CARRIERS
In addition to the duties contained in subsection (b), each incumbent
local exchange carrier has the following duties:
(3) UNBUNDLED ACCESS- The duty to
provide, to any requesting telecommunications carrier for the provision
of a telecommunications service, nondiscriminatory access to network
elements on an unbundled
basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and
conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and the
requirements of this section and section 252. An incumbent local
exchange carrier shall provide such unbundled network elements in a
manner that allows requesting carriers to combine such elements in
order to provide such telecommunications service.
I also sent an e-mail to the general inquiry address to specifically
ask for clarification on this point. We'll see if the FCC can respond
with any haste.
Right, but you know how these things go in cycles. One day big hair will be back and it'll be the 70's all over again.
But on a serious note: I thought that if one didn't vigersously enforce a pattent then after a while as the idea covered in the pattent has been in whide use then that pattent is legally in the public domain. besides don't pattents expire after 17 years ? and Hasn't FAT been around since the early 80's ? Its pattent has surely run out by now.
The FCC says your local phone company can not require the bundling of services for phone service. You are legally able to get DSL with out local phone service. Call your phone company and tell it what you want: DSL only, no local phone service. If it balks, remind it that the FCC is on your side and it is in danger of federal action.
It's not marketting. The FCC mandated the portability. The industry fought it tooth and nail. I have not change my carrier but I did switch my plan to a new lower cost plan with virtually the same features which just happend to be created a couple of weeks before the number portability rules went into effect. I saved $20/month! Then I hit up my carrier for a couple of new free phones(two line account) just to stay on board. I did have to sign up for a year to get the new phones but they were priced at $120 each with out new service activation. So unless another carrier comes out with a much cheeper plan I'll have saved over the course of a year $240 in service plan costs and that same ammount for upgrading my phones. Not too bad a deal.
What happens years from now when that word will be needed but everyone has forgotten that you gave it to us? Make sure you write a paper about it, publish it on the web and make sure that paper gets archived in google and some other major search engines. Better yet, start up an open source project for the purpose of archiving words created before their time.
No need to get testy, jeepers. A playwright was meant to be an example of something that this type of invention couldn't touch. If such a device comes about it will eliminate nearly all manual labor based jobs and it will eliminate almost all jobs based on materials production (i.e. steel production). But that is nothing new, many manual labors have become obsolete because of the introduction of technology (the cotton gin, the steam engine, water powered mills, washing machines, automobile, etc.)Those who were affected negatively by this have historically had two choices. One complain about the de-humanization caused by the loss of jobs and be a victim or learn to do something else. It's easy to stand by the wayside claim victim status. Factor in computers and then 'thinking' jobs will be affected to. I write software for a living which to many seems like a good bet for a safe career (economic down turns not with standing) but some day there will be many natural language systems which will turn the everyday spoken word in to automated functions: I'm out of work. I will have to make this choice too. I made it a couple of times before as I used to do landscaping (interesting work but a nasty job during a Texas summer) and I've worked on an assembly line (utterly mind numbing there's no way I would go back to doing this unless it's the only way to provide for my family.)
Society as a whole has had to deal with the consequences of worker displacement already. There was a time in the USA when a factory worker put in 12 hour days 7 days a week and at that barely made a living wage to support the family. Nobody wants to return to that. So eventually when there was enough social pressure (during the Great Depression) the 40 hour week was introduced. Yeah! Maybe the work week will shrink from 40 hours a week to 20 or 10. That would be great, I would love to spend that time doing other things besides earning a living. The thing to remember is this: virtually all jobs will be performed by machines at some point; that is if humanity stays the current course and we all manage to get along well enough not to kill each and every last one of ourselves. Along with this will come great social and economic upheaval. As everything becomes increasingly automated the cost of goods and services will drop dramatically. We'll have to make the value of human labor worth more and shorten the work week in order to properly restrict the supply of human labor. If done properly this will allow the average person an opportunity to make a decent wage *and* have more time to spend doing something enjoyable. The full benefits will not fully manifest for those caught in the transition but it will benefit those who come after.
... when Microsoft earns the trust of the computing public then we'll trust Microsoft. Of course by then the Sun will be a red giant and humanity will be living on distant worlds.
What about the equivalent of an inkjet printer; instead you have a matterjet printer? Working at near absolute zero you eliminate the problems of temperature and atomic motion (although this creates the problem of making a design that can transition from really f-ing cold to room temp.) That cup of Earl Grey, Hot will start off as Earl Grey colder than anything and then add heat!
Simple right? No? well flight was impossible for the majority of human history and so was medical treatment that actually helped instead of harmed. Oh, yeh and the earth was flat once. Communicating across the world was once impossible, then time/resource consuming, then incontinent, to nearly instantaneous and universal. Maybe the matterjet won't work but something will and it'll get better, cheaper, and universal. I hope I live to see it.
Uh yeh, if lead is the culprit then your patents are suffering from plumbism. You need to have them contact a medical doctor as they are suffering from gastro intestinal problems and damage to their nervous systems. Also 2.4 GHz in the human body is a bad idea as you will also be slowly cooking your subjects with microwaves. There is some really bad research going on here.
Did you see Gattaca? if you have a molecular assembler then make a DNA pod for your finger! then when they 'check' your DNA you are your friend!
With this gadget the physical world becomes much more like the virtual word of software. Owning copies of devices will be cheap and easy. It's the production of new items that will require brain power to think up and testing to 'de-bug'. There will be versions of items just like versions of software. If it works like the matter compiler from 'The Diamond Age' then when you become tired of your toys you can also put them back to be de-compiled and get credit for it's scrap value.
The broader implication of this will be the impact on jobs. No one will have to work in an assembly line ever again. Combine this kind of construction with advances in robotics then no one will ever be involved in any kind of manual labor. The economy will only have spots for thinkers. So if you can't write a play, design new concepts for new devices/robots or perform some kind of really specialized maintenance that a robot hasn't been designed to for yet, then you're out of luck.
Cases in point - 'Irregardless' was not even a word till large numbers of ignorant people started using it. - 'Decimated' used to mean reduced by 1 tenth. Now it means virtually annihilated. Language changes and words loose/gain meanings. I don't like the new meaning given to 'Hacker' either; I still chafe when I hear some stooooopid ignoramus say 'irregardless' but that's life. Get over it.
Or the name of a new radical militant splinter group from the Chicken Liberation Front. Some would think that KFC is their greatest enemy, but now Chick Fil-a with its on going 'Eat Mor Chiken' campaign has made it the number one target for the KC's! Death to the Cows! Cluck Heads Rule!
Microsoft thinks it can use the very generic word 'windows' exclusively across all computer markets and we all know a giant and benevolent company like Microsoft wouldn't do anything immoral.
Exactly! If Apache were as vulnerable as MS IIS then the web would be un-usable. At 70% web server share Apache should be the server to attack not MS IIS. It would be interesting to compare attack attempts vs. success by platform. I don't have the data but I will bet my house that Apache will fair much better than IIS.
Correct, Once a study has begun then membership in that study is generally closed. However, a doctor may proscribe just about anything for any reason so if one develops a terminal cancer then (hopefully) their doctor will be willing to try the treatments that are being conducted in a generally successful even if still ongoing study.
Hope *is* better than nothing. New treatments are tried on terminal patients all the time: just like the person in the before and after links. However, non-terminal patients are not given experimental treatments until the studies are completed based on the effects experienced from the first group: the group everyone hopes they're never in. Once the medical community is convinced that this really works and once they have a handle on the side effects then the treatment will move outward from the most critically ill to other may benefit from it.
Because it is faster and cheaper to use poeple noses than to use special built chemical sniffers. Also, some chemicals are not well suited for detection.
Oh, M$FT will inovate. As soon as some other browser starts to make headway against IE then M$FT will rush in kludge up IE some more and add in all the stuff that made the other brwoser's popularity pick up. Then it will claim it is improving the world for customers and that it is responsive to market demands.
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go." -- Bill Gates on Microsoft marketing
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates circa 1981
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." -- Bill Gates on the solid code base of Win9X
It costs less to produce a CD than a cassette. It costs less to produce music now than ever before. There are more pop music artists today and yet the music stores are full of over priced CDs with selections limited to a handful of categories.
(Rant) The big music labels are not interested in providing a wide selection of music. They are interested in making money. The most cost effective way to make money in big industry is to mass-produce large quantities of the same thing or very nearly same thing. Making money is fine and dandy: it's one thing to be in the toothbrush business or to make coffee pots. However, in some industries that represent important facets of culture and democracy the companies in this market should pay attention to more than the bottom line: for instance journalism, scientific research, and the performing arts. The music industry needs to recognize that music is an important part of our culture and heritage. There should be more meaningful choices for the consumer to pick from and they should not cost $20+. Also music (and movies etc) should be protected for the long haul. If a company locks up an art work under copyright provisions, they must be compelled to provide archival quality copies to appropriate guardians when the copyrights expire. Like the Rock and Roll hall of fame and other appropriate entities. The music industry creates the need to rake in big profits from CD sales because to them it is about marketing or creating a market by spending billions on advertising and concert promotion. Instead of letting consumers decide what they want the big record labels attempt to tell us what we want. (/Rant)
SCO like so many other businesses that have lost their way is grasping at straws. Anything it can do to survive it will do; even absurd things that only apear to offer survival. SCO did correctly see that it would soon be obsolete. It's Unix business was dwindling and it was not likely to be a leader in Linux distribution. It is dark times like these that can lead to really far out there tactics. They must have seen the success that important IP companies have. If what SCO proposes to be true is true then it holds quite a lot of cards and may be able to license the world. The problem for SCO in this regard is that Unix and all it's decedents have long since been set free.
After domesticated horses have been let loose and have bread in the wild it is a tough claim to make for the original horse owners to lay stake to this offspring. Especially if the owners left the barn door open on purpose.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I also sent an e-mail to the general inquiry address to specifically ask for clarification on this point. We'll see if the FCC can respond with any haste.
Right, but you know how these things go in cycles. One day big hair will be back and it'll be the 70's all over again.
But on a serious note: I thought that if one didn't vigersously enforce a pattent then after a while as the idea covered in the pattent has been in whide use then that pattent is legally in the public domain. besides don't pattents expire after 17 years ? and Hasn't FAT been around since the early 80's ? Its pattent has surely run out by now.
The FCC says your local phone company can not require the bundling of services for phone service. You are legally able to get DSL with out local phone service. Call your phone company and tell it what you want: DSL only, no local phone service. If it balks, remind it that the FCC is on your side and it is in danger of federal action.
It's not marketting. The FCC mandated the portability. The industry fought it tooth and nail. I have not change my carrier but I did switch my plan to a new lower cost plan with virtually the same features which just happend to be created a couple of weeks before the number portability rules went into effect. I saved $20/month! Then I hit up my carrier for a couple of new free phones(two line account) just to stay on board. I did have to sign up for a year to get the new phones but they were priced at $120 each with out new service activation. So unless another carrier comes out with a much cheeper plan I'll have saved over the course of a year $240 in service plan costs and that same ammount for upgrading my phones. Not too bad a deal.
What happens years from now when that word will be needed but everyone has forgotten that you gave it to us? Make sure you write a paper about it, publish it on the web and make sure that paper gets archived in google and some other major search engines. Better yet, start up an open source project for the purpose of archiving words created before their time.
No need to get testy, jeepers. A playwright was meant to be an example of something that this type of invention couldn't touch. If such a device comes about it will eliminate nearly all manual labor based jobs and it will eliminate almost all jobs based on materials production (i.e. steel production). But that is nothing new, many manual labors have become obsolete because of the introduction of technology (the cotton gin, the steam engine, water powered mills, washing machines, automobile, etc.)Those who were affected negatively by this have historically had two choices. One complain about the de-humanization caused by the loss of jobs and be a victim or learn to do something else. It's easy to stand by the wayside claim victim status. Factor in computers and then 'thinking' jobs will be affected to. I write software for a living which to many seems like a good bet for a safe career (economic down turns not with standing) but some day there will be many natural language systems which will turn the everyday spoken word in to automated functions: I'm out of work. I will have to make this choice too. I made it a couple of times before as I used to do landscaping (interesting work but a nasty job during a Texas summer) and I've worked on an assembly line (utterly mind numbing there's no way I would go back to doing this unless it's the only way to provide for my family.)
Society as a whole has had to deal with the consequences of worker displacement already. There was a time in the USA when a factory worker put in 12 hour days 7 days a week and at that barely made a living wage to support the family. Nobody wants to return to that. So eventually when there was enough social pressure (during the Great Depression) the 40 hour week was introduced. Yeah! Maybe the work week will shrink from 40 hours a week to 20 or 10. That would be great, I would love to spend that time doing other things besides earning a living. The thing to remember is this: virtually all jobs will be performed by machines at some point; that is if humanity stays the current course and we all manage to get along well enough not to kill each and every last one of ourselves. Along with this will come great social and economic upheaval. As everything becomes increasingly automated the cost of goods and services will drop dramatically. We'll have to make the value of human labor worth more and shorten the work week in order to properly restrict the supply of human labor. If done properly this will allow the average person an opportunity to make a decent wage *and* have more time to spend doing something enjoyable. The full benefits will not fully manifest for those caught in the transition but it will benefit those who come after.
... when Microsoft earns the trust of the computing public then we'll trust Microsoft. Of course by then the Sun will be a red giant and humanity will be living on distant worlds.
What about the equivalent of an inkjet printer; instead you have a matterjet printer? Working at near absolute zero you eliminate the problems of temperature and atomic motion (although this creates the problem of making a design that can transition from really f-ing cold to room temp.) That cup of Earl Grey, Hot will start off as Earl Grey colder than anything and then add heat!
Simple right? No? well flight was impossible for the majority of human history and so was medical treatment that actually helped instead of harmed. Oh, yeh and the earth was flat once. Communicating across the world was once impossible, then time/resource consuming, then incontinent, to nearly instantaneous and universal. Maybe the matterjet won't work but something will and it'll get better, cheaper, and universal. I hope I live to see it.
Uh yeh, if lead is the culprit then your patents are suffering from plumbism. You need to have them contact a medical doctor as they are suffering from gastro intestinal problems and damage to their nervous systems. Also 2.4 GHz in the human body is a bad idea as you will also be slowly cooking your subjects with microwaves. There is some really bad research going on here.
Did you see Gattaca? if you have a molecular assembler then make a DNA pod for your finger! then when they 'check' your DNA you are your friend!
With this gadget the physical world becomes much more like the virtual word of software. Owning copies of devices will be cheap and easy. It's the production of new items that will require brain power to think up and testing to 'de-bug'. There will be versions of items just like versions of software. If it works like the matter compiler from 'The Diamond Age' then when you become tired of your toys you can also put them back to be de-compiled and get credit for it's scrap value.
The broader implication of this will be the impact on jobs. No one will have to work in an assembly line ever again. Combine this kind of construction with advances in robotics then no one will ever be involved in any kind of manual labor. The economy will only have spots for thinkers. So if you can't write a play, design new concepts for new devices/robots or perform some kind of really specialized maintenance that a robot hasn't been designed to for yet, then you're out of luck.
uh, unfortunately it is a word
Irregardless
Also Webster's online dictionary gives it an inception date of circa 1912.
Dude, that's not so subtle. The first guy has a life. The second one needs therapy. Perhaps a clinical term should be used to describe the second guy.
Cases in point
- 'Irregardless' was not even a word till large numbers of ignorant people started using it.
- 'Decimated' used to mean reduced by 1 tenth. Now it means virtually annihilated.
Language changes and words loose/gain meanings. I don't like the new meaning given to 'Hacker' either; I still chafe when I hear some stooooopid ignoramus say 'irregardless' but that's life. Get over it.
Or the name of a new radical militant splinter group from the Chicken Liberation Front. Some would think that KFC is their greatest enemy, but now Chick Fil-a with its on going 'Eat Mor Chiken' campaign has made it the number one target for the KC's! Death to the Cows! Cluck Heads Rule!
Awsome name. Then RPM's should be called mini-carts.
Who wouldn't want that ?
Microsoft thinks it can use the very generic word 'windows' exclusively across all computer markets and we all know a giant and benevolent company like Microsoft wouldn't do anything immoral.
Or the number for a freak show. Just don't blow that over here.
Exactly! If Apache were as vulnerable as MS IIS then the web would be un-usable. At 70% web server share Apache should be the server to attack not MS IIS. It would be interesting to compare attack attempts vs. success by platform. I don't have the data but I will bet my house that Apache will fair much better than IIS.
Correct, Once a study has begun then membership in that study is generally closed. However, a doctor may proscribe just about anything for any reason so if one develops a terminal cancer then (hopefully) their doctor will be willing to try the treatments that are being conducted in a generally successful even if still ongoing study.
Stop SPAMMING slashdot! We need a SPAM tag for slashdot moderators now. :-(
Bastards!
Ok, now is the time require log-ins for all posts.
Hope *is* better than nothing. New treatments are tried on terminal patients all the time: just like the person in the before and after links. However, non-terminal patients are not given experimental treatments until the studies are completed based on the effects experienced from the first group: the group everyone hopes they're never in. Once the medical community is convinced that this really works and once they have a handle on the side effects then the treatment will move outward from the most critically ill to other may benefit from it.
Because it is faster and cheaper to use poeple noses than to use special built chemical sniffers.
Also, some chemicals are not well suited for detection.
Oh, M$FT will inovate. As soon as some other browser starts to make headway against IE then M$FT will rush in kludge up IE some more and add in all the stuff that made the other brwoser's popularity pick up. Then it will claim it is improving the world for customers and that it is responsive to market demands.
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
-- Bill Gates on Microsoft marketing
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates circa 1981
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
-- Bill Gates on the solid code base of Win9X
It costs less to produce a CD than a cassette.
It costs less to produce music now than ever before.
There are more pop music artists today and yet the music stores are full of over priced CDs with selections limited to a handful of categories.
(Rant)
The big music labels are not interested in providing a wide selection of music. They are interested in making money. The most cost effective way to make money in big industry is to mass-produce large quantities of the same thing or very nearly same thing. Making money is fine and dandy: it's one thing to be in the toothbrush business or to make coffee pots. However, in some industries that represent important facets of culture and democracy the companies in this market should pay attention to more than the bottom line: for instance journalism, scientific research, and the performing arts. The music industry needs to recognize that music is an important part of our culture and heritage. There should be more meaningful choices for the consumer to pick from and they should not cost $20+. Also music (and movies etc) should be protected for the long haul. If a company locks up an art work under copyright provisions, they must be compelled to provide archival quality copies to appropriate guardians when the copyrights expire. Like the Rock and Roll hall of fame and other appropriate entities. The music industry creates the need to rake in big profits from CD sales because to them it is about marketing or creating a market by spending billions on advertising and concert promotion. Instead of letting consumers decide what they want the big record labels attempt to tell us what we want.
(/Rant)
SCO like so many other businesses that have lost their way is grasping at straws. Anything it can do to survive it will do; even absurd things that only apear to offer survival. SCO did correctly see that it would soon be obsolete. It's Unix business was dwindling and it was not likely to be a leader in Linux distribution. It is dark times like these that can lead to really far out there tactics. They must have seen the success that important IP companies have. If what SCO proposes to be true is true then it holds quite a lot of cards and may be able to license the world. The problem for SCO in this regard is that Unix and all it's decedents have long since been set free.
After domesticated horses have been let loose and have bread in the wild it is a tough claim to make for the original horse owners to lay stake to this offspring. Especially if the owners left the barn door open on purpose.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world.
Those who understand binary and those who don't.