Whatever happened to the reasonable sounding conspiracy theory that AT&T Wireless bungled their CRM upgrade last year in order to sell the company? Upper management overrode their IT dept's plan for a gradual, piecemeal upgrade that would allow fallback and concurrent use of the older rev of Siebel. Instead, they were ordered to whack it in across the board and grab the oh shit handles.
Nobody says you have to buy your phone from the carrier. You're always welcome to purchase equipment from the manufacturer -- always have been, always will. FYI, Bluetooth is unmodified on AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile. Non-GSM carriers probably disable some functionality for a reason. Sprint has only disabled the laptop tethering feature on some of their devices. They must have technical or policy reasons for doing so. I advise you ask them for an explanation instead of merely whining about it.
Two thoughts: 1) move out of your brick house or 2) upgrade to an 850MHz capable GSM phone or switch to a TDMA phone. You probably have an older GSM 1900MHz only device that has notoriously poor reception. 1.9GHz is in the microwave band and, like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc., does not travel as far as the PCS bands.
I posted this to Slashdot 12 hours ago and it was rejected. But now that every other site on the planet is carrying it, suddenly it's an important story. So much for independent thinking. What a bunch of knuckleheads!
This has already been done for speculative fiction. Unfortunately, their ISP pulled the plug on cgi scripts a couple of months ago according to this news update.
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Here's a recent article about a 1995 shooting at Garfield High in Seattle. The author actually tracks down the shooter (now out of jail) and interviews him on the phone. Here's a snippet that summarizes why this incident is forgotten when other school shootings are talked about in the media:
...the Secret Service, like most of the rest of the country, saw the shooting at Garfield as being primarily about drugs and gangs and random black-on-black crime, and therefore not worth including in a study aimed at keeping America's schools (read: suburban America's schools) safe. Interestingly, the study found that while there was no single profile that fit all school shooters, two common threads among all shooters were that they felt "bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack" and had access to weapons--both qualities that describe the Garfield shooter.
So what? You obviously have no idea how the Hugo awards actually work. The award is given by popular vote of WSFS members.
From http://worldcon.org/hugos.html
The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS.
Have you people been living in a freakin' cave? Levy has written three more books and countless columns over the past 15 years. He's currently working on a book about cryptography. Here's a cluepon, kiddies!
We'll have to wait and see if Amiga screws RedHat like they did QNX. Few people had even heard of QNX outside of their still righteous demo disk. At least that ignorant puke from Gateway resigned shortly after that whole fiasco. This whole SDK sham sounds like a bunch of hooey IMHO. Who cares if it's fully buzzword compliant? I'm rather sick of hearing about the latest follies of this zombie company. I say let it die in peace instead of trying to make a half dozen shoddy sequels. It was sickening enough when Jack Tramiel and subsequent CEOs were running things into the ground back in the day at Commodore.
6. Seasoned Sysadmins These users have grown up and do not feel it necessary to pigeonhole the rest of the users on the networks and servers they administer. They do not feel compelled to quote the jargon file or write in threeleet-speak in order to impress their peers.
You're all forgetting the most important rule in science fiction: it's not about tomorrow, it's about today. Shadowrun or any of the other uberpunk SF games or lit. at the time was not all that original since most of the themes have been discussed previously in the genre. It was just given a new attitude and new twists, some of which were fresh and unique.
As for the some of the New Wave authors that predated Gibson, there's John Shirley's "City Come A Walkin'," Rudy Rucker's "Software," Vernor Vinge's "True Names."
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Whatever happened to the reasonable sounding conspiracy theory that AT&T Wireless bungled their CRM upgrade last year in order to sell the company? Upper management overrode their IT dept's plan for a gradual, piecemeal upgrade that would allow fallback and concurrent use of the older rev of Siebel. Instead, they were ordered to whack it in across the board and grab the oh shit handles.
Try prepaid, data rates are 1c/kb on top of other charges. Click on rate options here: http://attwireless.com/gophone
That old thing? They gave it to me because they were bored with it. I'm giving out free phones and shares of the Brooklyn Bridge if you sign up now!
Local loop and long distance, voice over IP (currently in a price war with Vonage), and some silly thing called the Internet.
General Telephone was never a Regional Bell Operating Company. Check your telephone history.
AT&T Wireless split from AT&T Corp back in the summer of 2001.
Nobody says you have to buy your phone from the carrier. You're always welcome to purchase equipment from the manufacturer -- always have been, always will. FYI, Bluetooth is unmodified on AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile. Non-GSM carriers probably disable some functionality for a reason. Sprint has only disabled the laptop tethering feature on some of their devices. They must have technical or policy reasons for doing so. I advise you ask them for an explanation instead of merely whining about it.
Two thoughts: 1) move out of your brick house or 2) upgrade to an 850MHz capable GSM phone or switch to a TDMA phone. You probably have an older GSM 1900MHz only device that has notoriously poor reception. 1.9GHz is in the microwave band and, like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc., does not travel as far as the PCS bands.
I posted this to Slashdot 12 hours ago and it was rejected. But now that every other site on the planet is carrying it, suddenly it's an important story. So much for independent thinking.
What a bunch of knuckleheads!
Has anyone ever approached you about making a documentary about you or buying options to make a "biopic" based on your past?
Heads up kids, this is now up on www.aljzazeera.net: http://members.networld.com/freedom2003/index.sb Someone please grab a copy while it's still up!
This has already been done for speculative fiction. Unfortunately, their ISP pulled the plug on cgi scripts a couple of months ago according to this news update.
Here's a recent article about a 1995 shooting at Garfield High in Seattle. The author actually tracks down the shooter (now out of jail) and interviews him on the phone. Here's a snippet that summarizes why this incident is forgotten when other school shootings are talked about in the media:
...the Secret Service, like most of the rest of the country, saw the shooting at Garfield as being primarily about drugs and gangs and random black-on-black crime, and therefore not worth including in a study aimed at keeping America's schools (read: suburban America's schools) safe. Interestingly, the study found that while there was no single profile that fit all school shooters, two common threads among all shooters were that they felt "bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack" and had access to weapons--both qualities that describe the Garfield shooter.
from smartpages.com...
LAURA BETTERLY
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(727) 733-5335
I suggest we fill out 500,000 business reply cards in her name and see how she likes it.
So what? You obviously have no idea how the Hugo awards actually work. The award is given by popular vote of WSFS members.
From http://worldcon.org/hugos.html
The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS.
See http://worldcon.org/rules.html for more info.
Although the gamers.com article raises some eyebrows, both companies have already denied the allegations. FWIW: Xbox-Dreamcast Rumors Denied
Have you people been living in a freakin' cave? Levy has written three more books and countless columns over the past 15 years. He's currently working on a book about cryptography. Here's a cluepon, kiddies!
We'll have to wait and see if Amiga screws RedHat like they did QNX. Few people had even heard of QNX outside of their still righteous demo disk. At least that ignorant puke from Gateway resigned shortly after that whole fiasco. This whole SDK sham sounds like a bunch of hooey IMHO. Who cares if it's fully buzzword compliant? I'm rather sick of hearing about the latest follies of this zombie company. I say let it die in peace instead of trying to make a half dozen shoddy sequels. It was sickening enough when Jack Tramiel and subsequent CEOs were running things into the ground back in the day at Commodore.
6. Seasoned Sysadmins These users have grown up and do not feel it necessary to pigeonhole the rest of the users on the networks and servers they administer. They do not feel compelled to quote the jargon file or write in threeleet-speak in order to impress their peers.
As for the some of the New Wave authors that predated Gibson, there's John Shirley's "City Come A Walkin'," Rudy Rucker's "Software," Vernor Vinge's "True Names."