And they told me I'd have to have a private lab do it for me - and pay dearly for it!
Why the hell won't they test my drinking water without my having to pay for it?
Isn't delivering water that's reasonably free of contaminants part of their responsibility?
1. If I "sucked" then why does my business keep on building month after month, year after year, mostly based on recommendations?
2. What sort of homes are you driving past? The vast majority of my clients' homes were built a long time ago with excellent materials.
3. I'm talking not so much about poor throughput, but signals that just plain keep on crapping out.
4. Sorry, I don't want to stick a lot of access points around someone's home. My clients don't want access points and the like spread around their homes. I tell them Ethernet is consistently faster and more stable, and since they can afford it, they say, "yes" to that and are happy! Do I "suck" because I tell them what the best solution really is?
5. Do you not agree that the indoor ranges claimed by the Wi-Fi vendors are pure crapola?
Nearly every client of mine that has set up Wi-Fi in their homes has been disappointed.
The ranges drop precipitously indoors, and are far less than what the manufacturers claim.
When they are about to get a broadband connection, I tell them I know a guy who does data wiring at a reasonable rate.
I disagree about the failure stuff...
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I think having many failures is a symptom of the important trait of persistence more than a prerequisite for success.
Let's take someone who has done well with a particular business. They can become complacent, rot and die. Or, they can pick out what was behind the success, suss out what was plain dumb luck or the result of excellent ideas, planning and execution. Then follow up by doing more of those good things.
Don't read any books labeled, "Necronomicon." Even more importantly, if you find any tape recorded notes left behind by a researcher who has mysteriously vanished, don't play them, BURN THEM. (And keep your boomstick handy just in case...)
How about Hannukah and Kwanzaa? Lots of people get pcs for those holidays, too!
Here are some other things I do for my clients when they get a new PC:
1. Have them buy a new hardware router
2. Turn on the Windows firewall
3. Right-click on My Computer, then Manage, Services, and disable: Universal Plug and Play and Messgenger.
4. I download the newer RPC patch at MS03-039 and install it.
Dropped it many times, laptop always functioned fine.
The bag was a pre-owned "Ebay Special" and worth every penny.
True story:
About five years ago I was working helpdesk and a bunch of laptops came in from the field to have their custom written salesforce app upgraded. At my initiative, I created a laptop intake form that included, "condition of packing and laptop."
The categories were "excellent, average, and 'amazed it arrived intact.'" One laptop earned the latter distinction by virtue of the fact that the salesrep sent their laptop in a FedEx "Pizza Box" type container, that fit the laptop so perfectly, that he included no packing.
I was indeed amazed to find the laptop intact and functioning, but made sure to tell my manager to give that guy a packing lesson.
Bought AE Van Vogt's Voyage of the Space Beagle as an Adobe E-book ("The Basis for Alien" the virtual front cover rather immodestly screams due to some fancy lawyering by Van Vogt's attorneys), and was stunned to find out that I couldn't copy or paste any text out of it, nor print out any pages for perusal at my leisure - in effect, stuck with reading it only at my PC.
Sent two emails to the e-publisher complaining about this, and left them a voicemail - no response yet.
With a friend of mine. He noticed the "Matrix Revisited" DVD, of which he had never heard. I explained what it was and added, "It seems like you could put shit on a stick, call it "The Matrix" and you'll get plenty of takers."
My eyes rack-focused to someone standing behind my friend, and he simply nodded, giving me the thumbs-up.
You can say all you want about the philosophical ideas in the Matrix, I still see the Matrix itself primarily as a clever device for the Wachowskis to make a pastiche of all of the kung-fu, wire-fu, and gun-fu movies they've ever seen.
>The US doesn't appear to have any problems >winning wars on battlefields, it's winning the >peace in the cities that causes the trouble.
Good point, but our guys are still not getting adequate "grunt" training. I fear we're becoming overeliant on high-tech munitions.
It's still more realistic than the stationary "silhouette" targets our guys fire at - although I agree that they would be more useful if they were sped up, which I'm sure is just a matter of additional time.
And yes, they would be shredded pretty quickly, that's why I said, "give them a kevlar skin and load the rifles with training rounds" in order to give them some longevity.
Why? Give the robots a Kevlar skin, then load up soldiers' and Marines' rifles with training rounds.
Then set the robots running around a mock battlefield to give our guys more realistic practice.
We have the best hi-tech bombs and missiles in the world, but it's still boots on the ground that bring a war to conclusion.
"A 38 year old real estate developer."
Wow, I'm 31 and don't have nearly the net worth this guy has.
I'm not even thinking about space, I'm thinking, "My God, what did this guy do to get to that point at such a young age?"
Screw space, I'd just want the money!
>A third alternative is not to accelerate to the >speed of light, but to bypass it, i.e. use one of >the various (somewhat flaky at this point) "warp >drives"
Well, an overly parsimonious NASA has cut the funding for the "Breakthrough Physics Project" which was a bunch of really brainy science guys conducting thought experiments on how we can overcome the limitations of linearly accelerated spaceflight.
When I woke up this morning to go to msnbc.com and look at the image of a captured Saddam on the main page.
Here were my thoughts:
1. I felt a twinge of pity for him - I saw a tired, pathetic old man more than I saw a cruel dictator.
2. This may take the fight out of some of the insurgents, but I think the more hardcore ones will keep on truckin' especially the foreign infiltrators who seem determined to fight us and die.
3. For those who used to say, "we can't get Saddam and Osama" please note that Osama's whole life has been a rootless one, moving from place of concealment to place of concealment. Saddam has been tied to Iraq - I never felt it unlikely we would find him.
4. I wondered where all of the reported body doubles went? I don't recall hearing of us capturing any of them. It certainly does not make sense for Saddam to have had them killed, since having them floating around would help confuse the trail.
Look, no one should complain about a "free" connection, but I'm curious to know how fast the typical user's connection really is.
After all, the access point has to be connected to a terrestrial data line, which has limited bandwidth.
Of course, the more people find out about this, the slower it gets for everybody, right?
Does anyone know if those who provide "free" wireless access have an upgrade plan to handle the additional traffic?
"Christmas does not yet seem very merry to me yet"
Please put things into perpective, Jeffy. There are billions of people out there who won't even have a meal during Christmas this year, let alone an iPod.
There are countless others who have no family, or are terminally ill, etc and may not live to see another Christmas.
I certainly hope you find your Ipod cheaply, but I hope you find some holiday perspective first....
Like the patient's vitals somehow slipping and not being noticed despite the perfectly good monitors used currently in hospitals?
I'm reminded of an urban legend said to take place in a South African hospital.
Seems that whoever occupied a certain bed in the ICU would kick off during the night.
Turns out that the night cleaning person would unplug the breathing machine for that one patient in order to run a floor polisher.
As horrible as sex crimes are, and as useful a tool as such a registry may be, I recently read that a study was done on repeat offenders, and sex offenders had the lowest rate of recidivism.
Shouldn't murderers and carjackers be put on a registry like this, too?
>than the last significant threat (assault riffles) has been removed from citizens hands, the government has proceeded to clench down.
I'm pro-gun, but you are in error. Existing "assault rifles" are still in the hands of many citizens - legally. In addition, most of what what makes a rifle an "assault rifle" are the sights and magazine capacity. But what really gives a rifle its punch is the caliber, not the scary-looking accoutrements. You can still buy many excellent performing bolt action and semi-auto civilian rifles chambered in.223,.308, (equivalent to 5.56 and 7.62 NATO calibers) and beyond. You can even legally buy.50 caliber semi-auto rifles that could kill from a mile away or disable lightly armored vehicles. Armament issues aside, we have legions of potential "citizen soldiers" whose facility with longarms would help negate the advantages of full-auto "assault rifle" equipped so-called professional soldiers. Marksmanship, sadly, is declining among their ranks but it could be the Army's undoing if they are unleashed to quell a popular uprising.
>It teaches conformity in school
Then where the hell did the millions of non-conformists come from in the 60s for
example? Surely those rebellious kids got
their edumacation during the highly conformist
late 40s and early 50s right?
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And they told me I'd have to have a private lab do it for me - and pay dearly for it! Why the hell won't they test my drinking water without my having to pay for it? Isn't delivering water that's reasonably free of contaminants part of their responsibility?
Hey, anonymous coward:
1. If I "sucked" then why does my business keep on building month after month, year after year, mostly based on recommendations?
2. What sort of homes are you driving past? The vast majority of my clients' homes were built a long time ago with excellent materials.
3. I'm talking not so much about poor throughput, but signals that just plain keep on crapping out.
4. Sorry, I don't want to stick a lot of access points around someone's home. My clients don't want access points and the like spread around their homes. I tell them Ethernet is consistently faster and more stable, and since they can afford it, they say, "yes" to that and are happy! Do I "suck" because I tell them what the best solution really is?
5. Do you not agree that the indoor ranges claimed by the Wi-Fi vendors are pure crapola?
Nearly every client of mine that has set up Wi-Fi in their homes has been disappointed. The ranges drop precipitously indoors, and are far less than what the manufacturers claim. When they are about to get a broadband connection, I tell them I know a guy who does data wiring at a reasonable rate.
I think having many failures is a symptom of the important trait of persistence more than a prerequisite for success.
Let's take someone who has done well with a particular business. They can become complacent, rot and die. Or, they can pick out what was behind the success, suss out what was plain dumb luck or the result of excellent ideas, planning and execution. Then follow up by doing more of those good things.
Someone posts, "who got a gun for Christmas?"
And there are usually a lot of replies.
Very cool...
Don't read any books labeled, "Necronomicon." Even more importantly, if you find any tape recorded notes left behind by a researcher who has mysteriously vanished, don't play them, BURN THEM. (And keep your boomstick handy just in case...)
And only an Anonymous Coward would say something like that. Happy Kwanzaa to you, too.
How about Hannukah and Kwanzaa? Lots of people get pcs for those holidays, too!
Here are some other things I do for my clients when they get a new PC:
1. Have them buy a new hardware router
2. Turn on the Windows firewall
3. Right-click on My Computer, then Manage, Services, and disable: Universal Plug and Play and Messgenger.
4. I download the newer RPC patch at MS03-039 and install it.
Dropped it many times, laptop always functioned fine. The bag was a pre-owned "Ebay Special" and worth every penny. True story: About five years ago I was working helpdesk and a bunch of laptops came in from the field to have their custom written salesforce app upgraded. At my initiative, I created a laptop intake form that included, "condition of packing and laptop." The categories were "excellent, average, and 'amazed it arrived intact.'" One laptop earned the latter distinction by virtue of the fact that the salesrep sent their laptop in a FedEx "Pizza Box" type container, that fit the laptop so perfectly, that he included no packing. I was indeed amazed to find the laptop intact and functioning, but made sure to tell my manager to give that guy a packing lesson.
Bought AE Van Vogt's Voyage of the Space Beagle as an Adobe E-book ("The Basis for Alien" the virtual front cover rather immodestly screams due to some fancy lawyering by Van Vogt's attorneys), and was stunned to find out that I couldn't copy or paste any text out of it, nor print out any pages for perusal at my leisure - in effect, stuck with reading it only at my PC. Sent two emails to the e-publisher complaining about this, and left them a voicemail - no response yet.
With a friend of mine. He noticed the "Matrix Revisited" DVD, of which he had never heard. I explained what it was and added, "It seems like you could put shit on a stick, call it "The Matrix" and you'll get plenty of takers." My eyes rack-focused to someone standing behind my friend, and he simply nodded, giving me the thumbs-up. You can say all you want about the philosophical ideas in the Matrix, I still see the Matrix itself primarily as a clever device for the Wachowskis to make a pastiche of all of the kung-fu, wire-fu, and gun-fu movies they've ever seen.
>The US doesn't appear to have any problems >winning wars on battlefields, it's winning the >peace in the cities that causes the trouble. Good point, but our guys are still not getting adequate "grunt" training. I fear we're becoming overeliant on high-tech munitions.
It's still more realistic than the stationary "silhouette" targets our guys fire at - although I agree that they would be more useful if they were sped up, which I'm sure is just a matter of additional time. And yes, they would be shredded pretty quickly, that's why I said, "give them a kevlar skin and load the rifles with training rounds" in order to give them some longevity.
Why? Give the robots a Kevlar skin, then load up soldiers' and Marines' rifles with training rounds. Then set the robots running around a mock battlefield to give our guys more realistic practice. We have the best hi-tech bombs and missiles in the world, but it's still boots on the ground that bring a war to conclusion.
"A 38 year old real estate developer." Wow, I'm 31 and don't have nearly the net worth this guy has. I'm not even thinking about space, I'm thinking, "My God, what did this guy do to get to that point at such a young age?" Screw space, I'd just want the money!
>A third alternative is not to accelerate to the >speed of light, but to bypass it, i.e. use one of >the various (somewhat flaky at this point) "warp >drives"
Well, an overly parsimonious NASA has cut the funding for the "Breakthrough Physics Project" which was a bunch of really brainy science guys conducting thought experiments on how we can overcome the limitations of linearly accelerated spaceflight.
When I woke up this morning to go to msnbc.com and look at the image of a captured Saddam on the main page. Here were my thoughts: 1. I felt a twinge of pity for him - I saw a tired, pathetic old man more than I saw a cruel dictator. 2. This may take the fight out of some of the insurgents, but I think the more hardcore ones will keep on truckin' especially the foreign infiltrators who seem determined to fight us and die. 3. For those who used to say, "we can't get Saddam and Osama" please note that Osama's whole life has been a rootless one, moving from place of concealment to place of concealment. Saddam has been tied to Iraq - I never felt it unlikely we would find him. 4. I wondered where all of the reported body doubles went? I don't recall hearing of us capturing any of them. It certainly does not make sense for Saddam to have had them killed, since having them floating around would help confuse the trail.
Look, no one should complain about a "free" connection, but I'm curious to know how fast the typical user's connection really is. After all, the access point has to be connected to a terrestrial data line, which has limited bandwidth. Of course, the more people find out about this, the slower it gets for everybody, right? Does anyone know if those who provide "free" wireless access have an upgrade plan to handle the additional traffic?
I thought it was social incompetence, not the movies you watch or the gadgets you use that define one as a "nerd."
"Christmas does not yet seem very merry to me yet" Please put things into perpective, Jeffy. There are billions of people out there who won't even have a meal during Christmas this year, let alone an iPod. There are countless others who have no family, or are terminally ill, etc and may not live to see another Christmas. I certainly hope you find your Ipod cheaply, but I hope you find some holiday perspective first....
And most likely come close to the accuracy of the most sophisticated forecasters, amateur and professional alike.
I know this wasn't true - I identified it as an urban legend in my original post.
Like the patient's vitals somehow slipping and not being noticed despite the perfectly good monitors used currently in hospitals? I'm reminded of an urban legend said to take place in a South African hospital. Seems that whoever occupied a certain bed in the ICU would kick off during the night. Turns out that the night cleaning person would unplug the breathing machine for that one patient in order to run a floor polisher.
As horrible as sex crimes are, and as useful a tool as such a registry may be, I recently read that a study was done on repeat offenders, and sex offenders had the lowest rate of recidivism. Shouldn't murderers and carjackers be put on a registry like this, too?
>than the last significant threat (assault riffles) has been removed from citizens hands, the government has proceeded to clench down.
I'm pro-gun, but you are in error. Existing "assault rifles" are still in the hands of many citizens - legally. In addition, most of what what makes a rifle an "assault rifle" are the sights and magazine capacity. But what really gives a rifle its punch is the caliber, not the scary-looking accoutrements. You can still buy many excellent performing bolt action and semi-auto civilian rifles chambered in .223, .308, (equivalent to 5.56 and 7.62 NATO calibers) and beyond. You can even legally buy .50 caliber semi-auto rifles that could kill from a mile away or disable lightly armored vehicles. Armament issues aside, we have legions of potential "citizen soldiers" whose facility with longarms would help negate the advantages of full-auto "assault rifle" equipped so-called professional soldiers. Marksmanship, sadly, is declining among their ranks but it could be the Army's undoing if they are unleashed to quell a popular uprising.
>It teaches conformity in school
Then where the hell did the millions of non-conformists come from in the 60s for example? Surely those rebellious kids got their edumacation during the highly conformist late 40s and early 50s right?