Secrets of the City

Well, I guess I really ought to get to the house cleaning and the laundry…

There’s a missing item in that wireless rollout schedule, and it goes back several months:
* Nobody caring.

There is a very high probability that I’ll be switching to Helio and getting the same data rates (and mobile phone service) for $65/mo.

* Nobody caring.

Explain.

Has anyone seen figures on how many subscribers U.S. Internet anticipates?

Oh sure. Now they roll it out. After I broke down and got qwest.

That’s sick! This country is too driven by commerce… I only skimmed the BTM post and thought it was another stupid angle on the slow housing market hype. Two words: WHO CARES

According to this (pdf), they assumed 10% of the existing broadband capacity will use this service. (Page 57) Approximately 17,000 households.

Re: CPR, I always heard it was something you did until the EMT’s got there to pronounce the poor bastard dead. Also, CPR is grossly ineffective if the person performing it is untrained. You might as well slap thier face in a vain attempt that they’ll wake up…

Also, with that wireless story, I find it interesting that the Strib hasn’t discovered this useful technology called “The Map” All of that from the Mississippi to Hennepin would be much more understandable with this simple thing like this map. (PDF) (Even though it isn’t very good either.)

Can somebody please tell me how 1mpsksbmp3 whatever compares to what I get for speed from Comcast? We’re not all nerds.

Also, if anyone knows. Am I reading this correctly – will I need some sort of expanded subscription to be able to connect to the Wi-fi while riding the bus? That’s the whole appeal, for me, is to cruise the news with my iPhone on the bus.

Internet should just be like radio. “Out there” for anyone to connect to with the proper equipment.

I thought the same thing as aliecat about CPR. If you require CPR, you’re probably already FUBR.

Well, you’re partly right. CPR saves between 5%-10% of the people who receive it. Not very good odds.

But then, without it, your odd are zero.

We got living wills at work. You fill in the blanks, have a couple of witnesses sign it and wahlah! It’s legal in Minnesota.

Mine says no CPR, life support or feeding tube.

5-10% is better than zero, however. But I’d rather die than make my family care for me if I became a lifeless vegetable.

They are talking about 1mb/s whereas Comcast offers 6mb/s.

The trick with wi-fi is the hand-off between the radios. They only have a certain range, and then you will need to pick up another radio. They don’t travel from miles like music radio. Entering the Lowery Tunnel may be problematic… You may be able to read the news while busing, but it will depend upon several things. Length of trip, configuration of subnets, seamless hand-offs, etc.

My neighbor didn’t have a living will, and had a massive stroke. It left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair. He is having the time of his life! He is waited on hand and foot. He doesn’t have a care in the world! (His wife and daughter will tell a different story, but…)

I had fun filliing out my living will. In addition to specifyiing what kind of life support you do or do not want, you can write in your wishes for your funeral and burial. I made sure to write how I want to be remembered: with techno music and booze. Dance on my grave people! Toss my ashes into the river!

Then I had to have my coworkers at the thetare be my witnesses because I didn’t have a partner or any family nearby. So that was a fun question, “Will you sign my living will guys?”

Viking funeral! Body in a boat, on the river, on fire!

I don’t really care what they do with my remains when I die, just as long as there’s someone there to hurl themselves onto the casket during the service and then has to be physically restrained from hurling themselves into the grave when they lower me in. That would be fucking tight…

Oh, and everyone has to get drunk at the wake…even the kids…

Kevin, I don’t recall if it supports 802.11a/b/g WiFi connections, but as far as I know, the city’s network will actually use WiMax, which isn’t standard on any handset, let alone the iPhone. You’d generally use Cingular’s EDGE network, if you’re lucky, or have the 56k-ish GPRS speeds I’ve been using on T-Mobile with my Sidekick for years.

The Minneapolis service will be 802.11b compliant. My guess is that the “extended subscription” would be that for WiMax. (802.16)

For what it’s worth, I’ll be hitching my wagon to the Helio Ocean, which runs on Sprint’s speedier EV/DO network.

56k = 56 kbit/sec
GPRS = 70 kbit/sec
EDGE = ~210 kbit/sec
EV/DO = 1000+ kbit/sec
Comcast = ~6000 kbit/sec
Qwest DSL = up to 7000 kbit/sec (if you qualify, I’m only good for 1.5)

The last time I had a dialup account, 33.6k was cutting edge.

wahlah!

That made me laugh really hard.

Heh.

Also, with that wireless story, I find it interesting that the Strib hasn’t discovered this useful technology called “The Map”

No kidding. I just want to know when I can get rid of Comcast already. I hate Comcast.

So I’d be getting 1/6 the speed I currently get and might not be able to use my iPhone or iBook travelling from place to place? Sounds pointless.

“CPR, I always heard it was something you did until the EMT’s got there to pronounce the poor bastard dead. “

Done it twice. Kept an old heart-attacked fart alive until the EMTs got there (almost an hour later), and revived a cold and blue teenager from the bottom of the river. He’s dead now, but not from the heart attack. She’s alive, married, sends me nice cards and notes.

So, no, it doesn’t always work, but it does work often enough so that you shouldn’t sneer at it.

You will be able to use it where ever you are in town, you just won’t be able to use it while you’re getting there. But, yes 1/6th the speed, but 1/3 the price and available where you are in town.

Thanks. I hope they offer a faster option, cause I don’t want to pay w/e Comcast charges with it’s cable internet monopoly for something of decent speed. It’s like 55$ or something w/out cable.

Some parks should allow free access if you want to test drive it for speed with your iBook.

“My neighbor didn’t have a living will, and had a massive stroke.“

Wow. Usually, not having a Living Will merely causes diabetes. It’s getting mre serious.

(P.S. Hopefully, those who are saying they signed Living Wills actually signed Health Care Directives and Durable Health Care Power of Attorney forms. I ain’t gonna explain why, but, if you signed a Living Will, and you’re in Minnesota, and it’s important to you, you’d better do some research about why the two forms I listed have replaced Living Wills in Minnesota.)

It doesn’t pay for me. I use Moto Q and Sprint EVDO, have unlimited internet which I can attach to my laptop and browse at Sprints EVDO speeds which I’m guessing will be right in line with this Mpls network. Also with this it works on the go (i’ve even been outside sprints evdo network in bumblef*ck mn using this in a moving car and internet worked fine connected to a laptop but felt like 56k dial up days). That or I can just browse on the phone as well. I have a grandfathered in Sprint plan though depending on your deal getting skills this type of plan and phone might cost more than Mpls’s network.

If you people are tired of Comcast or want internet everywhere and on the go I’d check into this as well…

Oops. Said it wrong. The Health Care Directive replaced the LW and the DPOA.

Go here , then here , then here , then here .

Or, not.

ARRGH!

My work gave us Five Wishes which is actually a healthcare directive. You can get one too!

So picky…

“So picky… ”

Well, uh, yeah. Who knew, when we were all going gaagaa over Living Wills, that they were only valid until the person became unconscious?

Lots of red lawyer-faces over THAT one, lemme tell ya’ . . .

I made sure I got the right thing because my next of kin has a vendatta against me for all the crap I put her through when I was growing up… I don’t want to take any chances should the Number 18 mow me down on my walk home tonight…

WHERE IS DRIVE105? AHHHH 93X???

These speeds are pathetic anyway. Other countries kick our ass at broadband speeds, and it’s costing our economy big time. If Minneapolis is going to go doing this, they should do it right.

’twas not sneering at the CPR, if you know how to do it correctly, by all means, go for it, it couldn’t hurt. However, I think the public at large is fed this unbelievable lie that CPR saves lives, when, most times, it only delays the inevitable. What really helps are those automatic defibrillators…

Also, keep in mind that when you’re giving CPR, it’s better to err on the side of not giving the person enough breaths rather than too many. Giving too many rescue breaths raises the pressure in the thorax, which inhibits blood returning back to the heart. If blood can’t get back to the heart, it can’t get pumped to the lungs and brain.

Also, be sure you’re not putting pressure on their chest in between compressions. Same bad news.

Also, with that wireless story, I find it interesting that the Strib hasn’t discovered this useful technology called “The Map”

I guess with all those layoffs they won’t be hiring a GIS person anytime soon, huh?

There is a very high probability that I’ll be switching to Helio and getting the same data rates (and mobile phone service) for $65/mo.

Damn you! Now that I know about this device I’m probably going to have to get one, even if it means breaking my cingular contract ):<

Considering the monthly rate is only slightly higher than what I’m already paying for the same amount of daytime minutes, but comes with all the goodies and unlimited data use (which I have none of right now), I can’t possibly say no to this sort of thing.