I can get mobile service from Videotron, Rogers, Fido, Telus, Bell, Virgin Mobile, and their discount spinoffs like Koodo. There are plenty of companies to compete against each other.
Multiple choices doesn't mean there is any actual competition...
And thanks to the CRTC, companies such as Globalive had a hard time coming to Canada. And no thanks to Videotron, they won't be available in Quebec.
The only question is, which of the three big companies, Rogers, Telus and Bell, will buy the other two. The way things are going, it seems to only be a matter of time.
It's the same problem here with the spectrum... frankly, the airwaves should be controlled so it isn't total chaos, but it shouldn't be reserved to a handful of users (i.e. specific companies). We can manage to have multiple users of wireless networks living close together (apartments), wireless technology is now capable of jumping to free/less noisy ranges, split the bandwidth into multiple chunks, etc...
Why can't it work the same way for the other spectrums, and simply allow everyone to use other frequencies?
This thing isn't only for iPhone users. It's for every user of the AT&T network with a 3G device. And if AT&T had trouble with casual usage, wait until a lot of users try to bring the network down.
Can't wait to hear how the whole thing went for both sides of this story.
At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills.
The most useful feature in web design, PNGs with alpha channels, is still horribly broken in IE8 when used in all but the most trivial ways. You can't simply combine them with the alpha(opacity) filter (which is Microsoft's weird way of working around the lack of CSS opacity support).
PNG alpha channel != Microsoft's alpha filter.
The parent was saying that mixing the alpha of PNGs together with Microsoft's alpha filter is a problem. I never use Microsoft's filters, so I never ran into that problem.
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What about Canada, eh?
I'm not so sure about that one. I mean, they keep getting the news all wrong, do you really want them to route your information?
Multiple choices doesn't mean there is any actual competition...
Fido = Rogers.
Koodo = Telus.
Virgin Mobile Canada = Bell Mobility.
And thanks to the CRTC, companies such as Globalive had a hard time coming to Canada. And no thanks to Videotron, they won't be available in Quebec.
The only question is, which of the three big companies, Rogers, Telus and Bell, will buy the other two. The way things are going, it seems to only be a matter of time.
"Disperse spectrum"? Auctions just make sure that only the one with the biggest pockets can use certain frequencies... that's insane.
All companies can use the spectrum for 802.11n, no single company can block others from doing their own 802.11n hardware, and so on.
I'm saying that all spectrums should be the same (non-military spectrums, anyway).
No they don't. Not all of them anyway. And you can get cell phones from non-cable providers, so I don't see why you even brought that up.
It's the same problem here with the spectrum... frankly, the airwaves should be controlled so it isn't total chaos, but it shouldn't be reserved to a handful of users (i.e. specific companies). We can manage to have multiple users of wireless networks living close together (apartments), wireless technology is now capable of jumping to free/less noisy ranges, split the bandwidth into multiple chunks, etc...
Why can't it work the same way for the other spectrums, and simply allow everyone to use other frequencies?
If they change the terms of the contract then those contracts are no longer valid, allowing customers to cancel them prematurely.
Given that those contracts are used to subsidize the cost of the phones, I don't think it's going to happen.
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This thing isn't only for iPhone users. It's for every user of the AT&T network with a 3G device. And if AT&T had trouble with casual usage, wait until a lot of users try to bring the network down.
Can't wait to hear how the whole thing went for both sides of this story.
At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills.
PNG alpha channel != Microsoft's alpha filter.
The parent was saying that mixing the alpha of PNGs together with Microsoft's alpha filter is a problem. I never use Microsoft's filters, so I never ran into that problem.
And iTunes sells unprotected AAC files, which play on a lot of devices, from Microsoft Zune to Nintendo DSi.
Then stop using the alpha filter? No other browser has such a thing, unless you're talking about the opacity property?
There is no doctrine of first sale since software is usually licensed. Two different things.
And if something went wrong, most people would have called IBM for technical support.
Is it wagnerr@umich.edu?
No, that's XPRESO.
I think somebody watched Spaceballs yesterday!
Lawnmower-to-laptop battery adapter. Wheel Cart not included.
Using a shortening service because Slashdot has crappy URLs doesn't fix the root of the problem.
Is is that I can't read? Because the parent really didn't read the first sentence!
Long URLs also (should) let us know what's behind a link before we actually click on it.
www.apple.com/ipod/
www.microsoft.com/office/
www.nintendo.com/wii/
and so on...
If you have garbage such as "&id=54353" in your non-search URLs, you're doing it wrong.
Using that new service will require a quantum leap of faith.
Come on now, it's in the first damn sentence, can't you read?
See? I can also miss one tiny, important detail!
Oh crap, I hope I don't start writing for Slashdot...
Aside from twitter and SMS which both have self-imposed limits, what's the point of these things?!