If I get up in the morning and absolutely DREAD going to work every morning for a week, you can bet I'll be gone within another week. There is NO reason not to enjoy what you do. You spend at least as much time on your day job as you do sleeping, working on hobbies, or any other activity in your life. I've always considered it imperative to enjoy reporting to work. When a decent technical career soured, guess what? I found out that I enjoyed tending bar. Granted the recompense wasn't the best but it got me by until I could find something more suitable. Bottom line is, if you haven't painted yourself into a financial/lifestyle corner you can do what you damn well please and the nay-sayers can go piss up a rope.
Concur, concur, concur! Content drives the whole show. I encourage clients to contribute whatever information, however obscure, that relates to their main focus so that search engines can better relate to their site as a whole. It 'improves the odds' considerably.
.... and I do it for a living every day. So how do you take care of these requests without 'biting the hand that feeds you' as it were? My boss knows I support family members and a few special cases. In every instance, if there is any hardware (replacement NIC, etc.)in the picture it WILL come from my place of work at the going rate. If that doesn't trip your trigger you can go hound someone else. Just so ya know, our going rates here in the Dismal Swamp is $60/hr if you bring it to us, $90/hr if we come to you. Service contracts have a special rate that is based on your buying and paying for X number of service hours up front. Use them as you need them and when you run out, if it felt good to ya, ya just buy some more. That rate can be as low as $50/hr if you buy them in big enuff lots.
Yeah... you have to pick your feedback device and its inherent response times. Then compare it to cost and make your decision. Most of us get by fine by tweaking the two handles in the shower to get it right.
I'll go along with bailing out on the 'flashy & obnoxious' ad pages that tend to divert my attention from the information I really want but I confess to having grown comfy with those of the google 'adsense' variety, quiet little text blurbs alongside that just may reveal another source of information. I occasionally search intentionally for products so it's hard to be offended by someone offering products that may relate to my searches. Do I want it on my desktop? Not so's you'd notice.
First thought.... Texas has several East-West corridors so a North-South corridor would naturally cross them and form a commercial hotspot at each intersection, not to mention the intersections that happen nearest to population centers.
We've recently experienced a similar situation (on a much smaller scale) here in http://www.gribblenation.com/ncpics/oceanhwy/ecity.htmlElizabeth City, NC. Now that the connector to the bypass is open, all sorts of commercial enterprises are lining up to place themselves at that intersection.
At a cost of up to $10,000 per kilogram to get something into low earth orbit, I don't think we're really talking about 'profits' just yet. Since gold is currently worth $11,000+ per kilogram anything we put into low earth orbit has to be worth it's weight in gold, by definition.
An astronaut and his associated equipment might mass at..... 300 kilos (conservetive guess)? That comes to about $3,000,000.
To quote somebody's signature on here, "I'd hit it".
So by the time the beam reaches Mars it's about the size of a laundry basket and the Martians see a benign green light which means the invasion is on right?
No. It's a function of the economy. Have you checked to see how many miles of plant it would take to 'remake' the infrastructure for this entire country? Last time I looked it cost $18,000/mile to build cable plant and that was WITHOUT fibre. Even the government doesn't have deep enough pockets for that job.
A couple months ago I looked into upgrading my DSL to 1.5 meg. At that time it was three times the bandwidth for twice the money. Not a bad deal on the face of it but I wasn't ready to pony up $100/month for DSL. Last week we made the jump when they offered that upgrade for only an additional $15/month. Now we have the 1.5 meg for 2/3 the cost of what it was a few months ago.
You see how that works? I buy more bandwidth when it becomes affordable TO ME. The government didn't have to get anywhere near the deal.
Let me say this about that. From the time the telephone was invented until you could be pretty sure of being able to get a phone line no matter where you went was about 75 years. Cable was invented roughly 45 years ago (as we speak) and there are still plenty of rural areas where cable is not available. Can you guess why? Your post indicates.NOT.
Cable plant (for instance) costs about $18,000 per mile to build. It just ain't possible to convince a BANK that they should lend you the money for construction if you can't show X customers/mile @ X $/month added to the system.
DSL is a recent comer in the mix. Broadband via cable or DSL both 'enjoy' the same kind of constraints. It takes $$$$ to make it happen and very few companies have it in the coffers to just make it happen. They have to finance expansion and show that the expansion can pay for itself in a reasonable period of time.
The upshot is that you have to take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy the show because it ain't happening any faster than the national economy can deal with it. Consider the early days of cable. The transition from broadcast ready tuners (in TVs and later in VCRs) to cable ready tuners involved devices in the bazillions. It took $X times bazillions to make the transition. There was no way it was going to happen before the general populace was ready to foot the bill.
I hope I haven't bored you with this, but it's a reality check that has to happen from time to time. I'm sorry, but neither cable nor DSL is going to happen for the customer that is in the 'four homes passed per mile' area anytime real soon.
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So this is from The Department Of Redundancy Department?
Remember, every time you see "hydrogen", it's a code word for "nuclear".
... and we all know that nuclear is just "unclear", spelled sideways.
If I get up in the morning and absolutely DREAD going to work every morning for a week, you can bet I'll be gone within another week. There is NO reason not to enjoy what you do. You spend at least as much time on your day job as you do sleeping, working on hobbies, or any other activity in your life. I've always considered it imperative to enjoy reporting to work. When a decent technical career soured, guess what? I found out that I enjoyed tending bar. Granted the recompense wasn't the best but it got me by until I could find something more suitable. Bottom line is, if you haven't painted yourself into a financial/lifestyle corner you can do what you damn well please and the nay-sayers can go piss up a rope.
Concur, concur, concur! Content drives the whole show. I encourage clients to contribute whatever information, however obscure, that relates to their main focus so that search engines can better relate to their site as a whole. It 'improves the odds' considerably.
.... and I do it for a living every day. So how do you take care of these requests without 'biting the hand that feeds you' as it were? My boss knows I support family members and a few special cases. In every instance, if there is any hardware (replacement NIC, etc.)in the picture it WILL come from my place of work at the going rate. If that doesn't trip your trigger you can go hound someone else. Just so ya know, our going rates here in the Dismal Swamp is $60/hr if you bring it to us, $90/hr if we come to you. Service contracts have a special rate that is based on your buying and paying for X number of service hours up front. Use them as you need them and when you run out, if it felt good to ya, ya just buy some more. That rate can be as low as $50/hr if you buy them in big enuff lots.
Yeah... you have to pick your feedback device and its inherent response times. Then compare it to cost and make your decision. Most of us get by fine by tweaking the two handles in the shower to get it right.
I'll go along with bailing out on the 'flashy & obnoxious' ad pages that tend to divert my attention from the information I really want but I confess to having grown comfy with those of the google 'adsense' variety, quiet little text blurbs alongside that just may reveal another source of information. I occasionally search intentionally for products so it's hard to be offended by someone offering products that may relate to my searches. Do I want it on my desktop? Not so's you'd notice.
I believe that was last week... (looking for references).
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
First thought.... Texas has several East-West corridors so a North-South corridor would naturally cross them and form a commercial hotspot at each intersection, not to mention the intersections that happen nearest to population centers. We've recently experienced a similar situation (on a much smaller scale) here in http://www.gribblenation.com/ncpics/oceanhwy/ecity .htmlElizabeth City, NC. Now that the connector to the bypass is open, all sorts of commercial enterprises are lining up to place themselves at that intersection.
An astronaut and his associated equipment might mass at ..... 300 kilos (conservetive guess)? That comes to about $3,000,000.
To quote somebody's signature on here, "I'd hit it".
So by the time the beam reaches Mars it's about the size of a laundry basket and the Martians see a benign green light which means the invasion is on right?
A couple months ago I looked into upgrading my DSL to 1.5 meg. At that time it was three times the bandwidth for twice the money. Not a bad deal on the face of it but I wasn't ready to pony up $100/month for DSL. Last week we made the jump when they offered that upgrade for only an additional $15/month. Now we have the 1.5 meg for 2/3 the cost of what it was a few months ago.
You see how that works? I buy more bandwidth when it becomes affordable TO ME. The government didn't have to get anywhere near the deal.
Let me say this about that. From the time the telephone was invented until you could be pretty sure of being able to get a phone line no matter where you went was about 75 years. Cable was invented roughly 45 years ago (as we speak) and there are still plenty of rural areas where cable is not available. Can you guess why? Your post indicates .NOT.
Cable plant (for instance) costs about $18,000 per mile to build. It just ain't possible to convince a BANK that they should lend you the money for construction if you can't show X customers/mile @ X $/month added to the system.
DSL is a recent comer in the mix. Broadband via cable or DSL both 'enjoy' the same kind of constraints. It takes $$$$ to make it happen and very few companies have it in the coffers to just make it happen. They have to finance expansion and show that the expansion can pay for itself in a reasonable period of time.
The upshot is that you have to take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy the show because it ain't happening any faster than the national economy can deal with it. Consider the early days of cable. The transition from broadcast ready tuners (in TVs and later in VCRs) to cable ready tuners involved devices in the bazillions. It took $X times bazillions to make the transition. There was no way it was going to happen before the general populace was ready to foot the bill.
I hope I haven't bored you with this, but it's a reality check that has to happen from time to time. I'm sorry, but neither cable nor DSL is going to happen for the customer that is in the 'four homes passed per mile' area anytime real soon.