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Actually there are high end wireless routers out there that cost 3 to 5 thousand. They are intented for high security/authentication purposes. Also it generally cost 50-150 a drop for ethernet. And you are saving significantly more than 11 jacks as the intentions are for a thousand users. Easily making up the cost. Big question simply is, does it have enough distance for these thousand users, probably not.
With this kind of bandwidth it becomes feasable to set up (relativly cheap!) repeaters near the edges of the main connections range, each repeater would naturally be running at much slower speed, but you shove a dozen users on a 802.11g link, even assuming you are only getting 4MB/s over it, that is still over 300KB/s per user!
Oh come on. When you're outside, PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU. Imagine that. You have NO expectation of privacy outside of your property. Public MICROPHONES I could understand, as it allows people to understand what they normally couldn`t - i.e. a private discourse between two people. But cameras? Ridiculous.
The key here is other PEOPLE, the populas as a whole. If I, or a group of people, is doing something that the populas as a whole does not find offensive, and if heck, any local police officers viewing it do not find offensive, then darnit, they do NOT deserve to be able to BS with me!
Cameras in public places let the government go after people after the fact.
I hope you were kidding. I do computer repair, and I take certain steps to make sure I never accidentally open the "My Documents" or "My Pictures" folders unless I need to. If I hired you to fix a customer's computer and I discovered you did that, I would fire you.
Normally yes, except of course when I am asked to go through and backup all important files.
Then I get bored when I find nothing BUT boring important files. *sigh*
But does it save you money by reducing the amount of trash you have?
Yes, my city charges by the number and size of trash cans a person has. More trash cans == more money.
Do you pay or do you get paid for recycling?
Implemented properly, a recycling program is a profit generating activity for a city, thus either enabling the creation of other programs that would not be possible otherwise, or in the very least reducing the need for other forms of funding (i.e. even higher taxes)
Of course government WILL expand to take up whatever funding is available to it, but that is a separate issue.
I don't recycle aluminum, or anything else. If I got a break on my garbage bill I would (maybe), but as is...forget it.
May I just say,
fuuuuucccckkkk yoooouuuuuuu.
Oh, and see if you can downgrade to a smaller sized garbage can for pickup, that IS the advantage of recycle, if it wasn't for recycle my family would have well over 3 huge trash cans every other week of garbage to throw out.
That is what Co-op is really, an internship based program where the company has agreed to work nicely with your school in making sure it doesn't run into the school year, and where the school has arranged to give you credit for the work experience you have gained, and put you on a special "ok so the dudes not here but he still attends" status.
This is the one major thing I have against my University's CS department, the lack of a co-op program.
I begged for an intern but between the slow job posting process at our company and the fact that MS hired the decent local talent it did not go well.
If you are in the Puget Sound, this is not actually 100% true. MS hires their interns from all around the country (and/or globe?), thus they do not really "deplete" the talent pool of any one region.
As I said in my post a bit down below, try Craigslist, it works wonders. Also you can email most University departments and they will post a notice on either their front page or (a highly traveled!) student jobs page, and you will have so many resumes sent to you and requests for interviews that your only concern will be trying to pick just one student out!
A bit of advice from a student, my University's Computer Science department (Western Washington University) makes us fill out forms to get credit for our internships during SPRING quarter, so, umm, if you can, start the hiring process in the winter! Seriously! Students, odd as it may sound, like knowing way ahead of time that they are going to have a summer job, most will be able to give you an accurate assessment of what they skills will be like by the summer, and you can even request of them to take a particular language if so desired. ("Could you please take a.NET class in the spring, it'll help speed things along and let us get you up to speed faster.")
Along with that blog I have (see link below) that no one reads!
Seriously though, they are NOT easy to find, good job/. on linking up to maybe a few dozen positions there. Summer internships are a PAIN, as there are no one (or even two, or three) organized listings of them, and every company seems to hire at a different time. For instance Boeing hires summer interns starting around September and October, where as other companies have interviews in January and February, and a lot of companies, if you call them anytime before June, they say you are too early they have not even begun to think of those things yet!
Oh, for reference, the BEST source of summer internships is just to post your resume up on Craigslist and say you are looking for work as an Intern, I got 3 offers within one week that way. Up until that point I had tried using numerous free (for student) intern-based employment agencies, including Campus Point, umm, they all suck. See almost every company has someone in HR that reads CL, but for any given employment agency, only a few (relative to the overall number of companies out there) companies are signed up with that particular agency.
As for how the internship is going, rather well. I have my own nice sized office, lots of free food and drink, and the work isn't bad either. The coolest part would have to be seeing how much more advanced the stuff used in industry is over the crud they teach us in school. Of course the most depressing part is seeing how messed up the stuff used in industry is as well!
The $$$ is nice, as is making contacts with people so I can hopefully get another internship next summer. That has to be the most valuable part, the communication with people who have been working the field for their entire life.
My GF got a better deal than me though, (and no offense to the guys I work with, you are all great!), she got put in a Unix shop, I am in a Windows shop! Doh!
(as much as I rant and rave against *nix, I DO like it!:)
I would really like to continue on here for another 3 months (they offered) but of course I had to prelease an apartment for this coming school year back in June as well. Bleck.
Now I am a huge Nintendo fanboy, but, umm, not QUITE all of those are accurate:
First 4-way directional pad
Hey, look, it is a joystick with out the stick, and with only half the directions!
Not quite an innovation.
Nice controllers though.:)
First portable gaming system (Game & Watch)
First portable gaming system with LCDs AND a Microprocessor. The key here is those last two, I have seen numerous older systems that used LEDs instead.
Idea to include system upgrades right in the game cartridge (Super FX/Star Fox)
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Sega try this?
Though this wasn't really anything TOO special, as NES games had Mappers that ended up far far extending the power of the original system.
First analog stick for games (N64)
Hey now watch it, all the BBC Micro fans are going to get on you!
The Vectrex Joystick
Vectrex Joystick An analog joystick with four buttons.
http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/gpad.htm
First system to have 4 controller ports (N64)
Actually early Atari 5200 SuperSystem modems had that, as did earlier 8bit computers.
First backwards-compatible system (Gameboy Color, or Advance if you're picky)
Once again Atari bites ya here.
First attempt at 3D virtual reality in a console
Which would that be? Almost EVERYONE has tried that at some point in time or another, if you refer to the Virtual Boy, than I would rather that you didn't.:) Besides, the Virtual Boy wasn't a console, didn't you hear? It was portable!;)
Anyways, the main point here is not to insult Nintendo by any means (I own hundreds of Nintendo games, I love the company), but rather, just to note that what we do today is indeed built upon successes of the past.
That, and not to go and try and reinvent the wheel. If ya ever get hired by a game dev company, study up on your history first before you spend R&D money on something that was already invented.:)
Pathetic? You have got to be kidding. First off, video support sucks under Windows. Let's see... I need Windows Media Player for wmv and mpeg, Quicktime for mov, RealPlayer for real, a proprietary DVD-codec for DVD's, etc. etc.
Linux? mplayer
Lets see, after you copy various DLL files from a Windows install, which neccessitates first INSTALLING those codecs onto a Windows box (or downloading from just the needed DLLs from the net), and depending on your distro follow a different convoluted set of steps to get any other missing codecs installed, and work your butt off every time there are any major changes to the codecs that you need to update. Yah; it all just works....
Oh on Windows? ffdshow and Winamp. Yes you need to install Real Player as well to get Winamp to play EVERYTHING, but hey, nothing is perfect. As a bonus, Winamp also comes with an INTERFACE.
An additional plus, the total time needed to download and install both ffdshow and Winamp on Windows is going to be far less than the equivilent time to get the equivilent alsa/mplayer trifucktica working. Actually I never HAVE gotten ALSA working on this one machine of mine (I shouldn't say that, it works on RANDOM REBOOTS, great, that is so freaking reliable, what type of software works randomly when you reboot your machine? What the hell am I using here, Windows 95??) and when it DID work I could only have one app playing sound at a time, OSS solved both those problems, though I don't get any pretty graphical mixers.
Let's go to the audio now. First, you get Windows Media Player that can play mp3 and wav. OK. Then, I need to search through the Internet to find codecs for all of my ogg's and numerous other streaming formats, etc.
Misinformed aren't you?
ffdshow plays all of those as well. Alternativly Winamp plays almost all codecs by itself (with the exception of Real, for which you have to download Real Player, install a plugin, and then it works. All of which is STILL easier than messing around with a Linux box to make it work!)
Even the performance of Linux is vastly superior to Windows when it comes to audio and video.
In theory? Sure. On high performance systems designed for doing A/V work on? Sure.
On my laptop?
BROWSING THE WEB MAKES MY FREAKING AUDIO SKIP.
Ok granted this is more the fault of Firefox sucking down, well, let me check:
44% of my CPU is being eaten up by processes that SHOULD be nearly idle. I cannot PLAY VIDEOS in Linux without massive skippage. This is a Gentoo box, SuSE was worse.
Granted the problem is I am running KDE, (and all you pro-KDE people SHUT UP, bloat looks like this:
Haven't confirmed this, but a friend got one of those free printers with her new Dell computer - and she tells me the only place you can get ink for her printer is *from* Dell.
Staple's also sell's their own house brand ink cartridges to fit most Dell (and other) printers.
If she does not care about quality (which seems to be likely, as she did not buy a $700 or so Epson), then I would suggest checking out either their store or website.
I used to as well, it sucked. A lot. Then again I was using the YOPER version of it, no clue how well the main line branch of it does.
There's a tab to see what it installed and where.
True, but I was thinking more of YaST2 when I posted, SuSE loves to shove stuff all around your hard drive, make new directories without informing you, and do all other sorts of nice stuff. In retrospect SOME of it is nice, but if you do not KNOW that it is going to happen. . . .
(such as spending 20 minutes trying to find the apache web-root directory only to then realize that new "srv" directory under/)
Nonsense. The "Mars race" won't provide any of these benefits. Shielding is shielding,
That is the problem now isn't it? Our shielding technology sucks. Once every few years you hear some news blurb about scientists making a wee bit more progress towards energy based shielding, it would sure be nice if mankind finally gained control over such technologies.
and everything except high energy photons is pretty easy: Water/boron for neutrons and just about anything for electrons (beta) or alphas.
The point here would be to discover something aside from the obvious solution. We all know what the obvious solutions are, but they are not practical.
I'm not sure I see the point of even going to Mars in the first place; like Kennedy's moon trip, going to Mars will get us nothing. Things are just too impractical to get anything useful done on either planet. The futurists all argue, "well, SOME day it'll be practical". Wasn't this the same group that predicted we'd have, ten years ago, flying cars, transporters, faster than light travel, etc?
Well instead we have had incredible advancements in laser technology, computers, and our understanding of biology.
Advancements in all fields can be related to space travel.
Pouring money into focused research DOES pay off, you may think that the goal is stupid, (ie Mars habitation) but I can immediately think of some benefits from workings towards it:
Better understanding of radiation and appropriate shielding methods
Brand new methods of shielding from radiation of multiple types
A better understanding of our own cellular structure and how well it can withstand a variety of harsh conditions
We do not have the knowledge to solve this problem now, so obviously when we do reach a solution, we shall have learned something in the journey getting there.
Wow, Google sucks at this. It must only search the file name or something, I don't know what is going on, does it just look at ID3 tags?
The Chinese search engine has something going on here, it is not GREAT per say (then again I am testing it with really off beat bands) but they at least seeded the engine with a lot of legal sites (indie record company sites with one or two tracks from a band), and seem to give at least a FEW results, where as Google has returned nothing for all of my queries!
If the service is universal and one of those "expected things" that everyone is used to, then it will be allowed.
Also VPN is not the same as having universal access to your files. Nor is SCPing files from one computer to another convenient, more convenient than not having the files at all, yes, but still not the same as just opening them from within an application native to the computer you are on.
I do not like the idea of one big company having all of our data either (which is one good reason I was so against the idea initially when Sun proposed it many moons ago), but I still think that we need SOME type of an improvement over the current protocol mish-mash that we have going on.
The television was an international affair, the Airplane has had great strides from the British, Germans, and Americans, and many others as well.
AC power
Umm, I do believe we ridiculed the man who gave us that one.
the CPU
With help from NUMEROUS European academics I might add. One of the most importance of which would be a certian George Boole (British).
The US's current level of academic excellence sucks so incredibly much. With how much we pour into education (not nearly enough! But still a LOT), we have so little to show for it. Third World countries have higher academic STANDARDS than we do, we just have the funding to ensure every child CAN go to school, (and we do an EXCELLENT job of ensuring that children get to school, and get fed), but once they are there, the actual learning part is lacking.
America could do great things, if only its great minds were not destroyed so young.
I guess this is proof to all of us of exactly HOW much these Microsoft engineers know. It's on the far end of SAD that these engineers have source code to the entire operating system at their fingertips and yet they are more ignorant than some "hacker."
Yah well these guys consider "working" to include "oops no DHCP client".
I would imagine that Microsoft includes "working" to mean "can connect to websites and download stuff".
Well yah, Sprint just rocks for data.:) I have Cingular, which actually now DOES have an unlimited data plan (yah!) for a mere "$20" a month.
For $15 a month I get 10MB and it costs 1 cent per kilobyte after that.
Looking at their website, text messages are NOT included! Those are still 10 cents each, or 20 cents for multimedia. For another $10 I can get 200 text messages, and for $20 I can get 1000.
The way it works I can NOT get BOTH unlimited internet AND bundled text messages at the same time. It appears I have to get either 1000 text messages and 5 MB of internet usage, OR unlimited internet and pay for text messaging!
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Actually there are high end wireless routers out there that cost 3 to 5 thousand. They are intented for high security/authentication purposes. Also it generally cost 50-150 a drop for ethernet. And you are saving significantly more than 11 jacks as the intentions are for a thousand users. Easily making up the cost. Big question simply is, does it have enough distance for these thousand users, probably not.
With this kind of bandwidth it becomes feasable to set up (relativly cheap!) repeaters near the edges of the main connections range, each repeater would naturally be running at much slower speed, but you shove a dozen users on a 802.11g link, even assuming you are only getting 4MB/s over it, that is still over 300KB/s per user!
The key here is other PEOPLE, the populas as a whole. If I, or a group of people, is doing something that the populas as a whole does not find offensive, and if heck, any local police officers viewing it do not find offensive, then darnit, they do NOT deserve to be able to BS with me!
Cameras in public places let the government go after people after the fact.
I hope you were kidding. I do computer repair, and I take certain steps to make sure I never accidentally open the "My Documents" or "My Pictures" folders unless I need to. If I hired you to fix a customer's computer and I discovered you did that, I would fire you.
Normally yes, except of course when I am asked to go through and backup all important files.
Then I get bored when I find nothing BUT boring important files. *sigh*
They are called floaters
Basically a range of various dead things that are in your eye ball, mostly things that used to be part OF your eye.
Yah, someone needs to spank the DB admin. Or at least take away his cookies.
Yes, my city charges by the number and size of trash cans a person has. More trash cans == more money.
Implemented properly, a recycling program is a profit generating activity for a city, thus either enabling the creation of other programs that would not be possible otherwise, or in the very least reducing the need for other forms of funding (i.e. even higher taxes)
Of course government WILL expand to take up whatever funding is available to it, but that is a separate issue.
May I just say,
fuuuuucccckkkk yoooouuuuuuu.
Oh, and see if you can downgrade to a smaller sized garbage can for pickup, that IS the advantage of recycle, if it wasn't for recycle my family would have well over 3 huge trash cans every other week of garbage to throw out.
Ouch. That IS slow, it takes your HR department that long to forward an email?
I think that either they need some interns, or a personnel shakeup!
That is what Co-op is really, an internship based program where the company has agreed to work nicely with your school in making sure it doesn't run into the school year, and where the school has arranged to give you credit for the work experience you have gained, and put you on a special "ok so the dudes not here but he still attends" status.
This is the one major thing I have against my University's CS department, the lack of a co-op program.
If you are in the Puget Sound, this is not actually 100% true. MS hires their interns from all around the country (and/or globe?), thus they do not really "deplete" the talent pool of any one region.
As I said in my post a bit down below, try Craigslist, it works wonders. Also you can email most University departments and they will post a notice on either their front page or (a highly traveled!) student jobs page, and you will have so many resumes sent to you and requests for interviews that your only concern will be trying to pick just one student out!
A bit of advice from a student, my University's Computer Science department (Western Washington University) makes us fill out forms to get credit for our internships during SPRING quarter, so, umm, if you can, start the hiring process in the winter! Seriously! Students, odd as it may sound, like knowing way ahead of time that they are going to have a summer job, most will be able to give you an accurate assessment of what they skills will be like by the summer, and you can even request of them to take a particular language if so desired. ("Could you please take a
Along with that blog I have (see link below) that no one reads!
/. on linking up to maybe a few dozen positions there. Summer internships are a PAIN, as there are no one (or even two, or three) organized listings of them, and every company seems to hire at a different time. For instance Boeing hires summer interns starting around September and October, where as other companies have interviews in January and February, and a lot of companies, if you call them anytime before June, they say you are too early they have not even begun to think of those things yet!
:)
Seriously though, they are NOT easy to find, good job
Oh, for reference, the BEST source of summer internships is just to post your resume up on Craigslist and say you are looking for work as an Intern, I got 3 offers within one week that way. Up until that point I had tried using numerous free (for student) intern-based employment agencies, including Campus Point, umm, they all suck. See almost every company has someone in HR that reads CL, but for any given employment agency, only a few (relative to the overall number of companies out there) companies are signed up with that particular agency.
As for how the internship is going, rather well. I have my own nice sized office, lots of free food and drink, and the work isn't bad either. The coolest part would have to be seeing how much more advanced the stuff used in industry is over the crud they teach us in school. Of course the most depressing part is seeing how messed up the stuff used in industry is as well!
The $$$ is nice, as is making contacts with people so I can hopefully get another internship next summer. That has to be the most valuable part, the communication with people who have been working the field for their entire life.
My GF got a better deal than me though, (and no offense to the guys I work with, you are all great!), she got put in a Unix shop, I am in a Windows shop! Doh!
(as much as I rant and rave against *nix, I DO like it!
I would really like to continue on here for another 3 months (they offered) but of course I had to prelease an apartment for this coming school year back in June as well. Bleck.
Hey, look, it is a joystick with out the stick, and with only half the directions!
Not quite an innovation.
Nice controllers though.
First portable gaming system with LCDs AND a Microprocessor. The key here is those last two, I have seen numerous older systems that used LEDs instead.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Sega try this?
Though this wasn't really anything TOO special, as NES games had Mappers that ended up far far extending the power of the original system.
Hey now watch it, all the BBC Micro fans are going to get on you!
http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/gpad.htm
Actually early Atari 5200 SuperSystem modems had that, as did earlier 8bit computers.
Once again Atari bites ya here.
Which would that be? Almost EVERYONE has tried that at some point in time or another, if you refer to the Virtual Boy, than I would rather that you didn't.
Anyways, the main point here is not to insult Nintendo by any means (I own hundreds of Nintendo games, I love the company), but rather, just to note that what we do today is indeed built upon successes of the past.
That, and not to go and try and reinvent the wheel. If ya ever get hired by a game dev company, study up on your history first before you spend R&D money on something that was already invented.
Lets see, after you copy various DLL files from a Windows install, which neccessitates first INSTALLING those codecs onto a Windows box (or downloading from just the needed DLLs from the net), and depending on your distro follow a different convoluted set of steps to get any other missing codecs installed, and work your butt off every time there are any major changes to the codecs that you need to update. Yah; it all just works. ...
Oh on Windows? ffdshow and Winamp. Yes you need to install Real Player as well to get Winamp to play EVERYTHING, but hey, nothing is perfect. As a bonus, Winamp also comes with an INTERFACE.
An additional plus, the total time needed to download and install both ffdshow and Winamp on Windows is going to be far less than the equivilent time to get the equivilent alsa/mplayer trifucktica working. Actually I never HAVE gotten ALSA working on this one machine of mine (I shouldn't say that, it works on RANDOM REBOOTS, great, that is so freaking reliable, what type of software works randomly when you reboot your machine? What the hell am I using here, Windows 95??) and when it DID work I could only have one app playing sound at a time, OSS solved both those problems, though I don't get any pretty graphical mixers.
Misinformed aren't you?
ffdshow plays all of those as well. Alternativly Winamp plays almost all codecs by itself (with the exception of Real, for which you have to download Real Player, install a plugin, and then it works. All of which is STILL easier than messing around with a Linux box to make it work!)
In theory? Sure. On high performance systems designed for doing A/V work on? Sure.
On my laptop?
BROWSING THE WEB MAKES MY FREAKING AUDIO SKIP.
Ok granted this is more the fault of Firefox sucking down, well, let me check:
Yah well, there is that. It is a 2.6GHZ machine BTW. Mind you, X is not much better:
44% of my CPU is being eaten up by processes that SHOULD be nearly idle. I cannot PLAY VIDEOS in Linux without massive skippage. This is a Gentoo box, SuSE was worse.
Granted the problem is I am running KDE, (and all you pro-KDE people SHUT UP, bloat looks like this:
Staple's also sell's their own house brand ink cartridges to fit most Dell (and other) printers.
If she does not care about quality (which seems to be likely, as she did not buy a $700 or so Epson), then I would suggest checking out either their store or website.
Monad rocks actually. It has TONS of rough edges, but I can see how it is insanly powerful as well.
Come on, the idea of piping entire objects doesn't light up any of the nerd bits in you at all?
I used to as well, it sucked. A lot. Then again I was using the YOPER version of it, no clue how well the main line branch of it does.
True, but I was thinking more of YaST2 when I posted, SuSE loves to shove stuff all around your hard drive, make new directories without informing you, and do all other sorts of nice stuff. In retrospect SOME of it is nice, but if you do not KNOW that it is going to happen. . . .
(such as spending 20 minutes trying to find the apache web-root directory only to then realize that new "srv" directory under
That is the problem now isn't it? Our shielding technology sucks. Once every few years you hear some news blurb about scientists making a wee bit more progress towards energy based shielding, it would sure be nice if mankind finally gained control over such technologies.
and everything except high energy photons is pretty easy: Water/boron for neutrons and just about anything for electrons (beta) or alphas.
The point here would be to discover something aside from the obvious solution. We all know what the obvious solutions are, but they are not practical.
You forgot a few things:
Then you find out what the actual NAME of the executable you just installed is.
You find the text configuration file for it and set it up (albiet if your Distro is a good one they have the configuration file well commented)
(only occasionally) you create a few symlinks to some libraries that the program seem to be expecting
(Java related) Fart around with path statements for half an hour or so
Edit your AppMenu's text file to add your program in there (if desired)
Run!
Hey what could be simplier?
Well instead we have had incredible advancements in laser technology, computers, and our understanding of biology.
Advancements in all fields can be related to space travel.
Pouring money into focused research DOES pay off, you may think that the goal is stupid, (ie Mars habitation) but I can immediately think of some benefits from workings towards it:
We do not have the knowledge to solve this problem now, so obviously when we do reach a solution, we shall have learned something in the journey getting there.
Wow, Google sucks at this. It must only search the file name or something, I don't know what is going on, does it just look at ID3 tags?
The Chinese search engine has something going on here, it is not GREAT per say (then again I am testing it with really off beat bands) but they at least seeded the engine with a lot of legal sites (indie record company sites with one or two tracks from a band), and seem to give at least a FEW results, where as Google has returned nothing for all of my queries!
If the service is universal and one of those "expected things" that everyone is used to, then it will be allowed.
Also VPN is not the same as having universal access to your files. Nor is SCPing files from one computer to another convenient, more convenient than not having the files at all, yes, but still not the same as just opening them from within an application native to the computer you are on.
I do not like the idea of one big company having all of our data either (which is one good reason I was so against the idea initially when Sun proposed it many moons ago), but I still think that we need SOME type of an improvement over the current protocol mish-mash that we have going on.
The television was an international affair, the Airplane has had great strides from the British, Germans, and Americans, and many others as well.
Umm, I do believe we ridiculed the man who gave us that one.
With help from NUMEROUS European academics I might add. One of the most importance of which would be a certian George Boole (British).
The US's current level of academic excellence sucks so incredibly much. With how much we pour into education (not nearly enough! But still a LOT), we have so little to show for it. Third World countries have higher academic STANDARDS than we do, we just have the funding to ensure every child CAN go to school, (and we do an EXCELLENT job of ensuring that children get to school, and get fed), but once they are there, the actual learning part is lacking.
America could do great things, if only its great minds were not destroyed so young.
Yah well these guys consider "working" to include "oops no DHCP client".
I would imagine that Microsoft includes "working" to mean "can connect to websites and download stuff".
You don't use Windows very much do you? Assuming you have the time to install Cygwin. . . .
(or whatever Windows based SSH client you want)
Oh also assuming you even have WRITE access to the HD on the computer that you are on!
Unless you are behind a really restrictive firewall. Doh!
Well yah, Sprint just rocks for data. :) I have Cingular, which actually now DOES have an unlimited data plan (yah!) for a mere "$20" a month.
For $15 a month I get 10MB and it costs 1 cent per kilobyte after that.
Looking at their website, text messages are NOT included! Those are still 10 cents each, or 20 cents for multimedia. For another $10 I can get 200 text messages, and for $20 I can get 1000.
The way it works I can NOT get BOTH unlimited internet AND bundled text messages at the same time. It appears I have to get either 1000 text messages and 5 MB of internet usage, OR unlimited internet and pay for text messaging!
Oh have I mentioned yet that Cingular sucks?