buildings. In fact, a common early problem with cell phone stores in malls was there was no service! That has been remedied in many commercial buildings by putting in in-building cell repeaters. If it's really a problem for you they make cell repeaters you can put in your house too. The alternative is to lobby for more towers in your area, but your neighbors probably won't like that too much.
It's not crawlable, Google just determines who the transport company is and directs you to their site.