Check out gric.com if you need roaming dial-up access around the world.
It's a cooperation of lots of small ISPs (or so it seems to me), and the result is a sh*tload of access numbers everywhere. I haven't found any non-local phone numbers there yet... Some of the cooperating ISPs even offer roaming for free.
In my experience, the reliability of SMS depends a lot on the provider. I have had no problems with AT&T, Cingular or Voicestream, and I have not experienced any loss when sending between phones on these networks.
The biggest problem, however, is when I send messages to Europe. For months at a time, it will work fine with a certain provider, and then no messages will go through. Sometimes the problem is only one-way. It depends on which provider I send from here to which provider I send to in Europe.
Bottom line: I've had no problem sending nationally, but messages crossing the Atlantic sometimes get lost.
If you look at the front page, you'll see a lot of so-called "links" for this story. Click on them, and you get more information! It's amazing what technology can do.
Yes, actually reading the damn thing could be quicker than posting and waiting for someone less lazy to reply...
It's not that Telemarketers don't have cell phone numbers, it's illegal for them to call your cell phone, according to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Check out JunkBuster.com's pages for more help with getting rid of those bastards (no affiliation).
>> Consider Europe, where there is only 2 general >> types (Both GSM, if you can call that 2 >> types). And they are everywhere in EU, yet
The European GSM networks actually use three different bands. 900MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900MHz. Most countries use some combination of two bands, and usually one of them is 900MHz.
One workaround for the problem of carriers locking their phones is buying a European phone.
In my experience, the cell phone salesperson will not know that you can put a different SIM card in their phone, or that you can use their SIM card in a different phone. Don't listen to them...
I brought a GSM tri-band phone from Europe, and I've never had any trouble using it on neither Cingular nor Voicestream's GSM networks.
The phone Voicestream more or less forced me to buy, however, would only work on Voicestream's network. After one hell of a struggle I got them to unlock it (the contract specified I had to be a customer for three months, so now it works on any GSM network.
Now that my phones (two Nokias and one Motorola) are unlocked, I now freely interchange my three SIM cards.
[quote] An exam is one thing, homework is another. Homework is supposed to reinforce the skills you'll need later. One of those skills is research. [/quote]
Yes, you are supposed to *learn* from homework. From my experience by far the most cases of "discussing" homework results in someone handing in someone else's code. That's just being lazy, and doesn't reinforce learning at all, just ripping off someone else's work and saying it's your own (aka plagiarism).
The reason many universities state you should only discuss the specifics of the assignment with the professor and the TAs is simply to avoid groupwork for individual assignments, and someone freeloading off hard-working students.
Instead of getting code from a classmate when faced with a difficult problem, you should try to solve it on your own. That person who does the assignment better than you won't be there once you're in a real workplace. Learning to solve the problem on your own is *important*. If you really get stuck, ask the prof/TA and they will point you in the right direction without giving away the answer.
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Now I am just waiting for the replacement chip, and a free screwdriver from HP. :)
Here are some mpeg files from their server: 3.8mb , 3.6mb and 320kb
It was much cheaper than any laptop I've seen, and works great.
Some universities try to prevent network users from adding routers and wireless APs. Northwestern, for example, has policy to that effect.
The same would go for corporations - I can easily see why a corporation would want to prevent its employees from adding WAPs and routers.
(that's funny on multiple levels...think environmentalists, vegetarians, "BP" stands for British People, Soylent Green...pure comedy gold!)
BP is short for British Petroleum, not British People...
It's a cooperation of lots of small ISPs (or so it seems to me), and the result is a sh*tload of access numbers everywhere. I haven't found any non-local phone numbers there yet... Some of the cooperating ISPs even offer roaming for free.
In my experience, the reliability of SMS depends a lot on the provider. I have had no problems with AT&T, Cingular or Voicestream, and I have not experienced any loss when sending between phones on these networks.
The biggest problem, however, is when I send messages to Europe. For months at a time, it will work fine with a certain provider, and then no messages will go through. Sometimes the problem is only one-way. It depends on which provider I send from here to which provider I send to in Europe.
Bottom line: I've had no problem sending nationally, but messages crossing the Atlantic sometimes get lost.
> What is this story about?
If you look at the front page, you'll see a lot of so-called "links" for this story. Click on them, and you get more information! It's amazing what technology can do.
Yes, actually reading the damn thing could be quicker than posting and waiting for someone less lazy to reply...
It's dated April 2002, so as previously pointed out, this isn't really hot news.
The document also lists some ways to reduce spam, but they are all pretty much common sense, such as this clever piece of advice:
"Try not to display your email address in public."
Check out JunkBuster.com's pages for more help with getting rid of those bastards (no affiliation).
>> Consider Europe, where there is only 2 general >> types (Both GSM, if you can call that 2
>> types). And they are everywhere in EU, yet
The European GSM networks actually use three different bands. 900MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900MHz. Most countries use some combination of two bands, and usually one of them is 900MHz.
In the US, GSM uses the 1900MHz band.
One workaround for the problem of carriers locking their phones is buying a European phone.
In my experience, the cell phone salesperson will not know that you can put a different SIM card in their phone, or that you can use their SIM card in a different phone. Don't listen to them...
I brought a GSM tri-band phone from Europe, and I've never had any trouble using it on neither Cingular nor Voicestream's GSM networks.
The phone Voicestream more or less forced me to buy, however, would only work on Voicestream's network. After one hell of a struggle I got them to unlock it (the contract specified I had to be a customer for three months, so now it works on any GSM network.
Now that my phones (two Nokias and one Motorola) are unlocked, I now freely interchange my three SIM cards.
[quote]
An exam is one thing, homework is another. Homework is supposed to reinforce the skills you'll need later. One of those skills is research.
[/quote]
Yes, you are supposed to *learn* from homework. From my experience by far the most cases of "discussing" homework results in someone handing in someone else's code. That's just being lazy, and doesn't reinforce learning at all, just ripping off someone else's work and saying it's your own (aka plagiarism).
The reason many universities state you should only discuss the specifics of the assignment with the professor and the TAs is simply to avoid groupwork for individual assignments, and someone freeloading off hard-working students.
Instead of getting code from a classmate when faced with a difficult problem, you should try to solve it on your own. That person who does the assignment better than you won't be there once you're in a real workplace. Learning to solve the problem on your own is *important*. If you really get stuck, ask the prof/TA and they will point you in the right direction without giving away the answer.