I wasn't trying to have argument. A wise man once stated that having an argument is like being the the Special Olmypics....Even if you win, you are still a retard.
I also must have missed the global announcement that stated that EE were suddenly god of all products that require power. You are right though, you would never require help on ANYTHING, because it's obvious that you know it ALL!
You also assume that I learned everything I know about life from Circuit City. I said I worked there for 4 years while in college, mainly because I happen to be a pretty decent salesman and the job was commission based. So as a 19 year old college student, I was raking in about 35k a year.
Thankfully, I am not in the business of having arguments for a living. Because when someone comes across as an ass munch, I call them one. I think you are definitely in this category. It's not your fault though. Most engineers aren't people friendly because you think you know it all which might be true...but knowing how to apply it all in the real world is were most of you guys fail.
God knows how many times I as an analyst have had to fix something that an engineer did.
If you really want a test, try engineering a way to remove your head from your rectum.
I wasn't bragging ass munch. I was stating a fact that because I had to depend on them to eat, I knew alot about them. I also never argued against the point that lower frequencies travel farther. I was simply stating a fact that the range is better on a 2.4 ghz phone. I never stated why. Every other smart ass on here assumed I was saying because the frequency was 2.4. That wasn't what I stated. Any 3rd grader who passed general science can tell you that lower frequencies travel farther. What no one of here has been able to do is tell me why the 2.4 gives better distance. Once I get a valid explanation for that, I will move on to the next post.
I never stated that working at Circuit City required skill or knowledge, it's not exactly brain surgery, but it does require product knowledge and that does involve more then just "repeat(ing) the marketing text written on boxes". If it was just that, any "Engineer" like yourself wouldn't require salesmen or CSAs for product help and assistance. No offense, but I am sure that Electrical Engineering job does require the ability to read.
If it was going on frequencies alone, we would still be on the 47mhz phones that were popular 10 years ago. But what do I know, I worked at Circuit City for Christ's sake.
I don't know much about RF, but I know alot about cordless phones. Considering I worked at Circuit City selling them for a living for 4 years in college. If they don't have a further reach and are more apt to noise then why would companies sell them?
Secondly, if you don't believe my little test, ask your mom to use the phone and then have your girlfriend (the real one) call you. Then walk away from the base. Somewhere in the middle of the freeway near your house, you will still be able to hear her and she won't be able to hear you. Now get out of the road.....
Now if the base transmits at 2.4 and the phone at 900...which has a better range??? Hummmm....looks like 2.4.
"5) will get better range because of the lower frequency used."
Sorry but not true. If this statement where true, companies would stick to 900mhz. T0he 2.4 and 5 Ghz offer more range that's the whole point of upgrading. That's also why when you walk away from the base of your 2.4 Ghz phone and reach it's transmission limit, you can still hear the person on the other end long after they can no longer hear you. From the base to the phone is 2.4, from the phone to the base is 900. 900 has a shorter range.
Not to nig your post here, but there is no way he cracked YOUR WAP with NetStumbler unless he just left it for about 2 months.
The way NetStumbler works is that it looks for "special" packets that have weak keys. Once it gets enough of these (a million is a good number) it can crack your WEP. The only problem with this is that the average home with one or two wireless connections would have to send constant data for months and months before there would be enough packets sniffed to crack it.
A business would do it in a week probably if they had say 25-50 wireless users, but 1-3 wireless connections wouldn't be enough data to even bother sniffing out.
Not like I know ANYTHING about doing this kind of stuff though....
And if MS has a monopoly it's because PC MAKERS gave it to them. Look at what Gates did in the 80s with Windows and what Apple is doing with IMS now. Hmmm...food for thought...
This makes about as much sense as Driver's Ed not teaching parallel parking anymore. Given the fact that PCs are part of our everyday lives, you should not only be required to know how a computer works, but you should be taught how to use one efficiently.
Let's not sacrifice one skill for another and I am not trying to say that everyone should be required to type 60+ WPM, but I cannot stand a hunt and peck person. Makes me want to revoke their computer privilege. I put them in the same category as people who drive slow in the fast lane and people who still use paper checks to pay for shopping goods (sorry, that's what check cards are for, you are wasting my time and yours..swipe, sign, leave).
Period...end of discussion. Call it over the top if you want, but the fact that every single computer geek who knows who Bill Gates is and can spell HALO is talking about this and the greatest part of it all is you couldn't buy a spot on a local radio station for what it cost them. Brilliant.
I get so sick of this argument, and it's just not true. It's not "required" by Windows but it is there. It's call a limited user account. I have set this up in many a Windows XP Pro installation and it has very many of the same limitations that the standard account on a *nix box would have.
The major difference is that unless you set it up otherwise, this feature is turned off on a fresh install. But, this is also one of the reasons why *nix is having such a hard time working it's way onto the average user's computer. We have to remember that people are inheritly lazy and don't want to have to login as admin or root every time they want to install an app or a printer.
Users can't remember their password, more or less their password and the password for root. I see this everyday when the same person from accounting calls us 5 times to have her violations cleared on her login because she can't remember her password. Your average computer user is an idiot. I think we forget that sometimes.
If this guy works in IT he should be fired. This is a prime example of why I have a job and why I give people too much credit. Doohicky? If you don't know a resistor or a capacitor when you see one, you probably don't need to build your own pc. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
"It's okay to bundle when you're in a COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT... that's the one thing Microsoft seems to be forgetting."
Note to self....start preparing now, for the day will come with Linux crushes the soul of Microsoft and will own 95 percent of the desktop market. When that day arrives, immediately drive to your Attorney General's Office and demand a lawsuit be filed against all these distros for illegally crushing the competition by bundling software with the OS....millions will be made...MILLIONS!!
The point, kind sir, is that if you game??? and you have an xbox, instead of adding another box to your living room, just mod the damned Xbox. I modded mine over a year ago. I have about 40 games on the hdd, SMB connections to my file server that stores over 50 GB of mp3s and about 20 gigs of VCD, mpegs, avis, etc, etc, etc. It plays DVDs, and even gives me the weather forecast.
By following some simple mods over at xbox-scene.com, I was able to mod a power switch onto mine and I can turn the damn thing on and off from the driveway.
Crashing doesn't have anything to do with the software, because it runs your beloved linux kernel. It has to do with the hacker who modded it. So if it crashes, it's because he did a piss poor job of modding it.
My modded Xbox is the best 300 bucks I have ever spent and I have the console, 3 wired controllers, 250 gb of space, and about 40 games that plays almost any format of music or video you can load on a cd-rw or dvd. Try doing that with a PC for that cheap.
Nextel has been doing this for a while as well, and recently, since they now are the primary sponsor for NASCAR, they have been taking enough of these units to all of the tracks to ensure that everyone can get NEXTEL service at the event. Great marketing.
I would argue against that. The cliche is alive and well. I work with 2 UNIX and AIX gurus who know anything you want to know and have helped me with several scripts. But you can't have a conversation with them that doesn't involve an OS. Kind of weird actually, but I do see it everyday. They are the most skilled AIX guys I have ever met.
I am not knocking *nix here, or the open source forum, but the reasoning behind this drop was not free open source software. It was the high priacy black markets in this country mixed with the fact that GNP for "Third World" countries is so low, they could not afford the prices for Windows that we pay.
The government negotiated with MS to get the price low enough that they could build a standard computer with Windows on it for (if my memory serves me right) 250 dollars US.
Now the Linux competition is a separate argument that does not come in to play in this instance. One could argue that there is a possibility that Linux was the backup plan if this fell through, but I honestly do not know one American over 40 years old (that I don't work with) that would be able to use Linux. I can't imagine that the Taiwan market would be any better.
The point is the get poor people connected and I give MS some props for seeing this not only as a way to get legal copies of windows on the market, but as a way to welcome the less fortunate to the digital age.
This is the first time I have ever seen someone get ripped for saying something negative about Windows. Somewhere in a room in Seattle, Bill Gates just shed a tear.
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Once again, I bow to your superior knowledge.
I also must have missed the global announcement that stated that EE were suddenly god of all products that require power. You are right though, you would never require help on ANYTHING, because it's obvious that you know it ALL!
You also assume that I learned everything I know about life from Circuit City. I said I worked there for 4 years while in college, mainly because I happen to be a pretty decent salesman and the job was commission based. So as a 19 year old college student, I was raking in about 35k a year.
Thankfully, I am not in the business of having arguments for a living. Because when someone comes across as an ass munch, I call them one. I think you are definitely in this category. It's not your fault though. Most engineers aren't people friendly because you think you know it all which might be true...but knowing how to apply it all in the real world is were most of you guys fail.
God knows how many times I as an analyst have had to fix something that an engineer did.
If you really want a test, try engineering a way to remove your head from your rectum.
Have a great day!
I never stated that working at Circuit City required skill or knowledge, it's not exactly brain surgery, but it does require product knowledge and that does involve more then just "repeat(ing) the marketing text written on boxes". If it was just that, any "Engineer" like yourself wouldn't require salesmen or CSAs for product help and assistance. No offense, but I am sure that Electrical Engineering job does require the ability to read.
If it was going on frequencies alone, we would still be on the 47mhz phones that were popular 10 years ago. But what do I know, I worked at Circuit City for Christ's sake.
Secondly, if you don't believe my little test, ask your mom to use the phone and then have your girlfriend (the real one) call you. Then walk away from the base. Somewhere in the middle of the freeway near your house, you will still be able to hear her and she won't be able to hear you. Now get out of the road.....
Now if the base transmits at 2.4 and the phone at 900...which has a better range??? Hummmm....looks like 2.4.
Sorry but not true. If this statement where true, companies would stick to 900mhz. T0he 2.4 and 5 Ghz offer more range that's the whole point of upgrading. That's also why when you walk away from the base of your 2.4 Ghz phone and reach it's transmission limit, you can still hear the person on the other end long after they can no longer hear you. From the base to the phone is 2.4, from the phone to the base is 900. 900 has a shorter range.
The way NetStumbler works is that it looks for "special" packets that have weak keys. Once it gets enough of these (a million is a good number) it can crack your WEP. The only problem with this is that the average home with one or two wireless connections would have to send constant data for months and months before there would be enough packets sniffed to crack it.
A business would do it in a week probably if they had say 25-50 wireless users, but 1-3 wireless connections wouldn't be enough data to even bother sniffing out.
Not like I know ANYTHING about doing this kind of stuff though....
And if MS has a monopoly it's because PC MAKERS gave it to them. Look at what Gates did in the 80s with Windows and what Apple is doing with IMS now. Hmmm...food for thought...
I would respond to this by calling him an idiot, but I might get sued for that as well.
Let's not sacrifice one skill for another and I am not trying to say that everyone should be required to type 60+ WPM, but I cannot stand a hunt and peck person. Makes me want to revoke their computer privilege. I put them in the same category as people who drive slow in the fast lane and people who still use paper checks to pay for shopping goods (sorry, that's what check cards are for, you are wasting my time and yours..swipe, sign, leave).
You're the bastard! My cube is my private 3 X 3 space. Stay out of it, unless I invite you in.
"My other PC is a 10240-Processor Altix Cluster" Gonna patent that bumpersticker right now...
Period...end of discussion. Call it over the top if you want, but the fact that every single computer geek who knows who Bill Gates is and can spell HALO is talking about this and the greatest part of it all is you couldn't buy a spot on a local radio station for what it cost them. Brilliant.
The major difference is that unless you set it up otherwise, this feature is turned off on a fresh install. But, this is also one of the reasons why *nix is having such a hard time working it's way onto the average user's computer. We have to remember that people are inheritly lazy and don't want to have to login as admin or root every time they want to install an app or a printer.
Users can't remember their password, more or less their password and the password for root. I see this everyday when the same person from accounting calls us 5 times to have her violations cleared on her login because she can't remember her password. Your average computer user is an idiot. I think we forget that sometimes.
If this guy works in IT he should be fired. This is a prime example of why I have a job and why I give people too much credit. Doohicky? If you don't know a resistor or a capacitor when you see one, you probably don't need to build your own pc. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Note to self....start preparing now, for the day will come with Linux crushes the soul of Microsoft and will own 95 percent of the desktop market. When that day arrives, immediately drive to your Attorney General's Office and demand a lawsuit be filed against all these distros for illegally crushing the competition by bundling software with the OS....millions will be made...MILLIONS!!
By following some simple mods over at xbox-scene.com, I was able to mod a power switch onto mine and I can turn the damn thing on and off from the driveway.
Crashing doesn't have anything to do with the software, because it runs your beloved linux kernel. It has to do with the hacker who modded it. So if it crashes, it's because he did a piss poor job of modding it.
My modded Xbox is the best 300 bucks I have ever spent and I have the console, 3 wired controllers, 250 gb of space, and about 40 games that plays almost any format of music or video you can load on a cd-rw or dvd. Try doing that with a PC for that cheap.
Nextel has been doing this for a while as well, and recently, since they now are the primary sponsor for NASCAR, they have been taking enough of these units to all of the tracks to ensure that everyone can get NEXTEL service at the event. Great marketing.
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I would argue against that. The cliche is alive and well. I work with 2 UNIX and AIX gurus who know anything you want to know and have helped me with several scripts. But you can't have a conversation with them that doesn't involve an OS. Kind of weird actually, but I do see it everyday. They are the most skilled AIX guys I have ever met.
The government negotiated with MS to get the price low enough that they could build a standard computer with Windows on it for (if my memory serves me right) 250 dollars US.
Now the Linux competition is a separate argument that does not come in to play in this instance. One could argue that there is a possibility that Linux was the backup plan if this fell through, but I honestly do not know one American over 40 years old (that I don't work with) that would be able to use Linux. I can't imagine that the Taiwan market would be any better.
The point is the get poor people connected and I give MS some props for seeing this not only as a way to get legal copies of windows on the market, but as a way to welcome the less fortunate to the digital age.
This is the first time I have ever seen someone get ripped for saying something negative about Windows. Somewhere in a room in Seattle, Bill Gates just shed a tear.
They removed English from the OS for piracy concerns. Something about that stat 75% of all Asian installs were stolen.