So AT&T's failure to develop an adequate 5 year plan that addresses the needs of the market is the FCC's problem? The only reason they "need" T-Mobile's towers (at least given the argument that you laid out) is because AT&T cannot plan ahead.
Welcome to corporate America, where very few seem capable of seeing past next quarter.
You should go to work for AT&T. Seriously. If what you say is true, you would not be doing any worse than the "experts" that AT&T currently has on the payroll who are trying to influence the government with regards to this deal.
They let the market sort it out. I might not have been the best approach from a technical point of view, but from a capitalistic point of view it was fine. Given that the carriers practically give away phones every time you sign a contract, having to wait a year or two to jump carriers is not the end of the world. It would be great if you could take your phone with you, but that would be unAmerican. I would rather that the carriers get to decide what technologies they want to use. Expecting the government to make educated decisions when it comes to technology is unrealistic.
Larry Solomon, senior vice president of corporate communications at AT&T, called the F.C.C.’s action “disappointing.”
“It is yet another example of a government agency acting to prevent billions in new investment and the creation of many thousands of new jobs at a time when the U.S. economy desperately needs both,”
Just because AT&T continues to say that the deal would result in investment does make it true. If they were interested in investing in infrastructure and jobs, they would do it. Instead they want to buy T-Mobile, loot whatever is left in their coffers and lay off all of their workers.
When an organization as corrupt as the United States government is coming out against a deal, you can be certain that something is rotten in Denmark.
You are correct, a company is a collection of people. But a company is incorporated once and exists as a single entity for legal purposes. Therefore the company is singular. Although I suppose we could take a trip into zany land, and label Facebook employees Facebooks. "Facebooks are eager to compete." That could make some semblance of sense.
You wacky Brits. No wonder we broke away from you.:P
You're right. I never meant to imply any sort of moral superiority. I was just taking the opportunity to poke fun at sales people, who seem to be paid to lie for a living.
That is a good point. I often use that technique not to deal with liars, but to CYA.
"Just to confirm, you told me that you understand everything I told you, but you don't want to deal with it right now and think it can wait until later. I'm okay with that. Just don't come crying to me when the systems are down because you didn't take me seriously."
All it takes is getting bit in the ass once to turn into an ass covering twit. I hate to be that guy, but I hate it even more to get caught holding the bag because someone above me decided that what I told them was important, really wasn't important.
the point of civil disobedience is to draw attention to unjust laws by violating then en flagrante, willfully submitting to punishment, in order to publicize the injust nature of those laws.
Oh, I see! So in that world view, what is going on here is that Goldman Sachs et al are practicing civil disobedience by flagrantly violating the laws, and submitting themselves to toothless SEC / DOJ regulation and oversight to publicize the unjust nature of those laws. Or is it the unjust nature of the enforcement? IANAL.
It seems clear to me now. The OWSers need to be emulating the 1%, rather than opposing them.
If you do civil disobedience, you expect to get hauled off to jail.
Exactly. To add, the only way civil disobedience "works" is if people can get enough like minded people together so that when the arrests happen, there is not enough space to hold everyone in the jails and the cost of prosecuting all of the arrested people outweighs the benefits of prosecution.
What the OWS folks really need to do is organize a huge, jurisprudence education campaign to inform people of their rights to judge the law itself. That way if the state decides to prosecute, they will find themselves saddled with juries who will not convict. THAT will deliver the message that the people stand with OWS and their goals. Once the state loses control of the judiciary and their ability to enforce unpopular laws, then we will have real change.
The deception lies in the wording. I could believe that "Mayor Quan" might not have been directly contacted by DHS or the FBI. The mayor has a chief of police to liason with other law enforcement agencies. See how it works? The reporter asked the wrong question. The question should have been, "Have any members of the city government or city law enforcement agents been contacted by or been in contact with the FBI or DHS?"
Thanks for re-enforcing my point. The only buggy code that has ever locked up my PS3 was published by Bethesda. The point I was making is that a console is a lot harder to lock up than a computer, or even a phone. A console is running one application at a time. If that application locks, it is 100% on the shoulders of the developer for failing to properly QA their app.
You make a good point about the sound. The sound is so realistic in BF3. Each gun has a distinct sound, and with the different fire modes available (single shot, burst and full auto) it really increases the realism and immersion. I react differently to a firefight if it is just a couple of SMGs and an assault rifle, verses something like an LMG or a vehicle mounted weapon.
And speaking of vehicles, the sound of tank treads grinding down the street are very well done. Same with the helicopter rotor sound. The way that you can track a helicopter based on sound alone is awesome, especially when you're trying to line up a shot with a SAM.
I refuse play any more Bethesda games. They all have the same problems. They are full of glitches and need patches from day one. Despite being open worlds, heaven forbid that you should venture too far away from what the developers think the right path should be. Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are the only games that actually locked up my PS3. How a game can lock up a console is beyond me, but they managed to do it.
Google and Facebook are working on applications that are much more extensive than VMware customers are working with. It is not a real apples to apples comparison. What kind of organizations besides Google and Facebook really need 1000 web servers? 10,000 web servers?
Most of the environments I have seen have some big databases on the back end. Those are not virtualized. Then you move up to what I will call the processing, or workload tier. Depending on the size of the workloads, those servers can usually be virtualized and scaled out to additional servers as demand for resources scales up. Then you have your third tier, the web front ends and the servers that the clients are actually connected to. 99% of the time those are going to be virtualized so that they can scale out with demand.
Given your average organization and your average application workload, virtualization makes a whole lot of sense. Rarely are you going to be seeing more than a couple thousand users on any one app, and even that is pushing it.
Facebook and Google are the outliers in the IT world. They are doing cool stuff, but the scale they are working on does not reflect the way the other 99% of the world runs their operations.
So the CIA is helping Obama stay on top of the latest trends that will help him converse on the latest topics?
Great. I'm so glad that tax dollars are helping politicians keep up with Facebook at Twitter. It would be bad enough of their staff was doing it. But the CIA? Come on now. I was under the impression that there are real, pressing issues to focus on. Issues like China and Russia coordinating organized, 24x7 penetration testing of anything and everything connected to the internet.
Based on my experience, two years is a bit of an exaggeration. Just look at Windows XP. The software is ten years old and still in wide spread use. The real danger is missing out on major trends. In my own career, I almost missed out on virtualization. My employer did not have any plans on virtualizing and that is where the industry went. If I had stayed put, my career would have been dead.
On the other hand, my knowledge of IT allowed me to make a move into a better position with a company that did not have its head stuck in its ass. By knowledge, I mean platform and technology agnostic understandings about how IT should work. Things like, you need to have a good data protection strategy. You need to have a security architecture in place. You need a DR plan. I would add some soft "skills" to that, like being able to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and being able to guide management to a consensus position on what processes are needed, and which technologies can support those processes.
There's a lot more to the game than those Firelands dailies, though.
The game lost all continuity for me when dungeon finder came out. Any relationship between the instance and the zone it is in vanished. I had no idea where to find quest chains, or what quest chains led to which dungeon. I could be wrong, but it seems like Blizzard might have phased out that dynamic by putting the quest givers right in the beginning of the dungeon. That just increases the disconnect and makes it matter even less what zone the instance is in.
I have not even made it through Cataclysm yet. I made it as far as collecting some stupid tree marks. Blizzard set it up so that you can only get about 14 marks per day, and you need 200 of the damn things. I understand that they wanted to slow down the people who rush through to the end of the game, but seriously? I have better things to do with my time. If I have time to play a game, I want to be able to play the game. Being told "Come back tomorrow, do the same thing again, but even then you still won't be done." really pissed me off.
IMHO Verizon did a good job with this change. They sent me an email a couple of weeks ago letting me know about the changes. The email was very concise and clear. They listed exactly what they wanted the information for and what they were going to do with it. They even gave examples. For example, they made it clear that they were going to use location information to provide context specific advertisements.
Most importantly, the steps for opting out were very explicit and easy to follow. They went so far as to explain how my services would be impacted if I opted out. In short, I will not receive "relevant" context specific ads. Oh noes, teh horrorz!
There is not much to be outraged about when the changes are communicated ahead of time and you have the opportunity to opt out. Verizon is not Facebook. They did not just push out a change and try to hide it.
How is that working out for us now? I fail to see the bounce back that you are talking about. I think the millions of unemployed Americans would like to know when the bounce back is going to happen.
I think we are all agreed that we are in a mess, but I very much disagree with your dismal outlook.
What will raise the American economy back up to the standard of living that we saw in the 1950s and 1960s? Are the economic dynamics going to shift and bring all of the manufacturing back to the States? Is the dollar going to suddenly start appreciating and being worth more?
The reality is that we have ridden America into the ground. We financed our way of life through debt and the debt is now coming due. America as a consuming nation is tapped out. We are leveraged to the hilt and do not have the manufacturing capacity to dig ourselves out of the hole we are. What can Americans do that is worth so much more than anyone else in the world? Biotech? Technology? Manufacturing? Military... Okay, you have one there, but for how much longer?
I would like to see a positive future. Everything I've seen is that the economic foundation that made this country strong has been destroyed.
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So AT&T's failure to develop an adequate 5 year plan that addresses the needs of the market is the FCC's problem? The only reason they "need" T-Mobile's towers (at least given the argument that you laid out) is because AT&T cannot plan ahead.
Welcome to corporate America, where very few seem capable of seeing past next quarter.
You should go to work for AT&T. Seriously. If what you say is true, you would not be doing any worse than the "experts" that AT&T currently has on the payroll who are trying to influence the government with regards to this deal.
They let the market sort it out. I might not have been the best approach from a technical point of view, but from a capitalistic point of view it was fine. Given that the carriers practically give away phones every time you sign a contract, having to wait a year or two to jump carriers is not the end of the world. It would be great if you could take your phone with you, but that would be unAmerican. I would rather that the carriers get to decide what technologies they want to use. Expecting the government to make educated decisions when it comes to technology is unrealistic.
Larry Solomon, senior vice president of corporate communications at AT&T, called the F.C.C.’s action “disappointing.”
“It is yet another example of a government agency acting to prevent billions in new investment and the creation of many thousands of new jobs at a time when the U.S. economy desperately needs both,”
Just because AT&T continues to say that the deal would result in investment does make it true. If they were interested in investing in infrastructure and jobs, they would do it. Instead they want to buy T-Mobile, loot whatever is left in their coffers and lay off all of their workers.
When an organization as corrupt as the United States government is coming out against a deal, you can be certain that something is rotten in Denmark.
You are correct, a company is a collection of people. But a company is incorporated once and exists as a single entity for legal purposes. Therefore the company is singular. Although I suppose we could take a trip into zany land, and label Facebook employees Facebooks. "Facebooks are eager to compete." That could make some semblance of sense.
You wacky Brits. No wonder we broke away from you. :P
You're right. I never meant to imply any sort of moral superiority. I was just taking the opportunity to poke fun at sales people, who seem to be paid to lie for a living.
That is a good point. I often use that technique not to deal with liars, but to CYA.
"Just to confirm, you told me that you understand everything I told you, but you don't want to deal with it right now and think it can wait until later. I'm okay with that. Just don't come crying to me when the systems are down because you didn't take me seriously."
All it takes is getting bit in the ass once to turn into an ass covering twit. I hate to be that guy, but I hate it even more to get caught holding the bag because someone above me decided that what I told them was important, really wasn't important.
When we need to lie, we pick up the phone. Emails are logged and archived.
I'm mostly kidding. I'm in IT. I do not need to lie. The sales staff on the other hand seems to make a living over promising things to clients.
Facebook is a company. Facebook is singular. --- This IS the correct way to use the language.
Facebook are a company. Facebook are singular. --- This ARE not the correct way to use the language.
You need to go back to school and re-learn the difference between singular and plural. No wonder you posted as anonymous.
Really now? Facebook are eager to compete?
Is we educated in English here too?
I use my home line or office line as often as possible. There is a night and day difference in call quality between a hard wired phone and cellular.
the point of civil disobedience is to draw attention to unjust laws by violating then en flagrante, willfully submitting to punishment, in order to publicize the injust nature of those laws.
Oh, I see! So in that world view, what is going on here is that Goldman Sachs et al are practicing civil disobedience by flagrantly violating the laws, and submitting themselves to toothless SEC / DOJ regulation and oversight to publicize the unjust nature of those laws. Or is it the unjust nature of the enforcement? IANAL.
It seems clear to me now. The OWSers need to be emulating the 1%, rather than opposing them.
If you do civil disobedience, you expect to get hauled off to jail.
Exactly. To add, the only way civil disobedience "works" is if people can get enough like minded people together so that when the arrests happen, there is not enough space to hold everyone in the jails and the cost of prosecuting all of the arrested people outweighs the benefits of prosecution.
What the OWS folks really need to do is organize a huge, jurisprudence education campaign to inform people of their rights to judge the law itself. That way if the state decides to prosecute, they will find themselves saddled with juries who will not convict. THAT will deliver the message that the people stand with OWS and their goals. Once the state loses control of the judiciary and their ability to enforce unpopular laws, then we will have real change.
The deception lies in the wording. I could believe that "Mayor Quan" might not have been directly contacted by DHS or the FBI. The mayor has a chief of police to liason with other law enforcement agencies. See how it works? The reporter asked the wrong question. The question should have been, "Have any members of the city government or city law enforcement agents been contacted by or been in contact with the FBI or DHS?"
Thanks for re-enforcing my point. The only buggy code that has ever locked up my PS3 was published by Bethesda. The point I was making is that a console is a lot harder to lock up than a computer, or even a phone. A console is running one application at a time. If that application locks, it is 100% on the shoulders of the developer for failing to properly QA their app.
You make a good point about the sound. The sound is so realistic in BF3. Each gun has a distinct sound, and with the different fire modes available (single shot, burst and full auto) it really increases the realism and immersion. I react differently to a firefight if it is just a couple of SMGs and an assault rifle, verses something like an LMG or a vehicle mounted weapon.
And speaking of vehicles, the sound of tank treads grinding down the street are very well done. Same with the helicopter rotor sound. The way that you can track a helicopter based on sound alone is awesome, especially when you're trying to line up a shot with a SAM.
I refuse play any more Bethesda games. They all have the same problems. They are full of glitches and need patches from day one. Despite being open worlds, heaven forbid that you should venture too far away from what the developers think the right path should be. Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are the only games that actually locked up my PS3. How a game can lock up a console is beyond me, but they managed to do it.
Google and Facebook are working on applications that are much more extensive than VMware customers are working with. It is not a real apples to apples comparison. What kind of organizations besides Google and Facebook really need 1000 web servers? 10,000 web servers?
Most of the environments I have seen have some big databases on the back end. Those are not virtualized. Then you move up to what I will call the processing, or workload tier. Depending on the size of the workloads, those servers can usually be virtualized and scaled out to additional servers as demand for resources scales up. Then you have your third tier, the web front ends and the servers that the clients are actually connected to. 99% of the time those are going to be virtualized so that they can scale out with demand.
Given your average organization and your average application workload, virtualization makes a whole lot of sense. Rarely are you going to be seeing more than a couple thousand users on any one app, and even that is pushing it.
Facebook and Google are the outliers in the IT world. They are doing cool stuff, but the scale they are working on does not reflect the way the other 99% of the world runs their operations.
So the CIA is helping Obama stay on top of the latest trends that will help him converse on the latest topics?
Great. I'm so glad that tax dollars are helping politicians keep up with Facebook at Twitter. It would be bad enough of their staff was doing it. But the CIA? Come on now. I was under the impression that there are real, pressing issues to focus on. Issues like China and Russia coordinating organized, 24x7 penetration testing of anything and everything connected to the internet.
Judas turned in Jesus for less than $1,500
I think we are going to need inflation adjusted figures to determine whether or not he got his money's worth.
Based on my experience, two years is a bit of an exaggeration. Just look at Windows XP. The software is ten years old and still in wide spread use. The real danger is missing out on major trends. In my own career, I almost missed out on virtualization. My employer did not have any plans on virtualizing and that is where the industry went. If I had stayed put, my career would have been dead.
On the other hand, my knowledge of IT allowed me to make a move into a better position with a company that did not have its head stuck in its ass. By knowledge, I mean platform and technology agnostic understandings about how IT should work. Things like, you need to have a good data protection strategy. You need to have a security architecture in place. You need a DR plan. I would add some soft "skills" to that, like being able to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and being able to guide management to a consensus position on what processes are needed, and which technologies can support those processes.
There's a lot more to the game than those Firelands dailies, though.
The game lost all continuity for me when dungeon finder came out. Any relationship between the instance and the zone it is in vanished. I had no idea where to find quest chains, or what quest chains led to which dungeon. I could be wrong, but it seems like Blizzard might have phased out that dynamic by putting the quest givers right in the beginning of the dungeon. That just increases the disconnect and makes it matter even less what zone the instance is in.
I have not even made it through Cataclysm yet. I made it as far as collecting some stupid tree marks. Blizzard set it up so that you can only get about 14 marks per day, and you need 200 of the damn things. I understand that they wanted to slow down the people who rush through to the end of the game, but seriously? I have better things to do with my time. If I have time to play a game, I want to be able to play the game. Being told "Come back tomorrow, do the same thing again, but even then you still won't be done." really pissed me off.
I will save myself the $15 per month.
IMHO Verizon did a good job with this change. They sent me an email a couple of weeks ago letting me know about the changes. The email was very concise and clear. They listed exactly what they wanted the information for and what they were going to do with it. They even gave examples. For example, they made it clear that they were going to use location information to provide context specific advertisements.
Most importantly, the steps for opting out were very explicit and easy to follow. They went so far as to explain how my services would be impacted if I opted out. In short, I will not receive "relevant" context specific ads. Oh noes, teh horrorz!
There is not much to be outraged about when the changes are communicated ahead of time and you have the opportunity to opt out. Verizon is not Facebook. They did not just push out a change and try to hide it.
How is that working out for us now? I fail to see the bounce back that you are talking about. I think the millions of unemployed Americans would like to know when the bounce back is going to happen.
I think we are all agreed that we are in a mess, but I very much disagree with your dismal outlook.
What will raise the American economy back up to the standard of living that we saw in the 1950s and 1960s? Are the economic dynamics going to shift and bring all of the manufacturing back to the States? Is the dollar going to suddenly start appreciating and being worth more?
The reality is that we have ridden America into the ground. We financed our way of life through debt and the debt is now coming due. America as a consuming nation is tapped out. We are leveraged to the hilt and do not have the manufacturing capacity to dig ourselves out of the hole we are. What can Americans do that is worth so much more than anyone else in the world? Biotech? Technology? Manufacturing? Military... Okay, you have one there, but for how much longer?
I would like to see a positive future. Everything I've seen is that the economic foundation that made this country strong has been destroyed.