I read about this place about two weeks ago and noticed on their website they had Wifi access. "Cool" I thought, "I can bring my laptop and work on the beach for a day".
We would have left right away but heard on the radio that they where having heating problems. Heatint problems were a definte deal killer sine it was currently snowing outside. I think the heating problems lasted a few day and at no time was this information posted on their website.
That left a bad taste in my mouth right away.
A week later we called to ask if the heating problem had been fixed. They said it had (while only grudgingly admitting they had a heating problem at all).
We were on a mission and weren't going to let a little poor management stand in our way. The three of us piled into the car yesterday and were on our way. After slight more than a one hour drive from Dresden (I think it's 45 minutes from Berlin) we were there.
The website says 100km from Dresden and 50km from Berlin. It is almost 200km between Dresden and Berlin.
As soon as we saw the building from the freeway the excitement started building (this building is big). We were in for something big.
Ten minutes after first sighting we were in the parking lot. The weather was perfect. An ice cold rain with strong winds. Tropical Islands was just what the doctor ordered!
On the way in the door I commented to my coworker with a sinking feeling that we neglected to ask on the phone if the advertised wifi was working yet.
Oh well it probably works and its not like we're turning around now.
We walked in the door and it was soo....
underwhelming.
The problem is that the building really is unbelievably huge. And what they built inside it is just really big. It was dwarfed by the building really. Thow we coudl see a few people floating above us in a hot air balloon. That was pretty damn cool.
Most importantly it sure was warm! I had to take my jacket and sweaters off immediately to keep from sweating.
The entry way was kind of confusing. We were shuttled to the entry were we were given a debit card to keep track of how much we spent and how long we were in there so that you can pay on your way out. Take a card and walk in. There were no prices posted anywhere. Nowhere was the system explained If we had not read about the system on the website we would not have even been aware we were explicitly agreeing to pay by accepting that card the pretty girl handed us.
And I forgot the Polynesian dancers. Right next to this girl were three "Polynesian dancers". These were three Asians in "traditional" Polynesian dress with about 40 pounds of makeup on with the most depressed/humiliated looks on their faces.
Now we're in. We went to change into our swimsuits and then proceeded to ask the nearest coworker about wifi.
WLAN? Wifi? Wireless Internet? What's that?
We had to ask 5 coworkers before we finally make it pretty high up the management chain and were told to please sit while they found an answer for us.
After awhile a guy who gave me the impression he was the manager on duty came out explained that the it department couldn't help him. However if we hag around near the office area and use the password "Guest" we might be able to get it to work but he could make no promises.
Funny I thought the website said they had wifi access.
We gave up on working and went swimming. We swam around for like two hours had a great time. Then we got bored, had a decent lunch for a reasonable price, and paid our minimum four hours and headed to work.
I had a good time. But I don't think you'll see me around there again anytime soon.
"I'm sure the computers that run missles and the like have multiple passwords that have to be entered all the time, but the average worker isn't going to be subjected to something like this."
You'd be surprised. According to this article our ICBM's had their codes set to 00000000 for many years to ensure we could launch them when needed. I have looked for correberation but all I can find are references the trace back to this article. That said it looks moderately reliable.
Not entirely true. Yes you are protected from lawsuits but your protection is comensorate to your education. In other words Joe Blow is protected from just about any harm he does while trying to help while a doctor is only protected from honest mistakes. He is not protected on any mistakes he makes where he "should have known better".
I would not recommend this for a second. In my experience these are really only good for a few hours. These appear power the ipod directly instead of charging the internal battery and powering the ipod like the design shown here. I guess this is so they can get away with 4AAs (6V) ass opposed to the 12ish volts over the normal charge line.
The problem is that as soon as the batteries start to wear (2 out of 4 on the chargers battery charge meter) the ipod crashes. I've noticed my ipod acts funky on low battteries so I'm guessing that the voltage drops too low at a very early stage in the battery wear. Meaning you end up throwing away a lot of half used AA batteries (or saving them for better electronics)
Knoppix supports wifi out of the box. At least some wifi. Knoppix 3.1 and 3.2 to recoginze my wifi card (an old school PCMCIA Aironet 340). However I did have to downgrade my card firmware to get knoppix to see it, though I believe that was a 2.4 kernel limitation, not a knoppix limitation.
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The advantage of a hydrogen economy (or electric for that matter) is that it produces an energy middleman. This way old polluting technologies can be replaced with more efficient ones as they come online. If today we found something 1000 times as efficient as oil we couldn't use it because our cars run on oil.
On the other hand if our cars ran on hydrogen we'd have a range of source options to chose from.
iTunes is slow as hell on my reasonably fast system but I deal with it because I love its song rating system and smart playlists. Syncing with my ipod comes in a close second behind any of these.
A quick glance at winamp 5 seems like it has none of these (Thought I guess asking for ipod syncing is getting a bit greedy isn't it?)
The point you are missing is that Americas selfishness is leading directly to Americas insecurity.
Bin Laden's raison d' etre is the overthrow of the Saudi Government. Most Arabs outside of Saudi Arabia don't care about this. He embraces teh Palistenian cause and voila. Instant followers. Blame aside end of Palestinian problem fixed, Bin Laden loses a lot of support.
This is not to mention how invading Iraq (who was led by a horrible leader who posed no real threat to the US and had no documented ties to Al Quaeda) is the best recruitment poster Bin Laden could have for.
America is big enough that always looking out for our narrow self interest often goes against our self interest.
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I read about this place about two weeks ago and noticed on their website they had Wifi access.
"Cool" I thought, "I can bring my laptop and work on the beach for a day".
We would have left right away but heard on the radio that they where having heating problems. Heatint problems were a definte deal killer sine it was currently snowing outside. I think the heating problems lasted a few day and at no time was this information posted on their website.
That left a bad taste in my mouth right away.
A week later we called to ask if the heating problem had been fixed. They said it had (while only grudgingly admitting they had a heating problem at all).
We were on a mission and weren't going to let a little poor management stand in our way. The three of us piled into the car yesterday and were on our way. After slight more than a one hour drive from Dresden (I think it's 45 minutes from Berlin) we were there.
The website says 100km from Dresden and 50km from Berlin. It is almost 200km between Dresden and Berlin.
As soon as we saw the building from the freeway the excitement started building (this building is big). We were in for something big.
Ten minutes after first sighting we were in the parking lot. The weather was perfect. An ice cold rain with strong winds. Tropical Islands was just what the doctor ordered!
On the way in the door I commented to my coworker with a sinking feeling that we neglected to ask on the phone if the advertised wifi was working yet.
Oh well it probably works and its not like we're turning around now.
We walked in the door and it was soo....
underwhelming.
The problem is that the building really is unbelievably huge. And what they built inside it is just really big.
It was dwarfed by the building really. Thow we coudl see a few people floating above us in a hot air balloon. That was pretty damn cool.
Most importantly it sure was warm!
I had to take my jacket and sweaters off immediately to keep from sweating.
The entry way was kind of confusing. We were shuttled to the entry were we were given a debit card to keep track of how much we spent and how long we were in there so that you can pay on your way out. Take a card and walk in. There were no prices posted anywhere. Nowhere was the system explained If we had not read about the system on the website we would not have even been aware we were explicitly agreeing to pay by accepting that card the pretty girl handed us.
And I forgot the Polynesian dancers. Right next to this girl were three "Polynesian dancers". These were three Asians in "traditional" Polynesian dress with about 40 pounds of makeup on with the most depressed/humiliated looks on their faces.
Now we're in. We went to change into our swimsuits and then proceeded to ask the nearest coworker about wifi.
WLAN?
Wifi?
Wireless Internet?
What's that?
We had to ask 5 coworkers before we finally make it pretty high up the management chain and were told to please sit while they found an answer for us.
After awhile a guy who gave me the impression he was the manager on duty came out explained that the it department couldn't help him. However if we hag around near the office area and use the password "Guest" we might be able to get it to work but he could make no promises.
Funny I thought the website said they had wifi access.
We gave up on working and went swimming. We swam around for like two hours had a great time. Then we got bored, had a decent lunch for a reasonable price, and paid our minimum four hours and headed to work.
I had a good time. But I don't think you'll see me around there again anytime soon.
"I'm sure the computers that run missles and the like have multiple passwords that have to be entered all the time, but the average worker isn't going to be subjected to something like this."
c fm
You'd be surprised. According to this article our ICBM's had their codes set to 00000000 for many years to ensure we could launch them when needed. I have looked for correberation but all I can find are references the trace back to this article. That said it looks moderately reliable.
http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.
Not entirely true. Yes you are protected from lawsuits but your protection is comensorate to your education. In other words Joe Blow is protected from just about any harm he does while trying to help while a doctor is only protected from honest mistakes. He is not protected on any mistakes he makes where he "should have known better".
In other words ignorance is bliss in this case.
I would not recommend this for a second. In my experience these are really only good for a few hours. These appear power the ipod directly instead of charging the internal battery and powering the ipod like the design shown here. I guess this is so they can get away with 4AAs (6V) ass opposed to the 12ish volts over the normal charge line.
The problem is that as soon as the batteries start to wear (2 out of 4 on the chargers battery charge meter) the ipod crashes. I've noticed my ipod acts funky on low battteries so I'm guessing that the voltage drops too low at a very early stage in the battery wear. Meaning you end up throwing away a lot of half used AA batteries (or saving them for better electronics)
Knoppix supports wifi out of the box. At least some wifi. Knoppix 3.1 and 3.2 to recoginze my wifi card (an old school PCMCIA Aironet 340). However I did have to downgrade my card firmware to get knoppix to see it, though I believe that was a 2.4 kernel limitation, not a knoppix limitation.
The advantage of a hydrogen economy (or electric for that matter) is that it produces an energy middleman. This way old polluting technologies can be replaced with more efficient ones as they come online. If today we found something 1000 times as efficient as oil we couldn't use it because our cars run on oil.
On the other hand if our cars ran on hydrogen we'd have a range of source options to chose from.
iTunes is slow as hell on my reasonably fast system but I deal with it because I love its song rating system and smart playlists. Syncing with my ipod comes in a close second behind any of these.
A quick glance at winamp 5 seems like it has none of these (Thought I guess asking for ipod syncing is getting a bit greedy isn't it?)
Releasing spectrum is good. Releasing unlicensed spectrum is better.
The point you are missing is that Americas selfishness is leading directly to Americas insecurity. Bin Laden's raison d' etre is the overthrow of the Saudi Government. Most Arabs outside of Saudi Arabia don't care about this. He embraces teh Palistenian cause and voila. Instant followers. Blame aside end of Palestinian problem fixed, Bin Laden loses a lot of support. This is not to mention how invading Iraq (who was led by a horrible leader who posed no real threat to the US and had no documented ties to Al Quaeda) is the best recruitment poster Bin Laden could have for. America is big enough that always looking out for our narrow self interest often goes against our self interest.