gCensus is a great website - it spurred me to create a similar project in Ruby. I'm writing Ruby code to pull Census boundary & data files and parse them into KML files for Google Earth display (height adds a great dimensionality) and Google Maps. I'm posting my progress here: http://censuskml.blogspot.com/.
While wireless isn't new, the idea of it being absolutely ubiquitous on campus is fantastic. How frustrating is it in the real world to have to find an AP? Even within places like airports, coverage is spotty at best and you can't really roam easily.
The ability to do everything (Internet, Phone, and TV) on your laptop is great. It also saves money for the College as well. More details can be found here http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/349 9271
The Associated Press will be the offical vote tallier according to an AP report. I wouldn't look for complete predictions before the West coast polls close after 2000's problems.
...or does this blurb makes no sense and contradict itself?
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It may be common practice - but I would argue that it is deceptive. to advertise a monthly fee of $40 when, in fact, it is much higher at first.
Call this splitting hairs, but honesty is honesty.
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I'd just like to go on record and say that I'm very annoyed with Verizon Wireless right now. I got my first bill - we just started service - and not only had the failed to include my corporate discount, but they also pro-rated entire bill because their billing cycle ends 10 days after I purchased this phone. Who doesn't make a bunch of calls when they get a new phone - I can't help but feeling that someone figured this out and realized that by pro-rating they would be more likely to get more overage changes.
Two more beefs. First, they make you cough up a whole extra month on your first bill - kind of like a down payment. It's money that you won't see again for 2 years when you can use it to pay the last month in your contract. They get to keep your money, and do whatever it is they like with it, for two whole years. If you assume 55 million subscribers (the number the last time I checked) and an average monthly fee of $40 - they've gotten $2,200,000,000 (that's billion) in money that they can just sit on for two years.
Second, I signed up for "unlimited" picture messaging. I read the fine print upon getting home to find out that the unlimited part ends on January 1, 2004. Okay - most companies pull this sort of stunt. What Verizon Wireless did to really piss me off was that they imposed the limit on my first bill. My pro-rated "allowance" was 13. I sent 19. I was given a credit - but come on - how many people signed up and won't really read their first bill in detail? Alot.
Corrupt.
Today I just received my next bill. This bill was "supposed" to be significantly less, however it doesn't appear to be. I did receive the credit that was promised above, but I'm currently now trying to wade through the 50 page printout of the bill in detail to determine what is going on.
One thing that I have noticed is that the trial month of the Mobile Web wasn't in fact an whole month. I was only given the first billing cycle "free". As I've written above the whole first billing cycle itself is a crock. I was told by the store's representative that I'd get one "month" of the web for free, not just till the first billing cycle. Another phone call to Verizon is in order.
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gCensus is a great website - it spurred me to create a similar project in Ruby. I'm writing Ruby code to pull Census boundary & data files and parse them into KML files for Google Earth display (height adds a great dimensionality) and Google Maps. I'm posting my progress here: http://censuskml.blogspot.com/.
While wireless isn't new, the idea of it being absolutely ubiquitous on campus is fantastic. How frustrating is it in the real world to have to find an AP? Even within places like airports, coverage is spotty at best and you can't really roam easily. The ability to do everything (Internet, Phone, and TV) on your laptop is great. It also saves money for the College as well. More details can be found here http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/349 9271
The Associated Press will be the offical vote tallier according to an AP report. I wouldn't look for complete predictions before the West coast polls close after 2000's problems.
...or does this blurb makes no sense and contradict itself?
It may be common practice - but I would argue that it is deceptive. to advertise a monthly fee of $40 when, in fact, it is much higher at first. Call this splitting hairs, but honesty is honesty.
I'd just like to go on record and say that I'm very annoyed with Verizon Wireless right now. I got my first bill - we just started service - and not only had the failed to include my corporate discount, but they also pro-rated entire bill because their billing cycle ends 10 days after I purchased this phone. Who doesn't make a bunch of calls when they get a new phone - I can't help but feeling that someone figured this out and realized that by pro-rating they would be more likely to get more overage changes.
Two more beefs. First, they make you cough up a whole extra month on your first bill - kind of like a down payment. It's money that you won't see again for 2 years when you can use it to pay the last month in your contract. They get to keep your money, and do whatever it is they like with it, for two whole years. If you assume 55 million subscribers (the number the last time I checked) and an average monthly fee of $40 - they've gotten $2,200,000,000 (that's billion) in money that they can just sit on for two years.
Second, I signed up for "unlimited" picture messaging. I read the fine print upon getting home to find out that the unlimited part ends on January 1, 2004. Okay - most companies pull this sort of stunt. What Verizon Wireless did to really piss me off was that they imposed the limit on my first bill. My pro-rated "allowance" was 13. I sent 19. I was given a credit - but come on - how many people signed up and won't really read their first bill in detail? Alot.
Corrupt.
Today I just received my next bill. This bill was "supposed" to be significantly less, however it doesn't appear to be. I did receive the credit that was promised above, but I'm currently now trying to wade through the 50 page printout of the bill in detail to determine what is going on.
One thing that I have noticed is that the trial month of the Mobile Web wasn't in fact an whole month. I was only given the first billing cycle "free". As I've written above the whole first billing cycle itself is a crock. I was told by the store's representative that I'd get one "month" of the web for free, not just till the first billing cycle. Another phone call to Verizon is in order.
...which is too bad. I liked the dragon.