Gee whiz, writing this upon my DSL political landscape insights...
MACROECONOMIC
This would only improve the existing long-distance carrier company's portfolio a bit.
MACRO-MACROECONOMIC
WorldCom, good move. Now, let's start seeing those revenues rolling in (more customers or more fees?)
MICROECONOMIC
More consolidation, less competition. More profit margin, less consumer interest: just like ISDN in the 1980s.
POLITCAL
With Rep. Billy Tauzin (La) and his deeply baby-Bells-stuffed pocket sitting in Telecommunication Committee, nothing will improve in terms of DSL competition, just less. AT&T @Home Cable won't improve either for that matter. A perfect politician advancing through inactions.
GOVERNMENT
FAA needs to get off their dufus and enact less colocation cost for competitive DSLAMs situated in baby Bell's utility cages.
My respect for Stallman has just dropped to a new low.
His idea of Free Software is good, but don't trample American captialism at the expense this quest in ONE BIG STEP. People, institutions and marketplace change and they can be made to change slowly to embrace whatever ideal one wishes to enspouse.
Most can only embrace liberalism so far but to call the current President "unelected", my patriotism flares against him.
I'm tempted to drop-kick him out of USA for his unpatriotic views.
Working as a firmware designer of DSL modems, I can tell you the following:
ECONOMIC
When Baby Bells knocks off the DSL competition to the point where they can comfortably raise the DSL rates (10-30%) as ISDN rollout in the 80s has shown us before, these Bell companies usually waits to recoup their current copperwire-based infrastructure to pay off before investing in new technologies (i.e. fiber-DSL). They are pretty hard pressed to respond to shareholders at this market time.
PHYSICAL
The urge to deploy fiber-based DSLAM is not as great as the copper-based DSLAM simply because there is a huge amount of already installed copper-wire. The economic of using current copper wire is still very strong. Hence effectively diminish (but not deny) the desirable explosive growth of fiber-based DSL. Not to mention an excess vacant slots in many installed copper-based DSLAM waiting to be translated into steady revenues.
GOVERNMENTAL
Baby Bell companies will not be tempted to deploy new public-based infrastructure (i.e. Fiber-based DSL) if they are forced to share them with Competitive Local Access Carrier (CLEC) such as Covad (and whatever other CLECs are still surviving today).
POLITICS
I'm just very glad that that liberal Republican senator switched parties. Now we can flush out Rep. Tauzin of Louisiana (whose pocket seems overflowing with Bell money) from the Telecommunication committee and return the playing field back to the CLECs. We need to reinvigorate the DSL competition some more by level the playing field a bit.
SUPPORT
As many of us DSL-users will testify, the support of DSL line will only but slowly be improving (at a snail-pace) as they shore up their order/problem tracking systems. At this moment, too many DSL users who are at the fringe distance (more than 12,000', excess bridge taps, and even crosstalk interference caused by too many DSL subscribers within the same trunk) will just have to tough it out while DSL providers work out the kinks one DSL line by one.
SUMMARY
Until the five things improve above, fiber-based DSL is a bleeding-edge toy technology which has been proven. Fiber-based DSL will not be effectively deployable at the rate we'd like to see.
For 240 users/24 simultaneous users, it would cost $695 USD a month for T1 dialup bank (PacBell) which is faster than T1 but much slower than T3.
To charge 9.99/month per user is a pitiful trickle-down to your profit margin (if you factor in your bandwidth cost, rack rent, electricity, IP Class-C address, maintenance of a grand total of $1250 a month). You can cut only so much ($150/m) by trucking your T1 line to your home.
If you want to pay yourself $100,000 a year (snicker) and work 90+ hours a week with account receivable, account payable, taxes, and unpopular tech supports for newbies as well as repairs doing this all by YOURSELF, you would need to attain a critical user base of 2,500, which of course, you'll have to install 250 more dialup lines, which spirals the cost up fast then slowly in an inverse logrithmatic scale to...
An actual critical user base of 2,800 is more like it to just attain your 100K/year salary.
By then, you'll want to start hiring specialists to offload your poor, tired, overworked mind.
Thus the vicious cycle begins of garnering more user base just to pay for those employees.
Microsoft Exchange server still doesn't allow the use of "+" symbols in your email name (i.e. john.doe+itcamefromspam123@doe.com)
Check out RFC2822's dot-atom BNF syntax in section 3.4.1. The following symbols are allowed in the local-part of the email address (before the @ symbol):
What good is a home-user and a firewall if the Alcatel 1000 is STILL directly and brokeningly accessible from world-wide Internet full of hackers?
Not unless there is some special firewall router box has TWO DSL ports in which one can drop between the CO and the crappy Alcatel 1000, you're better off replacing the whole thing.
It's not Efficient, if it isn't from Efficient. Excuse me for the sappy plugin, but as a security specialist, this is one of the better ones.
The analysis was meant as a superficial observation. But your input is well thought-out.
Brashly pointed out, there is little or no justification for telephone, even today. Yeah, no justification (IMO). But it is a valuable tool, nonetheless.
Like any technology, we make use of it, become adaptive and then become dependant on it. (Gosh, this is starting to sound like Ted's Manifesto, ). This has been going on since the day of fire.
Flip side of the coin, VideoConference is a tool that we hopefully will adapt and then become dependent as well. I know the deaf community is actively using (out of necessity).
Took telephone nearly 120-odd years, let's hope Video takes a lot shorter. The backbones seems to have the bandwidth, it's just the big-fat-pipe at the last-mile is not widely available yet.
P0rn or not, nuances and body language are essential visuals during conversation that I think people will want to monopolize on, just like voices from afar (you say, just not as much).
I'm sorry but only two points I have given are natural technological progression and visual-psychology.
It is the GNU/Linux lean-ware that caused the CPU-speed demand to go down.
No matter how hard Microcrap inflate their bloatware, it will only drive more users to GNU/Linux.
This K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) exodus keeps the users' need for CPU-speed in check for the near forseeable future. Intel will fall. AMD will reign. VIA will dominate.
Mozilla 1.0 will be the starting point for CPU-speed rush (a year from now).
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Why not adopt RedHat's marketing model?
By selling it at the store for $$ and making it available by download for free.
I'm still buying RedHat CDs despite downloading various rawhide. I can't be alone on this.
Chin up, fella. You did good.
Time Trimming the commercial for a change?
But who did they attempt to rig? Bush or Gore?
Simply put... The U.S. Telecom Act of 1999 is a joke.
You've got Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La) sitting on the Telecommunication committee with the fattest wad of unspent baby bell money in his pocket.
If it wasn't for Mr. Tauzin, I'm pretty sure that the CLEC would have a more favorable competitive environment.
Sorry, CLEC, you are going to have to setup a Political Action Committee (PAC) to counter the already swayed Telecom committee members of the House.
Until the CLEC get their collective duffus act together, Baby Bell will win this one: lock, stock and barrel.
No fine is too big for Baby Bell: it is just the cost of doing dirty business (equates with marketing budget).
I'm ashame that I voted for that fat cat. I'll contribute heavily to see him gone by next election.
Perhaps the failing aspect of ZKS business model is the lack of privacy regarding forking over a credit card to pay for the premium service.
Some people won't even part with that information to guard their privacy. For this, they go to hushmail.com.
For anonymous email, one can use the following: ENCRYPTED WEB-BASED MAILSERVER HushMail LokMail ZixIt ManiacMail For ANONYMOUS WEB SURFING Anonymizer SubDimension HREF='http://www.safeweb.com/'>SafeWeb
I've contacted several FBI employment offices via phone as well as the FBI employment websites, even checked the C3I and the DSS and the NSA websites.
There are no listings of a "Computer Hacker Extraordinaire" position.
Perhaps, the Cult of the Dead Cows are hiring...
We have met the enemy and he is us
Make that FCC, not FAA.
Brain-fart.
Gee whiz, writing this upon my DSL political landscape insights...
MACROECONOMIC
This would only improve the existing long-distance carrier company's portfolio a bit.
MACRO-MACROECONOMIC
WorldCom, good move. Now, let's start seeing those revenues rolling in (more customers or more fees?)
MICROECONOMIC
More consolidation, less competition. More profit margin, less consumer interest: just like ISDN in the 1980s.
POLITCAL
With Rep. Billy Tauzin (La) and his deeply baby-Bells-stuffed pocket sitting in Telecommunication Committee, nothing will improve in terms of DSL competition, just less. AT&T @Home Cable won't improve either for that matter. A perfect politician advancing through inactions.
GOVERNMENT
FAA needs to get off their dufus and enact less colocation cost for competitive DSLAMs situated in baby Bell's utility cages.
BIRDEYE VIEW
It gets Worse for the consumers.
Much like the bass boat's 2nd motor, why not outfit your 5hp to your SUV?
My respect for Stallman has just dropped to a new low.
His idea of Free Software is good, but don't trample American captialism at the expense this quest in ONE BIG STEP. People, institutions and marketplace change and they can be made to change slowly to embrace whatever ideal one wishes to enspouse.
Most can only embrace liberalism so far but to call the current President "unelected", my patriotism flares against him.
I'm tempted to drop-kick him out of USA for his unpatriotic views.
This is by far the best solution possible without any router or BGP infrastructure upgrade. Works for me.
Working as a firmware designer of DSL modems, I can tell you the following:
ECONOMIC
When Baby Bells knocks off the DSL competition to the point where they can comfortably raise the DSL rates (10-30%) as ISDN rollout in the 80s has shown us before, these Bell companies usually waits to recoup their current copperwire-based infrastructure to pay off before investing in new technologies (i.e. fiber-DSL). They are pretty hard pressed to respond to shareholders at this market time.
PHYSICAL
The urge to deploy fiber-based DSLAM is not as great as the copper-based DSLAM simply because there is a huge amount of already installed copper-wire. The economic of using current copper wire is still very strong. Hence effectively diminish (but not deny) the desirable explosive growth of fiber-based DSL. Not to mention an excess vacant slots in many installed copper-based DSLAM waiting to be translated into steady revenues.
GOVERNMENTAL
Baby Bell companies will not be tempted to deploy new public-based infrastructure (i.e. Fiber-based DSL) if they are forced to share them with Competitive Local Access Carrier (CLEC) such as Covad (and whatever other CLECs are still surviving today).
POLITICS
I'm just very glad that that liberal Republican senator switched parties. Now we can flush out Rep. Tauzin of Louisiana (whose pocket seems overflowing with Bell money) from the Telecommunication committee and return the playing field back to the CLECs. We need to reinvigorate the DSL competition some more by level the playing field a bit.
SUPPORT
As many of us DSL-users will testify, the support of DSL line will only but slowly be improving (at a snail-pace) as they shore up their order/problem tracking systems. At this moment, too many DSL users who are at the fringe distance (more than 12,000', excess bridge taps, and even crosstalk interference caused by too many DSL subscribers within the same trunk) will just have to tough it out while DSL providers work out the kinks one DSL line by one.
SUMMARY
Until the five things improve above, fiber-based DSL is a bleeding-edge toy technology which has been proven. Fiber-based DSL will not be effectively deployable at the rate we'd like to see.
OH!
Oh, don't we wish for a wormy repairmen that will break into our house and fixes our dishwasher and washing machine?
This goes way far beyond the Orwellian (1984) concept of Big Brother.
My personality is mine as I see fit. Your shouldn't need any personality test to tell yourself otherwise.
I'm OK, you're OK.
For 240 users/24 simultaneous users, it would cost $695 USD a month for T1 dialup bank (PacBell) which is faster than T1 but much slower than T3.
To charge 9.99/month per user is a pitiful trickle-down to your profit margin (if you factor in your bandwidth cost, rack rent, electricity, IP Class-C address, maintenance of a grand total of $1250 a month). You can cut only so much ($150/m) by trucking your T1 line to your home.
If you want to pay yourself $100,000 a year (snicker) and work 90+ hours a week with account receivable, account payable, taxes, and unpopular tech supports for newbies as well as repairs doing this all by YOURSELF, you would need to attain a critical user base of 2,500, which of course, you'll have to install 250 more dialup lines, which spirals the cost up fast then slowly in an inverse logrithmatic scale to...
An actual critical user base of 2,800 is more like it to just attain your 100K/year salary.
By then, you'll want to start hiring specialists to offload your poor, tired, overworked mind.
Thus the vicious cycle begins of garnering more user base just to pay for those employees.
Godspeed.
WebDAV is available with apache webserver so that can be used to cater to the MS FrontPage users.
Microsoft Exchange server still doesn't allow the use of "+" symbols in your email name (i.e. john.doe+itcamefromspam123@doe.com)
Check out RFC2822's dot-atom BNF syntax in section 3.4.1. The following symbols are allowed in the local-part of the email address (before the @ symbol):
!#$&*'+-/=?^_~{|}`
Only 500Mhz to go before I get myself a real microwaveable coffee warmer!
I'll take a meatnet over the honeynet anyday.
IANAV (vegeterian).
Not unless there is some special firewall router box has TWO DSL ports in which one can drop between the CO and the crappy Alcatel 1000, you're better off replacing the whole thing.
It's not Efficient, if it isn't from Efficient. Excuse me for the sappy plugin, but as a security specialist, this is one of the better ones.
Must be those French mentality mindset. Moron n'importe qui?.
The analysis was meant as a superficial observation. But your input is well thought-out.
Brashly pointed out, there is little or no justification for telephone, even today. Yeah, no justification (IMO). But it is a valuable tool, nonetheless.
Like any technology, we make use of it, become adaptive and then become dependant on it. (Gosh, this is starting to sound like Ted's Manifesto, ). This has been going on since the day of fire.
Flip side of the coin, VideoConference is a tool that we hopefully will adapt and then become dependent as well. I know the deaf community is actively using (out of necessity).
Took telephone nearly 120-odd years, let's hope Video takes a lot shorter. The backbones seems to have the bandwidth, it's just the big-fat-pipe at the last-mile is not widely available yet.
P0rn or not, nuances and body language are essential visuals during conversation that I think people will want to monopolize on, just like voices from afar (you say, just not as much).
I'm sorry but only two points I have given are natural technological progression and visual-psychology.
It is the GNU/Linux lean-ware that caused the CPU-speed demand to go down.
No matter how hard Microcrap inflate their bloatware, it will only drive more users to GNU/Linux.
This K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) exodus keeps the users' need for CPU-speed in check for the near forseeable future. Intel will fall. AMD will reign. VIA will dominate.
Mozilla 1.0 will be the starting point for CPU-speed rush (a year from now).
- Now sign the N.D.A. or else.