2. Your partially correct there. The small packets sms uses are pretty light compared to voice or data usage. However, these "sms packets" are actually using the dead space in control packets. These packets, if sent to often, can negatively impact base station switch performance. This is why your texts will go through when you can't make a data or voice connection as well. If the tower gets overloaded with sms, it can crash.
So, the charges are to keep people (and software, which has crashed towers) from over-using it. Once the carriers move to LTE much of this problem will be mitigated, as LTE can control priorities of sms, data, voice, etc much better than GSM/CDMA. But it will be awhile before LTE replaces (if ever) 3g completely...HSPA+ will keep the US on 3g for a few more years at least.
I can't say who I work for...but it's as a CSR for a major carrier. With us, you can get a "data opt-out" feature added for free on your phone unless it's a smartphone. You can also block texts. However, if you block data then you can't receive MMS information because the actual pic/vid is sent via our internet gateway.
Our policy is to remove data charges if you call and complain, especially if it's a small amount (usually under $50). Since we charge $2 per "use", if you used the net 25 times in a month then it's probably not accidental, or there is something wrong with your phone.
This isn't even the big problem, all of this could be dealt with using the right scripting in conjunction with the billing system. The real problem is the billing agreements that we have with hundreds, if not thousands, of these "3rd party content providers" that can get on to your bill via various means...random texts you might reply to, a website where you enter your phone number...the funniest thing is that this functionality was mandated by the government after the Ma Bell break-up to provide infrastructure access for everyone.
Be carefull putting your mobile number in Facebook. I currently work for one of the worlds largest mobile telecoms as a CSR, and we just had a bit of training where we learned that your cell phone bill can be charged by a 3rd party game if you click and play the wrong one. Every day I remove "mobile download" 3-rd party charges because there is little obvious warning about playing some game will add a 9.99 monthly subscription because they where able to retrieve your cell phone via FB.
It's just getting worse, I wish there was a better way to educate people. Not because I care about people, but because I'm tired of having to remove the subscriptions ten times a day every day lol.
It's totally obvious. It's Texas, from where the GOP will launch their army of clones from. They already have insurgents working in Oklahoma...I've met them in battle.
Hopefully we still have at least 10-15 years at the current level the Texas Legislature is funding the project on. My insiders tell me Haliburton is using off-shore stem cell research facilities to close the time gap, however.
well, it's as I've always said "big girls like to eat!"
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Sweet! Thanks, I'll look at those over the weekend. I've gotten many of my friends to loving Drupal because of it's vast amount of plugins. I have yet to dip into doing any of my own, because this was really the only thing I couldn't find that already existed. I knew their had to be something out there, I just couldn't really find it. Now if I can just fix the access problems I'm having with it and cron.org to update my feeds lol
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I've looked over the moduals at drupal.org, but haven't found anything useful. Does anyone know of a decent project management modual? I've used PHPProject in the past, it doesn't need to be as complex as that. I really just need to be able to assign tasks to users, define projects, and maybe allocate resources to tasks and projects. Gnatt, time estimates, milestones and such would be a positive bonus, but not a requirement. And no, I don't really have the time to make one myself...
Your actually thinking of the Alcubierre "warp drive", not Star Trek warp drives. In ST, they use a system that pushes the ship into deeper regions of "subspace", more akin to layers of an onion. The Alcubierre drive makes a stable bubble of spacetime using exotic matter and moves through normal space.
God didn't kill Judas. Judas was chosen by Jesus to betray him, telling him he would be hated for all generations, but someone had to do it.
Read the Gospel of Judas if you want a "citation". It was re-discovered and translated in 2006, the Discovery Channel had a very interesting show on it.
I live in Oklahoma and I see "Native Americans" all the time. They even have their own federally-regulated land they can do pretty much whatever with. Now, I'm not saying my government should have done what they did...but there really are nearly 3 million of them left, of several different tribes.
After several SR seesions, my players came to hate my gaming sessions. They speed in a B or higher sec area, they may get pulled over...hey, you have a permit for those weapons? After a few sessions, they had an APB out on most of their vehicles...they finally figured out to keep a far lower profile, buy clothes so they could blend in different places, not carry mil grade weapons on the transit...oh, but it was fun for me. Just because it's a cyberpunk game doesn't mean the entire city is a complete free-for-all anarchy zone. And it's really fun when they go to a different city and have no knowledge of the local layout and no contacts except their mark.
Well, current polls put him under 40% right now in approval. Unless we're actually facing a land invasion or something similar, I really don't think it would work very well.
I live in Oklahoma, which is pretty damn Republican. If cleaner teams started sweeping the streets shooting American citizens, I know for a fact that most people wouldn't just be like "oh, what's on TV?".
I don't think there will be an actual revolt though. I really think that what will happen is a gradual disingration, possibly followed by a break-up of the USA, due to general unsustaniblity of our current lifestyle. We will eventually push our resources too far.
Go ask a vetran you know...ask them what it would take for them to take up arms against the general population.
Actually, probably so. Many in the armed forces would not take up arms against their fellow countrymen without a damn good reason. It's one thing doing disaster recovery...it's another to tell them to go "house to house" in New York or Chicago. Even using troops from different areas of the country probably wouldn't work too well. I would expect the officer corp would be very much against it to.
A decent chunk of the US's population is former military too. They know how to fight, know what equipment to sabatoge, and could easily make life a living hell for the troops who didn't just flat walk out and quit when the pacification order was given.
Currently, there are 499,000 active duty Army troops, backed up by 700,000 National Guard and Army reservists. There are, as of 2005, 67,742,879 males age 18-49 and 67,070,144 females age 18-49. 12 million vs. 1.2 million. Many of the active duty / reserve troops are dissatisfied due to Iraq already...what do you think their reaction would be to have to come home to enforce martial law?
If it actually came to the point of using artillary or ordinace against US citizens, then whatever administration started it has already lost. They would probably accomplish hastening the end of our current civilization too.
This isn't even bringing the UN or EU into the fray. A highly destablized and civil-warring US would be horrible news for the rest of the globe too. Something tells me everyone wouldn't just sit by and watch us nuke ourselves 10,000 times over.
I can almost guarentee all these crazy power-grabbing laws will be either revoked or "sunsetted" by the Bush administration if his party looses the Presidential election. Of course he wouldn't want his enemies to hae the same powers.
I put an ATI wonder card in my sony box...haven't had an issue like that. Their pretty cheap...the 32mb card works great as a "media box" card. I didn't even try to use the built-in svideo port.
Actually, I was recently reading about using man-made volcanoes to deposit specific chemicals in the stratosphere to reflect more UV and counteract the rising temp. It would take alot of effort, but not completly beyond our current level of tech...esp if its that or death.
people like myself who do a fair amount of programming against MySQL databases, and consider it a feature of the product that it's pretty easy to do without having to fuss much with the actual database. Still, it's nice to look at what goes on under the hood, even if smoke isn't pouring out from beneath it.
Yeah, I heard there was some fancy-GUI interface to it...personally I like doing it all by hand, at least after the initial layout is set. I've been doing that since around 2002 though, so I'm pretty used to coming up with sql statements in my sleep at this point.
no no no...Shadowrun is based on the return of Magick in 2012, which marks the beginning of the Sixth World on the Mayan calander. The "matrix", megacorps, and such are mere backdrops for the real battle for control of reality by the people and creatures who survived from the Fourth World (our magically devoid world being the Fifth World). Each World lasts for about 7,000-8,000 years. The megacorps are nothing compared to The Horror That Awaits Beyond the Veil (or, for SR players who don't know...the insect spirits are the same as the Horrors from EarthDawn's game...EarthDawn is SR around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago or more).
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2. Your partially correct there. The small packets sms uses are pretty light compared to voice or data usage. However, these "sms packets" are actually using the dead space in control packets. These packets, if sent to often, can negatively impact base station switch performance. This is why your texts will go through when you can't make a data or voice connection as well. If the tower gets overloaded with sms, it can crash.
So, the charges are to keep people (and software, which has crashed towers) from over-using it. Once the carriers move to LTE much of this problem will be mitigated, as LTE can control priorities of sms, data, voice, etc much better than GSM/CDMA. But it will be awhile before LTE replaces (if ever) 3g completely...HSPA+ will keep the US on 3g for a few more years at least.
I can't say who I work for...but it's as a CSR for a major carrier. With us, you can get a "data opt-out" feature added for free on your phone unless it's a smartphone. You can also block texts. However, if you block data then you can't receive MMS information because the actual pic/vid is sent via our internet gateway.
Our policy is to remove data charges if you call and complain, especially if it's a small amount (usually under $50). Since we charge $2 per "use", if you used the net 25 times in a month then it's probably not accidental, or there is something wrong with your phone.
This isn't even the big problem, all of this could be dealt with using the right scripting in conjunction with the billing system. The real problem is the billing agreements that we have with hundreds, if not thousands, of these "3rd party content providers" that can get on to your bill via various means...random texts you might reply to, a website where you enter your phone number...the funniest thing is that this functionality was mandated by the government after the Ma Bell break-up to provide infrastructure access for everyone.
Be carefull putting your mobile number in Facebook. I currently work for one of the worlds largest mobile telecoms as a CSR, and we just had a bit of training where we learned that your cell phone bill can be charged by a 3rd party game if you click and play the wrong one. Every day I remove "mobile download" 3-rd party charges because there is little obvious warning about playing some game will add a 9.99 monthly subscription because they where able to retrieve your cell phone via FB.
It's just getting worse, I wish there was a better way to educate people. Not because I care about people, but because I'm tired of having to remove the subscriptions ten times a day every day lol.
nice one
I used to work at Worldcom before Bernie got arrested...many cubes had little signs that said something like:
"How do you know you work in telecom? Same desk, same office, five different companies in three years"
It's totally obvious. It's Texas, from where the GOP will launch their army of clones from. They already have insurgents working in Oklahoma...I've met them in battle.
Hopefully we still have at least 10-15 years at the current level the Texas Legislature is funding the project on. My insiders tell me Haliburton is using off-shore stem cell research facilities to close the time gap, however.
well, it's as I've always said "big girls like to eat!"
Sweet! Thanks, I'll look at those over the weekend. I've gotten many of my friends to loving Drupal because of it's vast amount of plugins. I have yet to dip into doing any of my own, because this was really the only thing I couldn't find that already existed. I knew their had to be something out there, I just couldn't really find it. Now if I can just fix the access problems I'm having with it and cron.org to update my feeds lol
I've looked over the moduals at drupal.org, but haven't found anything useful. Does anyone know of a decent project management modual? I've used PHPProject in the past, it doesn't need to be as complex as that. I really just need to be able to assign tasks to users, define projects, and maybe allocate resources to tasks and projects. Gnatt, time estimates, milestones and such would be a positive bonus, but not a requirement. And no, I don't really have the time to make one myself...
Your actually thinking of the Alcubierre "warp drive", not Star Trek warp drives. In ST, they use a system that pushes the ship into deeper regions of "subspace", more akin to layers of an onion. The Alcubierre drive makes a stable bubble of spacetime using exotic matter and moves through normal space.
God didn't kill Judas. Judas was chosen by Jesus to betray him, telling him he would be hated for all generations, but someone had to do it.
Read the Gospel of Judas if you want a "citation". It was re-discovered and translated in 2006, the Discovery Channel had a very interesting show on it.
is your ass really heart shaped?
Yeah, we know all about your mom and her calculations of exotic effects...
I live in Oklahoma and I see "Native Americans" all the time. They even have their own federally-regulated land they can do pretty much whatever with. Now, I'm not saying my government should have done what they did...but there really are nearly 3 million of them left, of several different tribes.
After several SR seesions, my players came to hate my gaming sessions. They speed in a B or higher sec area, they may get pulled over...hey, you have a permit for those weapons? After a few sessions, they had an APB out on most of their vehicles...they finally figured out to keep a far lower profile, buy clothes so they could blend in different places, not carry mil grade weapons on the transit...oh, but it was fun for me. Just because it's a cyberpunk game doesn't mean the entire city is a complete free-for-all anarchy zone. And it's really fun when they go to a different city and have no knowledge of the local layout and no contacts except their mark.
My alarm clock started screaming and yelling, then it set itself on fire in protest while playing the national anthem.
Damn that clock makes me proud!
What he said!
Well, current polls put him under 40% right now in approval. Unless we're actually facing a land invasion or something similar, I really don't think it would work very well.
I live in Oklahoma, which is pretty damn Republican. If cleaner teams started sweeping the streets shooting American citizens, I know for a fact that most people wouldn't just be like "oh, what's on TV?".
I don't think there will be an actual revolt though. I really think that what will happen is a gradual disingration, possibly followed by a break-up of the USA, due to general unsustaniblity of our current lifestyle. We will eventually push our resources too far.
Go ask a vetran you know...ask them what it would take for them to take up arms against the general population.
Absolutly nothing...I think that they will fix the election or just suspend it. But if they did somehomw loose...
Actually, probably so. Many in the armed forces would not take up arms against their fellow countrymen without a damn good reason. It's one thing doing disaster recovery...it's another to tell them to go "house to house" in New York or Chicago. Even using troops from different areas of the country probably wouldn't work too well. I would expect the officer corp would be very much against it to.
A decent chunk of the US's population is former military too. They know how to fight, know what equipment to sabatoge, and could easily make life a living hell for the troops who didn't just flat walk out and quit when the pacification order was given.
Currently, there are 499,000 active duty Army troops, backed up by 700,000 National Guard and Army reservists. There are, as of 2005, 67,742,879 males age 18-49 and 67,070,144 females age 18-49. 12 million vs. 1.2 million. Many of the active duty / reserve troops are dissatisfied due to Iraq already...what do you think their reaction would be to have to come home to enforce martial law?
If it actually came to the point of using artillary or ordinace against US citizens, then whatever administration started it has already lost. They would probably accomplish hastening the end of our current civilization too.
This isn't even bringing the UN or EU into the fray. A highly destablized and civil-warring US would be horrible news for the rest of the globe too. Something tells me everyone wouldn't just sit by and watch us nuke ourselves 10,000 times over.
I can almost guarentee all these crazy power-grabbing laws will be either revoked or "sunsetted" by the Bush administration if his party looses the Presidential election. Of course he wouldn't want his enemies to hae the same powers.
I put an ATI wonder card in my sony box...haven't had an issue like that. Their pretty cheap...the 32mb card works great as a "media box" card. I didn't even try to use the built-in svideo port.
Actually, I was recently reading about using man-made volcanoes to deposit specific chemicals in the stratosphere to reflect more UV and counteract the rising temp. It would take alot of effort, but not completly beyond our current level of tech...esp if its that or death.
people like myself who do a fair amount of programming against MySQL databases, and consider it a feature of the product that it's pretty easy to do without having to fuss much with the actual database. Still, it's nice to look at what goes on under the hood, even if smoke isn't pouring out from beneath it.
Yeah, I heard there was some fancy-GUI interface to it...personally I like doing it all by hand, at least after the initial layout is set. I've been doing that since around 2002 though, so I'm pretty used to coming up with sql statements in my sleep at this point.
no no no...Shadowrun is based on the return of Magick in 2012, which marks the beginning of the Sixth World on the Mayan calander. The "matrix", megacorps, and such are mere backdrops for the real battle for control of reality by the people and creatures who survived from the Fourth World (our magically devoid world being the Fifth World). Each World lasts for about 7,000-8,000 years. The megacorps are nothing compared to The Horror That Awaits Beyond the Veil (or, for SR players who don't know...the insect spirits are the same as the Horrors from EarthDawn's game...EarthDawn is SR around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago or more).