I've never had that problem with any hotel in the US. When they ask, I say one of a couple things..
This works nearly every time, especially when I'm nicely dressed and it's a nicer hotel.
"I lost my wallet in [place] two nights ago. Thank god I had my license in my money-clip with my cash, or I'd be totally screwed."
Used this a couple times at your standard flea motels.
"Bud, I drive a [antique piece of shit]. Do you really think if I even had a credit card, it wouldn't be maxed out?"
When I was younger, I used to use
"Ma'am, I'm [twenty something] and in college. I don't really want the temptation of the damn things till I get out in the real world and can actually, y'know, pay them off. Now I'm really tired, I've been driving since this morning. Can I just get a room already, so I can sleep?"
You'd need to find a 6,900 foot mountain on the beach in Florida to make wireless to Cuba work, and that ain't happening. If you were shooting from the highest point on Cuba for Florida, you'd need a 27,000 (twenty seven thousand) foot aerial in the US because it's over a hundred miles farther from Florida than the coast.
The only reason they made this kind of distance is both ends were up on medium-sized mountains.
There's an old saying, "When you lie with dogs, you catch fleas."
All legitimate ISPs and hosting companies should know better. And their customers? I wouldn't lose any sleep at night knowing another shady company was hemorraging customers.
That's all. Cendant thought they should try and beat on Amazon. Now Amazon is beating back. Patents are leverage in business these days, novel or not. Cendant will buy a cross license, nuke the earlier suit, and that'll be the end of it.
Transcode the analog grab off your TV card to a MPEG2 stream, find a close bar, cheat some wireless over..
Watch it from your bar stool!
And for the anti-geek points you'll need, you can say "Oh, this is just what it's grabbing now. I have the Durock 300 up next, heard Harvick pulled it out." (Or insert soccer match du jour if you're anywhere in the rest of the world)
There is already a company offering a "signal distribution amplifier" that strips HDTV copy protection.
When this shit hits the market, you better bet there will be companies offering similar, IE, a "protected display" in a little 2x1x3 box for those people wanting to watch HDMI content on their non-compliant monitors and recording to non-compliant recorders..
Just because the US is becoming a media police state doesn't mean the rest of the world will follow.
Last I saw, what Junxion was shipping was 95% COTS.
The board inside it is a Soekris Engineering 486 class [link], they boot off of a small CF, and the Linux distro the box runs is a very close derivative of LEAF [link]. (Think it's actually a derivative of WISP-Dist[link], which was sprung from and then rolled back into the LEAF project.)
They wrote the pretty front end and provide pretty good support for them.
If you're willing to support it yourself, go buy a $200 Soekris machine and rig one up.
The Soviets were our friends! Our bestest pals! Communism is just super-democracy! And we love democracy! Uncle Joe is a great man, not like that Mussolini fellow at all!
Because it's fast to develop in. Ten years ago everyone wrote Delphi or Visual Basic for the same reasons. It was faster to market than anything else, easier to debug, and the performance overhead wasn't that much of an issue. It's also capable of running more places with less modification. If your target is server platforms, you've got them all covered, from HP/UX on a 7100, to a G4 running OS/X, to a four way Opteron Linux box, with no mods.
I have my left ear pierced, has been that way for fifteen years now. Been wearing a simple gold hoop in it almost as long.
One day, I decide to try a new headset for my phone. Complicated over the ear rig, sounds great, light weight, mic sits nicely, whole thing holds on well. But the stupid cable comes out of the bottom and rubs my earring. The tickling was going to drive me insane, so I took out my earring and set it on my desk.
When I came back from lunch, my earring is missing. I ask my coworker of two and a half years
"Alice, have you seen my earring?". "Your what?" "Earring. Had it on my desk, it keeps catching on the new phone earpiece so I took it out." "When did your ears pierced?" "Ear. Just one. *counting on my fingers* Nine years ago?" *Strange look. She thinks I'm kidding her* "You must not wear it to work too often, I've never seen you wear one." "I've worn it every day. I don't think I've taken it out in a year or two." *Another strange look.* "Have a look at the picture on your desk from last years Christmas party." "Well I'll be da.. You're right. No, I haven't seen it."
So I went over to another coworker's desk. He's been there longer than I have, and has had a cube across from me for four years.
"Bill, you see my earring? I left it on my desk." "Yours? That was yours?" "Yeah. Where was it?" "Oh, I moved it, put it in lost and found at the reception desk. When did you get your ears pierced?" "Ear...." *Alice chimes in to be a smart-ass* "Just his left one. He's had it forever. Didn't you notice?" "No. Isn't there some stupid policy against that anyway?" "Dunno. Never asked. Wore it to the interview, don't think I've had it out but once or twice for cleaning since." *strange look* *Alice walks over with the picture from her desk*
So I walk up to reception, to see about my earring.
"Hey Barb, grab me my earring out of the lost and found box." "Get your ears pierced over the weekend? You're not supposed to take them out so soon, and don't let Bob catch you. "...
"Our mail server does not exist to fulfill your file storage needs."
But they'll never use the file server. They'll just set Outlook to download emails older than a couple weeks to local folders. And then they'll have a huge honking archive on the machine *most* likely to fail in the scheme of things. Most users are barely comfortable with email.
If the file shares aren't mounted on login, you should look into that. And then configure Outlook/whatever to download all mail and store it there on all new installations. It can be automated easily.
Hey, it was good enough! They flew with grease pencils for a long time. Mercury? Viking? Sputnik? Grease pencils.
Oh, and the gas-charged pen? Not a NASA thing, not an engineer thing. Some random yahoo from a pen company invented it. But it worked better than a grease pencil, and both NASA and the Russians were using em inside a couple years.
Royal land grant to a trading company in 1624 for Cape Anne created it. Some of the settlers moved to Salem, and it became a full colony run from Salem under grant in 1628. Another grant in 1629 rolled everything from the old Dorchester Bay Company and existing Massachusetts Bay Company, and the settlers sent over with the new grant set up in Salem. In 1630, another group of settlers rolled in, bearing yet another grant and charter, and set up shop in Boston.
After the city was up at the end of 1630, they sat down and looked at the charter, and elected eight men (plus the govenor) to run the whole colony, towns and all.
It wasn't till 1641 Boston got it's own local government.
Hire a lackey. Find a guy/gal down at your local LUG. Seattle has lots of underemployed, overqualified geeks at the moment. Show him the ropes.
Sure, he (please substitute she if appropriate) won't know how to fix everything. But he will call your customers to let them know a technical person *is* on site, ring your cell incessantly till you pick up, put your pager on the wardialer.. And for simple stuff, IE, service didn't come up on restart, or UPS warning some of the batteries just went south, you just saved yourself a trip back to Seattle.
Naw. That would imply that that you gave some thought to making the $6/hr Microsoft intern want to puke his or her guts on the table.
However, blanking out the first portion of the tape till you get to a juicy bit might be a good idea. So they don't just turn it off when they see the opening title and credits..
Contacts don't mix well with baseball. Too much dust and dirt, too many quick eye movements, (the lens lags on your eye for a fraction of a second) and what do you do when your lens just came free in the outfield?
That said, most companies have a pricy disposable sport lens on the market.
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I've never had that problem with any hotel in the US. When they ask, I say one of a couple things..
This works nearly every time, especially when I'm nicely dressed and it's a nicer hotel.
"I lost my wallet in [place] two nights ago. Thank god I had my license in my money-clip with my cash, or I'd be totally screwed."
Used this a couple times at your standard flea motels.
"Bud, I drive a [antique piece of shit]. Do you really think if I even had a credit card, it wouldn't be maxed out?"
When I was younger, I used to use
"Ma'am, I'm [twenty something] and in college. I don't really want the temptation of the damn things till I get out in the real world and can actually, y'know, pay them off. Now I'm really tired, I've been driving since this morning. Can I just get a room already, so I can sleep?"
You'd need to find a 6,900 foot mountain on the beach in Florida to make wireless to Cuba work, and that ain't happening. If you were shooting from the highest point on Cuba for Florida, you'd need a 27,000 (twenty seven thousand) foot aerial in the US because it's over a hundred miles farther from Florida than the coast.
The only reason they made this kind of distance is both ends were up on medium-sized mountains.
A real geek would have his tools out and have the fucker disabled when it cut him off, six beers or no six beers.
There's an old saying, "When you lie with dogs, you catch fleas."
All legitimate ISPs and hosting companies should know better. And their customers? I wouldn't lose any sleep at night knowing another shady company was hemorraging customers.
That's all. Cendant thought they should try and beat on Amazon. Now Amazon is beating back. Patents are leverage in business these days, novel or not. Cendant will buy a cross license, nuke the earlier suit, and that'll be the end of it.
Transcode the analog grab off your TV card to a MPEG2 stream, find a close bar, cheat some wireless over..
Watch it from your bar stool!
And for the anti-geek points you'll need, you can say "Oh, this is just what it's grabbing now. I have the Durock 300 up next, heard Harvick pulled it out." (Or insert soccer match du jour if you're anywhere in the rest of the world)
There is already a company offering a "signal distribution amplifier" that strips HDTV copy protection.
When this shit hits the market, you better bet there will be companies offering similar, IE, a "protected display" in a little 2x1x3 box for those people wanting to watch HDMI content on their non-compliant monitors and recording to non-compliant recorders..
Just because the US is becoming a media police state doesn't mean the rest of the world will follow.
Last I saw, what Junxion was shipping was 95% COTS.
The board inside it is a Soekris Engineering 486 class [link], they boot off of a small CF, and the Linux distro the box runs is a very close derivative of LEAF [link]. (Think it's actually a derivative of WISP-Dist[link], which was sprung from and then rolled back into the LEAF project.)
They wrote the pretty front end and provide pretty good support for them.
If you're willing to support it yourself, go buy a $200 Soekris machine and rig one up.
No, it works like this..
*bang*
"Oi, you only got 'im in the foot. Four up and a bit to the right."
*bang*
"Oi, there went his kneecap. I think you need some practice before we execute the next one."
*bang*
"Cripes.. Aim for his flippin' heart! If you keep shooting 'im like that he'll just bleed to death."
*bang*
"Okay, you've got the height thing down, but that was 'es right arm! Left me boy!"
*bang*
"'er went 'is other kneecap! One more try, an 'im taking that gun from ya, boy."
*bang*
"Reload!"
Lena!
No matter what your final test image, you'll have to work that one in for the inevitable conversation with your wife.
"Who the hell is this hussy you keep printing nude pictures of and throwing them away?"
That's easy.. Just use the Chicago Crime map to plunk down where they're making prostitution busts.
No.. It was a demonstration for the Germans.
The Soviets were our friends! Our bestest pals! Communism is just super-democracy! And we love democracy! Uncle Joe is a great man, not like that Mussolini fellow at all!
Well, at least till they invaded Czechoslovakia.
Because it's fast to develop in. Ten years ago everyone wrote Delphi or Visual Basic for the same reasons. It was faster to market than anything else, easier to debug, and the performance overhead wasn't that much of an issue. It's also capable of running more places with less modification. If your target is server platforms, you've got them all covered, from HP/UX on a 7100, to a G4 running OS/X, to a four way Opteron Linux box, with no mods.
I have my left ear pierced, has been that way for fifteen years now. Been wearing a simple gold hoop in it almost as long.
One day, I decide to try a new headset for my phone. Complicated over the ear rig, sounds great, light weight, mic sits nicely, whole thing holds on well. But the stupid cable comes out of the bottom and rubs my earring. The tickling was going to drive me insane, so I took out my earring and set it on my desk.
When I came back from lunch, my earring is missing. I ask my coworker of two and a half years
"Alice, have you seen my earring?".
"Your what?"
"Earring. Had it on my desk, it keeps catching on the new phone earpiece so I took it out."
"When did your ears pierced?"
"Ear. Just one. *counting on my fingers* Nine years ago?"
*Strange look. She thinks I'm kidding her*
"You must not wear it to work too often, I've never seen you wear one."
"I've worn it every day. I don't think I've taken it out in a year or two."
*Another strange look.*
"Have a look at the picture on your desk from last years Christmas party."
"Well I'll be da.. You're right. No, I haven't seen it."
So I went over to another coworker's desk. He's been there longer than I have, and has had a cube across from me for four years.
"Bill, you see my earring? I left it on my desk."
"Yours? That was yours?"
"Yeah. Where was it?"
"Oh, I moved it, put it in lost and found at the reception desk. When did you get your ears pierced?"
"Ear...."
*Alice chimes in to be a smart-ass*
"Just his left one. He's had it forever. Didn't you notice?"
"No. Isn't there some stupid policy against that anyway?"
"Dunno. Never asked. Wore it to the interview, don't think I've had it out but once or twice for cleaning since."
*strange look*
*Alice walks over with the picture from her desk*
So I walk up to reception, to see about my earring.
"Hey Barb, grab me my earring out of the lost and found box."
"Get your ears pierced over the weekend? You're not supposed to take them out so soon, and don't let Bob catch you. "...
People just don't notice.
"Our mail server does not exist to fulfill your file storage needs."
But they'll never use the file server. They'll just set Outlook to download emails older than a couple weeks to local folders. And then they'll have a huge honking archive on the machine *most* likely to fail in the scheme of things. Most users are barely comfortable with email.
If the file shares aren't mounted on login, you should look into that. And then configure Outlook/whatever to download all mail and store it there on all new installations. It can be automated easily.
Hey, it was good enough! They flew with grease pencils for a long time. Mercury? Viking? Sputnik? Grease pencils.
Oh, and the gas-charged pen? Not a NASA thing, not an engineer thing. Some random yahoo from a pen company invented it. But it worked better than a grease pencil, and both NASA and the Russians were using em inside a couple years.
You have it backwards.
Royal land grant to a trading company in 1624 for Cape Anne created it. Some of the settlers moved to Salem, and it became a full colony run from Salem under grant in 1628. Another grant in 1629 rolled everything from the old Dorchester Bay Company and existing Massachusetts Bay Company, and the settlers sent over with the new grant set up in Salem. In 1630, another group of settlers rolled in, bearing yet another grant and charter, and set up shop in Boston.
After the city was up at the end of 1630, they sat down and looked at the charter, and elected eight men (plus the govenor) to run the whole colony, towns and all.
It wasn't till 1641 Boston got it's own local government.
I mean, c'mon. Woo Suk Wang? Who would admit to that being their name voluntarily?!?
Hire a lackey. Find a guy/gal down at your local LUG. Seattle has lots of underemployed, overqualified geeks at the moment. Show him the ropes.
Sure, he (please substitute she if appropriate) won't know how to fix everything. But he will call your customers to let them know a technical person *is* on site, ring your cell incessantly till you pick up, put your pager on the wardialer.. And for simple stuff, IE, service didn't come up on restart, or UPS warning some of the batteries just went south, you just saved yourself a trip back to Seattle.
Naw. That would imply that that you gave some thought to making the $6/hr Microsoft intern want to puke his or her guts on the table.
However, blanking out the first portion of the tape till you get to a juicy bit might be a good idea. So they don't just turn it off when they see the opening title and credits..
Everyone has bought a porn tape that was just too disgusting to watch. Or you know someone with a box full of hermaphrodite and scheisse-pron.
How about we steam the labels off all of those and mail em to Microsoft?
Wore em for a few years, off for a few years, wearing them now. Actually, currently wearing glasses, as my contacts are on order. (I'm a dummy) :/
I was just repeating what an optometrist told me when I first wore them ten years ago.
Contacts don't mix well with baseball. Too much dust and dirt, too many quick eye movements, (the lens lags on your eye for a fraction of a second) and what do you do when your lens just came free in the outfield?
That said, most companies have a pricy disposable sport lens on the market.
Project Dolphin was the Gamecube.