The point is that economies of scale can work. It may not be.05 a song but.10 a song.
It could be like other countries where when you buy CDR media or MP3 players they're paying a licensing fee and that could be created to help sustain the industry..
1. You pay your credit card transaction and fee's off the $10.00 deposit, not per transaction.
2. Economy SCALES. I would by 100's if not 1,000's of songs at.05/.10 each & i would buy BIGGER MP3 players, BIGGER hard drivers and FASTER internet connections because of the demand i'm putting on my existing infrastructure.
Yes, the provider would have to scale but don't forget this is assuming 4-5 market players providing said services who already scale for other types of service fairly well.
I think the real issue is that your skillset caters to the very people that could easily work from home. If those people work from home then *YOU* don't have a job.
Learn another skillset, increase your marketibility. Most importantly remember you are working for yourself and doing what you need to do to suceeed just as your employer is. There is nothing YOU can do to protect your job outside of keeping yourself marketable and taking advantage of the opportunities you have.
Why Telecommute:
* Tax incentives for employers in many states
* Less office space/power consumption
* Less Polution
* Less Traffic
* Lower Insurance Premiums (biggy for companies)
I hate small-minded people. Particularly those who have nothing to do other than criticize and nothing to contribute over hot air. Right-wing, left-wing, a vapid windbag is a vapid windbag.
So instead of trying to learn about the issues on both sides of the fence you simply choose to hate or make yourself appear better than those you don't understand?
I would have taken your feeling much more seriously if you didn't use the terms hate, small-minded and alike to describe something you obviously don't understand.
?? Will you support the right of communities to provide free wifi and create local broadband networks? ??
Yes.
?? Will you protect fair use? Yes or no.??
Fiar use has no meaning. Fair use is like the clean are act, it sounds good but has no bite because the meaning doesn't PROTECT your freedoms afforded to you via copyright laws. We have to stop the UNFAIR business demands taking away our rights or come up with bills that define them to be easily understood and inclusive of all media types (digital/analog/printed...).
??" * Modernization of patent laws to protect innovation and technology."
What heck do you mean by that??
Exactly what I mean. Modernization of Patent laws to protect innovation and technology - not prohibit such. Patents are used for the wrong reason and prohibit small businesses from innovating in many ways. We Need to be a bit more proactive in setting precedence for what could be patented and for what reasons instead of applying with the hopes (or lobbying for support of) getting approval on some unknown review process. (or the skill of your lawyer)
??" * Technology assurance programs, including product liability to ensure consumer protection." Again what the heck do you mean by that???
Take fair use and give it a law with Bite. Take consumer rights and make them known. What do you mean with or interpret as "fair use"? How do you know what to do with software you buy? Songs you purchase? Dvd's you own? Can you copy? Can you resell? Can you transfer license? What happens when your using something that advertises "secure online banking" but your information is exposed through a vendor mishap or lax security - why should YOU be punished for using a service sold to you as secure? How are you protected in such instances where your computer/network is unkowningly used to attack or break into others? What rights do you have as to what is running on your PC? Can you sue Spyware companies because they're breaking into your PC or is it assumed the risk we take is warranted and we shouldn't do anything to assure net access, net security, licensing protections and corporate awareness of consumer rights? I'm about consumer advocacy and awareness.
Technology & protocol standardization - open system specifications, common infrastructure, and unified industry adoption."
So the government is going to make system specifications the LAW? Good grief I can not think of many ideas worse that than one.
I beg to differ. Every industry has a standard protocol of acceptance, qualifications and industry standards. Medicine, Healthcare, Global Trade, you name it they all have rules, standards and laws to define them.
I'm not asking the government to enforce specific technologies but to create an environment that strives to create industry acceptance of such as a standard.
IT is being highly commodotized, in order to trade on the open market and to remain useable and accessible by all laws have to be created to set precendence on the industry, standards and adoption of such.
There is no wrong way to go about politics. The software/backend and systems you build your campaign on don't necessarily reflect your political ideals across the board either.
I happen to be quite the tech head myself, but that isn't the overriding factor of the campaign.
We're looking for something we can roll out to save time re-developing the wheel as well as to implement something we can pass down to other potential candidates so the opportunity for others to have great tools will be afforded.
If you have systems that can help you streamline, communicate, be aware, react as well as be pro-active and cost effective you can't be beat. If you loose the vote well atleast you have some technology to hand down and hope others will make use off.
True, our campaign isn't just technology. You're more than welcome to contact us for more information or to give us feedback & any ideas you may have.
It is interesting when Crows and our Mall are the topics of the day isn't it?
http://www.byronmiller.org/technology
Finer points will be published as we work towards 2006.
Believe it or not I am a "tech head".. By day I work for a large bank maintaining an Oracle 11i upgrade and by night I enjoy my mythtv and watching it with my family. I have a mythtv box, i've built out my own networks and i have even implemented a small asterisk box to do voip for our growing campaign.
I'm just looking around to see if there is anything out there i have missed so i can get some of my techs involved or implement anything that looks helpfull.
Thanks!
Your misguided. FOIA has nothing to do with personal information. FOIA has entirely everything to do with tax payer supported (FEDERAL) projects as a means to let the tax payers know what is going on with the government they fund and support and pay for.
Corporations don't have "Freedom" over personal information and infact there are strict privacy acts that enforce rules upon them to protect such.
If you don't bother to set security standards for everything that uses or is linked to your network - this includes PEOPLE then your not doing your job.
Every place i work has a clean desk policy and weekly walkthroughs that happen to verify shutdown pc's at night, all drawers are locked and desk is clean and nothing with numbers, address, emails or unmarked notes are left out.
Your network is only as secure as those who are entrusted to it. If people take security this lightly then create an environment that disciplines for such.
Not really when your talking of 1 person, however when you have 30,000 auctions an hour closing that extra 1% of revenue from every bid that gets artificially inflated is rather huge..
Is they do 30 million auctions a month imagine if they just averaged 1 penny more per transaction because of that email warning you may loose and need to outbid YOURSELF to be "Sure". 300k/month extra revenue and thats low balling the numbers..
Compiling is hardly a server benchmark. What you need to look at is benchmarks in regards to transactions per second in an RDBMS, JVM, Apache server or Mysql and such.
The real beauty of a solid engineered system is the stability, bandwidth and capacity.
Try running Oracle 10g on your whitebox as spec'd with 500 concurrent users doing OLTP and let me know which one works (and doesn't stop working) the best.
Ask your local municipal code inspector.
You typically need 7 foot + (usually more) clearance from floor to ceiling or else your room won't pass code.
Raised floors need to be done professionaly. I wouldn't recommend any other way - everything from electrical outlets to height, fire and safety codes will have to be inspected..
you wouldn't want to tear it out when you sell/move so get inspection on your plans before you start or hire a pro
As I replied to others, not many displays in the consumer market offer pixel to pixel HDTV resolutions.
Most scale the image and do a decent job thereof on consumer end displays.
My projector at home is only 1024x768 however HDTV looks great because the scaler is good.
I like how we restrict the choice of communities based upon supporting government funded monopolies. You know all of those companies used some public funds to build the infrastructure they rely upon..
Good to support corporations but bad to support community? Didn't these corporations think for one second they could make money off providing the back-end services to these community service providers? Offer consulting & management fees and whatever else they could do?
Bad business
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It could be like other countries where when you buy CDR media or MP3 players they're paying a licensing fee and that could be created to help sustain the industry..
2. Economy SCALES. I would by 100's if not 1,000's of songs at .05/.10 each & i would buy BIGGER MP3 players, BIGGER hard drivers and FASTER internet connections because of the demand i'm putting on my existing infrastructure.
Yes, the provider would have to scale but don't forget this is assuming 4-5 market players providing said services who already scale for other types of service fairly well.
I think the real issue is that your skillset caters to the very people that could easily work from home. If those people work from home then *YOU* don't have a job. Learn another skillset, increase your marketibility. Most importantly remember you are working for yourself and doing what you need to do to suceeed just as your employer is. There is nothing YOU can do to protect your job outside of keeping yourself marketable and taking advantage of the opportunities you have. Why Telecommute: * Tax incentives for employers in many states * Less office space/power consumption * Less Polution * Less Traffic * Lower Insurance Premiums (biggy for companies)
So instead of trying to learn about the issues on both sides of the fence you simply choose to hate or make yourself appear better than those you don't understand?
I would have taken your feeling much more seriously if you didn't use the terms hate, small-minded and alike to describe something you obviously don't understand.
Yes.
?? Will you protect fair use? Yes or no.??
Fiar use has no meaning. Fair use is like the clean are act, it sounds good but has no bite because the meaning doesn't PROTECT your freedoms afforded to you via copyright laws. We have to stop the UNFAIR business demands taking away our rights or come up with bills that define them to be easily understood and inclusive of all media types (digital/analog/printed...).
??" * Modernization of patent laws to protect innovation and technology." What heck do you mean by that??
Exactly what I mean. Modernization of Patent laws to protect innovation and technology - not prohibit such. Patents are used for the wrong reason and prohibit small businesses from innovating in many ways. We Need to be a bit more proactive in setting precedence for what could be patented and for what reasons instead of applying with the hopes (or lobbying for support of) getting approval on some unknown review process. (or the skill of your lawyer)
??" * Technology assurance programs, including product liability to ensure consumer protection." Again what the heck do you mean by that???
Take fair use and give it a law with Bite. Take consumer rights and make them known. What do you mean with or interpret as "fair use"? How do you know what to do with software you buy? Songs you purchase? Dvd's you own? Can you copy? Can you resell? Can you transfer license? What happens when your using something that advertises "secure online banking" but your information is exposed through a vendor mishap or lax security - why should YOU be punished for using a service sold to you as secure? How are you protected in such instances where your computer/network is unkowningly used to attack or break into others? What rights do you have as to what is running on your PC? Can you sue Spyware companies because they're breaking into your PC or is it assumed the risk we take is warranted and we shouldn't do anything to assure net access, net security, licensing protections and corporate awareness of consumer rights? I'm about consumer advocacy and awareness.
Technology & protocol standardization - open system specifications, common infrastructure, and unified industry adoption."
So the government is going to make system specifications the LAW? Good grief I can not think of many ideas worse that than one.
I beg to differ. Every industry has a standard protocol of acceptance, qualifications and industry standards. Medicine, Healthcare, Global Trade, you name it they all have rules, standards and laws to define them.
I'm not asking the government to enforce specific technologies but to create an environment that strives to create industry acceptance of such as a standard.
IT is being highly commodotized, in order to trade on the open market and to remain useable and accessible by all laws have to be created to set precendence on the industry, standards and adoption of such.
There is no wrong way to go about politics. The software/backend and systems you build your campaign on don't necessarily reflect your political ideals across the board either. I happen to be quite the tech head myself, but that isn't the overriding factor of the campaign. We're looking for something we can roll out to save time re-developing the wheel as well as to implement something we can pass down to other potential candidates so the opportunity for others to have great tools will be afforded. If you have systems that can help you streamline, communicate, be aware, react as well as be pro-active and cost effective you can't be beat. If you loose the vote well atleast you have some technology to hand down and hope others will make use off.
Will definately check that out. I've researched that a while back but have since forgotten about it.
True, our campaign isn't just technology. You're more than welcome to contact us for more information or to give us feedback & any ideas you may have. It is interesting when Crows and our Mall are the topics of the day isn't it?
Already running asterisk for our PBX
http://www.byronmiller.org/technology Finer points will be published as we work towards 2006. Believe it or not I am a "tech head".. By day I work for a large bank maintaining an Oracle 11i upgrade and by night I enjoy my mythtv and watching it with my family. I have a mythtv box, i've built out my own networks and i have even implemented a small asterisk box to do voip for our growing campaign. I'm just looking around to see if there is anything out there i have missed so i can get some of my techs involved or implement anything that looks helpfull. Thanks!
Hula looks good, just don't know if i can rely on it just yet. A bit too new - Looking for systems "Tried and true"
Your misguided. FOIA has nothing to do with personal information. FOIA has entirely everything to do with tax payer supported (FEDERAL) projects as a means to let the tax payers know what is going on with the government they fund and support and pay for. Corporations don't have "Freedom" over personal information and infact there are strict privacy acts that enforce rules upon them to protect such.
If you don't bother to set security standards for everything that uses or is linked to your network - this includes PEOPLE then your not doing your job. Every place i work has a clean desk policy and weekly walkthroughs that happen to verify shutdown pc's at night, all drawers are locked and desk is clean and nothing with numbers, address, emails or unmarked notes are left out. Your network is only as secure as those who are entrusted to it. If people take security this lightly then create an environment that disciplines for such.
Guess the editors thought that meant "N"ew
Not really when your talking of 1 person, however when you have 30,000 auctions an hour closing that extra 1% of revenue from every bid that gets artificially inflated is rather huge.. Is they do 30 million auctions a month imagine if they just averaged 1 penny more per transaction because of that email warning you may loose and need to outbid YOURSELF to be "Sure". 300k/month extra revenue and thats low balling the numbers..
OSX doesn't have the capacity yet to make use of "big iron" (ie large memory systems). Sun has a decade + of experience in midrange computing.
Plus the price for this sun box outdoes the price i imagine we will ever see from the likes of apple
Compiling is hardly a server benchmark. What you need to look at is benchmarks in regards to transactions per second in an RDBMS, JVM, Apache server or Mysql and such. The real beauty of a solid engineered system is the stability, bandwidth and capacity. Try running Oracle 10g on your whitebox as spec'd with 500 concurrent users doing OLTP and let me know which one works (and doesn't stop working) the best.
Ask your local municipal code inspector. You typically need 7 foot + (usually more) clearance from floor to ceiling or else your room won't pass code. Raised floors need to be done professionaly. I wouldn't recommend any other way - everything from electrical outlets to height, fire and safety codes will have to be inspected.. you wouldn't want to tear it out when you sell/move so get inspection on your plans before you start or hire a pro
As I replied to others, not many displays in the consumer market offer pixel to pixel HDTV resolutions. Most scale the image and do a decent job thereof on consumer end displays. My projector at home is only 1024x768 however HDTV looks great because the scaler is good.
Not much if anything is truely pixel to pixel hdtv resolution. (at consumer pricing that is)
any browsers but Opera
I like how we restrict the choice of communities based upon supporting government funded monopolies. You know all of those companies used some public funds to build the infrastructure they rely upon.. Good to support corporations but bad to support community? Didn't these corporations think for one second they could make money off providing the back-end services to these community service providers? Offer consulting & management fees and whatever else they could do? Bad business