Well, if this research goes through, we'll have to start worrying about whether the child MINDS being born as essentially a real-life furry... Would you rather abort that or deal with the possible problems later(housebreaking, not humping random people's legs, weird fetishes, etc)?
Grey-market imports from Japan. Those are some of the best phones I've ever seen, and some I think surpasses the iPhone (without the third-party apps).
I'd say the toughest competitor is Sharp. Not with that crappy 770SH, but with the 903- that set the bar for best combination of design and feature set in my book.
Well, considering as the parent to your post actually lived in Warsaw, it's reasonable he/she could have got it wrong. But by orders of magnitude like that...
Not to mention that their wireless lineup is hopelessly outdated compared to Japan's... (oddly enough, this xenophobia seems to be completely gone when the iPod is mentioned- any explanations?)
You mean where I can choose between Verizon or Verizon, with the possibility of choosing AT&T Wireless if you're desperate for something else (although if we're going to count that we have to drag Softbank, Willcom, bitwarp, and au into the picture too)? Yeah... Oh, and did KDDI suddenly disappear?
Yep. There, they let you pay for your online purchases at 7-11 (tell the store beforehand which 7-11 is closest to you, print the receipt, wait for the product to arrive- notification by e-mail-, go to the 7-11, give them the receipt, and then pay with cash- makes me wish they did that in America), and they have cellphone RFID payment systems that are practically everywhere (and it's secure too- PIN lock so that it asks for a PIN when in range of a reader, and remote lock that works by calling the phone multiple times from a set number and hanging up to disable the chip). Really, it's preactically a technological utopia.
I *live* in China, and I think I can feel some sarcasm in your post there (tell me if I'm wrong). Personal experience- an EDGE datacard is faster than my home DSL connection. I was told that I had 512k DSL, because I live too far out (and I'm in *Shanghai*- it's supposed to be a big city!) to get anything faster.
Well, if US companies can skip small towns for DSL (oh, the torture of living somewhere that was just 100ft too far to be wired up for DSL- at least I'm living in a big city now), then why can't they do the same for fiber and only focus on the big cities? 100M both ways for everyone in NYC/LA/DC/wherever, and DSL/dialup for the smaller towns. (oh, and do enlighten me on how comparing a big city to a big city drops context entirely).
If they are really concerned with US coverage as opposed to city-scale coverage, I could have pointted to quite a few places that they should wire up for DSL *BEFORE* they started with fiber then.
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And what's wrong with the the Pirate Party?
import laptop? That's the case for me.
Well, if this research goes through, we'll have to start worrying about whether the child MINDS being born as essentially a real-life furry... Would you rather abort that or deal with the possible problems later(housebreaking, not humping random people's legs, weird fetishes, etc)?
Softbank in Japan does this- they call it the White Plan, and it's like 990yen/month for nothing but unlimited M2M.
Somalia, a libertarian paradise? Right... and Steve Jobs suddenly decided to release the iPhone unlocked and open for all. Riiiight...
Whoa- I want a boss like that.
I'd say that indeed, that does fulfill two out of three- (sexual) health and welfare.
Grey-market imports from Japan. Those are some of the best phones I've ever seen, and some I think surpasses the iPhone (without the third-party apps).
Then they better get cracking on that 3G iPhone.
I'd say the toughest competitor is Sharp. Not with that crappy 770SH, but with the 903- that set the bar for best combination of design and feature set in my book.
...I wonder how different the internet landscape would be in America if the power companies got into the game...
Going by your definition, China counts as a truly free market (yay Meizu).
I feel compelled to say this- Is Japan (ironically) the only country that still has truly basic phones?
Well, considering as the parent to your post actually lived in Warsaw, it's reasonable he/she could have got it wrong. But by orders of magnitude like that...
Not to mention that their wireless lineup is hopelessly outdated compared to Japan's... (oddly enough, this xenophobia seems to be completely gone when the iPod is mentioned- any explanations?)
You mean where I can choose between Verizon or Verizon, with the possibility of choosing AT&T Wireless if you're desperate for something else (although if we're going to count that we have to drag Softbank, Willcom, bitwarp, and au into the picture too)? Yeah... Oh, and did KDDI suddenly disappear?
Out of curiosity, does anywhere in Yamagata prefecture count as "mountains and rice fields, dotted with little countryside villages and farms"?
Wait- so you can't get high-speed internet in the cities, but you can in the "middle of nowhere"? how interesting.
Yes please- better than the current US telcos, at least (and besides- with NTT comes DoCoMo, and decent cellphones don't hurt either).
50M down? Where the heck do you live, and how much does it cost?
No, but DSL runs at 40M/17M (down/up) for about $50/month with 4 months free. Sweet deal.
Yep. There, they let you pay for your online purchases at 7-11 (tell the store beforehand which 7-11 is closest to you, print the receipt, wait for the product to arrive- notification by e-mail-, go to the 7-11, give them the receipt, and then pay with cash- makes me wish they did that in America), and they have cellphone RFID payment systems that are practically everywhere (and it's secure too- PIN lock so that it asks for a PIN when in range of a reader, and remote lock that works by calling the phone multiple times from a set number and hanging up to disable the chip). Really, it's preactically a technological utopia.
I *live* in China, and I think I can feel some sarcasm in your post there (tell me if I'm wrong). Personal experience- an EDGE datacard is faster than my home DSL connection. I was told that I had 512k DSL, because I live too far out (and I'm in *Shanghai*- it's supposed to be a big city!) to get anything faster.
Well, if US companies can skip small towns for DSL (oh, the torture of living somewhere that was just 100ft too far to be wired up for DSL- at least I'm living in a big city now), then why can't they do the same for fiber and only focus on the big cities? 100M both ways for everyone in NYC/LA/DC/wherever, and DSL/dialup for the smaller towns. (oh, and do enlighten me on how comparing a big city to a big city drops context entirely).
If they are really concerned with US coverage as opposed to city-scale coverage, I could have pointted to quite a few places that they should wire up for DSL *BEFORE* they started with fiber then.