Speedfit technique

Andy, the rambling thoughts of an obsessed mind.

I don't have a boss or a van. I use people like you to lift things.

Of couse you don't. You actulay do bweklive the disjointed obessed babble you prattle. sad but true.

It is and your are a brainwashed far righter. Not that that sort of government would make your life better, as it will not. It is just that you don't know that.

How much have you given to the rich today?

- simply

Not exactly making this point from a position of strength are you ? :-)

Here he goes again. He keeps seeing these reds under the bed too. Interesting. How the mind of the brainwashed Little Middle Englander works. Fascinating..

From a position of sensible observation. Sad but true.

You may want to review its chequered history before 1979 before making that point.

Of course they need to know the cost, although I agree that they don't need a huge army of government bureaucrats to figure it out.

Go and take a look at the NICE web site and the clinical policies and you will discover that they are not nice at all.

Then go and look at a random sample of clinical studies.

It wouldn't be a problem if they did.

It was fine until the wicked witch and her disfunctional family came about.

They don't. It has to be paid for, so bloody what. We don't need managers to price every band aid.

I had opportunity to look at this first hand when involved in a debacle with NTL over ISDN provisioning.

From my house, the nearest cabinet is about 50m away. That cabling is done in CTsomething coax and several telephone pairs in a formed bundle cable going from a box on the wall to the cabinet.

In the cabinet there is a distribution amplifier and telephone punchdown frame.

From that point, there is a coax cable (CTbigger something) going back about 500m along with others to a rather larger distribution cabinet. Multipair telephone cables go between cabinets as well. In these larger cabinets there is fibre equipment, RF headends and larger telephone punchdown panels. I understand that the fibres are arranged in loops between large cabinets.

So in effect, fibre is two steps away from the house. Although it's easy to lay fibre, terminating it is a bit more difficult, needing a trained orang utan rather than a chimpanzee. Also, the distribution amplifiers in the cabinets nearest to homes are quite cheap. Fibre distribution equipment is rather more expensive. Then there would need to be fibre termination in the home....

":::Jerry::::" wrote | > >> > I did pillock. | > >> What, as an exam course? | > >No. a brick course. Or was it the starter course.

Mmmm, deep-fried pillock and chips with sauce tartare.

| > More likely a damp course. | Might be better if it has been a 'foundation course', IMM | giving a practical demonstration of his abilities.....

Dear god no, don't let him near foundations.

Owain

PS Very interesting article on German houses in one of the self build mags in WHSmiths at the moment.

Cherie's not all bad.......

The 'bloody what' is that this is tax payer's money and should be spent responsibly.

I don't disagree with that, but it doesn't mean that blank cheques can be written.

Perhaps you'd give me the google number of when you've *not* recommended a combi? Or even asked anyone about their water flow rates? Or gas supply?

Best to get people like me to do your pipework too, then...

Did you ever get that spring out of that 28mm? Perhaps it's that stopping your system furring up rather than the electronic de-scaler?

But surely would be cheap enough in large quantities? After all even the cheapest audio equipment these days has an optical link - although I don't know how similar. I'm more your twisted pair type. ;-)

This then must apply to others in the company? Like the board of Rover - higher paid than those at BMW? Must be why it's so profitable. ;-)

It would depend what you are doing, but yes in principle.

If you are going to use a fibre then to make it sensible, you would want to deliver data, telephony, video telephony, broadcast TV, video on demand etc.

Adding fibre interfaces to telephones would make them rather expensive and you still have to split the services apart.

True, but the optical carries a single service or at least small range of them.

I could see termination of a fibre being something for a home server type of appliance which has the elements of a TV set top box with outputs for phone and data, video handling, home automation etc. All the technology is there to do that but it would be intially expensive.

The question is whether people will be willing to pay for these enhanced services. At present they seem to want £20 a month internet connections but are willing to spend £35 to £40 on Sky subscriptions so the content and entertainment element seems to be a big factor.

I don't have a problem if senior management is well paid as long as the goods are delivered. I completely agree that it isn't normally appropriate for bonusses to be paid in the event of failure to meet objectives, although some companies are in such dire straits from their legacy that some form of protected bonus may be the only way to attract high calibre management.

Since we are using a porcine metaphor, it is fair to point out that the media is normally pretty effective at sniffing out this kind of impropriety and then generally the culprits go..

Don't let him get one - the pages would stick together.

Verizon are trialling FTTP (fibre to the premises) for residential users in the States.

Given that I've only had ADSL for a few weeks, I'm not holding out much hope of it here.