Actually, some Chinese cried like babies at the World Cyber Games a couple years ago when Taiwan's team had the audacity to actually
call themselves Taiwanese
"As the RIAA's "sue your customer" campaign begins to run into stiffening opposition and serious procedural obstacles it may be time to think about a "Plan B". A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte, would be more lucrative than trying to extract 60 million dollars from a music obsessed, file sharing, thirteen year-old."
Does this guy know how many megabytes are on a typical CD-R? or on a new hard drive?
Let's see, the tax on a new 120Gig drive would be, what, $1200?
Nokia has been selling TV set-top boxes in Europe for years, this is just an evolution of their product line, nothing that new or surprising. It's not like Nokia has all of sudden decided to be a consumer electronics company.
There are two sets of frequencies for cell phones in the U.S. The orginial band at 800 Mhz(actually uses 825-895Mhz, IIRC) and the "PCS" frequencies at 1900MHz(1850-1990Mhz, once again, IIRC)
You'll find CDMA and TDMA networks in both bands. GSM uses mostly just the PCS bands, and Analog uses the 800Mhz exclusively.
It is impossible to reprogram the SIM in a GSM phone over the air, and that would be necessary in order to change providers. Also note tha most carriers now sell "SIM-locked" phones, ones that will not work with other operators. If somehow a carrier could reprogram a SIM, the phone would just stop working
Another thing, AWS is switching to GSM because they can cram more calls into any given channel compared to D-AMPS. It wasn't about quality. There is arguably no difference in sound quality to the end user. It was capacity issue. (Remember the class action suit brought against them a few years back because they oversold service) And as for data, a few telecom equipment companies were working on a data solution for D-AMPS(comparable to GPRS) but stopped development when AWS annouced that they were switching to GSM back in 2000.
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I'll never forgive those bastards for destroying Sealab just because Murphy was running a pirate radio station.
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Why would it be unfair?
I was wondering why they were stating that it beats the Ferrari in 1/8 mile, instead of the more common quarter-mile "metric".
Yep, you can only play ripped ones.
Do a google search for "winamp AAC", you'll see a few existing AAC plugins for winamp. I've used one the play AAC files ripped by iTunes.
That's why they are putting one in a 747, it can fly above the weather.
Actually, some Chinese cried like babies at the World Cyber Games a couple years ago when Taiwan's team had the audacity to actually call themselves Taiwanese
Buy your own domain.
I don't see what it so revolutionary about what Venu is doing, there have been small, cheap BTSs around for many years.
Actually, the government is requiring the operators to stop using AMPS in 2008. And the operators will likely stop offering the service much sooner.
I guess it's hosted on the Geo Metro of web servers.
Except, unlike in a real battle situtation, the soldiers in the tanks were not allowed to kill the people with the jammers.
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And when the Galileo-guided Chinese missles are raining down on Taiwan's cities, will you dance a little jig then?
Yeah, I just can't understand why the United States military would want to deny it's enemies' use of the GPS in a time of war. They are so selfish.
I thought people were not supposed to use cell phones in hospitals. Why are they even there?
Does this guy know how many megabytes are on a typical CD-R? or on a new hard drive? Let's see, the tax on a new 120Gig drive would be, what, $1200?
But it does seem to more closely resemble "Cassie".
Thanks for the link. Interesting story.
Actually, the people of Saipan are American citizens.
I always just use nospam:nospam
Nokia has been selling TV set-top boxes in Europe for years, this is just an evolution of their product line, nothing that new or surprising. It's not like Nokia has all of sudden decided to be a consumer electronics company.
Chapter VII: How to sign up for unemployment benefits.
There are two sets of frequencies for cell phones in the U.S. The orginial band at 800 Mhz(actually uses 825-895Mhz, IIRC) and the "PCS" frequencies at 1900MHz(1850-1990Mhz, once again, IIRC)
You'll find CDMA and TDMA networks in both bands. GSM uses mostly just the PCS bands, and Analog uses the 800Mhz exclusively.
Another thing, AWS is switching to GSM because they can cram more calls into any given channel compared to D-AMPS. It wasn't about quality. There is arguably no difference in sound quality to the end user. It was capacity issue. (Remember the class action suit brought against them a few years back because they oversold service) And as for data, a few telecom equipment companies were working on a data solution for D-AMPS(comparable to GPRS) but stopped development when AWS annouced that they were switching to GSM back in 2000.
I'll never forgive those bastards for destroying Sealab just because Murphy was running a pirate radio station.