The Canadian plan is C$150 including about $50 of air time. Even with our dollar, that's still about USD$100. The article said $20 for the phone with a block of airtime.
Digital cellular uses vastly less battery power. So the analogy of tower spacing as proof of the reach of the technology is not applicable.
I have a phone with a sub-ounce battery. The battery life is pathetic in analog-only zones, presumably because it has to reach further to get to those wider-spaced towers you describe.
The key event killing the "IBM owns the biz" lawsuit was not Microsoft. That hadn't established dominance yet. The monopoly lawsuit became irrelevant when the Digital VAX made significant inroads into IBM's core market.
VAX vs 360 is an analogy that illustrates why Microsoft tried to make such an issue of Linux in the tail end of the lawsuit. But it was not enough
Imagine a blind person going to a bank. He hails a cab, gets into the back seat on the left. The cab drives to the bank, and the blind guy uses the machine. The cab drives him home and he gives the driver some of the money he got from the ATM. The generic driver never needed to know the guy's PIN and the blind guy didn't have to cope with a lineup for a teller.
Follow their links page. One Reviewer said: "Keyboard feel is excellent, and the unit is admirably thin, a boon for travelers likely to be using it on tables taller than ideal. It is less successful on one's lap, where it tends to fold back at the center and has trouble keeping the attached organizer erect."
Their page lists reviews back to mid September. How come it takes a month and a half for the "news for nerds" to notice? (The real excuse for this post is to test whether the HTML works better this time.)
They list magazines that are covering the keyboard. Hopefully, one of those has more meaningful info than the rather sparse web page. They list reviews (paper & net) on their http://www.thinkoutside.com/news.html
Still "removed" as of an hour later. This eliminates your theory #2, leaving us with [withdrawn] or [slashdotted]. Surely of all servers, Yahoo.com could handle a slashdot story?
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The Canadian plan is C$150 including about $50 of air time. Even with our dollar, that's still about USD$100. The article said $20 for the phone with a block of airtime.
Digital cellular uses vastly less battery power. So the analogy of tower spacing as proof of the reach of the technology is not applicable.
I have a phone with a sub-ounce battery. The battery life is pathetic in analog-only zones, presumably because it has to reach further to get to those wider-spaced towers you describe.
The key event killing the "IBM owns the biz" lawsuit was not Microsoft. That hadn't established dominance yet. The monopoly lawsuit became irrelevant when the Digital VAX made significant inroads into IBM's core market.
VAX vs 360 is an analogy that illustrates why Microsoft tried to make such an issue of Linux in the tail end of the lawsuit. But it was not enough
Imagine a blind person going to a bank. He hails a cab, gets into the back seat on the left. The cab drives to the bank, and the blind guy uses the machine. The cab drives him home and he gives the driver some of the money he got from the ATM. The generic driver never needed to know the guy's PIN and the blind guy didn't have to cope with a lineup for a teller.
Follow their links page. One Reviewer said: "Keyboard feel is excellent, and the unit is admirably thin, a boon for travelers likely to be using it on tables taller than ideal. It is less successful on one's lap, where it tends to fold back at the center and has trouble keeping the attached organizer erect."
Their page lists reviews back to mid September. How come it takes a month and a half for the "news for nerds" to notice? (The real excuse for this post is to test whether the HTML works better this time.)
They list magazines that are covering the keyboard. Hopefully, one of those has more meaningful info than the rather sparse web page. They list reviews (paper & net) on their http://www.thinkoutside.com/news.html
Still "removed" as of an hour later. This eliminates your theory #2, leaving us with [withdrawn] or [slashdotted]. Surely of all servers, Yahoo.com could handle a slashdot story?