Cogent has to pay for transit to get to Sprint. Cogent's goal of competing against the big boys (Level3's league) require them to be able to say they don't buy transit from anyone, hence the need to make sure they peer settlement-free with every network.
I think overpopulation won't be a problem because reproduction will either a) require permits of some sort, to keep overpopulation from occuring or b) people would rather enjoy their life than having kids. The latter is happening already in most first-world countries, as their birth rates are dropping below replacement rate (the US varies a bit, because immigration is a big part of the replacement rate).
I guess one could concentrate on a mental image of Sarah Palin in a nipple bra to counter the Bin Laden image. Or, Dick Cheney as a Chippendale dancer.
While I haven't had to take a polygraph yet, I look forward to answering "What was your question? I'm sorry, my mind is busy erasing certain parts to protect itself. Ahh, there we go. No more Dick Cheney is my brain ever again."
You'll love Asterisk. I did a favor for a good friend building out a call center driven by Asterisk. Thousands of concurrent calls across the world, call logging, recording, etc. And all for about an eighth to a tenth of what it would've cost to go with a standard PBX system.
I'm sure it's theoretically possible to start out without a degree right now, but he'd make his life 1000x easier by just getting the degree.
I would suggest he start college, but at the same time start pounding the pavement hard looking for a gig, and dump school after he's been at a solid gig for a while. I don't regret skipping the four years at college and the $25K-75K in school debt I would've accumulated.
Correct. I started my first gig about 6-8 months before the dot com implosion. It was no fun being told it was my mentor's last day, and I'd be assuming his position. Luckily, everything worked out for the best (he went on to get his CCIE and get a really sweet gig at a law firm), and we're good friends to this day.
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Seconded. I dropped out of high school my junior year, got my GED, immediately started working for a web dev firm doing sysadmin work. 10 years later (Just turned 26) I own my own professional services/hosting firm. Don't let anyone lie to you and say you need a degree, for what you lack with paper you'll just need to make up for with effort.
Currently, there isn't a repayment structure since there is no loan. If any loan were to be made from the government to any industry, the terms need to be such that the government loan is repaid first in all cases. I'm aware of your concern and share it.
It's unfortunately silly. We've subsidized oil for so long, that I think it only appropriate to shortly subsidize electric vehicles to level the playing field, and then remove all subsidies from the marketplace.
Seems to me it would be better if they had much more accountability to the people or didn't have the power to go to war and finance car research at all.
You govern with the government you have, and work toward the the government you want.
Q: Won't plugging in cars lead to building more coal and nuclear power plants? A: Although Plug In America favors more use of electricity for transportation, we won't need additional generating capacity for this for decades to come. During that time we can shift to cleaner, renewable power options that cause less environmental harm than fossil fuels and nuclear plants.
The existing electrical grid's off-peak capacity for power generation is sufficient to power 84% of commutes to and from work by cars, light trucks and SUVs without building a single new power plant if people drive plug-in hybrids, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, the existing nighttime electricity can be stored in plug-in vehicles and retrieved during peak-demand hours through vehicle-to-grid technology for use by the grid, helping to meet society's daytime power needs.
My business partner and I both reserved '09 Tesla Roadsters. Why? Not because it's a hot car, or it drives like a rocket, but because we want to see electric car research pushed faster. And it was the next best thing to investing in the company. It drives me nuts when some fool comes out and says "Tesla can have help when their car is priced for the average person". They won't need help by than. They need help getting to that point.
If electric cars (or ethanol, or any other possible replacement for gasoline-powered vehicles) makes sense, it won't take tax money to get it into widespread use.
Bullshit. The market is manipulated by interests to make investing in renewable energy and electric vehicles infeasible. Price of oil goes up, investment in renewables and electric vehicles shoots up. Price of oil drops, investment dries up. An unregulated market is rarely the answer, as shown by the deregulation in the financial sector.
You may disagree with me, but I'm fairly confident as an American that the new US policymakers in play are going to make the correct decision to push electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Frankly, it is his money, and my money, and everyone else's money. Welcome to a democracy. Going to war on my dime to the tune of $1 trillion+? That's immoral. Lying why we went and having tens of thousands of people die because of it? That's immoral. Lending half a billion dollars to a company that's jumpstarting the electrification of transportation? Well that's just good sense right there. So take your libertarian viewpoint to a country that cares.
You're a god damn twit. How do you think Tesla is paying for the R&D needed to make cars for average folks? Through selling cars that are marketed to people who don't care about paying $109K for a car.
Nanosolar is very close to getting their solarply product down to $1/Kw, which means for your average household needs your one-time outlay is around $4,000USD for the panels + inverter, wiring etc. For a 25+ year warranty, that's not bad. Only problem is that their capacity is sold out for the next year =(
And I don't have to even worry about the missiles, as I have no heat signature and don't show up on radar, so they'll be able to get really close, and never actually hit me.
Depending on the warhead size, "really close" is usually close enough. =)
Anyways, I think ADS-B is a huge win for air transport. It makes things much safer for everyone, and I say this as a private pilot, a skydiver, as well as an experimental aircraft builder. If everyone walks away alive, everything worked as it should.
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Cogent has to pay for transit to get to Sprint. Cogent's goal of competing against the big boys (Level3's league) require them to be able to say they don't buy transit from anyone, hence the need to make sure they peer settlement-free with every network.
I think overpopulation won't be a problem because reproduction will either a) require permits of some sort, to keep overpopulation from occuring or b) people would rather enjoy their life than having kids. The latter is happening already in most first-world countries, as their birth rates are dropping below replacement rate (the US varies a bit, because immigration is a big part of the replacement rate).
I guess one could concentrate on a mental image of Sarah Palin in a nipple bra to counter the Bin Laden image. Or, Dick Cheney as a Chippendale dancer.
While I haven't had to take a polygraph yet, I look forward to answering "What was your question? I'm sorry, my mind is busy erasing certain parts to protect itself. Ahh, there we go. No more Dick Cheney is my brain ever again."
Wow. You truly must be an asshole.
I'm indeed fairly certain that I got my first job on my skills. My boss interviewed 15-20 people before me, and ended up employing me.
I don't care if it's a boom time or a recession. If you're competent, you'll be able to find a job in IT.
You'll love Asterisk. I did a favor for a good friend building out a call center driven by Asterisk. Thousands of concurrent calls across the world, call logging, recording, etc. And all for about an eighth to a tenth of what it would've cost to go with a standard PBX system.
Snare? Never heard of it. I googled and got tons of hits for different stuff. Link? I'm always interested in FOSS I don't know about that I could use.
Funny, but there are some big shops using MySQL in what I'd consider enterprise environments.
Doesn't Verizon offer fiber to the home for ~$60/month and they give you 35Mb/s up and down?
I'm sure it's theoretically possible to start out without a degree right now, but he'd make his life 1000x easier by just getting the degree.
I would suggest he start college, but at the same time start pounding the pavement hard looking for a gig, and dump school after he's been at a solid gig for a while. I don't regret skipping the four years at college and the $25K-75K in school debt I would've accumulated.
Correct. I started my first gig about 6-8 months before the dot com implosion. It was no fun being told it was my mentor's last day, and I'd be assuming his position. Luckily, everything worked out for the best (he went on to get his CCIE and get a really sweet gig at a law firm), and we're good friends to this day.
Seconded. I dropped out of high school my junior year, got my GED, immediately started working for a web dev firm doing sysadmin work. 10 years later (Just turned 26) I own my own professional services/hosting firm. Don't let anyone lie to you and say you need a degree, for what you lack with paper you'll just need to make up for with effort.
I believe the DOE took your concerns into account when they put together their report.
The report I referred to:
http://www.pnl.gov/energy/eed/etd/pdfs/phev_feasibility_analysis_combined.pdf
If you read the section on load regions, they mention that moving power to the load centers with concentrations of vehicles isn't a problem.
Currently, there isn't a repayment structure since there is no loan. If any loan were to be made from the government to any industry, the terms need to be such that the government loan is repaid first in all cases. I'm aware of your concern and share it.
It's unfortunately silly. We've subsidized oil for so long, that I think it only appropriate to shortly subsidize electric vehicles to level the playing field, and then remove all subsidies from the marketplace.
Seems to me it would be better if they had much more accountability to the people or didn't have the power to go to war and finance car research at all.
You govern with the government you have, and work toward the the government you want.
By chance, I am. And it appears the Department of Energy is as well:
http://www.pluginamerica.org/learn-about-plug-ins/frequently-asked-questions.html
Q: Won't plugging in cars lead to building more coal and nuclear power plants?
A: Although Plug In America favors more use of electricity for transportation, we won't need additional generating capacity for this for decades to come. During that time we can shift to cleaner, renewable power options that cause less environmental harm than fossil fuels and nuclear plants.
The existing electrical grid's off-peak capacity for power generation is sufficient to power 84% of commutes to and from work by cars, light trucks and SUVs without building a single new power plant if people drive plug-in hybrids, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, the existing nighttime electricity can be stored in plug-in vehicles and retrieved during peak-demand hours through vehicle-to-grid technology for use by the grid, helping to meet society's daytime power needs.
Emphasis mine.
Deregulation of the financial system in the US, spearheaded by Phil Gram, was one of the causes of the CDO meltdown.
Under a rock for the past 40 years?
http://news.google.com/news?q=opec&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
"OPEC Defers Output Decision to December, Seeks $75 Oil Price"
Ahh, but coordinated supply reduction to induce a price rise isn't market manipulation, is it?
My business partner and I both reserved '09 Tesla Roadsters. Why? Not because it's a hot car, or it drives like a rocket, but because we want to see electric car research pushed faster. And it was the next best thing to investing in the company. It drives me nuts when some fool comes out and says "Tesla can have help when their car is priced for the average person". They won't need help by than. They need help getting to that point.
If electric cars (or ethanol, or any other possible replacement for gasoline-powered vehicles) makes sense, it won't take tax money to get it into widespread use.
Bullshit. The market is manipulated by interests to make investing in renewable energy and electric vehicles infeasible. Price of oil goes up, investment in renewables and electric vehicles shoots up. Price of oil drops, investment dries up. An unregulated market is rarely the answer, as shown by the deregulation in the financial sector.
You may disagree with me, but I'm fairly confident as an American that the new US policymakers in play are going to make the correct decision to push electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Frankly, it is his money, and my money, and everyone else's money. Welcome to a democracy. Going to war on my dime to the tune of $1 trillion+? That's immoral. Lying why we went and having tens of thousands of people die because of it? That's immoral. Lending half a billion dollars to a company that's jumpstarting the electrification of transportation? Well that's just good sense right there. So take your libertarian viewpoint to a country that cares.
You're a god damn twit. How do you think Tesla is paying for the R&D needed to make cars for average folks? Through selling cars that are marketed to people who don't care about paying $109K for a car.
This shit needs to make it to battlefield medics sooner than later.
Nanosolar is very close to getting their solarply product down to $1/Kw, which means for your average household needs your one-time outlay is around $4,000USD for the panels + inverter, wiring etc. For a 25+ year warranty, that's not bad. Only problem is that their capacity is sold out for the next year =(
And I don't have to even worry about the missiles, as I have no heat signature and don't show up on radar, so they'll be able to get really close, and never actually hit me.
Depending on the warhead size, "really close" is usually close enough. =)
Anyways, I think ADS-B is a huge win for air transport. It makes things much safer for everyone, and I say this as a private pilot, a skydiver, as well as an experimental aircraft builder. If everyone walks away alive, everything worked as it should.