Which model of phone are you using? We've got models 7912 and 7960 here. I don't recall them possessing any ability to require logins before functioning. We're a VOIP developer/provider and use our own SIP proxies and gateways, so that might make a difference. I know that we're not running the Cisco call management software.
You do have some options with the proposed system. Don't buy the transponder and buy a set of license plate covers that resist automatic cameras. Sure the plate covers are illegal, but the fines are probably worth the added privacy.
Here is an example you get pulled over.
Right way.
Hello officer was I doing anything wrong?
Yes you where going x in an x speed zone.
Really I must have not been paying attention I am terribly sorry.
I've always wanted to try the approach depicted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
Officer: do you know why I pulled you over?
Me: Yes, sir. I'm guilty. I was speeding. I know it's wrong, but I did it anyway.
Doing under 20 mph over the limit it something like a $75 ticket, big deal. It's certainly no reason for the officer to take the opportunity to go ballistic.
I live in Chicago and have had both good and bad experiences with police.
First, the good. My apartment in the University Village neighborhood was broken into a few years ago and my work laptop was stolen. CPD dispatched a forensics team within three hours of my call. I was impressed. Of course I never heard anything about the case after they left and never recovered the laptop. I also once had to call the cops to remove my nut-bag girlfriend from my apartment after she started getting violent and they didn't give me a hard time about it. I kept telling the officers that I was sorry that I had to call them and they told me that it wasn't a problem.
Now the bad. I've been illegally searched by CPD after watching them shake down a girl I thought I recognized from the University. I've been in the car when the driver was stopped for a driving while black (DWB) offense. I've been hassled by cops after calling them to remove people from my apartment. I've also been hassled by the police after I had reported an assault.
Overall I can't complain. I've had mostly positive experiences with the CPD and they don't get fascist about the driving regulations like they do out in the suburbs. In the city the police don't seem to care so long as you keep it under 40 mph and aren't a taxi cab (I've only been scolded, never ticketed). In the suburbs, the posted limits are really low (35 mph on a four lane road?) and they'll stop you for going less than 5 mph over the limit. I've even been with someone when they were stopped for following too closely.
The general impression I have is that police departments in smaller towns and suburbs hassle the general public much more frequently than police departments in larger cities. I suspect it has to do with the fact that there really isn't much real police work to be done in the small towns so they have plenty of resources to enforce the minor laws. They don't have anything better to do than write speeding tickets and enforce seat-belt laws, so that's what they do. In the big city, there's real murders, assaults, open-air drug dealing, etc. to deal with so they don't bother with the petty offenses that don't really hurt anyone.
People in rural areas wouldn't necessarily need cable modem speeds, anything better than a 28.8Kbs modem would work for them.
My father lives in such an area and his options are limited to modems, cellular modems and satellite links. No one wants to provide fiber or cable service to the area because it's not cost effective. Some sort of wireless link is pretty much all people in such areas can hope for.
FWIW, ABS isn't meant to deal with hard braking (directly), it's a means to automatically compensate for wheels that are spinning at different rates of speed. Brake pressure is modulated by the system so that each tire spins at the same rate.
I can trip the ABS on my Firebird at 20 MPH if I hit a rough patch of pavement while braking. I can also trip the ABS at highway speeds if I brake hard (stomp on the pedal versus squeezing it), don't modulate the pressure I apply and don't apply any steering correction. However, I've also found that I can brake harder at higher speeds while at the autocross track and the ABS won't trip; I will however feel the tires begin to skid a bit.
Wow, that's cold. Don't explain the rules/laws to the employees and then fire the employee when they violate one of them. I would have looked at suing the casino, but I imagine that younger people simply don't have the resources to do so.
I hope you do realize that the police don't get involved until _after_ a crime has been committed? Meaning that they're not going to stop people from breaking in at night and killing your wife and two daughters, but they will arrest the suspects after the fact.
You mean places like Chicago? The local news has been running police corruption, abuse, torture, battery, you name it stories for months here. From what I recall, we've had the following stories lately:
The vast majority of police are honest, hard-working people, but they _will_ break the law when it suits them. I've been witness to a Driving While Black incident and have also been illegally detained and searched because I was watching two cops shake down a girl I had recognized from the University. Sadly, incidents of police brutality, police shooting unarmed citizens and police harrassment of certain communities is not an exception, it's common practice in Chicago.
From what I understand it's not a quality control problem, it's a design defect. One of the heat sinks inside the unit is not large enough. If you hunt around for stories of people who have had their systems repaired due to the three red circles problem you'll see that they get a system back with a much larger heatsink on one of the components.
I agree with you that a BSD license is superior to a GPL license if you're looking to build a business around the software. So why are so many companies using GPL licensed code? Why are Microsoft and Novell trying to make money from a Linux distribution when they could have selected a BSD distribution instead?
I'm sorry but after hearing numerous stories of police killing unarmed citizens (in one case a quadraplegic man) I have to disagree with this sort of thing. When you join the police force, you have to know that you're signing up for a dangerous job. You know it's possible that someone is going to attempt to flee, attack or even kill you; it's part of the job. So what happens? Rather than police officers risking the occasional death they get all trigger happy and start wasting innocent civilians. That's totally unacceptable.
So buy one of those license plate covers that are designed so they can't be read at more than a 30 degree angle. I'm sure it's cheaper to pay the fines for an illegal cover than the fines from the cameras.
I visited Manhatten last October for the NYCBUG conference and have to agree with a lot of what you said.
You're not kidding about ridiculously high rents. I live in Chicago and pay $1,100 per month for a three-bedroom apartment with a small backyard and garage parking. In New York, this place would be like $5,000. It would actually be much cheaper to live in Chicago and fly out to New York every weekend.
I was stunned at the total lack of parking lots and garages in Manhatten. I think I saw a grand total of one lot during my stay near Columbia. Why aren't there any garages? There's surely not enough street parking for everyone. I would think that the first person to build a parking garage would make a killing as drivers would have no other options available to them.
The subway does tend to suck unless you live close to a stop and don't have to transfer a million times. Being a poor college student, I was forced to rely on the el and the occasional bus to get around Chicago. Bringing groceries home via the train or trying to get large items home from the store was a major pain. Now that I have a car, I'd never dream of taking the subway regularly ever again.
Having finally been to New York, I really don't see the appeal. Sure it's nice to walk around the town and I absolutely loved the fact that you could buy produce and flowers on practically every other street corner, but there's just too many negatives compared to other big cities. It was a great place to visit, I just wouldn't want to live there.
Oh, and what's with people throwing their garbage bags out on the sidewalk? Yeah, I know it's because there are no alleys (weird!) but it still looks really bad. I kind of wish I would have taken some pictures of all of the bags lined up on Broadway Ave.
Wait a minute, you're not saying that the selection of PS2's Players Choice games isn't that great are you? I don't have the entire list in front of me, but I have at least a dozen of these releases at home including (IIRC): Ico, Star Wars Battlefront (I and II), SOCOM, God of War and the GTA series.
I picked up Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube and loved it. In your opinion, is it worth shelling out $30 so I can use the Wiimote instead of a WaveBird controller? I was _very_ tempted to pick the game up last Friday.
Why do the console manufacturers keep putting in these _tiny_ hard drives? I don't think you can even buy an 80 GB hard drive in consumer electronics stores these days.
Again, that makes no sense to me. Maybe it's because I have a firm maximum bid in mind whereas some people decide that they're willing to increase their maximum bid in certain situations?
In the first case you mentioned, your maximum bid was $25. Someone had a higher maximum bid than this so you lost. I don't see how the other party throwing out several max bids alters things. The only way it does make sense is if your first maximum bid wasn't really your max bid.
In the second situation, you're just taking advantage of the fact that some people don't understand how bidding works for eBay auctions. Many people I've spoken with have a hard time understanding the concept of proxy bidding.
You're not the first person I've had this conversation with. I'm under the impression that people who like to snipe auctions are people that don't have a firm maximum bid for an item. Instead they enter what they'd like to pay and then maybe bump it up a few bucks if they're losing the auction. Typically when I bid I've researched the market price for the item, use that as my max bid and plan on losing several auctions before I win the item.
Now, that last point you mentioned does have me intrigued as it allows you to bid on multiple auctions for the same item without worrying about getting stuck with more than one win. That angle does making sniping sound attractive for people like me.
I'll admit it, I'm a UNIX guy, but I have been sucked into doing Windows admin lately and have a few questions about your procedure:
How exactly do you backup the customer's data? Based on your description, it sounds like you don't actually perform a complete system backup. I'm imagining someone just copying.doc files off of the machine.
If you're installing a new copy of the operating system, how did you backup any installed applications such that they can be restored on the new system? I would assume you'd need the install media and activation code along with the exact settings the customer had used previously.
What do you do if you don't have the particular operating system that the customer had installed? I'm assuming you don't have Standard and Enterprise releases for all platforms (x86,IA64,AMD64) and operating systems. Heck, how can you legally install a copy of Windows onto a customer's machine? Do you have a licensing arrangement with Microsoft?
It sounds to me like you didn't so much repair customers' machines as wipe out what's there and start over. That may work fine in a situation where you can just redeploy a standard image (like we do for our server farms), but I just don't see how that would fly on a customer's one-of-a-kind system.
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Which model of phone are you using? We've got models 7912 and 7960 here. I don't recall them possessing any ability to require logins before functioning. We're a VOIP developer/provider and use our own SIP proxies and gateways, so that might make a difference. I know that we're not running the Cisco call management software.
You do have some options with the proposed system. Don't buy the transponder and buy a set of license plate covers that resist automatic cameras. Sure the plate covers are illegal, but the fines are probably worth the added privacy.
I've always wanted to try the approach depicted in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
Officer: do you know why I pulled you over?
Me: Yes, sir. I'm guilty. I was speeding. I know it's wrong, but I did it anyway.
Doing under 20 mph over the limit it something like a $75 ticket, big deal. It's certainly no reason for the officer to take the opportunity to go ballistic.
I live in Chicago and have had both good and bad experiences with police.
First, the good. My apartment in the University Village neighborhood was broken into a few years ago and my work laptop was stolen. CPD dispatched a forensics team within three hours of my call. I was impressed. Of course I never heard anything about the case after they left and never recovered the laptop. I also once had to call the cops to remove my nut-bag girlfriend from my apartment after she started getting violent and they didn't give me a hard time about it. I kept telling the officers that I was sorry that I had to call them and they told me that it wasn't a problem.
Now the bad. I've been illegally searched by CPD after watching them shake down a girl I thought I recognized from the University. I've been in the car when the driver was stopped for a driving while black (DWB) offense. I've been hassled by cops after calling them to remove people from my apartment. I've also been hassled by the police after I had reported an assault.
Overall I can't complain. I've had mostly positive experiences with the CPD and they don't get fascist about the driving regulations like they do out in the suburbs. In the city the police don't seem to care so long as you keep it under 40 mph and aren't a taxi cab (I've only been scolded, never ticketed). In the suburbs, the posted limits are really low (35 mph on a four lane road?) and they'll stop you for going less than 5 mph over the limit. I've even been with someone when they were stopped for following too closely.
The general impression I have is that police departments in smaller towns and suburbs hassle the general public much more frequently than police departments in larger cities. I suspect it has to do with the fact that there really isn't much real police work to be done in the small towns so they have plenty of resources to enforce the minor laws. They don't have anything better to do than write speeding tickets and enforce seat-belt laws, so that's what they do. In the big city, there's real murders, assaults, open-air drug dealing, etc. to deal with so they don't bother with the petty offenses that don't really hurt anyone.
People in rural areas wouldn't necessarily need cable modem speeds, anything better than a 28.8Kbs modem would work for them.
My father lives in such an area and his options are limited to modems, cellular modems and satellite links. No one wants to provide fiber or cable service to the area because it's not cost effective. Some sort of wireless link is pretty much all people in such areas can hope for.
Isn't a hard drive technically considered secondary memory?
FWIW, ABS isn't meant to deal with hard braking (directly), it's a means to automatically compensate for wheels that are spinning at different rates of speed. Brake pressure is modulated by the system so that each tire spins at the same rate.
I can trip the ABS on my Firebird at 20 MPH if I hit a rough patch of pavement while braking. I can also trip the ABS at highway speeds if I brake hard (stomp on the pedal versus squeezing it), don't modulate the pressure I apply and don't apply any steering correction. However, I've also found that I can brake harder at higher speeds while at the autocross track and the ABS won't trip; I will however feel the tires begin to skid a bit.
It's called tire scrubbing, and we black flag drivers who do it in pit lane.
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Wow, that's cold. Don't explain the rules/laws to the employees and then fire the employee when they violate one of them. I would have looked at suing the casino, but I imagine that younger people simply don't have the resources to do so.
I hope you do realize that the police don't get involved until _after_ a crime has been committed? Meaning that they're not going to stop people from breaking in at night and killing your wife and two daughters, but they will arrest the suspects after the fact.
The vast majority of police are honest, hard-working people, but they _will_ break the law when it suits them. I've been witness to a Driving While Black incident and have also been illegally detained and searched because I was watching two cops shake down a girl I had recognized from the University. Sadly, incidents of police brutality, police shooting unarmed citizens and police harrassment of certain communities is not an exception, it's common practice in Chicago.
Gerald Ford.
Did the casino (your employer) tell you this was illegal before you picked the quarter up?
From what I understand it's not a quality control problem, it's a design defect. One of the heat sinks inside the unit is not large enough. If you hunt around for stories of people who have had their systems repaired due to the three red circles problem you'll see that they get a system back with a much larger heatsink on one of the components.
I agree with you that a BSD license is superior to a GPL license if you're looking to build a business around the software. So why are so many companies using GPL licensed code? Why are Microsoft and Novell trying to make money from a Linux distribution when they could have selected a BSD distribution instead?
I'm sorry but after hearing numerous stories of police killing unarmed citizens (in one case a quadraplegic man) I have to disagree with this sort of thing. When you join the police force, you have to know that you're signing up for a dangerous job. You know it's possible that someone is going to attempt to flee, attack or even kill you; it's part of the job. So what happens? Rather than police officers risking the occasional death they get all trigger happy and start wasting innocent civilians. That's totally unacceptable.
So buy one of those license plate covers that are designed so they can't be read at more than a 30 degree angle. I'm sure it's cheaper to pay the fines for an illegal cover than the fines from the cameras.
I visited Manhatten last October for the NYCBUG conference and have to agree with a lot of what you said.
You're not kidding about ridiculously high rents. I live in Chicago and pay $1,100 per month for a three-bedroom apartment with a small backyard and garage parking. In New York, this place would be like $5,000. It would actually be much cheaper to live in Chicago and fly out to New York every weekend.
I was stunned at the total lack of parking lots and garages in Manhatten. I think I saw a grand total of one lot during my stay near Columbia. Why aren't there any garages? There's surely not enough street parking for everyone. I would think that the first person to build a parking garage would make a killing as drivers would have no other options available to them.
The subway does tend to suck unless you live close to a stop and don't have to transfer a million times. Being a poor college student, I was forced to rely on the el and the occasional bus to get around Chicago. Bringing groceries home via the train or trying to get large items home from the store was a major pain. Now that I have a car, I'd never dream of taking the subway regularly ever again.
Having finally been to New York, I really don't see the appeal. Sure it's nice to walk around the town and I absolutely loved the fact that you could buy produce and flowers on practically every other street corner, but there's just too many negatives compared to other big cities. It was a great place to visit, I just wouldn't want to live there.
Oh, and what's with people throwing their garbage bags out on the sidewalk? Yeah, I know it's because there are no alleys (weird!) but it still looks really bad. I kind of wish I would have taken some pictures of all of the bags lined up on Broadway Ave.
Wait a minute, you're not saying that the selection of PS2's Players Choice games isn't that great are you? I don't have the entire list in front of me, but I have at least a dozen of these releases at home including (IIRC): Ico, Star Wars Battlefront (I and II), SOCOM, God of War and the GTA series.
I picked up Resident Evil 4 for the GameCube and loved it. In your opinion, is it worth shelling out $30 so I can use the Wiimote instead of a WaveBird controller? I was _very_ tempted to pick the game up last Friday.
Why do the console manufacturers keep putting in these _tiny_ hard drives? I don't think you can even buy an 80 GB hard drive in consumer electronics stores these days.
Again, that makes no sense to me. Maybe it's because I have a firm maximum bid in mind whereas some people decide that they're willing to increase their maximum bid in certain situations?
In the first case you mentioned, your maximum bid was $25. Someone had a higher maximum bid than this so you lost. I don't see how the other party throwing out several max bids alters things. The only way it does make sense is if your first maximum bid wasn't really your max bid.
In the second situation, you're just taking advantage of the fact that some people don't understand how bidding works for eBay auctions. Many people I've spoken with have a hard time understanding the concept of proxy bidding.
You're not the first person I've had this conversation with. I'm under the impression that people who like to snipe auctions are people that don't have a firm maximum bid for an item. Instead they enter what they'd like to pay and then maybe bump it up a few bucks if they're losing the auction. Typically when I bid I've researched the market price for the item, use that as my max bid and plan on losing several auctions before I win the item.
Now, that last point you mentioned does have me intrigued as it allows you to bid on multiple auctions for the same item without worrying about getting stuck with more than one win. That angle does making sniping sound attractive for people like me.
Dude, if you've got a cs degree and seven years of job experience, why the hell are you applying for a job at Best Buy?
I'll admit it, I'm a UNIX guy, but I have been sucked into doing Windows admin lately and have a few questions about your procedure:
How exactly do you backup the customer's data? Based on your description, it sounds like you don't actually perform a complete system backup. I'm imagining someone just copying .doc files off of the machine.
If you're installing a new copy of the operating system, how did you backup any installed applications such that they can be restored on the new system? I would assume you'd need the install media and activation code along with the exact settings the customer had used previously.
What do you do if you don't have the particular operating system that the customer had installed? I'm assuming you don't have Standard and Enterprise releases for all platforms (x86,IA64,AMD64) and operating systems. Heck, how can you legally install a copy of Windows onto a customer's machine? Do you have a licensing arrangement with Microsoft?
It sounds to me like you didn't so much repair customers' machines as wipe out what's there and start over. That may work fine in a situation where you can just redeploy a standard image (like we do for our server farms), but I just don't see how that would fly on a customer's one-of-a-kind system.