What about those power companies that didn't go into bankruptcy that are getting special concessions and I've heard (seriously not a joke) may be given monopoly power over a very large percentage of the California market, at the exclusion of other companies whose executives contributed to the political opposition's presidential campaigns.
"At one point, I prepared a summary [of trouble tickets that showed] only approximately 2 of the 200 tickets involved genuine ILEC problems."
"The lawsuit is supported by more than a score of sworn statements by Covad employees. "
"In affidavits, former Covad workers said that the false reports were collected systematically, and they estimated that as many as 50 percent of the reported troubles were false."
So, statistically, the next (or previous) 198 out of 200 tickets definitely were Verizon's fault.
If you have 22,000 problems and you know for sure who caused at least 11,000 of them, who are you going to suspect caused some of the others.
You've got former employees (number not disclosed) making dodgy, carefully worded accusations at the behest of Verizon.
Verizon claims that up to 50% of Covad's customer problems were not, in fact Verizon's fault. That means that Verizon admits that _at least_ half of the problem was their fault. But far be it from me to suspect the largest of the baby bells (actually I think 4 of them. plus GTE. plus others) to abuse its monopoly status of over half the local lines in the country.
so the flaw is that they opened up the supply to competition (which didn't exist yet), but they forgot to leave the public vulnerable to gouging by the cartel that snapped up all the existing power generators that they didn't have to build because the public had already paid for them?
I don't think you understand what a search engine does.
It does not monitor your ports and intercept email or activate the web cam in your montitor. A search engine isn't the same thing as echelon or coarnivore. It uses a program to follow links and build a database of pages it has visited, and then allows you to search the database. Then it returns a list of sites that match.
For instance, if you wanted to find the online company helpdesk page for installing netscape, you might use the corporate search engine and type:
netscape installation help
And with Altavista's customized corporate search you will also be able to look for an email you accidentally deleted on the exchange server with something like:
Report Q3 Project ABC
but because of permission restrictions, you wouldn't be able to see the version your boss forwarded to the VP after he erased your name and put his at the bottom.
Now, if you're running a Napster-like service on your shared network (F:) drive (Probabaly samba on Solaris) so you can listen to Enter Sandman when you're in the lab tracking down a bug, then your name will probably show up anytime someone types Metallica in the corporate search engine.
All i can tell from looking at their site is that it is a webpage for publishing specific political writings and sensational quasi-journalism like Peter (Spycatcher) Wright's and David Shayler's revelations about MI5 that hopes to one day have their own browser.
Sorry, but $14 million can pay a lot of really good programmers for a really long time. Eazel was badly managed. They died like a dotcom because they acted like a dotcom.
nobody complained about fair use when we used tapes. And a copy of a copy of a tape still sounds better than most mp3s.
And you could still listen to a tape a year after you bought it. Most CDs that get any use at all, get unplayable from scratches really quick. And its usually the players that scratch them.
If Photoshop were the same price as Half-Life they would make twice as much money. If it were the same price as Windows, Adobe would be 10 times as big.
the author spends the first few paragraphs blasting the guy that made his profession possible for being a Christian, and tries to prove his knowledge is superior to a hundred year old work.
Excuse me, but Unicode isn't suppose to describe fonts. As bad as Unicode is, every character in every language can be represented in way, way, less than 65,000 bits. Korean has around 50 characters. The Japanese use less than 1000 Kanji in practical use. You couldn't find a Chinese, or even an an American who has more than a 10,000 word vocabulary if you tried.
What's more, if accents, umlats, or whatever were used as separate characters, everything except chinese and japanese kanji could fit in 256 characters.
Most japanese get by using 2-character combinations, on a variation of a standard keyboard, which is a lot easier than trying to use a 10,000 letter typewriter. Every word in japanese can be represented with 50 hiragana.
the chinese character set can be at least partially blamed for the high level of illiteracy in china. It is ancient. It has lasted so long mainly as a tactic specifically to keep the general populace ignorant.
And we don't need to fit Mayan sculpture into unicode.
There wasn't anything cryptic about my comment. I did twist your words "upper middle class Americans" to "Americans who are in the upper middle class" to make my point.
The bottom of the barrel here is so much better than most anywhere else. Why do you think people from Cambodia, Guatemala and China give up everything and risk their lives to come here and live in "poverty". East LA is 90120 to alot of people.
Our problem here has very little to do with poverty. Nobody starves in America (except rich, pretty girls who don't feel good about themselves) and the malnutrition is because the dumpsters are full of the same food everyone else eats.
To answer my own question, the other half in America is actually the other three-quarters. And I've been there. Almost my whole life, until recently. I'm glad you've had a personal experience to help you understand that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is fiction. But I've never had Glaucoma, or Scurvy, or Diptheria. I got a Tetanus shot when I cut myself, I buy iodine and penecillin at the drug store (but I rarely need them). I was born in a hospital.
Poverty is a social problem here, not economic. I've lived on food stamps. I've walked to work. I have a friend who paid $34 a month to live in Government housing. Now he's paying $350 to live in the same roach infested complex because he has a job but can't afford a rent deposit and has bad credit. But that's political.
I'm probably still poorer than your parents, but I'm grateful to have free TV and be able to afford groceries and a computer and make payments on a new car.
To speak historically, alot of wealthy merchants and landowners fled to Canada. Indentured servants and even slaves died to bring freedom to America.
Poland thought they had leverage when they signed a mutual protection pact with England.
As much as I'd like to see AOL disappear, at least from my desktop when I install Windows XP, they aren't making any demands. They are asking to include their product in Windows, essentially, buying ad space (on your hard drive) from Microsoft, who is threatening to refuse their *right* to "fair" competition. It would be like all three major networks (NBC owns UPN and ABC owns WB) refusing to allow cable to buy advertizing (if the networks were all owned by one company, and if cable was owned by a different company)
It would be a different story if Microsoft did not allow advertising at all to be packaged with windows.
ps. DoubleClick is probably Microsoft's next target. Look for Eudora/Opera pioneered functionality in IE6
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What about those power companies that didn't go into bankruptcy that are getting special concessions and I've heard (seriously not a joke) may be given monopoly power over a very large percentage of the California market, at the exclusion of other companies whose executives contributed to the political opposition's presidential campaigns.
"The lawsuit is supported by more than a score of sworn statements by Covad employees. "
"In affidavits, former Covad workers said that the false reports were collected systematically, and they estimated that as many as 50 percent of the reported troubles were false."
So, statistically, the next (or previous) 198 out of 200 tickets definitely were Verizon's fault. If you have 22,000 problems and you know for sure who caused at least 11,000 of them, who are you going to suspect caused some of the others. You've got former employees (number not disclosed) making dodgy, carefully worded accusations at the behest of Verizon.
Verizon claims that up to 50% of Covad's customer problems were not, in fact Verizon's fault. That means that Verizon admits that _at least_ half of the problem was their fault. But far be it from me to suspect the largest of the baby bells (actually I think 4 of them. plus GTE. plus others) to abuse its monopoly status of over half the local lines in the country.
but when Tom's Hardware and Anandtech reviews of new products are a couple days (or weeks) behind this one (or one like it) which will you read first?
I find it amazing that Mr. Elz has been able to so successfully regulate the prized .com.au domain hierarchy.
maybe he just hasn't got around to checking his email?
It does not monitor your ports and intercept email or activate the web cam in your montitor. A search engine isn't the same thing as echelon or coarnivore. It uses a program to follow links and build a database of pages it has visited, and then allows you to search the database. Then it returns a list of sites that match.
For instance, if you wanted to find the online company helpdesk page for installing netscape, you might use the corporate search engine and type:
netscape installation help
And with Altavista's customized corporate search you will also be able to look for an email you accidentally deleted on the exchange server with something like:
Report Q3 Project ABC
but because of permission restrictions, you wouldn't be able to see the version your boss forwarded to the VP after he erased your name and put his at the bottom.
Now, if you're running a Napster-like service on your shared network (F:) drive (Probabaly samba on Solaris) so you can listen to Enter Sandman when you're in the lab tracking down a bug, then your name will probably show up anytime someone types Metallica in the corporate search engine.
All i can tell from looking at their site is that it is a webpage for publishing specific political writings and sensational quasi-journalism like Peter (Spycatcher) Wright's and David Shayler's revelations about MI5 that hopes to one day have their own browser.
You wouldn't think a "software developer" would judge the value of an os on the translucent pastel color of the case and button widgets.
You should observe a user (or use a computer) and stop reading 80's college papers that rehash Xerox PARC studies from the seventies.
you've got to be kidding.
Just doing my part to help VA stock.
Sorry, but $14 million can pay a lot of really good programmers for a really long time. Eazel was badly managed. They died like a dotcom because they acted like a dotcom.
And you could still listen to a tape a year after you bought it. Most CDs that get any use at all, get unplayable from scratches really quick. And its usually the players that scratch them.
But I want this mud.
If Photoshop were the same price as Half-Life they would make twice as much money. If it were the same price as Windows, Adobe would be 10 times as big.
Photoshop is simply $695 more expensive than Gimp.
Anyone who speaks english and cant figure out what fishes are ise fit to be hung, in bunches.
Excuse me, but Unicode isn't suppose to describe fonts. As bad as Unicode is, every character in every language can be represented in way, way, less than 65,000 bits. Korean has around 50 characters. The Japanese use less than 1000 Kanji in practical use. You couldn't find a Chinese, or even an an American who has more than a 10,000 word vocabulary if you tried.
What's more, if accents, umlats, or whatever were used as separate characters, everything except chinese and japanese kanji could fit in 256 characters.
Most japanese get by using 2-character combinations, on a variation of a standard keyboard, which is a lot easier than trying to use a 10,000 letter typewriter. Every word in japanese can be represented with 50 hiragana.
the chinese character set can be at least partially blamed for the high level of illiteracy in china. It is ancient. It has lasted so long mainly as a tactic specifically to keep the general populace ignorant.
And we don't need to fit Mayan sculpture into unicode.
IN aMERICA
The bottom of the barrel here is so much better than most anywhere else. Why do you think people from Cambodia, Guatemala and China give up everything and risk their lives to come here and live in "poverty". East LA is 90120 to alot of people.
Our problem here has very little to do with poverty. Nobody starves in America (except rich, pretty girls who don't feel good about themselves) and the malnutrition is because the dumpsters are full of the same food everyone else eats.
To answer my own question, the other half in America is actually the other three-quarters. And I've been there. Almost my whole life, until recently. I'm glad you've had a personal experience to help you understand that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is fiction. But I've never had Glaucoma, or Scurvy, or Diptheria. I got a Tetanus shot when I cut myself, I buy iodine and penecillin at the drug store (but I rarely need them). I was born in a hospital.
Poverty is a social problem here, not economic. I've lived on food stamps. I've walked to work. I have a friend who paid $34 a month to live in Government housing. Now he's paying $350 to live in the same roach infested complex because he has a job but can't afford a rent deposit and has bad credit. But that's political.
I'm probably still poorer than your parents, but I'm grateful to have free TV and be able to afford groceries and a computer and make payments on a new car.
To speak historically, alot of wealthy merchants and landowners fled to Canada. Indentured servants and even slaves died to bring freedom to America.
As much as I'd like to see AOL disappear, at least from my desktop when I install Windows XP, they aren't making any demands. They are asking to include their product in Windows, essentially, buying ad space (on your hard drive) from Microsoft, who is threatening to refuse their *right* to "fair" competition. It would be like all three major networks (NBC owns UPN and ABC owns WB) refusing to allow cable to buy advertizing (if the networks were all owned by one company, and if cable was owned by a different company)
It would be a different story if Microsoft did not allow advertising at all to be packaged with windows.
ps. DoubleClick is probably Microsoft's next target. Look for Eudora/Opera pioneered functionality in IE6