Oh for the love of pete; I hope I haven't been trolled:
1. For 802.11b/g, there are only 3 non-overlapping channels. 1,6 and 11. 2. If you choose a channel at random - say #3 - then your signal will overlap #1 and #6 due to the way that 802.11b/g in the 2.4ghz band works. It uses multiple channels centered around the chosen channel. 3. Basic routers/software should only give the choice of 1,6 and 11 in my opinion.
This actually comes into play in large installations - planning for a wireless b/g solution in a warehouse is something you have to spend time on. Not only do you have to worry about all of your access points and making sure channels overlap in given areas as little as possible, you also have to worry about other 3rd party APs crashing the party as well. I've had to do several of these; unfortunately getting 3rd parties to change their APs is pretty difficult - especially if they're in the same facility....
Even new APC network cards only do 2400,n,8,1 when doing the initial programming. Give it an IP, Subnet Mask and gateway, then use the web interface (or "telnet" - much faster) to get things going...
Maybe running a "local server" would be an easy way to restore functionality; but why couldn't you just take the parts of code that "load and save" and just send them to files? I know, it's harder than the 50,000 foot view I just stated, but seems simpler than having a server that has to replicate the conversations etc.
But all else isn't equal. I'm sure there are some R&D costs to recover... but those should be close to nil now unless new "features" are being introduced.
Putting the car in neutral should also disconnect the throttle fly-by-wire assembly. Unless someone likes constantly revving their engine in neutral (this is for the automatic transmission style only) it wouldn't cause anyone any real grief.
As we get more and more involved with electronics in cars though, there's also the issue that the ECM could ignore the fact that you put the car in neutral. My wife's car has a gear selector that I know is electronic; couple that with electric throttle and push-button start and you could have a real problem to where one failure compounds on the others.
One more thought - how to get the car to realize that if I push the button to stop the engine, it kills it immediately instead of waiting a specific time period to shut down. I know that the delay is so that the machine understands that you do really want to shut down the engine rather than "I just bumped the button" but there has to be some stupid simple solution to that issue. As convenient as it would be for me to just get in the car and drive rather than have to put a key in a cylinder, I like being able to turn that cylinder at a moment's notice if there's something wrong....
Even simpler option. Put a user defeat in place. I know this sounds silly, but is much better in these "exception" cases: I have a 99 Grand Marquis with Traction Control (every car have this nowadays?) and they decided to put the button to turn off the traction control... in the glove box. Not too big a deal; I only ever use it if I'm wanting to get a little bit of slide out of the rear end of the car for kicks. However, with it being in the glove box, I rarely turn it off - it's just not a useful feature for every day driving.
Also - every reset of the car (re-ignition) turns the Traction Control feature on so even if I had engaged the defeat mechanism, when I shut the car down it re-engages Traction Control. This could be similar from an exception point of view - if you're getting into a race, you have the opportunity to turn down the safety system so you can heel-toe without the engine cutting out. Of course if you have to kill the engine you'd have to disengage the system again, but that would help more of the exception drivers.
I bricked my '95 Z28 using one of the Hypertech Power Programmer devices. These devices look at your stock config and allow you to modify certain parameters - such as turning the radiator fans on earlier if you had a lower temp thermostat or adjusting the speedo for larger/smaller tires. I'd used it probably 7 or 8 times on the car, with no issues... but one time it actually did cause the car to not start.
Got it to the dealer, they said they couldn't even read anything out of the ECM. Apparently, the chip that I was writing to each time I'd fire up the programmer was either faulty or had a bad connection because they couldn't re-write the original code to it at that point.
I still used the programmer after that day on the replacement ECM but I was always on pins and needles, praying that I didn't hear the fans kick on during the programming process. (Apparently, if the ECM is fried, everything goes to a default mode - since it can't sense the coolant temp the car just kicks the fans on...)
I can tell you personally that the large company CEOs don't work "10-4" - more like 24x7.... the job is their life.
So much so that I know one that has a Plasma in his staff meeting room for when he's in on weekends to watch while working because he's ALWAYS at work.
Sounds to me like this "CEO" is just someone who's also a con-man.
That's very understandable, mister anonymous. As the post appears to have flown over your head, I was making a direct comment about how I've had experience with level 1 technicians that in my mind I had presented a reasonable fault domain for resolution, only to have to go by the predetermined script....
I understand your points; I guess the point I was attempting to make is that there should probably be more "Demos" and shareware versions of the games. Especially with a lower "download cost" - you could get your taste of whether you like the game or not, and then purchase the game based on that. Would give you the same result as if you grabbed the full game off of piratebay - with the exception of the demo/shareware being too short to fully realize the gameplay.....
I play regularly on a server that typically has admins on on peak hours (8pm-12am EST) and it remains fairly clean. Anyone new is usually scrutinized pretty hard; and the existing players are all there to have a good time. The banhammer comes out quick if you're cheating.... Even quicker if you mouth off to the admins or start spouting racial slurs.
Oh yea, they also toss anyone under a reasonable (16-18) age range, since we get kinda foul mouthed and taunt back and forth. If you sound like you're 10 years old, it might cause trouble playing on the server.... but eh, keeps most of the riffraff out.
Then you should go to a friend's house or a game store that has the game playing on one of the consoles (unfortunately, this leaves PCs out of the mix) and "sample" the gameplay there.
"sampling" a game by downloading the entire content and then making the decision - well, there are a lot of people who just wouldn't buy the game at that point because they already have the full game, not just a sample. I'm actually amazed that there aren't more demo or shareware type installs of games - I recently tried Need for Speed Shift - thought about purchasing, but not for $60. I'm just going to wait for it to drop to the bargain bin at this point.
I always thought those class restrictions were too slow. 6MB/sec, really? It should be advertised as 6+MB - or, they could create "grades" above 6MB, since that's a pretty slow speed anymore for moving data around.
I just saw a review somewhere on a micro SDHC card that had a transfer rate of close to 15MB/s. Still labelled "class 6" but obviously head of the class. How's a consumer to know that the card is faster than 6?
I've been around Ford and Chevrolet vehicles for the past... oh, as long as I've been driving. As long as I've been changing my oil, they've always used metric (14mm to 16mm, depending on vehicle).
Don't you realize that if this technology caught on then you'd set yourself up to sell a heat pen to go with the paper? Just like those cold soldering irons, you'd just heat-r-up and make your annotations. Wham. Never need an ink refill/sharpener again!
Of course, there are battery considerations. Those would probably balance out the "green" factor.
I had a set of machines infected with Virut. Combofix couldn't do much of anything - what this virus does is slowly infect all executable files on the system; of which most are in the c:\windows directory and below.
A total fresh install is the best option - unless you happen to have an identical clean machine nearby.....
Had to do work on a client's computer. Has XP and WGA and all that.
1. User got notified every time he logged in that his copy was not genuine. 2. User could not open e-mail attachments in Outlook Express (let's not talk about how horrid this app is....) 3. User's background could not be set to anything other than MS Blue.
So the functionality was reduced here. I can't believe that they'd not do something to slightly annoy you to pay up. The cost to fix? $149, direct to MS via credit card.
But you DO have an idiot light... ahem valve stem cap that tells you they're getting lower than you'd like. It's not on the dash, but you pay attention and remedy the situation.
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Oh for the love of pete; I hope I haven't been trolled:
1. For 802.11b/g, there are only 3 non-overlapping channels. 1,6 and 11.
2. If you choose a channel at random - say #3 - then your signal will overlap #1 and #6 due to the way that 802.11b/g in the 2.4ghz band works. It uses multiple channels centered around the chosen channel.
3. Basic routers/software should only give the choice of 1,6 and 11 in my opinion.
This actually comes into play in large installations - planning for a wireless b/g solution in a warehouse is something you have to spend time on. Not only do you have to worry about all of your access points and making sure channels overlap in given areas as little as possible, you also have to worry about other 3rd party APs crashing the party as well. I've had to do several of these; unfortunately getting 3rd parties to change their APs is pretty difficult - especially if they're in the same facility....
Even new APC network cards only do 2400,n,8,1 when doing the initial programming. Give it an IP, Subnet Mask and gateway, then use the web interface (or "telnet" - much faster) to get things going...
Maybe running a "local server" would be an easy way to restore functionality; but why couldn't you just take the parts of code that "load and save" and just send them to files? I know, it's harder than the 50,000 foot view I just stated, but seems simpler than having a server that has to replicate the conversations etc.
But all else isn't equal. I'm sure there are some R&D costs to recover... but those should be close to nil now unless new "features" are being introduced.
Several hundred employees is not a large company.
Putting the car in neutral should also disconnect the throttle fly-by-wire assembly. Unless someone likes constantly revving their engine in neutral (this is for the automatic transmission style only) it wouldn't cause anyone any real grief.
As we get more and more involved with electronics in cars though, there's also the issue that the ECM could ignore the fact that you put the car in neutral. My wife's car has a gear selector that I know is electronic; couple that with electric throttle and push-button start and you could have a real problem to where one failure compounds on the others.
One more thought - how to get the car to realize that if I push the button to stop the engine, it kills it immediately instead of waiting a specific time period to shut down. I know that the delay is so that the machine understands that you do really want to shut down the engine rather than "I just bumped the button" but there has to be some stupid simple solution to that issue. As convenient as it would be for me to just get in the car and drive rather than have to put a key in a cylinder, I like being able to turn that cylinder at a moment's notice if there's something wrong....
Even simpler option. Put a user defeat in place. I know this sounds silly, but is much better in these "exception" cases: I have a 99 Grand Marquis with Traction Control (every car have this nowadays?) and they decided to put the button to turn off the traction control... in the glove box. Not too big a deal; I only ever use it if I'm wanting to get a little bit of slide out of the rear end of the car for kicks. However, with it being in the glove box, I rarely turn it off - it's just not a useful feature for every day driving.
Also - every reset of the car (re-ignition) turns the Traction Control feature on so even if I had engaged the defeat mechanism, when I shut the car down it re-engages Traction Control. This could be similar from an exception point of view - if you're getting into a race, you have the opportunity to turn down the safety system so you can heel-toe without the engine cutting out. Of course if you have to kill the engine you'd have to disengage the system again, but that would help more of the exception drivers.
I bricked my '95 Z28 using one of the Hypertech Power Programmer devices. These devices look at your stock config and allow you to modify certain parameters - such as turning the radiator fans on earlier if you had a lower temp thermostat or adjusting the speedo for larger/smaller tires. I'd used it probably 7 or 8 times on the car, with no issues... but one time it actually did cause the car to not start.
Got it to the dealer, they said they couldn't even read anything out of the ECM. Apparently, the chip that I was writing to each time I'd fire up the programmer was either faulty or had a bad connection because they couldn't re-write the original code to it at that point.
I still used the programmer after that day on the replacement ECM but I was always on pins and needles, praying that I didn't hear the fans kick on during the programming process. (Apparently, if the ECM is fried, everything goes to a default mode - since it can't sense the coolant temp the car just kicks the fans on...)
You must have ran out of energy before telling them to get off your lawn..... I'll do it for you.
GET OFF HIS LAWN!
You should research smaller projectors.
You just had to bring a car analogy into this!!!
I can tell you personally that the large company CEOs don't work "10-4" - more like 24x7.... the job is their life.
So much so that I know one that has a Plasma in his staff meeting room for when he's in on weekends to watch while working because he's ALWAYS at work.
Sounds to me like this "CEO" is just someone who's also a con-man.
That's very understandable, mister anonymous. As the post appears to have flown over your head, I was making a direct comment about how I've had experience with level 1 technicians that in my mind I had presented a reasonable fault domain for resolution, only to have to go by the predetermined script....
I understand your points; I guess the point I was attempting to make is that there should probably be more "Demos" and shareware versions of the games. Especially with a lower "download cost" - you could get your taste of whether you like the game or not, and then purchase the game based on that. Would give you the same result as if you grabbed the full game off of piratebay - with the exception of the demo/shareware being too short to fully realize the gameplay.....
I play regularly on a server that typically has admins on on peak hours (8pm-12am EST) and it remains fairly clean. Anyone new is usually scrutinized pretty hard; and the existing players are all there to have a good time. The banhammer comes out quick if you're cheating.... Even quicker if you mouth off to the admins or start spouting racial slurs.
Oh yea, they also toss anyone under a reasonable (16-18) age range, since we get kinda foul mouthed and taunt back and forth. If you sound like you're 10 years old, it might cause trouble playing on the server.... but eh, keeps most of the riffraff out.
Then you should go to a friend's house or a game store that has the game playing on one of the consoles (unfortunately, this leaves PCs out of the mix) and "sample" the gameplay there.
"sampling" a game by downloading the entire content and then making the decision - well, there are a lot of people who just wouldn't buy the game at that point because they already have the full game, not just a sample. I'm actually amazed that there aren't more demo or shareware type installs of games - I recently tried Need for Speed Shift - thought about purchasing, but not for $60. I'm just going to wait for it to drop to the bargain bin at this point.
I always thought those class restrictions were too slow. 6MB/sec, really? It should be advertised as 6+MB - or, they could create "grades" above 6MB, since that's a pretty slow speed anymore for moving data around.
I just saw a review somewhere on a micro SDHC card that had a transfer rate of close to 15MB/s. Still labelled "class 6" but obviously head of the class. How's a consumer to know that the card is faster than 6?
ATT DSL tech:
"okay, click start"
"ummmhmm"
"run"
"ummhmmm"
"type cmd and then hit enter"
"yup"
"Type in IPCONFIG and hit enter. What do you get?"
"Nothing, the modem has no lights on it and appears to be fried, as I told you before......"
I've been around Ford and Chevrolet vehicles for the past... oh, as long as I've been driving. As long as I've been changing my oil, they've always used metric (14mm to 16mm, depending on vehicle).
Don't you realize that if this technology caught on then you'd set yourself up to sell a heat pen to go with the paper? Just like those cold soldering irons, you'd just heat-r-up and make your annotations. Wham. Never need an ink refill/sharpener again!
Of course, there are battery considerations. Those would probably balance out the "green" factor.
Nope, you have to print random dot patterns at least 7 times to make it difficult to recover, 25+ times to make it impossible.
Hopefully they have a sheet feeder on it so you can just tape the ends together to make it loop automatically!
It probably just sits there and senses how much juice is left in the battery, and then lets the solar cell charge it.
I had a set of machines infected with Virut. Combofix couldn't do much of anything - what this virus does is slowly infect all executable files on the system; of which most are in the c:\windows directory and below.
A total fresh install is the best option - unless you happen to have an identical clean machine nearby.....
Had to do work on a client's computer. Has XP and WGA and all that.
1. User got notified every time he logged in that his copy was not genuine.
2. User could not open e-mail attachments in Outlook Express (let's not talk about how horrid this app is....)
3. User's background could not be set to anything other than MS Blue.
So the functionality was reduced here. I can't believe that they'd not do something to slightly annoy you to pay up. The cost to fix? $149, direct to MS via credit card.
But you DO have an idiot light... ahem valve stem cap that tells you they're getting lower than you'd like. It's not on the dash, but you pay attention and remedy the situation.