I suppose you've been exposed to high radiation levels and have the secret to the alien mothership stored on your memory stick and need to get it off quickly before you die, eh?
Or the doctor doesn't HAVE a Lasik machine. I'd ask some very pointed questions as to why that recommendation was made, even without my built-in paranoia about my eyesight!
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Still doesn't refute the point. The network *is* run by computers.
* How much time do you spend tracking down and qualifying prototyping suppliers?
None after building up a list of two or three that I trust to not only create my boards, but also to keep my projects to themselves. (Hint: Don't use board houses overseas, they know you will have a very hard time suing them for stealing your Intellectual Property and you'll find a copy of your product on the street the week after you release it.)
* How much time do you spend baby-sitting your prototyping projects?
None. After going through the first step with a few shops you learn who not to use to avoid this.
* How much time do you spend finding sources for unfamiliar processes?
None. No one I know builds anything with processes they haven't investigated fully themselves because they can't estimate price accurately or even decide if their product will break-even without doing their homework.
* Wouldn't it be great if someone could give that time back to you?
See above. I think the only clientel you're going to get are really lazy engineers who didn't do their jobs right. Definitely ask for money up-front on your services, because their ability to cost-estimate their jobs simply isn't there if they're using your service. They'll be the people who "have a dream" but aren't willing to do the real work of creating the product - thus, the continually broke backyard engineers or the really poorly managed small development groups with no clue how to manufacture anything and still make a profit.
Good luck with the project, but I think there's some other major holes with the idea.
Example: Sometimes you use a shop that can not only prototype but can also commit to building the finished product in the quantity you need. Only experience with the shop will tell you if they really can or not, but once you find a few that can, you stick with them and get a few quotes from your usual sources -- to keep from getting burned when your customer needs the product quickly.
Hey there are these people that make these things called GUNS... how do you keep anyone from buying them and using them for bad purposes?
Oh I also heard there's these people that fabricate computers -- how do you keep script kiddies from buying them?
(Sarcasm off...)
Hello? McFly? Anyone in there?
Anyone can buy anything that could be used to kill someone else... commonplace things do kill.
And no idiot building a WMD is going to send it off to a board house. Not in a single design anyway. (They could certainly make multiple *different* circuit boards at different board houses and assemble them all themselves.)
Your black splotches issue is covered in the DVD-FAQ. Basically you don't have your black level set right, and U.S. and other countries don't "agree" on the proper voltage level for "black".
See the FAQ, it does a better job of explaining it than I do, and you *can* fix it or get real close.
Not up to code? Have you ever seen the safety regulations for working in most Central Offices?
If the building requirements are anything like those, the building is built well-beyond code. It's not a building issue.
Someone either screwed up or the site hasn't been maintained due to financial considerations. Most sites are losing their on-site workers, and almost all telcos are slowly moving toward mostly unmanned sites as people quit/retire.
There's warnings about 911 and other issues all over Vonage's packaging, website, etc etc etc. They've done their job to inform their "consumers". (I hate that word.)
If their "consumers" need more hand-holding and hugs than the already overdone warnings right on the box and in the box and on the website and whatever else have you -- they're too uneducated to survive or help the country thrive.
That would mean there's a bigger educational problem. (Which there is.) Time to fix root-cause instead of wiping the butts of the idiots.
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Unfortunately if your TiVo comes off-the-shelf of the retailer after sitting for a long time so it only has s/w version 4.00 (and not 4.02b as needed) and your USB-802.11b Linksys is a version 2.8 or higher -- you can't do jack shit with your broadband connection until after you let it place that dreaded phone call.
Now I'm sure that Guided Setup would see the wireless device if the #401 hack were used, but the TiVo had no clue the 802.11b device was even there until after that first major software upgrade -- which TiVo kindly puts at the END of the Guided Setup process... download the Guide first and index it and THEN download the latest software?! Retarded.
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It is a computer network.
(Hint: Read up on SS7 sometime. Good luck making a call without it.)
Didn't help me with my v4.00 that came off-the-shelf at a retailer only two weeks ago... it didn't even have the drivers to see the damn USB-802.11b device until it had done 4 hours of screwing around with phone lines (gotta love that 25' phone cord draped clear across the main floor of the house, even though I have wireless and wired broadband available where the TiVo sits) and indexing and retarded crap like that.
Wow, you've never worked for a telco before have you? Keeping things staus quo is a religion for telecommunications people. Including the type of managers they want. This is generally true of any corporation that provides an "infrastructure" product. Telco, Power Utilities, Oil Companies, etc.
Who needs image quality in a political documentary? I'd guess his use of cheaper/smaller cameras is probably more well thought out than you believe. Hardly a need for an IMAX crew.
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I suppose you've been exposed to high radiation levels and have the secret to the alien mothership stored on your memory stick and need to get it off quickly before you die, eh?
Oooh, it must be late. I first read that as "circumcision". Ouch.
"OnStar, may I help you?"
"Yes, I'm underneath my car and I can't seem to get the nut loose on the oil pan to change my oil."
"Alright sir, no problem, I'll take care of that for you from here..."
[Sputter, cough, gag... glug glug glug...] "Goddamn it... aww man, I'm covered in oil." [Cough, cough...]
"We'll send a paramedic to your location right away sir, I see you're at 123 Cherry Street, correct?"
[Cough, hurl...]
"Help is on the way sir, just be calm..."
Damn you, Dopplerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Or the doctor doesn't HAVE a Lasik machine. I'd ask some very pointed questions as to why that recommendation was made, even without my built-in paranoia about my eyesight!
Still doesn't refute the point. The network *is* run by computers.
Ah... okay.
So I just bought a new TiVo and I'm already a second-class citizen. (GRIN)
Oh well.
Questions from the above website:
* How much time do you spend tracking down and qualifying prototyping suppliers?
None after building up a list of two or three that I trust to not only create my boards, but also to keep my projects to themselves. (Hint: Don't use board houses overseas, they know you will have a very hard time suing them for stealing your Intellectual Property and you'll find a copy of your product on the street the week after you release it.)
* How much time do you spend baby-sitting your prototyping projects?
None. After going through the first step with a few shops you learn who not to use to avoid this.
* How much time do you spend finding sources for unfamiliar processes?
None. No one I know builds anything with processes they haven't investigated fully themselves because they can't estimate price accurately or even decide if their product will break-even without doing their homework.
* Wouldn't it be great if someone could give that time back to you?
See above. I think the only clientel you're going to get are really lazy engineers who didn't do their jobs right. Definitely ask for money up-front on your services, because their ability to cost-estimate their jobs simply isn't there if they're using your service. They'll be the people who "have a dream" but aren't willing to do the real work of creating the product - thus, the continually broke backyard engineers or the really poorly managed small development groups with no clue how to manufacture anything and still make a profit.
Good luck with the project, but I think there's some other major holes with the idea.
Example: Sometimes you use a shop that can not only prototype but can also commit to building the finished product in the quantity you need. Only experience with the shop will tell you if they really can or not, but once you find a few that can, you stick with them and get a few quotes from your usual sources -- to keep from getting burned when your customer needs the product quickly.
(Sarcasm...)
Hey there are these people that make these things called GUNS... how do you keep anyone from buying them and using them for bad purposes?
Oh I also heard there's these people that fabricate computers -- how do you keep script kiddies from buying them?
(Sarcasm off...)
Hello? McFly? Anyone in there?
Anyone can buy anything that could be used to kill someone else... commonplace things do kill.
And no idiot building a WMD is going to send it off to a board house. Not in a single design anyway. (They could certainly make multiple *different* circuit boards at different board houses and assemble them all themselves.)
Wake up.
DSP's are rather hard to come by in PDIP. ;-)
Ah I made a bad assumption. So what retail model that I can go buy in a store are you using that has 5.X?
QA's an attitude, not a department.
If more people would figure that out, the world would be a better place.
And 5.x isn't available to the general public. Let's talk about the real world here.
Ah ... Banks aren't allowed to burn down anymore, eh? Cool.
(Yes, I know the vault is fairly safe when this happens, but so is a decent fire safe you put at your friend's house.)
Your argument isn't logical.
Your black splotches issue is covered in the DVD-FAQ. Basically you don't have your black level set right, and U.S. and other countries don't "agree" on the proper voltage level for "black".
See the FAQ, it does a better job of explaining it than I do, and you *can* fix it or get real close.
Not up to code? Have you ever seen the safety regulations for working in most Central Offices?
If the building requirements are anything like those, the building is built well-beyond code. It's not a building issue.
Someone either screwed up or the site hasn't been maintained due to financial considerations. Most sites are losing their on-site workers, and almost all telcos are slowly moving toward mostly unmanned sites as people quit/retire.
Buyer-beware.
There's warnings about 911 and other issues all over Vonage's packaging, website, etc etc etc. They've done their job to inform their "consumers". (I hate that word.)
If their "consumers" need more hand-holding and hugs than the already overdone warnings right on the box and in the box and on the website and whatever else have you -- they're too uneducated to survive or help the country thrive.
That would mean there's a bigger educational problem. (Which there is.) Time to fix root-cause instead of wiping the butts of the idiots.
Unfortunately if your TiVo comes off-the-shelf of the retailer after sitting for a long time so it only has s/w version 4.00 (and not 4.02b as needed) and your USB-802.11b Linksys is a version 2.8 or higher -- you can't do jack shit with your broadband connection until after you let it place that dreaded phone call.
Now I'm sure that Guided Setup would see the wireless device if the #401 hack were used, but the TiVo had no clue the 802.11b device was even there until after that first major software upgrade -- which TiVo kindly puts at the END of the Guided Setup process... download the Guide first and index it and THEN download the latest software?! Retarded.
It is a computer network.
(Hint: Read up on SS7 sometime. Good luck making a call without it.)
Didn't help me with my v4.00 that came off-the-shelf at a retailer only two weeks ago... it didn't even have the drivers to see the damn USB-802.11b device until it had done 4 hours of screwing around with phone lines (gotta love that 25' phone cord draped clear across the main floor of the house, even though I have wireless and wired broadband available where the TiVo sits) and indexing and retarded crap like that.
"Anymore" it seems like an Ivy League and friends is the way to the top?
Hell, it's always been that way. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Wow, you've never worked for a telco before have you? Keeping things staus quo is a religion for telecommunications people. Including the type of managers they want. This is generally true of any corporation that provides an "infrastructure" product. Telco, Power Utilities, Oil Companies, etc.
That's MHz, not Mhz... Mr. Editor.
Mr. Hertz appreciates you capitalizing his surname.
Who needs image quality in a political documentary? I'd guess his use of cheaper/smaller cameras is probably more well thought out than you believe. Hardly a need for an IMAX crew.
A Michael Moore conspiracy theory from someone complaining Michael Moore is a conspiracy theorist. Nice twist.