One for Des

butbutbut "information wants to be free"

Exactly

 

Bastards turned me down for a job when I left Lucent. And they took a
numpty guy I worked with who was utterly useless. So in a way I hope
they crash and burn.

 

<snip explanation of interconnection costs>

Ta for that

"Opex" = 'operating expenses'? Is this staff, buildings, etc?

Yeah, being in a related sort of business, I should have thought about
that harder. We need a certiain minimum amount of infrastructure to
offer any sort of service at all - the cost of this is fixed, whether
it's used by 1 or 1000 customers. However, beyond this base level,
you need to add kit to support more customers, so it is obviously
possible to calculate the marginal cost.

 

Oh. All my players are multi-region, so I have no need to retain these
trivial facts in my cranium.

 

Power, building costs, maintenance, interconnection charges, services
bought in[1], interest on equipment costs[2].

[1] Transmission from other Telcos springs to mind here.
[2] Assuming that expensive hardware hasn't been bought outright[3]
[3] IIRC the majority of Oranges BTS were on a long term lease from
various banks.


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Yes, all the stuff it costs to run the business that isn't actually
capital expenditure.

IME businesses like things to be Capex rather than Opex since Capex
can be depreciated over several years so putting a cost down as capex
means that on a P&L basis it only costs you some portion of its capital
value over any one financial year; thus making your end of year figures
look better.

I think Enron had been putting vast swathes of Opex items in as Capex to
fiddle their books.

Personally I think the whole Capex/Opex split is a horrible accounting
instrument and it encourages poor business practises since surely cash
flow is what counts. I'm not an accountant so I don't understand.

 

Well I was doing an identical job (to the one advertised) for one of
their competitors at the time and they wouldn't even interview me for
their vacancy. Strange that, in their position I'd have interviewed me
even if I had no plans to employ me to get a clue about what my
competitors were up to. Then again, maybe the person doing the
interviewing knew me.

 

I couldn't remember what region number is allocated to Merkania, so
had to check.

 

Exactly what?

You could guess which frequencies are used based on the data on
underwater propogation?

You could calculate the antenna size given a frequency of operation?

I thought Mick's point was that someone gave an antenna length of 1.5km
and based on this and the public data on radio propogation in sea water
you could calculate the frequencies employed.

 

That pretty much everything that's meant to be classified is available
one way or another.

 

I think at some point Orange sold their network under a leaseback
arrangement.

 

(The Older Gentleman) spouted the
following in

Faction? Looks a bit shade of greyish in a world of facts dunnit.

The Japanese Ambassador was kept waiting in the ante room while the
Enola Gay flew across the pacific FYI. He hadn't gone there to dictate
terms.

Hog has already provided the numbers of civilian casualties that
accounted and continues to account for.

Personally, I take the 'facts' provided to us by our military uberlords
with a large dose of NaCl. 'Lost' ships logs and all.

 

Me neither, but you onviously understand a lot more about it than me.

 

For this thread, the track you should be thinking of is:

"On the turning away"

and the quote is:

"We could find that we're all alone,
In the dream of the proud"

E minor is about the best key for any Gilmour solo.

Its that bend up from a perfect fourth below the E on the 6th string,
12 fret.

Check it on Sorrow, the last track on "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"

And with it my all time favourite Floyd line:

"And the silence that speaks so much louder than words,
Of promises broken."


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And known to be so, when the claim was made.
[/QUOTE]

That's still refuted by Hoon isn't it? Or did he successfully sidestep
having to make a categorical statement on that through the sideshow of
throwing the weapons expert to the media dogs.

Oh hang on, he's still in denial about that too isn't he.

 

You know, I've never really thought much of any Floyd after The Wall.

I really should make an effort to listen to more.

 

I've not, really, listened to anything post Barrett. Do I want to?

 

Well, this has been explained to me properly elsewhere. My (poor)
poing was that none of those things above affect an individual call

I doubt you'd base your pricing on the maximum you're network could
handle. But say N was 50% of your network capacityl; my question was,
"what's the additional cost for N+1 calls over N calls".

But no need to continue, I see that my question was fairly meaningless
now.

 

The important thing to note is when businesses start focussing on
putting things into Capex instead of Opex that times will start to get
tougher for employees. IME.

 

Did you really expect it to be anything other than "Number 1"...?