I work for Cingular and we have cell phones that either do MSN,Yahoo,Aim, and ICQ, a combination or all.
Depends on the provider and what they are willing to put in the back end technology wise.
I was born in the US(pop is colombian)(and I sometimes take jobs down south of the border. but have worked with phone companies in a few countries in Latin America and they are all about charging out the ass, but putting very little back into the infrastructure.
And prepaid makes the companies more money by a longshot. 30 percent more profit. Most people run out of their minutes and refill before the alloted two month time. Do the math prom a postpaid minute plan to a prepaid. You will see.
Nokia sells good inexpensive phones, and in certain countries. are more prevalent than Moto and other companies. Windows mobile phones are actually quite nice, as well as the OS. I actually dumped my Treo 650 in favor of one. The Windows phone worked better.
And again, it all relies on the economy of a country. North Americans have the disposable income to buy blackberries and PDA phones. Latin americans do not.
MS doesnt really make the phones as much as license the OS. And with the blackberry lawsuit, and palm switching over you will see more and more of phones with windows mobile.
"Gaming is easily bigger?" Now that is a laugh. Gaming is no where near the corporate market, nor even anywhere near the mom and pop box.
I used to order boxes starting on the low side at 50 machines per shipment. And as high as 500 on some machines. The real money is the margin of selling large numbers of boxes to the corporate world.
Did I mention corporate users outnumber gamers by a magnitude? Also the eleventy billion home users who use their computers for other tasks, like email, browsing, ye old quicken?
As for the higher end boxes, well they have a lot less profit margin than the lower end. And easy economics will tell you why. You will sell less due to cost and need. The lower end parts will be bought in bulk, allowing for price concession and huge margins. Higher end parts, in smaller lots, and a premium is paid, which is passed on to the consumer.
I would suggest taking some time off the gaming for awhile and stdy some econ and the industry.
I work for Cingular, and will say this. I cannot recall us ever advertising the V3 as an all in one, yep we we never plugged it as an entertainment center, pda, nope. I even just scanned through some of our old commercials.
The V3 does not do edge, just regular GPRS. The V551 does edge. You should have done a little research.
I know our network well, because I service customers every day on it. If your phone cannot connect to it(read does not have the capability) how can you complain? 40k is all you will get. V551 and other edge devices will do 110-140, and if you are in the areas with UMTS it even gets better.
Also, if you are not tethered to a laptop, you can get the umlimited data package for that phone for 19.99 a month. Call in and ask for the medianet unlimited.
Data Connect plans are different.
The V3 is a fashion plate phone. A decent phone, but never really advertised as an all in one.
I work for the largest carrier in the US, and not in a "phone store" but actually some place where I am privy to see the popularity of phones on a national and international basis.
The Razr has been super popular since its release almost a year ago. In the US, Canada, and overseas.
We unlock them hand over fist for people to take to their come countries.
And since the price dropped drastically in the past few months it was one the hottest Xmas gifts given.
And while I agree with you that Moto has a good amount of crappy phones, and nokia makes a better phone, though less feature rich on the low end, the Razr is a pretty good phone all things considered, customers live it for the reception.
I have one that I use when I do not feel like toting my Treo 650(which is a good phone for the most part, a crap phone if you install third party apps) and have not had any trouble with it.
Wrong, the Razr was released almost a calendar year before the Nano.
I work for the cariier that had the razr first and we had them out of the door this past January.
Motorola and Apple had another Itunes phone in the works but apple backed out and decided to hold off, felt it would cannabalize Ipod sales I imagine.
Also, there is another version of the Razr being released with itunes and an mini SD slot within the next few months. So a roker is really not necessary.
Word on the street Moto always wanted to do this, but Apple did not like, because the Razr is wholly designed by moto, but The powers that be in cupertino did not like the idea a phone where someone else got all the design kudos so Apple would not get the lions share of the credit. Uou see Apple all over the Rokr.
Israel runs 900 and 1800 mhz. Most phones sold in the past 2 years are tri-band. Though Canada is 850 and 1900 tri-band and quad band phones will hit the network just fine.
Rogers phones are supplied from the same batches for cingular and ATT so they will more than likely have the 1800 tacked on because companies in the states do push it in some areas.
And being a lawyer she probably has a higher end phone that has no trouble roaming overseas.
Israel is GSM as is most of the rest of the world. So her phone could be used there or in ANY country of the world. GSM is pretty much the international standard.
And it seems odd that she was in israel and there were calls made to israel and sorrounding countries.
I would say she lost her phone in israel. Did not report it stolen by the time she got back, and the charges were racked up.
I investigate these types of charges on a weekly basis. And when something like this happens, we investigate and write off all the charges no problem.
I am sure her phone was stolen. But where was it stolen from? Her house? Her car?
Note the article said her phone was STOLEN, not cloned, two very different actions.
More than likely she had it with her. It was stolen and she did not notice it gone. And when she got home she had a huge phone bill.
If the phone was stolen in her home country, she could have filed a police report, showed it to rogers and they would have written it off.
If the phone was stolen overseas, when she noticed it gone, should have immediately called and reported in.
As someone who travels internationally, I tend to keep the phone with me on trips. Most people do. The article is very light on these details.
If it was a GSM phone they generally need access to the phone and have to grab and clone the sim. So physical access is needed for the device.
The article mentions that the owners of rogers got scanned and cloned. When was it, soounds like they used TDMA phones, which was probably a few years back when it happened.
Rogers is GSM and I would imagine the pres and his execs would have using gsm for at least 2 if not three years for now.
I googled for info on this and could not find any article about the CEO of rogers being cloned.
A lot of times the maids in hotles, cruise ships, will use the customers phones when they are not around. That is why if you leave a phone in a room that is not your own, lock it, hide the sim. Battery in a different place. Little personal responsibility.
So I think before we pass judgment we should get the rest of the story.
I am a fellow New Orleanian who has lived away from the city for 5 years. A hard place to leave. No place like it. I graduated from De La Salle many moons ago, before it had girls.
Besides the girl gone wild vids, and the drunken rampages in the quarter, New Orleans has so much to offer in culture, food, music, etc, only locals tend to know our city is not based in the quarter.
My parents retired to Florida, and I spent time here and mucking about South America. We all miss the city. And as a matter of fact, we are going back this Mardi Gras. First time in years, because it will be like a rebirth, and not a drunken orgy, but a return to the sitting on the blanket in the nuetral ground, family affair it used to be.
Look, honestly, if you are into CS that is one thing, but a business degree cannot hurt, besides you do what you love. I made the choice recently to finish up in Business, many moons after I started school, because I have the CS skills.
As a 35 year old native new orleanian, most of us did not go to Tulane. Cost would be a major factor. When I was in school it was 15k a semester. So if your parents made decent money the pell grants did not cover it and the loans were not worth it.
I grew up 8 blocks from Tulane. Most of the people I knew who went there were from elsewhere. I would say 85% to 90% percent of Tulanes undergrads were from out of state.
The Masters programs had more locals. Due to continuing education.
I did my time in a tiny LA university where a pell paid for everything and then some. I was able to shine, and was hired out of school.
I did take summer classes at LSU and Tulane. Enjoyed the ones at LSU more.
Now at my ripe old age I have decided to finish the degree at the University of Florida, which from what I have seen(girlfriend getting her doctorate there) is a fine school, and for me as a Florida resident, very cheap.
Tulane is good for business and law. Tech, well, UNO has always beat it hands down.
As someone who several years ago had to broker a technology merger between an av software package and a porn compnay that provided usb pocket pussies and dicks, that could be controlled by the users to fuck each other while squinting into their webcams. And of course you could always rent Jenna Jameson videos with her scripted fuck vibes that were sent via packets into your device. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I can imagine what this will mean for the sticky side of the web.
I have worked with lots of companies. Airlines have given me flights, Sun sent over a little server once, and I even got some cool Tremors the Series T-shirts from Sci-Fi. The only offer I never accepted was the demo pocket pussy. I handed over to the development team. From there who knows.
Well kudos to him for all of his good work. But 20 million could have been spent a lot better in his home country on perhaps tools, food, education, and many other things africa needs.
As poor as I am currently I still manage to go to Colombia every year where my fathers family is from, and where he lives. On these trips I always bring clothes, books, educational materials, and anything any local orphanage or underprivliged school might need. I guess I drop about 2k personally, that would be comparable to his 20 mil. I could spend it on myself of course. Couldn't fly to the moon but I could sit my happy ass on the beach in the south of france, or rio, etc.
And doing this does give me a warm fuzzy when a see child's moms happy that her son has a few changes of clothes and a new pair of sneakers.
I do think he has done a lot. Thawte was good competition for Versign at the time. Course I remember when Verisign handed out free certs.
I am sorry you had problem with your linksys router. Sometimes things just are buggy out of the box.
The site you mention had about 3-4 people with a problem. So that does not equate to a lot. Hell, there are only 15-20 posts in the thread, and most are trying to help the same three people.
Although I work for a cell carrier(bandwidth is bandwidth), I have been doing networking consulting since the mid 90s, about 12 years total. And I keep very detailed records of everything. I have installed 87 linksys routers. 43 were wireless. 2 went bad of the wireless and 1 of the wired. At least what my customers reported to me, and the people I deal with are generally vocal when something does not work. All three were RMA'ed without cost.
Your UID is earlier than mine, I must admit I started reading in 97, and cannot remember my old password cuz I left the country and computers for awhile and had to rereg.
I am assuming you are a technical person.
Considering your user id and your post this is what begs the question. Why in gods green earth were you running Windows 2003 on a PII? Seems odd someone would do that, much less resource wise, and cost of the server. Unless you have an MSDN or spare copy lying around?
I mean Linux(this being slashdot and all) would have been a better choice. Unless there was some Windows only feature you needed.
Could you clue a brother in why you were running 2003 on a PII?
Best AC post in a long time. Most people who love the Matrix have never read Nueromance so they would fail to make the connection of the pay phones and many other parts of the movie that were borrowed from the book.
Anyway, let us pray that if Nueromancer makes it to the screen Keanu Reeves is nowhere near the film at all.
Hmmm, as someone who works for one of the larger(largest) carrier it is very much an issue. But then again it is almost akin a bomb threat when there probably is no bomb.
If all companies concerned were to tell their blackberry users"Hey, check this lawsuit out, that service you rely on, and that fancy device you paid for, we might just have to turn off cause their is this HUGE lawsuit". Well, that would not bode too well. Everyone immediately would want to cancel service, want their money back, etc, the monetary losses would be staggering. Because in all likliehood it might never come to pass.
So plans are in place that in case something happens clients can be moved to other platforms that perform the same functions as a Blackberry. We can make Treos, Ipaqs, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC do all the same functions(plus they are better devices) that Blackberries do. Even can provide the same functionality on the blackberry device without using the blackberry server.
So if RIM goes tits up. All carries can replace all the blackberries with Ipaq phones, at a loss of course, which can be written off no doubt.
But no large company is going to being sandwiching boarding the lawsuit to its clients.
And to be quite honest there are a large number of users of blackberries who use them as phones and address books, and do not have a blackberry data service.
Not to mention that Verizon and Cingular are Bell companies and SBC ATT and Bellsouth all four together are one huge swinging lobbyist dick.
I do not normally bash a company but two of the prior companies I did work for had avaya VOIP to connect offices between Atlanta and Gainesivlle Florida. First we went through a frame relay we had lying around and it worked reasonably well, but when we ditched and went on a fractional t with more bandwidth for a few more phones, the quality dropped tremondously, and Avayas answer was to buy a special router for a grand that solve problem of latency, garbled calls, etc. Even after shunting the traffic to a full t, approx 20 extensionions, maybe 8 in use full time, still was fairly crappy.
our developers kludged an ap on a linux box for the call routhing and the problems disappeared.
A few things from someone who learned another languager later in life.
If you want to really learn another language. Well, get a certificate, and take for two years, not six weeks, or even one year, and teach English as a second language. Well, a year and a half perhaps.
1. Do not hang around with other Americans in whatever country you choose. 2. Do not hang around with only the wealthy, uni students or local politicos. This is what usually happens. But make friends with all walks of life. Cabbies, the girl in the internet cafe, etc. 3. If you can go to a place that is not crawling with fellow English speakers. 4. A large of supply of post it notes to paper everything you own with the equivalent vocab. 5. And get a girlfriend/boyfriend whereever that be. 6. And never be afraid to speak.
Of course, dictionaries and grammar books, but do not neglect little kid see spot run books as well that each language. A great way to start.
Teaching English in the country whose language of which you wish to learn will give you great insight, grammar, structure, in not only the new language, but will actually improve your english. Students will not hesitate to call you out, and you will have to explain why.
I went to Colombia(which is known for pure Spanish, even the Spaniards say so) and taught two years before I went to college.
When I came home and went to school, I was able to in the course of two weeks, roll through 42(14 courses) hours of clep tests for credit. I had to jump through hoops, prove I was not a native speaker. But finally after a blow out with a Spanish 101 teacher who wanted to flunk me for not showing up for tests, and a meeting with a department head, I was given the chance.
This experience gave me a greater knowledge and understanding of the culture and language than any uni course.
That is why I cringe when someone says one of the following : 1. I had four years of it in college and I used to speak it, but now can not remember a thing. 2. Dude, we are going to Mexico for six weeks. Cerveza, chica do not a language make.
So, if I were you, consider a six month sabbatical in some foreign land after you have learned a bit of grammar and to speak it.
Also, remember this, facial expressions and hand gestures are all things that computers can not do. These you will have to learn.
Also, might get you chick to be who is the hotness like mine. I met her in the grocery store. Took five dates for her to give up that she was a system engineer who started out as a Cobol programmer, then an AIX admin, just an all around Unix guru. She did not want me to know she was a nerd. <URL:http://nptdesigns.com/fotos/nancy2.jpg/>
And after 2 years together, and three more on and off, we have decided to get married. Note that picture was taken when whe was 33 years old. She still looks 25.
Been there. It is a good gig. I did that for four years in colombia. I worked at a university and met a lot people and did a huge amount of tech consulting. Up to building a 200 node fiber network, and translation of tech manuals.
Easy to bridge these two together. Also met my future wife. Who is not only a hottie, but a unix queen.
You know I am just trying to wrap my brain around your wawwwwwwwwwwwwy out in left field comment.
I see no mentioning of Cisco wanting to touch you or your wife.
Do you personally have something against Cisco? Did their IOS insult your to your very core? Did a CCNA give your sister the crabs?
Cisco is know for making high quality equipment, I have been sending commands to them since 95, but I do not have it out for CCNAs or cisco.
You know I could almost agree with you about paper CCNAS, MCSES, RHCIm A+, etc. But the good will rise, and the bad will sink. And some people who actually have on the job skills realized a little book learning never hurt them.
There are plenty of people who in this industry who rage against certs and degrees who are great at what they do, and there are plenty of them who totally suck ass.
As someone who beleives that life is an everlong quest of learning. Take a cert test with no preperation. Grab your results, see what you did wrong, then grab a book. And if you know all there is out about getting Cisco, then getting a cert to get that pay raise should be no problem.
Disclaimer. I am not a CCNA, but hold a degree in CS, several certs, and still reading books, testing, learning, failing. But I learned a long time ago I could change what affected my life. And is meaning taking the CCNA exam would release me of shitty pay, well you could me call me certified.
I have had an ATI all in wonder 9800 for close to more than a year now. I never really used the tuner part until a few weeks a go when I took delivery of several new LCD's and decided that I could be watching a little tv on one while working.
The 9800 sits on my XP box, which rarely gets rebooted. Games, browsing etc. My mac mini and linux boxes sit in their places with a KVM
Well after using the tuner part, it looks great with my digital cable. But the box would lock, couldnt kill the process of the ATI software MMC. A few times an hour sometimes at least once a day. Well I was on the point of sticking an old haupage in there. Or using another MMC.
Well after much digging I found a thread on how HT could cause issues with the software. I disabled it in the bios, do not really need it for anything. And ran the Tuner 48 hours solid without a lockup.
Now perhaps ATI is at fault for the software, but then again HT caused the incompatibility in my book.
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I work for Cingular and we have cell phones that either do MSN,Yahoo,Aim, and ICQ, a combination or all.
Depends on the provider and what they are willing to put in the back end technology wise.
I was born in the US(pop is colombian)(and I sometimes take jobs down south of the border. but have worked with phone companies in a few countries in Latin America and they are all about charging out the ass, but putting very little back into the infrastructure.
And prepaid makes the companies more money by a longshot. 30 percent more profit. Most people run out of their minutes and refill before the alloted two month time. Do the math prom a postpaid minute plan to a prepaid. You will see.
Nokia sells good inexpensive phones, and in certain countries. are more prevalent than Moto and other companies. Windows mobile phones are actually quite nice, as well as the OS. I actually dumped my Treo 650 in favor of one. The Windows phone worked better.
And again, it all relies on the economy of a country. North Americans have the disposable income to buy blackberries and PDA phones. Latin americans do not.
MS doesnt really make the phones as much as license the OS. And with the blackberry lawsuit, and palm switching over you will see more and more of phones with windows mobile.
Puto
"Gaming is easily bigger?" Now that is a laugh. Gaming is no where near the corporate market, nor even anywhere near the mom and pop box.
I used to order boxes starting on the low side at 50 machines per shipment. And as high as 500 on some machines. The real money is the margin of selling large numbers of boxes to the corporate world.
Did I mention corporate users outnumber gamers by a magnitude? Also the eleventy billion home users who use their computers for other tasks, like email, browsing, ye old quicken?
As for the higher end boxes, well they have a lot less profit margin than the lower end. And easy economics will tell you why. You will sell less due to cost and need. The lower end parts will be bought in bulk, allowing for price concession and huge margins. Higher end parts, in smaller lots, and a premium is paid, which is passed on to the consumer.
I would suggest taking some time off the gaming for awhile and stdy some econ and the industry.
Puto
Well,
I work for Cingular, and will say this. I cannot recall us ever advertising the V3 as an all in one, yep we we never plugged it as an entertainment center, pda, nope. I even just scanned through some of our old commercials.
The V3 does not do edge, just regular GPRS. The V551 does edge. You should have done a little research.
I know our network well, because I service customers every day on it. If your phone cannot connect to it(read does not have the capability) how can you complain? 40k is all you will get. V551 and other edge devices will do 110-140, and if you are in the areas with UMTS it even gets better.
Also, if you are not tethered to a laptop, you can get the umlimited data package for that phone for 19.99 a month. Call in and ask for the medianet unlimited.
Data Connect plans are different.
The V3 is a fashion plate phone. A decent phone, but never really advertised as an all in one.
Puto
Well I work for said carrier,
We launched in around 16 cities, and verizon has about 117 markets compared with EV-DO.
Rollout is a little less quicker than desired due to merger and hurricane recovery.
Puto
Well,
I work for the largest carrier in the US, and not in a "phone store" but actually some place where I am privy to see the popularity of phones on a national and international basis.
The Razr has been super popular since its release almost a year ago. In the US, Canada, and overseas.
We unlock them hand over fist for people to take to their come countries.
And since the price dropped drastically in the past few months it was one the hottest Xmas gifts given.
And while I agree with you that Moto has a good amount of crappy phones, and nokia makes a better phone, though less feature rich on the low end, the Razr is a pretty good phone all things considered, customers live it for the reception.
I have one that I use when I do not feel like toting my Treo 650(which is a good phone for the most part, a crap phone if you install third party apps) and have not had any trouble with it.
Puto
Wrong, the Razr was released almost a calendar year before the Nano.
I work for the cariier that had the razr first and we had them out of the door this past January.
Motorola and Apple had another Itunes phone in the works but apple backed out and decided to hold off, felt it would cannabalize Ipod sales I imagine.
Also, there is another version of the Razr being released with itunes and an mini SD slot within the next few months. So a roker is really not necessary.
Word on the street Moto always wanted to do this, but Apple did not like, because the Razr is wholly designed by moto, but The powers that be in cupertino did not like the idea a phone where someone else got all the design kudos so Apple would not get the lions share of the credit. Uou see Apple all over the Rokr.
Puto
Actually er no.
Israel runs 900 and 1800 mhz. Most phones sold in the past 2 years are tri-band. Though Canada is 850 and 1900 tri-band and quad band phones will hit the network just fine.
Rogers phones are supplied from the same batches for cingular and ATT so they will more than likely have the 1800 tacked on because companies in the states do push it in some areas.
And being a lawyer she probably has a higher end phone that has no trouble roaming overseas.
Puto
Israel is GSM as is most of the rest of the world. So her phone could be used there or in ANY country of the world. GSM is pretty much the international standard.
And it seems odd that she was in israel and there were calls made to israel and sorrounding countries.
I would say she lost her phone in israel. Did not report it stolen by the time she got back, and the charges were racked up.
Puto
Ad nausea, I work for a large cell carrier.
I investigate these types of charges on a weekly basis. And when something like this happens, we investigate and write off all the charges no problem.
I am sure her phone was stolen. But where was it stolen from? Her house? Her car?
Note the article said her phone was STOLEN, not cloned, two very different actions.
More than likely she had it with her. It was stolen and she did not notice it gone. And when she got home she had a huge phone bill.
If the phone was stolen in her home country, she could have filed a police report, showed it to rogers and they would have written it off.
If the phone was stolen overseas, when she noticed it gone, should have immediately called and reported in.
As someone who travels internationally, I tend to keep the phone with me on trips. Most people do. The article is very light on these details.
If it was a GSM phone they generally need access to the phone and have to grab and clone the sim. So physical access is needed for the device.
The article mentions that the owners of rogers got scanned and cloned. When was it, soounds like they used TDMA phones, which was probably a few years back when it happened.
Rogers is GSM and I would imagine the pres and his execs would have using gsm for at least 2 if not three years for now.
I googled for info on this and could not find any article about the CEO of rogers being cloned.
A lot of times the maids in hotles, cruise ships, will use the customers phones when they are not around. That is why if you leave a phone in a room that is not your own, lock it, hide the sim. Battery in a different place. Little personal responsibility.
So I think before we pass judgment we should get the rest of the story.
Puto
Yo Bro.
I am a fellow New Orleanian who has lived away from the city for 5 years. A hard place to leave. No place like it. I graduated from De La Salle many moons ago, before it had girls.
Besides the girl gone wild vids, and the drunken rampages in the quarter, New Orleans has so much to offer in culture, food, music, etc, only locals tend to know our city is not based in the quarter.
My parents retired to Florida, and I spent time here and mucking about South America. We all miss the city. And as a matter of fact, we are going back this Mardi Gras. First time in years, because it will be like a rebirth, and not a drunken orgy, but a return to the sitting on the blanket in the nuetral ground, family affair it used to be.
Look, honestly, if you are into CS that is one thing, but a business degree cannot hurt, besides you do what you love. I made the choice recently to finish up in Business, many moons after I started school, because I have the CS skills.
Ain't no shame in UNO.
Puto
As a 35 year old native new orleanian, most of us did not go to Tulane. Cost would be a major factor. When I was in school it was 15k a semester. So if your parents made decent money the pell grants did not cover it and the loans were not worth it.
I grew up 8 blocks from Tulane. Most of the people I knew who went there were from elsewhere. I would say 85% to 90% percent of Tulanes undergrads were from out of state.
The Masters programs had more locals. Due to continuing education.
I did my time in a tiny LA university where a pell paid for everything and then some. I was able to shine, and was hired out of school.
I did take summer classes at LSU and Tulane. Enjoyed the ones at LSU more.
Now at my ripe old age I have decided to finish the degree at the University of Florida, which from what I have seen(girlfriend getting her doctorate there) is a fine school, and for me as a Florida resident, very cheap.
Tulane is good for business and law. Tech, well, UNO has always beat it hands down.
Puto
I do it all the time with a my PPC phone and skype. Siemens Sx66. I can use WIFI hotspots or run it over my providers data services.
Works quite well.
Puto
As someone who several years ago had to broker a technology merger between an av software package and a porn compnay that provided usb pocket pussies and dicks, that could be controlled by the users to fuck each other while squinting into their webcams. And of course you could always rent Jenna Jameson videos with her scripted fuck vibes that were sent via packets into your device. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I can imagine what this will mean for the sticky side of the web.
I have worked with lots of companies. Airlines have given me flights, Sun sent over a little server once, and I even got some cool Tremors the Series T-shirts from Sci-Fi. The only offer I never accepted was the demo pocket pussy. I handed over to the development team. From there who knows.
Puto
Well kudos to him for all of his good work. But 20 million could have been spent a lot better in his home country on perhaps tools, food, education, and many other things africa needs.
As poor as I am currently I still manage to go to Colombia every year where my fathers family is from, and where he lives. On these trips I always bring clothes, books, educational materials, and anything any local orphanage or underprivliged school might need. I guess I drop about 2k personally, that would be comparable to his 20 mil. I could spend it on myself of course. Couldn't fly to the moon but I could sit my happy ass on the beach in the south of france, or rio, etc.
And doing this does give me a warm fuzzy when a see child's moms happy that her son has a few changes of clothes and a new pair of sneakers.
I do think he has done a lot. Thawte was good competition for Versign at the time. Course I remember when Verisign handed out free certs.
Puto
And when you say other assets I would have to say would be probably old Scrooge owns all of Nephew Donalds and H,D, and Ls contracts with the Studio.
Donald is soooo his bitch, and the boys are his bitchettes.
He might also be behind the blackberry patent suit, you know with his wacky inventor pal.
Puto
I am sorry you had problem with your linksys router. Sometimes things just are buggy out of the box.
The site you mention had about 3-4 people with a problem. So that does not equate to a lot. Hell, there are only 15-20 posts in the thread, and most are trying to help the same three people.
Although I work for a cell carrier(bandwidth is bandwidth), I have been doing networking consulting since the mid 90s, about 12 years total. And I keep very detailed records of everything. I have installed 87 linksys routers. 43 were wireless. 2 went bad of the wireless and 1 of the wired. At least what my customers reported to me, and the people I deal with are generally vocal when something does not work. All three were RMA'ed without cost.
Your UID is earlier than mine, I must admit I started reading in 97, and cannot remember my old password cuz I left the country and computers for awhile and had to rereg.
I am assuming you are a technical person.
Considering your user id and your post this is what begs the question. Why in gods green earth were you running Windows 2003 on a PII? Seems odd someone would do that, much less resource wise, and cost of the server. Unless you have an MSDN or spare copy lying around?
I mean Linux(this being slashdot and all) would have been a better choice. Unless there was some Windows only feature you needed.
Could you clue a brother in why you were running 2003 on a PII?
Puto
Best AC post in a long time. Most people who love the Matrix have never read Nueromance so they would fail to make the connection of the pay phones and many other parts of the movie that were borrowed from the book.
Anyway, let us pray that if Nueromancer makes it to the screen Keanu Reeves is nowhere near the film at all.
Puto
Hmmm, as someone who works for one of the larger(largest) carrier it is very much an issue. But then again it is almost akin a bomb threat when there probably is no bomb.
If all companies concerned were to tell their blackberry users"Hey, check this lawsuit out, that service you rely on, and that fancy device you paid for, we might just have to turn off cause their is this HUGE lawsuit". Well, that would not bode too well. Everyone immediately would want to cancel service, want their money back, etc, the monetary losses would be staggering. Because in all likliehood it might never come to pass.
So plans are in place that in case something happens clients can be moved to other platforms that perform the same functions as a Blackberry. We can make Treos, Ipaqs, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC do all the same functions(plus they are better devices) that Blackberries do. Even can provide the same functionality on the blackberry device without using the blackberry server.
So if RIM goes tits up. All carries can replace all the blackberries with Ipaq phones, at a loss of course, which can be written off no doubt.
But no large company is going to being sandwiching boarding the lawsuit to its clients.
And to be quite honest there are a large number of users of blackberries who use them as phones and address books, and do not have a blackberry data service.
Not to mention that Verizon and Cingular are Bell companies and SBC ATT and Bellsouth all four together are one huge swinging lobbyist dick.
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I do not normally bash a company but two of the prior companies I did work for had avaya VOIP to connect offices between Atlanta and Gainesivlle Florida. First we went through a frame relay we had lying around and it worked reasonably well, but when we ditched and went on a fractional t with more bandwidth for a few more phones, the quality dropped tremondously, and Avayas answer was to buy a special router for a grand that solve problem of latency, garbled calls, etc. Even after shunting the traffic to a full t, approx 20 extensionions, maybe 8 in use full time, still was fairly crappy.
our developers kludged an ap on a linux box for the call routhing and the problems disappeared.
Avaya sux
Puto
A few things from someone who learned another languager later in life.
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If you want to really learn another language. Well, get a certificate, and take for two years, not six weeks, or even one year, and teach English as a second language. Well, a year and a half perhaps.
1. Do not hang around with other Americans in whatever country you choose.
2. Do not hang around with only the wealthy, uni students or local politicos. This is what usually happens. But make friends with all walks of life. Cabbies, the girl in the internet cafe, etc.
3. If you can go to a place that is not crawling with fellow English speakers.
4. A large of supply of post it notes to paper everything you own with the equivalent vocab.
5. And get a girlfriend/boyfriend whereever that be.
6. And never be afraid to speak.
Of course, dictionaries and grammar books, but do not neglect little kid see spot run books as well that each language. A great way to start.
Teaching English in the country whose language of which you wish to learn will give you great insight, grammar, structure, in not only the new language, but will actually improve your english. Students will not hesitate to call you out, and you will have to explain why.
I went to Colombia(which is known for pure Spanish, even the Spaniards say so) and taught two years before I went to college.
When I came home and went to school, I was able to in the course of two weeks, roll through 42(14 courses) hours of clep tests for credit. I had to jump through hoops, prove I was not a native speaker. But finally after a blow out with a Spanish 101 teacher who wanted to flunk me for not showing up for tests, and a meeting with a department head, I was given the chance.
This experience gave me a greater knowledge and understanding of the culture and language than any uni course.
That is why I cringe when someone says one of the following :
1. I had four years of it in college and I used to speak it, but now can not remember a thing.
2. Dude, we are going to Mexico for six weeks. Cerveza, chica do not a language make.
So, if I were you, consider a six month sabbatical in some foreign land after you have learned a bit of grammar and to speak it.
Also, remember this, facial expressions and hand gestures are all things that computers can not do. These you will have to learn.
Also, might get you chick to be who is the hotness like mine. I met her in the grocery store. Took five dates for her to give up that she was a system engineer who started out as a Cobol programmer, then an AIX admin, just an all around Unix guru. She did not want me to know she was a nerd.
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And after 2 years together, and three more on and off, we have decided to get married. Note that picture was taken when whe was 33 years old. She still looks 25.
Puto
Been there. It is a good gig. I did that for four years in colombia. I worked at a university and met a lot people and did a huge amount of tech consulting. Up to building a 200 node fiber network, and translation of tech manuals.
Easy to bridge these two together. Also met my future wife. Who is not only a hottie, but a unix queen.
Puto
Bit of advice. As someone who has been on the hiring in and looking to get hired end.
I certainly beleive you have 8 years of experience. But if you do the math, you show your professional career began at 16.
When someone sees this in an hr department this resume will immediately go to the bottom of the pile. It appears to have been padded.
I am 35, and have been working with computers since I was 12.
I start my work experience from age 18. By which time you are normally out of school.
A resume looks good with all of your skills, just don't say the length of time if it started in your teen years.
I had an interviewer call me on this a long time ago. Took his advice.
Another tip is your years in the business should be matched by job dates on a resume.
Puto
You know I am just trying to wrap my brain around your wawwwwwwwwwwwwy out in left field comment.
I see no mentioning of Cisco wanting to touch you or your wife.
Do you personally have something against Cisco? Did their IOS insult your to your very core? Did a CCNA give your sister the crabs?
Cisco is know for making high quality equipment, I have been sending commands to them since 95, but I do not have it out for CCNAs or cisco.
You know I could almost agree with you about paper CCNAS, MCSES, RHCIm A+, etc. But the good will rise, and the bad will sink. And some people who actually have on the job skills realized a little book learning never hurt them.
There are plenty of people who in this industry who rage against certs and degrees who are great at what they do, and there are plenty of them who totally suck ass.
As someone who beleives that life is an everlong quest of learning. Take a cert test with no preperation. Grab your results, see what you did wrong, then grab a book. And if you know all there is out about getting Cisco, then getting a cert to get that pay raise should be no problem.
Disclaimer. I am not a CCNA, but hold a degree in CS, several certs, and still reading books, testing, learning, failing. But I learned a long time ago I could change what affected my life. And is meaning taking the CCNA exam would release me of shitty pay, well you could me call me certified.
Just your mom on a Cinemax weekend hump-a-thon.
I left it on for 48 hours unattended.
Puto
I have had an ATI all in wonder 9800 for close to more than a year now. I never really used the tuner part until a few weeks a go when I took delivery of several new LCD's and decided that I could be watching a little tv on one while working.
The 9800 sits on my XP box, which rarely gets rebooted. Games, browsing etc. My mac mini and linux boxes sit in their places with a KVM
Well after using the tuner part, it looks great with my digital cable. But the box would lock, couldnt kill the process of the ATI software MMC. A few times an hour sometimes at least once a day. Well I was on the point of sticking an old haupage in there. Or using another MMC.
Well after much digging I found a thread on how HT could cause issues with the software. I disabled it in the bios, do not really need it for anything. And ran the Tuner 48 hours solid without a lockup.
Now perhaps ATI is at fault for the software, but then again HT caused the incompatibility in my book.
Puto