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Nézzétek meg!!!

Csá, csumi, csá!

Remélem jól indul a hetetek, ime az elmúlt hét összefoglalója.

be kell vallanom, hogy nagyon király érzés mikor a két tesómmal 3aban cseteltünk, Mo.-Svéd-USA tengelyen. lehet, hogy szentimentális fasz vagyok, de ha nem lenne internet, akkor ugyebár.... Ezen felbulzdulva az összes barátnak, havernak javaslom, hogy érdemes otthonra ADSL, vagy kábel internetbe befektetni mert akkor lehetne IP telefonálni és talán video telefonálni is egymásnak. na az nagyon májer lenne... itt az msn messanger cimem: endrenyu@hotmail.com (emailezésre NEM használom)

Nagyon örülök (és csak biztatni szeretnélek benentek), hogy egyre többen irtok privát emailt. irjatok, meséljetek, hogy mi van veletek. az új munkahelyemen, annyira lazák, hogy simán tudok levezni munkaidő alatt... na, most állitottam ki magamról a szegénységi bizonyitványt, biztos kirugnám magam :))

Maki: Asszony pajtás feltört mint a talajviz, még 2 hónap vvan hátra a szakács képző iskolájából, de már állásajánlatot kapott New York talán legfelkapottabb éttermében: 66 nem 666, vagy 69, hanem 66. itt az étterem linkje:

Traveling at the speed of light between his many culinary outposts, Jean-Georges Vongerichten has outdone himself again with the succulent new Chinese-themed 66.

Szóval, nagyon büszke vagyok rá, tudtam én, hogy tehetséges, emlékeztek még a sushijára?? Hmm... igen ezzel motiválni akartalak bennetek, hogy gyertek ki hozzánk minél előbb. :))

Csóközön mindannyiotoknak, szép hetet, és bárkinek is a szekerét toljátok 9-5 között azért irjatok ;-)

János a pincér

Szombat este kisebb magyar társaság jött össze egy igencsak autentikus osztrák bisztróban Brooklynban, az Atlantic súgárúttól nem messze. Nemtom miért, de nekem egész este az étterem hangulata miatt prágai flasheim voltak, a pincérek pedig magyarul beszéltek... A társaság nagyon jó volt, sokat nevettünk, kajáltunk, még paprikás csirke is volt, bár, kevés volt benne a piros paprika és a tejföl...

Oly annyira beloptuk János szivébe magunkat, hogy a ház vedégei lettünk, jött a pezsgő, a lekváros palacsinta, a túros gombóc, bár már mindenki tele volt, de muszáj volt megenni, ha már megtiszteltek vele....

János február óta dolgozik hetente 6 napot ezen helzen. A magyar lány nevét nem kaptam el, nagyon csinos volt, hosszú vörös haja összefogva, tökéltetes modor, bármelyik budapest étterem megirigyelehetné. na, de elég volt a csajozásból. Szóval János odasszól az asztaltársasághoz, hogy milyen aranyosak vagyunk... erre kérdem, ezt hogy érti?

A válasza nem volt egyértelmű, vagy már a 3. sör után én nem voltam a helyzet magaslatán, a lényeg, hogy ritkán lát magyar társaságot, akik közösen eljárnak és jól tudják érezni magukat, ahelyett, hogy panaszkodnának. Abban teljesen egyet értettünk, hogy sajnos külföldön nem nagyon összetartó nemzet a magyar szemben a kinaiakkal vagy a japánokkal. na jó, ők a másik véglet... furcsa, egy német csaj pont ugyanezt mondta a németekről is...

János a pincér luxun hajón szolgált pár évet, volt kapcsolat, aminek révén nehezen, de sikerült munkavállalásit szerezni. Akinek nincs az rendkivül ki van szolgáltatva minden szempontból. nem is tudom, hogy a "globális rabszolga" vagy a "gyökérnélküli paraszt" lenne a jobb kifejezés erre a csoportra, ha 21. századi történelem könyvet olvasnánk. Ha valaki véletlenül tud rá jobb kifejezést, akkor küldje el nekem lécci.

János barátai közül sokan hazamentek mert nem tudtak boldogulni... hát, igen, nem könnyű, se itt, se ott...

Kizárták az iskolából a HIV-fertőzött fiút

Na az ilyenektol tudok teljesen kiakadni. Hihetetlen, hogy ez meg tortenhet 2003-ban Magyarorszagon... Viva EU!

Budapest, Prága, Varsó: málenkij robot for US

Még a végén hálásak lehetünk a komcsiknak... Itt a 21. századi reality check fiúk, lányok! Tü gáváris english?

Hannibál köztünk él, itt Amerikában, a neve Robert Durst!!!

Vazzeg, intelligens, okos, nagyon gazdag és az ügyvédei a szarból is kimossák. Ezért Mo.-n már rég életfogytiglant kapott volna... Ez ijesztőbb mint bármilyen krimi...

Van egy király ötletem!

Vállalkozó kedvü web-programozót és rendszer-adminisztrátort keresek USA projektre, budapesti munkavégzéssel! Kevés munka, sok pénz jeligére. Ez most komoly!

Lécci adjátok tovább!

Erre az email cimre irjon, akit érdekel: bekyendre@netscape.net

Köszi.

Úristen hová költöztem!?

Nagyon érdekes cikk, egy picit hosszú, de akit érdekel New York City telefónia és egyéb igencsak fontos parái, annak ajánlom szives figyelmébe. csóközön...

The Office of the Future Today
by Laura Forlano
November 11, 2003

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently took on a problem that annoys a
growing number of New Yorkers. Many new cell phones take photographs,
offer games and play music, but do not make calls -- at least not in
numerous places throughout the city. "Cell phone 'dead spots' are
frustrating and too common," the mayor announced. The city's solution:
When New Yorkers find these dead spot zones, they should dial 311 to
report them. And then what? "This program will undoubtedly help the
industry improve service and help consumers make more informed
purchasing decisions," the mayor said.

And this in a nutshell is the dilemma facing the city. If New York has
its most tech-savvy mayor ever -- an entrepreneur who made billions
providing technology to businesses and whose pet projects at City Hall
include tech innovations such as the 311 telephone number for
non-emergencies -- one public official can only do so much. The city
has so far been better at identifying local tech problems than in
solving them.

But these problems, some say, are more than just an inconvenience;
solving them is essential if New York City is to remain a capital of
communications and commerce. Will the typical New York City workplace
of the 21st century be like the graceful high-tech offices of Steven
Spielberg's movie "Minority Report," where Tom Cruise waves his hands
in the air and is instantly connected to an information superhighway?
Or will it be more like Terry Gilliam's 1985 film "Brazil," where a
house fly can plunge the whole makeshift technology and
telecommunications system into chaos?

WHAT TODAY'S OFFICES NEED

The August 14, 2003, blackout dramatized many of the flaws in New
York's communications systems. The Internet was useless. Cell phone
providers could not handle the increased demand for calls and, as the
blackout continued, service deteriorated further. Many office phone
systems, dependent upon electricity, also failed to function.

But it does not take an extraordinary event like a blackout to point
out the problems that businesses face. According to a report by the
Center for an Urban Future, New York has become "one of the worst
environments for entrepreneurs and growing firms," ranking at the
bottom of national lists. One reason for this is its poor
telecommunications technology. Meanwhile, advances in technology that
enable people to "telecommute" and easily work with people hundreds of
miles away make it less essential for many businesses to stay in New
York. Experts agree that faced with such challenges, New York will lose
businesses, jobs and money if things don't change.

Of course, the office of the future does exist right now in New York.
Employees in many offices communicate almost entirely by computer,
e-mailing colleagues, customers and contractors around the world, and
checking stock prices, political trends and industry data on the
Internet. Large businesses host their own Web sites, set up wireless
networks in their offices, use voice-over-Internet technologies to cut
phone costs and hold online conferences. Orders come in over the
Internet, and customers track the status of shipments by computer.

An increasing number of people spend much of their business day away
from a traditional office, working on portable devices such as laptops,
personal digital assistants and cell phones. A salesperson may visit a
client and then e-mail a report on the meeting while sitting in a
nearby cafe or park. An electrician at a building site needs to check
on the availability of a part; the site has no phone service yet,
making him completely dependent on his cell phone. Every day, people
need to connect to files, programs, databases and the Internet from
their apartments, their local park or even Yankee Stadium.

Such new technologies increase efficiency and cut costs. But many
businesses outside midtown and lower Manhattan cannot take advantage of
them, because of aging or outmoded wires and cables, or because they
simply are not available anywhere but the two major business districts.

HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS

Just about anyone with a telephone and a computer can get access to the
Internet. But, as anyone who uses a dial-up system at home knows,
access can be painfully slow and tie up telephone lines.

That is why many businesses are looking to "broadband," which is a
high-speed connection to the Internet such as a digital subscriber line
or DSL (which uses the phone lines), or cable-modem (which sometimes
shares the wire used for cable television). Unlike dial-up, broadband
is always on, so there is no connecting and disconnecting.

Any business that makes or takes orders for merchandise can benefit
from broadband. Conducting such transactions by dial-up Internet or
telephone can be slow and frustrating as screens can freeze and
information can be lost.

"Broadband is critical for economic development and small business
growth across the board, not just in high-tech industries," says
Jonathan Bowles, research director at the Center for an Urban Future,
who has been interviewing small businesses on the importance of
broadband for a report to be released next month.

The problem is that broadband is not widely available in the city
outside of midtown and lower Manhattan.

For example, cable DSL and cable modem are extremely difficult to get
in Brooklyn, largely because providers consider it a low income area,
City Councilmember Gale Brewer, chair of the council's technology
committee, told Wireless Review this summer. "A year ago, a senior
citizen center with a multimillion-dollar budget wanted to put in
broadband, but no one wanted to go there," Brewer said. "I've worked in
a lot of low-income areas in New York City, and private companies
always think there's no marketplace there. We have to get this to go
beyond the central business district."

Experts claim that if broadband were made available in just 50 percent
of the city, it could bring in an extra $15 billion to the New York
economy over the next 25 years. Providing service to 94 percent of New
Yorkers could bring in $80 billion.

The lack of broadband places a heavy burden on many nonprofit groups,
says Kayza Kleinman, director of the Nonprofit Helpdesk at the Jewish
Community Council of Greater Coney Island. Government regulations
require that many social service agencies provide services and
information online, something difficult to do without high speed
Internet access. As a result, many struggling organizations have felt
forced to wire their buildings themselves, at a cost they cannot
afford. And those are the ones lucky enough to be in an area where such
wiring is possible.

Simply providing high speed Internet access is only the beginning. Even
when service is available, some small businesses and nonprofits cannot
afford it. While prices for most telecommunication services have been
falling, broadband prices have gone up. Many organizations pay at least
$400 per month so that a number of computers can be online at the same
time.

The relatively high price is due largely to a lack of competition.
While there are 18 broadband providers other than Verizon, most of them
must lease the wires from Verizon and thus have to pay Verizon for
access.

And there are different types of broadband. While all may be high
speed, exactly how fast one can send and receive information may vary.
Such differences present particular problems for companies that want to
host Web sites and e-commerce platforms. "All broadband is not equal,"
says Joe Plotkin of Bway, a New York-based Internet-service provider
that provides symmetrical broadband.

FIBER OPTICS

There are two ways for telephone companies, such as Verizon, to make
high-speed Internet more readily available. They can replace the copper
wires that currently run under much of New York City, with newer ones
that are better able to handle massive amounts of information. Or they
can upgrade to fiber optics. These cables -- strands of glass about the
size of a human hair that transmit light signals -- allow Internet
connections that are four times faster than broadband and could be ten
times faster in the future.

But 87 percent of the city's fiber optic cables are in Manhattan
business districts below 59th Street. One obstacle to expanding their
reach is money. Fiber optics cost as much as $40,000 per mile to
install, while wireless costs a tenth as much, according to one study.

HOTSPOTS

It is a truism of work in the 21st century that many people must be
accessible around the clock -- in the office or away -- and so rely on
being able to use cell phones and laptop computers wherever they might
be.

Key to this are "hotspots" that provide a wireless Internet connection
people can use with their laptops, personal digital assistants and
other devices over the airwaves. Wireless, which is comparatively cheap
to set up, can bridge gaps between other services. Currently, there are
hundreds of free hot spots in business and residential areas of
Manhattan as well as in the outer boroughs. (See map.)

The non-profit group NYCwireless has joined with economic development
groups and parks organizations to provide free Internet access in
places such as Bryant Park and lower Manhattan. Verizon offers wireless
to their paid broadband customers at telephone booths, and T-mobile
connects Starbucks customers for a monthly fee.

The city hopes to create schools, libraries and other government
buildings as wireless hotspots. But wireless is still on the cutting
edge. Many people do not know that wireless sites are available, and
most small businesses have not yet begun to explore how wireless can
help them. And even though wireless is spreading here, it is still not
as popular in New York as it is in places such as Portland, Oregon, and
Orange County, California.

PLANNING FOR THE HIGH-TECH FUTURE

While there is widespread agreement on at least some of the technology
the city will need for its economy to thrive in the coming decades,
less agreement exists on how to achieve it. Much of the controversy
involves who should pay for the improvements.

Many believe that upgrading the city's wires and cables is the job of
private companies such as Verizon, Con Edison, Time Warner Cable and
Cablevision that profit from providing such services. As it stands now,
the companies do shoulder most of the cost and make only those
improvements they feel are worthwhile for them. For example, to justify
the cost of installing new cable, Verizon must believe that it will
gain a significant increase in business once the cables are installed.

Others say the need for fiber optics and other improvements is so
crucial to the general well being of the city that it cannot be left to
the private sector alone.

In May 2003, the City Council published a report, "Network NYC" (in pdf
format) which laid out a proposed long-range telecom strategy. Many of
the report's recommendations involve increased planning and analysis of
the city's telecommunications needs by the Department of Information
Technology and Telecommunications.

But the report also called on the city to use its economic clout as a
major purchaser of telecommunications services to get improvements in
service. New York City spends over $130 million annually on
telecommunications, primarily telephone and Internet, more than any
other city in the country. At least 75 percent of that goes to Verizon
- with no competitive bidding. The report and the city comptroller have
questioned whether the city should solicit competing bids to cut costs
and perhaps exert influence on Verizon. (The company could not be
reached for comment.)

The report also urges the city to make better use of existing
technology. For example, it notes, the city manages franchises with a
number of fiber optics companies and controls rooftops through New York
that could be used for wireless. Yet, despite this, it says, "there has
been little public discussion or long term strategic thinking about how
the city could better organize this public and private infrastructure
to encourage a truly citywide deployment of affordable, high speed
networking capacity."

Because laying new fiber optic cable is so expensive, Councilmember
Brewer recommends using existing fiber optics - either lines already
owned by the city or leased from other owners - and combining them with
wireless to create a network linking every borough but Staten Island.
Brewer sees such a network helping small companies and non profits that
cannot afford $400 to $1,200 a month to get high-speed Internet access
from Verizon.

Another possibility involves taking old systems and putting them to new
uses. The city explored the possibility of putting telecommunications
equipment, including fiber optics, in space occupied by unused water
pipes.

Some fiber optic cables -- called dark fiber -- were installed in the
ground during the high tech boom of the 1990s. But they were then
abandoned as dot.coms went bankrupt. Providing new cable to link to
this unused dark fiber could be a lower-cost way of bringing fiber
optics to at least some parts of the city.

As appealing as some of these ideas are, any solution is bound to be
for the short-term only. In the 21st century, technology often becomes
outmoded before many of us ever get to use it. And so fiber optics,
broadband and hot spots could all soon be eclipsed by better, cheaper
technology that has not been developed yet.

But whatever the actual technology, New York will have to stay on top
of it. And that requires a vision, a plan and a way to put it into
action.

Újra melóban

Épp eleget ültem már otthon, az első pár hetet kifejezetten élveztem, freedom meg ilyesmi, de elég volt, rájöttem, hogy nem vagyok még 85 éves, csak 30.

tetszik a meló, bár ezen az oldalon nem fogom elmondani, hogy hol és mit csinálok. Irjatok :)

Képzeljétek, elkészült az első videonk, egy picivel több mint 5 perc, 75Mb ezért inkább kirom CD-re és elküldöm. Jelezz lécci, ha kérsz belőle. Hihetetlen, hogy mire képes a számitógép, csak úgy lestem, vazzeg nagyon profi...

Csóközön :)