And if water was discovered on the moon what we do with it? Bring it back, bottle it and sell it for $2000/pint?, Designer Vodka? A lunar ice sculpture for Bill Gates's daughter's wedding?
Take any laptop machine, remove the screen, the keyboard, the battery, the hard drive, the exterior packaging and what are you left with? The CPU, the memory, a coupla PCCard slots and a power supply which is now overkill for the now stripped down machine and could probably be replaced with something much smaller. All in all the total package is no bigger than a cell phone and most of that space is the PCCard slots and the power supply. In fact for packages like mine that mount the RAM on a card underneath the battery you could replace it with a flash card and still use the other PCCard slot for a network adapter. Extend this idea to something already small like a Libretto and you'd have a working standalone machine about the size of a Palm Pilot.
In simple terms virtually all IPO allotments are parsed out to institutional investors well before any IPO goes to market. Have you ever tried to do what you suggest? If you try to purchase at market the day an IPO goes to market you'll be extremely lucky if you don't wind up purchasing at the peak of the market, or, if you stipulate a fixed price or higher your trade may never get executed at all. Obviously its the underwriters and VC's that get first whack then the unwashed masses.
I am 40, what little hair I have left is grey. I went to Blockbuster to pick up a Ja Rule CD and got an earful from the clerk - did I know it had explicit lyrics did I know it promoted violence did I know it....... am I really sure that I want to buy this, am I really buying this for a minor... She actually tried to refuse selling it to me because by her reasoning nobody who isn't forbidden to buy this CD would have any interest in owning it so anyone who isn't forbidden to buy this CD must by definition be buying it for some nefarious purpose.
a) Decide how much you want to measure your self worth based on how many hours you work b) Decide how badly you want/need the money if doing less actually means earning less c) Honestly evaluate whether you're doing this job in the most efficient way possible d) Honestly evaluate whether you're a control freak who can't or won't let some things go undone and/or let someone else do them
Then what you have to do is go to your employer and negotiate how this workload. If your employer stonewalls you then the decision is clear. If the outcome is some plan to alleviate your workload then there should be specific milestones and targets to get there.
Every proferssional industry holds out a carrot to get people to work harder be it money, title, partnership, perks and the like. For example a legal associate or auditor has specific, sometimes almost unrealistic billing-hour goals, a systems consultant has to bring in 'x' dollars or travel 90% of the time with the prospect that at least there is a chance that down the road the payoff is worth it. In each of these there is an expectation that if you don't make the cut eg. didn't make partner in the 7th year, you're out. You alone have to decide whether there is a carrot for you, whether it's real or bogus and whether it's worth the sacrifice. You alone have to understand what next job will be - that is - if doing what you're doing leads anywhere in your firm.
Alternatively you may wish to consider the specific industry you work in - some are much less forgiving than others. Is it possible to do your job in some other sector that doesn't have the same demands on your time?
I'll draw you an analogy. A few years ago I interviewed at a consulting boutique. 12 interviews one half hour each with each of the prinicpals and one the founders. Every single one focused on the massive number of hours they expected this person to work - a MINIMUM expectation of 12-14 hours per day, half-day on Saturday. This location was ~2 hrs from my home, each way. This was a privately held firm where most the equity was held by the two founders, a husband and wife team. By then end of this process the only thing I could say to the founder was that I had no problem working 100 hrs/week but why would I do it for him? It was clear that they weren't giving a piece of the business and that they wanted to 'leverage' the employees until they died or quit. Their agenda seemed clear. Pump up the value of the company, sell it and drive away in a new Ferrari. This was a valuable lesson for me because it convinced me that being self employed and/or starting your own company is probably not much harder than building up someone else's business.
Phone companies already can't deliver what they themselves have an unrestricted monopoly over: DSL and ISDN. It just isn't in their economic interest to offer anything more than crappy dialup or fantastically expensive leased lines when their invesment horizon is over 30 years. By comparison - in markets where there is competition for cellular service all the competitors offer pretty much the same service at pretty much the same price so consumer choice is moot. And that says nothing for great areas of the country where all of these wonderful services aren't even offered because there just aren't enough people to make it pay [note that this is not a rural issue - most small cities of 200,000 have 0 to 1 local provider].
Conversely cable companies do not grok competition, customer service, reliabilty, SLA's, or flexible pricing because they don't have to and as long as they are permitted local monopolies by bribing - I mean kicking back - I mean access licence fees to local governments - that won't change.
No - future is very dark and will look like this:
Broadband Telco access only to other Telco access customers of the same brand else you will pay extreme 'crossover' fees like you do today when crossing a call among different telcos. You will get real time telemarketing through the Net.
CLCCs will talk about offering cheaper faster better service sometime after the sun is a cold dark cinder if the local monopoly would only play fair and let them.
There will be fewer than 6 branded ISPs and all will be quasi-closed networks like AOL - happily managing the content for you so you don't have to think.
Cable companies will do what they do - sell movies and sports programming and in a desperate attempt to fool people that they bring anything else to the table they'll sell you a set top box that goes to their own portal which is canned front end for one of the 6 remaining ISPs [see above] - Think wrestling pay-per-view viewed through a browser. While CNN blares on the ticker.
There will be a hue and cry through out the land to subsidize access for those millions of people who can't afford it on their own and the most reasonble solution will be for libraries to dispose of all books and become publicly funded places-to-portal [family friendly content only, thank you].
There will be recalcitrant users who insist on using dialup service to get around the gatekeepers. Meeting one will be a quaint experience like going to visit the last living Shakers.
..and cut through the bullshit of pretending otherwise. And conversely pols and bill sponsors could auction their positions and bills. You could even have PAC portals that automatically give/take micropayments for each vote and corporate sponsors that offer to credit fractional votes for each website hit eg. "visit www.mega-corp.com and receive.01 vote credits for candidate 'X'". Think of the MLM possibilities - sign up your whole family and get 10,000 votes for 'X'. In fact in the future with digital TV we could do the same thing without getting out of the easychair - just surf some channels and automatically get paid to vote. God, I love this country !!!!!!!!!
First of all free speech is a constitutional guarantee for the protection of political free speech not the protection of unlimited speech so the argument that this kind of censorship abridges free speech is a specious argument. No, the argument though attractive and sound-byteable is designed to be inflammatory and political ergo the actual quote from the article: ""Federal tax dollars should never be used to poison our children or provide free pornography for adults," Dole said during a visit to a library in Bellevue, Washington." Pretty strong stuff but light on facts or real meaning.
The argument is not about filtering, it's not about anyone one group's definition of "objectionable" - it's about who gets to control the filter. Simply hand over control to some sufficiently motivated group ideology and no one has to individually become involved or even think too much about it. Sure it's a wonderful 90's kind of mind-set: "the children, the children, let's all protect the children". Who could argue with that? Of course keep in mind that the point is not to teach children anything about all of the tragic things that flow out of sexual objectivication no, the point is to someone stamp out something that is immoral, evil, embarassing because you say so or because your community or church leaders say so. Well bully for you - thank G_D there's a beacon in the darkness deciding what we see what we hear what we say and we don't have to dwell on all the messy details. How wonderful that the same organizations that would just as soon terminate all funding for all libraries that don't stock their shelves with lovely tracts "proving" evolution is "just a theory" find it in themselves to actually ask for federal funding. How self righteous.
Hey here's a Conservative idea - why not just provide internet library vouchers for folks to deduct from their tax bills so they can build their own moral fortresses that they send their own offspring to. How about "charter libraries"?
Arghhh - By analogy Linux vs. MS is not anything. What it is is one bunch of folks building software along one set of precepts versus another bunch of folks building software along another set of precepts. It is not like any political system or cultural reference or prejudice. It is not absolutely good or evil or moral or not. It is a method, a process by which something gets done and either other people see value in it and exploit it or they don't. Putting value judgments on any of this is just slack. Let's agree on a few things:
For some people or groups any technology is unlearnable and they like it that way.
For some people or groups getting something done in the easiest way possible is the only alternative ever selected whether that selection is optimal or not.
For some people or groups getting something done in the most elegant or effective way possible is the only alternative ever selected whether that selection adds any value or not.
The purpose of any group is to exclude someone be that the great unwashed MS-minions or the gore-dappled Linux-Myrmidons.
Any group larger than 3 people is a mob.
All technology sucks, to someone. Except for PHB's who have to be hit on the head to be reminded it's their turn to speak.
Technology is never the end of civilization - talking about the end of civilization is.
All things tend toward the mean. If your parents are brilliant then you are probably not.
Or get a bunch of SBCs - you can put at least four 2way SBC cards in a standard backplane in a 19" rackmount and stack them 6 or 10 high giving you something like 80 cpu's in a standard network rack. 5 racks across is about 8 linear feet for 400 cpu's
So what's to stop anyone from running some cluster defined as a supercomputer here in the good ol' USofA and offering up cycles the the PRC's nulcear wapons program?
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I don't get it - why make a PC attractive at all? why does it have to appear somewhere that I have to consider how it looks or appeals to me? Instead of making them in funky shapes and starburst colors why not build a PC with the formfactor of a mousepad, a really small cube or something inconspicuous. After all if I take off the LCD, the keyboard, the battery and the external packaging of my notebook machine what's left is about as large as a cell phone and that includes the power supply and PC card slots.
The other problem I see if you make something look like a toy people will generally treat it like one - that is if your PC looks like Playstation, for example it will get kicked around like one -do these new cases come with hydrostatic shock absorbers and extremely hard ABS shells?
In Raleigh, NC many many many homes are less than 7 years old so fiber runs everywhere. Therefore a) you can't get 56kb at most residences what with >1 ADDA inversion, b) they can't/won't/can't figure out how to run ADSL over fiber.
Also they don't price ISDN for residential usage eg. $275 setup + equipment + $112/month for a 2 year service contract. Their flavor of ISDN doesn't use sideband signalling and you have to give up your analog service so basically you get 2x64kb channels for voice and data -aka- you lose half your bandwidth everytime you pick up the phone + you get saddled with features whether you want them or not like voice mail multiple phone numbers, etc. most of the low end PBX functions. they can't guarantee or even sugggest if some of your mode space age cutting edge devices like fax machines will or will not work on their digital services. But if you're brave enough to ask how long it would take to get ISDN the answer you get is along the lines of 3 months to 9 months to who-knows.
And if you press them they're not real sure if/when/how any of these services could or might be available to you or where for example you're located in relation to any midspan repeaters they're not real sure they have installed between your house and a CO. They also can't explain how any of this would be billed or even if you managed to get ADSL or ISDN whether it would work with the ISP service they themselves are simultaneously trying to market to you.
And oh yeah - the once monthly event where all or most of my phone service to my home craps out for no apparent reason, the initial stated turnaround time is 24hrs which they make about 50% of the time with a low of about 4 hrs and a high of 48hrs.
In Raleigh, NC many many many homes are 1 ADDA inversion, b) they can't/won't/can't figure out how to run ADSL over fiber.
Also they don't price ISDN for residential usage eg. $275 setup + equipment + $112/month for a 2 year service contract. Their flavor of ISDN doesn't use sideband signalling and you have to give up your analog service so basically you get 2x64kb channels for voice and data -aka- you lose half your bandwidth everytime you pick up the phone + you get saddled with features whether you want them or not like voice mail multiple phone numbers, etc. most of the low end PBX functions. they can't guarantee or even sugggest if some of your mode space age cutting edge devices like fax machines will or will not work on their digital services. But if you're brave enough to ask how long it would take to get ISDN the answer you get is along the lines of 3 months to 9 months to who-knows.
And if you press them they're not real sure if/when/how any of these services could or might be available to you or where for example you're located in relation to any midspan repeaters they're not real sure they have installed between your house and a CO. They also can't explain how any of this would be billed or even if you managed to get ADSL or ISDN whether it would work with the ISP service they themselves are simultaneously trying to market to you.
And oh yeah - the once monthly event where all or most of my phone service to my home craps out for no apparent reason, the initial stated turnaround time is 24hrs which they make about 50% of the time with a low of about 4 hrs and a high of 48hrs.
A few points for all the folks who whine about 'whiners' must consider:
1) People really do get physically, emotionally, sexually abused in schools and not in some abstract way - in a real way.
2) The people who are targeted are perceived to be different from their attackers whether by race, gender, status,.....
3) If any of this abuse occured off school grounds there is a pretty good chance that it would reported to the police if not prosecuted.
4) The race/gender issues in the VV article are off the point since this kind of crime is almost uniquely WM in the US in every aspect. Almost every 'lone crazed gunman' has been a WM, some middle class, some poor, some better off.
5) Saying that "life is hard get a helmet, you can't imagine how much better you have it than anyone else, including me" smacks of what my mom used to tell me when I wouldn't eat my dinner e.g. "finish your beets, children in asia are starving" - Maybe that's an effective argument for 4 year olds but it hardly helps anything.
It happens at school for the same reason Willie Sutton gave for robbing banks "that's where the money is..". The other reason, more insidious though is that typically schools are isolated entities that are not really accountable to anyone else. Why is it that any assault, menacing, abuse, weapons possession, etc. is treated as a school problem and not, as it would if the young upstart waves a gun in the kwiky-mart, as a criminal offence. I just don't get it how going to the mall and stabbing someone (for example) is a crime but doing it in Chem lab is "rambunctiousness" that needs to be counseled after a stern 2-day suspension? See for yourself - ask a school administrator hypothetically what they would do if you for example reported something done to your child, say 4-months ago? Unless it involved sexual abuse the answer you'd get would be something like - "If we don't hear about when it happens then we're not going to besmirch the reputation of a student."
We've been at the top of the food chain for a couple of dozen tens of thousands of years because we pretty much beat the shit out of everything else. This whole video argument is bogus and sounds like what the last older generation said about "those hippies and their rock and roll music" and before that, Elvis, and before that..well in ancient Greece the big deal for youth was music w/o words - thought to promote all sorts of evil and inappropriate behavior
We used circular slide rules to race a Univac 1182 to a solution for solid analytic geometry problems; polar calculus, orbital dynamics, that kind of stuff. Came out about 50-50 on the whole.
We took actuarial exams w/o 4-function calulators and pretty much had to do log problems from the a-angle tables in our heads.
HP ran an add for the 41-C about how it could land the space shuttle because it had more compute power than the AP-101 CPU's on board
OK let's not kid ourselves. This is not a field that has ever valued advanced degrees - at least in the commercial arena. It may be true that a CS will get you in the door faster but only if you're about 20 years old and eager to work 90 hrs. a week. Try to leverage an advanced degree, MCS, MBA, PhD or otherwise? You're deluding yourself - your management sees you as a code crunching monkey, a cost center.
In all of this noise about who to blame 2 important things have slipped our attention. One - why is it so easy for people not old enough to legally drink to buy a gun? And two; why is any criminal infraction committed on school grounds or in the context of the schools' authority treated as a behavioral problem. In schools all over this country students who threaten, assault other students, who bring weapons to school (& I mean a gun or a bowie knife not a nail trimmer) are punished with suspension. Whereas if the same student did the same thing @ the mall or the kwik-mart he/she would be arrested and subject to crimimal prosecution. We don't need more laws we need to apply the laws we have equally regardless of whether the offence is committed at school or not.
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And if water was discovered on the moon what we do with it? Bring it back, bottle it and sell it for $2000/pint?, Designer Vodka? A lunar ice sculpture for Bill Gates's daughter's wedding?
Take any laptop machine, remove the screen, the keyboard, the battery, the hard drive, the exterior packaging and what are you left with? The CPU, the memory, a coupla PCCard slots and a power supply which is now overkill for the now stripped down machine and could probably be replaced with something much smaller. All in all the total package is no bigger than a cell phone and most of that space is the PCCard slots and the power supply. In fact for packages like mine that mount the RAM on a card underneath the battery you could replace it with a flash card and still use the other PCCard slot for a network adapter. Extend this idea to something already small like a Libretto and you'd have a working standalone machine about the size of a Palm Pilot.
In simple terms virtually all IPO allotments are parsed out to institutional investors well before any IPO goes to market. Have you ever tried to do what you suggest? If you try to purchase at market the day an IPO goes to market you'll be extremely lucky if you don't wind up purchasing at the peak of the market, or, if you stipulate a fixed price or higher your trade may never get executed at all. Obviously its the underwriters and VC's that get first whack then the unwashed masses.
I am 40, what little hair I have left is grey. I went to Blockbuster to pick up a Ja Rule CD and got an earful from the clerk - did I know it had explicit lyrics did I know it promoted violence did I know it....... am I really sure that I want to buy this, am I really buying this for a minor...
She actually tried to refuse selling it to me because by her reasoning nobody who isn't forbidden to buy this CD would have any interest in owning it so anyone who isn't forbidden to buy this CD must by definition be buying it for some nefarious purpose.
Well you have a few decisions to make:
a) Decide how much you want to measure your self worth based on how many hours you work
b) Decide how badly you want/need the money if doing less actually means earning less
c) Honestly evaluate whether you're doing this job in the most efficient way possible
d) Honestly evaluate whether you're a control freak who can't or won't let some things go undone and/or let someone else do them
Then what you have to do is go to your employer and negotiate how this workload. If your employer stonewalls you then the decision is clear. If the outcome is some plan to alleviate your workload then there should be specific milestones and targets to get there.
Every proferssional industry holds out a carrot to get people to work harder be it money, title, partnership, perks and the like. For example a legal associate or auditor has specific, sometimes almost unrealistic billing-hour goals, a systems consultant has to bring in 'x' dollars or travel 90% of the time with the prospect that at least there is a chance that down the road the payoff is worth it. In each of these there is an expectation that if you don't make the cut eg. didn't make partner in the 7th year, you're out. You alone have to decide whether there is a carrot for you, whether it's real or bogus and whether it's worth the sacrifice. You alone have to understand what next job will be - that is - if doing what you're doing leads anywhere in your firm.
Alternatively you may wish to consider the specific industry you work in - some are much less forgiving than others. Is it possible to do your job in some other sector that doesn't have the same demands on your time?
I'll draw you an analogy. A few years ago I interviewed at a consulting boutique. 12 interviews one half hour each with each of the prinicpals and one the founders. Every single one focused on the massive number of hours they expected this person to work - a MINIMUM expectation of 12-14 hours per day, half-day on Saturday. This location was ~2 hrs from my home, each way. This was a privately held firm where most the equity was held by the two founders, a husband and wife team. By then end of this process the only thing I could say to the founder was that I had no problem working 100 hrs/week but why would I do it for him? It was clear that they weren't giving a piece of the business and that they wanted to 'leverage' the employees until they died or quit. Their agenda seemed clear. Pump up the value of the company, sell it and drive away in a new Ferrari. This was a valuable lesson for me because it convinced me that being self employed and/or starting your own company is probably not much harder than building up someone else's business.
Phone companies already can't deliver what they themselves have an unrestricted monopoly over: DSL and ISDN. It just isn't in their economic interest to offer anything more than crappy dialup or fantastically expensive leased lines when their invesment horizon is over 30 years. By comparison - in markets where there is competition for cellular service all the competitors offer pretty much the same service at pretty much the same price so consumer choice is moot. And that says nothing for great areas of the country where all of these wonderful services aren't even offered because there just aren't enough people to make it pay [note that this is not a rural issue - most small cities of 200,000 have 0 to 1 local provider].
Conversely cable companies do not grok competition, customer service, reliabilty, SLA's, or flexible pricing because they don't have to and as long as they are permitted local monopolies by bribing - I mean kicking back - I mean access licence fees to local governments - that won't change.
No - future is very dark and will look like this:
Broadband Telco access only to other Telco access customers of the same brand else you will pay extreme 'crossover' fees like you do today when crossing a call among different telcos. You will get real time telemarketing through the Net.
CLCCs will talk about offering cheaper faster better service sometime after the sun is a cold dark cinder if the local monopoly would only play fair and let them.
There will be fewer than 6 branded ISPs and all will be quasi-closed networks like AOL - happily managing the content for you so you don't have to think.
Cable companies will do what they do - sell movies and sports programming and in a desperate attempt to fool people that they bring anything else to the table they'll sell you a set top box that goes to their own portal which is canned front end for one of the 6 remaining ISPs [see above] - Think wrestling pay-per-view viewed through a browser. While CNN blares on the ticker.
There will be a hue and cry through out the land to subsidize access for those millions of people who can't afford it on their own and the most reasonble solution will be for libraries to dispose of all books and become publicly funded places-to-portal [family friendly content only, thank you].
There will be recalcitrant users who insist on using dialup service to get around the gatekeepers. Meeting one will be a quaint experience like going to visit the last living Shakers.
..and cut through the bullshit of pretending otherwise. And conversely pols and bill sponsors could auction their positions and bills. You could even have PAC portals that automatically give/take micropayments for each vote and corporate sponsors that offer to credit fractional votes for each website hit eg. "visit www.mega-corp.com and receive .01 vote credits for candidate 'X'". Think of the MLM possibilities - sign up your whole family and get 10,000 votes for 'X'. In fact in the future with digital TV we could do the same thing without getting out of the easychair - just surf some channels and automatically get paid to vote. God, I love this country !!!!!!!!!
...that every attempt to print that document from Netscrape 4.6 crashes my browser.
Is technology the end of civilization or is talking about the end of civilization the end of civilization?
Anti-neopostmodernism or.something.like.that. Whatever.
First of all free speech is a constitutional guarantee for the protection of political free speech not the protection of unlimited speech so the argument that this kind of censorship abridges free speech is a specious argument. No, the argument though attractive and sound-byteable is designed to be inflammatory and political ergo the actual quote from the article: ""Federal tax dollars should never be used to poison our children or provide free pornography for adults," Dole said during a visit to a library in Bellevue, Washington." Pretty strong stuff but light on facts or real meaning.
The argument is not about filtering, it's not about anyone one group's definition of "objectionable" - it's about who gets to control the filter. Simply hand over control to some sufficiently motivated group ideology and no one has to individually become involved or even think too much about it. Sure it's a wonderful 90's kind of mind-set: "the children, the children, let's all protect the children". Who could argue with that? Of course keep in mind that the point is not to teach children anything about all of the tragic things that flow out of sexual objectivication no, the point is to someone stamp out something that is immoral, evil, embarassing because you say so or because your community or church leaders say so. Well bully for you - thank G_D there's a beacon in the darkness deciding what we see what we hear what we say and we don't have to dwell on all the messy details. How wonderful that the same organizations that would just as soon terminate all funding for all libraries that don't stock their shelves with lovely tracts "proving" evolution is "just a theory" find it in themselves to actually ask for federal funding. How self righteous.
Hey here's a Conservative idea - why not just provide internet library vouchers for folks to deduct from their tax bills so they can build their own moral fortresses that they send their own offspring to. How about "charter libraries"?
Arghhh - By analogy Linux vs. MS is not anything. What it is is one bunch of folks building software along one set of precepts versus another bunch of folks building software along another set of precepts. It is not like any political system or cultural reference or prejudice. It is not absolutely good or evil or moral or not. It is a method, a process by which something gets done and either other people see value in it and exploit it or they don't. Putting value judgments on any of this is just slack. Let's agree on a few things:
For some people or groups any technology is unlearnable and they like it that way.
For some people or groups getting something done in the easiest way possible is the only alternative ever selected whether that selection is optimal or not.
For some people or groups getting something done in the most elegant or effective way possible is the only alternative ever selected whether that selection adds any value or not.
The purpose of any group is to exclude someone be that the great unwashed MS-minions or the gore-dappled Linux-Myrmidons.
Any group larger than 3 people is a mob.
All technology sucks, to someone. Except for PHB's who have to be hit on the head to be reminded it's their turn to speak.
Technology is never the end of civilization - talking about the end of civilization is.
All things tend toward the mean. If your parents are brilliant then you are probably not.
Or get a bunch of SBCs - you can put at least four 2way SBC cards in a standard backplane in a 19" rackmount and stack them 6 or 10 high giving you something like 80 cpu's in a standard network rack. 5 racks across is about 8 linear feet for 400 cpu's
So what's to stop anyone from running some cluster defined as a supercomputer here in the good ol' USofA and offering up cycles the the PRC's nulcear wapons program?
I don't get it - why make a PC attractive at all? why does it have to appear somewhere that I have to consider how it looks or appeals to me? Instead of making them in funky shapes and starburst colors why not build a PC with the formfactor of a mousepad, a really small cube or something inconspicuous. After all if I take off the LCD, the keyboard, the battery and the external packaging of my notebook machine what's left is about as large as a cell phone and that includes the power supply and PC card slots.
The other problem I see if you make something look like a toy people will generally treat it like one - that is if your PC looks like Playstation, for example it will get kicked around like one -do these new cases come with hydrostatic shock absorbers and extremely hard ABS shells?
In Raleigh, NC many many many homes are less than 7 years old so fiber runs everywhere. Therefore a) you can't get 56kb at most residences what with >1 ADDA inversion, b) they can't/won't/can't figure out how to run ADSL over fiber.
Also they don't price ISDN for residential usage eg. $275 setup + equipment + $112/month for a 2 year service contract. Their flavor of ISDN doesn't use sideband signalling and you have to give up your analog service so basically you get 2x64kb channels for voice and data -aka- you lose half your bandwidth everytime you pick up the phone + you get saddled with features whether you want them or not like voice mail multiple phone numbers, etc. most of the low end PBX functions. they can't guarantee or even sugggest if some of your mode space age cutting edge devices like fax machines will or will not work on their digital services. But if you're brave enough to ask how long it would take to get ISDN the answer you get is along the lines of 3 months to 9 months to who-knows.
And if you press them they're not real sure if/when/how any of these services could or might be available to you or where for example you're located in relation to any midspan repeaters they're not real sure they have installed between your house and a CO. They also can't explain how any of this would be billed or even if you managed to get ADSL or ISDN whether it would work with the ISP service they themselves are simultaneously trying to market to you.
And oh yeah - the once monthly event where all or most of my phone service to my home craps out for no apparent reason, the initial stated turnaround time is 24hrs which they make about 50% of the time with a low of about 4 hrs and a high of 48hrs.
In Raleigh, NC many many many homes are 1 ADDA inversion, b) they can't/won't/can't figure out how to run ADSL over fiber.
Also they don't price ISDN for residential usage eg. $275 setup + equipment + $112/month for a 2 year service contract. Their flavor of ISDN doesn't use sideband signalling and you have to give up your analog service so basically you get 2x64kb channels for voice and data -aka- you lose half your bandwidth everytime you pick up the phone + you get saddled with features whether you want them or not like voice mail multiple phone numbers, etc. most of the low end PBX functions. they can't guarantee or even sugggest if some of your mode space age cutting edge devices like fax machines will or will not work on their digital services. But if you're brave enough to ask how long it would take to get ISDN the answer you get is along the lines of 3 months to 9 months to who-knows.
And if you press them they're not real sure if/when/how any of these services could or might be available to you or where for example you're located in relation to any midspan repeaters they're not real sure they have installed between your house and a CO. They also can't explain how any of this would be billed or even if you managed to get ADSL or ISDN whether it would work with the ISP service they themselves are simultaneously trying to market to you.
And oh yeah - the once monthly event where all or most of my phone service to my home craps out for no apparent reason, the initial stated turnaround time is 24hrs which they make about 50% of the time with a low of about 4 hrs and a high of 48hrs.
A few points for all the folks who whine about 'whiners' must consider:
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1) People really do get physically, emotionally, sexually abused in schools and not in some abstract way - in a real way.
2) The people who are targeted are perceived to be different from their attackers whether by race, gender, status,
3) If any of this abuse occured off school grounds there is a pretty good chance that it would reported to the police if not prosecuted.
4) The race/gender issues in the VV article are off the point since this kind of crime is almost uniquely WM in the US in every aspect. Almost every 'lone crazed gunman' has been a WM, some middle class, some poor, some better off.
5) Saying that "life is hard get a helmet, you can't imagine how much better you have it than anyone else, including me" smacks of what my mom used to tell me when I wouldn't eat my dinner e.g. "finish your beets, children in asia are starving" - Maybe that's an effective argument for 4 year olds but it hardly helps anything.
It happens at school for the same reason Willie Sutton gave for robbing banks "that's where the money is..". The other reason, more insidious though is that typically schools are isolated entities that are not really accountable to anyone else. Why is it that any assault, menacing, abuse, weapons possession, etc. is treated as a school problem and not, as it would if the young upstart waves a gun in the kwiky-mart, as a criminal offence. I just don't get it how going to the mall and stabbing someone (for example) is a crime but doing it in Chem lab is "rambunctiousness" that needs to be counseled after a stern 2-day suspension? See for yourself - ask a school administrator hypothetically what they would do if you for example reported something done to your child, say 4-months ago? Unless it involved sexual abuse the answer you'd get would be something like - "If we don't hear about when it happens then we're not going to besmirch the reputation of a student."
We've been at the top of the food chain for a couple of dozen tens of thousands of years because we pretty much beat the shit out of everything else. This whole video argument is bogus and sounds like what the last older generation said about "those hippies and their rock and roll music" and before that, Elvis, and before that..well in ancient Greece the big deal for youth was music w/o words - thought to promote all sorts of evil and inappropriate behavior
We used circular slide rules to race a Univac 1182 to a solution for solid analytic geometry problems; polar calculus, orbital dynamics, that kind of stuff. Came out about 50-50 on the whole.
We took actuarial exams w/o 4-function calulators and pretty much had to do log problems from the a-angle tables in our heads.
HP ran an add for the 41-C about how it could land the space shuttle because it had more compute power than the AP-101 CPU's on board
Use a name like "insert_name_here_is_the_greatest_human_being_in_t he_world.com" and then trash that person
Stamping out polio probably cost $30 billion. That doesn't make it bad to do.
OK let's not kid ourselves. This is not a field that has ever valued advanced degrees - at least in the commercial arena. It may be true that a CS will get you in the door faster but only if you're about 20 years old and eager to work 90 hrs. a week. Try to leverage an advanced degree, MCS, MBA, PhD or otherwise? You're deluding yourself - your management sees you as a code crunching monkey, a cost center.
In all of this noise about who to blame 2 important things have slipped our attention. One - why is it so easy for people not old enough to legally drink to buy a gun? And two; why is any criminal infraction committed on school grounds or in the context of the schools' authority treated as a behavioral problem. In schools all over this country students who threaten, assault other students, who bring weapons to school (& I mean a gun or a bowie knife not a nail trimmer) are punished with suspension. Whereas if the same student did the same thing @ the mall or the kwik-mart he/she would be arrested and subject to crimimal prosecution. We don't need more laws we need to apply the laws we have equally regardless of whether the offence is committed at school or not.