Whats more than rain screwing up the reception is the (water)waves over water... If it were a flat surface, you could estimate where the (micro)waves are going to bounce to. If it happens to hit a (water)wave at the perfect angle, then the (micro)wave could possibly return to the device sending it, effectively losing that piece of communication.
If it were a proper highway with rock base, it would have problems. The ice shifts a few meters per year. Cracking and breaking would be the result. They're basically using large tractors to carve a road into the ice and smooth it out to be flattened into a "road".
Although its not floating. Its a 4km thick piece of ice on top of land.
Fluids jackass. Also known as transmission, coolant/antifreeze, oil, etc.
And by all means, the people who order SprintDSL (mass majority), would know nothing about transmission fluid, oil, anti-freeze, etc... so I DOUBT they would know that Sprint is leasing them a modem with open access to the outside world with a widely known password that can easily give away their username and password.
as someone who deals with Sprint on a daily basis, you're missing the fact that they are the least pro-active LEC/Telco I've dealt with.
I had 3 T1 circuits in various locations dead for 3 months before I noticed and called them. They busied the circuits out in the switch so they didn't have to listen to the alarms. As opposed to calling the customer(myself) and getting the thing fixed!
Its your job as an ISP to supply a service. Part of that service would be protecting your customer from being hacked by:
1) turning off remote administration [it just helps their tech support be lazy anyways]
2) have the password for their equipment match their normal account password (or a randomly generated password created when the DSL is setup and logged into their account information)
3) at least explaining in the manual, after its all setup, do steps a,b,c to change the password after the account is functional for security reasons
I understand that people are computer dumb but I'm car dumb and I'd appreciate a mechanic telling me that when I retrieve my car from the shop, to make sure I fill up all the fluids in car.
I find this hilarious considering I JUST got back from a friend's house where his CPE was non-functional. He'll be switching to my ISP when his 1 year contract is up.
But hey, he was only paying 30 bucks a month for the first 6 months! and surprise, he got what he paid for.
on a serious note, win or lose, it costs companies money to defend themselves. so if they just sue the hell out of one company, it could tip their financials into the drain and kill the company....and given this turn of tides by SCO, it sounds like its the last battle before the white flag goes up. I wonder how many exec's are selling their stock;) Is Martha Stewart involved in SCO!?
Exactly. One thing nobody seems to understand, if Microsoft wasn't around as this big tough huge competition, things wouldn't progress nearly as much.
Much of the desktop market and features of KDE/GNOME/etc. are copying features from Windows.
People would be more complacent with what they have and less innovation would be around. (It takes great innovation to compete with Microsoft [and not selling out to MS, but]).
Anyways, as I see it, Microsoft is a dirty business, but capitalism makes them that way and they aren't the only ones.
Exactly. This is just another ridiculous way for the government to tax the people. And I personally find it ridiculous as a per-use type deal.
I mean if we did it that way, then I want only the same amount of money I receive for wellfare, to be paid for that purpose. Considering I've never been on wellfare, I shouldn't have to pay for it.
Even people who aren't going to use the Oregon highways as much, they'll still benefit from it (UPS shipping, friends/family from out of state come to visit, etc.)
As someone who has had chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and a bone marrow transplant (heavy chemy, mild full body radiation therapy followed by replacing the bone marrow), I can tell you this:
Radiation is a completely different than using iodine in chemo. My lower left leg (where the ewings sarcoma [bonetumor] was) was exposed to heavy dosages of centralized radiation therapy. This has a completely different affect than the 100+ other drugs I was on.
Ask anyone who has had full body radiation therapy whether it was worse or better than chemo. Oh wait, you have to give it time before they can take the suction device pulling the skin, mucus, and blood out of their mouth, then they can tell you.
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Let me guess, you guys are benchmarking the Pentium 100 for quickest repost?
Whats more than rain screwing up the reception is the (water)waves over water... If it were a flat surface, you could estimate where the (micro)waves are going to bounce to. If it happens to hit a (water)wave at the perfect angle, then the (micro)wave could possibly return to the device sending it, effectively losing that piece of communication.
I receive on average of 4-5 a day (and thats when I'm only home from 5pm - 11pm)...
:P
If they're important, they'll call my cell phone
They also have a class for you in high school. Its called "English"... they might even have "Reading" ;)
So let me get this straight...Kevin Costner wasn't really a freak?
If it were a proper highway with rock base, it would have problems. The ice shifts a few meters per year. Cracking and breaking would be the result. They're basically using large tractors to carve a road into the ice and smooth it out to be flattened into a "road".
Although its not floating. Its a 4km thick piece of ice on top of land.
Fluids jackass. Also known as transmission, coolant/antifreeze, oil, etc.
And by all means, the people who order SprintDSL (mass majority), would know nothing about transmission fluid, oil, anti-freeze, etc... so I DOUBT they would know that Sprint is leasing them a modem with open access to the outside world with a widely known password that can easily give away their username and password.
I have around 4-5 PRI cushion on all cities my ISP has access in. I had been busy on an infrastructure change and didn't notice.
Realize, though, there are such things as proactive telco's.
as someone who deals with Sprint on a daily basis, you're missing the fact that they are the least pro-active LEC/Telco I've dealt with.
I had 3 T1 circuits in various locations dead for 3 months before I noticed and called them. They busied the circuits out in the switch so they didn't have to listen to the alarms. As opposed to calling the customer(myself) and getting the thing fixed!
Its your job as an ISP to supply a service. Part of that service would be protecting your customer from being hacked by :
1) turning off remote administration [it just helps their tech support be lazy anyways]
2) have the password for their equipment match their normal account password (or a randomly generated password created when the DSL is setup and logged into their account information)
3) at least explaining in the manual, after its all setup, do steps a,b,c to change the password after the account is functional for security reasons
I understand that people are computer dumb but I'm car dumb and I'd appreciate a mechanic telling me that when I retrieve my car from the shop, to make sure I fill up all the fluids in car.
I find this hilarious considering I JUST got back from a friend's house where his CPE was non-functional. He'll be switching to my ISP when his 1 year contract is up.
But hey, he was only paying 30 bucks a month for the first 6 months! and surprise, he got what he paid for.
Yeah, like almost 11 months d00d
Yes but imagine a beowulf cluster of lawyers...er
...and given this turn of tides by SCO, it sounds like its the last battle before the white flag goes up. I wonder how many exec's are selling their stock ;) Is Martha Stewart involved in SCO!?
on a serious note, win or lose, it costs companies money to defend themselves. so if they just sue the hell out of one company, it could tip their financials into the drain and kill the company.
"I wish you luck, PC Gamer, but I fear your days are numbered. The consoles are custom-designed to eat your lunch."
If only the games/graphics/sound was developed on the console, then maybe yes.
Besides, the computer does a million different things as opposed to playing games over and over and over and over.
Downloaded any mod's for your FPS lately?
Whenever 2 wrongs equal a right, you let me know.
all of the equipment my isp uses must meet all of these. kinda picky but gets the exact performance we want.
;)
its cool to have 6.5L chevy diesel engines running your power backup
"In 2003, Thomson will introduce its second combination DVD player and personal video recorder."
Funny your RCA box doesn't work great but that time machine does.
Exactly. One thing nobody seems to understand, if Microsoft wasn't around as this big tough huge competition, things wouldn't progress nearly as much.
;)
Much of the desktop market and features of KDE/GNOME/etc. are copying features from Windows.
People would be more complacent with what they have and less innovation would be around. (It takes great innovation to compete with Microsoft [and not selling out to MS, but]).
Anyways, as I see it, Microsoft is a dirty business, but capitalism makes them that way and they aren't the only ones.
At least they used to give away those fonts
Great stuff:
"Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
* Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store"
What a friggin concept.
I feel the same way. I've recently purchased about 2 grand worth of power tools and discovered the wonders of wood-working.
I build 1-2 pieces of furniture a week. Put them in the paper for sale, and make my money back. All the while learning and making beer money.
Exactly. This is just another ridiculous way for the government to tax the people. And I personally find it ridiculous as a per-use type deal.
I mean if we did it that way, then I want only the same amount of money I receive for wellfare, to be paid for that purpose. Considering I've never been on wellfare, I shouldn't have to pay for it.
Even people who aren't going to use the Oregon highways as much, they'll still benefit from it (UPS shipping, friends/family from out of state come to visit, etc.)
Think more of the Apple servers - Drive states, connection status, cpu usage (fade from green to red), etc.
A souped up version of the Dell emblem on the Power Edge line of servers (flashes orange/red when problem with anything).
I'd imagine this will be used more for a cool factor though. Just seems to be Apple's style.
So basically its open source so others can fix and contribute but you have to pay to get the documentation to use it?
hahaha
nice try..
You seem to underestimate the open source community.
If Microsoft turns it into a hunkajunk, I'm sure there will be an open version of a clone in the works very quickly.
As someone who has had chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and a bone marrow transplant (heavy chemy, mild full body radiation therapy followed by replacing the bone marrow), I can tell you this:
Radiation is a completely different than using iodine in chemo. My lower left leg (where the ewings sarcoma [bonetumor] was) was exposed to heavy dosages of centralized radiation therapy. This has a completely different affect than the 100+ other drugs I was on.
Ask anyone who has had full body radiation therapy whether it was worse or better than chemo. Oh wait, you have to give it time before they can take the suction device pulling the skin, mucus, and blood out of their mouth, then they can tell you.