Interstates have in certain cases... But it varies by state and hasn't affected anything smaller... My state (Pennsylvania), for instance, raised the interstate speed to 65 outside of large cities, however while traveling through 'near city areas' of 'large cities' the speed limit is still 55 (not that anyone pays attention to that). No where in teh state can you drive 75 or more (legally).
I've driven the same roads and highways for a number of years and no matter how often they rebuild or modify the roads they never change the low speed limits on most of them... None of these roads are at all dangerous to drive except in the worst winter weather... Heck one includes several miles of perfectly straight lanes... Marked 45 mph for reasons unknown...
The last point is why SUV's, trucks of all sizes, and really anything beyond cars and bikes should continue to use current speeds (not that this stops the average SUV driver from thinking they are driving a high performance car)... Ohio is one of the few states to force seperate speed limits on vehicles, but that restriction is only intended for semis... It needs to apply to all larger vehicles...
Besides SUV's and most trucks, anything in the last 2 decades is more than likely just fine with higher speeds... In fact this would give alot of stupid drivers an insentive to stop driving their gas guzzling SUV's they can't manage to drive anyways and return to cars...
I'll happily second that... My car is wide and low to the ground for stability, and therefor makes me the perfect 'target' for SUV headlights... I get it from my rear view mirror (anti-glare ftl), the side mirrors, and heck just all through my rear window filling my whole car and heading out my front window...
Once in awhile I manage to show them how blinding it is, by playing with my side mirror til their light shines back into their face... They don't seem to liek that very much...
As for the rain and snow... I've seen way to many people who go far to slow and minimally adverse weather conditions... 1 inch of accumulation and clear lanes on the road to drive in (aka nothing more than a center 'ridge' of snow because no one drives in the center (normally) and yet traffic moves at 20 mph... For 20 miles... Or a sprinkling of rain and suddenly someone wants to drive 35 in a 55 zone... The these are examples from places that regularly get large volumes of snow... Their is no excuse for not knowing how to drive effectively in something that happens for 5 months of the year where you live...
The worst was when I lived in Columbus Ohio... Which for those who have never lived there rarely gets snow and when they do it's never more than a 'dusting' as those from real snow belt regions would name it. Yet one such dusting caused a 10 mile commute (if that, from a apartment complex in the suburbs to a point just inside the actual 'city') to take 3 hours... Do the math yourself on the speed required for a 10 mile trip to last 3 hours... Even had a record number of accidents that day (but I still hope it wasn't blamed on 'snow', because you have to be dumber than dirt to have an accident from a dusting of snow going those speeds).
This would be true if it was still 1970... But I can tell you now I generally follow the '+10 MPH in good wheather', 'Speed limit in rain/fog/other minor wheather', and '-10 MPH in snow'. It almost always works out to optimize my speed for conditions. Most speed limits haven't been changed since at least 1970 (and often 1940's or 50's), yet cars have improved drastically since then... Why are we still driving as if it was 1950 or 1970? Because the government wants to be able to enforce existing laws to recive increased revenue from people doing what makes more sense... Aka driving faster than rated 'speed limit' speeds. Of course they harp 'safety' as why they refuse to change limits, but cases of speeding increase and have increased since the mid-1970's because the 'old' speed limits are seen as more and more outdated...
That said I know plenty of people who shouldn't drive because they aren't safe at any speed... But driving 30 mph (in what is now a 55 mph zone) wouldn't help them at all...
I should also point out my simple +10 mph is often considered to slow by truly reckless drivers who often go +20 or +30 mph over the speed limit, change lanes without looking, switch lanes without signals, and a variety of far more dangerous habits...
I know vonage offers fax lines that work over their VOIP service, so I'm not to sure that all data services over POTS fail to work over VOIP... I'm not sure what they d on their end to ensure such things work however...
Uh huh... So the fact that the US is the world's largest consumer market and therefore the prime target to most multi-national corporations products, is completely lost on you?
Oh well your from Europe I'll understand your bias...
Punishing the poor and barely inconveniancing the rich isn't going to do that... It's just going to make the poor poorer... More homeless, more welfarites, more crime.... How at all does that help anyone outside of those who have more than enough money already feel better about 'helping the planet', which may or may not actually amount to anything...? Can you prove that renewable sources will become true cheap alternatives that government, companies, and people would willingly switch to? So far I haven't seen anything in history that proves thsi will do anythign more than make already poor people worse off...
You had also best hope to hell the judge doesn't get pissed about your 'antics' in his/her courtroom... I've seen a judge get pissed at a person for doing that very thing and throwing the case out with a default judgement for the opposing party...
The thing I find crazy about a carbon tax is who they think they are taxing...
Companies will use their influence and reduce any and all such taxes on themselves (or ignore it until they get cited and fined for it, then pay said fine and still not pay the tax)...
Rich people just won't care except the most stingy and greedy who will be annoyed that yet more cash is being taken by the government... And quite possibly ignore said tax just liek income tax evasion is common among the greedy or stingy rich...
The Middle class will be forced to deal with it... And will make adjustments when possibel to limit their accountability to this tax.
The poor will be the true losers as yet more money is taken from them for just trying to make ends meat... Liek it or not for alot of fairly large (100k+ people) cities, cars are a requirement in the US (and in some other places like Australia, Canada, etc) and the poor normally own crappy older cars with piss poor gas millage, because that's all they can afford to buy... The long run of another vehicle being cheaper doesn't come into play when your realitive sells you their old car for $400 and that is all you can afford (as a one time payment or maybe 8 installments of $50)... The poorer you are the more the trickle down effect matters, specifically in cars the poor tend to be ~20 years behind the middle class. I work for a charter school that tries to help out low income families by providing them a better education than they would otherwise recieve and this is very much true for them...
So before you decide that because a tax works for you (without drastically affecting your life at least) and so shoudl be good for everyone... Take a wider view of the world we live in.
As for MU*'s... Personally I used to love them... But they lack one big thing that draws people in: Graphics. No ASCII graphics don't count. Not for long at least... I spent 5 years using MU*'s of various sorts and that lack of graphics is what killed it for me in the end...
It's funny though if you want to compare MU*'s to MMO's... MU*'s allow object creation and manipulation to allow the user to expand their experience and MMO's don't (Second Life being an exception, though it also has no theme). Also object manipulation allows lasting user contributions, aka people can 'leave their mark on the world'. MU*'s and MMO's both have themes to give a background or context in which to play (except Second Life). Most of the concepts used in MMO's to develop characters via stats has been done before in MU*'s (leveling, skill use development, skill trees, etc). MU*'s also give MMO's their chat systems (local, faction/guild/etc, area wide, system wide). MMO's have graphical and physics based systems that incorporate distance, size, speed, and other such information which MU*'s can't.
I've found most of my biggest complaints with past and current MMO's are the things that MU*'s have and MMO's still lack... Second life did fix some of these, but did so while causing other issues... Developers need to find a happy medium to continue to grow MMO's...
Well I'm not a naval person, but this would seem a great time for them to look into Flettner Rotors, Wingsails, and turbosails (three forms of rigid sail propulsion). A quick overview:
Flettner Rotors are tall rotating cylanders which produce thrust from wind via the magnus effect.
Wingsails are a 'forest' of giant upright inch-wide slats, that can be set to match wind direction.
Turbosails are hollow, slightly streamlined cylanders with valved holes on each side and a fan at the top. They create and use low pressure effects.
Flettner Rotors and Turbosails do require small amounts of power, but batteries should be easy to use. The other advantage is that each of these methods needs less wind to work with and provide more thrust than regular sails...
Erm... Bottle some of her sex drive and sell it? I know my SO could use a bit more interest in sex sometimes...
Which is awfully funny because once I do talk her into sex she really enjoys it... You'd think soem instinct would cause enjoyable activities to be more common... Anyways...
Traditionally (& Japanese tend to be traditionalists) Japanese are reluctant to hire anyone who isn't also Japanese. They are also big on following the 'proper form', so I doubt you would find to many willing to overlook both things.
Realistically most Japanese reading this article (in say a Japanese newspaper), would be more inclined to first wonder why he couldn't behave and take the jobs undesired by Japanese people like all the other immigrants. It's rare to see many chinese or korean immigrants (The two biggest immigrant groups currently in Japan) who even become shop owners, let alone more than that.
Their might also be some fallout over him 'taking away' money from hikimori (hikimori is a depression/social disorder most common in Japan and somewhat considered an epidemic there) who often find RMT one of the few means they have to make money as they rarely if ever leave their house/room and can't have conventional employment...
Teachers how don't care, or choose not to care about their students is one of the biggest issues I remember from high school... and for me it's been 10 years since then. The worst though are the ones that go into teaching specifically for the power trip and then purposefully abuse their students... I once had a teacher tell me that 'People like you should just die'... Not really the best thing to tell someone whose borderline suicidal (& I was back then). School in general was mostly one long torture experience for me (& I'm sure still kids to this day) involving physical, mental, and emotional abuse... It's hardly a wonder more than a few snap and do crazy things... POW's and certain kids in school share alot in common and actually have similar mental problems afterward...
The only thing pre-college education ever taught me was that people are fucked up and you basically can't trust anyone. Everythign else I learned on my own.
Well from what I remember on the subject Tokamak reactors were purposed by a russian scientist who worked with NASA. NASA in fact believed in it enough to consider it the best energy source for use on a planet figuring the need for continued manned missions to one location on another planet. However I don't remember the name of said scientist...
Bussard himself is relatively famous as is, btw. His 'Bussard ramscoops' were adopted into science fiction with Star Trek: TNG (And abckwards adapted into the original series). Of course it was later discovered that Bussard Ramscoops wouldn't work in our area of space because the density of stray particles is to low near us to make them useful, but the idea still has merit once we get away from our current region of space where higher particle densities exist.
I've done the same thing before and been treated about the same... However on my resume I decided to group it into a time where I worked as a consultant rather than let it pollute my resume... Though in my case I basically was a consultant as they hired me specifically for 6 months... Even if I didn't include it as part of my time spent as a self-employed consultant I'd have listed a real job title that described the job not whatever HR gave me...
Could be worse... Where my SO works they 'laid off' an entire department yesterday... The same day as they handed everyone else their 'holiday bonus'... I guess that could be thought of as a 'bonus' for some, but I would think theyed rather still have jobs...
Having previously done what you call 'Windows Administrator' while it was labeled as 'Network Administrator', before I can say that (at least where I've worked) it did mean I kept the LAN (no WAN as it was a single building) running... I was also responsible for keeping the primary servers (authentication and file servers) up. I didn't run exchange servers (that was the exchange admin). I'd say it's a tad short sighted to say that just because it's a windows network that the network admin isn't doing the job of a network admin...
holy crap... I want to have only had to pay the US equivelant of £3000... That's just shy of $5000... I've had to pay at least as much as $10k for a years education here in the US... and I didn't go to a particularly expensive school... God... My SO went to a bussiness institute for her 2 year degree and even that cost her nearly $20k...
Want to pay back my student loans for me...? I don't really want to owe money til I'm 50....
Not offered since their is no cingular network locally (though I'm going to guess they do have towers on the interstates concneting to Cleveland/Buffalo and Pittsburgh, wouldn't want to interrupt service as they drive through after all). But 2 roads is hardly going to help with an area that's 80x30 miles (rough guess). And I'd have to get one outside my local area, making certain landlands (like the one my parents use) treat it as a long distance number (even with number portability I really doubt I could ahve it considered local). Not really worth the effort...
Of resellers (ie companies that resell service through other companies networks) we have Virgin Mobile (some of the Sprint Network), AT&T Wireless (Probably Sprint), and Tracfone (Probably Sprint). Combined with only 4 networks covering the local area (2 local, 2 national) it's just a dismal area for cell service...
There are no local GSM carriers for me (which was my point). I'd love to have more chocies, but apparently 500,000 people is to small for them...
Verizon, Cellular One, Blue Wireless, and Sprint have the only networks locally and all require more expensive plans I just don't need... Even prepaid phones are limited to a few providers due to what networks exist here and Virgin Mobile offered the best price vs Service area. Not that they even have service in all Sprint areas either...
Ah... classless IP subnetting I understand (though haven't had to ever use)... Never heard it reffered to as cidr before though...
Btw I have actually been told I wasn't being hired because I didn't already have experience running NAS which was critical to a job... Apparently (if they are to be believed) no one had the right mix of skills for the job they wanted done, I'd come the closest, but having no existing experience (physical experience that is, as I know theoretically how it's all done, just no pratical experience) in setting up/maintaining/modifying a NAS setup kept it from me... When I asked "How am I supposed to have experience if no prior job used that technology?" they replied "Run it at home."... Sigh, oh well... They paid just as crappy as everyone else here, but $35k/year was at least a bit up from what I had been making...
It's part of the reason I switched to consulting for small businesses rather than taking a 'real job'... Endlessly different needs in all sorts of things... Still don't need to setup any NAS though... and the pay sucks (consulting groups take all the medium to large sized companies and small businesses always have money issues)... But it's useful experience... Anyways I'm way off the subject now...
btw for those not into networking: SAN is Storage Area Netowrk & NAS is Network Attached Storage...
Do you really think so? My carrier is Virgin Mobile, but that's purely a cost consideration on my part (I don't need more than ~100 minutes a month, which through all my possible carrier chocies where I live doesn't exist). I buy my phones outright (though they must be approved by my carrier as none are sim replacable and they don't sell sim cards).
Otherwise the 2 local cell phone vendors (Blue wireless & CellOne) as well as Verizon (& Sprint if you feel like tracking down their one store in my area) all use phone lock-ins... With hefty costing plans per month (well compared to mine which costs me $20/quarter of a year) requiring multi-year contracts and limiting your options in changing phones... So people couldn't buy one if they wanted to...
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Interstates have in certain cases... But it varies by state and hasn't affected anything smaller... My state (Pennsylvania), for instance, raised the interstate speed to 65 outside of large cities, however while traveling through 'near city areas' of 'large cities' the speed limit is still 55 (not that anyone pays attention to that). No where in teh state can you drive 75 or more (legally).
I've driven the same roads and highways for a number of years and no matter how often they rebuild or modify the roads they never change the low speed limits on most of them... None of these roads are at all dangerous to drive except in the worst winter weather... Heck one includes several miles of perfectly straight lanes... Marked 45 mph for reasons unknown...
The last point is why SUV's, trucks of all sizes, and really anything beyond cars and bikes should continue to use current speeds (not that this stops the average SUV driver from thinking they are driving a high performance car)... Ohio is one of the few states to force seperate speed limits on vehicles, but that restriction is only intended for semis... It needs to apply to all larger vehicles...
Besides SUV's and most trucks, anything in the last 2 decades is more than likely just fine with higher speeds... In fact this would give alot of stupid drivers an insentive to stop driving their gas guzzling SUV's they can't manage to drive anyways and return to cars...
I'll happily second that... My car is wide and low to the ground for stability, and therefor makes me the perfect 'target' for SUV headlights... I get it from my rear view mirror (anti-glare ftl), the side mirrors, and heck just all through my rear window filling my whole car and heading out my front window...
Once in awhile I manage to show them how blinding it is, by playing with my side mirror til their light shines back into their face... They don't seem to liek that very much...
As for the rain and snow... I've seen way to many people who go far to slow and minimally adverse weather conditions... 1 inch of accumulation and clear lanes on the road to drive in (aka nothing more than a center 'ridge' of snow because no one drives in the center (normally) and yet traffic moves at 20 mph... For 20 miles... Or a sprinkling of rain and suddenly someone wants to drive 35 in a 55 zone... The these are examples from places that regularly get large volumes of snow... Their is no excuse for not knowing how to drive effectively in something that happens for 5 months of the year where you live...
The worst was when I lived in Columbus Ohio... Which for those who have never lived there rarely gets snow and when they do it's never more than a 'dusting' as those from real snow belt regions would name it. Yet one such dusting caused a 10 mile commute (if that, from a apartment complex in the suburbs to a point just inside the actual 'city') to take 3 hours... Do the math yourself on the speed required for a 10 mile trip to last 3 hours... Even had a record number of accidents that day (but I still hope it wasn't blamed on 'snow', because you have to be dumber than dirt to have an accident from a dusting of snow going those speeds).
This would be true if it was still 1970... But I can tell you now I generally follow the '+10 MPH in good wheather', 'Speed limit in rain/fog/other minor wheather', and '-10 MPH in snow'. It almost always works out to optimize my speed for conditions. Most speed limits haven't been changed since at least 1970 (and often 1940's or 50's), yet cars have improved drastically since then... Why are we still driving as if it was 1950 or 1970? Because the government wants to be able to enforce existing laws to recive increased revenue from people doing what makes more sense... Aka driving faster than rated 'speed limit' speeds. Of course they harp 'safety' as why they refuse to change limits, but cases of speeding increase and have increased since the mid-1970's because the 'old' speed limits are seen as more and more outdated...
That said I know plenty of people who shouldn't drive because they aren't safe at any speed... But driving 30 mph (in what is now a 55 mph zone) wouldn't help them at all...
I should also point out my simple +10 mph is often considered to slow by truly reckless drivers who often go +20 or +30 mph over the speed limit, change lanes without looking, switch lanes without signals, and a variety of far more dangerous habits...
I know vonage offers fax lines that work over their VOIP service, so I'm not to sure that all data services over POTS fail to work over VOIP... I'm not sure what they d on their end to ensure such things work however...
Uh huh... So the fact that the US is the world's largest consumer market and therefore the prime target to most multi-national corporations products, is completely lost on you?
Oh well your from Europe I'll understand your bias...
Punishing the poor and barely inconveniancing the rich isn't going to do that... It's just going to make the poor poorer... More homeless, more welfarites, more crime.... How at all does that help anyone outside of those who have more than enough money already feel better about 'helping the planet', which may or may not actually amount to anything...? Can you prove that renewable sources will become true cheap alternatives that government, companies, and people would willingly switch to? So far I haven't seen anything in history that proves thsi will do anythign more than make already poor people worse off...
You had also best hope to hell the judge doesn't get pissed about your 'antics' in his/her courtroom... I've seen a judge get pissed at a person for doing that very thing and throwing the case out with a default judgement for the opposing party...
The thing I find crazy about a carbon tax is who they think they are taxing...
Companies will use their influence and reduce any and all such taxes on themselves (or ignore it until they get cited and fined for it, then pay said fine and still not pay the tax)...
Rich people just won't care except the most stingy and greedy who will be annoyed that yet more cash is being taken by the government... And quite possibly ignore said tax just liek income tax evasion is common among the greedy or stingy rich...
The Middle class will be forced to deal with it... And will make adjustments when possibel to limit their accountability to this tax.
The poor will be the true losers as yet more money is taken from them for just trying to make ends meat... Liek it or not for alot of fairly large (100k+ people) cities, cars are a requirement in the US (and in some other places like Australia, Canada, etc) and the poor normally own crappy older cars with piss poor gas millage, because that's all they can afford to buy... The long run of another vehicle being cheaper doesn't come into play when your realitive sells you their old car for $400 and that is all you can afford (as a one time payment or maybe 8 installments of $50)... The poorer you are the more the trickle down effect matters, specifically in cars the poor tend to be ~20 years behind the middle class. I work for a charter school that tries to help out low income families by providing them a better education than they would otherwise recieve and this is very much true for them...
So before you decide that because a tax works for you (without drastically affecting your life at least) and so shoudl be good for everyone... Take a wider view of the world we live in.
As for MU*'s... Personally I used to love them... But they lack one big thing that draws people in: Graphics. No ASCII graphics don't count. Not for long at least... I spent 5 years using MU*'s of various sorts and that lack of graphics is what killed it for me in the end...
It's funny though if you want to compare MU*'s to MMO's... MU*'s allow object creation and manipulation to allow the user to expand their experience and MMO's don't (Second Life being an exception, though it also has no theme). Also object manipulation allows lasting user contributions, aka people can 'leave their mark on the world'. MU*'s and MMO's both have themes to give a background or context in which to play (except Second Life). Most of the concepts used in MMO's to develop characters via stats has been done before in MU*'s (leveling, skill use development, skill trees, etc). MU*'s also give MMO's their chat systems (local, faction/guild/etc, area wide, system wide). MMO's have graphical and physics based systems that incorporate distance, size, speed, and other such information which MU*'s can't.
I've found most of my biggest complaints with past and current MMO's are the things that MU*'s have and MMO's still lack... Second life did fix some of these, but did so while causing other issues... Developers need to find a happy medium to continue to grow MMO's...
Well I'm not a naval person, but this would seem a great time for them to look into Flettner Rotors, Wingsails, and turbosails (three forms of rigid sail propulsion). A quick overview:
Flettner Rotors are tall rotating cylanders which produce thrust from wind via the magnus effect.
Wingsails are a 'forest' of giant upright inch-wide slats, that can be set to match wind direction.
Turbosails are hollow, slightly streamlined cylanders with valved holes on each side and a fan at the top. They create and use low pressure effects.
Flettner Rotors and Turbosails do require small amounts of power, but batteries should be easy to use. The other advantage is that each of these methods needs less wind to work with and provide more thrust than regular sails...
Erm... Bottle some of her sex drive and sell it? I know my SO could use a bit more interest in sex sometimes...
Which is awfully funny because once I do talk her into sex she really enjoys it... You'd think soem instinct would cause enjoyable activities to be more common... Anyways...
Traditionally (& Japanese tend to be traditionalists) Japanese are reluctant to hire anyone who isn't also Japanese. They are also big on following the 'proper form', so I doubt you would find to many willing to overlook both things.
Realistically most Japanese reading this article (in say a Japanese newspaper), would be more inclined to first wonder why he couldn't behave and take the jobs undesired by Japanese people like all the other immigrants. It's rare to see many chinese or korean immigrants (The two biggest immigrant groups currently in Japan) who even become shop owners, let alone more than that.
Their might also be some fallout over him 'taking away' money from hikimori (hikimori is a depression/social disorder most common in Japan and somewhat considered an epidemic there) who often find RMT one of the few means they have to make money as they rarely if ever leave their house/room and can't have conventional employment...
Teachers how don't care, or choose not to care about their students is one of the biggest issues I remember from high school... and for me it's been 10 years since then. The worst though are the ones that go into teaching specifically for the power trip and then purposefully abuse their students... I once had a teacher tell me that 'People like you should just die'... Not really the best thing to tell someone whose borderline suicidal (& I was back then). School in general was mostly one long torture experience for me (& I'm sure still kids to this day) involving physical, mental, and emotional abuse... It's hardly a wonder more than a few snap and do crazy things... POW's and certain kids in school share alot in common and actually have similar mental problems afterward...
The only thing pre-college education ever taught me was that people are fucked up and you basically can't trust anyone. Everythign else I learned on my own.
Well from what I remember on the subject Tokamak reactors were purposed by a russian scientist who worked with NASA. NASA in fact believed in it enough to consider it the best energy source for use on a planet figuring the need for continued manned missions to one location on another planet. However I don't remember the name of said scientist...
Bussard himself is relatively famous as is, btw. His 'Bussard ramscoops' were adopted into science fiction with Star Trek: TNG (And abckwards adapted into the original series). Of course it was later discovered that Bussard Ramscoops wouldn't work in our area of space because the density of stray particles is to low near us to make them useful, but the idea still has merit once we get away from our current region of space where higher particle densities exist.
Treat and trip I could understand, but how do brownies get you chicks...? 0_o
I've done the same thing before and been treated about the same... However on my resume I decided to group it into a time where I worked as a consultant rather than let it pollute my resume... Though in my case I basically was a consultant as they hired me specifically for 6 months... Even if I didn't include it as part of my time spent as a self-employed consultant I'd have listed a real job title that described the job not whatever HR gave me...
Could be worse... Where my SO works they 'laid off' an entire department yesterday... The same day as they handed everyone else their 'holiday bonus'... I guess that could be thought of as a 'bonus' for some, but I would think theyed rather still have jobs...
Having previously done what you call 'Windows Administrator' while it was labeled as 'Network Administrator', before I can say that (at least where I've worked) it did mean I kept the LAN (no WAN as it was a single building) running... I was also responsible for keeping the primary servers (authentication and file servers) up. I didn't run exchange servers (that was the exchange admin). I'd say it's a tad short sighted to say that just because it's a windows network that the network admin isn't doing the job of a network admin...
holy crap... I want to have only had to pay the US equivelant of £3000... That's just shy of $5000... I've had to pay at least as much as $10k for a years education here in the US... and I didn't go to a particularly expensive school... God... My SO went to a bussiness institute for her 2 year degree and even that cost her nearly $20k...
Want to pay back my student loans for me...? I don't really want to owe money til I'm 50....
Not offered since their is no cingular network locally (though I'm going to guess they do have towers on the interstates concneting to Cleveland/Buffalo and Pittsburgh, wouldn't want to interrupt service as they drive through after all). But 2 roads is hardly going to help with an area that's 80x30 miles (rough guess). And I'd have to get one outside my local area, making certain landlands (like the one my parents use) treat it as a long distance number (even with number portability I really doubt I could ahve it considered local). Not really worth the effort...
Of resellers (ie companies that resell service through other companies networks) we have Virgin Mobile (some of the Sprint Network), AT&T Wireless (Probably Sprint), and Tracfone (Probably Sprint). Combined with only 4 networks covering the local area (2 local, 2 national) it's just a dismal area for cell service...
There are no local GSM carriers for me (which was my point). I'd love to have more chocies, but apparently 500,000 people is to small for them...
Verizon, Cellular One, Blue Wireless, and Sprint have the only networks locally and all require more expensive plans I just don't need... Even prepaid phones are limited to a few providers due to what networks exist here and Virgin Mobile offered the best price vs Service area. Not that they even have service in all Sprint areas either...
Ah... classless IP subnetting I understand (though haven't had to ever use)... Never heard it reffered to as cidr before though...
Btw I have actually been told I wasn't being hired because I didn't already have experience running NAS which was critical to a job... Apparently (if they are to be believed) no one had the right mix of skills for the job they wanted done, I'd come the closest, but having no existing experience (physical experience that is, as I know theoretically how it's all done, just no pratical experience) in setting up/maintaining/modifying a NAS setup kept it from me... When I asked "How am I supposed to have experience if no prior job used that technology?" they replied "Run it at home."... Sigh, oh well... They paid just as crappy as everyone else here, but $35k/year was at least a bit up from what I had been making...
It's part of the reason I switched to consulting for small businesses rather than taking a 'real job'... Endlessly different needs in all sorts of things... Still don't need to setup any NAS though... and the pay sucks (consulting groups take all the medium to large sized companies and small businesses always have money issues)... But it's useful experience... Anyways I'm way off the subject now...
btw for those not into networking: SAN is Storage Area Netowrk & NAS is Network Attached Storage...
Do you really think so? My carrier is Virgin Mobile, but that's purely a cost consideration on my part (I don't need more than ~100 minutes a month, which through all my possible carrier chocies where I live doesn't exist). I buy my phones outright (though they must be approved by my carrier as none are sim replacable and they don't sell sim cards).
Otherwise the 2 local cell phone vendors (Blue wireless & CellOne) as well as Verizon (& Sprint if you feel like tracking down their one store in my area) all use phone lock-ins... With hefty costing plans per month (well compared to mine which costs me $20/quarter of a year) requiring multi-year contracts and limiting your options in changing phones... So people couldn't buy one if they wanted to...