Rincon is a name. Yes it means corner or nook, but to corner (verb) would be arrinconar.
The only "innovations" you would see in IE7 would be the ones that would sink lazy developers into more proprietary Microsoft hooks. The rest of IE7 would be just to catch up with Firefox.
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The part I dislike the most about the Creative Commons set of licenses is the advocation of non-commercial restrictions, as if they were a good idea. This thoroughly reduces the distribution of the work. Suppose you make an icon set and place it under one of the Creative Commons licenses that has the non-commercial restriction. This means that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake and all the other commercial Linux distributions can't put your icon set on their CD. It means that only people who contact you directly can use your icon set. That's hardly freedom.
That's exactly what I like about it. Otherwise your stuff without any restrictions would just be public domain. So, make it public domain if you don't ever want to know whether your stuff is been used for commercial or non-commercial use by others.
But I thought most of the Tivo growth was coming from their DirectTV deal, which is going sour. So a completely isolated Tivo (without partners like DirectTV or Comcast) was doomed for bankruptcy.
There was a real estate bubble that peaked around 1987 to 1988. The burst was not as dramatic as a stock market crash. Prices went down about 10% in many areas. Recovery to those peak prices took about 10 years. So if the real estate "bubble" bursts this time around, watch out if the drops are greater than 10%. Recovery time is anyone's guess, however, if a bubble burst causes many property owners to end up with negative equity, all bets are off. This could feed the burst and could create a bad economic scenario. Some people say negative equity is more possible this time since many owners have taken cash out of their property refinancing because of the low interest rates, leaving many with lower payments but also lower equity than before the refinancing.
The particular company in this case is considered a common carrier by the FCC. The FCC enforcement action that was getting investigated was based on common carrier language in the 1934 Telecom Act, section 201(b). What the FCC was about to claim is that the VoIP communication service consituted a "just and reasonable" service, and blocking VoIP was going to be determined unlawful because it was "unjust or unreasonable". The consent decree entered with this ISP terminates the investigation, but could expire no later than 30 months from today.
It was a North Caroline ISP. This was announced today. So the FCC felt they had the authority to intervene and that might be a good thing.
The cencorship/free speech argument is very weak. I'm sure that's not the reason the FCC fined this company. The Vonage CEO should look for better lawyers, or they are going to be out of business soon.
The company he was working for was bought by another that used another programming environment. Right there a skill mismatch can be easily established. If his salary was higher than what the average folks using that programming environment are making, there's a second point against him. So if he had a sense that he could be a target for dismissal then he should have started fishing for a new job and then quit. Sometimes you have to trust your instincts.
Tivo is a brand, a service and a piece of hardware in that order. Looks like a good match for Apple who can build their own hardware under the Tivo brand if they want to. But the brand and service functions are unmatched by anyone else. That has to be the real value to Apple.
If the opportunities in the West are drying up for those IIT grads (I've hired a few over here), then you would expect that more students are deciding to remain or go back to India. I also know US universities are about to panic about the reduction of foreign students wanting to come to the US for education, at any level.
But my point was that this offshoring trend was driven by economics, not by the quality of education here or there. If it turns out that US companies find out that they can get more for their money elsewhere besides India, that's where they are going to go next. Could that be back to the USA? Possibly, but not until labor costs are driven down further here in the USA.
Interesting comments, though I can't agree on the assumed superiority of the USA educational system. This is from personal experience, having observed non-USA engineers both at the postgraduate level and at work here in the USA. But if you think my observations are biased, disregard and consider that there's something else besides educational system quality at play here.
One thing bothered me recently when I heard a venture capitalist from Silicon Valley touting the benefits of investing in new startup firms that can offshore the engineering work. Traditionally the VC money was going to those tech startups with top notch engineering talent. Where is the innovation coming from then? Of course, if the VC was just looking for cheap labor and innovation is secondary, something is wrong with that picture. This may have nothing to do with the educational system in the USA but just the cost of labor.
Well, there's practically no regulation on what the ISP has to offer. Consider a company like Comcast, their terms and conditions can be quite arbitrary. Powell and the FCC have very little authority about what Comcast can block to or from your cable modem. In fact Comcast wants to offer its own telephony service, and also create multiple market segments so you pay extra for things you take for granted today. Only competition between the cable companies and the major phone companies (SBC, Verizon) make provide some market-driven relief to the users.
But Powell's explanation to the let the major companies get less regulation is that competition is coming in terms of new technologies. This is falling as a lie if those new technologies have no regulatory protection to survive. Especially when offered by other companies besides the cable and telephone giants.
Since SBC comes from AT&T's Bell System and there are some achievements that SBC would like to present as their legacy too, SBC will not destroy those archives. Consider that SBC may even assume AT&T's corporate name, in which case that preservation would make even more sense. Yes it's PR, but as SBC and Verizon get bigger and bigger and become a duopoly in communications, having SBC present that legacy as its own is of some business value.
It's hard to imagine how the city of Philadelphia would consider such project. Perhaps in Silicon Valley, but Philadelphia?
It's inconceivable that this city can make political gains with this service. I smell (though can't prove it), that there are some form of quickbacks to the politicians from some equipment suppliers.
I believe CNET had a video of the interview on the same subject last year. Though I can't quote it exactly, it had the same flavor of mumbo-jumbo coming out of her own mouth. If I recall there was some commentary on CNET about how incomprhensible was her explanation of what could be some form of vaporware, or some old stuff with a different name. If you are really interested, you might be able to dig it up from the CNET archives.
Fiorina was recognized as a marketing genius at Lucent and that's why she got the job at HP. Fact is it takes more than a marketing genius to make the turnaround. HP lost its edge on innovation, plain and simple. It got obsessed with out-marketing companies like Dell, which were operating in a pure commodity model with a low cost advantage and knew how to market its brand, and also how to sell its products.
Though it's true innovation in marketing is desirable to get an edge, it was clear that Fiorina didn't have it. She was using too much techno-babble to get to the CEOs of potential clients and no one else. Those CEOs were not buying it, they just cared about how much it would cost.
So HP now has the option to get a true marketing genius to sell these commodities, or return to product innovations like Apple has done. But perhaps it's too late for the latter.
Sure, why would I move to a new OS just to get a new version of IE, even if it's improved? I'll stick to whoever makes modern browsers that are multi-platform. That way I know there are some open standards that are been followed.
So the church has a web page or there's some web page associated with this church that has this person's name listed. What's scary about this? You can get the same results without a map interface, just google the person's name.
I was using another application and found that it also lacked the indicators for one way streets.
However, it can easily overlay aerial photographs. So as I was checking a parallel access road to a highway, I needed to know if it was one way or not. I added the aerial layer and there it was, cars were visibly moving in one direction, and there were no lane marks on the access road.
I'm sure Google will come up with the aerial overlays and also possibly add the one way flags to the street maps. Makes you wonder whether the directions are using those flags internally.
Three letter codes work, at least in the USA. You can also request directions from one airport to another (e. g., SAT to HOU) and it's amazingly fast!
So far, it looks superior to whatever else is out there from the usability, response time, and quality of street maps I've seen.
AT&T brand is licensed to several consumer product manufacturers. Don't know how much of that is still going on. But it's not made by AT&T, most likely some outfit in Asia.
The Bell Labs of past fame went to Lucent. AT&T has their own AT&T Labs, which consisted of some people who were from the old Bell Labs. However, a lot of it is doing IT for the AT&T network, but also a lot of that was outsourced to IBM which in turn outsourced to India, etc. So it's really up to the big guys at SBC about what to do with the AT&T Labs.
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Rincon is a name. Yes it means corner or nook, but to corner (verb) would be arrinconar. The only "innovations" you would see in IE7 would be the ones that would sink lazy developers into more proprietary Microsoft hooks. The rest of IE7 would be just to catch up with Firefox.
The part I dislike the most about the Creative Commons set of licenses is the advocation of non-commercial restrictions, as if they were a good idea. This thoroughly reduces the distribution of the work. Suppose you make an icon set and place it under one of the Creative Commons licenses that has the non-commercial restriction. This means that Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake and all the other commercial Linux distributions can't put your icon set on their CD. It means that only people who contact you directly can use your icon set. That's hardly freedom.
That's exactly what I like about it. Otherwise your stuff without any restrictions would just be public domain. So, make it public domain if you don't ever want to know whether your stuff is been used for commercial or non-commercial use by others.
But I thought most of the Tivo growth was coming from their DirectTV deal, which is going sour. So a completely isolated Tivo (without partners like DirectTV or Comcast) was doomed for bankruptcy.
There was a real estate bubble that peaked around 1987 to 1988. The burst was not as dramatic as a stock market crash. Prices went down about 10% in many areas. Recovery to those peak prices took about 10 years. So if the real estate "bubble" bursts this time around, watch out if the drops are greater than 10%. Recovery time is anyone's guess, however, if a bubble burst causes many property owners to end up with negative equity, all bets are off. This could feed the burst and could create a bad economic scenario. Some people say negative equity is more possible this time since many owners have taken cash out of their property refinancing because of the low interest rates, leaving many with lower payments but also lower equity than before the refinancing.
The particular company in this case is considered a common carrier by the FCC. The FCC enforcement action that was getting investigated was based on common carrier language in the 1934 Telecom Act, section 201(b). What the FCC was about to claim is that the VoIP communication service consituted a "just and reasonable" service, and blocking VoIP was going to be determined unlawful because it was "unjust or unreasonable". The consent decree entered with this ISP terminates the investigation, but could expire no later than 30 months from today.
http://www.fcc.gov/
It was a North Caroline ISP. This was announced today. So the FCC felt they had the authority to intervene and that might be a good thing. The cencorship/free speech argument is very weak. I'm sure that's not the reason the FCC fined this company. The Vonage CEO should look for better lawyers, or they are going to be out of business soon.
The company he was working for was bought by another that used another programming environment. Right there a skill mismatch can be easily established. If his salary was higher than what the average folks using that programming environment are making, there's a second point against him. So if he had a sense that he could be a target for dismissal then he should have started fishing for a new job and then quit. Sometimes you have to trust your instincts.
Tivo is a brand, a service and a piece of hardware in that order. Looks like a good match for Apple who can build their own hardware under the Tivo brand if they want to. But the brand and service functions are unmatched by anyone else. That has to be the real value to Apple.
If the opportunities in the West are drying up for those IIT grads (I've hired a few over here), then you would expect that more students are deciding to remain or go back to India. I also know US universities are about to panic about the reduction of foreign students wanting to come to the US for education, at any level.
But my point was that this offshoring trend was driven by economics, not by the quality of education here or there. If it turns out that US companies find out that they can get more for their money elsewhere besides India, that's where they are going to go next. Could that be back to the USA? Possibly, but not until labor costs are driven down further here in the USA.
So he should have said by the law of large numbers rather than diversity since you can have a diverse sample that is relatively small.
Interesting comments, though I can't agree on the assumed superiority of the USA educational system. This is from personal experience, having observed non-USA engineers both at the postgraduate level and at work here in the USA. But if you think my observations are biased, disregard and consider that there's something else besides educational system quality at play here.
One thing bothered me recently when I heard a venture capitalist from Silicon Valley touting the benefits of investing in new startup firms that can offshore the engineering work. Traditionally the VC money was going to those tech startups with top notch engineering talent. Where is the innovation coming from then? Of course, if the VC was just looking for cheap labor and innovation is secondary, something is wrong with that picture. This may have nothing to do with the educational system in the USA but just the cost of labor.
Well, there's practically no regulation on what the ISP has to offer. Consider a company like Comcast, their terms and conditions can be quite arbitrary. Powell and the FCC have very little authority about what Comcast can block to or from your cable modem. In fact Comcast wants to offer its own telephony service, and also create multiple market segments so you pay extra for things you take for granted today. Only competition between the cable companies and the major phone companies (SBC, Verizon) make provide some market-driven relief to the users.
But Powell's explanation to the let the major companies get less regulation is that competition is coming in terms of new technologies. This is falling as a lie if those new technologies have no regulatory protection to survive. Especially when offered by other companies besides the cable and telephone giants.
Since SBC comes from AT&T's Bell System and there are some achievements that SBC would like to present as their legacy too, SBC will not destroy those archives. Consider that SBC may even assume AT&T's corporate name, in which case that preservation would make even more sense. Yes it's PR, but as SBC and Verizon get bigger and bigger and become a duopoly in communications, having SBC present that legacy as its own is of some business value.
It's hard to imagine how the city of Philadelphia would consider such project. Perhaps in Silicon Valley, but Philadelphia? It's inconceivable that this city can make political gains with this service. I smell (though can't prove it), that there are some form of quickbacks to the politicians from some equipment suppliers.
I believe CNET had a video of the interview on the same subject last year. Though I can't quote it exactly, it had the same flavor of mumbo-jumbo coming out of her own mouth. If I recall there was some commentary on CNET about how incomprhensible was her explanation of what could be some form of vaporware, or some old stuff with a different name. If you are really interested, you might be able to dig it up from the CNET archives.
She's taking $21.1 million as severance according to the WSJ. Now, how can that be justified for her or anybody getting fired?
And some airports (e.g. PQL) don't show, even though it takes you to the right coordinates. Probably an issue witht he data source and layering.
Fiorina was recognized as a marketing genius at Lucent and that's why she got the job at HP. Fact is it takes more than a marketing genius to make the turnaround. HP lost its edge on innovation, plain and simple. It got obsessed with out-marketing companies like Dell, which were operating in a pure commodity model with a low cost advantage and knew how to market its brand, and also how to sell its products. Though it's true innovation in marketing is desirable to get an edge, it was clear that Fiorina didn't have it. She was using too much techno-babble to get to the CEOs of potential clients and no one else. Those CEOs were not buying it, they just cared about how much it would cost. So HP now has the option to get a true marketing genius to sell these commodities, or return to product innovations like Apple has done. But perhaps it's too late for the latter.
Sure, why would I move to a new OS just to get a new version of IE, even if it's improved? I'll stick to whoever makes modern browsers that are multi-platform. That way I know there are some open standards that are been followed.
So the church has a web page or there's some web page associated with this church that has this person's name listed. What's scary about this? You can get the same results without a map interface, just google the person's name.
Agree, this is an eye opener for those of us who have used GIS software. Response time is amazing.
I was using another application and found that it also lacked the indicators for one way streets. However, it can easily overlay aerial photographs. So as I was checking a parallel access road to a highway, I needed to know if it was one way or not. I added the aerial layer and there it was, cars were visibly moving in one direction, and there were no lane marks on the access road. I'm sure Google will come up with the aerial overlays and also possibly add the one way flags to the street maps. Makes you wonder whether the directions are using those flags internally.
Three letter codes work, at least in the USA. You can also request directions from one airport to another (e. g., SAT to HOU) and it's amazingly fast! So far, it looks superior to whatever else is out there from the usability, response time, and quality of street maps I've seen.
AT&T brand is licensed to several consumer product manufacturers. Don't know how much of that is still going on. But it's not made by AT&T, most likely some outfit in Asia.
The Bell Labs of past fame went to Lucent. AT&T has their own AT&T Labs, which consisted of some people who were from the old Bell Labs. However, a lot of it is doing IT for the AT&T network, but also a lot of that was outsourced to IBM which in turn outsourced to India, etc. So it's really up to the big guys at SBC about what to do with the AT&T Labs.