What really gets me are those people who, when you are sat at the back of the bus with your Walkman on, and they are sitting at the front manage to talk so loudly that you can here every word they say.
The level of conversation tends to be of the variety
"no but, no but, because what happened was right" - i.e. a load of crap that makes no sense whatsoever.
At our uni they just compalin that they can't read our scrawl:(
They've locked down the uni network so much you can't even open Outlook at the moment:s
As for WiFi on the trains... I can't see Central Trains doing this any time soon - no that i'd risk a laptop on the Alfreton to Sheffield stretch anyway - far too many scallies, and i dare say the tunnels that make up the bulk of the trans-pennine stretch between Sheffield and Stockport would render GPRS useless for about 1 hour of my journey anyway:( [Mind you i'd much the trains to actually turn up rather than be delayed so much that the one that follows it (on paper an HOUR later) actually arives first:s]
Why rely on the network operator to get the location?
Here in the UK there are a number of services that allow you to location the position of your mobile phone. One such example is http://www.traceamobile.com/
Do a location position on your mobile then call the monkeys at your network to get it disconnected...
Mind you in my city center (within 1km of 5 Orange PCS masts) it managed to say my mobile was some 5km away - oh well it ain't perfect then!
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What really gets me are those people who, when you are sat at the back of the bus with your Walkman on, and they are sitting at the front manage to talk so loudly that you can here every word they say. The level of conversation tends to be of the variety "no but, no but, because what happened was right" - i.e. a load of crap that makes no sense whatsoever.
Not to forget that if the temprature gets too hot the network descendes into (even more) chaos.
and the metel in the windows kills the FM reception, and GSM/GPRS reception :(
At our uni they just compalin that they can't read our scrawl :(
They've locked down the uni network so much you can't even open Outlook at the moment :s
As for WiFi on the trains... I can't see Central Trains doing this any time soon - no that i'd risk a laptop on the Alfreton to Sheffield stretch anyway - far too many scallies, and i dare say the tunnels that make up the bulk of the trans-pennine stretch between Sheffield and Stockport would render GPRS useless for about 1 hour of my journey anyway :( [Mind you i'd much the trains to actually turn up rather than be delayed so much that the one that follows it (on paper an HOUR later) actually arives first :s]
Why rely on the network operator to get the location? Here in the UK there are a number of services that allow you to location the position of your mobile phone. One such example is http://www.traceamobile.com/ Do a location position on your mobile then call the monkeys at your network to get it disconnected... Mind you in my city center (within 1km of 5 Orange PCS masts) it managed to say my mobile was some 5km away - oh well it ain't perfect then!
twenty-oh-four would be 20:04 AKA 20h04 AKA 8.04pm....
;)
The years "Two-Thousand-and-Four", well here in the UK at least