From article: "Once we appreciate that physical growth must one day cease (or reverse), we can come to realize that all economic growth must similarly end..."
Ok, Mr Murphy already enjoyed his 20+ years of education and got his PhD. Now he can spend his time playing with his shiny new radiotelescopes and the rest of the people in the world may just starve to death, because he demands we stop using his valuable resources.
Mankind needs A LOT AND A LOT FASTER ECONOMIC GROWTH AND MORE ENERGY at least while there are people who die of hunger, lack of drinking water and lack of simple vaccines. Those guys have the right to eat, drink, go to school and party like crazy if they fucking want.
Societies with proper basic life support and education tend to grow in population slowly or to not grow at all, this eventually, with technological, political and organizative improvements would lead to stabilization in world population and the resource use would naturally stabilize. And if we continue growing, we will use all this galaxy's resources and many more if neccesary to support HUMAN LIFE, DAMMIT.
Now, Mr. Murphy, stop pretending you know economy, go read a few history books, travel a little, and stop pulling stupid extrapolations out of your ass.
The U.K. Office of Government Commerce (OGC) are the guys who invented ITIL and PRINCE2.
So now they don wan't to use their own IT management products? Maybe they aren't working?
- We dont fight strong enough against terrorism, instead we let the terrorists (convicted killers included) form political parties and negotiate with our governmets as equals. Shame on us. Insecurity scares the capital who tends to go away.
This is the weakest of your arguments. Despite the IRA and ETA bombing campaigns, I've never ever heard either being even considered as an issue, mainly because they never were a big deal compared to other risks.
After a second reading I must agree that this argument is weak, I still think the others are at least close to reality.
Thanks for taking the time to read and debate my post.
I don't know about Asia or other regions, but these are my thoughts about the relative difficulty of starting business in Europe:
#1 reason: Government is an obstacle rather than help or even better: JUST DON'T MESSING TOO MUCH. Bussinesses in Europe has to comply with municipal, state, country and european community regulation. Municipal laws are often vary a lot whithin even the same province. The local government has to give permission and get taxes (not cheap) just to open the company's door. Also the nation's government. And guess what? They are not exactly very fast nor cheap. The high costs of starting a bussiness make it very difficult for people who is not already rich or other bussiness who have already a lot of money! Paradox of social-democracy? Government as reverse Robin-Hood?
Other:
- the "progressive" taxes system doesnt award personal effort and risk. The taxes for businesses are as high as 30% or 35% of profits, even higher for wealthy individuals (Social Security not included). Where does this force capital to go? Easy question: any other place.
- Public workers are impossible to fire. Once they pass their exams they can even just not go to work and they will keep their salary and benefits forever. Not the best to stimulate efficiency and speed. They also have higher salaries than private companies employees. Young people here dream about working for the government.
- Trade unions degenerated to political parties. Their leaders and representants are too busy doing nothing and helping #1 in their labor to increase regulation.
- We spend about 40% of the E.U budget subsidizing the low-margin, low-innovation, low-tech agricultural sector. This money should be better in their legitimate propietaries' pockets thus lowering the high tax pressure on business and individuals. As a side effect we screw up emerging economies with our protectionism (OK, maybe also the USA)
- We have literally dozens of different languages. I dont think this is necessarily wrong, it's just a consecuence of our history. But the really stupid thing is the politicians are very busy trying to revitalize dead or semi-dead languages and dialects like galician, basque and catalan to have another more justification to fight with other regions, get local privileges, and keeping their positions. Of course these languages are studied in schools, diminishing the time young people should rather use studying maths, literature, economics, english or whatever. Mix this with governmet regulation and you get a lot more overhead for business.
- We dont fight strong enough against terrorism, instead we let the terrorists (convicted killers included) form political parties and negotiate with our governmets as equals. Shame on us. Insecurity scares the capital who tends to go away.
It's not that is easy to start a bussiness in the United States because they are rich: they are rich because is easy to start a bussiness.
Even cheap PBX's can send any calling party number in Q.931 SETUP, but if the exchange is properly configured it should change the fake info to the ISPBX assigned header number.
"As Kevin Mitnick pointed out in his book The Art of Deception, anyone with a PBX system can program their outgoing Caller-ID information to show anything they want."
Not working if the PBX is connected to "my" 5ESS. If the caller info in the SETUP is not belonging to any assigned DDI range, the exchange assigns the header number configured in the service to any outgoing call.
"here in the US, telcos can (with very few exceptions) do whatever they want to the lines so long as voice quality isn't affected"
Some comment about this, ETSI SS7 ISUP (it's probably similar in the U.S) has basically three bearer capabilities:
- Circuit switched data: bits exactly the same in both ends - 3.1 Khz: spectrum quality in this band is not affected by transit and processing in the network. - Speech: voice inteligibility guaranteed.
The central office asks for 3.1K when a POTS line calls and the network does it's best to guarantee 3.1K. However in very long distance calls it's not always possible, because of the echo cancellers and stuff. Faxes and modems send an echo canceler disable tone, but I ignore if this works always/sometimes/...
ISDN terminals can themselves ask for whatever they need, but the network can provide or refuse the capability depending on all the transit switches involved in the call being able to provide it.
Mobile phones always use Speech.
And about VoIP, I heard Lucent dropped it's softswitch project because it just didn't work. more info anyone?
It's different matter if the residential area includes some public space or it's just completely private.
If it's private, probably you should build an infrastructure of conduits and pipes, and a central location for telco operators to connect.
Your infrastructure should provide some space for private owned cables (LAN, etc) and some different pipe for telco company cabling. You could probably make an agreement with them to pay part of the cost.
If public, you probably can't or shouldn't build anything, just use wireless for local networking.
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From article: "Once we appreciate that physical growth must one day cease (or reverse), we can come to realize that all economic growth must similarly end..." Ok, Mr Murphy already enjoyed his 20+ years of education and got his PhD. Now he can spend his time playing with his shiny new radiotelescopes and the rest of the people in the world may just starve to death, because he demands we stop using his valuable resources. Mankind needs A LOT AND A LOT FASTER ECONOMIC GROWTH AND MORE ENERGY at least while there are people who die of hunger, lack of drinking water and lack of simple vaccines. Those guys have the right to eat, drink, go to school and party like crazy if they fucking want. Societies with proper basic life support and education tend to grow in population slowly or to not grow at all, this eventually, with technological, political and organizative improvements would lead to stabilization in world population and the resource use would naturally stabilize. And if we continue growing, we will use all this galaxy's resources and many more if neccesary to support HUMAN LIFE, DAMMIT. Now, Mr. Murphy, stop pretending you know economy, go read a few history books, travel a little, and stop pulling stupid extrapolations out of your ass.
I regularly sync my old Nokia E61i with Evolution in my Fedora desktop. I believe the newer E70 series smartphones will also do the job.
The case is cool. Is there any place where they sell it, without all the stuff inside? :-)
The U.K. Office of Government Commerce (OGC) are the guys who invented ITIL and PRINCE2.
So now they don wan't to use their own IT management products? Maybe they aren't working?
Weird.
Ok, maybe there is an obvious fact I don't know, but how would they manage to keep the thing 'alive'?
The concept of Visual Radio is already invented and fairly popular, it's called television.
- We dont fight strong enough against terrorism, instead we let the terrorists (convicted killers included) form political parties and negotiate with our governmets as equals. Shame on us. Insecurity scares the capital who tends to go away.
This is the weakest of your arguments. Despite the IRA and ETA bombing campaigns, I've never ever heard either being even considered as an issue, mainly because they never were a big deal compared to other risks. After a second reading I must agree that this argument is weak, I still think the others are at least close to reality. Thanks for taking the time to read and debate my post.
I don't know about Asia or other regions, but these are my thoughts about the relative difficulty of starting business in Europe:
#1 reason: Government is an obstacle rather than help or even better: JUST DON'T MESSING TOO MUCH. Bussinesses in Europe has to comply with municipal, state, country and european community regulation. Municipal laws are often vary a lot whithin even the same province. The local government has to give permission and get taxes (not cheap) just to open the company's door. Also the nation's government. And guess what? They are not exactly very fast nor cheap. The high costs of starting a bussiness make it very difficult for people who is not already rich or other bussiness who have already a lot of money! Paradox of social-democracy? Government as reverse Robin-Hood?
Other:
- the "progressive" taxes system doesnt award personal effort and risk. The taxes for businesses are as high as 30% or 35% of profits, even higher for wealthy individuals (Social Security not included). Where does this force capital to go? Easy question: any other place.
- Public workers are impossible to fire. Once they pass their exams they can even just not go to work and they will keep their salary and benefits forever. Not the best to stimulate efficiency and speed. They also have higher salaries than private companies employees. Young people here dream about working for the government.
- Trade unions degenerated to political parties. Their leaders and representants are too busy doing nothing and helping #1 in their labor to increase regulation.
- We spend about 40% of the E.U budget subsidizing the low-margin, low-innovation, low-tech agricultural sector. This money should be better in their legitimate propietaries' pockets thus lowering the high tax pressure on business and individuals. As a side effect we screw up emerging economies with our protectionism (OK, maybe also the USA)
- We have literally dozens of different languages. I dont think this is necessarily wrong, it's just a consecuence of our history. But the really stupid thing is the politicians are very busy trying to revitalize dead or semi-dead languages and dialects like galician, basque and catalan to have another more justification to fight with other regions, get local privileges, and keeping their positions. Of course these languages are studied in schools, diminishing the time young people should rather use studying maths, literature, economics, english or whatever. Mix this with governmet regulation and you get a lot more overhead for business.
- We dont fight strong enough against terrorism, instead we let the terrorists (convicted killers included) form political parties and negotiate with our governmets as equals. Shame on us. Insecurity scares the capital who tends to go away.
It's not that is easy to start a bussiness in the United States because they are rich: they are rich because is easy to start a bussiness.
the return of the dot com crack.
Included in FC3, has less features than the 1.4 series and it's not (IMO) nearly as beautiful. Is it possible to downgrade? Has anybody tried?
Anyway, there will be no prototypes before 2015 Cool, just like Duke Nukem!
Even cheap PBX's can send any calling party number in Q.931 SETUP, but if the exchange is properly configured it should change the fake info to the ISPBX assigned header number.
"As Kevin Mitnick pointed out in his book The Art of Deception, anyone with a PBX system can program their outgoing Caller-ID information to show anything they want." Not working if the PBX is connected to "my" 5ESS. If the caller info in the SETUP is not belonging to any assigned DDI range, the exchange assigns the header number configured in the service to any outgoing call.
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"here in the US, telcos can (with very few exceptions) do whatever they want to the lines so long as voice quality isn't affected"
Some comment about this, ETSI SS7 ISUP (it's probably similar in the U.S) has basically three bearer capabilities:
- Circuit switched data: bits exactly the same in both ends
- 3.1 Khz: spectrum quality in this band is not affected by transit and processing in the network.
- Speech: voice inteligibility guaranteed.
The central office asks for 3.1K when a POTS line calls and the network does it's best to guarantee 3.1K. However in very long distance calls it's not always possible, because of the echo cancellers and stuff. Faxes and modems send an echo canceler disable tone, but I ignore if this works always/sometimes/...
ISDN terminals can themselves ask for whatever they need, but the network can provide or refuse the capability depending on all the transit switches involved in the call being able to provide it.
Mobile phones always use Speech.
And about VoIP, I heard Lucent dropped it's softswitch project because it just didn't work. more info anyone?
Back in the mid 90's when I was in university, you were just suposed to:
a) get drunk one or twice per week
b) date girls
a) study
How are they hoping to do a, b and c with fiber in the dorm?
It's different matter if the residential area includes some public space or it's just completely private. If it's private, probably you should build an infrastructure of conduits and pipes, and a central location for telco operators to connect. Your infrastructure should provide some space for private owned cables (LAN, etc) and some different pipe for telco company cabling. You could probably make an agreement with them to pay part of the cost. If public, you probably can't or shouldn't build anything, just use wireless for local networking.