There are actually a lot... Wi-Max devices are actually WiFi, and many operate at 5.0ghz. If you have the SSID & Key and give them your mac address, you could connect right up to a WiMax network, if you're in line of sight and within broadcast distance. Point of reference: I own a couple of Ubiquity WiMax APs. My a/b/g/n laptop can connect with no issues.
Also, 802.11a uses 5.0GHz. If you look (they're rare and old), you can find some 802.11a-only APs.
Excellent point. That's exactly why I have Windows XP, Vista, and 7 on various PCs around my home. And, in a few months, I'll have 8 on something as well. Of course, Ubuntu (and occasionally Kubuntu, for no good reason) is my OS of choice, but I've got to know what my users are using. For what it's worth, Ubuntu 11.10 & Vista are on my primary laptop, and my wife's has XP & Ubuntu 10.10. I'm still annoyed by the whole popup bar on the left every time I try to close a window, but at least my webbrowser is Opera, so I just use gestures for the 'back' function. The only real complaint I have about Unity is that I have to search for so long to find things, plus if I want a custom launcher, it has to be on my desktop. But at the end of the day, I have to have (and use) the things I have to support.
As a TV repairman, I wholeheartedly agree. Over half the 'smart TVs' I work on have never been used with anything but a satellite Box and maybe a DVD player... often, I mention something about online functionality, and the EU is shocked their TV can get online. Then there's the one that calls me to 'fix' their TV because they can't surf the web with it.
Hey, instead of listening to the government say nothing interesting, lets listen to random citizens say nothing interesting.
Actually, this is a pretty cool idea -- there's not a chance anyone's going to say anything less interesting than stuff that would come from the Gov't. So hey, keep it coming!
I don't know. I think the jury is till out about what 'wing' B.O. is from. I mean, really... he has more people in Afghanistan that Bush ever did, he's not supporting things like PBS, Guantanamo Bay is still open...
They were actually just about to start offering the PC repair, but they hadn't yet. The thing was, the manager never even told me that I had to choose between jobs, he just asked me about my other job, then told me I was fired for conflict of interest. He went so far as to tell me that the past managers were wrong, and that I should never have been allowed to work both jobs -- and I had been doing that for years before he came along. I never advertised my services, it was only by request, and I only worked in people's homes, whereas OD only repairs computers in the shop. I believe he was just being a dirtbag.
On a side note, that manager was fired two years later, when it was discovered that he was buying cases of merchandise with his employee discount, then reselling it on eBay. So yeah, I think he was just a dirtbag.
I got fired from Office Depot because I had a second job. They required that all second jobs be approved -- not just by the corporation, but by the store manager. I got fired because my manager quit, and the new manager didn't approve of my second job, even though the last two had. My role was hourly, and I worked as the manager in the Print Center. My second job was in-home computer repair. I still fail to see how those are a conflict of interest.
I'm almost never on the interstate. My primary area is Laramie in the west to Ogallala in the East, and from Rapid City to Sterling, CO. Vzw had no signal about 30% of the time. I haven't been North of Torrington since switching to t-mo, but I have yet to find any place with no signal.
HAHA wow, multiplication in my head isn't my strong suit. At least I was just 1 decimal place off, but that number sounded so huge, I should have known something wasn't right.
To be fair, though, looking at a map and measuring more accurately, my 'extended coverage area' (places I travel to once a month or so) is just shy of 400K square miles. On a weekly basis, I cover an area of 250K square miles. I average 1,200 miles a week.
If this is true, that puts Australia well ahead of us. I think the 4-digit numerical pins here are a holdover from the phone banking days. True passwords would be so much more secure, albeit, more easily socially engineered. Pins are typically never changed from the random string your bank assigned you.
I don't know about Sprint, but Verizon is no good if you're planning to leave the USA. Calling a friend while in Canada will cost you $1.50/minute on your Vzw phone, if you have coverage. And only if you have a contract -- prepaid phones have no coverage at all. At that rate, it's cheaper to use a phone booth (which, oddly enough, are still common in Canada)
I'm a T-Mo customer living in Wyoming. I travel a lot for my job (I cover about 2.5 million square miles across 4 states, mostly in Wyoming), and my Android phone is roaming 95% of the time. The great thing is, being an Android phone, it tells me what network I'm roaming on, and lets me choose if I want to. The data flat does not work on most of the carriers, but the voice coverage is awesome. I'm never on AT&T (their coverage is always sub-par), but I always have 4 bars everywhere I go, including all the places my old Verizon phone had no coverage at all. I get to roam onto all the local carriers, and always have better coverage that anyone else. I cannot imagine a nicer setup (other than, say, getting to use data everywhere). My family that uses AT&T here in Wy hate it; poor coverage, rude customer service, and high prices.
Oh, and it costs a third what my Verizon dumbphone did, without a data plan.
You're bang-on about software freelancing sites. If you don't mind diversifying a little, though, try some hardware/software support freelancing. The pay is GOOD for little add-ons, and you can pick up LOTS of free certifications along the way. I am Dell, Toshiba, HP, Samsung, Delphi, and a few others certified. Didn't pay for a single one. I get paid a minimum of $50/hr (typically closer to $100/hr), and don't have to mess with any marketing or anything.
Onforce.com, fieldnation.com, workmarket.com, fieldsolutions.com, and servicelive.com (in order of the quality of their workorders). They're all free to join, and well worth a look.
I started off as a 30 hr/week dentist's assistant after a layoff from an equally unrewarding job. The free day each week gave me enough time to pick up a few frelance jobs (at that time, I was only using the OnForce platform), and after about 6 months I was making almost as much on Fridays as I did Monday-Thursday. In May of this year, I quit the Dentist, and am now self-employed full time. Being married, I have a little computer shop on main street that my wife runs, but it just barely covers its own costs. From the freelancing, I'm going gross about $40k this year just since may. Not bad for just starting out. I have no formal computer education, aside from the free certs I've picked up along the way, and actually enjoy parts swaps a lot more than I ever dreamed I would. Especially at $100/hr with no boss.
The advantage of the current systems is its safety. If someone is stuck in the door, the doors will not close, and the train will not take off. If someone is stuck in the doorway in Priestman's idea, the poor sap will be hung out to dry when the tracks diverge. I suppose the tracks could be close enough to dock for a long enough time that if the doors aren't closed at the end of the boarding window, the trains could come to a complete stop. But that sounds like a lot of extra room, and hence, extra cost.
I think I went through about five on primary school field trips. I really didn't think anyone hadn't been in a shipping center/factory/retail back room (all basically the same).
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There are actually a lot... Wi-Max devices are actually WiFi, and many operate at 5.0ghz. If you have the SSID & Key and give them your mac address, you could connect right up to a WiMax network, if you're in line of sight and within broadcast distance. Point of reference: I own a couple of Ubiquity WiMax APs. My a/b/g/n laptop can connect with no issues.
Also, 802.11a uses 5.0GHz. If you look (they're rare and old), you can find some 802.11a-only APs.
If you'll give me your name, I'll write you in on the presidential ballot.
AC for pres. 2012!
What are you talking about? My mom was born in the early '60s, and everyone knows she's 25. Just ask her!
Excellent point. That's exactly why I have Windows XP, Vista, and 7 on various PCs around my home. And, in a few months, I'll have 8 on something as well. Of course, Ubuntu (and occasionally Kubuntu, for no good reason) is my OS of choice, but I've got to know what my users are using. For what it's worth, Ubuntu 11.10 & Vista are on my primary laptop, and my wife's has XP & Ubuntu 10.10. I'm still annoyed by the whole popup bar on the left every time I try to close a window, but at least my webbrowser is Opera, so I just use gestures for the 'back' function. The only real complaint I have about Unity is that I have to search for so long to find things, plus if I want a custom launcher, it has to be on my desktop. But at the end of the day, I have to have (and use) the things I have to support.
If downloading child pornography supports child pornographers how can downloading music destroy the music industry?
That, my friend, is the best comment regarding filesharing I think I've ever seen.
As a TV repairman, I wholeheartedly agree. Over half the 'smart TVs' I work on have never been used with anything but a satellite Box and maybe a DVD player... often, I mention something about online functionality, and the EU is shocked their TV can get online. Then there's the one that calls me to 'fix' their TV because they can't surf the web with it.
Hey, instead of listening to the government say nothing interesting, lets listen to random citizens say nothing interesting. Actually, this is a pretty cool idea -- there's not a chance anyone's going to say anything less interesting than stuff that would come from the Gov't. So hey, keep it coming!
I don't know. I think the jury is till out about what 'wing' B.O. is from. I mean, really... he has more people in Afghanistan that Bush ever did, he's not supporting things like PBS, Guantanamo Bay is still open...
They were actually just about to start offering the PC repair, but they hadn't yet. The thing was, the manager never even told me that I had to choose between jobs, he just asked me about my other job, then told me I was fired for conflict of interest. He went so far as to tell me that the past managers were wrong, and that I should never have been allowed to work both jobs -- and I had been doing that for years before he came along. I never advertised my services, it was only by request, and I only worked in people's homes, whereas OD only repairs computers in the shop. I believe he was just being a dirtbag.
On a side note, that manager was fired two years later, when it was discovered that he was buying cases of merchandise with his employee discount, then reselling it on eBay. So yeah, I think he was just a dirtbag.
I got fired from Office Depot because I had a second job. They required that all second jobs be approved -- not just by the corporation, but by the store manager. I got fired because my manager quit, and the new manager didn't approve of my second job, even though the last two had. My role was hourly, and I worked as the manager in the Print Center. My second job was in-home computer repair. I still fail to see how those are a conflict of interest.
Can you please run for president?
Reading this, all I could think was that I feel bad for the Nasa astronauts. This is their only option for getting to the ISS now.
The Canadians/British tried this. It didn't turn out so well for them.
I feel like I should know the answer to this, but what does Apache have to do with OOo? I thought Oracle owned OOo and ruled it with an iron fist.
Except the roaming coverage is significantly better than advertised (here anyway.) Vzw's coverage was often worse than advertised.
I'm almost never on the interstate. My primary area is Laramie in the west to Ogallala in the East, and from Rapid City to Sterling, CO. Vzw had no signal about 30% of the time. I haven't been North of Torrington since switching to t-mo, but I have yet to find any place with no signal.
HAHA wow, multiplication in my head isn't my strong suit. At least I was just 1 decimal place off, but that number sounded so huge, I should have known something wasn't right.
To be fair, though, looking at a map and measuring more accurately, my 'extended coverage area' (places I travel to once a month or so) is just shy of 400K square miles. On a weekly basis, I cover an area of 250K square miles. I average 1,200 miles a week.
Wait, you mean cell phones aren't being blamed?
If this is true, that puts Australia well ahead of us. I think the 4-digit numerical pins here are a holdover from the phone banking days. True passwords would be so much more secure, albeit, more easily socially engineered. Pins are typically never changed from the random string your bank assigned you.
I don't know about Sprint, but Verizon is no good if you're planning to leave the USA. Calling a friend while in Canada will cost you $1.50/minute on your Vzw phone, if you have coverage. And only if you have a contract -- prepaid phones have no coverage at all. At that rate, it's cheaper to use a phone booth (which, oddly enough, are still common in Canada)
I'm a T-Mo customer living in Wyoming. I travel a lot for my job (I cover about 2.5 million square miles across 4 states, mostly in Wyoming), and my Android phone is roaming 95% of the time. The great thing is, being an Android phone, it tells me what network I'm roaming on, and lets me choose if I want to. The data flat does not work on most of the carriers, but the voice coverage is awesome. I'm never on AT&T (their coverage is always sub-par), but I always have 4 bars everywhere I go, including all the places my old Verizon phone had no coverage at all. I get to roam onto all the local carriers, and always have better coverage that anyone else. I cannot imagine a nicer setup (other than, say, getting to use data everywhere). My family that uses AT&T here in Wy hate it; poor coverage, rude customer service, and high prices.
Oh, and it costs a third what my Verizon dumbphone did, without a data plan.
Insightful? Lol. /. today.
But it did make me laugh more than any other comment on
And he's dead right.
You're bang-on about software freelancing sites. If you don't mind diversifying a little, though, try some hardware/software support freelancing. The pay is GOOD for little add-ons, and you can pick up LOTS of free certifications along the way. I am Dell, Toshiba, HP, Samsung, Delphi, and a few others certified. Didn't pay for a single one. I get paid a minimum of $50/hr (typically closer to $100/hr), and don't have to mess with any marketing or anything. Onforce.com, fieldnation.com, workmarket.com, fieldsolutions.com, and servicelive.com (in order of the quality of their workorders). They're all free to join, and well worth a look.
I started off as a 30 hr/week dentist's assistant after a layoff from an equally unrewarding job. The free day each week gave me enough time to pick up a few frelance jobs (at that time, I was only using the OnForce platform), and after about 6 months I was making almost as much on Fridays as I did Monday-Thursday. In May of this year, I quit the Dentist, and am now self-employed full time. Being married, I have a little computer shop on main street that my wife runs, but it just barely covers its own costs. From the freelancing, I'm going gross about $40k this year just since may. Not bad for just starting out. I have no formal computer education, aside from the free certs I've picked up along the way, and actually enjoy parts swaps a lot more than I ever dreamed I would. Especially at $100/hr with no boss.
The advantage of the current systems is its safety. If someone is stuck in the door, the doors will not close, and the train will not take off. If someone is stuck in the doorway in Priestman's idea, the poor sap will be hung out to dry when the tracks diverge. I suppose the tracks could be close enough to dock for a long enough time that if the doors aren't closed at the end of the boarding window, the trains could come to a complete stop. But that sounds like a lot of extra room, and hence, extra cost.
I think I went through about five on primary school field trips. I really didn't think anyone hadn't been in a shipping center/factory/retail back room (all basically the same).