There's actually a bit more to SMS than that. Sending a message is more like:
Submit request: = 300 or so bytes (max message length with latest protocol (3.4) is 254 characters, not 160). With optional parameters the request will bulk up even more since a TLV requires a minimum of 4 bytes per use.
Submit response: Can be up to 81 bytes with the id assigned to the message.
If delivery receipts are supported and requested, you can expect yet another message from the remote that is a receipt that the original message had been received by the handset. That is going to be the size of the header (16 bytes) plus all the required fields for a submit message type (etc etc) with maybe some info in the message body field (add some more bytes to that...). And to add to the fun, that delivery message needs a response, too.
All of that with the size of the occasional ping/pongs and the other commands in the SMPP, the bandwidth can really start to add up. We're still not breaking out fiber here, but SMPP actually is a pretty heavy protocol. And with all the overhead (i.e., many required fields that 99% of the time are set to protocol defaults or NULL), it will eat up more bandwidth than you might think.
And you could always add an XML wrapper to that, and people do...
Hmm, that was pointless. Just felt like typing, I guess.;P
I for one have never quite understood your paranoia about the government.
I, for one, have never quite understood why a person would blindly trust a faction of complete strangers who go to work every morning to make decisions on how you should live your life.
but who in the hell is going to pay nearly $1200 just for a CASE?
Vocalists and musicians who mic their instruments (or who play acoustic instruments with pickups sensitive to background noise).
When you are recording a track and you don't have the luxury of a vocal booth, you will go to great lengths to cut back on background noise, even if said lengths include $1200 cases.
Of course, this opens the debate on why anyone would be recording on a PC, but that's probably best left for another day...;)
Unless the penalty is harsh enough to do real damage to the offender, it will simply be chalked up as a cost of doing business and the purpose of the penalty will effectively be nullified.
In that light, I would argue that $10K might be a little on the low side.
Man, you totally missed what I was saying. Rather than tell me to re-read your post, maybe you should re-read mine, first. Pay special attention to the part of your original post that I quoted. Sheesh.
just to compete with someone who has never experienced indoor plumbing or a room of their own
I couldn't decide whether to mod you down for this or reply. I'm not one for anonymous bashing, so I figured I should say something instead. The fact that you were modded + anything is quite surprising, if not a little disturbing.
You know, it's naive, childish remarks like yours that often times lead to Americans being labled both racist and elitist. I'm strongly opposed to outsourcing, but going so far as to essentially call Indian people animals is absolutely ludicrous. You don't see them killing each other over shiny 24" rims or flying 10,000 miles away to destroy 2 countries and thousands upon thousands of lives for no good reason, do you? Last I checked, we were still the most violent and regressed society on the planet.
And don't forget, India isn't outsourcing to India, we are. Don't fear them, fear the politicians that are not only allowing it to happen, but are encouraging it as well (take a good look at the Bush campaign for some insight into that remark). Fear the companies that would rather skim the economy for a temporary bump in quarterly numbers (where nobody wins) than actually exercise foresight and brainpower and do the right thing for our economy (where everyone wins, locally and globally).
Didn't I see you behind the podium at the Wichita Amway Convention last August, your nicotine stained finger tip comb-over swaying in the stale, air-conditioned breeze like the Bush campaign in late October, dulling the sharp wit of the Midwest's finest citizens with the perfectly complex mesh of enlightenment through pyramid schemes? Ten years later all I have to show for it is a stack of catalogs that would make LL Bean shit a large bovine and enough tupperware to dry-store the entire Alaskan fishing industry.
Oh shit, I'm sorry, now I remember. You were one of the "friend patrol" trying to suck me into one of your brainwashing sess^W^H^Wpersonality analysis tests as I strolled past the Church of Scientology downtown, promising that I'd get to meet John Travolta. It's been 3 years, I'm still a mess, and he still won't call back. Thank god I held on to that old war dialer.
Damn, all that rambling has me parched. I need some Kool-Aid or something.
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There's actually a bit more to SMS than that. Sending a message is more like:
;P
Submit request: = 300 or so bytes (max message length with latest protocol (3.4) is 254 characters, not 160). With optional parameters the request will bulk up even more since a TLV requires a minimum of 4 bytes per use.
Submit response: Can be up to 81 bytes with the id assigned to the message.
If delivery receipts are supported and requested, you can expect yet another message from the remote that is a receipt that the original message had been received by the handset. That is going to be the size of the header (16 bytes) plus all the required fields for a submit message type (etc etc) with maybe some info in the message body field (add some more bytes to that...). And to add to the fun, that delivery message needs a response, too.
All of that with the size of the occasional ping/pongs and the other commands in the SMPP, the bandwidth can really start to add up. We're still not breaking out fiber here, but SMPP actually is a pretty heavy protocol. And with all the overhead (i.e., many required fields that 99% of the time are set to protocol defaults or NULL), it will eat up more bandwidth than you might think.
And you could always add an XML wrapper to that, and people do...
Hmm, that was pointless. Just felt like typing, I guess.
I for one have never quite understood your paranoia about the government.
I, for one, have never quite understood why a person would blindly trust a faction of complete strangers who go to work every morning to make decisions on how you should live your life.
Would you let someone search you... for a spell checker?
Please?
Don't take it personally.
How can I not take it personally when your sig is trying to assign some generic person to me?
Well there's always the Win2K source...
You don't have a few dozen copies of Catcher in the Rye floating around by any chance, do you?
<mode="pedantic">What auction? The e-bay auction was rescinded, so there could be no fraudulent transaction.</mode>
<Pedant mode="trump" attitude="teehee">Your XML is invalid.</Pedant>
Dammit, now where are all the clueless newbies going to learn about the all the cool hacker tricks covered in Kevin Rose's Dark Tips?
Welcome home.
That was a rather impressive "rah rah" way to not make any point whatsoever. Congrats.
but who in the hell is going to pay nearly $1200 just for a CASE?
;)
Vocalists and musicians who mic their instruments (or who play acoustic instruments with pickups sensitive to background noise).
When you are recording a track and you don't have the luxury of a vocal booth, you will go to great lengths to cut back on background noise, even if said lengths include $1200 cases.
Of course, this opens the debate on why anyone would be recording on a PC, but that's probably best left for another day...
correct as a flying mongoose on a summers day
;)
And then you have those of us who don't even know what an analogy is...
You know what they say about malice and idiocy.
Malice and idiocy a Slashdot forum make?
Some of us would just be happy to get a salary at all. ;\
If the server's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'.
but $10000 seems incredibly steep.
Unless the penalty is harsh enough to do real damage to the offender, it will simply be chalked up as a cost of doing business and the purpose of the penalty will effectively be nullified.
In that light, I would argue that $10K might be a little on the low side.
Man, you totally missed what I was saying. Rather than tell me to re-read your post, maybe you should re-read mine, first. Pay special attention to the part of your original post that I quoted. Sheesh.
just to compete with someone who has never experienced indoor plumbing or a room of their own
I couldn't decide whether to mod you down for this or reply. I'm not one for anonymous bashing, so I figured I should say something instead. The fact that you were modded + anything is quite surprising, if not a little disturbing.
You know, it's naive, childish remarks like yours that often times lead to Americans being labled both racist and elitist. I'm strongly opposed to outsourcing, but going so far as to essentially call Indian people animals is absolutely ludicrous. You don't see them killing each other over shiny 24" rims or flying 10,000 miles away to destroy 2 countries and thousands upon thousands of lives for no good reason, do you? Last I checked, we were still the most violent and regressed society on the planet.
And don't forget, India isn't outsourcing to India, we are. Don't fear them, fear the politicians that are not only allowing it to happen, but are encouraging it as well (take a good look at the Bush campaign for some insight into that remark). Fear the companies that would rather skim the economy for a temporary bump in quarterly numbers (where nobody wins) than actually exercise foresight and brainpower and do the right thing for our economy (where everyone wins, locally and globally).
If artists do not like that, they can get another job.
Or, in most cases, a job.
would the next model be jLoJack
No, I think that term is reserved exclusively for Ben Affleck.
Huh?
Didn't I see you behind the podium at the Wichita Amway Convention last August, your nicotine stained finger tip comb-over swaying in the stale, air-conditioned breeze like the Bush campaign in late October, dulling the sharp wit of the Midwest's finest citizens with the perfectly complex mesh of enlightenment through pyramid schemes? Ten years later all I have to show for it is a stack of catalogs that would make LL Bean shit a large bovine and enough tupperware to dry-store the entire Alaskan fishing industry.
Oh shit, I'm sorry, now I remember. You were one of the "friend patrol" trying to suck me into one of your brainwashing sess^W^H^Wpersonality analysis tests as I strolled past the Church of Scientology downtown, promising that I'd get to meet John Travolta. It's been 3 years, I'm still a mess, and he still won't call back. Thank god I held on to that old war dialer.
Damn, all that rambling has me parched. I need some Kool-Aid or something.
Gotta run, gonna miss my comet.
Relax, it's just humor.
No, we have plenty of oil. It's just that no one can afford it anymore.
I don't know what's more sad: That quote, or the fact that someone quoted it.
That's too bad for you, I was thinking Traci Lords.
This one is free