Half the problem is this insane idea that being an adult at 13 is an "early grownup". For a 100,000 years, humans have reached adulthood at ~13. They have raised children, fought wars and ran nations. Somehow over the last 3 or 4 generations, the entire human populations seems to have become retarded. It seems that it now take 50% longer for a human to reach maturity. It looks like we need more studies on just what kind of damage DDT did on our population, because if it takes 18-21 years for current humans to reach adulthood, SOMETHING went seriously wrong.
I don't know about the rest of society, but my genetic code has not degraded to that point. While I have certainly learned many things since I was 13, the only thing that prevented me from living as an adult at 13 was the artificial legal system that criminalized my age. I'm not saying that it wasn't great living for 6 years as an adult who had no responsibilities. I'm just saying that at 13 I was an adult, irrelevant to what the law said.
That is not necessary. Just don't give your kid EVERY game that comes out. Of course if you want to do the right thing and try games before your kids play them, might I suggest Gamefly? It only takes 5-10 minutes to get a feel for whether a game is appropriate or not, and the child can play the game for 10s of hours if the game is any good. Basically, it is dramatically easier to monitor a kids game playing than it is to monitor their movie and TV watching. Video games also are less likely than movies, to sneak inappropriate material into a movie that is advertised to children. Very few children's movies are free from sex and violence. My favorite example is Shrek 2, where the Musketeer is caught giving himself a hummer in the castle courtyard.
I am very liberal about what I will let my child play. Basically, I watch for games that he does not know is pretend, AND that have behavior he can mimic. Last year, when he was two, I would not let him play, and would not play in front of him, 'The Godfather'. I didn't worry about the bombs, or the shooting. I didn't want him watching the characters punch each other. At about 2 years old is when you really need to instill that punching is wrong. Now that he is three, I am much less worried about it. He has a firm grasp of what is real, and what is pretend, and he is learning that punching is "usually" wrong, but there are exceptions. Doom on the other had, I didn't worry about him seeing. If he got confused and started killing alien demons from that have been passing through some inter dimensional portal, I think I am ok with that.
"Okay, I can see (from their perspective) how you wouldn't want someone who is paying the same as your other customers using 500x the bandwidth that they use. After all, you're paying for the bandwidth.
So why not simply SEGMENT your network and put those heavy users on their own block? If you're that worried about P2P crap, they're probably sharing amongst themselves anyway. This would make it easier for you."
Either that, or all of those people who are not using their plan to the fullest should start running software that has the sole purpose of using up their bandwidth. They don't want to waste it after all, do they?
Chase made my list of 'never do business with them' companies when my credit card account with them was getting fraudulent charges from someone inside Chase, and they refused to do anything about it. When I called their fraud account services, all I would get was "There is no way that could happen.", "I highly doubt that.", and "That is a pretty serious accusation." Here are some of the reasons I believe it was an inside job:
1) I found out about the charge when I went to use the card and it was 'locked' due to suspected fraudulent activity. The only charge that was with a new company was a $30 charge to a dating service. This hardly seemed like a suspicious enough activity to block an account without first contacting the account holder.
2) More charges were made AFTER the account was locked. If I cannot make charges with the card, it is highly suspicious that someone else can.
3) When they sent me a new card with a new number, charges showed up from before before the card was created and the account number was assigned.
4) When I called Chase to point this out, they sent another card, and locked me out of being able to see the second cards charges online, even though I could still see the first card, and any previous cards I had held with Chase.
5) By the third card, the dates on some of the fraudulent Charges had changed.
Given that some of the problem would have actually required access to Chases computers to make happen, it was clear that it was an internal problem. I understand that there is no way for a company to guarantee that every one of it's employees is honest, but when they lie to me badly to cover up an internal problem instead investigating an fixing it, it is time to take your business elsewhere.
And, most importantly, if they are going to lie to me, they should at least have the decency to tell a half decent lie.
Surprisingly enough, Yes, I do. He pads most projects with most projects with a little bit of extra time specifically for the purpose of writing good reusable code. When he asks for bad code, it truly seems to be only when we are looking at a huge cost savings, like the 1040 hours vs 24 hours, or for political reasons, really important software must be is faced with the option of, write it faster than good coding practices will allow, or it doesn't get written at all.
His trust in us has really paid off though. It took about 3 years, but we can now code new applications with more features, less bugs, and greater configurability in about 65% of the time we used to write software. The great part about this is that he gets to budget less time, AND pad the projects with time for us to improve on our reusable code base.
I feel like a suck up when I rave about him, but after working for so many bad managers, it is a breath of fresh air. To work for someone that really gets it. Of course the rest of the company is still a Dilbert nightmare, but he shields us from the vast majority of that.
Here here! I know, I just copied and pasted an entire application's code. I then did modifications to the code. Why? Because even though I would have loved to have spent the next 6 month rewriting the application from scratch, a different department needed 98% identical functionality; and my boss was not going to authorize 1040 hours of work to maintain best case scenario coding practices when we could roll the copied code out in 24 hours of work. And to keep from doing a copy and paste, we would have had to rewrite from scratch, or spend 12 month sorting through what could and could not be pulled without rewriting.
On the plus side, it really is great working for a manager that actually does understand the ramifications of writing bad code for political reasons, and that can be trusted when he makes that decision. This is particularly good when he also understands that spending extra time now to write good reusable code will save time and money later, and is willing to make sure that the time is made available when the corporate politics allows it.
I can honestly say that if CDs were $2, I would never even consider copying a cd I didn't buy. If I knew for a fact that the CDs would still be available forever at $2 without DRM, I would probably also stop my household policy that original discs do not leave the house. Only copies go in the car. If they were $2 and I didn't have to worry about DBD (Defective By Design) problems, I can honestly say that my household CD purchases would be way more than 15 times what it is now. I used to buy at least an album a week. Once the DBD discs started coming out, I pretty much quite buying music. My wife was buying a little more than me. Since she got one DBD disc, she has not bought a single album. Also, we are not 'We just want to pay for one song' people. We want albums.
Of course if Movies were $4, I wouldn't rent. I would just buy tons of movies. If last generation games were sold at $2 a piece, I would be happy to subscribe to auto purchase whatever they sent me. In fact I have done that in the past. I don't remember the magazine name, but about 10 years ago, there was a PC gaming magazine that came with a free full (OLD) commercial game in every issue. I loved that. I didn't really care about the magazine. Some of the games sucked. But, every month, I got a full commercial game to play for $2 or $3.
What pissed me off was the Iron Maiden song "Still Life" from "Piece of Mind". After years of trying to figure out what the backwards message said, I finally had a computer where I could record it and play it backwards. When played backwards, it was still just jibberish. Arrrggg....
Personally, I want my online music to include image files for the CD Gem case, the CD face, and a cue sheet so that a CDDB recognizable CD can be created. Basically I want to be able to buy my album in such a way that I can properly manufacture my own CD. Then I want it at a price that takes into account that I am doing the manufacturing instead of them.
Peak oil.... That's the philosophy that has me worried. After all, I reached my peak entertainment spending last year. That must mean that we are about to run out of entertainment. Oh, what a sad sad world it is going to be....
Y2K was not a bug. It was the fact that the software was used out of spec. The programs that would have had a problem with Y2k were never designed to be used past the year 2000. That was the point. Saying that Y2K was a bug is exactly the same as saying all of our software now suffers from the Y10K bug. The Y2K problem was usually created because the software lasted longer than expected. It's usually considered good when a product lasts longer than expected.
Now, you could argue that choosing a 2 digit year was a bad design decision, but the reality is that every product draws a line where they expect their product to fail, and decide that making the product even more robust just doesn't justify the cost.
1) Short term gain.
2) Thinking that each conduit must run all the way back to a server/media closet instead of the 12" to a basement, or 8' to the attic which makes 98% of the install job trivial.
3) Not understanding that one conduit serves both sides of the wall.
4) The belief that we have reached the pinnacle of wiring, so no future changes will ever be needed.
5) Fear of change.
6) Over engineering.
7) ???
Honestly, the "it's too expensive" excuse really doesn't hold water. A couple of years ago, I had the sheetrock down on a home I was renovating. For the 1400sf house, the cost of running conduit to every single room, including the living room, dinning room, bathroom, laundry room, and 2 to the kitchen, I spent less than $200. When I was done with the house, pulling cable, and phone to the rooms that I wanted it in was trivial. Now, if you have a 5000sf house, the cost might be triple that, but given how much homes cost, I don't think worrying about $600 for proper wiring is a good use of your time. Besides, the "just run all the wire you will ever need" route, isn't likely to save you money anyway. Compare the 100' of conduit compared the the 5,000' of cable. I don't think conduit can really be called 'more expensive'.
I am not suggesting that the conduit needs to run all the way back to a media/server closet. A one foot conduit that runs from the outlet to the basement, or one that runs up into the attic, would be just fine. Most homeowners don't have a problem climbing up into the attic, or going into the basement. It is when they need to start drilling through wood, dealing with running cable past insulation, and the worst... trying to get past the fire stop in the middle of the wall. As you said, drilling through certain parts of the house could violate codes. Having a tube in the attic or basement that reaches to a wall plate would make a big job for most homeowners into a minor one.
Yes, Cat5e does likely have a very long shelf life, but 10 years ago, people would not have thought to run cat-5 to every room. That also does not necessarily meet the needs of many rooms anyway. What about IR extenders, Audio and Coax. The point is that while we think that Cat5e will work just fine for the next decade, history has shown this to be an unlikely scenario. It sound a lot like what we hear every time hard drives take a size jump. People start saying "You'll never fill that up.", and every time they are wrong.
I don't know about you, but most people do not renovate their house every 10 years. Most people don't even repaint the interior every 10 years. It is probably more like every 30 years.
I still believe that the cost 20 feet (for basement) to 200 feet (for attic) conduit is not that expensive, and shows the difference between a builder that makes houses designed to stand 30 years compared to designers that design houses to stand for 100+ years.
For those that do use this, "smurf tubing" is pretty standard. It is flexible, so it is easy to run. It is plastic, so terminators are unnecessary. It is bright blue, so it is easy to identify. They sell it at most hardware stores.
I had just assumed that the OCR read the numbers wrong.
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That is a perfect example of what I consider a bad builder. One that is putting in things that are designed to make people THINK they are getting quality, when they really are not. I could care less about Cat-5 and coax, if you just put in a conduit. That builder has already created a situation where the wiring is out dated. Gigabit wants Cat-6. If he had put in conduit, every one of his houses could be rewired by the homeowner with very little fuss. But since the builder didn't care if the house was maintainable, he just slapped in some wire, and sprinted that he did it as a bullet point on the sales sheet. Part of the problem though is that the buyers ooohhh and ahhhh about the cat-5, and don't even think about what they are going to do in a few years.
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The bad news is you are unlikely to find it. The only reason that my house had it, was that I did a complete renovation where I removed all of the sheetrock, AND I planned to live there. Builders don't bother, and few people will cut into every wall of their house. Of the few build it yourself homes out there, most people don't think ahead enough to worry about what cable they will need in 5 years.
The good news is that Sheetrock is easy to do. If you don't mind fairly major DIY projects, it wouldn't be that hard to tear open a wall, add conduit, and put the wall back. If you plan carefully, you will likely only need to cut into one wall for every two rooms.
Wrong. You need a conduit that goes from the attic, down the wall to where a data jack should come out. This should have a face plate on it, so that the home owner can find it.
I hear you, it would probably take an act of congress to get employers to give people more choice in the hours they work.
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I agree with you. That is why I really annoys me that in this day and age, builders are still not putting conduit in walls during construction. I understand a 20 year old house not having conduit in the walls. I can even understand a 10 year old house not having conduit, but any house built in the last 5 years should have conduit to every room. We already know that whatever is in the walls today will be inadequate in another 10 years.
Uh, I don't know if you misunderstood my post, or are confusing things on purpose. My point was that when you leave your house, you have no better 911 service than if you have VIOP. Cell phone 911 works basically the same as VIOP 911. Thus, if you leave your home, you are obviously not all that concerned about the difference between POTS 911 and non-POTS 911.
"The issue with voip-911 has NOTHING AT F'ING ALL to do with local phone companies."
Wrong. Vonage offers E911 in many areas. These are the areas that the local phone company has allowed them, or has been forced to allow them to connect to the local 911. In the areas that Vonage does not have E911, it is because the locals are putting up roadblocks to interoperability. Given that you register your location with Vonage, it would be trivial to automatically route 911 calls to the local 911 center if the locals did not put up roadblocks, so no, a dedicated trunk is not why calls are routed to a national call center. It is amazing that such a poor argument is even made.
Sir, you have a disability. When you have a disability, you have to live with the fact that the world does not revolve around your disability, and that you may have to work harder to make the solution that works for the rest of us, work for you. The fact is, there are thousands of jobs that mandate by law, the use of ear protection. This protection is for noise. Take whatever you would do if you had one of those jobs, and apply it to riding in an airplane. There are plenty of solutions that could give you reletive quite on an airplane.
That being said, your second paragraph indicates that you have overcome your disability, and learned to largely tune out those around you. That means my original suggestion would not likely apply to you anyway. The reason the whiny ass holes are so whiny is that they have been catered to, to the point that they think it is their right to tell everyone else how to behave. Even when they have the ability to ignore the other individual. They don't seem to think that it is their own responsibility to make themselves comfortable, and think that anyone not catering to them is being rude.
Hmm... Lets see... I say, you do what you want, and I'll do what I want. You say, everybody does what you want. Somehow, you see that as being the same thing? Sorry to point to you directly, but that puts you into the intellectually challenged group. Just because you are some kind of neo-luddite, doesn't mean that everyone should make it their business to change their activity to suit you, because you are not bright enough to buy a $.50 pair of ear plugs. You see, with ear plugs, you get your quite, and I get my intellectual stimulation. That isn't good enough for you though. No, it isn't that you want quite. It is that you want to impose your will on those around you. Clearly you don't understand what the word 'courtesy' means.
I have a hard time believing that. If a WiMAX connection messed up airline naviagtion, the towers on the ground would be screwing them up whether a device was on the plane or not. Now, I know that they are not a definitive source of info, but the Mythbusters episode where they tried to interfere with an planes instruments with cell phones and other radio equipment, they showed that it is just not going to happen. They had to do some pretty serious work to get the plane's equipment to a state that it could be affected by non-intentional interference. Look at it this way. If you could crash an airplane by hitting it with consumer level radio waves, don't you think we would be seeing a lot more planes going down? Why take a shoe bomb on a plane. Just turn on a battery operated radio transmitter.
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Half the problem is this insane idea that being an adult at 13 is an "early grownup". For a 100,000 years, humans have reached adulthood at ~13. They have raised children, fought wars and ran nations. Somehow over the last 3 or 4 generations, the entire human populations seems to have become retarded. It seems that it now take 50% longer for a human to reach maturity. It looks like we need more studies on just what kind of damage DDT did on our population, because if it takes 18-21 years for current humans to reach adulthood, SOMETHING went seriously wrong.
I don't know about the rest of society, but my genetic code has not degraded to that point. While I have certainly learned many things since I was 13, the only thing that prevented me from living as an adult at 13 was the artificial legal system that criminalized my age. I'm not saying that it wasn't great living for 6 years as an adult who had no responsibilities. I'm just saying that at 13 I was an adult, irrelevant to what the law said.
That is not necessary. Just don't give your kid EVERY game that comes out. Of course if you want to do the right thing and try games before your kids play them, might I suggest Gamefly? It only takes 5-10 minutes to get a feel for whether a game is appropriate or not, and the child can play the game for 10s of hours if the game is any good. Basically, it is dramatically easier to monitor a kids game playing than it is to monitor their movie and TV watching. Video games also are less likely than movies, to sneak inappropriate material into a movie that is advertised to children. Very few children's movies are free from sex and violence. My favorite example is Shrek 2, where the Musketeer is caught giving himself a hummer in the castle courtyard.
I am very liberal about what I will let my child play. Basically, I watch for games that he does not know is pretend, AND that have behavior he can mimic. Last year, when he was two, I would not let him play, and would not play in front of him, 'The Godfather'. I didn't worry about the bombs, or the shooting. I didn't want him watching the characters punch each other. At about 2 years old is when you really need to instill that punching is wrong. Now that he is three, I am much less worried about it. He has a firm grasp of what is real, and what is pretend, and he is learning that punching is "usually" wrong, but there are exceptions. Doom on the other had, I didn't worry about him seeing. If he got confused and started killing alien demons from that have been passing through some inter dimensional portal, I think I am ok with that.
"Okay, I can see (from their perspective) how you wouldn't want someone who is paying the same as your other customers using 500x the bandwidth that they use. After all, you're paying for the bandwidth.
So why not simply SEGMENT your network and put those heavy users on their own block? If you're that worried about P2P crap, they're probably sharing amongst themselves anyway. This would make it easier for you."
Either that, or all of those people who are not using their plan to the fullest should start running software that has the sole purpose of using up their bandwidth. They don't want to waste it after all, do they?
Chase made my list of 'never do business with them' companies when my credit card account with them was getting fraudulent charges from someone inside Chase, and they refused to do anything about it. When I called their fraud account services, all I would get was "There is no way that could happen.", "I highly doubt that.", and "That is a pretty serious accusation." Here are some of the reasons I believe it was an inside job:
1) I found out about the charge when I went to use the card and it was 'locked' due to suspected fraudulent activity. The only charge that was with a new company was a $30 charge to a dating service. This hardly seemed like a suspicious enough activity to block an account without first contacting the account holder.
2) More charges were made AFTER the account was locked. If I cannot make charges with the card, it is highly suspicious that someone else can.
3) When they sent me a new card with a new number, charges showed up from before before the card was created and the account number was assigned.
4) When I called Chase to point this out, they sent another card, and locked me out of being able to see the second cards charges online, even though I could still see the first card, and any previous cards I had held with Chase. 5) By the third card, the dates on some of the fraudulent Charges had changed.
Given that some of the problem would have actually required access to Chases computers to make happen, it was clear that it was an internal problem. I understand that there is no way for a company to guarantee that every one of it's employees is honest, but when they lie to me badly to cover up an internal problem instead investigating an fixing it, it is time to take your business elsewhere.
And, most importantly, if they are going to lie to me, they should at least have the decency to tell a half decent lie.
Surprisingly enough, Yes, I do. He pads most projects with most projects with a little bit of extra time specifically for the purpose of writing good reusable code. When he asks for bad code, it truly seems to be only when we are looking at a huge cost savings, like the 1040 hours vs 24 hours, or for political reasons, really important software must be is faced with the option of, write it faster than good coding practices will allow, or it doesn't get written at all.
His trust in us has really paid off though. It took about 3 years, but we can now code new applications with more features, less bugs, and greater configurability in about 65% of the time we used to write software. The great part about this is that he gets to budget less time, AND pad the projects with time for us to improve on our reusable code base.
I feel like a suck up when I rave about him, but after working for so many bad managers, it is a breath of fresh air. To work for someone that really gets it. Of course the rest of the company is still a Dilbert nightmare, but he shields us from the vast majority of that.
Here here! I know, I just copied and pasted an entire application's code. I then did modifications to the code. Why? Because even though I would have loved to have spent the next 6 month rewriting the application from scratch, a different department needed 98% identical functionality; and my boss was not going to authorize 1040 hours of work to maintain best case scenario coding practices when we could roll the copied code out in 24 hours of work. And to keep from doing a copy and paste, we would have had to rewrite from scratch, or spend 12 month sorting through what could and could not be pulled without rewriting.
On the plus side, it really is great working for a manager that actually does understand the ramifications of writing bad code for political reasons, and that can be trusted when he makes that decision. This is particularly good when he also understands that spending extra time now to write good reusable code will save time and money later, and is willing to make sure that the time is made available when the corporate politics allows it.
I can honestly say that if CDs were $2, I would never even consider copying a cd I didn't buy. If I knew for a fact that the CDs would still be available forever at $2 without DRM, I would probably also stop my household policy that original discs do not leave the house. Only copies go in the car. If they were $2 and I didn't have to worry about DBD (Defective By Design) problems, I can honestly say that my household CD purchases would be way more than 15 times what it is now. I used to buy at least an album a week. Once the DBD discs started coming out, I pretty much quite buying music. My wife was buying a little more than me. Since she got one DBD disc, she has not bought a single album. Also, we are not 'We just want to pay for one song' people. We want albums.
Of course if Movies were $4, I wouldn't rent. I would just buy tons of movies. If last generation games were sold at $2 a piece, I would be happy to subscribe to auto purchase whatever they sent me. In fact I have done that in the past. I don't remember the magazine name, but about 10 years ago, there was a PC gaming magazine that came with a free full (OLD) commercial game in every issue. I loved that. I didn't really care about the magazine. Some of the games sucked. But, every month, I got a full commercial game to play for $2 or $3.
What pissed me off was the Iron Maiden song "Still Life" from "Piece of Mind". After years of trying to figure out what the backwards message said, I finally had a computer where I could record it and play it backwards. When played backwards, it was still just jibberish. Arrrggg....
Personally, I want my online music to include image files for the CD Gem case, the CD face, and a cue sheet so that a CDDB recognizable CD can be created. Basically I want to be able to buy my album in such a way that I can properly manufacture my own CD. Then I want it at a price that takes into account that I am doing the manufacturing instead of them.
Peak oil.... That's the philosophy that has me worried. After all, I reached my peak entertainment spending last year. That must mean that we are about to run out of entertainment. Oh, what a sad sad world it is going to be....
Y2K was not a bug. It was the fact that the software was used out of spec. The programs that would have had a problem with Y2k were never designed to be used past the year 2000. That was the point. Saying that Y2K was a bug is exactly the same as saying all of our software now suffers from the Y10K bug. The Y2K problem was usually created because the software lasted longer than expected. It's usually considered good when a product lasts longer than expected.
Now, you could argue that choosing a 2 digit year was a bad design decision, but the reality is that every product draws a line where they expect their product to fail, and decide that making the product even more robust just doesn't justify the cost.
Great idea. If someone is using technology you don't like, or don't like how they use it, commit assault and battery.
Pick your choice...
1) Short term gain.
2) Thinking that each conduit must run all the way back to a server/media closet instead of the 12" to a basement, or 8' to the attic which makes 98% of the install job trivial.
3) Not understanding that one conduit serves both sides of the wall.
4) The belief that we have reached the pinnacle of wiring, so no future changes will ever be needed.
5) Fear of change.
6) Over engineering.
7) ???
Honestly, the "it's too expensive" excuse really doesn't hold water. A couple of years ago, I had the sheetrock down on a home I was renovating. For the 1400sf house, the cost of running conduit to every single room, including the living room, dinning room, bathroom, laundry room, and 2 to the kitchen, I spent less than $200. When I was done with the house, pulling cable, and phone to the rooms that I wanted it in was trivial. Now, if you have a 5000sf house, the cost might be triple that, but given how much homes cost, I don't think worrying about $600 for proper wiring is a good use of your time. Besides, the "just run all the wire you will ever need" route, isn't likely to save you money anyway. Compare the 100' of conduit compared the the 5,000' of cable. I don't think conduit can really be called 'more expensive'.
I am not suggesting that the conduit needs to run all the way back to a media/server closet. A one foot conduit that runs from the outlet to the basement, or one that runs up into the attic, would be just fine. Most homeowners don't have a problem climbing up into the attic, or going into the basement. It is when they need to start drilling through wood, dealing with running cable past insulation, and the worst... trying to get past the fire stop in the middle of the wall. As you said, drilling through certain parts of the house could violate codes. Having a tube in the attic or basement that reaches to a wall plate would make a big job for most homeowners into a minor one.
Yes, Cat5e does likely have a very long shelf life, but 10 years ago, people would not have thought to run cat-5 to every room. That also does not necessarily meet the needs of many rooms anyway. What about IR extenders, Audio and Coax. The point is that while we think that Cat5e will work just fine for the next decade, history has shown this to be an unlikely scenario. It sound a lot like what we hear every time hard drives take a size jump. People start saying "You'll never fill that up.", and every time they are wrong.
I don't know about you, but most people do not renovate their house every 10 years. Most people don't even repaint the interior every 10 years. It is probably more like every 30 years.
I still believe that the cost 20 feet (for basement) to 200 feet (for attic) conduit is not that expensive, and shows the difference between a builder that makes houses designed to stand 30 years compared to designers that design houses to stand for 100+ years.
For those that do use this, "smurf tubing" is pretty standard. It is flexible, so it is easy to run. It is plastic, so terminators are unnecessary. It is bright blue, so it is easy to identify. They sell it at most hardware stores.
I had just assumed that the OCR read the numbers wrong.
That is a perfect example of what I consider a bad builder. One that is putting in things that are designed to make people THINK they are getting quality, when they really are not. I could care less about Cat-5 and coax, if you just put in a conduit. That builder has already created a situation where the wiring is out dated. Gigabit wants Cat-6. If he had put in conduit, every one of his houses could be rewired by the homeowner with very little fuss. But since the builder didn't care if the house was maintainable, he just slapped in some wire, and sprinted that he did it as a bullet point on the sales sheet. Part of the problem though is that the buyers ooohhh and ahhhh about the cat-5, and don't even think about what they are going to do in a few years.
The bad news is you are unlikely to find it. The only reason that my house had it, was that I did a complete renovation where I removed all of the sheetrock, AND I planned to live there. Builders don't bother, and few people will cut into every wall of their house. Of the few build it yourself homes out there, most people don't think ahead enough to worry about what cable they will need in 5 years.
The good news is that Sheetrock is easy to do. If you don't mind fairly major DIY projects, it wouldn't be that hard to tear open a wall, add conduit, and put the wall back. If you plan carefully, you will likely only need to cut into one wall for every two rooms.
Wrong. You need a conduit that goes from the attic, down the wall to where a data jack should come out. This should have a face plate on it, so that the home owner can find it.
I hear you, it would probably take an act of congress to get employers to give people more choice in the hours they work.
Sorry, I had to...
I agree with you. That is why I really annoys me that in this day and age, builders are still not putting conduit in walls during construction. I understand a 20 year old house not having conduit in the walls. I can even understand a 10 year old house not having conduit, but any house built in the last 5 years should have conduit to every room. We already know that whatever is in the walls today will be inadequate in another 10 years.
Uh, I don't know if you misunderstood my post, or are confusing things on purpose. My point was that when you leave your house, you have no better 911 service than if you have VIOP. Cell phone 911 works basically the same as VIOP 911. Thus, if you leave your home, you are obviously not all that concerned about the difference between POTS 911 and non-POTS 911.
"The issue with voip-911 has NOTHING AT F'ING ALL to do with local phone companies."
Wrong. Vonage offers E911 in many areas. These are the areas that the local phone company has allowed them, or has been forced to allow them to connect to the local 911. In the areas that Vonage does not have E911, it is because the locals are putting up roadblocks to interoperability. Given that you register your location with Vonage, it would be trivial to automatically route 911 calls to the local 911 center if the locals did not put up roadblocks, so no, a dedicated trunk is not why calls are routed to a national call center. It is amazing that such a poor argument is even made.
Sir, you have a disability. When you have a disability, you have to live with the fact that the world does not revolve around your disability, and that you may have to work harder to make the solution that works for the rest of us, work for you. The fact is, there are thousands of jobs that mandate by law, the use of ear protection. This protection is for noise. Take whatever you would do if you had one of those jobs, and apply it to riding in an airplane. There are plenty of solutions that could give you reletive quite on an airplane.
That being said, your second paragraph indicates that you have overcome your disability, and learned to largely tune out those around you. That means my original suggestion would not likely apply to you anyway. The reason the whiny ass holes are so whiny is that they have been catered to, to the point that they think it is their right to tell everyone else how to behave. Even when they have the ability to ignore the other individual. They don't seem to think that it is their own responsibility to make themselves comfortable, and think that anyone not catering to them is being rude.
Hmm... Lets see... I say, you do what you want, and I'll do what I want. You say, everybody does what you want. Somehow, you see that as being the same thing? Sorry to point to you directly, but that puts you into the intellectually challenged group. Just because you are some kind of neo-luddite, doesn't mean that everyone should make it their business to change their activity to suit you, because you are not bright enough to buy a $.50 pair of ear plugs. You see, with ear plugs, you get your quite, and I get my intellectual stimulation. That isn't good enough for you though. No, it isn't that you want quite. It is that you want to impose your will on those around you. Clearly you don't understand what the word 'courtesy' means.
I have a hard time believing that. If a WiMAX connection messed up airline naviagtion, the towers on the ground would be screwing them up whether a device was on the plane or not. Now, I know that they are not a definitive source of info, but the Mythbusters episode where they tried to interfere with an planes instruments with cell phones and other radio equipment, they showed that it is just not going to happen. They had to do some pretty serious work to get the plane's equipment to a state that it could be affected by non-intentional interference. Look at it this way. If you could crash an airplane by hitting it with consumer level radio waves, don't you think we would be seeing a lot more planes going down? Why take a shoe bomb on a plane. Just turn on a battery operated radio transmitter.