Yes, I did forget about the customers acquired through GTE, etc. For this I apologise. Verizon has about 135 million wireline equivalent customers, and about 31 million wireless customers, so it's pretty easy to overlook the 1 million or so in the Pacific Northwest.
But, at least I'm man enough to be identified. What about you?
See my other post in this thread... Also, Verizon did pick up infrastructure and customers when it purchased GTE. So these are probably where the subscribers came from.
Yes, Verizon does have a local presence in other states now, as do all the Baby Bells. This is due to the Telco Reform Act of 1996 (or was it 1997?). They also have a heavy wireless presence across the US.
*However*, Verizon always has, and will continue to be a East Coast focused company until they can gobble up another Baby Bell.
It costs an average of $1200-$1500 per household to lay down local loop. The lines your DSL service is coming in on, if you use Verizon outside the Verizon home territory, are leased from the Baby Bell in your area because it is too expensive to lay down new infrastructure.
The US is basically down to four (from the original seven after the AT&T divestiture) Baby Bells now: BellSouth, Verizon, SBC and Qwest. Qwest is about to fold.
So, the US getting back into an oligopoly as far at the telco industry is concerned, perhaps even a duopoly.
This is the failure of the Telco Reform Act that you read about in the papers.
Get your facts right... Verizon is the combination of what was New York Telephone, Bell Atlantic, and GTE. It doesn't have much, if any presence in Washington state. You must mean Washington, D.C.
However, their activities affects pretty much everybody on the East Coast, as far south as the Carolinas, which is BellSouth territory.
Sorry folks, you're all wrong. There are actually only 8 schools in the Ivy League: Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.
The term stems from the 1930's, when Stanford, MIT, and the other now-excellent schools were off the map. See http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/ivy_l eague.html
If you come from an Ivy League school, you tend to know what the 8 schools are. If not, then any good school must be an Ivy League school.
Yes, I've worked at a senior level in projects involving 400 people, to budgets of $60M cost. This was within a 9000 person SI/IT consulting firm with >$1 billion in revenues.
Yes, I read Brooks' book over a decade ago.
CMM is mostly useful for catagorizing things, not actually doing anything. What else would you expect from something out of academia, where the academics have never worked in large teams?
The trouble with the CMM is that is is a load of hogwash. If you actually take the time to read it carefully, there's nothing there. The emperor has no clothes. It is mostly a tool to help consulting companies that peddle it make money. And yes, my CMU friends all say the same thing.
This conclusion is probably bogus. In all the OS projects that I am involved in or use, most contributors submit patches and are not even registered to do any CVS check-ins.
Yeah, he's just trying to lead you on to think he is involved in it, knowing full well that there's no way for you to verify his claim with the NSA. His motive for doing so is obvious--money.
If he was truly involved in it, he wouldn't be talking. Real intelligence people never talk about any work--past, present, or future--because of the agreements they sign.
He also says: "And besides, code names are usually not classified as top secret." And that's because top secret is such a low level of classification that it is useless. Working and living in Northern Va., I have lots of friends with top secret clearance. So what? Any really sensitive activity requires SCI clearance and monitoring. And BTW, even at just top secret clearance, they don't talk, period.
All Brilliant Digital has to do now is read your hidden log files to find out where you've been, what you've seen, etc. Checkout http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-fil es.shtml"
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Yes, I did forget about the customers acquired through GTE, etc. For this I apologise. Verizon has about 135 million wireline equivalent customers, and about 31 million wireless customers, so it's pretty easy to overlook the 1 million or so in the Pacific Northwest.
But, at least I'm man enough to be identified. What about you?
See my other post in this thread... Also, Verizon did pick up infrastructure and customers when it purchased GTE. So these are probably where the subscribers came from.
See my other post in this thread. You don't understand how the telco industry operates. I used to be in it, OK?
Yes, Verizon does have a local presence in other states now, as do all the Baby Bells. This is due to the Telco Reform Act of 1996 (or was it 1997?). They also have a heavy wireless presence across the US.
*However*, Verizon always has, and will continue to be a East Coast focused company until they can gobble up another Baby Bell.
It costs an average of $1200-$1500 per household to lay down local loop. The lines your DSL service is coming in on, if you use Verizon outside the Verizon home territory, are leased from the Baby Bell in your area because it is too expensive to lay down new infrastructure.
The US is basically down to four (from the original seven after the AT&T divestiture) Baby Bells now: BellSouth, Verizon, SBC and Qwest. Qwest is about to fold.
So, the US getting back into an oligopoly as far at the telco industry is concerned, perhaps even a duopoly.
This is the failure of the Telco Reform Act that you read about in the papers.
Get your facts right... Verizon is the combination of what was New York Telephone, Bell Atlantic, and GTE. It doesn't have much, if any presence in Washington state. You must mean Washington, D.C.
However, their activities affects pretty much everybody on the East Coast, as far south as the Carolinas, which is BellSouth territory.
Or maybe it is just that MySQL really is a toy.
The term stems from the 1930's, when Stanford, MIT, and the other now-excellent schools were off the map. See http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/ivy_l eague.html
If you come from an Ivy League school, you tend to know what the 8 schools are. If not, then any good school must be an Ivy League school.
Yes, I've worked at a senior level in projects involving 400 people, to budgets of $60M cost. This was within a 9000 person SI/IT consulting firm with >$1 billion in revenues.
Yes, I read Brooks' book over a decade ago.
CMM is mostly useful for catagorizing things, not actually doing anything. What else would you expect from something out of academia, where the academics have never worked in large teams?
The trouble with the CMM is that is is a load of hogwash. If you actually take the time to read it carefully, there's nothing there. The emperor has no clothes. It is mostly a tool to help consulting companies that peddle it make money. And yes, my CMU friends all say the same thing.
This conclusion is probably bogus. In all the OS projects that I am involved in or use, most contributors submit patches and are not even registered to do any CVS check-ins.
If he was truly involved in it, he wouldn't be talking. Real intelligence people never talk about any work--past, present, or future--because of the agreements they sign.
He also says: "And besides, code names are usually not classified as top secret." And that's because top secret is such a low level of classification that it is useless. Working and living in Northern Va., I have lots of friends with top secret clearance. So what? Any really sensitive activity requires SCI clearance and monitoring. And BTW, even at just top secret clearance, they don't talk, period.
All Brilliant Digital has to do now is read your hidden log files to find out where you've been, what you've seen, etc. Checkout http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-fil es.shtml"