my uncalibrated out of the box $20 crimpers from Ideal do just as well as there $150 at minimum crimpers that are custom pieced together. At least according to the Fluke.
You're doing an electrical test on day 1.
There may be mechanical or reliability issues which appear on or about day 600 after multiple connect-disconnect cycles that would favor their fancy frames and dies that probably mechanically limit the minimum and maximum compression applied to the connector and conductors. I'm also guessing that their crimpers are calibrated and tested to meet a specification, probably verifying that the pins don't get too far recessed into the housing, that the dies don't have contaminants on them, that the dies aren't made out of potentially incompatible materials...
Yours may work just as well in general, but NASA has (had?) money and they'd rather spend money than explain why there was a very dramaticaccident because someone was too cheap to spend a few dollars to do it better.
I want to make sure that any geocities site I may have been affiliated with back in my formative years is not seen by anyone who might recognize me now.
Who do I make the check out to, and how many significant places will be required?
We have a roll of bulk cable for when location X needs a network run Right Now. I route it, cut to length, and terminate it. I'm pretty good.
I don't have a TDR, so I run 200M of data at the target link speed. If it isn't good enough (i.e. more than 10% away from my target throughput rate), I reterminate the cable. If it still isn't good enough, I pull new cable.
This is for those projects where waiting a week for a shipment of manufactured cable won't do. For anything else, you are wasting time and money by making your own cable. Tested chinese patch cables are cheaper than buying bulk cable, and they have a higher chance of working right the first time, and they're probably the right kind of cable for what you're doing.
Your boss is being paranoid - I'm sure you can install cable to handle the 20M link without problems... but he's right to say that you should look to save money elsewhere. I'm guessing you make more than $3/hr - your time can be put to better use than making a $20 cable.
Now, on the other hand - if you're doing a run that's more than 100ft long, yes. Make it yourself (or hire a professional installer). Long cables are stupid expensive - but that's horizontal cabling, not patch cabling. Still have to pull, route, and terminate it properly. Getting good connectors on it is the tricky part - none of the local places carry the kind of jacks we use (Panduit MiniCom - all the locals carry some crappy cheap variety of a keystone jack).
TLDR: You had a T1, probably at the same demarcation point. Why aren't you reusing that cabling to move the data from the new channel bank that's sitting 3 feet away from the old T1 interface over to the network closet?
I'd be happy if bulk mailers stopped getting discounts and had to pay the same high postage rates as everyone else. That ought to put a dent in the junk mail right there.
You won't have to, because you'll never be getting anything from that particular significant other ever again once you chose to go play with your laptop instead of them.
"ever again" is to harsh of a term. My experience with persons who associate intimately with geeks is that they understand that they are not always the priority at the moment.
And no, I haven't gotten divorced yet, despite me having to remind her from time to time that I'm working, and it only looks like I'm sitting here with my laptop goofing off.
In the end, we'll have advertisements embedded into the hit singles, as part of the music and lyrics.
Most of the hip-hop and rap I've heard already does this (at least, the stuff from the lesser-known artists). I'm guessing it's so that when people hear that copied mix tape, or whatever other medium, they can identify the creator of the work if they'd care to source more, similar artistic pieces.
Admittedly, I don't listen to much hip-hop or rap, but "Abdul Jabar Cut" off of one of Kid Rock's earlier albums highlights this, pointing out which labels he's with and his identity.
By the same standard, if everyone carried a shotgun over their shoulder, then nobody would think that I'm weird when I go to the mall.
If everyone spoke English (or French, or Spanish, or Klingon), then nobody would think that odd.
But seriously, parent & grandparent are right. It's slow because many of the people who need it have little bandwidth to contribute to speed it up. I'd love to pay $150/yr to a VPS company to help out, but most of the VPS's I find explicitly say "No Proxies!" in their AUP or ToS.
Rules for Wisconsin have been in place since forever ago. If you made mail order (or similar) purchases on which you did not pay use tax for use in the State of Wisconsin, you're supposed to add that on to your income tax return. http://www.revenue.wi.gov/faqs/ise/usetax.html
That people casually ignore this put me at a competitive disadvantage when I was a retailer - they'd come in, look at my product, and then buy the identical item online, to save the price of tax (which they were convinced that by not reporting, they were not obligated to pay). Sucked, not in that business anymore.
IANAL, but I would say that impounding 50 servers (most of which were probably not involved in the alleged crime), and sending 15 police cars to an empty house qualifies as executing a warrant in a grossly incompetent fashion.
You are correct. I do have a lot of technical books on my desk. This week, most of them happen to be LaTeX references.
The point I was trying to make: the author is not always the copyright holder. The copyright holder is the one that can assign rights under a scheme like this, not the work creator.
If I'm going for recreational reading, I'll go to a bookstore - book shopping is part of the relaxation.
I'm more likely to buy a technical book in electronic form, because "I need it now" and none of the local bookstores carry it.
I'm not likely to buy anything tied specifically to a device like a Kindle or a Sony Reader - Give me a PDF that I can put on whatever device I want. (Kindle and Reader are both too big for me - if it doesn't fit in my pocket comfortably, I won't use it.)
Back when I still carried a PDA, I had a good sized collection of text files of books which I would read during downtimes like bus commutes. I may load some of those onto my Rockbox player, as it is (almost) always with me, can handle flat text files pretty well, and reading may be more useful than playing solitaire or jewels.
No way I'm giving up my Tom Swift, Jr. collection.
Note to designers: Please stop implementing the limitations of a previous technology as "features" in a new technology. I really have no desire to see a slow animation of a page turning nor have a little "thwick" sound as the "page" "turns". Just show the next set of information.
Copyright 1995-2005 Tobias Oetiker and Contributers
Copyright 2005 SWsoft, Inc
Copyright 2000 NEC America, Inc
Looks to me like the standard practice is to transfer ownership of the IP to the publisher in exchange for a percentage of any future profits. Once the creator of the work does that, they no longer own the work and cannot sell it again to someone else.
There are probably exception clauses in some contracts, which may allow the author to reacquire the ownership of the work if the publisher no longer wishes to publish it.
TLDR: The author doesn't own the book, the publisher who bought the book does.
The women (who you ostensibly like talking to you), have already made the first move. This is good - they walked past a whole lot of guys without cute laptops to come talk to you.
Be honest, and open a conversation.
"Thanks! I've had for a little while, and it's grown on me. You want to try it out?"
Closing your porn at this point would be wise.
This lets her sit down next to you at the fashionable cafe, and lets you continue the conversation, leading to your getting her number/email/skype/screen name/etc.
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If everyone has more money, money decreases in value. Everything costs more.
If everyone has infinite money, money has no value.
Criteria around here is two bars and a church. Population is optional.
Jokes about Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp and Trampled Under Foot aside, I'd be interested to know which music actually seemed to deter the onslaught.
my uncalibrated out of the box $20 crimpers from Ideal do just as well as there $150 at minimum crimpers that are custom pieced together. At least according to the Fluke.
You're doing an electrical test on day 1.
There may be mechanical or reliability issues which appear on or about day 600 after multiple connect-disconnect cycles that would favor their fancy frames and dies that probably mechanically limit the minimum and maximum compression applied to the connector and conductors. I'm also guessing that their crimpers are calibrated and tested to meet a specification, probably verifying that the pins don't get too far recessed into the housing, that the dies don't have contaminants on them, that the dies aren't made out of potentially incompatible materials...
Yours may work just as well in general, but NASA has (had?) money and they'd rather spend money than explain why there was a very dramatic accident because someone was too cheap to spend a few dollars to do it better.
I want to make sure that any geocities site I may have been affiliated with back in my formative years is not seen by anyone who might recognize me now.
Who do I make the check out to, and how many significant places will be required?
+1, [Numbingly impressive legalese|Informative]
Bah. The Denon cables have arrows pointing both ways, the bits still get confused.
We have a roll of bulk cable for when location X needs a network run Right Now. I route it, cut to length, and terminate it. I'm pretty good.
I don't have a TDR, so I run 200M of data at the target link speed. If it isn't good enough (i.e. more than 10% away from my target throughput rate), I reterminate the cable. If it still isn't good enough, I pull new cable.
This is for those projects where waiting a week for a shipment of manufactured cable won't do. For anything else, you are wasting time and money by making your own cable. Tested chinese patch cables are cheaper than buying bulk cable, and they have a higher chance of working right the first time, and they're probably the right kind of cable for what you're doing.
Your boss is being paranoid - I'm sure you can install cable to handle the 20M link without problems... but he's right to say that you should look to save money elsewhere. I'm guessing you make more than $3/hr - your time can be put to better use than making a $20 cable.
Now, on the other hand - if you're doing a run that's more than 100ft long, yes. Make it yourself (or hire a professional installer). Long cables are stupid expensive - but that's horizontal cabling, not patch cabling. Still have to pull, route, and terminate it properly. Getting good connectors on it is the tricky part - none of the local places carry the kind of jacks we use (Panduit MiniCom - all the locals carry some crappy cheap variety of a keystone jack).
TLDR: You had a T1, probably at the same demarcation point. Why aren't you reusing that cabling to move the data from the new channel bank that's sitting 3 feet away from the old T1 interface over to the network closet?
What kind of retard opts in?
I'd be happy if bulk mailers stopped getting discounts and had to pay the same high postage rates as everyone else. That ought to put a dent in the junk mail right there.
California is broke. They needed the money. Read the spam, it's your civic duty.
You won't have to, because you'll never be getting anything from that particular significant other ever again once you chose to go play with your laptop instead of them.
"ever again" is to harsh of a term. My experience with persons who associate intimately with geeks is that they understand that they are not always the priority at the moment.
And no, I haven't gotten divorced yet, despite me having to remind her from time to time that I'm working, and it only looks like I'm sitting here with my laptop goofing off.
In the end, we'll have advertisements embedded into the hit singles, as part of the music and lyrics.
Most of the hip-hop and rap I've heard already does this (at least, the stuff from the lesser-known artists). I'm guessing it's so that when people hear that copied mix tape, or whatever other medium, they can identify the creator of the work if they'd care to source more, similar artistic pieces.
Admittedly, I don't listen to much hip-hop or rap, but "Abdul Jabar Cut" off of one of Kid Rock's earlier albums highlights this, pointing out which labels he's with and his identity.
By the same standard, if everyone carried a shotgun over their shoulder, then nobody would think that I'm weird when I go to the mall.
If everyone spoke English (or French, or Spanish, or Klingon), then nobody would think that odd.
But seriously, parent & grandparent are right. It's slow because many of the people who need it have little bandwidth to contribute to speed it up. I'd love to pay $150/yr to a VPS company to help out, but most of the VPS's I find explicitly say "No Proxies!" in their AUP or ToS.
Sounds like a headline for a Weekly World News article about ocular urination.
Rules for Wisconsin have been in place since forever ago. If you made mail order (or similar) purchases on which you did not pay use tax for use in the State of Wisconsin, you're supposed to add that on to your income tax return. http://www.revenue.wi.gov/faqs/ise/usetax.html
That people casually ignore this put me at a competitive disadvantage when I was a retailer - they'd come in, look at my product, and then buy the identical item online, to save the price of tax (which they were convinced that by not reporting, they were not obligated to pay). Sucked, not in that business anymore.
Paul,
I'm sorry. I'll clamp my cakehole shut from now on.
My mother was impregnated, you insensitive clod!
IANAL, but I would say that impounding 50 servers (most of which were probably not involved in the alleged crime), and sending 15 police cars to an empty house qualifies as executing a warrant in a grossly incompetent fashion.
MafIAA, MaPhiAA. They'll merge soon enough. Kind of surprised they haven't already.
Upgrade to links. Srsly. I used it for some time on a lousy laptop with excellent results.
You are correct. I do have a lot of technical books on my desk. This week, most of them happen to be LaTeX references.
The point I was trying to make: the author is not always the copyright holder. The copyright holder is the one that can assign rights under a scheme like this, not the work creator.
If I'm going for recreational reading, I'll go to a bookstore - book shopping is part of the relaxation.
I'm more likely to buy a technical book in electronic form, because "I need it now" and none of the local bookstores carry it.
I'm not likely to buy anything tied specifically to a device like a Kindle or a Sony Reader - Give me a PDF that I can put on whatever device I want. (Kindle and Reader are both too big for me - if it doesn't fit in my pocket comfortably, I won't use it.)
Back when I still carried a PDA, I had a good sized collection of text files of books which I would read during downtimes like bus commutes. I may load some of those onto my Rockbox player, as it is (almost) always with me, can handle flat text files pretty well, and reading may be more useful than playing solitaire or jewels.
No way I'm giving up my Tom Swift, Jr. collection.
Note to designers: Please stop implementing the limitations of a previous technology as "features" in a new technology. I really have no desire to see a slow animation of a page turning nor have a little "thwick" sound as the "page" "turns". Just show the next set of information.
A casual survey of the books on my desk:
Looks to me like the standard practice is to transfer ownership of the IP to the publisher in exchange for a percentage of any future profits. Once the creator of the work does that, they no longer own the work and cannot sell it again to someone else.
There are probably exception clauses in some contracts, which may allow the author to reacquire the ownership of the work if the publisher no longer wishes to publish it.
TLDR: The author doesn't own the book, the publisher who bought the book does.
The women (who you ostensibly like talking to you), have already made the first move. This is good - they walked past a whole lot of guys without cute laptops to come talk to you.
Be honest, and open a conversation.
"Thanks! I've had for a little while, and it's grown on me. You want to try it out?"
Closing your porn at this point would be wise.
This lets her sit down next to you at the fashionable cafe, and lets you continue the conversation, leading to your getting her number/email/skype/screen name/etc.
No points, but I'd add a +1 Insightful here if I had 'em.