And of course mass transit is green and has zero pollution as well. I live in an averge sized town and while we don't have subways, we do have a decent bus system. Based off of the amount of smoke they spew at every intersection, I'm not sure how much better public transportation is over driving yourself in a well maintained vehicle.
Even once you factor in the cost of vehicles, it's still cheaper where I live then in Silicon Valley. I use a tank of gas a week ($40) to get to work and errands. Insurance is $500/year. The vehicle itself is an old 97 Cavalier that I have probably $2500 in. Maintenance is $1000/year. Using a little common sense, you can combine trips so that you aren't wasting gas.
You comment about going out and discovering a world. How exactly does one do that when they are reliant on mass transportation to do it? Last I checked, most mass transit systems don't cover more then a relatively small geographical area.
Blocking school and library access to many sites like/. for example will not do a thing to stop criminals from molesting children, so what is the real issue here?
Your wrong. By naming it the Deleting Online Predators Act, just mearly blocking kids access to those sites will instantly delete those nasty predators off the internet. It's not like kids would ever access those sites from anywhere but school or a library.
Is some politician trying to make a name for himself, or is there some other issue that is hidden inside the bill?
It's an election year. There are 435 Representatives and 33 Senators trying to make a name for themselves. Apparently there are 15 Democratic Representatives running unopposed this fall...
Right. Do you trust the FCC to make that distinction for you? In case you don't remember, they are the agency that is in charge of keeping obscenity of the airwaves. Yet when a broadcaster asks them if something is permissible, they shrug their sholders saying we don't know, we can only say after it's aired.
So if you are writing about a job corresponds, talking to a lawyer or doctor, or maybe researching information about that strange itch below the beltline, you think everyone should have a right to see it? Sure e-mail or researching things online aren't typically private and could be intercepted, but that doesn't mean the library or school needs to broadcast it to everyone. Besides, the additional cost for a 2nd monitor or projector for terminal would be very cost prohibitive.
There are relatively inexpensive extended service plans available that cover the cost of the bulb. Here is an example of one that is $260 for a projector $5,000. Depending on the projector, that could pay for the cost of the plan with just a single bulb failure.
But if a company is considering spending $3-5k on a projector or TV, they should be prepared to spend a little on maintenance over time.
I know it probably won't be a popular package here, but SourceCode's K2.Net also can be added to the list, if you develop in.Net. My company is currently looking into the package as we are almost exclusively a Microsoft shop and it integrates well with.Net.
Seriously though, what is the going rate for impressions? Do they even pay per impression anymore or is it all per click or some other measurable but less frequently occuring event?
I forget which one of his movies it was, but in one of Steven Segal's movies there is a line that stated if companies were fined $20k a day for illegal chemical dumping all while making $200k doing it, where is the encouragement to stop? Yes a couple of billion dollar fine will put a dent in the old pocketbook, but if the daily fine isn't that much as compared to how much you are making daily, it just becomes a cost of doing business. You have to make the fine large enough that it becomes cheaper to do the "right thing" as oppose to just continue to do the "wrong thing".
1. I already pay $54.99 for cable tv, in my area I have no other choice so for all intents and purposes its a monopoly, they could charge $100, people would still have to pay it. What are they doing with all this goddamn money that they still need to make more by running advertisements?
The majority of your fee that you are paying to Comcast/TW/Dish/DirecTV is paying for the physical plant as well as the cable networks. Relatively, only a very small amount if any is going to local stations for their retransmission consent. So you basically aren't paying for the local stations.
What's wrong with forcing non-compliant businesses from operating? Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market? How exactly do you shut down or prohibit a company from operating when they have that type of a market share? I'm not saying that something shouldn't be done, but you can't just say "Sorry, you can't do business here" when 95% of your PCs being used every day need them.
That does clarify what I said, but if you note, I never said that they used the Fisher Space Pen exclusively. I mearly stated that they have used them since 1968.
Myth: Americans realized that they couldn't right with a pen in space so they spent millions of dollars developing one that could. The Russians just used a pencil.
Fact: Both Americans and Soviets initially used pencils.
Fact: The Americans (and probably the Russians as well) realized that having all these little broken tips floating around in space probably wasn't a good idea.
Fact: Graphite can conduct electricity, so having the graphite dust floating around wasn't good either.
Fact: The wood and graphite would burn easily in a oxygen rich enviroment
Fact: Fisher Pens developed the space pen on their own using their own capital. Only after developed a working pen that resolved the above issues (as well as a few more) did they pass it on to NASA to evaluate.
Fact: Both NASA and the Russian space agency have used the space pen in flights since 1968.
But couldn't use use that same argument with any type of hosting/shared server? How about companies like Iron Mountain that handle off site backup storage/archiving? Even if you kept 100% of your data in house, unless you keep everything under a very tight lock and key, it's still subject to employee/insider theft/misuse.
[bquote]It reminds me of a story I saw (on PBS or Discovery Channel) about modern medicine in developing countries. People will pay extra for a "digital X-Ray", even though the cheap equipment produces a digital image that has far less resolution than a plain old film X-Ray. But it's "digital", so it must be better.[/bquote]The advantage of "digital x-ray" is that you don't have all those wonderful film processing chemicals around, the results are near instant, and it requires less radiation compared to traditional film x-rays, and convienence. The hospital near my house is 100% digital. As soon as the image is taken it is uploaded to a server where both the radiologist and doctor can look at it, whether they are at the hospital, at the doctor's office next door, the hospital across town, or half way around the world if need be.
"As according to the Yankee Group SCO OpenServer products still outbeat Linux' yearly uptime by about 20 percent, world Leading companies should still consider to upgrade to SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer series."
Depending on how they measured uptime, that wouldn't suprise me. OpenServer's bread and butter type of installation is with cash register type point of sale systems that are for the most part very stable. Often they are not internet facing and once they are setup are essentially forgotten about until there is an absolute reason to fix something. The concept of service and maintenance packs aren't followed much.
Ask people who have a BlackBerry if they can live without it for a day. My guess is that many users would have their BlackBerry replaced the same day they lost it.
From a building perspective, that can possibly make sense. However, you would also want power from multiple substations for reliability. That could also be possible, but likely very expensive out in the middle of nowhere. But the hard thing would likely be network connectivity. Finding a high speed uplinks out in the middle of a corn field is going to be difficult. Find multiple ones would be near impossible. What you save by reusing an old building or through cheap "rent" would be ofset by the huge cost of setting up and maintaining electrical and network connectivity.
Verizon is using BPON currently. Downstream is 655 and upstream is 155. This bandwidth is passively split between up to 32 customers. Upstream is multiplexed so that each ONT gets an equal share of the pie. Downstream is controled by the OLT. Every ONT will see the entire 655 down, but will filter out traffic not destined for itself. This is by nature of the passive network, similar to when everyone was still using hubs/repeaters in the computer networking side of things. With 655 mbits, even if all 32 customers on a node subscribe to the 15mbit package there is still plenty of bandwidth available. This can be used by VoD streams coming from the head end for video.
POTS and regular cable tv are served off of seperate fiber wavelengths and do not impact the data side of things.
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And of course mass transit is green and has zero pollution as well. I live in an averge sized town and while we don't have subways, we do have a decent bus system. Based off of the amount of smoke they spew at every intersection, I'm not sure how much better public transportation is over driving yourself in a well maintained vehicle.
Even once you factor in the cost of vehicles, it's still cheaper where I live then in Silicon Valley. I use a tank of gas a week ($40) to get to work and errands. Insurance is $500/year. The vehicle itself is an old 97 Cavalier that I have probably $2500 in. Maintenance is $1000/year. Using a little common sense, you can combine trips so that you aren't wasting gas.
You comment about going out and discovering a world. How exactly does one do that when they are reliant on mass transportation to do it? Last I checked, most mass transit systems don't cover more then a relatively small geographical area.
It's an election year. There are 435 Representatives and 33 Senators trying to make a name for themselves. Apparently there are 15 Democratic Representatives running unopposed this fall...
Right. Do you trust the FCC to make that distinction for you? In case you don't remember, they are the agency that is in charge of keeping obscenity of the airwaves. Yet when a broadcaster asks them if something is permissible, they shrug their sholders saying we don't know, we can only say after it's aired.
So if you are writing about a job corresponds, talking to a lawyer or doctor, or maybe researching information about that strange itch below the beltline, you think everyone should have a right to see it? Sure e-mail or researching things online aren't typically private and could be intercepted, but that doesn't mean the library or school needs to broadcast it to everyone. Besides, the additional cost for a 2nd monitor or projector for terminal would be very cost prohibitive.
There are relatively inexpensive extended service plans available that cover the cost of the bulb. Here is an example of one that is $260 for a projector $5,000. Depending on the projector, that could pay for the cost of the plan with just a single bulb failure.
But if a company is considering spending $3-5k on a projector or TV, they should be prepared to spend a little on maintenance over time.
I know it probably won't be a popular package here, but SourceCode's K2.Net also can be added to the list, if you develop in .Net. My company is currently looking into the package as we are almost exclusively a Microsoft shop and it integrates well with .Net.
Business Process Management. Oversimplified, it's software that acts like a flowchart for your business processes.
Seriously though, what is the going rate for impressions? Do they even pay per impression anymore or is it all per click or some other measurable but less frequently occuring event?
I beleive Jack Thompson doesn't bang anything. It's against his crusade.
You are underestimating the power that $.0000001 per ad can generate.
"Here you go kids, this is how you can find/download the latest app/song/video."
It's kind of like education kids about drugs by showing them where to buy all the ingredients to make meth...
Yeah, but the on hold music sounds great!
I forget which one of his movies it was, but in one of Steven Segal's movies there is a line that stated if companies were fined $20k a day for illegal chemical dumping all while making $200k doing it, where is the encouragement to stop? Yes a couple of billion dollar fine will put a dent in the old pocketbook, but if the daily fine isn't that much as compared to how much you are making daily, it just becomes a cost of doing business. You have to make the fine large enough that it becomes cheaper to do the "right thing" as oppose to just continue to do the "wrong thing".
What's wrong with forcing non-compliant businesses from operating?
Microsoft owns what, 95+% of the global desktop OS market? How exactly do you shut down or prohibit a company from operating when they have that type of a market share? I'm not saying that something shouldn't be done, but you can't just say "Sorry, you can't do business here" when 95% of your PCs being used every day need them.
That does clarify what I said, but if you note, I never said that they used the Fisher Space Pen exclusively. I mearly stated that they have used them since 1968.
Myth: Americans realized that they couldn't right with a pen in space so they spent millions of dollars developing one that could. The Russians just used a pencil.
Fact: Both Americans and Soviets initially used pencils.
Fact: The Americans (and probably the Russians as well) realized that having all these little broken tips floating around in space probably wasn't a good idea.
Fact: Graphite can conduct electricity, so having the graphite dust floating around wasn't good either.
Fact: The wood and graphite would burn easily in a oxygen rich enviroment
Fact: Fisher Pens developed the space pen on their own using their own capital. Only after developed a working pen that resolved the above issues (as well as a few more) did they pass it on to NASA to evaluate.
Fact: Both NASA and the Russian space agency have used the space pen in flights since 1968.
You don't work in a real computer room if you don't have a seperate dedicated air conditioning system or raised floors.
But couldn't use use that same argument with any type of hosting/shared server? How about companies like Iron Mountain that handle off site backup storage/archiving? Even if you kept 100% of your data in house, unless you keep everything under a very tight lock and key, it's still subject to employee/insider theft/misuse.
[bquote]It reminds me of a story I saw (on PBS or Discovery Channel) about modern medicine in developing countries. People will pay extra for a "digital X-Ray", even though the cheap equipment produces a digital image that has far less resolution than a plain old film X-Ray. But it's "digital", so it must be better.[/bquote]The advantage of "digital x-ray" is that you don't have all those wonderful film processing chemicals around, the results are near instant, and it requires less radiation compared to traditional film x-rays, and convienence. The hospital near my house is 100% digital. As soon as the image is taken it is uploaded to a server where both the radiologist and doctor can look at it, whether they are at the hospital, at the doctor's office next door, the hospital across town, or half way around the world if need be.
Ask people who have a BlackBerry if they can live without it for a day. My guess is that many users would have their BlackBerry replaced the same day they lost it.
From a building perspective, that can possibly make sense. However, you would also want power from multiple substations for reliability. That could also be possible, but likely very expensive out in the middle of nowhere. But the hard thing would likely be network connectivity. Finding a high speed uplinks out in the middle of a corn field is going to be difficult. Find multiple ones would be near impossible. What you save by reusing an old building or through cheap "rent" would be ofset by the huge cost of setting up and maintaining electrical and network connectivity.
Verizon is using BPON currently. Downstream is 655 and upstream is 155. This bandwidth is passively split between up to 32 customers. Upstream is multiplexed so that each ONT gets an equal share of the pie. Downstream is controled by the OLT. Every ONT will see the entire 655 down, but will filter out traffic not destined for itself. This is by nature of the passive network, similar to when everyone was still using hubs/repeaters in the computer networking side of things. With 655 mbits, even if all 32 customers on a node subscribe to the 15mbit package there is still plenty of bandwidth available. This can be used by VoD streams coming from the head end for video.
POTS and regular cable tv are served off of seperate fiber wavelengths and do not impact the data side of things.
I think he means 16mbit. At least Comcast recently raise the rate to 16mbits to compete with FiOS in my neck fo the woods.