Can you get a second IP from your Internet carrier? For many, this minor upgrade is less than 10 per month. Then you'll be able to put the router and the voip box side-by-side.
This is completely off topic, but I was struck by how:
When a judge is sitting on a case, they should be concerned with how the law is to be interpreted (by using some mix of the letter and spirit of the law, along with case law - ie: precedents)
sounds so much like the definition of determinism I learned in college (many years ago):
"The state of the universe so far, combined with the laws of nature, (assuming materialistic causality) determines the next state of the universe."
Of course, the main difference is that even if we don't know the laws of nature, they are immutable and act without personal bias while our laws are insufficiently defined and require interpretation by someone who is very likely unable to keep from:
Neither popular opinion nor personal opinion should play a part. If either of those do, any conviction is automatically unsafe and unsatisfactory.
You'll need a partner somewhere on the 'Net, but you'll get an accurate measurement.
The problem I always had with speedtest.net is that the data it transfers is static, so that content caching services can skew the validity of the data. Also, your own internal browser can cache the information so subsequent tests to the same website may reflect incorrect results.
You know, they havemods (is that short for modules or modifiers or modelers?) for guitars (to make them sound like particular amplifier/speaker systems), MIDIs that sound like violins or trumpets, RSS feeds that sound like robotic overlords... I think the technology is already out there to change the quality of a human voice.
There must be more gamers using voice chat than guitar players buying amplifier modelers.
Actually, skydiving instructor deaths in the United States are extremely rare. And parachutes are very reliable; very few deaths (instructor or otherwise) are due to equipment malfunctions now-a-days. The US Parachute Association keeps accurate statistics on that kind of thing and has for years.
Let's see, $3,000 in initial training, $4,000 in gear, 2 years of skydiving experience, plus the cost of 400 skydives @ 16 a pop (let's call it $8,000; some of those skydives cost more than 16 and you'll probably end up with more than 400); another $1,000 in training and $2,000 in camera gear (ok, that's a WAG). $17,000 and you'll start making money at $25 to $50 per skydive. Las Vegas and Hawaii, in particular, always need skydiving instructors for some reason.
Part of the reason folks think that expertise the is the first step to teaching is that they have been taught by experts (i.e. college professors, peers) and not necessarily by folks with degrees in education.
New York (and I'm sure other parts of the country) have programs to take experts (actually, in NYC, I think the requirement is human being with functioning respiratory system) and transform them into teachers. Some programs provide retraining funding in exchange for a period of service.
'The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated,' said Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI.
Having solved the problem of search, and providing a breakthrough product that has consciousness to what was previously mere series of tubes
This breakthrough makes it possible to use the Interweb as a tube of artificial intelligences capable of answering such questions as "Who is Neuromancer?" and "Why is the number 42 so important, anyway?" as well as organize a successful revolution by moon colonists.
I don't pay for the service and I still don't use it.
I drive a ZipCar which provides satellite radio as part of my rental. I'm not sure which service (I think XM). I tried it for a while, but decided that free radio played what I wanted to hear more predictably. It could have been the user interface. The receiver in the ZipCar does not easily store my preferred stations and allow me to skip to the next station if I didn't like the song that was on.
Bandwidth and programming are cheap. Client acquisition costs, administrative staff, offices, insurance, programming development and infrastructure costs are where merged companies find savings. IMHO they'll find savings in reducing overhead, not programming.
Sure it sounds crazy to the general populace, but what if you were really that crazy? If I hired you despite the crazy talk (nobody really believes everything they read on the Internet) and you did something psychopathic; I'd have liability.
And when it comes to kids, "Won't someone think of the children?" trumps common sense. A school system would have to be very careful about hiring someone with a bad Internet history.
Maybe you are in a career where good jobs are easy, and being bonded by an organization that promises you are safe isn't a pre-requisite; but my understanding is that good school jobs are hard to find.
In some states, part of the punishment for committing a felony offense is the revocation of civic right to vote. That's part of the punishment. Perhaps your co-worker is rehabilitated, but their punishment continues.
A company I worked for (now closed) delivered 4 gigabits of ethernet connectivity to the buildings it lit in 2001. We designed and built our own gigabit ethernet DWDM injectors to link in-building Cisco 3508 switches with Cisco 6509 switches in the CO. One of our customers was Web2Zone (an Internet Cafe) at 62 Coopers' Square. We never saw the kind of bandwidth spike that indicated they used even 1/1000th of the bandwidth, except when they caught code-red or some such Internet worm. We believed that the limitation was the destination server bandwidth. To compensate for slow servers on other providers, we made extensive use of static page caching to speed performance and reduce our bandwidth costs.
We installed Meru Networks wireless network and have found that you can stack the AP to give more users more coverage. The Meru Networks solution uses TDM (by telling radios when they can transmit) to eliminate RF collisions and increasing overall throughput.
Not that I'm saying that a dedicated Wi-Fi is a good idea, but whatever your Wi-Fi solution (supplemental or dedicated), Wi-Fi TDM helps performance.
A New Jersey legislature committee OKed a bill (to go to the next step) which allows Verizon to bypass the local municipality for cable TV franchise. They have to put in fiber and be done with the fiber in any one town within six years of starting.
I was surprised to read that it includes a tax on existing cable customers (essentially driving up their costs) that is used for "property tax relief" and supplying TV services to senior citizens.
It isn't hard to imagine that another bill grants Verizon tax relief in the towns where they provide service to compensate them for the fiber construction... or to make it cheaper for them to lay the fiber in the first place (by not charging them for street repair for example.)
Now he can share the ISP with those even further away. Next... how to build a repeater. Or convert to wi-fi and use an established wi-fi repeater and antenna.
I didn't see the protocol (was it wifi?) in the article, but why not ask the church to put a repeater in their tower in exchange for setting up their computer to access the same ISP?
Another case of over engineering the solution to the problem.
I believe that the USPTO hasn't ruled yet, but given that they've announced that they will rule in favor of RIM, I don't know how NTP could enforce an injuction against RIM.
We've had the National Health Service here in the UK for about 40-50 years now and
Is the tax burden for individuals in the UK worse than the burden in the US? How about economic freedom? Is there more economic freedom in the US or in the UK? Which country is doing better?
I lack the expertise to evaluate the statistics. I see that the tax burden in the UK is 37% of GDP and the tax burden in the US is 28% of GDP. I see that a 10-dollar CD in the US is equivalent to a 10-pound CD in the UK (anecdotal accounts). Per Capita GDP in the US (32K) is greater than Per Capita GDP in the UK (24K).
Summary: Will the increased tax burden as a result of National Health Service (NHS) in the US limit economic development and reduce overall standard of living? Will my tax burden increase as a consequence of additional strain on the projected NHS due to bad lifestyle choices?
Maybe I should be blogging this commentary since I really don't add anything to the discussion, but hope someone else will address these issues.
Thats the least of your worries- What about all the fat/nonactive people? What about smokers? People who dont wear seatbelts in cars or helmets on motorcycles. What about people who do extreme sports? So much of healthcare use in the US is related to lifestyle/poor choices...
Actually, no, I'm worried about all the things you list as well, but they were off-topic. (No criticism intended.) My second worry is that if we have US National Health Care, they may limit my activities to prevent me from impacting health care costs. For example, I like to scuba dive. I'm willing to take the risk. I don't want the government to say I can't scuba.
Hear Hear. When I'm on the train and I can hear someone's music over my own, I know their volume is too high and I know they are destined for hearing loss. From the article:
And other studies have shown that because the tiny phones inserted into the ears are not as efficient at blocking outside sounds as the cushioned headsets, users tend to crank up the volume to compensate.
The trains are noisy and I found that I would have had to turn up the volume on my music so I could hear it. As a result, I have stopped listening to my music on the train for fear of hearing loss. Anything that means I need the volume at 10 or 11 means the ambient noise is too loud and I turn off the music.
This makes me worried about national health care. If it (national health care in the US) ever happens I know that my taxes will go up to pay for these fools who have hearing loss due to poor choices they are making now.
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Can you get a second IP from your Internet carrier? For many, this minor upgrade is less than 10 per month. Then you'll be able to put the router and the voip box side-by-side.
This is completely off topic, but I was struck by how:
When a judge is sitting on a case, they should be concerned with how the law is to be interpreted (by using some mix of the letter and spirit of the law, along with case law - ie: precedents)
sounds so much like the definition of determinism I learned in college (many years ago):
"The state of the universe so far, combined with the laws of nature, (assuming materialistic causality) determines the next state of the universe."
Of course, the main difference is that even if we don't know the laws of nature, they are immutable and act without personal bias while our laws are insufficiently defined and require interpretation by someone who is very likely unable to keep from:
Neither popular opinion nor personal opinion should play a part. If either of those do, any conviction is automatically unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Isn't this mashups 2.0? The aggregation of aggregation applications?
A good test product is ttcp. TTCP measures both bandwidth and latency. You can learn more at http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm.
You'll need a partner somewhere on the 'Net, but you'll get an accurate measurement.
The problem I always had with speedtest.net is that the data it transfers is static, so that content caching services can skew the validity of the data. Also, your own internal browser can cache the information so subsequent tests to the same website may reflect incorrect results.
You know, they have mods (is that short for modules or modifiers or modelers?) for guitars (to make them sound like particular amplifier/speaker systems), MIDIs that sound like violins or trumpets, RSS feeds that sound like robotic overlords ... I think the technology is already out there to change the quality of a human voice.
There must be more gamers using voice chat than guitar players buying amplifier modelers.
I tried to think of an appropriately humorous response, but everything I wrote was lame.
Ha! .
Actually, skydiving instructor deaths in the United States are extremely rare. And parachutes are very reliable; very few deaths (instructor or otherwise) are due to equipment malfunctions now-a-days. The US Parachute Association keeps accurate statistics on that kind of thing and has for years.
Let's see, $3,000 in initial training, $4,000 in gear, 2 years of skydiving experience, plus the cost of 400 skydives @ 16 a pop (let's call it $8,000; some of those skydives cost more than 16 and you'll probably end up with more than 400); another $1,000 in training and $2,000 in camera gear (ok, that's a WAG). $17,000 and you'll start making money at $25 to $50 per skydive. Las Vegas and Hawaii, in particular, always need skydiving instructors for some reason.
Part of the reason folks think that expertise the is the first step to teaching is that they have been taught by experts (i.e. college professors, peers) and not necessarily by folks with degrees in education.
New York (and I'm sure other parts of the country) have programs to take experts (actually, in NYC, I think the requirement is human being with functioning respiratory system) and transform them into teachers. Some programs provide retraining funding in exchange for a period of service.
'The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated,' said Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI.
Having solved the problem of search, and providing a breakthrough product that has consciousness to what was previously mere series of tubes
This breakthrough makes it possible to use the Interweb as a tube of artificial intelligences capable of answering such questions as "Who is Neuromancer?" and "Why is the number 42 so important, anyway?" as well as organize a successful revolution by moon colonists.
I don't pay for the service and I still don't use it.
I drive a ZipCar which provides satellite radio as part of my rental. I'm not sure which service (I think XM). I tried it for a while, but decided that free radio played what I wanted to hear more predictably. It could have been the user interface. The receiver in the ZipCar does not easily store my preferred stations and allow me to skip to the next station if I didn't like the song that was on.
Bandwidth and programming are cheap. Client acquisition costs, administrative staff, offices, insurance, programming development and infrastructure costs are where merged companies find savings. IMHO they'll find savings in reducing overhead, not programming.
Sure it sounds crazy to the general populace, but what if you were really that crazy? If I hired you despite the crazy talk (nobody really believes everything they read on the Internet) and you did something psychopathic; I'd have liability.
And when it comes to kids, "Won't someone think of the children?" trumps common sense. A school system would have to be very careful about hiring someone with a bad Internet history.
Maybe you are in a career where good jobs are easy, and being bonded by an organization that promises you are safe isn't a pre-requisite; but my understanding is that good school jobs are hard to find.
In some states, part of the punishment for committing a felony offense is the revocation of civic right to vote. That's part of the punishment. Perhaps your co-worker is rehabilitated, but their punishment continues.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A97
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0226-05.htm
Lunch on Monday was excellent, except that they served spinach. It was cooked, but I still left it on my plate.
According to reason magazine the superiority of QWERTY over Dvorak keyboards is based upon studies obviously funded by Dvorak himself.
A company I worked for (now closed) delivered 4 gigabits of ethernet connectivity to the buildings it lit in 2001. We designed and built our own gigabit ethernet DWDM injectors to link in-building Cisco 3508 switches with Cisco 6509 switches in the CO. One of our customers was Web2Zone (an Internet Cafe) at 62 Coopers' Square. We never saw the kind of bandwidth spike that indicated they used even 1/1000th of the bandwidth, except when they caught code-red or some such Internet worm. We believed that the limitation was the destination server bandwidth. To compensate for slow servers on other providers, we made extensive use of static page caching to speed performance and reduce our bandwidth costs.
We installed Meru Networks wireless network and have found that you can stack the AP to give more users more coverage. The Meru Networks solution uses TDM (by telling radios when they can transmit) to eliminate RF collisions and increasing overall throughput.
Not that I'm saying that a dedicated Wi-Fi is a good idea, but whatever your Wi-Fi solution (supplemental or dedicated), Wi-Fi TDM helps performance.
(PS, I do not work for Meru.)
A New Jersey legislature committee OKed a bill (to go to the next step) which allows Verizon to bypass the local municipality for cable TV franchise. They have to put in fiber and be done with the fiber in any one town within six years of starting.
... or to make it cheaper for them to lay the fiber in the first place (by not charging them for street repair for example.)
Here's a news article that explains recent developments in New Jersey. http://www.freepress.net/news/14460
I was surprised to read that it includes a tax on existing cable customers (essentially driving up their costs) that is used for "property tax relief" and supplying TV services to senior citizens.
It isn't hard to imagine that another bill grants Verizon tax relief in the towns where they provide service to compensate them for the fiber construction
I regret my previous comment.
... how to build a repeater. Or convert to wi-fi and use an established wi-fi repeater and antenna.
Now he can share the ISP with those even further away. Next
I didn't see the protocol (was it wifi?) in the article, but why not ask the church to put a repeater in their tower in exchange for setting up their computer to access the same ISP?
Another case of over engineering the solution to the problem.
I don't understand why NTP has a case at all. I thought the USPTO announced that it would rule against NTP's patents.
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http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/20/uspto-calls-ri
I believe that the USPTO hasn't ruled yet, but given that they've announced that they will rule in favor of RIM, I don't know how NTP could enforce an injuction against RIM.
We've had the National Health Service here in the UK for about 40-50 years now and
Is the tax burden for individuals in the UK worse than the burden in the US? How about economic freedom? Is there more economic freedom in the US or in the UK? Which country is doing better?
I lack the expertise to evaluate the statistics. I see that the tax burden in the UK is 37% of GDP and the tax burden in the US is 28% of GDP. I see that a 10-dollar CD in the US is equivalent to a 10-pound CD in the UK (anecdotal accounts). Per Capita GDP in the US (32K) is greater than Per Capita GDP in the UK (24K).
Summary: Will the increased tax burden as a result of National Health Service (NHS) in the US limit economic development and reduce overall standard of living? Will my tax burden increase as a consequence of additional strain on the projected NHS due to bad lifestyle choices?
Maybe I should be blogging this commentary since I really don't add anything to the discussion, but hope someone else will address these issues.
Thats the least of your worries- What about all the fat/nonactive people? What about smokers? People who dont wear seatbelts in cars or helmets on motorcycles. What about people who do extreme sports? So much of healthcare use in the US is related to lifestyle/poor choices...
Actually, no, I'm worried about all the things you list as well, but they were off-topic. (No criticism intended.) My second worry is that if we have US National Health Care, they may limit my activities to prevent me from impacting health care costs. For example, I like to scuba dive. I'm willing to take the risk. I don't want the government to say I can't scuba.
Hear Hear. When I'm on the train and I can hear someone's music over my own, I know their volume is too high and I know they are destined for hearing loss. From the article:
And other studies have shown that because the tiny phones inserted into the ears are not as efficient at blocking outside sounds as the cushioned headsets, users tend to crank up the volume to compensate.
The trains are noisy and I found that I would have had to turn up the volume on my music so I could hear it. As a result, I have stopped listening to my music on the train for fear of hearing loss. Anything that means I need the volume at 10 or 11 means the ambient noise is too loud and I turn off the music.
This makes me worried about national health care. If it (national health care in the US) ever happens I know that my taxes will go up to pay for these fools who have hearing loss due to poor choices they are making now.