I do want Congress to pass a law banning cable franchises by local and state governments.
And how, exactly would said municipalities force telcos and cable companies to serve the lower-income areas of the town? It is the offer of a monopoly that allows the local governments to enforce access requirements.
I do want laws specifically enabling municipal internet utilities, especially on this new bandwidth.
Yeah, because every time a local/municipal government decides to start a business (incinerator, prison, etc.) it always works out so well...
No, they have it all figured out - what they'll do is add a surcharge to every ISP account to underwrite the national infrastructure, then, as subscribers drop their paid ISP accounts to instead use the free WiFi service, the Gov't will simply raise the fee on those that remain on paid ISP accounts. Eventually only the top 1%ers will have their own ISP accounts, and they will subsidise the entire Free WiFi infrastructure for the other 99% of America from their vast resources.
WHat, why wouldn't that work? Eventually the 1%ers will foot the bill for everything!
The religious argument is against the churces PAYING for contraceptives and so-called "morning after" pills even though it is against their religion.
Before Obamacare created this sense of entitlement that all employees with employer-subsidised healthcare shoudl get free birth control most employees had to pay for it out of pocket - somehow that wasn't an issue until someone proposed making it free.
How, exactly, would a church-related group prevent an employee from buying birth control? Why couldn't any employee so inclined go to Target and get a $5-10/30 day supply? Go to Planned Parenthood and get their birth control for free there?
You really should try and develop your critical thinking skills a bit more - just because someone on MSNBC says something doesn't mean it's true.
I'm sure there'd be no problem "working" a satelitte connection from inside a building - your XM Radio and GPS work fine in parking garages, don't they?
The FCC proposes buying BACK spectrum? That will cost money, lots of it.
Who exactly will build out this nation-wide network of WiFi accesspoints and backbone infrastructure on brand-new spectrum incompatible with current WiFi cards?
Who, exactly, will decide what will and will not be accessible on this network?
Who, exactly, will decide the build-out schedule, which areas get served first? WHich don't get served (think 1%ers)?
Who, exaclty, will retain their own contracted ISP service once this free "nation-wide" WiFi network is available?
Who, exactly, will decide the speed of the access available?
And please, define "nationwide" - I know what that word means to me, but do you really mean WiFi Internet service in remote corners of national parks?
This is a proposal that should have been floated in the silly-season of the Presidential election last year, where it would be viewed as the pie-in-the-sky dream it truely is.
On Windows (and most other OS I've ever worked with) there would be an audit trail a system admin could follow that would document the changes to the OS. Did this change require users to "opt-in" to automatic updates, or was it done without notice to the end-user/system admins?
so whole corporations and government departments are suddently shut down.
Woo-Hoo! Good one!
Whole corporations and government agencies? Which corporation other than Apple relies exclusively on Apple computers? I'm very curious which government departments are exclusively Apple shops...
Mnor issue - they weren't safe by default, they became safe through a change silently sent out to millions of Macs running OS X and didn't tell anyone.
How many Mac users called their IT departments and complained about needed apps not working, only to eventually find out it wasn't their IT group or their applications, but a decision by Apple?
Or Windows. This is the result of a decision made by Apple Corp. to make this happen.
This came just as several hundred school teachers in my district were sitting down to enter grades into their Infinite Campus gradebooks at the end of the marking period. Apple's decision is playing havoc with their ability to use this Java-based application on their Apple MacBook Pros.
100,000 unfilled IT jobs but only 30,500 computer science graduates
Am I to believe the UK has 69,500 unfilled IT positions right now? If that were true, why wouldn't they start importing all the hundreds of thousands of unemployed IT folks in the US?
Am I to also believe that they graduate over 30,000 computer science students each year?
Oh wait, did you get grandma the yet-unreleased Surface Pro? What exactly is Grandma's use case that supports the i5-based Surface Pro YET leave her incapable of attaching a USB drive to her tablet?
The Trial version of Office will be replaced by the full, final version of Office RT when it is released. When they say "trial" version, I think they really mean "community preview".
Vista has slightly lower market share than OS X, and is many times more "popular" than Linux as a desktop OS. Windows XP has over 5x the marketshare of OS X, and over 35x the market share of Linux.
XP Mode isn't gone - you can still get Windows 7.
The "secret sauce" in XP Mode was the baked-in product key for XP. I suspect by importing the XP Mode machine into VirtualBox or VMware you were violating the licensing of the WinXP license baked into XP Mode.
Does your 1200 sq ft office space have an electrical closet? Heating/AC closet? Telco closet? Bathroom(s)? Stairs? Walls? [0] They all subtract from the listed 1,200 sq ft office space, just like the OS + apps do on the Surface.
[0] A 6" thick wall that runs for 20 feet will "cost" you 10 sq feet of space.
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Just to pic two of your points:
And how, exactly would said municipalities force telcos and cable companies to serve the lower-income areas of the town? It is the offer of a monopoly that allows the local governments to enforce access requirements.
Yeah, because every time a local/municipal government decides to start a business (incinerator, prison, etc.) it always works out so well...
No, they have it all figured out - what they'll do is add a surcharge to every ISP account to underwrite the national infrastructure, then, as subscribers drop their paid ISP accounts to instead use the free WiFi service, the Gov't will simply raise the fee on those that remain on paid ISP accounts. Eventually only the top 1%ers will have their own ISP accounts, and they will subsidise the entire Free WiFi infrastructure for the other 99% of America from their vast resources.
WHat, why wouldn't that work? Eventually the 1%ers will foot the bill for everything!
Really? You think that is the issue?
The religious argument is against the churces PAYING for contraceptives and so-called "morning after" pills even though it is against their religion.
Before Obamacare created this sense of entitlement that all employees with employer-subsidised healthcare shoudl get free birth control most employees had to pay for it out of pocket - somehow that wasn't an issue until someone proposed making it free.
How, exactly, would a church-related group prevent an employee from buying birth control? Why couldn't any employee so inclined go to Target and get a $5-10/30 day supply? Go to Planned Parenthood and get their birth control for free there?
You really should try and develop your critical thinking skills a bit more - just because someone on MSNBC says something doesn't mean it's true.
I can hear the commentaters on the Left gearing up to ask you "Why do you want to treat the poor as second-class citizens?"
I'm sure there'd be no problem "working" a satelitte connection from inside a building - your XM Radio and GPS work fine in parking garages, don't they?
The FCC proposes buying BACK spectrum? That will cost money, lots of it.
Who exactly will build out this nation-wide network of WiFi accesspoints and backbone infrastructure on brand-new spectrum incompatible with current WiFi cards?
Who, exactly, will decide what will and will not be accessible on this network?
Who, exactly, will decide the build-out schedule, which areas get served first? WHich don't get served (think 1%ers)?
Who, exaclty, will retain their own contracted ISP service once this free "nation-wide" WiFi network is available?
Who, exactly, will decide the speed of the access available?
And please, define "nationwide" - I know what that word means to me, but do you really mean WiFi Internet service in remote corners of national parks?
This is a proposal that should have been floated in the silly-season of the Presidential election last year, where it would be viewed as the pie-in-the-sky dream it truely is.
Windows XP resides on more than 1/3rd of all computers, 3x as many as OS X and about 20x the number running Linux. It is slightly behind Windows 7.
Card sorters, punches, and printers... The IBM emplyees that strung them together were German.
On Windows (and most other OS I've ever worked with) there would be an audit trail a system admin could follow that would document the changes to the OS. Did this change require users to "opt-in" to automatic updates, or was it done without notice to the end-user/system admins?
Woo-Hoo! Good one!
Whole corporations and government agencies? Which corporation other than Apple relies exclusively on Apple computers? I'm very curious which government departments are exclusively Apple shops...
Mnor issue - they weren't safe by default, they became safe through a change silently sent out to millions of Macs running OS X and didn't tell anyone.
How many Mac users called their IT departments and complained about needed apps not working, only to eventually find out it wasn't their IT group or their applications, but a decision by Apple?
Or Windows. This is the result of a decision made by Apple Corp. to make this happen.
This came just as several hundred school teachers in my district were sitting down to enter grades into their Infinite Campus gradebooks at the end of the marking period. Apple's decision is playing havoc with their ability to use this Java-based application on their Apple MacBook Pros.
Because every school is wired for WiFi in all classrooms...
Chrome books don't just land in a modern classroom. Students will have to login, so that usage policies can be enforced, etc.
While some of AC's comments miss the mark, the teacher complaints are spot-on.
Convince your voters to fire for increased property/state taxes to buy these items.
Putting a man on the moon was a technical challenge, buying school supplies is a matter of funding.
Isn't Ireland part of the United Kingdom, A.K.A. "The United Kingdom of Great Britan and Northern Ireland"
OS X at 7.06% has barely bested the market share maintained by MS Vista 5.67%, and is but a fraction of the ten year-old OS Windows XP at 39.08%.
Microsoft is not hurting.
Am I to believe the UK has 69,500 unfilled IT positions right now? If that were true, why wouldn't they start importing all the hundreds of thousands of unemployed IT folks in the US?
Am I to also believe that they graduate over 30,000 computer science students each year?
I call BS.
Seriously? An i5 tablet with 4 Gig of RAM and 128 Meg os SSD for around $1K *with* a Microsoft label on it will sell well into the Linux crowd?
I'm thinking not.
The touch screen is nice and all, but to be honest, a MacBook Air would be a better choice for most people...
Grandma's wondering why her grandson was so cheap he only got her a 32 Gig Surface with only 16 Gigs of space (on the RT model)...
Oh wait, did you get grandma the yet-unreleased Surface Pro? What exactly is Grandma's use case that supports the i5-based Surface Pro YET leave her incapable of attaching a USB drive to her tablet?
The 32 GB Surface with Windows RT has aprox. 16 Gig of storage space for user content, the 64 GB Surface with Windows RT has about 45 GB of storage space for user content.
The Trial version of Office will be replaced by the full, final version of Office RT when it is released. When they say "trial" version, I think they really mean "community preview".
How much hard drive space does that 5 GB of cloud storage take up?
Vista has slightly lower market share than OS X, and is many times more "popular" than Linux as a desktop OS. Windows XP has over 5x the marketshare of OS X, and over 35x the market share of Linux.
XP Mode isn't gone - you can still get Windows 7.
The "secret sauce" in XP Mode was the baked-in product key for XP. I suspect by importing the XP Mode machine into VirtualBox or VMware you were violating the licensing of the WinXP license baked into XP Mode.
Does your 1200 sq ft office space have an electrical closet? Heating/AC closet? Telco closet? Bathroom(s)? Stairs? Walls? [0] They all subtract from the listed 1,200 sq ft office space, just like the OS + apps do on the Surface.
[0] A 6" thick wall that runs for 20 feet will "cost" you 10 sq feet of space.