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DisneyLand, NRA-Style

What more perfect place for a Guns & Ammo theme park than in Times Square? Does anyone other than me comprehend the sheer lunacy of this? -Ian. —=— http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/19/nra.restaurant/ NRA Plans Theme Store for Times Square The NRA wants...

Kicking the Corpse of Boo.com

http://www.theregister.co.uk/000518-000008.html Posted 18/05/2000 9:56am by Dr Therese Torris, Forrester Research Forrester Why did Boo flame out so fast? Boo.com quickly burned cash on PR and advertising Boo.com’s first financing round of E120 million –...

RE: RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

GSM uses two main techniques, TDMA AND Frequency-Hopping. This, combined with a third feature that doesn’t transmit “quiet times” — points where there is no speech, combines to produce between a 15x-20x increase in utilization. TDMA combined...

Re: RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

Oops. Let me clarify: CDM = 20x, TDM = 3x. AT&T and Rogers/Cantel use TDMA. Sprint, Telus, and most others use CDMA. -Ian. At 11:04 AM 18/05/00 -0700, Ian Andrew Bell wrote: >Oh. Sorry. > >TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access 3x Frequency Re-use >CDMA: Code...

RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

Oh. Sorry. TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access 3x Frequency Re-use CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access 20x Frequency Re-use Refers, basically, to how cellular carriers squeeze multiple phones onto one “circuit” (which is actually a frequency/modulation)....

AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

AT&T launched PocketNet a few days ago, which is CDPD-based. Sprint has been offering free WAP access for months now (I have a Sprint mobile now in the US) for free in some packages, with unrestricted web access. You can even surf to https://ianbell.com:8888 on...