A discussion on a techie website about article on a financial website about a techie problem and proposed solution. I RTFA- let the groundless speculation fly!
Come on people, don't you find it a bit hard to believe that a company like IBM is going to attempt what they're saying in the article, for obvious reasons? There's something major missing from this article.
...on my cruiseamericasucks.com site before the next list comes out. They rented us an RV that shook so badly that parts were literally falling off. Then they stranded us for 4 days while it was in the shop, and not only didn't credit us for the days we didn't have it, they charged us extra mileage for taking it to repair facilities. My favorite part is how they make you think you're getting a nice late model RV by taking their crapped out shells and sticking them on a new chassis. That and the fact I had to replace the passenger side mirror myself when their suggestion was to "stay in the right lane" for 1500 miles.
Forget about degrees for a minute, what makes you happy? What do you enjoy doing? What do you think you might enjoy doing for a very long period of time?
While the straight answer of "MBA" is an excellent one, I think you'd do better to figure out what industry and within that industry what specific job you think you might want to get. Then your answer might be more obvious.
If you're really just looking for a way to stay in school longer, then it doesn't really matter. Just stick around until they put you on the payroll, then go for tenure.
I already bought one of these on eBay. You just stick it on the back of your battery, and you get 300% more life, 500% better reception, and it blocks the gamma rays from giving you skull cancer. And the best part, it was FREE!!!!L@@K!!!W@W!!!!!NIBMOMC!!1111!!A+++PWRSELLE R with the charger I bought.
With all the reports of GPS being used to restrict the rights of innocent people, is this any better?
Well, since it's designed to protect the rights of innocent people by keeping criminals away from "Restricted Zones" - yes. Especially when I would assume those zones would be schools/daycares for sex offenders and restraining order holders for domestic abusers.
Will it fix the problem?
Not unless the device electrocutes them if they go where they shouldn't. Tracking can only act as a deterrent for those who don't want to "violation" their parole. It won't do anything for the nutjob that gloats about "she gots what was comin to her" on his way back to prison, this time for murder.
But I bet it will stop the ones who think they can get away with a quick brewski on the way home from work.
Overall, I think it's a great idea if it's used properly with the right type of parolee.
Your arguments seem to be in flux. You keep changing the situation to try to fit your arguments. weak.
I assumed he was talking about an existing house. Reading the post again, I can see it may be that it hasn't been built yet. In which case, your conduit arguements are quite valid. I guess I just assumed nobody in their right mind would be trying to go totally wireless if they're building a house and have the opportunity to spec the cabling.
I know a number of builders and I have never heard of them being connected in any system that was not integrated with a burglar alarm. My house is made of concrete, it does not burn well.
My house is concrete as well, as are most here in Florida. Still a lot of house fires though. Our house is about 4 years old, and I just replaced all of the smoke alarms because of a problem with the size of the battery compartment. One battery actually exploded. But I digress... point is it's a very common system that is hard wired with a battery backup. There a 3 wires going to each alarm, 2 for the power and one interconnect. The interconnect will set off all of them if one goes off. This is the same system they had in the last 4 places I've lived- 3 homes and one apartment. In addition to that system, we also have one stand-alone detector that's at the peak of the cathedral ceiling in the great room, and it's hard-wired to the security system.
I'll take your word for it on the multipliers. Never heard of them myself, but maybe that's because I wouldn't even consider something like that. I've had problems with wired cable-tv and cable-modem connections just because of a sub-standard splitter. I can't imagine that you'd have any reliability with something like that. And I know there's no way that would work with the satellite systems, because the LNB's on the dish get their power through the cable.
Yeah, there's a lot you can do wirelessly these days, but you still can't do everything, and you most certainly wouldn't want to.
Conduit makes pulling wires much easier and isolates your holes from the interior insulation. It reduces fire risks. It can be firmly attached to studs. You suggest that it is obvious, or that a string is, but I have never, ever seen a single house pre-wired with a conduit for miscellaneous applications, nor one with an extra string. I've heard several geeks and builders talk about including such a thing, but I have never personally known anyone who lived in a home that has had that done. It is pretty bloody uncommon.
I said going all wireless (aside from power) is a bad idea, but it can be done. I stand by my statement.
smoke detectors - can be free standing units
motion sensors - there are 802.11 and prop. RF versions or can be attached to a wireless phone jack multiplier
alarm system keypads - ethernet can go to a wireless router, phone jack can be attached to a wireless phone jack multiplier
cable tv / modem - can go to a cable multiplier
Satellite TV - can go to a cable multiplier
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Are you stupid or ignorant?
Well, I guess I'm ignorant, because I don't know what the hell you're talking about when you say "multiplier". I use cable multiplexers/diplexers to run the signal from an antenna in my attic through the same line as my DSS feed, but running multiple signals in one cable doesn't make it wireless. And I don't know where you live, but around here building codes and common sense tell you that your smoke detectors should be wired together so if one goes off at one end of the house, they all go off so you hear alarms throughout the building. Everything else you mention involves running a wire, even if it's just to a wireless bridge. It's still a wire. And just because alarm systems can use the same type of wire as phone lines, that doesn't mean that wireless phone jacks will carry every kind of signal that phone wire will.
Putting conduit in an existing wall and attaching it firmly to studs makes pulling wire easier? Are you high? I have no problem getting my fish-tape to run between the drywall and insulation on exterior walls, and interior walls generally aren't insulated. It's certainly easier that ripping a wall apart to put in conduit. And unless you're bridging your low voltage lines with your power lines, you're not gaining any safety with conduit. Maybe some reliability if you have rats, I suppose.
Yeah, use your crystal ball for that. Then buy some optical cabling of the type that will be invented in 5 years from a time traveller on e-bay.
Wow, someone took a double dose of smart-ass pills this morning. By "every possible configuration" I was talking about every possible place you would want given devices. If there's only 2 logical places for the entertainment center to go, run everything to both places. Think about where you might want your desk now, and where you might want to move it to a year or two from now.
If you're the type of person that's going to be going optical before it's been out for a few years, cabling probably isn't that much of a concern. You're used to wasting money and effort to be an early adopter. Nothing wrong with that, but you're not going to be whining about haveing to run new cable. You're string statement is so obvious I overlooked mentioning it, and even if you don't drop string, if you plan ahead like I suggest, you'll always have a spare cable you can use instead. Or just have someone help you and use a fish-tape. There's no reason for conduit for low-voltage cabling. They even make special wall plate frames so you don't have to put in a wall box for low voltage applications. Conduit is for electrical cable and the like, and you certainly don't want to run data cable in with electrical. If he isn't excited about pulling cable, I doubt he'll be thrilled about trying to get conduit in the existing walls.
Aside from power, you probably can.
No, you can't. Here's a game for you. Read my original post and see how many devices I mentioned that you cannot use with only a power cord. Keep in mind that most people who want whole house audio aren't going to want to watch only OTA signals, which, by the way, more often than not require a wired antenna.
Absolutely. If you haven't even closed on the house yet, chances are you're going to be there long enough to make the little extra effort of running wires worthwhile.
Even forgetting about quality issues for a moment, totally wireless is going to be way more of a headache than crawling around in the attic for a couple afternoons. It's not like a lack of interference now means it won't be a problem in the future.
And if you plan ahead and think out every possible configuration, and run all the cabling at once, you'll thank yourself later. I've got 4 RG-6 feeds and 4 cat-6 feeds going to our entertainment center, and I'm glad I went overboard when we bought our house. I'm already using almost all of them.
Don't forget about smoke detectors (you may want one tied to a monitored security system someday), motion sensors, alarm system keypads, cable tv / modem, Satellite TV (multiple feeds for PVRs)... you just cannot go completely wireless, even in this day and age. I suppose if you could you wouldn't have to worry about night lights, because after a while you'd be able to act as your own light source.
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Come on, lighten up! Anytime Mac users talk about PC's, they aren't exactly singing their praises, now are they? Since the site is down, I can't be sure, but I would think it's just an interesting retrospective on the side of Apple not many people talk about.
It's nice once in a while to be reminded that nobody's perfect, and despite failures one can be wildly successful. We're talking about an American computer company here, not our supreme dictator. I think we can poke fun occassionally.
"I'd actually be defending MS on the same charge"
So I'm curious, how exactly do you support yourself if you spend all day and night defending Microsoft on Slashdot? Or do you only read Apple related posts? I find it amusing that with all the negative MS and Gates stories on here, the second an even remotely negative Apple story goes up, first post is telling us how sad it is to "knock down" rather than "build up".
The Lame meter is officially broken.
PS- MacTV. Perfect example. We could have a very positive discussion about how far ahead of their time they were with that one, but it still remains a huge flop for Apple. Why must you assume flops are a bad thing? Hmmmm?
If I want the hassle of taking it out and flipping it over to "lightscribe" the other side, I might as well take it out and put it in my $89 Epson R200 at home and print it in inkjet. Overall costs are probably the same (guessing - inkjet printable will probably be cheaper, offsetting the no-ink costs of the lightscribe system), and I can't imagine lasers would do a better job with photo-based labels than an inkjet.
And if I don't want the hassle, I'll put it in my $1,500 (with accessories) Pimera Bravo CD Publisher, which will burn and print 50 CD's at a pop, unattended.
Now IMHO the earlier Sony (I think it was Sony- TA2 or TAT2 or something?) system that inscribed text on the outer edge of the data side with a laser was much cooler if you want to go this route... you lost some capacity, but there was no disc flipping, and you used standard media.
So even before you get into the big (size, capacity and dollar) machines for CD Duplication, you already have 3 relatively inexpensive options for labeling. I don't see this gaining much market share.
Wow, I can't imagine who would have been so ticked off at the reply as to post such a profane message. That Anonymous Coward thing has me totally befuddled.
And yes, his statement could have applied to any topic, because it seems that "he's" posting his pyramid scheme link on all of the topics lately.
Update: Within an hour of posting the story, and the screenshot we took as evidence, Apple altered the HTML to replace g5 with g4. Don't hang around, do they?
Considering this has been on every tech and gadget site all morning, I think it's pretty conceited of them to think their story is what prompted Apple to make the "correction".
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Bow-chicka-chicka-bow-bow
A software package that controls my companies computers and it's called CHAOS? Where do I sign up?
Well, not until you put it in my browser cache. Thanks a lot, buddy.
A discussion on a techie website about article on a financial website about a techie problem and proposed solution. I RTFA- let the groundless speculation fly!
Come on people, don't you find it a bit hard to believe that a company like IBM is going to attempt what they're saying in the article, for obvious reasons? There's something major missing from this article.
...on my cruiseamericasucks.com site before the next list comes out. They rented us an RV that shook so badly that parts were literally falling off. Then they stranded us for 4 days while it was in the shop, and not only didn't credit us for the days we didn't have it, they charged us extra mileage for taking it to repair facilities. My favorite part is how they make you think you're getting a nice late model RV by taking their crapped out shells and sticking them on a new chassis. That and the fact I had to replace the passenger side mirror myself when their suggestion was to "stay in the right lane" for 1500 miles.
Forget about degrees for a minute, what makes you happy? What do you enjoy doing? What do you think you might enjoy doing for a very long period of time?
While the straight answer of "MBA" is an excellent one, I think you'd do better to figure out what industry and within that industry what specific job you think you might want to get. Then your answer might be more obvious.
If you're really just looking for a way to stay in school longer, then it doesn't really matter. Just stick around until they put you on the payroll, then go for tenure.
Maybe he like Cuba. Sheesh.
I already bought one of these on eBay. You just stick it on the back of your battery, and you get 300% more life, 500% better reception, and it blocks the gamma rays from giving you skull cancer. And the best part, it was FREE!!!!L@@K!!!W@W!!!!!NIBMOMC!!1111!!A+++PWRSELLE R with the charger I bought.
...for-this-story-to-make-slashdot dept.
Wow, who knew you could output to a wav file from Winamp?
Move along, nothing to see here.
With all the reports of GPS being used to restrict the rights of innocent people, is this any better?
Well, since it's designed to protect the rights of innocent people by keeping criminals away from "Restricted Zones" - yes. Especially when I would assume those zones would be schools/daycares for sex offenders and restraining order holders for domestic abusers.
Will it fix the problem?
Not unless the device electrocutes them if they go where they shouldn't. Tracking can only act as a deterrent for those who don't want to "violation" their parole. It won't do anything for the nutjob that gloats about "she gots what was comin to her" on his way back to prison, this time for murder.
But I bet it will stop the ones who think they can get away with a quick brewski on the way home from work.
Overall, I think it's a great idea if it's used properly with the right type of parolee.
...will they be charging Spyware companies more to bypass it, or will they be seeking a higher number of these "marketing partners"?
That's it, I'm uninstalling BitTorrent and buying a trenchcoat with deep pockets.
*Insert biatching about moderators here.*
Your arguments seem to be in flux. You keep changing the situation to try to fit your arguments. weak.
I assumed he was talking about an existing house. Reading the post again, I can see it may be that it hasn't been built yet. In which case, your conduit arguements are quite valid. I guess I just assumed nobody in their right mind would be trying to go totally wireless if they're building a house and have the opportunity to spec the cabling.
I know a number of builders and I have never heard of them being connected in any system that was not integrated with a burglar alarm. My house is made of concrete, it does not burn well. My house is concrete as well, as are most here in Florida. Still a lot of house fires though. Our house is about 4 years old, and I just replaced all of the smoke alarms because of a problem with the size of the battery compartment. One battery actually exploded. But I digress... point is it's a very common system that is hard wired with a battery backup. There a 3 wires going to each alarm, 2 for the power and one interconnect. The interconnect will set off all of them if one goes off. This is the same system they had in the last 4 places I've lived- 3 homes and one apartment. In addition to that system, we also have one stand-alone detector that's at the peak of the cathedral ceiling in the great room, and it's hard-wired to the security system.
I'll take your word for it on the multipliers. Never heard of them myself, but maybe that's because I wouldn't even consider something like that. I've had problems with wired cable-tv and cable-modem connections just because of a sub-standard splitter. I can't imagine that you'd have any reliability with something like that. And I know there's no way that would work with the satellite systems, because the LNB's on the dish get their power through the cable.
Yeah, there's a lot you can do wirelessly these days, but you still can't do everything, and you most certainly wouldn't want to.
Conduit makes pulling wires much easier and isolates your holes from the interior insulation. It reduces fire risks. It can be firmly attached to studs. You suggest that it is obvious, or that a string is, but I have never, ever seen a single house pre-wired with a conduit for miscellaneous applications, nor one with an extra string. I've heard several geeks and builders talk about including such a thing, but I have never personally known anyone who lived in a home that has had that done. It is pretty bloody uncommon.
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I said going all wireless (aside from power) is a bad idea, but it can be done. I stand by my statement.
smoke detectors - can be free standing units
motion sensors - there are 802.11 and prop. RF versions or can be attached to a wireless phone jack multiplier
alarm system keypads - ethernet can go to a wireless router, phone jack can be attached to a wireless phone jack multiplier
cable tv / modem - can go to a cable multiplier
Satellite TV - can go to a cable multiplier
Are you stupid or ignorant?
Well, I guess I'm ignorant, because I don't know what the hell you're talking about when you say "multiplier". I use cable multiplexers/diplexers to run the signal from an antenna in my attic through the same line as my DSS feed, but running multiple signals in one cable doesn't make it wireless. And I don't know where you live, but around here building codes and common sense tell you that your smoke detectors should be wired together so if one goes off at one end of the house, they all go off so you hear alarms throughout the building. Everything else you mention involves running a wire, even if it's just to a wireless bridge. It's still a wire. And just because alarm systems can use the same type of wire as phone lines, that doesn't mean that wireless phone jacks will carry every kind of signal that phone wire will.
Putting conduit in an existing wall and attaching it firmly to studs makes pulling wire easier? Are you high? I have no problem getting my fish-tape to run between the drywall and insulation on exterior walls, and interior walls generally aren't insulated. It's certainly easier that ripping a wall apart to put in conduit. And unless you're bridging your low voltage lines with your power lines, you're not gaining any safety with conduit. Maybe some reliability if you have rats, I suppose.
Yeah, use your crystal ball for that. Then buy some optical cabling of the type that will be invented in 5 years from a time traveller on e-bay.
Wow, someone took a double dose of smart-ass pills this morning. By "every possible configuration" I was talking about every possible place you would want given devices. If there's only 2 logical places for the entertainment center to go, run everything to both places. Think about where you might want your desk now, and where you might want to move it to a year or two from now.
If you're the type of person that's going to be going optical before it's been out for a few years, cabling probably isn't that much of a concern. You're used to wasting money and effort to be an early adopter. Nothing wrong with that, but you're not going to be whining about haveing to run new cable. You're string statement is so obvious I overlooked mentioning it, and even if you don't drop string, if you plan ahead like I suggest, you'll always have a spare cable you can use instead. Or just have someone help you and use a fish-tape. There's no reason for conduit for low-voltage cabling. They even make special wall plate frames so you don't have to put in a wall box for low voltage applications. Conduit is for electrical cable and the like, and you certainly don't want to run data cable in with electrical. If he isn't excited about pulling cable, I doubt he'll be thrilled about trying to get conduit in the existing walls.
Aside from power, you probably can.
No, you can't. Here's a game for you. Read my original post and see how many devices I mentioned that you cannot use with only a power cord. Keep in mind that most people who want whole house audio aren't going to want to watch only OTA signals, which, by the way, more often than not require a wired antenna.
So are you a dumb smartass or a smart dumbass?
Absolutely. If you haven't even closed on the house yet, chances are you're going to be there long enough to make the little extra effort of running wires worthwhile.
Even forgetting about quality issues for a moment, totally wireless is going to be way more of a headache than crawling around in the attic for a couple afternoons. It's not like a lack of interference now means it won't be a problem in the future.
And if you plan ahead and think out every possible configuration, and run all the cabling at once, you'll thank yourself later. I've got 4 RG-6 feeds and 4 cat-6 feeds going to our entertainment center, and I'm glad I went overboard when we bought our house. I'm already using almost all of them.
Don't forget about smoke detectors (you may want one tied to a monitored security system someday), motion sensors, alarm system keypads, cable tv / modem, Satellite TV (multiple feeds for PVRs)... you just cannot go completely wireless, even in this day and age. I suppose if you could you wouldn't have to worry about night lights, because after a while you'd be able to act as your own light source.
Come on, lighten up! Anytime Mac users talk about PC's, they aren't exactly singing their praises, now are they? Since the site is down, I can't be sure, but I would think it's just an interesting retrospective on the side of Apple not many people talk about.
It's nice once in a while to be reminded that nobody's perfect, and despite failures one can be wildly successful. We're talking about an American computer company here, not our supreme dictator. I think we can poke fun occassionally.
"I'd actually be defending MS on the same charge"
So I'm curious, how exactly do you support yourself if you spend all day and night defending Microsoft on Slashdot? Or do you only read Apple related posts? I find it amusing that with all the negative MS and Gates stories on here, the second an even remotely negative Apple story goes up, first post is telling us how sad it is to "knock down" rather than "build up".
The Lame meter is officially broken.
PS- MacTV. Perfect example. We could have a very positive discussion about how far ahead of their time they were with that one, but it still remains a huge flop for Apple. Why must you assume flops are a bad thing? Hmmmm?
Alex Baldwin is dead? Does Alec know?
Didn't he die in a skiing accident?
oh wait...
If I want the hassle of taking it out and flipping it over to "lightscribe" the other side, I might as well take it out and put it in my $89 Epson R200 at home and print it in inkjet. Overall costs are probably the same (guessing - inkjet printable will probably be cheaper, offsetting the no-ink costs of the lightscribe system), and I can't imagine lasers would do a better job with photo-based labels than an inkjet.
And if I don't want the hassle, I'll put it in my $1,500 (with accessories) Pimera Bravo CD Publisher, which will burn and print 50 CD's at a pop, unattended.
Now IMHO the earlier Sony (I think it was Sony- TA2 or TAT2 or something?) system that inscribed text on the outer edge of the data side with a laser was much cooler if you want to go this route... you lost some capacity, but there was no disc flipping, and you used standard media.
So even before you get into the big (size, capacity and dollar) machines for CD Duplication, you already have 3 relatively inexpensive options for labeling. I don't see this gaining much market share.
Check the source of their home page for any 1 pixel x 1 pixel images. That'll tell us for sure what they're up to.
Wow, I can't imagine who would have been so ticked off at the reply as to post such a profane message. That Anonymous Coward thing has me totally befuddled. And yes, his statement could have applied to any topic, because it seems that "he's" posting his pyramid scheme link on all of the topics lately.
...of Apple releasing a G5 PowerBook...
IMG HEIGHT="1" WIDTH="1" = Slim to None.
Update: Within an hour of posting the story, and the screenshot we took as evidence, Apple altered the HTML to replace g5 with g4. Don't hang around, do they?
Considering this has been on every tech and gadget site all morning, I think it's pretty conceited of them to think their story is what prompted Apple to make the "correction".