Disclaimer: I've been a T-Mobile customer for 8 years, and have the Family Plan for my business with several handsets on it.
Also, the HotSpot@Home/WiFi feature is amazing. I was visiting family in the boonies in Central Pennsylvania a while back, and T-Mobile had spotty access out there. I simply paired the phone to the Linksys at my father-in-law's house, and had phone/sms/email connectivity over WiFi. Also worked like a champ on a cruise ship in Europe.
I've picked up more chicks with a Prius than I ever did with my MB SLK350. And they were hot. Smart, hot chicks dig that sort of thing. Vapid hot chicks prefer status symbol, although they cost more to maintain than said status symbol.
Rule 32: The woman you're sleeping with should never cost more to maintain than your most expensive adult toy (vehicle/plane/boat). This, of course, changes when you get married.
Wow, I love a system that promotes people to spend wildly and irresponsibly while penalizing those such as myself who live within my means and save quite a bit.
Cellular sucks for latency the same reason satellite sucks. There's a huge path the packets have to take. With satellite, you have to go from your dish, to the satellite, to the ground station, to the net destination, and back through that whole mix back to your dish in your yard. Light only travels so fast. With cellular, the data is sent from the card in your laptop, to the tower, which is then tunneled back to the distribution center for the carrier, out over the net and then back again (hence, the horrible latency). Think about WiFi though. Most access points in public that aren't operated by a carrier are connected right into a routable net connection, so your packets don't take as nearly as long a route as cellular/satellite.
To be fair, their Nextel iDen network is pretty sweet. I'm a T-mobile customer, but would love if T-Mobile was able to buy some push to talk capacity and integrate it into their devices. I would pay $10/month for it (just like I pay extra for a data plan).
We should argue there is an on going collapse of wireless carriers and the govt. needs to step in to regulate it. Seems to work for financial services firms.
This is true, although in most cases the restriction put in place is superficial. You can unlock the frequencies by cutting a resistor that is well documented.
Every time you brake, you turn momentum into heat. That momentum came from the combustion of an expensive liquid that I, for one, do NOT like to waste, as my name's not Warren Buffett.
My hybrid converts that momentum back into potential energy you insensitive clod!
Part of the problem with deploying IPv6 is that there are no best case practices. It's unexplored territory. Not every shop has the resources to research the protocal to find the best case practices to do the actual deployment (unless you're someone like Level3, Hurriance Electric [props to HE, their IPv6 works like a champ], and so on). As more people deploy IPv6 and learn the best ways to do it, others will follow.
WAAS will be sufficient for Class I ILS landings. LAAS (loacal area augmentation system), where they put a GPS correction station at the airport to provide local error correction over VHF. LAAS will permit Class III ILD landings.
I too have used my phone while in my GA aircraft. The difference is that most GA aircraft fly between 5,0000 and 15,000ft AGL (above ground level). That's only 2.5 miles up max. A commercial airliner travels around FL350-FL450 (35,000 to 45,000ft above mean sea level). You can see so many more towers 7 miles up than you can at 2.5 miles up.
The ratio of signaling channels to voice channels is something around 1:21, hence the signaling channel is a scare resource compared to the voice channels (and therefor more expensive than voice calls).
So, a handful of hybrids out of a million+ sold (Prius, Highlander, Camry, LX400h, Escape, Insight, etc). I own an '08 Camry Hybrid with almost 25K miles on it (all put on in the last year). I'm not too worried about it.
As someone who has many friends in the insurance industry (one at GEICO, one at Allstate, two at State Farm) your post is spot on. I hear them rant about everything you've said. So, IMNSHO, mod parent up.
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doing a much better job than any internal IT dept. != never fails
T-Mobile does have unlimited call plans:
$99/month for individuals
$150/month for Family Plan with two handsets
Disclaimer: I've been a T-Mobile customer for 8 years, and have the Family Plan for my business with several handsets on it.
Also, the HotSpot@Home/WiFi feature is amazing. I was visiting family in the boonies in Central Pennsylvania a while back, and T-Mobile had spotty access out there. I simply paired the phone to the Linksys at my father-in-law's house, and had phone/sms/email connectivity over WiFi. Also worked like a champ on a cruise ship in Europe.
Especially since electric motors are upwards of 90% efficient, where burning fuel is only 20-40% efficient (and it's very hard to get to 40 percent).
I've picked up more chicks with a Prius than I ever did with my MB SLK350. And they were hot. Smart, hot chicks dig that sort of thing. Vapid hot chicks prefer status symbol, although they cost more to maintain than said status symbol.
Rule 32: The woman you're sleeping with should never cost more to maintain than your most expensive adult toy (vehicle/plane/boat). This, of course, changes when you get married.
Or, wait for the government to step in and say "We're rent controlling everything now".
Don't laugh, governments have been known to do far more crazy things.
Wow, I love a system that promotes people to spend wildly and irresponsibly while penalizing those such as myself who live within my means and save quite a bit.
Cellular sucks for latency the same reason satellite sucks. There's a huge path the packets have to take. With satellite, you have to go from your dish, to the satellite, to the ground station, to the net destination, and back through that whole mix back to your dish in your yard. Light only travels so fast. With cellular, the data is sent from the card in your laptop, to the tower, which is then tunneled back to the distribution center for the carrier, out over the net and then back again (hence, the horrible latency). Think about WiFi though. Most access points in public that aren't operated by a carrier are connected right into a routable net connection, so your packets don't take as nearly as long a route as cellular/satellite.
You should try T-Mobile. I've been with them for 8 years, and you can pry their service from my cold, dead hands.
To be fair, their Nextel iDen network is pretty sweet. I'm a T-mobile customer, but would love if T-Mobile was able to buy some push to talk capacity and integrate it into their devices. I would pay $10/month for it (just like I pay extra for a data plan).
We should argue there is an on going collapse of wireless carriers and the govt. needs to step in to regulate it. Seems to work for financial services firms.
What now bitches?
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http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=4j4op
Seems like I better make sure I'm on a profitable route.
News for nerds. Check.
Stuff that matters. Well, to some, probably. Semi-check.
This is true, although in most cases the restriction put in place is superficial. You can unlock the frequencies by cutting a resistor that is well documented.
The More You Know(TM)
I can understand your dislike of firearms, but whomever said "the pen is mightier than the sword" didn't have two in the chest and one in the head.
Every time you brake, you turn momentum into heat. That momentum came from the combustion of an expensive liquid that I, for one, do NOT like to waste, as my name's not Warren Buffett.
My hybrid converts that momentum back into potential energy you insensitive clod!
Part of the problem with deploying IPv6 is that there are no best case practices. It's unexplored territory. Not every shop has the resources to research the protocal to find the best case practices to do the actual deployment (unless you're someone like Level3, Hurriance Electric [props to HE, their IPv6 works like a champ], and so on). As more people deploy IPv6 and learn the best ways to do it, others will follow.
Note to self: Never say "My junk is in my pants" to my British friends.
WAAS will be sufficient for Class I ILS landings. LAAS (loacal area augmentation system), where they put a GPS correction station at the airport to provide local error correction over VHF. LAAS will permit Class III ILD landings.
GPS with WAAS will replace the glidescope. It's computed on the fly.
I too have used my phone while in my GA aircraft. The difference is that most GA aircraft fly between 5,0000 and 15,000ft AGL (above ground level). That's only 2.5 miles up max. A commercial airliner travels around FL350-FL450 (35,000 to 45,000ft above mean sea level). You can see so many more towers 7 miles up than you can at 2.5 miles up.
The ratio of signaling channels to voice channels is something around 1:21, hence the signaling channel is a scare resource compared to the voice channels (and therefor more expensive than voice calls).
As usual, it's a people/social issue, and not a technical issue. As an engineer at heart, people drive me crazy sometimes =)
So, a handful of hybrids out of a million+ sold (Prius, Highlander, Camry, LX400h, Escape, Insight, etc). I own an '08 Camry Hybrid with almost 25K miles on it (all put on in the last year). I'm not too worried about it.
As someone who has many friends in the insurance industry (one at GEICO, one at Allstate, two at State Farm) your post is spot on. I hear them rant about everything you've said. So, IMNSHO, mod parent up.