"And "Pay for reliability, not mileage. On a car, you'll spend more of repairs and maintaince over its lifetime than you will on a difference in gas." needs to re-think that when faced with $6-$8 a gallon gas prices. At $6 a gallon, 20mpg is going to cost you $30,000.00 in gas over 100,000 miles. At 40mpg you save $15,000.00 "
therefore a honda Civic is the only choice. as it hits BOTH points on the nose. High reliability(non hybrid) and high gas mileage. I went from a 21mpg car to my 2007 civic. I get on average 40mpg. When I bought it 2 years ago and got rid of the gas guzzling midsized car that was not much bigger than this but had a worthless 6 cyl engine (GM 3400) It was an expense with it's $200.00 a month car payment and insurance bill. but today at fillup I am saving $240.00 a month in gasoline. More than the payment and insurance combined. PLUS the dealer said I can extend out my oil changes because at 8000miles the oil is still clean and the results from blackstone labs shows the oil is still good. I was told to extend the oil change interval to 12,000 miles. so now I pay for far less maintenance because the honda engine is so much better built than the GM crap it is not letting a lot of combustion byproducts into the oil. Finally "reliability" is a hard one. if you are the typical car owner and just put gas in it, it will not last as long as a car that get's all the recommended services done on time. Most cars are still driving on the original transmission fluid that came in the car when it was built, same for the brake fluid. you DO have to change the brake fluid, it's in the fricking service manual. When a car is properly serviced it will last a very long time. Sadly most people do not do this and they abuse the car. (Most cars are not hand washed and hand waxed so the paint looks like crap in a few years. Cars that are properly maintained will look new for over a decade inside and out.)
Used and at least 1 generation behind. Maximum tech for the smallest buck.
Instead of $725 for a 32" bedroom TV I spend $298 for a demo model LG 32" 720p. Plus I gained rs232 control so my crestron can control it. Instead of an iPad 2, used iPad 1 for 1/2 the price. I get all the goodness and dont care about not having a camera. I can buy a pocket camera for the money saved that will utterly kick the arse of the built in ipad camera. oh and I dont look like a dork taking a photo with it.
"Apparently, there is no central configuration for the phones (hardware) and all the phones need to be locally configured. That is just what i have heard about asterisk VS ccm." then you have heard bad information. I can auto configure 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 phones with asterisk, not a problem at all.
If you can do that then I have far bigger problems than someone listening to Dave in Accounting go on and on about how his boat is so expensive to maintain, and mary in marketing talk about her poodle....
Once you own my phone system network, I have far bigger problems.
The same could be done if you got a massive botnet out there. send your encrypted payload, it bounces around the world for a while before getting sent. also have random hacked email servers used as incoming points...
"bin.laden@sales.cisco.com" would be used this week, "deathtoamerica@whitehouse.com" for next week, etc......
there are a lot of ways to stay ahead of the feds while being online. The courier setup is a nice old skool setup.. have level 1 couriers hand off to level2, who hands off to level 3 who does the email send and retrieve, and then hands off to courier level 4 who hands to a different level 3 who get's it to level 2., etc.... but people can be followed and tracked because they are not random. you CAN randomize internet traffic if you set up a good botnet and a set of lightly hacked servers.
You can easily hack a server and put something in there that is NOT causing problems but acts as a relay for a S2S comms channel to hand off communication in a round robin or even random way. and if it's small messages like email it could go un-noticed on a server for years.
Kind of like old school hacker tricks we used to use in the 80's and 90's. back to back modems on a timer in office buildings as a data relay point to hide your location. Call into ABC insurance fax line 1 after 2am and the modem answers, send the ATDT command to connect out Zimmer Imports voice line to the next hop... I had some that went undetected for a very long time. In fact I'll bet there are a couple that I personally placed that are still there but inactive because of the phone lines being disconnected..
Auto forwarding users call to their cellphones if they are in the office or not.
Get up and leave the building, when your cellphone can no longer be seen via BT it forwards your calls to your cellphone. returns to your desk phone when you return. nothing for you to do. it's all automatic.
And then we have the telemarketer incoming call hell... anyone can transfer a call they receive to extension 8000. it puts that caller into a virtual "person" that plays back a random audio file ever time the other side stops talking based on silence detection... "yeah", "tell me more", what other features?", "ok", "yes", "just a minute".... also it blacklists that number to never ring a phone but go directly to the general voicemail box.
Also least cost routing is a LOT easier. I route calls to land line outgoing if we have an office at that location, it goes across the T1 to that office and out their POP. we dropped long distance costs by 80% over the past 6 years we have done this. Plus I can run a 200 phone office location on a single low end server that costs LESS than the licensing cost for a cisco 50 phone deployment. Multiple stand alone system that inter-tie work Fantastic. plus net outages don't make a satellite office useless unlike a centralized Cisco setup.
No what will buy Obama his second term is the GOP doing retarded things and pull out another Palin.
Palin is what lost the Republicans the last election. Why they chose that raving lunatic I'll never know.
Now all the candidates I see now are all also nut-jobs. They are screwing it up BAD... Come on, give us a real leader to at least hear some real educated and enlightening discussion and arguments out of.
If the Dems actually get the Blacks and Hispanics to vote.. the GOP is utterly screwed. They outnumber the rich old white person, the largest voting demographic, 30 to 1.
90% of "Christians" do NOT follow Jesus's teachings.
Jesus's teachings are dead simple.... but that does not make people rich, so the Catholic church changed them to make things more lucrative... and the reformists kept those nice additions as it keeps the coffers full.
Remember kiddies, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24) Straight from the Christian bible. Their own Savior, the ones the rich embrace and claim as theirs tells them bluntly "Hey rich man, suck it in hell!"
The bible is littered with verses that condemn the Rich Republican types clamoring for ending welfare and "to hell with the poor" attitudes that are rampant in the Tea Party and Republican party right now. But that is the inconvenient part of the religion that need to be ignored.
Honestly, when you meet a Christian, most of the time you really don't meet a Christian but a person who is on Sundays from 9am to Noon when he/she can be seen in church.
And just like you I'll be modded down because I outed them for what they are, hypocrites . For some reason there is a Significant bias against anything negative against the GOP or Tea Party here today. I have no problems with a rich person, just the rich person that lies through his teeth.
Because jesus is too much of a pussy to handle an AR-50.
"And lo GOD did smite him.. in the face with a depleted uranium round from 1500 meters... The splatter seen through the spotting scopes made them rejoice in the face of the LORD." - Diesel 12:40
Glad I only run cisco phones that are outdated and run a SIP firmware.
Cisco makes great hardware, but their phone system software (and pricing) utterly sucks. I am doing things with asterisk here at the office that makes the cisco rep's jaw drop.
Email is free to 99.997831% of the world. and "GASP" most smartphones have a data plan required but not the $30.00 a month TXT UR FRNDS plan. Plus email allows those that dont have a cellphone to do it as well.
It's called thinking a plan through so that the largest segment can access the feature.
Glad I use my Discover card for buying tanks of CO2.
And yes, I do. I brew beer at home (better than any of the store bought swill any of you drink, really it is. Try home brewing it's easy and produces a far superior beer) as well as keep huge planted tropical fish tanks.. the aquatic plants utterly thrive when I inject CO2 into the water.
Because our admins are too stupid to remember that in the USA it costs money to receive text messages and not everyone is a tween that has unlimited texting on their phones K?
No you cant. Please show me a win7 starter notebook for that price that also has 2 years of wireless internet that comes with it that has no additional monthly cost.
Forgot that tiny detail did you?
So for a Win7 starter netbook to equal this... Subtract $360.00 from it's price. (assuming a discounted rate of $15.00 a month for the 24 months for the value of the "free" wireless internet service that comes on this thing. so who's got $100.00 Win 7 starter netbooks with the same or better hardware that comes with the wifi and WWAN card in it ready to go so I can go out and buy a data plan for it?
I would love one of those deal you claim are out there.
Unless it specifically says "30% GROSS" then that is incorrect. From what I read in it they say "30%" which in the legal and accounting world means NET. you MUST specify Gross or it is always net.
that $800 thinkpad will cost $1400.00 after interest over that 5 years. Oh and because it's a long term on a electronics item High interest rate.. $1600.00 Oh and required "insurance at only $2.95 a month...
Why dont you people get it? Palin is simply the next movie like Borat being filmed, it's all staged... It's going to be hilarious how the comedy group got the Republicans to take it all seriously! I cant wait for the movie to come out... Although I do not want to see Palin in that green thong thing....
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"And "Pay for reliability, not mileage. On a car, you'll spend more of repairs and maintaince over its lifetime than you will on a difference in gas." needs to re-think that when faced with $6-$8 a gallon gas prices. At $6 a gallon, 20mpg is going to cost you $30,000.00 in gas over 100,000 miles. At 40mpg you save $15,000.00 "
therefore a honda Civic is the only choice. as it hits BOTH points on the nose. High reliability(non hybrid) and high gas mileage. I went from a 21mpg car to my 2007 civic. I get on average 40mpg. When I bought it 2 years ago and got rid of the gas guzzling midsized car that was not much bigger than this but had a worthless 6 cyl engine (GM 3400) It was an expense with it's $200.00 a month car payment and insurance bill. but today at fillup I am saving $240.00 a month in gasoline. More than the payment and insurance combined. PLUS the dealer said I can extend out my oil changes because at 8000miles the oil is still clean and the results from blackstone labs shows the oil is still good. I was told to extend the oil change interval to 12,000 miles. so now I pay for far less maintenance because the honda engine is so much better built than the GM crap it is not letting a lot of combustion byproducts into the oil. Finally "reliability" is a hard one. if you are the typical car owner and just put gas in it, it will not last as long as a car that get's all the recommended services done on time. Most cars are still driving on the original transmission fluid that came in the car when it was built, same for the brake fluid. you DO have to change the brake fluid, it's in the fricking service manual. When a car is properly serviced it will last a very long time. Sadly most people do not do this and they abuse the car. (Most cars are not hand washed and hand waxed so the paint looks like crap in a few years. Cars that are properly maintained will look new for over a decade inside and out.)
Used and at least 1 generation behind. Maximum tech for the smallest buck.
Instead of $725 for a 32" bedroom TV I spend $298 for a demo model LG 32" 720p. Plus I gained rs232 control so my crestron can control it.
Instead of an iPad 2, used iPad 1 for 1/2 the price. I get all the goodness and dont care about not having a camera. I can buy a pocket camera for the money saved that will utterly kick the arse of the built in ipad camera. oh and I dont look like a dork taking a photo with it.
The fools buy new.
"Apparently, there is no central configuration for the phones (hardware) and all the phones need to be locally configured. That is just what i have heard about asterisk VS ccm." then you have heard bad information. I can auto configure 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 phones with asterisk, not a problem at all.
If you can do that then I have far bigger problems than someone listening to Dave in Accounting go on and on about how his boat is so expensive to maintain, and mary in marketing talk about her poodle....
Once you own my phone system network, I have far bigger problems.
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/03/the-doubly-linked-list-appears-to-have-been-patented.html
Jut as bad.
Most of it.
in fact your Sig has parts that are patented and Microsoft's patent lawyers will be calling you for it's unlicensed use.
Yes, the patent system is that broken.
You do know the kernel can be compiled without some code enabled right?
The same could be done if you got a massive botnet out there. send your encrypted payload, it bounces around the world for a while before getting sent. also have random hacked email servers used as incoming points...
"bin.laden@sales.cisco.com" would be used this week, "deathtoamerica@whitehouse.com" for next week, etc......
there are a lot of ways to stay ahead of the feds while being online. The courier setup is a nice old skool setup.. have level 1 couriers hand off to level2, who hands off to level 3 who does the email send and retrieve, and then hands off to courier level 4 who hands to a different level 3 who get's it to level 2., etc.... but people can be followed and tracked because they are not random. you CAN randomize internet traffic if you set up a good botnet and a set of lightly hacked servers.
You can easily hack a server and put something in there that is NOT causing problems but acts as a relay for a S2S comms channel to hand off communication in a round robin or even random way. and if it's small messages like email it could go un-noticed on a server for years.
Kind of like old school hacker tricks we used to use in the 80's and 90's. back to back modems on a timer in office buildings as a data relay point to hide your location. Call into ABC insurance fax line 1 after 2am and the modem answers, send the ATDT command to connect out Zimmer Imports voice line to the next hop... I had some that went undetected for a very long time. In fact I'll bet there are a couple that I personally placed that are still there but inactive because of the phone lines being disconnected..
Auto forwarding users call to their cellphones if they are in the office or not.
Get up and leave the building, when your cellphone can no longer be seen via BT it forwards your calls to your cellphone. returns to your desk phone when you return. nothing for you to do. it's all automatic.
And then we have the telemarketer incoming call hell... anyone can transfer a call they receive to extension 8000. it puts that caller into a virtual "person" that plays back a random audio file ever time the other side stops talking based on silence detection... "yeah", "tell me more", what other features?", "ok", "yes", "just a minute".... also it blacklists that number to never ring a phone but go directly to the general voicemail box.
Also least cost routing is a LOT easier. I route calls to land line outgoing if we have an office at that location, it goes across the T1 to that office and out their POP. we dropped long distance costs by 80% over the past 6 years we have done this. Plus I can run a 200 phone office location on a single low end server that costs LESS than the licensing cost for a cisco 50 phone deployment. Multiple stand alone system that inter-tie work Fantastic. plus net outages don't make a satellite office useless unlike a centralized Cisco setup.
Not a problem. You never have done a asterisk deployment before have you.
No what will buy Obama his second term is the GOP doing retarded things and pull out another Palin.
Palin is what lost the Republicans the last election. Why they chose that raving lunatic I'll never know.
Now all the candidates I see now are all also nut-jobs. They are screwing it up BAD... Come on, give us a real leader to at least hear some real educated and enlightening discussion and arguments out of.
If the Dems actually get the Blacks and Hispanics to vote.. the GOP is utterly screwed. They outnumber the rich old white person, the largest voting demographic, 30 to 1.
90% of "Christians" do NOT follow Jesus's teachings.
Jesus's teachings are dead simple.... but that does not make people rich, so the Catholic church changed them to make things more lucrative... and the reformists kept those nice additions as it keeps the coffers full.
Remember kiddies, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24) Straight from the Christian bible. Their own Savior, the ones the rich embrace and claim as theirs tells them bluntly "Hey rich man, suck it in hell!"
The bible is littered with verses that condemn the Rich Republican types clamoring for ending welfare and "to hell with the poor" attitudes that are rampant in the Tea Party and Republican party right now. But that is the inconvenient part of the religion that need to be ignored.
Honestly, when you meet a Christian, most of the time you really don't meet a Christian but a person who is on Sundays from 9am to Noon when he/she can be seen in church.
And just like you I'll be modded down because I outed them for what they are, hypocrites . For some reason there is a Significant bias against anything negative against the GOP or Tea Party here today. I have no problems with a rich person, just the rich person that lies through his teeth.
Because jesus is too much of a pussy to handle an AR-50.
"And lo GOD did smite him.. in the face with a depleted uranium round from 1500 meters... The splatter seen through the spotting scopes made them rejoice in the face of the LORD." - Diesel 12:40
Glad I only run cisco phones that are outdated and run a SIP firmware.
Cisco makes great hardware, but their phone system software (and pricing) utterly sucks. I am doing things with asterisk here at the office that makes the cisco rep's jaw drop.
Email is free to 99.997831% of the world. and "GASP" most smartphones have a data plan required but not the $30.00 a month TXT UR FRNDS plan. Plus email allows those that dont have a cellphone to do it as well.
It's called thinking a plan through so that the largest segment can access the feature.
Glad I use my Discover card for buying tanks of CO2.
And yes, I do. I brew beer at home (better than any of the store bought swill any of you drink, really it is. Try home brewing it's easy and produces a far superior beer) as well as keep huge planted tropical fish tanks.. the aquatic plants utterly thrive when I inject CO2 into the water.
"we will text your phone."
Because our admins are too stupid to remember that in the USA it costs money to receive text messages and not everyone is a tween that has unlimited texting on their phones K?
No you cant. Please show me a win7 starter notebook for that price that also has 2 years of wireless internet that comes with it that has no additional monthly cost.
Forgot that tiny detail did you?
So for a Win7 starter netbook to equal this... Subtract $360.00 from it's price. (assuming a discounted rate of $15.00 a month for the 24 months for the value of the "free" wireless internet service that comes on this thing. so who's got $100.00 Win 7 starter netbooks with the same or better hardware that comes with the wifi and WWAN card in it ready to go so I can go out and buy a data plan for it?
I would love one of those deal you claim are out there.
So that real laptop comes with free cellular internet for 2 years? SCHWEET! give links....
Or are you ignoring that?
With linux installed instead. Any guesses if they use some whacked out modem so the WWAN will not work if you change the OS?
Unless it specifically says "30% GROSS" then that is incorrect. From what I read in it they say "30%" which in the legal and accounting world means NET. you MUST specify Gross or it is always net.
fix it? are you MAD??!?!
that $800 thinkpad will cost $1400.00 after interest over that 5 years.
Oh and because it's a long term on a electronics item High interest rate.. $1600.00
Oh and required "insurance at only $2.95 a month...
Monthly payments are ALWAYS a losing choice.
$19.999 is not less than $20.00 a month. not in a sane persons head at least.
Why dont you people get it? Palin is simply the next movie like Borat being filmed, it's all staged... It's going to be hilarious how the comedy group got the Republicans to take it all seriously! I cant wait for the movie to come out... Although I do not want to see Palin in that green thong thing....