Oh, you mean like how we should understand how human muscles contract before we try to build forklifts, or how humans metabolize food before we build steam engines?
So somehow in the video game, you're able to tell the differences between Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Turks, Baluchis, Uzbeks, and Tajiks? Because, you know, I have trouble telling from CNN footage. What are you doing, checking their passports?
Other missions have other racial groups, but I'll be dammed if I can tell the Russians from the Ukrainians, or the Kazakhs from the Mongolians.
And let's face it, most terror groups are not as multi-ethnic as Sesame Street.
Is your hatred of Microsoft so deep that you will instead support a regime that has caused more human suffering than any in history? That kills and suppresses its own people by the thousand, jails those who criticize it, and bans expressions of religion. That is corrupt and self-deceiving, and that allowing hundreds of millions in the countryside to literally starve while they overbuild useless real estate to impress foreigners?
Yes, Microsoft has not always been a good corporate citizen, but there's a world of difference between unfair business practices and actual tyranny. Just because people use the same rhetoric to condemn both does not mean that the magnitude of their crimes is even close.
(In fact, if Microsoft actually did criticize the Communist government and party, they deserve our full support. It's more likely that they are actually just as craven as the rest of American business, but just didn't influence the right people in this case.)
Sprint hasn't exactly abandoned it. I have the Sprint service at home (and it works excellent, by the way).
What they have done, starting about a month or two ago, is stop signing up and installing new subscribers. They've promised to keep servicing existing customers, and they have done so.
They say that they will just stay on hold until the cost of providing the service drops, and/or non-directional MMDS becomes feasible.
I suspect that part of the problem is that there are not many metro areas with the combination of demographics and topography where they can expand the service cheaply with line-of-sight MMDS. They already have (for example) Denver and Phoenix dealt with because those are techy, flat cities with high mountains nearby, so they can serve many households with just one tower. But they probably have no more places left.
Not many people mention it, because it's only been deployed a few months to >15 cities so far, but I've been very happy with my wireless broadband access. Mine's provided by Sprint Broadband. It's dedicated bandwidth (unlike cable), and installation was painless (unlike DSL). Download performance for me varies between 500 kpbs to 1.3 kbps, but I've seen bursts that a lot higher. On the other hand, it was faster for me when I first had it installed, and slower in the past month or so. I suspect that it's because the tower is servicing more people. It's not affected by rain or snow, not that I've been able to detect.
Now the downside is, it requires a line-of-sight to the tower, which isn't as bad as it sounds. I'm 25-30 miles from the tower, and I definitely can't see it, so it doesn't have to be visible. I can't get cable or DSL out where I am, by the way. This is probably not so good for people who live in densely wooded places, but it works great in Denver.
Installation was painless. I set up and appointment over the web, the guy showed up (with five minutes left in his two-hour arrival window, but okay, still within the window) mounted a transceiver on the roof, ran some cabling, hooked up the modem, and was done in two hours.
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Oh, you mean like how we should understand how human muscles contract before we try to build forklifts, or how humans metabolize food before we build steam engines?
So somehow in the video game, you're able to tell the differences between Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Turks, Baluchis, Uzbeks, and Tajiks? Because, you know, I have trouble telling from CNN footage. What are you doing, checking their passports?
Other missions have other racial groups, but I'll be dammed if I can tell the Russians from the Ukrainians, or the Kazakhs from the Mongolians.
And let's face it, most terror groups are not as multi-ethnic as Sesame Street.
Tool.
Is your hatred of Microsoft so deep that you will instead support a regime that has caused more human suffering than any in history? That kills and suppresses its own people by the thousand, jails those who criticize it, and bans expressions of religion. That is corrupt and self-deceiving, and that allowing hundreds of millions in the countryside to literally starve while they overbuild useless real estate to impress foreigners?
Yes, Microsoft has not always been a good corporate citizen, but there's a world of difference between unfair business practices and actual tyranny. Just because people use the same rhetoric to condemn both does not mean that the magnitude of their crimes is even close.
(In fact, if Microsoft actually did criticize the Communist government and party, they deserve our full support. It's more likely that they are actually just as craven as the rest of American business, but just didn't influence the right people in this case.)
Sprint hasn't exactly abandoned it. I have the Sprint service at home (and it works excellent, by the way).
What they have done, starting about a month or two ago, is stop signing up and installing new subscribers. They've promised to keep servicing existing customers, and they have done so.
They say that they will just stay on hold until the cost of providing the service drops, and/or non-directional MMDS becomes feasible.
I suspect that part of the problem is that there are not many metro areas with the combination of demographics and topography where they can expand the service cheaply with line-of-sight MMDS. They already have (for example) Denver and Phoenix dealt with because those are techy, flat cities with high mountains nearby, so they can serve many households with just one tower. But they probably have no more places left.
Why, this could be as huge as Minitel!
The speed of sound in water is *higher* than the speed of sound in air. In general, the speed of sound goes up in a more dense medium.
Not many people mention it, because it's only been deployed a few months to >15 cities so far, but I've been very happy with my wireless broadband access. Mine's provided by Sprint Broadband. It's dedicated bandwidth (unlike cable), and installation was painless (unlike DSL). Download performance for me varies between 500 kpbs to 1.3 kbps, but I've seen bursts that a lot higher. On the other hand, it was faster for me when I first had it installed, and slower in the past month or so. I suspect that it's because the tower is servicing more people. It's not affected by rain or snow, not that I've been able to detect.
Now the downside is, it requires a line-of-sight to the tower, which isn't as bad as it sounds. I'm 25-30 miles from the tower, and I definitely can't see it, so it doesn't have to be visible. I can't get cable or DSL out where I am, by the way. This is probably not so good for people who live in densely wooded places, but it works great in Denver.
Installation was painless. I set up and appointment over the web, the guy showed up (with five minutes left in his two-hour arrival window, but okay, still within the window) mounted a transceiver on the roof, ran some cabling, hooked up the modem, and was done in two hours.
Actually, I think he's referring to the screen sizes on cell phones, and saying that you'll go with Palms instead of phones for mobile web browsing.
Not that there's much of a difference between a wireless voice-activated Palm device, and a web-browsing phone.