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* Reply to the Job Hopper thread - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Free Dunkin' Donuts Coffee - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Budget fare to wash.d.c from NYC - 1 messages, 1 author
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* >>> EASY MONEY ONLINE FAST AND LEGALLY <<<< - 1 messages, 1 author
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* static on cordless phones - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Reply to the Job Hopper thread
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Date: Thurs, Oct 25 2007 9:15 pm
From: mrinstability
I too am a job hopper, I have had 28 jobs in about fifteen years. I
dont mean low grade jobs I was a correctional officer and went on to
be a cop and back to a security guard. I make poor choices! I can
relate to you because I am an actor too! Look I even wrote a book
about my life as a job hopper! I am starting to get concerned because
I am getting older and I have a family.
Come check out the blog for my book and see your truely not alone!!
http://www.mrinstability.blogspot.com
Sorry this is not spam, I read a thread on here about a job hopper and
he is an actor...probably my twin. But the post wouldnt allow me to
respond.
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TOPIC: Free Dunkin' Donuts Coffee
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TOPIC: Budget fare to wash.d.c from NYC
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Date: Thurs, Oct 25 2007 10:41 pm
From: Logan Shaw
PaPaPeng wrote:
> The Chinatown express
> Oct 25th 2007 | NEW YORK TO WASHINGTON, DC
> From The Economist print edition
> http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10024825
>
> Innovation brings emulation
>
>
> IT USED to be that you had to venture below the grime-caked pylons of
> the Manhattan Bridge, to a scene more reminiscent of Luoyang than of
> the Lower East Side, in order to catch a cheap bus ride between New
> York and Washington, DC. Even now at the intersection of East Broadway
> and Forsyth St, ticket hawkers scream out destinations in thick
> Cantonese accents--"DC, DC, DC!" "Philly, Philly!"--and grab the arms of
> passers-by toting luggage.
If you're going to Philadelphia from NYC, a friend told me this tip:
take NJ Transit. I just checked, and to get from New York Penn Station
to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, it's $20.50. NJ Transit trains
go straight in to Penn Station[1] and you transfer in Trenton, NJ to
SEPTA to do the second half of the trip. It takes about 2.5 hours.
Amtrak can get you there in as little as an hour, but that costs $43.
I can see taking one of those buses to DC, but are they really cheaper
than $20.50, and are they as reliable and safe as major transit agencies?
- Logan
[1] New York Penn Station, not Newark Penn Station. Whose idea was it
to have two almost-consecutive stops on the *same* *line* called
"New York Penn Station" and "Newark Penn Station"? I suppose they
might have existed and been named before those lines connected,
but this is still pretty bad.
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TOPIC: >>> EASY MONEY ONLINE FAST AND LEGALLY <<<<
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Date: Thurs, Oct 25 2007 10:45 pm
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TOPIC: static on cordless phones
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Date: Thurs, Oct 25 2007 11:16 pm
From: Logan Shaw
Don K wrote:
> If it's an analog phone, that would explain the static.
> Not all 5.8GHz phones are digital or spread-spectrum.
I have a Panasonic KX-TG5240, which is a 5.8 GHz digital spread-spectrum
phone. A few years ago, I spent well over $100 for it (maybe even $150)
and I took good performance for granted.
Turns out, in the outgoing direction only, there is frequently a lot of
static and a lot of dropouts. I can't hear any problem, but almost everyone
I've talked to regularly has complained about sometimes not being able to
hear me. For quite some time I searched for the pattern of what would set
its bad performance off. I looked for sources of interference, usage
patterns, settings, and so on, and I could find nothing. I lived near
some big power transmission lines connecting the local hydro power plant,
so I thought broadband noise from the sheer amount of power from that
might be the problem, but then I moved to another place a few miles away
and to my surprise the problem came with me. So it wasn't the environment.
Finally, after what must've been 2 or 3 years of using the phone, I
realized under what circumstances it happens: it happens when the
handset is too close to the base station. If I simply walk to another
room away from the base station, the problem goes away. Because of
that, I chalk it up to a design or quality-control flaw.
The point is, yeah, a relatively high-end 5.8 GHz phone, even if it's
digital spread spectrum (which by its very nature is *very* tolerant
of interference and other transmission problems), can still have
pretty bad sound quality.
If it were me, and if several people complained in reviews about
distorted sound, I would avoid that phone.
On a side note, I really don't understand how cordless phones do not
have near *perfect* signal quality. The bandwidth required for a
telephone conversation is about 50 to 70 kilobits/second. Compared
to the level of bandwidth that, say, 802.11(g) can deliver, this is
absolutely minuscule. It seems to me that with the bandwidth available,
you could transmit *massively* redundant copies of all the voice traffic,
to the tune of perhaps 10 times or even 100 times redundancy. If
you did that and used a decent system to detect and select the
uncorrupted data, it seems like you could have amazingly low bit
error rates.
- Logan
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