I hear your point about "encouraging people to be homosexual" but I think you drastically underestimate the power of marketing and culture at large to influence this.
Look at how many Brittany Spears wannabees you see wandering around these days. If suddenly everything around a young person told them that homosexual was cool I'm not so sure that a significant portion of the young population *wouldn't* make the decision to become homosexual.
You're too focused on the last mile. They MAY have 50mbs in places but I doubt any individual will get that in actual throughput. Most cable systems in the states can't deliver the 10mbs or so that they advertise NOW. What makes you think that just because the tube is bigger they'll be able to deliver more water? (Ahhhh, shades of Stevens!)
It's not a straw man argument. In my view it's a tragedy of the commons argument. People treat it as an unlimited resource when in fact it is a finite one.
There's nothing wrong with all you can eat but when the customers have demonstrably infinite appetites it's a losing proposition.
There's nothing wrong with pay per use if implemented *correctly*.
One thing you're missing; you couldn't realistically build enough capacity to meet the "increased load".
In your analogy it would be like the people who show up to eat lobster also bring a bucket and take a few dozen home to feed their neighbors!
Face it, if the bandwidth fairy dropped a 100M full duplex internet connection on you tonight you'd likely be maxxing it out by tomorrow dinner.
I'm no lover of the cable companies or this ridiculous cap plan of theirs but saying that they can BUILD their way out of this problem is silly.
At this point it is clear that any increase in capacity will be matched by an increase in use and you'd have to increase capacity by almost 100 in order to get ahead of it. That's not financially possible even for TWC.
I may be confused but I thought the regulation of INTERstate trade was one of the powers specifically enumerated as belonging to the Federal Government?
Plus, AFAIK, there IS only one defined response to an intentional nuclear attack on the U.S. or its protectorates. We nuke them back.
In the case of NK China might intervene and somehow keep the U.S. from retaliating but such an action against Japan would have the Japanese building their own nuclear weapons and delivery platforms. Those systems would be completed by years end and 1/1/2010 would see NK as nothing but a glowing crater.
Being the only country in the world nuked not only once but twice would provide strong incentive for Japan to go back to becoming a major ass kicker.
Individual practices not so much. I work with quite a number of smaller, 10 Physician and under, practices and without exception they are terrible at security.
Absolutely anything that inconveniences them or slows them down for 1 second, including a single extra mouse click, is immediately rejected as "taking too much time".
I hate to say it but the government needs to start wielding the HIPPA ban hammer so that these Doctors will start taking patient information and confidentiality seriously.
Really? Where did you find the list of names with the little R & D tags?
I went through every article I could find and nowhere did it list the party affiliation of the people actually indicted.
You're making some unfounded assumptions. First you're assuming that everyone on the Election board was indicted, I don't see any information verifying that.
Second, you're assuming that because the board had recommendations from both D & R parties that those recommendations were followed and that there was equal representation on the indictments between D & R party members.
In short there is no evidence that what you've said is true.
If you read this article closely (http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=10037216&nav=menu203_2) you'll see that there are two groups involved with an election, the Board and the Officers, and there were a lot more than just the five people indicted involved in the election.
Without someone doing an actual search there is no way to know the party affiliation of the people indicted.
Nevermind that/. comment links don't work in IE8 unless you enable compatability mode for the site. Additionally this comment box for replies, even in compatability mode, extends far off to the right and blows out the formatting for the site.
There are still issues with the rendering engine and IE8 should NOT have gone live yet.
I have a cell phone, my wife has a cell phone, my son has a cell phone, and we also have a landline phone! I'd like to drop the landline but then how does a caller know WHICH cellphone to call to get who they want without juggling three different numbers? What if they don't really care who they get, they just need to talk to someone who is available? Google Voice solves these challenges. I give out the GV# and people call that, from there they're routed to whomever they choose AND I get to drop the landline.
It's actually worse than what I've described and the second, and more accurate, scenario is like this: I have TWO cellphones, one for work and one for personal, my wife also has TWO cellphones, one for work and one for personal, plus my son's cellphone PLUS the landline at the house!
We have a ridiculous number of phones and numbers for three people. It needs to be simpler and less expensive. GV accomplishes this.
Please, give me a GV# (or something similiar) so I can simplify this mess and reduce my monthly expenses. PLEASE.
I'm sure there are a ton of other Professionals just like me who have essentially the same problem. I see lots of IT people, Doctors, Lawyers, and others who are carrying two cellphones and sometimes a pager to boot! It's completely unnecessary, we have the technology to fix this problem.
So, I sure wish that Google would send me an invite. I have real practical uses for technology like this and the first company that offers it to me is going to have a customer.
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I hear your point about "encouraging people to be homosexual" but I think you drastically underestimate the power of marketing and culture at large to influence this.
Look at how many Brittany Spears wannabees you see wandering around these days. If suddenly everything around a young person told them that homosexual was cool I'm not so sure that a significant portion of the young population *wouldn't* make the decision to become homosexual.
You're too focused on the last mile. They MAY have 50mbs in places but I doubt any individual will get that in actual throughput. Most cable systems in the states can't deliver the 10mbs or so that they advertise NOW. What makes you think that just because the tube is bigger they'll be able to deliver more water? (Ahhhh, shades of Stevens!)
It's not a straw man argument. In my view it's a tragedy of the commons argument. People treat it as an unlimited resource when in fact it is a finite one.
There's nothing wrong with all you can eat but when the customers have demonstrably infinite appetites it's a losing proposition.
There's nothing wrong with pay per use if implemented *correctly*.
It's nice that DOCSIS 3.0 can scale this way, but tell me...does DOCSIS carry all the way through to the backbone? No?
Amazing. :)
How about the books that he had purchased and had ARCHIVED on the Amazon servers under his account ...which he was no longer able to access?
He paid for them but was unable to retrieve them because Amazon had locked him out.
How is this any different than someone taking the lawnmower you bought from them and locking it back in THEIR shed?
Since IP is "real property" according to the MAFIAA then this is a "real theft" and Amazon would be in possession of stolen items!
Another point the individual brings up is that he was locked out of all the videos that he paid for!
Again, they were bought and paid for and being withheld from him by Amazon. Again, how exactly is this not theft?
Amazon really needs to rethink what it's doing with this policy.
One thing you're missing; you couldn't realistically build enough capacity to meet the "increased load".
In your analogy it would be like the people who show up to eat lobster also bring a bucket and take a few dozen home to feed their neighbors!
Face it, if the bandwidth fairy dropped a 100M full duplex internet connection on you tonight you'd likely be maxxing it out by tomorrow dinner.
I'm no lover of the cable companies or this ridiculous cap plan of theirs but saying that they can BUILD their way out of this problem is silly.
At this point it is clear that any increase in capacity will be matched by an increase in use and you'd have to increase capacity by almost 100 in order to get ahead of it. That's not financially possible even for TWC.
I may be confused but I thought the regulation of INTERstate trade was one of the powers specifically enumerated as belonging to the Federal Government?
Plus, AFAIK, there IS only one defined response to an intentional nuclear attack on the U.S. or its protectorates. We nuke them back.
In the case of NK China might intervene and somehow keep the U.S. from retaliating but such an action against Japan would have the Japanese building their own nuclear weapons and delivery platforms. Those systems would be completed by years end and 1/1/2010 would see NK as nothing but a glowing crater.
Being the only country in the world nuked not only once but twice would provide strong incentive for Japan to go back to becoming a major ass kicker.
Right on.
I was just talking with a group of *nix heads two days and the outpouring of disgust around so many distros switching to PA was incredible.
Apparently it didn't work well, or at all, for anyone in the group!
The other commonality was everyone agreed that audio was finally starting to work _well_ before the switch!
Would it even be possible to file *more* bug reports? Frankly I'm not sure I have enough free time to report all the bugs.
I don't mean to be harsh to the devs but does pulseaudio work for anyone BUT them?
We know, and we've got wind projects out the wapootie on the drawing boards. I'm very excited.
Wyoming was once a leader in wind energy but we've really fallen off in the past decade. I'm happy to see the investments being made.
Hmmmm, how much is the bet?
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/programs/mb/supp_cstl_population.html
You didn't read the article or you would understand how wrong your comment is.
Now, when are you going to get around to doing something with the /palm (mobile) portion of the website?
You're only about 6 years behind in development on it.
Even FOX NEWS (http://foxnews.proteus.com/) completely blows /. away in mobile web page functionality. /palm is a joke and should be retired.
Would you not define "dark" the same way?
After all there really is no such thing as 'dark', just light and varying amounts of it. Dark is truly just a lack of light (photonic) energy.
Hospitals are pretty good, perhaps.
Individual practices not so much. I work with quite a number of smaller, 10 Physician and under, practices and without exception they are terrible at security.
Absolutely anything that inconveniences them or slows them down for 1 second, including a single extra mouse click, is immediately rejected as "taking too much time".
I hate to say it but the government needs to start wielding the HIPPA ban hammer so that these Doctors will start taking patient information and confidentiality seriously.
You hit the nail so firmly and square on the head that you've driven it right through the board.
Congratulations!
Oh, and since you didn't Trademark "Wall Street is nothing but Las Vegas with nicer clothes." I'm going to start using that line.
Will you answer a question for me?
Why does a 45W panel set require the use of a 300W inverter?
Really? Where did you find the list of names with the little R & D tags?
I went through every article I could find and nowhere did it list the party affiliation of the people actually indicted.
You're making some unfounded assumptions. First you're assuming that everyone on the Election board was indicted, I don't see any information verifying that.
Second, you're assuming that because the board had recommendations from both D & R parties that those recommendations were followed and that there was equal representation on the indictments between D & R party members.
In short there is no evidence that what you've said is true.
If you read this article closely (http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=10037216&nav=menu203_2) you'll see that there are two groups involved with an election, the Board and the Officers, and there were a lot more than just the five people indicted involved in the election.
Without someone doing an actual search there is no way to know the party affiliation of the people indicted.
Nevermind that /. comment links don't work in IE8 unless you enable compatability mode for the site. Additionally this comment box for replies, even in compatability mode, extends far off to the right and blows out the formatting for the site.
There are still issues with the rendering engine and IE8 should NOT have gone live yet.
All of that stuff works in FF.
I agree, upon review my comment could be taken either way. Let me clarify. 31 Million is too little. They should have been fined MUCH more than that.
Here are two scenarios on why I want it.
I have a cell phone, my wife has a cell phone, my son has a cell phone, and we also have a landline phone! I'd like to drop the landline but then how does a caller know WHICH cellphone to call to get who they want without juggling three different numbers? What if they don't really care who they get, they just need to talk to someone who is available? Google Voice solves these challenges. I give out the GV# and people call that, from there they're routed to whomever they choose AND I get to drop the landline.
It's actually worse than what I've described and the second, and more accurate, scenario is like this: I have TWO cellphones, one for work and one for personal, my wife also has TWO cellphones, one for work and one for personal, plus my son's cellphone PLUS the landline at the house!
We have a ridiculous number of phones and numbers for three people. It needs to be simpler and less expensive. GV accomplishes this.
Please, give me a GV# (or something similiar) so I can simplify this mess and reduce my monthly expenses. PLEASE.
I'm sure there are a ton of other Professionals just like me who have essentially the same problem. I see lots of IT people, Doctors, Lawyers, and others who are carrying two cellphones and sometimes a pager to boot! It's completely unnecessary, we have the technology to fix this problem.
So, I sure wish that Google would send me an invite. I have real practical uses for technology like this and the first company that offers it to me is going to have a customer.
That's hardly pocket change to a corporation like Hitachi.
So, will the downloads that Radio and Televsion stations make from their content providers be covered by this?
Can liberty have something to do with *getting* a hummer? Please?
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So, just where do you think the county's assessed value numbers come from? Thin air? The Assessor's magic 8 ball? Roll 5d6?
The ignorance in your statement is staggering.
The county's assessed value is based almost exclusively on market value!