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Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP
Ryan Barrett writes "Sprint announced that it has 'begun transforming its telephone network so voice calls are transmitted in packets.' AP article here. Combined with a recent /. story about Telus doing the same thing, this sets an interesting precedent. Many telcos already use packet-switching to handle a significant chunk of their calls. Is this the beginning of the end for circuit-switched networks?"
It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying
.9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did
Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.
All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.
Fact: The USA is dying
I'm not Seth.
Sprint who?
hole FUDgePacking(tm) festival to /./va lairIE's decaying pourtoll.
lookout bullow, the daze of the Godless hostage ransom stock markup frauds, is WANing into coolapps.
consult with yOUR creator.
"This boy shouts, and this boy screams!"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I am French and I am wondering how you can bear that lot of American basis are still on your soil ? Are you really independants ? Why don't you kick the ass of the Americans like us thanks to De Gaulle ? Do you scare the Americans ?
feck. grrrls.
CRTs will be popular again? Why?
Newer LCDs are cheaper to manufactur, offer color ranges just as good (and in some cases, i.e. the apple 23" cinema displays, better color ranges), lower power consumption, brighter backlights, and smaller desk space consumption. About the only problem LCDs haven't tackled is latency but give it time.
Of course hopefully OLEDs will get far enough that LCDs will just drop off the planet.
- tristan
THE'YRE CUTTING THE HARD LINE! Get out now or you'll be trapped in the matrix!