LOL, each time you post this message in a reply to a post in this story, it's modded +5;-)
see how many you can get!!
And this is how it's have been going so far:
You can always get an invite Tuesday March 15, @03:25PM 1 5, Informative
Re:the link is one-time Tuesday March 15, @03:28PM 1 2, Informative
Re:Gmail public Tuesday March 15, @03:30PM 0, Redundant
Re:now if they only had group emails Tuesday March 15, @03:41PM 1 -1, Redundant
In some countries other than the US, you don't get billed for the airtime if you receive a call, those minutes are paid entirely by the caller.
Also, in some countries other than the US, you don't get your cell phone from your service provider, but you buy separately; altough that is changing in favor of the US model ("Free phone" if you buy our plan).
BTW, my current phone is unbranded and not locked to any provider, and when the time to upgrade comes, a blacklist/whitelist would be a very important feature for me if it exist. ARE YOU LISTENING, MOTO/NOKIA/SE/WHATEVER ??????
Specifically, information of a transaction, such as transaction amount, is being supplied from a data input terminal such as internet computer or a POS terminal, to a transaction control centre, then transmitted back to its originating location, to a user through a portable receiver which may be a mobile phone or the like.
And the better part is:
The scope of patent protection may seem to be incredibly broad, but this is what we exactly own
The only change that most users will notice is how does it look. And it will the main motivation to some users to upgrade from XP to Longhorn, as it was for many people I know that upgraded to XP.
For most users, the main difference between 2000 and XP is not about the integrated firewall. It's not the damn activation thing. It's the bigger and blueish tittle bar, the candy looking widgets and the wallpaper that looks like it's taken straight from Teletubbyland.
Paterson has endured "great pain and mental anguish" and is seeking "over $75,000" in damages, plus costs.
It looks like Paterson is trying to get economic compensation (no matter from who) for the "great pain and mental anguish" of having developed QDOS, then sell it to MS for a ridiculous sum of money and seing how they managed to create a software empire with it.
ICE has been the focus of several corruption scandals recently and people jus don't trust them anymore
More than that not to trust ICE, people don't trust the men in high executive positions. People don't trust the corrupt politicians that put them there. People don't trust unions (sindicatos).
Same with the CCSS.
Last time there was a popular uplift because ICE convinced many (less educated people) that ICE was going to be sold to multinational companies
The less educated people? Like university students? People like Ottón Solís, Joyce Zurcher or Gabriel Macaya?
OK, it wasn't written in the law proposal, but many suspected that it would happen in the long run.
And all we knew that the combo didn't come out in a transparent way.
You may want an open market all that you want, and that's a valid position, but there was something very fishy about that proposal. After all, now we get to know a little more about Miguel Angel Rodriguez.
Actually Phil moved from Costa Rica to Nicaragua; apparently he was dissapointed because the goverment was considering Linux for some project, but threw it away after a visit from someone important from MS.
But the ironic twist is there, because both Costa Rica and Nicaragua will be adopting DMCA-like regulations as part of the Central America Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. (CAFTA)
Actually ICE, the local state-owned telco is not proposing to outlaw VoIP. It's a little more complex than that.
The law proposal in question dates from 1998. It had some provisions to outlaw some int'l calling services that some local semi-clandestine bussines provided, like callback and others. ICE, saw those services as telecommunications fraud, because it's the only organization allowed by law to do so, and wanted a law that prosecuted them.
International calls are relatively expensive in Costa Rica, because int'l calls subsidize local calls and universal service. It's cheaper to make a long distance call from the U.S. to Costa Rica than the other way around; as a result, these services flourished.
But then, VoIP became popular and it falled into a legal limbo, because of the law mandated monopoly. And there was this law proposal, gathering dust at the congress, that technically would criminalize VoIP if it wasn't provided by the ICE. And a local newspaper brought up the story. When some ICE executives were asked, they said that this service should be subject of regulations, but not exactly outlawed. A ICE spokeperson said in that article that this law proposal should be changed to adapt to current technology.
This proposal has not been debated in Congress, but if it does, I think that legislators are not such as morons and will modify it.
OK, For/.ers to get an idea of how "AWFUL" the service is, look at these facts:
ICE is the only phone and cellular service provider. Anyway, rates are:
local call (to any landline in the country):
Bussines hours: US$0.0045 / minute
Rest of the time:US$0.009 / minute
Cellular call: (from cell phone to any phone or from landline to a cell phone anywhere in the country)
Bussines hours: US$0.073 / minute
Rest of the time:US$0.05 / minute
Price per SMS message: US$0.0033
Unlimited GPRS for free if you have a GSM line (To be fair, this service sucks, but you don't pay for it anyway)
Cell coverage for TDMA is decent. GSM is mediocre, mostly inside buildings because the system only works at 1800 MHz.
A goverment-runned monopoly has its pros and cons. Most families have a phone line at home, even if they are poor. Phone and cell rates are very low and affordable to the general population; but some people have to wait months (even years) to get a phone line at home. I had to wait 2 years for my ADSL service (It's expensive compared to other countries, but cheaper than cable modem) but the service is very reliable.
What I like about the state owned company is that is a company that is there just to give the service, not to make profits. Services like long-distance subsidize the universal service. But it has the typical problems of the public sector, like a big fat burocracy, and strong worker unions that back lazy employees. (I'm not against unions nor I'm saying that all workers are lazy, but managers can't fire lazy employees because of the influnce of the union)
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Yes, but they did it again. Fully loaded now.
You bet we do.
Should cubans substract rent rent payments + interests for the U.S. military base in Guantanamo from that amount?
Or in other people case, getting actual work done before browsing /.
How many work units have you sent?
That's the dumbest sig I've ever read.
Finally! I was getting tired of every year since 1998 being the year of 'Linux on the desktop'
Of course they are! Everybody knows this guy is the real pope.
Why does it have to be punished more just because it destroys people's faith in the system?
If the system is so vulnerable, it doesn't deserve people's faith.
crash different.
Only if you don't mind people seeing you entering with a laptop into the lavatory.
And this is how it's have been going so far:
You can always get an invite Tuesday March 15, @03:25PM 1 5, Informative
Re:the link is one-time Tuesday March 15, @03:28PM 1 2, Informative
Re:Gmail public Tuesday March 15, @03:30PM 0, Redundant
Re:now if they only had group emails Tuesday March 15, @03:41PM 1 -1, Redundant
Also, in some countries other than the US, you don't get your cell phone from your service provider, but you buy separately; altough that is changing in favor of the US model ("Free phone" if you buy our plan).
BTW, my current phone is unbranded and not locked to any provider, and when the time to upgrade comes, a blacklist/whitelist would be a very important feature for me if it exist. ARE YOU LISTENING, MOTO/NOKIA/SE/WHATEVER ??????
Specifically, information of a transaction, such as transaction amount, is being supplied from a data input terminal such as internet computer or a POS terminal, to a transaction control centre, then transmitted back to its originating location, to a user through a portable receiver which may be a mobile phone or the like.
And the better part is:
The scope of patent protection may seem to be incredibly broad, but this is what we exactly own
The only change that most users will notice is how does it look. And it will the main motivation to some users to upgrade from XP to Longhorn, as it was for many people I know that upgraded to XP.
For most users, the main difference between 2000 and XP is not about the integrated firewall. It's not the damn activation thing. It's the bigger and blueish tittle bar, the candy looking widgets and the wallpaper that looks like it's taken straight from Teletubbyland.
Paterson has endured "great pain and mental anguish" and is seeking "over $75,000" in damages, plus costs.
It looks like Paterson is trying to get economic compensation (no matter from who) for the "great pain and mental anguish" of having developed QDOS, then sell it to MS for a ridiculous sum of money and seing how they managed to create a software empire with it.
More than that not to trust ICE, people don't trust the men in high executive positions. People don't trust the corrupt politicians that put them there. People don't trust unions (sindicatos).
Same with the CCSS.
Last time there was a popular uplift because ICE convinced many (less educated people) that ICE was going to be sold to multinational companies
The less educated people? Like university students? People like Ottón Solís, Joyce Zurcher or Gabriel Macaya?
OK, it wasn't written in the law proposal, but many suspected that it would happen in the long run. And all we knew that the combo didn't come out in a transparent way.
You may want an open market all that you want, and that's a valid position, but there was something very fishy about that proposal. After all, now we get to know a little more about Miguel Angel Rodriguez.
But the ironic twist is there, because both Costa Rica and Nicaragua will be adopting DMCA-like regulations as part of the Central America Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. (CAFTA)
The law proposal in question dates from 1998. It had some provisions to outlaw some int'l calling services that some local semi-clandestine bussines provided, like callback and others. ICE, saw those services as telecommunications fraud, because it's the only organization allowed by law to do so, and wanted a law that prosecuted them.
International calls are relatively expensive in Costa Rica, because int'l calls subsidize local calls and universal service. It's cheaper to make a long distance call from the U.S. to Costa Rica than the other way around; as a result, these services flourished.
But then, VoIP became popular and it falled into a legal limbo, because of the law mandated monopoly. And there was this law proposal, gathering dust at the congress, that technically would criminalize VoIP if it wasn't provided by the ICE. And a local newspaper brought up the story. When some ICE executives were asked, they said that this service should be subject of regulations, but not exactly outlawed. A ICE spokeperson said in that article that this law proposal should be changed to adapt to current technology.
This proposal has not been debated in Congress, but if it does, I think that legislators are not such as morons and will modify it.
These are the rates for ADSL service in Costa Rica:
http://www.grupoice.com/esp/ayuda/tarifas.htm
128 / 64.....$28.25
256 / 128..... $46.32
512 / 128..... $72.32
1024 / 256..... $98.31
ICE is the only phone and cellular service provider. Anyway, rates are:
local call (to any landline in the country):
Bussines hours: US$0.0045 / minute
Rest of the time:US$0.009 / minute
Cellular call: (from cell phone to any phone or from landline to a cell phone anywhere in the country)
Bussines hours: US$0.073 / minute
Rest of the time:US$0.05 / minute
Price per SMS message: US$0.0033
Unlimited GPRS for free if you have a GSM line (To be fair, this service sucks, but you don't pay for it anyway)
Cell coverage for TDMA is decent. GSM is mediocre, mostly inside buildings because the system only works at 1800 MHz.
A goverment-runned monopoly has its pros and cons. Most families have a phone line at home, even if they are poor. Phone and cell rates are very low and affordable to the general population; but some people have to wait months (even years) to get a phone line at home. I had to wait 2 years for my ADSL service (It's expensive compared to other countries, but cheaper than cable modem) but the service is very reliable.
What I like about the state owned company is that is a company that is there just to give the service, not to make profits. Services like long-distance subsidize the universal service. But it has the typical problems of the public sector, like a big fat burocracy, and strong worker unions that back lazy employees. (I'm not against unions nor I'm saying that all workers are lazy, but managers can't fire lazy employees because of the influnce of the union)
Are you sure her name is Roxanne?
I had the Imperial March for my boss.