You say you are on the north side of a heavily forested hill. Presumably you also own a fair chunk of the land around you. Strike out south from your house and find a spot that can see the geosynchronous satellite band. If you can't, you'll need to build a tower up to a sufficient height. From that point it is a relatively simple matter of running a long coax cable and trenching it in.
If you aren't feeling that handy talk to a few of the local dish installers until you find somone willing to do it.
The author conflates several very different phenomenon and then tries to draw a conclusion tying it all to his existing bias. It doesn't wash.
The iPhone price drop was planned from the beginning, I guarantee you Jobs planned this out late last year before it was ever announced. $399 was a high price for a cell phone, his brilliant answer, make the price even higher! Then when you drop the price back to the what it needed to be in the first place it suddenly looks like a bargain. AND you get a TON of free publicity for the product again. The guy is a frigging marketing genius, and/or has a number of them working for them.
The 'deal of the century' on houses is another thing altogether. That is a company doing something very smart; getting their money back out of houses they have already built, trading away any potential profit for guaranteed not being in the hole. Why? Because the bottom is about to drop out of those markets. Markets like FL aren't anywhere near the bottom yet.
It is pretty clear from the correspondence and from all the information around this situation that he did in fact violate what MS intended for the treatment of the Express products to be, and gave him ample time to deal with the situation appropriately, which he then violated.
MS isn't always the big bad wolf guys.
Lots of pithy comments in this thread, but here is something that will actually work;
1)Get rid of you physical fax machine
2)Get an efax account
I've been using them for about 8 years now I guess, and I've yet to receive even a single junk fax. They must do some pretty hefty filtering on their end. Faxes come as email attachments which is convenient for filing, forwarding and later retrieval. It is cheaper than maintaining a fax line and machine too.
Now that I think about it I have my old Sidekick Color in a drawer here. It still works fine, I switched to the Sidekick II because it is tri-band so I could use it when I travel overseas and it is a better voice phone than the Color is. Since you don't need that feature you'd probably be just fine with it. You would just need to make sure that T-Mobile will activate it for you (needs a sim card with a Sidekick account).
All yours, free, if you want it and confirm that it will work out for you. It even has 2 chargers (used to keep one in my travel bag) and a belt pouch.
T-Mobile has the Sidekick iD for $99 (with contract and rebate) which isn't too pricey. I've used a sidekick for about 4 years now, pretty much just as a web/email/texting device. It has a great keyboard that you can type at a pretty good pace on. It has an IM client for Aim and Yahoo (I think) as well. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?de vice=ab49893d-e81e-4065-ae87-ee2554ab2688
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You say you are on the north side of a heavily forested hill. Presumably you also own a fair chunk of the land around you. Strike out south from your house and find a spot that can see the geosynchronous satellite band. If you can't, you'll need to build a tower up to a sufficient height. From that point it is a relatively simple matter of running a long coax cable and trenching it in.
If you aren't feeling that handy talk to a few of the local dish installers until you find somone willing to do it.
The author conflates several very different phenomenon and then tries to draw a conclusion tying it all to his existing bias. It doesn't wash. The iPhone price drop was planned from the beginning, I guarantee you Jobs planned this out late last year before it was ever announced. $399 was a high price for a cell phone, his brilliant answer, make the price even higher! Then when you drop the price back to the what it needed to be in the first place it suddenly looks like a bargain. AND you get a TON of free publicity for the product again. The guy is a frigging marketing genius, and/or has a number of them working for them. The 'deal of the century' on houses is another thing altogether. That is a company doing something very smart; getting their money back out of houses they have already built, trading away any potential profit for guaranteed not being in the hole. Why? Because the bottom is about to drop out of those markets. Markets like FL aren't anywhere near the bottom yet.
It is pretty clear from the correspondence and from all the information around this situation that he did in fact violate what MS intended for the treatment of the Express products to be, and gave him ample time to deal with the situation appropriately, which he then violated. MS isn't always the big bad wolf guys.
Lots of pithy comments in this thread, but here is something that will actually work; 1)Get rid of you physical fax machine 2)Get an efax account I've been using them for about 8 years now I guess, and I've yet to receive even a single junk fax. They must do some pretty hefty filtering on their end. Faxes come as email attachments which is convenient for filing, forwarding and later retrieval. It is cheaper than maintaining a fax line and machine too.
Now that I think about it I have my old Sidekick Color in a drawer here. It still works fine, I switched to the Sidekick II because it is tri-band so I could use it when I travel overseas and it is a better voice phone than the Color is. Since you don't need that feature you'd probably be just fine with it. You would just need to make sure that T-Mobile will activate it for you (needs a sim card with a Sidekick account). All yours, free, if you want it and confirm that it will work out for you. It even has 2 chargers (used to keep one in my travel bag) and a belt pouch.
T-Mobile has the Sidekick iD for $99 (with contract and rebate) which isn't too pricey. I've used a sidekick for about 4 years now, pretty much just as a web/email/texting device. It has a great keyboard that you can type at a pretty good pace on. It has an IM client for Aim and Yahoo (I think) as well. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?de vice=ab49893d-e81e-4065-ae87-ee2554ab2688