Or perhaps people in the mountains can pay more? Or perhaps deal with the fact that there are going to be downsides to living in that sort of geographic area (versus downtown Chicago)? People in sparsely populated areas are already having their service subsidized by people in much more populated areas.
Do you have broadband at home? You could always use TMobile@Home UMA service, which uses Wi-fi when you're at home (I know you said you had AT&T, but you didn't mention if the contract was up or not). Depending on how far their GSM tower is from your home, you could also get a GSM repeater for your home ($150-$300) and point it at the nearest tower.
That's why Google stock is structured in the manner it is. Anyone can buy in, but only few have full control. As a Google stockholder, I have no problem with this. If I did, I wouldn't have bought the stock.
How about someone keeps commuting if they want to via [insert-high-carbon-output-high-speed-transit-method-here] to save their valuable time, and simply offsets the carbon output with a carbon credit?
A Gulfstream V doesn't have a huge payload capacity (especially if it's fully fueled, loaded to capacity with people, AND you're putting scientific instruments on board). OTOH, their Boeing should have plenty of capacity for the largest of scientific instruments (as well as supporting flight teams).
So home builders are holding their customer's hostage by requiring payment for services? Don't give me the whole "Software isn't the same, it's not tangible." Someone had to put time into it, and if they want to sell the result, they should be able to. RMS needs to get over his code jihad.
I don't mean to nitpick, but coal generation stations take much more then an hour to start up. Depending on the size of the facility, it can take from 24 hours to several days to get all turbines to capacity.
I'm on the seesat mailing list (for amateur satellite observers) and it's actually quite easy. I would simply use a telescope with a CCD mounted to it in a non-light-polluted location. Take pictures for several nights in a row. The software to then compare the images is easily available, and I could quickly calculate the orbits of objects in the photos.
Spy satellites and GPS satellites sit in different orbits. Having a spy satellite send a GPS signal from a spy satellite orbit would be an obvious indicator that something was amiss.
Currently most servers get about 5-15 NTP packets per second with spikes a couple of times a day of 60-120 packets per second. This is roughly equivalent to 10-15Kbit/sec with spikes of 50-120Kbit/sec. The project steadily acquires more timeservers, so the load should not increase dramatically for each server. In plain terms, you probably need at least 384Kbit bandwidth (in and out-going). Since late 2006 the load for most servers have been going up steadily, so we really really need your help! Right now (September 2007) if you are close to the minimum requirements you will get more traffic than you'd like, but we are working on a solution to be deployed over the next month or two.
I always though the best poor man's magnetic eraser would be an old MRI machine. Keep your storage array near the center suspended by a strong, non-metallic material. Someone busts in the door? Just push the breaker on for that MRI machine.
That, my friend, should be enough electromagnetic energy to wipe the entire drive at once.
I assume, as the developer, you can't say much about the device in a public forum. Is it available to the general public if I get ahold of the correct person at Northrop Grumman? Pretend money is no object.
Can you point me to a location to specify a Stratum 1 server? I have access to colo space as well as roof rights for a GPS antenna. I would be happy to host a Stratum 1 or Stratum 2 time server to help the NTP cause.
It's a couple of reasons. One of them is of course carriers would have a problem with it. Another reason is the cost (even if the additional cost is only $2-$5/unit, spread across a million units it adds up, and it may be a cost they can't pass along to the consumer making the phone even more expensive). A big reason though is both size and battery consumption. More chipsets within the device increases the size of the device as well as the current draw. I've been playing with the T-Mobile@Home service, where the phone has both a GSM and Wi-Fi chipset (to run calls over Wi-Fi base stations when available). The Wi-Fi current draw is more then the GSM current draw due to how the specs for 802.11 were drawn out.
No, they don't. How do you compete over customers who are locked into contracts? Cell phone carriers collude, and it doesn't matter if it's complicit or implicit collusion. Each carrier has its own brands of phones, which are built to be incompatible with each others' networks, so that means the cell phone manufacturers are in on the deal as well. Because of the contract-subsidized discounts (it's really usury in disguise) on the locked-in phones, they can and do overcharge for the phones. Computers are dirt cheap because of competition -- why aren't cell phones? Cellphones aren't cheap because it's expensive to build them (and don't give me that whiney BS that it's not expensive to build them. Try R&Ding one yourself, and putting it together). If people want them dirt cheap (example: Free phone with 2 year contract!), carriers have to subsidize the phone purchase, and make the money back over the life of the contact.
On to your next contention: Phone locking. It's true, this can and does happen. But let's be honest. There are only two major GSM networks in the US (AT&T and T-Mobile). There's only one major CDMA carrier (Verizon), one major iDen carrier (Nextel, now owned by Sprint), etc. Phones are not compatible with other networks. Period. This is in stark contrast to other parts of the world where several GSM providers will compete in the same geographic area. Until this occurs in the US, there's no room to quibble about it. You could of course bitch about cellphone manufacturers not building multi-technology phones (GSM, CDMA, etc chipsets all in the same phone), but you'd have to take that up with the manufacturers, not the cellular network providers.
There are many reasons why contracts and phone locking exist in the US, and the main reason is build out costs. Do you know how many billions were outlaid in getting spectrum and towers built out, as well as the rest of the infrastructure needed to run a cellular carrier network? HUGE amounts of money were spent, and companies want to make that money back as well as a return (although how much of a return/margin is a topic for another discussion).
As a BOFH myself, first line of defense is always activating the Halon system against intruders. Think of it as today's version of dumping boiling tar on the barbarians invading the castle;)
Restaurants are supposed to count tips towards your hourly wage. This is not a bad thing. Margins in the restaurant business are already poor enough, they shouldn't need to prop up poor staff.
Tips may be considered as part of wages, but the employer must pay not less than $2.13 an hour in direct wages and make sure that the amount of tips received is enough to meet the remainder of the minimum wage.
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All kidding aside, it's rare someone with such an opinion (tempered and educated) appears on Slashdot with regards to business. Kudos to you sir.
Early adopters are what drives the price down for cheapskates.
Or perhaps people in the mountains can pay more? Or perhaps deal with the fact that there are going to be downsides to living in that sort of geographic area (versus downtown Chicago)? People in sparsely populated areas are already having their service subsidized by people in much more populated areas.
Do you have broadband at home? You could always use TMobile@Home UMA service, which uses Wi-fi when you're at home (I know you said you had AT&T, but you didn't mention if the contract was up or not). Depending on how far their GSM tower is from your home, you could also get a GSM repeater for your home ($150-$300) and point it at the nearest tower.
Does that 726 kg take into account passengers/crew?
That's why Google stock is structured in the manner it is. Anyone can buy in, but only few have full control. As a Google stockholder, I have no problem with this. If I did, I wouldn't have bought the stock.
Just think about the power savings they're going to realize when they replace all those spinning hard drives with the up and coming flash drives.
How about someone keeps commuting if they want to via [insert-high-carbon-output-high-speed-transit-method-here] to save their valuable time, and simply offsets the carbon output with a carbon credit?
A Gulfstream V doesn't have a huge payload capacity (especially if it's fully fueled, loaded to capacity with people, AND you're putting scientific instruments on board). OTOH, their Boeing should have plenty of capacity for the largest of scientific instruments (as well as supporting flight teams).
So home builders are holding their customer's hostage by requiring payment for services? Don't give me the whole "Software isn't the same, it's not tangible." Someone had to put time into it, and if they want to sell the result, they should be able to. RMS needs to get over his code jihad.
Fixed that for ya.
I don't mean to nitpick, but coal generation stations take much more then an hour to start up. Depending on the size of the facility, it can take from 24 hours to several days to get all turbines to capacity.
I'm on the seesat mailing list (for amateur satellite observers) and it's actually quite easy. I would simply use a telescope with a CCD mounted to it in a non-light-polluted location. Take pictures for several nights in a row. The software to then compare the images is easily available, and I could quickly calculate the orbits of objects in the photos.
Spy satellites and GPS satellites sit in different orbits. Having a spy satellite send a GPS signal from a spy satellite orbit would be an obvious indicator that something was amiss.
Being a business is about chasing the money. Business doesn't run on hopes and dreams (although those can help depending on the industry you're in).
http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html
Currently most servers get about 5-15 NTP packets per second with spikes a couple of times a day of 60-120 packets per second. This is roughly equivalent to 10-15Kbit/sec with spikes of 50-120Kbit/sec. The project steadily acquires more timeservers, so the load should not increase dramatically for each server. In plain terms, you probably need at least 384Kbit bandwidth (in and out-going). Since late 2006 the load for most servers have been going up steadily, so we really really need your help! Right now (September 2007) if you are close to the minimum requirements you will get more traffic than you'd like, but we are working on a solution to be deployed over the next month or two.That, my friend, should be enough electromagnetic energy to wipe the entire drive at once.
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Thank you!
Can you point me to a location to specify a Stratum 1 server? I have access to colo space as well as roof rights for a GPS antenna. I would be happy to host a Stratum 1 or Stratum 2 time server to help the NTP cause.
It's a couple of reasons. One of them is of course carriers would have a problem with it. Another reason is the cost (even if the additional cost is only $2-$5/unit, spread across a million units it adds up, and it may be a cost they can't pass along to the consumer making the phone even more expensive). A big reason though is both size and battery consumption. More chipsets within the device increases the size of the device as well as the current draw. I've been playing with the T-Mobile@Home service, where the phone has both a GSM and Wi-Fi chipset (to run calls over Wi-Fi base stations when available). The Wi-Fi current draw is more then the GSM current draw due to how the specs for 802.11 were drawn out.
On to your next contention: Phone locking. It's true, this can and does happen. But let's be honest. There are only two major GSM networks in the US (AT&T and T-Mobile). There's only one major CDMA carrier (Verizon), one major iDen carrier (Nextel, now owned by Sprint), etc. Phones are not compatible with other networks. Period. This is in stark contrast to other parts of the world where several GSM providers will compete in the same geographic area. Until this occurs in the US, there's no room to quibble about it. You could of course bitch about cellphone manufacturers not building multi-technology phones (GSM, CDMA, etc chipsets all in the same phone), but you'd have to take that up with the manufacturers, not the cellular network providers.
There are many reasons why contracts and phone locking exist in the US, and the main reason is build out costs. Do you know how many billions were outlaid in getting spectrum and towers built out, as well as the rest of the infrastructure needed to run a cellular carrier network? HUGE amounts of money were spent, and companies want to make that money back as well as a return (although how much of a return/margin is a topic for another discussion).
I've seen first hand what government control does to benefit systems, and I don't wish that upon anyone.
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Tips may be considered as part of wages, but the employer must pay not less than $2.13 an hour in direct wages and make sure that the amount of tips received is enough to meet the remainder of the minimum wage.