Maybe if the Sprint "representatives" would not hang up on people they might not be losing their jobs. I can not call any 800 number provided by Sprint including Sprint's own 800 numbers from my house. My local phone company says that its Sprint's problem but when I call Sprint they just hang up on me once they realize I am not a paying customer. I would think that they at least have a duty to the companies paying them to provide 800 number to actually do so.
If you are looking for a non commercial distribution that is always being updated you might want to try Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org). Currently the distribution is using Gnome2 and KDE 3.0.2. The reason I chose it over RedHat is it builds everything from source code so that it is compiled to take advantage of ones hardware and updating is very easy to do. Every once and a while, I type: 'emerge -u world' and it downloads the latest and greatest sources, builds them all optimized for my hardware, and then installs them. Some people set up a cron job to do this nightly. Another thing that I like is one starts out with a bare bones system and then installs only what they want to use which prevents things from getting bloated and running a lot of stuff that one does not use but may be a potential security risk.
I know that at least in Oregon, area codes can not be separate between cell phones and land line phones as that would put land lines at an unfair advantage of not needing to dial an area code for a local call. So separating them by area code will not work. Reserving a range of digits in the first three of the seven digits should work and would be easy to do when creating new area codes so that people don't have to change their old numbers.
In marked contrast to The Castle, though, our protagonist in MFiaB starts out by receiving a Mission. A Secret Mission, from the Commander in Chief himself. Or maybe it was the Chief Commander - or maybe someone else entirely. Problem is, his superiors won't tell him what the mission is, let alone the proper chain of command to clarify it. Through accidental subterfuge and persistence, he finally corners someone into providing his mission briefing, however some part of the officialdom steals it back before he can read more than the first somewhat disturbing page. (According to the one page he has time to read, phase one of his mission involves cornering his superiors and forcing them to provide the mission briefing.) However, it's possible that pursuing the ambiguity of the mission is his mission, so he's duty-bound to get on about it. Besides, he really doesn't know what else to do.
It sounds like every software project I have worked on. Especially since most software projects are "a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, and a cautionary tale". That should be enough to make it relevent.
As the old adage goes "no good deed goes unpunished". If you buy Dell and there is a problem you can blame Dell and argue in your defense that you made a conservative responsible choice. If you try to be a maverick, you will be blamed for everything that goes wrong, the cost savings will most likely be forgotten, and you will spend a lot of time being questioned over and over again justifying your decision.
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Maybe if the Sprint "representatives" would not hang up on people they might not be losing their jobs. I can not call any 800 number provided by Sprint including Sprint's own 800 numbers from my house. My local phone company says that its Sprint's problem but when I call Sprint they just hang up on me once they realize I am not a paying customer. I would think that they at least have a duty to the companies paying them to provide 800 number to actually do so.
I have DirecTv with a built in Tivo so I record the digital signal directly already. I don't see how HDTV would alter this.
If they are starving then why are they worrying about exporting food?
If you are looking for a non commercial distribution that is always being updated you might want to try Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org). Currently the distribution is using Gnome2 and KDE 3.0.2. The reason I chose it over RedHat is it builds everything from source code so that it is compiled to take advantage of ones hardware and updating is very easy to do. Every once and a while, I type: 'emerge -u world' and it downloads the latest and greatest sources, builds them all optimized for my hardware, and then installs them. Some people set up a cron job to do this nightly. Another thing that I like is one starts out with a bare bones system and then installs only what they want to use which prevents things from getting bloated and running a lot of stuff that one does not use but may be a potential security risk.
I know that at least in Oregon, area codes can not be separate between cell phones and land line phones as that would put land lines at an unfair advantage of not needing to dial an area code for a local call. So separating them by area code will not work. Reserving a range of digits in the first three of the seven digits should work and would be easy to do when creating new area codes so that people don't have to change their old numbers.
From the following summary:
In marked contrast to The Castle, though, our protagonist in MFiaB starts out by receiving a Mission. A Secret Mission, from the Commander in Chief himself. Or maybe it was the Chief Commander - or maybe someone else entirely. Problem is, his superiors won't tell him what the mission is, let alone the proper chain of command to clarify it. Through accidental subterfuge and persistence, he finally corners someone into providing his mission briefing, however some part of the officialdom steals it back before he can read more than the first somewhat disturbing page. (According to the one page he has time to read, phase one of his mission involves cornering his superiors and forcing them to provide the mission briefing.) However, it's possible that pursuing the ambiguity of the mission is his mission, so he's duty-bound to get on about it. Besides, he really doesn't know what else to do.
It sounds like every software project I have worked on. Especially since most software projects are "a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, and a cautionary tale". That should be enough to make it relevent.
As the old adage goes "no good deed goes unpunished". If you buy Dell and there is a problem you can blame Dell and argue in your defense that you made a conservative responsible choice. If you try to be a maverick, you will be blamed for everything that goes wrong, the cost savings will most likely be forgotten, and you will spend a lot of time being questioned over and over again justifying your decision.
This gives me hope that someday in the future my children will experience a textmode holodeck.