I thought the whole point was that SMS uses the remainder of the defined packet size that's otherwise filled with null characters because of the nature of the packet sizes that were chosen when this kind of radio communication was implemented... In short, SMS costs nothing when the data is already being transmitted OTA anyway...
Considering that SMS uses the same packet radio features that cellular networks use to keep the network appraised of where the phone is, and that packet size is much larger than the data that is transmitted per packet requiring the packets to be buffered out with null data, and that fitting the SMS messages just fill the rest of the packet that has to be transmitted anyway, even charging for SMS messaging is a crock.
I can understand charging for image or audio messages, as those actually do impact the use of the network. Charging for SMS, though, that's just sheer greed.
My wife and I got unlimited minutes cell plans when they were novel and first introduced to long-term customers several years ago, and we didn't get any SMS or data for her since she doesn't have a smartphone. Consequently, we used voice airtime even when SMS would have worked, as we didn't want to pay $0.20 for less than 300 characters. Because the carrier is greedy it actually cost them more for us to be customers.
I also believe that data features on smartphones that are provided by the carrier and OS on the phone, like e-mail, directory services, map data, and other non-web, fairly low-bandwidth data services should be complimentary with the purchase of the data plan, and should subsequently not count against one's 2gb cap or whatever the cap may be. But, apparently cell companies right now don't agree with me.
When I travelled overseas I found cellphones to be a much better deal. That they cost so much here for what one gets compared to overseas where they have the hell regulated out of them means to me that letting companies operate as they will, with contracts to the users, carrier-locked phones, and more than a single network standard further preventing even unlocked devices from conveniently switching between some carriers to be BS.
I don't find "RTFM" to be on the same level. My wife's school's unofficial motto was "IHTFP", which could sort of fall into that same category, but has much more personal significance.
I'd bet that a "FUCK WORK" t-shirt will probably be found inappropriate by just about everyone, even those who share the sentiment...
Come to think of it, just about anything at T-Shirt Hell would be inappropriate in a business meeting, especially if it involves clients or customers...
I just hope that the mute button works... Apparently my wife was once in one where it didn't, and their team's bursts of laughter at the incompetent statements were not well received by those making them...
I once saw another incident. A lady of probably 35 years was, for some reason, kneeling on her guest's chair at her own desk while talking on the phone. Her whale-tail was sticking up well above her pants. I looked at the other lady in the office, probably in her mid sixties, and once I had her attention, pointed at the whale-tail. She got up, walked over to the woman on the phone, grabbed the whale-tail, yanked it back about six inches, and snapped it against the woman's lower back. The younger woman immediately reacted by thrusting her lower body forward, got an incredulous look on her face turning beet red, and concluded her phone call quickly and left the room.
I was agog. After the victim left, I said to the lady, "You're the only person in this office who could get away with that!" to which she replied with a smile, "I know!"
The world turned upside-down when dearly-beloved Steve Jobs started locking down hardware to prevent any non-Apple-Approved changes, and Kommissar Gates went to Africa to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes...
"...using a computer device for monitoring and analyzing workers' interactions over video conferences... Bad behavior, Microsoft explains... wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting..."
But how can they tell in a videoconference video if I'm not wearing any pants?
On another note, years ago I missed the annual staff meeting when I was out sick. One of the topics was dress code. I was called in to the director's office to hear that part as it was deemed important. When he got into specifics, he said, "no printed t-shirts with inappropriate expressions on them, no open-toed shoes, no thongs." I replied, "No thongs? But how can they tell?!" He thought for a minute, and once it clicked, his face turned white as a sheet as he burst out, "FLIP FLOPS! No Flip flops!"
No, but it is fair to say that he's speaking Philosophy. Keep in mind that religion doesn't necessarily have to involve a god or God. The Scientologists have apparently made off well without God...
Or maybe some as-yet-undiscovered property of spacetime or the universe at the quantum level delays neutrinos over vast distances...
Unfortunately for us, replicating the experiment with a second team in a second location entirely from scratch will be extremely expensive, given that this CERN location used for the experiment is unique.
Unfortunately RIAA/MPAA has a lot better claim to what they enforce against, mainly because are society is stupid and allows someone to own their cultural contributions much longer than they deserve to. 20, 30 years, okay. I can see that. In perpetuity? That's wrong.
At least the motion picture industry is getting smart and releasing movies cheap. There are DVDs available retail new for $5, Blu-ray for $10. The RIAA doesn't understand that so much music is pirated because people don't want to pay more for the movie soundtrack than they do for the movie itself. It's a lot easier to put up with the MPAA when the cost to attempt to thwart is just about as high as the cost to just buy the damn disc, if one factors time into account.
I don't honestly know if the technology was worthwhile anyway. I mean, you had to use friggin' placeholders in memory slots that had no ram in them. That's a stupid, sophomoric mistake in my opinion. I could understand such in development, but once one goes production to keep your technology that screwed up... *sigh*
Even more importantly, at what point do disruptions to both other unlicensed users and to, more importantly, licensed users operating as primary users of spectrum that's also allowed for unlicensed use, cause the FCC to come down on such a scheme to destroy it? Granted, it would probably have to be pretty flagrant, but a hundred-thousand devices from one manufacturer in a metro area is probably enough to where they'd take notice, evaluate the usage on that spectrum, and possibly make a ruling...
Wifi on 2.4 and 5.8GHz is already posing problems enough, and those are intentionally very limited in range and power level...
A problem I saw in a couple of former Army IT people we had working here is that they were so pigeon-holed in their military roles that they were almost useless in general IT work, and I'm talking even helpdesk. One person was trained to do one specific job in IT with specific tools on specific equipment, and could not wrap around new work. Half of the workorders I got from this person said, "Computer does not start" as the problem description.
We're fairly pigeon-holed where I work as well, but we didn't hold a candle to these people. Granted, almost all knowledge here is either known in advance of hiring, inferred on the job, or brought through informal instruction while on the job, so there's essentially no formal class-style training, but a hallmark of a geeky IT worker is the ability to adapt and learn without someone holding one's hand.
You'd think that if they were smarter, they'd find a way to recharge this thing off of the vehicle's electrical system, like using the wiring for the backup lights or something, and they'd make it look less like a pelican case or a radio with an obvious antenna... That way legitimate warrants for monitoring or surveillance don't degenerate into something like this.
something interesting that's not often discussed is that radio receivers, by their very nature, inevitably also transmit, based on the frequencies they're receiving. It should be possible to build a GPS bug sweeper based on this principle. I don't have nearly enough of a radio background to do it, but I'm certain that there are HAMs out there who could figure it out...
I don't see a reason to get into social networking. Taking away some forums because they now require social networking isn't going to change my mind. If anything, it'll help me get over this Internet addiction faster.
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Keep in mind that for everyone who wants a dumb pipe, there's someone who wants America Online, even if they have no idea why they want it.
That's how all of these "features" that cell phone companies concoct manage to keep customers coming in.
Which takes up more bandwidth toward your X gb cap? SMS traffic, or forwarding more complex imformation through Apple's servers?
I'd bet on the latter...
I thought the whole point was that SMS uses the remainder of the defined packet size that's otherwise filled with null characters because of the nature of the packet sizes that were chosen when this kind of radio communication was implemented... In short, SMS costs nothing when the data is already being transmitted OTA anyway...
Considering that SMS uses the same packet radio features that cellular networks use to keep the network appraised of where the phone is, and that packet size is much larger than the data that is transmitted per packet requiring the packets to be buffered out with null data, and that fitting the SMS messages just fill the rest of the packet that has to be transmitted anyway, even charging for SMS messaging is a crock.
I can understand charging for image or audio messages, as those actually do impact the use of the network. Charging for SMS, though, that's just sheer greed.
My wife and I got unlimited minutes cell plans when they were novel and first introduced to long-term customers several years ago, and we didn't get any SMS or data for her since she doesn't have a smartphone. Consequently, we used voice airtime even when SMS would have worked, as we didn't want to pay $0.20 for less than 300 characters. Because the carrier is greedy it actually cost them more for us to be customers.
I also believe that data features on smartphones that are provided by the carrier and OS on the phone, like e-mail, directory services, map data, and other non-web, fairly low-bandwidth data services should be complimentary with the purchase of the data plan, and should subsequently not count against one's 2gb cap or whatever the cap may be. But, apparently cell companies right now don't agree with me.
When I travelled overseas I found cellphones to be a much better deal. That they cost so much here for what one gets compared to overseas where they have the hell regulated out of them means to me that letting companies operate as they will, with contracts to the users, carrier-locked phones, and more than a single network standard further preventing even unlocked devices from conveniently switching between some carriers to be BS.
I don't find "RTFM" to be on the same level. My wife's school's unofficial motto was "IHTFP", which could sort of fall into that same category, but has much more personal significance.
I'd bet that a "FUCK WORK" t-shirt will probably be found inappropriate by just about everyone, even those who share the sentiment...
Come to think of it, just about anything at T-Shirt Hell would be inappropriate in a business meeting, especially if it involves clients or customers...
I'm pretty sure that the Japanese have you beat on prior art there...
I just hope that the mute button works... Apparently my wife was once in one where it didn't, and their team's bursts of laughter at the incompetent statements were not well received by those making them...
I once saw another incident. A lady of probably 35 years was, for some reason, kneeling on her guest's chair at her own desk while talking on the phone. Her whale-tail was sticking up well above her pants. I looked at the other lady in the office, probably in her mid sixties, and once I had her attention, pointed at the whale-tail. She got up, walked over to the woman on the phone, grabbed the whale-tail, yanked it back about six inches, and snapped it against the woman's lower back. The younger woman immediately reacted by thrusting her lower body forward, got an incredulous look on her face turning beet red, and concluded her phone call quickly and left the room.
I was agog. After the victim left, I said to the lady, "You're the only person in this office who could get away with that!" to which she replied with a smile, "I know!"
He doesn't really work there anymore...
The world turned upside-down when dearly-beloved Steve Jobs started locking down hardware to prevent any non-Apple-Approved changes, and Kommissar Gates went to Africa to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes...
(with apologies to Jon Stewart)
Only if the face is all black except for a little bit of white around the mouth... That could get you sent to sensitivity training...
But how can they tell in a videoconference video if I'm not wearing any pants?
On another note, years ago I missed the annual staff meeting when I was out sick. One of the topics was dress code. I was called in to the director's office to hear that part as it was deemed important. When he got into specifics, he said, "no printed t-shirts with inappropriate expressions on them, no open-toed shoes, no thongs." I replied, "No thongs? But how can they tell?!" He thought for a minute, and once it clicked, his face turned white as a sheet as he burst out, "FLIP FLOPS! No Flip flops!"
It's funny to make a PHB turn white as a sheet...
No, but it is fair to say that he's speaking Philosophy. Keep in mind that religion doesn't necessarily have to involve a god or God. The Scientologists have apparently made off well without God...
Or maybe some as-yet-undiscovered property of spacetime or the universe at the quantum level delays neutrinos over vast distances...
Unfortunately for us, replicating the experiment with a second team in a second location entirely from scratch will be extremely expensive, given that this CERN location used for the experiment is unique.
Who wants some Wang?!
I hope they don't get the two confused! That would make for a whole helluva lot of paperwork...
Unfortunately RIAA/MPAA has a lot better claim to what they enforce against, mainly because are society is stupid and allows someone to own their cultural contributions much longer than they deserve to. 20, 30 years, okay. I can see that. In perpetuity? That's wrong.
At least the motion picture industry is getting smart and releasing movies cheap. There are DVDs available retail new for $5, Blu-ray for $10. The RIAA doesn't understand that so much music is pirated because people don't want to pay more for the movie soundtrack than they do for the movie itself. It's a lot easier to put up with the MPAA when the cost to attempt to thwart is just about as high as the cost to just buy the damn disc, if one factors time into account.
I don't honestly know if the technology was worthwhile anyway. I mean, you had to use friggin' placeholders in memory slots that had no ram in them. That's a stupid, sophomoric mistake in my opinion. I could understand such in development, but once one goes production to keep your technology that screwed up... *sigh*
Even more importantly, at what point do disruptions to both other unlicensed users and to, more importantly, licensed users operating as primary users of spectrum that's also allowed for unlicensed use, cause the FCC to come down on such a scheme to destroy it? Granted, it would probably have to be pretty flagrant, but a hundred-thousand devices from one manufacturer in a metro area is probably enough to where they'd take notice, evaluate the usage on that spectrum, and possibly make a ruling...
Wifi on 2.4 and 5.8GHz is already posing problems enough, and those are intentionally very limited in range and power level...
A problem I saw in a couple of former Army IT people we had working here is that they were so pigeon-holed in their military roles that they were almost useless in general IT work, and I'm talking even helpdesk. One person was trained to do one specific job in IT with specific tools on specific equipment, and could not wrap around new work. Half of the workorders I got from this person said, "Computer does not start" as the problem description.
We're fairly pigeon-holed where I work as well, but we didn't hold a candle to these people. Granted, almost all knowledge here is either known in advance of hiring, inferred on the job, or brought through informal instruction while on the job, so there's essentially no formal class-style training, but a hallmark of a geeky IT worker is the ability to adapt and learn without someone holding one's hand.
You'd think that if they were smarter, they'd find a way to recharge this thing off of the vehicle's electrical system, like using the wiring for the backup lights or something, and they'd make it look less like a pelican case or a radio with an obvious antenna... That way legitimate warrants for monitoring or surveillance don't degenerate into something like this.
something interesting that's not often discussed is that radio receivers, by their very nature, inevitably also transmit, based on the frequencies they're receiving. It should be possible to build a GPS bug sweeper based on this principle. I don't have nearly enough of a radio background to do it, but I'm certain that there are HAMs out there who could figure it out...
Especially since they're taking out all but one bathroom...
Pretty much.
I don't see a reason to get into social networking. Taking away some forums because they now require social networking isn't going to change my mind. If anything, it'll help me get over this Internet addiction faster.
A Brazilian is how many people got attacked, silly!
You just don't know your SI units because you're probably American. They're well versed in them in South America...
Maybe they're just pissed that someone is referring to the reliability and longevity of their PowerPC and Performa lines from back in the day...
At least they didn't name the restaurant "Road Apples"...