Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C) Nonoperating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C) Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
You have got to be kidding me!!!
*Minimum* operating temp of 32 F?!?!?!
How the F can they sell this phone in northern climates? I live in WI and in Feb I will frequently go outside on a nice day to take a conf call and get some fresh air. A nice day being, at least, in the upper 20's.
Seriously dude, WTF?
/First/. post in like 5 years //Apple makes some very nice products, but their arrogance is huge. ///Jobs was born is SW WI.
Most people do not buy 800 series routers, but if they do, it is typically because of managability and security. When it comes to being able to manage a remote network device and use a central authentication system, Cisco beats the pants off of ANY comsumer grade device.
Once you get to 1800 devices and above (even 1600 and 1700, but they are EOL) you have features that far exceed any consumer device.
Real routing capabilities (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BRP, etc). Modular interface cards. You have Modem, ISDN, xDSL, Cable, 56k, DS1, ATM, DS3, SONET, etc.) QoS. Should be self explanitory Various security functionality. VPN, tunnles, RADIUS, TACACS+, etc. (I am not a security guy) Voice Terminate voice, act as a phone system (2800 and 3800) run VXML, etc
These are just the routers. Switches are just as much above the consumer grade as the routers are. QoS, port density, VLANs, true Layer 3, etc.
Both have their place and in some cases, a consumer grade equipment has its place in the corp environment. I have used them many times. T
To say Cisco is a rip-off is pure ignorance. (Do not use the list price to justify yourself either. NO ONE pays list for Cisco gear. As a general rule 35% - 50% is the rule.) Sure Cisco is not the cheapest or the best, but they provide a complete end-to-end solution and everyone knows Cisco. Heck, even Nortel switches and Extreme (I think) made their interfaces to emulate IOS.
Quite possibly, being that it is the manufacturer's finacing. (No bank would ever do 0%.) Using dealer arranged financing you are more likle to "pay less" than with cash. Dealers get a "finder fee" for the loan from the bank. It is all shell game, unless you know how to play it.
When negotiating a car purchase negotiate all of these seperately and in this order:
Car price Trade in Financing (or lack of)
If you do it all together they will shuffle costs around, esp on fiancing, you get confused AND screwed
Remember, they don't give you what you want, tell to fsck off and you will sell it yourself. They offered my mother in law 4k for her car on trade, I got them up to 6k.
It is not your, mine or, quite frankly, anyone elses responsibility to send jobs overseas. Actually, it is the governments job to prevent it, to a degree.
Take care of your home first. I am all for goodwill and charity, but GO$#$#IT, we (the US) are not the world's fscking police, babysitter, sugardaddy or pimp.
Sound not too dissimilar from my situation. I am in the final presentation process of going with Csico AVVID. What I am doing, and working with a very good reseller, is doing it as a self funded project. if you are not familiar with what the means, it is quite simple. Find all the ways you can save money (hard costs, soft costs will not cut it) and use the savings generated to pay the monthly lease on the equip.
Please email me at jason AT vilter DOT com I can discuss with you the +/- with Cisco and others. (I have been working ont he project since Oct, I have amassed quite a in that time.)
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Aftermarket != OEM Replacement part Aftermarket == non OEM OEM == Original Equipment Mfgr.
Aftermarket parts are, by definition, non OEM. Generally they are of less cost. My experiance is with powertrain aftermarket parts has been good. I just did a tune up and used aftermarkets and have been doing so for years.
On the otherhand, when it comes to the body parts (fenders, hoods, etc) stay away from the aftermarket. The parts are shiat, do not always align, rust quicker and are quite shoddy. Granted, if the car is a old, I will use aftermarket because I cannot justify the cost. If it is a late model, and need body work, you can damn well bet I will insist on OEM
n.b. My father was in the auto body repair biz, and my grandfather was a mechanic. The shop was 300 ft from the house, so I lived, ate, breathed fixing cars. While I am not an expert, I do know what I am talking about in this area.
Actually, going critical and melt-down are two different, yet slightly related events.
"going" critical: All nuclear reactions (not nuclear decay) are critical. In order for a self sustaing nuclear to occur, a critical mass of fissible material must be present. If the mass falls below critical the reaction will extinguish. Decay will still occur and generate heat, abliet much less.
Melt-down: A melt-down happens when a reaction goes out of control and produces sufficient amounts of heat to cause the core the liquify (melt down). When a core melt-down happens, there is not a damn thing on this planet (that I know of) that can the molten (and getting hotter by the second) glob that used to be the core.
It has been theorized that if this happens, the molten core will burn through the earth until it reaches water. Upon contact with the core the water will turn into steam and create what is in effect a steam cannon, blasing the core back up the hole and showering bits of the core for miles around.
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I'm sure you have heard of what a T1 is. A T1 is a type of service (NOT a type of line/connection) which most people dont make that distinction. The physical line is called a DS1. A DS1 is 24 B channels (Each B channel is 64k/sec of bandwidth) A DS0 is one channel (ISDN has one or two of these), a DS1 is 24, and a DS3 is 720 B's (I think, a DS3 is 30 DS1's) So, a DS1 is the line. When you use all those B channels as one data line, the DS1 is called a T1. But a T1 is not the only option. You can also keep those 24 channels seperate, and in this case the DS1 is called a PRI. With this setup, you generally turn up one or more of these 24 channels each as its own phoneline, so you can get 24 phonelines. Due to switching, this isnt exactly acurate. You either set the PRI to have 24 channels of 56k each, or 23 channels of 64k. The extra space is used for signaling. If you are doing voice, or analog dialup for an isp, you can go with 24 chanels of 56k
I hate to say this, but on almost all of your points, you are wrong.
A T1 is the physical line (L1 is the OSI model) on T1 rides DS1 signal. These the 24 64k channels. That is the DS1, though most people using T1 and DS1 interchangably, a DS1 can ride on a variety of media.
You can, using a channel bank use these 24 channels as phone lines. The phone lines will (generally) have no more services avalable than your standard POTS line. A raw DS1 is usually used to provide a dedicated connection to the long distance carrier, to bypass the CLEC/ILEC and give you better LD rates.
A PRI, an ISDN specification, can be thought of as an application that can run on a DS1. A PRI, at least none that I have heard of, robs ANY k from a the B channel, one or more channels are allocated to the D channel, the rest are B channels.
With some engines, holding the valves open would more than likely result in the piston slamming into them on the compression and exhaust strokes, which would be a Bad Thing. (My understanding is that some imports have this problem when the timing belt breaks.)
That is what is refered to as an 'interferance engine'. It is not exclusively the domain of imports either.
It is a function (in the mathematical sense) of the head and/or piston design. (Almost?) Every engine, when at the top of the ompression/exhaust stroke will have the piston head flush with the block. If, when a valve it is at maximum lift, extends below the cylinder head, it will make contact (interfere) with the piston. This can be mitigated by using pistons that have a recess in them or pistons that have 'cut-outs' for the valves.
Generally, if you have a interferance engine and you jump time, you will need at least new valves (bent) and new pistons (dented, scratched, whatever) Even if the piston is still sructurally sound, you still need them as damage to the piston head will cause (IIRC) hot spot and will burn a hole in the piston.
This sounds just like my ACT experiance. Stayed up most (all? don't remember, I do think it was all) of the night. Scored a 28, would have been better except that damned english part fo the test.
Neeless to say, I have attended 2 post-secondary institutions, withdrew from both. I am now making more than 98% of the people I know in my age group (mid 20's), honestly enjoy my job, and am learning more and more that will make me even more marketable in the future.
I scored a 145 IQ in the mid to late 80's. I was so bored in HS my senior year I slept half of the day and if I hadn't graduated at semester, I would have dropped out.
Hey, ASSHOLE I asked here because there are actually people who will respond with good ideas and or solution.
As for Johnson Controls, do you have the money needed? No I did not think so. I used to WORK for them. I know what the whole M5 Metasys system (Rev 12) can do. My office was in the same complex as the Control Group Headquartser is. I know what they have and what they are working on. If I wanted to spend $10,000 for a NCU, two OWSs and the various controls to just monitor my temp and humidity I would not have posted to slashdot. Hell, in order to get the data out of the Metasys system I would have to write a MetaLink application to so. Yes I could use the M-Web, but I want it all centralized in MRTG.
If we go with a performance contract with JCI, I will be more than happy to use it. But if that is the case, then there will be a lot more than two points that will be monitored and a custom application, will be more justified. It is one of the best facility management products out there.
The only other company that even comes close is Tridium, but they do not offer the whole package like Johnson Controls does. Honeywell, Seimens, et al are crap compared to Johnson.
p.s. I would tell you to go fuck yourself, but I doubt you need help in that area.
Well, when laws don't make sense (who determines this?) we should not obey them? Laws agains murdur just don't make sense, So I will no heed them.
Yes I understand the concept of civil disobediance, but that really does not apply here. ELUAs are, in simple terms, a contract. As with any contract, you have a choice in whether to enter into that contract or not. Laws, on the other hand, there is no choice, you must obey.
Now, where you agree with my comparrison or not, that is fine. However, if you make a choice to ignore either, you have a potential for consequences.
n.b. I don't like ELUAs, at least most of them out there. They go FAR beyond what is reasonable. But I do know that if I ignore them, I have may have to face the consequences.
I would have to disagree, from personal expericance. When I was going to school, I worked at a restaurant, and every morning I did the frying. On many occations I 'dipped' various fingers into the greese, I did pull them out vary quicky, though. Granted they were warm, never burned myself, unless is splattered.
You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. When a car is running, you can remove the battery and it will continue to do so. The ECM will continue to be powered.
Alas, you are wrong when it comes to 'at-will' states. I live in WI where ALL employment is at will. Just because it is at will does not mean they do not need a just cuase to terminate you. Anyone can file suit for anything at anytime. Whether it makes it through court is another matter.
(my wife works at a firm that does employment law, and you would not believe some of the shit that comes through the door.)
At will just makes things easier for the employer, at times.
As for not being able to sue the comp in exchange for getting severance, it happens just about everywhere.
While I agree it sucks for the poor southern kid, I was sitting on my porch and thought of it first. I was the first to come up with the (and patent it) so it ia mine. (For the record, taking something that is common place and doing it on the computer is not orignal, novel, or patentable as far as I am concerned.) Would I take him for all he is worth when I found out, very unlikely.
Without patents there would be none, if little, innovation (MS != innovation). Why? Simply put, regards of who comes up with the idea, a company )self employed, corp, LLC, whatever) is the entity that pays for the related costs associated with developping (R&D), manufaturing, marketing and distrubuting it. A large number of patents come out of R&D. If Company A was not able to obtain legal right of sole use (a patent) why in the world would they do any R&D, it costs money. If they have resonable guarentee that they and only they, if they choose, are able to proffit from it for a set period of time, why fron the money for R&D? Same argument goes for manufaturing, marketing and distrubuting it.
If we were to do away with the patent system, and invalidate all patents, there would be no economy as there would be little incentive for doing ANYTHING.
That is really only true in certain states, NY being one of the worst offenders. Here in WI we are what is sometimes refered to as a right to work state. Simply put, by and large non-compete agreements (note to parent and et al are different from and NDA as NDA's cover only proprietary info), are not worth the paper they are written on. Sure, a company can force a person to abide by the non compete, if they are willing to pay the persons salary during the period of the non compete. (Like that will happen)
Usually the only other time they are upheld is if they are very narrowly and specifically defined, and do not prevent a person from attaining gainful employment in area of their expertice for a similar salary.
That is just Wisconsin, YMMV, like in New York, where you are basically screwed.
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The specs say differently:
Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F
(0 to 35 C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4 to 113 F
(-20 to 45 C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
You have got to be kidding me!!!
*Minimum* operating temp of 32 F?!?!?!
How the F can they sell this phone in northern climates? I live in WI and in Feb I will frequently go outside on a nice day to take a conf call and get some fresh air. A nice day being, at least, in the upper 20's.
Seriously dude, WTF?
You know, I am not entirely sure. I was trying to corral the kids at the time. Strike the word true.
Soory, but I must feed this troll.
Most people do not buy 800 series routers, but if they do, it is typically because of managability and security. When it comes to being able to manage a remote network device and use a central authentication system, Cisco beats the pants off of ANY comsumer grade device.
Once you get to 1800 devices and above (even 1600 and 1700, but they are EOL) you have features that far exceed any consumer device.
Real routing capabilities (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BRP, etc).
Modular interface cards. You have Modem, ISDN, xDSL, Cable, 56k, DS1, ATM, DS3, SONET, etc.)
QoS. Should be self explanitory
Various security functionality. VPN, tunnles, RADIUS, TACACS+, etc. (I am not a security guy)
Voice Terminate voice, act as a phone system (2800 and 3800) run VXML, etc
These are just the routers. Switches are just as much above the consumer grade as the routers are. QoS, port density, VLANs, true Layer 3, etc.
Both have their place and in some cases, a consumer grade equipment has its place in the corp environment. I have used them many times. T
To say Cisco is a rip-off is pure ignorance. (Do not use the list price to justify yourself either. NO ONE pays list for Cisco gear. As a general rule 35% - 50% is the rule.) Sure Cisco is not the cheapest or the best, but they provide a complete end-to-end solution and everyone knows Cisco. Heck, even Nortel switches and Extreme (I think) made their interfaces to emulate IOS.
Quite possibly, being that it is the manufacturer's finacing. (No bank would ever do 0%.) Using dealer arranged financing you are more likle to "pay less" than with cash. Dealers get a "finder fee" for the loan from the bank. It is all shell game, unless you know how to play it.
When negotiating a car purchase negotiate all of these seperately and in this order:
Car price
Trade in
Financing (or lack of)
If you do it all together they will shuffle costs around, esp on fiancing, you get confused AND screwed
Remember, they don't give you what you want, tell to fsck off and you will sell it yourself. They offered my mother in law 4k for her car on trade, I got them up to 6k.
It is not your, mine or, quite frankly, anyone elses responsibility to send jobs overseas. Actually, it is the governments job to prevent it, to a degree.
Take care of your home first. I am all for goodwill and charity, but GO$#$#IT, we (the US) are not the world's fscking police, babysitter, sugardaddy or pimp.
The Monroe Doctrine looks better and better.
Sound not too dissimilar from my situation. I am in the final presentation process of going with Csico AVVID. What I am doing, and working with a very good reseller, is doing it as a self funded project. if you are not familiar with what the means, it is quite simple. Find all the ways you can save money (hard costs, soft costs will not cut it) and use the savings generated to pay the monthly lease on the equip.
Please email me at jason AT vilter DOT com
I can discuss with you the +/- with Cisco and others. (I have been working ont he project since Oct, I have amassed quite a in that time.)
Aftermarket != OEM Replacement part
Aftermarket == non OEM
OEM == Original Equipment Mfgr.
Aftermarket parts are, by definition, non OEM. Generally they are of less cost. My experiance is with powertrain aftermarket parts has been good. I just did a tune up and used aftermarkets and have been doing so for years.
On the otherhand, when it comes to the body parts (fenders, hoods, etc) stay away from the aftermarket. The parts are shiat, do not always align, rust quicker and are quite shoddy. Granted, if the car is a old, I will use aftermarket because I cannot justify the cost. If it is a late model, and need body work, you can damn well bet I will insist on OEM
n.b. My father was in the auto body repair biz, and my grandfather was a mechanic. The shop was 300 ft from the house, so I lived, ate, breathed fixing cars. While I am not an expert, I do know what I am talking about in this area.
As always there are exceptions to the rule.
Are you hiring? (seriously)
Actually, going critical and melt-down are two different, yet slightly related events.
"going" critical: All nuclear reactions (not nuclear decay) are critical. In order for a self sustaing nuclear to occur, a critical mass of fissible material must be present. If the mass falls below critical the reaction will extinguish. Decay will still occur and generate heat, abliet much less.
Melt-down: A melt-down happens when a reaction goes out of control and produces sufficient amounts of heat to cause the core the liquify (melt down). When a core melt-down happens, there is not a damn thing on this planet (that I know of) that can the molten (and getting hotter by the second) glob that used to be the core.
It has been theorized that if this happens, the molten core will burn through the earth until it reaches water. Upon contact with the core the water will turn into steam and create what is in effect a steam cannon, blasing the core back up the hole and showering bits of the core for miles around.
The physical line is called a DS1. A DS1 is 24 B channels (Each B channel is 64k/sec of bandwidth)
A DS0 is one channel (ISDN has one or two of these), a DS1 is 24, and a DS3 is 720 B's (I think, a DS3 is 30 DS1's)
So, a DS1 is the line. When you use all those B channels as one data line, the DS1 is called a T1. But a T1 is not the only option.
You can also keep those 24 channels seperate, and in this case the DS1 is called a PRI. With this setup, you generally turn up one or more of these 24 channels each as its own phoneline, so you can get 24 phonelines.
Due to switching, this isnt exactly acurate. You either set the PRI to have 24 channels of 56k each, or 23 channels of 64k. The extra space is used for signaling. If you are doing voice, or analog dialup for an isp, you can go with 24 chanels of 56k
I hate to say this, but on almost all of your points, you are wrong.
A T1 is the physical line (L1 is the OSI model)
on T1 rides DS1 signal. These the 24 64k channels. That is the DS1, though most people using T1 and DS1 interchangably, a DS1 can ride on a variety of media.
You can, using a channel bank use these 24 channels as phone lines. The phone lines will (generally) have no more services avalable than your standard POTS line. A raw DS1 is usually used to provide a dedicated connection to the long distance carrier, to bypass the CLEC/ILEC and give you better LD rates.
A PRI, an ISDN specification, can be thought of as an application that can run on a DS1. A PRI, at least none that I have heard of, robs ANY k from a the B channel, one or more channels are allocated to the D channel, the rest are B channels.
Actually, yes they are. Neilsen ratings are based on a sample. Thus, based on the sample ("Neilsen households), X% watched this, Y% watched that, etc.
With some engines, holding the valves open would more than likely result in the piston slamming into them on the compression and exhaust strokes, which would be a Bad Thing. (My understanding is that some imports have this problem when the timing belt breaks.)
That is what is refered to as an 'interferance engine'. It is not exclusively the domain of imports either.
It is a function (in the mathematical sense) of the head and/or piston design. (Almost?) Every engine, when at the top of the ompression/exhaust stroke will have the piston head flush with the block. If, when a valve it is at maximum lift, extends below the cylinder head, it will make contact (interfere) with the piston. This can be mitigated by using pistons that have a recess in them or pistons that have 'cut-outs' for the valves.
Generally, if you have a interferance engine and you jump time, you will need at least new valves (bent) and new pistons (dented, scratched, whatever) Even if the piston is still sructurally sound, you still need them as damage to the piston head will cause (IIRC) hot spot and will burn a hole in the piston.
Bottom line is you 'gets what you gets'
Also called soda here in Wisconsin. It is not a water fountain, either, it is a bubbler damnit.
This sounds just like my ACT experiance. Stayed up most (all? don't remember, I do think it was all) of the night. Scored a 28, would have been better except that damned english part fo the test.
Neeless to say, I have attended 2 post-secondary institutions, withdrew from both. I am now making more than 98% of the people I know in my age group (mid 20's), honestly enjoy my job, and am learning more and more that will make me even more marketable in the future.
I scored a 145 IQ in the mid to late 80's. I was so bored in HS my senior year I slept half of the day and if I hadn't graduated at semester, I would have dropped out.
No, I can't spell.
Hey, ASSHOLE I asked here because there are actually people who will respond with good ideas and or solution.
As for Johnson Controls, do you have the money needed? No I did not think so. I used to WORK for them. I know what the whole M5 Metasys system (Rev 12) can do. My office was in the same complex as the Control Group Headquartser is. I know what they have and what they are working on. If I wanted to spend $10,000 for a NCU, two OWSs and the various controls to just monitor my temp and humidity I would not have posted to slashdot. Hell, in order to get the data out of the Metasys system I would have to write a MetaLink application to so. Yes I could use the M-Web, but I want it all centralized in MRTG.
If we go with a performance contract with JCI, I will be more than happy to use it. But if that is the case, then there will be a lot more than two points that will be monitored and a custom application, will be more justified. It is one of the best facility management products out there.
The only other company that even comes close is Tridium, but they do not offer the whole package like Johnson Controls does. Honeywell, Seimens, et al are crap compared to Johnson.
p.s. I would tell you to go fuck yourself, but I doubt you need help in that area.
Well, when laws don't make sense (who determines this?) we should not obey them? Laws agains murdur just don't make sense, So I will no heed them.
Yes I understand the concept of civil disobediance, but that really does not apply here. ELUAs are, in simple terms, a contract. As with any contract, you have a choice in whether to enter into that contract or not. Laws, on the other hand, there is no choice, you must obey.
Now, where you agree with my comparrison or not, that is fine. However, if you make a choice to ignore either, you have a potential for consequences.
n.b. I don't like ELUAs, at least most of them out there. They go FAR beyond what is reasonable. But I do know that if I ignore them, I have may have to face the consequences.
My wife would kill me if I odered lifetime. (Ok, we have it part of the package, but she NEVER watches it.)
I would have to disagree, from personal expericance. When I was going to school, I worked at a restaurant, and every morning I did the frying. On many occations I 'dipped' various fingers into the greese, I did pull them out vary quicky, though. Granted they were warm, never burned myself, unless is splattered.
I think this week's The Onion sums it all up: Bush Seeks U.N. Support For 'U.S. Does Whatever It Wants' Plan
You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. When a car is running, you can remove the battery and it will continue to do so. The ECM will continue to be powered.
Alas, you are wrong when it comes to 'at-will' states. I live in WI where ALL employment is at will. Just because it is at will does not mean they do not need a just cuase to terminate you. Anyone can file suit for anything at anytime. Whether it makes it through court is another matter.
(my wife works at a firm that does employment law, and you would not believe some of the shit that comes through the door.)
At will just makes things easier for the employer, at times.
As for not being able to sue the comp in exchange for getting severance, it happens just about everywhere.
While I agree it sucks for the poor southern kid, I was sitting on my porch and thought of it first. I was the first to come up with the (and patent it) so it ia mine. (For the record, taking something that is common place and doing it on the computer is not orignal, novel, or patentable as far as I am concerned.) Would I take him for all he is worth when I found out, very unlikely.
Without patents there would be none, if little, innovation (MS != innovation). Why? Simply put, regards of who comes up with the idea, a company )self employed, corp, LLC, whatever) is the entity that pays for the related costs associated with developping (R&D), manufaturing, marketing and distrubuting it. A large number of patents come out of R&D. If Company A was not able to obtain legal right of sole use (a patent) why in the world would they do any R&D, it costs money. If they have resonable guarentee that they and only they, if they choose, are able to proffit from it for a set period of time, why fron the money for R&D? Same argument goes for manufaturing, marketing and distrubuting it.
If we were to do away with the patent system, and invalidate all patents, there would be no economy as there would be little incentive for doing ANYTHING.
That is really only true in certain states, NY being one of the worst offenders. Here in WI we are what is sometimes refered to as a right to work state. Simply put, by and large non-compete agreements (note to parent and et al are different from and NDA as NDA's cover only proprietary info), are not worth the paper they are written on. Sure, a company can force a person to abide by the non compete, if they are willing to pay the persons salary during the period of the non compete. (Like that will happen)
Usually the only other time they are upheld is if they are very narrowly and specifically defined, and do not prevent a person from attaining gainful employment in area of their expertice for a similar salary.
That is just Wisconsin, YMMV, like in New York, where you are basically screwed.
IANAL
Now only if I could train my legos to walk out of CompU$A with all the parts AND put it together, I could set up a nice racket.