They're not selling it, they're licensing it for a period of time on behalf of the American public who own it. Actually, this is a very good situation but it should done in such a way as to add extra contractual clauses that benefit democracy and freedom. For example, whoever wins the auction should not be allowed to participate in any merger with the licensees of other bands of spectrum which would result in monopolistic control of the airwaves.
Also, instead of having publicly financed election campaigns, spectrum licensees should be contractually obligated to have a percentage of their bandwidth or airtime be reserved for "free" use by candidates running for office so that we can eliminate private campaign contributions altogether. (So a chunk of TV commercials, internet access or wireless data usage for each campaign that draws a certain amount of public support through petitions or whatever - you could even do the same thing with the postal service to provide subsidized mailing). This would do wonders to clean up our democratic process and the "funding" for it comes from something already owned by the American people.
This reminds of me of the current sad state of American cars. They keep complaining about being unprofitable because of abusive unions and pension costs and the high cost of healthcare for workers and retirees (which are all true arguments to various extents), but they keep missing the key point that their quality still sucks in comparison and the only reasons they keep selling as many cars as they do are the ridiculously low prices combined with incentive rebates and discounts making them almost at-cost (combined with some level of patriotism, which is also ridiculous considering many "foreign" cars are made entirely in America and many "domestic" cars are made in Mexico or other low-cost labor countries).
If they made high quality cars, they could sell them at a profit to offset their costs. (sales-costs=profit). This is the real world, not south park(underpants+?=profit).
you're wrong that it will switch back for one very important: depopulation. Europe already has negative population growth and the US isn't far behind.
Contrary to popular belief, the world isn't overpopulated in any way and the explosive growth in population in India and China, combined with their new economic strength, means they will hold the reins until other high populated areas (such as South America, Africa, or the Middle East) develop economically.
The lack of population in Europe and North America will relegate Western Civilization to the third world for the foreseeable future (starting about 50-75 years from now.)
A reference from a source I wouldn't normally refer: The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan
Whenever I post a job in my small department which part of a large IT organization at a large corporation (I am the manager), I get dozens, if not hundreds, of Indian expatriate resumes and very few other resumes, especially from recruiters. However, I know for a fact that Indian expatriates do not account for more than 10-20% of the IT workforce in the metro-Detroit area. So I am left wondering whether there are more resumes out there because people are more willing to lay off or fire these workers and they are more often on the market or whether there is truly this sharp of an increase in the expatriate population. Also, my view may be skewed by the large number of resumes coming from contract recruiters and maybe expats are more likely to work as contractors.
And I definitely agree with the guy who said that accent is the big issue, not race itself. Most IT people have to deal with customers or clients or business people and thick accents are a big challenge in those situations.
Are they also adjusting the clock because the Dec 2004 earthquake and tsunami caused a small change in the rotation speed of the earth? I believe it caused the rotation to last a few miliseconds longer for that day. There some info at the NOVA site on pbs.org: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/ask-050331.ht ml (scroll down to the sixth question)
...with all the negativity going on here. Being a deal hunter, I've done several hundred rebates ranging from $2 to $500 over the past few years and at least 90% of them arrive as promised within a couple of months with no issues. Another 8% required me to call or email because they made some claim about not having the right form or other reason for not paying immediately, but they ultimately paid. Only 2% of my rebates were ultimately never paid (usually because I neglected to follow up in a reasonable timeframe and sometimes due to perceived duplicate rebates because two separate items used the same form and stupid things like that) and they were all low amounts ($5-$20) and never any of the large rebates ($50, $150, $300, $500).
These companies will not pay if they can avoid it, but there's no trickery going on - they simply pay you if you did all the steps right and don't go out of their way to pay if you screwed up on any little thing (and no, they don't go for stupid technicalities like misspellings or anything like that.)
btw, these statistics come from my tracking spreadsheet, which is an essential tool if you're doing as many of these things as I do. Also, a tip for everyone is MAKE COPIES OF EVERYTHING and don't send original UPCs or receipts unless the form absolutely requires it - many will allow receipt copies and a few will allow UPC copies as well. Keep the originals in case you ever need to resubmit.
Sorry to nitpick, but let's try to use acronyms the right way.
The fact that you wrote "an NES" tells me that you pronoince it "an N.E.S.". It's "a NES", just like the Super Nintendo was a Super NES, not a Super N.E.S.
Even if they go bankrupt, look at replaytv...they were a startup and they went broke (people were buying tivo instead because of the much lower price because replaytv baked their lifetime price into the cost of the device)... sonicblue bought them and changed the model to match tivo but went bankrupt due to all the lawsuits over auto-commercial skip... dnna bought the replay division from bankruptcy and is doing everything right: not investing too much in new features until the market makes it worthwhile while capitalizing on the slowly increasing market...
the only reason tivo didn't go sooner was due to large corporate backing and partnering with directv... even if they go, they'll survive in some form because this industry is gonna happen one way or the other (the other being cable/satellite boxes, etc)
My Wi-Fi was interfering with my 2.4GHz phone. This was especially bad after I upgraded from 802.11b to 802.11g for some reason. I would always hearing these clicking noises on the phone. I got one of these "Wi-Fi Friendly" phones and my problems were solved.
actually you can find them....they're free promotional items with stupid company logos on them and a little tiny solar power cell to power it
On an unrelated topic, if anyone's looking to get solar power cells for free, just pick up a lot of free promotional crap that uses them and break out the cell and attach them all together...
Are you insane? Most phones, like mine with a camera, games, sound recorder/player, high-res (for a phone) screen and all kinds of stuff, are free when you sign up for service. Mine was more than free...I got $190 more in rebates than the cost of the phone ($80 for the phone, $270 in rebates). (I know some people are going to complain about having to sign a one year contract, but the contract breaking fee is $120, so you still end up with $90 net and the phone if you break the contract before the year is up.)
the multiplication isn't so simple. How many digits did he use in the conversion formula? You can calculate the area of a circle using Pi = 3.14 or using Pi = 3.14....(add a million digits here.) You have to be precise enough to the point of being safe when it comes to mechanical measurements and obviously that point wasn't reached here.
Am I the only one who had a double take when reading the title of this article?
I guess not being a fan of Doctor Who made the title not click immediately. The way I mis-read it the first time (almost in engrish) was "Lost Doctor, Who Episode Found"...
"Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
Since when is reading books a social activity? Also, just because you watch less television doesn't automatically make you more social. There is definitely a disconnect in the logic of that statement -> 2/3 of supporting statements don't have anything to do with the original premise.
NBC News had a story on extended warranties a few weeks ago. Conclusion: Extended warranties are worthless on pretty much everything. The only exception: Laptops. They are *mandatory* on laptops.
Lad's Host - there's no ' in slashdot...a more accurate anagram would be Dal Hosts (given the number of Indian techies out there. If you don't know what Dal is, ask your Indian coworker)
Slashdot Mirror
Almost all Apple products have the following on the box: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China". Therefore, the labor argument is moot.
Google cache of "MacGyverisms"
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1CEkRLmYGgYJ:www.concentric.net/~jjdippel/macisms.html+http://www.concentric.net/~jjdippel/macisms.html&hl=en&safe=active&gl=us&strip=1
They're not selling it, they're licensing it for a period of time on behalf of the American public who own it. Actually, this is a very good situation but it should done in such a way as to add extra contractual clauses that benefit democracy and freedom. For example, whoever wins the auction should not be allowed to participate in any merger with the licensees of other bands of spectrum which would result in monopolistic control of the airwaves.
Also, instead of having publicly financed election campaigns, spectrum licensees should be contractually obligated to have a percentage of their bandwidth or airtime be reserved for "free" use by candidates running for office so that we can eliminate private campaign contributions altogether. (So a chunk of TV commercials, internet access or wireless data usage for each campaign that draws a certain amount of public support through petitions or whatever - you could even do the same thing with the postal service to provide subsidized mailing). This would do wonders to clean up our democratic process and the "funding" for it comes from something already owned by the American people.
This reminds of me of the current sad state of American cars. They keep complaining about being unprofitable because of abusive unions and pension costs and the high cost of healthcare for workers and retirees (which are all true arguments to various extents), but they keep missing the key point that their quality still sucks in comparison and the only reasons they keep selling as many cars as they do are the ridiculously low prices combined with incentive rebates and discounts making them almost at-cost (combined with some level of patriotism, which is also ridiculous considering many "foreign" cars are made entirely in America and many "domestic" cars are made in Mexico or other low-cost labor countries).
If they made high quality cars, they could sell them at a profit to offset their costs. (sales-costs=profit). This is the real world, not south park(underpants+?=profit).
you're wrong that it will switch back for one very important: depopulation. Europe already has negative population growth and the US isn't far behind.
Contrary to popular belief, the world isn't overpopulated in any way and the explosive growth in population in India and China, combined with their new economic strength, means they will hold the reins until other high populated areas (such as South America, Africa, or the Middle East) develop economically.
The lack of population in Europe and North America will relegate Western Civilization to the third world for the foreseeable future (starting about 50-75 years from now.)
A reference from a source I wouldn't normally refer:
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Whenever I post a job in my small department which part of a large IT organization at a large corporation (I am the manager), I get dozens, if not hundreds, of Indian expatriate resumes and very few other resumes, especially from recruiters. However, I know for a fact that Indian expatriates do not account for more than 10-20% of the IT workforce in the metro-Detroit area. So I am left wondering whether there are more resumes out there because people are more willing to lay off or fire these workers and they are more often on the market or whether there is truly this sharp of an increase in the expatriate population. Also, my view may be skewed by the large number of resumes coming from contract recruiters and maybe expats are more likely to work as contractors. And I definitely agree with the guy who said that accent is the big issue, not race itself. Most IT people have to deal with customers or clients or business people and thick accents are a big challenge in those situations.
whoops, wrong URL. Here's the correct one:t ml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/ask-050402.h
Are they also adjusting the clock because the Dec 2004 earthquake and tsunami caused a small change in the rotation speed of the earth? I believe it caused the rotation to last a few miliseconds longer for that day. There some info at the NOVA site on pbs.org:t ml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/ask-050331.h
(scroll down to the sixth question)
...with all the negativity going on here. Being a deal hunter, I've done several hundred rebates ranging from $2 to $500 over the past few years and at least 90% of them arrive as promised within a couple of months with no issues. Another 8% required me to call or email because they made some claim about not having the right form or other reason for not paying immediately, but they ultimately paid. Only 2% of my rebates were ultimately never paid (usually because I neglected to follow up in a reasonable timeframe and sometimes due to perceived duplicate rebates because two separate items used the same form and stupid things like that) and they were all low amounts ($5-$20) and never any of the large rebates ($50, $150, $300, $500).
These companies will not pay if they can avoid it, but there's no trickery going on - they simply pay you if you did all the steps right and don't go out of their way to pay if you screwed up on any little thing (and no, they don't go for stupid technicalities like misspellings or anything like that.)
btw, these statistics come from my tracking spreadsheet, which is an essential tool if you're doing as many of these things as I do. Also, a tip for everyone is MAKE COPIES OF EVERYTHING and don't send original UPCs or receipts unless the form absolutely requires it - many will allow receipt copies and a few will allow UPC copies as well. Keep the originals in case you ever need to resubmit.
Sorry to nitpick, but let's try to use acronyms the right way. The fact that you wrote "an NES" tells me that you pronoince it "an N.E.S.". It's "a NES", just like the Super Nintendo was a Super NES, not a Super N.E.S.
Even if they go bankrupt, look at replaytv...they were a startup and they went broke (people were buying tivo instead because of the much lower price because replaytv baked their lifetime price into the cost of the device)... sonicblue bought them and changed the model to match tivo but went bankrupt due to all the lawsuits over auto-commercial skip ... dnna bought the replay division from bankruptcy and is doing everything right: not investing too much in new features until the market makes it worthwhile while capitalizing on the slowly increasing market...
the only reason tivo didn't go sooner was due to large corporate backing and partnering with directv... even if they go, they'll survive in some form because this industry is gonna happen one way or the other (the other being cable/satellite boxes, etc)
My Wi-Fi was interfering with my 2.4GHz phone. This was especially bad after I upgraded from 802.11b to 802.11g for some reason. I would always hearing these clicking noises on the phone. I got one of these "Wi-Fi Friendly" phones and my problems were solved.
actually you can find them....they're free promotional items with stupid company logos on them and a little tiny solar power cell to power it
On an unrelated topic, if anyone's looking to get solar power cells for free, just pick up a lot of free promotional crap that uses them and break out the cell and attach them all together...
"pay for hundreds of features"
Are you insane? Most phones, like mine with a camera, games, sound recorder/player, high-res (for a phone) screen and all kinds of stuff, are free when you sign up for service. Mine was more than free...I got $190 more in rebates than the cost of the phone ($80 for the phone, $270 in rebates). (I know some people are going to complain about having to sign a one year contract, but the contract breaking fee is $120, so you still end up with $90 net and the phone if you break the contract before the year is up.)
The shocking thing is it will probably run linux and some variant of *BSD, but not windoze.
the multiplication isn't so simple. How many digits did he use in the conversion formula? You can calculate the area of a circle using Pi = 3.14 or using Pi = 3.14....(add a million digits here.) You have to be precise enough to the point of being safe when it comes to mechanical measurements and obviously that point wasn't reached here.
The opposite of "Joseph Finder" is "Another Loser"
I'm not joking....Joseph means "Another Son" in Hebrew and the opposite of Finder is Loser.
Am I the only one who had a double take when reading the title of this article?
I guess not being a fan of Doctor Who made the title not click immediately. The way I mis-read it the first time (almost in engrish) was "Lost Doctor, Who Episode Found"...
"Apparently they are suprised to hear that internet users are more social than non-users: internet users watch less television, read more books and engage in more social activities."
Since when is reading books a social activity? Also, just because you watch less television doesn't automatically make you more social. There is definitely a disconnect in the logic of that statement -> 2/3 of supporting statements don't have anything to do with the original premise.
"A Guy Who Knows"
is that his official title? What's with the Capitalization?
NBC News had a story on extended warranties a few weeks ago. Conclusion: Extended warranties are worthless on pretty much everything. The only exception: Laptops. They are *mandatory* on laptops.
"The leak was originally mentioned on Slashdot a few days back."
I'm sure NASA is thanking the slashdot community for being the "original" source of the leak information.
Lad's Host - there's no ' in slashdot...a more accurate anagram would be Dal Hosts (given the number of Indian techies out there. If you don't know what Dal is, ask your Indian coworker)
Did Taco die or something?
"What insiders can do is register planned sales of stock with the SEC and time their press releases to shortly proceed those sales"
precede, not proceed