Oooh. Is that like $15,000 a year before taxes? You completely missed the point, and seem to have a sense of pride about how much your employees get paid.
like PSTN 2 aligator clips and a regular handset secure? Hell, when I *ahem* hung around people who beiged boxed we didn't even have aligator clips. Holding onto the wires was cool until a the phone rang;)
If a war is so unpopular that we are out of "weekend warrior" reserves and we can't convince people to join on their own,/quote umm. . . You may of have not heard, but there isn't exacltly a ton of reservists wanting to "re-up", and there aren't that many new people joining up. Even the Stars and Stripes isn't really sugar coating the situation. http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?se ction=104&ar ticle=17516&archive=true
Granted, it might not be out of moral concern, but if the situation is shitty enough, people will want to leave.
To be depleted to the point that a draft is needed in modern times is a sign that we've already lost and just can't admit it.
The US armed forces are depleted. We also have a crapload of nukes, and if we can't fight people off using conventional means, it only leaves a couple options.
yeah, because, you know, radar installations, communication / command centers, and pretty much every other job where geeks are involved aren't priority targets and stuff. .. Granted, they are protected better, but it takes only a couple rounds of artillery or a skirmish to ruin your day.
Do you really want draftees running your IT/IS? Christ, there is enough documentation about the effectiveness of conscript vs volunteer troops out there, which pretty much make it clear that the ones who volunteer are the ones you want to have "doing stuff". A lot of that material refers to infantry (also known as the "shoot back or die" department of the armed forces) but I'm sure there is an equally significant ton of documentation about support troops.
Can you imagine the complete and utter lack of motivation of drafted rear echelon computer guys?
Besides the fact that most geeks tend not to be the most motivated people when it comes to things that are forced on them, I'd venture to guess that 50%(conservative? I think so) would be disqualified outright, for either being a bit too hefty or for other medical reasons.
Also, geeks are pretty bright and shall we say rather "inventive" when it comes to thinking up excuses (i.e. hemorrhoids) and getting doctor's notes etc.
And, of course, those not bright enough to avoid the draft are not the ones you want running your IT, but that is getting back to the whole conscript thing.
The reprinted lawyer's letter from Nintendo also notes: "Whether you have an authentic game or not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."
Basically Nintendo is saying "Now pay us again, you consumer piece of shit." Apparantly they liked DirectTV's business model (i.e. extortion via letters from lawyers). One has to wonder if this is a first step in something greater.
so you're against reinventing the wheel but are reccomending that people abandon existing, already functioning apps and integrate this into the file system . ..
Casio Pathfinder / Triple Sensor Compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer (which is kinda useless because it's on your wrist and body head kind of makes it useless) Records up to 24 hours of above data, nice backlight. Costco, $120
comcast - well I'm assuming, excerpts from my letter are word for word. The bottom half of the letter is really trying to push thier business cable package, so I'm thinking this is a just an attempt to mooch money out of you. . .
I'm going to take the complete opposite point, if you have a business AP, OPEN your wireless network, assume that it is compromised from the start. This will force you to encrypt your network traffic with something that actually resembles security.
WEP, MAC filering and stopping SSID broadcasting aren't really worth anything in terms of security - they might prevent the casual user from drifting in, but it is pretty clear that the security they provide is trivial at best and they are more of a hinderance to users than anything else.
yeah, I suppose, I just assume the average person who eats at McDonalds doesn't have a laptop, but tons of screaming kids running around (although looking at their financials, apparantly they could use a couple more screaming kids running around;) Like I said, I haven't eaten there for about 5 years, so I don't know. If they did implement wifi in all their restaurants and change their menu a bit more, their gaudy very visible buildings would be a great advantage in showing people "wifi is here!"
In my travels, I've noticed a bunch of wifi in hotels for free. Quite cool. Since it's quite easy to implement (easier than running cat 5) the added benefit does attract customers. Not to insult anyone, but I thought there would be nothing but 7 kinds of grits, oppressing heat and humidity and waitresses muttering "fucking yankees" in hotels in the south, but was quite pleasantly surprised to find FREE wifi - in a small town in Alabama! (BTW, we experienced those other things too;)
It comes down to this, if Hotel A wants to charge $10 a minute / hour / day and Hotel B doesn't - and their prices are the same, B gets my business. Some hotels realize this, and they also realize that they have empty rooms almost every night. WIFI is so common, that the decision to add free wifi should be as automatic as giving people fresh towels and clean rooms.
Ok, a couple of things. 1. Community groups have essentially killed the market in a lot of cities. If someone can get it free, they won't pay. These are legitimate organizations, many federal non-profits - regardless of what Dvorak might think. www.personaltelco.net is quite active in Portland, OR. If I were to step out on a limb, I would say that any corp wanting to unwire the downtown area would fail because of the personaltelco nodes that are already active. (now some 12 year old nUb will "hack" the ptp wiki and brag about it on some irc channel, grr/OT)
2. The "linksys community network", ssid = default, no wep, etc. Whatever. Basically, it's free and the "pay for" model isn't. Besides. A lot of users would just go "wow, [mah emahil | AIM] is working" and be happy.
3. Starbucks/Tmobile et al think "profit" as charging $X/hour for internet access. It might of have sounded good in a board room, but it's the wrong way to think. Let me explain. Most "regulars" (read "the majority of people who will buy stuff from you") will migrate to free wifi if that is what they are looking for. You can still hook in the occasional out of towner BUT they aren't your bread and butter. And just to make this even more simplistic and understandable. What do you sell in a coffee shop? Yes. Coffee. Do you make a profit on coffee? Yes. I hope so, at $5 for a cup of crappy burnt beans. If you give a reason for people to stay, will they buy more coffee (remember, you make a profit on coffee)? Yes. They will. Will this increase your profits? Yeah. Of course.
Some companies realize this - and also realize that if you want to force people to get access with a purchase, that is pretty easy too. I think it's "buy a big mac, get net access" in McDonalds right now. They realize how they can make this profitable (although IMHO, the location is kind of wrong, sort of like selling mayonaise in a sex shop, but then again I haven't been to a McDonalds in 5 years)
Sure there is a niche market in airports and the such, but the average business isn't in an airport, is it?
Starbucks should be paying tmobile etc for the amount of time customers spend online, not the other way around.
4. If a company that offers wireless internet is not profitable, it is because of piss poor management and pissing away of company funds on stuff not essential to the business. An access point costs roughly $200 to implement (an AP, a nocat box, or running some other authentication/payment scheme) and the man hours to install it. After that, $90 a month charge for the DSL/cable. Probably less than that. When an AP is so cheap to implement, it is kind of hard to not make a profit even using these "pay" services.
BTW, the guy who runs www.seattlewireless.com is a scumbag who "resells" free services and IMHO should be dragged into the street, shot and hung from a lamp post. He's using the name of the community organization that sets up free nodes and making money for stealing nodedb's and mapquest's maps.
hmm. .. you've apparantly never heard of the term "markup" I guess. . . The fact is, the store got that hard drive for closer to $40 than $150. Besides, stores sell some stuff at a loss to draw people in and buy more stuff. . . door crashers and the such.
But the flipside of this is that you could end up with total incompetence in the workforce.
And this is different from the USA how exactly? No, seriously, I'm posing a valid question. If you've worked in IT or virtually any other job, you seen a plethora of incompetents in virtually all areas. There isn't any push to remove these people because companies generally don't push their workers 100% and management is clueless about the actual workings of the company. "Time estimates by Scotty" also seem to work well.
I dunno where you're getting the 75% tax rate either.
The federal standard might be strict, but the real world is quite a bit different than a couple words written on some peice of paper. Oh, look, older microwave, lets put down $5 that the connection will suck when it is turned on. Oh wait, it does. .. Hmm. . . wonder why. Fire up netstumbler and look for at the SNR graph. WOW look at all the red! Turn nuker off and the graph changes./shocked. Yeah, I might be a bit bitter, but I've had this happen more than once, and that is more than enough. I have no idea how much the average microwave leaks, but I do know that the average microwave has a hell of a lot more power inside it than a wifi card.
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Oooh. Is that like $15,000 a year before taxes?
You completely missed the point, and seem to have a sense of pride about how much your employees get paid.
like PSTN 2 aligator clips and a regular handset secure? ;)
Hell, when I *ahem* hung around people who beiged boxed we didn't even have aligator clips. Holding onto the wires was cool until a the phone rang
If a war is so unpopular that we are out of "weekend warrior" reserves and we can't convince people to join on their own, /quotee ction=104&ar ticle=17516&archive=true
umm. . . You may of have not heard, but there isn't exacltly a ton of reservists wanting to "re-up", and there aren't that many new people joining up.
Even the Stars and Stripes isn't really sugar coating the situation.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?s
Granted, it might not be out of moral concern, but if the situation is shitty enough, people will want to leave.
To be depleted to the point that a draft is needed in modern times is a sign that we've already lost and just can't admit it.
The US armed forces are depleted. We also have a crapload of nukes, and if we can't fight people off using conventional means, it only leaves a couple options.
yeah, because, you know, radar installations, communication / command centers, and pretty much every other job where geeks are involved aren't priority targets and stuff. . .
Granted, they are protected better, but it takes only a couple rounds of artillery or a skirmish to ruin your day.
Do you really want draftees running your IT/IS? Christ, there is enough documentation about the effectiveness of conscript vs volunteer troops out there, which pretty much make it clear that the ones who volunteer are the ones you want to have "doing stuff". A lot of that material refers to infantry (also known as the "shoot back or die" department of the armed forces) but I'm sure there is an equally significant ton of documentation about support troops.
Can you imagine the complete and utter lack of motivation of drafted rear echelon computer guys?
Besides the fact that most geeks tend not to be the most motivated people when it comes to things that are forced on them, I'd venture to guess that 50%(conservative? I think so) would be disqualified outright, for either being a bit too hefty or for other medical reasons.
Also, geeks are pretty bright and shall we say rather "inventive" when it comes to thinking up excuses (i.e. hemorrhoids) and getting doctor's notes etc.
And, of course, those not bright enough to avoid the draft are not the ones you want running your IT, but that is getting back to the whole conscript thing.
technically it's forcing 100% of the people to pay, but whatever.
You haven't been around much, have you?
The reprinted lawyer's letter from Nintendo also notes: "Whether you have an authentic game or not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."
Basically Nintendo is saying "Now pay us again, you consumer piece of shit."
Apparantly they liked DirectTV's business model (i.e. extortion via letters from lawyers). One has to wonder if this is a first step in something greater.
who? laid off disgruntled employees.
don't buy toshiba pdas in that case. the word "stability" just doesn't bring up toshiba pdas in my mind.
so you're against reinventing the wheel but are reccomending that people abandon existing, already functioning apps and integrate this into the file system . . .
Casio Pathfinder / Triple Sensor
Compass, altimeter, barometer, thermometer (which is kinda useless because it's on your wrist and body head kind of makes it useless)
Records up to 24 hours of above data, nice backlight.
Costco, $120
comcast - well I'm assuming, excerpts from my letter are word for word.
The bottom half of the letter is really trying to push thier business cable package, so I'm thinking this is a just an attempt to mooch money out of you. . .
from the "from field" mensa master. . .
I'm going to take the complete opposite point, if you have a business AP, OPEN your wireless network, assume that it is compromised from the start. This will force you to encrypt your network traffic with something that actually resembles security.
WEP, MAC filering and stopping SSID broadcasting aren't really worth anything in terms of security - they might prevent the casual user from drifting in, but it is pretty clear that the security they provide is trivial at best and they are more of a hinderance to users than anything else.
Strange. The victim had third degree burns. 130 F isn't hot enough to cause third degree burns. How can you explain this?
/elitist asshole, today at least
lol, he was working at mcdonalds at the time, that should tell you enough. . .
What kind of idiot would use his laptop while driving?
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/no, not bitter at all.
dunno, cops, emt's, yuppie scum. .
but then what kind of idiot reads a bok while driving, watches TV while driving, puts on MAKEUP WHILE DRIVING????
everybody freaking else.
yeah, I suppose, I just assume the average person who eats at McDonalds doesn't have a laptop, but tons of screaming kids running around (although looking at their financials, apparantly they could use a couple more screaming kids running around ;)
Like I said, I haven't eaten there for about 5 years, so I don't know. If they did implement wifi in all their restaurants and change their menu a bit more, their gaudy very visible buildings would be a great advantage in showing people "wifi is here!"
In my travels, I've noticed a bunch of wifi in hotels for free. Quite cool. Since it's quite easy to implement (easier than running cat 5) the added benefit does attract customers. Not to insult anyone, but I thought there would be nothing but 7 kinds of grits, oppressing heat and humidity and waitresses muttering "fucking yankees" in hotels in the south, but was quite pleasantly surprised to find FREE wifi - in a small town in Alabama! (BTW, we experienced those other things too ;)
It comes down to this, if Hotel A wants to charge $10 a minute / hour / day and Hotel B doesn't - and their prices are the same, B gets my business.
Some hotels realize this, and they also realize that they have empty rooms almost every night.
WIFI is so common, that the decision to add free wifi should be as automatic as giving people fresh towels and clean rooms.
Ok, a couple of things. /OT)
/hour for internet access. It might of have sounded good in a board room, but it's the wrong way to think. Let me explain.
1. Community groups have essentially killed the market in a lot of cities. If someone can get it free, they won't pay. These are legitimate organizations, many federal non-profits - regardless of what Dvorak might think.
www.personaltelco.net is quite active in Portland, OR. If I were to step out on a limb, I would say that any corp wanting to unwire the downtown area would fail because of the personaltelco nodes that are already active.
(now some 12 year old nUb will "hack" the ptp wiki and brag about it on some irc channel, grr
2. The "linksys community network", ssid = default, no wep, etc. Whatever. Basically, it's free and the "pay for" model isn't. Besides. A lot of users would just go "wow, [mah emahil | AIM] is working" and be happy.
3. Starbucks/Tmobile et al think "profit" as charging $X
Most "regulars" (read "the majority of people who will buy stuff from you") will migrate to free wifi if that is what they are looking for. You can still hook in the occasional out of towner BUT they aren't your bread and butter.
And just to make this even more simplistic and understandable.
What do you sell in a coffee shop? Yes. Coffee.
Do you make a profit on coffee? Yes. I hope so, at $5 for a cup of crappy burnt beans.
If you give a reason for people to stay, will they buy more coffee (remember, you make a profit on coffee)? Yes. They will.
Will this increase your profits? Yeah. Of course.
Some companies realize this - and also realize that if you want to force people to get access with a purchase, that is pretty easy too. I think it's "buy a big mac, get net access" in McDonalds right now. They realize how they can make this profitable (although IMHO, the location is kind of wrong, sort of like selling mayonaise in a sex shop, but then again I haven't been to a McDonalds in 5 years)
Sure there is a niche market in airports and the such, but the average business isn't in an airport, is it?
Starbucks should be paying tmobile etc for the amount of time customers spend online, not the other way around.
4. If a company that offers wireless internet is not profitable, it is because of piss poor management and pissing away of company funds on stuff not essential to the business.
An access point costs roughly $200 to implement (an AP, a nocat box, or running some other authentication/payment scheme) and the man hours to install it. After that, $90 a month charge for the DSL/cable. Probably less than that.
When an AP is so cheap to implement, it is kind of hard to not make a profit even using these "pay" services.
BTW, the guy who runs www.seattlewireless.com is a scumbag who "resells" free services and IMHO should be dragged into the street, shot and hung from a lamp post. He's using the name of the community organization that sets up free nodes and making money for stealing nodedb's and mapquest's maps.
consider yourself corrected. nowhere near a year.
hmm. . .
you've apparantly never heard of the term "markup" I guess. . . The fact is, the store got that hard drive for closer to $40 than $150.
Besides, stores sell some stuff at a loss to draw people in and buy more stuff. . . door crashers and the such.
But the flipside of this is that you could end up with total incompetence in the workforce.
And this is different from the USA how exactly?
No, seriously, I'm posing a valid question. If you've worked in IT or virtually any other job, you seen a plethora of incompetents in virtually all areas. There isn't any push to remove these people because companies generally don't push their workers 100% and management is clueless about the actual workings of the company. "Time estimates by Scotty" also seem to work well.
I dunno where you're getting the 75% tax rate either.
water is wet
The federal standard might be strict, but the real world is quite a bit different than a couple words written on some peice of paper. . /shocked.
Oh, look, older microwave, lets put down $5 that the connection will suck when it is turned on.
Oh wait, it does. .
Hmm. . . wonder why.
Fire up netstumbler and look for at the SNR graph. WOW look at all the red! Turn nuker off and the graph changes.
Yeah, I might be a bit bitter, but I've had this happen more than once, and that is more than enough. I have no idea how much the average microwave leaks, but I do know that the average microwave has a hell of a lot more power inside it than a wifi card.