The reason I know you can do it is that there is an area in the building I used to work where signals are intentionally blocked somehow, and my phone comes up with "Emergency Calls Only" when I am in that area.
Doesn't it show this in some countries if you have only reception from other operators than your own? (At least that's what I remember from the time I lived in the UK.)
Hm, not sure. This might work in the US, but in Europe, phones will not generally roam to a cell that does not belong to your operator. Maybe if you can convince the phone that it is abroad!
I really don't understand how it could be possible to block mobile phone reception while at the same time allowing emergency calls - either you are connected to a network or you aren't.
Can somebody explain how this should work, please?
No one ever says, 'I can't read that ASCII E-mail you sent me.'
I assume you do not live in a country where characters are used that are not in the core 127 ASCII characters. I'm talking about German umlauts, special scandinavian letters, French accents, etc. It happens all the time that these letters are misrepresented; either by one letter that is different, or by the quoted-printable way(is it called like that?). It makes things extremely hard to read - and it's ASCII!
Not true. In a few months time there will be the SonyBMG, and Bertelsman (as one of the two parents) would not have an interest in doing that. So it will not happen.
The private frequency ownership doesn't work out quite as perfectly as the author suggests. Sure, opening a single UHF frequency up could mean billions in additional revenue. What if we opened up nine frequncies, in different parts of the spectrum, in different regions? Then the benefit is largely negated by the same difficulties we deal with in cellular today.
There is a slight confusion here. The billions of additional revenue would not be the good thing for society - the good thing would be that the frequency would be used by someone who values it at billions of dollars. If spectrum was tradebable, the scenario that you describe would not happen. It is most advantageous to have mobile phones running in the same frequency band throughout the world. So, for example, without regulation, the mobile providers in the USA would most likely have settled on the standard that is used in the rest of the world, GSM-900/1800. This would be so much more profitable that the mobile phone companies would be able to buy out the previous owners of these frequencies.
Markets usually work - but some, like the one for spectrum, need to be created first by tearing down artificial regulatory barriers to trade.
What does not hiring have to do with monopolising? The main reason for mergers is the possibility of economies of scale or scope - i.e. cost cutting. This is not good for the people working at this company, but it is good for everyone else.
Well, a poster further down is of the same opinion as me - and then - should I trust an AC on/. or the Linux Documentation Project? "Unix System Resources" is a backronym invented some time after the/home subdirectory was introduced - "user" is now a wrong description for/usr.
/usr used to stand for "user" in earlier Unix implementations - all "home" directories were under/usr, i.e/usr/joebloggs. A more detailed discussion can be found here.
What is supposed to happen? I just see a page with blinking smilies. Mozilla Firefox 0.8 doesn't crash and doesn't open any new windows or tabs. I could just close the tab and was back at/.
That's great news - and for those wondering why Novell would release this open source, whereas they could sell it for cash before: Remember, Novell is not primarily selling software but services. They hope to sell more services by freeing the Connector.
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Hm, not sure. This might work in the US, but in Europe, phones will not generally roam to a cell that does not belong to your operator. Maybe if you can convince the phone that it is abroad!
Can somebody explain how this should work, please?
Electricity Bills? Love for the Environment?
Is there any story where we can discuss the X-Prize event happening now??
USB Stick. In Europe at least.
Actually today's Office update did not require me to insert the original CD (it usually does though).
In fact, it is London on Airstrip One (which is the renamed Great Britain and Ireland) in Oceania.
Not true. In a few months time there will be the SonyBMG, and Bertelsman (as one of the two parents) would not have an interest in doing that. So it will not happen.
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Markets usually work - but some, like the one for spectrum, need to be created first by tearing down artificial regulatory barriers to trade.
What does not hiring have to do with monopolising? The main reason for mergers is the possibility of economies of scale or scope - i.e. cost cutting. This is not good for the people working at this company, but it is good for everyone else.
German antitrust law would not apply. A MS/SAP merger would be subject to the European merger regulations.
Well, a poster further down is of the same opinion as me - and then - should I trust an AC on /. or the Linux Documentation Project? "Unix System Resources" is a backronym invented some time after the /home subdirectory was introduced - "user" is now a wrong description for /usr.
/usr used to stand for "user" in earlier Unix implementations - all "home" directories were under /usr, i.e /usr/joebloggs. A more detailed discussion can be found here.
What is supposed to happen? I just see a page with blinking smilies. Mozilla Firefox 0.8 doesn't crash and doesn't open any new windows or tabs. I could just close the tab and was back at /.
I don't know whether I have ever read as much bullshit in 3 paragraphs. Mod down parent, all he says is made up.
That's not true, at least not for me. I can see images on CNN and Yahoo. Which filter would block the images?
Sorry to reply to myself: Remove all spaces in the text file - slashdot inserts them automatically. There are none at all in the filters.
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That's great news - and for those wondering why Novell would release this open source, whereas they could sell it for cash before: Remember, Novell is not primarily selling software but services. They hope to sell more services by freeing the Connector.