What about implantable defibrillators? Those make decisions based on involved measurements and formulas which are, as far as I know, generally agreed upon in the medical industry.
Further, I'd imagine someone having one implanted would have to sign some sort of release form. That being said, anyone who carries these devices in his car would have to sign a form too most likely -- either that, or legislation would likely pass such that that wouldn't be necessary (big money = big lobbyists)
Using some hard numbers to support or refute your claim...
according to this site , Bush and Kerry, collectively, spent ~645M on the election for a total of ~121M votes -- among those 121M, about 28M popular votes were in the 11 closest states
if one assumes that 80% of the spending went to those 28M votes, those votes are worth about 0.8*645/28 = $18 while the other votes are more like:
0.2*645/(121-28) = $1.4
most definitely not an ipod, but at least maybe a free CD
I read the article and something is pretty unclear to me. The article states, "Any time a carrier has an outage that affects 900,000 caller minutes - say a 30-minute outage impacting 30,000 customers - it must report it to the Network Outage Reporting System."
My question is, how does the provider know in the case of mobile phones, how many were affected in a network outage?
They could go by billing address, which, on average might be reasonable assuming that residential and business areas are uniformly distributed but that's not the case. One could assume that a common contributing factor to outages is network congestion. So let's say a provider has an outage in a dense business dominated area where few of the customers have their bills sent to. This might, by the metric above, not trigger a report to the Network Outage Reporting System.
Another issue with this measure is how it would be weighted or manipulated. There are 4 large national generally distinct networks currently in existence: Verizon, Cingular/ATT, Sprint/Nextel, and T-Mobile. I've read in many places, though none truly authoritative, that T-Mobile has the smallest network among the national networks. If that's true, then it's possible they might have the fewest reportable outages. Most of the problems T-Mobile users experience would either be a function of lack of coverage of network congestion, neither of which seem to be reportable.
A different method which would come closer to answering the true question of the quality of a national cell service provider would involve randomly sampling different providers in different regions among different classes of customers (i.e. low, medium, and high volume customers as additional proxies for the variety of places an individual has traveled and to weight their view on network congestion).
Just my 2 cents or 3.46 cents if I melted them down at no cost and resold them
I read the article and something is pretty unclear to me. The article states, "Any time a carrier has an outage that affects 900,000 caller minutes - say a 30-minute outage impacting 30,000 customers - it must report it to the Network Outage Reporting System."
My question is, how does the provider know in the case of mobile phones, how many were affected in a network outage?
They could go by billing address, which, on average might be reasonable assuming that residential and business areas are uniformly distributed but that's not the case. One could assume that a common contributing factor to outages is network congestion. So let's say a provider has an outage in a dense business dominated area where few of the customers have their bills sent to. This might, by the metric above, not trigger a report to the Network Outage Reporting System.
Another issue with this measure is how it would be weighted or manipulated. There are 4 large national generally distinct networks currently in existence: Verizon, Cingular/ATT, Sprint/Nextel, and T-Mobile. I've read in many places, though none truly authoritative, that T-Mobile has the smallest network among the national networks. If that's true, then it's possible they might have the fewest reportable outages. Most of the problems T-Mobile users experience would either be a function of lack of coverage of network congestion, neither of which seem to be reportable.
A different method which would come closer to answering the true question of the quality of a national cell service provider would involve randomly sampling different providers in different regions among different classes of customers (i.e. low, medium, and high volume customers as additional proxies for the variety of places an individual has traveled and to weight their view on network congestion).
Just my 2 cents or 3.46 cents if I melted them down at no cost and resold them
I'm no expect in metallurgy, but I can imagine it can be very profitable
Assume that only the penny and nickel are "mispriced" and that there's no difference in cost of refining the contents (as a propotion of the return)...
pennies have a 73% return
while nickels have a 74.8% return so, if I were a savvy/unethical foreign investor and wanted to melt these coins (btw, not having read the body of the article, is it illegal to melt US coins outside of the US, because, given the potential returns, it might be worthwhile to ship these), I had a team prepare a possible business plan to essentially "arbitrage" this opportunity in the most efficient manner possible.
just my two nickels
if you've seen "hacking democracy" (the hbo documentary on Diebold), you'll notice that their database is MS Access -- I'm anything but a software developer, but in my use of Access (granted Access 2000), I've seen enough inconsistent operation to be very careful about just client data for quick small analyses, let alone vote data integrity
You're completely right, I was a bit harsh in my description of the webisodes, but it's more that I found it kind of odd that there is such a big deal over something honestly pretty minimal that clearly did not have a lot money put into it or included any of the leads of the show for any length of time
Guys, I've seen all the episodes of the show including the miniseries and listened to almost all of the podcasts (I intentioanlly keep a few episodes behind on those to avoid being spoiled) and I gotta say that the production quality of the (not to mention the visual quality) of the websisodes was very poor and they did little to further the show except for giving "Duck" a little substance behind his motivation to be a suicide bomber
if you guys check out ilounge as well as a variety of other video sites, you'll find out that the ipod supports more than 320 by 240 with very high bitrates -- i've watched stuff at very high bitrates in mpeg4 at high resolutions that exceed the quality of dvds that i've rented
I'm anything but an expert on this topic, but from my limited experience in lower bitrate/resolution video with varying codec's, the codec doesn't exclusively determine the quality of the video, but a combination of the codec and both the method which it is applied (i.e. bitrate choices, other algorhythm options inside of each codec)
also, given the very high capacity of these discs, it doesn't appear that using a potentially more efficient codec (i.e. mpeg-4) is necessary unless the movie is very long and the disc is both one-sided and single-layered
just my one-cent
Yeah, that's why I always suggest two general pieces of advise -- with regard to paypal, sign up for and use a checking account at a separate bank just for those transactions (i.e. I have such an account -- a free checking account -- and typically only have $1 in it to avoid getting a fee for the account when I'm not using it)
also, unless you have spending problems, never use a credit card or at least make yourself use a secured card so you can't overspend how much money you have and also build credit simultaneously
That drive you linked to can't possibly be a solid state disk -- if for no other reason than that IBM sold their hard drive business to hitachi long before this technology would have been produced with an IBM sticker and the price is far too low
I'm by no means a developer though I read up on email technology and providers all the time.
I'd consider contacting the good folks at: http://www.fastmail.fm/ they provide one of the fastest and most standards compliant IMAP, pop3, and SMTP services I've ever used
They support lots of bandwidth and storage and low costs using, AFAIK, all open-source software at a seemingly low cost per user
I've been using wireless internet on my cell phone for years because I'm too cheap to pay what I think is an obscene amount for broadband.
The performance, in my experience is highly variable, primarily based on the congestion of where you are connecting from and the quality of the phone or card.
I've set up a friend of mine on the $80 AYCE plan and he enjoys it a great deal, although the latency is pretty bad regardless of what incarnation of the verizon technology you use.
For detailed information and a community which specializes in this sort of thing, please check out
That is where I learned everything I know about wireless internet, in particular about Verizon's service
FYI, the max speeds I've obtained are around 16k/second (i.e. ~120-130 kps) with latency of, at best, 300 ms. The 16k/second speeds I've obtained are typical in low congestion areas or at low congestion times and they are sustained speeds, not just a spike.
I've been using fastmail.fm for years now myself and think it is the best email provider that exists. Through using just the free guest account and an account at spamgourmet (free disposable email addresses), I've been enable to almost entirely avoid getting any spam.
Fastmail's interface is very quick and shows TONS of information. I also have a gmail account, but I'll never switch over.
One critical thing you can't do with most, if not all, of the big players is change your "from" address. Fastmail allows you to make this change quickly and easily.
Email clients and webmail by default show the "from" address when a message is received. So if I have a forwarding address I use instead of JohnDoe@gmail.com, the recipient will see JohnDoe@gmail.com instead of my forwarding address of JohnDoe@JohnDoe.com. My recipients would only see my forwarding address when they hit reply since one can only change the "reply-to" address at places like gmail and hotmail.
I don't think you really need to worry about a big spike in your electricity bill if you have a normal computer running 24/7...
If you take a look at your electricity bill you will see the cost of electricity as kilowatt hours which is 1000 watts used for an hour. This price tends to be around 15-20 cents.
A typical computer which could run what you are looking to run would need, at most, a 300 watt powersupply (assuming you would use this for anything outside of a server).
More likely than not the average amount of wattage it would require would be even a lot less than that.
Assuming it uses an average of 100 watts (a liberal estimate) it would use 2.4 kilowatt hours a day which would cost, at most 40 cents per day or $12/month in electricity costs. Please keep in mind that my assumptions were very liberal regarding the kilowatt cost and the average wattage draw.
I've been using both Fastmail.fm and Spamgourmet for over a year. Both services are free and very useful.
Fastmail provides a ad-free web-based and free access to IMAP. Spamgourmet provides a free full-featured email alias system. Using both of those free services, I get essentially no spam. I haven't gotten a single message of spam to my fastmail address ever in fact.
I've found the information provided at
Infinite Ink
provides balanced reviews of free and pay-mail providers. Fastmail, in my opinion, is the most reliable free provider I've ever used along with the best web interface I've ever found.
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What about implantable defibrillators? Those make decisions based on involved measurements and formulas which are, as far as I know, generally agreed upon in the medical industry.
Further, I'd imagine someone having one implanted would have to sign some sort of release form. That being said, anyone who carries these devices in his car would have to sign a form too most likely -- either that, or legislation would likely pass such that that wouldn't be necessary (big money = big lobbyists)
according to this site , Bush and Kerry, collectively, spent ~645M on the election for a total of ~121M votes -- among those 121M, about 28M popular votes were in the 11 closest states
if one assumes that 80% of the spending went to those 28M votes, those votes are worth about 0.8*645/28 = $18 while the other votes are more like: 0.2*645/(121-28) = $1.4
most definitely not an ipod, but at least maybe a free CD
Please don't poison my sushi with polonium 210 now
do they call keep track of dropped calls and call attempts?
My question is, how does the provider know in the case of mobile phones, how many were affected in a network outage?
They could go by billing address, which, on average might be reasonable assuming that residential and business areas are uniformly distributed but that's not the case. One could assume that a common contributing factor to outages is network congestion. So let's say a provider has an outage in a dense business dominated area where few of the customers have their bills sent to. This might, by the metric above, not trigger a report to the Network Outage Reporting System.
Another issue with this measure is how it would be weighted or manipulated. There are 4 large national generally distinct networks currently in existence: Verizon, Cingular/ATT, Sprint/Nextel, and T-Mobile. I've read in many places, though none truly authoritative, that T-Mobile has the smallest network among the national networks. If that's true, then it's possible they might have the fewest reportable outages. Most of the problems T-Mobile users experience would either be a function of lack of coverage of network congestion, neither of which seem to be reportable.
A different method which would come closer to answering the true question of the quality of a national cell service provider would involve randomly sampling different providers in different regions among different classes of customers (i.e. low, medium, and high volume customers as additional proxies for the variety of places an individual has traveled and to weight their view on network congestion).
Just my 2 cents or 3.46 cents if I melted them down at no cost and resold them
I read the article and something is pretty unclear to me. The article states, "Any time a carrier has an outage that affects 900,000 caller minutes - say a 30-minute outage impacting 30,000 customers - it must report it to the Network Outage Reporting System." My question is, how does the provider know in the case of mobile phones, how many were affected in a network outage? They could go by billing address, which, on average might be reasonable assuming that residential and business areas are uniformly distributed but that's not the case. One could assume that a common contributing factor to outages is network congestion. So let's say a provider has an outage in a dense business dominated area where few of the customers have their bills sent to. This might, by the metric above, not trigger a report to the Network Outage Reporting System. Another issue with this measure is how it would be weighted or manipulated. There are 4 large national generally distinct networks currently in existence: Verizon, Cingular/ATT, Sprint/Nextel, and T-Mobile. I've read in many places, though none truly authoritative, that T-Mobile has the smallest network among the national networks. If that's true, then it's possible they might have the fewest reportable outages. Most of the problems T-Mobile users experience would either be a function of lack of coverage of network congestion, neither of which seem to be reportable. A different method which would come closer to answering the true question of the quality of a national cell service provider would involve randomly sampling different providers in different regions among different classes of customers (i.e. low, medium, and high volume customers as additional proxies for the variety of places an individual has traveled and to weight their view on network congestion). Just my 2 cents or 3.46 cents if I melted them down at no cost and resold them
I'm no expect in metallurgy, but I can imagine it can be very profitable Assume that only the penny and nickel are "mispriced" and that there's no difference in cost of refining the contents (as a propotion of the return)... pennies have a 73% return while nickels have a 74.8% return so, if I were a savvy/unethical foreign investor and wanted to melt these coins (btw, not having read the body of the article, is it illegal to melt US coins outside of the US, because, given the potential returns, it might be worthwhile to ship these), I had a team prepare a possible business plan to essentially "arbitrage" this opportunity in the most efficient manner possible. just my two nickels
if you've seen "hacking democracy" (the hbo documentary on Diebold), you'll notice that their database is MS Access -- I'm anything but a software developer, but in my use of Access (granted Access 2000), I've seen enough inconsistent operation to be very careful about just client data for quick small analyses, let alone vote data integrity
Now I can finally convince my friends to upgrade their web browser from Firebird 0.6 :)
You're completely right, I was a bit harsh in my description of the webisodes, but it's more that I found it kind of odd that there is such a big deal over something honestly pretty minimal that clearly did not have a lot money put into it or included any of the leads of the show for any length of time
Guys, I've seen all the episodes of the show including the miniseries and listened to almost all of the podcasts (I intentioanlly keep a few episodes behind on those to avoid being spoiled) and I gotta say that the production quality of the (not to mention the visual quality) of the websisodes was very poor and they did little to further the show except for giving "Duck" a little substance behind his motivation to be a suicide bomber
just my one penny
if you guys check out ilounge as well as a variety of other video sites, you'll find out that the ipod supports more than 320 by 240 with very high bitrates -- i've watched stuff at very high bitrates in mpeg4 at high resolutions that exceed the quality of dvds that i've rented
come on guys
I'm anything but an expert on this topic, but from my limited experience in lower bitrate/resolution video with varying codec's, the codec doesn't exclusively determine the quality of the video, but a combination of the codec and both the method which it is applied (i.e. bitrate choices, other algorhythm options inside of each codec) also, given the very high capacity of these discs, it doesn't appear that using a potentially more efficient codec (i.e. mpeg-4) is necessary unless the movie is very long and the disc is both one-sided and single-layered just my one-cent
Yeah, that's why I always suggest two general pieces of advise -- with regard to paypal, sign up for and use a checking account at a separate bank just for those transactions (i.e. I have such an account -- a free checking account -- and typically only have $1 in it to avoid getting a fee for the account when I'm not using it)
also, unless you have spending problems, never use a credit card or at least make yourself use a secured card so you can't overspend how much money you have and also build credit simultaneously
That drive you linked to can't possibly be a solid state disk -- if for no other reason than that IBM sold their hard drive business to hitachi long before this technology would have been produced with an IBM sticker and the price is far too low
I hope that car doesn't have smelly gas like I do from soybeans
I thought I had a new friend
I'm by no means a developer though I read up on email technology and providers all the time.
I'd consider contacting the good folks at:
http://www.fastmail.fm/
they provide one of the fastest and most standards compliant IMAP, pop3, and SMTP services I've ever used
They support lots of bandwidth and storage and low costs using, AFAIK, all open-source software at a seemingly low cost per user
Also, the individual who maintains the following website might be of good assistance to you:
http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/imap/isps/
and
http://www.ii.com/
Hi guys,
I've been using wireless internet on my cell phone for years because I'm too cheap to pay what I think is an obscene amount for broadband.
The performance, in my experience is highly variable, primarily based on the congestion of where you are connecting from and the quality of the phone or card.
I've set up a friend of mine on the $80 AYCE plan and he enjoys it a great deal, although the latency is pretty bad regardless of what incarnation of the verizon technology you use.
For detailed information and a community which specializes in this sort of thing, please check out
http://www.howardforums.com/
That is where I learned everything I know about wireless internet, in particular about Verizon's service
FYI, the max speeds I've obtained are around 16k/second (i.e. ~120-130 kps) with latency of, at best, 300 ms. The 16k/second speeds I've obtained are typical in low congestion areas or at low congestion times and they are sustained speeds, not just a spike.
I hope I've been of assistance
I've been using fastmail.fm for years now myself and think it is the best email provider that exists. Through using just the free guest account and an account at spamgourmet (free disposable email addresses), I've been enable to almost entirely avoid getting any spam.
Fastmail's interface is very quick and shows TONS of information. I also have a gmail account, but I'll never switch over.
One critical thing you can't do with most, if not all, of the big players is change your "from" address. Fastmail allows you to make this change quickly and easily.
Email clients and webmail by default show the "from" address when a message is received. So if I have a forwarding address I use instead of JohnDoe@gmail.com, the recipient will see JohnDoe@gmail.com instead of my forwarding address of JohnDoe@JohnDoe.com. My recipients would only see my forwarding address when they hit reply since one can only change the "reply-to" address at places like gmail and hotmail.
I don't think you really need to worry about a big spike in your electricity bill if you have a normal computer running 24/7...
If you take a look at your electricity bill you will see the cost of electricity as kilowatt hours which is 1000 watts used for an hour. This price tends to be around 15-20 cents.
A typical computer which could run what you are looking to run would need, at most, a 300 watt powersupply (assuming you would use this for anything outside of a server).
More likely than not the average amount of wattage it would require would be even a lot less than that.
Assuming it uses an average of 100 watts (a liberal estimate) it would use 2.4 kilowatt hours a day which would cost, at most 40 cents per day or $12/month in electricity costs. Please keep in mind that my assumptions were very liberal regarding the kilowatt cost and the average wattage draw.
Good luck
And I thought I was organized with my email. You're awesome
I've been using both Fastmail.fm and Spamgourmet for over a year. Both services are free and very useful.
Fastmail provides a ad-free web-based and free access to IMAP. Spamgourmet provides a free full-featured email alias system. Using both of those free services, I get essentially no spam. I haven't gotten a single message of spam to my fastmail address ever in fact. I've found the information provided at Infinite Ink provides balanced reviews of free and pay-mail providers. Fastmail, in my opinion, is the most reliable free provider I've ever used along with the best web interface I've ever found.
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I've found the information provided at
<URL:http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/ima
provides balanced reviews of free and pay-mail providers. Fastmail, in my opinion, is the most reliable free provider I've ever used along with the best web interface I've ever found.