America's First WCDMA Call

k-hell writes "Ericsson and AT&T Wireless recently completed the first WCDMA/UMTS call in a live network environment in the Americas, capable of data transfer speeds of up to 384 Kbps. AT&T Wireless and Ericsson currently pursuing the path to 3G capabilities in the U.S. market by deploying EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS systems. This path ensures an evolution to EDGE, then UMTS, a wideband radio technology that provides mobile users with data rates up to 2 Mbps." This is not yet a strong enough reason to move to Dallas, though.

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Holy retard, Batman

[Anonymous Coward]

AT&T Wireless and Ericsson currently pursuing the path to 3G capabilities in the U.S. market by deploying EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS systems.

Remember when your teacher told you grammar wasn't that important as long as you could get your point across? THEY LIED.

Re:Holy retard, Batman

[tricknology]

The use of the third-person plural pronoun they to refer to a singular noun or pronoun is attested as early as 1300, and many admired writers have used they, them, themselves, and their to refer to singular nouns such as one, a person, an individual, and each. W.M. Thackeray, for example, wrote in Vanity Fair in 1848, "A person can't help their birth," and more recent writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Anne Morrow Lindbergh have also used this construction, in sentences such as "To do a person in means to kill them," and "When you love someone you do not love them all the time." The practice is widespread and can be found in such mainstream publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Discover, and the Washington Post. The usage is so common in speech that it generally passes unnoticed. However, despite the convenience of third-person plural forms as substitutes for generic he and for structurally awkward coordinate forms like his/her, many people avoid using they to refer to a singular antecedent out of respect for the traditional grammatical rule concerning pronoun agreement. Most of the Usage Panelists reject the use of they with singular antecedents. Eighty-two percent find the sentence The typical student in the program takes about six years to complete their course work unacceptable. Thus, the writer who chooses to use they in similar contexts in writing should do so only if assured that the usage will be read as a conscious choice rather than an error. Interestingly, Panel members do seem to distinguish between singular nouns, such as the typical student, and pronouns that are grammatically singular but semantically plural, such as anyone and everyone. Sixty-four percent of panel members accept the sentence No one is willing to work for those wages anymore, are they? in informal speech.

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The first time I see...

[craenor]

some a-hole driving along surfing the web...I'm gonna kill him.

Re:The first time I see...

[malarkey]

It's probobly more likly that he will kill you. Only in those las few seconds before he plows into you will you be close enough to see what had his attention.

And where his other hand was.

WTF?

[murphj]

That writeup is KOC*. It has a LOA** . WIKWTHTM***!

* Kind Of Confusing
** Lot of Acronyms
*** Wish I knew what the hell they mean

Re:WTF?

[stinky wizzleteats]

So, EDGE fully expands to:

Enhanced Data for Global System for Mobile Communications Evolution

Jesus. Let's just start making up words for stuff like this. I hereby proclaim this technology to be called "durf".

Re:Huh?

[mr_gerbik]

Granted, the Cowboy's aren't the Packers

They are however, a bunch of packers.

You're tellin' me!

[Asprin]

This is not yet a strong enough reason to move to Dallas, though.

Yeah, they're gonna have to throw in something *important* like downloadable ring tones or a Hello Kitty screensaver.

Re:my experience

[DevilM]

you really should get out more!