Lots of places have "free" wifi around Seattle, but it's not uncommon for them to have a WEP password that they give you when you buy something. Mind you many of them never change it.
Finding an unrestricted open network is getting increasingly harder. When I need connectivity I don't want to have to search around for it and squat in someone's doorway when it's 40 degrees F. Presuming that AT&T implements this better than the worthless infrastructure that T-Mobile deployed (and better than the flaky shit that Tully's has) , this will rock -- $20/mo is pretty good when most airports and many hotels still seem to charge as much as $15 per DAY. $20/mo for wifi at the nearly-ubiquitous Charbucks will rawk, and it may well be bundled with the AT&T aircard I may be getting soon.
Car dealers and bars are hardly useful for frequent or real use. It'll be at least 5 years before I need to buy a new car, and I'm not a junkie. Bars also tend not to be open at 8am. In many regions, both actually STILL let people smoke and thus are uninhabitable anyway.
In the handful of years that coffee shops have offered free wifi at all, I've yet to see a single occasion where there was a shortage of tables, whether people were using wifi or not. Three dollar product? Do you live in rural Iowa or something? Around here all you could get for $3 would be a Lipton teabag in an 8oz cup.
For reasons that aren't important here I've often found myself having to be 40 miles away from my home office for a whole day with a need to do my job. I can either go sit in a Motorhead-concert-loud machine room with chillers that rival 747's, or I can pay $5 for a rice chai that costs $1 to make, and occupy 5% of their free space for a few hours. I don't have a problem with paying for what I use, but I do have a problem with being gouged. Hotels that charge $12.95 for net access from noon to noon, for example, or the absurd rates that Tmobile's been charging at Charbucks for their flaky service.
I rarely see many kids hogging tables for extended periods, even right around UW, and even more rarely see other people with jobs doing so. If you don't think people should be able to do our jobs in mostly-empty coffee places, where would you like us to go? Sitting outside the homeless shelter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlibrary for two hours until they can be bothered to open, and forgo food/water all day because I can't run to the bathroom?
I dislike Charbucks as much as the next guy, but if AT&T can actually provision *working* wifi in their locations I'll be there. Hell I can't even stand coffee, but I often need a place to work in town. I've given up on Tully's, who advertise free wifi but cripple it with some flaky antediluvian proxy server that renders the service useless, eg. SSH connections wedge after 5 minutes. I tried the Charbucks/Tmobile thing a couple of times a few years back, and it was massively flaky and authentication was hit or miss for a really staggeringly high price. I look to be getting an AT&T wireless data card soon, so if the plan for that qualifies as "broadband" (man, I wish people who aren't signal engineers wouldn't [mis]use that word) I'll benefit massively from this, as Charbucks are much easier to find than one-off's with working wifi -- and some of them even stay open past 5pm.
Yeah, the only way to 100% secure a PC is to disconnect it from the network, take out the power supply and then lock in a bank vault.
You've never watched Alias have you?
You'd actually put a laptop into checked baggage for the airlines to bang around? With shaving cream, tooth paste, and a razor you're certainly not going to be carrying that bag on.
I've seen bovine lactation offered via Amazon Marketplace, actually. Seems like almost as dumb an idea as mistaking the stuff for food in the first place, but then, whoever thought that eBay auctions for cars would be successful either?
I have a handful of domains registered under the usual TLD's with web sites up for some of them. A while back, during the codered epidemic, someone from Microsoft actually called me trying to get me to switch to some web hosting of theirs (when I was hosting them myself for free). I got a good laugh out of that and the salescritter on the other end claimed to have never heard of codered.
Why not have everyone do it and be done with it?
It's the little things, like having a steady paycheck and not having to hassle with trying to find a new job every few months. Oh, and being employable in the future when one's resume is loaded with lots of short-term jobs. There's something to be said for also not having to deal with a new company's bonehead policies every few months, like discovering that they actually expect you to use vi and SCCS.
Another poster wrote something about only billing by the hour. Perhaps that works great for someone who's been doing it for years, but for someone who's been working a regular job, there's no hourly-rate or productivity precedent and thus bidding a flat rate for the job may well be the only way to even be considered.
1) I think it would be easily argued that a vinyl LP is widely known to degrade with use
2) The RIAA / MPAA suits, as I understand them, aren't really about the [apparently] minor offense of downloading, but rather the offense of distributing to N others, where N is presumably large. Typical filesharing protocols upload to others at the same time they download, and this is the basis of their cases. Some years ago I dl'd a couple of TV episodes via bittorrent and my employer got two nastygrams from the MPAA (I think) in the above theme.
I stick with CD's for music and Netflix/ITMS for TV episodes. I have a job so it's not a hardship to stay legal.
Airplane power is only available on a fraction of commercial aircraft, and even then only if you're rich and can spend 2x-4x the ticket cost for a business or first-class seat. But then, one also needs that class of seat to have enough room to use a laptop at all these days.
My MBP's battery seems to last for something like 3 hours. I've given up trying to use it on airplanes because the knuckle-dragging necrophage in front of me invariable slams his/her seat back without asking or even warning. Last time it damn near caught the display of my PB in the tray recess.
it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art... which they promote by smoking like chimneys
They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup.
Yep. Brains. Ortolan. All corpses all the time.
What exactly is the difference between a "corporate" tool and a "consumer" one? Nothing. It's all marketing, like trying to navigate Dell's mess of laptop models.
I submit that the world would not come to an end if you were to get off your high horse and plug your laptop into your TV.
VMWare Fusion can be had for $30 and runs great on my Macbook Pro. The Netflix streaming service works as expected on M$WXP on a virtual machine. I'll stick with DVD's, though, to avoid network-related jerkiness and as they're more convenient.
Yes, the limitations of the Netflix streaming service are annoying, and I've complained to them myself.
Small investors typically don't buy individual stocks, they buy mutual funds.
Formalization of Solaris on Dell hardware is simply a typical "channel partner" arrangement. Solaris has run on Dell hardware for years. Today, the people who would do so wouldn't seem to be the same customers who want hardware with components that don't change (or fail) every week. Sun's x4?00 are of very high quality, which contrasts with the fecal x2?00's that are more comparable to Dell hardware.
Yep, Google SMS rocks, except when it decides to be obtuse.
me: 123 Main St. City ST to 987 Elm St. City ST
GSMS: Did you mean "123 MAIN ST. City ST?"
Uh, yeah, that's what I meant, which is why I typed it.
1. Long boot time
It's called "sleeping". They should look into it.
2. Ultra portable
So's a 12" laptop. But then, I'm increasingly seeing thin clients set up all over hospitals, so there's one already there and the doc doesn't need to carry one -- just needs to log in. Oh and as for the expense of a tablet, I think the overcharging bastards can afford it.
3. Wakes up from suspend in less than 2 seconds - unparalleled.
So does my MBP.
4. The interface is very user friendly and makes sense without training - unlike Windows.
Um, everything I've seen does indicate that it has a window system on it.
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Lots of places have "free" wifi around Seattle, but it's not uncommon for them to have a WEP password that they give you when you buy something. Mind you many of them never change it. Finding an unrestricted open network is getting increasingly harder. When I need connectivity I don't want to have to search around for it and squat in someone's doorway when it's 40 degrees F. Presuming that AT&T implements this better than the worthless infrastructure that T-Mobile deployed (and better than the flaky shit that Tully's has) , this will rock -- $20/mo is pretty good when most airports and many hotels still seem to charge as much as $15 per DAY. $20/mo for wifi at the nearly-ubiquitous Charbucks will rawk, and it may well be bundled with the AT&T aircard I may be getting soon. Car dealers and bars are hardly useful for frequent or real use. It'll be at least 5 years before I need to buy a new car, and I'm not a junkie. Bars also tend not to be open at 8am. In many regions, both actually STILL let people smoke and thus are uninhabitable anyway.
In the handful of years that coffee shops have offered free wifi at all, I've yet to see a single occasion where there was a shortage of tables, whether people were using wifi or not. Three dollar product? Do you live in rural Iowa or something? Around here all you could get for $3 would be a Lipton teabag in an 8oz cup. For reasons that aren't important here I've often found myself having to be 40 miles away from my home office for a whole day with a need to do my job. I can either go sit in a Motorhead-concert-loud machine room with chillers that rival 747's, or I can pay $5 for a rice chai that costs $1 to make, and occupy 5% of their free space for a few hours. I don't have a problem with paying for what I use, but I do have a problem with being gouged. Hotels that charge $12.95 for net access from noon to noon, for example, or the absurd rates that Tmobile's been charging at Charbucks for their flaky service. I rarely see many kids hogging tables for extended periods, even right around UW, and even more rarely see other people with jobs doing so. If you don't think people should be able to do our jobs in mostly-empty coffee places, where would you like us to go? Sitting outside the homeless shelter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlibrary for two hours until they can be bothered to open, and forgo food/water all day because I can't run to the bathroom?
I dislike Charbucks as much as the next guy, but if AT&T can actually provision *working* wifi in their locations I'll be there. Hell I can't even stand coffee, but I often need a place to work in town. I've given up on Tully's, who advertise free wifi but cripple it with some flaky antediluvian proxy server that renders the service useless, eg. SSH connections wedge after 5 minutes. I tried the Charbucks/Tmobile thing a couple of times a few years back, and it was massively flaky and authentication was hit or miss for a really staggeringly high price. I look to be getting an AT&T wireless data card soon, so if the plan for that qualifies as "broadband" (man, I wish people who aren't signal engineers wouldn't [mis]use that word) I'll benefit massively from this, as Charbucks are much easier to find than one-off's with working wifi -- and some of them even stay open past 5pm.
IIRC I saw it on Inspector Gadget too, was called the GEEC or such.
Yeah, the only way to 100% secure a PC is to disconnect it from the network, take out the power supply and then lock in a bank vault. You've never watched Alias have you?
You'd actually put a laptop into checked baggage for the airlines to bang around? With shaving cream, tooth paste, and a razor you're certainly not going to be carrying that bag on.
I've seen bovine lactation offered via Amazon Marketplace, actually. Seems like almost as dumb an idea as mistaking the stuff for food in the first place, but then, whoever thought that eBay auctions for cars would be successful either?
I have a handful of domains registered under the usual TLD's with web sites up for some of them. A while back, during the codered epidemic, someone from Microsoft actually called me trying to get me to switch to some web hosting of theirs (when I was hosting them myself for free). I got a good laugh out of that and the salescritter on the other end claimed to have never heard of codered.
Why not have everyone do it and be done with it? It's the little things, like having a steady paycheck and not having to hassle with trying to find a new job every few months. Oh, and being employable in the future when one's resume is loaded with lots of short-term jobs. There's something to be said for also not having to deal with a new company's bonehead policies every few months, like discovering that they actually expect you to use vi and SCCS. Another poster wrote something about only billing by the hour. Perhaps that works great for someone who's been doing it for years, but for someone who's been working a regular job, there's no hourly-rate or productivity precedent and thus bidding a flat rate for the job may well be the only way to even be considered.
Well, heck, it's not like autonegotiation actually *works* anyway. I wouldn't miss it.
1) I think it would be easily argued that a vinyl LP is widely known to degrade with use 2) The RIAA / MPAA suits, as I understand them, aren't really about the [apparently] minor offense of downloading, but rather the offense of distributing to N others, where N is presumably large. Typical filesharing protocols upload to others at the same time they download, and this is the basis of their cases. Some years ago I dl'd a couple of TV episodes via bittorrent and my employer got two nastygrams from the MPAA (I think) in the above theme. I stick with CD's for music and Netflix/ITMS for TV episodes. I have a job so it's not a hardship to stay legal.
If your business is not created to benefit your customers, you don't have a business. You've never heard of General Motors, have you?
Airplane power is only available on a fraction of commercial aircraft, and even then only if you're rich and can spend 2x-4x the ticket cost for a business or first-class seat. But then, one also needs that class of seat to have enough room to use a laptop at all these days. My MBP's battery seems to last for something like 3 hours. I've given up trying to use it on airplanes because the knuckle-dragging necrophage in front of me invariable slams his/her seat back without asking or even warning. Last time it damn near caught the display of my PB in the tray recess.
While you're waiting, start saving every $ you can for the MPAA suit that will follow.
it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art ... which they promote by smoking like chimneys
They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup.
Yep. Brains. Ortolan. All corpses all the time.
*cough* *cough* Yes Men *cough*
What exactly is the difference between a "corporate" tool and a "consumer" one? Nothing. It's all marketing, like trying to navigate Dell's mess of laptop models.
I submit that the world would not come to an end if you were to get off your high horse and plug your laptop into your TV. VMWare Fusion can be had for $30 and runs great on my Macbook Pro. The Netflix streaming service works as expected on M$WXP on a virtual machine. I'll stick with DVD's, though, to avoid network-related jerkiness and as they're more convenient. Yes, the limitations of the Netflix streaming service are annoying, and I've complained to them myself.
Small investors typically don't buy individual stocks, they buy mutual funds. Formalization of Solaris on Dell hardware is simply a typical "channel partner" arrangement. Solaris has run on Dell hardware for years. Today, the people who would do so wouldn't seem to be the same customers who want hardware with components that don't change (or fail) every week. Sun's x4?00 are of very high quality, which contrasts with the fecal x2?00's that are more comparable to Dell hardware.
... especially since backup generators tend to be diesel.
The lower frame/field rate of PAL was distinctly noticeable and annoying to me when I visited Britain.
There's something at the heart of it that's simply awful A man who makes a living off a plastic waffle
Yep, Google SMS rocks, except when it decides to be obtuse. me: 123 Main St. City ST to 987 Elm St. City ST GSMS: Did you mean "123 MAIN ST. City ST?" Uh, yeah, that's what I meant, which is why I typed it.
1. Long boot time It's called "sleeping". They should look into it. 2. Ultra portable So's a 12" laptop. But then, I'm increasingly seeing thin clients set up all over hospitals, so there's one already there and the doc doesn't need to carry one -- just needs to log in. Oh and as for the expense of a tablet, I think the overcharging bastards can afford it. 3. Wakes up from suspend in less than 2 seconds - unparalleled. So does my MBP. 4. The interface is very user friendly and makes sense without training - unlike Windows. Um, everything I've seen does indicate that it has a window system on it.