The solution is to sell health insurance like homeowners insurance. If you live in a flood zone, you'd better have flood insurance. Similarly, if you have a predisposition to heart disease, you should have to by heart disease insurance or you get no coverage for it.
At least not in the next 5 - 10 years... "As of Q1 2007 52.72% of US households had a broadband connection" (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0708/) and I believe "broadband" is defined as 200 kbit/s or better by the FCC... not exactly going to be able to download those 15 GB movies by the time the pizza guy gets here. I'd rather own a hard copy anyway
I think The Phantom Menace was the best of the prequel movies. It had the same depth and feel of the originals. Episode 2 and 3 were basically just action movies.
Always use an online alias and don't use the same email address on your resume that you use online. Then, put urls directly to the content you want them to see on your resume (instead of letting them Google to find your work). If you're referenced on the website(s) as your alias, put a note on your resume about the alias (if it's not offensive or too silly that is).
This is typical government BS. I work for a gov. organization and they never fire anybody for any reason. Most of the time people get promoted for being idiots.
I would say the telephone is not necessary for modern life... I hate talking on the phone. The government disagrees. It will take government intervention in order for everyone to get broadband.
The problem with Verizon and other large Telco's is they don't even know if they offer services in your area or not. My experience is you call them to find out if it is available and most of the time they will tell you it is available and then after you move into your new house and call them up to sign up, then they tell you it isn't available. By that time you're screwed of course. I live in a semi-rural area (about 10 miles away from a city with pop. 65,000) and my choices are severely limited. What is available is too expensive (> $65 a month for 6 MB from the cable company is all I can get)... I don't want 6 MB and I don't want to spend $65+ a month for internet access. I want what is available to everyone else... 1.5 MB DSL for $15 a month. It's even more frustrating when people that live 1/4 mile away can get it and I can't.
It seems that most intelligent, tech-savvy slashdotters are predicting HD-DVD will be the winner, since they know more about the subject than the average consumer. So, naturally Blu-Ray will win;-)
I disagree... In fact, the PS3 will be the reason why the Blu-Ray format will win out over HD-DVD. Think about it from this perspective: Bestbuy is selling an HD-DVD player for $500. The PS3 will be $500. Why would I buy the standalone HD-DVD when I can buy the PS3, which plays Blu-Ray movies AND PS3/2/1 games for the same price? LOTS of die-hard Playstation fans are going to buy the system, no matter what the cost, and that's going to flood the market with Blu-Ray players. The initial boost that PS3 brings for Blu-Ray will be more than enough to out-do the sluggish sales for the standalone HD-DVD's up to that point. That will bring down the cost of production on the Blu-Ray players as well as boost sales for the movies that are using the format. Not to mention that Blu-Ray is a better format... (25 GB vs 15 GB per layer)
You pay AOL for 1.5 Mb, Google pays Verizon for 10 Gb (or whatever). Traffic from Google to you may go something like this:
Google -> Verizon -> Sprint -> AOL -> You
Verizon and AOL are getting paid for your traffic, but Sprint is not. Sprint wants to be able to charge Google for the bandwidth they are using on Sprint's network, even though Google uses Verizon as it's ISP. It is the business man mentality kicking in, and that is why the only thing that will stop it from happening is a law making it illegal. Businesses are looking at the bottom line and that's it.
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The solution is to sell health insurance like homeowners insurance. If you live in a flood zone, you'd better have flood insurance. Similarly, if you have a predisposition to heart disease, you should have to by heart disease insurance or you get no coverage for it.
At least not in the next 5 - 10 years... "As of Q1 2007 52.72% of US households had a broadband connection" (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0708/) and I believe "broadband" is defined as 200 kbit/s or better by the FCC... not exactly going to be able to download those 15 GB movies by the time the pizza guy gets here. I'd rather own a hard copy anyway
I'll bite ya legs off!
I was just waiting for the robot to reach up and smack him.
I think The Phantom Menace was the best of the prequel movies. It had the same depth and feel of the originals. Episode 2 and 3 were basically just action movies.
Always use an online alias and don't use the same email address on your resume that you use online. Then, put urls directly to the content you want them to see on your resume (instead of letting them Google to find your work). If you're referenced on the website(s) as your alias, put a note on your resume about the alias (if it's not offensive or too silly that is).
This is typical government BS. I work for a gov. organization and they never fire anybody for any reason. Most of the time people get promoted for being idiots.
I would say the telephone is not necessary for modern life... I hate talking on the phone. The government disagrees. It will take government intervention in order for everyone to get broadband.
The problem with Verizon and other large Telco's is they don't even know if they offer services in your area or not. My experience is you call them to find out if it is available and most of the time they will tell you it is available and then after you move into your new house and call them up to sign up, then they tell you it isn't available. By that time you're screwed of course. I live in a semi-rural area (about 10 miles away from a city with pop. 65,000) and my choices are severely limited. What is available is too expensive (> $65 a month for 6 MB from the cable company is all I can get)... I don't want 6 MB and I don't want to spend $65+ a month for internet access. I want what is available to everyone else... 1.5 MB DSL for $15 a month. It's even more frustrating when people that live 1/4 mile away can get it and I can't.
It seems that most intelligent, tech-savvy slashdotters are predicting HD-DVD will be the winner, since they know more about the subject than the average consumer. So, naturally Blu-Ray will win ;-)
He has to get his funding from private companies because no government will fund research that counters its political agenda.
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=4 ;-)
I disagree... In fact, the PS3 will be the reason why the Blu-Ray format will win out over HD-DVD. Think about it from this perspective: Bestbuy is selling an HD-DVD player for $500. The PS3 will be $500. Why would I buy the standalone HD-DVD when I can buy the PS3, which plays Blu-Ray movies AND PS3/2/1 games for the same price? LOTS of die-hard Playstation fans are going to buy the system, no matter what the cost, and that's going to flood the market with Blu-Ray players. The initial boost that PS3 brings for Blu-Ray will be more than enough to out-do the sluggish sales for the standalone HD-DVD's up to that point. That will bring down the cost of production on the Blu-Ray players as well as boost sales for the movies that are using the format. Not to mention that Blu-Ray is a better format... (25 GB vs 15 GB per layer)
Think about it this way...
You pay AOL for 1.5 Mb, Google pays Verizon for 10 Gb (or whatever). Traffic from Google to you may go something like this:
Google -> Verizon -> Sprint -> AOL -> You
Verizon and AOL are getting paid for your traffic, but Sprint is not. Sprint wants to be able to charge Google for the bandwidth they are using on Sprint's network, even though Google uses Verizon as it's ISP. It is the business man mentality kicking in, and that is why the only thing that will stop it from happening is a law making it illegal. Businesses are looking at the bottom line and that's it.