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Where is that board/server nazi matt anyway?
BURGE,MANGIA STU GOTZ
Hey fukko,
why am i still in here?
Hi Steve. The below people would like to thank you for all you did for us in regards to chat.
Allowing us to have a chat room on your dime.
Taking care of chat tech problems.
We think you were a class act along with Jim who also helped out at times.
Once again...........Thanks from all of us!
excel
austin01
ElderWolf
Year 2000
Bob C
Tigerannie
Deeba
Porscha
Mikerub
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iOwnSomeNVEI
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34Simmons
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THOROFTHUNDER
buuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrpppp,excuse me
matt, let me outta here!
matt, why am i in here?
lmao.
to ihub administrator, email me why i`m in here.
bigalny@hotmail.com
Why am i in here?
al desante
Keeper,others
Has a class-action lawsuit been started?
Is it legal for a public company to raise money through the selling of shares to the public and then run revenues through the books of a private company such as top secret productions?
Isn`t that money laundering?
Innovation Drives 802.11, VoIP-enabled DSL Modems into the Mainstream
By: Fred Zimmerman, Dennis Barrett
Texas Instruments’ VoIP Group
Recent rumors of $20 bids for 800,000 low-end DSL modems for Chunghwa Telecom may fill you with joy if you’re buying modems or disturb you if you’re selling them. Whatever the case may be, one thing is certain: low pricing is good for innovation.
The 1962 economic thesis, Incentives for Innovation (Arrow; Scotchmer and Maurer III; Gilbert and Newberry), concluded that the Theory of General Equilibrium did not apply to innovation. The theory professes that competitive markets quickly adjust resources (investment, number of participants, supply) to achieve balance between cost and demand, thereby allowing acceptable profit. While 1962 was indeed a long time ago, Arrow and his colleagues must have somehow foreseen the DSL marketplace. Even the current slim profit margins that manufacturers and chip makers are seeing have yet to show signs of slowing the pace of innovation.
In his recently published article, “The Economics of Innovation,” Hal Varian, dean of the school of information management and systems at University of California, examines the periods of technology-driven innovation in the past. He observes that there are similarities and differences with what we see going on today in the communications industry and quotes Marty Weitzman, a Harvard University economist, who describes these periods as "recombinant growth."
“The idea is that every now and then a set of components combines in lots of different ways to produce new sets of goods and services. That recombination is the source of innovation in these periods.”
In our case here, let’s examine what innovations the advent of DSL modems have spawned. If you’re an early home network adopter, you may have an Ethernet router that ties into some Cat-5 wiring that you pulled through the attic. If you’re a newer member of the home-networked ranks, you probably have an 802.11 wireless router (see diagram). For those using computers in a home office environment, there is probably a telephone near the computer. Or maybe you have one nearby for a teenager who likes to juggle phone conversations with multiple friends while Instant Messaging others on the computer.
In any of these cases, if you’re thinking “recombinant growth” you’re exactly right. However, during any integration effort, the value perceived by the customer must be carefully weighed against the cost of integrating the features. Ultimately, the customer must conclude that an integrated unit is more compelling than separate components. As such, manufacturers should focus on integrating features that will be widely accepted in the marketplace and allow service providers to reap additional revenues from their customers.
FEATURE FOCUS
One feature which will soon be integrated into DSL modems is an 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) router. Wide acceptance in the marketplace is punctuated by analysts, such as IDC, claiming that shipments of 802.11 equipment will increase nearly five-fold by 2007, up from 23.5 million units in 2002.
Note that this growth is not restricted to computing equipment. Sony recently announced details on its eagerly awaited handheld PlayStation console, the PSP. The new machine will feature built-in 802.11 networking to enable multi-player gaming. The broad adoption of 802.11 has not been lost on DSL modem manufacturers. Some have even announced plans to add 802.11wireless router functionality to standard DSL modems at no extra cost.
Another feature DSL modem manufacturers plan to integrate into their equipment is Voice over IP (VoIP). Last year, service providers in Asia added 1.6 million (one million of which were in Japan) new VoIP users to their networks. Yahoo Broadband is buying almost two million DSL modems with integrated VoIP and 802.11 functionality.
NTT also is planning for aggressive subscriber growth of Voice over DSL services. In Japan, DSL modems with packet voice capabilities are the most popular choice among customers for new deployments today.
China, which is three years behind Japan in VoIP deployments, is also expecting to see growth in the demand for residential VoIP. Some have predicted that voice-enabled integrated access devices (IADs) could become the technology of choice in the near future. Adoption of VoIP also is on the upswing in the U.S., with innovative service providers such as Vonage, VoicePulse and Packet8 growing quickly. In August 2003, Vonage announced the activation of 40,000 total lines and 40 million completed calls across its session initiation protocol (SIP) network. Currently, Vonage is adding more than 1,500 lines to its network every week and doubling its active line base every 90 days. According to industry pundit, Jeff Pulver, within the next five years, the number of VoIP telephone lines in the United States could grow to about 40 million. It is widely believed that major cable companies and other broadband Internet access providers will enter the VoIP fold soon.
Silicon manufacturers are actively engaging in innovation at the chip and software level to support recombinant growth in this market. To simplify the integration challenges and lower the costs of putting their technologies together, some system-on-a-chip designers are implementing chip-to-chip serial interfaces across several product lines. A low cost serial interface enables manufacturers to rapidly add features such as VoIP and 802.11 to existing cable and DSL modems.
During periods of recombinant growth it is of equal importance to understand what to integrate, what not to integrate and when to do the integration. The road to profitability is strewn with products comprised of “build-it-and-they-will-come” feature additions. Most of these added features never achieved broad market acceptance as individual component technologies. Recent examples include HPNA and Homeplug consumer networking technologies, neither of which gained the kind of universal consumer acceptance that 802.11 has achieved to date.
Other features perish because they are introduced to the market before it is prepared to accept a new combination. While video enjoys great consumer interest, much work remains to be done before we see the broad deployment of an integrated DSL-based video system for the home. Issues such as bandwidth, infrastructure improvements, and a lack of understanding which features users require, must first be addressed. For the near term, video over DSL will remain in the development and trial phases as these challenges are tackled.
Editors note: I'd like to add to their conclusions about video that some of the most interesting providers in the world - Fastweb, Free.fr, and LDCOM - are already deploying video gateways as part of their standard service. db
DRESS CODE
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raise. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better,
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BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
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non-employees attend to the arrangements. In rare cases where employee
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afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and
subsequently leave one hour early.
RESTROOM USE
Entirely too much time is being spent in the restroom. There is now a
strict 3 minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of three minutes, an
alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall door will
open and a picture will be taken. After your second offense, your picture
will be posted on the company bulletin board under the "Chronic Offenders"
category.
LUNCH BREAK
Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch as they need to eat more, so that
they can look healthy. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a
balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes
for lunch, because that's all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast.
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concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations,
insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplation's, consternation, and
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Have a nice week!
THE MANAGEMENT
RIDDLE:
> Schwartzenegger has a big one
> Michael J. Fox has a small one
> Madonna doesn't have one
> The Pope has one but doesn't use his
> Clinton uses his all the time
> Mickey Mouse has an unusual one
> Liberace never used his on women
> Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his.
> Cher claims that she took on 3.
> We never saw Lucy use Desi's
> What is it?
> Answer below! (this is really good)
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Any qqq holders here?
Time to short at 2000 nasdaq?
Hi rim
Is that your phone number?
What city is 619?
Al d.
Rim,
Are you a nvei insider?
From dsl prime.
ADSL2 - it matters
Reach, testing, power and noise savings
I thought ADSL2 was "ho hum," but I now see it will be a powerful source of opex savings, not just an increase in speed to 12M. I recommend you insist on it as soon as the last kinks are resolved, no later than June of 2004. Here's why:
Reach on long loops improves 2,000-3,000 feet, demonstrated on a line simulator by Analog Devices. Real world results may not be as good, but any reduction in long loop problems saves money. If you extend your servable customers 1,000 feet, that's significant growth in sales.
ADSL2 test modes give you a much clearer picture of what customer problems can be, providing much better data on the loop near the customer. Spirent, using Aware's Dr. DSL test software, showed how you can quickly pinpoint problems like bad in-home wiring. These are now among your costliest to troubleshoot and solve. This will only take a software upgrade on the gear most U.S. telcos already own.
Powerdown does more than just save on electricity costs, although that's significant as well. Unnecessary power use create interference on other lines, hurting performance in the field. (Telcos are telling me this is a major problem.) Reduced power/heat is especially important in remotes. Infineon is ready to test powerdown with telcos.
Dozens of small improvements are incorporated in the new chip sets. Better filters and hybrids, improved design algorithms, and much more were all possible under ADSL1, but have not been incorporated until the newest designs. I'm hearing from many sources the modems are significantly better.
I was long confused between ADSL2 and ADSL+, and owe David Benini's white papers a thank you for explaining. The new design features are part of the ADSL2 spec, which is settled and in advanced interoperability testing at UNH. Speeds go up to 12M. ADSL2+ also doubles the frequency range, with the higher frequencies as much as doubling performance on short (less than 10,000 foot) loops. 2+ goes to 24 mbps, and 26 mbps with non-standard tricks.
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ADSL2+ isn't working yet; ADSL2 has problems to solve
24-26 meg Japanese service all proprietary
They're actively selling 24-26 mbps in Japan, but I was wrong to report it as ADSL2+. It's the ADSL2+ chips running in various incompatible and non-standard modes, while ADSL2+ is far from an interoperable standard. I confirmed with several chip guys: ADSL2 interoperability is still a way off, ADSL2+ even further out. This email questioned my item "Here Comes VDSL2"
"My reaction to this is 'Oh No'. As an integrator of DSL chipsets, I'm already at the point where I believe that chipset companies and standards bodies have already raised expectations too high with ADSL2. Now they seem to be pushing VDSL2. To explain my angst, let me say that I do not believe that there is any technology provider in the market _right_now_ that has an ADSL2 solution. Interoperability hasn't been worked out. Recent evidence from UNH would indicate there are still chipset vendors that can not synchronise with any other parties, so other ADSL2 features just can not be developed yet.
The NTT solution is NOT ADSL2. It is a chipset-proprietary implementation of something named G.992.1 Annex I, to aid in the current Japanese bitrate war. This would definitely not work with any other chip vendor, as there are many proprietary "features" in the product.
The feature sets of ADSL2 are complex, so are being rolled out in different phases. This is a nightmare for CPE equipment manufacturers, as Telcos are expecting "ADSL2" CPE now. These same CPE may not be compatible with later phases.
Similarly, VDSL still isn't mature enough to guarantee interop. between chipsets. There are companies that can't even agree on what bandplans to use. For example plan 997/998 won't cut the mustard for ethernet at anything but short reaches, so companies are inventing proprietary bandplans to cover this gap. These bandplans will only work on same chipset deployments. This isn't "VDSL". ADSL2+ is supposed to be G.992.5. Yahoo will deploy GSV "G.span" technology, which is not 992.5. I guess this is just NTT and Yahoo scoring points (maybe striking sparks???) off each other.
Therefore, for T1E1 to start talking VDSL2 is all fine and dandy. Maybe when the industry _actually_ catches up with other developments, such as ADSL2, we can start worrying about 'new standards.' Meanwhile, of course, the telcos are still listening to the standards and marketing guys and demanding these new technologies, which can't be delivered."
I believe the payoff from ADSL2 is so high these problems must be solved, but that's why I urge a changeover over the next 9 months rather than immediately. db
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Al d.
ot/Does anyone here love SUNW at current 4.16.i see 5 and marginability again soon!
Sunw UP!Upgrades soon to follow you think?
Creeping towards 10,000 dow!
I thought embarq was a developing chip that was to solve the last mile bottleneck?Now it`s to speed up data in the ethernet?
I`m doing 54 mbs in the ethernet already.
i believe some are doing 100 mbs already. No wonder this company can`t find funding. Nothing unique to offer. Oh well back to the big caps.
Cambridge study.i`ll try and humor us a little!
Aoccdrnig to a rschearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?
Rim, ugly 10q was released yesterday.I`m glad i sold. Good luck.
I miss 100 dollars a share days!my 401k has been depleted by 75% since 2000!Any guesses on dell`s market share of desktops and servers?
Do you think hp server business will surpass sunw`s?
Al
Any thoughts on ecn`s?
Yes, but after reading last 4 years of sec filings,they will keep selling 6 cents shares to secure their paychecks.
Do you think i should sell and take a minimal loss?
Cisco to 25!
Rim, i asked many questions.So far not 1 answer panned out :(
I only have 10000.Alot for me.
Wow you netted 25 grand!you got nothing to lose!
71 grand towards r&d and millions raised.Where did all the money go?7 cents shares? Why did i buy at 42 cents?
In May 2003, we:
o sold an aggregate of 756,166 shares of common stock to nine
investors for total proceeds of $113,425; and
o sold 473,023 shares of common stock to a "non-US Person" (as
such term is defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act
of 1933) for total proceeds of $69,588;
o issued an aggregate of $396,000 principal amount of
convertible promissory notes to four investors, which notes
are convertible into shares of our common stock at a
conversion price of $1.00 per share and which were issued in
exchange for four convertible promissory notes issued in May
2002 with aggregate principal and interest due at the time of
the exchange of $360,000; and
o issued 31,250 shares of common stock upon conversion of a
convertible note held by one investor, resulting in the
cancellation of $10,000 that would have been outstanding under
the note.
In June 2003, we:
o sold an aggregate of 1,559,896 shares of common stock to
thirteen investors for total proceeds of $229,985; and
o issued 15,625 shares of common stock upon conversion of a
convertible note held by one investor, resulting in the
cancellation of $5,000 that would have been outstanding under
the note.
In July 2003, we:
o sold an aggregate of 1,447,400 shares of common stock to
fifteen investors for total proceeds of $217,110;
o issued 55,000 shares of common stock upon conversion of a
convertible note held by one investor, resulting in the
cancellation of $16,500 in principal and interest that would
have been outstanding under the note; and
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10-Q
o issued an aggregate of $98,000 principal amount in convertible
promissory notes to two investors, which notes are convertible
into our common stock at conversion prices of $0.33 and $0.60
per share.
Following the quarter ended July 31, 2003, we sold or issued the
following unregistered securities:
In August 2003, we:
o sold an aggregate of 450,100 shares of common stock to seven
investors for total proceeds of $67,515;
o issued 300,000 shares of common stock upon exercise of a
warrant held by one person for which we received an aggregate
exercise price of $18,000; and
o issued an aggregate of 28,000 shares of common stock to four
persons for services valued at $10,360.
In September 2003, we:
o sold an aggregate of 163,666 shares of common stock to seven
investors for total proceeds of $24,550; and
o issued 700,000 shares of common stock upon exercise of a
warrant held by one person for which we received an aggregate
exercise price of $42,000.
Dow to 10000 by December ?
No sign in 10q of microsoft 70 grand.
Wasn`t there a pr saying nvei got 70 grand from msft?
I`m out tommorrow if i can`t find 1 reason to stay.I`m in at 42 cents.Sorry longs.
Al
Rim, so why wasn`t fpga done as promised in 02?
Why isn`t it done now?
Why was a company executive forgiven 178,000 in a loan it gave him when money seems so crucial?
After reading last few sec filings i`m believing more and more we have been misled.
Insiders, ani,zaiq debt,consultants, seem to have had no problem getting cash or shares.
If tech is commercially viable why isn`t a fpga ready?
isn`t some bod members associated with globespan-virata?
They seem to have a very large market cap and could easily fund embarq if it indeed was a billion dollar product;
WOULDN`T A NVEI DEEP-POCKET BOD MEMBER BE ALL OVER FUNDING EMBARQ?
i`m selling soon if no tech results by end of october!
AL.
YES.YOUR WELCOME. KEEP THE FAITH, LONG AND STRONG.
no.mercatus is dead. authorized upped to 500 million.
insiders win, again
Thanks for getting in touch. I have a saying based on now many years of
starting things from scratch, it is this.
"Disaster wears Clogs and Success, carpet slippers!"
By that I mean you can always hear disaster coming, PR's of people who were
met in the street or letters as to letters of intent and all the other hype
and nonsense that little companies in a lot of trouble seem to think will
get them out of it. I'm always amused that accusations are of not looking
after stock value on no news and hyping to dump stock for themselves on lots
of news. We (Directors) have no stock registered for sale by the way, we
get our shot once we make real and sustained profits, it is my rule and
that's how it will be.
We sell computer mouse, for $100 and more and each order isn't a notifiable
event. If we weren't getting the orders that would be, but we are. We are
now getting the recognition for actual performance of the product by those
who will then sell it for us, they are the corporate ergonomists and many
corporations are signing us up as an approved purchase option for their
companies. (Mickey Mouse [Walt D Co] just placed their third order in about
a month). Some of these 'sign ups' will be notifiable, others events will
be notifiable and when they are DONE, they will be notified.
Every PR costs between $200 and $500 bucks to put out! I can either spend
that money on putting out 'letter to shareholders' illegal but by pen craft
they are always possible, or spend it on advertising to the people who buy
product stock, knowing it will ultimately do the TRBY stock the most good.
I sincerely believe we are through the creaky phase and our products have
exceeded and not just met the expectations we have set. We are now focused
on moving the volumes of stock that make us self sufficient (we appear to be
there) and with that will come the interest by cheaper money to take out the
debenture that actually allowed us to get into manufacturing. Once all this
is settled, I hope before the end of Q4, we will be a reasonable capitalized
company, not hundreds and hundreds of millions of shares issued and churned
by the day traders, but a proper micro to medium cap, with a product range
and a future and real investors in it for the long haul.
It has been quiet because of the summer and while the practical work that is
necessary to achieve the above has been taking place, the signatories are
just getting back and catching up.
I understand the frustration (lived with it for 5 years now) but also know
that corners invariably hold up structures and cutting them weakens them!
So there is nothing bad to report, and only good, to be shared in the proper
and formal manner and it will come when it is ready. I have been hounded by
a few investors, which I do not take this polite inquiry as at all, and my
reply to them is the only press release I could make is
"CEO Quits due to investor pressure to manipulate market with bogus press
releases", that usually works!
Thanks again for getting in touch.
Sincerely
Tom
Tom Large
President & CEO
Torbay Holdings Inc
www.quillmouse.com
your late dude!
looking to make a really quick g note.