Here's the greatest logical fallacy with big, wealthy neighborhoods:
Wealthy neighborhood resident: "We can't get any cell-phone signal in our backyard"
Cell Phone Carrier: "Ok, great, we'll install a wireless tower nearby and greatly improve your signal strength."
Wealthy neighborhood resident:" Oh no you don't, you aren't putting one of those ugly cell towers in my backyard.
Cell-phone carrier: "But I thought you wanted us to fix the hole in the service?!?!"
Wealthy neighborhood resident: "We do, but we don't want any of those big ugly cell-phone towers in our neighborhood."
Happens all the time. People bitch that they can't get any good service, then they bitch that cell phone companies are trying to install cell towers in their neighborhoods. It's a lose-lose situation. The residents don't get cell service and the cellular companies still hear people bitch about the service gap.
Actually, Verizon Wireless and the Verizon "Baby-bell" that does all the land-line telephone stuff are two seperate companies under the same name.
Verizon wireless is a joint venture between Verizon telephone and Vodaphone Communications (more known in Europe). See this page for more information. www.verizonwireless.com/jsp/aboutus/index.jsp
So complaining to Verizon wireless about the quality of DSL service will not get you very far.
The problem with gaps in your carriers service is that your phone (if you have roaming) will pick up a competitors tower. So if Verizon's signal is really weak (or there's a gap), and lets say AT&T's signal is really strong, some Verizon phones may jump to AT&T for service, and leave you roaming in your home area. When that happens, generally no one is happy.
(1). The customer isn't happy because they have to pay roaming charges in their supposed home area and
(2). Your carrier isn't happy because they have to pay their competitors for you using their service.
So it is definately beneficial for them to check on their competitors, because the wireless carrier wants to keep as much traffic as it can on it's home network, not on the competitors.
I actually went through the tech support training at Iomega (I had to quit thereafter due to a scheduleing confilct).
Anyway, we were given a somwwhat extensive training on how to support Iomegas devices with Linux environments, including where to get drivers, ect.
Now, I've never had try and use these drivers, so I don't know much about them. However, I do know that if you call Iomega for help installing their devices on your Linux PC, their tech reps are trained to help you.
Yea, but that might put too many strains on Apples "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" relationship with Microsoft.
One of the keys for Apples success is its somewhat limted compatability with Microsoft computers. Key being able to work and co-exsist with Microsoft Office environments.
Now if AOL makes a deal with Apple and has them remove the Internet Explorer browser in favor of their Mozila browser, that may prompt Microsoft to halt (or at least severly limit) the development of Macc Apps (Office, Windows Media Player, ect).
It's these apps that make cross platform compatability for the average Mac user in a Windows enviroment essential. While and AOL-Apple agreement might mean more business for Apple in the form of first-time users and AOL junkies, it would probably work to alienate the Power Macintosh user.
ROTFLMAO That is really quite humours. I don't know if that's been around a while, or if you are the original author. But too whoever wrote it, kudows!
Really, is that it? I hope that's not what all the hype was about. It's just a flat screen, skimmed down PC. Gateway, Compaq, and others have made similar in the past, and they all sucked.
I'm a pretty big Apple fan, but if that's all they've been hyping for the past few weeks, I'm gonna be pretty disapointed.
What are you going to do when the economy catches up to these sites? Those sponsorships are how these news sites are able to stay alive. Without them, we'd be paying for the websites we visit.
Sure, you can keep running from sites that have advertisements, but eventually the internet ewconomy will catch up with them and either (1) you're gonna have to start paying for content or (2) they will implement more "C|Net like" advertisements.
IMO, I'd rather have ad's, which sometimes interest me, then pay for content I don't really need.
Well duh, it only took you a day to get your service back on. For some people (like us peons in the Pittsburgh area) it could take closer to ten days. Why? Well, they can't do the whole thing all at once. It's gonna take time to get the whole network up. So while in areas like Washington, Chicago, and wherever else they are working on now, there's gonna be a higher-rate of people who think AT&T did a good job. But in other places, where there are more people pissed cause it's taking them a whole week to get their cable kickin again, you're gonna have a higher-percent of irate people and people who switch to DSL.
And thats another thing, I don't get all these people saying "To heck with AT&T, I'm getting my baby-bell telco out here to get me DSL. Well guess what, it's peoplebably gonna take your Baby Bell (or whoever else does DSL in your area) alot longer to get to your house and install DSL than it will for AT&T to get your cable modem blinking again. If you're switching for "The principal of the matter", why? It isn't AT&T's fault @home went bankrupt cause they built too much network too fast.
Uhh, yea, it's all well and good to buy a CD and return it, keeping up an endless cycle. But evertime you do that, you end up paying sales tax, and you don't get that money back when you return an item.
Wouldn't installing a personal firewall keep them out? Or, if you were behind a firewalled netowrk altogether. Kinda sucky for all those people just connected to cable/DSL modems without a clue in the world though.
It seems that one of the biggest setbacks for the N64 was that developers didn't want to design games for it. They felt it was too complicated a system and thats why the majority of its games are made by Nintendo (hence the kiddy-feel).
"We here at Nintendo decided to focus on solving this issue by creating the NINTENDO GAMECUBE with the purpose of realizing the highest level of performance and to enhance the productivity of software development. This is Nintendo's vision of what a next generation game machine should do.
Instead of going for the highest possible performance, which does not contribute to software development, our idea was to create a developer-friendly next generation TV game machine that maintained above-standard capabilities.
It seems Nintendo is trying to woo game developers as well as gamers. After all, you can have a great, state of the art gaming system (I.E. N64) but if you don't have developers willing to make games for your system, what have you got?
I am betting that there are going to be a plethora of posts in here blaming the school districts for what they did.
The point is, he hacked the schools network (illegal). The article dosen't say what he did, but he still did wrong, and the district was justified in punishing him. No one had any idea that such a drastic reaction would ensue, but it did.
All we can really do is pray for the family and his classmates, who right now have nothing more to say than "why?"
How about changing the program around a bit? Wouldn't it be a little more effective if the teachers called in the report. That way there aren't any incentives for kids to call in this stuff. And if the techers called in the report, it would be more objective, "I see kids X, Y and Z picking on Kid A, something should be done." and then taking it from there?
This way the WAVE people still get to make their money and we don't have jock-ass kids calling in fake repoorts 20 times a day.
If you're looking for a company with the most local dial-up's, I would have to (regretably) say AOL. You might be able to get away with that 500 free hours crap and actually not have to pay anything, but you might need to provide an address. Most (all) hotels have telephone's, and if you can't unplug it from the wall, unplug it from the receiver and go from there. As for mobile solutions, you said you're going to be traveling US66, well chances are that there isnt even cell phone coverage on parts of that highway, let alone wireless internet. Only big cities have that technology available, and on US66 those can be few and far in between.
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Here's the greatest logical fallacy with big, wealthy neighborhoods:
Wealthy neighborhood resident: "We can't get any cell-phone signal in our backyard"
Cell Phone Carrier: "Ok, great, we'll install a wireless tower nearby and greatly improve your signal strength."
Wealthy neighborhood resident:" Oh no you don't, you aren't putting one of those ugly cell towers in my backyard.
Cell-phone carrier: "But I thought you wanted us to fix the hole in the service?!?!"
Wealthy neighborhood resident: "We do, but we don't want any of those big ugly cell-phone towers in our neighborhood."
Happens all the time. People bitch that they can't get any good service, then they bitch that cell phone companies are trying to install cell towers in their neighborhoods. It's a lose-lose situation. The residents don't get cell service and the cellular companies still hear people bitch about the service gap.
Actually, Verizon Wireless and the Verizon "Baby-bell" that does all the land-line telephone stuff are two seperate companies under the same name.
Verizon wireless is a joint venture between Verizon telephone and Vodaphone Communications (more known in Europe). See this page for more information. www.verizonwireless.com/jsp/aboutus/index.jsp
So complaining to Verizon wireless about the quality of DSL service will not get you very far.
The problem with gaps in your carriers service is that your phone (if you have roaming) will pick up a competitors tower. So if Verizon's signal is really weak (or there's a gap), and lets say AT&T's signal is really strong, some Verizon phones may jump to AT&T for service, and leave you roaming in your home area. When that happens, generally no one is happy.
(1). The customer isn't happy because they have to pay roaming charges in their supposed home area and
(2). Your carrier isn't happy because they have to pay their competitors for you using their service.
So it is definately beneficial for them to check on their competitors, because the wireless carrier wants to keep as much traffic as it can on it's home network, not on the competitors.
I actually went through the tech support training at Iomega (I had to quit thereafter due to a scheduleing confilct).
Anyway, we were given a somwwhat extensive training on how to support Iomegas devices with Linux environments, including where to get drivers, ect.
Now, I've never had try and use these drivers, so I don't know much about them. However, I do know that if you call Iomega for help installing their devices on your Linux PC, their tech reps are trained to help you.
~~Dan
Yea, but that might put too many strains on Apples "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" relationship with Microsoft.
One of the keys for Apples success is its somewhat limted compatability with Microsoft computers. Key being able to work and co-exsist with Microsoft Office environments.
Now if AOL makes a deal with Apple and has them remove the Internet Explorer browser in favor of their Mozila browser, that may prompt Microsoft to halt (or at least severly limit) the development of Macc Apps (Office, Windows Media Player, ect).
It's these apps that make cross platform compatability for the average Mac user in a Windows enviroment essential. While and AOL-Apple agreement might mean more business for Apple in the form of first-time users and AOL junkies, it would probably work to alienate the Power Macintosh user.
ROTFLMAO That is really quite humours. I don't know if that's been around a while, or if you are the original author. But too whoever wrote it, kudows!
Really, is that it? I hope that's not what all the hype was about. It's just a flat screen, skimmed down PC. Gateway, Compaq, and others have made similar in the past, and they all sucked.
I'm a pretty big Apple fan, but if that's all they've been hyping for the past few weeks, I'm gonna be pretty disapointed.
But doing the math, you are paying $156.25 per kilowatt-hour. This has to be the most ludicrisly expensive method of power generation I know.
Unless you lived in California this past summer, then you mighta actually saved some money
What are you going to do when the economy catches up to these sites? Those sponsorships are how these news sites are able to stay alive. Without them, we'd be paying for the websites we visit.
Sure, you can keep running from sites that have advertisements, but eventually the internet ewconomy will catch up with them and either (1) you're gonna have to start paying for content or (2) they will implement more "C|Net like" advertisements.
IMO, I'd rather have ad's, which sometimes interest me, then pay for content I don't really need.
Well duh, it only took you a day to get your service back on. For some people (like us peons in the Pittsburgh area) it could take closer to ten days. Why? Well, they can't do the whole thing all at once. It's gonna take time to get the whole network up. So while in areas like Washington, Chicago, and wherever else they are working on now, there's gonna be a higher-rate of people who think AT&T did a good job. But in other places, where there are more people pissed cause it's taking them a whole week to get their cable kickin again, you're gonna have a higher-percent of irate people and people who switch to DSL.
And thats another thing, I don't get all these people saying "To heck with AT&T, I'm getting my baby-bell telco out here to get me DSL. Well guess what, it's peoplebably gonna take your Baby Bell (or whoever else does DSL in your area) alot longer to get to your house and install DSL than it will for AT&T to get your cable modem blinking again. If you're switching for "The principal of the matter", why? It isn't AT&T's fault @home went bankrupt cause they built too much network too fast.
~~DanUhh, yea, it's all well and good to buy a CD and return it, keeping up an endless cycle. But evertime you do that, you end up paying sales tax, and you don't get that money back when you return an item.
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Wouldn't installing a personal firewall keep them out? Or, if you were behind a firewalled netowrk altogether. Kinda sucky for all those people just connected to cable/DSL modems without a clue in the world though.
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I wonder if the US goverenment would have a need for sungalsses with small displays in them.
;)
If not them, then at least Holywood
I think one factor that many of you are overlooking is that IE5 for OSx is not a final release, but merely a preview release.
In other words, this is it's first round out the gate, there are bound to be bugs with it (as with any program when it's first released).
Yea, just wait til they buy Verizion (or whoever your local telecom is) :>\
It seems that one of the biggest setbacks for the N64 was that developers didn't want to design games for it. They felt it was too complicated a system and thats why the majority of its games are made by Nintendo (hence the kiddy-feel).
"We here at Nintendo decided to focus on solving this issue by creating the NINTENDO GAMECUBE with the purpose of realizing the highest level of performance and to enhance the productivity of software development. This is Nintendo's vision of what a next generation game machine should do.
Instead of going for the highest possible performance, which does not contribute to software development, our idea was to create a developer-friendly next generation TV game machine that maintained above-standard capabilities.
It seems Nintendo is trying to woo game developers as well as gamers. After all, you can have a great, state of the art gaming system (I.E. N64) but if you don't have developers willing to make games for your system, what have you got?
I am betting that there are going to be a plethora of posts in here blaming the school districts for what they did.
The point is, he hacked the schools network (illegal). The article dosen't say what he did, but he still did wrong, and the district was justified in punishing him. No one had any idea that such a drastic reaction would ensue, but it did.
All we can really do is pray for the family and his classmates, who right now have nothing more to say than "why?"
~~Dan
Determining who is innocent and who is guilty is easy.
Who submitted the paper first obviously can't cheat off the guy who submitted his a year or so later.
~~Dan
mpyfc.edu
.edu domain, and they aren't even a school.
Metro Pittsburgh Youth for Christ was able to sevure an
Dang, gotta live in the Microsoft Regieme (Portland) to do it though. They aint sending out free X-boxes, you have to go there and play.
How about changing the program around a bit? Wouldn't it be a little more effective if the teachers called in the report. That way there aren't any incentives for kids to call in this stuff. And if the techers called in the report, it would be more objective, "I see kids X, Y and Z picking on Kid A, something should be done." and then taking it from there?
This way the WAVE people still get to make their money and we don't have jock-ass kids calling in fake repoorts 20 times a day.
cG
You're right, it does look smaller, not by much though. I'd like to see the overall dimensions, I wonder if it's thicker?
If you're looking for a company with the most local dial-up's, I would have to (regretably) say AOL. You might be able to get away with that 500 free hours crap and actually not have to pay anything, but you might need to provide an address. Most (all) hotels have telephone's, and if you can't unplug it from the wall, unplug it from the receiver and go from there. As for mobile solutions, you said you're going to be traveling US66, well chances are that there isnt even cell phone coverage on parts of that highway, let alone wireless internet. Only big cities have that technology available, and on US66 those can be few and far in between.
Anybody know of any mirrors, the site seems pretty slow.