I know a few guys that are diesel techs, they make good money. One is 4 years out of school (he went to UTI) and is now making $80k a year. He's a genset mechanic, the only downside is if a hospital/airport/police station needs him to be on-call he has to stay at a hotel or nearby until the city power is back on. This…

You do not have better trucks in Europe my friend. And if we're really going to argue this all we need is an Australian to post a picture of a road train and we'll both be eating crow.

You only make $15,500 a year!?! In a tech job?!? That's ludicrous, that's only slightly higher then a minimum wage job here in the US (Minimum wage is ~$15k a year). You make less then $8/hr? I mean I guess your health car is added on top of that, but for an IT consultant I'm amazed at how little you get paid.

It certainly has stopped me. We also used to order about $200 of Chick-fil-a a month at work for our monthly all office meeting. Not so much anymore, I went to my boss, explained why I thought we should switch to Chipotle or similar, he agreed, everyone agreed. That Chick-fil-a lost a whole office building's worth of…

I used to be in the same boat as you, until I saw one up close. They look so much more sexy in person then the press release photos. For whatever reason Audi's press photos make the proportions look goofy, but when you see one up close and personal it's so much sex. sooooo much.

Not necessarily true, the BGAN network reaches all but the extreme poles so for a good part of the journey they can expect 200-300Kbps internet speeds (for a pretty penny of course, but it is Antarctica after all) and anything beyond that just revert to an Iridium pay as you go phone for essential needs only. From…

Yep, I borrowed a Toughbook/BGAN setup from the BF Goodrich guys when I was at the race so I could look up and see if a part was available in so-cal for our vehicle (another story for another time). I was amazed, it wasn't near as fast as a cable/fiber line but I was standing at a table next to a tractor trailer in…

This may be a all-in-one solution that would work. It's meant for streaming TV, and the rate is pretty expensive ($27 a minute for there top-tier streaming) and the initial equipment cost is around $10,000. I would talk to Groundcontrol (the service/equipment provider) about possibly sponsoring it though... imagine…

I attached a picture of the box I see when I hit reply. It's in the top right corner, there's "add image" and "add video".

The best option I've been able to come up with is http://www.groundcontrol.com/BGAN-Explorer-300.htm Download speeds of 384Kbps and Upload speeds of 240Kbps, so about 100x what the phone is capable of. As far as compressing the video, I'm at a loss for that aside from a netbook.

That's pretty reasonable considering what you're getting. 384 Kbps ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. I own a sat phone, it's ludicrously expensive to use, but when we had the lil quake in the north east this past November and the cell networks were totally overrun it was pretty nice to be able to pull out my sat phone, flip up…

Yeah, they said to get anything above 300baud you'd have to have a pretty serious permanent setup. Not exactly practical for an Antarctic expedition. Plus you'd have to have a receiving station. I just don't think amateur radio is the best option. Now I wonder how hard it would be to make a portable version of…

You have a couple options. Most simple is a head unit that supports A2DP. Another option is a bluetooth A2DP receiver that converts the output to AUX (blackberry used to make such a device, otherwise I'm at a loss). Another option is a radio with a USB port, though if you have an android phone you may have issues…

You've got to be kidding me $35 an HOUR?!? For a 328i?!? The exotic rental company near me rents at less then that, and then you could be driving a Lambo (the lambo works out to about $30 an hour). Also, many dealers will rent you a vehicle assuming they have a loaner available. If you have a car you'd like to drive…

I recently trained an employee that was the least receptive person I think I've ever met in my life. Talk about in one ear out the other. He would ask me how to complete a task, I would show him once, and have him do it once to make sure he got it. The next time that task came up you can bet money that he would come…

Bring them to work for 20 minutes so the office can see them or bring them to work for the day because they have no one that can care for it? Bringing a newborn by for a visit is OK with me, but if you work with people who are supposed to be giving there job 100% attention then babysitting is out of the question. If…

re: #2 I'm guilty of that, if I have something (work related) on my mind, I need to tell someone ASAP because I know myself well enough that if I start getting involved with another conversation I'll totally forget what I needed to say. It's just how my brain works, and I try to not be rude about it, and I would only…

Ewwww... in her defense, I too am a loud sneezer, but I've found I can cover my mouth with my forearm tightly when I feel a sneeze coming on and it muffles the sound a good bit. As for the snot rags being left laying around... eww. Unless I'm sick and have a constantly runny nose (in which case I wouldn't be at work…

You're not the first person to post about this... why do people do this?!? If I saw it in my office I'd go bananas... it's extremely gross, and I'm assuming they clip them so the clippings just fall on the floor? Which means the janitorial staff ends up cleaning up after them... I feel like this is common sense that…