Well, from my small observations of western Long Island during the blackout, I can say that AT&T service was horrible. It appeared that the network was up and running, but they couldn't handle the increased volume from panicky New Yorkers. You had to try a few times just to get anything but a fast busy... IF you had any signal at all.
As far as I know, Verizon's situation ranged from slightly better to just about the same. Probable due only to their denser coverage of the area.
By noon on friday all service seemed back to normal. I have to say that from the quality of their normal service, I was amazed to see them on the ball at all that night... or anywhere in the vicinity of said ball.
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Due process for American law only applies to American citizens. Give me one example where this has happened to an american citizen under Bush?
I'm not saying that I agree completely with either side on this issue. I don't believe Bush is the incarnation of absolute evil he is sometimes made out to be. But he, and his administration are not quite squeaky clean either.
Like it or not, millions of people want YOU dead. Whose side are you on?
I am on my own side. American citizenship demands no less. It is your job to analyze everything that your government does, and make a decision whether you agree or not. You get your say either way. The responsibility for anything the US government does lies with the people it represents.
I am not a liberal, and I am not a conservative. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I make my own decisions, no matter what group of people seem to agree with me at the moment. Grouping the people that don't agree with you under a label gets you nowhere.
I have an athlon XP 1.4ghz (1600+) overclocked to 1.57ghz (1900+ I think), and yes, heat is a definite problem. But with AMD coming out with a.13 micron part this summer (Thoroughbred), it will hopefully soon be solved.
"Until there are real laws with teeth that take these guys down for good, victories will be short lived"
I know spam is a serious pain in the rear, but I doubt any legislation passed in any country would be effective. And with stuff like the DMCA, CBDTPA/SSSCA, and COPA floating around, I myself would rather the legislators leave the internet and digital technology in general alone. It has been proven that the majority of them don't understand what they are doing... and their track record is pretty grim
"The problem with all this WAPI stuff is that by trying to fit more and more functions into small devices like pagers and phones, they are compromising usability"
Not just usability though, bandwidth becomes an issue when a whole mess of people decide to surf the web, read their email, etc. at once. The system can barely handle the phone calls alone without stuffing a whole bunch of data down the pipe as well. Once customers get too fed up with the service, they start to migrate; which prods the companies into trying to get more spectrum. And if attained they try to get the userbase back with more "features" which strain bandwidth, and on and on and on...
The [insert government office here] has issued a press release today, see below for highlights:
"BOOO!"
What I'm trying to illustrate here is that with the HUGE amount of "warnings", "notices", and "advisories" coming out these days, it may be a good idea to count how many hundred times an article has the word "might" in it.
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Well, from my small observations of western Long Island during the blackout, I can say that AT&T service was horrible. It appeared that the network was up and running, but they couldn't handle the increased volume from panicky New Yorkers. You had to try a few times just to get anything but a fast busy... IF you had any signal at all.
As far as I know, Verizon's situation ranged from slightly better to just about the same. Probable due only to their denser coverage of the area.
By noon on friday all service seemed back to normal. I have to say that from the quality of their normal service, I was amazed to see them on the ball at all that night... or anywhere in the vicinity of said ball.
Due process for American law only applies to American citizens. Give me one example where this has happened to an american citizen under Bush?
Jose Padilla
I'm not saying that I agree completely with either side on this issue. I don't believe Bush is the incarnation of absolute evil he is sometimes made out to be. But he, and his administration are not quite squeaky clean either.
Like it or not, millions of people want YOU dead. Whose side are you on?
I am on my own side. American citizenship demands no less. It is your job to analyze everything that your government does, and make a decision whether you agree or not. You get your say either way. The responsibility for anything the US government does lies with the people it represents.
I am not a liberal, and I am not a conservative. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I make my own decisions, no matter what group of people seem to agree with me at the moment. Grouping the people that don't agree with you under a label gets you nowhere.
If I remember correctly, It'll make every monitor within a certain range do the happy dance as well.
Oh, windows systems... that makes a little more sense.
Feel free to mod me down\flame me\whatever, but thats how it looks from here.
U-571... now in Smell-o-vision!
I have an athlon XP 1.4ghz (1600+) overclocked to 1.57ghz (1900+ I think), and yes, heat is a definite problem. But with AMD coming out with a .13 micron part this summer (Thoroughbred), it will hopefully soon be solved.
"Until there are real laws with teeth that take these guys down for good, victories will be short lived" I know spam is a serious pain in the rear, but I doubt any legislation passed in any country would be effective. And with stuff like the DMCA, CBDTPA/SSSCA, and COPA floating around, I myself would rather the legislators leave the internet and digital technology in general alone. It has been proven that the majority of them don't understand what they are doing... and their track record is pretty grim
"The Ventura game -- or collection of games -- would be entertaining, 100-percent political and distributed free to voters as campaign literature"
"The problem with all this WAPI stuff is that by trying to fit more and more functions into small devices like pagers and phones, they are compromising usability"
Not just usability though, bandwidth becomes an issue when a whole mess of people decide to surf the web, read their email, etc. at once. The system can barely handle the phone calls alone without stuffing a whole bunch of data down the pipe as well. Once customers get too fed up with the service, they start to migrate; which prods the companies into trying to get more spectrum. And if attained they try to get the userbase back with more "features" which strain bandwidth, and on and on and on...
"BOOO!"
What I'm trying to illustrate here is that with the HUGE amount of "warnings", "notices", and "advisories" coming out these days, it may be a good idea to count how many hundred times an article has the word "might" in it.
I got 20 to 1 odds on 2006, place ya bets.