I am not a share holder of T or an employee either, but I do have a landline which I use for fax and DSL. I recently bought the Clear gear, so when I get that set up, I won't be an T customer either. I own stocks in several corporations, none are AT &T. One of my most important investing rules is to not own stock in a company I wouldn't want to work for or do business with. There was a time when working for AT &T would have been like going to heaven. There was a time when T's customer service was the best in its industry (google Lily Tomlin for more info on that). Although customer service has improved, it still isn't up to my standards. Buying a stock purely for it's financials is a losing business if the customers leave and the smartest employees accept early retirement buyouts.
I agree. Just because a company you used to like goes bad doesn't mean you have to stick with it. Everyone isn't caring an iPhone Being an early adopter was a lot of fun back in the day, when it was about technology and not IP/marketshare gaming. There are two many ways to skin this cat, we can't be forced to do what they expect. There is not a killer app or a killer product. Marketing as though every customer is "typical" or the same won't work because most customers are not "average".
But, I can understand how the stratigit in Germany would think, "If it helped us so much here, it must be hurting us there. No need to wait for the numbers to organie this deal, they'd only make our market price go down.,"
It would have taken longer for Palm users to switch to iPhones if T Mobile had continued to support them. A lot of Palm users still are on with the $10 data plan, but no help from customer service, you have to work it out yourself. I wonder if I can move my SIM to an iPhone? My Centro is dying.
It doesn't have to be used for computers. If they don't want a competitor to get it, they can sell it to something completely different. It would be a great domain for astronomers or ham radio operators to store their sun spot data, or maybe sun worshipers can use it as a holy site. Is Sun Ra still around?
Right. I've been Siriuskase for longer than the internet, but nobody from my old high school ever contacted me until I was brave enough to create a facebook identity using my real name and school. Of course, that is the most boring version of me imaginable, overweight, middle aged, no opinions about anything except for my cat and my kids who are perfect, naturally, and just as boring as me.
A city gets wiped out by water. A city big enough for people to care about. It happens in fiction and it happens in real life. Was the real Port Royal anywhere nears as sinful or as much fun as the legendary Port Royal? That city hasn't had anywhere near as much time as Atlantis.
It's a little premature to talk about the end of capitalism. Right now, government is a service that can be bought and sold just like any service. It's main distinction is that unlike the mafia, it's bundle of protection services is available legally directly or indirectly from various approved mercenary organizations.
It is more timely to discuss the demise of government as we know it, a class of organization with the legal power to use violence and the threat of violence to influence and maintain power. Corporations and other NGO's are learning how to get what they need by less violent means. I'm not saying nonviolence is great, without violence, some organizations resort to good old fashioned sneakiness. But, the public at large is getting tired of condoning violence by our leaders.
Right now, if we throw out the couple of superpowers, the largest organizations in the world are not governments. Corporations and other NGOs can buy or relocate to get what they need. They can hold governments hostage with threats to employ or unemploy large numbers of citizens. They are better at using advertising to sell their products and ideas. Our POV is a little warped since so many of us live in a superpower - the world looks different when you leave home.
Ham equipment is much smaller and more portable than commericial. Every summer, field day demonstrates how easy it is to set up an emergency station that doesn't use the power mains. Not sure if egyptian hams have something like field day, but they can probably set up an emergency station. In an emergency, anyone can use ham equipment and hams can do stuff that isn't normally legal for them. When all hell breaks lose, laws don't stop good people. It's not like other radio services where the equipment enforces the laws, nothing prevents hams from engaging in transmissions that are normally unlawful if there is a need.
The nice thing about Ham is that every commercial technology is also implemented using the amateur frequencies. Even wireless internet, television, and fax, although it is a bit slower than wired. The engineers that brought you these technologies are usually hams that made it work on the ham bands first, then dumbed it down for lay people to use.
Just having a team also gives you some advertising.
Right on it. 17 year old kids are more likely to apply to schools they have heard of. Football Saturday certainly is fun, especially if your team is in the running. Criteria like Top Math Department or Nobel Prize winning professors don't matter much to someone who hasn't figured out his major yet.
It happens in any field where people think reputations matter. If a person's previous contributions are considered superior, then he or she is more likely to make valuable contributions in the future. People have been doing this since the beginning of time. We might be overlooking good work, but good workers have to pay their dues and establish a reputation. Or maybe, we should give everyone a test and only listen to people in the top percentiles. Isn't that what they do in China?
Since when was Math NOT Liberal Arts. Back when I was at the university, we went to the Liberal Arts College to take Calculus and English, and to the Engineering College to take everything else. Although engineering students see Calculus more as a means to an end, that's like thinking of English as simply a tool for writing memos to the boss (or fine arts as a way of helping managers visualize what's in creative's heads). Mathematics taken abstractly is just as much an art as Literature and Sculpture. Not at all practical, but that's not the point.
Your use of past tense makes me sad. They just announced on the radio that they'd try to sell delicious. Seems strange if they already laid off the staff. Must be an on the fly knee jerk sort of thing.
Thanks. Too bad there isn't an way to replace all functionality. Although the primary benefit of delicious to me is the ability to use the same bookmarks from different computers, I also find the crowd tagging and descriptions useful. Some people out there tag and describe differently than me. It is also useful to explore bookmarks created by other people that are tagged kinda like whatever set of bookmarks I'm working with. It's a kind of search that results in pages I would have bookmarked had I found them, but someone has come along and bookmarked them for me. How nice!
Would be nice if they could sell it or spin it off to someone who cares. Surely it has some resale value, or are they shutting it down because it competes with something else they do?
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I am not a share holder of T or an employee either, but I do have a landline which I use for fax and DSL. I recently bought the Clear gear, so when I get that set up, I won't be an T customer either. I own stocks in several corporations, none are AT &T. One of my most important investing rules is to not own stock in a company I wouldn't want to work for or do business with. There was a time when working for AT &T would have been like going to heaven. There was a time when T's customer service was the best in its industry (google Lily Tomlin for more info on that). Although customer service has improved, it still isn't up to my standards. Buying a stock purely for it's financials is a losing business if the customers leave and the smartest employees accept early retirement buyouts.
I agree. Just because a company you used to like goes bad doesn't mean you have to stick with it. Everyone isn't caring an iPhone Being an early adopter was a lot of fun back in the day, when it was about technology and not IP/marketshare gaming. There are two many ways to skin this cat, we can't be forced to do what they expect. There is not a killer app or a killer product. Marketing as though every customer is "typical" or the same won't work because most customers are not "average".
But, I can understand how the stratigit in Germany would think, "If it helped us so much here, it must be hurting us there. No need to wait for the numbers to organie this deal, they'd only make our market price go down.,"
It would have taken longer for Palm users to switch to iPhones if T Mobile had continued to support them. A lot of Palm users still are on with the $10 data plan, but no help from customer service, you have to work it out yourself. I wonder if I can move my SIM to an iPhone? My Centro is dying.
It doesn't have to be used for computers. If they don't want a competitor to get it, they can sell it to something completely different. It would be a great domain for astronomers or ham radio operators to store their sun spot data, or maybe sun worshipers can use it as a holy site. Is Sun Ra still around?
Gnu Free Call is only 3 syllables, so is GFC, equally pronounceable. Unless you pronounce the "G".
It would be pronounced "New Free Call" . People would wonder about the "Old Free Call"
Right. I've been Siriuskase for longer than the internet, but nobody from my old high school ever contacted me until I was brave enough to create a facebook identity using my real name and school. Of course, that is the most boring version of me imaginable, overweight, middle aged, no opinions about anything except for my cat and my kids who are perfect, naturally, and just as boring as me.
A city gets wiped out by water. A city big enough for people to care about. It happens in fiction and it happens in real life. Was the real Port Royal anywhere nears as sinful or as much fun as the legendary Port Royal? That city hasn't had anywhere near as much time as Atlantis.
We need more lawyers on slashdot, we need more lawyers on our side. Engineers with law degrees can change the world for better or worse.
IANAL, but it seems an awful lot of my friends have gone back to law school.
It's a little premature to talk about the end of capitalism. Right now, government is a service that can be bought and sold just like any service. It's main distinction is that unlike the mafia, it's bundle of protection services is available legally directly or indirectly from various approved mercenary organizations.
It is more timely to discuss the demise of government as we know it, a class of organization with the legal power to use violence and the threat of violence to influence and maintain power. Corporations and other NGO's are learning how to get what they need by less violent means. I'm not saying nonviolence is great, without violence, some organizations resort to good old fashioned sneakiness. But, the public at large is getting tired of condoning violence by our leaders.
Right now, if we throw out the couple of superpowers, the largest organizations in the world are not governments. Corporations and other NGOs can buy or relocate to get what they need. They can hold governments hostage with threats to employ or unemploy large numbers of citizens. They are better at using advertising to sell their products and ideas. Our POV is a little warped since so many of us live in a superpower - the world looks different when you leave home.
Canadians can raise their income by selling their free reports to US.
What's so dumb about high prices if people are willing to pay?
How disappointing. I thought this was going to be about real pirates in developing countries like Somalia.
No problem, just stick it in a metal baggy. Real engineers don't buy toys they can't take apart.
Ham equipment is much smaller and more portable than commericial. Every summer, field day demonstrates how easy it is to set up an emergency station that doesn't use the power mains. Not sure if egyptian hams have something like field day, but they can probably set up an emergency station. In an emergency, anyone can use ham equipment and hams can do stuff that isn't normally legal for them. When all hell breaks lose, laws don't stop good people. It's not like other radio services where the equipment enforces the laws, nothing prevents hams from engaging in transmissions that are normally unlawful if there is a need.
Smuggle FRS radios into the crowd. Not exactly cell, but good for crowd control by the good guys.
The nice thing about Ham is that every commercial technology is also implemented using the amateur frequencies. Even wireless internet, television, and fax, although it is a bit slower than wired. The engineers that brought you these technologies are usually hams that made it work on the ham bands first, then dumbed it down for lay people to use.
Don't forget fax, it is still a more difficult to censor mode of communication.
Just having a team also gives you some advertising.
Right on it. 17 year old kids are more likely to apply to schools they have heard of. Football Saturday certainly is fun, especially if your team is in the running. Criteria like Top Math Department or Nobel Prize winning professors don't matter much to someone who hasn't figured out his major yet.
"* Brueckner, A. (1986), 'Brains in a Vat,' Journal of Philosophy, 83: 148-167."
Yeah, a good philosopher to rent for Halloween or a Sci Fi Festival. A real fun guy.
It happens in any field where people think reputations matter. If a person's previous contributions are considered superior, then he or she is more likely to make valuable contributions in the future. People have been doing this since the beginning of time. We might be overlooking good work, but good workers have to pay their dues and establish a reputation. Or maybe, we should give everyone a test and only listen to people in the top percentiles. Isn't that what they do in China?
Since when was Math NOT Liberal Arts. Back when I was at the university, we went to the Liberal Arts College to take Calculus and English, and to the Engineering College to take everything else. Although engineering students see Calculus more as a means to an end, that's like thinking of English as simply a tool for writing memos to the boss (or fine arts as a way of helping managers visualize what's in creative's heads). Mathematics taken abstractly is just as much an art as Literature and Sculpture. Not at all practical, but that's not the point.
Your use of past tense makes me sad. They just announced on the radio that they'd try to sell delicious. Seems strange if they already laid off the staff. Must be an on the fly knee jerk sort of thing.
Thanks. Too bad there isn't an way to replace all functionality. Although the primary benefit of delicious to me is the ability to use the same bookmarks from different computers, I also find the crowd tagging and descriptions useful. Some people out there tag and describe differently than me. It is also useful to explore bookmarks created by other people that are tagged kinda like whatever set of bookmarks I'm working with. It's a kind of search that results in pages I would have bookmarked had I found them, but someone has come along and bookmarked them for me. How nice!
Would be nice if they could sell it or spin it off to someone who cares. Surely it has some resale value, or are they shutting it down because it competes with something else they do?