You will likely have to chip in something to get work done, but I suggest approaching multiple carriers and see if they will run cable through your HOA's in-ground conduit if you installed it. That way, the cost of running the cable for each provider is significantly lower and your HOA can more easily choose between any participating carrier. It may not solve the issue of having a hub or other multiplexing devices in your immediate area, but it does lower the barrier a good amount.
In the future if/when Google or other fiber solutions come to your area, having conduit with plenty of room for the new cables makes it a lot more attractive for them to take care of you.
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to, then they would be journalists and thus, protected. Next thing you know, they will be named thepiratebaytimes.org.
I know this sounds like the start of a bad joke, but this seems to be a fairly simple principle. When the USSR made it nearly impossible to get normal goods that the public wanted, an underground sprang up to fill the need. This is simple supply and demand economics. To generalize, making things overly expensive and tied to one internet connected device is only going to encourage a larger underground market.
People, on the whole, want to do the right thing, but you should not deprive them of their right to do whatever they want with things they have legally bought, or they will circumvent it. Humans adapt, learn, and defeat stupid things like copy protection and vendor-lock in all the time. If they really want to decrease piracy, then they should stop price gouging, stop overly restrictive DRM, allow better "try before you buy" methods, and truly embrace college communities via viral marketing techniques rather than call them criminals.
But hey, you already knew this. At this point, we're just beating a dead horse with this argument.
That's fine. If a tornado ripped through their datacenter, I could see that being Force Majeure. Failure to have a backup generator (or other power protection mechanism) is not force majeure and you would be hard pressed to find a judge that would say otherwise. Failure to have power for any reason is considered a predictable event that any datacenter operator should be able to deal with for 24 hours.
No, I don't know for fact that they don't have adequate power backup. I do know for fact that they didn't loose their roof. I also know, as I live in the general area, that other than a few trees down here and there, power was the only problem.
I certainly didn't see anything about trees falling on datacenters in the storm reports I've read through. I have, however, read about many many people being out of power because of the winds.
They have the credit card numbers of these people, no? Add a $1000 (or more) charge to the TOS each time someone gets caught spamming through them. That should make a pretty clear point.
Seconding this. I've had one since February and it works like a charm. Sometimes the headrest annoys me, and as it is not removable, I occasionally wish I hadn't gotten that option. Overall though, it is a remarkable chair.
If you can figure out how to do so, I'd recommend getting him to sit in a variety of chairs. For some people, the el-cheapo is actually better than the high dollar chairs.
Not to mention the cost of pulling all those consultants in, overnight, on a weekend...
Also, only the electrical equipment (and structural stuff) was damaged - networking and customer servers are intact (but without power, obviously). I read that they pulled in vendors. Those types would be more than happy to show up at the drop of a hat for some un-negotiated products that insurance will pay for anyway, and they'll even throw in their time for "free" so long as you don't dent their commission.
I'm not sure when you last looked, but you are not always guaranteed your provider will not oversubscribe you for a T1. In fact, this is regular practice that your ISP does oversubscribe.
As far as the prices, one reason is that a T1 requres more phone circuits whereas DSL only uses 1. Each circuit gets charged taxes and surcharges, so it is no surprise the cost hasn't come down quite as much.
Wow. You should read the EULA. No, seriously. It isn't that painful. While they can not sell your personal information directly (as in, here is joe blow's last list of girlfriends), they can agrigate it and show advertisers x% of students enjoy watching football and drinking beer. This is normal, done in tons of other places, and doesn't hurt you one bit. Frankly I am shocked that Facebook (at least not that I could find) is not selling aggregate statistics. Various university marketing departments would pay a fortune for some kind of data mining ability.
In any event, get over yourself. If you didn't like the EULA (not reading it is not an excuse), then why in the hell did you agree to it?
Don't ask slashdot. Or any other IT geeks.
Go ask a financial professional. There are tons that give free first time consultations.
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Check out Smarty. MVC in PHP is something that, like many other C-derivative languages, is not forced. The writer has the option to ignore MVC completely. Just follow any old guide to the generics of MVC if you don't want to use a template engine. It really isn't that hard...
Unfortunately, a salary rasie would also attract the less qualified people. Not the ones that don't have degrees, but the ones that are in it for the cash/benefits that the Michigan Teachers Union argues for. I wish I could give some of the teachers I've seen a few extra dollars to leave...
IMHO, if they are getting computers, put them in computer labs. If they really have that much money to burn (pretty sure they don't) they should look in to upping the pay for their systems administrators (which in MI do normally get paid crap) to attract the better ones.
You can't expect anyone to go out of their way to do anything. Ever.We've got a network of many type of OS's. Our backup server is 2k. The particular solution we have implemented is to set up a general client/task/whatever folder on the backup server and share that. Then on all of the desktop stations, just map the drive (Or mount it if it's *nix/mac), all your users will have to do is save to their "local folder." The idea is to make it as seamless as possible. We all know that there is too much going on in the day to click one more time to prevent something that "isn't going to happen to me," but if you make it easy to do, your users will have to *try* to not save their documents properly.
Agreed; I work at a few places, an electronics store included. The store I work at does not do any instalations or repairs but we get customers every day that "just don't get it." For example, I had one in-duh-vidual come in and complain that her $15 printing calculator that was purchased nearly a decade ago at a completely different store (and the person knew this...) wouldn't work! If you or I got a car, drove it for 200K+ miles and the trans fell out (I have no clue how it would, but still), it's not like we can go back to the dealor or even the dealor's competitor and demand it be fixed. *sigh* why are too many of the consumers idiots? I also agree on that point of other corps "downsizing and or outsourcing;" the afformentioned corp I work for contracts out to GE for any issues about the product (but they do a good job w/ it)-I still end up doing too much tech support and not enough of my real job.
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You will likely have to chip in something to get work done, but I suggest approaching multiple carriers and see if they will run cable through your HOA's in-ground conduit if you installed it. That way, the cost of running the cable for each provider is significantly lower and your HOA can more easily choose between any participating carrier. It may not solve the issue of having a hub or other multiplexing devices in your immediate area, but it does lower the barrier a good amount.
In the future if/when Google or other fiber solutions come to your area, having conduit with plenty of room for the new cables makes it a lot more attractive for them to take care of you.
The secret is journalism.
If the Pirate Bay wrote a quick op-ed piece about every torrent they linked to, then they would be journalists and thus, protected. Next thing you know, they will be named thepiratebaytimes.org.
I know this sounds like the start of a bad joke, but this seems to be a fairly simple principle. When the USSR made it nearly impossible to get normal goods that the public wanted, an underground sprang up to fill the need. This is simple supply and demand economics. To generalize, making things overly expensive and tied to one internet connected device is only going to encourage a larger underground market.
People, on the whole, want to do the right thing, but you should not deprive them of their right to do whatever they want with things they have legally bought, or they will circumvent it. Humans adapt, learn, and defeat stupid things like copy protection and vendor-lock in all the time. If they really want to decrease piracy, then they should stop price gouging, stop overly restrictive DRM, allow better "try before you buy" methods, and truly embrace college communities via viral marketing techniques rather than call them criminals.
But hey, you already knew this. At this point, we're just beating a dead horse with this argument.
That's fine. If a tornado ripped through their datacenter, I could see that being Force Majeure. Failure to have a backup generator (or other power protection mechanism) is not force majeure and you would be hard pressed to find a judge that would say otherwise. Failure to have power for any reason is considered a predictable event that any datacenter operator should be able to deal with for 24 hours.
No, I don't know for fact that they don't have adequate power backup. I do know for fact that they didn't loose their roof. I also know, as I live in the general area, that other than a few trees down here and there, power was the only problem.
I certainly didn't see anything about trees falling on datacenters in the storm reports I've read through. I have, however, read about many many people being out of power because of the winds.
The inability for AT&T's datacenter in Michigan to have power backups that can last more than a day should hardly be considered a natural disaster.
I'd love to see something happen in terms of getting money back, but somehow I doubt most subscribers care enough to push for it.
Then amazon needs to do a much better job of determining who their clients really are, and there are quite a few fairly reliable ways of doing so.
Nothing is perfect, but it can be made very hard.
They have the credit card numbers of these people, no? Add a $1000 (or more) charge to the TOS each time someone gets caught spamming through them. That should make a pretty clear point.
Seconding this. I've had one since February and it works like a charm. Sometimes the headrest annoys me, and as it is not removable, I occasionally wish I hadn't gotten that option. Overall though, it is a remarkable chair.
If you can figure out how to do so, I'd recommend getting him to sit in a variety of chairs. For some people, the el-cheapo is actually better than the high dollar chairs.
Also, only the electrical equipment (and structural stuff) was damaged - networking and customer servers are intact (but without power, obviously). I read that they pulled in vendors. Those types would be more than happy to show up at the drop of a hat for some un-negotiated products that insurance will pay for anyway, and they'll even throw in their time for "free" so long as you don't dent their commission.
I'm not sure when you last looked, but you are not always guaranteed your provider will not oversubscribe you for a T1. In fact, this is regular practice that your ISP does oversubscribe.
As far as the prices, one reason is that a T1 requres more phone circuits whereas DSL only uses 1. Each circuit gets charged taxes and surcharges, so it is no surprise the cost hasn't come down quite as much.
Wow. You should read the EULA. No, seriously. It isn't that painful. While they can not sell your personal information directly (as in, here is joe blow's last list of girlfriends), they can agrigate it and show advertisers x% of students enjoy watching football and drinking beer. This is normal, done in tons of other places, and doesn't hurt you one bit. Frankly I am shocked that Facebook (at least not that I could find) is not selling aggregate statistics. Various university marketing departments would pay a fortune for some kind of data mining ability.
In any event, get over yourself. If you didn't like the EULA (not reading it is not an excuse), then why in the hell did you agree to it?
Don't ask slashdot. Or any other IT geeks.
Go ask a financial professional. There are tons that give free first time consultations.
Check out Smarty. MVC in PHP is something that, like many other C-derivative languages, is not forced. The writer has the option to ignore MVC completely. Just follow any old guide to the generics of MVC if you don't want to use a template engine. It really isn't that hard...
For openbsd you can throttle bandwidth right in PF.
Just cap whichever queue you want at whatever rate you want.
None of those seem to provide a link to the US-Cert site that has the link, so here:
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Check out bb4.com.
Unfortunately, a salary rasie would also attract the less qualified people. Not the ones that don't have degrees, but the ones that are in it for the cash/benefits that the Michigan Teachers Union argues for. I wish I could give some of the teachers I've seen a few extra dollars to leave...
IMHO, if they are getting computers, put them in computer labs. If they really have that much money to burn (pretty sure they don't) they should look in to upping the pay for their systems administrators (which in MI do normally get paid crap) to attract the better ones.
Complete privacy, they say?
Will that still be the case when someone hacks in to their system housing the database of participant names?
Isn't it the Cheat? And he only gets a pizza-trophy.
- Texas Weather Instruments
- Oregon Scientific
- Davis Vantage
- etc.
Plugs in to a computer, logs just fine, and you can post your results to wundergroundYou can't expect anyone to go out of their way to do anything. Ever.We've got a network of many type of OS's. Our backup server is 2k. The particular solution we have implemented is to set up a general client/task/whatever folder on the backup server and share that. Then on all of the desktop stations, just map the drive (Or mount it if it's *nix/mac), all your users will have to do is save to their "local folder." The idea is to make it as seamless as possible. We all know that there is too much going on in the day to click one more time to prevent something that "isn't going to happen to me," but if you make it easy to do, your users will have to *try* to not save their documents properly.
Agreed; I work at a few places, an electronics store included. The store I work at does not do any instalations or repairs but we get customers every day that "just don't get it." For example, I had one in-duh-vidual come in and complain that her $15 printing calculator that was purchased nearly a decade ago at a completely different store (and the person knew this...) wouldn't work! If you or I got a car, drove it for 200K+ miles and the trans fell out (I have no clue how it would, but still), it's not like we can go back to the dealor or even the dealor's competitor and demand it be fixed. *sigh* why are too many of the consumers idiots? I also agree on that point of other corps "downsizing and or outsourcing;" the afformentioned corp I work for contracts out to GE for any issues about the product (but they do a good job w/ it)-I still end up doing too much tech support and not enough of my real job.
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Sure, look here for the product--You can generally find it for about $129.
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